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Comparing Modernities
Pluralism Versus Homogenity. Essays in Homage to Shmuel N. Eisenstadt
Av Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Yitzhak Sternberg
Inbunden, 2005
1788 kr
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The authors of this volume explore the tensions and dilemmas that impact pluralism and homogeneity in modern societies. This is the first work in this field in which the frame of discussion is a comparative civilizational analysis. It focuses on issues that are at the heart of the contemporary …
East-West Identities
Globalization, Localization, and Hybridization
Inbunden, 2007
2544 kr
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Under the simultaneous influences of globalization and localization, there has emerged a prevalent social formation based on a hybridized culture in which the cultural norms are many and various: boundary transcendence, alternative cultures, cultural hybridity, cultural creativity, connectivity, …
"The" Fifth Modality
On Languages that Shape our Motivations and Cultures
Av Carl Roberts
Inbunden, 2008
2236 kr
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This is a book about how people understand each other. Like Simmel’s writings and works written by Foucault and Goffman toward the ends of their careers, this book depicts interactions as behavioral forms. Its novelty is that it grounds these forms in linguistic structure, particularly in the …
Transnationalism
Diasporas and the Advent of a New (Dis)order
Inbunden, 2009
4616 kr
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This book deals with transnationalism and captures its singularity as a generalized phenomenon. The profusion of transnational communities is a factor of fluidity in social orders and represents confrontations between contingencies and basic socio-cultural drives. It has created a new era different …
Globalization of Energy
China and the European Union
Inbunden, 2010
2400 kr
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Since the conclusion of the 1985 trade and cooperation agreement between the European Community and China, a new political dynamic has been set in motion between two emerging entities: industrializing China and integrating Europe. It is reflected in, among others, European Commission policy …
Meaning, Subjectivity, Society
Making Sense of Modernity
Inbunden, 2010
2349 kr
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This book grapples with questions at the core of philosophy and social theory – Who am I? Who are we? How are we to live? That is, questions of what humans are capable of, the ‘nature’ of our relationships to each other and to the world around us, and how we should live. They appear to be both …
Imploding Populations in Japan and Germany
A Comparison
Inbunden, 2011
2981 kr
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This book provides a comprehensive overview of the impact of low birth-rates and population decline on Japan and Germany. Experts from both countries examine a broad range of issues, from demographic change, social ageing, family policies, family formation, work-life balance, domestic and …
World Religions and Multiculturalism
A Dialectic Relation
Inbunden, 2010
2445 kr
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This book is about new forms of religiosity and religious activity emerging in the context of their dialectic relations with contemporary multicultural realities. World religions are effectively a major agent of the multiculturalization of contemporary societies. However, multiculturalism pushes …
Benefit of Broad Horizons
Intellectual and Institutional Preconditions for a Global Social Science
Inbunden, 2010
2374 kr
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More than perhaps anybody else in the world, the Swedish political scientist and sociologist Björn Wittrock has contributed - both on the intellectual and institutional level - to making a truly global social science possible. This volume contains contributions from twenty-six world-renowned …
Communal Idea in the 21st Century
Inbunden, 2012
3000 kr
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The idea of a better society as associated with the communal idea is investigated from both theoretical perspectives and through contemporary experiences around the world. This idea leaves nobody indifferent. Whatever the hardship that its concretization implies, however, once it does materialize, …
European and Chinese Sociologies
A New Dialogue
Inbunden, 2011
2296 kr
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Sociology is subject to a process of internationalisation. The rapid development of China has provided the ‘China experience’ and shown the emergence of a new sociology. In this book a dialogue between European and Chinese sociologists is opening up new horizons for Western thought in a context of …
Secure Oil and Alternative Energy
The Geopolitics of Energy Paths of China and the European Union
Inbunden, 2012
3222 kr
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Secure Oil and Alternative Energy: The Geopolitics and Energy Paths of China and the European Union is the follow-on study to the well-received The Globalization of Energy: China and the European Union (Brill 2010). While intensive cooperation between China and the EU in the fields of energy use, …
Shifting Frontiers of Citizenship: The Latin American Experience
Inbunden, 2012
3000 kr
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While in the days of the Cold War models of citizenship were relatively clear-cut around the contrasting projects of reform and revolution, in the last three decades Latin America has become a laboratory for comparative research. The region has witnessed both a renewal of electoral democracy and …
Walls between Conflict and Peace
Inbunden, 2016
2922 kr
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The Walls between Conflict and Peace discusses how walls are not merely static entities, but are in constant flux, subject to the movement of time. Walls often begin life as a line marking a radical division, but then become an area, that is to say a border, within which function civil and …
Geopolitical Economy of Energy and Environment
China and the European Union
Inbunden, 2017
3082 kr
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This book is the product of a joint research program between the Institute of West Asia & African Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing and the Energy Program Asia of the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden University. China’s transition to an urban-industrial …
Conflict and Peace in Central Eurasia
