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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Ukraine in Histories and Stories – Essays by
Book SynopsisThis collection of texts by writers, historians, philosophers, political analysts, and opinion leaders combines reflections on Ukrainian history and analyses of the present with outlines of conceptual ideas and life stories. The authors present a multi-faceted image of Ukraines memory and reality touching upon topics from the Holodomor to Maidan, from the Russian aggression to cultural diversity, from the depth of the past to the complexity of the present. The contributors include Ola Hnatiuk, Irena Karpa, Haska Shyyan, Larysa Denysenko, Hanna Shelest, Andriy Kulakov, Yaroslav Hrytsak, Serhii Plokhy, Yuri Andrukhovych, Andriy Kurkov, Andrij Bondar, Vakhtang Kebuladze, Volodymyr Rafeenko, Alim Aliev, Leonid Finberg, and Andriy Portnov. The book was initially published by Internews Ukraine and UkraineWorld with the support of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation.Trade Review"[The book] includes everyone from internationally renowned academics like Harvards Serhii Plokhiy to never-before-translated poets, that seek to articulate Ukraine to the wider world. [ It] gives Ukrainians a chance to explain their country themselves, and the Ukraine that emerges is uncannily relevant at a time when so many countries are undergoing identity crisesnot least the United States."Peter Pomerantsev, journalist, author, and TV producer, in The American Interest (January 2020)
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Stand-up Comedy in Africa: Humour in Popular
Book SynopsisAfrican cultural productions of humour have increased even in the face of myriad economic foibles and social upheavals. For instance, from the 1990s, stand-up comedy emerged across the continent and has maintained a pervasive presence since then. Its specificities are related to contemporary economic and political contexts and are also drawn from its pre-colonial history, that of joking forms and relationships, and orality. Izuu Nwankwá's fascinating collected volume offers a transnational appraisal of this unique art form spanning different nations of the continent and its diasporas. The book engages variously with jokesters, their materials, the mediums of dissemination, and the cultural value(s) and relevance of their stage work, encompassing the form and content of the practice. Its ruling theoretical perspective comes from theatre and performance, cultural studies, linguistics, and literary studies.Table of ContentsForeword by Ebenezer Obadare; Introduction; Old Wine in a New Bottle: Stand-up Comedy and its Dispersal across Africa; Confronting Racism and Colonialism in Cécile Djungas and Trevor Noahs Stand-up Comedy; South African Vernacular Stand-Up Comedy as Performative Resistance; The Peoples Joker: The Popularity of Mr Jokes Stand-up Comedy in Malawi; Resisting Shame and the Male Gaze: Humour Evocations in the Acts of Noha Kato and Real Warri Pikin; Discourse and Humour Strategies in Two-Person Stand-up Art in Nigeria; In the Shadow of the 1994 Genocide: Arthur Nkusi and Stand-up Comedy in Rwanda; The Afterlife of Ugandan Stand-up Comedy: Examining the Multiple Roles and Jocular Devices of Teacher Mpamire; Scripted and Non-Scripted Humour in Stand-up Comedy: Techniques of Egypts Comedian Ali Quandil; Reinventing Taboo in Kenyan Stand-up Comedy; Africa on the British Stage: Laughter-Making Mechanics of Andi Osho and Daliso Chaponda; Theres No Such Thing as Too Soon Here: Taking Stock of South Africas Comedy Boom; The Many-Sides of Kenyan Stand-up Comedy: A Stylistic Interrogation of the Acts of Jemutai, Professor Hamo and Oga Obinna; Nigerias The Mock News with Pararan: The Poetics of its Punchline; About the Contributors; Endorsements.
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Gendered Dichotomies in African Youth Language
Book SynopsisYouth language data provides interesting perspectives on gender dynamics and gendered usage in society. However, the gender perspective has not received the deserved focus in youth language studies in Africa. This is partly due to the general perception that youth languages and classic youth language practices, such as slang and anti-language, are male-oriented. This collected volume focuses on gender dynamics and gendered usage in African youth languages and youth language practices, against the backdrop of urbanity as well as rurality. With representations from different parts of Africa, the volume examines sundry youth usage in different contexts and domains. While avoiding strict binarizations and potentially flawed dichotomies, the contributing scholars observe some of the motivations for different gender performatives and how these manifest in a variety of language forms and through predominated categories of use. Data samples were obtained through sociolinguistic and anthropological instruments, ranging from questionnaires and structured interviews to street-based observations and corpus analyses. On the whole, the volume engages the literature and debate on language, youth, and especially on gendering dynamics in African youth language practices.
