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  • Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest  (2,344)
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  • 1
    ISBN: 9780822385400
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (294 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Latin America Otherwise
    DDC: 306.74/097293/58
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    Keywords: Sextourismus ; Prostitution ; Dominikanische Republik
    Abstract: An ethnographic case study of sex tourism in the Dominican Republic, showing how the sex trade is linked to economic and cultural globalization.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203491140
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (255 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 394
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    Keywords: Geschenk ; Anthropologie ; Sozialer Austausch
    Abstract: Arguing with Anthropology is a fresh and wholly original guide to key elements in anthropology, which teaches the ability to think, write and argue critically. Using the classic 'question of the gift' as a master-issue for discussion, and drawing on a rich variety of Pacific and global ethnography, it provides a unique course in methods, aims, knowledge, and understanding. The book's highly original hypothetical approach takes gift-theory - the science of obligation and reciprocity - as the paradigm for a virtual enquiry which explores how the anthropological discipline has evolved historically, how it is applied in practice and how it can be argued with critically. By asking students to participate in projected situations and dilemmas, and in arguments about the form and nature of enquiry, it offers working practice of dealing with the obstacles and choices involved in anthropological study. * From an expert teacher whose methods are tried and tested * Comprehensive and fun course ideal for intermediate-level students * Clearly defines the functions of anthropology, and its key theories and arguments * Effectively teaches core study skills for exam success and progressive learning.
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    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203327180
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (286 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306.3/6
    Keywords: Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: The essays in this collection address issues significant to labor within regional, national and international contexts. Themes of the chapters will focus on managed labor migration; organizing in multi-ethnic and multi-national contexts; global economics and labor; global economics and inequality; gender and labor; racism and globalization; regional trade agreements and labor.
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    Wiesbaden : VS Verlag fur Sozialwissenschaften GmbH | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9783322805843
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (286 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 300
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Migration ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Abwanderung ; Social sciences ; Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books
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    Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9783110927191
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (67 pages)
    Series Statement: Erfurter Beiträge zu den Staatswissenschaften v.3
    DDC: 306.850943
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    Keywords: Familiensoziologie ; Disziplin ; Interdisziplinarität
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  • 6
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    Chicago : University of Chicago Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780226726144
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 306/.0964
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    Keywords: Islam ; Kultur ; Marokko
    Abstract: Having worked for several decades in North Africa, anthropologist Lawrence Rosen is uniquely placed to ask what factors contribute to the continuity and changes characterizing the present-day Muslim world. In The Culture of Islam, he brings his erudition and his experiences to illuminating key aspects of Muslim life and how central tenets of that life are being challenged and culturally refashioned.Through a series of poignant tales-from the struggle by a group of friends against daily corruption to the contest over a saint's identity, from nostalgia for the departed Jews to Salman Rushdie's vision of doubt in a world of religious certainty-Rosen shows how a dazzling array of potential changes are occurring alongside deeply embedded continuity, a process he compares to a game of chess in which infinite variations of moves can be achieved while fundamental aspects of "the game" have had a remarkably enduring quality. Whether it is the potential fabrication of new forms of Islam by migrants to Europe (creating a new "Euro-Islam," as Rosen calls it), the emphasis put on individuals rather than institutions, or the heartrending problems Muslims may face when their marriages cross national boundaries, each story and each interpretation offers a window into a world of contending concepts and challenged coherence.The Culture of Islam is both an antidote to simplified versions of Islam circulating today and a consistent story of the continuities that account for much of ordinary Muslim life. It offers, in its human stories and its insights, its own contribution, as the author says, "to the mutual understanding and forgiveness that alone will make true peace possible.".
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    ISBN: 9781509534043
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Uniform Title: Double absence
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Sayad, Abdelmalek, 1933-1998 The suffering of the immigrant
    DDC: 305.892/765044
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    Keywords: Einwanderer ; Stigmatisierung ; Frankreich
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    Wiesbaden : VS Verlag fur Sozialwissenschaften GmbH | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9783322809766
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (399 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Biographie und Profession Series v.4
    DDC: 302.35
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    Keywords: Arbeitsorganisation ; Management ; Organisationstheorie ; Organisationsstruktur ; Mitgliedschaft ; Organisationswandel ; Akteur ; Handlungsregulation ; Kognitive Orientierung ; Berufslaufbahn ; Industrial organization ; Industrial management ; Corporate reorganizations ; Electronic books
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  • 9
    ISBN: 9783663118749
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (396 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Jahrbuch Für Europa- und Nordamerika-Studien Series v.7
    DDC: 305.3
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    Keywords: Wohlfahrtsstaat ; Sozialpolitik ; Familie ; Berufstätigkeit ; Geschlechterrolle ; Sex role ; Sexual division of labor ; Welfare state ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books
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    Wiesbaden : Springer Gabler. in Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9783322890443
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (440 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 302.2
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    Keywords: Unternehmen ; Logistik ; Management ; Communication, International ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books
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  • 11
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    New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780813537443
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (204 pages)
    DDC: 305.89/921073/090511
    Abstract: Building Diaspora heralds an important development in cultural studies, ethnic studies, the sociology of media, and globalization. Emily Ignacio brings an extended, incisive empirical investigation that is still quite rare in the theory-heavy yet data-light field of cyberspace cultural studies. She carefully crafts a framework in which to showcase the itinerant ideas and desires of Filipinos talking to each other from various geographical locations."-Martin Manalansan IV, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign The dramatic growth of the Internet in recent years has provided opportunities for a host of relationships and communities-forged across great distances and even time-that would have seemed unimaginable only a short while ago. In Building Diaspora, Emily Noelle Ignacio explores how Filipinos have used these subtle, cyber, but very real social connections to construct and reinforce a sense of national, ethnic, and racial identity with distant others. Through an extensive analysis of newsgroup debates, listserves, and website postings, she illustrates the significant ways that computer-mediated communication has contributed to solidifying what can credibly be called a Filipino diaspora. Lively cyber-discussions on topics including Eurocentrism, Orientalism, patriarchy, gender issues, language, and "mail-order-brides" have helped Filipinos better understand and articulate their postcolonial situation as well as their relationship with other national and ethnic communities around the world. Significant attention is given to the complicated history of Philippine-American relations, including the ways Filipinos are racialized as a result of their political and economic subjugation to U.S. interests. As Filipinos and many other ethnic groups continue to migrate globally, Building Diaspora makes an important contribution to our changing...
    Abstract: understanding of "homeland." The author makes the powerful argument that while home is being further removed from geographic place, it is being increasingly territorialized in space.
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    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780816695966
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (236 pages)
    Series Statement: Electronic Mediations
    DDC: 303.48/3
    Abstract: As biotechnology defines the new millennium, genetic codes and computer codes increasingly merge-life understood as data, flesh rendered programmable. Where this trend will take us, and what it might mean, is what concerns Eugene Thacker in this timely book, a penetrating look into the intersection of molecular biology and computer science in our day and its likely ramifications for the future.Integrating approaches from science and media studies, Biomedia is a critical analysis of research fields that explore relationships between biologies and technologies, between genetic and computer "codes." In doing so, the book looks beyond the familiar examples of cloning, genetic engineering, and gene therapy-fields based on the centrality of DNA or genes-to emerging fields in which "life" is often understood as "information." Focusing especially on interactions between genetic and computer codes, or between "life" and "information," Thacker shows how each kind of "body" produced-from biochip to DNA computer-demonstrates how molecular biology and computer science are interwoven to provide unique means of understanding and controlling living matter.Throughout, Thacker provides in-depth accounts of theoretical issues implicit in biotechnical artifacts-issues that arise in the fields of bioinformatics, proteomics, systems biology, and biocomputing. Research in biotechnology, Biomedia suggests, flouts our assumptions about the division between biological and technological systems. New ways of thinking about this division are needed if we are to understand the cultural, social, and philosophical dimensions of such research, and this book marks a significant advance in the coming intellectual revolution.
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    College Station : University of North Texas Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781574414134
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (317 pages)
    Series Statement: Publications of the Texas Folklore Society (Cloth), 61
    DDC: 398.209764
    Keywords: Grenzgebiet ; Volkskunde ; Texas ; Mexiko ; Quelle
    Abstract: Texas' songs, tales, and traditions have lived and prospered on the other sides of Texas borders at one time or another before they crossed the rivers. "Both Sides of the Border" contains something foreveryone interested in Texas folklore.
