Cultural studies Books

Book SynopsisNew insights into the changing human attitudes towards wild nature through the depiction of wolves in human culture and heritage. Few animals arouse such strong opinion as the wolf. It occupies a contested, ambiguous, yet central role in human culture and heritage. It appears as both an inspirational emblem of the wild and an embodiment of evil. Offering a mirror to different human attitudes, beliefs, and values, the wolf is, arguably, the species that plays the greatest role in shaping our views on what nature is or should be. North America and, more recently, Europe have witnessed a remarkable return of the grey wolf (Canis lupus, and its close relative the Eurasian wolf, Canis lupus lupus) to eco-systems. The essays collected here explore aspects of this recovery, and consider the history, literature and myth surrounding this iconic species. There are chapters on wolf taxonomy, including the coywolf, the red wolf, and the many faces of the dingo. We also meet the Tasmanian wolf and encounter Nazi Werewolves from Outer Space. The book explores the challenges of separating fact from fiction and superstition, and our willingness to co-exist with large carnivores in the twenty-first century. Biologists, historians, anthropologists, cultural theorists, conservationists and museologists will all find riches in the detail presented in this wolf collection.Table of ContentsPreface & Acknowledgments Poem: Trophic Cascade by Camille T. Dungy Foreword Luigi Boitani Part I: Imagining the Wolf 1. The Wolf in the Human Mind Across Space and Time Erwin van Maanen 2. A History of Wolves and People in France Jean-Marc MoriceauandP van Maanen 3. WolvesandOtherMammalsHunted in Medieval English Forests Lee Raye 4. 'Uuluesheued!' The Historical Significance of the Wolf to Early Indo-Europeans Rob Lenders 5. Wolves Behind Bars Helen Cowie 6. Nazi Werewolves from Outer Space: Posthuman-wolf-multiplicities and Their (Mis)appropriations Jamie Mcphie 7. Never Mind the Girl; What about the Wolf? Marie Addyman 8. Whose Wolf Is It Anyway? Wolves, Wilderness and Belonging Chris Powici 9. Defined 'as much by their absence as their iconography': Reimagining Wolves in Cumbria in Sarah Hall's The Wolf Border Penny Bradshaw 10. A 'Wasteland' Infested by Wolves: The Fallacy of 'Dark Age' England Elizabeth Marshall Part II: What Makes the Wolf? 11. The Wolf Pack Peter Davis 12. The Wolf in the Pastoral System of Southern France Jean-Marc Landry and Jean-Luc Borelli 13.Contemporary Public Images of the Wolf Helene Figari and Ketil Skogen 14. "The Sweetness of Freedom": Reflections on the Occasion of the Japanese Wolf Holger Funk 15. Reimagining the Dingo: The 'Australian Wolf' or Just a Feral Dog? Bradley P. Smith, Robert G. Appleby and Kylie M. Cairns 16. 'Pushing the Ecological Niche: A ​Sea Wolf Called Takaya.' Cheryl Alexander and Karen Lloyd 17. 'Hunger-Greedy Appetite': The Wolf in Early-Modern English Natural History Marie Addyman 18. What About the Coywolf? Javier D. Monzón 19. Is that a wolf? Politics, Science and Red Wolf Identity Peter Brewitt and Lawson Giles 20. The Thylacine - A Wolf in Name Only Stephen R. Sleightholme and Cameron R. Campbell Part III: Return of the Wolf 21. Landscapes of Coexistence: Livestock and Wolves in the Mountains of North Spain Nigel Dykes 22. The Wolves of Yellowstone - Saviour of the Songbird or Piece of the Puzzle? TJ Clark-Wolf, Rene Beyers, Peter Brewitt, Ian Convery & Owen Nevin 23. Wolf-Beaver Dynamics in the Greater Voyageurs Ecosystem, Minnesota Thomas D. Gable, Sean Johnson-Bice, Austin T. Homkes, Steve K. Windels, John G. Bruggink, and Joseph K. Bump 24. The Return of the Wolf in Germany: A Success Story of Rewilding with a Future? James Brückner and Erwin van Maanen 25. Finding Common Ground with Wolves: Interspecies Communication is a Shared Landscape Martin Drenthen 26. The Case for Wolves in the UK Ian Convery, Owen Nevin, Elsie Blackshaw-Crosby, Deborah Brady & Mark Fisher Part IV Personal Encounters 27. Tracking Wolves in Western Europe: A Photo-Essay Photography by Marielle van Uitert and text by Karen Lloyd 28. Speaking Out for Wolves: A Personal Reflection Tracy Hayes 29. To Receive the Wolf Karen Lloyd 30. Úlfr and Gris: Spectral Animal Companions of the Atomic Priest Robert Williams 31. The Three-Legged Stool: Wolves, Shepherds and Sheep Lee Schofield 32. The Helsfell Wolf Karen Lloyd Afterword: The Ecological Disadvantage of Living on an Island Mark Fisher

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.Offering an extensive and coherent presentation of theory on the experience economy, this stimulating Advanced Introduction discusses what experiencing is and why people are seeking experiences. Jon Sundbo defines the experience concept in contrast to similar concepts such as culture and creative economies, and presents measurements of the value of the experience economy.Key features include: Analysis of how experiences are replacing services and knowledge as a key driver for the economy Discussion of the future of the experience economy and the impacts Covid-19 may have on this Different perspectives on the experience economy including ones from: evolutionary economics, micro-economics, psychology, marketing, innovation and production, sociology and digitalization. Concise and invigorating, this Advanced Introduction will be a helpful read for marketing, economics, tourism, culture studies and management scholars looking for a stronger theoretical understanding of the experience economy. It will also be interesting to data science scholars, including those focusing on web and social media construction.Trade Review‘This book offers a comprehensive overview and summary of research on the experience economy. It elaborates on the differences of functional services and experiences, and primary and secondary experiences, points at the importance of experience propositions as well as central topics and approaches.The value of paid organized experiences has increased over the last three decades, and was revealed further by its absence during the coronavirus pandemic. Scholars, postgraduate students and advanced undergraduate students will find it a useful resource.‘Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction to the Advanced Introduction to the Experience Economy 2. Experience and similar concepts 3. The experience economy 4. Experience sectors and measurement 5. Experience psychology 6. Experience marketing 7. Experience production—management and business models 8. Experience design, innovation and entrepreneurship 9. Digitalization and experiences 10. Experience sociology 11. Interest regimes 12. Experience research fields 13. Wrapping up and future perspectives Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.Offering an extensive and coherent presentation of theory on the experience economy, this stimulating Advanced Introduction discusses what experiencing is and why people are seeking experiences. Jon Sundbo defines the experience concept in contrast to similar concepts such as culture and creative economies, and presents measurements of the value of the experience economy.Key features include: Analysis of how experiences are replacing services and knowledge as a key driver for the economy Discussion of the future of the experience economy and the impacts Covid-19 may have on this Different perspectives on the experience economy including ones from: evolutionary economics, micro-economics, psychology, marketing, innovation and production, sociology and digitalization. Concise and invigorating, this Advanced Introduction will be a helpful read for marketing, economics, tourism, culture studies and management scholars looking for a stronger theoretical understanding of the experience economy. It will also be interesting to data science scholars, including those focusing on web and social media construction.Trade Review‘This book offers a comprehensive overview and summary of research on the experience economy. It elaborates on the differences of functional services and experiences, and primary and secondary experiences, points at the importance of experience propositions as well as central topics and approaches.The value of paid organized experiences has increased over the last three decades, and was revealed further by its absence during the coronavirus pandemic. Scholars, postgraduate students and advanced undergraduate students will find it a useful resource.‘Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction to the Advanced Introduction to the Experience Economy 2. Experience and similar concepts 3. The experience economy 4. Experience sectors and measurement 5. Experience psychology 6. Experience marketing 7. Experience production—management and business models 8. Experience design, innovation and entrepreneurship 9. Digitalization and experiences 10. Experience sociology 11. Interest regimes 12. Experience research fields 13. Wrapping up and future perspectives Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing upon international case studies, and building upon Iain J.M. Robertson?'s work on ?'heritage from below?', After Heritage sheds critical light on heritage-making and heritagescapes that are, more frequently than not, located in virtual, less conspicuous and more everyday spaces. The book considers the highly personal, often ephemeral, individual ?- vis-à-vis collective -? experiences of (in)formal ways the past has been folded into contemporary societies. In doing so, it unravels the merits of examining more intimate materializations of heritage not only as a check against, but also complementary to, what Laurajanne Smith refers to as ?'Authorized Heritage Discourses?'. It also argues against the tendency to romanticize the fleeting and largely obscured means through which alternative forms of heritage-making are produced, performed and patronized. Ultimately, this book provides a clarion call to reinsert the individual and the transient into collective heritage processes.Researchers in human and cultural geography, heritage studies and tourism studies will find this strong contribution to the developing field of Critical Heritage Studies an insightful read. Policy makers and heritage practitioners will also develop a deeper understanding of how heritage practices may benefit from the '?heritage from below?' approach.Contributors include: A. Aceska, R. Carter-White, M. Cook, D. Drozdzewski, J. Gillen, C. Minca, H. Muzaini, M. Ormond, A.E. Potter, I.J.M. Robertson, J. TynerTrade ReviewAfter Heritage not only offers much needed critical analysis of the heritage-making power and practices of ordinary people, but also productively de-stabilizes the binaries that have long constrained critical memory studies - individual versus collective, intangible versus material, and bottom up versus top down. Its rich array of case studies move us beyond monolithic understandings of how the past is produced, resisted and emplaced within everyday life.' --Derek H. Alderman, University of Tennessee, US'By excavating politics and identities from below, the nine chapters of this book fascinatingly bring back into focus the everyday, mundane and the local; themes and contexts that continue to be too often overlooked by scholars in heritage studies. Moving away from accounts of state politics and world heritage sites, the book identifies why we need to critically examine family memorabilia, Bruce Lee and motorbiking as forms of heritage. After Heritage makes a significant contribution to the debate concerning where critical heritage studies should head in the future through its various nudges for conceptual innovation and its welcome incorporation of examples from different regions.' --Tim Winter, University of Western AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Rethinking heritage, but ‘from below’ Hamzah Muzaini and Claudio Minca 2. Official memorials, deathscapes, and hidden landscapes of ruin: material legacies of the Cambodian genocide James A. Tyner 3. Motorbikes as ‘aspirational’ heritage: rethinking past, present and future in Vietnam Jamie Gillen 4. The Bruce Lee statue in Mostar: ‘heritage from below’ experiments in a divided city Ana Aceska and Claudio Minca 5. Death camp heritage ‘from below’? Instagram and the (re)mediation of Holocaust heritage Richard Carter-White 6. Unfinished geographies: women’s roles in shaping Black historical counter narratives Matthew R. Cook and Amy E. Potter 7. Stolpersteine and memory in the streetscape Danielle Drozdzewski 8. Adoption, genealogical bewilderment and biological heritage bricolage Meghann Ormond Afterword Iain J. M. Robertson Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.Providing a critical overview of cultural economics, this Research Agenda explores the current state of affairs in the field, suggesting methods of improvement for the coherency and progressiveness of future research. Situating work in this area in its historical context, Samuel Cameron draws together a range of international contributors to explore the development of cultural economics.Undertaking a thorough examination of matters of data quality, statistical methodology and the challenge of new developments in technology, chapters examine the different approaches to cultural economics. The book explores the myriad ways in which the topic has been neglected by mainstream economics, and examines reasons why it needs to be considered, evaluated and explored in more detail in our modern world. Current researchers in cultural economics, as well as cultural policies and leisure studies will find this book an invaluable read in exploring different ways to integrate cultural economics into mainstream studies. This Research Agenda will also be an invaluable aid for advanced students to create discussions suitable for essay topics and dissertations. Contributors include: S. Cameron, C. Peukert, J. Snowball, H. Sonnabend, M. ZiebaTrade Review'Exemplary in their commitment to pushing the field into the future, Cameron and colleagues take on many of the elephants in the room for cultural economics: global digital monopolies, technological change, new business models, and social media. Brave, probing, exciting work.' --Stuart Cunningham, Queensland University of Technology, Australia'This seminal work finds no fixed boundaries in cultural economics. Professor Cameron and cohorts plumb the impact on the field of digital technology, integrating metrics with other disciplines, the limits of pricing models and global tourism. It is essential reading for all associated with this important and exciting field.' --Robert Ekelund, Auburn University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Why do we need a Cultural Economics? History and Development of the Field Samuel Cameron 2. Contemporary Challenges to Cultural Economics Samuel Cameron 3. Individual Choice Behaviour Samuel Cameron 4. Flexible digital supply behaviour Christian Peukert, 5. Pricing Hendrik Sonnabend, 6. Government policy Jen Snowball 7. Global trade in cultural tourism services Marta Zieba 8. What is the agenda for cultural economics? Samuel Cameron Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.As the world faces extreme economic, environmental and political crises, this bold and accessible Advanced Introduction argues for a future-facing approach to the creative economy and creative innovation. The book analyses contemporary and historical arts and culture whilst assessing historical shifts from national to global cultures; analogue to digital technologies; and individualist to systems thinking.Key features include: A new approach to the creative industries based on complex systems and evolutionary dynamics Combining humanities-based analysis with economics of innovation A critique of important theorists and intellectual traditions involved in the study of modern mediated creativity Reconceptualizing arts, copyright, cities, time, global media and social agency A thought-provoking reassessment of modernity to pivot creative enterprise for the challenges of the Anthropocene era. Scholars and students of media and communications studies, political economy and economics will benefit from the new approach to creative media and culture, and its proposals to rethink the economics of creativity and innovation. This book will be a helpful guide for policy-makers, consultants and freelancers who work across the borderlines of art, media, technology, business and regulation.Trade Review‘In Advanced Introduction to Creative Industries, John Hartley provides a new understanding of the creative industries and how they have evolved, drawing on real-life examples and case studies. In making the creative economy tangible and relatable, this book is a relevant and practical resource for those with an existing interest in the creative industries as well as those who are new to the landscape.’ -- Sarah Ramadhita, LSE Review of Books‘John Hartley's Advanced Introduction to Creative Industries is a simple but magnificent take on the idea of 'creative industries'; it is less an introduction than a pithy synopsis of the author' s life-long thinking on how to make critical inquiries a creative instrument of social change.’ -- Jin Wen, International Comparative Literature‘20 years ago, John Hartley was at least partly responsible for establishing the creative industries as an academic field; his ongoing project to understand them deeply, and advocate for them passionately, finds new expression here. This characteristically ambitious, wide-ranging and, above all, lively book is - much like the creative industries themselves – bubbling with unruly ideas, unlikely connections, and hope for the future.’ -- Jean Burgess, Queensland University of Technology, Australia'Not all writing about the creative industries practises what it preaches! So how exciting to read a creative analysis of these industries. This book sidesteps expectations by offering an imaginative and highly thought-provoking engagement with its puzzling subject matter.' -- - Sonia Livingstone, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK'Every single human being is creative, and every industry must become a creative industry. John Hartley's Advanced Introduction to Creative Industries provides the research and data we need to better understand the creative industries that increasingly power our economy and shape our society.' -- - Richard Florida, University of Toronto, Canada and author of The Rise of the Creative Class'John Hartley always was and continues to be the very best guide to how to think about the creative industries, how to really understand its cosmological significance as well as its practical use. This book explores a fascinating range of topics, from digital art and intellectual property to the nature of cities, existence, class wars, and deep time. Self-recommending, as they say.'BR> - Jason Potts, RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.As the world faces extreme economic, environmental and political crises, this bold and accessible Advanced Introduction argues for a future-facing approach to the creative economy and creative innovation. The book analyses contemporary and historical arts and culture whilst assessing historical shifts from national to global cultures; analogue to digital technologies; and individualist to systems thinking.Key features include: A new approach to the creative industries based on complex systems and evolutionary dynamics Combining humanities-based analysis with economics of innovation A critique of important theorists and intellectual traditions involved in the study of modern mediated creativity Reconceptualizing arts, copyright, cities, time, global media and social agency A thought-provoking reassessment of modernity to pivot creative enterprise for the challenges of the Anthropocene era. Scholars and students of media and communications studies, political economy and economics will benefit from the new approach to creative media and culture, and its proposals to rethink the economics of creativity and innovation. This book will be a helpful guide for policy-makers, consultants and freelancers who work across the borderlines of art, media, technology, business and regulation.Trade Review‘In Advanced Introduction to Creative Industries, John Hartley provides a new understanding of the creative industries and how they have evolved, drawing on real-life examples and case studies. In making the creative economy tangible and relatable, this book is a relevant and practical resource for those with an existing interest in the creative industries as well as those who are new to the landscape.’ -- Sarah Ramadhita, LSE Review of Books‘John Hartley's Advanced Introduction to Creative Industries is a simple but magnificent take on the idea of 'creative industries'; it is less an introduction than a pithy synopsis of the author' s life-long thinking on how to make critical inquiries a creative instrument of social change.’ -- Jin Wen, International Comparative Literature‘20 years ago, John Hartley was at least partly responsible for establishing the creative industries as an academic field; his ongoing project to understand them deeply, and advocate for them passionately, finds new expression here. This characteristically ambitious, wide-ranging and, above all, lively book is - much like the creative industries themselves – bubbling with unruly ideas, unlikely connections, and hope for the future.’ -- Jean Burgess, Queensland University of Technology, Australia'Not all writing about the creative industries practises what it preaches! So how exciting to read a creative analysis of these industries. This book sidesteps expectations by offering an imaginative and highly thought-provoking engagement with its puzzling subject matter.' -- - Sonia Livingstone, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK'Every single human being is creative, and every industry must become a creative industry. John Hartley's Advanced Introduction to Creative Industries provides the research and data we need to better understand the creative industries that increasingly power our economy and shape our society.' -- - Richard Florida, University of Toronto, Canada and author of The Rise of the Creative Class'John Hartley always was and continues to be the very best guide to how to think about the creative industries, how to really understand its cosmological significance as well as its practical use. This book explores a fascinating range of topics, from digital art and intellectual property to the nature of cities, existence, class wars, and deep time. Self-recommending, as they say.'BR> - Jason Potts, RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia

