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Watching Nostalgia

An Analysis of Nostalgic Television Fiction and its Reception

By: Stefanie Armbruster

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Watching Nostalgia

An Analysis of Nostalgic Television Fiction and its Reception

By: Stefanie Armbruster

What is nostalgia in television? How far does a nostalgic text trigger nostalgic emotions? And how are nostalgic series received by different audience groups? Stefanie Armbruster uses an interdisciplinary approach as analytical and theoretical basis. Her detailed analyses identify nostalgia in reruns, remakes and period dramas such as "Knight Rider" or "Mad Men". Focus group discussions with German and Spanish viewers give new insights into its reception. The in-depth study helps to understand the interrelation of nostalgic texts and nostalgic reception better and explores a decisive part of a phenomenon that is omnipresent in our current TV landscape.

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transcript Verlag

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3839435099

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Spheres of Influence

The Social Ecology of Racial and Class Inequality

By: Douglas S. Massey,Stefanie Brodmann

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Spheres of Influence

The Social Ecology of Racial and Class Inequality

By: Douglas S. Massey,Stefanie Brodmann

The black-white divide has long haunted the United States as a driving force behind social inequality. Yet, the civil rights movement, the increase in immigration, and the restructuring of the economy in favor of the rich over the last several decades have begun to alter the contours of inequality. Spheres of Influence, co-authored by noted social scientists Douglas S. Massey and Stefanie Brodmann, presents a rigorous new study of the intersections of racial and class disparities today. Massey and Brodmann argue that despite the persistence of potent racial inequality, class effects are drastically transforming social stratification in America. This data-intensive volume examines the differences in access to material, symbolic, and emotional resources across major racial groups. The authors find that the effects of racial inequality are exacerbated by the class differences within racial groups. For example, when measuring family incomes solely according to race, Massey and Brodmann found that black families' average income measured $28,400, compared to Hispanic families' $35,200. But this gap was amplified significantly when class differences within each group were taken into account. With class factored in, inequality across blacks' and Hispanics' family incomes increased by a factor of almost four, with lower class black families earning an average income of only $9,300 compared to $97,000 for upper class Hispanics. Massey and Brodmann found similar interactions between class and racial effects on the distribution of symbolic resources, such as occupational status, and emotional resources, such as the presence of a biological father—across racial groups. Although there are racial differences in each group's access to these resources, like income, these disparities are even more pronounced once class is factored in. The complex interactions between race and class are apparent in other social spheres, such as health and education. In looking at health disparities across groups, Massey and Brodmann observed no single class effect on the propensity to smoke cigarettes. Among whites, cigarette smoking declined with rising class standing, whereas among Hispanics it increased as class rose. Among Asians and blacks, there was no class difference at all. Similarly, the authors found no single effect of race alone on health: Health differences between whites, Asians, Hispanics, and blacks were small and non-significant in the upper class, but among those in the lower class, intergroup differences were pronounced. As Massey and Brodmann show, in the United States, a growing kaleidoscope of race-class interactions has replaced pure racial and class disadvantages. By advancing an ecological model of human development that considers the dynamics of race and class across multiple social spheres, Spheres of Influence sheds important light on the factors that are currently driving inequality today.

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Russell Sage Foundation

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1610448227

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Gummi Bears Should Not Be Organic

And Other Opinions I Can't Back Up With Facts

By: Stefanie Wilder-Taylor

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Gummi Bears Should Not Be Organic

And Other Opinions I Can't Back Up With Facts

By: Stefanie Wilder-Taylor

From the popular mommy blogger and seasoned author of Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay and Naptime Is the New Happy Hour comes this hilarious book of honest, no-holds-barred musings on motherhood. Stefanie Wilder-Taylor is officially fed up with the endless mommy fads, trends, studies, findings, and facts about how to raise children. Tiger Mom or Cool Mom? Organic or vegan? “TV is the devil” or “TV is a godsend”? The mother of three young girls, Stefanie has finally decided to hell with Google—she’s going to find out how to be a mom all on her own. In this latest mommy book from the popular blogger, author, and TV personality, Stefanie will share her secrets for achieving a balance in motherhood between being protective and caring, and downright bats**t crazy. She’ll debunk some of the looniest parenting myths and reinforce others; she’ll describe how, through as simple a process as good old trial-and-error, she’s learned to pick and choose what works for her and her family, and tune out the rest. Filled with sage advice, laugh-out-loud stories, and Stefanie’s signature wit, Gummi Bears Should Not Be Organic is sure to appeal to any and every renegade mom who’s forged her own path to childrearing.