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    Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780807875889
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (266 pages)
    DDC: 305.42/092
    Abstract: Nineteenth-century newspaper editor Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815-1884) was an unconventionally ambitious woman. While she struggled in private to be a dutiful daughter, wife, and mother, she publicly critiqued and successfully challenged gender conventions that restricted her personal behavior, limited her political and economic opportunities, and attempted to silence her voice. As the owner and editor of newspapers in Pittsburgh; St. Cloud, Minnesota; and Washington, D.C.; and as one of the founders of the Minnesota Republican Party, Swisshelm negotiated a significant place for herself in the male-dominated world of commerce, journalism, and politics. How she accomplished this feat; what expressive devices she used; what social, economic, and political tensions resulted from her efforts; and how those tensions were resolved are the central questions examined in this biography. Sylvia Hoffert arranges the book topically, rather than chronologically, to include Swisshelm in the broader issues of the day, such as women's involvement in politics and religion, their role in the workplace, and marriage. Rescuing this prominent feminist from obscurity, Hoffert shows how Swisshelm laid the groundwork for the "New Woman" of the turn of the century.
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    Montreal : MQUP | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780773572058
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (208 pages)
    DDC: 305.69786095491
    Abstract: Following on the work he began in Conscience and Coercion: Ahmadi Muslims and Orthodoxy in Pakistan, Antonio Gualtieri returned to Pakistan to continue his conversations with devotees of the Ahmadi community. He reveals how this traditional society deals with conflicts arising from contact with the non-Ahmadi and shows how the Ahmadi survive in a country that is generally hostile to them.
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    Richmond : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203492277
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (287 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306/.0951
    Abstract: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203563250
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (245 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory
    DDC: 305.8
    Abstract: This innovative volume brings a selection of leading political theorists to the wide-ranging debate on multiculturalism and political legitimacy. By focusing on the challenge to mainstream liberal theory posed by the surge of interest in the rights of minority groups and subcultures within states, the authors confront issues such as rights, liberalism, cultural pluralism and power relations.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203584811
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (276 pages)
    Edition: 2nd ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Classic Ethnographies
    DDC: 306.089965
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    Keywords: Samburu ; Gerontokratie
    Abstract: Samburu society is a gerontocracy in which power rests with the older men; men under thirty may not marry or otherwise assert their personal independence. This nomadic tribe from the arid regions of northern Kenya cling to their traditional way of life despite the rapid change throughout Africa. The author spent more than two years during the 1960's amongst the Samburu, and as an adopted member of one of their clans, he perceived how their values and attitudes are closely interwoven with a social system that resists change.
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    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203300039
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (263 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies on China in Transition
    DDC: 303.340951
    Abstract: Who are the top political leaders in China? What are the major criteria in elite recruitment? How is job promotion in high politics determined? By studying over one and a half thousand top political Chinese leaders, this book seeks to answer these questions and, as a result, defines how Chinese leadership is stratified. Unlike existing research on Chinese leaders, Elite Dualism and Leadership Selection in China draws on extensive statistical information and data analysis. It evidences how political development in the reform era has led to the division of labour between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the government in governance, leading to two distinctive career paths in the two political systems respectively. Key issues examined include: * the different criteria the CCP and the government demand * the requirements for promotion * the effect of university education on the rate of mobility * the different affiliations of the two groups * the role of cooptation in leadership selection. Many of the elites discussed are still leading figures in China, making this book the most up-to-date and extensive biographical data set in elite studies. This allows for a meaningful analysis of elite behaviour in China for the first time in Chinese Studies. This book will be useful to both students of Chinese studies and comparative politics and will also interest researchers, political commentators, statesmen and China-watchers.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203495827
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (254 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Research in Transnationalism
    DDC: 305.800958090511
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    Abstract: Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, a number of linkages have been established between newly independent Central Asian states, or populations within them, and diaspora ethnic groups. This book explores the roles that diaspora communities play in the recent and ongoing emergence of national identities in Central Asia and the Caucasus. The loyalties of these communities are divided between their countries of residence and those states that serve as homeland of their particular ethno-cultural nation, and are further complicated by connections with contested transnational notions of common cultures and 'peoples'. Written by highly respected experts in the field, the book addresses issues such as nationalism, conflict, population movement, global civil society, Muslim communities in China and relations between the new nation-states and Russia. This innovative book will interest students and researchers of transnationalism and Central Asian studies.
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    Richmond : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203563205
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (249 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship
    DDC: 304.2/8/0951
    Abstract: China has a population of 1.3 billion people which puts strain on her natural resources. This volume, by one of the leading scholars on the earth's biosphere, is the result of a lifetime of study, and provides the fullest account yet of the environmental challenges that China faces. The author examines China's energy resources, their uses, impacts and prospects, from the 1970s oil crisis to the present day, before analysing the key question of how China can best produce enough food to feed its enormous population.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203583036
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (221 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 398.20942
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    Keywords: Artus ; Motivgeschichte
    Abstract: This original and compelling study argues against the traditional identification of Arthur as a king in Celtic Britain. Instead, Graham Anderson explores the evidence for two much older figures, known to classical writers as kings of Arcadia and Lydia, over a millenium before. He shows how these kings can be clearly connected with traditional Arthurian characters and adventure, including an ancient Gawain, a Lady of Shallott, and a predecessor of Excalibur, and shows that the Arthurian universe found in Welsh tales and French romances is already anticipated in these earliest of Arthurian materials. This radical reassessment of the Arthurian legends provides a new perspective on on age-old historical puzzle, and will provoke debate amongst Classical and Medieval scholars and Arthurian enthusiasts.
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    London : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203612439
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (238 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Anthropology of Asia
    DDC: 304.2/3/095
    Abstract: Ideas and practices concerning sleep and night-time are constantly changing and widely varied in different cultures and societies. What we do during the day and night is the result of much political struggle. Trade unions, political parties, entrepreneurs, leaders and schools boards, all have an interest in questions of timing for the opening and closing of shops, the starting hours of schools and factories, and the number of hours people have to work and sleep. By drawing together comparative case studies from countries in both Asia and Europe, Night-time and Sleep in Asia and the West allows the reader to track the differences in the cultural importance given to the night, and to compare the ways in which the challenges and opportunities of modernity have been played out in the East and the West.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203494325
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (379 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 302.3/4
    Abstract: Communication and relationships have become an increasing focus of attention in debates about the future of health and social care. People working in care services are being encouraged to improve communication processes, to develop more participatory relationships with service users, and to work more closely in partnership with other professionals. This Reader provides a comprehensive collection of literature that aims to enable those involved in care services, as workers, carers or service users, to reflect on their everyday interactions and to situate them in wider contexts. Including new material from the frontline of research and practice, as well as some classic readings, this wide-ranging volume emphasises the need to see interpersonal communication as embedded in relationships, and to take account of issues of power and diversity, as well as the emotional dimension of care work. Covering both health and social care, the Reader is divided into four sections, focusing on: * concepts and contexts * analysing aspects of communication * the person in the process * communication and relationships in organisations. Communication, Relationships and Care will be an essential resource for students of social work, nursing, health and social policy, and for all involved in health and social care services, whether as professionals, carers or service users. It is a set book for the Open University's second level undergraduate course Communication and Relationships in Health and Social Care (K205).
