Francesco Biondo;Gevisa La Rocca;Viviana Viviana Trapani;Francesco Biondo;G...
2023
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The Class : Living and Learning in the Digital Age
Sonia Livingstone;Julian Sefton-Green;Sonia Livingstone;Julian Sefton-Green
An intimate look at how children network, identify, learn and grow in a connected worl...
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The Class : Living and Learning in the Digital Age
2016
An intimate look at how children network, identify, learn and grow in a connected world.Read Online at connectedyouth.nyupress.orgDo today's youth have more opportunities than their parents? As they build their own social and digital networks, does that offer new routes to learning and friendship? How do they navigate the meaning of education in a digitally connected but fiercely competitive, highly individualized world?Based upon fieldwork at an ordinary London school, The Class examines young people's experiences of growing up and learning in a digital world. In this original and engaging study, Livingstone and Sefton-Green explore youth values, teenagers'perspectives on their futures, and their tactics for facing the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead. The authors follow the students as they move across their different social worlds—in school, at home, and with their friends, engaging in a range of activities from video games to drama clubs and music lessons. By portraying the texture of the students'everyday lives, The Class seeks to understand how the structures of social class and cultural capital shape the development of personal interests, relationships and autonomy. Providing insights into how young people's social, digital, and learning networks enable or disempower them, Livingstone and Sefton-Green reveal that the experience of disconnections and blocked pathways is often more common than that of connections and new opportunities.
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Knowledge, Sociology of - Teenagers--England--London--Attitudes - Teenagers--Education--England--London - Teenagers--England--London--Social conditions - Digital media--Social aspects--England--London - Technology and youth--Social aspects--England--London - Internet and teenagers--Social aspects--England--London - Information society--Social aspects--England--LondonContent provider:
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International Handbook of Engineering Education Research
Aditya Johri;Aditya Johri
This comprehensive handbook offers a broad overview of contemporary research on engine...
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International Handbook of Engineering Education Research
2023
This comprehensive handbook offers a broad overview of contemporary research on engineering education and its practical application . Over the past two decades, the field of engineering education research (EER) has become a vibrant and impactful community with new journals, conferences, and doctoral and research programs established across the globe. The increased interest in this area has helped improve the education and training of the next generation of engineers, as well as supporting growth in the use of technology for teaching and learning , increased attention to broadening participation, diversity and inclusion in the field, and a wide international expansion of the field. Drawing on the work of 100 expert contributors from over 20 countries, this volume covers both emergent and established areas of research within engineering education, giving voice to newcomers to the field as well as perspectives from established experts. Contents include: Sociocognitive and affective perspectives on engineering education. Technology and online learning in engineering education. Cultural and ethical issues including diversity, equity, and inclusion in engineering education. Curriculum design, teaching practices, and teacher education at all levels. Research methods and assessment in engineering education. This book offers an innovative and in-depth overview of engineering education scholarship and practice, which will be of use to researchers in engineering education, engineering educators and faculty, teacher educators in engineering education or STEM education, and other engineering and STEM-related professional organizations. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
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Engineering--Study and teaching--ResearchContent provider:
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Global Digital Data Governance : Polycentric Perspectives
Carolina Aguerre;Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn;Jan Aart Scholte;Carolina Aguerre...
This book provides a nuanced exploration of contemporary digital data governance, high...
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Global Digital Data Governance : Polycentric Perspectives
2024
This book provides a nuanced exploration of contemporary digital data governance, highlighting the importance of cooperation across sectors and disciplines in order to adapt to a rapidly evolving technological landscape. Most of the theory around global digital data governance remains scattered and focused on specific actors, norms, processes, or disciplinary approaches. This book argues for a polycentric approach, allowing readers to consider the issue across multiple disciplines and scales. Polycentrism, this book argues, provides a set of lenses that tie together the variety of actors, issues, and processes intertwined in digital data governance at subnational, national, regional, and global levels. Firstly, this approach uncovers the complex array of power centers and connections in digital data governance. Secondly, polycentric perspectives bridge disciplinary divides, challenging assumptions and drawing together a growing range of insights about the complexities of digital data governance. Bringing together a wide range of case studies, this book draws out key insights and policy recommendations for how digital data governance occurs and how it might occur differently. Written by an international and interdisciplinary team, this book will be of interest to students and scholars in the field of development studies, political science, international relations, global studies, science and technology studies, sociology, and media and communication studies.