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Simon and Schuster

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147678731X

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Norse Revival

Transformations of Germanic Neopaganism

By: Stefanie von Schnurbein

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Norse Revival

Transformations of Germanic Neopaganism

By: Stefanie von Schnurbein

Norse Revival offers a thorough investigation of Germanic Neopaganism (Asatru) through an international and comprehensive historical perspective. It traces Germanic Neopaganism’s genesis in German ultra-nationalist and occultist movements around 1900. Based on ethnographic research of contemporary groups in Germany, Scandinavia and North America, the book examines this alternative Neopagan religion’s transformations towards respectability and mainstream thought after the 1970s. It asks which regressive and progressive elements of a National Romantic discourse on Norse myth have shaped Germanic Neopaganism. It demonstrates how these ambiguous ideas about Nordic myth permeate general discourses on race, religion, gender, sexuality, and aesthetics. Ultimately, Norse Revival raises the question whether Norse mythology can be freed from its reactionary ideological baggage.

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BRILL

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9004309519

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9789004309517

The Visual Language of Spatial Planning

Exploring Cartographic Representations for Spatial Planning in Europe

By: Stefanie Dühr

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The Visual Language of Spatial Planning

Exploring Cartographic Representations for Spatial Planning in Europe

By: Stefanie Dühr

At a time when strategic spatial planning is undergoing a renaissance in Europe, The Visual Language of Spatial Planning makes a unique contribution to this rapidly growing area of teaching and research. Discussing the relevant theoretical perspectives on policy-making and planning, combined with cartographic communication and the use of cartographic representations in the planning process, Stephanie Duhr provides conceptual and practical tools to help students and practitioners better understand maps and visualizations in strategic spatial planning. The book is the first to review the form, style and use of cartographic representations in strategic spacial plans in the Netherlands, Germany and England as well as at European level. Significant differences between planning traditions and the impact of these on transnational planning processes are highlighted. It concludes by discussing the practical implications for future strategic spacial planning processes in Europe and the best use of cartographic representations to reach agreement and to focus dialogue.

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Routledge

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1134156979

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Relics of the Past

The Collecting and Study of Pre-Columbian Antiquities in Peru and Chile, 1837-1911

By: Stefanie Gänger

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Relics of the Past

The Collecting and Study of Pre-Columbian Antiquities in Peru and Chile, 1837-1911

By: Stefanie Gänger

Relics of the Past tells the story of antiquities collecting, antiquarianism, and archaeology in Peru and Chile in the second half of the nineteenth and the early twentieth century. While the role of foreign travellers and scholars dedicated to the study of South America's pre-Columbian past is well documented, historians have largely overlooked the knowledge gathered and the collections formed among collectors of antiquities, antiquaries, and archaeologists born or living in South America during this period. The landed gentry, the clergy, and an urban bourgeoisie of doctors, engineers, and military officials put antiquities on display in their private mansions or bestowed them upon the public museums that were being formed by municipalities and governments in Santiago de Chile, Cuzco, or Lima. Men, and some few women, gathered antiquities on their journeys 'inland' and during sociable weekend excursions, but also on quotidian commercial voyages or in military campaigns. They bartered antiquities with their fellow collectors or haggled about their price on the antiquities market. In their hours of leisure, they marvelled at them, wrote about them, and disputed over their meaning, age, and interest in learned societies, informal gatherings, and at meetings in universities and public museums. This volume unveils a hitherto largely unknown world of antiquarian and archaeological collecting and learning in Peru and Chile.

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OUP Oxford

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019151148X

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Peacebuilding and Spatial Transformation

Peace, Space and Place

By: Annika Bjorkdahl,Stefanie Kappler

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Peacebuilding and Spatial Transformation

Peace, Space and Place

By: Annika Bjorkdahl,Stefanie Kappler

This book investigates peacebuilding in post-conflict scenarios by analysing the link between peace, space and place. By focusing on the case studies of Cyprus, Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Northern Ireland and South Africa, the book provides a spatial reading of agency in peacebuilding contexts. It conceptualises peacebuilding agency in post-conflict landscapes as situated between place (material locality) and space (the imaginary counterpart of place), analysing the ways in which peacebuilding agency can be read as a spatial practice. Investigating a number of post-conflict cases, this book outlines infrastructures of power and agency as they are manifested in spatial practice. It demonstrates how spatial agency can take the form of conflict and exclusion on the one hand, but also of transformation towards peace over time on the other hand. Against this background, the book argues that agency drives place-making and space-making processes. Therefore, transformative processes in post-conflict societies can be understood as materialising through the active use and transformation of space and place. This book will be of interest to students of peacebuilding, peace and conflict studies, human geography and IR in general.

