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Futures of the study of culture : interdisciplinary perspectives, global chal…
How can we approach possible but unknown futures of the study of culture? This volume explores this question in the context of a changing global world. The contributions in this volume discuss the necessity of significant shifts in our conceptual and epistemological frameworks. Taking into account changing institutional research settings, the authors develop pathways to future cultural resea…
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- 9783110669398
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- X, 310 p.
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- Concepts for the Study of Culture (CSC), 8
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- 306 FUT f
Cultural techniques : assembling spaces, texts & collectives
This volume presents the preliminary results of the work carried out by the interdisciplinary cultural techniques research lab at the University of Erfurt. Taking up an impulse from media studies, its contributions examine —from a variety of disciplinary perspectives—the interplay between the formative processes of knowledge and action outlined within the conceptual framework of cultural te…
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- 9783110647044
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- VI, 346 p.
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- 306 CUL c
New cosmopolitanisms, race, and ethnicity : cultural perspectives
This anthology sheds new light on cosmopolitanism and culture in the contemporary world. Drawing on postcolonial, ethnic, and critical race studies as well as recent literary and critical theory, it demonstrates that new cosmopolitan thinking can embrace an awareness of ethnic and local differences. It disputes the utopianism of colorblind universalism and argues for the persistence of “raceâ…
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- 9783110626209
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- X, 403 p.
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- 306 LUC n
Adult education and lifelong learning in Europe and beyond: comparative persp…
This volume presents comparisons of adult education and lifelong learning with a focus on educational policies, professionalization in adult education, participation in adult learning and education, quality in adult education, and educational guidance and counselling. The essays are based on comparisons discussed at the international Winter School «Comparative Studies in Adult and Lifelong Lea…
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- 9783653059731
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- 276 pages ; 24 cm.
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- Studies in pedagogy, andragogy, and gerontagogy ; Band 67
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- 374 EGE a
Accounting for culture : thinking through cultural citizenship
Many scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers in the cultural sector argue that Canadian cultural policy is at a crossroads: that the environment for cultural policy-making has evolved substantially and that traditional rationales for state intervention no longer apply.
The concept of cultural citizenship is a relative newcomer to the cultural policy landscape, and offers a potentially c…
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- 9780776605968
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- XVIII, 286 p.
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- Governance Series
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- 306.0971 AND a
Inter-group relations and migrant integration in European cities : changing n…
This open access book presents a comparative analysis of intergroup relations and migrant integration at the neighbourhood level in Europe. Featuring a unique collection of portraits of urban relations between the majority population and immigrant minorities, it examines how relations are structured and evolve in different and increasingly diverse local societies. Inside, readers will find a co…
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- 9783319230962
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- vi, 216p. : ill.
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- 304.8 INT i
Secularism, assimilation and the crisis of multiculturalism
Jansen’s book shows how even the most sophisticated academic views defending secularism and assimilation remain rooted in unexamined ‘modernist dichotomies’ inherited from French (and to some extent, European) modernism. ÂRainer Bauboeck, European University Institute|"For anyone who seeks to understand the roots of the "deepening crisis of multiculturalism" in Europe, Yolande Jansen's b…
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- 9789089645968
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- 344 p.; 22 cm.
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- 305.8 JAN s
Material culture in modern diplomacy from the 15th to the 20th century
The present volume aims at outlining a new field of research with regard to the history of diplomacy: the material culture of diplomatic interaction in early modern and modern times. The material culture of diplomacy includes all practices in foreign policy communication in which single artifacts, samples of artifacts, or else the whole material setting of diplomatic interaction is supposed to …
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- 9783110463217
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- VI, 176 p.
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- Jahrbuch für Europäische Geschichte / European History Yearbook
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- 327.20903 MAT m
Digital media practices in household: kinship through data
How are intergenerational relationships playing out in the digital rhythms of the household? Through extensive fieldwork in Tokyo, Shanghai and Melbourne, this book ethnographically explores how households are being understood, articulated and defined by digital media practices. It explores the rise of self-tracking, quantified self and informal practices of care at distance as part of contempo…
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- 9789048542062
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- 205p.: ill.
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- 004.678 HJO d
The aesthetics of global protest : visual culture and communication
Protestors across the world use aesthetics in order to communicate their ideas and ensure their voices are heard. This book looks at protest aesthetics, which we consider to be the visual and performative elements of protest, such as images, symbols, graffiti, art, as well as the choreography of protest actions in public spaces. Through the use of social media, protestors have been able to crea…
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- 9789048544509
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- 297 p.
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- Protest and Social Movements
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- 303.484 AES a
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