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  • 1
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    Against Racism : Organizing for Social Change in Latin America (2022)
    Pittsburgh, Pa : University of Pittsburgh Press
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    ISBN: 9780822988748 , 0822988747
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
    Series Statement: Pitt Latin American series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.4098
    Keywords: Social change ; Mestizaje ; Anti-racism ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Introduction / Peter Wade and Mónica G. Moreno Figueroa -- The formation of Mestizo nations / Fernando García, Antonio Sergio Guimarães, Emiko Saldívar, and Mara Viveros-Vigoya -- Anti-racism, intersectionality, and the struggle for dignity / Mónica G. Moreno Figueroa and Mara Viveros-Vigoya -- Bodily anti-racism: what bodies can "do" to contest racism in public spaces / Krisna Ruette-Orihuela -- Territory and anti-racism / Peter Wade -- Upward mobility, professionalization, and anti-racism / Gisela Carlos-Fregoso -- Giving meaning to racial justice: symbolic uses of law in anti-racist struggles / María Moreno -- Anti-racism in Mestizo societies / Peter Wade -- Conclusion / Mónica G. Moreno Figueroa and Peter Wade.
    Abstract: "Anti-racist movements and organizations are working on the ground in Latin America in explicit ways, but also with "alternative grammars," to combat racism in society. Powerful narratives that describe Latin American nations as fundamentally mestizo can hamper the acknowledgement of racism in the region, but multiculturalist reforms have increased recognition of Black and Indigenous identities and cultures. However, these reforms can distract attention from structural racism and racialized inequality. Multiculturalism may focus on identity and visibility but in fact constrain larger anti-racist initiatives. This project looks at actors in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Mexico that move beyond such recognition politics to address structural inequalities and material conflicts, and look to build common ground with other marginalized groups. Racism in Latin America is complex and multifaceted. The organizations in this study advocate an approach to deep social structural transformation that is inclusive, fosters alliances, and is inspired by a radical imagination"--
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    Nature's crossroads : the Twin Cities and greater Minnesota (2022)
    Pittsburgh, Pa : University of Pittsburgh Press | Baltimore, Md : Project MUSE
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    ISBN: 9780822989103
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , illustrations
    Series Statement: History of the urban environment
    DDC: 304.209776
    Keywords: Human ecology History ; Human ecology History ; Human ecology History ; Human ecology ; History ; Minnesota ; Minnesota ; Minneapolis ; Minnesota ; Saint Paul
    Abstract: Minnesota's Twin Cities have long been powerful engines of change. From their origins in the early nineteenth century, the Twin Cities helped drive the dispossession of the region's Native American peoples, turned their riverfronts into bustling industrial and commercial centers, spread streets and homes outward to the horizon, and reached well beyond their urban confines, setting in motion the environmental transformation of distant hinterlands. As these processes unfolded, residents inscribed their culture into the landscape, complete with all its tensions, disagreements, contradictions, prejudices, and social inequalities. These stories lie at the heart of Nature's Crossroads. The book features an interdisciplinary team of distinguished scholars who aim to open new conversations about the environmental history of the Twin Cities and Greater Minnesota
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    Old age, new science : gerontologists and their biosocial visions, 1900-1960 (2016)
    Pittsburgh, Pa : University of Pittsburgh Press
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    ISBN: 9780822981367 , 082298136X
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Park, Hyung Wook Old age, new science
    DDC: 305.2609730904
    Keywords: Aging Social aspects ; History ; 20th century ; Social gerontology History ; 20th century ; Gerontology History ; 20th century ; Social gerontology History 20th century ; Gerontology History 20th century ; Aging Social aspects 20th century ; History ; Social gerontology History 20th century ; Gerontology History 20th century ; Aging Social aspects 20th century ; History ; MEDICAL ; Geriatrics ; SCIENCE ; History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Aging ; Social aspects ; Gerontology ; Social gerontology ; Gerontology ; Social Welfare & Social Work ; Social Sciences ; History ; Electronic book ; Electronic books History