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    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203426555
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (173 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Advances in European Politics
    DDC: 306.094
    Keywords: Nietzsche, Friedrich ; Europagedanke
    Abstract: There has been a deliberative, but as yet unsuccessful, attempt by scholars and policy makers to articulate a more meaningful idea of Europe, which would enhance the legitimacy of the European Union and provide the basis for a European identity. Using a detailed analysis of the writings of Nietzsche, Elbe seeks to address this problem and argues that Nietzsche's thinking about Europe can significantly illuminate our understanding. He demonstrates how Nietzsche's critique of nationalism and the notion of the 'good European' can assist contemporary scholars in the quest for a vision of Europe and a definition of what it means to be a European citizen.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203506783
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (193 pages)
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    DDC: 305.42/094
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    Keywords: Europäische Union ; Geschlechterpolitik ; Gender Mainstreaming ; Zypern
    Abstract: This dissertation examines the impact of international institutions on women's rights policies by focusing on the European Union (EU) as a case study in order to illustrate the influence and the ways in which international factors affect women's right as a global policy concern. The principle proposition of this study is that beyond states, institutions are autonomous agents that influence policy outcomes often against member states' preferences.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203490549
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (374 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.23508995073
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    Keywords: Asiaten ; Jugend ; Ethnische Identität ; Kulturelle Identität ; USA
    Abstract: Asian American Youth covers topics such as Asian immigration, acculturation, assimilation, intermarriage, socialization, sexuality, and ethnic identification. The distinguished contributors show how Asian American youth have created an identity and space for themselves historically and in contemporary multicultural America.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203493915
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (160 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Studies in African American History and Culture
    DDC: 305.89607307471
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    Abstract: Looking at the communities of Central and West Harlem in New York City, this study explores the locus, form and significance of socioeconomic differentiation for African American professional-managerial workers. It begins by considering centuries of New York City history and the structural elements of class inequality to present readers with the larger context of contemporary events. The primary objective of this study is to examine the everyday lives of black professionals in Harlem and determine what bearing income-generating activities have on ideology, consumption patterns and lifestyle, among other factors.
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    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203410790
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (286 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative
    DDC: 306/.0947
    Keywords: Geschichte 1917-1991 ; Alltag ; Familienleben ; Oral history ; Sowjetunion
    Abstract: For a period of over seventy years after the 1917 revolutions in Russia, talking about the past, either political or personal, became dangerous. The new policy of glasnost at the end of the 1980s resulted in a flood of reminiscence, almost nightly on television and more formally collected by new Russian oral history groups and western researchers. This book is a fascinating collection of life stories and family history interview material collected by the editors and two Russian groups of interviewers.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203563397
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (252 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
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    Abstract: The impact of liberal globalization and multiculturalism means that nations are under pressure to transform their national identities from an ethnic to a civic mode. This has led, in many cases, to dominant ethnic decline, but also to its peripheral revival in the form of far right politics. At the same time, the growth of mass democracy and the decline of post-colonial and Cold War state unity in the developing world has opened the floodgates for assertions of ethnic dominance. This book investigates both tendencies and argues forcefully for the importance of dominant ethnicity in the contemporary world.
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    Series Statement: Themes in Archaeology Series
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    Abstract: Bringing together a wealth of research in social and cultural anthropology, philosophy and related fields, this is the first book to address the contribution that an understanding of personhood can make to our interpretations of the past Applying an anthropological approach to detailed case studies from European prehistoric archaeology, the book explores the connection between people, animals, objects, their societies and environments and investigates the relationship that jointly produces bodies, persons, communities and artefacts. The Archaeology of Personhood examines the characteristics that define a person as a category of being, highlights how definitions of personhood are culturally variable and explores how that variation is connected to human uses of material culture.
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    ISBN: 9780203003824
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    Series Statement: The Making of the Contemporary World
    DDC: 303.6/25
    Abstract: A concise and accessible survey of this topical and complex subject, this is the first book of its type to focus on the terrorists, and their psychology, in an historical context. Focusing on a variety of prominent terrorist groups together with a number of less notorious ones, the book encourages readers to think about the mindset, motivation and tactics of terrorists. David J. Whittaker analyzes examples of terrorists working as individuals, such as Timothy McVeigh, and those working in groups, such as Al-Qaida, over the last two or three decades. He goes on to discuss the problems of countering these terrorists and the possible forms terrorism could take in the future. Fascinating reading, this book will prove extremely informative to any student or researcher of this complex modern-day issue.
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    ISBN: 9780203299678
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    Series Statement: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
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    Abstract: In recent decades, environmental issues have increasingly been incorporated into liberal democratic thought and political practice. Environmentalism and ecologism have become fashionable, even respectable schools of political thought. This apparently successful integration of environmental movements, issues and ideas in mainstream politics raises the question of whether there is a future for what once was a counter-movement and counter-ideology. Liberal Democracy and Environmentalism provides a reflective assessment of recent developments, social relevance and future of environmental political theory, concluding that although the alleged pacification of environmentalism is more than skin deep, it is not yet quite deep enough. This book will appeal to students and researchers of social science and philosophers with an interest in environmental issues.
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    ISBN: 9780203356463
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    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    DDC: 303.48/2730596/0904
    Abstract: Spanning from the first US contacts with Cambodia in the 19th century up until the late 1960s and the outbreak of war with Vietnam, this book is the first to systematically explore American relations with Cambodia. A discussion of adventurers, tourists and missionaries initially sets the scene for the analysis of official relations which began in 1950. The book traces how relations with Cambodia's king, Norodom Sihanouk, were often troubled as Sihanouk strove to keep his country out of the Cold War even when pressured by the US to join the battle against communism.
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    ISBN: 9780203317570
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (295 pages)
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    Series Statement: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
    DDC: 306.4/84
    Abstract: This book examines folk music and dance revival movements in Russia, exploring why this folk culture has come to represent Russia, how it has been approached and produced, and why memory and tradition, in these particular forms, have taken on particular significance in different periods. Above all it shows how folk "tradition" in Russia is an artificial cultural construct, which is periodically reinvented, and it demonstrates in particular how the "folk revival" has played a key role in strengthening Russian national consciousness in the post-Soviet period.
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    ISBN: 9780203799819
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (273 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series
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    Abstract: Japan and National Anthropology: A Critique is an empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated study which challenges the conventional view of Japanese studies in general and the Anglophone anthropological writings on Japan in particular. Sonia Ryang explores the process by which the postwar anthropology of Japan has come to be dominated by certain conceptual and methodological and exposes the extent to which this process has occluded our view of Japan.
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    ISBN: 9780203004883
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (325 pages)
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    Series Statement: Critical Geographies
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    Keywords: Mensch ; Tiere ; Geografie ; Raum ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Animal Spaces, Beastly Places examines how animals interact and relate with people in different ways. Using a comprehensive range of examples, which include feral cats and wild wolves, to domestic animals and intensively farmed cattle, the contributors explore the complex relations in which humans and non-human animals are mixed together. Our emotions involving animals range from those of love and compassion to untold cruelty, force, violence and power. As humans we have placed different animals into different categories, according to some notion of species, usefulness, domesticity or wildness. As a result of these varying and often contested orderings, animals are assigned to particular places and spaces. Animal Spaces, Beastly Places shows us that there are many exceptions and variations on the spatiality of human-animal spatial orderings, within and across cultures, and over time. It develops new ways of thinking about human animal interactions and encourages us to find better ways for humans and animals to live together.
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    ISBN: 9780203005293
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (314 pages)
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    Abstract: What do skydiving, rock climbing, and downhill skiing have in common with stock-trading, unprotected sex, and sadomasochism? All are high risk pursuits. Edgework explores the world of voluntary risk-taking, investigating the seductive nature of pursuing peril and teasing out the boundaries between legal and criminal behavior; conscious and unconscious acts; sanity and insanity; acceptable risk and stupidity. The distinguished contributors to this collection profile high risk-takers and explore their experiences with risk through such topics as juvenile delinquency, street anarchism, sadomasochism, avant-garde art, business risks, and extreme sport.
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    ISBN: 9780203413845
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (329 pages)
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    Series Statement: International Library of Sociology
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    Keywords: Wissenschaftssoziologie ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Notes on contributors Acknowledgements 1. The Idiom of Co-production Sheila Jasanoff 2. Ordering Knowledge, Ordering Society Sheila Jasanoff 3. Climate Science and the Making of a Global Political Order Clark A. Miller 4. Co-producing CITES and the African Elephant Charis Thompson 5. Knowledge and Political Order in the European Environment Agency Claire Waterton and Brian Wynne 6. Plants, Power and Development: Founding the Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West Indies, 1880-1914 William K. Storey 7. Mapping Systems and Moral Order: Constituting property in genome laboratories Stephen Hilgartner 8. Patients and Scientists in French Muscular Dystrophy Research Vololona Rabeharisoa and Michel Callon 9. Circumscribing Expertise: Membership categories in courtroom testimony Michael Lynch 10. The Science of Merit and the Merit of Science: Mental order and social order in early twentieth-century France and America John Carson 11. Mysteries of State, Mysteries of Nature: Authority, knowledge and expertise in the seventeenth century Peter Dear 12. Reconstructing Sociotechnical Order: Vannevar Bush and US science policy Michael Aaron Dennis 13. Science and the Political Imagination in Contemporary Democracies Yaron Ezrah 14. Afterword Sheila Jasanoff References Index.