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Book SynopsisHistorically, alternative models of the employment relationship have developed across culturally diverse nation states. However, the trend towards globalization incorporates a powerful force towards an international uniformity of employment relations. Underlying the issues addressed in this book is the question of how important cultural differences are and will continue to be.Ferrie Pot analyses the impact of national culture on the way the employment relationship is organized using case studies from the United States and the Netherlands. Evidence from these countries suggests that nations respond to globalization in line with their cultural values. As such, this book challenges the widespread belief that global trends will lead to the homogenization of the employment relationship.Trade Review'. . . I would recommend this book to any student of international employment relations. It approaches the subject from a wide and unusual angle and is rooted, most importantly, in research.' -- Len Holden, Asia Pacific Business ReviewTable of ContentsContents: 1. Cultural Embeddedness of the Employment Relationship 2. The Employment Relationship: Mechanisms of Change 3. Globalization of the Employment Relationship 4. The Concept of Culture 5. An Empirical Illustration: The United States versus the Netherlands 6. Discussion References Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely book investigates the importance of national culture as it applies to the strategic management of multinationals. The author focuses on backward linkage strategies within US, Japanese, Taiwanese and Korean microcomputer multinationals investing in Europe. In particular, both market-driven and resource-driven strategic orientations are depicted in new and established firms.The main premise of the book is concerned with the backward linkage strategy of US and Asian Pacific firms, and is therefore based on a specific set of relevant core cultural values rather than a universal set of values. The material in this volume is derived from directly and indirectly collected data, and in addition, unstructured face-to-face interviews with representatives from multinational firms headquartered across different cultures.This volume will provide academics, researchers, students, business consultants and strategists a new perspective on business strategy as well as an up-to-date source of industry material.Trade Review'The backward linkage strategies of major multinationals differ significantly between firms within the same industry. In this provocative book, Denise Tsang explains these differences in strategy in terms of the culture of the parent company and the age of the firm. Her case study of the European microcomputer industry encompasses major multinationals from the US, Japan, Taiwan and Korea, and includes both long-established firms and recent start-ups. It contains a wealth of fascinating detail which she elegantly synthesises to support her thesis.' -- Mark Casson, University of Reading, UK'This book is a major contribution to our understanding of international business strategy. It adopts a unique culturist view that has been long neglected by mainstream strategy theorists.' -- Geoffrey G. Jones, Harvard Business School, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. The Strategy of Microcomputing 2. US and Asia Pacific Multinationals and European Microcomputers 3. Microcomputer Strategic Paradigm 4. Strategy and Values 5. Nations and Values 6. A Theory of Cultural Selectivity 7. US and Asia Pacific Multinationals Backward Linkage Strategy 8. Creativity in Software 9. Continuous Improvement and Manufacturing Process 10. People and Culture 11. Conclusion References Appendix Index

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Book SynopsisThis book argues that the capacity of a country to develop, and the levels of economic and social development achieved, depend more on the institutional parameters within which the development policies are implemented than on the policies themselves. It contends that forces of globalisation influence individual countries' economic and social institutions. The book begins by examining theoretical aspects of social and economic institutions. It goes on to explore the operation of, and change within, these institutions as a result of globalisation, using examples from selected countries over five continents. The contributors conclude that globalisation has produced beneficial impacts on those social institutions which have been necessary for achieving genuine growth and development. On this evidence they argue for the need to embrace globalisation by undertaking relevant institutional changes.Approaching the issue of globalisation from a novel perspective - namely how the forces of globalisation are transforming domestic, social and economic institutions to create greater opportunities for empowerment in individual countries - this book will be a fascinating read for those with an interest in development, institutional and international economics.Trade Review'Institutions, Globalisation and Empowerment provides a useful contribution to the emerging literature on institutions and economic development. It also provides interesting examples of the failures and successes of institutional reform.' -- Esteban Perez Caldentey, Eastern Economic Journal'Institutions, Globalisation and Empowerment is highly topical and presents a multidimensional perspective of the changing role of institutions and their impact on development in the era of globalisation.' -- Global Business Review'The editors of this volume . . . deserve our wholesome appreciation for choosing so many diverse case studies under one cover. . . the book deserves to be read by policymakers, academics and civil society groups throughout the world.' -- P.S. Jayaramu, Journal of Social and Economic DevelopmentTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Institutions, Globalisation and Empowerment: An Overview of Issues Kartik C. Roy and Jörn Sideras PART II: CONCEPTS 2. Institutions for High-Quality Growth: What They Are and How to Acquire Them Dani Rodrik 3. The Effects of the Interaction of Formal and Informal Institutions on Social Stability and Economic Development Svetozar Pejovich 4. Globalisation, Democracy and Citizens’ Sovereignty: Can Competition Among Governments Enhance Democracy? Viktor Vanberg PART III: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE 5. Globalisation: Contradictory Implications for US Women Cal Clark and Janet Clark 6. Corruption: Is Dollarisation a Solution? Jennifer S. Holmes and Sheila Amin Gutiérrez de Piñeres 7. Western Europe: German Unification, Integration, Globalisation – The German Social Market Economy Facing a Threefold Challenge Michael Wohlgemuth 8. Regional Retreat: The Reaction of Russian Institutions to Liberalising Reform Richard E. Ericson 9. Institutional Deterrents to the Empowerment of Women: Kenya’s Experience Tabitha W. Kiriti, Clem Tisdell and Kartik C. Roy 10. WTO and the Dangers of Privatisation: An Analysis of the Saudi Case Jean-François Seznec 11. Institutional Impediments to Women’s Empowerment in Rural India Kartik C. Roy 12. Estate Taxes and Family-run Firms: An Empirical Study of Publicly Traded Corporations in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan Kam-Ming Wan, Shi-Jun Liu and Hsihui Chang 13. Globalisation and Institutional Change in the Australian Labour Market Kyle Bruce PART IV: CONCLUSION 14. Institutional Change and Empowerment under Globalisation: Some Lessons Learnt Kartik C. Roy and Jörn Sideras Index

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Book SynopsisThis book contributes to the expanding field of cross-cultural and comparative management, and addresses the issue of whether the main Scandinavian countries - Denmark, Norway and Sweden - exhibit such similarities in management style and practice as to constitute a country cluster.It is based on a qualitative, interview-driven study of managers in companies matched by industry in the three countries and seeks to contextualise the research findings in a general discussion of the Scandinavian countries, showing their intertwined histories and similar institutions and values. The book argues that the central values of these managers are equality, informality, decency, and conflict avoidance; it shows that the behaviour of Scandinavian managers is inspired by these values and that they can be attributed to national culture and not to the peculiarities of any particular industry.Management in Scandinavia will be of interest to students and teachers of international management, as well as practitioners of business and management.Trade Review'Unconventional, rich of facts and stimulating perspectives. Readable and entertaining at the same time as being thought-provoking. A synoptic view of Scandinavia which combines industrial diversity and common culture of three countries.' -- Arndt Sorge, University of Groningen, The Netherlands'A very useful in-depth study of Scandinavian management.' -- Malcolm Warner, Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Making the Case 2. Context 3. Breweries 4. Furniture 5. Confectionery and Food Production 6. Shipbuilding and More Besides 7. Differences and Similarities 8. Present and Prospect Index

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Book SynopsisAll That Is Solid Melts into Air is widely acclaimed as one of the greatest books on modernity. A kaleidoscopic journey into the experience of modernization, it captures the dizzying social changes that swept up and transformed the lives of millions of people. Berman delves into the aesthetic and intellectual controversies of art, literature, and architecture: from the writing of Goethe, Marx and Dostoevsky to the Paris of Baudelaire and Haussmann, the Petersburg of the Tsarist builders and Pushkin, and the New York of devastated wastelands and creative artists.Trade ReviewA bubbling cauldron of ideas. * New Statesman *A wonderful book ... generous, exuberant and dazzling. -- John Leonard * New York Times *Berman lights up every text he examines. * Newsweek *The imaginative range, intellectual force and infectious generosity of this book are what place it incontestably in the gallery of canonical texts. -- Mica Nava * Times Higher Education Supplement *

