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Taylor & Francis The Impact of Chinas Belt and Road Initiative
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Taylor & Francis Urbanization in China Town and Country in a Developing Economy 19492000 AD 3 Routledge Library Editions Urban History
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Taylor & Francis Urbanization in China Town and Country in a Developing Economy 19492000 AD 3 Routledge Library Editions Urban History
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Nicolas Medtner
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Music in the World of Islam A SocioCultural History
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Taylor & Francis Islamic Art and Beyond Constructing the Study of Islamic Art Volume III 3 Variorum Collected Studies
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Taylor & Francis Origins of Sexuality and Homosexuality
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Taylor & Francis Women and Sex Therapy
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Taylor & Francis The Prodemocracy Protests in China
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Taylor & Francis Women and Sex Therapy
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Taylor & Francis Overcoming Fear of Fat
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Breath of the Symphonist Shostakovichs Tenth Royal Musical Association Monographs
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Decolonizing Central Asian International
Book SynopsisThis book unpacks the main narratives used in international relations to depict and explain existing inter-state relations in Central Asia, with a focus on the construction of fairer international relations along the Silk Road.The book points to the need to decolonize international relations in the Central Asian region to present a fair representation of the regional states in international affairs. In doing so, the book exposes the concepts and stereotypes that have been imposed on the Central Asian region by dominant assumptions in contemporary international relations. Offering empirical grounding for alternative views, the author suggests that Western international relations make the same mistakes in the Central Asian region that the Russian Marxists made when they attributed a narrative of modernity along the lines of the progress made in Germany and Russia. In such a structure, both Russian Marxist attempts and liberalist Western ideas disregard the fact that the region Table of Contents1. Towards Decolonizing Central Asian International Relations 2. Critical Assessment of Contemporary Approaches to Central Asia 3. Manipulating Post-Soviet Nostalgia: Contrasting Political Narratives and Public Recollections in Central Asia 4. Emerging Japan-EU strategic partnership and its implications for Central Asia 5. De-securitizing the "Silk Road": Uzbekistan’s cooperation agenda with Russia, China, Japan and South Korea in the Post-Karimov Era 6. Connectivity, Energy and Decolonization: Uzbekistan’s strategy vis-à-vis Russia, China, South Korea and Japan 7. Decolonizing the Afghanistan-Central Asian relations Concluding remarks: Seven points for decolonizing agenda setting in Central Asia
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Horizontal Art History and Beyond
Book SynopsisThis book is devoted to the concept of horizontal art historya proposal of a paradigm shift formulated by the Polish art historian Piotr Piotrowski (19522015)that aims at undermining the hegemony of the discourse of art history created in the Western world. The concept of horizontal art history is one of many ideas on how to conduct nonhierarchical art historical analysis that have been developed in different geopolitical locations since at least the 1970s, parallel to the ongoing process of decolonization. This book is a critical examination of horizontal art history which provokes a discussion on the original concept of horizontal art history and possible methods to extend it. This is an edited volume written by international scholars who acknowledge the importance of the concept, share its basic assumptions and are aware both of its advantages and limitations. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, art historiography and postcolonial studieTable of ContentsIntroduction PART I: Practicing Horizontal Art History: Democracy 1. The Critical Museum Debate Continues 2. Horizontal Art History and the Revolutionary Double Bind 3. Horizontality without Limits: Postcolonial and Postsocialist Experience as Frameworks for Studying Art and Art History in Peripheries PART II: Practicing Horizontal Art History: Localisations 4. About the West 5. Close Other(s) in the West: Spain and Its Horizontal Histories during the Cold War 6. Russian Avant-Garde in the Optics of the Horizontal History of Art 7. Exhibition-Making as Horizontal Art History? 8. Toward Alter-Globalist History of Feminist Art PART III: Challenging Horizontal Art History and Its Internal Contradictions 9. How to Write a Global History of Central and Eastern European Art 10. Not Horizontal Enough: Horizontal Art History with Marxist Restrictions 11. Cultural Backwardness and Economic Backwardness: How Can Horizontal Art History Tackle Socioeconomic Issues? 12. Horizontal Art History: Endangered Species 13. Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Art in the Perspective of Horizontal Art History PART IV: Alternatives to Horizontal Art History 14. Allegories of Orientation 15. From Horizontal Art History to Lateral Art Studies? 16. Why Horizontal Art History Cannot Escape Computation 17. Simultaneous Avant-Gardes and Horizontal Art Histories: Avant-Gardes Outside of the Canonic Narrations
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Handbook of Race and Ethnicity in Asia
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Race and Ethnicity in Asia introduces theoretical approaches to the study of race, ethnicity and indigeneity in Asia beyond those commonly grounded in the Western experience.The volume's twenty-eight chapters consider not only the relationship between ethnic or racial minorities and the state, but social relations within and between individual and transnational communities. These shape not only the contours of governance, but also the means by which knowledge of national identity, self ', and other' have been constructed and reconstructed over time. Divided into four sections, it provides holistic and comparative coverage of South, South East, and East Asia, as well as Australasia and Oceania; an area that extends from Pakistan in the West to Hawai'i in the East.Contributors to this handbook offer a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, opening a domain of scholarship wherein the relationship between phenotype and Table of ContentsChapter 1. Race and Ethnicity in Asia Part 1: South Asia Chapter 2. "Race in Contemporary India Chapter 3. Ethnic Violence in India Chapter 4. Ethnopolitics in Nepal Chapter 5. Ethnicity and Identity Politics in in Sri Lanka Chapter 6. Ethnic Movements and the State in Pakistan: A Politics of Ethnicity Perspective Part 2: Southeast Asia Chapter 7. Asian Federalism, Race and Ethnicity Chapter 8. Race Relations and Ethnic Minorities in Contemporary Myanmar Chapter 9. Ethnicity in Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos Chapter 10. Ethnic Conflict in Southeast Asia Chapter 11. Ethnicity and Electoral Systems in Southeast Asia Chapter 12. Ethnic and National Identity in Malaysia and Singapore: Origins, Contestation, and Polarization Part 3: East Asia Chapter 13. Ethnicity in China Chapter 14. Being Muslim and Chinese hapter 15. Tibet: from conflict to protest hapter 16. Ethnic Conflict in Xinjiang and Its International Connections hapter 17. Ethnic Chinese (Hwagyo) Identity Formation and Transformation in South Korea hapter 18. Multiculturalism in Korea hapter 19. Racial and Ethnic Identities in Japan Chapter 20. Ethnicity, Indigeneity and Education: The Ainu of Japan Chapter 21. Burakumin: A Discursive History of Difference Chapter 22. "Conceptualizing and Re-conceptualizing Ethnic Identities in Taiwan Part 4: Australasia and Oceania Chapter 23. The Preservation of Indigenous Cultures in Hawai’i Chapter 24. Race and Multiculturalism in Australia Chapter 25. Mobility and Migration in Remote Oceania: World Enlargement meets the Cartographic Imaginary Chapter 26. Race and Ethnicity in the Bonin Islands Chapter 27. Indigenous peoples: citizenship and self-determination – Australia, Fiji and New Zealand Chapter 28. Okinawan-Japanese-Hawaiian Identities
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Chinese Internet Buzzwords
Book SynopsisAs the Internet has reshaped the way we communicate, people's reading has become more fragmented and attention has been directed to a more concise and general form of language that outlines the most important information. This language of the internet, a language system that concentrates on the content of events and public emotions, has emerged and received wide currency. This monograph is one of the first books to examine the language of the internet in the Chinese context. By analysing content and discourse, the author examines Chinese website buzzwords since 2010. She reveals the mechanisms of generation, the cultural nature and political characteristics of the network language, analyzes the causes of its emergence and popularity, and highlights its social and academic significance. Meanwhile, she argues that research in the area is essentially interdisciplinary, involving not only perspectives from Journalism and Communication Studies, but also Philosophy, Culture, Linguistics and Table of Contents1. Overview of Research on Network Language from the Perspective of Communication. 2. Network Language in the Era of Group Communication. 3. The Network Language User of Combination of Communicator and Receiver. 4. Network Language: An Important Representation of Contemporary Chinese Media Culture. 5. Network Language As a Symbolic Expression of Network Public Opinions.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Intertextuality in the English Translations of
Book SynopsisSan Guo Yan Yi is one of the best-known classic Chinese novels in the English-speaking world. The earliest English translation came out in 1820, while a range of further translations have been produced over the past two hundred years. How do the different versions relate to each other? This volume examines the intertextual relations between the English translations of San Guo Yan Yi. Intertextuality refers to the interdependence of texts in relation to one another. Focusing on the perspectives of impact, quotation, parallels and transformation, the author compares a range of the translated versions, including two full-length translations and over twenty excerpted renderings and partial adaptations since the 1820s. She discovers that excerpted translations are selected to fit the translators' own narrations, and are adapted to many genres, such as poetry, drama, fairytales, and textbooks. Moreover, the original text, translated texts and other related EnTable of Contents1. Introduction. 2. Impact: Tenuous and implicit relations 3. Quotation: Direct and explicit relations 4. Parallel: Symmetrical and analogous relations 5. Transformation: Remoulding genres and characters 6. Conclusion.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd IndoPacific Strategies
