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    Edmonton : University of Alberta Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781459303867
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (504 pages)
    DDC: 303.66
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    ISBN: 9780822386315
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (371 pages)
    Series Statement: New Americanists
    DDC: 303.4827303209034
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Ägyptophilie ; USA
    Abstract: Explores the relation between nineteenth-century American interest in ancient Egypt in architecture, literature, and science, and the ways Egypt was deployed by advocates for slavery and by African American writers.
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    Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9783486599213
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (243 pages)
    Edition: 2nd ed.
    DDC: 301
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    Keywords: Soziologische Theorie
    Abstract: Einführendes Lehrbuch der Soziologie. Aus dem Inhalt: Einleitung.Soziologische Klassiker und ihre Theorien. Spieltheorien. Geschichts- und Evolutionstheorien. Handlungs- und Systemtheorien. Konstruktivistischer Realismus.
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    Göttingen : Cuvillier Verlag | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9783736910362
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (131 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.56095979999998
    Keywords: Armut ; Bekämpfung ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Sozialpolitik ; Indonesien ; Aufsatzsammlung
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    Göttingen : Cuvillier Verlag | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9783736910775
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (324 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306.43
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    Keywords: Sozialpädagogische Familienhilfe ; Gesprächsführung ; Interaktion
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    Berlin : Ibidem Verlag | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9783838253299
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (139 pages)
    DDC: 306.449
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    Wiesbaden : Deutscher Universitäts Verlag | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9783322813534
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (331 pages)
    Series Statement: Sozialwissenschaft Ser.
    DDC: 303.4820944361
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    Keywords: Nordafrikanischer Einwanderer ; Soziale Integration ; Herkunftsland ; Ethnische Gruppe ; Integration ; Frankreich
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    Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780776615431
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (191 pages)
    Series Statement: Reappraisals: Canadian Writers
    DDC: 302.23092
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    Keywords: McLuhan, Marshall
    Abstract: At the Speed of Light There is Only Illumination collects a dozen re-evaluative essays on Marshall McLuhan and his critical and theoretical legacy; from intellectual adventurer creating a complex architecture of ideas to cultural icon standing in line in Woody Allen's Annie Hall. Given McLuhan's prominent status in many academic disciplines, the contributors reflect a multi-disciplinary background. John Moss and Linda Morra chose the essays from a gathering of McLuhan's academic devotees. The contribution - from "McLuhan as Medium" and "McLuhan in Space" to "What McLuhan Got Wrong" and "Trouble in the Global Village" - to provide a kaleidoscope of new views.  As Moss writes of the collected essays: "Some are big and some are small, some exegetic and some confessional, some stand as major statements and others are sidelong glances; some resonate with the concerns of public discourse and others are private or privileged or impious and provocative. Each consists of many parts, each a design on its own. They speak to each other…they may have come together as one version of what happened.".
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    Montreal : MQUP | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780773571228
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (231 pages)
    DDC: 306.0971
    Abstract: While conventional assessments of the national quality of life focus on the economic and material dimensions of our society, A Fragile Social Fabric? expands that evaluation to include the social covenant of rights and obligations.
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    ISBN: 9780773572874
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (208 pages)
    DDC: 306.84/8/0971
    Abstract: Is redefining marriage to include same-sex unions simply an act of fairness to gays and lesbians - another step in the evolution of Canada into a just society? Or is it a hastily conceived social experiment that will undermine human rights, deflecting marriage from the support of children to the mere affirmation of sexual commitment between adults?.
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    Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781741152807
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 308 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 303.48320994
    Keywords: Geschichte ; Personenkraftwagen ; Autofahren ; Gesellschaft ; Statussymbol ; Emotionales Verhalten ; Straßenplanung ; Australien
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    Berlin : transcript Verlag | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9783839401972
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (213 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Sozialtheorie
    DDC: 155.33
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    Keywords: Luhmann, Niklas ; Systemtheorie ; Geschlechtsunterschied ; Aufsatzsammlung
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    Göttingen : Cuvillier Verlag | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9783736910195
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (117 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306.09598
    Keywords: Schaf ; Maniok ; Rinde ; Wachstumsförderer ; Futterzusatz ; Indonesien
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    ISBN: 9783784122106
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (237 pages)
    DDC: 303.60943
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    Keywords: Jugend ; Gewalttätigkeit ; Anti-Aggressivitäts-Training ; Projekt ; Brandenburg
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    London : Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781136000621
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 210 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Edition: Second edition
    DDC: 302.2343
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    Keywords: Robeson, Paul ; Garland, Judy ; Monroe, Marilyn ; Filmstar ; Starkult ; Destruktion ; USA
    Abstract: Richard Dyer's classic study of movie stars and stardom has been updated, with a new introduction by the author discussing the rise of celebrity culture and developments in the study of stars since publication of the first edition in 1986. Dyer's illuminating study is based around case studies of three major stars: Marilyn Monroe, Paul Robeson and Judy Garland. He draws on a wide range of sources, including the films in which each star appeared, to illustrate how each star's persona was constructed, and goes on to examine each within the context of particular issues in fan culture and stardom.Students of film and cultural studies will find this an invaluable part of there course reading.
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    Boulder : University Press of Colorado | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780870818585
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (457 pages)
    Series Statement: Mesoamerican Worlds
    DDC: 305.897/4207262
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    Nordhausen : Traugott Bautz | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9783869452722
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (184 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 301
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    Keywords: Luhmann, Niklas ; Religion ; Theorie ; Systemtheorie
    Abstract: In seinem monumentalen Lebenswerk versucht Niklas Luhmann (1927-1998), die gesamte kulturelle Wirklichkeit zu erklären: Nicht Menschen, sondern Kommunikationssysteme, die der Bielefelder Soziologe in Analogie zu biologischen Organismen beschreibt, bildet demnach ein komplexes Ganzes, die Gesellschaft. Im Zentrum seines Denkmodells steht dann die Frage, wie die Teilsysteme - bspw. Politik, Wirtschaft oder Kunst - durch spezifische Beiträge das Überleben der Gesellschaft sichern können.Leif H. Seibert skizziert die grundlegenden Begriffe der Systemtheorie, um vor diesem Hintergrund Luhmanns Theorie der Religion zu präsentieren, in der das älteste der Teilsysteme hinsichtlich seiner Bedeutung für die gesellschaftliche Umwelt untersucht wird. Im Zuge dessen werden Stärken und Schwächen des systemtheoretischen Ansatzes deutlich, denn: "Einen Unterschied kann man nicht anbeten." Inhaltsverzeichnis1. Einleitung1.1. Zielsetzung1.2. Aufbau1.3. Niklas Luhmann2. Ideengeschichtliches zur Systemtheorie2.1. Was ist ein System?2.2. Was ist Selbstorganisation?2.3. Was ist Systemtheorie?2.3.1. Allgemeine Systemtheorie2.3.2. Strukturell-funktionale Systemtheorie2.3.3. Das Autopoiesis-Konzept3. Niklas Luhmanns Systemtheorie3.1. Anspruch3.2. Grundbegriffe3.2.1. Komplexität3.2.2. System und Umwelt3.2.3. Autopoiesis3.2.4. Sinn3.3. Soziale Systeme3.3.1. Interaktion3.3.2. Organisation3.3.3. Gesellschaft3.3.3.1. Kommunikation3.3.3.1.1. Selektionen3.3.3.1.2. Medien3.3.3.2. Differenzierung3.3.3.2.1. Formen3.3.3.2.2. Funktionssysteme3.3.3.3. Evolution3.3.3.3.1. Mechanismen3.3.3.3.2. Epochen3.4. Der blinde Fleck4. Niklas Luhmanns Religionstheorie4.1. Anspruch4.2. Das Bezugsproblem4.3. Das religiöse System4.3.1. Religiöse Kommunikation4.3.1.1. Code (Immanenz und Transzendenz)4.3.1.2. Programm (Offenbarung, heilige Schrift, Dogmatik)4.3.1.3. Medium (Glaube)4.3.1.4. Die...
