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  1. Translating feminism
    interdisciplinary approaches to text, place and agency
    Contributor: Bracke, Maud Anne (Publisher); Bullock, Julia C. (Publisher); Morris, Penelope (Publisher); Schulz, Kristina (Publisher)
    Published: [2021]
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Cham

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    Contributor: Bracke, Maud Anne (Publisher); Bullock, Julia C. (Publisher); Morris, Penelope (Publisher); Schulz, Kristina (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9783030792442
    Series: Palgrave studies in language, gender and sexuality
    Subjects: Applied linguistics; Cultural studies; Social sciencesPhilosophy; Sociology; Literature, Modern20th century
    Scope: xvii, 271 Seiten, Illustration
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    Enthält Literaturangaben
  2. Versuch über den Normalismus
    wie Normalität produziert wird
    Author: Link, Jürgen
    Published: 1997
    Publisher:  Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen ; ProQuest Ebook Central, [Ann Arbor]

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    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783322875327
    RVK Categories: CC 8200 ; EC 2460 ; EC 5130 ; MR 6050 ; MR 6600
    Series: Historische Diskursanalyse der Literatur
    Subjects: Science (General); Science, general; Literature and society; Array; Norm (Philosophy); Philosophy; Normal Distribution; Sociology
    Scope: 449 Seiten
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    Literatur: Seite [442]-449
  3. <<The>> unmasking style in social theory
    Author: Baehr, Peter
    Published: [2019]
    Publisher:  Routledge, London

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781138091757; 9781138091764
    RVK Categories: MR 1100
    Series: Classical and contemporary social theory
    Subjects: Sociology; Philosophy
    Scope: xii, 173 Seiten
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  4. Indo-Caribbean feminist thought
    genealogies, theories, enactments
    Contributor: Hosein, Gabrielle Jamela (Publisher); Outar, Lisa (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, New York

    Bringing together three generations of scholars, thinkers and activists, this book is the first to trace a genealogy of the specific contributions Indo-Caribbean women have made to Caribbean feminist epistemology and knowledge production. Challenging... more

     

    Bringing together three generations of scholars, thinkers and activists, this book is the first to trace a genealogy of the specific contributions Indo-Caribbean women have made to Caribbean feminist epistemology and knowledge production. Challenging the centrality of India in considerations of the forms that Indo-Caribbean feminist thought and praxis have taken, the authors turn instead to the terrain of gender negotiations among Caribbean men and women within and across racial, class, religious, and political affiliations. Addressing the specific conditions which emerged within the region and highlighting the cross-racial solidarities and the challenges to narratives of purity that have been constitutive of Indo-Caribbean feminist thought, this collection connects to the broader indentureship diaspora and what can be considered post-indentureship feminist thought. Through examinations of literature, activism, art, biography, scholarship and public sphere practices, the collection highlights the complexity and richness of Indo-Caribbean engagements with feminism and social justice Gabrielle Jamela Hosein and Lisa Outar, “Introduction: Interrogating an Indo-Caribbean Feminist Epistemology” -- Part 1: Tracing the Emergence of Indo-Caribbean Feminist Perspectives -- Patricia Mohammed, “A Vindication for Indo-Caribbean Feminism” -- Preeia D. Surajbali, “Indo-Caribbean Feminist Epistemology: A Personal and Scholarly Journey” -- Andil Gosine, “My Mother’s Baby: Wrecking Work after Indentureship” -- Part 2: Transgressive Storytelling -- Alison Klein, “‘Seeing Greater Distances’: An Interview with Peggy Mohan on the Voyages of Indo-Caribbean Women” -- Anita Baksh,“Indentureship, Land, and Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought in the Literature of Rajkumari Singh and Mahadai Das” -- Lisa Outar, “Post-Indentureship Cosmopolitan Feminism: Indo-Caribbean and Indo-Mauritian Women’s Writing and the Public Sphere”--