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    ISBN: 9780203448694
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    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Human Geography v.10
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    Abstract: Individuals, consumer groups, nation states and supra-national bodies increasingly have interrogated the ethics of particular production and consumption relations such as GM foods. Flowing from and bound up with these political concerns is the growing interest in the mutual dependence of sites of (for example) production, distribution, retailing, design, advertising, marketing and final consumption. This timely volume draws together contributions concerned with the production, circulation and consumption of commodities. Not only do these case study examples seek to transcend older understandings of production and consumption, but they also explicitly tap into wider public debate about the meanings, origins and biographies of commodities. Taking a geographical approach to the analysis of links between producers and consumers, the book focuses upon the ways in which these ties increasingly are stretched across spaces and places. Critical engagements with the ways in which these spaces and places affect the economies, cultures and politics of the connections between producers and consumers are skilfully threaded through each section.
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    ISBN: 9780203009802
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (401 pages)
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    Abstract: Now a classic in the field, The Horrors of the Half-Known Life is an important foundational text in the construction of masculinity, female identity, and the history of midwivery.
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    ISBN: 9781410610348
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    Series Statement: European Institute for the Media Series
    DDC: 302.23/094
    Abstract: This comparative study brings together academics and practitioners who work in the field of media and elections to provide a set of national case studies and an analysis of the legal and regulatory frameworks that are employed by nation states to ensure that the media perform according to certain standards during election periods. In setting out the legal and regulatory framework each chapter provides an account of the socio-political conditions and media environment in each of the countries and subsequently details the laws that govern the print and broadcast media during election campaign periods. The countries included are France, Germany, Italy, Russia, South Africa, the United States, and the United Kingdom. A set of reflections by a Member of the European Parliament and a set of recommendations for good practice in media and elections are also included. Thus, the book is organized to provide a practical guide so that it can be used as a handbook.
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    ISBN: 9781410610843
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    Abstract: A companion volume to Family Observational Coding Systems, this book moves from the triad to the dyad and provides a showcase for significant developments in the coding of intimate couple interactions. The hope is that this book will contribute to the broadening and deepening of the field by disseminating information both about the coding systems that have been developed, as well as the conceptual and methodological issues involved in couple observational research. The first three chapters present overviews of conceptual and methodological issues in the study of couple processes. The remaining chapters describe contributions to the field by 16 teams of researchers. Each chapter provides information about the conceptual underpinnings and structure of the coding system developed by the authors and evidence for its psychometric properties. Couple Observational Coding Systems will be of interest to researchers studying couple interactions as well as clinicians who work with couples.
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    ISBN: 9781410611161
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (938 pages)
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    Abstract: In an era characterized by the rapid evolution of the concept of literacy, the Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts focuses on multiple ways in which learners gain access to knowledge and skills. The handbook explores the possibilities of broadening current conceptualizations of literacy to include the full array of the communicative arts (reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing) and to focus on the visual arts of drama, dance, film, art, video, and computer technology. The communicative and visual arts encompass everything from novels and theatrical performances to movies and video games. In today's world, new methods for transmitting information have been developed that include music, graphics, sound effects, smells, and animations. While these methods have been used by television shows and multimedia products, they often represent an unexplored resource in the field of education. By broadening our uses of these media, formats, and genres, a greater number of students will be motivated to see themselves as learners. In 64 chapters, organized in seven sections, teachers and other leading authorities in the field of literacy provide direction for the future: I. Theoretical Bases for Communicative and Visual Arts Teaching Paul Messaris, Section Editor II. Methods of Inquiry in Communicative and Visual Arts Teaching Donna Alvermann, Section Editor III. Research on Language Learners in Families, Communities, and Classrooms Vicki Chou, Section Editor IV. Research on Language Teachers: Conditions and Contexts Dorothy Strickland, Section Editor V. Expanding Instructional Environments: Teaching, Learning, and Assessing the Communicative and Visual Arts Nancy Roser, Section Editor VI. Research Perspectives on the Curricular, Extracurricular, and Policy Perspectives James Squire, Section Editor VII.
    Abstract: Voices from the Field Bernice Cullinan and Lee Galda, Section Editors The International Reading Association has compiled in the Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts an indispensable set of papers for educators that will enable them to conceptualize literacy in much broader contexts than ever before. The information contained in this volume will be extremely useful in planning literacy programs for our students for today and tomorrow.
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    ISBN: 9780253111043
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 pages)
    DDC: 391.0096
    Keywords: Mode ; Politik ; Kleidung ; Afrika
    Abstract: Everywhere in the world there is a close connection between the clothes we wear and our political expression. To date, few scholars have explored what clothing means in 20th-century Africa and the diaspora. In Fashioning Africa, an international group of anthropologists, historians, and art historians bring rich and diverse perspectives to this fascinating topic. From clothing as an expression of freedom in early colonial Zanzibar to Somali women's headcovering in inner-city Minneapolis, these essays explore the power of dress in African and pan-African settings. Nationalist and diasporic identities, as well as their histories and politics, are examined at the level of what is put on the body every day. Readers interested in fashion history, material and expressive cultures, understandings of nation-state styles, and expressions of a distinctive African modernity will be engaged by this interdisciplinary and broadly appealing volume.Contributors are Heather Marie Akou, Jean Allman, A. Boatema Boateng, Judith Byfield, Laura Fair, Karen Tranberg Hansen, Margaret Jean Hay, Andrew M. Ivaska, Phyllis M. Martin, Marissa Moorman, Elisha P. Renne, and Victoria L. Rovine.
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    ISBN: 9781412932585
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    Keywords: Sozialpsychologie
    Abstract: `It is written in a beautifully clear, engaging and conversational style which will make the book accessible and appealing to those encountering critical ideas for the first time.... Students will find the book both interesting and easy to read, and their lecturers will find it a valuable teaching resource. I will certainly be recommending it to my second and third year undergraduates' - Viv Burr, University of Huddersfield.
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    ISBN: 9781412933872
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (199 pages)
    Series Statement: Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    DDC: 392.4/09182/10904
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1890-2000 ; Geschlechterverhältnis ; Frauenemanzipation
    Abstract: `This is a highly original and in many ways brilliant text. It is a model of how historical/process sociological research ought to be conducted and written-up. The author's subtle blending of theory and data is outstanding' - Eric Dunning, Professor of Sociology, University of Leicester.
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    ISBN: 9780511164156
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    Keywords: Prostitution ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book, first published in 2004, explores the influence of women's movements and women's policy agencies on policy and legislation relating to prostitution.
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    ISBN: 9780511211539
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    Series Statement: New Perspectives on Anthropological and Social Demography v.3
    DDC: 304.6
    Abstract: A rapprochement between anthropological demography and human evolutionary ecology through recognition of common research topics incorporating cultural and biological motivation.
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    ISBN: 9780511211720
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    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    DDC: 303.6208900954
    Abstract: This book explains the relationship between Hindu-Muslim riots and elections in India.
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    ISBN: 9780511210808
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    Series Statement: Contemporary Political Theory
    DDC: 303.6
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    Keywords: Politik ; Gewalt ; Demokratie
    Abstract: An account of the origins of violence, its consequences, its uses, and the relationship between violence and democracy.
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    ISBN: 9780511211485
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (302 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1950-2000 ; Migration ; Südeuropa
    Abstract: This book analyses the case of southern European migration using an economic approach.
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    ISBN: 9780511210679
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (328 pages)
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    Keywords: Schwarze ; Intellektueller ; Philosophie ; Politisches Denken ; Konfliktlösung ; USA ; Biographie
    Abstract: Essays that focus on the complexity of the thought of five major African-American intellectuals.
