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Patterns of Im/mobility Conflict and Identity

Patterns of Im/mobility Conflict and Identity

Patterns of im/mobility collective identity and conflict are highly entangled. The im/mobility of a social or cultural group has major impact on how identity narratives a sense of belonging and relationships to ‘others’ are shaped and vice versa. These dynamics are closely interlinked with mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion between groups and power structures that involve a broad variety of actors from local populations to migrants government institutions and other intermediaries. Mainly looking at patterns of internal mobility such as ‘traditional’ or strategic mobilities and mobilities enforced by crisis conflict or governmental programmes and regimes this book aims to go beyond currently predominant issues of transnational migration. Dynamics of non/integration and belonging caused by im/mobility are analysed on a cultural and political level which involves questions of representation indigeneity/autochthony political rights and access to land and other resources. With ethnographic case studies from Kosovo Sierra Leone Liberia Bangladesh East Timor and Indonesia this volume provides a comparative perspective on the multifold dimensions of im/mobility in contexts where changing mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion trigger or settle conflicts and social identities are constantly re/negotiated. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Social Identities. | Patterns of Im/mobility Conflict and Identity

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Migrant and Tourist Encounters The Ethics of Im/mobility in 21st Century Dominican and Cuban Cultures

Migrant and Tourist Encounters The Ethics of Im/mobility in 21st Century Dominican and Cuban Cultures

Migrant and Tourist Encounters: The Ethics of Im/mobility in 21st Century Dominican and Cuban Cultures analyzes the effects of clashing flows of voluntary and involuntary travelers to and from these countries due to an increase in migration and tourism during the last three decades. I compare the ways in which literary works and films reflect on and critique the power relations and ethics of im/mobility and encounter both on the islands and in destinations abroad. The works draw attention to the interconnectedness of migration tourism and other forms of travel as well as immobility and portray growing local and global inequalities through characters’ disparate access to free voluntary movement. I consider how the works respond to the question of the moral potential of encounters produced by im/mobilities and the possibility of connection across differences. I argue that Dominican and Cuban artists not only critique neo-colonial paradigms of power and im/mobility but envision and enact strategies for belonging and in some cases suggest a path toward de-colonial cosmopolitanism. | Migrant and Tourist Encounters The Ethics of Im/mobility in 21st Century Dominican and Cuban Cultures

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Roads and Anthropology Ethnography Infrastructures (Im)mobility

Roads and Anthropology Ethnography Infrastructures (Im)mobility

Roads and the powerful sense of mobility that they promise carry us back and forth between the sweeping narratives of globalisation and the specific tangible materialities of particular times and places. Indeed despite the fact that roads might by comparison with the sparkling agility of virtual technologies appear to be grounded in twentieth century industrial political economy they could arguably be taken as the paradigmatic material infrastructure of the twenty-first century supporting both the information society (in the ever increasing circulation of commoditized goods and labour) and the extractive economies of developing countries on which the production and reproduction of such goods and labour depends. Roads and Anthropology is the first collection of road ethnographies edited by two pioneers in the anthropological explorations of infrastructures the essays published in the book aim to pave the way for this rising field of anthropological research. This book was published as a special issue of Mobilities. | Roads and Anthropology Ethnography Infrastructures (Im)mobility

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Hitler's Fall The Newsreel Witness

Hitler's Fall The Newsreel Witness

This book first published in 1988 provides a comparative approach for looking at the filmic witness of the final days of the Third Reich and the opening of the period often referred to as Stunde Null (Zero Hour) – that moment when a new Germany emerged from catastrophic destruction. Brought together in this volume are articles by a group of international scholars each dealing with the message of German defeat as it was presented to the people of the Soviet Union the United States Great Britain Poland Switzerland and Germany itself. Not only are newsreels and immediate post-war documentaries dealt with but also the very important Welt im Film Newsreel which was used by the Americans and British for the political reeducation of Germany. | Hitler's Fall The Newsreel Witness

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The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Pragmatics Foundations and Interfaces

The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Pragmatics Foundations and Interfaces

The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Pragmatics is the first volume to offer a comprehensive overview of advances in Spanish Pragmatics addressing different types of interaction and the variables both social and linguistic that can affect them. Written by a diverse set of experts in the field the handbook unifies two major approaches to the study of pragmatics the Anglo-American and European Continental traditions. Thirty-three chapters cover in detail both pragmatic foundations (e. g. speech act theory implicature and relevance deixis) and interfaces with other concepts including: • Discourse • Variation; Culture and interculture • (Im)politeness; humor • Learning contexts and teaching • Technology This is an ideal reference for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers of Spanish language and linguistics. | The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Pragmatics Foundations and Interfaces

