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This book examines the relationship between modernism and postmodernism, visual culture, and East-West aesthetics. It argues that recent postsocialist visual art contradicts canonical theories of the avant-garde, offering a global view on the philosophy of art.
This book examines the relationship between modernism and postmodernism, visual culture, and East-West aesthetics. It argues that recent postsocialist visual art contradicts canonical theories of the avant-garde, offering a global view on the philosophy of art.
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A Mashup World
Hybrids, Crossovers and Post-Reality
Hybridity is a hallmark of our age. In our new "post-reality," the internet fuels the spread of fake news, where make-believe events have real-life effects. This book provides the analysis needed to differentiate this manipulated non/reality from authentic stories.
Hybridity is a hallmark of our age. In our new “post-reality,” the internet fuels the spread of fake news, where make-believe events have real-life effects. This book provides the analysis needed to differentiate this manipulated non/reality from authentic stories.
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Engaging Geographies
Landscapes, Lifecourses and Mobilities
This volume draws together research on landscapes, lifecourses, and mobilities. It treats landscapes in an adventurous way, concentrating on infrastructure and ideology. It also explores the lifecourse from birth to death and the movement of people and ideas.
This volume draws together research on landscapes, lifecourses, and mobilities. It treats landscapes in an adventurous way, concentrating on infrastructure and ideology. It also explores the lifecourse from birth to death and the movement of people and ideas.
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Participation, Culture and Democracy
Perspectives on Public Engagement and Social Communication
The underlying question of this compendium focuses on the very core of our democratic culture. It investigates how one can actively take part in its political, legal, educational, informational, social, cultural and economic mechanisms.
The underlying question of this compendium focuses on the very core of our democratic culture. It investigates how one can actively take part in its political, legal, educational, informational, social, cultural and economic mechanisms.
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Let’s Learn Together, Let’s Work Together
Challenges and Solutions for Transcultural Health and Social Care
This volume explores global challenges and solutions for transcultural health care. Providing competent care requires knowledgeable, culturally sensitive professionals. Deeply rooted values must be challenged to address unwitting prejudices and stereotyping.
This volume explores global challenges and solutions for transcultural health care. Providing competent care requires knowledgeable, culturally sensitive professionals. Deeply rooted values must be challenged to address unwitting prejudices and stereotyping.
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Ideas in Development
Essays on the History of Philosophy
This book studies the history of powerful philosophical ideas, treating them as living things that require minds concerned with them. Ideas progress through a conversation between thinkers including Duns Scotus, Leibniz, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Peirce, and James.
This book studies the history of powerful philosophical ideas, treating them as living things that require minds concerned with them. Ideas progress through a conversation between thinkers including Duns Scotus, Leibniz, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Peirce, and James.
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This original, international work offers new perspectives on leisure studies. For the first time in English, it presents interdisciplinary dialogues from countries like Brazil and Portugal that depart from traditional viewpoints to consider leisure as a political practice.
This original, international work offers new perspectives on leisure studies. For the first time in English, it presents interdisciplinary dialogues from countries like Brazil and Portugal that depart from traditional viewpoints to consider leisure as a political practice.
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Issues of Faith-Based Education in the United Kingdom
A Case for Catholic Schools
As state-supported Catholic schools face controversy, this book explains their origins, purpose, and contribution to society. It outlines the Church’s understanding of the primary role of parents in education and the limits of the state, making it a vital read for all involved.
As state-supported Catholic schools face controversy, this book explains their origins, purpose, and contribution to society. It outlines the Church’s understanding of the primary role of parents in education and the limits of the state, making it a vital read for all involved.
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“That’s how we do it…we treat them all the same”
An Exploration of the Experiences of Patients, Lay Carers and Health and Social Care Staff of the Care Received by Older People with Dementia in Acute Hospital Settings
With dementia admissions to hospitals rising, this book describes the real experience from the perspectives of patients, carers, and staff. It proposes a model for improving care that is underpinned by a belief in the personhood of staff and patients alike.
With dementia admissions to hospitals rising, this book describes the real experience from the perspectives of patients, carers, and staff. It proposes a model for improving care that is underpinned by a belief in the personhood of staff and patients alike.
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This multidisciplinary collection of essays offers a comprehensive understanding of women and depression. Experts from psychology, public health, and other fields integrate research, personal experiences, and self-help strategies in an accessible guide for all.