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the Indo-Pacific region's growing prominence as the world's major powers gravitate toward this space to expand their influence. With dynamic shifts taking place in the globe's most strategically volatile region, Indo-Pacific Strategies aims at clarifying the geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific, expounded both as a strategic concept and nascent region, thus contributing to the burgeoning policy and academic debate. The book offers indispensable insights and appropriate remedies to maintain the rules-based international order as threatened by China's increasingly assertive and bellicose posturing. It offers up-to-date analyses of Covid-19-related geopolitical trends, the strategies of various Indo-Pacific states against the backdrop of great power competition, the increasingly confrontational stance of Indo-Pacific states against China and the 2020 US election results. This unique book presents deep insights into the roles of Eurasia, small islaTrade ReviewAs China forcefully attempts world dominance, it disrupts the rules-based international order. Its refusal to heed the Permanent Court of Arbitration’s award voiding its nine-dash line claim and acknowledging the Philippines exclusive sovereign rights in the West Philippine Sea, is only one example. In confronting challenges to maintaining a free, open and rules-based Indo-Pacific order, Indo-Pacific Strategies enlightens freedom-loving people through its analyses. The authors and editors deserve commendation.- Justice Conchita Carpio Morales (Ret.), Supreme Court Justice (former) and Ombudsman (former), Republic of the PhilippinesFrom major powers to the too-often ignored small island states, the topics covered in this collection reflect the latest scholarship and thinking on the vital geopolitical environment of the Indo-Pacific. Of particular interest are perspectives on how Europe, the Middle East and Africa are interacting with the region. It will be hard for policymakers and strategists to find a more up-to-date, theoretically sophisticated and useful volume than Indo-Pacific Strategies.- Michael R. Auslin, Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford, and author of Asia’s New GeopoliticsThe age of the Indo-Pacific is here. Indo-Pacific Strategies will be an essential and comprehensive resource for scholars and policymakers as they grapple with the complexities of this new era in geopolitics. A real strength of this volume is the way it brings together an array of experts whose perspectives reflect the true multipolarity of the Indo-Pacific, a region too large and diverse for hegemony. And the welcome focus on formulating national strategies means this is not purely an academic exercise.- Professor Rory Medcalf, Australian National University, author of Indo-Pacific EmpireAs the idea of the Indo-Pacific overcomes the initial skepticism that greeted it and gains political traction, Cannon and Hakata offer a valuable assessment of the prospects for this new strategic geography. In combining the perspectives from key actors across this broad theater with deep theoretical and practical insights, Indo-Pacific Strategies becomes a good pivot to scholars interested in the geopolitical churn that is unfolding in the Eastern Hemisphere.- Professor C. Raja Mohan, Director, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of SingaporeTable of ContentsPart I Contextualizing the Indo-Pacific 1. The Indo-Pacific as an emerging geography of strategies 2. The Indo-Pacific’s evolving strategic landscape: Geopolitics as a framework for grand strategy? Part II Indo-Pacific lynchpins 3. Building Australia’s unified regional strategy through the Indo-Pacific concept 4. India’s Indo-Pacific prism: Finding strategic autonomy in the face of Chinese adventurism 5. Japan and the Indo-Pacific: The formation of geostrategy 6. Indo-Pacific positioning of the United States: Evaluating dis/continuities Part III East Asia and the Indo-Pacific 7. China’s foreign policy transformation and its implications for the Indo-Pacific 8. ASEAN in search of a common strategy in the Indo-Pacific, Renato Cruz de Castro Part IV Frontlines of the Indo-Pacific 9. Small island states’ security in the Indo-Pacific 10. Europe’s Indo-Pacific puzzle: In search of an independent foreign policy 11. Arab Gulf States in the Indo-Pacific: The limits of ambiguous hedging strategies 12. Influence and power in the Western Indo-Pacific: Lessons from Eastern Africa
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The PanAfrican Imperative
Book SynopsisThis book argues that the principles of Pan-Africanism are more important than ever in ensuring the liberation of the people Africa, those at home and abroad, and the rapid development of the African continent. The writings and practice of Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's first post-independence prime minister and president, were key in laying out a vision for post-independence Africa. Now, in an effort to counter the deluge of neo-liberal thinking that has engulfed so much of the debate on African development in recent decades, Michael Williams illuminates just how important a role an Nkrumaist intellectual framework can play in providing an accurate diagnosis of, and effective solution to, Africa's development crisis. This is done by examining Nkrumah's vision of the critical role Pan-Africanism must play in the development of the continent. Raising vitally important questions about Africa's development and the quality of life of its populations, this book will beTrade Review"Michael Williams has dedicated a great part of his life studying and bringing to life the Nkrumaist view on Pan-Africanism. In this book, he reawakens a powerful ideology: Pan-Africanism, spearheaded by Kwame Nkrumah, who remains one of the Africa’s most prolific contributors towards advocating for the unification of the continent. Divided into five chapters, this book coherently gives an account of the evolution and progress of this movement to date and concludes by providing some important guidelines through which this seemingly far-fetched dream could be realized as envisaged by Nkrumah himself. [...] Amidst the myriad problems plaguing the continent, The Pan-African Imperative is a timely reminder and clarion call for Africans to unite themselves in all fronts to secure a better future." Formella Collins Nkapnwo, African Studies QuarterlyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Historical Evolution of Pan-Africanism 2. Nkrumaism and Radical Pan-African Thought 3. Continental Unification as a Prerequisite to African Development 4. Class Exploitation and Socialist Reconstruction in Africa 5. Political Guidelines on Achieving and Sustaining a Unified Socialist Africa
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Taylor & Francis Ltd HumanHorse Relations and the Ethics of Knowing
Book SynopsisThis book explores how equestrians are highly invested in the idea of profound connection between horse and human and focuses on the ethical problem of knowing horses. In describing how true' connection with horses matters, Rosalie Jones McVey investigates what sort of thing comes to count as a good relationship' and how riders work to get there. Drawing on fieldwork in the British horse world, she illuminates the ways in which equestrian culture instils the idea that horse people should know their horses better. Using horsemanship as one exemplary instance where truth' holds ethical traction, the book demonstrates the importance of epistemology in late modern ethical life. It also raises the question of whether, and how, the concept of truth should matter to multispecies ethnographers in their ethnographic representations of animals. Trade Review"I am enthralled...don't know when I have enjoyed a manuscript so much" - Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern, University of Cambridge"This is a first-rate book. The ethnography is rich and very sensitively and imaginatively interpreted. And the analysis is consistently penetrating and original... I think certain to be influential." - James Laidlaw, William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge"This book represents a highly original and subtle accounting of alternative horsemanship in the UK. With insightful interventions into a range of debates, especially within multispecies ethnography and the anthropology of ethics, Human-Horse Relations and the Ethics of Knowing breaks new ground. It invites us to think again about the relationships of engagement and detachment between horse and rider. Most impressively, it crafts a careful and beautifully rendered description of ideologies of training in practice and gets us to consider afresh the tensions and freedoms expressed through such form of human-animal partnership. A wonderful read." - Adam Reed, University of St AndrewsTable of ContentsIntroduction: #Two Hearts and Tall Tales1 Who Belongs in the Horse World Now?2 "Learn From the Horse, Don’t Label Him!"3 Articulating Equine Characters and Human Virtues4 Infantilisation and the Ethics of the Un-real5 Qualifying the CentaurConclusion: Never Straight from the Horse’s Mouth
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cultural Intermediaries in East Asian Film
Book SynopsisThis book explores the roles cultural intermediaries play in East Asian cinema. Based on extensive original research, and viewing cinema from the social science perspective which emphasizes the social processes entailed in the cultural production, circulation, and consumption of films and the social relations they involve, rather than studying films as texts, the book examines issues such as the differences between individual and collective intermediaries, the diverse resources and services that they mediate, their social background and targeted audiences, and the political implications of their work. One important conclusion is that cultural intermediaries have been central to creating the whole idea of East Asian cinema.Table of Contents1. Introduction Eyal Ben-Ari and Heung-wah Wong 2. Going overseas and evolving locally: the strategies of a Japanese pink film company Heung Wah Wong, Hoi Yan Yau, and Nobu Tanaka 3. Celebrities, Asian film, and a name economy Brian Moeran 4. Audiences as cultural intermediaries: a case study from Kyoto, Japan Jennifer Coates 5. The role of film critics and scholars in the development of film industry in Japan and China Chan Yan Chuen, Kobe 6. Festivals, finance and global cultural intermediaries: co-production and the shaping of "East Asian cinema" Cindy Wong and Gary McDonogh 7. Cultural intermediaries are made not assumed: a case study of a Japanese short movie competition in Hong Kong Karin Ling-Fung Chau, Heung-wah Wong, and Wendy Wei-Wei 8. Women as cultural intermediaries within the Chinese diaspora: the search for Esther Eng in S. Louisa Wei’s Golden Gate Girls (2013) Gina Marchetti
