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Nakhane Toure’s debut novel, Piggy boy’s blues, a distorted
pastoral, is for all intents and purposes a portrait of the M.
family. Centred mostly on the protagonist, Davide M., and his
return to Alice, the town of his birth, the novel portrays a Xhosa
royal family past its prime and glory. Davide’s journey, from the
city to the country for peace and quiet, is not what he or the
characters living in the forgotten and dilapidated house have
bargained for. His return disturbs and troubles the silence and
day-to-day practices that his uncle, Ndimphiwe, and the man he
lives with have kept, resulting in a series of tragic events. Set
mostly in the Eastern Cape – modern and historical – in Alice and
Port Elizabeth, Piggy boy’s blues is a novel about boundaries, the
intricacies of love and how the members of the M. family sometimes
fail at navigating them.
Why do some countries succeed while others struggle? Why are some
firms profitable while rivals fail? Why do some marriages thrive
and others end in divorce? The questions seem unrelated, but
societies, companies, and marriages have one important thing in
common: They involve more than one individual. They thus face the
same fundamental challenges. How can people be made to help
rather than hurt each other? How can they use sacrifice,
cooperation, and coercion to promote the common good? In this
introductory text, Tore Ellingsen equips readers to answer
essential questions around the success and failure of humans in
groups, drawing on behavioral game theory, psychology, and
sociology. He emphasizes how other-regarding preferences such as
altruism and dutifulness matter for societies’ prosperity and
analyzes the role of culture in the form of shared values and
understandings. One lesson is that cooperation is facilitated when
people anticipate that they will hold common memories of past
behaviour, especially if agreements take precedence over leaders’
authority. A groundbreaking text, Institutional and
Organizational Economics is essential reading for students
and scholars of economics, political science, sociology, and public
administration.
Innovation is a high-risk endeavor and success is dependent upon a
firm's understanding of customer needs. A company's initial
resistance to adopting innovation is mitigated with a solid
foundation of customer trust in the firm. This book uniquely
combines the work of scholars and practitioners to examine how
trust and customer-centricity impacts every phase of the innovation
journey. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, the contributions
in this collection consider different aspects of innovating for
trust. Beginning with the notion of trust itself, authors examine
the importance of trust in futures thinking, business model
innovation, service design, co-creation, the innovative
organization and self-service technologies. The book also contains
a valuable collection of case studies based upon innovation with
major service providers, which supports the final emphasis on the
importance of trust in commercializing innovations. Practical and
engaging, Innovating for Trust will appeal to enlightened business
managers aiming to build and maintain customer trust, as well as
students and researchers of innovation, trust and strategy.
Contributors include: T.W. Andreassen, K. Bentsen, J. Blomkvist, D.
Chasanidou, S. Clatworthy, M. Filho, A. Fjuk, A. Folstad, J.
Gloppen, D. Groenquist, R. Halvorsrud, W. Haukedal, T. Hillestad,
M.T. Hossain, S. Jorgensen, A. Karahasanovic, T. Kobbeltvedt, P.
Kristensson, S. Kurtmollaiev, K. Kvale, L. Lervik-Olsen, M. Luders,
H. Nysveen, P.E. Pedersen, T. Saebi, S.E.R. Skard, B.A. Solem, C.
Tepfers, H. Thorbjornsen, L.J. Tynes Pedersen, B. Yttri
In February 2014, al-Qaida issued a statement that shocked the
entire Jihadi movement. For the first time in its history, the
group declared that a local affiliate, the Islamic State in Iraq,
was no longer part of al-Qaida. The renegade Iraqi group, led by
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, had expanded its operations to Syria, taking
over the regional branch Jabhat al-Nusra; but in the process, the
group had defied orders from al-Qaida's amir, Ayman al-Zawahiri.
Islamic State's actions, and increasingly aggressive posture
towards fellow Jihadis, eventually ignited a Jihadi civil war--a
period defined by internal tensions that ultimately turned global.
With devastating impact, this fitna left the Jihadi movement more
polarised and fragmented than ever, seriously threatening its
internal cohesion. 'Jihadi Politics' presents the first exhaustive
account of infighting within the global Jihadi movement. Based on
years of digital anthropology, hundreds of primary documents, and
interviews with Jihadis, it offers an unprecedented glimpse into
historic and current conflicts between and within Jihadi groups.