This multidisciplinary collection of essays offers a comprehensive understanding of women and depression. Experts from psychology, public health, and other fields integrate research, personal experiences, and self-help strategies in an accessible guide for all.
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This groundbreaking collection explores how personal and public lives inter-relate during rapid social and political change. It aims to understand the effects of these overlapping spheres on everyday life, relationships, and inequalities.
This groundbreaking collection explores how personal and public lives inter-relate during rapid social and political change. It aims to understand the effects of these overlapping spheres on everyday life, relationships, and inequalities.
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Popular culture surrounds us. This collection offers a diverse selection of scholarship examining contemporary television, film, video games, internet fandom, gender, and identity, exploring the many cultural modes that shape our everyday lives.
Popular culture surrounds us. This collection offers a diverse selection of scholarship examining contemporary television, film, video games, internet fandom, gender, and identity, exploring the many cultural modes that shape our everyday lives.
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Popular Media and Communication
Essays on Publics, Practices and Processes
This collection of essays explores media and communication across four key areas: the public sphere, professional identity, industry policy, and political communication. It reveals how forces like capital and technology structure communication and produce public meaning.
This collection of essays explores media and communication across four key areas: the public sphere, professional identity, industry policy, and political communication. It reveals how forces like capital and technology structure communication and produce public meaning.
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The borders between leisure and work are becoming more and more blurred. Such border-crossing is the leitmotif of this book, which has a multidisciplinary scope for scholars and students interested in leisure's effects on social cohesion.
The borders between leisure and work are becoming more and more blurred. Such border-crossing is the leitmotif of this book, which has a multidisciplinary scope for scholars and students interested in leisure’s effects on social cohesion.
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Disasters, Culture, Politics
Chinese-Bulgarian Anthropological Contribution to the Study of Critical Situations
This volume explores contemporary crises—from epidemics to social catastrophes—in China and Bulgaria. Using ecological anthropology and a cross-cultural approach, it investigates the full life-cycle of disasters and our strategies for coping and relief.
This volume explores contemporary crises—from epidemics to social catastrophes—in China and Bulgaria. Using ecological anthropology and a cross-cultural approach, it investigates the full life-cycle of disasters and our strategies for coping and relief.
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Cultural Identity and Civil Society in Russia and Eastern Europe
Essays in Memory of Charles E. Timberlake
In memory of Charles E. Timberlake, this volume by his colleagues and students explores liberalism, Orthodoxy, and civil society in Russia and Eastern Europe from the late imperial era to the post-Soviet period.
In memory of Charles E. Timberlake, this volume by his colleagues and students explores liberalism, Orthodoxy, and civil society in Russia and Eastern Europe from the late imperial era to the post-Soviet period.
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Passionate Politics
The Cultural Work of American Melodrama from the Early Republic to the Present
This collection of essays assesses how American melodrama has intervened in debates over race, class, gender, and sexuality from the 18th century to the present, contributing to the transformation of American nationhood during times of profound social change.
This collection of essays assesses how American melodrama has intervened in debates over race, class, gender, and sexuality from the 18th century to the present, contributing to the transformation of American nationhood during times of profound social change.
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Class and Gender
Social Stratification of Women in Contemporary Urban China
Tang investigates the impact of China’s “socio-economic transition period” on the nation’s social structure, showing that it resulted in an escalation in tensions between the higher and the lower social strata and between genders.
Tang investigates the impact of China’s “socio-economic transition period” on the nation’s social structure, showing that it resulted in an escalation in tensions between the higher and the lower social strata and between genders.
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Child and Family Welfare explores welfare from theoretical and empirical perspectives, discussing dimensions like emotional welfare and life satisfaction. This volume is a practical tool for the public and professionals involved in promoting children’s rights.
Child and Family Welfare explores welfare from theoretical and empirical perspectives, discussing dimensions like emotional welfare and life satisfaction. This volume is a practical tool for the public and professionals involved in promoting children’s rights.
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Transnational Resilience and Change
Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Strategies of Survival and Adaptation
This global collection explores the strategies Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities use to preserve their identities and cultures. It examines cultural maintenance but also takes a critical stance on the implications of cultural isolation for these groups.
This global collection explores the strategies Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities use to preserve their identities and cultures. It examines cultural maintenance but also takes a critical stance on the implications of cultural isolation for these groups.
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