    Abstract: "This book focuses on the "biosocial visions" shared by early gerontologists in American and British science and culture from the early to mid-twentieth century who believed the phenomenon of aging was not just biological, but social in nature. Advancements in the life sciences, together with shifting perspectives on the state and future of the elderly in society, informed how gerontologists interacted with seniors, and how they defined successful aging. Park shows how these visions shaped popular discourses on aging, directly influenced the institutionalization of gerontology, and also reflected the class, gender, and race biases of their founders"--
    Abstract: "Between 1870 and 1940, life expectancy in the United States skyrocketed while the percentage of senior citizens age sixty-five and older more than doubled--a phenomenon owed largely to innovations in medicine and public health. At the same time, the Great Depression was a major tipping point for age discrimination and poverty in the West: seniors were living longer and retiring earlier, but without adequate means to support themselves and their families. The economic disaster of the 1930s alerted scientists, who were actively researching the processes of aging, to the profound social implications of their work--and by the end of the 1950s, the field of gerontology emerged. Old Age, New Science explores how a group of American and British life scientists contributed to gerontology's development as a multidisciplinary field. It examines the foundational "biosocial visions" they shared, a byproduct of both their research and the social problems they encountered. Hyung Wook Park shows how these visions shaped popular discourses on aging, directly influenced the institutionalization of gerontology, and also reflected the class, gender, and race biases of their founders"--
    Abstract: Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Envisioning Age in Experimental and Social Contexts; Chapter 2. A Biosocial Vision and Textbooks in Starting a Multidisciplinary Science; Chapter 3. Projecting Visions and Cultivating a Science in American Society; Chapter 4. Calories, Aging, and Building a Biosocial Research Program; Chapter 5. Senescence, Science, and Society in Great Britain; Chapter 6. Growing Old and Biomedicine in the National Institutes of Health; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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    Slave emancipation and transformations in Brazilian political citizenship (2016)
    Pittsburgh, Pa : University of Pittsburgh Press
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    ISBN: 9780822981381 , 0822981386
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource
    Series Statement: Pitt Latin American series
    Parallel Title: Available in another form
    DDC: 306.3620981
    Keywords: Political participation History ; Brazil ; Blacks Political activity ; History ; Brazil ; Social movements History ; Brazil ; Antislavery movements Brazil ; Slavery Brazil ; Political participation History ; Blacks Political activity ; History ; Social movements History ; Antislavery movements ; Slavery ; Political participation History ; Blacks Political activity ; History ; Social movements History ; Antislavery movements ; Slavery ; HISTORY ; Latin America ; South America ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; HISTORY ; General ; Antislavery movements ; Blacks ; Political activity ; Political participation ; Race relations ; Slavery ; Social movements ; History ; Brazil Race relations ; Brazil ; Brazil Race relations ; Brazil Race relations ; Brazil ; Electronic books History
    Abstract: "Celso Thomas Castilho offers original perspectives on the political upheaval surrounding the process of slave emancipation in postcolonial Brazil. He shows how the abolition debates in Pernambuco transformed the practices of political citizenship and marked the first instance of a mass national political mobilization. In addition, he presents new findings on the scope and scale of the opposing abolitionist and sugar planters' mobilizations in the Brazilian northeast. The book highlights the extensive interactions between enslaved and free people in the construction of abolitionism, and reveals how Brazil's first social movement reinvented discourses about race and nation, leading to the passage of the abolition law in 1888. It also documents the previously ignored counter-mobilizations led by the landed elite, who saw the rise of abolitionism as a political contestation and threat to their livelihood. Overall, this study illuminates how disputes over control of emancipation also entailed disputes over the boundaries of the political arena and connects the history of abolition to the history of Brazilian democracy. It offers fresh perspectives on Brazilian political history and on Brazil's place within comparative discussions on slavery and emancipation"--
