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Book SynopsisGoto introduces the diverse and multilayered skylore and cultural astron- omy of the peoples of the Japanese Archipelago.Going as far back as the Jomon, Yayoi, and Kofun periods, this book examines the significance of constellations in the daily life of farmers, fishermen, sailors, priests, and the ruling classes throughout Japan's ancient and medieval history. As well as covering the systems of the dominant Japanese people, he also explores the astronomy of the Ainu people of Hokkaido, and of the people of the Ryukyu Islands. Along the way he discusses the importance of astronomy in official rituals, mythol- ogy, and Shinto and Buddhist ceremonies.This book provides a unique overview of cultural astronomy in Japan and is a valuable resource for researchers as well as anyone who is inter- ested in Japanese culture and history.Table of Contents1. Japanese People and Stars: Cultural Astronomy and Star Lore of the Japanese 2. Stars in Mythology and Classical Literature 3. Star Lore of the Hokkaido Ainu 4. Ethnoastronomy in the Ryukyu Islands 5. Archaeoastronomy of Prehistoric Japan: A Historical Survey 6. Fallen Star Legends in Japanese Folk Beliefs 7. Cosmology Seen in House and Burial Orientation of the Hokkaido Ainu, Northern Japan 8. The Sun and the Kingdom of Ryukyu: An Ethnohistorical Approach to State Formation 9. Epilogue

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Book SynopsisSocial scientists develop knowledge that is directly pertinent to global challenges and crises and need to be included in initiatives taken to address them. This book is a step towards such presentation and involvement.Global crises are crucially intertwined with our relationships, groups, organizations, communities, institutions, how they collaborate with each other, how they compete with each other, and the dynamics intermingled with these. These dimensions are inadequately addressed by scientists and insufficiently recognized by other stakeholders. With contributions from a global array of respected social scientists, this shortform book contributes to deep understandings of social phenomena associated with global crises. In illuminating interventions via those dealing with challenges and crises first-hand, the book also shows the ongoing personal development required to address global crises in productive ways.TTrade Review"For those who hold the view that social scientists have little to offer in solving the global crises of our times, this book will change your mind. With inspiring examples of transformative-systemic-collaborative projects, Bartunek and her contributors provide profound insights on how social scientists can be compassionate, courageous, reflective, humble, and objective agents of social change while solving the wickedly complex problems in a threatened and fragile world." Anne S. Tsui, Co-Founder, Responsible Research in Business and Management and Professor Emerita, Arizona State University, USA“While scientific evidence helps us to grasp the complexity of global crises like climate change and pandemics, we have been missing an important voice. None of these challenges can be faced without social coordination. Finally we have a book that addresses the relational / social nature of the global crises we face. This collection of authors addresses the multi-dimensional social dynamics at the root of these issues and the relational / organizational interventions that could address them.” Frank J. Barrett, Professor of Management and Organizational Behavior, Naval Postgraduate School, USA"There has never been a greater need for social scientists to collaborate across boundaries to help guide action than today. The global problems we face, from pandemics to climate change, demand it. The authors of this book explain both why and how, providing a hopeful vision for scholars and practice." Jerry Davis, Gilbert & Ruth Whitaker Professor of Management and Professor of Sociology, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, USA"There is no time to waste. Management scholars and other researchers need to turn their attention and direct efforts to improve understanding and foster courage to address global crises. This book answers this call. Read it to develop insights and to inspire actions that focus on the relationships, processes, dynamics and systems that are core to global crises and challenges." Jane E. Dutton, Robert L. Kahn Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Business Administration and Psychology, University of Michigan, USA"This book is both welcome and necessary. Social scientists have so much to add to helping us find solutions to our grand societal challenges, and yet we far too often sit on the sidelines, preferring to remain within the confines of our narrow academic communities. But in this book, noted scholars step out of those confines to engage with our world and bring their knowledge and insights to bear on finding solutions. These solutions do not lie in the next technology alone, but more importantly in the ways we think, act, cooperate and interact. They lie in our culture, institutions, values and beliefs. If you care about solutions to the problems we