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Knowledge management - Data protection--Government policy - Data protection--International cooperation - Computer securityContent provider:
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Safety and Reliability – Safe Societies in a Changing World : Proceedings of ESREL 2018, June 17-21, 2018, Trondheim, Norway
Stein Haugen;Anne Barros;Coen van Gulijk;Trond Kongsvik;Jan Erik Vinnem;Ste...
Safety and Reliability – Safe Societies in a Changing World collects the papers presen...
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Safety and Reliability – Safe Societies in a Changing World : Proceedings of ESREL 2018, June 17-21, 2018, Trondheim, Norway
2018
Safety and Reliability – Safe Societies in a Changing World collects the papers presented at the 28th European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2018 in Trondheim, Norway, June 17-21, 2018. The contributions cover a wide range of methodologies and application areas for safety and reliability that contribute to safe societies in a changing world. These methodologies and applications include: - foundations of risk and reliability assessment and management- mathematical methods in reliability and safety- risk assessment - risk management- system reliability- uncertainty analysis- digitalization and big data- prognostics and system health management- occupational safety- accident and incident modeling- maintenance modeling and applications - simulation for safety and reliability analysis- dynamic risk and barrier management- organizational factors and safety culture- human factors and human reliability- resilience engineering- structural reliability- natural hazards- security- economic analysis in risk management Safety and Reliability – Safe Societies in a Changing World will be invaluable to academics and professionals working in a wide range of industrial and governmental sectors: offshore oil and gas, nuclear engineering, aeronautics and aerospace, marine transport and engineering, railways, road transport, automotive engineering, civil engineering, critical infrastructures, electrical and electronic engineering, energy production and distribution, environmental engineering, information technology and telecommunications, insurance and finance, manufacturing, marine transport, mechanical engineering, security and protection, and policy making.
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Structural engineering - Industrial safety--Statistical methods--Congresses - TechnologyContent provider:
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Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing
Andreas Neef;Chanrith Ngin;Tsegaye Moreda;Sharlene Mollett;Andreas Neef;Cha...
This handbook provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive overview of global land and resou...
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Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing
2023
This handbook provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive overview of global land and resource grabbing. Global land and resource grabbing has become an increasingly prominent topic in academic circles, among development practitioners, human rights advocates, and in policy arenas. The Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing sustains this intellectual momentum by advancing methodological, theoretical and empirical insights. It presents and discusses resource grabbing research in a holistic manner by addressing how the rush for land and other natural resources, including water, forests and minerals, is intertwined with agriculture, mining, tourism, energy, biodiversity conservation, climate change, carbon markets, and conflict. The handbook is truly global and interdisciplinary, with case studies from the Global South and Global North, and chapter contributions from practitioners, activists and academics, with emerging and Indigenous authors featuring strongly across the chapters. The handbook will be essential reading for students and scholars interested in land and resource grabbing, agrarian studies, development studies, critical human geography, global studies and natural resource governance. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
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Crip Authorship : Disability As Method
Mara Mills;Rebecca Sanchez;Mara Mills;Rebecca Sanchez
An expansive volume presenting crip approaches to writing, research, and publishing. C...
