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Exploring how green finance has become a key strategy for the
financial industry in the wake of the 2007-08 financial crisis,
this timely book critically assesses the current dominant forms of
neoliberal green finance. Understanding Green Finance delivers a
pioneering analysis of the topic, covering the essential tenets of
green finance with an emphasis on critical approaches to mainstream
views and presenting alternatives insights and perspectives. This
prescient book first introduces the concept of, and current
approaches to, green finance and green monetary policy, ultimately
presenting a range of potential alternatives including both
reformist and transformative-progressive approaches. Chapters
explore how neoliberal green finance tends to deepen
financialisation, and does not effectively address environmental
problems, offering insights into reformist forms of green finance
that insist that state regulation and public financing are crucial
to tackling environmental problems. A crucial contribution to the
debate surrounding the financial industry’s role in addressing
the environmental crisis, this book will be beneficial for
academics and students with an interest in environmental,
ecological and financial economics. The accessible writing style
will also prove valuable for policy makers, civil society
professionals and financial and sustainability experts.
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available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
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original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
From hungry ghosts, vampiric babies, and shapeshifting fox spirits
to the avenging White Lady of urban legend, for generations, Asian
women’s roles have been shaped and defined through myth and
story. In Unquiet Spirits, Asian writers of horror reflect on the
impact of superstition, spirits, and the supernatural in this
unique collection of 21 personal essays exploring themes of
otherness, identity, expectation, duty, and loss, and leading,
ultimately, to understanding and empowerment.
This brief but comprehensive introduction to Christian worldview
helps readers understand the Christian faith as the substance of
Spirit-filled living and as a knowledge tradition stemming from the
global Pentecostal movement. Using beauty, truth, and goodness as
organizing principles, the authors delineate a Christian worldview
by tracing each category historically, comparing and contrasting
each with alternative Christian expressions, and constructing fresh
takes on each as read through the lived Pentecostal experience.
Unlike other worldview books, the authors' approach emphasizes
beauty (relating to experience) rather than truth (involving
knowledge acquisition); that difference in emphasis flows naturally
from the Pentecostal perspective, which has traditionally centered
the experience of the Spirit. Pentecostal Christians will find this
volume indispensable for thinking lucidly about their worldview
from a renewal perspective.
With essays by today’s leading leftist social critics, Identity
Trumps Socialism presents a rigorous and persuasive primer on the
problems generated by postmodern and neoliberal challenges to the
legacy of emancipatory universality. In addition to the ways in
which capitalism has used racialized and gendered forms of
oppression to divide the working class, today’s activism must
also understand how neoliberal capitalism uses identity politics to
undermine socialism. Identity Trumps Socialism advances an
emancipatory left universality that addresses the limits of
diversity and makes the case for the centrality of class in the
struggle against global capitalist hegemony.
The Routledge Handbook of Music and Migration: Theories and
Methodologies is a progressive, transdisciplinary paradigm-shifting
core text for music and migration studies. Conceptualized as a
comprehensive methodological and theoretical guide, it foregrounds
the mobile potentials of music and presents key arguments about why
musical expressions matter in the discussion of migration politics.
Twenty international specialists in music and migration set
methodological and theoretical standards for transdisciplinary
collaborations in the field of migration studies, discussing 41
keywords, such as mobility, community, research ethics, human
rights, and critical whiteness in the context of music and
migration. The authors then apply these terms to 16 chapters, which
deal with ethnomusicological, musicological, sociological,
anthropological, geographical, pedagogical, political, economical
and media-related methodologies and theories which reflect and
contest current discourses of migration. In their interdisciplinary
focus, these chapters advance interrelations between music and
migration as enabling factors for socio-cultural studies.
Furthermore, the authors tackle crucial questions of agency,
equality and equity as well as the responsibilities and
expectations of writers and artists when researching migration
phenomena as innate human experience. As a result, this handbook
provides scholars and students alike with relevant and applicable
methodological and theoretical tools in addition to an extensive
literature and research review for further research.
In the last twenty-five years, the explosive rise of car mobility
has transformed street life in postsocialist cities. Whereas
previously the social fabric of these cities ran on socialist modes
of mobility, they are now overtaken by a culture of privately owned
cars. If Cars Could Walk uses ethnographic cases studies
documenting these changes in terms of street interaction, vehicles
used, and the parameters of speed, maneuverability, and cultural
and symbolic values. The altered reality of people’s movements,
replacing public transport, bicycles and other former
â€socialist’ modes of mobility with privatized mobility reflect
an evolving political and cultural imagination, which in turn
shapes their current political reality.
A magnificent new biography of the founder of Impressionism In the
course of a long and exceptionally creative life, Claude Monet
revolutionized painting and made some of the most iconic images in
western art. Misunderstood and mocked at the beginning of his
career, he risked everything to pursue his original vision.