This thorough examination of the years 2014-2019 offers a more
nuanced understanding of the current state of Jihadism, with
important insights into its future evolution--including Islamic
State's role in Afghanistan.
In the eleventh century, the rulers of the lands surrounding the
North Sea are all hungry for power. To get power they need
soldiers, to get soldiers they need silver, and to get silver there
is no better way than war and plunder. This vicious cycle draws all
the lands of the north into a brutal struggle for supremacy and
survival that will shatter kingdoms and forge an empire. The Wolf
Age takes the reader on a thrilling journey through the bloody
shared history of England and Scandinavia, and on across early
medieval Europe, from the wild Norwegian fjords to the wealthy
cities of Muslim Andalusia. Warfare, plotting, backstabbing and
bribery abound as Tore Skeie weaves sagas and skaldic poetry with
breathless dramatization to bring the world of the Vikings and
Anglo-Saxons to vivid life.
Containing ideas and perspectives, this monograph examines the
evolutionary and future considerations for diversity in aging.
Sports coaching is a social activity. At its heart lies a complex
interaction between coach and athlete played out within the context
of sport, itself a socio-culturally defined set of practices. In
this ground-breaking book, leading international coaching scholars
and coaches argue that an understanding of sociology and social
theory can help us better grasp the interactive nature of coaching
and consequently assist in demystifying the mythical 'art' of the
activity. The Sociology of Sports Coaching establishes an
alternative conceptual framework from which to explore sports
coaching. It firstly introduces the work of key social theorists,
such as Foucault, Goffman and Bourdieu among others, before
highlighting the principal themes that link the study of sociology
and sports coaching, such as power, interaction, and knowledge and
learning. The book also outlines and develops the connections
between theory and practice by placing the work of each selected
social theorist alongside contemporary views on that work from a
current practicing coach. This is the first book to present a
critical sociological perspective of sports coaching and, as such,
it represents an important step forward in the professionalization
of the discipline. It is essential reading for any serious student
of sports coaching or the sociology of sport, and for any
reflective practitioner looking to become a better coach.
Does a more academic type of police education produce new police
officers that are reluctant to patrol the streets? What is the
impact of gender diversity and political orientation on a police
students' career aspirations and attitudes to policing? These are
some of the questions addressed by this longitudinal project,
following police students in seven European countries. The unique
data material makes it possible to explore a wide range of topics
relevant to the future development of policing, police education
and police science more generally. Part I presents an overview of
the different goals and models of police education in the seven
participating countries. Part II describes what type of student is
attracted to police education, taking into consideration
educational background, political orientation and career
aspirations. Part III shows the social impact of police education
by examining students' orientations towards emerging competence
areas; students' career aspirations; and students' attitudes
concerning trust, cynicism and legalism. The overall results show
that police students are strikingly similar across different types
of police education. Students in academic institutions are at least
as interested in street patrolling as students in vocational
training institutions. Gender and recruitment policies matters more
in relation to career preferences than education models. The
national context plays a more important role than the type of
police education system. Written in a clear and direct style, this
book will appeal to students and scholars in policing, criminology,
sociology, social theory and cultural studies and those interested
in how police education shapes its graduates.
Does a more academic type of police education produce new police
officers that are reluctant to patrol the streets? What is the
impact of gender diversity and political orientation on a police
students' career aspirations and attitudes to policing? These are
some of the questions addressed by this longitudinal project,
following police students in seven European countries. The unique
data material makes it possible to explore a wide range of topics
relevant to the future development of policing, police education
and police science more generally. Part I presents an overview of
the different goals and models of police education in the seven
participating countries. Part II describes what type of student is
attracted to police education, taking into consideration
educational background, political orientation and career
aspirations. Part III shows the social impact of police education
by examining students' orientations towards emerging competence
areas; students' career aspirations; and students' attitudes
concerning trust, cynicism and legalism. The overall results show
that police students are strikingly similar across different types
of police education. Students in academic institutions are at least
as interested in street patrolling as students in vocational
training institutions. Gender and recruitment policies matters more
in relation to career preferences than education models. The
national context plays a more important role than the type of
police education system. Written in a clear and direct style, this
book will appeal to students and scholars in policing, criminology,
sociology, social theory and cultural studies and those interested
in how police education shapes its graduates.
