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The 'Black Horror on the Rhine' - Intersections of Race, Nation, Gender and Class in 1920s Germany (Hardcover, 1st... The 'Black Horror on the Rhine' - Intersections of Race, Nation, Gender and Class in 1920s Germany (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Iris Wigger
R3,763 Discovery Miles 37 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores the 'Black Horror' campaign as an important chapter in the popularisation of racialised discourse in European history. Originating in early 1920s Germany, this international racist campaign was promoted through modern media, targeting French occupation troops from colonial Africa on German soil and using stereotypical images of 'racially primitive', sexually depraved black soldiers threatening and raping 'white women' in 1920s Germany to generate widespread public concern about their presence. The campaign became an international phenomenon in Post-WWI Europe, and had followers throughout Europe, the US and Australia. Wigger examines the campaign's combination of race, gender, nation and class as categories of social inclusion and exclusion, which led to the formation of a racist conglomerate of interlinked discriminations. Her book offers readers a rare insight into a widely forgotten chapter of popular racism in Europe, and sets out the benefits of a historically reflexive study of racialised discourse and its intersectionality.

Critical Approaches to Heritage for Development (Hardcover): Charlotte Cross, John D. Giblin Critical Approaches to Heritage for Development (Hardcover)
Charlotte Cross, John D. Giblin
R4,085 Discovery Miles 40 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In contrast to a significant recent volume in this area (Labadi, ed. 2019 see below), this volume does not focus only on international aid, but instead considers a range of different actors with diverse approaches to and understandings of 'development'. This volume does not only engage with formalised heritage, such as museums, monuments, and memorials. Contributions consider a range of ostensibly past-focused practices and interventions that may not be explicitly referred to as 'heritage' by the actors concerned. This marks a contrast with significant earlier work in the field (e.g. Basu and Modest eds., 2014 see below). Contributors to this volume include both scholars from a range of fields and practitioners, working in museums, UNESCO, and local government. This will help to ensure the content is engaged with contemporary practice as well as theory, and the relevance of the volume to students and practitioners. This volume will not comprise a set of disparate case studies. Rather, authors will critically review how heritage informs the pursuit of development within a broad general field, illustrating this with examples drawn from their own research. This will ensure consistency in focus across the contributions and the forum style conclusion will allow leading scholars from both Critical Heritage Studies and Development Studies to identify the key thematic points commonalities emerging from ostensibly diverse areas of scholarship and practice.

Law and Social Policy in the Global South - Brazil, China, India, South Africa (Hardcover): Ulrike Davy, Albert H.Y. Chen Law and Social Policy in the Global South - Brazil, China, India, South Africa (Hardcover)
Ulrike Davy, Albert H.Y. Chen
R4,081 Discovery Miles 40 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In-depth study of the origins and the trajectories of the law governing social policies in the Global South: Brazil, China, India, and South Africa. Adds a new dimension to the existing accounts on welfare state building which, so far, are dominated by European narratives and by scholars with a background in sociology, political science, and development studies. Will be of interest to scholars and students as well as political actors in the fields of comparative and international social security law, human rights law, comparative constitutional law, constitutional history, law and development studies, comparative social policies, global social policies, social work, and welfare state theory.

Law and Social Policy in the Global South - Brazil, China, India, South Africa (Paperback): Ulrike Davy, Albert H.Y. Chen Law and Social Policy in the Global South - Brazil, China, India, South Africa (Paperback)
Ulrike Davy, Albert H.Y. Chen
R1,247 Discovery Miles 12 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In-depth study of the origins and the trajectories of the law governing social policies in the Global South: Brazil, China, India, and South Africa. Adds a new dimension to the existing accounts on welfare state building which, so far, are dominated by European narratives and by scholars with a background in sociology, political science, and development studies. Will be of interest to scholars and students as well as political actors in the fields of comparative and international social security law, human rights law, comparative constitutional law, constitutional history, law and development studies, comparative social policies, global social policies, social work, and welfare state theory.

New Interdisciplinary Perspectives On and Beyond Autonomy (Hardcover): Oliver Davis, Christopher Watkin New Interdisciplinary Perspectives On and Beyond Autonomy (Hardcover)
Oliver Davis, Christopher Watkin
R4,356 Discovery Miles 43 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What does 'autonomy' mean today? Is the Enlightenment understanding of autonomy still relevant for contemporary challenges? How have the limits and possibilities of autonomy been transformed by recent developments in artificial intelligence and big data, political pressures, intersecting oppressions and the climate emergency? The challenges to autonomy today reach across society with unprecedented complexity, and in this book leading scholars from philosophy, economics, linguistics, literature and politics examine the role of autonomy in key areas of contemporary life, forcefully defending a range of different views about the nature and extent of resistance to autonomy today. These essays are essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the predicament and prospects of one of modernity's foundational concepts and one of our most widely cherished values.