    Abstract: "Celso Thomas Castilho offers original perspectives on the political upheaval surrounding the process of slave emancipation in postcolonial Brazil. He shows how the abolition debates in Pernambuco transformed the practices of political citizenship and marked the first instance of a mass national political mobilization. In addition, he presents new findings on the scope and scale of the opposing abolitionist and sugar planters' mobilizations in the Brazilian northeast. The book highlights the extensive interactions between enslaved and free people in the construction of abolitionism, and reveals how Brazil's first social movement reinvented discourses about race and nation, leading to the passage of the abolition law in 1888. It also documents the previously ignored counter-mobilizations led by the landed elite, who saw the rise of abolitionism as a political contestation and threat to their livelihood. Overall, this study illuminates how disputes over control of emancipation also entailed disputes over the boundaries of the political arena and connects the history of abolition to the history of Brazilian democracy. It offers fresh perspectives on Brazilian political history and on Brazil's place within comparative discussions on slavery and emancipation"--
    Abstract: Acknowledgments; Note on Orthography; Introduction; Chapter 1. "Death to Slavery": Sparking the Abolition Debate; Chapter 2. "While the Cry for Emancipation Still Echoes": The Political Effects of the 1871 Law; Chapter 3. "We Need to Put into Action the Liberal Ideas We Speak Of": A Thwarted Attempt to Free Recife; Chapter 4. The "Disorderliness of the Intransigent Abolitionists": An Abolitionist Parade, New Associativism, and Elections; Chapter 5. "March on over the Thorns That Lie in Your Path": Reaction and Counterreaction in the Cotegipe Era
    Abstract: Chapter 6. "Celebrations of Freedom": Abolition and the Changing Debates over CitizenshipConclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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    Socialist fun : youth, consumption, and state-sponsored popular culture in the Soviet Union, 1945-1970 (2016)
    Pittsburgh, Pa : University of Pittsburgh Press
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    ISBN: 9780822981251 , 0822981254
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource
    Series Statement: Pitt series in Russian and East European studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Tsipursky, Gleb Socialist fun
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    DDC: 305.2350947080904
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    Keywords: Socialism Social aspects ; History ; Soviet Union ; Consumption (Economics) History ; Soviet Union ; Popular culture History ; Soviet Union ; Cold War Social aspects ; Soviet Union ; Youth Societies and clubs ; History ; Soviet Union ; Youth Government policy ; History ; Soviet Union ; Youth Social life and customs ; Soviet Union ; Socialism Social aspects ; History ; Consumption (Economics) History ; Popular culture History ; Cold War Social aspects ; Youth Societies and clubs ; History ; Youth Government policy ; History ; Youth Social life and customs ; Consumption (Economics) History ; Popular culture History ; Cold War Social aspects ; Youth Societies and clubs ; History ; Youth Government policy ; History ; Youth Social life and customs ; Socialism Social aspects ; History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; HISTORY ; General ; Consumption (Economics) ; International relations ; Manners and customs ; Popular culture ; Social aspects ; Youth ; Government policy ; Youth ; Social life and customs ; Youth ; Societies and clubs ; Child & Youth Development ; Social Welfare & Social Work ; Social Sciences ; HISTORY ; Europe ; Russia & the Former Soviet Union ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; History ; Soviet Union Relations ; Western countries ; Western countries Relations ; Soviet Union ; Soviet Union Social life and customs ; 1917-1970 ; Soviet Union Relations ; Western countries Relations ; Soviet Union Social life and customs 1917-1970 ; Soviet Union Relations ; Western countries Relations ; Soviet Union Social life and customs 1917-1970 ; Soviet Union ; Western countries ; Electronic books ; Sowjetunion ; Jugendkultur ; Massenkultur ; Jugend ; Geschichte 1945-1970