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    ISBN: 9781433707575
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (384 pages)
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    Keywords: Sozialgeschichte 1700-1950 ; Sozialgeografie ; Historische Geografie ; Afrika ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: In this collection authors apply spatial analysis to case studies of social, economic, and political dynamics in West, Central, and East Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth century. Also included is a lengthy essay re-interpreting tropical Africa, 1800-1930, using spatial theory.
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    ISBN: 9780335226429
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    Keywords: Kulturpolitik
    Abstract: Addresses issues concerning culture, economy, and power in the age of liberal globalization. The topics covered in this book include: Branding culture and exploitation; The state, market and civil society; and How visitor attractions such as London's Millennium Dome are used for national aggrandizement and corporate business purposes.
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    ISBN: 9781410610171
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    Series Statement: LEA's Communication
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    Abstract: This second edition of the Handbook of Communication and Aging Research captures the ever-changing and expanding domain of aging research. Since it was first recognized that there is more to social aging than demography, gerontology has needed a communication perspective. Like the first edition, this handbook sets out to demonstrate that aging is not only an individual process but an interactive one. The study of communication can lead to an understanding of what it means to grow old. We may age physiologically and chronologically, but our social aging--how we behave as social actors toward others, and even how we align ourselves with or come to understand the signs of difference or change as we age--are phenomena achieved primarily through communication experiences. Synthesizing the vast amount of research that has been published on communication and aging in numerous international outlets over the last three decades, the book's contributors include scholars from North America and the United Kingdom who are active researchers in the perspectives covered in their particular chapter. Many of the chapters work to deny earlier images of aging as involving normative decrement to provide a picture of aging as a process of development involving positive choices and providing new opportunities. A recuring theme in many chapters is that of the heterogeneity of the group of people who are variously categorized as older, aged, elderly, or over 65. The contributors review the literature analytically, in a way that reveals not only current theoretical and methodological approaches to communication and aging research but also sets the future agenda. This handbook will be of great interest to scholars and researchers in gerontology, developmental psychology, and communication, and, in this updated edition, will continue to play a key role in the study of...
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    ISBN: 9781847871077
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (142 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschlechtsidentität ; Internationalisierung ; Homosexualität ; Globalisierung
    Abstract: Explores the relationships between the national state, globalization and sexual dissidence.
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    ISBN: 9780816695577
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    Abstract: Racial discrimination embodies inequality, exclusion, and injustice and as such has no place in a democratic society. And yet racial matters pervade nearly every aspect of American life, influencing where we live, what schools we attend, the friends we make, the votes we cast, the opportunities we enjoy, and even the television shows we watch. Joel Olson contends that, given the history of slavery and segregation in the United States, American citizenship is a form of racial privilege in which whites are equal to each other but superior to everyone else. In Olson's analysis we see how the tension in this equation produces a passive form of democracy that discourages extensive participation in politics because it treats citizenship as an identity to possess rather than as a source of empowerment. Olson traces this tension and its disenfranchising effects from the colonial era to our own, demonstrating how, after the civil rights movement, whiteness has become less a form of standing and more a norm that cements white advantages in the ordinary operations of modern society. To break this pattern, Olson suggests an "abolitionist-democratic" political theory that makes the fight against racial discrimination a prerequisite for expanding democratic participation.
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    ISBN: 9781847142610
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (286 pages)
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    Abstract: Thinking Geographically offers students and faculty alike an elegant, concise, and thorough overview of contemporary theoretical concerns in geography. Easily accessible to those unfamiliar with social theory, this volume "pushes the envelope" of understanding by sketching the contours of post-structuralist spatial thought, including such critical emerging topics as geographies of text, the body, money, and globalisation. Brief biographies of influential theorists demonstrate how ideas are embodied and personified. This volume is highly useful for courses in human geography, the history and status of the discipline, and will stand as a milestone in the discipline's conceptual understanding over the next decade or more." Barney Warf, Florida State University The last decade has seen Geography transformed by an astonishing range of cultural and philosophical concepts and approaches. Thinking Geographically is designed for students as an accessible and enjoyable introduction to this new landscape of geographical ideas. The book takes the reader through the history of geographic thought up to a survey of the present. Contemporary theory is then used to explore real world issues drawn from across the discipline of social, cultural, political and economic geography. Entertainingly written and packed with examples and with profiles of key theorists, the book is an ideal introduction for any student who wants to discover the potential of thinking geographically.
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    Montreal : MQUP | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780773569324
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (720 pages)
    Series Statement: Comparative Charting of Social Change v.11
    DDC: 949.5075
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1960-2000 ; Sozialer Wandel ; Griechenland
    Abstract: The newest volume in the Comparative Charting of Social Change series highlights the main elements of demographic, social, political, and economic development in Greece during the period 1960-2000. Based on a systematic analysis of available information and data, this volume provides an overview of Greece's socio-economic profile, which changed significantly during the studied period.
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    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780816695942
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (283 pages)
    Series Statement: Borderlines
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    Keywords: Landschaftspflege ; Nationalcharakter ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; Nationenbildung ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Australien
    Abstract: In a world increasingly marked by migration and dislocation, the question of displacement, and of establishing a sense of belonging, has become ever more common and ever more urgent. But what of those who stay in place? How do people who remain in their place of origin or ancestral homeland rearticulate a sense of connection, of belonging, when ownership of the territory they occupy is contested? Focusing on Australia, Allaine Cerwonka examines the physical and narrative spatial practices by which people reclaim territory in the wake of postcolonial claims to land by indigenous people and new immigration of "foreigners." As a multicultural, postcolonial nation whose claims to land until recently were premised on the notion of the continent as "empty" (terra nullius), Australia offers an especially rich lens for understanding the reterritorialization of the nation-state in an era of globalization. To this end, Native to the Nation provides a multisited ethnography of two communities in Melbourne, the Fitzroy Police Station and the East Melbourne Garden Club, allowing us to see how bodies are managed and nations physically constructed in everyday confrontations and cultivations.
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    Santa Barbara : ABC-CLIO | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780313058080
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (319 pages)
    Series Statement: Contributions in Family Studies v.18
    DDC: 306.3/2
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1600-1950 ; Geschlechterverhältnis ; Familie ; Erbe ; Eigentum
    Abstract: The history of welfare provision has generally focused on the rise of the so-called welfare state and institutional provision for the poor. Recent studies have begun to look beyond the state to other ways in which assistance, care, and support were provided in the past, but the focus remains primarily on the poor. This work widens our understanding of welfare by focusing not on the poor but on those who have some wealth. It draws attention to the importance of family as part of a mixed economy of welfare provision that also incorporates the state, the market, and the voluntary sector. This book offers an exciting new approach to the history of welfare by focusing attention on the complex range of sources of support drawn on to meet family needs. The chapters highlight the significance of the family as a link in in the provision of assistance. They also focus on the role played by gender relations in shaping welfare strategies. An extensive introduction is followed by ten chapters presenting detailed studies of the provision of family welfare across western Europe and the United States over the past four hundred years.
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    Santa Barbara : ABC-CLIO | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780313058592
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (278 pages)
    Series Statement: Greenwood Folklore Handbooks
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    Keywords: Volksliteratur ; Volkserzählung ; Märchen
    Abstract: Just about everyone is familiar with folk and fairy tales. Children learn about them from parents, teachers, and other adults, while researchers study these tales at colleges and universities. At the same time, folk and fairy tales are inseparable from everyday life and popular culture. Movies, music, art, and literature offer imaginative retellings and interpretations of fairy and folk tales. But despite the pervasiveness of this folklore type, most people have only a vague understanding of these tales. This reference is a convenient introduction to folk and fairy tales for students and general readers. Written by a leading authority, this handbook offers a broad examination of folk and fairy tales as a folklore type. It looks at tales from around the world and from diverse cultures. The volume defines and classifies folk and fairy tales and analyzes a number of examples. It studies the varied manifestations of fairy and folk tales in literature and culture and reviews critical and scholarly approaches to this folklore genre. The volume also includes a glossary and extensive list of works for further reading.
