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Body, Personhood and Privacy: Perspectives on the Cultural Other and Human Ex…
This book studies how the concepts of body, personhood and privacy can be expanded across disciplinary borders. Notwithstanding the diversity of empirical material and theoretical frameworks, the chapters suggest innovative tools for common key issues: dialogue with the cultural Other, the appropriation of space, and personality. Human embodiment and ethical aspects of representing and regulati…
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Chapter 4 Localizing Aboriginal and Pacific performance on internationalized …
In 1967 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people successfully campaigned for a referendum for constitutional change, releasing them from policies restricting movement outside of their home states and territories of residence. This chapter interrogates the contested space for representation of Aboriginal performance in the years following the referendum. New companies for Aboriginal music an…
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Body, Capital, and Screens:
This book began life with the inaugural conference of the international research project 'The healthy self as body capital: Individuals, market-based societies, body politics and visual media in the twentieth century Europe', held in Strasbourg from 23 to 25 February 2017. The editors would like to thank all participants for their stimulating input during this outstanding event. The presen…
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Body My House: May Swenson's Work and Life
The first collection of critical essays on May Swenson and her literary universe, Body My House initiates an academic conversation about an unquestionably major poet of the middle and late twentienth century. Includes many previously unpublished Swenson poems. Essays here address the breadth of Swenson's literary corpus and offer varied scholarly approaches to it. They reference Swenson manuscr…
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Body Movement and Nonverbal Communication
Researchers and students of body movement and nonverbal communication will find this annotated bibliography an indispensable guide to the literature on the subject that has been produced over the last decade. The editors' objective was not so much to evaluate works as to give readers enough information to determine if a specific text is relevant to their interests. The bibliography includes wor…
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Body Modification
Die klassischen Formen der Ko?rpermodifikationen, wie Piercings, Tattoos oder Bodybuilding, sind inzwischen allgegenwa?rtig. Mittlerweile werden medizinisch-a?sthetische Eingriffe von (minimalinvasiven) scho?nheitschirurgischen oder gewichtsreduzierenden Maßnahmen bis hin zu Penisverla?ngerungen oder Amputationen immer popula?rer. Dieses Werk setzt sich erstmals aus dem Blickwinkel der Psyc…
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Body Matters
Body Matters approaches the material world directly; it seeks to remind people that they are the matter of their bodies. This volume offers an assortment of contributions from anthropology, archaeology and medieval studies, with case studies from northern Europe, the Near East, East Africa and Amazonia, which variously draw attention to the multiple shifting materials that comprise, impact upon…
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Chapter 4 Levinas, hospitality and the feminine other
We could start this chapter by dishing up a vast array of interpretations and denitions, and refer to a number of debates in which the term hospitality takes centre stage. This would be done with the intention of illustrating the meaning and academic, societal or managerial relevance of hospitality. We will resist this temptation. We nd that a philosophical understanding of hospitality is often…
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Chapter 4 Language Policies and Ideologies in Qatar : Is Resistance to Englis…
Neoliberalism, globalisation, and English language hegemony have contributed to the adoption of Western “travelling policies” in the Arab Gulf states, such as building knowledge-based economies and the implementation of English-medium instruction in schools and universities. In Qatar, as well as in other Arab Gulf states like the United Arab Emirates, this has led to ideologies of English-m…
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Chapter 4 Japanese risk perceptions and anxiety over governance : The interna…
This book is an integrated examination of Japanese politics in the first two decades of the 21st century, as viewed from the perspective of ""anxiety over governance."" By empirically highlighting the social-environmental, political environmental, and sociocultural changes that have underlined the long-term political participation and voting behavior of Japanese citizens, the book provides deep…
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