    Abstract: "Most narratives depict Soviet Cold War cultural activities and youth groups as drab and dreary, militant and politicized. In this study Gleb Tsipursky challenges these stereotypes in a revealing portrayal of Soviet youth and state-sponsored popular culture. The primary local venues for Soviet culture were the tens of thousands of klubs where young people found entertainment, leisure, social life, and romance. Here sports, dance, film, theater, music, lectures, and political meetings became vehicles to disseminate a socialist version of modernity. The Soviet way of life was dutifully presented and perceived as the most progressive and advanced, in an attempt to stave off Western influences. In effect, socialist fun became very serious business. As Tsipursky shows, however, Western culture did infiltrate these activities, particularly at local levels, where participants and organizers deceptively cloaked their offerings to appeal to their own audiences. Thus, Soviet modernity evolved as a complex and multivalent ideological device. Tsipursky provides a fresh and original examination of the Kremlin's paramount effort to shape young lives, consumption, popular culture, and to build an emotional community--all against the backdrop of Cold War struggles to win hearts and minds both at home and abroad"--
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Ideology, Enlightenment, and Entertainment : State-Sponsored Popular Culture, 1917-1946 -- Chapter 2. Ideological Reconstruction in the Cultural Recreation Network, 1947-1953 -- Chapter 3. Ideology and Consumption : Jazz and Western Dancing in the Cultural Network, 1948-1953 -- Chapter 4. State-Sponsored Popular Culture in the Early Thaw, 1953-1956 -- Chapter 5. Youth Initiative and the 1956 Youth Club Movement -- Chapter 6. The 1957 International Youth Festival and the Backlash -- Chapter 7. A Reformist Revival : Grassroots Club Activities and Youth Cafes, 1958-1964 -- Chapter 8. Ambiguity and Backlash : State-Sponsored Popular Culture, 1965-1970
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    City on fire : technology, social change, and the hazards of progress in Mexico City, 1860-1910 (2016)
    Pittsburgh, Pa : University of Pittsburgh Press
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    ISBN: 9780822981466 , 0822981467
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource
    Series Statement: History of the urban environment
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    DDC: 306.097253
    Keywords: Social medicine History ; Mexico ; Mexico City ; Science Social aspects ; History ; Mexico ; Mexico City ; Technology Social aspects ; History ; Mexico ; Mexico City ; Urban ecology (Sociology) History ; Mexico ; Mexico City ; Social change History ; Mexico ; Mexico City ; City and town life History ; Mexico ; Mexico City ; Fire prevention History ; Mexico ; Mexico City ; Fires Social aspects ; History ; Mexico ; Mexico City ; Science Social aspects ; History ; Technology Social aspects ; History ; Urban ecology (Sociology) History ; Social change History ; City and town life History ; Fire prevention History ; Fires Social aspects ; History ; Social medicine History ; Technology Social aspects ; History ; Urban ecology (Sociology) History ; Social change History ; City and town life History ; Fire prevention History ; Fires Social aspects ; History ; Science Social aspects ; History ; Social medicine History ; HISTORY ; General ; City and town life ; Economic history ; Fire prevention ; Fires ; Social aspects ; Science ; Social aspects ; Social change ; Social conditions ; Social medicine ; Technology ; Social aspects ; Urban ecology (Sociology) ; HISTORY ; Latin America ; Mexico ; History ; Mexico City (Mexico) Economic conditions ; Mexico City (Mexico) Social conditions ; Mexico ; Mexico City ; Mexico City (Mexico) Social conditions ; Mexico City (Mexico) Economic conditions ; Mexico City (Mexico) Social conditions ; Mexico City (Mexico) Economic conditions ; Mexico ; Mexico City ; Electronic book ; Electronic books History
    Abstract: "By the mid-nineteenth century, efforts to modernize and industrialize Mexico City had the unintended consequence of exponentially increasing the risk of fire while also breeding a culture of fear. Through an array of archival sources, Anna Rose Alexander argues that fire became a catalyst for social change, as residents mobilized to confront the problem. Advances in engineering and medicine soon fostered the rise of distinct fields of fire-related expertise while conversely, the rise of fire-profiteering industries allowed entrepreneurs to capitalize on crisis. City on Fire demonstrates that both public and private engagements with fire risk highlight the inequalities that characterized Mexican society at the turn of the twentieth century"--