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1967, Guy Debord's stinging revolutionary critique ofcontemporary society, The Society of the Spectacle has since acquired acult status. Credited by many as being the inspiration for the ideasgenerated by the events of May 1968 in France, Debord's pitiless attackon commodity fetishism and its incrustation in the practices of everydaylife continues to burn brightly in today's age of satellite televisionand the soundbite. In Comments on the Society of the Spectacle, publishedtwenty years later, Debord returned to the themes of his previousanalysis and demonstrated how they were all the more relevant in aperiod when the "integrated spectacle" was dominant. Resolutely refusingto be reconciled to the system, Debord trenchantly slices through thedoxa and mystification offered tip by journalists and pundits to showhow aspects of reality as diverse as terrorism and the environment, theMafia and the media, were caught up in the logic of the spectacularsociety. Pointing the finger clearly at those who benefit from the logicof domination, Debord's Comments convey the revolutionary impulse atthe heart of situationism.Trade ReviewGuy Debord is a time bomb, and a difficult one to defuse.A" Michael Lowy

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Book SynopsisSir William Smith's classic work is a treasure trove of information on all aspects of Greek and Roman life: music, customs, law, medicine, food, clothing, politics, religion, trade, etc. The contributors number some of the most distinguished scholars of their day - including Heberden, Jebb, Lindsay, Monro, Mozley and Onians. Unusually for the time, the dictionary drew fully on scholarly work from outside the British Isles. The generous citations and references to Latin and Greek texts have made it a first port of call for both students and scholars wanting to get a basic overview of a particular subject with references. The third edition is a major revision of all previous editions, with nearly 1000 additional pages, 200 new entries, and extensive revisions to virtually all the previous entries. Extensively illustrated and with a wealth of information on a wide variety of topics A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Culture, originally published as A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, represents a major landmark of Victorian scholarship that will be welcomed by all scholars and enthusiasts of the ancient world. This reissue is extremely welcome for making available again an invaluable resource of Victorian scholarship. - Bruce Gibson, Department of Classics, University of Liverpool

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Book Synopsis"The Delirious Museum" is a remarkable, illuminating work, which presents an original view of the idea of the museum in the twenty-first century, re-imagining the possibilities for museums and their displays and re-examining the blurred boundaries between museums and the cities around them. On his quest for the Delirious Museum, Storrie takes a journey that begins in the Louvre and continues through Paris, London, Los Angeles and Las Vegas. He encounters on his way the museum architecture of John Soane, Carlo Scarpa and Daniel Libeskind, the exhibitions of El Lissitsky and of Frederick Kiesler, and the work of artists as varied as Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol, Marcel Broodthaers, Sophie Calle and Mark Dion.Trade Review"'The delirious museum Storrie assembles in his imagination runs together the domain of objects caught in the museum net and that of objects which still float free.'- Peter Campbell London Review of Books '...warm, witty and very readable - theory wrapped up in a pleasurable romp from intriguing fact to bizarre location.'- Catherine Croft Building Design 'It is a wunderkammer of a book, an exploration of sites and scenes relating architecture to memory throughout the world.'- Charles Saumarez Smith Secretary, Royal Academy of Arts"

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Book SynopsisThis is an unusual narrative in that it successfully combines subjectivity -- how an English person was led by a sequence of educational developments, personal encounters and historical constraints to become the founder of the German-Jewish Centre at the University of Sussex; and objectivity -- a book that introduces English and American readers to an important and evolving field of historical and cultural studies through intellectual autobiography. It documents the formative experiences of a scholar who was to become a pioneering teacher and researcher in the field of German culture and politics. The aim is to relate the shaping of self to the drift of history in a period of radical social change, extending from the refugee crisis caused by Hitler's seizure of power through the ordeals of the Second World War to post-war reconstruction, and the transformation of Britain into a modern multicultural society. The focus is on the formative role of institutions: vicarage childhood, Anglican schooling, Cambridge and other university environments -- especially the new map of learning at Sussex University in the 1960s. The 'Torch' in the title alludes to the transmission of a radical intellectual tradition and to a specific commitment to the study of Die Fackel, the satirical journal edited by Karl Kraus in Vienna from 1899 to 1936. From this emerged the innovative agenda developed by the Centre for German-Jewish Studies.Trade Review"The chapter on Sussex University in the early 1960s is a beautifully written, movingly personal account of those heady days which almost hurt me to read -- so much of it was doomed." -- John Roehl, the distinguished historian and biographer of Kaiser Wilhelm II (CUP)

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Book SynopsisWhat is the source of a book's perceived greatness and why do certain books become part of the accepted canon? This book presents a fresh perspective on these questions: against prevalent approaches, it explains a work's reputation in terms of its aesthetic qualities ("the beauty view") or as the result of dictates by social hegemonies ("the power view"). Fishelov argues that the number and variety of echoes and dialogues a book generates with readers, authors, translators, adapters, artists and critics is the most important source of its perceived greatness. Part I -- What is a Dialogue? What is a Great Book -- provides useful distinctions between different kinds of dialogue (genuine dialogue, dialogue-of-the-deaf and echo-dialogue), develops theoretical arguments (why the dialogic approach is not circular), and empirically tests intriguing cases (why has Candide, and not Rasselas won the literary race for fame?). Part II -- Genuine Dialogues with Great Books -- presents in-depth readings of literary and artistic dialogues with well established canonical works, including Monty Python's The Life of Brian, Swift's distortion of More's Utopia and some modern adaptations of Ovid's Pygmalion, providing an opportunity to examine the process by which dialogues contribute to a work's reputation. (A full list of examined works in provided on the Press website.) Through its special blend of theoretical arguments, empirical methods and sensitive interpretations, Dialogues with/and Great Books offers a stimulating invitation to re-think the Literary Canon and Intertextuality -- and the intricate connections between the two.Trade ReviewFishelov's project is of great value. By proposing a quantitative solution to an impossibly complicated problem it fashions a meaningful return to the question of the canon. Though the empirical model presented in the study raises potential objections, the writer repeatedly shows an awareness of the possible limitations associated with the filters and other search tools available to us at present. The need to perfect the method notwithstanding, the book may certainly be read as a pioneering study into a new way of thinking about aesthetics, literature, and classroom curricula in the twenty-first century and as such is sure to draw much interest in years to come. - Yael Levin in Partial AnswersTable of ContentsPreface; Real Life Dialogues; Literary Dialogues; The Battle of the (Great) Books; The Dialogic Approach to Great Books; The Sacrifice Scene -- Kierkegaard & Levin; Samson -- Jabotinsky & DeMille; Jesus Christ -- Monty Python & Saramago; Horace in Pushkin, Owen & Diderot; Juvenal's Satire X -- Johnson & Swift; Pygmalion -- Ovid, Shaw & My Fair Lady via Moliere; More's Utopia -- Bacon, Swift & Voltaire; Robinson Crusoe, the Variety Principle Revisited; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe two essays in the volume follow a long tradition in critical discourse that turns to Art's domain as a source of inspiration, instruction, and as material for the construction of its concepts and the development of its problems. The case study of Suite Grunewald, 159+1 variations, by the artist Titus-Carmel, returns to a subject that has been eclipsed in past decades by the imperative to remember: namely, the creation of the new as an event, or rather, the event of the new as creation. This is an especially vexatious problem following, on the one hand, the massive displacement of the subject as the author and creator of its works and, on the other, the introduction of the influential Deleuzian-Bergsonian notion of the new as immanent continuity rather than -- as the commonsense notion would have it -- a rupture, interruption, and discontinuity. The first essay develops this problematic by working alongside with Titus-Carmel variations / deconstruction of Grunewald's original painting of the "Crucifixion" as an exemplary site where the creation of the new -- at once incalculable and necessary -- finds a living and urgent expression. The second essay stages an encounter and sets free the resonances between the writing of Jean-Luc Nancy on and around the "body" and the cinema of Claire Denis as a cinema that mobilises the force of bodies that it itself invents, and to which it gives a unique form of presence.

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in Dutch and translated to Spanish for the fourth centenary celebration of the death of El Greco in 2014, this book is a comprehensive study of the rediscovery of El Greco -- seen as one of the most important events of its kind in art history. The Nationalization of Culture versus the Rise of Modern Art analyses how changes in artistic taste in the second half of the nineteenth century caused a profound revision of the place of El Greco in the artistic canon. As a result, El Greco was transformed from an extravagant outsider and a secondary painter into the founder of the Spanish School and one of the principle predecessors of modern art, increasingly related to that of the Impressionists -- due primarily to the German critic Julius Meier-Graefe's influential History of Modern Art (1914). This shift in artistic preference has been attributed to the rise of modern art but Eric Storm, a cultural historian, shows that in the case of El Greco nationalist motives were even more important. This study examines the work of painters, art critics, writers, scholars and philosophers from France, Germany and Spain, and the role of exhibitions, auctions, monuments and commemorations. Paintings and associated anecdotes are discussed, and historical debates such as El Greco's supposed astigmatism are addressed in a highly readable and engaging style. This book will be of interest to both specialists and the interested art public.Trade Review"The book creates a great argument for the improbability of El Greco as a choice for critics to elevate as a founding father of the Spanish School, and by knowing the multiple and strong reactions to El Grecos oeuvre, it offers art lovers a chance to reencounter the art with fresh eyes". - Barragan, Maite (2017) "Review of Eric Storm, The Discovery of El Greco. The Naturalization of Culture Versus the Rise of Modern Art, 1860-1914," Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies: Vol. 42 : Iss. 2 , Article 18.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on an ethnographic study in a multicultural city of Arabs and Jews in Israel, this book examines the models and expressions of power implicated in discourse and conflict resolution practices in cross cultural contemporary community. The author explores community politics expressed in daily life as a contextual background to the analysis of conflict resolution politics, exploring perspectives of state and civic stakeholders. Through case analysis, and addressing the individual, organisational and societal levels, Dr Li-On illustrates that conflict resolution is dominated by politics, with culture, ethnicity, and identity playing a significant role; disputing groups rely on conflict resolution to achieve contesting socio-political goals. The book explores core concerns in the field, illustrating obstacles, challenges and opportunities confronting informal justice in contemporary communities. Informal Justice in Contemporary Society is motivated by the field's research-practice gap and the lack of real world impact research in cross-cultural settings. The book contributes insights towards theory refinement and conflict resolution practice by addressing practical issues confronted by mediators in the field. This innovative research path introduces a holistic approach to the study of informal justice in social context, deploying multilevel ethnographic analysis to broaden the perspectives and understanding of conflict resolution in contemporary communities. Locally, it provides insights into conflict resolution in Israel in a mixed city of Arabs and Jews. This book belongs on the reference shelf of essential reading for educators, researchers and practitioners in conflict resolution and social studies, including anthropological, community, legal and cultural fields.

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Book SynopsisThe Founders of the American Republic set up a remarkable experiment in self-government. Today, debates rage as to the philosophical legacy of this ongoing experiment. In this fascinating study, Timothy Roth offers a critical analysis of modern liberalism and the economic theory to which it is conjoined - social welfare theory. The author argues that social welfare theory cannot be reconciled with the American Founders' procedurally based, consequence-detached republican self-government project. The book goes on to explore and expound the Founders' desire to promote respect for the moral law, their appreciation of the reciprocal relationship between morality and law, and their commitment to the promotion of justice in the sense of impartial institutions; ideas which find expression in contractarian, constitutional political economy.Scholars and students in economics, political science, law and philosophy will find this marvelous treatise an engaging and thought-provoking read.Trade Review'An emphatic, well-documented and currently relevant restatement of the Founders' vision of the self-governing American Republic, a vision that remains broadly recognizable, even if far from either historical or observed reality. This book should be required reading for any aspirant to public office, whether executive, legislative, or judicial.' -- James M. Buchanan, Nobel Laureate, George Mason University and Virginia Polytechnic and State University, US'Roth has written a powerful, persuasive, and disturbing book that deserves a wide audience.' -- Forrest McDonald, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. The Founders’ ‘Republican Cause’ 2. The Commercial Republic 3. Autonomy Ascendant 4. The Public Philosophy of Modern America 5. The Economic Analogue 6. A Failed Public Philosophy 7. The Decline of Political Economy 8. ‘Auxiliary Precautions’ in Our Time References Index