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Beyond Marginality? Social Movements of Social Security Claimants in the European Union

Beyond Marginality? Social Movements of Social Security Claimants in the European Union

First published in 1998 this volume describes and analyses organizations of social security claimants and their position in the field of force of the national welfare state in six European countries: representing a diversity of welfare state regimes. The authors analyse these organizations and their strengths and weaknesses from a variety of theoretical perspectives: such as the opportunity structures of welfare states and national political relations the fragmentation of the social movements of social security claimants along ideological and categorical lines the (im)possibilities of organizing socially highly marginalized groups etc. The volume also contains an introduction and an epilogue as well as a chapter dealing with the relations between collective and individual forms of social resistance. | Beyond Marginality? Social Movements of Social Security Claimants in the European Union

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Brazilian Mobilities

Brazilian Mobilities

Brazilian Mobilities presents an overview of the diversity of mobility studies developed in Brazil. It builds a picture of a strong Latin-American perspective emerging in the field of mobilities research which provides unique insight into the complex dynamics of mobilities in the emerging countries from the Global South. Addressing such different areas as tourism urbanization media studies social inequalities marketing and mega-events transport and technology among others the contributors use the new mobilities paradigm or NMP (Sheller & Urry 2006) as a starting point to reflect about the social changes experienced in the country and they also engage with newer literature on mobilities including work done by Brazilian and Latin-American authors depending on the subject of each individual chapter. Illustrating to scholars the uniqueness and complexity of the Brazilian social-political and economic context the book was organized in order to be a representative sample of the studies carried out in Brazil as well as to contribute to other academic investigations on (im)mobilities and different social realities in emerging countries.

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A History of Modern Germany 1871 to Present

A History of Modern Germany 1871 to Present

A History of Modern Germany is a well-established text that presents a balanced survey of the last 150 years of German history stretching from nineteenth-century imperial Germany through political division and reunification and into the present day. Beginning in the early 1870s and covering topics such as Wilhelmenian Germany the World Wars revolution inflation and putsches the Weimar Republic the Federal Republic and the German Democratic Republic the book offers a comprehensive overview of the entire period of modern German history. Fully updated throughout this new edition details foreign policy political and economic history and includes increased coverage of social and cultural history and history ‘from the bottom up’ as well as containing a new chapter that brings it right up to the present day. The book is supported by full discussion of past and present historiographic debates illustrations maps further readings and biographies of key German political economic and cultural figures within the Im Mittelpunkt feature. Fully exploring the complicated path of Germany’s troubled past and stable present A History of Modern Germany provides the perfect grounding for all students of German history. | A History of Modern Germany 1871 to Present

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Teaching Interculturality 'Otherwise'

Teaching Interculturality 'Otherwise'

This edited volume focuses on the thorny and somewhat controversial issue of teaching (and learning) interculturality in a way that considers the notion from critical and reflexive perspectives when introduced to students. Comprised of three parts the book discusses the nuts and bolts of teaching interculturally considers changes in the teaching of interculturality and provides pedagogical insights into interculturalising the notion. It studies both teaching im-/explicitly about interculturality and how to incorporate interculturality into teaching practices or into an institution. By sharing varied cases and theoretical reflections on the topic the editors and contributors from different parts of the world aim to stimulate more initiatives to enrich the field instead of delimiting it especially in complement to and beyond the 'West' or 'Global North' and also to build up further reflexivity in the way readers engage with interculturality in education. This will be a must-read for teachers and researchers of intercultural communication education at different educational levels as well as anyone interested in scholarship on education for interculturality. Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons 4. 0 license. | Teaching Interculturality 'Otherwise'

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Managerial Finance

Managerial Finance

Managerial Finance provides a clear and readable explanation of the most important topics managers should understand about business finance. These include resource management investment and decision making as well as the practical use of financial rations and performance indicators. Real examples and case studies are used throughout to illustrate points in a practical context. The book is based upon the Management Charter Initiative's Occupational Standards for Management NVQs and SVQs at Levels 4 & 5 and is also particularly suitable for managers on Certificate and Diploma in Management programmes including those accredited by the IM and Edexcel (formerly BTEC). Managerial Finance is part of the highly successful series of textbooks for managers which cover the knowledge and understanding required as part of any competency based management programme. The books cover the three main levels of management: supervisory/first-line management (NVQ level 3) middle management (Certificate/NVQ level 4) and senior management (Diploma/NVQ level 5). Alan Parkinson is the Hill Samuel Senior Lecturer in Accounting & Finance at the Open Business School. He was previously responsible as Director of the Open University MBA Programme for launching the highly successful MBA Course.