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1317409418

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Poetics of Breathing

Modern Literature's Syncope

By: Stefanie Heine

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Poetics of Breathing

Modern Literature's Syncope

By: Stefanie Heine

Breathing and its rhythms—liminal, syncopal, and usually inconspicuous—have become a core poetic compositional principle in modern literature. Examining moments when breath's punctuations, cessations, inhalations, or exhalations operate at the limits of meaningful speech, Stefanie Heine explores how literary texts reflect their own mediality, production, and reception in alluding to and incorporating pneumatic rhythms, respiratory sound, and silent pauses. Through close readings of works by a series of pairs—Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg; Robert Musil and Virginia Woolf; Samuel Beckett and Sylvia Plath; and Paul Celan and Herta Müller—Poetics of Breathing suggests that each offers a different conception of literary or poetic breath as a precondition of writing. Presenting a challenge to historical and contemporary discourses that tie breath to the transcendent and the natural, Heine traces a decoupling of breath from its traditional association with life, and asks what literature might lie beyond.

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State University of New York Press

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1438483597

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Religion and Difference

Contested Contemporary Issues

By: Trygve Wyller,Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati,Stefanie Knauss,Hans-Günter Heimbrock,Hans-Joachim Sander,Carla Danani

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Religion and Difference

Contested Contemporary Issues

By: Trygve Wyller,Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati,Stefanie Knauss,Hans-Günter Heimbrock,Hans-Joachim Sander,Carla Danani

In democracies of advanced plurality, religion is a contested and powerful part of public discussions and practices. Today, religious difference is articulated and negotiated controversially in interaction with other spheres of society. While there are clear tendencies of increasing polarization, we also encounter moments of acknowledgement and appreciation of plurality. Facing these complexities and challenges of our time, this volume scrutinizes contested practices where religious difference matters. Committed to an interdisciplinary exchange between theology, the study of religion and political philosophy, this volume is grounded in the attention for concrete practices and phenomena as well as the conviction that difference is both a productive concept and an enriching experience. Exploring practices of shared places, sexuality, justice and the commitment to the human being in education, migration and violent conflicts, the volume as a whole contributes to the analysis of contested social and political practices in order to investigate the significance and role of religion in contemporary societies, and thus it further develops theoretical reflection about religion in contemporary research.

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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

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3647564672

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Corporate Human Rights Violations

Global Prospects for Legal Action

By: Stefanie Khoury,David Whyte

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Corporate Human Rights Violations

Global Prospects for Legal Action

By: Stefanie Khoury,David Whyte

This book develops an analysis of the historical, political and legal contexts behind current demands by NGOs and the United Nations Human Rights Council to hold corporations accountable for their human rights violations. Based on an analysis of the range of mechanisms of accountability that currently exist, it argues that that those demands are a response to the failure of neo-liberal policies that have dominated the practice of politics and law since the emergence of this debate in its current form in the 1970s. Offering a new approach to understanding how struggles for hegemony are refracted through a range of legal challenges to corporate human rights violations, the book offers a fresh perspective for understanding how those struggles are played out in the global sphere. In order to analyse the prospects for using human rights law to challenge the right of corporations to author human rights violations, the book explores the development of a range of political initiatives in the UN, the uses of tort law in domestic courts, and the uses of human rights law at the European Court of Human Rights and at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. This book will be essential reading for all those interested in how international institutions and NGOs are both shaping and being shaped by global struggles against corporate power.

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Taylor & Francis

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1317216067

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9781317216063

James Thomson's Defence of Poetry

Intertextual Allusion in »The Seasons«

By: Stefanie Lethbridge

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James Thomson's Defence of Poetry