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Book SynopsisAlthough musical tributes play a significant role within contemporary culture and despite their relative longevity as a form of entertainment, little serious research has been published on the subject. This book makes an important contribution to the understanding of the phenomenon of the tribute band by linking it to other types of imitative entertainment such as 'ghost', cover and parody bands. It also demonstrates the impact of a changing cultural Zeitgeist on the evolution of popular music tributes, showing how music tributes can be related to other examples of retrospection. These influences are linked to the impact of new technology in making the art of paying tribute possible, showing how certain developments have created the musical equipment and apparatus for self-promotion, marketing and communication with fans. Whilst critical opinion on this type of entertainment remains divided, the author challenges negative responses through an interrogation of critiques of imitative cultural practices within a broader historical and cultural framework. The diversity of the homage industry is highlighted and the book avoids concentrating solely on well-known tributes, looking too, at the work of those operating in the 'alternative' tribute scene. The book explores the working life of musicians involved in the 'bargain basement' end of the live music industry, using interviews and first hand observations to show the trials and tribulations of paying homage. Finally, through an examination of the audience at tribute events, fandom and associated social and psychological aspects of participation are explored.Trade Review'Some say the past is a foreign country; Georgina Gregory offers a exhaustive guidebook to the musical outlands where rock's back catalogue becomes reanimated Her spirited and insightful examination of tribute bands celebrates these critically overlooked ensembles as much more than just stand-ins for the 'real thing.' The subtle typology she elaborates furthermore illustrates the diversity of goods in the semiotic supermarket: how a sound-like need not be a look-alike; and how a tribute group can cross not only genre but gender, too.' David Sanjek, Professor of Music, University of Salford 'Georgina Gregory has shone a spotlight on the little-studied world of tribute bands and their fans. Her brightly-written book serves up a heady and original interdisciplinary potion, a mix of cultural studies, (firmly grounded) contemporary history, ethnography and other ingredients. She makes the importance of the phenomenon abundantly clear, while providing engaging portrayals of its eccentricities and explaining the difficulties encountered in bringing it in from the margins of popular music studies. Insights into the relationships between notions of the artist and the craft worker, the textual and the performative, the original and the reproduction, the artiste and the fan, heritage and memory, are transferable to related areas of cultural history and its 'uses'. This splendid, enthusiastic, articulate book deserves to be widely read and discussed, within and beyond an extensive academic constituency.' John K. Walton, IKERBASQUE, Department of Contemporary History, University of the Basque Country, Leoia, Bilbao, SpainTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Tribute Bands in Context 3. From 'Ghost' and Cover Bands, to Pop Parody and Tributes 4. Establishing a Typology 5. Getting Established and Maintaining a Career 6. The Value of Paying Tribute: Critical Responses 7. Fandom and Collective Participation

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Book SynopsisAlthough musical tributes play a significant role within contemporary culture and despite their relative longevity as a form of entertainment, little serious research has been published on the subject. This book makes an important contribution to the understanding of the phenomenon of the tribute band by linking it to other types of imitative entertainment such as 'ghost', cover and parody bands. It also demonstrates the impact of a changing cultural Zeitgeist on the evolution of popular music tributes, showing how music tributes can be related to other examples of retrospection. These influences are linked to the impact of new technology in making the art of paying tribute possible, showing how certain developments have created the musical equipment and apparatus for self-promotion, marketing and communication with fans. Whilst critical opinion on this type of entertainment remains divided, the author challenges negative responses through an interrogation of critiques of imitative cultural practices within a broader historical and cultural framework. The diversity of the homage industry is highlighted and the book avoids concentrating solely on well-known tributes, looking too, at the work of those operating in the 'alternative' tribute scene. The book explores the working life of musicians involved in the 'bargain basement' end of the live music industry, using interviews and first hand observations to show the trials and tribulations of paying homage. Finally, through an examination of the audience at tribute events, fandom and associated social and psychological aspects of participation are explored.Trade Review'Some say the past is a foreign country; Georgina Gregory offers a exhaustive guidebook to the musical outlands where rock's back catalogue becomes reanimated Her spirited and insightful examination of tribute bands celebrates these critically overlooked ensembles as much more than just stand-ins for the 'real thing.' The subtle typology she elaborates furthermore illustrates the diversity of goods in the semiotic supermarket: how a sound-like need not be a look-alike; and how a tribute group can cross not only genre but gender, too.' David Sanjek, Professor of Music, University of Salford 'Georgina Gregory has shone a spotlight on the little-studied world of tribute bands and their fans. Her brightly-written book serves up a heady and original interdisciplinary potion, a mix of cultural studies, (firmly grounded) contemporary history, ethnography and other ingredients. She makes the importance of the phenomenon abundantly clear, while providing engaging portrayals of its eccentricities and explaining the difficulties encountered in bringing it in from the margins of popular music studies. Insights into the relationships between notions of the artist and the craft worker, the textual and the performative, the original and the reproduction, the artiste and the fan, heritage and memory, are transferable to related areas of cultural history and its 'uses'. This splendid, enthusiastic, articulate book deserves to be widely read and discussed, within and beyond an extensive academic constituency.' John K. Walton, IKERBASQUE, Department of Contemporary History, University of the Basque Country, Leoia, Bilbao, SpainTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Tribute Bands in Context 3. From 'Ghost' and Cover Bands, to Pop Parody and Tributes 4. Establishing a Typology 5. Getting Established and Maintaining a Career 6. The Value of Paying Tribute: Critical Responses 7. Fandom and Collective Participation

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Book SynopsisTourism is an essentially visual experience: we leave our homes so as to travel to see places, thus adding to our personal knowledge about, and experience of, the world. The study of tourism as a complex social phenomenon, beyond simply business, is increasing in importance, and by providing an examination of perceptions of culture and society in tourism destinations through the tourist's eyes, this book discusses how destinations were, and are, created and perceived through the 'lens' of the tourist's gaze.Table of Contents1: The Changing Tourist Gaze in India’s Hill Stations: Vignettes from the Early 19th Century to the Present Kathleen Baker 2: ‘Memory Tourism’ and Commodifi cation of Nostalgia Roberta Bartoletti 3: Edward Hopper: Glancing at Gaze with a Wink at Tourism Teresa Costa 4: A ‘Vice Among Tourists’? Trans-national Narratives of the Irish Landscape, 1886-1914 K.J. James 5: Decolonizing the Gaze: at Uluru (Ayers Rock) Jana-Axinja Paschen 6: Tracking the (Tourists’) Gaze: Using Technology in Visual Analysis of Identificational Strategies Sergej Stoetzer 7: Gazing at the Gallant Gurkha: Glimpsing Nepalese Society Lisa Power and Clive Baker 8: In the Eye of the Beholder? Tourism and the Activist Academic Freya Higgins-Desbiolles 9: Gazes on Levanto: a Case Study on How Local Identity Could Become Part of the Touristic Supply Stefania Antonioni, Laura Gemini and Lella Mazzoli 10: Image, Construction and Representation in Tourism Promotion and Heritage Management Elisabeth Dumont, Mikel Asensio and Manuel Mortari 11: Tourist Immersion or Tourist Gaze: the Backpacker Experience Ketwadee Buddhabhumbhitak 12: Receiving and Shaping the Tourist Appraising Gaze: the Lived Experience of Reception Work in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry Gayathri (Gee) Wijesinghe and Peter Willis 13: Seeing the Sites: Tourism as Perceptual Experience James Moir 14: Goods of Desire: Visual and Other Aspects of Western Exoticism in Postcolonial Hong Kong Hilary du Cros 15: Mauritanian Guestbook: Shaping Culture while Displaying it Maria Cardeira da Silva 16: Transforming Taste(s) into Sights: Gazing and Grazing with Television’s Culinary Tourists David Dunn 17: World in One City: Surrealist Geography and Time and Space Compression in Alex Cox’s Liverpool Les Roberts

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Book SynopsisFrom the repurposed rubble of salvagepunk to undead hordes banging on shopping mall doors, from empty waste zones to teeming plagued cities, Combined and Uneven Apocalypse grapples with the apocalyptic fantasies of our collapsing era. Moving through the films, political tendencies, and recurrent crises of late capitalism, Evan Calder Williams paints a black toned portrait of the dream and nightmare images of a global order gone very, very wrong. Situating itself in the defaulting financial markets of the present, Combined and Uneven Apocalypse glances back toward a messy history of zombies, car wrecks, tidal waves, extinction, trash heaps, labour, pandemics, wolves, cannibalism, and general nastiness that populate the underside of our cultural imagination. Every age may dream the end of the world to follow, but these scattered nightmare figures are a skewed refraction of the normal hell of capitalism. The apocalypse isn't something that will happen one day: it's just the slow unveiling of the catastrophe we've been living through for centuries. Against any fantasies of progress, return, or reconciliation, Williams launches a loathing critique of the bleak present and offers a graveside smile for our necessary battles to come.Trade ReviewYes, another book about zombies and the end of the world. But this is not just another book about zombies and the end of the world. Like one of the junk-suturing recusants whose philosophy he has been central to constructing, Evan Calder Williams builds something rageful and compelling and quite new out of all this fucking wreckage. (China Mieville)

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Book SynopsisA unique historical and linguistic resource for those in anthropology, art, folklore, history, linguistics, literature, psychology, religion, sociology, and environmental studies, as well as performers and poets. Not simply relics of the past, proverbs are an oral tradition containing historical and anthropological knowledge missing from conventional sources, and as micro-histories, provide a valuable source for the reconstruction of the manners, characteristics, and worldviews of societies. While only a few hundred Kamba proverbs have ever appeared in print, thousands have circulated over time, from the monsoon exchange era of the Roman Empire through the advent of Islam, European imperialism and colonialism to independence. Today, a resurgence of interest in the form has been generated via social media, songs and vernacular radio programmes. This book provides the first, comprehensive collection of Kamba proverbs from Eastern Kenya in their original Kĩkamba language and in translation. Analysing 2,000 proverbs drawn from oral interviews, archival collections, museum artefacts and published sources, the author traces the origins of each and explores their meaning, interpretation and use. Covering a diverse range of subjects that ranges from plants, animals, birds and insects, to weather, land, the roles of men and women, cosmology, ritual and belief, healing, trade, politics and peacemaking, the book offers new insights into Kenya's rural world and the expansion of Kamba society, East African history, language and culture of vital significance for the social sciences. A valuable comparative work for societal change elsewhere in Africa and beyond, the book also suggests an innovative, alternative approach to the study of the African past.Trade ReviewThe book has many strong attributes. ... recommended for lovers of proverbs and those interested in East African history and Kamba culture. -- African Studies QuarterlyTable of ContentsPART I: INTRODUCTION 1 Introduction PART II: THE NATURAL WORLD 2 Atmosphere and Biosphere 3 Wild Plants 4 Wild Game 5 Wild Birds 6 Predators and Vermin 7 Insects and their role in Kamba History 8 Amphibians and Reptiles PART III: KAMBA AT HOME 9 Farm, Hearth, and Home 10 Crops and Other Plants 11 Domesticated Animals 12 Men and Masculinity 13 Women and Motherhood 14 Children and Adulthood PART IV: KAMBA SOCIETY 15 Place names and Ethnic names 16 Beliefs, Rituals, and Cosmology 17 Wealth and Poverty 18 Cuisine and Consumption 19 Health, Healing, and the Body 20 Trade, Markets, and Industries 21 Politics, Conflict, and Peacemaking

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Book SynopsisCreating Experiences in the Experience Economy focuses on the creation of experience from a business perspective. In doing so, the book establishes a more solid foundation for making better and more complex analyses of experience creation, paving the way for the development of analytically based and innovative experiences in experience firms and institutions. The contributors emphasise that experience creation is not an easy task with a straightforward formula and examine how marketed experiences are constructed, developed and innovated.Presenting diverse and innovative perspectives, the contributors discuss and present models for how experiences are designed, produced and distributed. With its cross-disciplinary approach to experience creation, this fascinating study will appeal to researchers and academics of business administration, services, culture and tourism.Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction to Experience Creation Per Darmer and Jon Sundbo PART I: EXPERIENCE CREATION DESIGN 2. The Food and Eating Experience Jan Krag Jacobsen 3. Designing Innovative Video Games Erik Kristiansen 4. What makes Rome: ROME? A Curious Traveller’s Multisensory Analysis of Aspects of Complex Roman Experiences Bjørn Laursen PART II: MANAGEMENT OF EXPERIENCE CREATION 5. The Backstaging of Experience Production Jon Sundbo and Peter Hagedorn-Rasmussen 6. Entrepreneurs in Music: The Passion of Experience Creation Per Darmer 7. The Urban Innovation Network Geography of Leisure Experiences Flemming Sørensen 8. Experience Offerings: Who or What Does the Action? Connie Svabo PART III: CONSUMER PERCEPTION OF EXPERIENCE CREATION 9. Performing Cultural Attractions Jørgen Ole Bærenholdt, Michael Haldrup and Jonas Larsen 10. On Sense and Sensibility in Performative Processes Henriette Christrup 11. Experience Production by Family Tourism Providers Ann Hartl and Malene Gram Index

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Book SynopsisOn any given day nearly half the world's population is wearing blue jeans. This is entirely extraordinary. Yet there has never been a serious attempt to understand the causes, nature and consequences of denim as 'the' global garment of our world. This book takes up that challenge with gusto. It gives clear, if surprising, explanations for why this is the case, challenging the accepted history of jeans and showing why the reasons cannot be commercial. While discussing the consequences of denim at the global level, the book consists of some exemplary studies by anthropologists of what blue jeans mean in a variety of local situations. These range from the discussion of hip-hop jeans in Germany, denim and sex in Milan through to the connection between denim and recycling in the US. But through all these intensively researched ethnographies of local denim we build our understanding of the most curious of all features of blue jeans - the rise of global denim.Trade ReviewAn interesting and commendable first foray into an anthropology of blue jeans. Anthropology Review DatabaseTable of ContentsChapter One: The Global Denim Project: Daniel Miller, University College London, and Sophie Woodward, University of Manchester Chapter Two: The Making of an American Icon: The Transformation of Blue Jeans during the Great Depression: Sandra Comstock, University of Western Ontario Chapter Three: Diverting Denim: The Ecology of Jeans in Popular Hindi Film: Clare Wilkinson-Weber, Washington State University Chapter Four: How Blue Jeans went Green: The Materiality of an American Icon, Bodil Olesen, Aarhus University Chapter Five: The Limits of Jeans in Kannur, Kerala, Daniel Miller Chapter Six: 'Brazilian Jeans': Materiality, Body and Seduction at a Rio de Janeiro Funk Ball: Mylene Mizrahi, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Chapter Seven: Indigo Bodies: Fashion, Mirror Work and Sexual Identity in Milan, Roberta Sassatelli, University of Milan Chapter Eight: Jeanealogies: The (Im)permanence of Relationships, Sophie Woodward Chapter Nine: Picaldi Jeans and the figuration of working-class male youth identities in Berlin: An ethnographic account: Moritz Ege, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin Chapter Ten: The jeans that don't fit: marketing cheap jeans in Brazil: Rosana Pinheiro-Machado, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Index