GBP 180.00
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Soul Body and Gender in Late Antiquity Essays on Embodiment and Disembodiment

Soul Body and Gender in Late Antiquity Essays on Embodiment and Disembodiment

Including both traditional and underrepresented accounts and geographies of soul body gender and sexuality in late antique history philosophy and theology this volume offers substantial re-readings of these and related concepts through theories of dis/embodiment. Bringing together gender studies late antique philosophy patristics history of asceticism and history of Indian philosophy this interdisciplinary volume examines the notions of dis/embodiment and im/materiality in late antique and early Christian culture and thought. The book’s geographical scope extends beyond the ancient Mediterranean providing comparative perspectives from Late Antiquity in the Near East and South Asia. It offers critical interpretations of late antique scholarly objects of inquiry exploring close readings of soul body gender and sexuality in their historical context. These fascinating studies engage scholars from different fields and research traditions with one another and reveal both change and continuity in the perception and social role of gender sexuality body and soul in this period. Soul Body and Gender in Late Antiquity is a valuable resource for students and scholars of Classics Gender and Sexuality Studies as well as those working on late antique and early Christian history philosophy and theology. | Soul Body and Gender in Late Antiquity Essays on Embodiment and Disembodiment

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Children and Work Study of Socialization

Children and Work Study of Socialization

What do children know about work careers and related topics? What is the pattern of growth in values attitudes beliefs and knowledge? Using quantitative and anecdotal evidence gathered from interviewing over 900 grade-school students in five New Jersey communities the authors analyze childhood socialization to the concept of work. Existing literature on this topic focuses on the critical years of oc-cupational choice. But Goldstein and Oldham strongly suggest that much of the child's work-related development has already occurred prior to entry into secondary school and that career educa-tion must receive increased em-phasis during the elementary years. Their evidence corroborates the pattern of rapid progress to-ward childhood awareness of im-portant social phenomena such as war politics race gender roles and economics. By the seventh grade children have an awareness in these areas that approximates that of adults. Traditional stereo-types concerning appropriate work roles for women continue to exist at the elementary school level. This work is a comprehensive empirical treatment of childhood socialization to work fitting neat-ly into the growing body of litera-ture on the socialization of the child into various political eco-nomic and social roles. Children and Work is in the sociological tradition but the findings are pre-sented in the context of a growing body of social science research on early socialization. | Children and Work Study of Socialization

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Cyber Security Management A Governance Risk and Compliance Framework

Cyber Security Management A Governance Risk and Compliance Framework

Cyber Security Management: A Governance Risk and Compliance Framework by Peter Trim and Yang-Im Lee has been written for a wide audience. Derived from research it places security management in a holistic context and outlines how the strategic marketing approach can be used to underpin cyber security in partnership arrangements. The book is unique because it integrates material that is of a highly specialized nature but which can be interpreted by those with a non-specialist background in the area. Indeed those with a limited knowledge of cyber security will be able to develop a comprehensive understanding of the subject and will be guided into devising and implementing relevant policy systems and procedures that make the organization better able to withstand the increasingly sophisticated forms of cyber attack. The book includes a sequence-of-events model; an organizational governance framework; a business continuity management planning framework; a multi-cultural communication model; a cyber security management model and strategic management framework; an integrated governance mechanism; an integrated resilience management model; an integrated management model and system; a communication risk management strategy; and recommendations for counteracting a range of cyber threats. Cyber Security Management: A Governance Risk and Compliance Framework simplifies complex material and provides a multi-disciplinary perspective and an explanation and interpretation of how managers can manage cyber threats in a pro-active manner and work towards counteracting cyber threats both now and in the future. | Cyber Security Management A Governance Risk and Compliance Framework

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Sensing the Everyday Dialogues from Austerity Greece

