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Cultural Representations of Gender Vulnerability and Resistance
This Open Access book considers the cultural representation of gender violence, vulnerability and resistance with a focus on the transnational dimension of our contemporary visual and literary cultures in English. Contributors address concepts such as vulnerability, resilience, precarity and resistance in the Anglophone world through an analysis of memoirs, films, TV series, and crime and liter…
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- 978-3-030-95508-3
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- Thinking Gender in Transnational Times
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- XVI, 233
Das Formular
Wenn stimmt, was bereits Friedrich Schiller beklagt hat: dass der Mensch in der modernen Gesellschaft „zum Formular geworden“ ist, dann steht mit diesem unscheinbaren Verwaltungs-tool nichts weniger als unsere Lebenswirklichkeit auf dem Spiel. Der erste (Open Access-)Band der Reihe AdminiStudies beschäftigt sich deshalb mit der Funktion und Geschichte von Formularen, jenen institutionalisi…
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- AdminiStudies. Formen und Medien der Verwaltung
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- XIII, 324
Hipsterism: A Paradigm for Modernity
This Open-Access-book utilises Hipsterism to demonstrate modes of identity, collectivity, conceptions and a whole spectrum of activities with varying degrees of commitment in contemporary society. Analysed through the lens of Modernity, Consumerism, and the New Spirit of Capitalism, it draws on qualitative research from two subsequent field stays in Berlin and is complemented by self-reflexion …
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- 978-3-658-39536-0
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- Kultur und gesellschaftliche Praxis
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- XI, 192
Film and the City the Urban Imaginary in Canadian Cinema
Examining fourteen Canadian films produced from 1989 to 2007, including Denys Arcand’s Jésus de Montréal (1989), Jean-Claude Lauzon’s Léolo (1992), Mina Shum’s Double Happiness (1994), Clément Virgo’s Rude (1995), and Guy Maddin’s My Winnipeg (2007), Film and the City is the first comprehensive study of Canadian film and “urbanity”—the totality of urban culture and life. Dra…
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- 9781927356593.01
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- 319 pages
Strategic Nonviolent Power The Science of Satyagraha
History indicates that there are powerful routes to liberation from oppression that do not involve violence. Mohandas Gandhi called for a science of nonviolent action, one based on satyagraha, or the “insistence on truth.” As Gandhi understood, nonviolent resistance is not passive, nor is it weak; rather, such action is an exercise of power. Despite the success of Gandhi’s “Quit India…
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- 9781927356418.01
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- 328 pages
The Federated States of Micronesia’s Engagement with the Outside World Cont…
This study addresses the neglected history of the people of the Federated States of Micronesia’s (FSM) engagement with the outside world. Situated in the northwest Pacific, FSM’s strategic location has led to four colonial rulers. Histories of FSM to date have been largely written by sympathetic outsiders. Indigenous perspectives of FSM history have been largely absent from the main corpus …
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- 9781760464653
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- 996.5
Honiara : Village-City of Solomon Islands
Nahona`ara—means ‘facing the `ara’, the place where the southeast winds meet the land just west of Point Cruz. Nahona`ara became Honiara, the capital city of Solomon Islands with a population of 160,000, the only significant urban centre in a nation of 721,000 people. Honiara: Village-City of Solomon Islands views Honiara in several ways: first as Tandai traditional land; then as cocon…
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- 9781760465070
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- 995.93
How Canadians Communicate V Sports
Fewer Canadians than ever are lacing up skates, swimming lengths at the pool, practicing their curve ball, and experiencing the thrill of competition. However, despite a decline in active participation, Canadians spend enormous amounts of time and money on sports, as fans and followers of sporting events and sports culture. Never has media coverage of sports been more exhaustive, and never has …
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- David Taras and Christopher Waddell
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- 9781771990073.01
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- 395 pages
Game-Day Gangsters Crime and Deviance in Canadian Football
In the complicated interaction between sport and law, much is revealed about the perception and understanding of consent and tolerable deviance. When a football player steps onto the field, what deviations from the rules of the game are considered acceptable? And what risks has the player already accepted by voluntarily participating in the sport? In the case of Canadian football, acts of on-fi…
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- 9781927356531.01
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- 176 pages
We Are Coming Home Repatriation and the Restoration of Blackfoot Cultural Co…
In 1990, Gerald Conaty was hired as senior curator of ethnology at the Glenbow Museum, with the particular mandate of improving the museum’s relationship with Aboriginal communities. That same year, the Glenbow had taken its first tentative steps toward repatriation by returning sacred objects to First Nations’ peoples. These efforts drew harsh criticism from members of the provincial gover…
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- Gerald T. Conaty
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- 9781771990172.01
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