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Book SynopsisHuman beings have an evolved but highly adaptable nature. This book sets out to establish a new framework for understanding human nature, from an evolutionary perspective but drawing on existing social sciences. It seeks to explain how human beings can appear to be so malleable in their nature, yet have an inherited set of behavioural instincts. When the founder of sociobiology, E.O. Wilson, made a plea for greater integration of the physical and human sciences in his book Consilience, there was an underlying assumption that the traffic would be mainly one way -- from physical to human science. This book reverses this assumption and draws on a new branch of human sciences, paradoxical systems theory, to reconceptualise some of the most innovative developments from physical sciences -- the related fields of evolutionary psychology, ethology, and behavioural genetics. The new approach is also applied to politics, economic and public policy approaches.

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1959, Iona and Peter Opie's The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren is a pathbreaking work of scholarship that is also a splendid and enduring work of literature. Going outside the nursery, with its assortment of parent-approved entertainments, to observe and investigate the day-to-day creative intelligence and activities of children, the Opies bring to life the rites and rhymes, jokes and jeers, laws, games, and secret spells of what has been called 'the greatest of savage tribes, and the only one which shows no signs of dying out.'

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Book SynopsisIn 1998, Bill Clinton hosted a town hall on race and sports. ''If you''ve got a special gift,'' the president said of athletes, ''you owe more back.'' Gift and Grit shows how the sports industry has incubated racial ideas about advantage and social debt since the civil rights era by sorting athletes into two broad categories. The gifted athlete received something for nothing, we''re told, and owes the team, the fan, the city, God, nation. The gritty athlete received nothing and owes no one. The distinction between gift and grit is racial, but also, Joseph Darda reveals, racializing: It has structured new racial categories and redrawn racial lines. Sports, built on an image of fairness, inform how we talk about advantage and deservedness in other domains, including immigration, crime, education, and labor. Gift and Grit tells the stories of Roger Bannister, Roberto Clemente, Martina Navratilova, Florence Griffith Joyner, and LeBron James ? and the story their stories tell about the shifting meaning of race in America.

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Book SynopsisDigital Intermediation offers a new framework for understanding content creation and distribution across automated media platforms a new mediatisation process. This book draws on empirical and theoretical research to carefully identify and describe a number of unseen digital infrastructures that contribute to a predictive media production process through technologies, institutions and automation. Field data is drawn from several international sites, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, London, Amsterdam, Munich, Berlin, Hamburg, Sydney and Cartagena. By highlighting an increasingly automated content production and distribution process, this book responds to a number of regulatory debates on the societal impact of social media platforms. It highlights emerging areas of key importance that shape the production and distribution of social media content, including micro-platformisation and digital first personalities. This book explains how technologies, instiTrade Review‘Digital Intermediation is insightful, demonstrates incredible command of the literature in complementary fields combined with deep understanding through personal experience and ethnographic research, brought in a very accessible fashion, making the book suitable for academics from a range of disciplines as well as for interested audiences beyond academia. With references to Australia and the EU and a case study of Vietnam, the book goes beyond the typical references to the US, helping to evaluate the global impact while paying attention to regional and national specifics of the phenomenon of digital intermediaries and its many aspects.’Hilde Van den Bulck, Professor and Head of Department of Communication, Drexel University, USA.'Do you know what these are? A digital first personality? Micro-platformisation? A digital intermediary? An automated recommender system? Digital experience design? A predictive media environment? Algorithmic media? In this unique and timely book, Jonathon Hutchinson guides us through these unseen components of digital content production, to map the hidden infrastructure of digital intermediation. Now that everyone is a cultural producer, it’s no good complaining: what you do trains the system, even as the system trains you. The best way to achieve transparency is to understand how it works, whether you’re a user, student, creative, or public policymaker.'John Hartley, Professor in Digital Media and Culture, University of Sydney, Australia.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Digital Intermediation: A theoretical framework 3. Digital Intermediation: Opportunities and Challenges 4. Digital first personalities 5. Micro-platformisation 6. Automated media 7. Transparent infrastructures 8. The role of public institutions for digital intermediation 9. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisEmerging Digital Media Ecologies investigates the profound ways in which digital media reshapes our cultural, socio-technological, political, and natural landscapes. Through interdisciplinary empirical and creative case studies, the book illuminates the nuances of medialogy, emphasizing the often-underestimated impact of emerging technologies across interactive education, data gathering, visual-data representations, and creative practice. It explores the intersection of the natural and technological worlds, contextualizing our use of natural resources against climate change and sustainable economies.Divided into two parts, the book delves into the theoretical underpinnings of digital media ecologies and their practical applications. Part One traces the evolution of media technologies, examining their environmental impact and the foundational approaches to understanding media's complex interconnections. Part Two focuses on contemporary issues such as hyper-personalized

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Book SynopsisFrom healing, fertility, and religious rituals, through theatrical entertainment, to death ceremonies and ancestor worship, the updated and revised second edition of World Dance Cultures introduces an extraordinary variety of dance forms and their cultures, which are practiced around the world.This highly illustrated textbook draws on wide-ranging historical documentation and first-hand accounts taking in India, Bali, Java, Cambodia, China, Japan, Hawaiâi, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Africa, TÃrkiye, Spain, Native America, South America, and the Caribbean, with this second edition adding new chapters on the Pacific Islands, Southern Africa, France, and Cuba.Each chapter covers a certain regionâs distinctive dances, pinpoints key issues and trends from the formâs development to its modern iteration, and offers a wealth of study features including:â Spotlights zooming in on key details of a dance formâs cultural, historical, and religious contextsTable of Contents1. India: Devotion, dance, mythology 2. Indonesia: Bali and Java: From temple, to village, to court 3. Cambodia and China: Dance as a political tool 4. Japananese noh, kabuki, and butoh: Entertaining samurai, merchants, and rebels 5. Hawai‘i, Aotearoa/New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea: Keepers of culture 6. Africa: Fertility festivals, death ceremonies, ancestor worship, and healing rituals 7. North Africa, Türkiye, and Spain: Healing, worship, and expression 8. Native America, the Caribbean, South America: Resistance, spirituality, spectacle 9. Europe: Presenting the "Other" in French Renaissance and Baroque ballet de cour

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Book SynopsisQueering the Museum develops a queer analysis of the ways in which museums construct themselves, their core business, and their publics through the, often unconscious, use of inherited ways of knowing and doing. Providing a critique of both the practices and conventions associated with the modern public museum, and the ontological assumptions that inform them, the authors consider recent discourse around inclusion in museums and explore the ways this has been taken up in practice. Highlighting the limits of particular approaches to inclusion, and the failure to move away from a traditional museological paradigm, the book outlines an alternative critical museological approach that the authors refer to as âqueerâ. Providing readers with the critical tools necessary for a profound rethinking of museum practice, the book also responds to and problematises the growing call for social inclusion. Queering the Museum will appeal to academics, students, and museTrade Review"In Nikki Sullivan’s and Craig Middleton’s Queering the Museum, we witness alternative offerings that question, deconstruct, and reimagine what museums can be doing. They critique the institution of museums by exploring queer methodologies within and outside of the museum and addressing this institution as much as an entity as an action. Delving into critical race theory, indigenous studies, queer studies, feminist methodologies, cultural studies, the authors position museums as being shaped by the world around them, aspiring for inclusion yet continuing to hide and exclude the other-ed, and needing to advocate for museums’ participation in critical reflections and approaches to this work. While this book can serve as a helpful toolkit for pushing, reimagining, and queering museums, Sullivan and Middleton resist the notion that there is a prescribed remedy or formula to queering the museum." Sarita Hernández, SQS 1-2/2020, Queer Eye reviews.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1.From LGBTIQ+ inclusion to queer ethics; 2. Queer/ing display; 3. Queer/ing meaning-making; 4.Queer/ing engagement; Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis edited volume examines the current challenges to media freedom and democratisation in the Middle East. The book revisits the relationship between media consumption and activism in the region, providing thorough analyses on the appropriation of social media for political engagement.Since the outburst and spread of what was known as the âArab Uprisingsâ in 2010, the political and media landscapes in the Middle East region have dramatically changed. The initial hope for democratic change and governance quality improvements has faded, as several regimes in the Middle East have strengthened their repressive tactics toward voices deemed critical of governmentsâ practices, including journalists, bloggers, and activists. The crumbling Arab media scene has also reached an abysmal low, with little to no independence, and public perception of basic freedoms in the region has significantly dropped, as has trust in media and government institutions. This book examines current challenTable of ContentsIntroduction: The State of Media and Democracy in the MENA Region 1. Freedom of Expression in the Post-Arab Spring Countries 2. The Collapse of Social Media-Based Movements and the Dilemma of Democracy in Egypt 3. Social Media and Social Change in Jordan 4. Cracking Down on Media and Democracy in Lebanon: The October 17 Uprising 5. Citizenship, Media, and Activism in Turkey during Gezi Park Protests 6. Political Laugh on Social Media: An Analysis of Humorous Participation in Turkey 7. Cultural identity in Libyan and Yemeni Social Media Visual Art: The Expression of Transcultural Identity in Countries of Conflict 8. Saudi Women Journalists: An Ethnographic Study Exploring their Roles and Practices in an Age of National Transformation 9. Democratising the Media: Media Reform and The Future of Journalism in Egypt 10. Memory as a Human Right: Palestinian Memory and Israel’s Modes of Forgetting