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Crip Authorship : Disability As Method
2023
An expansive volume presenting crip approaches to writing, research, and publishing. Crip Authorship: Disability as Method is an expansive volume presenting the multidisciplinary methods brought into being by disability studies and activism. Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez have convened leading scholars, artists, and activists to explore the ways disability shapes authorship, transforming cultural production, aesthetics, and media.Starting from the premise that disability is plural and authorship spans composition, affect, and publishing, this collection of thirty-five compact essays asks how knowledge about disability is produced and shared in disability studies. Disability alters, generates, and dismantles method. Crip authorship takes place within and beyond the commodity version of authorship, in books, on social media, and in creative works that will never be published. The chapters draw on the expertise of international researchers and activists in the humanities, social sciences, education, arts, and design. Across five sections—Writing, Research, Genre/Form, Publishing, Media—contributors consider disability as method for creative work: practices of writing and other forms of composition; research methods and collaboration; crip aesthetics; media formats and hacks; and the capital, access, legal standing, and care networks required to publish. Designed to be accessible and engaging for students, Crip Authorship also provides theoretically sophisticated arguments in a condensed form that will make the text a key resource for disability studies scholars. Essays include Mel Y Chen on the temporality of writing with chronic illness; Remi Yergeau on perseveration; La Marr Jurelle Bruce on mad Black writing; Alison Kafer on the reliance of the manifesto genre on disability; Jaipreet Virdi on public scholarship for disability justice; Ellen Samuels on the importance of disability and illness to autotheory; Xuan Thuy Nguyen on decolonial research methods for disability studies; Emily Lim Rogers on virtual ethnography; Cameron Awkward-Rich on depression and trans reading methods; Robert McRuer on crip theory in translation; Kelsie Acton on plain language writing; and Georgina Kleege on description as an access and aesthetic technique.
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Global Perspectives on Anti-Feminism: Far-Right and Religious Attacks on Equality and Diversity
Goetz, Judith;Mayer, Stefanie;Goetz, Judith;Mayer, Stefanie
10 chapters from five continents (Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America, Africa) prov...
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Global Perspectives on Anti-Feminism: Far-Right and Religious Attacks on Equality and Diversity
2023
10 chapters from five continents (Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America, Africa) provide a global perspective on current anti-feminism and anti-gender discoursesProvides an analytical understanding of anti-feminism as an intersectional ideology between continuity and change, with a conceptual framework of analysis and a comparative perspective on common global trends as well as regional/national specifitiesShows how discourses originally developed in the Global North/West are re-articulated in different national (including post-colonial) contexts, promoting an understanding of the entanglements between global and the localPresents new perspectives and information on different world regions, opening up new angles in research on transnational anti-feminist networks and the global spread of anti-gender discoursesProvides a solid basis for further research in local, national and regional contextsThis new book brings together research and analyses from five continents in order to promote a global perspective on the thoroughly global phenomenon of the current culture wars around sex and gender. The contributions show how transnational networks spread discourses that were developed in the Global North, and how they become re-articulated in different national, political and religious contexts.In recent years, issues of gender and sexuality have become a political battlefield on which far-right, religious and conservative actors wage their war against liberal and left-wing ideas, as well as emancipatory movements.'Anti-Gender'crusades, which had originally been launched by the Vatican, deeply impacted societies and politics especially as these discourses were adopted by the secular far-right. Campaigns against sexual and reproductive rights, against gender equality and sexual diversity were waged from Russia to the United States and from Latin America to Japan.
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Poetry Unbound : Poems and New Media From the Magic Lantern to Instagram
Mike Chasar;Mike Chasar
It's become commonplace in contemporary culture for critics to proclaim the death of p...
