Mind, Body, Motion, Matter : Eighteenth-Century British and French Literary Perspectives
Mary Helen McMurran;Alison Conway;Mary Helen McMurran;Alison Conway
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Mind, Body, Motion, Matter : Eighteenth-Century British and French Literary Perspectives
2016
Mind, Body, Motion, Matter investigates the relationship between the eighteenth century's two predominant approaches to the natural world – mechanistic materialism and vitalism – in the works of leading British and French writers such as Daniel Defoe, William Hogarth, Laurence Sterne, the third Earl of Shaftesbury and Denis Diderot. Focusing on embodied experience and the materialization of thought in poetry, novels, art, and religion, the literary scholars in this collection offer new and intriguing readings of these canonical authors. Informed by contemporary currents such as new materialism, cognitive studies, media theory, and post-secularism, their essays demonstrate the volatility of the core ideas opened up by materialism and the possibilities of an aesthetic vitalism of form.
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Materialism in literature - Vitalism in literature - Philosophy in literature - English literature--18th century--History and criticism - French literature--18th century--History and criticism - Aesthetics in literature - HistoryContent provider:
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Martin Paul Eve;Martin Paul Eve
This is a book about the power game currently being played out between two symbiotic c...
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2016
This is a book about the power game currently being played out between two symbiotic cultural institutions: the university and the novel. As the number of hyper-knowledgeable literary fans grows, students and researchers in English departments waiver between dismissing and harnessing voices outside the academy. Meanwhile, the role that the university plays in contemporary literary fiction is becoming increasingly complex and metafictional, moving far beyond the ‘campus novel'of the mid-twentieth century . Martin Paul Eve's engaging and far-reaching study explores the novel's contribution to the ongoing displacement of cultural authority away from university English . Spanning the works of Jennifer Egan, Ishmael Reed, Tom McCarthy, Sarah Waters, Percival Everett, Roberto Bolaño and many others, Literature Against Criticism forces us to re-think our previous notions about the relationship between those who write literary fiction and those who critique it.
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Criticism - Fiction--History and criticism--Theory, etcContent provider:
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Before They Were Titans : Essays on the Early Works of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy
Elizabeth Cheresh Allen;Elizabeth Cheresh Allen
Dostoevsky and Tolstoy are the titans of Russian literature. As mature artists, they l...
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Before They Were Titans : Essays on the Early Works of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy
2015
Dostoevsky and Tolstoy are the titans of Russian literature . As mature artists, they led very different lives and wrote vastly different works, but their early lives and writings display provocative kinships, while also indicating the divergent paths the two authors would take en route to literary greatness. The ten new critical essays here, written by leading specialists in nineteenth -century , Russian literature , give fresh, sophisticated readings to works from the first decade of the literary life of each Russian author—for Dostoevsky, the 1840s; for Tolstoy, the 1850s. Collectively, these essays yield composite portraits of these two artists as young men finding their literary way. At the same time, they show how the early works merit appreciation for themselves, before their authors were Titans.
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Russian literature--19th century--Criticism and interpretationContent provider:
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The crisis of action in nineteenth-century English literature / Stefanie Markovits.
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Anthropology, Film Industries, Modularity
Ramyar D. Rossoukh;Steven C. Caton;Ramyar D. Rossoukh;Steven C. Caton
From Bangladesh and Hong Kong to Iran and South Africa, film industries around the wor...
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Anthropology, Film Industries, Modularity
2021
From Bangladesh and Hong Kong to Iran and South Africa, film industries around the world are rapidly growing at a time when new digital technologies are fundamentally changing how films are made and viewed. Larger film industries like Bollywood and Nollywood aim to attain Hollywood's audience and profitability, while smaller, less commercial, and often state-funded enterprises support various cultural and political projects. The contributors to Anthropology, Film Industries, Modularity take an ethnographic and comparative approach to capturing the diversity and growth of global film industries. They outline how modularity—the specialized filmmaking tasks that collectively produce a film—operates as a key feature in every film industry, independent of local context. Whether they are examining the process of dubbing Hollywood films into Hindi, virtual reality filmmaking in South Africa, or on-location shooting in Yemen, the contributors'anthropological methodology brings into relief the universal practices and the local contingencies and deeper cultural realities of film production.Contributors. Steven C. Caton, Jessica Dickson, Kevin Dwyer, Tejaswini Ganti, Lotte Hoek, Amrita Ibrahim, Sylvia J. Martin, Ramyar D. Rossoukh
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Motion picture industry--Social aspects - Motion picture industry--Cross-cultural studiesContent provider:
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Alfred Tennyson : A Companion
Laurence W. Mazzeno;Laurence W. Mazzeno
Alfred Tennyson was a poet all his life, writing more than a thousand works in virtual...