     
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    Contributor: Hosein, Gabrielle Jamela (Publisher); Outar, Lisa (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781349720361; 9781137570796
    RVK Categories: HQ 7085 ; HQ 7040 ; LB 44640
    Edition: First softcover printing
    Series: New Caribbean Studies
    Subjects: Culture; Literature, Modern; America; Sex (Psychology); Gender expression; Gender identity; Literature.; Literature; Sociology; Literature; Sociology.; Literature, Modern—20th century.; Literature—Philosophy.; Culture—Study and teaching.; America—Literatures.
    Scope: xiii, 349 Seiten, Illustrationen
  5. Translating feminism
    interdisciplinary approaches to text, place and agency
    Contributor: Bracke, Maud Anne (Publisher); Bullock, Julia C. (Publisher); Morris, Penelope (Publisher); Schulz, Kristina (Publisher)
    Published: [2021]
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Cham ; ProQuest Ebook Central, [Ann Arbor]

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    Contributor: Bracke, Maud Anne (Publisher); Bullock, Julia C. (Publisher); Morris, Penelope (Publisher); Schulz, Kristina (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783030792459
    Series: Palgrave studies in language, gender and sexuality
    Subjects: Applied linguistics; Cultural studies; Social sciences—Philosophy; Sociology; Literature, Modern—20th century; Applied Linguistics; Cultural Studies; Social Philosophy; Gender Studies; Twentieth-Century Literature
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 271 Seiten)
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  6. Textuale Praktiken und Artefakte
    Soziologie schreiben bei Garfinkel, Bourdieu und Luhmann.
    Author: Krey, Björn
    Published: 2011

    Texte sind basale Technologien, mithilfe derer Soziologen ihre Phänomene untersuchen und kommunikativ zugänglich machen. In diesem Buch werden soziologische Texte aus der Perspektive einer ethnomethodologischen Diskursforschung als Artefakte... more

     

    Texte sind basale Technologien, mithilfe derer Soziologen ihre Phänomene untersuchen und kommunikativ zugänglich machen. In diesem Buch werden soziologische Texte aus der Perspektive einer ethnomethodologischen Diskursforschung als Artefakte argumentativer und deskriptiver sprachlich-schriftlicher Praktiken erforscht. Die Reproduktion (sozial)wissenschaftlichen Wissens erscheint hiernach weniger als Produkt von „Diskursen", „Ideologien" oder von „Ideenevolution", sondern wissenschaftliche „Diskurse" und „Ideen" werden ihrerseits als Artefakte kunstfertigen Sprachgebrauchs verstanden.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783531928494
    RVK Categories: MR 2600 ; MP 8000
    Series: VS College
    Subjects: Social sciences; Sociology
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (118 pages)
  7. Handbuch Medienpädagogik
    Contributor: Sander, Uwe (Publisher); Gross, Friederike <<von>> (Publisher); Hugger, Kai-Uwe (Publisher)
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden ; ProQuest Ebook Central, [Ann Arbor]

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    Contributor: Sander, Uwe (Publisher); Gross, Friederike <<von>> (Publisher); Hugger, Kai-Uwe (Publisher)
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783531911588
    RVK Categories: AP 13650 ; DW 4000
    Edition: 1. Auflage
    Subjects: Sociology
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (602 Seiten), Illustrationen
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    Enthält: Literaturangaben
  8. Ursachen und Wirkungen des weltweiten Terrorismus
    Eine Analyse der gesellschaftlichen und ökonomischen Auswirkungen und neue Ansätze zum Umgang mit dem Terror
    Contributor: Schneider, Friedrich (Publisher); Hofer, Bernhard (Publisher)
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag und VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften / GWV Fachverlage GmbH, Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden

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    Contributor: Schneider, Friedrich (Publisher); Hofer, Bernhard (Publisher)
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783835054950
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    Subjects: Sociology
  9. Handbuch Medienpädagogik
    Contributor: Sander, Uwe (Publisher); Gross, Friederike (Publisher); Hugger, Kai-Uwe (Publisher)
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften / GWV Fachverlage GmbH, Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden

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    Contributor: Sander, Uwe (Publisher); Gross, Friederike (Publisher); Hugger, Kai-Uwe (Publisher)
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783531911588
    Other identifier:
    RVK Categories: AP 13650 ; DW 4000
    Subjects: Sociology
  10. Metaphern in geopolitischen Diskursen
    Raumrepräsentationen in der Debatte um die amerikanische Raketenabwehr
    Contributor: Helmig, Jan (Publisher)
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften / GWV Fachverlage GmbH, Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden

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    Contributor: Helmig, Jan (Publisher)
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783531912011
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    RVK Categories: MG 70150
    Subjects: Political science; Sociology
  11. Integrating Food into Urban Planning
    Contributor: Cabannes, Yves (Publisher); Marocchino, Cecilia (Publisher)
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  UCL Press

    The integration of food into urban planning is a crucial and emerging topic. Urban planners, alongside the local and regional authorities that have traditionally been less engaged in food-related issues, are now asked to take a central and active... more

     

    The integration of food into urban planning is a crucial and emerging topic. Urban planners, alongside the local and regional authorities that have traditionally been less engaged in food-related issues, are now asked to take a central and active part in understanding how food is produced, processed, packaged, transported, marketed, consumed, disposed of and recycled in our cities.

    While there is a growing body of literature on the topic, the issue of planning cities in such a way they will increase food security and nutrition, not only for the affluent sections of society but primarily for the poor, is much less discussed, and much less informed by practices. This volume, a collaboration between the Bartlett Development Planning Unit at UCL and the Food Agricultural Organisation, aims to fill this gap by putting more than 20 city-based experiences in perspective, including studies from Toronto, New York City, Portland and Providence in North America; Milan in Europe and Cape Town in Africa; Belo Horizonte and Lima in South America; and, in Asia, Bangkok and Tokyo.

    By studying and comparing cities of different sizes, from both the Global North and South, in developed and developing regions, the contributors collectively argue for the importance and circulation of global knowledge rooted in local food planning practices, programmes and policies.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Cabannes, Yves (Publisher); Marocchino, Cecilia (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    Other identifier:
    Subjects: Development studies; Food & society; Urban communities; Sociology; Food security & supply; Sustainability; Urban & municipal planning
    Other subjects: food; planning; urban; food security
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (376 p.)
  12. Chapter 12 This in-between : How families talk about death in relation to severe brain injury and disorders of consciousness : Interdisciplinary Perspectives
    Author: Kitzinger, Celia Clare; Kitzinger, Jenny
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Springer Nature, Basingstoke

    Thanatological research in the social sciences and the humanities acknowledges that death is culturally and socially embedded. The idea of the social construction of death has been taken on board, albeit slowly, by the social and cultural study of... more

     

    Thanatological research in the social sciences and the humanities acknowledges that death is culturally and socially embedded. The idea of the social construction of death has been taken on board, albeit slowly, by the social and cultural study of death, but explicit reflections on the underlying ontologies and epistemologies of this paradigm remain scarce. This edited volume aims to strengthen the paradigmatic reflections about the social construction of death in thanatology and contribute to a theoretical reinforcement of the field. It also puts death and dying more explicitly on the agenda of social constructionist and social constructivist research in general, arguing that the study of death is important for these approaches. The thirteen contributions gathered in this volume, written by well-established scholars from a variety of disciplines (including sociology, anthropology, media and cultural studies, and political sciences), theorise the social construction of death and dying, and deploy it to analyse a wide variety of meaning-making practices in societal fields such as ethics, politics, media, medicine and family.

     
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  13. Die Vermessung der Kunstwelt : Quantifizierende Beobachtungen und plurale Ordnungen der Kunst
    Author: Buckermann, Paul
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Velbrück, Weilerswist

    Wie sind quantifizierende Ordnungen zeitgenössischer Kunst möglich, wenn Grundsemantiken autonomer Kunst in einem Widerspruch zu quantifizierenden Messungen und Vergleichen stehen? Obwohl sich Kunst, abgesehen von Marktanalysen, der vermeintlich... more

     