    Abstract: Kontingenzformel (Gott)4.3.2. Religiöse Differenzierung4.3.2.1. Ausdifferenzierung4.3.2.2. Systembeziehungen4.3.3. Religiöse Evolution4.3.3.1. Primitive Religion4.3.3.2. Hochreligion4.3.3.3. Säkularisierung4.4. Religiöse Organisationen4.5. Selbstbeschreibung5. Probleme und Kontroversen5.1. Vorbemerkung5.2. Theorie und Praxis5.3. Kritik5.3.1. Verstehen und Erklären 5.3.2. Luhmann und die Biologie5.3.3. Luhmann und die Logik5.3.4. Luhmanns Paradoxien5.3.5. Luhmanns Religion5.3.5.1. Kommunikation5.3.5.2. Differenzierung5.3.5.3. Evolution6. Schluß7. Literaturangaben7.1. Ausgewählte Werke Luhmanns7.2. Ausgewählte Sekundarliteratur8. Abbildungsverzeichnis.
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    Göttingen : V&R Unipress | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9783862340019
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (580 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Studien zur Historischen Migrationsforschung (SHM) v.12
    DDC: 304.8094309045
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1945 - 1961 ; Auswanderung ; Einwanderung ; Deutsche ; Deutschland ; Nordamerika
    Abstract: Millionen Deutsche wollten nach dem 2. Weltkrieg »raus aus Europa!« - so eine Schlagzeile von 1949. Knapp eine Million Menschen wanderte dann in den 1950er Jahren tatsächlich nach Übersee aus, die meisten in die USA und nach Kanada. Über diese größte Auswanderungsbewegung aus Deutschland im 20. Jahrhundert ist nur wenig bekannt. Auf der Grundlage von Zeitzeugen-Interviews und Archivdokumenten wird untersucht, in welchen Situationen die Auswanderung als Alternative zum Leben in Nachkriegsdeutschland wahrgenommen wurde. Gezeigt wird, wie Politiker die Migration der unterschiedlichen Bevölkerungsgruppen zu kontrollieren versuchten, wie Betrüger mit den Hoffnungen »Auswanderungswilliger« Profit machten sowie die im Prozess der Auswanderungsentscheidung entstehenden individuellen, familiären und gesellschaftlichen Konflikte.   Reihe Studien zur Historischen Migrationsforschung (SHM) - Band 012.
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    Göttingen : Cuvillier Verlag | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9783736912229
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (233 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 302
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    Keywords: Verstädterung ; Armut ; Soziales Kapital ; Stadtentwicklung ; Äthiopien ; Addis Abeba
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    Göttingen : Cuvillier Verlag | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9783736911505
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (299 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306.09429999999998
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    Keywords: Sozialplan ; Deutschland
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    ISBN: 9783518760765
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (627 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 301.01
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    Berlin : Transcipt Verlag | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9783839402450
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (164 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: X-Texte zu Kultur und Gesellschaft
    DDC: 306.27
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    Keywords: Bürgerliche Gesellschaft ; Militärische Bedrohung ; Sozialer Wandel
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    ISBN: 9783518732960
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (263 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 304.23
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    Wiesbaden : VS Verlag fur Sozialwissenschaften GmbH | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9783322805508
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (317 pages)
    DDC: 330
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    Keywords: Jugend ; Fremdenfeindlichkeit ; Umfrage ; Deutschland
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520922938
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (461 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Life Passages v.3
    DDC: 306.9
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    Abstract: How do our ideas about dying influence the way we live? Life has often been envisioned as a journey, the river of time carrying us inexorably toward the unknown country-and in our day we increasingly turn to myth and magic, ritual and virtual reality, cloning and cryostasis in the hope of eluding the reality of the inevitable end. In this book a preeminent and eminently wise writer on death and dying proposes a new way of understanding our last transition. A fresh exploration of the final passage through life and perhaps through death, his work deftly interweaves historical and contemporary experiences and reflections to demonstrate that we are always on our way. Drawing on a remarkable range of observations-from psychology, anthropology, religion, biology, and personal experience-Robert Kastenbaum re-envisions life's forward-looking progress, from early-childhood bedtime rituals to the many small rehearsals we stage for our final separation. Along the way he illuminates such moments and ideas as becoming a "corpsed person," going down to earth or up in flames, respecting or abusing (and eating) the dead, coping with "too many dead," conceiving and achieving a "good death," undertaking the journey of the dead, and learning to live through the scrimmage of daily life fully knowing that Eternity does not really come in a designer flask. Profound, insightful, often moving, this look at death as many cultures await it or approach it enriches our understanding of life as a never-ending passage.
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    Berlin : transcript Verlag | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9783839402764
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (285 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Medienumbrüche v.6
    DDC: 306.42
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    Keywords: Wissenserwerb ; Computerunterstützte Kommunikation
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    ISBN: 9783862340149
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (181 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Transkulturelle Perspektiven v.3
    DDC: 305.5/6
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    Keywords: Ausländischer Arbeitnehmer ; Akkulturation ; Soziale Integration ; Bremen
    Abstract: Nach dem Anwerbestopp 1973 setzte sich allmählich die Erkenntnis durch, dass die so genannten GastarbeiterInnen inzwischen als Zu- bzw. Eingewanderte einen festen Platz in den bundesrepublikanischen Gesellschaft beanspruchen. Im Laufe der Zeit erbrachte diese Migrantengruppe beachtliche Akkulturationsleistungen: im Wohnbereich, als Nutzer und Impulsgeber im »deutschen« Kleingartenwesen, als Initiatoren einer lebendigen multikulturellen Vereinslandschaft, als Teilhaber an politischen Einrichtungen.Die damit verbundene Herausbildung institutionaler und personaler Netzwerke beeinflusste bis in die Altersphase die Optionen für veränderte Lebensperspektiven in der Migration und entschied mit über Rückkehr oder Verbleib in der Aufnahmegesellschaft.   Reihe Transkulturelle Perspektiven - Band 003.