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Poetry Unbound : Poems and New Media From the Magic Lantern to Instagram
2020
It's become commonplace in contemporary culture for critics to proclaim the death of poetry. Poetry, they say, is no longer relevant to the modern world, mortally wounded by the emergence of new media technologies . In Poetry Unbound, Mike Chasar rebuts claims that poetry has become a marginal art form, exploring how it has played a vibrant and culturally significant role by adapting to and shaping new media technologies in complex, unexpected, and powerful ways.Beginning with the magic lantern and continuing through the dominance of the internet , Chasar follows poetry's travels off the page into new media formats, including silent film, sound film, and television. Mass and nonprint media have not stolen poetry's audience, he contends, but have instead given people even more ways to experience poetry. Examining the use of canonical as well as religious and popular verse forms in a variety of genres, Chasar also traces how poetry has helped negotiate and legitimize the cultural status of emergent media. Ranging from Citizen Kane to Leave It to Beaver to best-selling Instapoet Rupi Kaur, this book reveals poetry's ability to find new audiences and meanings in media forms with which it has often been thought to be incompatible. Illuminating poetry's surprising multimedia history, Poetry Unbound offers a new paradigm for understanding poetry's still evolving place in American culture.
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Routledge Handbook of Energy Democracy
Andrea M. Feldpausch-Parker;Danielle Endres;Tarla Rai Peterson;Stephanie L....
This handbook offers a comprehensive transdisciplinary examination of the research and...
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Routledge Handbook of Energy Democracy
2022
This handbook offers a comprehensive transdisciplinary examination of the research and practices that constitute the emerging research agenda in energy democracy.With protests over fossil fuels and controversies over nuclear and renewable energy technologies , democratic ideals have contributed to an emerging social movement. Energy democracy captures this movement and addresses the issues of energy access, ownership, and participation at a time when there are expanding social, political, environmental, and economic demands on energy systems. This volume defines energy democracy as both a social movement and an academic area of study and examines it through a social science and humanities lens, explaining key concepts and reflecting state-of-the-art research. The collection is comprised of six parts:1 Scalar Dimensions of Power and Governance in Energy Democracy2 Discourses of Energy Democracy3 Grassroots and Critical Modes of Action4 Democratic and Participatory Principles5 Energy Resource Tensions6 Energy Democracies in PracticeThe vision of this handbook is explicitly transdisciplinary and global, including contributions from interdisciplinary international scholars and practitioners. The Routledge Handbook of Energy Democracy will be the premier source for all students and researchers interested in the field of energy, including policy, politics, transitions, access, justice, and public participation.
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Energy conservation--Social aspects - Energy security--Social aspects - Energy policy--Citizen participation - Energy development--Social aspects - Energy consumption--Social aspectsContent provider:
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Macrocriminology and Freedom
John Braithwaite;John Braithwaite
How can power over others be transformed to'power with'?It is possible to transform ma...
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Macrocriminology and Freedom
2022
How can power over others be transformed to'power with'?It is possible to transform many institutions to build societies with less predation and more freedom. These stretch from families and institutions of gender to the United Nations. Some societies, times and places have crime rates a hundred times higher than others. Some police forces kill at a hundred times the rate of others. Some criminal corporations kill thousands more than others. Micro variables fail to explain these patterns. Prevention principles for that challenge are macrocriminological.Freedom is conceived in a republican way as non-domination. Tempering domination prevents crime; crime prevention reduces domination. Many believe a high crime rate is a price of freedom. Not Braithwaite. His principles of crime control are to build freedom, temper power, lift people from poverty and reduce all forms of domination. Freedom requires a more just normative order. It requires cascading of peace by social movements for non-violence and non-domination. Periods of war, domination and anomie cascade with long lags to elevated crime, violence, inter-generational self-violence and ecocide. Cybercrime today poses risks of anomic nuclear wars.Braithwaite's proposals refine some of criminology's central theories and sharpen their relevance to all varieties of freedom. They can be reduced to one sentence. Strengthen freedom to prevent crime, prevent crime to strengthen freedom.
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Free will and determinism - CriminologyContent provider:
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A Systematic Review of Cost, Effort, and Load Research in Information Search and Retrieval, 1972-2020.