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Alfred Tennyson : A Companion
2020
Alfred Tennyson was a poet all his life, writing more than a thousand works in virtually every poetic genre. Considered by his Victorian contemporaries the pre-eminent poet of the age, he has become a canonical figure who is widely read and studied today. Consequently, his poems appear on the syllabi of both survey courses in Victorian literature as well as upper-division and graduate-level topics courses that cover Victorian studies or address subjects such as environmental studies, religion, elegiac poetry, and Arthurian literature . This companion makes Tennyson's poetry accessible to contemporary readers by identifying some of the formal elements of the poems, highlighting their relevance to Tennyson's Victorian contemporaries, and explaining their enduring appeal and value. Entries in the companion, organized alphabetically, provide essential details about Tennyson's most anthologized poems, offer suggestions for reading and interpretation, and elucidate unfamiliar historical and literary allusions. Additional entries, a biography of Tennyson, and a selected bibliography of recent criticism offer information about the people, places, events, and issues that influenced Tennyson or were important to him and his contemporaries.
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Unthinking Mastery : Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements
Julietta Singh;Julietta Singh
Julietta Singh challenges the drive toward the mastery over self and others by showing...
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Unthinking Mastery : Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements
2018
Julietta Singh challenges the drive toward the mastery over self and others by showing how the forms of self-mastery advocated by anticolonial thinkers like Fanon and Gandhi unintentionally reproduced colonial logic, thereby leading her to argue for a more productive human subjectivity that is not centered on concepts of mastery.
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Postcolonialism in literature - Power (Social sciences) in literatureContent provider:
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Power Relations in Black Lives : Reading African American Literature and Culture with Bourdieu and Elias
Christa Buschendorf;Christa Buschendorf
According to relational sociology, power imbalances are at the root of human conflicts...
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Power Relations in Black Lives : Reading African American Literature and Culture with Bourdieu and Elias
2017; Vol. 00017
According to relational sociology, power imbalances are at the root of human conflicts and consequently shape the physical and symbolic struggles between interdependent groups or individuals. This volume highlights the role of power relations in the African American experience by applying key concepts of Pierre Bourdieu and Norbert Elias to black literature and culture. The authors offer new readings of power asymmetries as represented in works of canonical and contemporary black writers (Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Gwendolyn Brooks, Toni Morrison, Percival Everett, Colson Whitehead), rap music (e.g., Jay Z), images of black homelessness, and figurations of political activism (civil rights activist Bayard Rustin,
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Violence in literature - American literature--African American authors--History and criticism - African Americans--Music--History and criticism - Racism in literatureContent provider:
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Technology and Sustainable Development : The Promise and Pitfalls of Techno-Solutionism
Henrik Skaug Sætra;Henrik Skaug Sætra
Technological change is at the core of all major disruptions in human history, andrevo...
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Technology and Sustainable Development : The Promise and Pitfalls of Techno-Solutionism
2023
Technological change is at the core of all major disruptions in human history, andrevolutions, wars, and general development are regularly connected to some sort oftechnological change. However, not all development is beneficial. While technology hasfueled great innovations and rapid development, the notion of sustainable developmenthas gained prominence as we now experience serious social, economic, and environmentalchallenges. This book examines whether technology can be used to fix the very problems caused bytechnology, as the various chapters examine different aspects related to how technologyhas brought us where we are today (which some will say is the best place humanity's been ataccording to a range of metrics), and whether technology helps or hinders us in our effortsto solve the challenges we currently face. The issues discussed cover the three sustainabilitydimensions and include topics such as the materiality of AI, technology in education, AIfor gender equality, innovation and the digital divide, and how technology relates to power,the political system, and capitalism. The chapters all build on the theoretical backdrop oftechnological change, sustainable development, and the UN's Sustainable DevelopmentGoals are actively used throughout this book, both to examine how these goals capture oroverlook central elements of sustainable development, and also to facilitate and create acommon framework of engagement between the chapters. This book provides a novel combination of traditional theories that are exploredthrough different case studies, providing the ground for a better understanding of howand when technology can – and cannot – be the enabler of sustainable development.It is thus an important resource for students of all disciplines, technologists, and thosedeveloping and applying new technologies. It is also a valuable resource for politiciansand regulators attempting to harness the power of technology for good, while limiting itsnegative potential. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has beenmade available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives(CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license. Funded by Østfold University College.