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    ISBN: 9780822386179
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (364 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Latin America Otherwise Ser.
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Knotenschrift ; Quechua ; Kultur ; Schriftlichkeit ; Schriftliche Kommunikation ; Provinz Huarochiri ; Peru ; Südamerika ; Electronic books
    Abstract: An ethnography of Andean knot writing, where media convey information without an alphabet or any other visual likeness of speech, examining the ways that such "mute inscription" communicates social experience.
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    Santa Monica : RAND Corporation | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780833036216
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (127 pages)
    DDC: 303.6/25
    Abstract: As the war on terrorism wages on, our nation?s policymakers will continue to face the challenge of assessing threats that various terrorist groups pose to the U.S. homeland and our interests abroad. As part of the RAND Corporation?s yearlong ?Thinking Strategically About Combating Terrorism? project, the authors of this report develop a way to assess and analyze the danger posed by various terrorist organizations around the world. The very nature of terrorism creates a difficulty in predicting new and emerging threats; however, by establishing these types of parameters, the report creates a fresh foundation of threat analysis on which future counterterrorism strategy may build.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520937178
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (259 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 780.89
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    Keywords: Musikethnologie ; Weltmusik ; Ensemble ; Volksmusikgruppe ; Musikerziehung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Performing Ethnomusicology is the first book to deal exclusively with creating, teaching, and contextualizing academic world music performing ensembles. Considering the formidable theoretical, ethical, and practical issues that confront ethnomusicologists who direct such ensembles, the sixteen essays in this volume discuss problems of public performance and the pragmatics of pedagogy and learning processes. Their perspectives, drawing upon expertise in Caribbean steelband, Indian, Balinese, Javanese, Philippine, Mexican, Central and West African, Japanese, Chinese, Middle Eastern, and Jewish klezmer ensembles, provide a uniquely informed and many-faceted view of this complicated and rapidly changing landscape. The authors examine the creative and pedagogical negotiations involved in intergenerational and intercultural transmission and explore topics such as reflexivity, representation, hegemony, and aesthetically determined interaction. Performing Ethnomusicology affords sophisticated insights into the structuring of ethnomusicologists' careers and methodologies. This book offers an unprecedented rich history and contemporary examination of academic world music performance in the West, especially in the United States. "Performing Ethnomusicology is an important book not only within the field of ethnomusicology itself, but for scholars in all disciplines engaged in aspects of performance-historical musicology, anthropology, folklore, and cultural studies. The individual articles offer a provocative and disparate array of threads and themes, which Solís skillfully weaves together in his introductory essay. A book of great importance and long overdue."-R. Anderson Sutton, author of Calling Back the Spirit Contributors: Gage Averill, Kelly Gross, David Harnish, Mantle Hood, David W. Hughes, Michelle Kisliuk, David Locke, Scott Marcus, Hankus Netsky,...
    Abstract: Ali Jihad Racy, Anne K. Rasmussen, Ted Solís, Hardja Susilo, Sumarsam, Ricardo D. Trimillos, Roger Vetter, J. Lawrence Witzleben.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520929906
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (341 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Berkeley Series in Interdisciplinary Studies of China v.3
    DDC: 379.51
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    Abstract: Throughout the twentieth century, Beijing University (or Beida) has been at the center of China's greatest political and cultural upheavals-from the May Fourth Movement of 1919 to the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s to the tragic events in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Why this should be-how Beida's historical importance has come to transcend that of a mere institution of higher learning--is a question at the heart of this book. A study of intellectuals and political culture during the past century's tumultuous early decades, The Power of Position is the first to focus on Beida, China's oldest and best-known national university. Timothy B. Weston portrays the university as a key locus used by intellectuals to increase their influence in society. Weston analyzes the links between intellectuals' political and cultural commitments and their specific manner of living. He also compares Beijing's intellectual culture with that of the rising metropolis of Shanghai. What emerges is a remarkably nuanced and complex picture of life at China's leading university, especially in the decades leading up to the May Fourth Movement.
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    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780816695829
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (204 pages)
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    Keywords: Sozialgeschichte 1800-1868 ; Schwarze ; Sklaverei ; Havanna ; New Orleans, La.
    Abstract: However urban slave societies might have differed from their rural counterparts, they still relied on a concerted assault on the psychological, social, and cultural identity of their African-descended inhabitants to maintain power and control. This ambitious book looks at how people of African descent in two such societies-Havana and New Orleans in the nineteenth century-created and maintained their own forms of cultural resistance to the slave regime's assault and, in the process, put forth autonomous views of self and the social landscape.In Havana's annual Día de Reyes festival and in the weekly activities that took place at New Orleans's Congo Square, author Daniel Walker identifies specific cultural beliefs and activities that Africans brought to the New World and modified in order to withstand and contest the dehumanizing effects of oppression. No More, No More crosses disciplinary boundaries as well, elucidating the economic, social, cultural, and demographic operations at work in two cities and the wide-scale efforts at cultural resistance embodied in public performances.
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    Washington : Gallaudet University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781563682803
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (176 pages)
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    Jackson : University Press of Mississippi | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781604730593
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (206 pages)
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    Keywords: Ethnische Beziehungen ; Rassenmischung ; USA
    Abstract: Romance and Rights: The Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945-1954 studies the meaning of interracial romance, love, and sex in the ten years after World War II. How was interracial romance treated in popular culture by civil rights leaders, African American soldiers, and white segregationists? Previous studies focus on the period beginning in 1967 when the Supreme Court overturned the last state antimiscegenation law (Loving v. Virginia). Lubin's study, however, suggests that we cannot fully understand contemporary debates about "hybridity," or mixed-race identity, without first comprehending how WWII changed the terrain. The book focuses on the years immediately after the war, when ideologies of race, gender, and sexuality were being reformulated and solidified in both the academy and the public. Lubin shows that interracial romance, particularly between blacks and whites, was a testing ground for both the general American public and the American government. The government wanted interracial relationships to be treated primarily as private affairs to keep attention off contradictions between its outward aura of cultural freedom and the realities of Jim Crow politics and antimiscegenation laws. Activists, however, wanted interracial intimacy treated as a public act, one that could be used symbolically to promote equal rights and expanded opportunities.
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    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    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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    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780816695874
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (208 pages)
    DDC: 305.894541047092
    Abstract: A riveting memoir of one family's struggle under a totalitarian regime.