face, this book offers a critical lens and a model for other scholars to follow." Andrew J. Hoffman, Holcim Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, University of Michigan, USA and author of "The Engaged Scholar" (2021: Stanford University Press)"A treasure chest of powerful and practical ideas generated by extraordinarily talented minds in the social sciences, this book aims to strengthen our ability to confront challenges and crises facing the global community." Andy Boynton, John and Linda Powers Family Dean, Carroll School of Management, Boston College, USA"The more we are dependent on technology to solve problems, the less we attend to the relevant social and behavioral issues. Just a hypothesis, but even if only half true this book is the kind of contribution that can make a positive impact. Thank you Jean Bartunek, for this significant step in the right direction." W. Warner Burke, Professor of Psychology and Education, Columbia University, USA"This book is not only a call to action, but also a challenge. In the past decade, attention grown regarding the need for social scientists to inform the handling of global crises. Additionally, leading social scientists have begun to accept their fundamental obligation to be engaged. Unfortunately, scientists are not trained or rewarded for communicating their relevant knowledge in terms that policy makers, the media, and the public see as helpful or actionable. This book is a timely springboard to speed up that crucial engagement – but only if we concerned scientists truly confront those global crises and commit to acting." Sim B. Sitkin, Michael W. Krzyzewski University Professor, Professor of Management and Public Policy, Duke University, USA."Social scientists have a responsibility to speak to critical issues of the day. In this book, Jean Bartunek has organized a superb group of scholars to demonstrate how their research on complex organizations can help address our global environmental crisis. Bravo! Now let’s put their insights to work before it is too late!" Thomas A. Kochan, MIT Sloan School of Management, USA"A call to action for social scientists, this book demands science-based leadership in the social-economic-political arena. Putting the “social” in social science means acting together to deliver on the “science”. Social Scientists Confronting Global Crises urges us to put into practice what we have been observing, experimenting on, and modeling. Pandemics, climate change, and nuclear weapons show us the need. The chapters in this book show us how." Robert E. Horn, Senior Researcher Emeritus, Stanford University, USA"As social scientists we study change, but we also have the potential to effect it. The stories presented here remind us that as scholars, we each have knowledge to contribute and a role to play in helping to bring about the transformative change that is urgently needed in the world." Stephanie Bertels, VanDusen Professor of Sustainability, Simon Fraser University, Canada"A seminal and timely collection of ideas and actions for addressing, preventing, and learning from global crises. Engaged scholars highlight the need for creative policy and practice collaborations that cross national borders to achieve global health and wellbeing." Stephen M. Shortell, Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, USA"Who still believes that global crises will be resolved by a self-correcting system or model? Social scientists never believed that! We stress that solutions lie in our values, mindset, choices, and consciousness of the impact of relations and relationships. This book helps us to understand the human side of crises, and to formulate positive and creative answers to the question of what we can do to restore hope for a better world." Danica Purg, Professor and President of IEDC-Bled School of Management, Slovenia"This book brings together a cast of social science luminaries who also care about humanity and the planet. If not solutions, they offer research-tested ways of bringing together diverse stakeholders to jointly craft ways forward. The ideas in this book are powerful; they can help the world, if we only use them." Loizos Heracleous, Professor of Strategy and Organisation, University of Warwick, UK"The world is besieged by ever more frequent, intense, and systemic crises. Global crises that technological innovation and market forces cannot solve and often contribute to. These crises are on us. They involve the ways we live and work together. And only finding new ways of living and working together we might work through, resolve, and learn from global crises. This volume provides much needed help from social scientists. It gives voice to scholars and practitioners who have spent a lifetime understanding, supporting, developing, what makes social systems thrive or suffer. Their ideas, advice, and practices to foster collaboration in critical circumstances are actionable and inspiring. The book points us toward the work we need to do to get through crises, together." Gianpiero Petriglieri, Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD, France"An important book presenting a number of diverse examples – all pointing in the same direction; the absolute necessity of generative dialogue, relational coordination, and the need for inclusive and systemic approaches to gain the common ground needed to shift a negatively focused and fragmented world." Mette Jacobsgaard, Organisation and Development Aid Consultant, Appreciative Inquiry, UKTable of Contents1. Introduction: The importance of this book PART I Attention to relationships across groups and organizations 2. Striving for wholeness: It is time for social scientists to make a loud noise! 