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The volume "Language and Identity in Migration Contexts", which
contains studies from different languages and migration contexts
across the world, provides an excellent overview of the topic while
highlighting some key elements like multilingualism, societal and
educational contexts, as well as forced migration. The volume will
therefore be of much interest to researchers working on these
topics. (Prof. Dr. Anita Auer, Universite de Lausanne, Switzerland)
The contributions to this volume shed a new light on various
central topics in the discourses on language, migration and
identity. The continued centrality of language on identity
formation processes is underlined but it is shown that language is
not a defining criterion for identity formation processes of
migrants, in the context of migration or for heritage speakers in
all cases. However, societal contexts play an important role in
identity formation and these societal contexts themselves are
strongly influenced by the ideologies that are prevalent in
societies and that may be perpetuated in educational contexts. In
the discussion of language, identity and migration in this volume,
perspectives from the Global North are enriched by perspectives of
the Global South, and the impact of media influence in migration
discourse is analysed.
In recent decades, due to unprecedented technological advancements,
Europe has seen a move towards on-demand service economies. This
has allowed the growth of self-employed professionals who are able
to satisfy an increasing demand for flexible and high-skilled work.
This book explores the need for reform of regulations in Europe,
studying the variance in legal status, working conditions, social
protection and collective representation of self-employed
professionals. It provides insights into ways that policy could
address these important challenges. Presenting the results of a
wide-reaching European survey, this book highlights key issues
being faced across Europe: the implementation of universal social
protection schemes; active labour market policies to support
sustainable self-employment and the renewal of social dialogue
through bottom-up organisations to extend the collective
representation of self-employed professionals. With its
theoretically-informed, empirical and interdisciplinary comparative
analysis, this book identifies and explains key strategies to
resolve these challenges. This book will be of great benefit to
both advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of labour and
economic sociology, political science, industrial relations, human
resource management and social law. It will also appeal to
scholars, practitioners and policymakers concerned with the labour
market and self-employment in the European context.
Don't just see the sights-get to know the people. Never conquered
by foreigners, this proud and ancient land has been shaped by
Buddhism, the monarchy, and the military. Today it is a
manufacturing powerhouse and a tourist paradise that welcomes more
than 30 million visitors a year. Yet despite the veneer of Western
modernity, the country and its people remain an enigma for many
visitors. Culture Smart! Thailand describes how the Thai people
view the world and themselves. It examines the impact of religious
beliefs and history on their lives, as well as recent social and
political developments. With a wealth of tips on communicating, on
socializing, and on navigating the unfamiliar situations that you
are likely to encounter, this guide will help you to get the very
best out of your time in the Land of Smiles. Have a richer and more
meaningful experience abroad through a better understanding of the
local culture. Chapters on history, values, attitudes, and
traditions will help you to better understand your hosts, while
tips on etiquette and communicating will help you to navigate
unfamiliar situations and avoid faux pas.
This book examines the role of imagination in initiating,
contesting, and changing the pathways of global cooperation.
Building on carefully contextualized empirical cases from diverse
policy fields, regions, and historical periods, it highlights the
agency of a wide range of actors in reflecting on past and present
experiences and imagining future ways of collective problem
solving. Chapters analyse the mobilizing, identity, cognitive,
emotional, and normative effects through which imaginations shape
pathways for global cooperation. Expert contributors consider the
ways in which actors combine multiple layers of meaning-making
through practices of staging the past and present as well as in
their circulation. Exploring the contingency and open-endedness of
processes of global cooperation, the book challenges more systemic
and output-oriented perspectives of global governance. Its
synthesis of ways in which imaginations inform processes of
creating, contesting, and changing pathways for global cooperation
provides a novel conceptual approach to the study of global
cooperation. Interdisciplinary in approach, this authoritative book
offers new ways of thinking about global cooperation to scholars
and students of international relations, development studies, law
and politics, international theory, global sociology, and global
history as well as practitioners and policy-makers across various
policy fields.
A vivid look at 10 astonishing people who are maintaining some of the world's oldest and rarest cultural traditions.
Eliot Stein has traveled the globe in search of remarkable people who are preserving some of our most extraordinary cultural rites. In Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive, Stein introduces readers to a man saving the secret ingredient in Japan's 700-year-old original soy sauce recipe. In Italy, he learns how to make the world's rarest pasta from one of the only women alive who knows how to make it. And in India, he discovers a family rumored to make a mysterious metal mirror believed to reveal your truest self. From shadowing Scandinavia's last night watchman to meeting a 27th-generation West African griot to tracking down Cuba's last official cigar factory “readers” more than a century after they spearheaded the fight for Cuban independence, Stein uncovers an almost lost world.
Climbing through Peru’s southern highlands, he encounters the last Inca bridge master who rebuilds a grass-woven bridge every year from the fabled Inca Road System. He befriends a British beekeeper who maintains a touching custom of "telling the bees" important news of the day. And he crunches through a German forest to find the official mailman of the only tree in the world with its own address – to which countless people from across the world have written in hopes of finding love. These are just some of the last custodians preserving age-old rites on the brink of disappearance against all odds. Let Eliot Stein introduce you to all of them.
How are natures and animals integrated inclusively into research
projects through Multispecies Ethnography? While preceded by a
vision that seeks to question holistically how scientists can
integrate natures and animals into research projects through
Multispecies Ethnography, this book focuses on inter- and
multidisciplinary collaboration. From an examination of the
interfaces between social and natural science-oriented disciplines,
a complex view of natures, humans, and animals emerges. The
insights into interdependencies of different disciplines illustrate
the need for a Multispecies Ethnography to analyze
HumansAnimalsNaturesCultures. While the methodology is innovative
and currently not widespread, the application of Multispecies
Ethnography in areas of research such as climate change, species
extinction, or inequalities will allow new insights. These research
debates are closely interwoven, and the methodological inclusion of
the agency of natures and animals and the consideration of
Indigenous Knowledge allow new insights of holistic multispecies
research for the different disciplines. Multispecies Ethnography
allows for positivist, innovative, attentive, reflexive and complex
analyses of HumansAnimalsNaturesCultures.
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