Although close to starvation when he invented impressionism on the
banks of the Seine in the 1860s-70s, in the following decades he
emerged as the powerful leader of the new painting in Paris at one
of its most exciting cultural moments. His symphonic series
Haystacks, Poplars, and Rouen Cathedral brought wealth and renown.
Then he withdrew to paint only the pond in his garden. The late
Water Lilies, ignored during his lifetime, are now celebrated as
pioneers of twentieth century modernism. Behind this great and
famous artist is a volatile, voracious, nervous yet reckless man,
largely unknown. Jackie Wullschläger's enthralling biography,
based on thousands of never-before translated letters and
unpublished sources, is the first account of Monet's turbulent
private life and how it determined his expressive, sensuous,
sensational painting. He was as obsessional in his love affairs as
in his love of nature, and changed his art decisively three times
when the woman at the centre of his life changed. Enduring
devastating bereavements, he pushed the frontier of painting
inward, to evoke memory and the passing of time. His work also
responded intensely to outside cataclysms - the Dreyfus Affair, the
First World War. Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau was his closest
friend. Rich intellectual currents connected him to writers from
Zola to Proust; affection and rivalry to Renoir, Pissarro and
Manet. Monet said he was driven 'wild with the need to put down
what I experience'. This rich and moving biography immerses us in
that passionate experience, transforming our understanding of the
man, his paintings and the fullness of his achievement.
With essays by today’s leading leftist social critics, Identity
Trumps Socialism presents a rigorous and persuasive primer on the
problems generated by postmodern and neoliberal challenges to the
legacy of emancipatory universality. In addition to the ways in
which capitalism has used racialized and gendered forms of
oppression to divide the working class, today’s activism must
also understand how neoliberal capitalism uses identity politics to
undermine socialism. Identity Trumps Socialism advances an
emancipatory left universality that addresses the limits of
diversity and makes the case for the centrality of class in the
struggle against global capitalist hegemony.
The Spirit and the Screen engages contemporary films from the
perspective of pneumatology to give theologies of culture fruitful
new perspectives that begin with the Spirit rather than other
common theological contact points (Christology, anthropology,
theological ethics, creation, eschatology, etc.). This book
explores pertinent pneumatological issues that arise in film, as
well as literary devices that draw allusions to the Spirit. It
offers three main contributions: first, it explores how Christian
understandings of the person and work of the Spirit illuminate the
nature of film and film-making; second, it shows that there are in
fact “Spirit figures” in film (as distinct from but inseparable
from Christ-figures), even if sometimes they’re not intended as
such, “Spirit-led” characters, are moved to act
“prophetically,” against their inclinations and in excess of
their skill or knowledge and with eccentric, life-giving
creativity; third, it identifies subtle and explicit symbolizations
of the Spirit in pop culture, symbolizations that requires deep,
careful thinking about the Christian doctrine of the Spirit and
generate new horizons for cultural analysis. The contributors of
this book explore these issues, asking how Christian convictions
and experiences of the Spirit might shape the way one thinks about
films and film-making.
"The book's major parts, one on polarity and the other on analogy,
introduce the reader to the patterns of thinking that are
fundamental not only to Greek philosophy but also to classical
civilization as a whole. As a leading classicist in his own right,
Lloyd is an impeccable guide. His sophistication in adducing
anthropological parallels to Greek models of polarity and analogy
broadens his perspective, making him a forerunner in the study of
what we are now used to calling semiotics. A striking example of
Lloyd's approach is his re-examination of the dichotomy of Olympian
and chthonian gods in ancient Greek world view, which surpasses the
reductionist and pseudo-historical models of sky-gods and
earth-goddesses that are still commonly invoked to account for
polarities in Greek pantheon. "In the second part, dealing with
analogy, three crucial metaphorical models for the universe turn
out to be basis for a dazzlingly wide variety of scientific and
philosophical perspectives. Each model is tested in the whole
spectrum of Greek artistic, philosophical and scientific thought.
