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Assessing Social Capital
Concept, Policy and Practice
Social capital is a key concept in policymaking, but does it hide more than it illuminates? Is it even harmful? This collection assesses the theory and its policy drawbacks. Renowned researchers reveal its flaws and offer alternatives, while others adapt it.
Social capital is a key concept in policymaking, but does it hide more than it illuminates? Is it even harmful? This collection assesses the theory and its policy drawbacks. Renowned researchers reveal its flaws and offer alternatives, while others adapt it.
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Versions Of Ireland
Empire, Modernity And Resistance In Irish Culture
Versions of Ireland brings a postcolonial optic to Irish cultural studies, highlighting imperial modernity and resistance. More than just theory, it offers rich analyses of republican murals, poetry, gothic fiction, and nineteenth-century photography.
Versions of Ireland brings a postcolonial optic to Irish cultural studies, highlighting imperial modernity and resistance. More than just theory, it offers rich analyses of republican murals, poetry, gothic fiction, and nineteenth-century photography.
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Assaulting the Past
Violence and Civilization in Historical Context
This interdisciplinary book offers a comparative history of interpersonal violence since the early modern period. Drawing on records from five countries, it explores Norbert Elias’s theory of the civilizing process to offer new insights on violence and society.
This interdisciplinary book offers a comparative history of interpersonal violence since the early modern period. Drawing on records from five countries, it explores Norbert Elias’s theory of the civilizing process to offer new insights on violence and society.
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Reacting to The Da Vinci Code, scholars debate the feminist challenge to patriarchal authority and the textual construction of meaning. These essays examine resistance to the sacred feminine in religious, cultural, and literary histories.
Reacting to The Da Vinci Code, scholars debate the feminist challenge to patriarchal authority and the textual construction of meaning. These essays examine resistance to the sacred feminine in religious, cultural, and literary histories.
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Feminism and Multiculturalism
How Do They/We Work Together?
This book explores cultural pluralities and their effect on women’s lives. Can multiculturalism coexist with feminist principles? Does respect for cultural traditions take precedence over women’s rights? Important voices offer new perspectives on these questions.
This book explores cultural pluralities and their effect on women’s lives. Can multiculturalism coexist with feminist principles? Does respect for cultural traditions take precedence over women’s rights? Important voices offer new perspectives on these questions.
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American Dreams
Dialogues in U.S. Studies
This collection offers contemporary definitions for the "American Dream"—or rather, Dreams. Multidisciplinary selections from international scholars reflect current developments and approaches in US Studies, helping to broaden the scope of the field.
This collection offers contemporary definitions for the “American Dream”—or rather, Dreams. Multidisciplinary selections from international scholars reflect current developments and approaches in US Studies, helping to broaden the scope of the field.
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Post-soviet rural reforms, intended to create a society of family farmers, instead led to the collapse of production and rural communities. This volume analyzes the transformation of post-socialist agriculture and efforts to revitalize rural areas.
Post-soviet rural reforms, intended to create a society of family farmers, instead led to the collapse of production and rural communities. This volume analyzes the transformation of post-socialist agriculture and efforts to revitalize rural areas.
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What is the link between creativity and madness? This collection of essays from psychiatrists, artists, and critics explores the question, discussing the work of artists from Robert Schumann and Virginia Woolf to David Foster Wallace.
What is the link between creativity and madness? This collection of essays from psychiatrists, artists, and critics explores the question, discussing the work of artists from Robert Schumann and Virginia Woolf to David Foster Wallace.
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This courageous, thought-provoking book takes the reader on an intimate journey into the misunderstood world of body marking. It develops an embodied, feminist critique of dominant research, searching for new ways of producing knowledge and telling stories from the body.
This courageous, thought-provoking book takes the reader on an intimate journey into the misunderstood world of body marking. It develops an embodied, feminist critique of dominant research, searching for new ways of producing knowledge and telling stories from the body.
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This book enhances the reader's knowledge of globalization's role in the evolving world of new technologies from a multidisciplinary perspective. It overviews the process from historical, geographical, social, and political-economic contexts.
This book enhances the reader’s knowledge of globalization’s role in the evolving world of new technologies from a multidisciplinary perspective. It overviews the process from historical, geographical, social, and political-economic contexts.