    Abstract: "City on Fire is a chronicle of progress and danger, that integrates urban environmental history with histories of technology, science, and medicine to reveal how Mexico City changed in response to the growing threat of fire in the urban center"--
    Abstract: Acknowledgments; Introduction: Modernity and Its Accidents; Chapter One. Fighting Fire, Fighting Fear; Chapter Two. Science of Regulation; Chapter Three. Controlling the Flames-The Fire Brigade; Chapter Four. Engineering Safety; Chapter Five. Inventing Protection; Chapter Six. Insuring Progress; Chapter Seven. Healing the Hazardous City; Conclusion; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
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    Rhetoric in American anthropology : gender, genre, and science (2014)
    Pittsburgh, Pa : University of Pittsburgh Press
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    ISBN: 0822979470 , 9780822979470
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (pages cm)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture
    Parallel Title: Print version Rhetoric in American Anthropology : Gender, Genre, and Science
    DDC: 301.01/4
    Keywords: Anthropology Philosophy ; Ethnology History ; Anthropologists' writings ; Women anthropologists ; Feminist anthropology
    Abstract: "In the early twentieth century, the field of anthropology transformed itself from the "welcoming science," uniquely open to women, people of color, and amateurs, into a professional science of culture. The new field grew in rigor and prestige but excluded practitioners and methods that no longer fit a narrow standard of scientific legitimacy. In Rhetoric in American Anthropology, Risa Applegarth traces the "rhetorical archeology" of this transformation in the writings of early women anthropologists"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Gender, Genre, and Knowledge in the Welcoming Science; 1. Ethnographic Monographs: Genre Change and Rhetorical Scarcity; 2. Field Autobiographies: Rhetorical Recruitment and Embodied Ethnography; 3. Folklore Collections: Professional Positions andSituated Representations; 4. Ethnographic Novels: Educational Critiques and Rhetorical Trajectories; Conclusion: Rhetorical Archaeology; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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    Between ruin and restoration : an environmental history of Israel (2013)
    Pittsburgh, Pa : University of Pittsburgh Press
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    ISBN: 9780822978114 , 0822978113
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xv, 400 p.) , illustrations.
    Series Statement: History of the urban environment
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Between ruin and restoration
    DDC: 304.2095694
    Keywords: Environmental policy History ; Israel ; Environmental policy History ; Environmental policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Human Geography ; Ecology ; HISTORY ; Middle East ; Israel ; History ; Israel Environmental conditions ; History ; Israel ; History ; Israel Environmental conditions ; History ; Israel ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The environment in Palestine in the late Ottomas period, 1789-1918 -- The environmental legacy of the Fellaheen and the Bedouin -- Human impact on wildlife in Israel since the nineteenth-century -- Zionist and Israeli perspectives on population growth and environmental impact in Palestine and Israel -- Combating desertification : evolving perceptions and strategies -- The agricultural roots of Israel's water crisis -- Open space in an urban society -- The battle of the "True Believers" : environmentalism in Israeli party politics -- Environmental challenges facing the Arab Society in Israel -- A prolonged recessional : the continuing influence of British rule on Israeli environmental law -- Marin-pollution abatement along Israel's Mediterranean coast : a story of policy success -- Olive green : environment, militarism, and the Israel Defense Forces -- "Going beyond Israel" : epistemic communities, global interests, and international environmental agreements -- Toward sustainable development : mainstreaming environment in Israel -- Anthropogenic climate change in Israel -- Nature knows no boundaries? : notes toward a future history of regional environmentalism -- The future of the Israeli environmental movement : is a major paradigm shift under way?
