Claudia Roth's work on Bobo-Dioulasso, a city of half a million residents in Burkina Faso, provides uniquely detailed insight into the evolving life-world of a West African urban population in one of the poorest countries in the world. Closely documenting the livelihood strategies of members of various neighbourhoods, Roth's work calls into question established notions of "the African family" as a solidary network, documents changing marriage and kinship relations under the impact of a persistent economic crisis, and explores the increasingly precarious social status of young women and men.

Claudia Rothe entwickelt ein Verfahren zur Beurteilung der Wirtschaftlichkeit der kommunalen Investition "Unternehmensansiedlung", das die Kommunen bei der Entscheidung unterstutzt, welche Unternehmen mit welchen Eigenschaften geeignet sind, sich auf dem Gemeindegebiet niederzulassen.

The ethnographic case studies conducted in rural and ur- ban India and Burkina Faso show that large parts of the poor population are aging in insecurity. Not only is public support insufficient, but family support is limited. The issue of gender is a special focus of interest in this volume. The book contributes to the expanding field of social security studies in the social sciences that try to answer crucial issues in today's societies.

Willemijn de Jong is associate professor at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Claudia Roth is a researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Fatoumata Badini-Kinda is a lecturer at the Faculty of Sociology at the University of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Seema Bhagyanath teaches at the Department of Sociology, University of Pune, India.

A critical evaluation of Philip Roth--the first of its kind--that takes on the man, the myth, and the work

Philip Roth is one of the most renowned writers of our time. From his debut, "Goodbye, Columbus," which won the National Book Award in 1960, and the explosion of "Portnoy's Complaint "in 1969 to his haunting reimagining of Anne Frank's story in "The Ghost Writer "ten years later and the series of masterworks starting in the mid-eighties--"The Counterlife," "Patrimony," "Operation Shylock," "Sabbath's Theater," "American Pastoral," "The Human""Stain"--Roth has produced some of the great American literature of the modern era. And yet there has been no major critical work about him until now.
Here, at last, is the story of Roth's creative life. "Roth Unbound "is not a biography--though it contains a wealth of previously undisclosed biographical details and unpublished material--but something ultimately more rewarding: the exploration of a great writer through his art.
Claudia Roth Pierpont, a staff writer for "The New Yorker," has known Roth for nearly a decade.""Her carefully researched and gracefully written account""is filled with remarks from Roth himself, ""drawn from their ongoing conversations. Here are""insights and anecdotes that will change the way""many readers perceive this most controversial and""galvanizing writer: a young and unhappily married""Roth struggling to write; a wildly successful Roth, ""after the uproar over "Portnoy," working to help writers""from Eastern Europe and to get their books known""in the West; Roth responding to the early, Jewish--and the later, feminist--attacks on his work. Here""are Roth's family, his inspirations, his critics, the""full range of his fiction, and his friendships with such figures as Saul Bellow and John Updike. Here""is Roth at work and at play.
"Roth Unbound" is a major achievement--a highly readable story that helps us make sense of one of the most vital literary careers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Die junge beruflich erfolgreiche Erzahlerin leidet unter der Trennung von ihrem Freund Mark. Planlos fahrt sie los und landet in einem heruntergekommenen dusteren Kustenort. Eine ratselhafte Gestalt, die immer wieder bei Wind und Wetter wie verwurzelt am Pier steht und aufs Meer blickt, weckt ihre Neugier ...

Philip Roth - one of the most renowned writers of his generation - hardly needs introduction. From his debut, Goodbye, Columbus, which won the National Book Award, to his Pulitzer Prize-winning American Pastoral, to his eternally inventive later works such as Exit Ghost and Nemesis, Roth has produced some of the greatest literature of the past hundred years. And yet there has been no major critical work about him, until now. Here, at last, is the story of Roth's creative life. Claudia Roth Pierpont tells an engaging story even as she delves into the many complexities of Roth's work and the controversies it has raised. This is not a biography - though it contains many biographical details - but something more rewarding: an attempt to understand a great writer through his art. Pierpont, who has known Roth for several years, peppers her gracefully written and carefully researched account with conversational details, providing insights and anecdotes previously accessible only to a very few, touching on Roth's family, his inspirations, his critics, the full range of his fiction, and his literary friendships with such figures as Saul Bellow and John Updike. Roth Unbound is a major achievement, a fascinating and highly readable work that will set the standard for Roth scholarship for years to come.

Hausarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Psychologie - Arbeit, Betrieb, Organisation und Wirtschaft, einseitig bedruckt, Note: 1,0, Hamburger Fern-Hochschule, 9 Eintragungen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Arbeitsmotivation ist ein bedeutender Aspekt geworden, der in unserer Gesellschaft nicht mehr wegzudenken ist. Denn mit ihr steht und fallt unsere Leistung und damit der Produktionsfaktor Arbeit, der in Deutschland mit den hochsten Kosten einhergeht.Doch Motivation, was ist das eigentlich und wie druckt sie sich aus? Wie werden Mitarbeiter motiviert und welche Methoden dazu gibt es? All diese Fragen werden in dieser Hausarbeit aufgegriffen und sowohl theoretisch anhand der Motivationstheorien als auch an einem praktischen Beispiel erlautert. Diese Arbeit soll insbesondere wertvolle Tipps liefern, Mitarbeiter so zu motivieren, dass diese mit Freude ihren Arbeitstag entgegenfiebern.

With a masterful ability to connect their social contexts to well-chosen and telling details of their personal lives, Claudia Roth Pierpont gives us portraits of twelve amazingly diverse and influential literary women of the twentieth century, women who remade themselves and the world through their art.

Gertrude Stein, Mae West, Margaret Mitchell, Eudora Welty, Ayn Rand, Doris Lessing, Anais Nin, Zora Neale Hurston, Marina Tsvetaeva, Hannah Arendt and Mary Mccarthy, and Olive Schreiner: Pierpont is clear-eyed in her examination of each member of this varied group, connectng her subjects firmly to the issues of sexual freedom, race, and politics that bound them to their times, even as she exposes the roots of their uniqueness.

"Pierpont['s] graceful essays are at once erudite and personal in their focus." ?The Boston Globe

"One of the most ceaselessly interesting books I've read in some time." ?Lorrie Moore, The New York Review of Books