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Book SynopsisDrawing on debates about intangible cultural heritage (ICH) safeguarding at the local and international levels, Intangible Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development: Inside a UNESCO Convention, explores the theoretical and practical implications of the intertwinement between these policy fields.Considering how sustainable development (SD) priorities are influencing representations of ICH, the volume questions how they are expanding the frontiers of the heritage realm and unsettling accepted understandings of the social uses of heritage. The contributing authors, who hail from a variety of different contexts and disciplinary backgrounds, explore these issues from a unique vantage point as both scholars and actors of the processes they analyze. Playing different roles in the implementation of the Convention, their positioning as insiders allows for a unique analytical perspective that is based on first-hand engagement with the practices of the Convention.InTable of ContentsThe rise of sustainable development in the convention for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage PART I The international legal and policy framework: sustainability as a political and moral imperative 1 Sustainable development and human rights in safeguarding ICH: positive goals or an internal contradiction? 2 The reorientation of a convention: UNESCO, intangible heritage, and sustainable development 3 How and why the SDGs entered the paradigm of safeguarding intangible heritage: the “Sixth Chapter” PART II Ownership, intellectual property, commons 4 Ownership and rights: sustainable development ideals with inequalities of recognition and resource management 5 Misappropriation, intellectual property, and ethics 6 Governing intangible cultural heritage commons PART III Negotiating inclusiveness 7 No sustainability without materiality: complex paths to good practices in Switzerland 8 Safeguarding the intangible heritage of Indigenous peoples: a conceptual distance in intergovernmental discourses PART IV Intangible cultural heritage economics:decontextualization, precarity, and entrepreneurship 9 Decontextualization from UNESCO to China: the embarrassment and empowerment of economic uses of intangible cultural heritage 10 Intangible cultural heritage, sustainability, and the COVID-19 in Marrakech11 Popular music and heritage embarrassment in Brazil

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Women's Work in Music presents a unique collection of core research by academics and music practitioners from around the world, engaging with an extraordinarily wide range of topics on women's contributions to Western and Eastern art music, popular music, world music, music education, ethnomusicology as well as in the music industries.The handbook falls into six parts. Part I serves as an introduction to the rich variety of subject matter the reader can expect to encounter in the handbook as a whole. Part II focuses on what might be termed the more traditional strand of feminist musicology research which highlights the work of historical and/or neglected composers. Part III explores topics concerned with feminist aesthetics and music creation and Part IV focuses on questions addressing the performance and reception of music and musicians. The narrative of the handbook shifts in Part V to focus on opportunities and leadership in the music profTable of ContentsEditor’s IntroductionPart I: Challenging Gender Inequalities Sophie Fuller, Grace, Betty, Maude and Me: 30 Years of Fighting for Women Composers Susan Wollenberg, ‘Where Are We Now?’: Teaching and Studying Women Composers post-Citron Helen Elizabeth Davies, ‘Because I’m a Girl’: Exploring Experiences, Practices and Challenges Relating to Gender and Sexuality for Female Musicians in Popular Music Higher Education Emily Doolittle, Composer, Mother Stephen Wilford, ‘The Algerian woman is very strong’: Music, Identity and Gender in Algerian London Valentine Harding, In Search of the Field: Reflections on an Ethnomusicological Project in India Christina Homer, Women’s Work in Ethnomusicology: Alternative Spaces Part II: (Re)Discoveries Zaina Shihabi, A Brief Historical and Sociological Examination of Twentieth-Century Arab Women Composers and Performers in Egypt Sally Macarthur, The Rise and Rise of Women in Australian Composition Susan Clauson-Elliott, Women Composers and the Proms: The First 100 Years (1895–1994) Claudia Chibici-Revneanu, Chasing María Teresa Lara: An Autoethnographic Account of Trying to Recuperate the Story of a ‘Lost’ Woman Composer Joanna Schiller-Rydzewska, The Artistic Path and Achievement of Polish Composer Ewa Synowiec Eva M. Maschke, Composer, Performer, Teacher: Jeanne Barbillion (1895-1992) and the Schola Cantorum de Paris Elisabeth Honn Hoegberg, How Theocritus Sang: Eleanor Everest Freer’s Sonnets from the Portuguese Rhian Davies, A Life in Fragments: Morfydd Owen (1891–1918) Part III: Aesthetics and Music Creation Rebecka Sofia Ahvenniemi, Overcoming the ‘Male Gaze’ of Music: Towards Renewed Compositional Strategies Isabel Nogueira, Voices, Sounds and Herstories: Constructing Feminist Research in Experimental Music Angela Elizabeth Slater, Invisible Canons: A Reflective Commentary on the Formation of my Personal Canon of Women Composers Lucy Hollingworth, Storytelling in Autoethnography – The Poetess J. Michele Edwards, Chen Yi: Trauma, Myths, and Representation Laura Dallman, Considering Autonomy and Collaboration in Three Concerti by Jennifer Higdon Ji Yeon Lee, Decoding the Riddle: The Tea-Party Scene in Unsuk Chin’s Alice in Wonderland David Forrest, Kate Bush’s Uncanny Harmonic Language Part IV: Performance and Reception Bella Powell, Notions of Virtuosity, Female Accomplishment, and the Violin as Forbidden Instrument in Early-Mid Nineteenth-Century England Nuppu Koivisto, Visitors from ‘the Merry Town by the Danube’: Viennese Ladies’ Orchestras, Public Image and Variety Shows in Finland from 1870 to 1914 Maren Bagge, Women Song Composers and the London Ballad Concerts Ivette Janet Céspedes Gómez, Sara Gonzáles: A Different Song About Women Grace Takyi Donkor, Changing Roles of Women in the Gospel Music Performance Space in Ghana Maree Sheehan, Māori Women at the Forefront of Aotearoa/New Zealand Music in the Mid 1980s and Early 1990s Li-ming Pan, The Stereotypical Image and Body Representation of Taiwanese Female Musicians Part V: Opportunities and Leadership in the Music Professions Jessica Duchen, Climb Every Mountain Edwina Wolstencroft, Celebrating Women Composers on BBC Radio 3 Miia Laine, Contested Spaces: Gender Dynamics in Independent Radio Stations in London Karlyn King, ‘And her voice is a backwards record’: The Gendering of Phonograph Technology Carolyn Watson, Cracks in the Glass Ceiling: Women Conductors, New Trends, Old Challenges Frances Novillo, Personal Reflections on Professional Experience of Women’s Liturgical Leadership as Musicians in the Roman Catholic Church Gabriela Sanchez Diaz, Re-Mapping and Connecting Bodies of Women Musicians Part VI: New Perspectives on Women’s Work in Music Yuemin He, Materiality, Editorship and Canonisation in Wang Duanshu’s Collection of Elegance (1667) Jennifer Cable, Mary Carlisle Howe (1882–1964) and Adella Prentiss Hughes (1869–1950): Creating an Arts Culture in America, One Woman at a Time Elina G. Hamilton, Louise Hanson-Dyer (1884–1962): Patroness of Music Publishing Lia Lonnert and Helen Davies Mikkelborg, Lady Llanover and the Swedish Connection: A Welsh Musical Legacy Jessica Beck, The Women Musicians of the British Ethical Movement, 1887–1927 Kirstie Alison Muldoon, The Role of Women in Irish Music Institutions in the Early Twentieth Century Helen C. Thomas, The Beedle-Carter Correspondence: An Analysis of the Cultural Work Undertaken by Maureen Beedle to Promote Elliott Carter’s Music in the UK and Europe

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Book SynopsisReading Lacan's Écrits is the first extensive set of commentaries on the complete edition of Lacan's Écrits to be published in English. This third volume provides an indispensable companion piece to some of Lacan's most crucial and notoriously challenging writings, from Logical Time' to Response to Jean Hyppolite', and including The Function and Field of Speech', Variations on the Standard Treatment' and Presentation on Transference'. With the contributions of some of the world's most renowned Lacanian scholars and analysts such as Bernard Burgoyne, Marc De Kesel and Russell Grigg this volume encompasses a series of systematic, paragraph-by-paragraph commentaries which not only contextualize, explain and interrogate Lacan's arguments, but afford the reader multiple interpretive routes through the complete edition of Lacan's most labyrinthine of texts. As there is no existing set of exhaustive commentaries on Lacan's Écrits availabTrade Review'It all began with an improbable wager: ask 35 scholars to each write something intelligible about every single paragraph in one of the texts included in Jacques Lacan's magnum opus, Écrits, so as to generate a commentary on the entire 800-page volume. And yet, after years of preparation, the wager has paid off: we have here useful and at times brilliant examples of textual explication! Cryptic formulations are lucidly unpacked, and mysterious references are provided, giving the serious reader myriad keys to fascinating texts'.Bruce Fink, translator of Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English (2006)'Let’s face it: Lacan’s Écrits, one of the classical texts of modern thought are unreadable - they remain impenetrable if we just pick the thick volume up and start to read it. Hook, Neill and Vanheule provide what we were all waiting for: a detailed commentary which does not aim to replace reading Écrits but to render it possible. The three volumes do wonder, their effect is no less than magic: when, after getting stuck at a particularly dense page of Écrits, we turn to the corresponding pages in the commentary and then return to the page of Écrits which pushed us to madness, the same lines appear in all the clarity of their line of thought. It is thus a safe prediction that Hook, Neill and Vanheule's commentary will become a kind of permanent companion of the English translation of Écrits, indispensable for everyone who wants to find her or his way in its complex texture'. Slavoj Žižek 'Like a Rosetta stone, this accessible and superbly-written collection superimposes three levels of translation that render legible a text that Lacan quipped was not meant to be read. Cracking the code of Lacanian hieroglyphics, we discover the genealogy of his thought. These exceptionally fresh and user-friendly approaches testify to the enduring relevance and urgency of his opus magnum'. Patricia Gherovici, psychoanalyst and author of Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference (Routledge, 2017). 'These essays will be an invaluable resource not only for those approaching Écrits for the first time but also for seasoned readers. Broad in scope yet following the detail of the text, they help guide us through Lacan’s difficult prose, elucidating, contextualizing and clarifying, and reminding us time and time again of the precision, power and originality of his rethinking of psychoanalysis'.Darian LeaderTable of ContentsIntroduction to ‘Reading Écrits’: La trahison de l’écriture 1. Logical Time and the Assertion of Anticipated Certainty: A New Sophism 2. Presentation on Transference 3. On the Subject who is Finally in Question 4. The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis 5. Variations on the Standard Treatment 6. On a Purpose 7. Introduction and Response to Jean Hyppolite’s Commentary on Freud’s "Verneinung"