Intertextual Allusion in »The Seasons«

By: Stefanie Lethbridge

This study presents a contextual and intertextual reading of James Thomson's (1700--1748) poem »The Seasons«, taking into consideration some of the presuppositions and habitus of the text's cultural community and the function of the poem's many intertextual allusions. Contemporary assumptions about processes of perception, reading and the practice of virtue call for an approach to the poem that takes literary pre-texts into account. An intertextual reading reveals »The Seasons«, though heterogeneous on its surface, as coherent in its cultural functionality: It aims to train readers into virtuous habits and asserts the powers of poetic discourse as a culturally relevant force especially in relation to the discourse of natural philosophy. With the emergence of natural philosophy as a cultural activity of considerable market value, poetry had to legitimise itself as a culturally relevant pursuit. An analysis of the poem's intertext, in particular allusions to Virgil, Ovid and Milton, but also to genre conventions such as pastoral, romance, sermon and panegyric, uncovers textual strategies that attempt to re-legitimise poetry on the one hand by transposing scientific method into a poetic environment. On the other hand, the text demonstrates, using its intertext, that poetry has powers which reach beyond the rational and empirical agenda of natural philosophy and that poetry has a distinctive cultural function as a provider of vision, insight and moral knowledge. Diese Studie legt eine historisch kontextualisierte Interpretation von James Thomson's (1700--1748) Gedicht »The Seasons« vor, die Präsuppositionen und Habitus zeitgenössischer Leserschaft sowie dieFunktion seiner zahlreichen intertextuellen Anspielungen mit einbezieht. Diese Lesart erhellt »The Seasons« als einen, trotz heterogener Textoberfläche, in seiner kulturellen Funktionalität kohärenten Text. Die Analyse des Intertexts deckt Textstrategien auf, die den dichterischen Diskurs insbesondere in Relation zum neu privilegierten Diskurs der Naturphilosophie als kulturell relevante Kraft relegitimieren.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110913682

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Imagined Causes: Hume's Conception of Objects

By: Stefanie Rocknak

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Imagined Causes: Hume's Conception of Objects

By: Stefanie Rocknak

This book provides the first comprehensive account of Hume’s conception of objects in Book I of A Treatise of Human Nature. What, according to Hume, are objects? Ideas? Impressions? Mind-independent objects? All three? None of the above? Through a close textual analysis, Rocknak shows that Hume thought that objects are imagined ideas. But, she argues, he struggled with two accounts of how and when we imagine such ideas. On the one hand, Hume believed that we always and universally imagine that objects are the causes of our perceptions. On the other hand, he thought that we only imagine such causes when we reach a “philosophical” level of thought. This tension manifests itself in Hume’s account of personal identity; a tension that, Rocknak argues, Hume acknowledges in the Appendix to the Treatise. As a result of Rocknak’s detailed account of Hume’s conception of objects, we are forced to accommodate new interpretations of, at least, Hume’s notions of belief, personal identity, justification and causality.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9400721862

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9789400721869

Sounding Conflict

From Resistance to Reconciliation

By: Fiona Magowan,Pedro Rebelo,Stefanie Lehner,Julie M. Norman,Ariana Phillips-Hutton

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Sounding Conflict

From Resistance to Reconciliation

By: Fiona Magowan,Pedro Rebelo,Stefanie Lehner,Julie M. Norman,Ariana Phillips-Hutton

Sound, music and storytelling are important tools of resistance, resilience and reconciliation in creative practice from protracted conflict to post-conflict contexts. When they are used in a socially engaged participatory capacity, they can create counter-narratives to conflict. Based on original research in three continents, this book advances an interdisciplinary, comparative approach to exploring the role of sonic and creative practices in addressing the effects of conflict. Each case study illustrates how participatory arts genres are variously employed by musicians, arts facilitators, theatre practitioners, community activists and other stakeholders as a means of 'strategic creativity' to transform trauma and promote empowerment. This research further highlights the complex dynamics of delivering and managing creativity among those who have experienced violence, as they seek opportunities to generate alternative arenas for engagement, healing and transformation.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501383035

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Mediating Modernity

German Literature and the "new" Media, 1895-1930

By: Stefanie Harris

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Mediating Modernity

German Literature and the "new" Media, 1895-1930

By: Stefanie Harris

An interdisciplinary examination of the responses of literary authors in Germany, from 1895-1930, to the emerging media of image and sound recording"--Provided by publisher.

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Penn State Press

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0271047151

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Functional Nanomaterials

Applications in Medicine and Life Sciences

By: Stefanie Klein,Maximilian Kryschi,Carola Kryschi

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Functional Nanomaterials

Applications in Medicine and Life Sciences

By: Stefanie Klein,Maximilian Kryschi,Carola Kryschi

Nanoparticles (NPs) offer an innovative platform for targeted cancer diagnosis and therapy. Advanced synthesis and surface functionalization strategies facilitate reversible binding and triggered release of drugs. NPs are also excellent contrast agents for clinical imaging techniques. This book discusses current and future applications of functional nanoparticles in oncology, as well as strategies for tailoring novel multifunctional nanomaterials.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110606860

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Speech Timing

Implications for Theories of Phonology, Phonetics, and Speech Motor Control

By: Alice Turk,Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel

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Speech Timing

Implications for Theories of Phonology, Phonetics, and Speech Motor Control

By: Alice Turk,Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel

This book explores the nature of cognitive representations and processes in speech motor control, based primarily on speech timing evidence. It argues for an alternative to Articulatory Phonology, and lays out a framework that provides a more satisfactory account of what is known about motor timing in general and speech timing in particular.