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Book SynopsisIn this insightful book, the contributors focus on the impact of contextual factors on social movements in the developing world, pushing major existing theories beyond their traditional focus. With wide coverage of the developing world, leading academics explore a variety of forms and mechanisms of social movement. They present discussions on resource and institutional endowment for mobilization in Colombia and Thailand, and explore the structure behind political opportunities in Argentina, China and South Africa. The history and reality of identity-making in India, Mexico and Nigeria are also examined.Presenting novel analytical frameworks to study social movements in developing countries, this book will be warmly welcomed by academics and researchers with an interest in sociology, development and political science. It will also strongly appeal to social movement activists.Trade Review'This is a useful book and an important contribution to the literature on social movements and civil society. . . It will be very helpful for those who understand social movement theory but need an orientation to developing societies. . . This book will also be useful to advanced graduate students in sociology, economics, and political science. The case studies could be excellent teaching tools. This would be a good text for a course on social movements. Protests and Social Movements in the Developing World will add new dimensions to your work on social movements. It is a book that every social movement scholar will want on their bookshelf.' -- John McNutt, Voluntas'Protest and Social Movements in the Developing World> is aimed at scholars and social movement activists. Its innovative framework brings a fresh angle to the academic debate on social movements, whilst its meticulous empirical detail will appeal to those involved in a wide variety of social movements. In this sense, Protest and Social Movements in the Developing World will enjoy a warm reception amongst its target audience. . . A useful book for those already well versed in this field.' -- World Entrepreneurship Society'Shinichi Shigetomi and Kumiko Makino have produced an important book, global in scope and incisive in its analysis of social movements in different parts of the world. It will be a major resource for scholars everywhere.' -- James Midgley, University of California, Berkeley, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Rethinking Theories on Social Movements and Development Shinichi Shigetomi PART I: RESOURCE AND INSTITUTIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR MOBILIZATION 2. Community-based Local Development and the Peace Initiative of the PDPMM in Colombia: Resource Mobilization under Extreme Conditions Noriko Hataya 3. Institutional Readiness and Resource Dependence of Social Movements: The Case of Provincial Development Forums in Thailand Shinichi Shigetomi PART II: STRUCTURE BEHIND POLITICAL OPPORTUNITIES 4. Strategies for Fragmentary Opportunities and Limited Resources: The Environmental Protest Movement under Communist China in Transition Kenji Otsuka 5. Institutional Conditions for Social Movements to Engage in Formal Politics: The Case of AIDS Activism in Post-Apartheid South Africa Kumiko Makino 6. Rethinking Political Opportunity Structure in the Argentine Unemployed and Poor People’s Movement Koichi Usami PART III: HISTORY AND REALITY FOR FRAME- AND IDENTITY-MAKING 7. Dynamics of Ideal Values and Social Movement in a Corporatist State: Mexican Indigenous Peoples’ Movements and a Village’s Challenge Akio Yonemura 8. Competition and Framing in the Women’s Movement in India Mayumi Murayama 9. Opposition Movements and the Youth in Nigeria’s Oil-Producing Area: An Inquiry into Framing Katsuya Mochizuki PART IV: CONCLUSION 10. Resources, Organizations and Institutions: Intermediaries for Social Movements in Development Context Kumiko Makino and Shinichi Shigetomi Index

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Book SynopsisThe second edition of this widely acclaimed and extensively cited collection of original contributions by specialist authors reflects changes in the field of cultural economics over the last eight years. Thoroughly revised chapters alongside new topics and contributors bring the Handbook up to date, taking into account new research, literature and the impact of new technologies in the creative industries. The book covers a range of topics encompassing the creative industries as well as the economics of the arts and culture, and includes chapters on: the economics of art (including auctions, markets and prices), artists labor markets, creativity and the creative economy, cultural districts, cultural value, globalization and international trade, the Internet, media economics, museums, non-profit organizations, opera, performance indicators, performing arts, publishing, regulation, tax expenditures and welfare economics. This highly commended reference tool will be warmly welcomed on a wide range of courses in the fields of economics, business, management, arts management and cultural and media studies.Contributors: H. Abbing, K. Acheson, K. Alford, O. Ashenfelter, W.J. Baumol, F. Benhamou, M. Blaug, L. Bonet, A.E. Burke, S. Cameron, D.C. Chisholm, F. Colbert, T. Cowen, T. Cuccia, G. Doyle, J. Farchy, V. Fernandez-Blanco, B.S. Frey, V. Ginsburgh, K. Graddy, C.M. Gray, J. Heilbrun, A. Henten, C. Hjorth-Andersen, M. Hutter, W.M. Landes, L. Levy-Garboua, W.A. Luksetich, C. Maule, I. Mazza, C. Montmarquette, D. Netzer, J. O'Hagan, G. Pignataro, J. Prieto-Rodriguez, I. Rizzo, F. Rochelandet, M. Rushton, D. Sagot-Duvauroux, W. Santagata, G.G. Schulze, B.A. Seaman, J.D. Snowball, M. Taalas, R. Tadayoni, D. Throsby, R. Towse, M. Trimarchi, D. Urrutiaguer, O. Velthuis, N.M. Wijnberg, G. WithersTrade Review‘A Handbook of Cultural Economics is the definitive guide to cultural economics. Short, accessible articles by leading scholars in the field quickly bring the reader up to speed and point them in the right direction for future research. The new edition brings the field to the cutting edge and is a must have for anyone interested in economics and the insights it offers for understanding popular culture and the arts.’ -- Alex Tabarrok, George Mason University and The Independent InstituteTable of ContentsContents: Preface to the Second Edition Introduction Ruth Towse 1. Application of Welfare Economics William J. Baumol 2. Art Auctions Orley Ashenfelter and Kathryn Graddy 3. Art Dealers Olav Velthuis 4. Art Markets Olav Velthuis 5. Art Prices Dominique Sagot-Duvauroux 6. Artistic Freedom Michael Rushton 7. Artists’ Labour Markets Françoise Benhamou 8. Artists’ Rights Michael Rushton 9. Awards Nachoem M. Wijnberg 10. Baumol’s Cost Disease James Heilbrun 11. Broadcasting Glenn Withers and Katrina Alford 12. Cinema Samuel Cameron 13. Contingent Valuation Tiziana Cuccia 14. Copyright William M. Landes 15. Costs of Production Mervi Taalas 16. Creative Economy Tyler Cowen 17. Creative Industries Ruth Towse 18. Creativity Ruth Towse 19. Criticism Samuel Cameron 20. Cultural Capital David Throsby 21. Cultural Districts Walter Santagata 22. Cultural Entrepreneurship Mark Blaug and Ruth Towse 23. Cultural Statistics David Throsby 24. Cultural Tourism Lluís Bonet 25. Cultural Value Jen D. Snowball 26. Demand Louis Lévy-Garboua and Claude Montmarquette 27. Digitalization Anders Henten and Reza Tadayoni 28. Economic Impact of the Arts Bruce A. Seaman 29. Experience Goods Michael Hutter 30. Festivals Bruno S. Frey 31. Globalization Keith Acheson 32. Heritage Françoise Benhamou 33. International Trade Günther G. Schulze 34. The Internet: Culture for Free Joëlle Farchy 35. The Internet: Economics Fabrice Rochelandet 36. Management of the Arts François Colbert 37. Marketing the Arts François Colbert 38. Media Economics and Regulation Gillian Doyle 39. Motion Pictures Darlene C. Chisholm 40. Museums Víctor Fernández-Blanco and Juan Prieto-Rodríguez 41. The Music Industry Andrew E. Burke 42. Non-profit Organizations Dick Netzer 43. Opera and Ballet Ruth Towse 44. Orchestras William A. Luksetich 45. Participation Charles M. Gray 46. Performance Indicators Giacomo Pignataro 47. Performing Arts Ruth Towse 48. Poverty and Support for Artists Hans Abbing 49. Pricing the Arts Michael Rushton 50. Principal–Agent Analysis Michele Trimarchi 51. Public Choice Isidoro Mazza 52. Public Support Bruno S. Frey 53. Publishing Christian Hjorth-Andersen 54. Regulation Ilde Rizzo 55. Resale Rights Victor Ginsburgh 56. Superstars Günther G. Schulze 57. Tax Concessions John O’Hagan 58. Television Christopher Maule 59. Theatre Daniel Urrutiaguer 60. Welfare Economics Mark Blaug Index

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Book SynopsisThe latest volume in Wm. Roger Louis' acclaimed "Adventures with Britannia" series takes the reader on a highly engaging excursion through British life and intellectual biography. Collecting the interpretations of outstanding writers on the literature and history of modern Britain, "Ultimate Adventures with Britannia" deals with a rich variety of themes - some familiar, many unexpected. The scope of this wide-ranging volume includes not only the personalities, politics and culture of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, but also the interaction between British and other societies throughout the world. The chapters embracing historical themes include Brian Harrison and Dominic Sandbrook on the 1960s and Geoffrey Wheatcroft on Churchill and the Jews. In Britannia's literary domain, Dan Jacobson assesses Thomas Hardy and T.S. Eliot while Margaret Macmillan asks how well Paul Scott's Raj Quartet bears up after some four decades. And in a combination of cultural, architectural and intellectual history, Bernard Wasserstein traces the decline and possible revival of the 'second city in the Empire', Glasgow. "Ultimate Adventures with Britannia" retains all the intellectual originality and accessibility that characterise the earlier volumes in this series and continues a stimulating and highly appealing tradition.Table of ContentsList of Authors Introduction Wm. Roger Louis 1 Glasgow in the 1950s Bernard Wasserstein 2 Historiographical Hazards of Sixties Britain Brian Harrison 3 Against the Permissive Society: The Backlash of the Late 1960s Dominic Sandbrook 4 Trevor-Roper’s Scotland Roy Foster 5 Chatham House and All That Roger Morgan 6 The Study of International Relations in Historical Perspective Adam Roberts 7 Balthazar Solvyns and Eighteenth-Century Calcutta Robert L. Hardgrave, Jr. 8 John Frederick Lewis and Nineteenth-Century Cairo Caroline Williams 9 Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes Richard Jenkyns 10 Eliot versus Hardy Dan Jacobson S5188.indb v 8/26/09 1:05:56 PM 11 Such, Such Was Eric Blair Julian Barnes 12 Drink and the Old Devil Peter Green 13 Elegy for an Empire: Paul Scott’s Raj Quartet Margaret MacMillan 14 Churchill’s Zionism Geoffrey Wheatcroft 15 Julian Amery: The Ultimate Imperial Adventurer Sue Onslow 16 Colonial Independence David Cannadine 17 The Failure of the West Indies Federation Jason Parker 18 W. K. Hancock and the Question of Race Saul Dubow 19 Historians of the British Empire, plus 100 Top Hits of Imperial History John Darwin 20 Gertrude Bell and the Creation of Iraq Shareen Brysac 21 The Aftermath of the 1958 Revolution in Iraq Roby Barrett 22 Comparing British and American 'Empires' A. G. Hopkins 23 British Studies at the University of Texas, 1975-2009

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Book SynopsisReligious and secular convictions have powerful effects, but their fundaments are often surprisingly fragile. Because of the conspicuous role that nationalisms, populisms, and fundamentalisms have in our globalizing world it is essential not to take their strength for granted, but to acknowledge that conviction and doubt are part of the same dynamic. The chapters in this volume demonstrate that doubt and hesitation are daily concerns even among the Maoist movement in India, right-wing populists in Europe and newly pious Somali Muslims in London. In fact, new converts are often such stringent believers precisely because they need to dispel their own lingering doubts, while revolutionary movements survive only through the denial of ambiguity. By studying everyday doubt this volume unravels the mechanisms by which convictions gain and lose their force, and analyzes the dynamics that propel loosely held ideas into committed action. Whereas a focus on overcoming doubt highlights the exclusionary effects of committed action, attention to the breakdown of belief serves to better understand the cycles of hope, conviction, and disillusion that bespeak the human condition. This is the central theme in several chapters looking at ideological break-down. The collapse of communism, for instance, produced an epistemological crisis in which all knowledge became unstable, prompting gold-miners in Mongolia to go as far as to doubt the cosmos. The post-ideological environment of Western democracies also produces anxieties, as the break-down of the bonds of trust between governments and citizens results in feelings of betrayal. Questions of truth and action are always related: if nothing is worth fighting for then apathy and hopelessness may become symptomatic. By paying attention to the mechanisms and dynamics by which specific ideas gain and lose their credibility this volume sheds important new light on the role of ideas in social and political action.Table of Contents1. Introduction: towards an ethnography of doubt / Mathijs Pelkmans PART I: WHAT IS TRUE? EPISTEMOLOGICAL DOUBT 2. Believing in spirits and doubting the Cosmos in the Mongolian gold mines / Mette High 3. ‘Believe but don't be superstitious!’ Discourses of authority and authenticity in a Taiwanese spirit- Medium shrine / Friedrich Binder 4. Old Believers’ passion play: faith and doubt in an Orthodox ritualist movement / Vlad Naumescu 5. The frontier between doubt and certainty in a Malagasy ethnopsychology / Maurice Bloch PART II: WHAT TO DO? UNCERTAINTY AND HESITATION 6. Suspense in retrospective ethnography / Henk Driessen 7. Fragile ideas and uncertain action in a Central Asian industrial wasteland / Mathijs Pelkmans 8. In search of certainty in revolutionary India / Alpa Shah PART III: Doubt and Modernity 9. Betrayal and its modern consequences / David Napier 10. Doubt and the anxieties of the everyday / Thomas Blom Hansen 11. Afterword / Matthew Engelke