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates the history of women's reproductive health in Ghana,arguing that between the 1920s and 1980s, it was largely driven by discourses ofdevelopment and population control rather than a concern for women's health orrights.Between the 1920s and 1980s, the choices that Ghanaian women maderegarding their reproductive health were defined by development policy andpractice. Spanning the colonial and immediate postcolonial periods, this bookdemonstrates that whilst the substance of development discourse shifted overtime, principles of development continued to be used to impact and legitimisereproductive health policy and practices well after independence. The bookexplores Ghana's pluralist health system, the introduction of maternal and childwelfare, the dominance of the Red Cross in Ghana's maternal and child healthlandscape, nationalist pronatalism and global population activism. In orde

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Book SynopsisInspired by Bourdieuâs thought, this book explores the notion of cultural capital, offering insights into its various definitions, its evolution and the critical theories that engage with it. Designed for use by students and teachers, it addresses the limitations and expansion of Bourdieu's theory of capital and power, considering the relationship between cultural, social and human capital, the distinctions between capital and capitalism, and the conflicts that exist among theories that have emerged in response to â or can be brought to bear on â Bourdieuâs work. Engaging with the thought of Max Weber, Fernand Braudel, Daniel Bell, Herbert Marcuse, Jean Baudrillard, Theodore Adorno, Max Horkheimer and Gilles Lipovetsky, Cultural Capital and Creative Communication represents the first book to develop a field of research and study that is devoted to cultural capital. Richly illustrated with empirical examples and offering assessment exercises, it will appeal not

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Book SynopsisThe first peer-reviewed book of its kind, this important volume addresses a current gap in the field of gestalt therapy: that the practiceand psychotherapy more broadlystill suffers from pervasive hetero- and cis-normativity. This book offers gestalt-therapy-based research and training material on gender, sex, and relationship diversity (GSRD), including chapters on a variety of GSRD issues and how therapists can become more GSRD-sensitive. The contributors position themselves across the whole spectrum of GSRD and offer their voices as an invitation to further queer the gestalt community with diverse content ranging from academic, research-oriented pieces to experiential, reflective perspectives. Featured chapters explore topics including gender-radical clients, sex and sexuality, relationship diversity, integrating GSRD and gestalt therapy, and addressing heteronormativity in gestalt therapy training. Queering Gestalt Therapy is for everyone who is interested iTrade Review'Queering Gestalt Therapy is a truly pertinent and seminal contribution to the field of psychotherapy, irrespective of therapeutic orientation and training. This volume offers readers a breadth of understanding in its leading-edge discussion of the complexities and nuances in considering gender identities, sexual orientations, and relationship diversities. Readers will be rewarded with an essential broadening of awareness-informing-understanding, perspective, and clinical practice across the human landscape.'Allan Singer, Psychotherapist in Private Practice, Boston, MA, USA'Thanks to all who contributed to this timely anthology. I was simultaneously enlivened and brought up to date on reading through the diverse voices of contributors. This book makes an important and belated addition to our gestalt field. Anyone practising gestalt therapy with a general population today needs to read it.'Malcolm Parlett PhD, Author of Future Sense, former editor of the British Gestalt Journal'Queering Gestalt Therapy is the book missing from the Gestalt reading list. It manages to unfold a new perspective on the subject matter using Gestalt theory, whereas it invites the reader to take a closer look in each author’s personal world that contains the meticulous experience on working with gender radical clients. It is a highly recommended book for all mental health practitioners, regardless their school of thought, as it will embellish their professional practice.' Maria Tzioni, Gestalt Psychotherapist and Yoga Instructor Table of ContentsWelcome Everyone 1. Understanding Gender Radical Clients 2. Gender-identification 3. Holding Uncertainty so that it can be Thought About: Relational Gestalt Therapy with Gender Creative Children 4. The Drag and Queer Years as a Means of Developing a Therapeutic Self: Bringing Street Work in the Office 5. Experiment and Phenomenology in Treating Gender Dysphoria 6. 'Selfish and Destructive': Where does the late-in-life lesbian seek therapeutic support? 7. A Gay Son and His Dying Straight Dad: An Account of Ambiguous Loss and the Embodiment of Homophobia 8. Activism and Therapy 9. Compulsive Sexual Behaviours: Moving Beyond the Frontiers of Addiction Thinking 10. Queering Relationships 11. LGBTI in Rural Ireland: Secret Lives Creatively Lived 12. Gender, Sexuality and Relationship Diversity (GSRD) Sensitive Gestalt Psychotherapy 13. ‘I assumed that it was a man she was in love with’: Heteronormativity and Queer Experimentation in Gestalt Therapy Training

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the social and cultural histories of India, focusing on cultural encounters and representations of subaltern communities from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century. Examining cultural encounters between Europeans and Indians during the precolonial and colonial periods, the book analyzes European, especially English, efforts to exoticize or investigate the social practices of the Other. It also presents the culturally conditioned Indian subject''s perspective on Europe and the imperial society. The book engages with narratives of suppressed movements of tribals and dalits, of erosion of the culture and history of ancient communities, and recovers the local narratives of marginalized groups in Andaman and Malabar, which get superseded by the larger narrative of nation-building. Often relying on oral history instead of printed material and sociological fieldwork, the alternate histories are presented through unconventional, literary or semi-literary genres likeTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Investigating Cultural Practices, Fashioning Identities, and Travel Literature 1 John Locke’s India: Religion, Revelation, and Enthusiasm 2 Encountering the ‘Sati’: Early Modern English Travel Narratives and the Politics of Exoticization 3 Indian Travel Writing in the Age of Empire: Mobility and Cosmopolitan Nationalism Part 2: Alternate Histories, Divergent Concepts, and Subaltern Spaces of Resistance 4 Patriots in Kala Pani? Writing Subaltern Resistance into the Nationalist Memory 5 Reading Bhikshu Bodhanand’s Mool Bharatvasi aur Arya: Reflections on an Alternative History of the ‘Beginnings’ of Indian Civilization 6 Enacting Resistance in History and Fiction: Counter-narratives of Tribal Historiography in Mahasweta Devi’s Writings 7 "We must create a history of India in living terms": Patrick Geddes and Aspects of Sister Nivedita's Writings on Indian History Part 3: Writing History and Engaging with Peripheral Genres 8 Cassetted Emotions: Intimate Songs and Marital Conflicts in the Age of Pravasi (1970-1990) 9 Framing History, Precarity, and Trauma: A Study of Nandita Das’s Firaaq

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to Photography and Visual Culture is a seminal reference source for the ever-changing field of photography. Comprising an impressive range of essays and interviews by experts and scholars from across the globe, this book examines the medium's history, its central issues and emerging trends, and its much-discussed future. The collected essays and interviews explore the current debates surrounding the photograph as object, art, document, propaganda, truth, selling tool, and universal language; the perception of photography archives as burdens, rather than treasures; the continual technological development reshaping the field; photography as a tool of representation and control, and more.One of the most comprehensive volumes of its kind, this companion is essential reading for photographers and historians alike.Table of ContentsTable of Contents Introduction & Terminology Territories The Photographic Document Photographic Expression Useful Photography Dissemination of Photography The Open Boundaries of the Photographic Medium Photography and the Market Photographic Education Outlook