Towards Explanations and Understandings
Inbunden, 2014
2974 kr
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Conflict and Peace in Central Eurasia combines theory with in-depth description and systematic analyses of ethnoterritorial conflict and coexistence in Central Eurasia. Central Eurasia is at the heart of the Eurasian continent around the Caspian Sea. Much of this macro-region is made up of the …
Oil and Security Policies
Saudi Arabia, 1950-2012
Inbunden, 2015
1953 kr
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With one quarter of proven oil reserves and the largest oil production in the world, Saudi Arabia has been at the center of world politics. Its vast oil resources have been utilized in various ways to maximize internal and external security. While oil revenue allowed the Saudi state to buy off …
Life Advice from Below
The Public Role of Self-Help Coaches in Germany and China
Inbunden, 2017
1686 kr
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In Life Advice from Below, Eric C. Hendriks offers the first systematic, comparative study of the globalization of American-style self-help culture and the cultural conflicts this creates in different national contexts. The self-help guru is an archetypical American figure associated with …
Rekindling the Strong State in Russia and China
Domestic Dynamics and Foreign Policy Projections
Inbunden, 2020
3104 kr
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Rekindling the Strong State in Russia and China offers a thorough analysis of the profound regeneration of the State and its intense interaction with the external projections of Russia and China. In the international political scene, leaderships are under constant negotiation. Financial crisis, …
Heavens and the Earth: Graeco-Roman, Ancient Chinese, and Mediaeval Islamic Images of the World
Inbunden, 2021
4297 kr
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Vittorio Cotesta’s The Heavens and the Earth traces the origin of the images of the world typical of the Graeco-Roman, Ancient Chinese and Medieval Islamic civilisations. Each of them had its own peculiar way of understanding the universe, life, death, society, power, humanity and its destiny. The …
“Comfort Stations” as Remembered by Okinawans during World War II
Av Yunshin Hong, Robert Ricketts
Inbunden, 2020
2902 kr
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Okinawa, the only Japanese prefecture invaded by US forces in 1945, was forced to accommodate 146 “military comfort stations” from 1941–45. How did Okinawans view these intrusive spaces and their impact on regional society? Interviews, survivor testimonies, and archival documents show that the …
Trust in Contemporary Society
Inbunden, 2019
2307 kr
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Trust in Contemporary Society, by well-known trust researchers, deals with conceptual, theoretical and social interaction analyses, historical data on societies, national surveys or cross-national comparative studies, and methodological issues related to trust. The authors are from a variety of …
Journalism ‘a Peacekeeping Agent’ at the Time of Conflict
Inbunden, 2018
2387 kr
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Journalism ‘a Peacekeeping Agent’ at the Time of Conflict’ offers various perspectives to the question ‘Could journalism play a role as a peacekeeping agent in many contexts of conflict?’ with the contribution of academics from different countries. The book deals with media’s current issues through …
Multiple Globalizations: Linguistic Landscapes in World-Cities
Av Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Miriam Ben-Rafael
Inbunden, 2018
2570 kr
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This work studies aspects of the symbolic construction of public spaces by means of linguistic resources (i.e. linguistic landscapes or LLs) in a number of world-cities. The sociology of language leads us to this field and to study the intermingling impacts of globalization, the national principle …
Intercultural Friendship: The Case of a Palestinian Bedouin and a Dutch Israeli Jew
Inbunden, 2020
3548 kr
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Listen to the podcast about this book.In Intercultural Friendship: The Case of a Palestinian Bedouin and a Dutch Israeli Jew Daniel J.N. Weishut focuses on the interface between interculturality and friendship in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. After a literature study, the author …
Disability and Dissensus: Strategies of Disability Representation and Inclusion in Contemporary Culture
Inbunden, 2020
2544 kr
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Disability and Dissensus is a comprehensive collection of essays that reflects the interdisciplinary nature of critical cultural disability studies. The volume offers a selection of texts by numerous specialists in different areas of the humanities, both well-established scholars and young …
Cultural Political Economy of the Construction Industry in Turkey
The Case of Public Housing
Inbunden, 2020
2628 kr
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The Cultural Political Economy of the Construction Industry in Turkey analyses the growth of the popularity of the ‘Justice and Development Party’ (official acronym: AK Parti or AKP) of Turkey’s president Erdogan, through the lens of the construction sector. It provides a comprehensive analysis of …
Biomedical Hegemony and Democracy in South Africa
Av Ngambouk Vitalis Pemunta, Tabi Chama-James Tabenyang
Inbunden, 2020
2512 kr
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In Biomedical Hegemony and Democracy in South Africa Ngambouk Vitalis Pemunta and Tabi Chama-James Tabenyang unpack the contentious South African government’s post-apartheid policy framework of the ‘‘return to tradition policy’’. The conjuncture between deep sociopolitical crises, witchcraft, the …
Metamorphosis of the Kibbutz
Inbunden, 2020
3117 kr
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This volume focuses on today’s kibbutz and the metamorphosis which it has undergone. Starting with theoretical considerations and clarifications, it discusses the far-reaching changes recently experienced by this setting. It investigates how those changes re-shaped it from a setting widely viewed …
Trust in Contemporary Society
Häftad, 2021
749 kr
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Trust in Contemporary Society, by well-known trust researchers, deals with conceptual, theoretical and social interaction analyses, historical data on societies, national surveys or cross-national comparative studies, and methodological issues related to trust. The authors are from a variety of …