The Spectre of the Other in Jungian Psychoanalysis - Political, Psychological, and Sociological Perspectives (Hardcover):... The Spectre of the Other in Jungian Psychoanalysis - Political, Psychological, and Sociological Perspectives (Hardcover)
Marybeth Carter, Stephen Farah
R4,074 Discovery Miles 40 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

- potential for broad audience, with appeal to practitioners in the clinical field as well as to lecturers in an academic context - engages with contemporary issues

The Politics of Social Cohesion in Germany, France and the United Kingdom (Hardcover): Jan Dobbernack The Politics of Social Cohesion in Germany, France and the United Kingdom (Hardcover)
Jan Dobbernack
R1,812 Discovery Miles 18 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Across Europe the protection of 'social cohesion' has become an important political objective. This book draws attention to the connection between the cohesive society and the active society. It explores France, Germany and the United Kingdom and challenges the claim that the active conduct of problematic populations can save society from collapse.

Difficult Heritage and Immersive Experiences (Hardcover): Agiatis Benardou, Anna Maria Droumpouki Difficult Heritage and Immersive Experiences (Hardcover)
Agiatis Benardou, Anna Maria Droumpouki
R4,068 Discovery Miles 40 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book: presents interdisciplinary case studies of heritage sites and museums from across a range of different contexts and analyses the ways in which various types of immersive technologies can help visitors to contextualize and negotiate difficult or sensitive heritage and traumatic pasts. demonstrates that some of the most creative applications of immersive experiences appear in and at museums and heritage sites. showcases how immersive technologies offer the possibility to confront and dispute presumptions and prejudices, trigger responses, deliver new knowledge, initiate dialogue and challenge pre-existing notions of collective identity provides a conceptual, as well as a hands-on, approach to understanding the use of immersive technologies at sensitive sites around the globe. offers essential reading for researchers and students who are interested in, or engaged in the study of, cultural heritage, memory, history, politics, dark tourism, design and digital media, or immersive technologies. The book will also be of interest to museum and heritage practitioners.

Society as Service/Service as Society - A Bordieuan Presence through Voices of Alice Springs (Hardcover): Richard Michael Head Society as Service/Service as Society - A Bordieuan Presence through Voices of Alice Springs (Hardcover)
Richard Michael Head
R1,533 R1,261 Discovery Miles 12 610 Save R272 (18%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Sustainable Museum - How Museums Contribute to the Great Transformation (Hardcover): Christopher J. Garthe The Sustainable Museum - How Museums Contribute to the Great Transformation (Hardcover)
Christopher J. Garthe
R4,078 Discovery Miles 40 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Arguing that museums must place sustainability at the centre of all their activities, if they are to become key actors with a clear societal role, Garthe considers the issues that museums will likely face as they take on their new roles. Presenting case studies from a wide range of museums around the world, the book considers different ways of implementing sustainability in different types and sizes of institutions. Whilst the book clearly outlines the need for change, it also provides guidance about how to change. Garthe does this by considering specific concepts and approaches to sustainability in relation to the different aspects of museum operations. The book includes a hands-on manual for implementing sustainability management in a museum, whilst also considering the challenges practitioners will encounter and considering what the future of the sustainable museum might look like. The Sustainable Museum will be essential reading for museum and heritage professionals around the globe. The book will also be of interest to academics and students engaged in the study of museums, arts and cultural management, business administration, change management or sustainable development..