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Made in Scotland
Made in Scotland: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, politics, culture, and musicology of twentieth- and twenty-first-century popular music in Scotland. The volume consists of essays by local experts and leading scholars in Scottish music and culture, and covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of popular music in Scotland. Each essay provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance. The book includes a general introduction to Scottish popular music, followed by essays organized into three thematic sections: Histories, Politics and Policies, and Futures and Imaginings.Examining music as cultural expression in a country that is both a nation and a region within a larger state, this volume uses popular music to analyse Scottishness, independence, and diversity and offers new insights into the complexity of cultural identity, the pow
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ersatz Capitalism and Industrial Policy in
Book SynopsisThis book applies and develops the concept of ersatz capitalism in the analysis of industrial policy blockades to economic development in Malaysia and Indonesia.Drawing on insights from international political economy, development studies, industrial and innovation policy, and new institutionalism to refer to a specific type of capitalism, the book analyzes different paths and institutions of economic development within the entire East Asian region. Comprehensive theoretical insights are complemented by empirical case studies that relate to country and sectoral studies the automotive and ICT industries in Malaysia and Indonesia. Applying contemporary research on international political economy to refer to a specific type of capitalism, the author examines how conflicts of interest between factions of state apparatus, associations, and companies contribute to the failure of developmental policies.The unique combination of theory formation and empirical analysis providTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Theoretical framework of ersatz capitalism; 3 Research design and methods; 4 Varieties of ersatz capitalism in Malaysia; 5 Case study of Malaysia’s automotive industry development; 6 Case study of Malaysia’s ICT industry development; 7 Varieties of ersatz capitalism in Indonesia; 8 Case study of Indonesia’s automotive industry development; 9 Case study of Indonesia’s ICT industry development; 10 Conclusion; Appendix 1: List of interviews; Appendix 2: Interview guidelines; Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd African Clusters in India
Book SynopsisAfrican Clusters in India examines the discrimination and stereotypes faced by African migrants in India. It outlines the narratives of the migrants and demonstrates how their African identity' gets associated with drugs, prostitution, and cannibalism. The book brings to the fore how African migrants experience racial profiling based on a conflated African identity and how this identity gets generalized irrespective of the different nationalities and leads to social exclusion.This monograph argues that the antagonistic urban environment gives rise to the formation of a pan-African identity as a response to cultural biases and stereotypes. Thus, it explores the role of language, culture, and politics of representation to show the process of othering' and exclusion in India.Drawing on lived experiences of the migrants, the volume engages with the larger discourse of globalization, liberalization, and migration within the global south. It will be of great interesTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments List of Acronyms PART IIntroduction 1 ‘African Clusters,’ Spatial Exclusion, and ‘African’ Identity in India PART IIThe Emergence of African Clusters in India 2 India-Africa Relations: Delineating Post-colonial and Neoliberal Ties in Global South 3 Historical and Contemporary Patterns of Migration from Africa to India 4 The Forced Migration of Somali Refugees: Mapping the Impacts of Civil War and Internal Political Crisis 5 Re-reading ‘African’ Clusters: Locating Housing Segregation, Gated Communities, and Discriminatory Practices PART IIIRace, Representation, and Othering: Lived Experiences from the African Cluster 6 African Migrants and Discrimination: Locating the Intersectionality of Race, Class, Gender, and Religion 7 African Migrants, the State, and Contesting Narratives on Racial Discrimination: Locating Critical Race Theory 8 Discursive Representation and Othering of the African Identity: Race as a Signifier 9 The Pan-African Identity in India: The Emergence of Collective Identity through Solidarity Networks and African Kitchens PART IVThe Way Forward 10 De-colonizing Colour Consciousness: Theorzing Race and Racism in India Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Supermarket Retailing in Africa
Book SynopsisThis book surveys the landscape of supermarket retailing in Africa, showing how this expanding part of the retail sector is changing consumerism on the continent.Drawing on research covering retail formats, consumer behaviour, strategies, operation research, ICT, relationship marketing, and market linkage, the book investigates the many factors impacting the growth of supermarkets in Africa. The contributors employ theories, concepts, and methods in order to help us to understand changing consumer behaviour, the strategies used by suppliers to access supermarkets, the role of service suppliers in the growth of the sector, and ultimately how supermarkets can assist in making the market linkage between producers and consumers in Africa. The chapters provide a comprehensive exploration of modern retail, discussing its growth and future, identifying consumer preferences, as well as suggesting solutions to the challenges that retailers and suppliers on the continent face in develoTable of Contents Understanding Performance of Retail Formats in Africa Consumer Shopping Patterns and Pricing Considerations for BOP Consumers: The Case of Madagascar Factors Motivating Consumers to Visit Supermarkets in Tanzania: Case of Dar es Salaam and Arusha Regions Understanding Consumers’ Preference of Purchasing Items from Supermarkets as Opposed to Traditional Markets in Ghana ICT Usage in Supermarkets in East Africa: Benefits, Challenges, and the Way Forward Assessing the Technological Relevance of South African Supermarkets in the Face of Changing Consumer Behaviour Operations Research Contribution to the Performance of Supermarkets in East Africa Strategies Used by Local Food Suppliers to Increase Participation in Modern Food Retailing in Tanzania Exploring the Relationships between Supermarkets and Local Suppliers in Developing Countries: Evidence from Tanzania Understanding the Role of Service Providers on the Development of Supermarkets in Africa Supermarket retailing in Africa: Lessons Learnt
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Digital Innovations for a Circular Plastic
Book SynopsisPlastic pollution is one of the biggest challenges of the twenty-first century that requires innovative and varied solutions. Focusing on sub-Saharan Africa, this book brings together interdisciplinary, multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder perspectives exploring challenges and opportunities for utilising digital innovations to manage and accelerate the transition to a circular plastic economy (CPE).This book is organised into three sections bringing together discussion of environmental conditions, operational dimensions and country case studies of digital transformation towards the circular plastic economy. It explores the environment for digitisation in the circular economy, bringing together perspectives from practitioners in academia, innovation, policy, civil society and government agencies. The book also highlights specific country case studies in relation to the development and implementation of different innovative ideas to drive the circular plastic economy across theTable of Contents1 Introduction: A Digitally Enabled Circular Plastic Economy for Africa; PART I The Environment for Digitisation in the Circular Plastic Economy 2 Enabling a Successful Transition to a Circular Plastic Economy in Africa; 3 Digital Technologies and the Regime Complex for Plastics in Nigeria; 4 From Polymers to Microplastics: Plastic Value Chains in Africa; 5 Digital Innovation Ecosystem for the Circular Plastic Economy; PART II Digitisation in Action 6 Utilising Plastic Waste to Create 3D-Printed Products in Sub-Saharan Africa; 7 Blockchains for Circular Plastic Value Chains; 8 Transitioning to a Circular Plastic Economy in West Africa through Digital Innovation: Challenges and the Way Forward; 9 A Multi-stakeholder, Multi-sectoral Approach to a Circular Plastic Economy in Eastern Africa; 10 The Application of Digital Technology in Circular Plastic Economy in Southern Africa: Case Studies of Waste Management Start-ups from Namibia and Zambia; PART III A Digitally Enabled Circular Plastic Economy 11 BIG-STREAM: A Framework for Digitisation in Africa’s Circular Plastic Economy; 12 A Plastic Data Exchange Platform for Africa’s Circular Plastic Economy Transition; 13 Enhancing Decentralised Recycling Solutions with Digital Technologies; 14 Assessing Plastic Circular Economy Policies and the Use of Digital Technology in Africa; 15 Gender and Digital Innovation on Circular Plastic Economy in Africa; 16 Conclusion: The Future of Digitisation for the Circular Plastic Economy in Africa
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Taylor & Francis The European Union and Regional Integration in