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Solutionism - Technology--Social aspects - Disruptive technologies - Sustainable engineeringContent provider:
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Love Don't Need a Reason : The Life & Music of Michael Callen
Matthew J. Jones;Matthew J. Jones
From a stage erected in front of the US Capitol, on April 25, 1993, Michael Callen sur...
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Love Don't Need a Reason : The Life & Music of Michael Callen
2020
From a stage erected in front of the US Capitol, on April 25, 1993, Michael Callen surveyed the throng: an estimated one million people stretched across the National Mall in the largest public demonstration of queer political solidarity in history. “What a sight,” he told the crowd, his earnest Midwestern twang reverberating through loudspeakers. “You're a sight for sore eyes. Being gay is the greatest gift I have ever been given, and I don't care who knows about it.” He then launched into a gorgeous rendition of “Love Don't Need a Reason,” the AIDS anthem he composed with Marsha Malamet and the late Peter Allen. As Callen finished singing, people stood cheering and flashing the familiar American Sign Language symbol for “I Love You.” For they knew the song's sentiment rang true for Callen, who had recently announced his retirement from music and activism after a living for more than a decade with what was then called “full-blown AIDS.” After the March on Washington, Callen returned to his recently adopted West Coast home, Los Angeles. In the ensuing months, his health rapidly declined, and on 27 December 1993, Callen died of AIDS-related pulmonary Kaposi's sarcoma. Love Don't Need a Reason focuses on Callen's most important and lasting legacy: his music. A witness to the overlooked last years of Gay Liberation and a major figure in the early years of the AIDS crisis , Michael Callen chronicled these experiences in song. A community organizer, activist, author, and architect of the AIDS self-empowerment movement, he literally changed the way we have sex in an epidemic when he co-authored one of the first safe-sex guides in 1983. A gifted singer, songwriter, and performer, he also made gay music for gay people and used music to educate and empower people with AIDS. Listening again to his music allows us to hear the shifting dynamics of American families, changing notions of masculinity, gay migration to urban areas, the sexual politics of Gay Liberation, and HIV/AIDS activism. Using extensive archival materials and newly-conducted oral history interviews with Callen's friends, family, and fellow musicians, Matthew J. Jones reintroduces Callen to the history of LGBTQIA+ music and places Callen's music at the center of his important activist work.
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Musicians--United States--Biography - Gay musicians--United States--Biography - AIDS (Disease)--Patients--United States--Biography - AIDS activists--United States--BiographyContent provider:
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Merchants of Virtue : Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia
Divya Cherian;Divya Cherian
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Merchants of Virtue : Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia
2022
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Winner of the 2022 Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social SciencesMerchants of Virtue explores the question of what it meant to be Hindu in precolonial South Asia. Divya Cherian presents a fine-grained study of everyday life and local politics in the kingdom of Marwar in eighteenth-century western India to uncover how merchants enforced their caste ideals of vegetarianism and bodily austerity as universal markers of Hindu identity. Using legal strategies and alliances with elites, these merchants successfully remade the category of “Hindu,” setting it in contrast to “Untouchable” in a process that reconfigured Hinduism in caste terms. In a history pertinent to understanding India today, Cherian establishes the centrality of caste to the early-modern Hindu self and to its imagination of inadmissible others.
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Dalits--South Asia--18th century - Muslims--South Asia--18th century - Caste--South Asia--18th century - Merchants--South Asia--18th century - Hindus--South Asia--18th centuryContent provider:
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Lexicon of Global Melodrama
Heike Paul;Sarah Marak;Katharina Gerund;Marius Henderson;Heike Paul;Sarah M...
This new go-to reference book for global melodrama assembles contributions by experts ...
