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This book explores the discipline of psychology through in-depth
dialogues with scholars who have lived at the turbulent edges of
mainstream psychology in the USA, and who have challenged the most
cherished theoretical frameworks. It includes researchers whose
work has been widely esteemed in recent decades, but has ultimately
not been taken up to reconstitute the theoretical direction of the
field. This volume chronicles perspectives from select scholars on
the current states of their respective areas of the field, their
understanding of how their work has been metabolized, and their
concerns about the conceptual frames that currently set the
theoretical boundaries of the discipline. These authors demand a
reinterpretation of thresholds to allow for a less monological
emphasis in the adoption of particular frameworks, and to
demonstrate historical, social, economic and political consequences
of their chosen frameworks. The contents of the volume will assist
theoreticians and clinicians in their understanding of how
particular kinds of knowledge are determined, accepted, and
produced in the field at large.
Colonialism in China was a piecemeal agglomeration that achieved
its greatest extent in the first half of the twentieth century, the
last edifices falling at the close of the century. The diversity of
these colonial arrangements across China's landscape defies
systematic characterization. This book investigates the
complexities and subtleties of colonialism in China during the
first half of the twentieth century. In particular, the
contributors examine the interaction between localities and forces
of globalization that shaped the particular colonial experiences
characterizing much of China's experience at this time. In the
process it is clear that an emphasis on interaction, synergy and
hybridity can add much to an understanding of colonialism in
Twentieth Century China based on the simple binaries of colonizer
and colonized, of aggressor and victim, and of a one-way transfer
of knowledge and social understanding. To provide some kind of
order to the analysis, the chapters in this volume deal in separate
sections with colonial institutions of hybridity, colonialism in
specific settings, the social biopolitics of colonialism, colonial
governance, and Chinese networks in colonial environments. Bringing
together an international team of experts, Twentieth Century
Colonialism and China is an essential resource for students and
scholars of modern Chinese history and colonialism and imperialism.
A wave of innovation driven by the convergence of digital and
molecular technologies is transforming food production and ways of
eating in the US, Western Europe and Australasia. This book
explores a range of contemporary agri-food issues, such as the
digitalisation of farm production, aka Precision Agriculture,
farmer independence, gene editing, alternative proteins and the
rise of app-based home food deliveries. This is the first book to
provide a systemic analysis of technological innovation and its
socio-economic consequences in modern food systems, including the
‘hollowing out’ of rural communities and pronounced industrial
concentration. The food system is under growing public pressure to
respond to global climate change, but this book finds little
evidence of transition to sustainable low-carbon trajectories.
The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis,
Subjectivity, and Technology uniquely provides a comprehensive
overview of human subjectivity in the technological age and how
psychoanalysis can help us better understand human life. Presented
in five parts, David M. Goodman and Matthew Clemente collaborate
with an international community of scholars and practitioners to
consider how psychoanalytic formulations can be brought to bear on
the impact technology has had on the facets of human subjectivity.
Chapters examine how technology is reshaping our understanding of
what it means to be a human subject, through embodiment, intimacy,
porn, political motivation, mortality, communication, interpersonal
exchange, thought, attention, responsibility, vulnerability, and
more. Filled with thought-provoking and nuanced chapters, the
contributors approach technology from a diverse range of entry
points but all engage through the lens of psychoanalytic theory,
practice, and thought. This book is essential for academics and
students of psychoanalysis, philosophy, ethics, media, liberal
arts, social work, and bioethics. With the inclusion of timely
chapters on the coronavirus pandemic and teletherapy,
psychoanalysts in practice and training as well as other mental
health practitioners will also find this book an invaluable
resource.
This edited volume draws upon Lacanian psychoanalytic theory to
examine the conscious and unconscious forces underlying race as a
social formation, conceptualizing race, racial identity, and racism
in ways that go beyond traditional modes of psychoanalytic thought.
Featuring contributions by Lacanian scholars from diverse
geographical and disciplinary contexts, chapters span a wide
breadth of topics, including white nationalism and contemporary
debates over confederate monuments; emergent theories of race
rooted in Afropessimism and postcolonialism; analyses of racism in
apartheid and American slavery; clinical reflections on Latinx and
other racialized patients; and applications of Lacan's concepts of
the lamella, drive and sexuation to processes of racialization. The
collection both reorients readers' understandings of race through
its deployment of Lacanian theory and redefines the Lacanian
subject through its theorizing of subjectivity in relation to race,
racism and racial identification. Lacan and Race will be a
definitive text for psychoanalytic theorists and contemporary
scholars of race, appealing to readers across the fields of
psychology, cultural studies, humanities, politics, and sociology.