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Developmental Peace: Theorizing China's Approach
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Developmental Peace: Theorizing China's Approach
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Ibidem Press PHANTOM BORDER
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Kharkiv Is a Dream
Book SynopsisWhen the war hit Kharkiv in 2022, the urban space transformed at a scale impossible for its inhabitants and artistic community to process. As it turns out, the urban space of Kharkiv was difficult to process long before the impact of drones and missiles. Kharkiv has been transforming for centuries, collecting monuments and memories from the ebbs and flows of history. The authors zoom in on three events over the past decade that reflect how different actors used the cityscape of Kharkiv to make sense of and shape their context: Architect and visual artist Vasylysa Shchogoleva explores the urban space of Kharkiv in 2023 as a place of healing and compassion. Cultural anthropologist Viktoriia Grivina takes us back to 2018 when a piece of street art on a wall became the epicenter of a community conflict. Anthropologist Hjørdis Clemmensen opens a window to the workshop of a group of architecture students in 2013 who wished to not only influence the space around them but also time itself.
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ibidem Why Do They Kill Our People
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Constitution: The Darwinian Evolution of a
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Transcript Verlag Tensions and Convergences – Technological and
Book SynopsisThis book presents results of an international conference which addressed the interaction of aesthetical and technological dimensions within the formation of contemporary society. The contributions discuss the production of time and space, self and nature, individual and society in the image of technology. They focus on the productive tensions and convergences between aesthetic and technological concepts when implemented in everyday life. The volume contains - among others - texts about technologies of visualisation, the aesthetics of warfare and the design of technological lifeworlds.
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Verlag Peter Lang Shifting Frontiers of France and Francophonie
Book SynopsisThis volume presents a selection of essays in English and French initially delivered at the interdisciplinary conference of the Association of Modern and Contemporary France held in Leicester in September 2000. Frontiers are defined broadly in terms of material and symbolic inter- and transnational spaces where French and Francophone artists, communities and nations face their own selves and each other. Contributors reflect on the relationships between various cross-boundary contacts and perceptions of identity, power and marginality.
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Bayreuth African Studies Languages in Contrast in East Africa
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Trivent Publishing Innovative Instruments for Community Development
Book SynopsisThe multiple facets of this volume belong to five large themes. The first theme, that of persuasion and manipulation, is studied here through electoral campaigns (i.e., mental filters used in voting manipulation, the mechanisms of vote mobilisation, manipulation and storytelling models). The institutionalization of education represents the second theme, approached here through specific interdisciplinary instruments: the intersection of higher education with public learning, the answers of the knowledge society to the issues of contemporary work problems, the institutional relationships used to solve educational problems specific to childhood and adolescence, as well as the role of media competencies in professional development. The third theme is related to the inheritance and transmission of cultural identity, instrumentalized through issues such as: the duty of intergenerational justice with regard to cultural heritage, education and vocational training in library science, the social inclusion role of public and digital libraries. The collective and cultural identity of communities represents the fourth large theme, being approached through a triple perspective: the philosophical background of restoring the political dignity of communities, the communication space as a point of a needle towards the community space, and the communicational issue of the European capital of culture programmes. Lastly, the fifth theme belongs to practical and applied philosophy, specifically philosophical counselling, debating issues such as: the identification of the communicational background for this type of counselling, the secular approach to the problem of evil from a philosophical counselling perspective, the discussion of Platon's attitude towards suicide and of frank speech in the Epicurean school, the socio-anthropological perspective of immortality, as well as the formal approach of the relationship between real and imaginary.Table of Contents Introduction, Maria Micle & Gheorghe Clitan CHAPTER 1. Gheorghe Clitan, Oana-Adela Barbu-Banes Kleitsch, Mental Filters Used in Manipulating the Vote through Electoral Posters Containing Religious Symbols CHAPTER 2. Alina Roma?cu, Maria Micle, The Mobilization of