Contested Knowledges: Water Conflicts on Large Dams and Mega-Hydraulic Develo…

Water acquisition, storage, allocation and distribution are intensely contested in our society, whether, for instance, such issues pertain to a conflict between upstream and downstream farmers located on a small stream or to a large dam located on the border of two nations. Water conflicts are mostly studied as disputes around access to water resources or the formulation of water laws and gover…

Chapter 4 Quarantine in Ceuta and Malta in the travel writings of the late-ei…

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D. Natsagdorj, Mongolian travel writing, and ideas about national identity

Given the interests of this book, the ability of Natsagdorj’s image to transcend his status as a socialist-era poet constructed by the Soviet-influenced intellectual institutions of the Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party is a remarkable one. Natsagdorj has become a symbol of authentic Mongolian nationalism, this Romantic post-socialist form of identity that rhetorically uses historic…

Chapter 35 In the name of stability Literary censorship and self-censorship …

Scrutinizing Chinese literary field from the perspective of new censorship theories (Burt, 1994; Holquist, 1994; Post, 1998; Butler, 1998), this chapter describes mechanisms and provides deeper insights into ideological objectives of contemporary Chinese censorship, which can be summed up by notions of maintaining stability (维稳) and social harmony (社会和谐). Within the frame of Hockx�…

Actions of Their Own to Learn

What does it mean to take actions of one’s own to learn? How do human beings create meaning for themselves and with others? How can learners’ active efforts to build knowledge be encouraged and supported? In this edited compilation, scholars from a diverse range of academic and professional backgrounds address these questions, grounded in the conviction that the ability to take effective ac…

Academics Writing

Academics Writing recounts how academic writing is changing in the contemporary university, transforming what it means to be an academic and how, as a society, we produce academic knowledge. Writing practices are changing as the academic profession itself is reconfigured through new forms of governance and accountability, increasing use of digital resources, and the internationalisation of high…

Translating feminism in China : gender, sexuality and censorship

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The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance

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Identity and the natural environment :the psychological significance of nature

The often impassioned nature of environmental conflicts can be attributed to the fact that they are bound up with our sense of personal and social identity. Environmental identity--how we orient ourselves to the natural world--leads us to personalize abstract global issues and take action (or not) according to our sense of who we are. We may know about the greenhouse effect--but can we give up …

Natural minds

"A Bradford book."In Natural Minds Thomas Polger advocates, and defends, the philosophical theory that mind equals brain--that sensations are brain processes--and in doing so brings the mind-brain identity theory back into the philosophical debate about consciousness. The version of identity theory that Polger advocates holds that conscious processes, events, states, or properties are type- ide…