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ACM Transactions on Information Systems; Jan2024, Vol. 42 Issue 1, p2-39, 39p
The article focuses on a systematic review of research in information search and retrieval (ISR) from 1972 to 2020, particularly examining cost, effort, and load (CEL) experienced by users during the search process. Topics include the recognition of demand and resources in ISR, the challenges in defining and measuring CEL constructs, and the proposed development of a CEL taxonomy to enhance future research in this field.
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Cinema's Doppelgängers
Doug Dibbern;Doug Dibbern
Cinema's Doppelgängers is a counterfactual history of the cinema – or, perhaps, a work...
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Cinema's Doppelgängers
2021
Cinema's Doppelgängers is a counterfactual history of the cinema – or, perhaps, a work of speculative fiction in the guise of a scholarly history of film and movie guide. That is, it's a history of the movies written from an alternative unfolding of historical time – a world in which neither the Bolsheviks nor the Nazis came to power, and thus a world in which Sergei Eisenstein never made movies and German filmmakers like Fritz Lang never fled to Hollywood, a world in which the talkies were invented in 1936 rather than 1927, in which the French New Wave critics didn't become filmmakers, and in which Hitchcock never came to Hollywood. The book attempts, on the one hand, to explore and expand upon the intrinsically creative nature of all historical writing; like all works of fiction, its ultimate goal is to be a work of art in and of itself. But it also aims, on the other hand, to be a legitimate examination of the relationship between the economic and political organization of nations and film industries and the resulting aesthetics of film and thus of the dominant ideas and values of film scholarship and criticism.
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Film criticism--Fiction - Motion pictures--History--Fiction - Motion picture plays--History and criticism--FictionContent provider:
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Cold War Anthropology : The CIA, the Pentagon, and the Growth of Dual Use Anthropology
David H. Price;David H. Price
In Cold War Anthropology, David H. Price offers a provocative account of the profound ...
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Cold War Anthropology : The CIA, the Pentagon, and the Growth of Dual Use Anthropology
2016
In Cold War Anthropology, David H. Price offers a provocative account of the profound influence that the American security state has had on the field of anthropology since the Second World War. Using a wealth of information unearthed in CIA, FBI, and military records, he maps out the intricate connections between academia and the intelligence community and the strategic use of anthropological research to further the goals of the American military complex. The rise of area studies programs, funded both openly and covertly by government agencies, encouraged anthropologists to produce work that had intellectual value within the field while also shaping global counterinsurgency and development programs that furthered America's Cold War objectives. Ultimately, the moral issues raised by these activities prompted the American Anthropological Association to establish its first ethics code. Price concludes by comparing Cold War-era anthropology to the anthropological expertise deployed by the military in the post-9/11 era.
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Science and state--United States--History--20th century - Cold War - Anthropology--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century - Anthropologists--Political activity--United States--History--20th century - Military intelligence--United States--History--20th centuryContent provider:
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Making Black History : Diasporic Fiction in the Moment of Afropolitanism
Dominique Haensell;Dominique Haensell
This study proposes that – rather than trying to discern the normative value of Afropo...
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Making Black History : Diasporic Fiction in the Moment of Afropolitanism
2021; Vol. 00073
This study proposes that – rather than trying to discern the normative value of Afropolitanism as an identificatory concept, politics, ethics or aesthetics – Afropolitanism may be best approached as a distinct historical and cultural moment, that is, a certain historical constellation that allows us to glimpse the shifting and multiple silhouettes which Africa, as signifier, as real and imagined locus, embodies in the globalized, yet predominantly Western, cultural landscape of the 21st century. As such, Making Black History looks at contemporary fictions of the African or Black Diaspora that have been written and received in the moment of Afropolitanism. Discursively, this moment is very much part of a diasporic conversation that takes place in the US and is thus informed by various negotiations of blackness, race, class, and cultural identity. Yet rather than interpreting Afropolitan literatures (merely) as a rejection of racial solidarity, as some commentators have, they should be read as ambivalent responses to post-racial discourses dominating the first decade of the 21st century, particularly in the US, which oscillate between moments of intense hope and acute disappointment. Please read our interview with Dominique Haensell here:https://blog.degruyter.com/de-gruyters-10th-open-access-book-anniversary-dominique-haensell-and-her-winning-title-making-black-history/
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Luces en el camino: filosofía y ciencias sociales en tiempos de desconcierto.