the Romanian Diaspora: An Overview of a Transnational Community Connected during the 2014 Presidential Elections in Romania CHAPTER 3. Tomi Paula Pompilia, The Logical Structure of Manipulation CHAPTER 4. ?tefania Bejan, The Persuasive Potential of Storytelling in Professions of Contemporary Communication CHAPTER 5. Simona Sava, Laura Mali?a, Simona Negomireanu, Contributions of Universities to Community Learning and Development CHAPTER 6. Aleksandra Pejatovi?, Miomir Despotovi?, Education Response to the World of Work in the Knowledge Society CHAPTER 7. Otilia Bersan, The Kindergarten-Family Partnership, a Basis for Early Childhood Education CHAPTER 8. Remus Runcan, Anxiety in Adolescence: A Literature Review CHAPTER 9. Ileana Rotaru, Training and Assessing Media Education Competence in Professional Training Programs for Teachers. The Case Study of Romania CHAPTER 10. Ileana Dasc?lu, Education in Cultural Heritage as a Duty of Intergenerational Justice CHAPTER 11. Regula Feitknecht, Jasmine Lovey, Vocational Training and Education in the Library and Information Professions in Switzerland: An Overview and Some Reflections CHAPTER 12. Victoria Frâncu, Digital Libraries: Their Role in Building Communities CHAPTER 13. Elena Tîrziman, Maria Micle, The Pubic Library: A Factor of Social Inclusion in the Local Community CHAPTER 14. Corina Tur?ie, Participatory Practices in European Capitals of Culture: The Case of Timisoara 2021 CHAPTER 15. Ilie R?doi, The European Capital of Culture Programme and Sustainable Development in a Cross-border Region Case Study: Timi?oara 2021, Novi Sad 2021 CHAPTER 16. Oana ?erban, Normative Gaps between Communities and Collective Identities in Governing Cultural Heritage: An Argument on How to Apply Hobbesian and Lockean Theories to Restore the Political Dignity of Communities in Their Role to Safeguard Cultural Heritage CHAPTER 17. Codru?a Simionescu, Participating in the Co-creation of New Narrative regarding European Identity through European Capitals of Culture CHAPTER 18. Ferenc András, The Point of a Needle: Communication Space as a Space of Community CHAPTER 19. Aurel Codoban, The Communication Background of Philosophical Counseling CHAPTER 20. Florina Haret, Philosophical Counselling as a Secular Approach to the Problem of Evil CHAPTER 21. Armand A. Voinov, Plato's Attitude Towards Suicide In The Dialogue Crito CHAPTER 22. Delia Nadolu, Bogdan Nadolu, About Immortality: a Socio-Anthropological Approach CHAPTER 23. Hîrjoi Cristian, Frank Speech in the Epicurean Philosophical School CHAPTER 24. Ionel Nari?a, Real and Imaginary CHAPTER 25. Tea Radovi?, The Allegory of Quantum Persona. The Absurdity of Diagnostics
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Gyan Publishing House Value Education: A Study of Public Opinion
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Gyan Publishing House Frontiers of Social Anthropology
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Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Modern Nepal
Book SynopsisNepal is the ancient land of an ancient people. It lies on the southern slopes of the Central Himalaya, and adjoins China and India. Until the second half of the eighteenth century, or until the 1768-69 to be precise, the name "Nepal" denoted only the valley of the Bagmati River, where Kathmandu, the capital of present-day Nepal, is situated.
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Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd Nation in Imagination: Essays on Nationalism,
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Abhinav Publications Introspection for India: A Paradigm for Progress
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Cosmo Publications Encyclopaedia of Sociology of Religion
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Manas Publications Training for Leadership
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Deep & Deep Publications Society, Law and Administration in Ancient India
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Deep & Deep Publications Raj Kumari Amrit Kaur: Contribution to Political
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HarperCollins India Inspired India: Ideas To Transform A Nation
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors Patrons, Devotees and Goddesses: Ritual and Power
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors Cultural Cooperation in South Asia: The Search
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Roli Books Pvt Ltd Fallen Angels
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Deep & Deep Publications Social Sector and Development
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Deep & Deep Publications Socio-economy of India: The First 50 Years and
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Deep & Deep Publications Social Choice and Development
Book SynopsisPapers contributed to 82nd IEA Annual Conference of Indian Economic Association during 1999-2000; with reference to India.
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Minerva Press India Pvt Ltd One World Family: The Goal of the Twenty First
Book SynopsisIs a universal world order mere conjecture and an utopian dream? Or is it a foregone conclusion? A book that exhorts the reader to publicly express his views on creating a world union and brotherwood of man so that a feasible approach towards it can be chalked out.