    Wie sind quantifizierende Ordnungen zeitgenössischer Kunst möglich, wenn Grundsemantiken autonomer Kunst in einem Widerspruch zu quantifizierenden Messungen und Vergleichen stehen? Obwohl sich Kunst, abgesehen von Marktanalysen, der vermeintlich umfassenden Quantifizierung der Gesellschaft zu entziehen scheint, sind zahlenbasierte Verfahren entstanden, die gerade kunstspezifische Kriterien ernst nehmen wollen. Die vorliegende Studie fragt nach der inneren Logik von solchen Rankings und institutionellen Evaluationen und ihrer Rolle für Stabilität und Wandel der Kunst. Damit werden Fälle behandelt, die aus der Kunstwelt heraus als symbolischer Grenzübertritt kritisiert werden. Hinter diese Auseinandersetzungen um adäquate oder absurde Beobachtungsweisen tritt der Autor aber zurück, um für eine systematische Annäherung an plurale Vorstellungen über Kunst in der Kunst zu argumentieren. Einerseits rekonstruiert er so empirisch an einer Künstler/innenrangliste und an Erfolgsmessungen in Kunstmuseen das paradigmatische Wissen und die konkreten Beobachtungsarchitekturen als konsistente Ordnungsweisen. Andererseits entwickelt er kunstsoziologische Theorien (Becker, Bourdieu, Luhmann) weiter durch die bewertungs- und vergleichssoziologische Einsicht, nach der jede kommunizierte Ordnung eine Welt nicht einfach darstellt, sondern eine eigene Realität selektiv herstellt und potenziell in Gesellschaft zurückwirkt. Auch wenn somit jeder Ordnungsversuch unabhängig von Zahlengebrauch analytisch gleich absurd ist, kommt den Innensichten der Kunst eine zentrale Rolle in der sozialen Selbstorganisation der Künste zu. Ausgehend von umstrittenen Ordnungsversuchen zeigt die Studie, wie Kunst sich heute vermehrt selbst als soziales Phänomen beobachtet, um Navigation durch das vermeintliche Chaos zeitgenössischer Kunst zu ermöglichen.

     
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  14. Adrodd ar Dlodi : Naratif y Cyfryngau Newyddion a Chyfathrebiadau’r Trydydd Sector yng Nghymru
    Author: Moore, Kerry
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Cardiff University Press, Cardiff

    This book presents an in-depth, systematic investigation of the reporting of poverty in Wales, discussing findings from a two-year research project funded by the ‘Exploring the Narrative Coalition’ (a group of 10 Wales-based third sector... more

     

    This book presents an in-depth, systematic investigation of the reporting of poverty in Wales, discussing findings from a two-year research project funded by the ‘Exploring the Narrative Coalition’ (a group of 10 Wales-based third sector organisations), the ESRC, and Cardiff University. Examining how poverty news is covered in the English and Welsh languages across broadcast, print and online news, it provides a detailed insight into current journalistic and communications practices on a crucial issue facing Wales. In the wake of a decade of austerity policies, with official measures confirming experiences of poverty and destitution are increasing, the book offers a timely intervention, critically investigating mainstream media narratives on poverty and how these are shaped. The book is based on original research conducted in 2016-7, in a highly eventful period that included the Tata Steel crisis in Port Talbot, South Wales, the Welsh Government elections and the referendum campaign on the UK’s membership of the European Union. It addresses how poverty was framed in such nationally significant news about politics, business and economics, as well as more local, personal or community-focused stories about livelihoods and social issues. A quantitative analysis of the key characteristics of coverage across different media types provides a detailed evidence base for understanding how poverty news was represented. This includes examining the major contextualizing themes, social groups and geographical locations most frequently covered, the causes and consequences of poverty, and sourcing. It demonstrates how Wales-based media coverage differs from more negative reporting typical of some sections of the UK national press, especially in terms of stigmatizing discourses surrounding unemployment and welfare. However, important questions are identified about how news narratives convey meaning and, especially, disconnections between the coverage of macro-economic trends or events and their consequences in the lives of ordinary people. Additionally, the book explores why poverty news coverage is constructed in the way that it is, using findings from detailed interviews with journalists and editors about their practice. Through the lens of professional values and experiences, the book examines the challenges thought to affect poverty reporting. Key issues include the contraction of resources and specialist expertise allocated to social affairs journalism, the difficulties of identifying and reaching potentially vulnerable groups across Wales and representing case studies fairly and ethically. A parallel set of interviews conducted with third sector professionals about their engagement with news media and communications practices provides a further insight into the production of poverty news. Here, the pressures in reporting poverty are seen from a different perspective, where seeking to influence the coverage of poverty and respond to news demands can elicit professional tensions between journalists and the third sector and/or productive cooperative relationships positively impacting news narratives. In providing a detailed picture of how and why poverty news narratives are shaped as they are, the book aims to provide an evidence base informing more meaningful, representative and accurate poverty reporting in Wales.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: Welsh
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Cultural studies; Media studies; Sociology; Press & journalism
    Other subjects: Cyfathrebu’r trydydd sector; Newyddiaduraeth; Anghydraddoldeb cymdeithasol; Tlodi
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (163 p.)
  15. Reporting on Poverty : News Media Narratives and Third Sector Communications in Wales
    Author: Moore, Kerry
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Cardiff University Press, Cardiff