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0198795424

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Consuming Whiteness

Australian Racism and the "White Sugar" Campaign

By: Stefanie Affeldt

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Consuming Whiteness

Australian Racism and the "White Sugar" Campaign

By: Stefanie Affeldt

The "White Australia Policy" - the country's historical policy that favored immigration to Australia from various European countries, especially Britain - has largely been discussed with regard only to its political-ideological perspective. No account was taken of the central problem of racist societalization, i.e. the everyday production and reproduction of race as a social relation (doing race) supported by broad sections of the population. This comprehensive study of Australian racism and the historical "white sugar" campaign shows that the latter was only able to achieve success because it was embedded in a widespread white Australia culture that found expression in all spheres of life. (Series: Racism Analysis - Series A: Studies - Vol. 4) [Subject: Social History, Australian Studies]

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LIT Verlag Münster

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3643905696

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Communication in Peacebuilding

Civil Wars, Civility and Safe Spaces

By: Stefanie Pukallus

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Communication in Peacebuilding

Civil Wars, Civility and Safe Spaces

By: Stefanie Pukallus

This book is concerned with the role that communication - understood as including both the factual and fictional mass media as well as the performative and visual arts - can play in post-civil war peacebuilding. It engages with questions of how a society can move from the civil war conditions of discursive dehumanisation to peaceful cooperation in post-civil war settings and how peacebuilders can help communities utilise the transformative capacity of communication to encourage the reimagining of and engagement with former enemies as co-citizens. Ultimately, civil and peaceful cooperation depends on the observance of discursive civility and the building of safe discursive spaces in which civil engagement between different groups of society (including former combatants and survivors) can safely take place. This book argues that understanding communicative peacebuilding in this way is fundamental to the achievement of self-sustainable everyday peace.

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Springer Nature

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3030861902

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European Spatial Planning and Territorial Cooperation

By: Stefanie Dühr,Claire Colomb,Vincent Nadin

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European Spatial Planning and Territorial Cooperation

By: Stefanie Dühr,Claire Colomb,Vincent Nadin

There is a strong international dimension to spatial planning. European integration strengthens interconnections, development and decision-making across national and regional borders. EU policies in areas such as environment, transport, agriculture or regional policy have far-reaching effects on spatial development patterns and planning procedures. Planners in the EU are now routinely engaged in cooperation across national borders to share and devise effective ways of intervening in the way our cities, towns and rural areas develop. In short, the EU has become an important framework for planning practice, research and teaching. Spatial planning in Europe is being ‘Europeanized’, with corresponding changes for the role of planners. Written for students, academics, practitioners and researchers of spatial planning and related disciplines, this book is essential reading for everybody interested in engaging with the European dimension of spatial planning and territorial governance. It explores: spatial development trends and their influence on planning the nature, institutions and actors of the European Union from a planning perspective the history of spatial planning at the transnational scale the planning tools, perspectives, visions and programmes supporting European cooperation on spatial planning the territorial impacts of the Community’s sector policies the outcomes of European spatial planning in practice.

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Routledge

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113403427X

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EU Citizens in the European Public Sphere

An Analysis of EU News in 27 EU Member States

By: Stefanie Walter

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EU Citizens in the European Public Sphere

An Analysis of EU News in 27 EU Member States

By: Stefanie Walter

Stefanie Walter examines the visibility of European Union citizens in the mass mediated European public sphere and argues that it can help facilitate an exchange between decision-makers and ordinary citizens. The results show that in comparison to other actor groups, such as political parties or civil society organisations, the visibility of European Union citizens is not marginal. Yet, the image of the European Union citizenry that becomes visible via the news media remains nationally entrenched and references to a truly European citizenry are rare. The study also uses multilevel regressions to explain the visibility of European Union citizens in the news coverage. The empirical analyses are based on a large-scale content analysis of TV news and newspaper articles of the 2009 European Parliament election.p>