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Minerva Press India Pvt Ltd Puppy Beneath the Beam
Book SynopsisA stark picture of rural degeneration. A vivid portrayal of rampant casteism and growing unrest in rural society as seen through the eyes of its young protagonist who survives an avalanche of ordeals, all the while managing to maintain to hold on to his dreams.
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Cosmo Publications The Sociological Study of Religion
Book SynopsisThe text discusses various aspects of religion, including its relationship with culture, ideology, rationality, conflict, and legitimation. It explores the intersection of sociology, philosophy, theology, history, psychology, and geography in understanding religious phenomena and their impact on society.
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Cosmo Publications The Sociology of Indian Politics: Theoretical
Book SynopsisPolitical culture in modern India explores themes of tolerance, integration, economic development, changing behavior, nationalism, religion, secularism, and social change. Key figures like Gandhi, Nehru, and Rajagopalachari shape the discourse on politics, religion, and communalism in Indian society.
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Cosmo Publications The Sociology of Indian Politics
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Cosmo Publications Sociology of World Religions
Book SynopsisSociology of religion analyzes religion's influence on society, studying its impact on relationships and behavior. It delves into social movements, myths, and daily actions, exploring topics like class, conflict, sects, and the connection between religion and politics, science, and technology.
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Cosmo Publications The Sociology of International Politics
Book SynopsisInternationalism vs. Nationalism, Marxian theory, state power, wartime propaganda, professional autonomy, Hitlerism psychology, policy intelligence, political factions, Europeanisation.
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Kalpaz Publications Schedule Castes Education: Issues and Aspects
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Isha Books Role of NGOs in Development of Social System
Book SynopsisNGOs play a crucial role in various aspects of society, from education to poverty alleviation. Despite limited decision-making authority, they have grown in influence globally, receiving support from governments and contributing to the United Nations. The book explores the forms, roles, and implications of NGOs in social development.
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Gyan Books Dictionary of Social Science
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Pentagon Press Pakistan Cauldron: Conspiracy, Assassination &
Book SynopsisThe killing of Osama bin Laden spotlighted Pakistan?s unpredictable political dynamics, which are often driven by conspiracy theories, paranoia, and a sense of betrayal. In Pakistan, the late prime minister Benazir Bhutto famously declared that there is ?always the story behind the story.? In The Pakistan Cauldron, James P . Farwell explains what makes Pakistani politics tick. Farwell has advised the Department of Defense on terrorism, sovereignty, and the political issues in the Middle East, Africa, and Pakistan. Here he reveals how key Pakistani political players have inconsistently employed the principles of strategic communication to advance their agendas and undercut their enemies. Pakistan is an enigma to many. Only by understanding the complex forces that shape Pakistani leaders can we uncover their shifting political agendas and how they affect America and the West. Farwell explains how and why former president Pervez Musharraf clamped down on nuclear scientist A. Q. Khan and isolated him. He assesses Benazir Bhutto?s unique legacy and analyzes how Musharraf handled the aftermath of her assassination. He explains Pakistan?s current instability and demonstrates how the country?s emotional reaction to bin Laden?s death is best understood as the outcome of long-standing political dynamics. The Pakistan Cauldron is for anyone who needs to know why Pakistan continues to pose increasingly difficult challenges for the United States and the West.
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Regal Publications Naxalism: Myth and Reality
Book SynopsisApproach to Naxalite issue requires firm yet sensitive handling, addressing both violence and development. Naxals raise land and livelihood concerns, blaming government. India faces challenges of equality, justice, economic growth, and defense. Administration burdened by Naxalism amidst welfare responsibilities.
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Caxton Publications Encyclopaedia of Human Knowledge
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Sandeep Prakashan Guilds of Mediaeval Andhra Desa
Book SynopsisIndia is a land of hair styles. In no other country has so much imagination, and artistic genius lent to devising hair styles.
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Indus Publishing Company Concept of Action: An Analytical Study
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The Energy and Resources Institute, TERI Domestic Environment and Health of Women and
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Regency Publications Trends in Social Sciences and Humanities in
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Aravali Books International Organized Power and Unorganised Resistance
Book SynopsisWith reference to Andhra Pradesh, India.
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Aravali Books International Rural China in Transition: Scale and Pace of
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