This work is a treasure-house of insights for experts and non
experts alike." --Gregory Nagy, Harvard University
More than 100 years ago the brothers Adolf ("Adi") and Rudolf
Dassler made their first pair of sports shoes. Hundreds of
groundbreaking designs, epic moments, and star-studded collabs
later, this book presents a visual review of the adidas shoe
through almost 200 models.To further develop and tailor his
products to athletes’ specific needs, Dassler asked them to
return their worn footwear when no longer needed, with all the
shoes eventually ending up in his attic (to this day, many athletes
return their shoes to adidas, often as a thank you after winning a
title or breaking a world record). This collection now makes up the
"adidas archive", one of the largest, if not the largest archive of
any sports goods manufacturer in the world—which photographers
Christian Habermeier and Sebastian Jäger have been visually
documenting in extreme detail for years.Shot using the highest
reproduction techniques, these images reveal the fine details as
much as the stains, the tears, the repair tape, the grass smudges,
the faded autographs. It’s all here, unmanipulated and captured
in extremely high resolution—and with it comes to light the
personal stories of each individual wearer. We encounter the shoes
worn by West Germany’s football team during its “miraculous”
1954 World Cup win and those worn by Kathrine Switzer when she ran
the Boston Marathon in 1967, before women were officially allowed
to compete; custom models for stars from Madonna to Lionel Messi;
collabs with the likes of Pharrell Williams, Raf Simons, Stella
McCartneyor Yohji Yamamoto; as well as the brand’s trailblazing
techniques and materials.Accompanied by expert texts, each picture
tells us the why and the how, but also conveys the driving force
behind adidas. What we discover goes beyond mere design; in the
end, these are just shoes, worn out by their users who have loved
them—but they are also first-hand witnesses of our sports,
design, and culture history, from the beginnings of the Dassler
brothers and the founding of adidas until today.
This book provides case-studies of how teachers and practitioners
have attempted to develop more effective 'experiential learning'
strategies in order to better equip students for their voluntary
engagements in communities, working for sustainable peace and a
tolerant society free of discrimination. All chapters revolve
around this central theme, testing and trying various paradigms and
experimenting with different practices, in a wide range of
geographical and historical arenas. They demonstrate the innovative
potentials of connecting know-how from different disciplines and
combining experiences from various practitioners in this field of
shaping historical memory, including non-formal and formal sectors
of education, non-governmental workers, professionals from memorial
sites and museums, local and global activists, artists, and engaged
individuals. In so doing, they address the topic of collective
historical traumas in ways that go beyond conventional classroom
methods. Interdisciplinary in approach, the book provides a
combination of theoretical reflections and concrete pedagogical
suggestions that will appeal to educators working across history,
sociology, political science, peace education and civil awareness
education, as well as memory activists and remembrance
practitioners.
They fascinate us today as they did 500 years ago: elaborate
compositions of exotic fruits or platters with oysters, floral
arrangements and skulls, exquisitely decorated musical instruments
and scientific instruments. Magical things testify to exuberant
wealth and hedonism as well as to the enlightened curiosity and
religious fervour of the Baroque era. This lavishly illustrated
book that even features a pictorial glossary sets the stage for the
internationally renowned collection of still lifes housed in
Dresden’s Gemäldegalerie (Picture Gallery). Focusing on the
dazzling masterpieces of Dutch and Flemish painting, this book
examines the genre in all its diverse facets. What meaning, what
content, and what function did still lifes have, what allegories
and symbols are concealed in their coded messages? How did the
artists take the game of optical illusion to extremes? More than 70
still lifes from the Dresden collection by painters such as
Cornelis de Heem, Abraham Mignon, Rachel Ruysch, and Frans Snyders
provide a unique insight into the golden age of this magical genre.
Fallen Bastions was first published in 1939. In its seventieth
anniversary year, Faber Finds is proud to reissue it. G. E. R.
Gedye was a journalist, and more to the point, in the words of Hugh
Greene, 'That Gedye was the greatest British foreign correspondent
of the inter-war years can hardly be disputed'. Fallen Bastions is
his angriest and possibly his greatest book. From his vantage point
of Vienna, where he was central European correspondent for a number
of newspapers from 1925 to 1939, he saw the evils of Nazism earlier
than most. The book, in a vivid and compelling narrative, charts
the inexorable descent to the Nazi invasion of Austria, the
Anschluss, and finishes with the equally infamous piece of
irredentism, the occupation of the Sudetenland in the Czechoslovak
Republic. The book is a phillipic against not just Nazism but also
the policy of appeasement, to the extent that the Daily Telegraph
(not greatly in favour of appeasement, it must be admitted), sacked
him. The editor announced he had resigned by 'mutual consent'.
'That', Gedye sardonically commented, 'is corrrect. It is equally
correct that Herr Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia by ''mutual
consent'' with President Hacha.' Seldom can a subtitle - The
Central European Tragedy - have been more apt, and seldom has it
been told with more verve.
This volume engages with memory of the Holocaust as expressed in
literature, film, and other media. It focuses on the cultural
memory of the second and third generations of Holocaust survivors,
while also taking into view those who were children during the Nazi
period. Language loss, language acquisition, and the multiple needs
of translation are recurrent themes for all of the authors
discussed. By bringing together authors and scholars (often both)
from different generations, countries, and languages, and focusing
on transgenerational and translational issues, this book presents
multiple perspectives on the subject of Holocaust memory, its
impact, and its ongoing worldwide communication.
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