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3658144866

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Narratives of Organisational Change and Learning

Making Sense of Testing Times

By: Stefanie Reissner

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Narratives of Organisational Change and Learning

Making Sense of Testing Times

By: Stefanie Reissner

Narratives of Organisational Change and Learning" investigates change and learning through the comparative and contextual analysis of organisational stories. It focuses on how organisational actors make sense of and learn from profound change as exemplified by three manufacturing firms from Britain, South Africa and Russia. The interaction between organisational change and wider social, economic and political changes in the organisations' environments and their impact on the organisational actors' identity is examined. The book also explores the complex responses to organisational change epitomised by patterns of stories prevalent in each of the three organisations, as well as the important insights into often unacknowledged narrative processes of learning which result from profound change.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1781956480

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IT Outsourcing Governance

Client Types and Their Management Strategies

By: Stefanie Leimeister

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IT Outsourcing Governance

Client Types and Their Management Strategies

By: Stefanie Leimeister

Stefanie Leimeister examines different types of IT outsourcing relationships and their characteristics depending on the outsourcing clients’ underlying expectations. The author derives actionable advice for applicable strategies and an effective allocation of resources for an outsourcing venture.

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3834963038

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Demystifying Bilingualism

How Metaphor Guides Research towards Mythification

By: Silke Jansen,Sonja Higuera del Moral,Jessica Stefanie Barzen,Pia Reimann,Markus Opolka

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Demystifying Bilingualism

How Metaphor Guides Research towards Mythification

By: Silke Jansen,Sonja Higuera del Moral,Jessica Stefanie Barzen,Pia Reimann,Markus Opolka

This book analyses changing views on bilingualism in Cognitive Psychology and explores their socio-cultural embeddedness. It offers a new, innovative perspective on the debate on possible cognitive (dis)advantages in bilinguals, arguing that it is biased by popular “language myths”, which often manifest themselves in the form of metaphors. Since its beginnings, Cognitive Psychology has consistently modelled the coexistence between languages in the brain using metaphors of struggle, conflict and competition. However, an ideological shift from nationalist and monolingual ideologies to the celebration of bilingualism under multicultural and neoliberal ideologies in the course of the 20th century fostered opposing interpretations of language coexistence in the brain and its effects on bilinguals at different moments in time. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Cognitive Psychology, Psycholinguistics, Multilingualism and Applied Linguistics, Cognitive and Computational Linguistics, and Critical Metaphor Analysis.

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3030870634

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Financial Crises and the Politics of Macroeconomic Adjustments

By: Stefanie Walter

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Financial Crises and the Politics of Macroeconomic Adjustments

By: Stefanie Walter

When are policy makers willing to make costly adjustments to their macroeconomic policies to mitigate balance-of-payments problems? Which types of adjustment strategies do they choose? Under what circumstances do they delay reform, and when are such delays likely to result in financial crises? To answer these questions, this book examines how macroeconomic policy adjustments affect individual voters in financially open economies and argues that the anticipation of these distributional effects influences policy makers' decisions about the timing and the type of reform. Empirically, the book combines analyses of cross-national survey data of voters' and firms' policy evaluations with comparative case studies of national policy responses to the Asian financial crisis of 1997/8 and the recent global financial crisis in Eastern Europe. The book shows that variation in policy makers' willingness to implement reform can be traced back to differences in the vulnerability profiles of their countries' electorates.

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Bayesian Data Analysis in Ecology Using Linear Models with R, BUGS, and Stan

By: Franzi Korner-Nievergelt,Tobias Roth,Stefanie von Felten,Jérôme Guélat,Bettina Almasi,Pius Korner-Nievergelt

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Bayesian Data Analysis in Ecology Using Linear Models with R, BUGS, and Stan

By: Franzi Korner-Nievergelt,Tobias Roth,Stefanie von Felten,Jérôme Guélat,Bettina Almasi,Pius Korner-Nievergelt

Bayesian Data Analysis in Ecology Using Linear Models with R, BUGS, and STAN examines the Bayesian and frequentist methods of conducting data analyses. The book provides the theoretical background in an easy-to-understand approach, encouraging readers to examine the processes that generated their data. Including discussions of model selection, model checking, and multi-model inference, the book also uses effect plots that allow a natural interpretation of data. Bayesian Data Analysis in Ecology Using Linear Models with R, BUGS, and STAN introduces Bayesian software, using R for the simple modes, and flexible Bayesian software (BUGS and Stan) for the more complicated ones. Guiding the ready from easy toward more complex (real) data analyses ina step-by-step manner, the book presents problems and solutions—including all R codes—that are most often applicable to other data and questions, making it an invaluable resource for analyzing a variety of data types. - Introduces Bayesian data analysis, allowing users to obtain uncertainty measurements easily for any derived parameter of interest - Written in a step-by-step approach that allows for eased understanding by non-statisticians - Includes a companion website containing R-code to help users conduct Bayesian data analyses on their own data - All example data as well as additional functions are provided in the R-package blmeco