Sensing the Everyday Dialogues from Austerity Greece

Sensing the Everyday is a multi-sited ethnographic inquiry based on fieldwork experiences and sharp everyday observations in the era of crisis. Blending sophisticated theoretical analyses with original ethnographic data C. Nadia Seremetakis journeys from Greece to Vienna Edinburgh Albania Ireland and beyond. Social crisis is seen through its transnational multiplication of borders thresholds and margins divisions and localities as linguistic bodily sensory and performative sites of the quotidian in process. The book proposes everyday life not as a sanctuary or as a recessed zone distanced from the structural violence of the state and the market but as a condition of im/possibility unable to be lived as such yet still an encapsulating habitus. There the impossibility of the quotidian is concretized as fragmentary and fragmenting material forces. Seremetakis weaves together topics as diverse as borders and bodies history and death the earth and the senses language and affect violence and public culture the sociality of dreaming and the spatialization of the traumatic in a journey through antiphonic witnessing and memory. Her montage explores various ways of juxtaposing reality with the irreal and the imaginal to expose the fictioning of social reality. The book locates her approach to ethnography and the ‘native ethnographer’ in wider anthropological and philosophical debates and proposes a dialogical interfacing of theory and practice the translation of academic knowledge to public knowledge | Sensing the Everyday Dialogues from Austerity Greece

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Twentieth Century Town Halls Architecture of Democracy

Twentieth Century Town Halls Architecture of Democracy

This is the first book to examine the development of the town hall during the twentieth century and the way in which these civic buildings have responded to the dramatic political social and architectural changes which took place during the period. Following an overview of the history of the town hall as a building type it examines the key themes variations and lessons which emerged during the twentieth century. This is followed by 20 case studies from around the world which include plans sections and full-colour illustrations. Each of the case studies examines the town hall's procurement the selection of its architect and the building design and critically analyses its success and contribution to the type’s development. The case studies include:Copenhagen Town Hall Denmark Martin NyropStockholm City Hall Sweden Ragnar OstbergHilversum Town Hall the Netherlands Willem M. DudokWalthamstow Town Hall Britain Philip Dalton HepworthOslo Town Hall Norway Arnstein Arneberg and Magnus PoulssonCasa del Fascio Como Italy Guiseppe TerragniAarhus Town Hall Denmark Arne Jacobsen with Eric MollerSaynatsalo Town Hall Finland Alvar AaltoKurashiki City Hall Japan Kenzo TangeToronto City Hall Canada Viljo RevellBoston City Hall USA Kallmann McKinnell and KnowlesDallas City Hall USA IM PeiMississauga City Hall Canada Ed Jones and Michael KirklandBorgoricco Town Hall Italy Aldo RossiReykjavik City Hall Iceland Studio GrandaValdelaguna Town Hall Spain Victor Lopez Cotelo and Carlos Puente FernandezThe Hague City Hall the Netherlands Richard MeierIragna Town Hall Switzerland Raffaele CavadiniMurcia City Hall Spain Jose Rafael MoneoLondon City Hall UK Norman Foster | Twentieth Century Town Halls Architecture of Democracy

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Womankind Beyond the Stereotypes

Womankind Beyond the Stereotypes

A stereotype can be defined as a rendering by consensus. Since WOMANKIND: BEYOND THE STEREOTYPES first appeared in 1971 a turbulent decade has passed. In launching a new edition after such an interval it seems appropriate to ask how far society has moved: be-yond the stereotypes. Such motion is a critical gauge of the status of women for the power to define can also be the power to destroy; as long as the second sex is culturally prepackaged its biographical destiny will be preprogrammed and perilous. Looking backward then to 1971 it is clear that the liberation movement has affected consciousness; it has even subverted received doctrine. On the other hand the stereotypes have not disappeared; they have simply gone underground. At the explicit level one can point to new patterns; at the implicit level traditional definitions persist and continue to be both determinative and destructive. Actualizing the architecture of this book I set out to examine fixed positions related to a) stereotypes of role and b) assumptions of thought. In this edition I have added a section called Interpenetrations where I undertake to analyze in terms of current metamorphosis what has hap-pened in the private and in the public spheres. The chapter entitled Sex and Gender deals with the characteristic interweaving of present im-peratives and past prototypes in relation to biography. The chapter en-titled The Politics of Power deals with the same characteristic inter-weaving in relation to history. In a transitional period transformation proceeds unevenly: old and new are a continuing part of contemporary reality. In sum I have attempted to harmonize what is unprecedented with what is familiar and to dissect meaningful strands from the tangle of paradoxical precepts. Embarking on such venturesome thought I have been mindful of the caveat of Jacob Bronowski: If today we want to find relief from the uncertainties of a changing world in some cozy arbitrary doctrine then we had better face the likelihood that tomorrow the Dark Ages will return. | Womankind Beyond the Stereotypes

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