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Pandemic-Era Civil Disorder in Post-Communist EU Member States

By: Joanna Rak

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Pandemic-Era Civil Disorder in Post-Communist EU Member States

By: Joanna Rak

As public order policing become more prominently widespread so is the need to better explain why some instances of collective action transform into civil disorder. In this book, Joanna Rak advances a middle-range theory to better explain the sources of civil disorder in one of the pandemic-ridden regions of the European Union, the post-communist states. Supported by systematic empirical evidence of protest policing in 11 countries in the region, Rak delves analytically into conditions of civil disorder in each state to test the hypotheses and offer an explanation. The analysis begins by discussing the demonstration events from the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project database. She then identifies conditions of civil disorder development for each demonstration event, including police partisanship, the dimensions of protest policing, and the aggregate model of protest policing. The comparative analysis sheds light on the conditions under which collective action transforms into civil disorder and the outcomes vital for managing the relationship between law enforcement and public gatherings in a way that ensures the safe practice of civil rights. Pandemic-Era Civil Disorder in Post-Communist EU Member States offers a thought-provoking and nuanced understanding of civil order and democratic struggles in the region and will interest students and researchers of comparative politics, contentious politics, democratic theory, civil society, and post-communism.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040124720

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9781040124727

Theorizing Cultures of Political Violence in Times of Austerity

Studying Social Movements in Comparative Perspective

By: Joanna Rak

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Theorizing Cultures of Political Violence in Times of Austerity

Studying Social Movements in Comparative Perspective

By: Joanna Rak

After the multidimensional financial crisis of 2008, the member states of the Eurozone imposed a set of economic policies to save their economies. Socially unpopular cuts contributed to the occurrence of violent movements that both opposed austerity policies and created animosity towards the politicians who implemented them. Combining qualitative and quantitative comparative analyses from anti-austerity movements in 14 Eurozone states from 2007 to 2015, Joanna Rak develops an original typology of patterns of a culture of political violence to explain why some anti-austerity movements turned to violence and others did not, despite having shared goals and political values. She uncovers the very nature of the differences and similarities between cultures of political violence, identifies their sources, and determines their differing results. Simultaneously, she opens a discussion on the exploratory and explanatory utility of the category of a culture of political violence in the Social Sciences. Theorizing Cultures of Political Violence in Times of Austerity casts new light on the scholarly debate on cultures of political violence and anti-austerity violent behavior, making it a compelling read for scholars of political sociology, political behavior, comparative politics, European politics, and sociology.

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206

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Routledge

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1351205749

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Cursed

A Social Portrait of the Kielce Pogrom

By: Joanna Tokarska-Bakir

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Cursed

A Social Portrait of the Kielce Pogrom

By: Joanna Tokarska-Bakir

In Cursed, Joanna Tokarska-Bakir investigates the July 4, 1946, Kielce pogrom, a milestone in the periodization of the Jewish diaspora. This massacre compelled thousands of Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust to flee postwar Poland. It remains a negative reference point in the Polish historical narrative and represents a lack of reckoning with the role of antisemitism in postwar Polish society and identity politics. Tokarska-Bakir weaves together the voices of the Kielce pogrom survivors, witnesses, and perpetrators with a myriad of other archival sources. Her meticulous research exposes wartime and postwar biographies of local factory workers, city and church officials, local police officers, and members of the security service, some of whom participated in the Holocaust and then directly or indirectly participated in the Kielce pogrom. Tokarska-Bakir paints a social portrait that explores people's behavior in light of forces and emotions greater than themselves. She reconstructs a postwar communist system that, despite promises to combat deeply rooted antisemitism, not only failed to prevent its spread but turned a blind eye to it and eventually used it to legitimize itself. Cursed is a microhistory that recreates the events of the Kielce pogrom step by step and examines the dominant hypotheses about the pogrom through the prism of previously classified archival evidence. It offers readers a nuanced analysis that cuts across social and ideological divisions. The resulting narrative is filled with new discoveries not only about the Kielce pogrom but about the nature of antisemitism, hostility toward minorities, and collective violence. Published in Association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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593

