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Glass slippers, a fairy godmother, a ball, a prince, an evil
stepfamily, and a poor girl known for sitting amongst the ashes:
incarnations of the "Cinderella" fairy tale have resonated
throughout the ages. Hidden between the lines of this fairy tale
exists a history of fantasy about agency, power, and empowerment.
This book examines twenty-first-century "Cinderella" adaptations
that envision the classic tale in the twenty-first century through
the lens of wokenesss by shifting rhetorical implications and
self-reflexively granting different possibilities for protagonists.
The contributors argue that the "Cinderella" archetype expands past
traditional takes on the passive princess. From Sex and the City to
Game of Thrones, from cyborg "Cinderellas" to Inglorious Basterds,
contributors explore gender-bending and feminist adaptations,
explorations of race and the body, and post-human and post-truth
rewritings. The collection posits that contemporary "Cinderella"
adaptations create a substantive cultural product that both inform
and reflect a contemporary social zeitgeist.
This important research review considers the seminal legal articles
in property law and its subtopics published during the 20th and
21st centuries. The coverage is broad, as comprehensive as
possible, ranging from theoretical to practical and doctrinal. The
authors of the pieces under discussion are primarily American and
all stand as leading figures in their respective fields. The text
places its focus on topics of current interest, including economic
and non-economic theories of property, the takings problem, and the
reform of the law of land-use servitudes.
""Specialists will learn much from the book, as will anyone
interested in the renewal of political history more generally."" -
The International History Review ""The essays focus on heretofore
underappreciated issues . . . Although several anthologies about
modern France have appeared recently, this collection is a
particularly worthy contribution because of its approach and its
analytical insights. Students and specialists of the history of
France will benefit greatly." - History: Reviews of New Books ""The
essays are worth reading, and some make very distinctive and
important contributions to our understanding of modern French
history." - H-France Since 1914, the French state has faced a
succession of daunting and at times almost insurmountable crises.
The turbulent decades from 1914 to 1969 witnessed near-defeat in
1914, economic and political crisis in 1926, radical political
polarization in the 1930s, military conquest in 1940, the deep
division of France during the Nazi Occupation, political
reconstruction after 1944, de-colonization (with threatening civil
war provoked by the Algerian crisis), and dramatic postwar
modernization. However, this tumultuous period was not marked just
by crises but also by tremendous change. Economic, social and
political ""modernization"" transformed France in the twentieth
century, restoring its confidence and its influence as a leader in
global economic and political affairs. This combination of crises
and renewal has received surprisingly little attention in recent
years. The present collection show-cases significant new
scholarship, reflecting greater access to French archival sources,
and focuses on the role of crises in fostering modernization in
areas covering politics, economics, women, diplomacy and war.
Kenneth Moure is Professor of History at the University of
California at Santa Barbara. Martin S. Alexander is Professor of
International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK"
The relationship between psychoanalysis and history is
long-standing, productive and controversial. From Freud onward,
psychoanalytic thinkers have looked to history for insights into
the operations of the human mind. Historians have been more
equivocal about the value of psychoanalysis for their discipline.
But recent decades have seen a growing interest in psychoanalysis
across the Humanities. History and Psyche brings together some of
the best work in this area, in essays by sixteen leading scholars.
Topics explored include Luther and psychobiography, empathy and
historical subjectivity, the political history of the Oedipus
complex, and childhood in early modernity.
The Algerian War 1954-62 was one of the most prolonged and violent examples of decolonization. Bringing to an end 132 years of French rule, the Algerian struggle caused the fall of six French prime ministers, the collapse of the Fourth Republic, and expulsion of one million French settlers. This volume, bringing together leading experts in the field, focuses on one of the key actors in the drama - the French army. They show that the Algerian War was just as much about conflicts of ideas, beliefs and loyalties as it was about simple military operations. In this way, the collection goes beyond polemic and recrimination to explore the many and varied nuances of what was one of the historically most important of the grand style colonial wars.
Shimmering in maximal minimalism, joyful bleakness, and bodiless
intimacy, Laurie Anderson's Big Science diagnosed crises of
meaning, scale, and identity in 1982. Decades later, the strange
questions it poses loom even larger: How do we remain human when
our identities are digitally distributed? Does technology bring us
closer together or further apart? Can we experience the stillness
of "now" when time is always moving? How does our experience become
memory? Laurie Anderson pioneered new techniques and aesthetics in
performance art, becoming its first and most enduring superstar. In
this book, author S. Alexander Reed dives into the wonderfully
strange making and meanings of this singular album and of its
creator's long artistic career. Packed with scrupulous new
research, reception history, careful description, and dizzying
creativity, this book is an interdisciplinary love letter to a
record whose sounds, politics, and expressions of gendered identity
grow more relevant each day.