Arab Digital Journalism (Hardcover): Noha Mellor Arab Digital Journalism (Hardcover)
Noha Mellor
R1,551 Discovery Miles 15 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Responding to urgent calls to de-westernise Media and Journalism Studies and shed light on local agencies, this book examines digital journalistic practices in the Arab region, exploring how Arab journalists understand their roles and how digital technologies in Arab newsrooms are used to influence public opinion. Drawing on dozens of articles penned by Arab media professionals and scholars, supplemented with informal conversations with journalists, this book reviews the historical development of digital journalism in the region and individual journalists' perceptions of this development. While technology has provided a new platform for citizens and powerful agents to exchange views, this text examines how it has simultaneously allowed Arab states and authorities to conduct surveillance on journalists, curtail the rise of citizen journalism, and maintain offline hierarchal forms of political, economic, and cultural powers. Mellor also explores how digital technology serves to cement Western hegemony of the information world order, with Arab media organisations and audiences judged to be mere recipients, rather than producers, of such information. Arab Digital Journalism offers an important contribution to the emerging field of digital journalism in the Global South and is a valuable resource for students and researchers interested in media, journalism, communication, and development studies.

Capitalism for Realists - Virtues and Vices of the Modern Economy (Paperback): Tibor Rutar Capitalism for Realists - Virtues and Vices of the Modern Economy (Paperback)
Tibor Rutar
R1,235 Discovery Miles 12 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In an age of extreme political polarization and waning of reasoned debate across political divides, Capitalism for Realists carefully explores the inner workings of capitalism in a consciously non-partisan and balanced way. Does the modern capitalist economy alleviate poverty and exploitation, or exacerbate them? What, exactly, is 'neoliberalism,' and how well or poorly has it performed in the past 40 years? Does capitalism undermine democracy, or is it rather one of its key necessary conditions? How have altruism, cooperation, tolerance, violence, and trust fared under the influence of the modern market society? Should we analyse capitalism through the mainstream economic lens or a more critical Marxist perspective? This book offers answers to these questions. Synthesizing decades of research across disciplines, Capitalism for Realists offers an overarching perspective on the modern economy by theoretically unifying many of the claims and conclusions about it offered by various traditionally rivalrous social science paradigms, such as institutional, neoclassical, and public choice economics on the one hand, and Marxist sociology on the other. The book presents and critically assesses the latest data and debates on such crucial contemporary issues as the relationship between poverty, exploitation, inequality, and capitalism, the nature of 'neoliberalism' and the successes and failures of both state-led industrial policy and the Washington consensus, capitalist peace theory, historical origins of modern capitalism, and more. What emerges is a clear picture of the merits and demerits of the modern economy too nuanced to be simplified and categorized by the prevailing political discourses. Rich in empirical detail, this lively, accessible book will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students with interests in sociological theory, political theory, economics, and political and economic sociology.

Capitalism for Realists - Virtues and Vices of the Modern Economy (Hardcover): Tibor Rutar Capitalism for Realists - Virtues and Vices of the Modern Economy (Hardcover)
Tibor Rutar
R4,069 Discovery Miles 40 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In an age of extreme political polarization and waning of reasoned debate across political divides, Capitalism for Realists carefully explores the inner workings of capitalism in a consciously non-partisan and balanced way. Does the modern capitalist economy alleviate poverty and exploitation, or exacerbate them? What, exactly, is 'neoliberalism,' and how well or poorly has it performed in the past 40 years? Does capitalism undermine democracy, or is it rather one of its key necessary conditions? How have altruism, cooperation, tolerance, violence, and trust fared under the influence of the modern market society? Should we analyse capitalism through the mainstream economic lens or a more critical Marxist perspective? This book offers answers to these questions. Synthesizing decades of research across disciplines, Capitalism for Realists offers an overarching perspective on the modern economy by theoretically unifying many of the claims and conclusions about it offered by various traditionally rivalrous social science paradigms, such as institutional, neoclassical, and public choice economics on the one hand, and Marxist sociology on the other. The book presents and critically assesses the latest data and debates on such crucial contemporary issues as the relationship between poverty, exploitation, inequality, and capitalism, the nature of 'neoliberalism' and the successes and failures of both state-led industrial policy and the Washington consensus, capitalist peace theory, historical origins of modern capitalism, and more. What emerges is a clear picture of the merits and demerits of the modern economy too nuanced to be simplified and categorized by the prevailing political discourses. Rich in empirical detail, this lively, accessible book will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students with interests in sociological theory, political theory, economics, and political and economic sociology.

Managing Business Projects - The Essentials (Hardcover): Frank Einhorn Managing Business Projects - The Essentials (Hardcover)
Frank Einhorn
R3,971 Discovery Miles 39 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Unique selling point: A project management book that focuses on managing projects in business Core audience: Project and business managers Place in the market: Professional book that can be used for continuing education

Theatre, Margins and Politics - An Introduction (Hardcover): Arnab Ray, Sibendu Chakraborty Theatre, Margins and Politics - An Introduction (Hardcover)
Arnab Ray, Sibendu Chakraborty
R4,080 Discovery Miles 40 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

1) This book presents a comprehensive overview of the relationship between drama/theatre and politics. 2) It contains chapters on India, Africa, USA, the Caribbean, and Australia. 3) This book will be of interest to departments of cultural studies and theatre studies across UK.