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    Speaking Soviet with an accent : culture and power in Kyrgyzstan (2012)
    Pittsburgh, Pa : University of Pittsburgh Press
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    ISBN: 9780822978091 , 0822978091
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xi, 236 p.) , ill., maps.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Central Eurasia in context
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Igmen, Ali Speaking Soviet with an accent : culture and power in Kyrgyzstan
    DDC: 306.09584309041
    Keywords: Politics and culture History ; Kyrgyzstan ; Popular culture History ; Kyrgyzstan ; Kyrgyz Cultural assimilation ; History ; Soviet Union ; Minorities Government policy ; History ; Soviet Union ; Politics and culture History ; Popular culture History ; Kyrgyz Cultural assimilation ; History ; Minorities Government policy ; History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; HISTORY ; General ; Cultural policy ; Ethnic relations ; Intellectual life ; Minorities ; Government policy ; Politics and culture ; Popular culture ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; History ; Kyrgyzstan Intellectual life ; 20th century ; Soviet Union Ethnic relations ; History ; Soviet Union Cultural policy ; History ; Soviet Union Ethnic relations ; History ; Soviet Union Cultural policy ; History ; Kyrgyzstan Intellectual life 20th century ; Kyrgyzstan ; Soviet Union ; Electronic book ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "Speaking Soviet with an Accent presents the first English-language study of Soviet culture clubs in Kyrgyzstan. These clubs profoundly influenced the future of Kyrgyz cultural identity and fostered the work of many artists, such as famed novelist Chingiz Aitmatov. Based on extensive oral history and archival research, Ali Igmen follows the rise of culture clubs beginning in the 1920s, when they were established to inculcate Soviet ideology and create a sedentary lifestyle among the historically nomadic Kyrgyz people. These "Red clubs" are fondly remembered by locals as one of the few places where lively activities and socialization with other members of their ail (village or tribal unit) could be found. Through lectures, readings, books, plays, concerts, operas, visual arts, and cultural Olympiads, locals were exposed to Soviet notions of modernization. But these programs also encouraged the creation of a newfound "Kyrgyzness" that preserved aspects of local traditions and celebrated the achievements of Kyrgyz citizens in the building of a new state. These ideals proved appealing to many Kyrgyz, who, for centuries, had seen riches and power in the hands of a few tribal chieftains and Russian imperialists. This book offers new insights into the formation of modern cultural identity in Central Asia. Here, like their imperial predecessors, the Soviets sought to extend their physical borders and political influence. But Igmen also reveals the remarkable agency of the Kyrgyz people, who employed available resources to meld their own heritage with Soviet and Russian ideologies and form artistic expressions that continue to influence Kyrgyzstan today."--Project Muse
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    The megarhetorics of global development (2012)
    Pittsburgh, Pa : University of Pittsburgh Press
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    ISBN: 9780822977414 , 0822977419
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (p. cm.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Megarhetorics of global development
    DDC: 306.3
    Keywords: Rhetoric Social aspects ; Globalization Social aspects ; Economic development Social aspects ; Communication in economic development Social aspects ; Rhetorical criticism ; Rhetoric Social aspects ; Globalization Social aspects ; Economic development Social aspects ; Communication in economic development Social aspects ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Rhetoric ; Economic development ; Social aspects ; Globalization ; Social aspects ; Rhetoric ; Social aspects ; Rhetorical criticism ; Electronic book ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: After World War II, an unprecedented age of global development began. The formation of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund allowed war torn and poverty stricken nations to become willing debtors in their desire to entice Western investment and trade. New capital, it was foretold, would pave the way to political and economic stability, and the benefits would "trickle down" to even the poorest citizens. The hyperbole of this neocolonialism, however, has left many of these countries with nothing but compounded debt and unfulfilled promises. The Megarhetorics of Global Development examines rhetorical strategies used by multinational corporations, NGOs, governments, banks, and others to further their own economic, political, or technological agendas. These wide-ranging case studies employ rhetorical theory, globalization scholarship, and analysis of cultural and historical dynamics to offer in-depth critiques of development practices and their material effects. By deconstructing megarhetorics, at both the local and global level, and following their paths of mobilization and diffusion, the concepts of "progress" and "growth" can be reevaluated, with the end goal of encouraging self-sustaining and ethical outcomes
    Abstract: Tracking "transglocal" risks in pharmaceutical development: Novartis's challenge of Indian patent law / J. Blake Scott -- Meeting the challenge of globalization: President Clinton's "double movement" discourse / Jason A. Edwards and Jaime L. Wright -- Ethos in a bottle: corporate social responsibility and humanitarian doxa / D. Robert DeChaine -- Developmental shifts: changing feelings about compassion in Korea / Matt Newcomb -- Staging the Beijing Olympics: intersecting human rights and economic development narratives / Tim Jensen and Wendy S. Hesford -- Framing the megarhetorics of agricultural development: industrialized agriculture and sustainable agriculture / Eileen E. Schell -- Turning the tables on the megarhetoric of women's empowerment / Rebecca Dingo -- Making the case: Bamako and the problem of anti-imperial art / Bret Benjamin -- Enfreakment; or, aliens of extraordinary disability / Robert McRuer.