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Lexicon of Global Melodrama
2022; Vol. 00001
This new go-to reference book for global melodrama assembles contributions by experts from a wide range of disciplines, including cultural studies, film and media studies, gender and queer studies, political science, and postcolonial studies. The melodramas covered in this volume range from early 20th century silent movies to contemporary films, from independent ›arthouse‹ productions to Hollywood blockbusters. The comprehensive overview of global melodramatic film in the Lexicon constitutes a valuable resource for scholars and practitioners of film, teachers, film critics, and anyone who is interested in the past and present of melodramatic film on a global scale. The Lexicon of Global Melodrama includes essays on All That Heaven Allows, Bombay, Casablanca, Die Büchse der Pandora, In the Mood for Love, Nosotros los Pobres, Terra Sonâmbula, and Tokyo Story.
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Migration and Diaspora Formation : New Perspectives on a Global History of Christianity
Ciprian Burlăcioiu;Ciprian Burlăcioiu
The role of migration for Christianity as a world religion during the last two centuri...
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Migration and Diaspora Formation : New Perspectives on a Global History of Christianity
2022; Vol. 00152
The role of migration for Christianity as a world religion during the last two centuries has drawn considerable attention from scholars in different fields. The main issue this book seeks to address is the question whether and to what extent migration and diaspora formation should be considered as elements of a new historiography of global Christianity, including the reflection upon earlier epochs. By focusing on migration and diaspora, the emerging map of Christianity will include the dimension of movement and interaction between actors in different regions, providing a more comprehensive ‘map of agency'of individuals and groups previously regarded as passive. Furthermore, local histories will become parts of a broader picture and historiography might correlate both local and transregional perspectives in a balanced manner. Behind this approach lies the desire to broaden the perspective of Ecclesiastical History – and religious history in general – in a more systematic manner by questioning the traditional criteria of selection. This might help us to recover previously lost actors and forgotten dynamics.
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Church history--Modern period, 1500- - Emigration and immigration--Religious aspects--ChristianityContent provider:
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Conversations on Empathy : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Imagination and Radical Othering
Francesca Mezzenzana;Daniela Peluso;Francesca Mezzenzana;Daniela Peluso
In the aftermath of a global pandemic, amidst new and ongoing wars, genocide, inequali...
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Conversations on Empathy : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Imagination and Radical Othering
2022
In the aftermath of a global pandemic, amidst new and ongoing wars, genocide, inequality, and staggering ecological collapse, some in the public and political arena have argued that we are in desperate need of greater empathy — be this with our neighbours, refugees, war victims, the vulnerable or disappearing animal and plant species. This interdisciplinary volume asks the crucial questions: How does a better understanding of empathy contribute, if at all, to our understanding of others? How is it implicated in the ways we perceive, understand and constitute others as subjects? Conversations on Empathy examines how empathy might be enacted and experienced either as a way to highlight forms of otherness or, instead, to overcome what might otherwise appear to be irreducible differences. It explores the ways in which empathy enables us to understand, imagine and create sameness and otherness in our everyday intersubjective encounters focusing on a varied range of'radical others'– others who are perceived as being dramatically different from oneself. With a focus on the importance of empathy to understand difference, the book contends that the role of empathy is critical, now more than ever, for thinking about local and global challenges of interconnectedness, care and justice.
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Reflecting 9/11: New Narratives in Literature , Television, Film and Theatre
Heather Pope, Editor;Victoria Bryan, Editor;Heather Pope, Editor;Victoria B...
In over fifteen years, the cultural and artistic response to 9/11 has been wide-rangin...
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Reflecting 9/11: New Narratives in Literature , Television, Film and Theatre
2016
In over fifteen years, the cultural and artistic response to 9/11 has been wide-ranging in form and function. As the turbulent post-9/11 years have unfolded – years that have been shaped and characterized by the War on Terror, the Patriot Act, the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, 7/7, Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay – these texts have been commemorative and heroic, have attempted to work through collective and individual traumas, and have struggled with trying to represent the “terrorist other.” Many of these earlier domestic, heroic and traumatic works have so often been read as limitations in narrative. This collection, however, challenges the language of limitation and provides re-readings of earlier work, but also traces the emergence of a new paradigm for discussing the artistic responses to 9/11 – one that frames these narratives as dialogic, self-conscious and self-reflexive interventions in the responses to the attacks, the initial representations of the attacks, and the ever-shifting social and geopolitical continuities of the 9/11 decade. These texts widen the conversation about the lasting impacts of 9/11, and incorporate strands of discussion on American exceptionalism and imperialism, torture, and otherness, whilst still remaining invested in the personal and collective traumas of the attacks. The authors included here ask crucial questions about the way 9/11 is being historicized: will it, for example, be read as a moment of rupture or epoch? Will it inevitably be attached to the War on Terror or the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? As they trace the emergent patterns of reflexivity, politicization and dissent, the contributions here are also implicitly invested in asking how far they extend.