The French Army's war in Algeria has always aroused passions. This
book does not whitewash the atrocities committed by both sides;
rather it shifts the focus to the conflict itself, a perspective
assisted by the French republic's belated official admission in
1999 that what happened in Algeria was indeed a war. Each
contributor made use of the increasingly liberalised French
archives of the war since the early 1990s. The book re-evaluates
counter-terrorism in the cities; the methods used in the "battle
for hearts and minds" in the villages of the interior; the hitherto
neglected roles of French air and naval power in supporting the
army's counter-insurgency offensives against the Armee de
Liberation Nationale; and the battles that France decisively lost
for both world opinion and for support from her major Western
allies.
For years, with few exceptions, writers have overwhelmingly
examined the Algerian crisis through the prism of French party
politics, personal testimony and more recently, memory. But, far
from being "a war with no name" the fighting in Algeria was on a
massive scale involving some two million French soldiers. This
collection, published for the 40th anniversary of the war's end,
firmly situates the battles they fought in strategy, operations and
diplomacy.
The French Army's war in Algeria has always aroused passions. This
book does not whitewash the atrocities committed by both sides;
rather it focuses on the conflict itself, a perspective assisted by
the French republic's official admission in 1999 that what happened
in Algeria was indeed a war.
Glass slippers, a fairy godmother, a ball, a prince, an evil
stepfamily, and a poor girl known for sitting amongst the ashes:
incarnations of the Cinderella fairy tale have resonated throughout
the ages. Hidden between the lines of this fairy tale exists a
history of fantasy about agency, power, and empowerment. This book
examines twenty-first-century "Cinderella" adaptations that
envision the classic tale in the twenty-first century through the
lens of wokenesss by shifting rhetorical implications and
self-reflexively granting different possibilities for protagonists.
The contributors argue that the Cinderella archetype expands past
traditional takes on the passive princess. From Sex and the City to
Game of Thrones, from cyborg Cinderellas to Inglorious Basterds,
contributors explore gender-bending and feminist adaptations,
explorations of race and the body, and post-human and post-truth
rewritings. The collection posits that contemporary "Cinderella"
adaptations create a substantive cultural product that both inform
and reflect a contemporary social zeitgeist.
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Women's Human Rights in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
sheds light on women's rights advancements in the nineteenth
century and early twentieth-century through explorations of
literature and culture from this time period. With an international
emphasis, contributors illuminate the range and diversity of
women's work as novelists, journalists, and short story writers and
analyze the New Woman phenomenon, feminist impulse, and the
diversity of the women writers. Studying writing by authors such as
Alice Meynell, Thomas Hardy, Netta Syrett, Alice Dunbar-Nelson,
Mary Seacole, Charlotte Bronte, and Jean Rhys, the contributors
analyze women's voices and works on the subject of women's rights
and the representation of the New Woman.
In the Psychological Insights for Understanding COVID-19 series,
international experts introduce important themes in psychological
science that engage with people's unprecedented experience of the
pandemic, drawing together chapters as they originally appeared
before COVID-19 descended on the world. This book explores how
COVID-19 has impacted society, and chapters examine a range of
societal issues including leadership and politics, community,
social status, welfare, social exclusion and accountability.
Addressing the social and psychological processes that structure,
and are structured by, our social contexts, it shows not only how
groups and individuals can come together to manage global crises,
but also how these crises can expose weaknesses in our society. The
volume also reflects on how we can work together to rebuild society
in the aftermath of the pandemic, by cultivating a shared sense of
responsibility through social integration and responsible
leadership. Showcasing theory and research on key topics germane to
the global pandemic, the Psychological Insights for Understanding
COVID-19 series offers thought-provoking reading for professionals,
students, academics and policy makers concerned with the
psychological consequences of COVID-19 for individuals, families
and society.
Women's Human Rights in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
sheds light on women's rights advancements in the nineteenth
century and early twentieth-century through explorations of
literature and culture from this time period. With an international
emphasis, contributors illuminate the range and diversity of
women's work as novelists, journalists, and short story writers and
analyze the New Woman phenomenon, feminist impulse, and the
diversity of the women writers. Studying writing by authors such as
Alice Meynell, Thomas Hardy, Netta Syrett, Alice Dunbar-Nelson,
Mary Seacole, Charlotte Bronte, and Jean Rhys, the contributors
analyze women's voices and works on the subject of women's rights
and the representation of the New Woman.
Social identity research is very much on the ascendancy,
particularly in the field of organizational psychology. Reflecting
this fact, this volume contains chapters from researchers at the
cutting edge of these developments.