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Book SynopsisHow much do you know about the lives of bisexual men who are married to women? Do you know any personally? Have you seen them represented in the media or pop culture? Bisexual people make up a majority of the LGBT+ community, but they are still relatively hidden and misunderstood. Robert Brooks Cohen aims to address this invisibility by sharing a collection of interviews with Bi+ men who are or were married to women, helping readers find connection, understanding, and community.Their experience is often erased as not queer enough, but these men are queer, and they are challenging societal norms in important and innovative ways. Written by the host of ''Two Bi Guys'', this book intersperses Robert''s bisexual journey with the diverse stories of other Bi+ men to help normalize sexual fluidity and create more awareness and compassion. Each chapter is framed around a bisexual married man''s story which touches on an important theme in many people''s journey, such as coming out, mTrade Review"Cohen delivered-this book is truly amazing. His podcast Two Bi Guys and the discovery of his own bisexuality are a powerful foundation for the rich oral histories of the men interviewed. Bisexual men really do exist, and this innovative, intersectional resource is desperately needed to challenge the bi-erasure they endure. I can't wait to use it in my own classes!"Lisa Spiedel, associate professor, Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality, University of Virginia"A fascinating read that sheds a light on a demographic that is so often invisible. With an eclectic group of people, Cohen showcases the lived experiences of bisexual men married to women, highlighting their similarities despite their numerous differences. Through grace, sensitivity and wisdom gained through years of activism and conversations with others in the community, Cohen imparts his knowledge throughout a series of oral histories as well as sharing his own life. Even as someone who is not in a relationship with a woman, I found these stories resonating with me in countless ways. I have no doubt that this book will reach so many who are so often scared of the limelight."Vaneet Mehta, author of Bisexual Men Exist: A Handbook for Bisexual, Pansexual, and M-Spec MenTable of Contents1. Introduction: The Hidden Lives of Bi+ Married Men 2. Gregory and How "Weirdness" Unlocks Queer Possibilites 3. Rich on Confronting Internalized Homophobia and Bisexual Parenting 4. Quentin on Religious Purity Culture and Negotiating Monogamy 5. A Universal Capacity for Queerness 6. Jeremy and How School Bullying Affects Identity Development 7. Kaiko on Surviving Abuse and Embracing Change 8. Scott on Lost Opportunities and Navigating Infidelity 9. Bisexuality and Intersectionality 10. Nelson and How Pornography Can Trigger A Bisexual Awakening 11. William and Sexual Fluidity in the Military 12. Bennett and the Journey from the "Other Side" of the Spectrum 13. Carter on the Trans, Black. and Bi+ Experience 14. Bisexuality and Non-Monogamy 15. Drew and Polyamory with Two Women 16. Evan and Lindsay on Marrying Young and Evolving Together 17. Stanley and Christine on Meeting Your Spouse at a Bisexual Play Party 18. Concluding Thoughts

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Book SynopsisFocusing on the user experience of online search, this book explores the complex design at play and the ways social media platforms, websites, and other online interfaces have been created to provide information. Author Liese Zahabi addresses three key questions. How do users perceive search engines and what is their understanding of how they work? What are the various user interface designs, contemporary and historical, that have created access points to search, and how do these interfaces affect each other and a userâs search process? What do these designs and products say about our priorities and our relationships with information and other people? This book weaves archival and contemporary examples of interface designs together with the results of user research conducted by the author. These user studies focus on how people utilize various platforms, apps, and interfaces in their quest for information, answers, and meaning. Current research from the fields of user experie

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Book SynopsisCharting the increase in the use of games for the dissemination of extremist propaganda, radicalization, recruitment, and mobilization, this book examines the gamification of extremism.Editors Linda Schlegel and Rachel Kowert bring together a range of insights from world-leading experts in the field to provide the first comprehensive overview of gaming and extremism. The potential nexus between gaming and extremism has become a key area of concern for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners seeking to prevent and counter radicalization and this book offers insights into key trends and debates, future directions, and potential prevention efforts. This includes the exploration of how games and game adjacent spaces, such as Discord, Twitch, Steam, and DLive, are being leveraged by extremists for the purposes of radicalization, recruitment, and mobilization. Additionally, the book presents the latest counterterrorism techniques, surveyspromising preventing/countering violent

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Book SynopsisFocused on understanding and analyzing LGBTQ activism and protest globally, this edited collection brings together voices from different parts of the world to examine LGBTQ protests and their impact.Through the lens of media, culture, and sociopolitical structures, this collection highlights how cultural and technical factors like the emergence of social media and other digital platforms have impacted LGBTQ activism. This book draws on studies from countries as varied as Zimbabwe, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Hungary, Morocco, China, and the US. The contributions provide important insight into how social media and digital platforms have provided space for self-expression and protest and encouraged advocacy and empowerment for LGBTQ movements. It also examines the diversity and similarities between different national contexts and the various obstacles faced, while spotlighting countries that are traditionally understudied in Western academia, in an important step toward decolonizingTrade Review"This extensive cross-cultural examination of the global struggle for LGBTQ+ rights illustrates the distinctive complexities that each nation’s political, cultural, and media context provides. Many of the countries addressed in this collection have not received much western scholarly attention, which makes this edited book even more valuable for scholars and activists who seek to understand the roadblocks that continue to hinder the push for universal LGBTQ+ rights and recognition." Rhonda Gibson, Professor, UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill"This is a profound and global exploration of LGBTQIA+ activism that braids together a volume of perspectives to illustrate the unique complexities of activism across countries and cultures while amplifying the work of many activists, scholars, and allies. Such a collection can transform how LGBTQIA+ activism is represented, acknowledged, and experienced while also providing pathways for strengthening human rights around the world." Avery E. Holton, Chair of the Department of Communication, Student Media Advisor and Co-Research Coordinator, Center for Excellence in ELSI Research (CEER), University of Utah"This is an essential volume on the transformative role of queer activism online that is direly needed at this particular moment when LGBTQ+ rights are under imminent threat. This work is strengthened by its global approach that provides a synthesis of activism across the world, including in countries often neglected in academic work." Gina M. Masullo, Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Media, Associate Director, Center for Media Engagement, The University of Texas at Austin"This volume is an important collection focusing on LGBTQ protest mechanisms and advocacy from around the world. With chapters on Queer youth advocacy in China and Moroccan queerness to LGBTQ+ families in Argentina and a digital rave space founded in Toronto and more, this text brings new and critical insights about how activists are navigating these spaces through traditional and digital media." Laura Castañeda, Professor of Professional Practice, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism."Finally, a collection of strong voices focused on LGBTQ activism internationally. As I travel around the world and hear struggles from young people, I hope to point to this collection to embolden them and help find ways for more equitable solutions. It is beautifully written with diverse voices and perspectives. It provides insight into ways we can all work together to make a real difference." Todd Felts, Associate Professor, The Reynolds School, University of Nevada, Reno, International Leadership Trainer"This is an important collection in response to a time when LGBTQ people’s mere existence is being criminalized around the globe (e.g., undercutting trans folks’ access to health care and sports, "Don’t Say Gay" bills, banning drag performance, etc.). Through the transnational and intersectional lenses, this book generates extensive original knowledge and in-depth analyses on how different stakeholders approach LGBTQ activism in various global and regional political contexts as well as the digital sphere. It is an invaluable resource for researchers, activists, advocates, media practitioners, educators, and beyond." Minjie Li, Assistant Professor, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville"This volume is indispensable reading for anyone interested in the rapidly changing practices of LGBTQ+ activism in the digital era. Taken together, the chapters provide a truly global insight into how digital and social media platforms facilitate new forms of advocacy and action, shaped by global, national and local political contexts. Drawing on a diverse range of cases and methodological approaches, the volume makes a significant contribution to advancing knowledge beyond dominant Anglo-American contexts." Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Professor, School of Journalism, Media and Culture, and University Dean of Research Environment and Culture, Cardiff University, UKTable of Contents1. LGBTIQ+ causes and connective action: actors, issues, support, and frames in online petitions: Adolfo Carratalá 2. The Voice of the Voiceless: Queerphobic Statism and Queer Youth Advocacy in China: Yidong Wang 3. Western funding and its consequences for the Ugandan LGBT+ rights struggle – negotiating community dynamics and activism during Pride 2022: Cecilia Strand & Jakob Svensson 4. Orientalist Narratives and Subversive Activism in the Lead-Up to the 2022 World Cup: Christina M. Paschyn 5. Genealogy of the homosexual pejorative: Ragan Fox 6. Western influences, eastern realities: LGBTQ activism in Hungary: Hanna Dorottya Szabó and Éva Gáti 7. #Queer_Revolution_Morocco: A Disoriented Moroccan (Counter-)Archive from The Eyes of Its Queers: Hatim Rachdi 8. Pakikipagkapwa in the LGBTQIA+ movement for the enactment of the SOGIE Equality Bill: Jonalou S.J. Labor and Ma. Rosel S. San Pascual 9. We Don’t Talk About Homos: Queer Activism and the Fight to Make #DisneySayGay: Jennessa Hester 10. The LGBTQ activist on social media: Analyzing LGBTQ activism online in India and Taiwan: Paromita Pain and Victoria Y Chen 11. LGBTQ activism to counter "Don’t Say Gay," trans athlete bans and other attacks on affirming education in US public schools: Laura Finley 12. Disrupting the simulacrum of normalcy: queer online activism and protest in Thailand: Nuntiya Doungphummes, Narongdej Phanthaphoommee and Mark Vicars 13. A Multi-Families Album: Politics of Visibility of an Argentinean LGBTQ+ Family Association: Maximiliano Marentes 14. Navigating Legal and Cultural Challenges: An analysis of Turkish LGBTQ activism on social media: Mustafa Oz 15. African Queer Performances on social media as protest: The case of Zimbabwean TikTokers: Princess A Sibanda and Gibson Ncube 16. Bi the Way, We Exist!: Exploring Bisexual Affinities and Identity Performance on TikTok’s Affective Archives: Samantha K. McEwan 17. Spiral of Silence: LGBTQ Struggles in Bangladesh: Shabnam Azim and Humaira Bilkis 18. A Jihad for Love: Narrative of Homosexuality, Islam, and Resistance: Nur E. Makbul 19. From Consumption to Creation: #Luimelia as Digital Activism: Elena Bonmati Gonzalvez and Kyle Cheesewright 20. Pulling the plug on Dr. Laura: Combining the conventional and unconventional in LGBTQ+ community protest: Bruce E. Drushel 21. Bible Belt Queers: Zines as both Placemaking and Protest: Jill Fredenburg 22. Queer Times, Queer Platforms: Club Quarantine and the Staging of Digital Protest: Jamil Fiorino-Habib 23. Queer Activism and empowerment on social media: A study based on Northern Province, Sri Lanka: Anutharsi Gabilan