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September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in motion pi - September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literatur - September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, on televisioContent provider:
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Charged : The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
Emily Bazelon;Emily Bazelon
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A renowned journalist and legal commentator exposes the un...
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Charged : The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
2019
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A renowned journalist and legal commentator exposes the unchecked power of the prosecutor as a driving force in America's mass incarceration crisis —and charts a way out.“An important, thoughtful, and thorough examination of criminal justice in America that speaks directly to how we reduce mass incarceration.”—Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy“This harrowing, often enraging book is a hopeful one, as well, profiling innovative new approaches and the frontline advocates who champion them.”—Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE • SHORTLISTED FOR THE J. ANTHONY LUKAS BOOK PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • The New York Public Library • Library Journal • Publishers Weekly • Kirkus ReviewsThe American criminal justice system is supposed to be a contest between two equal adversaries, the prosecution and the defense, with judges ensuring a fair fight. That image of the law does not match the reality in the courtroom, however. Much of the time, it is prosecutors more than judges who control the outcome of a case, from choosing the charge to setting bail to determining the plea bargain. They often decide who goes free and who goes to prison, even who lives and who dies. In Charged, Emily Bazelon reveals how this kind of unchecked power is the underreported cause of enormous injustice—and the missing piece in the mass incarceration puzzle.Charged follows the story of two young people caught up in the criminal justice system: Kevin, a twenty-year-old in Brooklyn who picked up his friend's gun as the cops burst in and was charged with a serious violent felony, and Noura, a teenage girl in Memphis indicted for the murder of her mother. Bazelon tracks both cases—from arrest and charging to trial and sentencing—and, with her trademark blend of deeply reported narrative, legal analysis, and investigative journalism, illustrates just how criminal prosecutions can go wrong and, more important, why they don't have to.Bazelon also details the second chances they prosecutors can extend, if they choose, to Kevin and Noura and so many others. She follows a wave of reform-minded D.A.s who have been elected in some of our biggest cities, as well as in rural areas in every region of the country, put in office to do nothing less than reinvent how their job is done. If they succeed, they can point the country toward a different and profoundly better future.
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Criminal justice, Administration of--Corrupt practices--United States - Imprisonment--United States - Prosecutorial misconduct--United States - Prosecution--United States--Decision making - Sentences (Criminal procedure)--United States - Public prosecutors--United StatesContent provider:
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Confronting Antisemitism in Modern Media, the Legal and Political Worlds
Armin Lange;Kerstin Mayerhofer;Dina Porat;Lawrence H. Schiffman;Armin Lange...
This volume documents the transformation of age-old antisemitic stereotypes into a new...
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Confronting Antisemitism in Modern Media, the Legal and Political Worlds
2021
This volume documents the transformation of age-old antisemitic stereotypes into a new form of discrimination, often called'New Antisemitism'or'Antisemitism 2.0.'Manifestations of antisemitism in political, legal, media and other contexts are reflected on theoretically and contemporary developments are analyzed with a special focus on online hatred. The volume points to the need for a globally coordinated approach on the political and legal levels, as well as with regard to the modern media, to effectively combat modern antisemitism.
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Law As Reproduction and Revolution : An Interconnected History
Bryant G. Garth;Bryant G. Garth
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Law As Reproduction and Revolution : An Interconnected History
2021
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org This sweeping book details the extent to which the legal revolution emanating from the US has transformed legal hierarchies of power across the globe, while also analyzing the conjoined global histories of law and social change from the Middle Ages to today. It examines the global proliferation of large corporate law firms—a US invention—along with US legal education approaches geared toward those corporate law firms. This neoliberal-inspired revolution attacks complacent legal oligarchies in the name of America-inspired modernism. Drawing on the combined histories of the legal profession, imperial transformations, and the enduring and conservative role of cosmopolitan elites at the top of legal hierarchies, the book details case studies in India, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, and China to explain how interconnected legal histories are stories of both revolution and reproduction. Theoretically and methodologically ambitious, it offers a wholly new approach to studying interrelated fields across time and geographies.