3. The important role of management researchers in addressing global crises: Insights from Innovation North 4. Dialogic Organization Development and the Generative Change Model: Opportunities and challenges for managing global crises 5. When the stakes are high and trust is low PART II Attention to political, national, and cross-national systems 6. Should capitalism be reimagined? If so, how? 7. Pathway to balance 8. Gathering on the bridge: Co-creating our emerging equity-centered future 9. Expanding relational coordination to tackle global crises: The Relational Society Project 10. Global warming: The threat and the hope PART III Attention to development over time, and what helps accomplish it 11. Leadership in times of upheaval: The rise of the empathic leader 12. Renewing the Earth starts with renewing our capacity to work together 13. The social field as a teacher: Seven principles for building transformational learning infrastructures 14. Being in service of collaboration: Reflection of a newcomer 15. Appendix: Social scientists need to speak up

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Book SynopsisGenocide and Victimology examines genocide in its diverse features, from different yet connected perspectives, to offer an interdisciplinary, victimological imagination of genocide. It will include in its exploration critical and cultural victimologies and criminologies of genocide, accompanied by, and recognising, the rich scholarship on genocide in the fields of religion and history, theatre studies and photography, philosophy and existentialism, post-colonialism, and ethnography and biography. Bringing together theory with empirical research and drawing on a range of case studies, such as the Treblinka extermination camp, the Bosnian and Rwandan genocides, the Sagkeeng First Nation in Manitoba, Canada, and genocidal violence in Syria and Iraq, this book engages the victimological imagination towards an interdisciplinary, cosmopolitan victimology of genocide. Bundled and intertwined, the wide yet integrated variety of perspectives on genocide gives readers a victimTrade ReviewThis is an important and sometimes unsettling work. It is a hard truth that victimology has all but neglected the most atrocious of crimes, and has yet to scratch the surface of paths to and limits of understanding genocide victimization. This book is therefore already valuable in highlighting this gap. But Yarin Eski and his contributors go well beyond mere gap-spotting. He has succeeded in bringing together an array of leading scholars, each bringing their A-game to the volume, asking many difficult questions, offering an initial glimpse of what the answers to them might be and much in the way of inspiration for further investigation. Antony Pemberton, Leuven Institute of Criminology, KU Leuven; NSCR, Amsterdam.​Table of ContentsIntroduction 1.An existentialist victimology of genocide? 2.Victimology and genocide: neglected stories? 3. International criminal justice and the religion of humanity 4.The Rohingya Crisis: Accountability for Decades of Persecution 5.LGBT+ Genocide: Understanding Hetero-Nationality and the Politics of Psychological Silence 6. Symbiotic Victimization and Destruction: Law and Human/Other-Than-Human Relationality in Genocide 7.On ‘visualising the truth of genocide’: reflections on whakapapa and finding southern epistemology, occasioned by a tattered album from the nomos of the Holocaust 8.‘Playing Srebrenica’ - Theatre plays in the Netherlands regarding Srebrenica 9.The Role of Past Victimization in Genocidal Mythologies: Bosnian and Rwandan Experiences 10.Genocide and Forced Migration: The Dual Victimisation of Refugees Escaping War and Genocide 11.Fortress Britain or Migratory Haven? Genocide survivors’ experiences of Migration to the UK Conclusion: A victimological imagination of genocide

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Book SynopsisMuseum Representations of Chinese Diasporas is the first book to analyse the recent upsurge in museums on Chinese diasporas in China. Examining heritage-making beyond the nation state, the book provides a much-needed, critical examination of China's engagement with its diasporic communities. Drawing on fieldwork in more than ten museums, as well as interviews with museum practitioners and archival study, Wang offers a timely analysis of the complex ways in which Chinese diasporas are represented in the museum space of China, the ancestral homeland. Arguing that diasporic heritage is highly ambivalent and introducing a diasporic perspective to the study of cultural heritage, this book opens up a new avenue of inquiry into the study and management of cultural heritage in China and beyond. Most importantly, perhaps, Wang sheds new light on