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Book SynopsisPost-patriarchal, Post-heteronormative, and Postcolonial Psychoanalysis considers contemporary efforts to create a post-patriarchal, post-heteronormative, and postcolonial psychoanalytic approach to human suffering.DÃbora Tajer examines contemporary psychoanalysis and its future by integrating three key strands of Argentinean cultural discourse: the popularity of psychoanalysis, the active feminist movement, and the burgeoning field of feminist psychoanalysis. Tajer delves into themes of subjectivity, power, gender, and family, revealing the patriarchal, heteronormative, and colonial underpinnings of classical psychoanalytical approaches. She also explores the contributions of theoretical-clinical instruments from a gender and psychoanalytical perspective. Throughout the book, Tajer highlights changes in femininities and masculinities, new family and relationship configurations, current forms of labour insertion, evolving ideals, and new modes of gender identity assump

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Book SynopsisDrawing on a broad range of psychoanalytic, cultural and social influences, the author examines the concept of toxic masculinity for how it brings into focus a widespread anxiety about toxicity throughout daily life: In nature, society and personal relationships.Aggressive, misogynistic masculinity has become a major topic in recent years, spreading throughout popular culture, the media and research. Often called ''phallic,'' it simmers in everyday life and hits the headlines for turning florid and violent in maintaining its dominance, especially towards women. But at the extreme, phallic masculinity has recently crystallized in a very different form, as toxic masculinity, and ''toxic'' has become the near-universal epithet for all forms of extreme destructiveness in a ''toxic culture.'' It has brought into focus, and named as masculine, an anxiety over toxicity in every corner of everyday life. Exploring toxic masculinity in depth brings out a misogynistic currenTrade Review'The psychoanalytic understanding of male sexuality has tended towards overemphasising the penis, and scotomotising the testicles. The dominance of this discourse has served to maximise exploration of the phallic and minimise interest in the generative aspects (the seminal), both clinically and socially. Karl Figlio, a highly respected psychoanalytic clinician, has spent his professional life exploring the boundaries between psychoanalysis and culture. This book is exemplary in this respect showing the interpenetration of the individual and the social. It makes a profound contribution to our understanding of male sexuality and is particularly timely, as toxic male sexuality is an increasingly dominant feature of our world.' David Bell is a psychoanalyst and former president of the British Psychoanalytic Society and currently chair of its applied section. He retired in 2021 after 25 years as a consultant at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust'Toxic masculinity is a concept now reached for as if it were a given, not a matter for enquiry. This scholarly and original book offers a fresh look at the roots of masculine identity, linking the other fashionable theme of masculine fragility to the defence provided by the phallic omnipotence at the heart of what we mean by toxic. Figlio argues with vigour and eloquence for a more complex understanding of male anxieties, emphasising the procreative power of the male and the inevitable dread of failure to create. This builds a bridge to shared thinking about what we humans most desire and fear the loss of, men and women.'Margaret Rustin is a child, adolescent and adult psychotherapist, Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust and British Psychoanalytic Society'Professor Karl Figlio has broadened my professional and personal horizons with this highly original book. By introducing seminal masculinity, he is venturing beyond the traditional limitations of thinking about men in reductionist, phallic terms. With its important theoretical elucidations enriched by carefully selected clinical material and links to timely social issues, this groundbreaking work contributes greatly to deepening our thinking about masculinities.'Sebastian Thrul, senior psychiatrist and head of the clinic for Gender Issues at Psychiatrie Baselland, Switzerland, and host of the podcast New Books in Psychoanalysis'Karl Figlio brings a fresh perspective to the debates on masculinity. He argues that "toxic masculinity" represents a triumph of the negative aspect of a more complex and inherently ambivalent masculine configuration which he terms "seminal masculinity". While seminal masculinity embodies a life-giving and reparative capacity, toxic masculinity aims omnipotently to dominate, control and anhilate the feminine. Toxic masclinity cannot make use of feminine sexuality and receptivity, so identity is also impoverished, while often "hiding in plain sight" in the familiar stereotype of phallic masculinity. Its misogyny is also a primitive form of replacement ideology.'Sharon Numa is a fellow of the British Psychoanalytical SocietyTable of ContentsPart One: Becoming Masculine 1. The Uniquely Masculine Part Two: The Interior World 2. Male Internal Genital Space 3. Being Inside: The Topography of the Interior Part Three: The Phallic World 4. The Phallic Defence in the Boy: The Repudiation of Seminality 5. Phallic Monism: A Defensive Collaboration 6. Parthenogenic Procreation Part Four: The Seminal World 7. Seminal Masculinity 8. Incapacity and Ambivalence in Seminal Masculinity Part Five: Masculinity as Repudiation of Femininity 9. Misogyny in the Production of Masculinity 10. Social Misogyny 11. Toxic Masculinity in the Financial Crisis: A Case Study Conclusion 12. The Unease in Normal Masculinity: Between Desolation and Hope

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Book SynopsisDoing Feminist Urban Researchintroduces the reader to the newly emerging 21st-century global landscape of feminist urban research. It showcases decolonising practices, partnerships and teamwork, new standards such as EDI, geo-ethnographic methodologies, software-enhanced qualitative data analysis, and knowledge mobilisation.This book delves into both the institutional and lived realities of the practice of feminist urban research for the 21st century via the insights of the GenUrb transnational research project. Through refection exercises based on real-life examples, it covers feminist methodologies and research techniques, critically examining the feld' through comparison and feminist geo-ethnographies. It guides readers through navigating the politics of decolonising research, working across diferences, and embracing feminist ethics and activism. The book also explores data through the practices of translation, data management, data analysis, and the use of NVivo. An

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Book SynopsisAn innovative and engaging collection that argues that the concept of propaganda needs to be central to discussions about the contemporary media landscape and its informational ecosystems.This book explores how âpropagandaâ, a foundational concept within media and communication studies, has recently been replaced by alternative terms (disinformation, misinformation, and fake news) that fail to capture the continuities and disruptions of ongoing strategic attempts to (mis)guide public opinion. Edited by Nelson Ribeiro and Barbie Zelizer, the collection highlights how these concepts must be understood as part of a long legacy of propaganda, and not just as new phenomena that have emerged in the context of the digital media environment. Chapters explore the strategies and effects of propaganda through a variety of globally diverse case studies, featuring both democracies and autocratic regimes, and highlighting how only by understanding propagandistic forms and strategies can we

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Book SynopsisThis book explores figurative images of the womb and the simile of a woman in labor from the Hebrew Bible, problematizing previous interpretations that present these as disparate images and showing how their interconnectivity embodies relationship with YHWH.In the Hebrew Bible, images of the womb and the pregnant body in labor do not co-occur despite being grounded in an image of a whole pregnant female body; the pregnant body is instead fragmented into these two constituent parts, and scholars have continued to interpret these images separately with no discussion of their interconnectivity. In this book, Langton explores the relationship between these images, inviting readers into a wider conversation on how the pregnant body functions as a means to an end, a place to access and seek a relationship with YHWH. Readers are challenged and asked to rethink how these images have been interpreted within feminist scholarship, with womb imagery depicting YHWHâs care for creation or

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Book SynopsisWhat is going on in Europe? The actual conflicts between its nations or states can be traced back to old and revived cultural complexes. In this book, first compiled in 2016, Jungian analysts explore the cultural identities of their European homelands and nations.This is a new approach to old questions: What makes a people feel at home? How do their traditions and narratives form a cultural Self and identity? How do they differ from one another? Exploring cultural complexes blends knowledge of history, economics, sociology, anthropology, geography, psychology, religious studies, literature and poetry. But as every complex is built around an emotional core, the study of how cultural complexes live in the psyche is not limited to these disciplines. Each author and reader engages in a confrontation with their emotions, prejudices, and projections. The shape that the ideas and feelings of a cultural complex take in the psyche can be inchoate, rapidly shifting and yet paradoxicall

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Book SynopsisWhat could movies as diverse as The Last Samurai, ClÃo from 5 to 7, or Dr. Strangelove have in common? Filmonomics has a simple yet intriguing answer: economics as the main driving force of the plot or as the main motivation of the charactersâ actions.This book analyses how movie makers use economic and financial motives in their plots or to build their characters. Have they done it in line with economic theory? Or are they proposing a new angle, a new perspective, that economists should take note of? The authors here do not discuss wages in the film industry or the economics of movies. What interests them is the economic motivations underpinning the behaviour of fictional characters in their favorite films. They argue that credible movie characters can behave in irrational ways, and movie makers occasionally introduce new ideas that economists should take note of.A unique contribution, this book will be of interest to readers eager to disco

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection considers how scholars conduct research on (everyday) politics in Southeast Asia via networks of internet popular culture. This includes artifacts, networks, groups, and cultures that are specific to Southeast Asian online practices, and that seek to represent, advocate for, provoke, or question how citizens âdoâ politics online.In the Southeast Asia region in particular, these behind-the-scenes minutiae of everyday decisions are all the more under-valued when researchers have been taught, conditioned, or cautioned to tiptoe around the OB (out-of-bound) markers implicitly policed by states and governments. This book examines the combination of media regimes with limited press freedoms, the employment of sedition acts against citizens, and the need to be strategic to secure state and industry funding for research has also pressured or motivated scholars to strategically obscure certain research anecdotes in favour of a smoother publishing journey and/or posterity. As such, this collection serves as a sounding board and collection of reflections on what is really looks like to conduct research on everyday politics online in the Southeast Asian region, while navigating innovative media methods, negotiating inter-disciplinary gatekeeping, demands of publishing in tiered journals and the tensions around legitimizing one's methodological choices. Featuring four methodological accounts of scholars contemplating the methodological and ethical conundrums when conducting research on Southeast Asian internet popular culture and everyday politics.This book will appeal to readers in the disciplines of anthropology, Asian studies, communications, cultural studies, media studies, and science and technology studies.

