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Public Control of Armed Forces in the Russian Federation

By: Nadja Douglas

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Public Control of Armed Forces in the Russian Federation

By: Nadja Douglas

The volume deals with the fundamentals of the contemporary relations between civic actors and state power structures. The main focus lies on public control of armed forces and the question of why civilians should have a vigilant eye on the military institution as well as the civilian authority that legitimizes the use of force. Based on the example of conscription and recruitment as an intersection between the military and society, this study engages in an analysis of institutional change in the politico-military field in post-Soviet Russia. Taking a critical stance on conventional military sociology, the book shifts the focus away from the exclusive power relationship between political and military elites in the context of national security. Instead, it takes into consideration human and societal security, i.e. the needs and demands of individuals and groups at the grassroots level, affected by the military and the prevailing security situation in Russia. The book addresses readers with an interest in civil-military relations, contemporary Russian affairs, and social movement theories.

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Springer

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331956384X

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9783319563848

Spectacle of Deformity

Freak Shows and Modern British Culture

By: Nadja Durbach

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Spectacle of Deformity

Freak Shows and Modern British Culture

By: Nadja Durbach

In 1847, during the great age of the freak show, the British periodical Punch bemoaned the public's "prevailing taste for deformity." This vividly detailed work argues that far from being purely exploitative, displays of anomalous bodies served a deeper social purpose as they generated popular and scientific debates over the meanings attached to bodily difference. Nadja Durbach examines freaks both well-known and obscure including the Elephant Man; "Lalloo, the Double-Bodied Hindoo Boy," a set of conjoined twins advertised as half male, half female; Krao, a seven-year-old hairy Laotian girl who was marketed as Darwin's "missing link"; the "Last of the Mysterious Aztecs" and African "Cannibal Kings," who were often merely Irishmen in blackface. Upending our tendency to read late twentieth-century conceptions of disability onto the bodies of freak show performers, Durbach shows that these spectacles helped to articulate the cultural meanings invested in otherness--and thus clarified what it meant to be British—at a key moment in the making of modern and imperial ideologies and identities.

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289

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Univ of California Press

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0520944895

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9780520944893

Many Mouths

The Politics of Food in Britain from the Workhouse to the Welfare State

By: Nadja Durbach

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Many Mouths

The Politics of Food in Britain from the Workhouse to the Welfare State

By: Nadja Durbach

A compelling study of two centuries of British government food programs and the cultural, political and economic factors that shaped them.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108483836

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9781108483834

The Singapore Convention on Mediation

A Commentary

By: Nadja Alexander,Shouyu Chong,Vakhtang Giorgadze

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The Singapore Convention on Mediation

A Commentary

By: Nadja Alexander,Shouyu Chong,Vakhtang Giorgadze

The Singapore Convention on Mediation is just beginning its life as an international legal instrument. How is it likely to fare? In the second edition of this comprehensive, article-by-article commentary, the authors provide a robust report on the features of the Convention and their implications, with an analysis of potential controversies and authoritative clarifications of particular provisions. The book’s meticulous examination considers these issues and topics: international mediated settlement agreements as a new type of legal instrument in international law; types of settlement agreements that fall within the scope of the Convention; how the Convention’s enforcement mechanism works; the meaning of ‘international’ and the absence of a seat of mediation; the Convention’s approach to recognition and enforcement of international mediated settlement agreements; the grounds for refusal to grant relief under the Convention; mediator misconduct as a ground for refusal to grant relief; the role of confidentiality in granting relief for international mediated settlement agreements; the impact of the Convention on private international law; the relationship of the Singapore Convention to other international instruments such as the UN Model Law on International Commercial Mediation and the New York Convention on Arbitration; possibilities for Contracting States to declare reservations; court decisions from around the globe on the recognition and enforceability of international mediated settlement agreements; and domestic mediation legislation including domestic laws that implement the Singapore Convention. This book takes a giant step towards relieving the inherent uncertainty associated with how this newly constituted instrument may operate, and how States may become ‘Convention ready’. It is an essential reference for international lawyers, mediators and government officials as the Convention proves itself in the coming years.

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432

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Kluwer Law International B.V.

