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Urban Politics and Space in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Regional Perspectives
This book addresses the regionalisation of urban governance, challenging generalisations about urban Britain. It shows how space was contested, local identity emerged, and towns sought to expand their services and image onto a regional level.
This book addresses the regionalisation of urban governance, challenging generalisations about urban Britain. It shows how space was contested, local identity emerged, and towns sought to expand their services and image onto a regional level.
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The American Village in a Global Setting
Selected papers from an interdisciplinary conference in honor of Sinclair Lewis and Ida K. Compton
Selected from a conference honoring Sinclair Lewis, these papers consider his world through today’s lens. Scholars address community, comparing his vision to other authors and media, and use his work as a springboard to discuss today’s global issues.
Selected from a conference honoring Sinclair Lewis, these papers consider his world through today’s lens. Scholars address community, comparing his vision to other authors and media, and use his work as a springboard to discuss today’s global issues.
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Framing Globalization
Visual Perspectives
This collection of readings explores the intersection of the global and local through visual sociology. It examines how images in various contexts reflect and generate sociological concepts, shaping our understanding of identity, culture, and belonging worldwide.
This collection of readings explores the intersection of the global and local through visual sociology. It examines how images in various contexts reflect and generate sociological concepts, shaping our understanding of identity, culture, and belonging worldwide.
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Modernity is back on sociology's agenda. With the exhaustion of postmodernism and an intensification of modernization around the world, this volume contributes to the ongoing discussion about the meaning of modernity and its significance in non-Western societies.
Modernity is back on sociology’s agenda. With the exhaustion of postmodernism and an intensification of modernization around the world, this volume contributes to the ongoing discussion about the meaning of modernity and its significance in non-Western societies.
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This volume's eight essays examine Italian narrative from the 1980s to the present, focusing on genres and trends rather than authors. It covers a wide range of themes, from detective stories to lesbian and gay writing, immigration literature, and dystopia.
This volume’s eight essays examine Italian narrative from the 1980s to the present, focusing on genres and trends rather than authors. It covers a wide range of themes, from detective stories to lesbian and gay writing, immigration literature, and dystopia.
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Migrants and Memory
The Forgotten “Postcolonials”
This volume gives a voice to marginalized communities—the hidden Irish, the migrant, the nomad. Scholars and activists explore ethnicity, identity, and racism, offering a catalyst for new inquiry in Irish, Traveller, Romani, and Migration Studies.
This volume gives a voice to marginalized communities—the hidden Irish, the migrant, the nomad. Scholars and activists explore ethnicity, identity, and racism, offering a catalyst for new inquiry in Irish, Traveller, Romani, and Migration Studies.
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Gujaratis in the West
Evolving Identities in Contemporary Society
This compilation of scholarly works investigates how Gujaratis, a successful and integrated community, construct and express their complex religious, linguistic, and ethnic identities in the West, offering a unique insight into a community often overlooked.
This compilation of scholarly works investigates how Gujaratis, a successful and integrated community, construct and express their complex religious, linguistic, and ethnic identities in the West, offering a unique insight into a community often overlooked.
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This first analysis of narratives surrounding China's popular Overseas Chinese Town theme park sheds a cultural and political light on the “modern pleasure space.” It illustrates in detail the distinctive nature of Chinese theme park development.
This first analysis of narratives surrounding China’s popular Overseas Chinese Town theme park sheds a cultural and political light on the “modern pleasure space.” It illustrates in detail the distinctive nature of Chinese theme park development.
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Dispersion of Meaning
The Fading Out of the Doctrinaire World?
In a fractured world, how do we find shared meaning? This book breaks disciplinary barriers to connect art, technology, and economics, showing how a collective learning process becomes the heart of productivity in a new era of cognitive capitalism.
In a fractured world, how do we find shared meaning? This book breaks disciplinary barriers to connect art, technology, and economics, showing how a collective learning process becomes the heart of productivity in a new era of cognitive capitalism.
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Many Floridas
Women Envisioning Change
This collection of feminist essays envisions change for women in Florida. Authors write from various intersections of class, race, and sexuality to bridge the gap between theory and practice, making meaningful connections between the academy and the community.
This collection of feminist essays envisions change for women in Florida. Authors write from various intersections of class, race, and sexuality to bridge the gap between theory and practice, making meaningful connections between the academy and the community.