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What can past experiences of the body tell us about what it can become? As cyborgs and patented genes put the future of the human body at stake, this volume develops strategies for bodily empowerment to get “back to the future of the body”.
What can past experiences of the body tell us about what it can become? As cyborgs and patented genes put the future of the human body at stake, this volume develops strategies for bodily empowerment to get “back to the future of the body”.
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Scholars explore how Britons have imagined America over 400 years. American life, culture, music and theatre were filtered through a shifting gaze ranging from admiration to outright hostility. Included are essays on Dickens, Orwell, and Radiohead.
Scholars explore how Britons have imagined America over 400 years. American life, culture, music and theatre were filtered through a shifting gaze ranging from admiration to outright hostility. Included are essays on Dickens, Orwell, and Radiohead.
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“Survivor” – Representations of the “New Irish”
Dúchas Dóchasach
This book is a window on the new multicultural Irish experience. As the poems and paintings in this volume attest, the experiences of exile and renewal remain as perennial as human nature itself. I ndeireadh na dála, níl ach cine amháin ann agus sin an cine daonna.
This book is a window on the new multicultural Irish experience. As the poems and paintings in this volume attest, the experiences of exile and renewal remain as perennial as human nature itself. I ndeireadh na dála, níl ach cine amháin ann agus sin an cine daonna.
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Demography In Transition
Emerging Trends in Population Studies
This compilation provides unique insight into complex demographic issues. Demographers examine how race and ethnicity affect access to heath care, the consequences of an aging population, migration patterns, and the implications of changing family structures.
This compilation provides unique insight into complex demographic issues. Demographers examine how race and ethnicity affect access to heath care, the consequences of an aging population, migration patterns, and the implications of changing family structures.
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Heroes and Saints
The Moment of Death in Cross-cultural Perspectives
This volume explores the moment of death in ancient cultures, from Asian religions to heroic sagas. Despite the diversity of traditions, these essays reveal a fundamental human need to see in death a possibility of choice and a promise of hope.
This volume explores the moment of death in ancient cultures, from Asian religions to heroic sagas. Despite the diversity of traditions, these essays reveal a fundamental human need to see in death a possibility of choice and a promise of hope.
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Studies in Irreversibility
Texts and Contexts
This collection argues that the difference between irreversible and reversible phenomena is underappreciated. Contributors from literature, art, history, and ethics use irreversibility as a key to interpreting culture, outlining a new paradigm for cultural studies.
This collection argues that the difference between irreversible and reversible phenomena is underappreciated. Contributors from literature, art, history, and ethics use irreversibility as a key to interpreting culture, outlining a new paradigm for cultural studies.
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Beyond mere diversion, entertainment is how we forge our identities. This collection of essays reveals this vital process from the Middle Ages to the present day.
Beyond mere diversion, entertainment is how we forge our identities. This collection of essays reveals this vital process from the Middle Ages to the present day.
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African American Humor, Irony and Satire
Ishmael Reed, Satirically Speaking
Essays on Ishmael Reed, George Schuyler, Dave Chappelle, and more reveal how humor, irony, and satire highlight the complexity of African American life and its connections to world cultures.
Essays on Ishmael Reed, George Schuyler, Dave Chappelle, and more reveal how humor, irony, and satire highlight the complexity of African American life and its connections to world cultures.
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Rethinking Diasporas
Hidden Narratives and Imagined Borders
This book rethinks diaspora for the 21st century. It explores hidden narratives of the displaced to interrogate contemporary notions of place and identity, challenging traditional assumptions about migration, assimilation, and belonging.
This book rethinks diaspora for the 21st century. It explores hidden narratives of the displaced to interrogate contemporary notions of place and identity, challenging traditional assumptions about migration, assimilation, and belonging.
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The Strategic Smorgasbord of Postmodernity
Literature and the Christian Critic
This volume brings two worlds together. Instead of crisis, its contributors see the postmodern turn as an opportunity. These Christian scholars enter into dialogue with contemporary literary theory, offering innovative new readings informed by both theory and faith.
This volume brings two worlds together. Instead of crisis, its contributors see the postmodern turn as an opportunity. These Christian scholars enter into dialogue with contemporary literary theory, offering innovative new readings informed by both theory and faith.
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