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    Santa Barbara : ABC-CLIO | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780313052002
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (152 pages)
    Series Statement: Non-Series
    DDC: 306.874/5/08996073
    Abstract: Intergenerational African families in which the grandmother is the primary caregiver of grandchildren and great-grandchildren are increasing rapidly in American society. Over the past decade, researchers and policy makers have shown considerable concern over the increases in grandparent-maintained households. This concern has stimulated a proliferation of research on grandparent caregiving on a wide range of issues. Among these are the impact of multiple roles on health, reasons for the rapid increase, problems and needs, social structure and extended family relationships, social support, role satisfaction, the impact of the AIDS and crack-cocaine epidemics, and emotional/physical well-being. In spite of social, economic, and health demands faced by African American grandmothers, many of them accept parental responsibility of children who might otherwise become wards of the state. This book is organized to give a broad perspective on social characteristics, health issues, and experiences of African American grandmothers who act in the role of custodial parents to their grandchildren. Ruiz highlights the increase in grandparent caregivers over the past three decades, provides an overview of historical roles of the grandmother in African American families, and shows how the extended family has acted as a social-emotional and financial support in times of need.
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    Santa Barbara : ABC-CLIO | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780313062872
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (342 pages)
    Series Statement: Teen Life around the World
    DDC: 305.235/09729
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    Keywords: Jugend ; Soziale Situation ; Lateinamerika ; Karibik ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Teens in Latin America and the Caribbean generally face a difficult path to adulthood. Poverty and unemployment, violence, political instability, and emigration are frequently the norm in their native countries. Those from poorer families must often work as well as attend school, and opportunities for higher education and good jobs are limited. Wealthier teens, on the other hand, are sheltered from harshness and enjoy private schools, vacations abroad, and access to American consumer products. Yet family is important no matter what the class, and most of these teens share a love of parties, music, and current fashions. Latin America and the Caribbean are important regions to the United States, since large numbers of Americans can trace their roots there. Teen Life in Latin America and the Caribbean allows U.S. teens to understand the unique challenges and opportunities of teens in 15 Latin American or Caribbean countries. Photos complement the text.
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    Champaign : University of Illinois Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780252091377
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (221 pages)
    DDC: 306.874209
    Keywords: Vaterschaft ; Männlichkeit ; Geschlechterrolle ; USA
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203484722
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (401 pages)
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    Series Statement: Death and the Displacement of Beauty
    DDC: 306.9
    Abstract: The pursuit of death and the love of death has characterized Western culture from Homeric times through centuries of Christianity, taking particular deadly shapes in Western postmodernity. This necrophilia shows itself in destruction and violence, in a focus on other worlds and degradation of this one, and in hatred of the body, sense and sexuality. In her major new book project Death and the Displacement of Beauty, Grace M. Jantzen seeks to disrupt this wish for death, opening a new acceptance of beauty and desire that makes it possible to choose life. Foundations of Violence enters the ancient world of Homer, Sophocles, Plato and Aristotle to explore the genealogy of violence in Western thought through its emergence in Greece and Rome. It uncovers origins of ideas of death from the 'beautiful death' of Homeric heroes to the gendered misery of war, showing the tensions between those who tried to eliminate fear of death by denying its significance, and those like Plotinus who looked to another world, seeking life and beauty in another realm.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203622827
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (137 pages)
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    Series Statement: Intertext
    DDC: 306.44
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    Keywords: Englisch ; Kommunikation ; Arbeitswelt ; Konversationsanalyse ; Textanalyse ; Lehrbuch
    Abstract: The Intertext series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies. Working with Texts: A Core Introduction to Language Analysis (second edition 2001) is the foundation text, which is complemented by a range of 'satellite' titles. These provide students with hands-on practical experience of textual analysis through special topics, and can be used individually or in conjunction with Working with Texts. The Language of Work: examines how language is used in business and the workplace, looking at a range of situations and data: from meetings to informal negotiations, promotional letters to emails explores representations of work in advertising, career magazines and workplace talk looks at the way people in business interact through small talk, politeness, customer care and management-employee relationships is illustrated with lively examples taken from the real world and includes a full index of terms features a useful section on entering the world of work, exploring job adverts and texts that give advice on CV writing and developing 'transferable skills'.
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    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203309506
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (385 pages)
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    DDC: 306.708996073
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    Keywords: Stereotyp ; Rassismus ; Sexualverhalten ; Vorurteil ; Schwarze ; Geschlechterrolle ; Soziale Situation ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; USA
    Abstract: In Black Sexual Politics, one of America's most influential writers on race and gender explores how images of Black sexuality have been used to maintain the color line and how they threaten to spread a new brand of racism around the world today.
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    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203311851
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (666 pages)
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    Series Statement: Key Readings in Social Psychology
    DDC: 302.34
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    Keywords: Interpersonale Wahrnehmung ; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung ; Sozialpsychologie ; Interaktion
    Abstract: Each of the chapters in this reader is written by leading scholars in the area of relationships, reflecting the diversity of the field and including both contemporary and key historical papers for comprehensive coverage of research.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203645161
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (310 pages)
    Edition: 2nd ed.
    DDC: 306
    Abstract: An Introduction to Theories of Popular Culture is widely recognized as an immensely useful textbook for students taking courses in the major theories of popular culture. Strinati provides a critical assessment of the ways in which these theories have tried to understand and evaluate popular culture in modern societies. Among the theories and ideas the book introduces are: mann culture, the Frankfurt School and the culture industry, semiology and structuralism, Marxism, feminism, postmodernism and cultural populism. This new edition provides fresh material on Marxism and feminism, while a new final chapter assesses the significance of the theories explained in the book.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203647219
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (202 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Research in Transnationalism
    DDC: 305.8
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    Keywords: Migration ; Globalisierung ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; Anthropogeografie ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Social relations in our globalising world are increasingly stretched out across the borders of two or more nation-states. Yet, despite the growing academic interest in transnational economic networks, political movements and cultural forms, too little attention has been paid to the transformations of space that these processes both reflect and reproduce. Transnational Spaces takes a innovative perspective, looking at transnationalism as a social space that can be occupied by a wide range of actors, not all of whom are themselves directly connected to transnational migrant communities.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203642481
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 pages)
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    DDC: 306.4
    Keywords: Videoüberwachung ; Gesellschaft ; Video ; Theater ; Künste ; Videokunst ; Massenkultur
    Abstract: In Loving Big Brother the author tackles head on the overstated claims of the crime-prevention and anti-terrorism lobbies. But he also argues that we desire and enjoy surveillance, and that, if we can understand why this is, we may transform the effect it has on our lives. This book looks at a wide range of performance and visual artists, at popular TV shows and movies, and at our day-to-day encounters with surveillance, rooting its arguments in an accessible reading of cultural theory. Constant scrutiny by surveillance cameras is usually seen as - at best - an invasion of privacy, and at worst an infringement of human rights. But in this radical new account of the uses of surveillance in art, performance and popular culture, John E McGrath sets out a surprizing alternative: a world where we have much to gain from the experience of being watched. This iconoclastic book develops a notion of surveillance space - somewhere beyond the public and the private, somewhere we will all soon live. It's a place we're just beginning to understand.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203643730
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (280 pages)
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    DDC: 303.48/33
    Abstract: Around the world, citizens in local communities are utilising ICTs to underpin the creation of a participatory and democratic vision of the network society. Embedded in the richness and diversity of community practice, a vision of a 'civil network society' is emerging. A society where ICTs are harnessed as tools to improve the quality of life and reflect the diversity of social networks; where people are viewed as citizens, not just as consumers, and where heterogeneity is perceived as a strength rather than a weakness. Community Practice in the Network Society looks at the broad context in which this is happening, presents case studies of local projects from around the world, and discusses community ICT research methodologies. Not only does it highlight the symbiotic relationship between community ICT practice and research, but it also provides evidence supporting the case for the development of more inclusive and participatory pathways to the network society.
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    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203392195
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (199 pages)
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    Series Statement: Understanding Social Change
    DDC: 303.482
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    Abstract: Today's news media is full of references to 'globalization' - a buzz word that is quickly becoming ubiquitous. But what exactly is globalization? What are its main driving forces? Does it truly embrace all aspects of our lives, from economics to cultural developments? A Globalizing World? examines these and other key questions in a highly accessible fashion, offering a clear and intelligent guide to the big ideas and debates of our time. In doing so, it does not take one particular stance for or against globalizaton; rather, it examines the arguments and evidence about its nature, form and impact. After introducing the main theoretical positions of those who have studied the subject, key chapters look at the changing form of modern communication and cultural industries, trade patterns and financial flows of the world economy, and whether or not the 'new political world order' is qualitatively different from the old state system. This is essential reading for all students of politics, economics and international relations.