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    Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780807875889
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    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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    Stanford : Hoover Institution Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780817945435
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (226 pages)
    Series Statement: Hoover National Security Forum
    DDC: 303.6/25
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    Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780801881596
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (344 pages)
    Series Statement: New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History
    DDC: 303.44
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1945-1989 ; Nationalcharakter ; Sozialer Wandel ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Politik ; USA
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    ISBN: 9780773571716
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (214 pages)
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    Abstract: This book examines culture, the "bedrock of military" effectiveness, from a theoretical and a practical point of view. In comparing Canadian and American military cultures, it concludes that while the culture of the Canadian Forces has been "Americanized" to a certain extent, the culture of the US armed forces, due to changes in their personnel and roles, has experienced a certain degree of "Canadianization" at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries.
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    New Haven : Yale University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780300127478
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (257 pages)
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    Keywords: Armstrong, Louis ; Whiteman, Paul ; Jazz ; USA
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    Austin : University of Texas Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780292797529
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (266 pages)
    DDC: 303.48/273072/09034
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    London : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203208311
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (297 pages)
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    Series Statement: Herbert Marcuse: Collected Papers v.1
    DDC: 191
    Abstract: Herbert Marcuse is one of the most influential thinkers of our time. Born in Berlin, Marcuse studied philosophy with Husserl and Heidegger at the Universities of Freiburg and Berlin. Marcuse's critical social theory ingeniously fuses phenomenology, Freudian thought and Marxist theory; and provides a solid ground for his reputation as the most crucial figure inspiring the social activism and New Left politics of the 1960s and 1970s. The largely unpublished work collected in this volume makes clear the continuing relevance of Marcuse's thought to contemporary issues. The texts published here, dealing with concerns during the period 1942-1951, exhibit penetrating critiques of technology and analyses of the ways that modern technology produces novel forms of society and culture with new modes of social control. The material collected in Technology, War and Facism provides exemplary attempts to link theory with practice, to develop ideas that can be used to grasp and transform existing social reality. Technology, War and Fascism is the first of six volumes of Herbert Marcuse's Collected Papers to be edited by Douglas Kellner. Each volume is a collection of previously un-published or uncollected essays, unfinished manuscripts and letters by one of the greatest thinkers of our time.
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    ISBN: 9780203482254
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (253 pages)
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    DDC: 303.48/33
    Abstract: Web Theory is a comprehensive and critical introduction to the theories of the internet and the world wide web. Robert Burnett and P. David Marshall examine the key debates which surround internet culture, from issues of globalisation, political economy and regulation, to ideas about communication, identity and aesthetics. Web Theory explore the shifts in society, culture and the media which have been brought about by the growth of the world wide web. It identifies significant readings, web sites and hypertext archive sources which illustrate the critical discussion about the internet and it mediates these discussions, indicating key positions within each debate and pointing the reader to key texts. Web Theory includes: *Chapters showing how specific media have been affected by the internet *Boxed case studies and examples *References, an extensive bibliography and a list of web sites *A glossary of key terms with important words highlighted in the text *A Web Theory timeline which details important events *A comprehensive and regularly updated website at www.webtheory.nu with inks and support material.
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    ISBN: 9780203166611
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    Abstract: This immensely readable book by Patrick François provides an original insight into the increasingly fashionable topic that is social capital. In a unique, original study, the author emphasises trustworthiness as a vital feature of social capital and argues that standard economic treatments of this phenomenon are inadequate. The book's richer evolutionary treatment of this is embedded in a neoclassical model and will prove to be essential reading for economic development scholars as well as those interested in development studies and economic thought in general.
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    ISBN: 9780203465509
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (240 pages)
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    Series Statement: Critical Social Thought
    DDC: 306.43/09773/11
    Abstract: Noted scholar Pauline Lipman explores the implications of education accountability reforms, particularly in urban schools, in the current political, economic, and cultural context of intensifying globalization and increasing social inequality and marginalization along lines of race and class.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (294 pages)
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    Series Statement: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
    DDC: 303.4/0947
    Abstract: This book examines a number of key questions about social change in contemporary Russia - issues such as how people survive when they are not paid for months on end, 'the New Poor', the falling birth rate, why so many Russian men die in middle age, whether regional identities are becoming stronger, and how people's sense of 'Russianness' has developed since the creation of the Russian Federation in 1992. It examines these issues by looking at actual experiences in three small Russian towns. It includes a great deal of original ethnographic research, and, by looking at real places overall, provides a good sense of how different aspects of social change are interlinked, and how they actually affect real people's lives.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203507827
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (308 pages)
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    Abstract: Taylorism was criticised for its over-simplistic view of what motivated the worker. Oliver Sheldon's theme was that though Taylorism had helped the development of a science of management, such work should not detract from the predominantly human job of the manager to manage. His work prefigures the human relations approach to management theory of Elton Mayo and F. J. Roethlisberger in rejecting the notion that economic incentives largely explain employee behaviour.
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    ISBN: 9780203497579
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (172 pages)
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    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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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    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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    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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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203633649
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (278 pages)
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    Abstract: Introducing the fundamental theories and debates in the sociology of art, this broad ranging book, the only edited reader of the sociology of art available, uses extracts from the core foundational and most influential contemporary writers in the field. As such it is essential reading both for students of the sociology of art, and of art history. Divided into five sections, it explores the following key themes: * classical sociological theory and the sociology of art * the social production of art * the sociology of the artist * museums and the social construction of high culture * sociology aesthetic form and the specificity of art. With the addition of an introductory essay that contextualizes the readings within the traditions of sociology and art history, and draws fascinating parallels between the origins and development of these two disciplines, this book opens up a productive interdisciplinary dialogue between sociology and art history as well as providing a fascinating introduction to the subject.
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    ISBN: 9780203492277
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (287 pages)
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    DDC: 306/.0951
    Abstract: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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    ISBN: 9780203563243
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (213 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Research in Transnationalism
    DDC: 303.484095
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    Keywords: Politik ; Nichtstaatliche Organisation ; Soziale Bewegung ; Protestbewegung ; Asien ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book provides new perspectives on transnational activism with a specific regional focus on Asia. By offering an innovative approach, its theoretical chapters and empirical case studies examine macro as well as micro aspects of power and how cross-border activities of civil society groups are related to problems of democracy.