    This book presents an in-depth, systematic investigation of the reporting of poverty in Wales, discussing findings from a two-year research project funded by the ‘Exploring the Narrative Coalition’ (a group of 10 Wales-based third sector... more

     

    This book presents an in-depth, systematic investigation of the reporting of poverty in Wales, discussing findings from a two-year research project funded by the ‘Exploring the Narrative Coalition’ (a group of 10 Wales-based third sector organisations), the ESRC, and Cardiff University. Examining how poverty news is covered in the English and Welsh languages across broadcast, print and online news, it provides a detailed insight into current journalistic and communications practices on a crucial issue facing Wales. In the wake of a decade of austerity policies, with official measures confirming experiences of poverty and destitution are increasing, the book offers a timely intervention, critically investigating mainstream media narratives on poverty and how these are shaped. The book is based on original research conducted in 2016-7, in a highly eventful period that included the Tata Steel crisis in Port Talbot, South Wales, the Welsh Government elections and the referendum campaign on the UK’s membership of the European Union. It addresses how poverty was framed in such nationally significant news about politics, business and economics, as well as more local, personal or community-focused stories about livelihoods and social issues. A quantitative analysis of the key characteristics of coverage across different media types provides a detailed evidence base for understanding how poverty news was represented. This includes examining the major contextualizing themes, social groups and geographical locations most frequently covered, the causes and consequences of poverty, and sourcing. It demonstrates how Wales-based media coverage differs from more negative reporting typical of some sections of the UK national press, especially in terms of stigmatizing discourses surrounding unemployment and welfare. However, important questions are identified about how news narratives convey meaning and, especially, disconnections between the coverage of macro-economic trends or events and their consequences in the lives of ordinary people. Additionally, the book explores why poverty news coverage is constructed in the way that it is, using findings from detailed interviews with journalists and editors about their practice. Through the lens of professional values and experiences, the book examines the challenges thought to affect poverty reporting. Key issues include the contraction of resources and specialist expertise allocated to social affairs journalism, the difficulties of identifying and reaching potentially vulnerable groups across Wales and representing case studies fairly and ethically. A parallel set of interviews conducted with third sector professionals about their engagement with news media and communications practices provides a further insight into the production of poverty news. Here, the pressures in reporting poverty are seen from a different perspective, where seeking to influence the coverage of poverty and respond to news demands can elicit professional tensions between journalists and the third sector and/or productive cooperative relationships positively impacting news narratives. In providing a detailed picture of how and why poverty news narratives are shaped as they are, the book aims to provide an evidence base informing more meaningful, representative and accurate poverty reporting in Wales.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Cultural studies; Press & journalism; Media studies; Sociology
    Other subjects: Third sector communications; Journalism; Social inequality; Poverty
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (151 p.)
  16. Meeting Ethnography : Meetings as Key Technologies of Contemporary Governance, Development, and Resistance
    Contributor: Sandler, Jen (Publisher); Thedvall, Renita (Publisher)
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis

    This volume asks and addresses elusive ontological, epistemological, and methodological questions about meetings. What are meetings? What sort of knowledge, identities, and power relationships are produced, performed, communicated, and legitimized... more

     

    This volume asks and addresses elusive ontological, epistemological, and methodological questions about meetings. What are meetings? What sort of knowledge, identities, and power relationships are produced, performed, communicated, and legitimized through meetings? How do—and how might—ethnographers study meetings as objects, and how might they best conduct research in meetings as particular elements of their field sites? Through contributions from an international group of ethnographers who have conducted “meeting ethnography” in diverse field sites, this volume offers both theoretical insight and methodological guidance into the study of this most ubiquitous ritual.