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Psychiatric Institutions and Society

The Practice of Psychiatric Committal in the “Third Reich,” the Democratic Republic of Germany, and the Federal Republic of Germany, 1941–1963

By: Stefanie Coché

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Psychiatric Institutions and Society

The Practice of Psychiatric Committal in the “Third Reich,” the Democratic Republic of Germany, and the Federal Republic of Germany, 1941–1963

By: Stefanie Coché

The book probes how the serious and sometimes fatal decision was made to admit individuals to asylums during Germany’s age of extremes. The book shows that - even during the Nazi killing of the sick - relatives played an even more important role in most admissions than doctors and the authorities. In light of admission practices, this study traces how ideas about illness, safety, and normality changed when the Nazi regime collapsed in 1945 and illuminates how closely power configurations in the psychiatric sector were linked to political and social circumstances.

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1003857574

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Reading Breath in Literature

By: Arthur Rose,Stefanie Heine,Naya Tsentourou,Corinne Saunders,Peter Garratt

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Reading Breath in Literature

By: Arthur Rose,Stefanie Heine,Naya Tsentourou,Corinne Saunders,Peter Garratt

This open access book presents five different approaches to reading breath in literature, in response to texts from a range of historical, geographical and cultural environments. Breath, for all its ubiquity in literary texts, has received little attention as a transhistorical literary device. Drawing together scholars of Medieval Romance, Early Modern Drama, Fin de Siècle Aesthetics, American Poetics and the Postcolonial Novel, this book offers the first transhistorical study of breath in literature. At the same time, it shows how the study of breath in literature can contribute to recent developments in the Medical Humanities.

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Social Media for Leaders

Your team can steer the boat but you need chart the course

By: Stefanie Babka

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Social Media for Leaders

Your team can steer the boat but you need chart the course

By: Stefanie Babka

This book provides you with a concise and accurate overview of the key business challenges, opportunities and risks related to social media. Regardless of the type and size of company or department you manage, whether you offer industrial goods, consumer goods or services - social media is a factor you should monitor and manage. Stefanie Babka helps you ask yourself and your employees the right questions, find answers and thus face the internal challenges. Because social media is a management task. For example, the following questions are highlighted: Are you aware of the risks of uncoordinated and improper use of social media by your employees in their private or professional lives? Have you taken everything into account in terms of data protection law, or do you already have one foot in jail as a manager? Are you spending too much money on social media campaigns? Do you have the right social media strategy? Is it aligned with your company's goals? Are you in control or does social media anarchy reign in your company? What opportunities and risks do internal social media applications bring for collaboration in teams or organizational units? How can social media be used as a strategic management tool? Social media concerns every company. Whether you like it or not. For the 2nd edition, all contents have been revised and the chapter "As a manager on the social web" has been expanded to include, among other things, the topic of virtual management and leading virtual teams.

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Neural-Network Simulation of Strongly Correlated Quantum Systems

By: Stefanie Czischek

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Neural-Network Simulation of Strongly Correlated Quantum Systems

By: Stefanie Czischek

Quantum systems with many degrees of freedom are inherently difficult to describe and simulate quantitatively. The space of possible states is, in general, exponentially large in the number of degrees of freedom such as the number of particles it contains. Standard digital high-performance computing is generally too weak to capture all the necessary details, such that alternative quantum simulation devices have been proposed as a solution. Artificial neural networks, with their high non-local connectivity between the neuron degrees of freedom, may soon gain importance in simulating static and dynamical behavior of quantum systems. Particularly promising candidates are neuromorphic realizations based on analog electronic circuits which are being developed to capture, e.g., the functioning of biologically relevant networks. In turn, such neuromorphic systems may be used to measure and control real quantum many-body systems online. This thesis lays an important foundation for the realization of quantum simulations by means of neuromorphic hardware, for using quantum physics as an input to classical neural nets and, in turn, for using network results to be fed back to quantum systems. The necessary foundations on both sides, quantum physics and artificial neural networks, are described, providing a valuable reference for researchers from these different communities who need to understand the foundations of both.