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    ISBN: 9780203563250
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    Series Statement: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory
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    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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    ISBN: 9780203583036
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (221 pages)
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    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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    ISBN: 9780203612439
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (238 pages)
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    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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    ISBN: 9780203300039
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (263 pages)
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    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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    ISBN: 9780203379493
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (190 pages)
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    Keywords: Interpersonale Kommunikation ; Konversationsanalyse ; Nichtverbale Kommunikation ; Materialität ; Aufgabensammlung
    Abstract: Our perception of our everyday interactions is shaped by more than what is said. From coffee with friends to interviews, meetings with colleagues and conversations with strangers, we draw on both verbal and non-verbal behaviour to judge and consider our experiences. Analyzing Multimodal Interaction is a practical guide to understanding and investigating the multiple modes of communication, and provides an essential guide for those undertaking field work in a range of disciplines, including linguistics, sociology, education, anthropology and psychology. The book offers a clear methodology to help the reader carry out their own integrative analysis, equipping them with the tools they need to analyze a situation from different points of view. Drawing on research into conversational analysis and non-verbal behaviour such as body movement and gaze, it also considers the role of the material world in our interactions, exploring how we use space and objects - such as our furniture and clothes - to express ourselves. Considering a range of real examples, such as traffic police officers at work, doctor-patient meetings, teachers and students, and friends reading magazines together, the book offers lively demonstrations of multimodal discourse at work. Illustrated throughout and featuring a mini-glossary in each chapter, further reading, and advice on practical issues such as making transcriptions and video and audio recordings, this practical guide is an essential resource for anyone interested in the multiple modes of human interaction.
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    ISBN: 9780203491300
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (255 pages)
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    Abstract: This title explores the role of women in the politics of national identity in Vietnam. Drawing on diverse primary resources--including state news media, government contests, tabloid journalism, and extensive interviews--the author examines the intimate connection between notions of Vietnamese femininity and the cultural quandaries of modernity in post-colonial Vietnam. The book covers the socialist and market reform periods (from the 1950s through the 1990s) and examines women's central place--as both symbols and disciplined subjects--in Vietnam's socialist modernization and ongoing capitalist transition.
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    ISBN: 9780203490198
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (243 pages)
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    DDC: 305.235
    Keywords: Jugend ; Mädchen ; Sozialer Wandel ; Junge Frau
    Abstract: Anita Harris creates a realistic portrait of the "new girl" that has appeared in the twenty-first century--she may still play with Barbie, but she is also likely to play soccer or basketball, be assertive and may even be sexually aware, if not active. Building on this new definition, Harris explores the many key areas central to the lives of girls from a global perspective, such as girlspace, schools, work, aggression, sexuality and power.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (296 pages)
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    Keywords: Ethnische Beziehungen ; Philosophie ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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    Abstract: Undoing Gender constitutes Judith Butler's recent reflections on gender and sexuality, focusing on new kinship, psychoanalysis and the incest taboo, transgender, intersex, diagnostic categories, social violence, and the tasks of social transformation. In terms that draw from feminist and queer theory, Butler considers the norms that govern--and fail to govern--gender and sexuality as they relate to the constraints on recognizable personhood. The book constitutes a reconsideration of her earlier view on gender performativity from Gender Trouble. In this work, the critique of gender norms is clearly situated within the framework of human persistence and survival. And to "do" one's gender in certain ways sometimes implies "undoing" dominant notions of personhood. She writes about the "New Gender Politics" that has emerged in recent years, a combination of movements concerned with transgender, transsexuality, intersex, and their complex relations to feminist and queer theory.
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    ISBN: 9780203496176
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (374 pages)
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    Abstract: This book is about the social psychological dynamics and phenomenology of social inclusion and exclusion. The editors take as their starting point the assumption that social life is conducted in a framework of relationships in which individuals seek inclusion and belongingness. Relationships necessarily include others, but equally they have boundaries that exclude. Frequently these boundaries are challenged or crossed. The book will draw together research on individual motivation, small group processes, stigmatization and intergroup relations, to provide a comprehensive social psychological account of social inclusion and exclusion.
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    ISBN: 9780203420409
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (276 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
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    Keywords: Feminismus ; Frauenbewegung ; Internationaler Vergleich ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Over the last two decades there has been considerable enthusiasm for the concept of civil society amongst researchers, practitioners and activists. Yet despite this enthusiasm for the concept, the gendered nature of civil society and the impact of feminist organizing on civil society has received minimal attention. This edited volume seeks to address this gap, and considers: * how the political environment and nature of the state shapes the way women organize, the issues they address, and their capacity to affect changes in state policies on gender * is the women's movement structurally different from other civil society organizations? * does the gender lens alter our vision of civil society? The chapters in this volume pursue two or more of these questions and cover a diversity of contexts, including the US, East and Central Europe, China, the Middle East, Africa, South East Asia, Central America and Chile. This book not only draws together the concepts of gender and civil society, but also adopts an international perspective, highlighting the diverse trajectories of women organizing in different country contexts and the historical, cultural and political specificities of civil society.
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    ISBN: 9780203380369
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (252 pages)
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    Abstract: Several recent analyses have focused on how social and cultural factors shape development, but less well understood are the individual constructive processes involved in this interplay. This volume showcases varied theoretical and empirical approaches to how individual, social and cultural factors shape development, and suggests new directions for future scholarship.
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    ISBN: 9780203696989
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (251 pages)
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    Keywords: Europäische Union ; Englisch ; Sprachpolitik ; Verkehrssprache ; Europa
    Abstract: English-Only Europe? explores the role of languages in the process of European integration. Languages are central to the development of an integrated Europe. The way in which the European Union deals with multilingualism has serious implications for both individual member countries and international relations. In this book, Robert Phillipson considers whether the contemporary expansion of English represents a serious threat to other European languages. After exploring the implications of current policies, Phillipson argues the case for more active language policies to safeguard a multilingual Europe. Drawing on examples of countries with explicit language policies such as Canada and South Africa, the book sets out Phillipson's vision of an inclusive language policy for Europe, and describes how it can be attained.
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    ISBN: 9780203339367
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (292 pages)
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    Abstract: Offering a fresh and exciting new perspective on differentiation and inequality, this absorbing book investigates how our most personal choices (of sexual partners, friends, consumption items and lifestyle) are influenced by hierarchy and social difference. Exploring the topics of assortative mating; social capital; friendship networks and cultural identity; the book examines how hierarchy affects our tastes and leisure time activities, and who we choose (and hang on to) as our friends and partners. This book: * introduces debates on stratification by exploring its effect on everyday social relations * relates class inequalities to broader processes of social division and cultural differentiation, exploring the associational and cultural aspects of hierarchy * explores how groups draw on social, economic and cultural resources, using cultural 'cues', to admit some and exclude others from their social circle * explores new theoretical approaches to stratification: drawing on cultural theories of class, social interaction approaches, and research on differential association The book has a novel and fresh new way of looking at a well-established area in sociology - social stratification.
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    ISBN: 9780203337141
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (151 pages)
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    Abstract: First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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    ISBN: 9780203311851
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (666 pages)
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    Series Statement: Key Readings in Social Psychology
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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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    ISBN: 9780203647059
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    Series Statement: Routledge Key Guides
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    Keywords: Informationstechnik ; Internet ; Cyberspace ; Wörterbuch ; Wörterbuch
    Abstract: The only A-Z guide available on this subject, this book provides a wide-ranging and up-to-date overview of the fast-changing and increasingly important world of cyberculture. Its clear and accessible entries cover aspects ranging from the technical to the theoretical, and from movies to the everyday, including: artificial intelligence cyberfeminism cyberpunk electronic government games HTML Java netiquette piracy. Fully cross-referenced and with suggestions for further reading, this comprehensive guide is an essential resource for anyone interested in this fascinating area.