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Book SynopsisIronic and humorous, witty and self-deprecatory, The Afghan Rumour Bazaar reveals the quotidian absurdities of lives framed against the backdrop of a savage war. Offering daringly new perspectives on a country readers may erroneously assume they know, Nushin Arbabzadah delves into the unacknowledged but real secret sub-cultures and hidden worlds of Afghans, from underground converts to Christianity to mysterious male cross-dressers to tales of bacha-posh girlboys. Among the individuals, fables and dilemmas she confronts are 'Why are Imams Telling Us About Nail Polish?', 'Afghanistan's Rich Jewish Heritage', 'Kabul Street Style', 'The Resurgence of Afghanistan's Spiritual Bazaar', and not forgetting Malalai of Maiwand, who turned her headscarf into a banner and led a successful rebellion against the British. Arbabzadah reveals for the first time Afghans' own vibrant internal deliberations - - on sex and soap operas; conspiracy theories; drugs and diplomacy; terrorism and the Taliban; and how a long-dead soothsayer from Bulgaria accidentally shut down a newspaper. Many different Afghan sensibilities are presented in her book, yet together they offer an unvarnished, at times heartwarming, at times tragic, insight into one of the most complex and fascinating countries on earth.Trade ReviewA wry and witty narrative that's authoritative, affectionate, and at moments wonderfully absurd. With an eye for detail, and a profound sense of place, Nushin Arbabzadah's essays bring us deep inside a remarkable culture defined by its honour and humour. Afghanistan's story is best told by Afghans who live with all its incongruity and still leave us agreeing it's a country like no other. -- Lyse Doucet, Chief International Correspondent, BBCA fresh, funny, provocative voice. Arbabzadah's candid memories and comments are a timely reminder that Afghanistan is a country, not merely a conflict. -- Jason Burke, author of On The Road to Kandahar: Travels Through Conflict in the Islamic World and The 9/11 Wars…invaluable and ground-breaking. For the first time, an Afghan, and a woman at that, takes Westerners into the world(s) of her countrymen and gives them an insider's guide to these people who are all too often cast in simplistic, one-dimensional terms. -- Brian Glyn Williams, Central Asian SurveyPart memoir, part journalism and part storytelling, the book is a heady ride into the craziness that is Afghan life ... [Arbabzadah's] deep affection for Afghanistan is as obvious as is her amusement about the absurdity of life there ... For a look into an often misunderstood country from a woman who is both an outsider and an insider, Afghan Rumour Bazaar is a must read. -- Jyotsna Nambiar, PostNoonNushin Arbabzadah's Afghanistan is a wonderful and terrible place, a land of heart-stopping beauty and unspeakable horrors ... The book is chaotic, and wonderfully so. Its great strength as a national portrait is that the jumble of anecdote and analysis, with serious scholarship and pithy observation and trivial detail all thrown in together, feels three-dimensional and complete. -- Cordelia Jenkins, MintAfghan Rumour Bazaar ... takes the reader deep into the Afghan culture ... The book offers an almost-irreverent, splendidly revealing take on Afghanistan. -- The Telegraph (Calcutta)Afghan Rumour Bazaar by Cambridge scholar Nushin Arbabzadah is a brilliant narrative of the often-overlooked emerging threads and subcultures in Afghanistan. -- Outlook Magazine

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Book SynopsisThe global icon is an omnipresent but poorly understood element of mass culture. This book asks why audiences around the world have embraced particular iconic figures, how perceptions of these figures have changed, and what this tells us about transnational relations since the Cold War era. Prestholdt addresses these questions by examining one type of icon: the anti-establishment figure. As symbols that represent sentiments, ideals, or something else recognizable to a wide audience, icons of dissent have been integrated into diverse political and consumer cultures, and global audiences have reinterpreted them over time. To illustrate these points the book examines four of the most evocative and controversial figures of the past fifty years: Che Guevara, Bob Marley, Tupac Shakur, and Osama bin Laden. Each has embodied a convergence of dissent, cultural politics, and consumerism, yet popular perceptions of each reveal the dissonance between shared, global references and locally contingent interpretations. By examining four very different figures, 'Icons of Dissent' offers new insights into global symbolic idioms, the mutability of common references, and the commodification of political sentiment in the contemporary world.Trade Review‘Prestholdt has tackled a daunting topic, and has done so with remarkable success. 'Icons of Dissent' is a searching analysis of the impact and influence of international icons and a worthy read for scholars. Prestholdt’s work should stimulate much more scholarship on the internationalization of icons.’ -- Choice'This lucidly written book combines perspectives from several disciplines and links the analysis of markets and commerce to that of branding and political dreams. Impressive and clear, it will be of great interest to scholars of anthropology, sociology and consumer studies.' -- Arjun Appadurai, Paulette Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU'In this extraordinarily well-written and luminously crafted book, Prestholdt makes a powerful case for why four diverse icons became emblematic of worldwide popular dissent. This book is "crucially crucial" reading for anyone who wishes to understand the twentieth century.' -- Selwyn R. Cudjoe, Professor of Africana Studies, Wellesley College and author of 'The Slave Master of Trinidad''With an acute grasp of art, history, political science, and the essence of human struggle, Prestholdt adeptly explains how the iconic representations of certain personalities capture people's imagination to transcend, and often contradict, their flesh-and-blood lives.' -- Michael Casey, author of 'Che's Afterlife: The Legacy of an Image'

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Book SynopsisAdopting the role of tour guide, award-winning writer Kevin Hart leads the reader through the pitfalls, conundrums and complexities that characterize postmodernism, while providing an overview of the many different approaches (philosophical, cultural, literary…) to the subject. All the major thinkers are introduced – from Derrida to Blanchot, Irigaray to Foucault, and more besides – while the book is unique among introductory guides in its consideration of the role of religion in a postmodern world.Trade Review"Postmodernism exegesis questions not only the 'grand canonical narrative' allegedly supposed by or encoded in the Bible; it also attacks the modern project of historical criticism. Hart discusses the work of Harold Bloom and M. Blaanchot, as well as J. Derrida's view of the Bible." * International Review of Biblical Studies *"Hart succeeds remarkably well in providing an accessible and surprisingly comprehensive introduction to postmodern thought." * European Legacy *Table of ContentsNote Acknowledgements I.Postmodernism: Some Guides II.The Loss of Origin III.Postmodern Experience IV.The Fragmentary V.The Postmodern Bible VI.Postmodern Religion VII.The Gift: A Debate Conclusion: Guides and Another Guide Bibliography

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Book SynopsisCultural studies and modern feminism are contemporaries and their short histories have been closely interwoven. Feminist cultural studies is consequently a particularly rich field for study and research.Feminist Cultural Studies is a key reference collection covering a broad spectrum including ethnographic studies, audiences and reading, culture in the making of subjectivity, and popular culture such as film, television, dance, make-up and advertising. Other areas addressed include contemporary theory and method, the uses of the female body as a cultural product, and the inter-relationship of 'race' and ethnicity in the cultural construction of gender.This collection includes seminal essays by well-known writers such as Susan Bordo, Hazel Carby, Sue-Ellen Case, Rita Felski, Jane Gaines, Susan Gubar, Angela McRobbie, Toril Moi, Toni Morrison, Laura Mulvey, Janice Radway, Jacqueline Rose, Gayatry Spivak, Carolyn Steedman, Catherine Stimpson, Elizabeth Wilson and many others. This authoritative two volume set will be welcomed by students, teachers and researchers as a key reference reader on feminist cultural studies which will improve access to seminal articles, as well as some intriguing and influential papers which have been overlooked in the past.Table of ContentsContents: Volume I PART I: CULTURE IS ORDINARY 1. Micaela di Leonardo (1987), ‘The Female World of Cards and Holidays: Women, Families, and the Work of Kinship’ 2. Barbara Littlewood (1987) ‘Women, Words and Power: A Study of the Language of Magic in Southern Italy’ 3. Peter Bailey (1990), ‘Parasexuality and Glamour: the Victorian Barmaid as Cultural Prototype’ 4. Mica Nava (1992), ‘Outrage and Anxiety in the Reporting of Child Sexual Abuse: Cleveland and the Press’ 5. Janice Winship (1981), ‘Handling Sex’ 6. Jennifer Craik (1989), ‘“I must put my face on”: Making Up the Body and Marking Out the Feminine’ PART II: MAKING SUBJECTIVITIES: MAKING SOCIAL IDENTITIES 7. Carolyn Steedman (1980), ‘The Tidy House’ 8. Jacqueline Rose (1985), ‘State and Language: Peter Pan as Written for the Child’ 9. Mitzi Myers, (1989), ‘“Servants as They are Now Educated”: Women Writers and Georgian Pedogogy’ 10. Regenia Gagnier, (1989), ‘The Literary Standard, Working-Class Lifewriting, and Gender’ 11. Liz Stanley, (1990), ‘Moments of Writing: Is There a Feminist Auto/biography?’ 12. Judith R. Walkowitz (1986), ‘Science, Feminism and Romance: The Men and Women’s Club 1885–1889’ PART III: FEMINISM AND GENDER IN POPULAR CULTURE 13. Charlotte Brunsdon (1991), ‘Pedagogies of the Feminine: Feminist Teaching and Women’s Genres’ 14. Beverley Alcock and Jocelyn Robson (1990), ‘Cagney and Lacey Revisited’ 15. Judith Mayne, (1988), L.A. Law and Prime-Time Feminism’ 16. Susan McClary (1990), ‘Living to Tell: Madonna’s Resurrection of the Fleshly’ 17. Rita Felski (1990), ‘Kitsch, Romance Fiction and Male Paranoia: Stephen King Meets the Frankfurt School’ 18. Frigga Haug (1987), ‘Daydreams’ PART IV: CULTURE AND CONSUMPTION 19. Jane Gaines (1989), ‘The Queen Christina Tie-Ups: Convergence of Show Window and Screen’ 20. Mary Ann Doane (1989), ‘The Economy of Desire: The Commodity Form in/of the Cinema’ 21. Susan Willis (1990), ‘“I want the black one”: Is There a Place for Afro-American Culture in Commodity Culture?’ 22. Ann K. Clark (1987), ‘The Girl: A Rhetoric of Desire’ 23. Danae Clark (1991), ‘Commodity Lesbianism’ PART V: READERS AND AUDIENCES 24. Janice A. Radway (1986), ‘Reading is Not Eating: Mass-Produced Literature and the Theoretical, Methodological, and Political Consequences of a Metaphor’ 25. Gill Frith (1991), ‘Transforming Features: Double Vision and the Female Reader’ 26. Helen Taylor (1993), Anniversaries, Sequels and Bandwagons: Gone With the Wind, 1989–91”, Women: A Cultural Review’ 27. Laura Mulvey (1989), ‘British Feminist Film Theory’s Female Spectators: Presence and Absence’ Volume II PART I: SOME OVERVIEWS 1. Catherine R. Stimpson (1988), ‘Nancy Reagan Wears a Hat: Feminism and Its Cultural Consensus’ 2. Lisa Tickner (1988), ‘Feminism, Art History, and Sexual Difference’ 3. Ginette Vincendeau (1987), ‘Women’s Cinema, Film Theory and Feminism in France: Reflections after the 1987 Creteil Festival’ 4. Chandra Talpade Mohanty (1988), ‘Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses’ PART II: THEORY AND METHOD 5. Barbara Creed (1987), ‘From Here to Modernity: Feminism and Postmodernism’ 6. Mary Poovey (1988), ‘Feminism and Deconstruction’ 7. Sue-Ellen Case (1988-89), ‘Towards a Butch-Femme Aesthetic’ 8. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak with Ellen Rooney, (1993), ‘In a Word. Interview’ 9. Toril Moi (1991), ‘Appropriating Bourdieu: Feminist Theory and Pierre Bourdieu’s Sociology of Culture’ 10. Jenny Taylor (1991), ‘Dreams of a Common Language: Science, Gender and Culture’ 11. Angela McRobbie (1991), ‘New Times in Cultural Studies’ 12. Sarah Franklin, Celia Lury and Jackie Stacey (1991), ‘Feminism and Cultural Studies: Pasts, Presents, Futures’ Part III: THE BODY SIGNIFIES 13. Deborah Cameron, (1992), ‘Naming of Parts: Gender, Culture, and Terms for the Penis Among American College Students’ 14. Sander L. Gilman (1992), ‘Black Bodies, White Bodies: Toward an Iconography of Female Sexuality in Late Nineteenth-Century Art, Medicine, and Literature’ 15. Sally Peters (1992), ‘From Eroticism to Transcendence: Ballroom Dance and the Female Body’ 16. Sandra Kemp (1992), ‘“Let’s Watch a Little How He Dances” – Performing Cultural Studies’ 17. Annette Kuhn (1989), ‘The Body and Cinema: Some Problems for Feminism’ 18. Susan Bordo (1993), ‘“Material Girl”: The Effacements of Postmodern Culture’ 19. Rosi Braidotti (1989), ‘Organs Without Bodies’ PART IV: WORDS AND WORLDS 20. Carol Cohn (1987), ‘Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defence Intellectuals’ 21. Hazel V. Carby (1985), ‘“On the Threshold of Women’s Era”: Lynching, Empire, and Sexuality in Black Feminist Theory’ 22. Katie King (1988), ‘Audre Lorde’s Lacquered Layerings: The Lesbian Bar as a Site of Literary Production’ 23. Toni Morrison, (1989), ‘Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature’ 24. Kathryn Dodd (1990), ‘Cultural Politics and Women’s Historical Writing: The Case of Ray Strachey’s The Cause’ PART V: VISIBLE WORLDS 25. Wendy Kozol, (1988), ‘Madonnas of the Fields: Photography, Gender, and 1930s Farm Relief’ 26. Christine Holmlund (1991), ‘When is a Lesbian Not a Lesbian?: The Lesbian Continuum and the Mainstream Femme Film’ 27. Lynda Nead (1990), ‘The Female Nude: Pornography, Art, and Sexuality’ 28. Susan Gubar (1987), ‘Representing Pornography: Feminism, Criticism, and Depictions of Female Violation’ 29. Elizabeth Wilson (1992), ‘The Invisible Flâneur’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisWhat major long-term factors will shape the European Community post-1992? Who are the central actors, how will they exert influence on Europe's future, and what are their expectations and intentions?In seeking to answer these questions, The European Challenges Post-1992 offers a multidisciplinary, qualitative approach, throwing new light on the aspirations and preoccupations aroused by the promise of the Community. Centring on socio-political and cultural concerns and their interplay with economic phenomena, this important book combines expert opinion from 12 large European research institutes - each of which provides an analysis of the major factors shaping the future of their own country - with the views of leading industrialists and business leaders. The editors bring together these different views and interpretations to offer a comprehensive assessment of the Community's future.The European Challenge Post-1992 includes contributions by the former Commissaire du Plan (Brussels), the Institute of International Economics and Management (Copenhagen), Commissariat General du Plan (Paris), Kiel Institute of World Economics (Kiel), Foundation of Economic and Industrial Research (Athens), Economic and Social Research Institute (Dublin), Centro Studi Investimenti Sociali (Rome), Institut Universitaire International (Luxembourg), Scientific Council for Government Policy (The Hague), Instituto de Prospectiva (Lisbon), Fundacion Empresa Publica (Madrid), McKinsey & Co. and the Policy Studies Institute (London).The product of a major research project, this distinguished book is an invaluable reference point for all those concerned with the future of the European Community.Trade ReviewPreface by Jacques Delors'It cannot be said that any important issue is ignored in this substantial and useful piece of research.'