Book SynopsisThis book examines European countriesâ engagement in promoting regional integration in the East African Community (EAC). In addition to their usage of the European Union (EU), states employ other bilateral initiatives to channel their regional aid to the EAC. The book explores differing national interests and the decisions to engage with the EAC, both multilaterally via the EU and through their other bilateral channels.In addition to analysing statesâ interests, the book goes further, to examine how lack of coordination of those European initiatives creates various challenges in the EAC. It is shown how EAC bureaucrats have to engage separately with the EU and its member states in their different channels, thus experiencing challenges in different stages of their aid project cycles, for instance in the identification, implementation and reporting phases. This book will be an excellent resource for researchers and practitioners focusing on the topics of European promotion of rTable of ContentsTable of ContentList of TablesList of Abbreviations and AcronymsPrefaceAcknowledgementsChapter 1 – Introduction PART I: MULTILATERAL PROMOTION OF REGIONAL INTEGRATIONChapter 2 – Collective Interests and Regionalism SupportChapter 3 – Coordinating Multilateral Regionalism SupportPART II: BILATERAL PROMOTION OF REGIONAL INTEGRATIONChapter 4 – National Interests and Regionalism SupportChapter 5 – How States ChoosePART III: EFFECTS IN EAST AFRICA Chapter 6 – Donor Coordination and ProliferationChapter 7 – Coordination and Proliferation on the GroundChapter 8 – ConclusionReferencesIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Queer Southeast Asia
Book SynopsisTang and Wijaya present a range of new and established scholarly voices, including local activists directly involved in developments in Southeast Asia.This groundbreaking collection presents the current state of play and longstanding LGBTQ+ debates in this often-overlooked region of Asia. The diversity of both the subject and the region is reflected in the broad scope of topics addressed, from the impact of Japanese queer popular culture on queer Filipinos, to the politics of public toilets in Singapore, and the impact of digital governance on queer communities across ASEAN. Taken in combination, these investigations not only highlight the operations of queer politics in Southeast Asia, but also present a concrete basis to reflect on queer knowledge production in the region.A vital resource for students and scholars of gender and sexuality in Southeast Asia, or any Queer or LGBTQ+ studies looking beyond the West.Trade Review"Queer Southeast Asia showcases the current trends and developments of LGBTQ+ debates taking place throughout Southeast Asia. It offers a rich, dynamic collection of theoretical and methodological innovation and scholarship by researchers, activists and educators. Queer Southeast Asia makes a powerful and highly relevant contribution to regional and global discussions involving contemporary LGBTQ+ communities, culture, media and politics, especially in relation to emerging transnational concerns and challenges."---Dr Baden Offord, Professor of Cultural Studies and Human Rights, Curtin University"This pioneering book provides an essential guide to queer histories, cultures and social movements in the Southeast Asian context. Challenging a West-centred queer epistemology and championing an Inter-Asian cultural studies approach, this exciting volume places Southeast Asia at the heart of queer knowledge and global queer politics."---Associate Professor Hongwei Bao, author of Queer China, Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture under Postsocialism "Just as queerness implies an unfixed space of change and difference, Southeast Asia represents a region that perpetually defies conventional scholarly practice. At the juncture of these two epistemic formations, this book introduces some of the most cutting-edge research in the study of global queer Asia. It features an impressive diversity of topics, in terms of both breadth and depth, ranging from trans categorization, migrant labor, gay pornography, student activism, film history, postcolonial indigeneity, toilet habits, queer comics, online video streaming, experimental photography, digital governance, to sexuality studies and queer pedagogy."---Howard Chiang, author of Transtopia in the Sinophone PacificTable of ContentsIntroduction: Queer Southeast Asia: Itineraries, Stop-Overs, and Delays 1. An Inter-Asia History of Transpuan in Indonesia 2. Exploring Southeast Asian Queer Migrant Biographies: Queer Utopia, Capacitations, and Debilitations 3. Japanese Queer Popular Culture and the Production of Sexual Knowledge in the Philippines 4. When the Gay Ivy Comes to (U)Town: The Globalisation of Higher Education and the Possibilities of Queer Student Activism in Singapore 5. Emergent Queer Identities in 20th Century Films from Southeast Asia 6. Endurance as Queer Worldmaking in Northern Aceh of Indonesia 7. Queer(ing) Indigeneity and The Igorot Lesbians of Hong Kong 8. Keep Singapore Clean and Chaste: Spatial-Sexual Discipline in Singapore’s Toilet Narratives 9. Independent and Safe Panels for Youths: Queer Comics in a time of Southeast Asian Populism 10. Viddsee: Queer Assemblages of Short Film Circulation, Distribution, Production, and Reception in Singapore 11. Ohm Phanphiroj’s Underage: Some Queer Thoughts on Photography and Night-time Bangkok 12. Digital Governance, Human Rights Norms, and ASEAN: Sexuality and Gender Rights Meet Surveillance, Networks, and Data 13. Queer Vietnam: Early Notes From Sexuality Studies to Activism 14. Pedagogy of Queer Studies Beyond Empire Queer Southeast Asia: An afterword
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Taylor & Francis The Art of a Corporation
Book SynopsisThe Art of a Corporation is a comprehensive study of artworks that were commissioned and collected by the East India Company from the early seventeenth to the midnineteenth centuries. These items range from oil paintings on canvas and marble statuary, to sandstone Buddhas and metal figurines of Hindu deities. The book takes a chronological approach and focuses on provenance to show that objects are valuable primary resources for understanding the East India Companyâs history. The artworks illustrate how one of the longest-surviving multinational corporations in the Western world changed over its three-century history and provide a powerful visual account of its perpetually reinvented image.This book is a must read for scholars and researchers of art history, colonial art, colonial studies, British history, economic history, business history, South Asian history, post-colonial studies, and cultural studies.Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloaTrade Review‘This is the first attempt to look at all the artworks produced by the East India Company, as a corporate entity. Through detective investigation, Howes brings the dispersed collection back together both as a narrative and as a collection, connecting also to current debates about empire, capitalism and memorials.’—Giles Tillotson ‘The complexity of the East India Company is one of the reasons British Empire is so poorly understood. Howes does vital work shining light on one particular aspect of its history – a real education for me.’—Sathnam Sanghera“This is the first attempt to look at all the artworks produced by the East India Company, as a corporate entity. Through detective investigation, Howes brings the dispersed collection back together both as a narrative and as a collection, connecting also to current debates about empire, capitalism and memorials”.Giles Tillotson“The complexity of the East India Company is one of the reasons British Empire is so poorly understood. Howes does vital work shining light on one particular aspect of its history – a real education for me”.Sathnam SangheraTable of ContentsList of illustrationsPreface AcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsIntroduction1 Chaos to confidence 2 Landscape and imperialism3 Romans4 Scandals5 Indian sculpture6 Bureaucracy7 ContinuitiesBibliographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Chinese Sociolinguistics
Book SynopsisChinese Sociolinguistics examines the ways in which language contributes to shaping social, cultural, and ethnic identities in Greater China. This book is the first textbook to be exclusively devoted to the issues of language, society, and identity in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and overseas Chinese communities (the Greater China). The book includes topics on the role of language in Chinese culture; the linguistic indexing of socioeconomic class; dialects and regional language variation; the impacts of state policies; linguistic borrowings; bilingualism and bicultural identity; and language shift and attrition. The emergence of new forms of language as influenced by modern technologies and possible future developments is also discussed in this book. This book will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in Chinese sociolinguistics, particularly with a focus on language, identity, and society in Greater China. This book will also be of interest to members of the Chinese Language Teachers Association and the American Council of Teaching Foreign Languages (ACTFL). Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsChapter 1 Laying the FoundationChapter 2 Chinese Languages: Past, Present and FutureChapter 3 Naming and Proper Name Planning in ChinaChapter 4 Language Planning, Policy and Attitudes in ChinaChapter 5 Language Use, Policy, and Attitudes in Hong Kong and MacaoChapter 6 Language Policy, Use, and Attitudes in Taiwan and SingaporeChapter 7 Gender and Identity in Chinese LanguageChapter 8 Language and Rural/Urban IdentityChapter 9 Identity and Language Maintenance among the Chinese DiasporaChapter 10 The Linguistic Landscape of Greater ChinaChapter 11 Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language and its Role as a Lingua FrancaChapter 12 English Education in ChinaChapter 13 Emerging Chinese Language FormsChapter 14 Face, Politeness, and Responses to Compliments in Chinese
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Entangled Performance Histories