     
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  17. Genocide Perspectives VI : The Process and the Personal Cost of Genocide
    Contributor: Marczak, Nikki (Publisher); Shields, Kirril (Publisher)
    Published: 2021

    Genocide Perspectives VI grapples with two core themes: the personal toll of genocide, and processes that facilitate the crime. From political choices governments and leaders make, through to denialism and impunity, the crime of genocide recurs again... more

     

    Genocide Perspectives VI grapples with two core themes: the personal toll of genocide, and processes that facilitate the crime. From political choices governments and leaders make, through to denialism and impunity, the crime of genocide recurs again and again, across the globe. At what cost to individuals and communities? What might the legacy of this criminality be? This collection of essays examines the personal sacrifice genocide takes from those who live through the trauma, and the generations that follow. Contributors speak to the way visual art and literature attempt to represent genocide, hoping to make sense of problematic histories while also offering a means of reflection after years of “slow violence” or silenced memories. Some authors generously allow us into their own histories, or contemplate how they may have experienced genocide had they been born in another time or place. What facets contribute to the processes that lead to, or enable the crime of genocide? This collection explores those processes through a variety of case studies and lenses. How do nurses, whose role is inherently linked to care and compassion, become mass killers? How do restrictions on religious freedom play a role in advancing genocidal policies, and why do perpetrators of genocide often target religious leaders? Why is it so important for Australia and other nations with histories of colonial genocide to acknowledge their past? Among the essays published in this volume, we have the privilege and the sorrow of publishing the very last essay Professor Colin Tatz wrote before his passing in 2019. His contribution reveals, yet again, the enormous influence of both his research and his original ideas on genocide. He reflects on continuing legacies for Indigenous Australian communities, with whom he worked for many decades, and adds nuance to contemporary understanding of the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust, two other cases to which he was deeply committed.

     
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    Contributor: Marczak, Nikki (Publisher); Shields, Kirril (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: History; The Holocaust; International relations; Literature & literary studies; Sociology; Religion & politics
    Other subjects: Holocaust history; Education; Justice; Human rights; Atrocity prevention; Genocide
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (216 p.)
  18. New Genetics, New Identities
    Contributor: Atkinson, Paul (Publisher); Glasner, Peter (Publisher); Greenslade, Helen (Publisher)
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis

    What implications are applications of new genetic technologies in biomedicine having on social identity in today’s society? New Genetics, New Identities, a wide-ranging multi-disciplinary volume in the CESAGen Genetics & Society Book... more

     

    What implications are applications of new genetic technologies in biomedicine having on social identity in today’s society? New Genetics, New Identities, a wide-ranging multi-disciplinary volume in the CESAGen Genetics & Society Book series, presents not only theoretical reflection but also empirical case studies drawn from an international array of authors. Including the highly controversial areas of reproductive technologies and use of human embryos in biomedical research, other key features include: a fresh analysis of a wide-range of social and political concerns in the development of new social identities examinations of the social implications of identity formation as a result from advances in genetic technologies from a number of perspectives both locally and globally resources of a wide range of social science disciplines to discuss significant sociological, anthropological, political and ethical issues. This superb collection is an essential informative read for postgraduates and academics in the fields of sociology, anthropology and scientific technologies giving a comparative approach to complex issues surrounding the social implications of these advances in a period of rapid social change.

     
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  19. Sustaining New Orleans
    Author: Eckstein, Barbara
    Published: 2006
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis

    First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. more

  20. Loud and proud: Passion and politics in the English Defence League
    Author: Pilkington, Hilary
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Manchester University Press

    The book uses interviews, informal conversations and extended observation at EDL events to critically reflect on the gap between the movement's public image and activists' own understandings of it. It details how activists construct the EDL, and... more

     

    The book uses interviews, informal conversations and extended observation at EDL events to critically reflect on the gap between the movement's public image and activists' own understandings of it. It details how activists construct the EDL, and themselves, as 'not racist, not violent, just no longer silent' inter alia through the exclusion of Muslims as a possible object of racism on the grounds that they are a religiously not racially defined group. In contrast activists perceive themselves to be 'second-class citizens', disadvantaged and discriminated by a 'two-tier' justice system that privileges the rights of 'others'. This failure to recognise themselves as a privileged white majority explains why ostensibly intimidating EDL street demonstrations marked by racist chanting and nationalistic flag waving are understood by activists as standing 'loud and proud'; the only way of 'being heard' in a political system governed by a politics of silencing. Unlike most studies of 'far right' movements, this book focuses not on the EDL as an organisation - its origins, ideology, strategic repertoire and effectiveness - but on the individuals who constitute the movement. Its ethnographic approach challenges stereotypes and allows insight into the emotional as well as political dimension of activism. At the same time, the book recognises and discusses the complex political and ethical issues of conducting close-up social research with 'distasteful' groups.