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9403528230

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9789403528236

Collocations in a Learner Corpus

By: Nadja Nesselhauf

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Collocations in a Learner Corpus

By: Nadja Nesselhauf

Collocations are both pervasive in language and difficult for language learners, even at an advanced level. In this book, these difficulties are for the first time comprehensively investigated. On the basis of a learner corpus, idiosyncratic collocation use by learners is uncovered, the building material of learner collocations examined, and the factors that contribute to the difficulty of certain groups of collocations identified. An extensive discussion of the implications of the results for the foreign language classroom is also presented, and the contentious issue of the relation of corpus linguistic research and language teaching is thus extended to learner corpus analysis.

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027222851

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9789027222855

Up Against the Real

Black Mask from Art to Action

By: Nadja Millner-Larsen

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Up Against the Real

Black Mask from Art to Action

By: Nadja Millner-Larsen

A history of 1960s activist art group Black Mask. With Up Against the Real, Nadja Millner-Larsen offers the first comprehensive study of the group Black Mask and its acrimonious relationship to the New York art world of the 1960s. Cited as pioneers of now-common protest aesthetics, the group’s members employed incendiary modes of direct action against racism, colonialism, and the museum system. They shut down the Museum of Modern Art, fired blanks during a poetry reading, stormed the Pentagon in an antiwar protest, sprayed cow’s blood at the secretary of state, and dumped garbage into the fountain at Lincoln Center. Black Mask published a Dadaist broadside until 1968, when it changed its name to Up Against the Wall Motherfucker (after line in a poem by Amiri Baraka) and came to classify itself as “a street gang with analysis.” American activist Abbie Hoffman described the group as “the middle-class nightmare . . . an anti-media phenomenon simply because their name could not be printed.” Up Against the Real examines how and why the group ultimately rejected art in favor of what its members deemed “real” political action. Exploring this notorious example of cultural activism that rose from the ruins of the avant-garde, Millner-Larsen makes a critical intervention in our understanding of political art.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226820696

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9780226820699

Intimate Histories

African Americans and Germany since 1933

By: Nadja Klopprogge

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Intimate Histories

African Americans and Germany since 1933

By: Nadja Klopprogge

Transnational connections between African American and German histories in the “century of extremes” are often misunderstood or overlooked. Intimate Histories uncovers important links and sites of struggle in the history of race, the Nazi period, and the fight for civil rights in both East and West Germany. Historical investigations take their points of departure from anti-miscegenation laws, forced sterilizations, or casual sexual, cross-racial encounters to frame the shared pasts of African Americans against broader developments surrounding German Fascism, the Cold War, and global struggles for Black liberation.

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Berghahn Books

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1805394150

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Claes Oldenburg's Theater of Vision

Poetry, Sculpture, Film, and Performance Art

By: Nadja Rottner

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Claes Oldenburg's Theater of Vision

Poetry, Sculpture, Film, and Performance Art

By: Nadja Rottner

In four chronologically organized chapters, this study traces the conceptual dependence and deep connectivity among Claes Oldenburg’s poetry, sculpture, films, and performance art between 1956 and 1965. This research-intensive book argues that Oldenburg’s art relies on machine vision and other metaphors to visualize the structure and image content of human thought as an artistic problem. Anchored in new oral history interviews and extensive archival material, it brings together understudied visual and concrete poetry, experimental films, fifteen group performances (commonly referred to as happenings), and a close analysis of his well-known installations of The Street (1960) and The Store (1961–62), effectively setting in place a reexamination of Oldenburg’s pop art from the street, store, home, and cinema years. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, film studies, performance studies, literature, intermedia studies, and media theory.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000998894

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9781000998894

Bodily Matters

The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853–1907

By: Nadja Durbach

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Bodily Matters

The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853–1907

By: Nadja Durbach

DIVConsiders the Victorian anti-vaccination movement in the context of debates over citizenship, parental rights, class politics, the significance of bodily integrity, the control of contagious disease, and state access to the bodies of both adult and infant/div