Bermúdez Vázquez, Manuel;Bermúdez Vázquez, Manuel
La sociedad contemporánea se enfrenta, parca en ropajes, al vendaval provocado por div...
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Luces en el camino: filosofía y ciencias sociales en tiempos de desconcierto.
2021
La sociedad contemporánea se enfrenta, parca en ropajes, al vendaval provocado por diversas crisis simultáneas: crisis sanitaria, crisis económica, crisis política, crisis educativa, crisis climática, etc. En esta situación, corresponde al mundo de la academia, al ámbito erudito e intelectual el tratar de hacerse valer y demostrar la importancia que tiene para afrontar el desafío del futuro. En la biografía de cualquier persona suele haber alguien que ejerce una influencia benéfica especial.Esos individuos actúan como luces en el camino que orientan en las, a menudo, procelosas situaciones vitales que nos toca vivir. Precisamente eso es lo que nos proponemos en este volumen que, a falta de un término más adecuado, podemos calificar como monumental. Pretendemos ser una luz en el camino del lector que se aproxime a los diversos estudios que se acogen en estas páginas. Aquí se encuentran los resultados de investigaciones muy variopintas que tratan, en la medida de sus posibilidades, de dar respuestas a interrogantes diversos que atañen al quehacer cotidiano, a la forma de entender la vida y la realidad, en definitiva, a la construcción del mundo.
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Social sciences--Study and teaching - Philosophy--Study and teachingContent provider:
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U.S. Women's History : Untangling the Threads of Sisterhood
Leslie Brown;Jacqueline Castledine;Anne Valk;Leslie Brown;Jacqueline Castle...
In the 1970s, feminist slogans proclaimed “Sisterhood is powerful,” and women's histor...
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U.S. Women's History : Untangling the Threads of Sisterhood
2017
In the 1970s, feminist slogans proclaimed “Sisterhood is powerful,” and women's historians searched through the historical archives to recover stories of solidarity and sisterhood. However, as feminist scholars have started taking a more intersectional approach—acknowledging that no woman is simply defined by her gender and that affiliations like race, class, and sexual identity are often equally powerful—women's historians have begun to offer more varied and nuanced narratives. The ten original essays in U.S. Women's History represent a cross-section of current research in the field. Including work from both emerging and established scholars, this collection employs innovative approaches to study both the causes that have united American women and the conflicts that have divided them. Some essays uncover little-known aspects of women's history, while others offer a fresh take on familiar events and figures, from Rosa Parks to Take Back the Night marches. Spanning the antebellum era to the present day, these essays vividly convey the long histories and ongoing relevance of topics ranging from women's immigration to incarceration, from acts of cross-dressing to the activism of feminist mothers. This volume thus not only untangles the threads of the sisterhood mythos, it weaves them into a multi-textured and multi-hued tapestry that reflects the breadth and diversity of U.S. women's history.
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Women--United States--History - African American women--HistoryContent provider:
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A Day in the Life of an American Worker : 200 Trades and Professions Through History [2 Volumes]
Nancy Quam-Wickham;Ben Tyler Elliott;Nancy Quam-Wickham;Ben Tyler Elliott
This introduction to the history of work in America illuminates the many important rol...