Book SynopsisEntangled Performance Histories is the first book-length study that applies the concept of entangled histories as a new paradigm in the field of theater and performance historiography.Entangled histories denotes the interconnectedness of multiple histories that cannot be addressed within national frameworks. The concept refers to interconnected pasts, in which historical processes of contact and exchange between performance cultures affected all involved. Presenting case studies from across the worldspanning Africa, the Arab-speaking world, Asia, the Americas and Europethe book's contributors systematically expand, exemplify and examine the concept of entangled histories, thus introducing various innovative concepts, theories and methodologies for investigating reciprocally consequential processes of interweaving performance cultures from the past. Bringing together examples of entanglements in theater and performance histories from a broad variety of geographTable of ContentsList of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: Entangled Performance Histories: New Approaches to Theater HistoriographyPART I: Methodological Reflections1 Interweaving Stories, Altering Discourses2 Writing Entangled Theater/Performance Histories in the Arab WorldPART II: Hidden Histories—Forgetting and Remembering3 William Kentridge’s The Head & The Load: Theatrical Collage and the Color of Memory4 Hijikata Tatsumi at the Osaka World Exposition’s Pepsi Pavilion, 1970: Multiple Historiographies of a Lost PerformancePART III: Entanglements between Drama, Theater and Colonial Historiographies5 Disentangling Colonial Archives: The Combustible Affair of Ensuring/Insuring Theater Safety in Colonial Singapore6 The Thorny Entanglements of Theater and Colonial Historiography in the Netherlands: Anti-colonial Critique and Imperial Nostalgia in J. Slauerhoff ’s Play Jan Pieterszoon Coen (1931)PART IV: Emergence and Transformation of Genres 7 Reversibility as Historiographical Method: Japanese Theater and Its Doubles 8 Plumbing the Past to Project into the Future: The Entangled Trajectories of Flamenco’s Twenty-First-Century Avant-Garde PART V: National Theater Histories—Entanglements and Disentanglements 9 The Interwoven Performance Culture of Algeria 10 Writing History as Disentanglement: Toward a Historiography of Modern Greek Theater Coda: The Whirligig of Tech: Theater as Media Archaeology Index
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Taylor & Francis Routledge Handbook of Celebrity Studies
Book SynopsisOurs is the age of celebrity. An inescapable aspect of daily life in our media-saturated societies of the twenty-first century, celebrity is celebrated for its infinite plasticity and glossy seductions. But there is also a darker side. Celebrity culture is littered from end to end with addictions, pathologies, neuroses, even suicides. Why, as a society, are we held in thrall to celebrity? What is the power of celebrity in a world of increasing consumerism, individualism and globalization?Routledge Handbook of Celebrity Studies, edited by acclaimed social theorist Anthony Elliott, offers a remarkably clear overview of the analysis of celebrity in the social sciences and humanities, and in so doing seeks to develop a new agenda for celebrity studies. The key theories of celebrity, ranging from classical sociological accounts to critical theory, and from media studies to postmodern approaches, are drawn together and critically appraised. There are substantive chapters lTable of ContentsPart I: Theories and Concepts of Celebrity 1. Celebrity and Contemporary Culture: A Critical Analysis of Some Theoretical Accounts, Anthony Elliott and Ross Boyd 2. Celebrity’s Histories, Robert van Krieken 3. Celebrity in the Contemporary Era, Hannah Hamad 4. Postmodern Theories of Celebrity, Lee Barron 5. Cultural Studies and the Politics of Celebrity: From Powerless Elite to Celebristardom, Barry King 6. Celebrity and Religion, Kathryn Lofton Part II: The Culture of Celebrity 7. The Death of Celebrity: Global Grief, Manufactured Mourning, Anthony Elliott 8. Soap Stars, C. Lee Harrington 9. Celebrity, Fans and Fandom, Nick Stevenson 10. Celebrity in the Social Media Age: Renegotiating the Public and the Private, Anne Jerslev and Mette Mortensen Part III: Non-Western Celebrity 11. Victims, Bollywood and the Construction of a Cele-meme, Pramod K. Nayar 12. K-pop Idols, Artificial Beauty and Affective Fan Relationships in South Korea, Joanna Elfving-Hwang 13. ‘Idols’ in Japan, Asia and the World, Patrick W. Galbraith 14. Celebrity and Power in South America, Nahuel Ribke 15 Celebrity Philanthropy in China: Rethinking Cultural Studies’ ‘Big Citizen’ Critique, Elaine Jeffreys Part IV: The Conduits of Celebrity 16. Celebrity in the Age of Global Communication Networks, Olivier Driessens 17. Celebrity Involvement: Parasocial Interaction, Identification and Worship, William J. Brown 18. Celebrity, Reputational Capital and the Media Industries, Philip Drake 19. Human Rights, Democracy and Celebrity, Mark Wheeler 20. Drastic Plastic: Identity in The Age of Makeover, Anthony Elliott 21. The Great Gomez: John Astin in Conversation with Anthony Elliott
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Taylor & Francis EU and NATO Relations with Russia After the Collapse of the Soviet Union
Book SynopsisDo the EU and NATO threaten Russian security? The book explores the rise of these exclusive âinter-democraticâ security institutions after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the ensuing effects on relations with Russia. Two competing theories are tested to explore whether these institutions aggravate or mitigate the security dilemma with Russia. These institutions can be theorised to promote security as a positive-sum game through European integration and democracy promotion, or pursue collective hegemony with ideologically uncompromising bloc-politics. Glenn Diesen argues that a European security architecture that demotes the largest state on the continent to an object of security inevitably results in âEuropean integrationâ becoming a zero-sum geopolitical project that has set the West on a collision course with Russia.Trade Review’In this innovative, theoretically grounded and systematic study, Glenn Diesen shows how the attempts by the EU and NATO to construct a security community in Europe have exacerbated the security dilemma with Russia. The arguments in this fine book are crucial to our understanding of the international relations of the European continent since the collapse of the Soviet Union.’ Graeme Gill, The University of Sydney, Australia ’In the light of the Ukraine crisis and the Russian annexation of Crimea, this is a timely and important book. Glenn Diesen provides a well-argued and theoretically rich critique of Western policy towards Russia since the breakup of the Soviet Union. His analysis challenges many of the mainstream liberal assumptions that have shaped relations between Europe and Russia, and offers a fresh interpretation of the steady deterioration in relations between the two sides. This is a book that deserves to be widely read and discussed.’ Adrian Hyde-Price, Gothenburg University, SwedenTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Theoretical Comparison; Chapter 3 Research Design; Chapter 4 Case Study I; Chapter 5 Case Study II; Chapter 6; Conclusion;
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Taylor & Francis Routledge Handbook of Asian Theatre
Book SynopsisRoutledge Handbook of Asian Theatre is an advanced level reference guide which surveys the rich and diverse traditions of classical and contemporary performing arts in Asia, showcasing significant scholarship in recent years. An international team of over 50 contributors provide authoritative overviews on a variety of topics across Asia, including dance, music, puppetry, make-up and costume, architecture, colonialism, modernity, gender, musicals, and intercultural Shakespeare.This volume is divided into four sections covering: Representative Theatrical Traditions in Asia. Cross-Regional Aspects of Classical and Folk Theatres. Modern and Contemporary Theatres in Asian Countries. Modernity, Gender Performance, Intercultural and Musical Theatre in Asia. Offering a cutting edge overview of Asian theatre and performance, the Handbook is an invaluable resource for academics, researchers Trade Review"It is a comprehensive resource that can, in different ways, serve both advanced scholars and novice students, and would be a useful text for both undergraduate and graduate courses covering Asian theatre. It will inspire and facilitate faculty to move curricula beyond the familiar genres usually covered in this arena to include more updated views of the subject. It also honors the dedicated scholars who have devoted themselves to this research."CLAUDIA ORENSTEIN, Hunter College, CUNY, Theatre JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I. Traditional Theatre in Asia 1. Traditional Indian Theatre 2. Traditional Chinese Theatre 3. Traditional Japanese Theatre 4. Traditional Indonesian Theatre Part II. Dimensions of Traditional Asian Theatre 5. Dance in Traditional Asian Theatre 6. Music in Traditional Asian Theatre 7. Masks in Traditional Asian Theatre 8. Puppets in Traditional Asian Theatre 9. Costume and Makeup in Traditional Asian Theatre 10. Architecture and Stage of Traditional Asian Theatre Part III. Modern Theatre in Asia 11. Modern Indian Theatre 12. Modern Theatre in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka13. Modern Japanese Theatre 14. Modern Chinese Theatre 15. Modern Theatre in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, and North Korea16. Modern Theatre in Mainland Southeast Asia: Thailand, Burma (Myanmar), Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam17. Modern Theatre in Maritime Southeast Asia: Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Singapore Part IV. Perspectives of Modern and Contemporary Asian Theatre 18. The Beginning of Spoken Theatre: Colonialism and Colonial Modernity 19. Gender Performance and the Rise of Actresses in Traditional Asian Theatre 20. Gender Performance and the Rise of Actresses in Modern Asian Theatre 21. Modern Asian Theatre and Indigenous Performance22. Traditional Asian Performance in Modern and Contemporary Times 23. Intercultural Theatre and Asian Shakespeare Productions in Asia24. Modern Musicals in Asia
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Nicolas Medtner
Book SynopsisNicholas Medtner (1880-1951) has always been a neglected figure in the history of Russian music, and yet his friend Rachmaninoff considered him the greatest of contemporary composers. He wrote three fine piano concertos, more than one hundred solo piano compositions, including a cycle of fourteen sonatas fully worthy to be set alongside those of Scriabin and Prokofiev, and many beautiful songs. He was also a great pianist. Leaving Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution, Medtner lived for a time in Germany and France before finally settling in London, where he passed the final sixteen years of his life. The present work is the first to tell the full story of his eventful life and to consider in turn each of his compositions. The author has drawn on Medtner's own correspondence and writings and collected the reminiscences of those who knew him personally to build a comprehensive picture of a great, if still largely unrecognised, musician.Trade Review’Martyn's sympathetic and interesting biography; with its excellent descriptions of Medtner's music, is well worth exploring.’ Robin Zebaida, Classical Music ’All enthusiasts will want a copy and all libraries should have one.’ Musical Times ’Martyn always has some useful insights to offer; above all, because he is devoted to Medtner’s music, knows it intimately and can write about it with an enthusiasm that is both infectious and sensitive, his attractively written book should help foster a climate favourable to the production of a truly definitive study of Medtner. Meanwhile, for the foreseeable future it will do its subject’s cause excellent service.’ Music and Letters '... a comprehensive monograph that helps to restore Medtner's name to the pages of music history.' Clavier MagazineTable of ContentsContents: List of plates; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1880-1900 Childhood and conservatoire; 1900-1903 Start of a career; 1903-1906 Personal turmoil; 1906-1909 German sojourn; 1909-1911 Conservatoire professor; 1911-1914 Friends and critics; 1914-1917 War; 1917-1921 Revolution; 1921-1925 A life abroad; 1925-1927 Return to Russia; 1927-1930 Britain and America; 1930-1935 The Muse and the Fashion; 1935-1939 Move to England; 1939-1945 Second World War; 1945-1951 Indian Fairy Tale; Notes; Index of Medtner's Works; Index of persons and works referred to in the text.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Indian Agriculture after the Green Revolution