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    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203421000
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (324 pages)
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    Series Statement: Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series
    DDC: 303.6/6
    Abstract: Grassroots Pacifism in Post-War Japan presents new material on grassroots peace activism and pacifism in two major groups active in the post-World War 2 peace movement - workers and housewives. Yamamoto contends that the peace movement, which was organised in tandem with other activities to promote democratic, economic and humanitarian issues, served as a popular lever which helped to eliminate feudal remnants that lingered in Japanese society and individual attitudes after the war, thereby modernizing the political process and the outlook of the ordinary Japanese. Including extensive primary material such as letters, essays, memoirs and interviews, specialists in Japanese history, peace studies and women's studies will appreciate the richness of the text supporting Yamamoto's narrative of how workers' and women's political awareness developed under the influence of organizational and ideological interests and contemporary events.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203462003
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (287 pages)
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    DDC: 306.4/83
    Abstract: Despite the range of theoretical and methological positions adopted and the wide range of issues and topics related to advertising covered by cultural studies, relationships between sport and advertising have been largely overlooked. Given its gobal popularity and its prevalence across the spectrum of cultural and commercial life it is not surprising that scholars interrogating the cultural politics of sport have begun to recognise advertising as an important site for the analysis of power relations, cultural politics and cultural repesentation. Sport, Culture and Advertising presents a first step towards understanding the relationship between advertising and identity with a focus on sport. The book will be useful for scholars across a range of disciplines and will be of interest to students looking for a more critical examination of the commercial realm of sport.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203644522
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (276 pages)
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    DDC: 305.868/7207731
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    Keywords: Chicanos ; Puerto Ricaner ; Rassenkonflikt ; USA
    Abstract: First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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    London : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203508411
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (228 pages)
    DDC: 303.482401822
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    Keywords: Europäische Union ; Politische Identität ; Politische Kultur ; Kulturelle Identität ; Mittelmeerraum
    Abstract: The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership was formed in 1995 in Barcelona. In this volume, concepts of democracy, civil society, human rights and dialogue among civilizations in the Mediterranean region are addressed in the context of the new Euro-Mediterranean Partnership.
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    Clevedon : Multilingual Matters | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781853597800
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (438 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Multilingual Matters S.
    DDC: 306.446094
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    Keywords: Mehrsprachigkeit ; Einwanderer ; Minderheitensprache ; Europa ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The final outcome of the Multilingual Cities Project, this book offers multidisciplinary, crossnational and crosslinguistic perspectives on the status of immigrant minority languages at home and school in a dominant Germanic or Romance environment.
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    ISBN: 9780203011263
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (234 pages)
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    Series Statement: Class, Codes and Control v.4
    DDC: 303
    Abstract: This book represents part of an ongoing effort to understand the rules, practices, agencies and agents which shape and change the social construction of pedagogic discourse. It draws together and re-examines the findings of the author's earlier work.
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    New York : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203011300
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (276 pages)
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    Series Statement: Pedagogy and Popular Culture
    DDC: 306.43
    Abstract: Trekkie popular culture sees Star Trek as a unifying myth. Dr Anijar explores this phenomenon in light of the influences of television in children's lives, and the effects of utopian interpretations of Star Trek on teaching practice.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203017586
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (253 pages)
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    DDC: 306.071
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    Keywords: Kulturwissenschaften ; Kultursoziologie ; Einführung
    Abstract: Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction is a wide-ranging and stimulating introduction to the history and theory of Cultural Studies from Leavisism, through the era of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, to the global nature of contemporary Cultural Studies. Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction begins with an introduction to the field and its theoretical history and then presents a series of short essays on key areas of Cultural Studies, designed to provoke discussion and raise questions. Each thematic section examines and explains a key topic within Cultural Studies. Sections include: * the discipline * time * space * media and the public sphere * identity * sexuality and gender * value.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203497579
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (172 pages)
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    DDC: 306.4/83
    Abstract: Rethinking Aggression and Violence in Sport explores the psychological aspects of these two intrinsic elements of competitive sport. This book critically examines the important issues associated with aggression and violence in sport, including: * a review of current theory in the psychology of aggression * exploration of how players become acclimatised to physical violence * discussion of the psychological benefits of sanctioned and unsanctioned sport violence * examination of the moral and ethical dimensions of the debate * the psychological basis of spectator aggression * case studies from a wide variety of sports. This text is a must read for researchers and students within sport studies, psychology and sociology with an interest in human violence and aggressive behaviour.
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    ISBN: 9780203493922
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (195 pages)
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    Keywords: Sportfan ; Sportsoziologie ; Verbraucherverhalten
    Abstract: Consuming Sport offers a detailed consideration of how sport is experienced and engaged with in the everyday lives, social networks and consumer patterns of its followers. It examines the processes of becoming a sport fan, and the social and moral career that supporters follow as their involvement develops over a life-course. The book argues that while for many people sport matters, for many more, it does not. Though for some sport is significant in shaping their social and cultural identity, it is often consumed and experienced by others in quite mundane and everyday ways, through the media images that surround us, conversations overheard and in the clothing of people we pass by. As well as developing a new theory of sport fandom the book links this discussion to wider debates on audiences, fan cultures and consumer practices. The text argues that for far too long consideration of sport fans has focused on exceptional forms of support ignoring the myriad of ways in which sport can be experienced and consumed in everyday life.
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    Richmond : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203493861
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (207 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies
    DDC: 303.48/21761017671
    Abstract: The Christian-Muslim Frontier describes the historical formation of this zone, and its contemporary dimensions: geopolitical, psychological, economic and security. Special attention is given to the concept of state-frontiers, to the effects of the uneven development of nation states and the contemporary interspersing of communities, which creates new functional frontiers. Further, the frontier is described as a mental construction, imagined by people in their search for social order, individual and collective security. Apostolov demonstrates that it is the political and economic situation of the local people that determines whether these frontiers result in conflict or cooperation. Rather than imposing unilateral principles of good governance, and to ensure cooperation prevails in Christian-Muslim relations, he argues that world society needs to undertake multilateral efforts to build participatory political institutions that accommodate groups with different identities.
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    Mahwah : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781410611246
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (195 pages)
    DDC: 302.2345083
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    Abstract: Concern is growing about the effectiveness of television advertising regulation in the light of technological developments in the media. The current rapid growth of TV platforms in terrestrial, sattelite, and cable formats will soon move into digital transmission. These all offer opportunities for greater commercialization through advertising on media that have not previously been exploited. In democratic societies, there is a tension between freedom of speech rights and the harm that might be done to children through commercial messages. This book explores all of these issues and looks to the future in considering how effective codes of practice and regulation will develop.
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    Richmond : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203493816
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (222 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies on China in Transition v.18
    DDC: 306.74/0951
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    Keywords: Sexualverhalten ; Prostitution ; Feminismus ; Recht ; China
    Abstract: China, Sex and Prostitution is a topical and important critique of recent scholarship in China studies concerning sexuality, prostitution and policing. Jeffrey's arguments are constructed in the form of detailed analysis of a wide range of primary texts, including documents, press reports, police report, and policy and legal pronouncements, and secondary literature in both English and Chinese. The work engages with some key debates in the fields of cultural and gender studies and will be welcomed by scholars in these areas as well as by China specialists, sociologists and anthropologists.
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    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203390689
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (322 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 791.430233092
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    Keywords: Asch, Timothy ; Ethnologie ; Dokumentarfilm ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Timothy Asch (1932-1994) was probably the greatest ethnographic filmmaker of the latter twentieth century, and one of the best-known anthropologists of his generation. He worked with Margaret Mead, John Marshall and Napoleon Chagnon, lived and filmed on every continent except Antarctica, and won numerous international prizes. His work, which includes 'The Ax Fight' and more than 50 other films of the Yanomamö Indians of Venezuela, comprises the most widely used resource in the teaching of anthropology today. Timothy Asch and Ethnographic Film combines a biographical overview of Asch's life with theoretical and critical perspectives, giving a definitive guide to his background, aims and ideas, methodology and major projects. Beautifully illustrated with 60 photos, and featuring articles from many of Asch's friends, colleagues and collaborators as well as an important interview with Asch himself, it is an ideal introduction to his work and to a range of key issues in ethnographic film.