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Sociological jurisprudence - Lawyers--History - Law--History - Law--East Asia--American influencesContent provider:
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Das spätantike Rom und die stadtrömische Senatsaristokratie (395–455 n. Chr.) : Eine althistorisch-archäologische Untersuchung
Hendrik Wagner;Hendrik Wagner
Die spätantike Senatsaristokratie steht seit Längerem im Fokus der Forschung. Es sind ...
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Das spätantike Rom und die stadtrömische Senatsaristokratie (395–455 n. Chr.) : Eine althistorisch-archäologische Untersuchung
2021; Vol. 00091
Die spätantike Senatsaristokratie steht seit Längerem im Fokus der Forschung. Es sind eben nicht allein die Kaiser und Heermeister, die die Geschichte der Spätantike prägten. Die hier vorliegende Studie stellt die Frage nach der politischen und gesellschaftlichen Bedeutung der stadtrömischen Senatsaristokratie und des Senats, und zwar für den so wichtigen Zeitraum von 395 bis 455 n. Chr. Die politische Ereignisgeschichte und die Interaktion, Kommunikation und Kooperation mit den politischen Hauptakteuren wird dabei ebenso untersucht wie die zentralen Aspekte der senatorischen Lebensführung, Repräsentation und Distinktion, einschließlich der Christianisierung. Entstanden ist eine Studie, die ein breites politik- und kulturgeschichtliches Panorama bietet und zahlreiche Themenfelder untersucht, die für die Geschichte der Stadt Rom, des römischen Westens und der Christianisierung von zentraler Bedeutung sind. Als besonders gewinnbringend erweist sich hierbei der interdisziplinäre Zugriff, der althistorische und archäologische Quellen und Forschungsperspektiven miteinander verbindet und damit für die althistorische Forschung das stark expandierende Feld der spätantiken Archäologie zugänglich macht.
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Social status--Rome--History - Power (Social sciences)--Rome--HistoryContent provider:
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Comprehending Antisemitism Through the Ages: A Historical Perspective
Armin Lange;Kerstin Mayerhofer;Dina Porat;Lawrence H. Schiffman;Armin Lange...
This volume traces the history of antisemitism from antiquity through contemporary man...
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Comprehending Antisemitism Through the Ages: A Historical Perspective
2021; Vol. 00003
This volume traces the history of antisemitism from antiquity through contemporary manifestations of the discrimination of Jews. It documents the religious, sociological, political and economic contexts in which antisemitism thrived and thrives and shows how such circumstances served as support and reinforcement for a curtailment of the Jews'social status. The volume sheds light on historical processes of discrimination and identifies them as a key factor in the contemporary and future fight against antisemitism.
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Everyday Life Under Communism and After : Lifestyle and Consumption in Hungary, 1945–2000
Tibor Valuch;Tibor Valuch
By providing a survey of consumption and lifestyle in Hungary during the second half o...
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Everyday Life Under Communism and After : Lifestyle and Consumption in Hungary, 1945–2000
2021
By providing a survey of consumption and lifestyle in Hungary during the second half of the twentieth century , this book shows how common people lived during and after tumultuous regime changes. After an introduction covering the late 1930s, the study centers on the communist era, and goes on to describe changes in the post-communist period with its legacy of state socialism. Tibor Valuch poses a series of questions. Who could be called rich or poor and how did they live in the various periods? How did living, furnishings, clothing, income, and consumption mirror the structure of the society and its transformations? How could people accommodate their lifestyles to the political and social system? How specific to the regime was consumption after the communist takeover, and how did consumption habits change after the demise of state socialism? The answers, based on micro-histories, statistical data, population censuses and surveys help to understand the complexities of daily life, not only in Hungary, but also in other communist regimes in east-central Europe, with insights on their antecedents and afterlives.
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Lifestyles--Hungary--History--20th century - History - Consumption (Economics)--Hungary--History--20th century - Social change--Hungary--History--20th centuryContent provider:
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Africa's Soft Power : Philosophies, Political Values, Foreign Policies and Cultural Exports
Oluwaseun Tella;Oluwaseun Tella
This book investigates the ways in which soft power is used by African countries to he...