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A Day in the Life of an American Worker : 200 Trades and Professions Through History [2 Volumes]
2020
This introduction to the history of work in America illuminates the many important roles that men and women of all backgrounds have played in the formation of the United States.A Day in the Life of an American Worker: 200 Trades and Professions through History allows readers to imagine the daily lives of ordinary workers, from the beginnings of colonial America to the present. It presents the stories of millions of Americans—from the enslaved field hands in antebellum America to the astronauts of the modern'space age'—as they contributed to the formation of the modern and culturally diverse United States.Readers will learn about individual occupations and discover the untold histories of those women and men who too often have remained anonymous to historians but whose stories are just as important as those of leaders whose lives we study in our classrooms. This book provides specific details to enable comprehensive understanding of the benefits and downsides of each trade and profession discussed. Selected accompanying documents further bring history to life by offering vivid testimonies from people who actually worked in these occupations or interacted with those in that field.
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Employees--United States--History - Labor--United States--History - Occupations--United States--HistoryContent provider:
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Thinking Like a Climate : Governing a City in Times of Environmental Change
Hannah Knox;Hannah Knox
In Thinking Like a Climate Hannah Knox confronts the challenges that climate change po...
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Thinking Like a Climate : Governing a City in Times of Environmental Change
2020
In Thinking Like a Climate Hannah Knox confronts the challenges that climate change poses to knowledge production and modern politics. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among policy makers, politicians, activists, scholars, and the public in Manchester, England—birthplace of the Industrial Revolution—Knox explores the city's strategies for understanding and responding to deteriorating environmental conditions. Climate science, Knox argues, frames climate change as a very particular kind of social problem that confronts the limits of administrative and bureaucratic techniques of knowing people, places, and things. Exceeding these limits requires forging new modes of relating to climate in ways that reimagine the social in climatological terms. Knox contends that the day-to-day work of crafting and implementing climate policy and translating climate knowledge into the work of governance demonstrates that local responses to climate change can be scaled up to effect change on a global scale.
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Climatic changes--Research--England--Manchester - Climatic changes--Government policy--England--ManchesterContent provider:
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Encyclopedia of Bullying (7 Volume Set)
Silje C. Vestergaard;Silje C. Vestergaard
This 7-volume set is a compilation of important research on bullying. Some of the topi...
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Encyclopedia of Bullying (7 Volume Set)
2020
This 7-volume set is a compilation of important research on bullying. Some of the topics addressed include: cyberbullying, a form of bullying carried out using electronic communication; violent behavior; homophobia and its role in bullying; bullying prevention programs; predictors of school bullying; coping strategies and efforts to counter bullying behavior.
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Digital Rubbish : A Natural History of Electronics
Jennifer Gabrys;Jennifer Gabrys
This is a study of the material life of information and its devices; of electronic was...
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Digital Rubbish : A Natural History of Electronics
2013
This is a study of the material life of information and its devices; of electronic waste in its physical and electronic incarnations; a cultural and material mapping of the spaces where electronics in the form of both hardware and information accumulate, break down, or are stowed away. Electronic waste occurs not just in the form of discarded computers but also as a scatter of information devices, software, and systems that are rendered obsolete and fail. Where other studies have addressed'digital'technology through a focus on its immateriality or virtual qualities, Gabrys traces the material, spatial, cultural, and political infrastructures that enable the emergence and dissolution of these technologies . In the course of her book, she explores five interrelated'spaces'where electronics fall apart: from Silicon Valley to Nasdaq, from containers bound for China to museums and archives that preserve obsolete electronics as cultural artifacts, to the landfill as material repository. All together, these sites stack up into a sedimentary record that forms the'natural history'of this study. Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics describes the materiality of electronics from a unique perspective, examining the multiple forms of waste that electronics create as evidence of the resources, labor, and imaginaries that are bundled into these machines. By drawing on the material analysis developed by Walter Benjamin, this natural history method allows for an inquiry into electronics that focuses neither on technological progression nor on great inventors but rather considers the ways in which electronic technologies fail and decay. Ranging across studies of media and technology , as well as environments, geography, and design, Jennifer Gabrys pulls together the far-reaching material and cultural processes that enable the making and breaking of these technologies . Jennifer Gabrys is Senior Lecturer in Design and Convener of the Masters in Design and Environment in the Department of Design, Goldsmiths, University of London. Jacket image: Computer dump ©iStockphoto/Lya_Cattel. digitalculturebooks is an imprint of the University of Michigan Press and the Scholarly Publishing Office of the University of Michigan Library dedicated to publishing innovative and accessible work exploring new media and their impact on society, culture, and scholarly communication. Visit the website at www.digitalculture.org.