Book SynopsisFrom a country plagued with chronic food shortage, the Green Revolution turned India into a food-grain self-sufficient nation within the decade of 1968-1978. By contrast, the decade of 1995-2005 witnessed a spate in suicides among farmers in many parts of the country. These tragic incidents were symptomatic of the severe stress and strain that the agriculture sector had meanwhile accumulated. The book recounts how the high achievements of the Green Revolution had overgrown to a state of this agrarian crisis'. In the process, it also brings to fore the underlying resilience and innovativeness in the sector which enabled it not just to survive through the crisis but to evolve and revive out of it. The need of the hour is to create an environment that will enable the sector to acquire the robustness to contend with the challenges of lifting levels of farm income and coping with Climate Change. To this end, a multi-pronged intervention strategy has been suggested. Reviving public investTable of Contents1 Introduction (Binoy Goswami)2 Indian Agriculture after Green Revolution: An Overview (Kirtti Ranjan Paltasingh, Phanindra Goyari and Kiril Tochkov)3 Rental Markets of Agricultural Land: Changing Context and Need for Tenancy Reforms (Binoy Goswami)4 Emerging Factor Markets in Indian Agriculture: Water and Rental of Capital Goods (Anup Kumar Das and Jitu Tamuli)5 Implications of Credit-insurance Interlinked Contracts: An Evaluation of Crop Insurance Schemes in India (Pravat Kumar Kuri and Arindam Laha)6 Transition of Agricultural Marketing in India (Rajib Sutradhar)7 Irrigation in India: The Post-Green Revolution Experience, Challenges and Strategies (Mrinal Kanti Dutta)8 Technology Adoption in Indian Agriculture and Its Determinants: An Inter-State Analysis (Bibhunandini Das and Amarendra Das)9 Trade Liberalisation and Indian Agriculture (Smitha Francis, Anirban Dasgupta and Murali Kallummal)10 Indian Agriculture Through the Turn of the Century: Gathering Stress and Farmers’ Distress (Madhurjya Prasad Bezbaruah and Mofidul Hassan)11 Shift of Rural Work Force from Farm to Non-Farm Employment: Some Determinants (Upasak Das and Udayan Rathore)12 Environmental Consequences of Green Revolution in India (Surya Bhushan)13 Climate Change and Indian Agriculture: Impacts on Crop Yield (Raju Mandal and Hiranya K. Nath)14 The Way Forward (Madhurjya Prasad Bezbaruah)
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The AngloAmerican Tradition of Liberty
Book SynopsisJoao Carlos Espada''s provocative survey of a group of key Anglo-American and European political thinkers argues that there is a distinctive, Anglo-American tradition of liberty that is one of the core pillars of the Free World. Giving a broad overview of the tradition through summaries of the careers and ideas of fourteen of its key thinkers, neglected despite having been tremendously influential in the tradition of liberty, the author engages with current set ideas about the meaning of ''liberal'' and ''conservative'' to offer an engaging, intellectual case for liberal democracy.Trade Review"The Portuguese political theories João Espada has written a most thoughtful and instructive book on the political and intellectual resources that inform the Anglo-American tradition of liberty." - Daniel J. Mahoney, The University Bookman"…liberalism is in serious need of rethinking and renewal. Those searching for ways forward would be greatly served by reading João Carlos Espada’s important book. Professor Espada …takes his reader on a rich journey of intellectual discovery though the Anglo-American tradition of modern liberal political theory." -Amichai Magen, Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs"Espada’s practical and sensible approach provides academics, citizens, and political actors with valuable matter for reflection. His understanding of political action, though rooted in Anglo-American examples, is as akin to Aristotle’s conception of practical wisdom as it is to Burke’s or Churchill’s." - James H. Nichols, Journal of Democracy"In the wake of Britain’s recent vote to leave the European Union, Professor Espada’s new book could not be more timely. For Espada argues persuasively that Europe benefits hugely from the example of British traditions of individual liberty and the rule of law. …the British Mystery is that Britain largely depends upon foreigners to articulate and defend its own traditions of liberty. João Espada’s new book is the latest contribution to this remarkable tradition." - James Bernard Murphy, Professor of Government, Dartmouth College, USA. A personal, perceptive and illuminating journey by a continental European admirer of the Anglo-American tradition of liberty. He conducts us, both intellectually and personally through the lives and works of some of its greatest thinkers. A delightful book. Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies, University of Oxford, UK & Senior Fellow Hoover Institution, Stanford University, USA Table of ContentsThe Anglo-American Tradition of Liberty:A view from EuropeJoão Carlos EspadaTable of contentsIntroduction: Karl Popper, Winston Churchill and ‘The British Mystery’ Part I | PERSONAL INFLUENCES 1. Karl R. Popper: The open society and its enemies 2. Ralf Dahrendorf: Liberty and civil society 3. Raymond Plant: Social welfare without class warfare4. Gertrude Himmelfarb and Irving Kristol: The moral imagination Part II | COLD WARRIORS 5. Raymond Aron: The opium of the intellectuals 6. Friedrich A. Hayek: The constitution of liberty 7. Isaiah Berlin: Liberty and pluralism 8. Michael J. Oakeshott: The conservative disposition 9. Leo Strauss: Relativism and the crisis of modernity Part III | ORDERLY LIBERTY 10. Edmund Burke: Liberty and duty11. James Madison vs. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Two views of self-government 12. Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in AmericaPart IV | THE SPIRIT OF LIBERTY 13. Winston S. Churchill: The English-Speaking Peoples and the Free WorldPart V | POLITICS OF IMPERFECTION: THE ANGLO-AMERICAN TRADITION OF LIBERTY14. Limited and accountable Government15. Two kinds of rationalism16. Liberty as conversationPostscript ON BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN UNION: THE MISSING DEBATEBIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Regional Community Building in East Asia
Book SynopsisThis volume is a collection of papers written by nationals or former nationals of the respective country in ASEAN and Northeast Asia. Unlike other works written by scholars outside ASEAN or East Asia, it offers an insiderâs point of view of the 10 ASEAN states, China, Japan and South Korea on regional community building. While a nationalist perspective may permeate throughout the study, it is also clear that pursuing regional cooperation is considered to be important by the respective author, denoting the non-exclusivity between nationalism and regionalism and the mutual reinforcement of the two. Each author of this volume has made a deliberate effort to introduce and survey the developmental challenges and experiences of his or her country from a historical perspective. All authors, without exception, have emphasized the importance and advantages in staying with ASEAN or linking up with ASEAN by China, Japan and South Korea in political-security, economic and socio-cultural Table of ContentsIntroduction Brunei Darussalam: Participation in ASEAN and ASEAN Plus Three Cambodia: From isolation to involvement in regional community building Indonesia: Maintaining a leading role in the making of the ASEAN and APT community Laos: Economic and social development towards the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) Malaysia and the development of Asian regionalism The Republic of Union of Myanmar and the ASEAN and APT processes The Philippines: Everything in place Singapore: The dynamics of city state development and relations with ASEAN and APT Thailand: Political, economic, and social development towards a closer community Viet Nam in ASEAN Plus Three: Cooperation for a better future China: An emerging power in the making of the APT community Japan: Living in and with Asia Major Perspectives of South Korea and ASEAN Cooperation
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Contested Ideas of Regionalism in Asia
Book SynopsisDeepening regionalism in Asia demands new leadership. Strong elites who are committed to a supranational identity are a minimum requirement of successful regionalism. Regional leaders are increasingly seen as a new set of leaders in Europe. Currently, Asian regional leaders largely come from the diplomacy community, or trade and economic sectors. Yet further regionalization demands a new type of leadership from civil society and citizens. In this context it is important to cultivate new regional leadership through the development of regional citizenship. This book examines contested ideas of regionalism in Asia with a particular focus on two competing ideas of pan-Asianism and Pacificism. It also identifies a new trend and contestation, the fundamental shift from a civilization understanding of regionalism to a technocratic and functional understanding of regionalism in the form of regulatory regionalism. It also examines the other contested imaginations of regionalism in AsiTrade Review'He’s novelty in addressing the Asian regionalism hybrid approaches provides a versatile way of dissecting and analysing the diversity of ideas and values that exist across Asia. The author excels in accommodating the long evolutionary paths of the origins of ideas developed throughout almost a century. It, thus, provides an excellent comprehensive overview of the competing ideas of regionalisms and suggests a blueprint of where we can go from here.'Sohyun Zoe Lee, London School of Economics and Political Science, Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs, Vol. 4, No. 3, 2017Table of Contents01. Acknowledgement 02. Chapter 1: Introduction to the Idea of Regionalism in Asia 03. Chapter 2: Pan-Asian Ideas of Regionalism04. Chapter 3: Chinese Ideas of Regionalism 05. Chapter 4: Australian Ideas of Asia-Pacific Regionalism 06. Chapter 5: The Competing Norms of Regionalism 07. Chapter 6: The Contested Ideas of Regional Governance08. Chapter 7: The Contested Idea of Security Regionalism 09. Chapter 8: Toward Hybrid Regionalism? Pathways and Pitfalls 10. References