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    ISBN: 9780203646045
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    Series Statement: Worlds of Performance
    DDC: 394.26972983
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    Keywords: Karneval ; Trinidad
    Abstract: This beautifully illustrated volume features work by leading writers and experts on carnival from around the world, and includes two stunning photo essays by acclaimed photographers Pablo Delano and Jeffrey Chock. Editor Milla Cozart Riggio presents a body of work that takes the reader on a fascinating journey exploring the various aspects of carnival - its traditions, its history, its music, its politics - and prefaces each section with an illuminating essay. Traditional carnival theory, based mainly on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and Victor Turner, has long defined carnival as inversive or subversive. The essays in this groundbreaking anthology collectively reverse that trend, offering a re-definition of 'carnival' that focuses not on the hierarchy it temporarily displaces or negates, but a one that is rooted in the actual festival event. Carnival details its new theory in terms of a carnival that is at once representative and distinctive: The Carnival of Trinidad - the most copied yet least studied major carnival in the world.
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    ISBN: 9780203643211
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (296 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1880-1930 ; Frau ; Identität ; Verbraucherverhalten ; Feminismus
    Abstract: Since the 1970s, the literary and cultural politics of the turn-of-the-century New Woman have received increasing academic attention. Whether she is seen as the emblem of sexual anarchy, an agent of mediation between mass market and modernist cultures, or as a symptom of the consolidation of nineteenth and early twentieth-century political liberation movements, the New Woman represents a site of cultural and socio-political contestation and acts as a marker of modernity. This book explores the diversity of meanings ascribed to the New Woman in the context of cultural debates conducted within and across a wide range of national frameworks including the UK, Canada, North America, Europe, and Japan. The key concept of 'hybridities' is used to elucidate the national and ethnic multiplicity of the 'modern woman' as well as to locate this figure both within international consumer culture and within feminist writing. The book is structured around four key themes. 'Hybridities' examines the instabilities of New Woman identities and discourses in relation to both national/ethnic contexts and the textual parameters of New Woman writings. 'Through the (Periodical) Looking Glass' is concerned with the periodical press and its production and circulation of New Woman images. 'Feminist Counter Cultures?' interrogates feminist efforts to influence and shape this process by mimicking or subverting dominant models of representation and by establishing alternative spaces for the articulation of New Woman subjectivities. 'Race and the New Woman' inspects white New Women's investment in hegemonic racial discourses, looking at the way in which black and non-Western women inserted liberationist discourses into the New Woman debate. This book will be essential reading for advanced students and researchers of American Studies, Women's Studies, and Women's History.
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    ISBN: 9780203769362
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (240 pages)
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    Keywords: Visuelle Medien ; Anthropologie ; Ethnologie ; Feldforschung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Visual methods such as drawing, painting, video, photography and hypermedia offer increasingly accessible and popular resources for ethnographic research. In Working Images, prominent visual anthropologists and artists explore how old and new visual media can be integrated into contemporary forms of research and representation. Drawing upon projects undertaken both 'at home' in their native countries and abroad in locations such as Ethopia and Venezuela, the book's contributors demonstrate how visual methods are used in the field, and how these methods can produce and communicate knowledge about our own and other cultures. As well as focusing on key issues such as ethics and the relationship between word and image, they emphasize the huge range of visual methods currently opening up new possibilities for field research, from cartoons and graphic art to new media such as digital video and online technologies.
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    ISBN: 9780203411650
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (245 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics v.2
    DDC: 306.85
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    Abstract: The time we have to care for one another, especially for our children and our elderly, is more precious to us than anything else in the world. Yet we have more experience accounting for money than we do for time.  In this volume, leading experts in analysis of time use from across the globe explore the interface between time use and family policy. The contributors: * show how social institutions limit the choices that individuals can make about how to divide their time between paid and unpaid work * challenge conventional surveys that offer simplistic measures of time spent in childcare or elder care * summarize empirical evidence concerning trends in time devoted to the care of family members * debate ways of assigning a monetary value to this time. This informative and enlightening book is well researched, well thought through and well written.  An important read for students of feminist economics, sociology and gender studies, the contributors here argue that time is not money, in fact time is more important than money.
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    ISBN: 9780203561218
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (241 pages)
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    Abstract: This is an essential read for anyone interested in the way language is used in the world of politics. Based on Aristotle's premise that we are all political animals, able to use language to pursue our own ends, the book uses the theoretical framework of linguistics to explore the ways in which we think and behave politically. Contemporary and high profile case studies of politicians and other speakers are used, including an examination of the dangerous influence of a politician's words on the defendants in the Stephen Lawrence murder trial. International in its perspective, Analysing Political Discourse also considers the changing landscape of political language post-September 11, including the increasing use of religious imagery in the political discourse of, amongst others, George Bush. Written in a lively and engaging style, this book provides an essential introduction to political discourse analysis.
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    ISBN: 9780203597569
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (294 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Physical Geography and Environment v.6
    DDC: 304.2095496
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    Abstract: In the 1970s and 1980s many institutions, agencies and scholars believed that the Himalayan region was facing severe environmental disaster, due primarily to rapid growth in population that has caused extensive deforestation, which in turn has led to massive landsliding and soil erosion. This series of assumptions was first challenged in the book: The Himalayan Dilemma (1989: Ives and Messerli, Routledge). Nevertheless, the environmental crisis paradigm still commands considerable support, including logging bans in the mountain watersheds of China, India, and Thailand, and is constantly being promoted by the news media. Himalayan Perceptions identifies the confusion of misunderstanding, vested interests, changing perceptions, and institutional unwillingness to base development policy on sound scientific knowledge. It analyzes the large amount of new research published since 1989 and totally refutes the entire construct. It examines recent social and economic developments in the region and identifies warfare, guerrilla activities, and widespread oppression of poor ethnic minorities as the primary cause for the instability that pervades the entire region. It is argued that the development controversy is further confounded by exaggerated reporting, even falsification, by news media, environmental publications, and agency reports alike.
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    ISBN: 9780203643617
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (352 pages)
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    Keywords: Ethnische Beziehungen ; Interethnische Herkunft ; Rassenmischung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Mixed race studies is one of the fastest growing, as well as one of the most important and controversial areas in the field of race and ethnic relations. Bringing together pioneering and controversial scholarship from both the social and the biological sciences, as well as the humanities, this reader charts the evolution of debates on 'race' and 'mixed race' from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The book is divided into three main sections: tracing the origins: miscegenation, moral degeneracy and genetics mapping contemporary and foundational discourses: 'mixed race', identities politics, and celebration debating definitions: multiraciality, census categories and critiques. This collection adds a new dimension to the growing body of literature on the topic and provides a comprehensive history of the origins and directions of 'mixed race' research as an intellectual movement. For students of anthropology, race and ethnicity, it is an invaluable resource for examining the complexities and paradoxes of 'racial' thinking across space, time and disciplines.