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Electronic apparatus and appliances--History - Electronic wasteContent provider:
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How We Fight White Supremacy : A Field Guide to Black Resistance
Akiba Solomon;Kenrya Rankin;Akiba Solomon;Kenrya Rankin
This celebration of Black resistance, from protests to art to sermons to joy, offers a...
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How We Fight White Supremacy : A Field Guide to Black Resistance
2019
This celebration of Black resistance, from protests to art to sermons to joy, offers a blueprint for the fight for freedom and justice -- and ideas for how each of us can contribute Many of us are facing unprecedented attacks on our democracy, our privacy, and our hard-won civil rights. If you're Black in the US, this is not new. As Colorlines editors Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin show, Black Americans subvert and resist life-threatening forces as a matter of course. In these pages, leading organizers, artists, journalists, comedians, and filmmakers offer wisdom on how they fight White supremacy. It's a must-read for anyone new to resistance work, and for the next generation of leaders building a better future. Featuring contributions from:Ta-Nehisi CoatesTarana BurkeHarry BelafonteAdrienne Maree brownAlicia GarzaPatrisse Khan-CullorsReverend Dr. Valerie BridgemanKiese LaymonJamilah Lemieux Robin DG KelleyDamon YoungMichael ArceneauxHanif AbdurraqibDr. Yaba BlayDiamond StingilyAmanda Seales Imani PerryDenene MillnerKierna MayoJohn JenningsDr. Joy Harden BradfordTongo Eisen-Martin
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White supremacy movements--United States - African Americans--Civil rights - African Americans--Social conditions--21st century - African Americans--Politics and government--21st centuryContent provider:
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Nonhuman Voices in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Material Culture
James Paz;James Paz
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Nonhuman Voices in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Material Culture
2017
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book is available as an open access ebook under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Nonhuman voices in Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture uncovers the voice and agency possessed by nonhuman things across Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture. It makes a new contribution to ‘thing theory'and rethinks conventional divisions between animate human subjects and inanimate nonhuman objects in the early Middle Ages. Anglo-Saxon writers and craftsmen describe artefacts and animals through riddling forms or enigmatic language, balancing an attempt to speak and listen to things with an understanding that these nonhumans often elude, defy and withdraw from us. But the active role that things have in the early medieval world is also linked to the Germanic origins of the word, where a þing is a kind of assembly, with the ability to draw together other elements, creating assemblages in which human and nonhuman forces combine.
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Civilization, Anglo-Saxon - Material culture--Great Britain--History--To 1500 - English literature--Old English, ca. 450-1100--History and criticismContent provider:
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Science and the Politics of Openness : Here Be Monsters
Brigitte Nerlich;Sarah Hartley;Sujatha Raman;Alexander Smith;Brigitte Nerli...
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Science and the Politics of Openness : Here Be Monsters
2018
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The phrase ‘here be monsters'or ‘here be dragons'is commonly believed to have been used on ancient maps to indicate unexplored territories which might hide unknown beasts. This book maps and explores places between science and politics that have been left unexplored, sometimes hiding in plain sight - in an era when increased emphasis was put on'openness'. The book is rooted in a programme of research funded by the Leverhulme Trust entitled: ‘Making Science Public: Challenges and opportunities, which runs from 2014 to 2017. One focus of our research was to critically question the assumption that making science more open and public could solve various issues around scientific credibility, trust, and legitimacy. Chapters in this book explore the risks and benefits of this perspective with relation to transparency, responsibility, experts and faith.