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Book SynopsisVivid, surprising, and utterly timely, How to Disappear explores nature as a more joyful and peaceful way of living in today's increasingly surveilled and publicity-obsessed world.

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Book SynopsisLatinx Studies: The Key Concepts is an accessible guide to the central concepts and issues that inform Latinx Studies globally. It summarizes, explains, contextualizes, and assesses key critical concepts, perspectives, developments, and debates in Latinx Studies. At once comprehensive in coverage and detailed and specific in examples analyzed, it provides over 25 key concepts to the field of Latinx Studies as shaped within historical, social, cultural, regional, and global contexts, including: Body Border Theory Digital Era Familia Immigration Intersectionality Language Latinidad/es Latinofuturism Narco Cultura Popular Culture SportsFully cross-referenced and complete with suggestions for further reading, Latinx Studies: The Key Concepts is an essential guide for anyone studying race, ethnicity, gender, class, education, culture, and globalism.Table of ContentsIntroduction, 1. Américas 2. Art 3. Border Theory 4. Body 5. Digital Era 6. Education 7. Empire 8. Familia 9. Food 10. Global 11. Immigration 12. Intersectionality 13. Language 14. Latinidad/es 15. Latinofuturism 16. Media 17. Myths and Monsters 18. Music 19. Narrative 20. Narco Cultura 21. Performance 22. Politics 23. Popular Culture 24. Regionalism 25. Sports 26. Youth Glossary, Index

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Book SynopsisMen and Masculinity: The Basics is an accessible introduction to the academic study of masculinity which outlines the key ideas and most pressing issues concerning the field today. Providing readers with a framework for understanding these issues, it explores the ways that masculinity has been understood in the Social Sciences and Humanities to date. Addressing theories which view masculinity as being in a permanent state of flux and crisis, it explores such problem areas as: the male body men and work men and fatherhood male sexuality male violence. With a glossary of key terms, case studies reflecting the most important studies in the field of masculinity research and suggestions for further study, Men and Masculinity: The Basics is an essential read for anyone approaching the study of masculinity for the first time.Trade ReviewNigel Edley is a leading scholar of masculinities. Here he brings together his insights from 25 years of man-watching in a compelling book that provides an excellent introduction to the field. Highly recommended for anyone who wants to understand men and masculinity today. Rosalind Gill, Professor of Cultural and Social Analysis, City, University of LondonMen and Masculinity: The Basics is a great read – superbly connecting academia to everyday life. Edley takes us skillfully through a wealth of cases, research reports and anecdotes, opening sites of tremendous controversy and contention, leaving us with a deeper understanding – and even some optimism for cultural change. - Michael Bamberg, Professor of Psychology, Clark University Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Part 11. Man-watching2. Coming to terms with men and masculinityPart 23. The male body4. Men and work5. Men and fatherhood6. Male sexuality7. Male violenceGlossaryReferences

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Book SynopsisEmotional Heritage brings the issues of affect and power in the theorisation of heritage to the fore, whilst also highlighting the affective and political consequences of heritage-making. Drawing on interviews with visitors to museums and heritage sites in the United States, Australia and England, Smith argues that obtaining insights into how visitors use such sites enables us to understand the impact and consequences of professional heritage and museological practices. The concept of registers of engagement is introduced to assess variations in how visitors use museums and sites that address national or dissonant histories and the political consequences of their use. Visitors are revealed as agents in the roles cultural institutions play in maintaining or challenging the political and social status quo. Heritage is, Smith argues, about people and their social situatedness and the meaning they, alongside or in concert with cultural institutions, make and mobilTrade Review"Based on a massive amount of empirical research – conducted across continents and years – this ambitious book is a major contribution to heritage debates. Written with verve and clarity, its importance goes far beyond its crucial message that we need to take the emotional dimensions of heritage seriously. In Emotional Heritage, Laurajane Smith not only presents this groundbreaking project but also robustly sets out her analytical stall and manifesto for heritage studies." – Sharon Macdonald, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany"Based on a massive amount of empirical research – conducted across continents and years – this ambitious book is a major contribution to heritage debates. Written with verve and clarity, its importance goes far beyond its crucial message that we need to take the emotional dimensions of heritage seriously. In Emotional Heritage, Laurajane Smith not only presents this groundbreaking project but also robustly sets out her analytical stall and manifesto for heritage studies." – Sharon Macdonald, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany"This well-researched and easily accessible book is major contribution to both heritage and emotion studies." - Sandra Engels, KULT_onlineTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I: Heritage, Politics and Emotion; 1. Critical realist heritage studies: Agency, reflexivity and materiality; 2. Reconsidering heritage and identity: The politics of recognition and the affective practices of heritage.; 3. Registers of engagement; Part II: Methods and Quantitative Findings; 4. Methods; 5. Overall findings and national comparisons; 6. Genres of museums and heritage sites: Comparisons; 7. Demographic variables and visitor responses; Part III: Emotional Heritage: Themes and Performances; 8. Reassessing learning: Changing views and deepening understanding; 9. Performing reinforcement and affirmation: ‘It just reinforces a lot of the stuff I think’; 10. Emotional banality and heritage-making: The banality of grandiloquence revisited; 11. Intergenerational communication and connection; 12. Heritage and the politics of recognition; 13. Heritage, privilege and the politics of misrecognition; 14. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisLocating literature at the intersection of distinct areas of thinking on the nature, scope and methods of knowledge - philosophy, theology, science, and the law - this book engages with literary texts across periods and genres to address questions of probability, problems of evidence, the uses of experiment and the poetics and ethics of doubt.Trade Review“All the essays provide a complex but readable text, backed by massive scholarship, meticulously documented in the notes at their end. … the essays in Fictions of Knowledge offer rich and complex investigations of the fascinating world of knowledge in its varied manifestations in literary and non-literary texts, and should be of interest to all who are interested in meaningful connections between the two.” (Tej N. Dhar, The European Legacy, Vol. 20 (1), October, 2015)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; Y.Batsaki, S.Mukherji & J.M.Schramm Beyond Reasonable Doubt: The Evolution of a Concept; B.Shapiro Providence, Experience and Doubt in Medieval England; C.Watkins Law, Probability and Character in Shakespeare; L.Hutson Trying, Knowing and Believing: Epistemic Plots and the Poetics of Doubt; S.Mukherji The Anxiety of Variety: Knowledge and Experience in Montaigne, Burton and Bacon; K.Murphy Novel Knowledge: Judgment, Experience, Experiment; J.Bender Lost in the Castle of Scepticism: Sceptical Philosophy as Gothic Romance; S.Kareem From Alchemy to Experiment: The Political Economy of Experience in William Godwin's St Leon: A Tale of The Sixteenth Century; Y.Batsaki Towards a Poetics of (Wrongful) Accusation: Innocence and Working-Class Voice in Mid-Victorian Fiction; J.M.Schramm Afterword; M.Wood Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisUsing a case study based approach, Weissmann analyses the post-Cold War East Asian security setting to demonstrate why there is a paradoxical inter-state peace. He points out processes that have been important for the creation of a continuing relative peace in East Asia, as well as conflict prevention and peacebuilding mechanisms.Table of ContentsPART I: THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK The Paradox of the East Asian Peace PART II: CASE STUDIES Mainland China – Taiwan Relations and the Taiwan Issue The South China Sea and Sino-ASEAN Relations The Korean Nuclear Conflict PART III: CONCLUSIONS Conclusion: Understanding the East Asian Peace