In contemporary society, 'the visual' becomes a traversing
denominator passing through the most diverse articulations: from
new media, branding, drone vision and robot culture to cityscapes,
design and art. The transvisuality project in three volumes
promotes the turn away from the predominance of a focus on
representations in studies of visual culture. Volume 2 introduces
visual organisation in-the-making as an effect of manifold
traversing articulations and interconnected practices: how is the
'stuff' of visuality-an image like a photograph, an incident on TV,
a cinematic oeuvre-intertwined in a range of cultural practices,
transformed and transgressed by them in transvisuality. The aim of
the book is to map how visual organizations are traversing culture
as articulatory practices in situ. The resulting case studies take
their departure in different materialities and agencies of
empirical, embedded visuality-from canvas to drone camera-and
illustrate how transvisuality evolves in and around publics and
communities on the one hand and through bodies and media on the
other. The visual articulations analysed in this volume span from
cellphone videos to forensic images, from biomedia to robots, from
bunker ruins to Kalighat pat paintings, from a Palestinian wedding
dress to video footage of unknown strangers in a metro, from the
Gorgon Stare to movies becoming art installations. While the first
volume addresses the boundaries of the notion of visuality and
creative openings that visual culture studies offer, the third
volume maps visuality in contexts of design, creativity and brand
management.
Why do some countries succeed while others struggle? Why are some
firms profitable while rivals fail? Why do some marriages thrive
and others end in divorce? The questions seem unrelated, but
societies, companies, and marriages have one important thing in
common: They involve more than one individual. They thus face the
same fundamental challenges. How can people be made to help
rather than hurt each other? How can they use sacrifice,
cooperation, and coercion to promote the common good? In this
introductory text, Tore Ellingsen equips readers to answer
essential questions around the success and failure of humans in
groups, drawing on behavioral game theory, psychology, and
sociology. He emphasizes how other-regarding preferences such as
altruism and dutifulness matter for societies’ prosperity and
analyzes the role of culture in the form of shared values and
understandings. One lesson is that cooperation is facilitated when
people anticipate that they will hold common memories of past
behaviour, especially if agreements take precedence over leaders’
authority. A groundbreaking text, Institutional and
Organizational Economics is essential reading for students
and scholars of economics, political science, sociology, and public
administration.
A stunning story of heroism and survival during World War II. The
book that inspired the international film of the same name. "A
must-read .... Intrigue, suspense, and adventure."-The Norwegian
American "I remember reading We Die Alone in 1970 and I could never
forget it. Then when we went to Norway to do a docudrama, people
told us again and again that certain parts were pure fiction. Since
I was a Norwegian that was not good enough; I had to find the
truth. I sincerely believe we did," writes author Astrid Karlsen
Scott. The 12th Man is the true story of Jan Baalsrud, whose
struggle to escape the Gestapo and survive in Nazi-occupied Norway
has inspired the international film of the same name. In late March
1943, in the midst of WWII, four Norwegian saboteurs arrived in
northern Norway on a fishing cutter and set anchor in Toftefjord to
establish a base for their operations. However, they were betrayed,
and a German boat attacked the cutter, creating a battlefield and
spiraling Jan Baalsrud into the adventure of his life. The only
survivor and wounded, Baalsrud begins a perilous journey to
freedom, swimming icy fjords, climbing snow-covered peaks, enduring
snowstorms, and getting caught in a monstrous avalanche. Suffering
from snow blindness and frostbite, more than sixty people of the
Troms District risk their lives to help Baalsrud to freedom.
Meticulously researched for more than five years, Karlsen Scott and
Haug bring forth the truth behind this captivating,
edge-of-your-seat, real-life survival story.
Each year, approximately a million tourists visit slum areas on
guided tours as a part of their holiday to Asia, Africa or Latin
America. This book analyses the cultural encounters that take place
between slum tourists and former street children, who work as tour
guides for a local NGO in Delhi, India. Slum tours are typically
framed as both tourist performances, bought as commodities for a
price on the market, and as appeals for aid that tourists encounter
within an altruistic discourse of charity. This book enriches the
tourism debate by interpreting tourist performances as affective
economies, identifying tour guides as emotional labourers and
raising questions on the long-term impacts of economically
unbalanced encounters with representatives of the Global North,
including the researcher. This book studies the 'feeling rules'
governing a slum tour and how they shape interactions. When do
guides permit tourists to exoticise the slum and feel a thrilling
sense of disgust towards the effects of abject poverty, and when do
they instead guide them towards a sense of solidarity with the
slum's inhabitants? What happens if the tourists rebel and
transgress the boundaries delimiting the space of comfortable
affective negotiation constituted by the guides? This book will be
essential reading for undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers
working within the fields of Human Geography, Slum Tourism
Research, Subaltern Studies and Development Studies.