Museums and Social Responsibility - A Theory of Social Practice (Paperback): Kevin Coffee Museums and Social Responsibility - A Theory of Social Practice (Paperback)
Kevin Coffee
R1,238 Discovery Miles 12 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

1. The book presents an interdisciplinary examination of museum practice and constructs a useful theory of museum use as formative societal activity. 2. The book will be of interest to academics and students engaged in the study of museums and social justice. It will also be essential reading for practitioners with an interest in theory and museum transformation. 3. There are very few sole-authored titles that focus on museums and social responsibility and even fewer that focus on the theory behind the social role of museums. The proposed book will fill that gap.

The Routledge Handbook of International Critical Social Work - New Perspectives and Agendas (Hardcover): Stephen A. Webb The Routledge Handbook of International Critical Social Work - New Perspectives and Agendas (Hardcover)
Stephen A. Webb
R6,540 Discovery Miles 65 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Provides the first complete survey of the vibrant field of critical and radical social work. Includes 50 newly-written chapters. Contributions in this Handbook make a conscious attempt to strategically add a further vital trajectory of intellectual practice theory to critical and radical social work.

Conflict Management and Intercultural Communication - The Art of Intercultural Harmony (Paperback, 2nd edition): Xiaodong Dai,... Conflict Management and Intercultural Communication - The Art of Intercultural Harmony (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Xiaodong Dai, Guo-Ming Chen
R2,105 Discovery Miles 21 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

* Interdisciplinary approach and multiple theoretical perspectives on intercultural conflict management * Addresses intercultural conflict management and harmony building in the virtual space across cultures * Looks at how intercultural conflicts are managed and harmonized in different cultural contexts

Conflict Management and Intercultural Communication - The Art of Intercultural Harmony (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Xiaodong Dai,... Conflict Management and Intercultural Communication - The Art of Intercultural Harmony (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Xiaodong Dai, Guo-Ming Chen
R4,516 Discovery Miles 45 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

* Interdisciplinary approach and multiple theoretical perspectives on intercultural conflict management * Addresses intercultural conflict management and harmony building in the virtual space across cultures * Looks at how intercultural conflicts are managed and harmonized in different cultural contexts

Documentation as Art - Expanded Digital Practices (Hardcover): Annet Dekker, Gabriella Giannachi Documentation as Art - Expanded Digital Practices (Hardcover)
Annet Dekker, Gabriella Giannachi
R4,072 Discovery Miles 40 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book Presents documentation as an expanded practice that is radically changing the ways in which to look at, participate in, and generate art. Brings together expertise from different disciplines and provides an in-depth investigation of the development of documentation as a set of production, circulation and preservation strategies. Illustrates how these strategies are often led by artists, audiences and museums, the contributions offer new insights into digital art and its history, curation and preservation, through documentation. By considering documentation as the main method of preserving these art forms, analyses how it can address the inherent challenges of capturing live events, visitor experiences, and evolving artworks. Will appeal to researchers and students engaged in the study of museums and curation, art and art history, performance, new media and digital art, library and information science, and conservation.

Contemporary Nomadisms - Relations Between Local Communities, Nation-states and Global Cultural Flows (Paperback): Matilde... Contemporary Nomadisms - Relations Between Local Communities, Nation-states and Global Cultural Flows (Paperback)
Matilde Callari Galli
R554 Discovery Miles 5 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

One of the most powerful and widespread ideal and political reasons underlying the birth and building of the Nation-state has been the concurrence of territory, culture and people. Lately, however, one can observe a complete overturning of the relation between territorial and social spaces. New forms of international migrations, new systems of communication, new financial flows, and new political entities constitute relations, which, by crossing over the old borders, take on a territorial multipolarity as the area of their sociocultural practices. Studying the new relations between culture and territory implies laying stress on the effects of processes of contemporary nomadisms at global, local, virtual, and everyday life levels. The volume contains a collection of essays that try to illustrate the trends of the ceaseless nomadisms spanning our world, the distinctive modalities by which they fuel yet are also subjected to the complexity of contemporariness, looking into an ethnography of the modern traffic of the incorporeal but also of identity experiences and of state and state-like practices enfolding them.