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Book SynopsisAn outstanding and comprehensive contribution to the history of Tartan. TelegraphFeaturing new insights and an additional chapter on masculinities, this updated edition of Tartan revitalizes discussions about the fabric's traditional, sentimental Highland origins and its deliberate subversion by contemporary designers. Tartan's history has made it uniquely capable of expressing both conformity and subversion, tradition and innovation. Through positioning tartan within broader philosophical, political and cultural contexts, from the tartan-clad Highland regiments and Queen Victoria's royal endorsement, to the fabric's influence on Westwood and McQueen and a generation of Japanese designers such as Watanabe and Takahashi, Jonathan Faiers traces tartan''s development from clanship to contemporary fashion and its enormous domestic and global impact.Beautifully illustrated and weaving together a story out of history, art, music, film and fashion, <Trade ReviewAn outstanding and comprehensive contribution to the history of Tartan. * Telegraph *Intriguing study ... mixes the serious with the saucy. * International Herald Tribune *A rare treat; a readable, enjoyable academic text. * Selvedge *Stunning! * Janice Forsyth, BBC Scotland *A great alternative to the numerous clan reference guides that abound in tourist traps up and down the country. * Scotsman Magazine *Comprehensive ... wonderfully eclectic. * New Humanist *This is a fascinating and thought-provoking book that is guaranteed to make the reader consider tartan from new perspectives. * Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture *Highly attractive ... fascinating ... A treasure trove of Tartan. * Military Illustrated *Faiers explores the cultural significance and surrounding connotations of tartan while conducting a comprehensive deconstruction of the fabric and its place and development throughout history from clanship to contemporary fashion. * Ali McCulloch, Precious McBane *Having read the book one becomes aware of tartan's extraordinary versatility, its possibilities as both a radical and traditional material, and the local and global contexts within which it operates. * Juliette MacDonald, Textile *This is a huge text book that would be great for anyone wanting to learn everything there is to know on the subject. * Cut Out and Keep blog *A great variety of illustrations of tartan fabrics as they appear in period portraits, fashion designers' collections, products, cartoons, stage, and film complement this thoroughly researched, annotated volume that should interest experts and general readers alike. Recommended. * CHOICE *A beautifully illustrated story ... history, art, music, film and fashion, Tartan contains everything you ever wanted to know about the most radical and traditional of fabrics. * Crafts *The book of choice for intelligent fashionistas this winter. * Selvedge *Tartan is not only for dedicated aficionados, but for everyone curious about its chequered past. Faiers unravels a wonderfully engaging and kaleidoscopic view of this high-impact Scottish cloth, and surprises us by unravelling how tartan continues to inspire and permeate contemporary visual cultures. * Alexandra Palmer, Royal Ontario Museum, Canada *This beautifully illustrated book is a fantastic resource for anyone wishing to understand Tartan's traditional and rebellious history, from its Scottish roots to its radical reinterpretation by designers including McQueen, Westwood, and Comme des Garçons. Tartan is a must-have book for any fashion or textile student. * Andrew Groves, University of Westminster, UK *Faiers offers the most in-depth exploration of tartan’s entanglements with fashion and popular culture to date, teasing out the contradictions in its multifarious iterations of clan, cause, and contention. Tartan unravels the myths but the romance remains intact. * Cynthia Cooper, McCord Museum, Canada *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Part I: Tartan and History 1. Technical Construction: Sett, Weave, Colour 2. Early Appearances 3. Fragments and Fabrication Part II: Tartan and Dress 4. Transforming Tartan 5. Regulation Tartan 6. Erogenous Zones 7. Tartan Toffs Part III: Tartan’s Embrace 8. Balmoralization 9. Tartan, the Grid and Modernity 10. Supernatural Tartan 11. Colonization 12. Tartan’s Translation 13. Tartan Undecided Tartan Timeline Notes Bibliography Acknowledgements Illustration Credits Index

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Book SynopsisProviding a comprehensive engagement with the work of Hans-Herbert Kögler, this is the first volume to expand upon and critique his distinctive approach to critical theory: critical hermeneutics. In the current climate of crisis, the relevance and fruitfulness of Kögler's work has never been greater, as he fuses the philosophies of Michel Foucault, Hans Georg Gadamer, and his mentor, Jürgen Habermas, to respond to critical international issues surrounding politics, agency, and society. Working towards a truly non-ethno-centric and global conception of intercultural dialogue, an essential aspect of Kögler's critical hermeneutics is his account of selfhood as reflexive: socially situated, embodied, and linguistically articulated, permeated by power, but yet critical and creative. Leading international scholars, representing a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, build upon Kögler's approach in this volume and explore the methodological, theoretical, and applicative scope of critiTrade ReviewLeading philosophers, social researchers and cultural theorists are contributing to this great book on Hans-Herbert Kögler’s much noticed Critical Hermeneutics. Kögler has invented Critical Hermeneutics as an outstanding progression of the Frankfurt school’s critical theory that is fruitful for research programs and challenging for political praxis. The volume impressively documents the international scale, impact and critique of this promising and singular mix of social philosophy, social research and social criticism. A must-read. * Hauke Brunkhorst, Senior Professor, European University Flensburg, Germany *For decades now, Hans-Herbert Kögler's work has enriched and expanded our understanding of Critical Theory. Reopening the dialogue with the hermeneutical tradition, integrating the insights of Michel Foucault and taking cosmopolitanism seriously as a political and philosophical commitment were decisive moments in a theoretical development that has given us a sense how a critical social theory of the present might look like. In this fine volume, a group of prominent commentators and interlocutors offer readings, dialogues and, of course, critique to which Kögler responds generously. This is a welcome occasion to witness critical thinking in action. * Martin Saar, professor of social philosophy, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany *The best measure of a body of thought is often given by the work to which it gives rise. This is especially true of the thought of Hans-Herbert Kögler and is well-demonstrated by Kurt Mertel and Lubomír Dunaj’s excellent collection of essays on Kögler’s Critical Hermeneutics. The volume not only makes a valuable contribution to the critical and hermeneutic literature, and to the discussion of a range of important and challenging issues, but it is also a testament to the contemporary significance of Kögler’s work and its synthesizing and innovative character. * Jeff Malpas, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of Tasmania, Australia *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction, L'ubomír Dunaj & Kurt C. M. Mertel Part I: Critical Hermeneutics as Social Theory 1. The Case for a Critical Hermeneutics: From the Understanding of Power to the Power of Understanding, Simon Susen (City University of London, UK) 2. Power, the Body and Reflexivity: Hans-Herbert Kögler’s Hermeneutics in the Con-text of Critical Sociology, Rainer Winter (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria) 3. Naturalizing Kögler, Stephen Turner (University of South Florida, USA) Part II: Recognition, Cosmopolitanism, Religion 4. The Moral Stance, Our Moralizing Nature, and the Hermeneutic and Empathic Dimension of Human Relations, Karsten Stueber (College of the Holy Cross, USA) 5. Dialogue, Cosmopolitanism and Language Education, Werner Delanoy(Alpen-Adria, University, Klagenfurt, Austria) 6. Secularity, Religion, and Dialogue: Rethinking the Conditions of the Possibility for Genuine Complementary Learning, Paul Healy (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) 7. The Limits of Interreligious Hermeneutics and the Need for Alternative Understanding, John Maraldo (University of North Florida, USA) Part III: Towards a Critical Hermeneutics of the Present 8. Sociology, the Studies, and the Ontology of the Present, Frédéric Vandenberghe (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) 9. Cherche pas à Comprendre: Cosmopolitan Hermeneutics in Difficult Times, William Outhwaite (Newcastle University, UK) 10. Playing more seriously: an enactivist critique of Kögler's critically reflexive dialogue, Lauren Barthold (Endicott College, USA) 11. Dialogue in a polarized world – is there a way out?, Randi Gressgård (University of Bergen, Norway) Conclusion and Response Social Ontology, Dialogic Recognition, and Contemporary Challenges: A Reply, Hans-Herbert Kögler (University of North Florida, USA) List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisEnea Bianchi provides the first in-depth introduction to the pioneering thought of 20th-century Italian philosopher, Mario Perniola. Examining Perniola's entire oeuvre, this book also pushes his philosophy into new directions by investigating the connection between his aesthetics and the philosophical underpinnings of dandyism. Rich in influences, from ancient Stoicism to Roman ritualism, Baroque literature and avant-garde revolutionary movements, Perniola's philosophy is wide-ranging. This book highlights and explores numerous notions pivotal to understanding Perniola's thought, including: the sex appeal of the inorganic, the enigma, strategic beauty and the artistic shadow. Combining these concepts with three exemplar dandies George Brummell, Charles Baudelaire and Oscar Wilde Bianchi demonstrates not only the close relationship between their principles and Perniola's aesthetics, but their shared, and timely, opposition to the status quo. A dandy philosophy emerges, which chaTrade ReviewThe Philosophy of Mario Perniola is a long overdue, conceptually rich and insightful introduction into the protean work of Mario Perniola, one of the most significant and distinctive voices in contemporary Italian philosophical and aesthetic thought. * Erik Vogt, Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor of Philosophy, Trinity College, USA *Work on Mario Perniola is especially timely and this book does a lot more than merely fill a gap. This is a monograph with a difference as novel comparisons with phenomena not directly related to Perniola’s canon of reference drive multiple transversal resonances with Continental Philosophy, Cultural Studies, New Materialism and Ecocriticism. A deeply fascinating book. * Federica G. Pedriali, Professor of Literary, Metatheory and Modern Italian Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Abbreviations of Perniola’s Works Introduction Part 1 1. The Suicide of Literature 2. To Love or Smash Images? The Dimension of the Simulacrum 3. Action at the End of Action: Rituals without Myths 4. George Bryan Brummell: The Ritual Clothing Part 2 5. What Is It Like to Be a Thing? 6. A Queering Agency: Perniola’s The Sex Appeal of the Inorganic 7. Beauty is Like a Blade: Towards a Strategic Theory of Aesthetics 8. Charles Baudelaire: Greatness without Convictions Part 3 9. The Artistic Alienation and the Situationist International 10. A Shadow and Its Art 11. Oscar Wilde: the In-Between Dandy Conclusion Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThis second edition of Cultural Theory provides a concise introduction to cultural theory, placing major figures, traditional concepts, and contemporary themes within a sharp conceptual framework. Provides a student-friendly introduction to what can often be a complex field of study Updates the first edition in response to reader feedback and to the changing nature of the field Includes additional coverage of theorists from the classical period to include Nietzsche and DuBois Introduces entirely new chapters on race and gender theory, and the body Considers themes that have become more important in theoretical activity in recent years such as computers and virtual reality, cosmopolitanism, and performance theory Draws on theories and theorists from continental Europe as well as the English-speaking world Trade Review"Highly recommended to anyone interested in acquiring a theoretical basis on which to systematize their knowledge of cultural theory. Indeed, the authors manage to make the complex simple enough to understand without oversimplifying." (Discourse Studies, 2010) "Presenting such a wide-ranging and multifarious set of ideas in a coherent manner constitutes a very considerable achievement. The book offers anyone interested in cultural theory a broad conspectus—provided of course it is read as a whole." (Metapsychology Online Reviews, February 2009)Table of ContentsPreface to the First Edition: About this Book vi Preface to the Second Edition ix Acknowledgments x Introduction: What is Culture? What is Cultural Theory? 1 1 Culture in Classical Social Theory 6 2 Culture and Social Integration in the Work of Talcott Parsons 26 3 Culture as Ideology in Western Marxism 34 4 Culture as Action in Symbolic Interactionism, Phenomenology, and Ethnomethodology 54 5 The Durkheimians: Ritual, Classification, and the Sacred 69 6 Structuralism and the Semiotic Analysis of Culture 92 7 The Poststructural Turn 111 8 Culture, Structure, and Agency: Three Attempts at Synthesis 128 9 British Cultural Studies 144 10 The Production and Reception of Culture 158 11 Culture as Text: Narrative and Hermeneutics 176 12 Psychoanalytic Approaches to Culture and the Self 195 13 The Cultural Analysis of Postmodernism and Postmodernity 207 14 Postmodern and Poststructural Critical Theory 228 15 Cultural Theories of Race and Gender 241 16 The Body in Cultural Theory 262 References 280 Index 296