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    ISBN: 9780203356548
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (205 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
    DDC: 305.42/01
    Abstract: The essays in this groundbreaking collection stage conversations between the thought of the controversial feminist philosopher, linguist and psychoanalyst Luce Irigaray and premodern writers, ranging from Empedocles and Homer, to Shakespeare, Spenser and Donne. They explore both the pre-Enlightenment roots of Luce Irigaray's thought, and the impact that her writings have had on our understanding of ancient, medieval and Renaissance culture. Luce Irigaray has been a major figure in Anglo-American literary theory, philosophy and gender studies ever since her germinal works, Speculum of the Other Woman and This Sex Which Is Not One, were published in English translation in 1985. This collection is the first sustained examination of Irigaray's crucial relationship to premodern discourses underpinning Western culture, and of the transformative effect she has had on scholars working in pre-Enlightenment periods. Like Irigaray herself, the essays work at the intersections of gender, theory, historicism and language. This collection offers powerful ways of understanding premodern texts through Irigaray's theories that allow us to imagine our past and present relationship to economics, science, psychoanalysis, gender, ethics and social communities in new ways.
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    ISBN: 9780203391181
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (217 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Modern British History
    DDC: 303.6/0942/09034
    Keywords: Sozialgeschichte 1800-1900 ; Gewalttätigkeit ; Kriminalität ; England
    Abstract: This book illuminates the origins and development of violence as a social issue by examining a critical period in the evolution of attitudes towards violence. It explores the meaning of violence through an accessible mixture of detailed empirical research and a broad survey of cutting-edge historical theory. The author discusses topics such as street fighting, policing, sports, community discipline and domestic violence and shows how the nineteenth century established enduring patterns in views of violence. Violence and Crime in Nineteenth-Century England will be essential reading for advanced students and researchers of modern British history, social and cultural history and criminology.
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    ISBN: 9780203417287
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (253 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series v.2
    DDC: 306.766209510903
    Keywords: Geschichte 1644-1911 ; Chinesische Oper ; Schauspieler ; Homosexualität ; Mann ; Erotische Literatur ; China
    Abstract: Homoerotic Sensibilities in Late Imperial China is the richest exploration to date of late imperial Chinese literati interest in male love. Employing primary sources such as miscellanies, poetry, fiction and 'flower guides', Wu Cuncun argues that male homoeroticism played a central role in the cultural life of late imperial Chinese literati elites. Countering recent arguments that homosexuality was marginal and disparaged during this period, the book also seeks to trace the relationship of homoeroticism to status and power. In addition to historical portraits and analysis, the book also advances the concept of 'sensibilities' as a method for interpreting the complex range of homoerotic texts produced in late imperial China.
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    ISBN: 9780203644522
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (276 pages)
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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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    ISBN: 9780203493939
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (178 pages)
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    Series Statement: Studies in Medieval History and Culture v.20
    DDC: 394.9094
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    Keywords: Geschichte 600-1600 ; Kannibalismus ; Abendmahl
    Abstract: First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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    ISBN: 9780203508411
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (228 pages)
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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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    ISBN: 9780203536889
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (296 pages)
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    Abstract: How do cultural complexes affect the collective psyche? Based on Jung's theory of complexes, this book offers a new perspective on the psychological nature of conflicts between groups and cultures by introducing the concept of the cultural complex. This modern version of Jung's idea offers an original view of the forces that prevent human attempts to bring a peaceful, collaborative spirit to conflict between groups. Leading analysts and academics from a range of cultural backgrounds present their own perspective on the concept, demonstrating how the effects of cultural complexes can be felt in the behaviour of disenfranchised, oppressed and traumatised groups across the world. Ultimately, a clearer understanding of the source and nature of group conflict is reached through discussion of central subjects including: * Collective trauma and cultural complexes * Exploring racism: a clinical example of a cultural complex * Cultural complexes in the history of Jung, Freud and their followers. The Cultural Complex represents a valuable contribution to analytical psychology and will undoubtedly also stimulate dialogue in the fields of sociology, political science and cultural studies.
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    ISBN: 9780203006290
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (209 pages)
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    Series Statement: Perspectives on Gender
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    Abstract: What does it mean to be a feminist today? Why do some women become feminists and others do not? At a time when 'feminist' is a label that many young women shun, Stepping Out of Line offers an insightful account of the struggle of becoming and being a feminist. Cheryl Hercus offers a compelling new argument for why some women embrace feminism and why others do not. In doing so, she moves beyond the stereotypes of what feminism means while providing a new understanding of feminist social movements of resistance and collective action.
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    ISBN: 9781853597169
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (236 pages)
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    Series Statement: Parents' & Teachers' Guides
    DDC: 306.44/6
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    Keywords: Spracherwerb ; Zweisprachigkeit ; Erziehung
    Abstract: This title looks at how families can support and increase bilingualism through planned strategies. One such strategy is the one person-one language approach, where each parent speaks his or her language.
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    ISBN: 9781853597749
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (236 pages)
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    Series Statement: Languages for Intercultural Communication & Education S.
    DDC: 306.440966
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    Keywords: Sprachpolitik ; Soziolinguistik ; Westafrika
    Abstract: Vernacular Palaver examines the continuing appeal of the idea of the 'local' for cultural brokers in West Africa, even in instances where they have a growing interaction with diverse global and continental languages of wider communication.
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    Mahwah : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781410610348
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (282 pages)
    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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    Mahwah : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781410612120
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (281 pages)
    Series Statement: LEA's Series on Personal Relationships
    DDC: 306.874
    Abstract: This volume examines communication processes within the grandmother-mother-daughter relationship, emphasizing an intergenerational perspective. Using observations of and extensive interviews with six sets of middle-income, Caucasian female family members, this book offers a heuristic account of intergenerational mother-daughter relational communication. Author Michelle Miller-Day integrates and juxtaposes alternative experiences of social interaction, situating readers in the world of grandmothers, mothers, adult daughters, and granddaughters as they experience, describe, and analyze their family communication. Miller-Day incorporates aged mothers and younger mid-life mothers and their adult daughters into the research to illustrate how this type of maternal relationship is experienced at different points in a woman's life. With the inclusion of three generations of women, Miller-Day offers multigenerational perspectives on family, and examines them for patterns of maternal interaction, providing symbolic links across generational boundaries. Communication Among Grandmothers, Mothers, and Adult Daughters enables readers to understand more completely the richly textured nature of maternal relationships. It will be an invaluable resource for scholars and researchers in the areas of communication and relationships, including family communication, intergenerational communication, women's studies, family studies, interpersonal communication, and relationships, as well as social workers, psychologists, and counselors, who strive to understand family communication processes and their dynamics across generational lines.