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    The vigorous core of our nationality : race and regional identity in northeastern Brazil (2011)
    Pittsburgh, Pa : University of Pittsburgh Press
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    ISBN: 9780822977704 , 0822977702
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (x, 315 p. :) , maps.
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Blake, Stanley E Vigorous core of our nationality : race and regional identity in northeastern Brazil
    DDC: 305.8009813
    Keywords: Group identity Brazil, Northeast ; Regionalism Brazil, Northeast ; National characteristics, Brazilian ; Group identity ; Regionalism ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; HISTORY ; General ; Civilization ; Group identity ; National characteristics, Brazilian ; Race relations ; Regionalism ; Social conditions ; Brazil, Northeast Social conditions ; 20th century ; Brazil, Northeast Social conditions ; 19th century ; Brazil, Northeast Race relations ; Brazil, Northeast Civilization ; Brazil, Northeast ; Brazil, Northeast Social conditions 19th century ; Brazil, Northeast Race relations ; Brazil, Northeast Civilization ; Brazil, Northeast Social conditions 20th century ; Northeast Brazil ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Introduction : nordeste and nation -- The nineteenth-century origins of the nordestino, 1850-1870 -- Racial science in Pernambuco, 1870-1910 -- The medicalization of nordestinos, 1910-1925 -- Social hygiene : the science of reform, 1925-1940 -- Mental hygiene : the science of character, 1925-1940 -- Inventing the homem do nordeste : race, region, and the state, 1925-1940.
    Abstract: The Vigorous Core of Our Nationality explores conceptualizations of regional identity and a distinct population group known as nordestinos in northeastern Brazil during a crucial historical period. Beginning with the abolition of slavery and ending with the demise of the Estado Novo under Getúlio Vargas, Stanley E. Blake offers original perspectives on the paradoxical concept of the nordestino and the importance of these debates to the process of state and nation building. Since colonial times, the Northeast has been an agricultural region based primarily on sugar production. The area's
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    Science transformed? : debating claims of an epochal break (2011)
    Pittsburgh, Pa : University of Pittsburgh Press
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    ISBN: 9780822977506 , 0822977508
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (vii, 222 p. :) , ill.
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Science transformed?
    DDC: 303.483
    Keywords: Science Technological innovations ; Science Philosophy ; Science Social aspects ; Science Technological innovations ; Science Philosophy ; Science Social aspects ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; PHILOSOPHY ; General ; Science ; Philosophy ; Science ; Social aspects ; Electronic book ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: "Advancements in computing, instrumentation, robotics, digital imaging, and simulation modeling are changing science into a technology-driven institution. The pragmatic interests of government, industry, and society increasingly exert their influence over science, raising questions of values and objectivity. These and other profound changes in the world of science have led many to speculate that we are in the midst of an epochal break in scientific history. This edited volume presents an in-depth examination of these issues from philosophical, historical, social, and cultural perspectives. It presents arguments both for and against the epochal break thesis in light of historical antecedents, offering an important occasion for philosophical analysis of the epistemic, institutional and moral questions affecting current and future scientific pursuits. "--P. 4 of cover
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    Equality & revolution : women's rights in the Russian Empire, 1905-1917 (2010)
    Pittsburgh, Pa : University of Pittsburgh Press
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    ISBN: 0822973758 , 9780822973751
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xviii, 356 p) , ill., map
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Pitt Russian East European
    Parallel Title: Print version Equality and Revolution : Women's Rights in the Russian Empire, 1905-1917
    DDC: 305.420947
    Keywords: Women's rights History 20th century ; Feminism History 20th century ; Women Political activity 20th century ; History ; Russia Social conditions 1801-1917 ; Russia History 1904-1914 ; Russia Politics and government 1894-1917 ; Electronic book ; Electronic books
    Abstract: On July 20, 1917, Russia became the world's first major power to grant women the right to vote and hold public office. Yet in the wake of the October Revolution later that year, the foundational organizations and individuals who pioneered the suffragist cause were all but erased from Russian history. The women's movement, when mentioned at all, is portrayed as meaningless to proletariat and peasant women, based in elitist and bourgeoisie culture of the tsarist era, and counter to socialist ideology. In this groundbreaking book, Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild reveals that Russian feminists in fact
    Description / Table of Contents: The meaning of equalityConsciousness raised -- The limits of liberation -- The fight for equal rights in the Russian dumas and Finland -- The first all-Russian women's congress: the Women's Parliament (Zhenskii Parlament) -- "And who will tend the geese?" -- War, revolution, and victory? -- Twelve years of struggle.