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Book SynopsisIn this second volume of The Information Age trilogy, with an extensive new preface following the recent global economic crisis, Manuel Castells deals with the social, political, and cultural dynamics associated with the technological transformation of our societies and with the globalization of the economy. Extensive new preface examines how dramatic recent events have transformed the socio-political landscape of our world Applies Castells' hypotheses to contemporary issues such as Al Qaeda and global terrorist networks, American unilateralism and the crisis of political legitimacy throughout the world A brilliant account of social, cultural, and political conflict and struggle all over the world Analyzes the importance of cultural, religious, and national identity as sources of meaning for people, and its implications for social movement Throws new light on the dynamics of global and local change Table of ContentsList of Figures xii List of Tables xiv List of Charts xvi Preface to the 2010 Edition of The Power of Identity xvii Preface and Acknowledgments 2003 xxxvii Acknowledgments 1996 xliii Our World, our Lives 1 1 Communal Heavens: Identity and Meaning in the Network Society 5 The Construction of Identity 6 God's Heavens: Religious Fundamentalism and Cultural Identity 12 Umma versus Jahiliya: Islamic fundamentalism 13 God save me! American Christian fundamentalism 23 Nations and Nationalisms in the Age of Globalization: Imagined Communities or Communal Images? 30 Nations against the state: the breakup of the Soviet Union and the Commonwealth of Impossible States (Sojuz Nevozmoznykh Gosudarstv) 35 Nations without a state: Catalunya 45 Nations of the information age 54 Ethnic Unbonding: Race, Class, and Identity in the Network Society 56 Territorial Identities: The Local Community 63 Conclusion: The Cultural Communes of the Information Age 68 2 The Other Face of the Earth: Social Movements against the New Global Order 71 Globalization, Informationalization, and Social Movements 72 Mexico's Zapatistas: The First Informational Guerrilla Movement 75 Who are the Zapatistas? 77 The value structure of the Zapatistas: identity, adversaries, and goals 80 The communication strategy of the Zapatistas: the Internet and the media 82 The contradictory relationship between social movement and political institution 85 Up in Arms against the New World Order: The American Militia and the Patriot Movement 87 The militias and the Patriots: a multi-thematic information network 90 The Patriots’ banners 95 Who are the Patriots? 98 The militia, the Patriots, and American society 99 The Lamas of Apocalypse: Japan's Aum Shinrikyo 100 Asahara and the development of Aum Shinrikyo 101 Aum's beliefs and methodology 104 Aum and Japanese society 105 Al-Qaeda, 9/11, and Beyond: Global Terror in the Name of God 108 The goals and values of al-Qaeda 111 The evolving process of al-Qaeda’s struggle 115 The mujahedeen and their support bases 119 The young lion of the global jihad: Osama bin Laden 124 From bin Laden to bin Mahfouz: financial networks, Islamic networks, terrorist networks 128 Networking and media politics: the organization, tactics, and strategy of al-Qaeda 135 9/11 and beyond: death or birth of a networked, global, fundamentalist movement? 140 "No Globalization without Representation!": The Anti-globalization Movement 145 "El pueblo desunido jamas sera vencido": the diversity of the anti-globalization movement 147 The values and goals of the movement against globalization 152 Networking as a political way of being 154 An informational movement: the theatrical tactics of anti-globalization militants 156 The movement in context: social change and institutional change 158 The Meaning of Insurgencies against the New Global Order 160 Conclusion: The Challenge to Globalization 166 3 The Greening of the Self: The Environmental Movement 168 The Creative Cacophony of Environmentalism: A Typology 170 The Meaning of Greening: Societal Issues and the Ecologists’ Challenge 179 Environmentalism in Action: Reaching Minds, Taming Capital, Courting the State, Tap-dancing with the Media 186 Environmental Justice: Ecologists' New Frontier 190 4 The End of Patriarchalism: Social Movements, Family, and Sexuality in the Information Age 192 The Crisis of the Patriarchal Family 196 Women at Work 215 Sisterhood is Powerful: The Feminist Movement 234 American feminism: a discontinuous continuity 235 Is feminism global? 243 Feminism: an inducive polyphony 252 The Power of Love: Lesbian and Gay Liberation Movements 261 Feminism, lesbianism, and sexual liberation movements in Taipei 266 Spaces of freedom: the gay community in San Francisco 271 Summing up: sexual identity and the patriarchal family 279 Family, Sexuality, and Personality in the Crisis of Patriarchalism 280 The incredibly shrinking family 280 The reproduction of mothering under the non-reproduction of patriarchalism 288 Body identity: the (re)construction of sexuality 294 Flexible personalities in a post-patriarchal world 299 The End of Patriarchalism? 301 5 Globalization, Identification, and the State: A Powerless State or a Network State? 303 Globalization and the State 304 The transnational core of national economies 305 A statistical appraisal of the new fiscal crisis of the state in the global economy 307 Globalization and the welfare state 312 Global communication networks, local audiences, uncertain regulators 316 A lawless world? 321 The Nation-state in the Age of Multilateralism 323 Global Governance and Networks of Nation-states 328 Identities, Local Governments, and the Deconstruction of the Nation-state 332 The Identification of the State 337 The Return of the State 340 The state, violence, and surveillance: from Big Brother to little sisters 340 American unilateralism and the new geopolitics 344 The Iraq War and its aftermath 349 The consequences of American unilateralism 353 The Crisis of the Nation-state, the Network State, and the Theory of the State 356 Conclusion: The King of the Universe, Sun Tzu, and the Crisis of Democracy 364 6 Informational Politics and the Crisis of Democracy 367 Introduction: The Politics of Society 367 Media as the Space of Politics in the Information Age 371 Politics and the media: the citizens’ connection 371 Show politics and political marketing: the American model 375 Is European politics being "Americanized"? 381 Bolivia's electronic populism: compadre Palenque and the coming of Jach'a Uru 386 Informational Politics in Action: The Politics of Scandal 391 The Crisis of Democracy 402 Conclusion: Reconstructing Democracy? 414 Conclusion: Social Change in the Network Society 419 Methodological Appendix 429 Appendix for Tables 5.1 and 5.2 429 Appendix for Figure 6.9: Level of Support for Mainstream Parties in National Elections, 1980–2002 456 Summary of Contents of Volumes I and III 464 References 466 Index 512

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Book SynopsisCan the university solve the social and political crisis in America?Higher education occupies a difficult place in twenty-first-century American culture. Universitiesthe institutions that bear so much responsibility for the future health of our nationare at odds with the very publics they are intended to serve. As Kathleen Fitzpatrick asserts, it is imperative that we re-center the mission of the university to rebuild that lost trust. Critical thinkingthe heart of what academics docan today often negate, refuse, and reject new ideas. In an age characterized by rampant anti-intellectualism, Fitzpatrick charges the academy with thinking constructively rather than competitively, building new ideas rather than tearing old ones down. She urges us to rethink how we teach the humanities and to refocus our attention on the very human endsthe desire for community and connectionthat the humanities can best serve. One key aspect of that transformation involves fostering an atmosphere of what FitzTrade ReviewAn inspiring and convincing look at how anyone involved in higher education can nurture generosity and help integrate their institutions into their communities to further the public good. With its call for generosity and community-building that is potentially revolutionary, Kathleen Fitzpatrick's Generous Thinking is an indispensable addition to conversations on the state of higher education today.—Foreword ReviewsFor anyone concerned with the future of higher education, Fitzpatrick makes a passionate argument for a simple yet potentially revolutionary idea.—Library JournalGenerous Thinking offers us a plan to move our national thinking about higher education in a way that enlivens our democracy.—The BafflerGenerous Thinking is one important step toward recovering the lost value of the university. [Fitzpatrick's] work, which clearly demonstrates how to think generously in the academy, can help make the case for increased public investment in higher education.—Public BooksTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionChapter 1. On GenerosityChapter 2. Reading TogetherChapter 3. Working in PublicChapter 4. The UniversityConclusion. The Path ForwardAcknowledgmentsReferencesIndex

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