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    London : SAGE Publications | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781412933261
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (177 pages)
    DDC: 302.23
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    Abstract: The Media and Globalization offers: a clear and accessible overview of globalization and the pivotal role of the media; an introduction to the concepts and theories of globalization; empirical data on the production and consumption of media; and a methodology for relating individual, local experiences to the global picture.
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    Mahwah : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781410611628
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (360 pages)
    DDC: 306.44
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    Keywords: Bildersprache ; Sprachverstehen ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Figurative language, such as verbal irony, metaphor, hyperbole, idioms, and other forms is an increasingly important subfield within the empirical study of language comprehension and use. Figurative Language Comprehension: Social and Cultural Influences is an edited scholarly book that ties together recent research concerning the social and cultural influences on figurative language cognition. These influences include gender, cultural differences, economic status, and inter-group effects, among others. The effects these influences have on people's use, comprehension, and even processing of figurative language, comprise the main theme of this volume. No other book offers such a look at the social and cultural influences on a whole family of figurative forms at several levels of cognition. This volume is of great interest to scholars and professionals in the disciplines of social and cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics, and second language acquisition, as well as cognitive and other fields of linguistics where scholars have interests in pragmatics, metaphor, symbol, discourse, and narrative. Some knowledge of the empirical and experimental methods used in language research, as well as some familiarity with theories underlying the use, comprehension, and processing of figurative language would be helpful to readers of this book.
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    ISBN: 9781461715511
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (241 pages)
    Series Statement: Feminist Constructions
    DDC: 305.4201
    Abstract: The essays in this volume present versions of feminism that are explicitly liberal, or versions of liberalism that are explicitly feminist. By bringing together some of the most respected and well-known scholars in mainstream political philosophy today, Amy R. Baehr challenges the reader to reconsider the dominant view that liberalism and feminism are 'incompatible.'.
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    Bradford : Emerald Group Publishing Limited | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781845441760
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (46 pages)
    DDC: 302.3/5
    Abstract: The focus on organisational excellence in the first instance must be excellence, defined by The Australian Concise Oxford Dictionary as "surpassing merit; thing in which persons etc. excel," where to excel is to "be superior". To be excellent one must exceed the existing, to "do more than is warranted by, go beyond the limit set by . . . surpass." This paper examines the limits to organisational excellence by investigating the knowledge base behind the perceptions, values and beliefs that have developed both within business and business education over the last 100 years and provides supporting argument from relevant researchers. These authors postulate that such developments have placed limits at both the managerial and organisational levels by developing attitudes and beliefs that are actually in opposition to the real concept of capitalism. Such limits disempower the agents who have the real ability to achieve excellence within the organisation through increasing quality, effectiveness and cooperation.
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    London : Insomniac Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781897414989
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (382 pages)
    DDC: 306.84/8
    Abstract: In the past three years, Canada has witnessed landmark court rulings in Ontario, B.C. and Quebec making it legal for gay men and lesbian women to marry. Legislation in the Netherlands and Belgium have also extended marriage to same-sex couples. Legal challenges before the U.S. courts in Hawaii, Vermont, Massachusetts, Oregon and California have had the same goal in mind. The same-sex marriage phenomenon is characterized on the one hand by intense personal joys and on the other by long-standing activism and historic legal reasoning. Same-Sex Marriage tells both stories: the experiences of couples who have been able to marry, and the stories behind the scenes that explain how the legal battle has finally been won. Using legal history and interviews, lawyer and professor Kathleen A. Lahey and counselling psychologist Kevin Alderson investigate the two sides of this process, creating a narrative that provides a remarkable case study of progressive social change.
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    Los Angeles : Pitchstone Publishing | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781939578815
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (369 pages)
    DDC: 302.4
    Keywords: Gruppenidentität ; Psychoanalyse ; Krisengebiet ; Gruppenpsychologie
    Abstract: Blind Trust is the culmination of more than three decades of profound immersion in the most pressing sociopolitical conflicts of our time, by the psychoanalyst with probably the most direct experience with such issues of any in the world. Author Vamik Volkan applies his knowledge of depth psychology to the turbulent and destructive human experiences in the current cauldrons of the greatest unrest and disaster throughout Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Illuminating the etiologic bases of war, revolution, massacres, and terror, as these have disturbed the world from ancient times to modern civilization, his voice speaks for the imperative of reason and the application of modern analytic knowledge for conflict resolution at the highest levels. The subjects are large groups and their leaders: windows into the lives of the Prophet Muhammad, Stalin, Milosevic, Osama Bin Laden, and David Koresh are interspersed with examinations of religion and fundamentalism and a sober study of suicide attackers. Volkan's detailed and scholarly description of regressive movements in large-group identities, complemented by an equal attention to progressive and creative reparative forces, represents a significant expansion of our understanding of group psychology.
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    New York : Springer Publishing Company | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780826127976
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (208 pages)
    Series Statement: Springer Series on Death and Suicide
    DDC: 306.9
    Abstract: By comparing the findings from Kalish's and Reynolds's landmark 1970's Death and Ethnicity Study to their own present study, Hayslip and Peveto examine the impact of cultural change on death attitudes. With a focus on African-American, Asian-American, and Hispanic-American subpopulations, with Caucasians treated as a comparison group, the authors come to several conclusions, including: the shift toward more interest in being informed of one's own terminal prognosis; a more personal approach to funerals and mourning observances; a greater focus on family and relationships.
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    New York : NYU Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780814722916
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (260 pages)
    DDC: 394.2673
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    Keywords: Feiertag ; Fest ; Ritual ; Gemeinschaft ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: How did Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday become a national holiday? Why do we exchange presents on Christmas and Chanukah? What do bunnies have to do with Easter? How did Earth Day become a global holiday? These questions and more are answered in this fascinating exploration into the history and meaning of holidays and rituals. Edited by Amitai Etzioni, one of the most influential social and political thinkers of our time, this collection provides a compelling overview of the impact that holidays and rituals have on our family and communal life. From community solidarity to ethnic relations to religious traditions, We Are What We Celebrate argues that holidays such as Halloween, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, New Year's Eve, and Valentine's Day play an important role in reinforcing, and sometimes redefining, our values as a society. The collection brings together classic and original essays that, for the first time, offer a comprehensive overview and analysis of the important role such celebrations play in maintaining a moral order as well as in cementing family bonds, building community relations and creating national identity. The essays cover such topics as the creation of Thanksgiving as a national holiday; the importance of holidays for children; the mainstreaming of Kwanzaa; and the controversy over Columbus Day celebrations. Compelling and often surprising, this look at holidays and rituals brings new meaning to not just the ways we celebrate but to what those celebrations tell us about ourselves and our communities. Contributors: Theodore Caplow, Gary Cross, Matthew Dennis, Amitai Etzioni, John R. Gillis, Ellen M. Litwicki, Diana Muir, Francesca Polletta, Elizabeth H. Pleck, David E. Proctor, Mary F. Whiteside, and Anna Day Wilde.
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    London : Bloomsbury Publishing | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780826432452
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (273 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 302.2343094
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    Keywords: Film ; Propaganda ; Europa
    Abstract: Explores five case studies in Britain, the USSR, Germany and Italy to determine whether or not propaganda films reached the audiences at which they were targeted, and where they did, whether the films made the impact on those audiences that the propagandists had expected.
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    New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780813536392
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (278 pages)
    DDC: 306.6/098
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    New York : Columbia University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780231503204
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (294 pages)
    DDC: 305.8/00973
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1600-2000 ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Minderheitenpolitik ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Featuring essays by leading historians, this brief history is a timely introduction to the interrelated themes of race, ethnicity, and immigration in American history. The book is comprehensive both chronologically -- spanning from 1600 to 2000 and covering everything from the Trail of Tears to the Black Power movement -- and in terms of ethnic groups addressed: it examines not only the history of black-white relations in America, but also the experiences of Irish Catholics, Native Americans, Latinos, Jews, and many others.
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