Bisexuality in Europe offers an accessible and diverse overview of research on bisexuality and bi+ people in Europe, providing a foundation for theorising and empirical work on plurisexual orientations and identities, and the experiences and realities of people who desire more than one sex or genderCounteracting the predominance of work on bisexuality based in Ango-American contexts, this colle…
Consumption Corridors: Living a Good Life within Sustainable Limits explores how to enhance peoples’ chances to live a good life in a world of ecological and social limits. Rejecting familiar recitations of problems of ecological decline and planetary boundaries, this compact book instead offers a spirited explication of what everyone desires: a good life. Fundamental concepts of the good …
ABSTRACT Cultural resource management is a new and vital field that has come about as a result of intensified federal efforts to identify, evaluate, and manage cultural resources as an element of the environment. Anthropologists, sociologists, historians, folklorists, planners, and others have had to pool their talents and knowledge to properly respond to n
This collection seeks to expand the limits of current debates about urban commoning practices that imply a radical will to establish collaborative and solidarity networks based on anti-capitalist principles of economics, ecology and ethics. The chapters in this volume draw on case studies in a diversity of urban contexts, ranging from Detroit, USA to Kyrenia, Cyprus – on urban gardening an…
ABSTRACT Hipster Porn examines models of gay hipster masculinity through the lens of the gay fanzine Butt. The book reconstructs an important chapter of recent gay and queer history in order to make sense of the cultural shifts of the last 20 years in the contemporary gay world. Butt exemplifies the changing nature of gay contemporary masculinity as it marked the beginning of a new era of q…
An examination of media and technology use by school-aged youth with disabilities, with an emphasis on media use at home. Most research on media use by young people with disabilities focuses on the therapeutic and rehabilitative uses of technology; less attention has been paid to their day-to-day encounters with media and technology—the mundane, sometimes pleasurable and sometimes frustrating…
Esai tentang komputer dan ekonomi, khususnya yang berkaitan dengan tingkat ketenagakerjaan dan ketimpangan upah. Penyebaran teknologi informasi dan komunikasi (TIK) yang meluas telah menimbulkan konsekuensi yang kontroversial dan tampaknya paradoks. TIK dipandang sebagai pendorong pertumbuhan dan ketenagakerjaan di Amerika Serikat, sekaligus berkontribusi terhadap pengangguran di Eropa dan apa …
Semua disiplin akademis secara berkala menilai efektivitasnya, mengevaluasi kemajuan penelitian sebelumnya dan menilai pendekatan mana yang berguna dan mana yang tidak. Meskipun tidak ada bidang yang dapat bertahan hidup jika tidak melakukan apa pun selain menilai kemajuannya, penilaian sesekali penting dan jika dilakukan dengan baik dapat membantu memajukan bidang tersebut. Buku ini menyelidik…
Bagaimana kota modern terbentuk melalui siklus pergolakan, pembongkaran, dan perdebatan yang tak berujung. Kota sementara adalah kota yang terus-menerus dihapus dan dihancurkan. Melalui apa yang disebut Dana Cuff sebagai "tindakan urban yang gejolak," pengembang publik dan swasta menghancurkan situs urban dan membubarkan penghuninya, menggantinya dengan visi kehidupan yang lebih baik yang tidak…
Dalam volume ini, yang didasarkan pada simposium selama seminggu di Pusat Studi Ekonomi Universitas Munich, dua cendekiawan ekonomi pemerintahan terkemuka memperdebatkan perspektif mereka yang berbeda tentang peran pemerintah dan fungsi fiskalnya. James M. Buchanan, yang berpengaruh dalam mengembangkan program penelitian tentang pilihan publik, berkonsentrasi pada ketidaksempurnaan proses polit…