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Africa's Soft Power : Philosophies, Political Values, Foreign Policies and Cultural Exports
2021; Vol. 00021
This book investigates the ways in which soft power is used by African countries to help drive global influence. Selecting four of the countries most associated with soft power across the continent, this book delves into the currencies of soft power across the region: from South Africa's progressive constitution and expanding multinational corporations, to Nigeria's Nollywood film industry and Technical Aid Corps (TAC) scheme, Kenya's sport diplomacy, fashion and tourism industries, and finally Egypt's Pan-Arabism and its reputation as the cradle of civilisation. The book asks how soft power is wielded by these countries and what constraints and contradictions they encounter. Understandings of soft power have typically been driven by Western scholars, but throughout this book, Oluwaseun Tella aims to Africanise our understanding of soft power, drawing on prominent African philosophies, including Nigeria's Omolúwàbí, South Africa's Ubuntu, Kenya's Harambee, and Egypt's Pharaonism. This book will be of interest to researchers from across political science, international relations, cultural studies, foreign policy and African Studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/ 9781003176022, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license
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The German-Jewish Experience Revisited
Steven E. Aschheim;Vivian Liska;Steven E. Aschheim;Vivian Liska
In the past decades the “German-Jewish phenomenon” (Derrida) has increasingly attracte...
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The German-Jewish Experience Revisited
2015; Vol. 00003
In the past decades the “German-Jewish phenomenon” (Derrida) has increasingly attracted the attention of scholars from various fields: Jewish studies, intellectual history, philosophy, literary and cultural studies, critical theory. In all its complex dimensions, the post-enlightenment German-Jewish experience is overwhelmingly regarded as the most quintessential and charged meeting of Jews with the project of modernity. Perhaps for this reason, from the eighteenth century through to our own time it has been the object of intense reflection, of clashing interpretations and appropriations. In both micro and macro case-studies, this volume engages the multiple perspectives as advocated by manifold interested actors, and analyzes their uses, biases and ideological functions over time in different cultural, disciplinary and national contexts. This volume includes both historical treatments of differing German-Jewish understandings of their experience – their relations to their Judaism, general culture and to other Jews – and contemporary reflections and competing interpretations as to how to understand the overall experience of German Jewry.
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Jews--Germany--Identity - Jews--Germany--History--1990- - Jews--Germany--Social conditionsContent provider:
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History, Historians and Development Policy : A Necessary Dialogue
C.A. Bayly;Vijayendra Rao;Simon Szreter;Michael Woolcock;C.A. Bayly;Vijayen...
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) op...
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History, Historians and Development Policy : A Necessary Dialogue
2020
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. If history matters for understanding key development outcomes then surely historians should be active contributors to the debates informing these understandings. This volume integrates, for the first time, contributions from ten leading historians and seven policy advisors around the central development issues of social protection, public health, public education and natural resource management. How did certain ideas, and not others, gain traction in shaping particular policy responses? How did the content and effectiveness of these responses vary across different countries, and indeed within them? Achieving this is not merely a matter of seeking to'know more'about specific times, places and issues, but recognising the distinctive ways in which historians rigorously assemble, analyse and interpret diverse forms of evidence. This book will appeal to students and scholars in development studies, history, international relations, politics and geography as well as policy makers and those working for or studying NGOs.
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The Atheist's Bible : Diderot's 'Éléments De Physiologie'
Caroline Warman;Caroline Warman
‘Love is harder to explain than hunger, for a piece of fruit does not feel the desire ...
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The Atheist's Bible : Diderot's 'Éléments De Physiologie'
2020
‘Love is harder to explain than hunger, for a piece of fruit does not feel the desire to be eaten': Denis Diderot's Éléments de physiologie presents a world in flux, turning on the relationship between man, matter and mind. In this late work, Diderot delves playfully into the relationship between bodily sensation, emotion and perception, and asks his readers what it means to be human in the absence of a soul. The Atheist's Bible challenges prevailing scholarly views on Diderot's Éléments, asserting its contemporary philosophical importance, and prompting its readers to inspect more closely this little-known and little-studied work. This book is accompanied by a digital edition of Jacques-André Naigeon's Mémoires historiques et philosophiques sur la vie et les ouvrages de Denis Diderot (1823), a work which, Warman argues, represents the first publication of Diderot's Éléments, long before its official publication date of 1875. The Atheist's Bible constitutes a major contribution to the field of Diderot studies, and will be of further interest to scholars and students of materialist natural philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment and beyond.