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Role Theory and Role Conflict in U.S.Iran
Book SynopsisU.S.-Iran relations continue to be an international security problem in the Middle East. These two countries could have been friends, but instead they have become enemies. Stating this thesis raises the following questions: Why are the United States and Iran enemies? How and when did this relationship come to be? When the relationship began to deteriorate, could it have been reversed? What lessons can be learned from an analysis of past U.S.-Iranian relations and what are the implications for their present and future relations? Akan Malici and Stephen G. Walker argue that the dynamics of U.S.-Iran relations are based on role conflicts. Iran has long desired to enact roles of active independence and national sovereignty in world politics. However, it continued to be cast by others into client or rebel roles of national inferiority. In this book the authors examine these role conflicts during three crucial episodes in U.S.-Iran relations: the oil nationalization crisis aTrade Review'Malici and Walker provide a novel and illuminating perspective on U.S.-Iranian relations by focusing on conflicting and evolving national role conceptions over the last half-century of this troubled relationship. Their well-designed, mixed-method study illuminates crucial historical episodes, alternative paths U.S.-Iranian interactions could have taken, and useful lessons for the future.' - Jack Levy, Rutgers University'This important work marries role theory to a dynamic game-theoretic model, based on the "theory of moves," to elucidate strategic interactions during three major transitions in Iranian-U.S. relations. It sheds new light on the evolution of both conflict and cooperation in these relations, culminating in the 2015 agreement of Iran to desist from the development of nuclear weapons in return for the lifting of economic sanctions by the United States and other western powers.' - Steven Brams, New York University'In this important book, Malici and Walker fulfill the promise of role theory and operational code analysis in understanding foreign policy. Through a series of carefully analyzed and richly detailed episodes in US-Iranian relations, the ways in which roles mediate the relationship between power and behavior are uncovered, revealing that power is by no means deterministic. In addition to its scholarly significance, the work of Malici and Walker is also policy-relevant and timely as the US and Iran attempt to reorient their relationship through efforts at mutual role transition.' Valerie M. Hudson, Texas A&M University'In their analysis of key turning points in US-Iranian relations, Malici and Walker show misperception and misunderstanding on the part of the United States in trying to cast Iran in an inferior or client role. Their use of role theory is innovative and provides a fresh take on an important subject. This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the source of Iranian enmity toward the United States.' - Deborah Welch Larson, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Los AngelesTable of Contents1. Making Friends and Enemies in World Politics.2. The Iranian Quest for Independence3. Role Theory and U.S.-Iran Relations.4. The Oil Nationalization Crisis and the Coup.5. Remaking Patron-Client Relations.6. The Iranian Revolution and the Hostage Crisis.7. Making Enemies.8. Iran’s New Leader and the September 11 Attacks.9. Making Partners.Appendices
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Emotions in Indian ThoughtSystems
Book SynopsisA stimulating account of the wide range of approaches towards conceptualising emotions in classical Indian philosophicalreligious traditions, such as those of the Upanishads, Vaishnava Tantrism, Bhakti movement, Jainism, Buddhism, Yoga, Shaivism, and aesthetics, this volume analyses the definition and validity of emotions in the construction of identity and self-discovery. Trade Review'The contributions by Rafaele Torella, Bettina Sharada Bäumer and Aleksandra Wenta are uniformly rewarding, combining exacting philological rigour with sophisticated interpretations.'Sonam Kachru, University of VirginiaTable of ContentsPreface. Emotions in Indian Thought-Systems: An Introduction Purushottama Bilimoria and Aleksandra Wenta Part 1: Tantrism 1. Passions and Emotions in the Indian Philosophical-Religious Traditions Raffaele Torella 2. Intensity of Emotions: A Way to Liberation in the Advaita Śaiva Āgamas and their Exegetes Bettina Sharada Bäumer 3. Between Fear and Heroism: The Tantric Path to Liberation Aleksandra Wenta Part 2: The Bhakti Movement 4. Principal Emotions Contributing to the Supreme Love of Śiva: A Study of Early Śaiva Hymnal Corpus T. Ganesan 5. Love Never Tasted Quite Like This Before: Śṛṅgāra-rasa in the Light of Two Texts from a Sahajiyā Vaiṣṇava Notebook Neal Delmonico and Aditi Nath Sarkar Part 3: Buddhism, Pātañjala Yoga and Śaiva Siddhānta 6. The Buddhist Psychology of Emotions Varun Kumar Tripathi 7. Between Impetus, Fear, and Disgust: ‘Desire for Emancipation’ (Saṃvega) from Early Buddhism to Pātañjala Yoga and Śaiva Siddhānta Andrea Acri Part 4: Aesthetics 8. Moha Kāla: Aporia of Emotion in Indian Reflective Traditions Venkat D. Rao 9. Aesthetics of Despair Sharad Deshpande
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Taylor & Francis Routledge Handbook of Japanese Media
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Japanese Media is a comprehensive study of the key contemporary issues and scholarly discussions around Japanese media. Covering a wide variety of forms and types from newspapers, television and fi lm, to music, manga and social media, this book examines the role of the media in shaping Japanese society from the Meiji eraâs intense engagement with Western culture to our current period of rapid digital innovation.Featuring the work of an international team of scholars, the handbook is divided into five thematic sections: The historical background of the Japanese media from the Meiji Restoration to the immediate postwar era. Japanâs national and political identity imagined and negotiated through diff erent aspects of the media, including Japanâs âlost decadeâ of the 1990s and todayâs âpost- Fukushimaâ society. The representation of Japanese identities, including race, gender and sexuality, in contemporary media. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Why the Japanese media? Fabienne Darling-Wolf PART I: The rise of Japanese media 1. Who’s the ‘great imitator'?: Critical reflections on Japan’s historical transcultural influence, Fabienne Darling-Wolf 2. Girls’ magazines and the creation of shōjo identities, Sarah Frederick 3. Gender, consumerism and women’s magazines in interwar Japan, Barbara Sato 4. Eusociality and the Japanese media machine in the Great East Asia War, 1931–1945, David C. Earhart 5. Fire! Mizuno Hideko and the development of 1960s shōjo manga, Deborah Shamoon 6. Sport, media and technonationalism in the history of the Tokyo Olympics, Iwona Regina Merklejn PART II: Media, nation, politics and nostalgia 7. Born again yokozuna: sports and national identity, Michael Plugh 8. Changing political communication in Japan, Masaki Taniguchi 9. ‘National idols’: the case of AKB48 in Japan, Patrick W. Galbraith 10. Media idols and the regime of truth about national identity in post-3.11 Japan, Yunuen Ysela Mandujano-Salazar PART III: Japanese identities — plural: race, gender and sexuality in contemporary media 11. Queering mainstream media: Matsuko Deluxe as modern-day kuroko, Katsuhiko Suganuma 12. Mediated masculinities: negotiating the 'normal' in the Japanese female-to-male trans magazine Laph, Shu Min Yuen 13. Writing sexual identity onto the small screen, seitekishōsū-sha (sexual minorities) in Japan, Claire Maree 14. Housewives watching crime: mediating social identity and voyeuristic pleasures in Japanese wide shows, Michelle H. S. Ho 15. Beyond the absent father stereotype: representations of parenting men and their familities in contemporary Japanese film, Christie Barber 16. Japan Times’ imagined communities: symbolic boundaries with African Americans, 1998–2013, Michael C. Thornton and Atsushi Tajima PART IV: Japanese media in everyday life 17. Culture of the print newspaper: the decline of the Japanese mass press, Kaori Hayashi 18. Japanese youth and the usage of SNS: peer surveillance and the conditions governing tomodachi, Kiyoshi Abe 19. On manual bots and being human on Twitter, Amy Johnson 20. Keitai in Japan, Kyoung-hwa Yonnie Kim 21. Character goods, cheerfulness and cuteness: ‘consumupotian’ spaces as communicative media, Brian J. McVeigh 22. Nature, media and the future: unnatural disaster, animist anime and eco-media activism in Japan, Gabrielle Hadl PART V: Japanese media and the global 23. Cultural policy, cross-border dialogue and cultural diversity, Koichi Iwabuchi 24. I hate you, no I love you: growing up with Japanese media in (postcolonial) South Korea, Sueen Noh Kelsey 25. Remade by Inter-Asia: the transnational practice and business of screen adaptations based on Japanese source material, Eva Tsai 26. Anime’s distribution worlds: formal and informal distribution in the analogue and digital eras, Rayna Denison Conclusion: Final reflections on the Japanese media’s global voyage, Fabienne Darling-Wolf
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Capturing Japan in NineteenthCentury New England