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    Mahwah : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781410610843
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (388 pages)
    DDC: 306.872/072
    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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    Mahwah : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781410611413
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (721 pages)
    DDC: 302
    Abstract: Relational models theory, first developed by Alan Page Fiske, an anthropologist, provides a framework for understanding the psychological bases of social behavior that has in recent years attracted the interest of a diverse and growing group of behavioral and social scientists. It proposes that human activities are structured in accordance with four fundamental models--communal sharing, authority ranking, equality matching, and market pricing--different permutations of which guide thought and behavior in every domain of social life in all cultures. Just as children are biologically programmed to learn language, so are they prepared to recognize the models, which enable human beings to plan and generate their own action; to understand, remember, and anticipate that of others; to coordinate collective action and institutions; and to make moral judgments. This book offers a critical introduction to contemporary relational models theory and illustrates the ways in which it has illuminated a wide range of interpersonal phenomena and stimulated research on individual psychology, collective behavior, and culture. Using methodologies that range from experimental to ethnographic, the authors--leading developmental, social and clinical psychologists, anthropologists, and specialists in organizational behavior and management--discuss the relational foundations of social cognition, the forms of action that create relationships in diverse cultures, perceptions of fairness and justice in families and organizations, emotions and values, moral outrage, interpersonal conflict, and emotional and personality disorders. Relational Models Theory lays out challenges to all who study interpersonal relationships and social processes in varying contexts, and points directions for future work.
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    Santa Monica : RAND Corporation | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780833040701
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (129 pages)
    DDC: 302.2
    Abstract: A summary of the research literature on how the processes and outcomes of virtual, or mediated, collaborations are affected by the communication medium (videoconferencing, audioconferencing, or computer-mediated conferencing); a discussion of ways to mitigate problems in such collaboration; and a suggested strategy for choosing the most effective medium, including face-to-face communication and hybrid systems, as a function of task and context.
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    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780816690817
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (310 pages)
    Series Statement: Cultural Studies of the Americas
    DDC: 394.25/09895
    Abstract: The murgas are troupes of performers, musicians, writers, and creators who, during Montevideo's Carnival, perform on the tablados, temporary stages built in the neighborhoods of Uruguay's capital city each year. Throughout the period of Uruguay's subjection to a brutal dictatorship and in the following era of "democratization," the murgas, envisioned originally as popular theater, were transformed into a symbol of social resistance, celebrated by many and perceived by others as menacing and subversive. Focusing on the cultural practices of the lower classes and more specifically on the processes and productions of the murgas, Gustavo Remedi's Carnival Theater is a deeply thoughtful consideration of Uruguayan society's identity crisis and subsequent redefinition in the wake of the authoritarian-bureaucratic-technocratic regimes of the 1970s. A revealing work of cultural criticism, the book proposes a new set of criteria for the interpretation and critique of national culture.
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    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780816696710
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (272 pages)
    DDC: 302.5/4
    Abstract: We are, Julia Kristeva writes, strangers to ourselves; and indeed much of contemporary theory, whether psychoanalytic, historical, social, or critical, describes the human condition as one of alienation. Eloquently arguing that we cannot explain the development of individuality or subjectivity apart from its social context, Kelly Oliver makes a powerful case for recognizing the social aspects of alienation and the psychic aspects of oppression.Oliver's work shows how existentialist and psychoanalytic notions of alienation cover up specific forms of racist and sexist alienation that serve as the underside of the human condition. She reveals that such notions are actually symptomatic of the subject's anxiety and guilt over the oppression on which his privileged position rests. Not only does such alienation not embody subjectivity and humanity, it in fact undermines them.Asserting that sublimation and forgiveness-and not alienation-constitute subjectivity, Oliver explores the complex ways in which the alienation unique to oppression leads to depression, shame, anger, or violence; and how these affects, now often misread and misdiagnosed, can be transformed into agency, individuality, solidarity, and community.
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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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    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780816695942
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (283 pages)
    Series Statement: Borderlines
    DDC: 305.8/00994
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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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    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780816695072
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (257 pages)
    Series Statement: Social Movements, Protest, and Contention
    DDC: 303.61
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    Keywords: Autoritärer Staat ; Gewaltloser Widerstand ; Soziale Bewegung ; Politische Bewegung ; Protestbewegung ; Südostasien
    Abstract: In the last two decades of the twentieth century, a wave of "people power" movements erupted throughout the nondemocratic world. In South Africa, the Philippines, Nepal, Thailand, Burma (Myanmar), China, and elsewhere, mass protest demonstrations, strikes, boycotts, civil disobedience, and other nonviolent actions were brought to bear on a rigid political status quo. Kurt Schock compares the successes of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, the people power movement in the Philippines, the pro-democracy movement in Nepal, and the antimilitary movement in Thailand with the failures of the pro-democracy movement in China and the anti-regime challenge in Burma. Schock develops a synthetic framework that allows him to identify which characteristics increase the resilience of a challenge to state repression, and which aspects of a state's relations can be exploited by such a challenge. By looking at how these methods of protest promoted regime change in some countries but not in others, this book provides rare insight into the often overlooked and little understood power of nonviolent action.
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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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    Jackson : University Press of Mississippi | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781604739565
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (215 pages)
    DDC: 781.642082
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    Keywords: Countrymusic ; Geschlechterrolle
    Abstract: From the smiling, sentimental mothers portrayed in 1930s radio barn dance posters, to the sexual shockwaves generated by Elvis Presley, to the female superstars redefining contemporary country music, gender roles and imagery have profoundly influenced the ways country music is made and enjoyed. Proper male and female roles have influenced the kinds of sounds and images that could be included in country music; preconceptions of gender have helped to determine the songs and artists audiences would buy or reject; and gender has shaped the identities listeners made for themselves in relation to the music they revered. This interdisciplinary collection of essays is the first book-length effort to examine how gender conventions, both masculine and feminine, have structured the creation and marketing of country music. The essays explore the uses of gender in creating the personas of stars as diverse as Elvis Presley, Patsy Cline, and Shania Twain. The authors also examine how deeply conventions have influenced the institutions and everyday experiences that give country music its image: the popular and fan press, the country music industry in Nashville, and the line dance crazes that created the dance hall boom of the 1990s. From Hank Thompson's "The Wild Side of Life" to Johnny Cash's "A Boy Named Sue," from Tammy Wynette's "Stand by Your Man" to Loretta Lynn's ode to birth control, "The Pill," A Boy Named Sue demonstrates the role gender played in the development of country music and its current prominence. Kristine M. McCusker is a professor of history at Middle Tennessee State University. Diane Pecknold is an independent scholar in Chicago, Illinois.
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