     
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  21. How Generations Remember : Conflicting Histories and Shared Memories in Post-War Bosnia and Herzegovina
    Author: Palmberger, Monika
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Springer Nature, Basingstoke

    This book provides a profound insight into post-war Mostar, and the memories of three generations of this Bosnian-Herzegovinian city. Drawing on several years of ethnographic fieldwork, it offers a vivid account of how personal and collective... more

     

    This book provides a profound insight into post-war Mostar, and the memories of three generations of this Bosnian-Herzegovinian city. Drawing on several years of ethnographic fieldwork, it offers a vivid account of how personal and collective memories are utterly intertwined, and how memories across the generations are reimagined and ‘rewritten’ following great socio-political change. Focusing on both Bosniak-dominated East Mostar and Croat-dominated West Mostar, it demonstrates that, even in this ethno-nationally divided city with its two divergent national historiographies, generation-specific experiences are crucial in how people ascribe meaning to past events. Dieses Buch liefert einen einzigartigen Einblick in das Leben in der Stadt Mostar. Im Vordergrund stehen dabei die Erinnerungen der Menschen dieser seit dem Krieg in den 1990er-Jahren geteilten bosnisch-herzegowinischen Stadt. Basierend auf einer mehrjährigen ethnographischen Feldforschung untersucht die Autorin die tiefgreifende Verwobenheit persönlicher und kollektiver Erinnerungen anhand der Analyse dreier Generationen: Erstens die Aufbaugeneration Jugoslawiens, die „First Yugoslavs“, zweitens die „Last Yugoslavs“, die nach dem zweiten Weltkrieg geboren wurden und in Titos sozialistischem Jugoslawien sozialisiert wurden und drittens die „Post-Yugoslavs“, die nur noch den Zerfall Jugoslawiens und den Krieg als Kinder erlebten.

     
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  22. Luxury and Rubble: Civility and Dispossession in the New Saigon
    Author: Harms, Erik
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Oakland, California

    Luxury and Rubble is the tale of two cities in Ho Chi Minh City. It is the story of two planned, mixed-use residential and commercial developments that are changing the face of Vietnam’s largest city. Since the early 1990s, such developments have... more

     

    Luxury and Rubble is the tale of two cities in Ho Chi Minh City. It is the story of two planned, mixed-use residential and commercial developments that are changing the face of Vietnam’s largest city. Since the early 1990s, such developments have been steadily reorganizing urban landscapes across the country. For many Vietnamese, they are a symbol of the country’s emergence into global modernity and of post-socialist economic reforms. However, they are also sites of great contestation, sparking land disputes and controversies over how to compensate evicted residents. In this penetrating ethnography, Erik Harms vividly portrays the human costs of urban reorganization as he explores the complex and sometimes contradictory experiences of individuals grappling with the forces of privatization in a socialist country.

     
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  23. Critical Theory of Communication: New Readings of Lukács, Adorno, Marcuse, Honneth and Habermas in the Age of the Internet
    Author: Fuchs, Christian
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  University of Westminster Press

    "This book contributes to the foundations of a critical theory of communication as shaped by the forces of digital capitalism. One of the world's leading theorists of digital media Professor Christian Fuchs explores how the thought of some of the... more

     

    "This book contributes to the foundations of a critical theory of communication as shaped by the forces of digital capitalism. One of the world's leading theorists of digital media Professor Christian Fuchs explores how the thought of some of the Frankfurt School’s key thinkers can be deployed for critically understanding media in the age of the Internet. Five essays that form the heart of this book review aspects of the works of Georg Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Axel Honneth and Jürgen Habermas and apply them as elements of a critical theory of communication's foundations. The approach taken starts from Georg Lukács Ontology of Social Being, draws on the work of the Frankfurt School thinkers, and sets them into dialogue with the Cultural Materialism of Raymond Williams.Critical Theory of Communication offers a vital set of new insights on how communication operates in the age of information, digital media and social media, arguing that we need to transcend the communication theory of Habermas by establishing a dialectical and cultural-materialist critical theory of communication. It is the first title in a major new book series 'Critical Digital and Social Media Studies' published by the University of Westminster Press."