Book SynopsisCapturing Japan in Nineteenth-Century New England Photography Collections examines the evidence left behind from a famous first encounter-that of prominent New England Americans with the remnants of feudal Japan in the 1870s and 1880s. The study reveals that, despite these Americans'' varied reasons for traveling to Japan and studying its culture, a common desire united all of their collecting activities: to gather photographic documentation of a Japan they believed was disappearing under the pressures of trade and industrialization. Eleanor Hight focuses on the case studies of six New Englanders, whose travel and photograph collecting influenced the flowering of Japonism in the late nineteenth-century Boston area-still visible today in institutions such as the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Peabody Essex Museum, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. The book also explores the history of Japanese photography and its main themes, from images of travel and historic sites, to exotic Trade Review'Hight [...] offers a perceptive, multifaceted study of photographs made in Japan in the 1870s-80s...This book is important both for its Japanese subject and for its wider implications for the history of photography. Extensive notes and bibliography... Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty.' Choice 'The book [...] is well-designed and beautifully illustrated with many examples of nineteenth-century photographs, including eleven colour plates reproducing hand-coloured photographs and one showing the collector’s album cover... Capturing Japan in Nineteenth-Century New England Photography Collections is an entertaining, informative, and highly readable account of an important facet of American Cultural History.' Historical Journal of Massachusetts 'Eleanor M. Hight offers an intriguing addition to the growing body of literature on early Japanese photography... Hight’s book draws on a rich archive of previously understudied primary source material: the photographs, albums, letters, and travelogues of six early visitors to Japan... the book is a welcome contribution to the literature. Hight’s highly readable text provides a clear and concise summary of Yokohama photography and its primary themes. It raises a number of provocative questions regarding the roles played by the consumers of the images, both in shaping the market within Japan and in shaping the perceptions of audiences back home, and ultimately opens up a number of further avenues of inquiry into this very rich material.' History of PhotographyTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Into the emergent Japan; New England travelers; The adventure of early photography in Japan; Along the go-kaido; The people of 'old Japan'; Capturing Japan; Selected bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Music of Franz Liszt
Book SynopsisMuch of Franz Liszt''s musical legacy has often been dismissed as ''trivial' or ''merely showy,'' more or less peripheral contributions to nineteenth-century European culture. But Liszt was a mainstream composer in ways most of his critics have failed to acknowledge; he was also an incessant and often extremely successful innovator. Liszt''s mastery of fantasy and sonata traditions, his painstaking settings of texts ranging from erotic verse to portions of the Catholic liturgy, and the remarkable self-awareness he demonstrated even in many of his most ''entertaining'' pieces: all these things stamp him not only as a master of Romanticism and an early Impressionist, but as a precursor of Postmodern ''pop.'' Liszt''s Music places Liszt in historical and cultural focus. At the same time, it examines his principal contributions to musical literature -- from his earliest operatic paraphrases to his final explorations of harmonic and formal possibilities. Liszt''s compositional metTable of Contents1. Liszt’s Apprenticeship: The Performer as Emerging Composer 2. Liszt Comes of Age: The Composer as Fantasist 3. Liszt Adapts and Transforms: The Fantasist/Composer as Re-composer 4. Liszt Orchestrates and "Explains": The Fantasist/(Re-)composer as Tone-Poet 5. Liszt and the Voice
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Tradition of the Chicago School of Sociology
Book SynopsisThe value of the book lies in its reassessment of the distinctive features of the Chicago School, of its contributions in the theoretical and methodological fields and of its influence on the growth of sociology throughout the world and in America in particular. The book pays particularly close attention to the eclectic nature of the research methods used by the Chicago sociologists as they sought to integrate subjective and objective aspects of human life. It demonstrates that this eclecticism formed an integral part of their theories but also emphasises that empirical observation, too, was important, although not as an end in itself. While, for example, they were working on the concepts of organization, marginality and interaction, they did not consider these as ends in themselves but as additions to the development of a more general theoretical approach. Often in the past, and wrongly, Chicago’s theoretical contribution has been restricted to the urban sector. The book clearly and unequivocally reveals how the tendency to see the Chicago School as a 'theoretical' is the result of misinterpretation and of a failure to realize that, for the sociologists of the period, understanding the social dynamics of the city of Chicago was tantamount to interpreting the central tendencies of modern society itself. The book analyzes how empirical observation was important but not an end in itself. The Chicago School developed a profusion of sociological theories in many areas of inquiry and never opted for any one particular approach. The various essays in the book also make it clear that the School decisively contributed to the development of qualitative and quantitative techniques.Table of ContentsContents: Theoretical Problematic: The Gothic foundation of Robert E. Park’s conception of race and culture; The contribution of Georg Simmel to the foundation of theory at the Chicago School of Sociology; The neighbourhood and deviance in the Chicago School, a relationistic interpretation; The place of the Chicago School of Sociology in the study of nationality and ethnicity. Methodological Approach: Chicago sociology and the empirical impulse: its implications for sociological theorizing; Chicago methods: reputations and realities; Seventy years of fieldwork in sociology, from Nels Anderson’s The Hobo to Elijah Anderson’s Streetwise; One hundred years of methodological research, the example of Chicago. Important Sociologists From Chicago And The Actuality Of The Chicago Approach: George Herbert Mead’s transformation of his intellectual context; Erving Goffman: a symbolic interactionist?; Persistence and change: fundamental elements in Herbert Blumer’s metatheoretical perspective; The sociology of ’going concerns’, Everett Hughes’ interpretive institutional ecology; The Chicago School of Sociology’s heritage in Polish sociology; Index; Contributors.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Racialisation of Disorder in Twentieth
Book SynopsisThis book develops the concept of racialisation. It argues that a full understanding of racialized discourse must pay attention to both the particular local circumstances in which they appear, and well-established themes which have unfolded over time. An important aspect of the study is the examination of other discourses with which racialized ideas have co-joined, reflecting the way in which notions of 'race' are socially constructed. The final part of the book returns to debates of the 1980’s and argues that the racialisation of unrest in that decade was closely intertwined with conservative perspectives which sought to deny socio-economic causes in favour of explanations based upon the supposed cultural or personal proclivities of those involved.Trade Review’This is a valuable book for anyone interested in understanding both the history and contemporary forms of disorder related to race. It provides a rounded analysis of an issue that is central to the study of political and social change in British society.’ John Solomos, University of Southampton, UK ’...will be of use first and foremost to students of race and ethnicity...solid and evenly balanced...’ Ethnic conflictTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: law, disorder and the nation; Marxism, postmodernism and the racialization problematic; Liverpool, 1919: ...to make an honest bread; Political disorder in 1930s Britain: coloured shirts and tin trumpets; Nottingham and Notting Hill 1958-59: ostentatious blacks and rowdy whites; Broadwater Farm, October 1985: this is not England; Conclusion; Bibliography.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Taxing Culture: Towards a Theory of Tax
Book SynopsisThe introduction of self-assessment for income tax collection in the late 1990s marked a striking moment of cultural convergence between the UK and the US. This book analyses the socio-political factors leading to and resulting from this fundamental change in the relationship between taxpayers and the Inland Revenue, using perspectives in comparative law and the new outlooks of modern tax and cultural theory. It will be of interest to those studying theories of compliance, cultural legal studies, and law and society.Trade Review'Ann Mumford has written a complex and intriguing book that seeks to challenge many of our assumptions on the tax collection and tax revenue process.' The Law and Politics Book ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Ideology and Starting point, E.R.A. Seligman; Tax collection and enforcement in the modern US; Self-assessment and historical context; Self-assessment and incomprehensible tax laws; The Ramsay principle; Systems at work; Self-assessment: aftermath, and towards a theory of tax collection law; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Sacred Law of Islam: A Case Study of Women's
Book SynopsisIslam’s Sacred Law is one of the most complex, detailed and comprehensive legal theories that Islam, as a Western religion, has produced in its capacity as a doctrine of social justice. However, few available texts have dealt with the treatment of women under the actual system of justice that adheres to Islam’s Sacred Law. This book fills this void by providing a much needed comprehensive study of the application of the Sacred Law to women under the Islamic Republic of Iran’s justice system. It will be a fascinating guide to all those interested in comparative law, criminal justice and the sociology of law.Trade Review’...provides much needed insight into Islam’s basic Sharia (Sacred) Law...a comprehensive but succinct challenge to the contemporary government’s claim that its application of the Sharia emulates the Prophet Muhammad’s style of adjudication...’ UN21 Interest Group Newsletter 'Kusha's book provides a reasoned analysis supported by a wealth of data about the criminal justice system in Iran as it relates to women...The book is a must read for both its criminological and historic significance.' International Criminal Justice ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; The Sharia law’s genesis: a brief history; The legal theory of Sharia law; Women’s legal status in Sharia law; Iran’s criminal justice system: from secular to Sharia; The criminogenic impacts of Sharia based criminal justice system in Iran, 1979-1999; Feminine crime under the Sharia based system in Iran; The Sharia law and female victimization in Iran; Conclusion; Index.
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