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3030527158

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Rethinking Idiomaticity

A Usage-based Approach

By: Stefanie Wulff

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Rethinking Idiomaticity

A Usage-based Approach

By: Stefanie Wulff

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A&C Black

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1441116443

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Anonymity Performance in Electronic Pop Music

A Performance Ethnography of Critical Practices

By: Stefanie Kiwi Menrath

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Anonymity Performance in Electronic Pop Music

A Performance Ethnography of Critical Practices

By: Stefanie Kiwi Menrath

Anonymity practices in electronic music culture have long been the object of journalistic and academic discourse. Yet anonymity itself is ephemeral and ontologically precarious. How can scholars research anonymous entities without impairing their anonymity, and what can they learn from their precarity? This study describes two projects of anonymity performance as forms of critical practice (Judith Butler/Michel Foucault) involving performative play with anonymity through the use of fake identities or collaborative persona imaginations. Adopting a reflexive and performative writing style, this performance ethnography calls for a radical performative turn and an ontological reflexivity in the cultural studies of music.

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transcript Verlag

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3839442567

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Politics Embedded

Women's Quota and Local Democracy. Negotiating Gender Relations in North India

By: Stefanie Strulik

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Politics Embedded

Women's Quota and Local Democracy. Negotiating Gender Relations in North India

By: Stefanie Strulik

As a contribution to the anthropology of democracy, this book examines a local governance reform in India - focusing particularly on the 33% women's quota entailed. It highlights the interrelatedness of "doing gender" and "doing politics" and delineates the transformations of gendered political spaces and the shifting boundaries within which women of various castes and classes negotiate the meanings of politics. The book investigates the vernacularization of democracy and analyzes local politics as socially embedded - a framework that allows the frictions and contradictions of local politics to be explained without having to take recourse to dichotomies of "traditional vs. modern" or "formal vs. informal" politics. (Series: Anthropology / Ethnologie - Vol. 53)

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Post-Romantic Aesthetics in Contemporary British and Irish Poetry

By: Stefanie John

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Post-Romantic Aesthetics in Contemporary British and Irish Poetry

By: Stefanie John

This book demonstrates the legacies of Romanticism which animate the poetry and poetics of Eavan Boland, Gillian Clarke, John Burnside, and Kathleen Jamie. It argues that the English Romantic tradition serves as a source of inspiration and critical contention for these Irish, Welsh, and Scottish poets, and it relates this engagement to wider concerns with gender, nation, and nature which have shaped contemporary poetry in Britain and Ireland. Covering a substantial number of works from the 1980s to the 2010s, the book discusses how Boland and Clarke, as women poets from the Republic of Ireland and Wales, react to a male-dominated and Anglocentric lyric tradition and thus rework notions of the Romantic. It examines how Burnside and Jamie challenge, adopt, and revise Romantic aesthetics of nature and environment. The book is the first in-depth study to read Boland, Clarke, Burnside, and Jamie as post-Romantics. By disentangling the aesthetic and critical conceptions of Romanticism which inform their inheritance, it develops an innovative approach to the understanding of contemporary poetry and literary influence.

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1000397750

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Liberating Narratives

The Authorization of Black Female Voices in African American Women Writers' Novels of Slavery

By: Stefanie Sievers

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Liberating Narratives

The Authorization of Black Female Voices in African American Women Writers' Novels of Slavery

By: Stefanie Sievers

Three contemporary novels of slavery - Margaret Walker's Jubilee (1966), Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose (1986) and Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987) - are the central focus of Liberating Narratives. In significantly different ways that reflect their individual and socio-political contexts of origin, these three novels can all be read as critiques of historical representation and as alternative spaces for remembrance - 'sites of memory' - that attempt to shift the conceptual ground on which our knowledge of the past is based.

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The Future of Arid Lands-Revisited

A Review of 50 Years of Drylands Research

By: Charles F. Hutchinson,Stefanie M. Herrmann

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The Future of Arid Lands-Revisited

A Review of 50 Years of Drylands Research

By: Charles F. Hutchinson,Stefanie M. Herrmann

The Future of Arid Lands, edited by Gilbert White and published in 1956, comprised papers delivered at the "International Arid Lands Meetings" held in New Mexico in 1955. At these meetings, experts considered the major issues then confronting the world’s arid lands and developed a research agenda to address these issues. This book reexamines this earlier work and explores changes in the science and management of arid lands over the past 50 years within their historical contexts.

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