     
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  24. Wissen Macht Tracht : im Ötztal
    Author: Neuner-Schatz, Nadja
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  innsbruck university press

    "This ethnographic study first analyzes the historical genesis of a specific, ethnographic body of knowledge, the knowledge of ""Tracht"" in the Ötztal, and then to ask for the current update of this knowledge in doing ""costume"" of self-producing... more

     

    "This ethnographic study first analyzes the historical genesis of a specific, ethnographic body of knowledge, the knowledge of ""Tracht"" in the Ötztal, and then to ask for the current update of this knowledge in doing ""costume"" of self-producing actors. The results show that the act of ""traditional"" acting actors is situated in a field structured by power and knowledge. For this field of ""traditional"" practice and ""traditional"" knowledge it is possible to observe how the current actors cite and repeat folklore knowledge strategies. The analysis and historicization of these knowledge strategies show the long-term effectiveness of folkloristic knowledge. At the same time, the example of the ""costume"" of self-production can be used to ask about moments of cultural negotiation and change.

    Nadja Neuner-Schatz, MA studied European Ethnology in Innsbruck and researches on ethnographic production/folkloristic knowledge in the modern age, phenomena of subalternisation and the Human-Animal-Studies." "Diese ethnographische Studie analysiert zunächst die historische Genese eines spezifischen, volkskundlichen Wissensbestandes, dem Wissen von „Tracht“ im Ötztal, um dann nach der gegenwärtigen Aktualisierung dieses Wissens im Tun „Tracht“ selbst herstellender Akteur_innen zu fragen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass sich das Handeln „Tracht“ herstellender Akteur_innen in einem von Macht und Wissen strukturierten Feld situiert. Für dieses Feld der „Trachten“-Praxis und des „Tracht“-Wissens lässt sich beobachten, wie die gegenwärtigen Akteur_innen volkskundliche Wissensstrategien zitieren und wiederholen. Die Analyse und Historisierung dieser Wissensstrategien zeigen die langzeitige Wirkmächtigkeit volkskundlichen Wissens. Zugleich lässt sich am Fallbeispiel des „Tracht“ Selbstherstellens nach Momenten des kulturellen Aushandelns und Wandels fragen.

    Nadja Neuner-Schatz, MA studierte Europäische Ethnologie in Innsbruck und forscht zur Produktion ethnographischen/volkskundlichen Wissens in der Moderne, zu Phänomenen der Subalternisierung und zum Mensch-Tier-Verhältnis (Human-Animal-Studies)."

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783903122987
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    Subjects: Society & culture: general; Cultural studies; Sociology; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Other subjects: Ethnology; Austria; Folklore; Österreich; Bricolage; Innsbruck; Kleidung; Ötztal; Tirol; Tracht (Kleidung); Volkskunde
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (228 p.)
  25. Social Theory after the Internet : Media, Technology and Globalization
    Author: Schroeder, Ralph
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  UCL Press, London

    The internet has fundamentally transformed society in the past 25 years, yet existing theories of mass or interpersonal communication do not work well in understanding a digital world. Nor has this understanding been helped by disciplinary... more

     

    The internet has fundamentally transformed society in the past 25 years, yet existing theories of mass or interpersonal communication do not work well in understanding a digital world. Nor has this understanding been helped by disciplinary specialization and a continual focus on the latest innovations. Ralph Schroeder takes a longer-term view, synthesizing perspectives and findings from various social science disciplines in four countries: the United States, Sweden, India and China. His comparison highlights, among other observations, that smartphones are in many respects more important than PC-based internet uses. Social Theory after the Internet focuses on everyday uses and effects of the internet, including information seeking and big data, and explains how the internet has gone beyond traditional media in, for example, enabling Donald Trump and Narendra Modi to come to power. Schroeder puts forward a sophisticated theory of the role of the internet, and how both technological and social forces shape its significance. He provides a sweeping and penetrating study, theoretically ambitious and at the same time always empirically grounded.The book will be of great interest to students and scholars of digital media and society, the internet and politics, and the social implications of big data.

     
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