Cities & Technology, a series of three textbooks and three
readers, explores one of the most fundamental changes in the
history of human society: the transition from predominantly rural
to urban ways of living. This series presents a new social history
of technology, using primarily urban settings as a source of
historical evidence anda focus for the interpretation of the
historical relations of technology and society.
Drawing on perspectives and writings from accross a number of
disciplines involved in urban historical studies - including
archaeology, urban history, historical geography and architectural
history - the books in the series explore: how towns and cities
have been shaped by applications of a range of technologies and how
such technological applications have been influenced by their
social contexts, including politics, economics, culture and the
natural environment.
European Cities and Technology is designed to be used on its own or
as a companion volume to the accompanying European Cities and
Technology Reader in the same series. The book is divided into
three principal sections: cities of the Industrial Revolution
including case studies of Manchester, Glasgow, London and Paris;
European cities since 1870, including London, Paris Berlin, the
rise of modern urban planning and post-war reconstruction; and a
variety of topics including Milton Keynes, Colonial India and
Russia. It investigates the relative importance of technology,
economics, politics and social conditions in relation to urban
change.
This volume covers cities of the industrial revolution to 1870,
European Cities since 1870 and urban technology transfer. Among the
cities and themes covered are:
* the onset of industrialization
* Manchester and Glasgow
* London and Paris
* the rise of modern urban planning
* Berlin
* Building and government sponsorship
* Milton Keynes
* cities in Russia
* cities in Colonial India
This text is designed to be used on its own or as a companion
volume to the accompanying "European Cities and Technology Reader"
in the same series. It investigates the relative importance of
technology, economics, politics and social conditions in relation
to urban change.
Working across food studies and media studies, Joanne Hollows
examines the impact of celebrity chefs on how we think about food
and how we cook, shop and eat. Hollows explores how celebrity chefs
emerged in both restaurant and media industries, making chefs like
Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay into global stars. She also shows
how blogs and YouTube enabled the emergence of new types of branded
food personalities such as Deliciously Ella and BOSH! As well as
providing a valuable introduction to existing research on celebrity
chefs, Hollows uses case studies to analyse how celebrity chefs
shape food practices and wider social, political and cultural
trends. Hollows explores their impact on ideas about veganism,
healthy eating and the Covid-19 pandemic and how their advice is
bound up with class, gender and race. She also demonstrates how
celebrity chefs such as Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall,
Nadiya Hussain and Jack Monroe have become food activists and
campaigners who intervene in contemporary debates about the
environment, food poverty and nation.
This book is the translation of the Telekhan Yizkor (Memorial) Book
of the destroyed Jewish Community of Telekhan, Belarus, written by
the former residents who survived the Holocaust (Shoah) or
emigrated before the war. It contains the history of the community
in addition to descriptions of the institutions (synagogues, prayer
houses), cultural activities, personalities (Rabbis, leaders,
prominent people, personalities) and other aspects of the town. It
also describes the events of the Shoah in the town and lists the
victims. All information are either first-hand accounts or based
upon first-hand accounts and therefore serves as a primary resource
for either research and to individuals seeking information about
the town from which their parents, grandparents or
great-grandparents had immigrated; this is their history The book
was originally written in Yiddish (and one short English article)
in 1963, translated into English by David Goldman. Alternate names:
Telekhany Russian], Telchan Yiddish], Telechany Polish], Cielachany
Belarus], Telechon, Telekani, Telekhan, Telechan, Tselyakhani,
Celjachany. Located in Belarus, 119 mi SW of Minsk at 52 31' North
Latitude and 25 51' East Longitude.
An examination of the relationship between space, place and
consumption offers important insights into some of the most
powerful forces constructing contemporary societies. Space and
place are made and remade through consumption. Yet how do cultures
of consumption discover space, and how do they construct place?
This book addresses these questions by exploring the implications
of conceptualizing consumption as a spatial, increasingly global,
yet intensely localized activity. The work develops integrative
approaches that articulate the processes involved in the production
and consumption of space and place. The result is a varied,
engaging, and innovative study of consumption and its role in
structuring contemporary capitalist political economies.
We live in a society as dominated by food preference as by sexual
preference, as obsessed with eating too much as with eating too
little. In this accessible, cross-disciplinary text, David Goodman
and Michael Redclift look at the development of the modern food
system, integrating different bodies of knowledge and debate
concerning food, agriculture, the environment and the household.
They link changes in our diet and concern with the environment to
many of the problems afflicting developing countries: food
shortages, poor nutrition and wholesale environmental destruction.
Farmers' markets, veggie boxes, local foods, organic products and
Fair Trade goods - how have these once novel, "alternative" foods,
and the people and networks supporting them, become increasingly
familiar features of everyday consumption? Are the visions of
"alternative worlds" built on ethics of sustainability, social
justice, animal welfare and the aesthetic values of local food
cultures and traditional crafts still credible now that these foods
crowd supermarket shelves and other "mainstream" shopping outlets?