The Military Conquest of the Prairie is a study on the final wars
on the prairie from the Native American perspective. When the
reservation system took hold about one-third of tribes stayed
permanently there, one-third during the harsh winter months, and
the last third remained on what the government termed unceded
territory, which Native Americans had the right to occupy by
treaty. For the Federal government it was completely unacceptable
that some Indians refused to submit to its authority. Both the Red
River war (1874-75) in the south and the great Sioux war (1876-77 )
in the north were the direct result of Federal violation of
treaties and agreements. At issue was the one-sided violence
against free roaming tribes that were trying to maintain their old
way of life, at the heart of which was avoidance on intermingling
with white men. Contrary to the expectations of the government, and
indeed to most historical accounts, the Native Americans were
winning on the battlefields with clear conceptions of strategy and
tactics. They only laid down their arms when their reservation was
secured on their homeland, thus providing their preferred living
space and enabling them to continue their way of life in security.
But white man perfidy and governmental double-cross were the order
of the day. The Federal government found it intolerable that what
it termed savages' should be able to determine their own future.
Vicious attacks were initiated in order to stamp out tribalism,
resulting in driving the US aboriginal population almost to
extinction. Analysis of these events is discussed in light of the
passing of the Dawes Act in 1887 that provided for breaking up the
reservations to the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 that gave a
semblance of justice to Native Americans.
This anthology examines and deconstructs what Israeli security
looks like and how its various security identities have evolved
both before the establishment of the state and in the years and
decades since 1948. It casts light on how aspects of Israel's
foreign relations have been shaped as much by internal politics as
by external challenge. Further, not only does it answer the
questions surrounding Israel's past, but examines carefully what
type of country it has now become. Compared to much of the
turbulence in the region, Israel's diplomacies have been remarkably
resilient and inventive. With the background of 100th anniversary
of the Balfour declaration this book is a multidisciplinary study
using several different methodological approaches; from discursive
analyses, to theories of memories and identity, to interviews with
Israeli soldiers in the field, to a legal approach to the topic, as
well as International Relations studies and traditional archival
studies. South Africa was one of Israel's main partners in terms of
security cooperation and weapons research and development until the
fall of the apartheid regime. This has been compensated with Israel
opening up diplomatic relations with China (1991) and India (1992)
and extending its ties with Japan. While the EU often criticize
Israel's policies against the Palestinians, this is mostly rhetoric
as for practical purposes Israel is like a member of the EU. This
comprehensive volume studying contemporary Israel is an invaluable
resource for students and scholars interested in Foreign and
Security Policy, Israel and the Middle East.
In this provocative book, writer and cultural critic Toure explores
the concept of Post-Blackness: the ability for someone to be rooted
in but not restricted by their race. Drawing on his own experiences
and those of 105 luminaries, he argues that racial identity should
be understood as fluid, complex, and self-determined.
When the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) assumed
power in India in 1998 as the largest party of the National
Democratic Alliance, it soon became evident that it prioritized
educational reforms. Under BJP rule, a reorganization of the
National Council of Educational Research and Training occurred, and
in 2002 four new history textbooks were published. This book
examines the new textbooks which were introduced, considering them
to be integral to the BJP's political agenda. It analyses the ways
in which their narrative and explanatory frameworks defined and
invoked Hindu identity. Employing the concept of
decontextualization, the author argues that notions of Hindu
cultural similarity were conveyed, particularly as the textbooks
paid scarce attention to social, geographical and temporal contexts
in their approaches to Indian history. The book shows that
intrinsic to the textbooks' emphasis on similarity is a systematic
backgrounding of any references to internal lines of division
within the Hindu community. Through a comparison with earlier
textbooks, it sheds light on the contested nature of history
writing in India, especially in terms of nation building and
identity construction. This issue is also highly relevant in India
today due to the electoral success of the BJP in 2014, and the
efforts of the Hindu nationalist organization Vishwa Hindu Parishad
to construct a coherent Hinduism. Arguing that the textbooks
operate according to the BJP's ideology of Hindu cultural
nationalism, this book will be of interest to academics in the
field of South Asian studies, contemporary history, the uses of
history, identity politics and Hindu nationalism.
Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning 5 is a selection of some
of the best scholarship in urban and regional planning from around
the world. The internationally recognized authors of these
award-winning papers take up a range of salient issues from the
theory and practice of planning. The topics they address include
the effects of globalization on world cities, metropolitan planning
in France and Australia, and new research in pedestrian and traffic
design. The breadth of the topics covered in this book will appeal
to all those with an interest in urban and regional planning,
providing a springboard for further debate and research. The papers
focus particularly on themes of inclusion, urban transformation,
metropolitan planning, and urban design. The Dialogues in Urban and
Regional Planning (DURP) book series is published in association
with the Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN) and
its member national and transnational planning schools
associations.
Illustrates the importance of various advance oxidation processes
in effluent treatment plant Points out the reuse of the treated
wastewater through emerging advance oxidation technologies for
effluent treatment plant Highlights the recovery of resources from
wastewater Pays attention to the occurrence of novel
micro-pollutants Emphasizes the role of nanotechnology in
bioremediation of pollutants Introduces new trends in environmental
bioremediation
When the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) assumed
power in India in 1998 as the largest party of the National
Democratic Alliance, it soon became evident that it prioritized
educational reforms. Under BJP rule, a reorganization of the
National Council of Educational Research and Training occurred, and
in 2002 four new history textbooks were published. This book
examines the new textbooks which were introduced, considering them
to be integral to the BJP's political agenda. It analyses the ways
in which their narrative and explanatory frameworks defined and
invoked Hindu identity. Employing the concept of
decontextualization, the author argues that notions of Hindu
cultural similarity were conveyed, particularly as the textbooks
paid scarce attention to social, geographical and temporal contexts
in their approaches to Indian history. The book shows that
intrinsic to the textbooks' emphasis on similarity is a systematic
backgrounding of any references to internal lines of division
within the Hindu community. Through a comparison with earlier
textbooks, it sheds light on the contested nature of history
writing in India, especially in terms of nation building and
identity construction. This issue is also highly relevant in India
today due to the electoral success of the BJP in 2014, and the
efforts of the Hindu nationalist organization Vishwa Hindu Parishad
to construct a coherent Hinduism. Arguing that the textbooks
operate according to the BJP's ideology of Hindu cultural
nationalism, this book will be of interest to academics in the
field of South Asian studies, contemporary history, the uses of
history, identity politics and Hindu nationalism.
This book explores the deep roots of modern democracy, focusing on
geography and long-term patterns of global diffusion. Its
geographic argument centers on access to the sea, afforded by
natural harbors which enhance the mobility of people, goods,
capital, and ideas. The extraordinary connectivity of harbor
regions thereby affected economic development, the structure of the
military, statebuilding, and openness to the world - and, through
these pathways, the development of representative democracy. The
authors' second argument focuses on the global diffusion of
representative democracy. Beginning around 1500, Europeans started
to populate distant places abroad. Where Europeans were numerous
they established some form of representative democracy, often with
restrictions limiting suffrage to those of European heritage. Where
they were in the minority, Europeans were more reticent about
popular rule and often actively resisted democratization. Where
Europeans were entirely absent, the concept of representative
democracy was unfamiliar and its practice undeveloped.
This book examines the challenges that military forces will face in
multinational operations in the 21st century. Expanding on Rupert
Smith's The Utility of Force, the volume assesses the changing
parameters within which force as a political instrument is
ultimately carried out. By analysing nine carefully selected
mission types, the volume presents a comprehensive analysis of key
trends and trajectories. Building upon this analysis, the
contributors break the trends and parameters down into real and
potential tasks and mission types in order to identify concrete
implications for military forces in future multinational
operations. The context of military intervention in conflicts and
crises around the world is rapidly evolving. Western powers'
shrinking ability and desire to intervene makes it pertinent to
analyse how the cost of operations can be reduced and, how they can
be executed more intelligently in the future. New challenges to
international military operations are arising and this book
addresses these challenges by focusing on three key areas of
change: 1) An increasingly urbanised world; 2) The changing nature
of missions; 3) The commercial availability of new technologies. In
answering these questions and embracing some of the insights of a
growing field of future studies, the volume presents an innovative
perspective on future international military operations. This book
will be of much interest to students of international intervention,
military and strategic studies, war and conflict studies, security
studies and IR in general.
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