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Cornell University Press

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1501771507

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9781501771507

Jewish Childhood in Kraków

A Microhistory of the Holocaust

By: Joanna Sliwa

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Jewish Childhood in Kraków

A Microhistory of the Holocaust

By: Joanna Sliwa

Chapter 1: Navigating shifts in German-occupied Kraków -- Chapter 2: Adapting to life inside the ghetto -- Chapter 3: Clandestine activities by and on behalf of children -- Chapter 4: Child welfare: continuity and change -- Chapter 5: Concealed presence in the camp -- Chapter 6: Survival through hiding and flight.

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Rutgers University Press

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1978822936

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9781978822931

Crisis and Capitalism in Contemporary Argentine Cinema

By: Joanna Page

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Crisis and Capitalism in Contemporary Argentine Cinema

By: Joanna Page

There has been a significant surge in recent Argentine cinema, with an explosion in the number of films made in the country since the mid-1990s. Many of these productions have been highly acclaimed by critics in Argentina and elsewhere. What makes this boom all the more extraordinary is its coinciding with a period of severe economic crisis and civil unrest in the nation. Offering the first in-depth English-language study of Argentine fiction films of the late twentieth century and early twenty-first, Joanna Page explains how these productions have registered Argentina’s experience of capitalism, neoliberalism, and economic crisis. In different ways, the films selected for discussion testify to the social consequences of growing unemployment, rising crime, marginalization, and the expansion of the informal economy. Page focuses particularly on films associated with New Argentine Cinema, but she also discusses highly experimental films and genre movies that borrow from the conventions of crime thrillers, Westerns, and film noir. She analyzes films that have received wide international recognition alongside others that have rarely been shown outside Argentina. What unites all the films she examines is their attention to shifts in subjectivity provoked by political or economic conditions and events. Page emphasizes the paradoxes arising from the circulation of Argentine films within the same global economy they so often critique, and she argues that while Argentine cinema has been intent on narrating the collapse of the nation-state, it has also contributed to the nation’s reconstruction. She brings the films into dialogue with a broader range of issues in contemporary film criticism, including the role of national and transnational film studies, theories of subjectivity and spectatorship, and the relationship between private and public spheres.

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248

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Duke University Press

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0822390752

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9780822390756

Snowbound Wedding Wishes

An Earl Beneath the Mistletoe\Twelfth Night Proposal\Christmas at Oakhurst Manor

By: Louise Allen,Lucy Ashford,Joanna Fulford

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Snowbound Wedding Wishes

An Earl Beneath the Mistletoe\Twelfth Night Proposal\Christmas at Oakhurst Manor

By: Louise Allen,Lucy Ashford,Joanna Fulford

Three Regency Christmases to remember... An Earl Beneath the Mistletoe by Louise Allen Hugo, Earl of Burnham, hates Christmas Snowbound in widow Emilia Weston's cozy alehouse, with her young twins, he's surrounded by festive preparations. Hugo's cynical heart is in danger of being melted.... How much longer can he avoid the mistletoe? Twelfth Night Proposal by Lucy Ashford Leaving London to claim his newly inherited estate, Theo Dalbury finds remote Derbyshire as foreign to him as his feelings for country girl Jenna. Christmas evokes painful memories for him, but Jenna is bringing out his festive spirit...and will give him a yuletide that he'll never forget Christmas at Oakhurst Manor by Joanna Fulford Vivien Hastings is looking forward to a quiet Christmas at Oakhurst Manor, until she realizes she'll be sharing it with Max Calderwood. It's been years since he broke her heart, but one hot glance from his cool gray eyes shows her that she's just as vulnerable to him as she ever was....

