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Based on 17 years of research, this book explores the process of Ogata-mura's development from the planning stages to the present. An intensive ethnographic study of the relationship between land reclamation, agriculture, and politics in regional Japan, it traces the internal social effects of the village's economic transformations...

Over several generations, villagers of Dominica have been shifting from Patwa, an Afro-French creole, to English, the official language. Despite government efforts at Patwa revitalization and cultural heritage tourism, rural caregivers and teachers prohibit children from speaking Patwa in their presence.

Riobamba and Cuenca,two intermediate cities in Ecuador, have become part of global networks through transnational migration, incoming remittances, tourism, and global economic connections. Their landscape is changing in several significant ways, a reflection of the social and urban transformations occurring in contemporary Ecuadorian society.

The tragic-comedic story of the cinema, art and architecture of the early 20th Century, highlighting the unlikely intersections of East and West

Focuses on power to shape a history of Cultural Studies. An analysis of the nature and purpose of Cultural Studies, this book assesses the development of the discipline from the work of Michel Foucault in post-war France and the Birmingham Centre for Cultural Studies in the 1970s to the expansion of the field in the United States.

Uses technologies to analyze the thoughts and cognitive processes behind the translation process. This title focuses on the topic of investigating translation processes from a cognitive perspective. It is suitable for the researchers and postgraduates in translation studies and cognitive linguistics as well as practicing translators.

Examining context-specific conditions in which girls live, learn, work, play, and organize deepens the understanding of place-making practices of girls and young women worldwide. This book offers a comprehensive reading on how girlhood scholars construct and deploy research frameworks that directly engage girls in the research process.

Offers an exploration of case-focused methods as a means of bridging the quantitative-qualitative divide and the key methodological issues. Rather than suggesting the 'mixing' of methods, this book provides an interrogation of the arguments and practices characteristic of both sides of the divide.

Tackling a neglected part of the story of how food reaches our tables, A Theory of Grocery Shopping links the lived experience of shoppers and retail managers with information from nutritionists, governments, journalists and marketers to provide new insights into the contradictory messages shaping the way we shop for food.

The global recession is having a major impact on immigrant integration. With cuts in public budgets and a rise in anti-immigrant sentiment on both sides of the Atlantic, many governments have made short-term decisions responding to the economic crisis that will have longterm implications for immigrants and the broader society.

Forms of group identity play a prominent role in everyday lives and politics in north-east Africa. These volumes provide an interdisciplinary account of the nature and significance of ethnic, religious, and national identity in north-east Africa. Case studies from Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Kenya illustrate the way that identities are formed...

Charting the experiences of migrant communities, the volume examines the relationship between movement, reproduction, & health. Informed by research in Europe, Britain, South & East Asia, Canada & Northern America, the chapters examine how healthcare experiences of migrants are embedded in their own worldviews & influenced by wider state systems.

Examines how six writers reconfigure African American subjectivity in ways that recall postmodernist theory. This book explores how African American social and political movements, African American studies, independent scholars, and traditional cultural forms revisit and challenge the representation ...

An annual publication that showcases work by scholars and staff associated with the Getty Research Institute and the other programs of the prestigious J Paul Getty Trust. It features essays on Florentine painter Carlo Dolci; 19th-century French academic artist Elie-Honore Montagny; and, an early photographic album of Tehran.

Since the emergence of the dissident "parallel polis" in Eastern Europe, civil society has become a "new superpower," influencing democratic transformations, human rights, and international co-operation; co-designing economic trends, security and defense; reshaping the information society; and generating new ideas on the environment, health...

These critical essays bring together prominent scholars in the social sciences to consider the diverse nature of the legacy of Pierre Bourdieu in contemporary social theory. In offering a range of perspectives on the continuing relevance of Bourdieu’s sociology, the essays of this volume examine Bourdieu’s ...

An empirical study of hate speech in Hungary, examining the cultural foundations of public communication and how cultural thinking can be used to inform political action through public expression.

Broad ranging, interdisciplinary, this book seeks to understand the corporate conceptions of identity and work, and how they are reflected in our wider culture - through novels, cookery writing, autobiography and the many constructions of narrative.

Offers a corrective to the widespread view that bureaucracy is the source of democracy's ills. This book undertakes a comparative analysis of the drive toward a civil service grounded in the New Public Management. It argues that "government reinvention" has limited bureaucracy's capacity to adequately serve the public good.