This timely book provides a critical review of the growth of
alternative food networks and their struggle to defend their
ethical and aesthetic values against the standardizing pressures of
the corporate mainstream with its "placeless and nameless" global
supply networks. It explores how these alternative movements are
"making a difference" and their possible role as fears of global
climate change and food insecurity intensify. It assesses the
different experiences of these networks in three major arenas of
food activism and politics: Britain and Western Europe, the United
States, and the global Fair Trade economy. This comparative
perspective runs throughout the book to fully explore the
progressive erosion of the interface between alternative and
mainstream food provisioning. As the era of "cheap food" draws to a
close, analysis of the limitations of market-based social change
and the future of alternative food economies and localist food
politics place this book at the cutting-edge of the field. The book
is thoroughly informed by contemporary social theory and
interdisciplinary social scientific scholarship, formulates an
integrative social practice framework to understand alternative
food production-consumption, and offers a unique geographical reach
in its case studies.
Colonialism in China was a piecemeal agglomeration that achieved
its greatest extent in the first half of the twentieth century, the
last edifices falling at the close of the century. The diversity of
these colonial arrangements across China's landscape defies
systematic characterization. This book investigates the
complexities and subtleties of colonialism in China during the
first half of the twentieth century. In particular, the
contributors examine the interaction between localities and forces
of globalization that shaped the particular colonial experiences
characterizing much of China's experience at this time. In the
process it is clear that an emphasis on interaction, synergy and
hybridity can add much to an understanding of colonialism in
Twentieth Century China based on the simple binaries of colonizer
and colonized, of aggressor and victim, and of a one-way transfer
of knowledge and social understanding. To provide some kind of
order to the analysis, the chapters in this volume deal in separate
sections with colonial institutions of hybridity, colonialism in
specific settings, the social biopolitics of colonialism, colonial
governance, and Chinese networks in colonial environments. Bringing
together an international team of experts, Twentieth Century
Colonialism and China is an essential resource for students and
scholars of modern Chinese history and colonialism and imperialism.
An examination of the relationship between space, place and
consumption offers important insights into some of the most
powerful forces constructing contemporary societies. Space and
place are made and remade through consumption. Yet how do cultures
of consumption discover space, and how do they construct place?
This book addresses these questions by exploring the implications
of conceptualizing consumption as a spatial, increasingly global,
yet intensely localized activity. The work develops integrative
approaches that articulate the processes involved in the production
and consumption of space and place. The result is a varied,
engaging, and innovative study of consumption and its role in
structuring contemporary capitalist political economies.
Three decades of reform since 1978 in the People's Republic of
China have resulted in the emergence of new social groups which
have included new occupations and professions generated as the
economy has opened up and developed and, most spectacularly given
the legacy of state socialism, the identification of those who are
regarded as wealthy. However, although China's new rich are
certainly a consequence of globalization, there remains a need for
caution in assuming either that China's new rich are a middle
class, or that if they are they should immediately be equated with
a universal middle class. Including sections on class, status and
power, agency and structure and lifestyle The New Rich in China
investigates the political, socio-economic and cultural
characteristics of the emergent new rich in China, the similarities
and differences to similar phenomenon elsewhere and the
consequences of the new rich for China itself. In doing so it links
the importance of China to the world economy and helps us
understand how the growth of China's new rich may influence our
understanding of social change elsewhere. This is a subject that
will become increasingly important as China continues its
development and private entrepreneurship continues to be encouraged
and as such The New Rich in China will be an invaluable volume for
students and scholars of Chinese studies, history and politics and
social change.
Three decades of reform since 1978 in the People's Republic of
China have resulted in the emergence of new social groups which
have included new occupations and professions generated as the
economy has opened up and developed and, most spectacularly given
the legacy of state socialism, the identification of those who are
regarded as wealthy. However, although China's new rich are
certainly a consequence of globalization, there remains a need for
caution in assuming either that China's new rich are a middle
class, or that if they are they should immediately be equated with
a universal middle class. Including sections on class, status and
power, agency and structure and lifestyle The New Rich in China
investigates the political, socio-economic and cultural
characteristics of the emergent new rich in China, the similarities
and differences to similar phenomenon elsewhere and the
consequences of the new rich for China itself. In doing so it links
the importance of China to the world economy and helps us
understand how the growth of China's new rich may influence our
understanding of social change elsewhere. This is a subject that
will become increasingly important as China continues its
development and private entrepreneurship continues to be encouraged
and as such The New Rich in China will be an invaluable volume for
students and scholars of Chinese studies, history and politics and
social change.