Many people assume that what morally justifies private ownership of
property is either individual freedom or social welfare, defined in
terms of maximizing personal preference-satisfaction. This book
offers an alternative way of understanding the moral underpinning
of private ownership of property. Rather than identifying any
single moral value, this book argues that human flourishing,
understood as morally pluralistic and objective, is property's
moral foundation. The book goes on to develop a theory that
connects ownership and human flourishing with obligations. Owners
have obligations to members of the communities that enabled the
owners to live flourishing lives by cultivating in their community
members certain capabilities that are essential to leading a
well-lived life. These obligations are rooted in the
interdependence that exists between owners and their community
members, and inherent in the human condition. Obligations have
always been inherent in ownership. Owners are not free to inflict
nuisances upon their neighbors, for example, by operating piggeries
in residential neighborhoods. The human flourishing theory explains
why owners at times have obligations that enable their fellow
community members to develop certain necessary capabilities, such
as health care and security. This is why, for example, farm owners
may be required to allow providers of health care and legal
assistance to enter their property to assist employees who are
migrant workers. Moving from the abstract and theoretical to the
practical, this book considers implications for a wide variety of
property issues of importance both in the literature and in modern
society. These include questions such as: When is a government's
expropriation of property legitimated for the reason it is for
public use? May the owner of a historic or architecturally
significant house destroy it without restriction? Do institutions
that owned African slaves or otherwise profited from the slave
trade owe any obligations to members of the African-American
community? What insights may be gained from the human flourishing
concept into resolving current housing problems like homelessness,
eviction, and mortgage foreclosure?
Since 1914, the French state has faced a succession of daunting and
at times almost insurmountable crises. The turbulent decades from
1914 to 1969 witnessed near-defeat in 1914, economic and political
crisis in 1926, radical political polarization in the 1930s,
military conquest in 1940, the deep division of France during the
Nazi Occupation, political reconstruction after 1944,
de-colonization (with threatening civil war provoked by the
Algerian crisis), and dramatic postwar modernization. However, this
tumultuous period was not marked just by crises but also by
tremendous change. Economic, social and political "modernization"
transformed France in the twentieth century, restoring its
confidence and its influence as a leader in global economic and
political affairs. This combination of crises and renewal has
received surprisingly little attention in recent years. The present
collection show-cases significant new scholarship, reflecting
greater access to French archival sources, and focuses on the role
of crises in fostering modernization in areas covering politics,
economics, women, diplomacy and war.
This groundbreaking book provides a refreshing introduction to the
field of leadership and is jam-packed with theoretical and
practical insights derived from a wealth of applied scientific
research conducted by the authors and their colleagues around the
world over the last three decades. It starts from the premise that
leadership is never just about leaders. Instead it is about leaders
and followers who are joined together as members of a social group
that provides them with a sense of shared social identity - a sense
of "us-ness". In these terms, leadership is understood as the
process through which leaders work with followers to create,
represent, advance, and embed this sense of shared social identity.
The new edition of this award-winning book presents a wealth of
evidence from historical, organizational, political and sporting
contexts to provide an expanded exploration of these processes of
identity leadership in action. In particular, it builds upon the
success of the first edition by examining the operation of identity
leadership in contemporary society and fleshing out practical
answers to key organizational and institutional challenges. Drawing
on real-world examples and rich data sources, this book will appeal
to academics, researchers, and students of psychology, business,
and management, as well as to practitioners, policy makers, and
anyone interested in the workings of leadership, influence, and
power.
Social identity research is very much on the ascendancy - particularly in the field of organizational psychology. Reflecting this fact, this volume contains chapters from researchers at the cutting edge of these developments and presents findings from a range of key international research programs. Its seventeen chapters are organized into six sections dealing in turn with the nature of identity, motivation and performance, communication and decision-making, leadership and authority, change and change management, and perceiving and responding to inequity. The chapters address a broad range of topical issues including diversity, discrimination, goal-setting, groupthink, mergers, negotiation, and culture. Not only do they present a compelling framework for theoretical advance in each of these areas, but they also discuss wide-ranging issues of practical intervention and application. The result is a text that will be essential reading for students and researchers in social and organizational psychology, as well as many others who are interested in social identity and group behaviour at work.
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Little attention has been paid to the murky, ultra-business of
gathering intelligence among and forming estimates about friendly
powers, and friendly or allied military forces. How rarely have
scholars troubled to discover when states entered into coalitions
or alliances mainly and explicitly because their intelligence
evaluation of the potential partner concluded that making the
alliance was, from the originator's national security interest, the
best game in town. The twentieth century has been chosen to enhance
the coherence of and connections between, the subject matter of
this under-explored part of intelligence studies.
Little attention has been paid to the murky, ultra-business of
gathering intelligence among and forming estimates about friendly
powers, and friendly or allied military forces. How rarely have
scholars troubled to discover when states entered into coalitions
or alliances mainly and explicitly because their intelligence
evaluation of the potential partner concluded that making the
alliance was, from the originator's national security interest, the
best game in town. The twentieth century has been chosen to enhance
the coherence of and connections between, the subject matter of
this under-explored part of intelligence studies.
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