"Matilde Callari Galli" is full professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Bologna, Department of Education (Italy).

The Existential Importance of the Penis - A Guide to Understanding Male Sexuality (Hardcover): Daniel N Watter The Existential Importance of the Penis - A Guide to Understanding Male Sexuality (Hardcover)
Daniel N Watter
R4,069 Discovery Miles 40 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The first of its kind, this book applies existential principles to sexual problems, providing clinicians with the tools to understand male sexuality more deeply. Alighting from the existential psychotherapy tenets of Irvin D. Yalom, Watter introduces the notion that the penis is a conduit for male emotion, and hence regulates their ability to form and experience intimate relationships. Subsequent chapters explore an existential view of male sexual dysfunction, non-sexual trauma, hypersexuality, changing bodies through illness, age, and injury, and examines badly behaved men to understand the meaning of certain behaviors. This book will be an invaluable resource for sex therapists, marriage and family therapists, psychologists, and social workers in practice and in training, assisting them to develop the therapeutic skills that will improve their understanding of men's psychological experience.

The Arts and Humanities on Environmental and Climate Change - Broadening Approaches to Research and Public Engagement... The Arts and Humanities on Environmental and Climate Change - Broadening Approaches to Research and Public Engagement (Hardcover)
Sarah Sutton
R4,059 Discovery Miles 40 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

1. The book demonstrates how art, history and cultural heritage can help to create a climate-literate public that responds to environmental issues and climate change in an informed way. 2. Sutton shows how arts and humanities approaches to environmental and climate change can engage a far wider public in learning, conversation and action than science can alone. This will make the book most interesting to readers looking for ways to broaden engagement with environmental and climate issues. The ideas shared within the book should also act as inspiration for a broad spectrum of practitioners, particularly those writing, designing, and curating public engagement materials in museums and for the media. 3. Unlike competing titles, the proposed book references the growing body of broad-reaching material (instead of focusing on single-topic research (archaeology), or a single genre of museums (science or natural history)). Unlike other titles, it also collects usually isolated and distinctive examples into one publication.

The Arts and Humanities on Environmental and Climate Change - Broadening Approaches to Research and Public Engagement... The Arts and Humanities on Environmental and Climate Change - Broadening Approaches to Research and Public Engagement (Paperback)
Sarah Sutton
R1,226 Discovery Miles 12 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

1. The book demonstrates how art, history and cultural heritage can help to create a climate-literate public that responds to environmental issues and climate change in an informed way. 2. Sutton shows how arts and humanities approaches to environmental and climate change can engage a far wider public in learning, conversation and action than science can alone. This will make the book most interesting to readers looking for ways to broaden engagement with environmental and climate issues. The ideas shared within the book should also act as inspiration for a broad spectrum of practitioners, particularly those writing, designing, and curating public engagement materials in museums and for the media. 3. Unlike competing titles, the proposed book references the growing body of broad-reaching material (instead of focusing on single-topic research (archaeology), or a single genre of museums (science or natural history)). Unlike other titles, it also collects usually isolated and distinctive examples into one publication.

Reading - Multiple Perspectives (Hardcover): Roger Beard Reading - Multiple Perspectives (Hardcover)
Roger Beard
R4,061 Discovery Miles 40 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The field of reading is a compelling one, characterised by many debates and discussions. It is also amenable to investigations through a range of theories and research studies. In this book, eight leading authorities provide a 'state-of-the-art' overview of reading, using perspectives that have informed their work. There are overviews from linguistic, psychological, sociological and literary viewpoints, as well as more hybrid ones from investigations of digital literacy and multi-modality. This book celebrates what has already been achieved by bridging research, scholarship and practice; it also suggests what still needs to be done to bring the positive rewards from reading to greater numbers of young people. It also recognises that the benefits of reading extend beyond the personal. Accomplished reading skills empower people to meet the challenges of everyday life: making decisions, solving problems, and dealing with unexpected events. The need to refresh and renew our knowledge of reading has gained further impetus in the 'information age'. New technologies for information and communication continually appear: manifestations of 'fake news', disinformation and conspiracy theories spread rapidly across the globe. The book underlines the importance not only of reading, but also the fact that reading between and beyond the lines is more important than ever, in print and across multiple media platforms. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Education 3-13: International Journal of Primary, Elementary and Early Years Education.

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