the dynamic between China and Chinese diasporas through the lens of the museum.Museum Representations of ChiTrade Review"Museums of diaspora are increasingly present in countries of migrant settlement overseas, but also in sending or ancestral places. It is the latter sort that this excellent, deeply original, clearly written, and richly researched interdisciplinary study describes and analyses, with China and its officially sponsored and funded "Overseas Chinese museums" as its focus. Its author … brings together his research into a well organised and exhaustive volume …  As he rightly points out … it is urgently necessary to integrate museum studies and migration history, and to establish a new focus away from migrants as an abstracted category and towards the material environment in which they move and on which they act." Gregor Benton, The China Quarterly"Since the 1980s, ‘Oversea Chinese museums’ have been rapidly developing around China. Museum Representations of Chinese Diasporas is the first book dedicated to this social, political, and cultural phenomenon … Wang calls for further cross-disciplinary research on the three interrelated fields of diasporas, museums, and cultural heritage in China. The cross-fertilization between the three fields is a major contribution of the book. Wang provides a rich in-depth analysis, filling a lacuna in museum, migration, and heritage studies in China." Yujie Zhu, The China Journal"Museum Representations of Chinese Diasporas persuasively interrogates what huaqiaowenwu (overseas Chinese heritage) is and how it is understood in China … Crucially, the book complicates the static and single dimensional portrayal of museums by shedding light on the multifarious interpretations of the past that the museum founders and buildings themselves engage in … more interdisciplinary scholarship, such as Wang’s, that is mutually constitutive of the migrant and the material world of migration is needed internationally to debunk the common nationalist emphasis associated with emigration histories and migrant heritage … a useful reference that has implications both for critical heritage studies in China and countries with histories of emigration outside China." Christopher Cheng, Asian and Pacific Migration JournalTable of ContentsIntroductionPart I: The Symbolic Museum Chapter 1 The birth of the Overseas Chinese History Museum of China Chapter 2 The representation of the Chinese diasporas as a ‘national self/other’ Part II: The Branding MuseumChapter 3 Negotiating ‘hot’ and ‘cool’ authentication in diasporic heritage-making at a qiaoxiangChapter 4 Repatriation of Chinese cultural relics as a site for place-making and identity constructionPart III: The Memory MuseumChapter 5 The stamp of identities: negotiating diasporic Chinese subjectivity in philatelic spaceChapter 6 How does a house remember? Materialising memories of return migration at a huaqiao farm Part IV: The Im/possible MuseumChapter 7 The im/possibility of museumifying the Chinese diasporas in South ChinaConclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book is an innovative attempt to identify and analyse the processes related to social influence in online buying behaviour, with special attention given to the phenomenon of social proof, which is the basis of social media, recommendation marketing, and word-of-mouth (WOM) marketing. It empirically verifies the factors which influence the effectiveness of social proof, and identifies relevant impact factors. Opening with a literature review of this concept from the perspective of social psychology, sociology, and marketing, this interdisciplinary approach to the issue allows for an in-depth understanding of the mechanisms of the effective use of social proof in contemporary online marketing. Following this, in the context of theoretical considerations, the author analyses the social role and significance of social proof in the buying behaviours of online consumers. The second half of the book presents the results of the author's quantitative and qualitative resTable of ContentsCHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTIONPART I THE PHENOMENON OF SOCIAL IMPACT IN ONLINE MARKETING.CHAPTER 2. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK – ONLINE MARKETING: BETWEEN PERSUASSION AND MANIPULATIONCHAPTER 3. STRUCTURE OF FUNCTIONS, FORMS AND ORGANIZATION OF SELECTED STRATEGIES OF MARKETING COMMUNICATION AND EMPLOYED TOOLS IN THE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT.CHAPTER 4. SOCIAL INFLUENCE AND ITS MANIFESTATION IN THE HYPERMEDIA COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT: REASONS, DEFINITION, MODELS AND CHARACTERISTICS.CHAPTER 5. SOCIAL PROOF AS A KEY FACTOR IN SOCIAL COMMERCEPART II SOCIAL PROOF IN MARKETING: EFFECTIVENESS AND IMPACT AWARENESSCHAPTER 6. RESEARCH MODEL, SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES AND HYPOTHESESCHAPTER 7. CONFIDENCE IN SOCIAL PROOF AND ITS IMPACT ON BUYING DECISIONSCHAPTER 8 CHARACTERISTICS OF INDICATORS OF SOCIAL PROOF BASED ON EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCHCHAPTER 9. DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS IN GLOBAL CONTEXTSUMMARYINDEX

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