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Book SynopsisWhat major long-term factors will shape the European Community post-1992? Who are the central actors, how will they exert influence on Europe's future, and what are their expectations and intentions?In seeking to answer these questions, The European Challenges Post-1992 offers a multidisciplinary, qualitative approach, throwing new light on the aspirations and preoccupations aroused by the promise of the Community. Centring on socio-political and cultural concerns and their interplay with economic phenomena, this important book combines expert opinion from 12 large European research institutes - each of which provides an analysis of the major factors shaping the future of their own country - with the views of leading industrialists and business leaders. The editors bring together these different views and interpretations to offer a comprehensive assessment of the Community's future.The European Challenge Post-1992 includes contributions by the former Commissaire du Plan (Brussels), the Institute of International Economics and Management (Copenhagen), Commissariat General du Plan (Paris), Kiel Institute of World Economics (Kiel), Foundation of Economic and Industrial Research (Athens), Economic and Social Research Institute (Dublin), Centro Studi Investimenti Sociali (Rome), Institut Universitaire International (Luxembourg), Scientific Council for Government Policy (The Hague), Instituto de Prospectiva (Lisbon), Fundacion Empresa Publica (Madrid), McKinsey & Co. and the Policy Studies Institute (London).The product of a major research project, this distinguished book is an invaluable reference point for all those concerned with the future of the European Community.Trade ReviewPreface by Jacques Delors'It cannot be said that any important issue is ignored in this substantial and useful piece of research.'

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Book SynopsisThis title appears exactly 20 years after the publication of Altruism, Morality and Economic Theory, an important volume edited by E.S. Phelps which contains the proceeding of a conference where social scientists and philosophers met to speculate on the roles that altruism and morality play in shaping human behaviour and economic institutions within our societies. Until recently this discipline was considered of minor importance - now there is clear evidence of its growing interest.This an important volume contains the major articles on the economics of altruism published since 1975. The articles are grouped under 6 headings: the emergence of altruistic behaviour, varieties of altruism, the relevance of altruism and selfishness, altruism and allocation of resources, evolutionary dynamics of altruism, extended rationality and altruistic behaviour. The Economics of Altruism will be welcomed by all those with an interest in economics, philosophy, psychology and sociology.Trade Review'Professor Zamagni deserves high praise for his efforts bringing together a coherent critique of the conventional formulation of rationality in economics. . . . this volume will serve as a very useful introduction to the broad potential for future work in the economics of altruism.' -- Theodore Tsukahara Jr., Kyklos'The importance of bringing together such a span of ideas regarding one of the most problematic aspects of economic theory cannot be overstated.'– Amos Witztum, The Economic JournalTable of ContentsCONTENTS PART I THE EMERGENCE OF ALTRUISTIC BEHAVIOUR 1. Mordecai Kurz (1978), ‘Altruism as an Outcome of Social Interaction’ 2. Martin L. Hoffman (1981), ‘Is Altruism Part of Human Nature?’ 3. Dennis Krebs (1982), ‘Psychological Approaches to Altruism: An Evaluation’ 4. Robert H. Frank (1987), ‘If Homo Economicus Could Choose His Own Utility Function, Would He Want One with a Conscience?’ 5. Nancy Eisenberg and Paul A. Miller (1987), ‘Empathy, Sympathy, and Altruism: Empirical and Conceptual Links’ PART II VARIETIES OF ALTRUISM 6. Amartya Sen (1985), ‘Goals, Commitment, and Identity’ 7. Jack Hirshleifer (1977), ‘Shakespeare vs. Becker on Altruism: The Importance of Having the Last Word’ 8. David Collard (1975), ‘Edgeworth’s Propositions on Altruism’ 9. Ian Steedman (1989), ‘Rationality, economic man and altruism in P. H. Wicksteed’s Common Sense of Political Economy’ 10. David Miller (1988), ‘Altruism and the Welfare State’ 11. David Collard (1992), ‘Love is Not Enough’ PART III THE RELEVANCE OF ALTRUISM AND SELFISHNESS 12. Thomas C. Schelling (1978), ‘Altruism, Meanness, and Other Potentially Strategic Behaviors’ 13. Peter J. Hammond (1987), ‘Altruism’ 14. Dennis C. Mueller (1986), ‘Rational egoism versus adaptive egoism as fundamental postulate for a descriptive theory of human behavior’ 15. M. Teresa Lunati (1992), ‘On Altruism and Cooperation’ 16. John Hudson and Philip Jones (1994), ‘The Importance of the “Ethical Voter”: An Estimate of “Altruism:”’ PART IV ALTRUISM AND ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES 17. Gary S. Becker (1981), ‘Altruism in the Family and Selfishness in the Market Place’ 18. Robert Sugden (1982), ‘On the Economics of Philanthropy’ 19. David A. Collard (1983), ‘Economics of Philanthropy: A Comment’ 20. Serge-Christophe Kolm (1983), ‘Altruism and Efficiency’ 21. Assar Lindbeck and Jörgen W. Weibull (1988), ‘Altruism and Time Consistency: The Economics of Fait Accompli’ 22. B. Douglas Bernheim and Oded Stark (1988), ‘Altruism Within the Family Reconsidered: Do Nice Guys Finish Last?’ 23. Oded Stark (1989), ‘Altruism and the Quality of Life’ PART V EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS OF ALTRUISM 24. Gary S. Becker (1976), ‘Altruism, Egoism, and Genetic Fitness: Economics and Sociobiology’ 25. Paul A. Samuelson (1993), ‘Altruism as a Problem Involving Group versus Individual Selection in Economics and Biology’ 26. Theodore C. Bergstrom and Oded Stark (1993), ‘How Altruism Can Prevail in an Evolutionary Environment’ 27. Herbert A. Simon (1990), ‘A Mechanism for Social Selection and Successful Altruism’ 28. Oded Stark (1993), ‘Nonmarket transfers and altruism’ PART VI EXTENDED RATIONALITY AND ALTRUISTIC BEHAVIOUR 29. Albert O. Hirschman (1992), ‘Against Parsimony: Three Easy Ways of Complicating Some Categories of Economic Discourse’ 30. J. Philippe Rushton (1982), ‘Altruism and Society: A Social Learning Perspective’ 31. Elias L. Khalil (1990), ‘Beyond Self-Interest and Altruism, A Reconstruction of Adam Smith’s Theory of Human Conduct’ 32. Israel M. Kirzner (1990), ‘Self-Interest and the New Bashing of Economics: A Fresh Opportunity in the Perennial Debate?’ 33. Robert H. Frank, Thomas Gilovich, and Dennis T. Regan (1993), ‘Does Studying Economics Inhibit Cooperation?’