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Constructing and Sharing Memory
Community Informatics, Identity and Empowerment
Community Informatics uses information and communication technologies for positive social change, particularly with disadvantaged communities. This volume brings together valuable international perspectives on community memory, technologies, and societal good.
Community Informatics uses information and communication technologies for positive social change, particularly with disadvantaged communities. This volume brings together valuable international perspectives on community memory, technologies, and societal good.
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Hearing Places
Sound, Place, Time and Culture
How do we hear and respond to place? 37 international artists and scholars explore this question, interrogating place as an acoustic space where sound, time, and culture collide. This book provokes us all to pay attention to how we hear the world.
How do we hear and respond to place? 37 international artists and scholars explore this question, interrogating place as an acoustic space where sound, time, and culture collide. This book provokes us all to pay attention to how we hear the world.
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Feminism Reframed
Reflections on Art and Difference
This collection reframes the dialogue between feminism, art history, and visual culture. It revisits feminist art histories to ask urgent questions for the present and reasserts the need for continuous feminist interventions in the academy and the art world.
This collection reframes the dialogue between feminism, art history, and visual culture. It revisits feminist art histories to ask urgent questions for the present and reasserts the need for continuous feminist interventions in the academy and the art world.
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This collection of essays on 21st-century queer culture features authors from a variety of fields investigating the ever-fluid nature of labels and definitions. Topics include queer African-Americans, same-sex marriage, and French gay culture.
This collection of essays on 21st-century queer culture features authors from a variety of fields investigating the ever-fluid nature of labels and definitions. Topics include queer African-Americans, same-sex marriage, and French gay culture.
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This is a lively, nuanced portrayal of the struggles around identity, inequality, and domination. Ambitious in its scope, this international and interdisciplinary collection offers a powerful, hopeful picture of the pursuit of change through the lens of boundaries.
This is a lively, nuanced portrayal of the struggles around identity, inequality, and domination. Ambitious in its scope, this international and interdisciplinary collection offers a powerful, hopeful picture of the pursuit of change through the lens of boundaries.
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Blaze
Discourse on Art, Women and Feminism
How has feminism matured? What are today’s pressing agendas for feminists in the arts? This feminist anthology celebrates past victories while charting new directions, featuring artists, critics, and curators working together across differences to inspire activism.
How has feminism matured? What are today’s pressing agendas for feminists in the arts? This feminist anthology celebrates past victories while charting new directions, featuring artists, critics, and curators working together across differences to inspire activism.
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Culture survives by constant recycling. This "stimulating, relevant and exciting" volume explores this strategy across an impressive assortment of contexts, from comic-book heroes and James Bond to African-Caribbean women and mobile phones.
Culture survives by constant recycling. This “stimulating, relevant and exciting” volume explores this strategy across an impressive assortment of contexts, from comic-book heroes and James Bond to African-Caribbean women and mobile phones.
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In a post-7/7 world, multiculturalism is more important than ever. This collection examines the historical context and social policy perspectives of multiculturalism, presenting arguments for both integrationist and multicultural approaches to the debate.
In a post-7/7 world, multiculturalism is more important than ever. This collection examines the historical context and social policy perspectives of multiculturalism, presenting arguments for both integrationist and multicultural approaches to the debate.
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Sensi/able Spaces
Space, Art and the Environment Proceedings of the SPARTEN conference, Reykjavík, June 1st and 2nd, 2006
SENSI/ABLE SPACES explores how space, art, and the environment interact. Bringing together academics and artists, it challenges notions of "sensible" spaces, defined by ideology, to focus on the "sensable"—what we perceive through our senses.
SENSI/ABLE SPACES explores how space, art, and the environment interact. Bringing together academics and artists, it challenges notions of “sensible” spaces, defined by ideology, to focus on the “sensable”—what we perceive through our senses.
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Corporate Citizenship
Perspectives in the New Century
As globalization deepens, it is necessary to ensure business activities make a positive contribution to communities. This book underlines the big-picture thinking on the roles business can play in fostering a moral, equitable and ecologically sustainable world.
As globalization deepens, it is necessary to ensure business activities make a positive contribution to communities. This book underlines the big-picture thinking on the roles business can play in fostering a moral, equitable and ecologically sustainable world.
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