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281

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Harlequin

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0373297114

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9780373297115

Family Health Care Nursing

Theory, Practice, and Research

By: Joanna Rowe Kaakinen,Deborah Padgett Coehlo,Rose Steele,Melissa Robinson

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Family Health Care Nursing

Theory, Practice, and Research

By: Joanna Rowe Kaakinen,Deborah Padgett Coehlo,Rose Steele,Melissa Robinson

Prepare for the real world of family nursing care! Explore family nursing the way it’s practiced today—with a theory-guided, evidence-based approach to care throughout the family life cycle that responds to the needs of families and adapts to the changing dynamics of the health care system. From health promotion to end of life, a streamlined organization delivers the clinical guidance you need to care for families. Significantly updated and thoroughly revised, the 6th Edition reflects the art and science of family nursing practice in today’s rapidly evolving healthcare environments.

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665

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F.A. Davis

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0803677243

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9780803677241

Managing Spoiled Identity

The Case of Polish Female Converts to Islam

By: Beata Abdallah-Krzepkowska,Katarzyna Górak-Sosnowska,Joanna Krotofil,Anna Piela

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Managing Spoiled Identity

The Case of Polish Female Converts to Islam

By: Beata Abdallah-Krzepkowska,Katarzyna Górak-Sosnowska,Joanna Krotofil,Anna Piela

The first systematic study of conversion to Islam among Polish women in English, this book offers insights about lived realities of female Polish converts who create dynamic strategies of managing their spoiled identities in a variety of contexts including Poland and the UK.

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BRILL

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9004529543

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9789004529540

That Paris Year

By: Joanna Biggar

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That Paris Year

By: Joanna Biggar

In That Paris Year, five smart, adventurous young women arrive on the banks of the Seine in 1962 for their junior year abroad. What they get is an education of a different sort. As they move from the grueling demands of the Sorbonne by day to late nights of discovery in smoky cafes, the young Americans discover a mythical country shaped not only by the upheavals of history, but by the great French writers of the 20th Century, a place where seduction is intellectual as well as sexual. Ten years later, our narrator, J. J., is asked to speak at her old college on the virtues of going abroad. Drawing on the emotionally charged tools of memory and imagination, as well as old journals, letters, and telegrams, she chronicles and re-creates the story of that momentous year. Following in the footsteps of Marcel Proust, Joanna Biggar has written a novel in which intellect, eroticism, and art reverberate from the page to the heartbeat of the City of Light, an American book with the sweep and elegance of French literary tradition.

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Santa Fe Writers Project

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0982625103

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9780982625101

Constructing a Cult

The Life and Veneration of Guðmundr Arason (1161-1237) in the Icelandic Written Sources

By: Joanna Skórzewska

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Constructing a Cult

The Life and Veneration of Guðmundr Arason (1161-1237) in the Icelandic Written Sources

By: Joanna Skórzewska

Based on a variety of extant written sources, this study offers a comprehensive reevaluation of Guðmundr Arason’s popularity in medieval Iceland. It presents a new perspective on the saintly fame and veneration of this controversial and interesting individual.

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9004194967

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Theorizing Cultures of Political Violence in Times of Austerity

Studying Social Movements in Comparative Perspective

By: Joanna Rak

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Studying Social Movements in Comparative Perspective

By: Joanna Rak

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Book's by Joanna Rak

Pandemic-Era Civil Disorder in Post-Communist EU Member States

Pandemic-Era Civil Disorder in Post-Communist EU Member States

Theorizing Cultures of Political Violence in Times of Austerity

Theorizing Cultures of Political Violence in Times of Austerity

Cursed

Cursed

Jewish Childhood in Kraków

Jewish Childhood in Kraków

Crisis and Capitalism in Contemporary Argentine Cinema

Crisis and Capitalism in Contemporary Argentine Cinema

Snowbound Wedding Wishes

Snowbound Wedding Wishes

Family Health Care Nursing

Family Health Care Nursing

Managing Spoiled Identity

Managing Spoiled Identity

That Paris Year

That Paris Year

Constructing a Cult

Constructing a Cult

Theorizing Cultures of Political Violence in Times of Austerity

Theorizing Cultures of Political Violence in Times of Austerity

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