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Book SynopsisExplores the scope that there is for Indigenous curatorial agency in the relationship of Indigenous contemporary art with the 'art world'. This monograph focuses on the current boom in Indigenous contemporary art in Brazil, exploring in particular the way that this work interfaces with the art world through exhibitions, and the scope that there is for Indigenous curatorial agency in this relationship. After a brief introduction to Indigenous art, it gives an overview of the evolving relationship between Indigenous art and the art world, exploring in particular the nature of decolonial and/or Indigenous curatorial practice both in Brazil and elsewhere in the world. It then hones in on a recent exhibition: 'Arte Eletrônica Indígena' [Indigenous Electronic Art], held at the Museum of Modern Art of Bahia in Salvador in August 2018. Based on participant observation and interviews, it provides an ethnographic reading of the opening weekend of the exhibition, looking at the alternative modalities of Indigenous curatorial agency that were exercised by the Indigenous people present. The conclusion explores the legacy of the 'Arte Eletrônica Indígena' exhibition, particularly for the Indigenous communities involved, and looks to the evidence provided by the exhibition for lessons to be learned for future exhibitions.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Indigenous Art and its Curation in Contemporary Brazil Chapter 2: Decolonial and Indigenous Curatorial Theory and Practice in Brazil Chapter 3: The "Arte Eletrônica Indígena" Exhibition: Scratching the Surface Chapter 4: "AEI: Uma Mostra Interativa": An Ethnographic Reading of Indigenous Curatorial Agency Conclusions: Being Indigenous, Being There Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisAn exploration of how writers, artists, and filmmakers expose the costs and contest the assumptions of the Capitalocene era that guides readers through the rapidly developing field of Spanish environmental cultural studies. From the scars left by Franco's dams and mines to the toxic waste dumped in Equatorial Guinea, from the cruelty of the modern pork industry to the ravages of mass tourism in the Balearic Islands, this book delves into the power relations, material practices and social imaginaries underpinning the global economic system to uncover its unaffordable human and non-human costs. Guiding the reader through the rapidly emerging field of Spanish environmental cultural studies, with chapters on such topics as extractivism, animal studies, food studies, ecofeminism, decoloniality, critical race studies, tourism, and waste studies, an international team of US and European scholars show how Spanish writers, artists, and filmmakers have illuminated and contested the growth-oriented and neo-colonialist assumptions of the current Capitalocene era. Focussed on Spain, the volume also provides models for exploring the socioecological implications of cultural manifestations in other parts of the world. CONTRIBUTORS: Eugenia Afinoguénova, Samuel Amago, Daniel Ares-López, Kata Beilin, John Beusterien, Miguel Caballero Vázquez, Jorge Catalá, Glen S. Close, Jeffrey K. Coleman, Jamie de Moya-Cotter, Ana Fernández-Cebrián, Ofelia Ferrán, Tatjana Gajic , Pedro García-Caro, Santiago Gorostiza, Germán Labrador Méndez, Maryanne L. Leone, Shanna Lino, Jorge Marí, José Manuel Marrero Henríquez, Maria Antònia Martí Escayol, Christine Martínez, Cristina Martínez Tejero, Micah McKay, Pamela F. Phillips, Mercè Picornell, Luis I. Prádanos, Cécile Stehrenberger, John H. Trevathan, Joaquín Valdivielso, William Viestenz, Maite ZubiaurreTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Spanish Environmental Cultural Studies PART I: ENVIRONMENTAL CULTURAL HISTORY AND POLITICAL ECOLOGY 1.Political Ecology in Spain 2. Modern Iberian History at the Culture-Environment Interface: Cultures of Nature, Modernization, and the Anthropocene PART II: WATER AND POWER 3. Roots Under the Water: Dams, Displacement, and Memory in Franco's Spain (1950-1967) 4. The Message in a Bottle: Waterworks in Modern and Contemporary Spain 5.Soil, Water, and Light: Aerial Photography and Agriculture in Spain PART III: ECOLOGIES OF MEMORY AND EXTRACTIVISM 6.Developmentalism and the Political Unconsciousness: The Spanish Forms of Necro-Extractivism, from the Civil War to Neoliberal Democracy 7.S(h)ifting through the Wreckage 8.The Valley of the Fallen: From Francoist Environmentalism to DemocraticEco-Memorials PART IV: ANIMAL STUDIES AND MULTISPECIES ETHNOGRAPHIES 9.Multispecies Ethnographies in the World of Things (Crematorio and En la orilla by Rafael Chirbes and Óliver Laxe's O que arde): On the Need to Ecologize Humanities 10.What's in a Name? Animals and Humanities Biogeography 11.Ready-to-Hand: The Withdrawal of Animal Life in Francoist Cultural Production PART V: FOOD STUDIES AND EXPLOITATIVE ECOLOGIES 12.Spain's Gastronomy: Capitalism and Reproductive Labor 13.Intensive Industrial Livestock Production: Envisioning the Burden on Animals and the Environment PART VI: ECOFEMINISM 14.Early Ecofeminism in Spain: El metal de los Muertos (1920) and Mineros (1932), (anti)Mining Literary Interventions by Concha Espina, Carmen Conde, and María Cegarra 15. Spanish Ecofeminism PART VII: (NEO)COLONIAL AND RACIALIZED ECOLOGIES 16. Disaster, Coloniality, and the Franco Dictatorship 17. From Racial Contaminant to Nutrient in Spain's Ecological Future PART VIII: TOURISM AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMAGINATION 18. From Pleasant Difference to Ecological Concern: Cultural Imaginaries of Tourism in Contemporary Spain 19.The Gaze on the Tourist: Critical Approaches in Spanish Environmental Humanities PART IX: ECO-MEDIATION AND REPRESENTATION 20.Ecopoetics 21.Spanish Film and the Environment 22.Environmental Politics, Ecological Thought, and Spanish Comics PART X: TRASH AND DISCARD STUDIES 23.Enlightened Waste: Burials, Disease, and Public Health in Eighteenth-Century Spain 24.Aesthetics and the Political Ecology of Spanish Waste Space 25.Discard Studies and Spanish Narrative 26.Everything is Rubbish/Nothing is Rubbish: Basurama and the "Trashformation" of Public Space Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis‘Ideologies need enemies to thrive, religion does not’. Using the Sahel as a source of five comparative case studies, this volume aims to engage in the painstaking task of disentangling Islam from the political ideologies that have issued from its theologies to fight for governmental power and the transformation of society. While these ideologies tap into sources of religious legitimacy, the author shows that they are fundamentally secular or temporal enterprises, defined by confrontation with other political ideologies–both progressive and liberal–within the arena of nation states. Their objectives are the same as these other ideologies, i.e., to harness political power for changing national societies, and they resort to various methods of persuasion, until they break down into violence.The two driving questions of the book are, whence come these ideologies, and why do they–sometimes–result in violence? Ideologies of Salafi radicalism are at work in the five countries of the Sahel region, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, (Northern) Nigeria and Senegal, but violence has broken out only in Mali and Northern Nigeria. Using a theoretical framework of ideological development and methods of historical analysis, Idrissa traces the emergence of Salafi radicalism in each of these countries as a spark ignited by the shock between concurrent processes of Islamization and colonization in the 1940s. However, while the spark eventually ignited a blaze in Mali and Nigeria, it has only led to milder political heat in Niger and Senegal and has had no burning effect at all in Burkina Faso. By meticulously examining the development of Salafi radicalism ideologies over time in connection with developments in national politics in each of the countries, Idrissa arrives at compelling conclusions about these divergent outcomes. Given the many similarities between the countries studied, these divergences show, in particular, that history, the behaviour of state leaders and national sociologies matter–against assumptions of ‘natural’ contradictions between religion (Islam) and secularism or democracy. This volume offers a new perspective in discussions on ideology, which remains–as is shown here–the independent variable of many key contemporary political processes, either hidden in plain sight or disguised in a religious garb. Table of ContentsForeword1 Introduction 2 Burkina: Secrets of Quiescence 3 Niger: Ebbing Frontier of Radicalism 4 Senegal: Sufi Country 5 Mali: On the Edge 6 Nigeria: Breakdowns7 Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe fall of the Soviet system was hailed in the West as a triumph of liberal and democratic ideals, but this euphoria was to be short lived. The Rise of the Russian Democrats traces the pro-Western democracy movement's development in Moscow and Leningrad from 1987 to 1991 and seeks to explain its eventual loss of direction, inspiration and popularity. Studying the democratic revolution from its grassroots, Judith Devlin focuses on how a civil society emerged in Moscow and Leningrad through the development of political clubs and associations. Their relation to the reform politics of the party leadership is addressed in her authoritative and insightful analysis. Arguing that the movement's origins contributed to its ultimate decline, the author explains how the intelligentsia's leadership of the popular democratic movement was usurped by new politicians who emerged from the lower echelons of the Soviet management system. It was these new politicians who were able to play the key role in the transition to post-communism, shaping the new institutions and focusing political activity and debate. The Rise of the Russian Democrats attempts to characterise the original inspiration, strengths and weaknesses of the democratic movement in order to explain political culture after the 1991 coup. As an exploration of the reasons for the slow and superficial nature of democratization in Russia, this book is of practical, as well as academic, interest for students, researchers, journalists and policymakers.Trade Review'Devlin's book can be strongly recommended as an excellent account of the seeds that were sown for democracy in Russia during the late Soviet period, and in particular for its portrayal of the important role played by the intelligentsia.'Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. The Social Context 3. The Party and Reform 4. The Impact of Glasnost 5. The Political Clubs 6. The Rise of the Popular Fronts 7. The Demand for Democracy 8. The New Politics: Actors and Issues 9. Problems of Organisation: The Democratic Parties 10. Problems of Organisation: The Democratic Movement 11. The Problem of Support 12. Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThese volumes contain a spread of influential articles on economic issues arising in all aspects of the cultural sector - the performing and creative arts, (including the art market); the heritage industry (museums and monuments) and the media industry (film, TV, recording etc.). Cultural economics, including in this term the economics of the arts, has developed steadily over the last thirty years, with a literature that is theoretical, empirical and institutional. Some of the most prominent economists have written on subjects in this field - Coase, Baumol, Peacock, Robbins, Scitovsky, West and it is now being developed by their successors, of whom Frey and Throsby are the best established.Trade Review'Ruth Towse's new Edward Elgar set is indispensable - it runs two volumes, covers nearly 1400 pages, and reproduces most of the seminal articles in cultural economics. Towse's selection of articles deserves an A+. . . . they are a must for any cultural economist.' -- Tyler Cowen, Journal of Cultural Economics 'These two volumes should prove very useful to students and others wishing to become acquainted with the defining papers and main themes of Cultural Economics.'– Martin Ricketts, The Economic JournalTable of ContentsContents: Volume I: Introduction Part I: Overture Part II: Tastes and Taste Formation Part III: Demand Studies Part IV: Supply: The Performing Arts Part V: Supply: Museums and the Heritage Part VI: Supply: The Media Industries Part VII: The Art Market • Volume II: Part I: Economic History of the Arts Part II: Artists’ Labour Markets Part III: Baumol’s Cost Disease Part IV: Non-Profit Organizations in the Arts Part V: Public Subsidy for the Arts: Why? Theoretical Arguments Part VI: Public Subsidy for the Arts: How Much? Part VII: Public Subsidy for the Arts: How? Means to Achieve the Ends Part VIII: Economic Impact of the Arts

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Book SynopsisEconomists have often been accused of failing to take full account of culture and social norms in their explanations of human behaviour. Cultural factors are playing an increasingly important role in economic theorizing and are achieving greater recognition as determinants of economic performance. As such these volumes will be a landmark and will provide easy access to the most important articles in this expanding field. The first volume focuses on modelling the social and cultural aspects of an individual's behaviour. In the second volume this theme develops to consider cooperation in the economic system and the role of culture in supporting this system. The articles in these volumes explore a diverse range of issues including: the differences in achievements between ethnic groups the differences between firms from different countries the links between religion, community, ethnicity and economic performance. the influences of leadership, peer pressure, entrepreneurship, envy, status-seeking and self esteem. Trade Review'The two volumes are a welcome source for all interested in the rather successful but somewhat limited and sometimes problematic rational choice approach usually applied by economists (and since some time also by political scientists, sociologists and legal scholars). The reader will find many until now widely dispersed articles, which not only address the application of this method to other subjects than the market economy, but also its shortcomings, and which try to rectify them by widening or transforming it. Thus the two volumes can be strongly recommended. . .' -- Peter Bernholz, KyklosTable of ContentsContents: Volume I: Economic Behaviour Part I: Introduction Part II: Altruism, Envy and Interdependent References Part III: Social Aspects of Preferences: Rank and Status Part IV: Passions and Self-Control • Volume II: Economic Perfornance Part I: Co-operation Part II: Social Order Without Law Part III: Leadership and Peer Pressure Part IV: Religion and the Nature of Belief Part V: Entrepreneurial Culture Part VI: National Culture and Economic Perfornance Name Index

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Book SynopsisThis important book explores the cutting edge of contemporary environmental policy. It examines key issues and proposes innovative strategies for environmental problems facing us in the twenty-first century.The authors argue that the current structure of human activity is not sustainable and that there is a need for fundamental change in the way the environment is perceived and how decisions affecting the environment are made. They address the subject of environmental policy from the perspective of sustainability and issues related to equity. Included in the discussion is an examination of agricultural sustainability and biodiversity, energy productivity, technological change, ecological sustainability and industrial competitiveness, environmental valuation and the role of international finance for environmental settlements. In conclusion the authors argue for greater social assessment in decision making, and a need to involve a wider population in the decision-making process emphasising democracy, transparency, fairness, reciprocity and community.Sustainability and Global Environmental Policy will be of interest to policymakers in government and non-government institutions and academics working in the fields of environmental and development studies.Trade Review'Most of the papers are of good quality and written in a clear style that is also understandable to policymakers. One of the book's advantages is its comprehensive subject and author index. It also has a list of contributors with the authors' current affiliation, something that unfortunately has still not become a standard for comparable books yet.' -- Eric Neumayer, KyklosTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: New Environmental Policy Dimensions (A. Dragun and K. Jakobsson) 2. Reconciling Internal and External Policies for Sustainable Development (H. Daly) 3. Sustainability as the Basis of Environmental Policy (P. Ekins) 4. Biophysical and Objective Environmental Sustainability (R. Goodland) 5. Agricultural Sustainability and Conservation of Biodiversity: Competing Policies and Paradigms (C. Tisdell) 6. Energy Productivity and Sustainability in Swedish Agriculture – Some Evidence and Issues (H.-E. Uhlin) 7. Technological Change, Ecological Sustainability and Industrial Competiteveness (S. Faucheux) 8. Environmental Valuation: From the Point of View of Sustainability (M. O’Connor) 9. Environment, Equity and Welfare Economics (A. Dragun and K. Jakobsson) 10. Evaluation and Environmental Policies: Recent Behavioural Findings and Further Implications (J.L. Knetsch) 11. Tournament Incentives in Environmental Policy (J. Shogren and T. Hurley) 12. The Production of Biodiversity: Institutions and the Control of Land (I. Hodge) 13. Development and Global Finance: The Case for an International Bank for Environmental Settlements (G. Chichilnisky) 14. Dynamic Systems Modelling for Scoping and Consensus Building (R. Constanza and M. Ruth) 15. Conclusions: Future Horizons for Global Environmental Policy (A. Dragun and K. Jakobsson) Index

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the intricate relationship between culture and communication before moving on to intercultural health care, including a detailed look at perception of illness and disability. Two chapters on intercultural speech pathology look at clinical practice, including culturally-focussed assessment and management approaches. Interpreter-mediated speech pathology is covered in detail, including an overview of the process of interpreting, debate on professional versus untrained interpreters, discussion of pre-session briefing, a look at potential barriers to the interpretation process and introduction to a collaborative partnership model for working with interpreters. The final chapter explores the author's thoughts on the future directions in research and education in the field of intercultural and interpreter-mediated speech pathology. The book provides a comprehensive and practical insight into intercultural and interpreter-mediated speech pathology. With its easy to read and practical content, it should be of significant use to undergraduate students and qualified speech-language pathologists new to multicultural/multilingual contexts. However, it would also be suitable for experienced clinicians who find themselves tackling the challenges of intercultural speech pathology everyday.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Chapter 1 Communication and culture. Chapter 2 Miscommunication. Chapter 3 Intercultural health care. Chapter 4 Intercultural speech-language pathology. Chapter 5 Assessment and treatment approaches. Chapter 6 Different culture, different language. Chapter 7 Issues in interpreting - pre-session briefing. Chapter 8 Issues in interpreting - potential barriers. Chapter 9 Models of partnership. Chapter 10 Future directions. References. Index.

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