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Duke University Press

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0822334232

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9780822334231

Red Carpet Ho

Celebrities and the PR Shitshow

By: Nadja Sayej

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Red Carpet Ho

Celebrities and the PR Shitshow

By: Nadja Sayej

For the past 15 years, pop culture journalist Nadja Sayej has interviewed over 500 celebrities, from A-listers to D-listers, 1980s heartthrobs to Instagram superstars and global icons. This compilation includes her best backstage stories from the red carpet, film festivals, art fairs and beyond, uncut and never seen before. In 25 candid short stories about her moments with the stars, she dishes on dinner with Kanye West in Miami, interviewing Salma Hayek in Venice and lunching with Steve Martin in Grand Central Station. Featuring backstage access over the past 10 years (2010 to 2020), it’s a peek into how she scored her major interviews with stars like Kathleen Turner, Spike Lee and Karl Lagerfeld, as well as what it has been like attending A-list events like Heidi Klum’s legendary Halloween party. This is all driven by her snarky observations, with photos taken by the female gaze. This book is released ahead of the 100 year anniversary of the red carpet, which is celebrated in 2022.

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ArtStars* Books

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1006964843

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9781006964848

International and Comparative Mediation

Legal Perspectives

By: Nadja Marie Alexander

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International and Comparative Mediation

Legal Perspectives

By: Nadja Marie Alexander

In a world where the borders of the global community are fluid, and where disputants manifest increasingly diverse attributes and needs, mediation ? for decades hovering at the edge of dispute resolution practice ? is now emerging as the preferred approach, both in its own right and as an adjunct to arbitration. Mediation processes are sufficiently flexible to accommodate a range of stakeholders (not all of whom might have legal standing) in ways the formality of arbitration and litigation would not normally allow. Among mediation?s many advantages are time and cost efficiencies, sensitivity to cultural differences, and assured privacy and confidentiality. This book meets the practice needs of lawyers confronted with cross-border disputes now arising far beyond the traditional areas of international commerce, such as consumer disputes, inter-family conflicts, and disagreements over Internet-based transactions. The author takes full account of mediation?s risks and limitations, primarily its lack of finality and uncertainty in relation to enforceability issues which will persist until the advent of appropriate international regulation."--Publisher's website.

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Kluwer Law International B.V.

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9041132244

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9789041132246

Public Control of Armed Forces in the Russian Federation

By: Nadja Douglas

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Public Control of Armed Forces in the Russian Federation

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The Withdrawal of Soviet Troops from East Central Europe

National Perspectives in Comparison

By: Christoph Meißner,Jörg Morré

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The Withdrawal of Soviet Troops from East Central Europe

National Perspectives in Comparison

By: Christoph Meißner,Jörg Morré

The withdrawal of Soviet troops is a so far largely unresearched process of international political and military reorganization after 1989/90, which was accompanied by political, economic, social and geopolitical factors that had different effects in different nations. The anthology contains national studies that examine the withdrawal from a scientific perspective. But it also analyses the international conditions that led to the geopolitical reorganization and reduction of weapons. In addition to the country studies, the reforms and the collapse of the Soviet empire are examined from a military-political perspective in order to make the conditions for returning home understandable. Finally, the legacy of the retreat is also considered in the light of current policies and the current threats to the countries of East Central Europe from the increasing aggression in this geopolitical space.

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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

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3647311278

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Book's by Nadja Douglas

Public Control of Armed Forces in the Russian Federation

Public Control of Armed Forces in the Russian Federation

Spectacle of Deformity

Spectacle of Deformity

Many Mouths

Many Mouths

The Singapore Convention on Mediation

The Singapore Convention on Mediation

Collocations in a Learner Corpus

Collocations in a Learner Corpus

Up Against the Real

Up Against the Real

Intimate Histories

Intimate Histories

Claes Oldenburg's Theater of Vision

Claes Oldenburg's Theater of Vision

Bodily Matters

Bodily Matters

Red Carpet Ho

Red Carpet Ho

International and Comparative Mediation

International and Comparative Mediation

Public Control of Armed Forces in the Russian Federation

Public Control of Armed Forces in the Russian Federation

The Withdrawal of Soviet Troops from East Central Europe

The Withdrawal of Soviet Troops from East Central Europe

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