Globalising Food provides an innovative contribution to the political economy of agriculture, food and consumption. A1ong the themes addressed are: * giant multinational food corporations * rural industrialization * World Bank policies * regulation of pollution * labour relations * urban food politics * environmental sustainability. This revealing investigation of the forces which are reshaping agricultural production, rural societies and food consumption draws on new theoretical perspectives and case studies from Britain, the US, India, South Africa, New Zealand and Latin America. eBook available with sample pages: HB:0415162521
Uses a series of wide-ranging case studies from Britain, the United
States, India, South Africa, New Zealand and Latin America to show
how the agro food system - how we are all provisioned in food and
agricultural products - is global in scope, but also how it differs
from manufacturing. This book reveals the importance of new forces
at work which are reshaping how agriculture is being industrialized
and what some of its consequences and limits are around the world.
The industrialization of nature often runs up against problems
thrown up by its biological characteristics - health, consumer
needs, the limits of genetic manipulation or environmental
sustainablity. The case studies also show how the place of
agriculture in the international division of labour is changing as
new agricultural countries are emerging, and as new commodities
(such as fresh fruits and vegetables) and actors (the fast food
chains and retailers) begin to dominate the global agro-food
system.
China's dramatic economic growth since the 1970s has seemed
inexorable. The resulting rise in international profile has
provoked a lively argument regarding the fundamental economic and
strategic challenges to the rest of the world that China now
presents.
China Rising examines the extent to which that country's future
foreign policy stance may be shaped by its own agendas and
constrained through interdependence and interaction with the
outside world. In the process it also questions the extent to which
the rest of the world can attempt to shape that future to
non-Chinese interests with any chance of success.
Most debates regarding China's future international position tend
to be polarised between those advocating containment and those
wishing to see Beijing given a much freer hand. China Rising
provides a refreshing alternative to both.
China is a far larger and more diverse country than many people in the West realise. The provinces that make up the country are considerable social, economic and political systems in their own right. They are comparable in size and complexity to European states. China's Provinces in Reform is concerned with the impact of economic reform and social and politial change within the provinces at the immediate sub-central level of the People's Republic of China. One of the main aims of this book is to question over-generalizations about China's development in the reform era. However, the provincial analysis of social and political change in China also has the potential to reveal even more in a conparative perspective. This is the first volume of a series and covers Guangxi, Hainan, Liaoning, Shandong, Shanghai, Sichuan and Zhejiang. It is part of an ambitious project, conducted by the Institute for International Studies at the Univeristy of Technology, Sydney that will provide the most thorough and up to date analysis of China's provinces yet published.
China's dramatic economic growth since the 1970s has seemed
inexorable. The resulting rise in international profile has
provoked a lively argument regarding the fundamental economic and
strategic challenges to the rest of the world that China now
presents.
China Rising examines the extent to which that country's future
foreign policy stance may be shaped by its own agendas and
constrained through interdependence and interaction with the
outside world. In the process it also questions the extent to which
the rest of the world can attempt to shape that future to
non-Chinese interests with any chance of success.
Most debates regarding China's future international position tend
to be polarised between those advocating containment and those
wishing to see Beijing given a much freer hand. China Rising
provides a refreshing alternative to both.
China's provinces are all considerable social, economic and
political systems in their own right, and most are the size and
scale of a European country in population, land area and social
complexity which under other circumstances might be regarded as
seperate states, rather than component parts of a single, unitary
system. Despite their distinct identities and importance to the
country's social, political and economic development, China's
provinces only recently became a major focus of inquiry with the
introduction of reform and decentralization. This volume is the
first of a series examining each of China's provinces in reform and
deals with Guangxi, Hainan, Liaoning, Shandong, Shanghai, Sichuan
and Zhejiang. It is concerned with the impact of economic reform on
social and political change within each of the provinces. The
issues revealed by this study are not only the determinants of
provincial politics or central-provincial relations in China, but
also wider concerns about the impact of economic modernization on
social and political change. The seven cases presented here
highlight the effects of economic growth on class formations and
regional development within each province.
In recent years dramatic changes in Asia's social and economic systems have seen the burgeoning of a substantial middle-class. This has captured the imagination of the West, in large part because the new middle-class represents massive new markets for Western style products. But what are the implications of the emergence of Asia's 'new rich'? Will they bring with them the institutions of liberalism, democracy, rule of law and new institutional freedoms? Or is Asia's 'new rich' quite different? The New Rich in Asia: Mobile phones, McDonald's and Middle-class Revolution introduces a new series examining the social, political and economic construction of the new rich in East and South East Asia. It raises central issues about the nature of the 'new rich', including their social, economic and political impact on the region. The contributors are acknowledged experts on the social and political systems they dissect. Each study, based on detailed research, combines theoretical and empirical material. This volume provides a valuable insight into the composition and global economic impact of these newly emerging classes and highlights a common inheritance of rapid economic growth.
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