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    Imagining the West in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union (2010)
    Pittsburgh, Pa : University of Pittsburgh Press
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    ISBN: 9780822973911 , 082297391X
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (vi, 330 p. :) , ill.
    Series Statement: Kritika historical studies
    Series Statement: Pitt series in Russian and East European studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Imagining the West in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union
    DDC: 303.4824701821
    Keywords: Geographical perception History ; Soviet Union ; Geographical perception History ; Europe, Eastern ; Transnationalism ; East and West ; Geographical perception History ; Geographical perception History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; HISTORY ; General ; Geographical perception ; International relations ; Transnationalism ; East and West ; History ; Western countries Relations ; Soviet Union ; Western countries Relations ; Russia ; Western countries Relations ; Europe, Eastern ; Soviet Union Relations ; Western countries ; Russia Relations ; Western countries ; Europe, Eastern Relations ; Western countries ; Europe, Eastern ; Russia ; Soviet Union ; Western countries ; Russia Relations ; Europe, Eastern Relations ; Western countries Relations ; Western countries Relations ; Western countries Relations ; Soviet Union Relations ; Eastern Europe ; Russia ; Soviet Union ; Western countries ; Electronic books ; Electronic books History
    Abstract: Introduction: The oblique coordinate systems of modern identity / György Peteri -- Were the Czechs more Western than Slavic? Nineteenth-century travel literature from Russia by disillusioned Czechs / Karen Gammelgaard -- Privileged origins : "national models" and reforms of public health in interwar Hungary / Erik Ingebrigtsen -- Defending children's rights, "in defense of peace" : children and Soviet cultural diplomacy / Catriona Kelly -- East as true West : redeeming bourgeois culture, from socialist realism to Ostalgie / Greg Castillo -- Paris or Moscow? Warsaw architects and the image of the modern city in the 1950s / David Crowley -- Imagining Richard Wagner : the Janus head of a divided nation / Elaine Kelly -- From Iron Curtain to silver screen : imagining the West in the Khrushchev era / Anne E. Gorsuch -- Mirror, mirror, on the wall -- is the West the fairest of them all? Czechoslovak normalization and its (dis)contents / Paulina Bren -- Who will beat whom? Soviet popular reception of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, 1959 / Susan E. Reid -- Moscow human rights defenders look West : attitudes toward U.S. journalists in the 1960s and 1970s / Barbara Walker -- Conclusion: Transnational history and the East-West divide / Michael David-Fox.
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    The politics of motherhood : maternity and women's rights in twentieth-century Chile (2009)
    Pittsburgh, Pa : University of Pittsburgh Press
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    ISBN: 0822973618 , 9780822973614
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiii, 301 p) , ill
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    Series Statement: Pitt Latin American Series
    Parallel Title: Print version The Politics of Motherhood : Maternity and Women's Rights in Twentieth-Century Chile
    DDC: 305.420983
    Keywords: Motherhood Political aspects ; Women's rights ; Women's Rights history ; Mothers history ; Reproductive Rights
    Abstract: Examines the negotiations over women's rights and the politics of gender in Chile throughout the twentieth century. Centering her study on motherhood, Pieper Mooney explores dramatic changes in health policy, population paradigms, and understandings of human rights, and reveals that motherhood is hardly a private matter defined only by individual women or couples. Instead, it is intimately tied to public policies and political competitions on nation-state and international levels
    Description / Table of Contents: Public health, managed motherhood, and patriarchy in a modernizing nationLocal agency, changed global paradigms, and the burden of motherhood -- Planning motherhood under Christian democracy -- Gendered citizenship rights on the peaceful road to socialism -- From mothers' rights to women's rights in a nation under siege -- International encounters and women's empowerment under dictatorship and redemocratization.
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