Asia Europe In Social Sciences Connections Representations Interpretations

Author : ALEXANDRA GABRIELA CONSTANTINESCU,ANGELICA HELENA MARINESCU
Publisher : Editura Universității din București - Bucharest University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9786061611591

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ASIA&EUROPE IN SOCIAL SCIENCES: CONNECTIONS, REPRESENTATIONS, INTERPRETATIONS by ALEXANDRA GABRIELA CONSTANTINESCU,ANGELICA HELENA MARINESCU Pdf

Această lucrare pune față-în-față Europa și Asia, în studii realizate de antropologi, coregrafi, filologi, istorici, lingviști, muzicologi și sociologi. Granițele sociale și culturale dintre cele două lumi atât de depărtate fizic sunt relevate de lucrare a fi extrem de subțiri. Lucrarea abordează atât aspecte teoretice, cât și practice: discută despre legătura dintre postcolonialism și postcomunism despre semnificația culturală a mirodeniilor, despre modernitatea în artele vizuale, despre diseminarea culturii populare sud-coreene în România, despre lumea orientală ca sursă de inspirație pentru compozitorii europeni, despre apariția mișcărilor feministe în vestul Europei cu cele similare din Asia. Articolul despre rolul cultural și stereotipal al monumentelor coloniale este foarte instructiv in contextul mișcărilor sociale recente din SUA și Europa de Vest. Lucrarea se încheie cu o cercetare ce aduce în discuție imaginarul unei călătorii în India, așa cum este ea proiectată de europeni.

Author : Kaustavi Sarkar
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476676142

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Dance, Technology and Social Justice by Kaustavi Sarkar Pdf

This book theorizes dance technique as the Greek techne translated as art, and shows how movement can inspire epistemic, philosophical, and cultural conversations in technology studies. Combining dance studies, religious studies, and technology studies, it argues that dance can be a technology of social justice bringing equanimity, liberation and resistance. It focuses on the eastern Indian art form Odissi and applied experimentations with motion capture technology, virtual reality (VR) gaming, and Arduino. It specifically examines tthe work of Ananya Dance Theatre (ADT), a Minnesota based contemporary Indian dance company that deconstructs Odissi towards social justice activism.

Author : Claudia CONSTANTINESCU
Publisher : Editura Universității din București - Bucharest University Press
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9786061613625

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FROM ORGANIZED CRIME TO ORGANIZING CRIME by Claudia CONSTANTINESCU Pdf

The paper presents the characteristics of organized crime, brief criminological aspects, the temporal and territorial evolution of organized crime, sociological theories and attempts to explain the genesis of crime.

Author : Karim Wazir Jahan
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789813232457

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Global Nexus, The: Political Economies, Connectivity, And The Social Sciences by Karim Wazir Jahan Pdf

The Global Nexus: Political Economies, Connectivity, and the Social Sciences is a provocative critique of the social sciences in the age of neoconservative and alt-right globalisation sweeping across modern democracies globally. The writer persuasively argues that the mainstream western social science modality of describing indigenous knowledge and sub-altern discourses as 'alternative knowledge' is due for serious review, for it describes, devalues, and renders it the same renegade status as the 'alternate realities' of the alt-right, neo-conservative agencies of Western and Asian governments. The abuse of indigenous knowledge by neoconservative governments to promote racism, ethno-centricities, and misogyny has also reduced vital sources of local knowledge to fodder, only salvaged by 'the good press' — specialists of the media in investigative journalism, communications, and literature, who propose that worldviews and ideas of the underclasses, including women, migrants, minorities, refugees, war prisoners, and refugees should be brought to the fore and 'mainstreamed' for the reader to understand that the stories they tell and their reasons why tell them, are closer to truth than fiction. These lost voices, often silenced, suppressed, and understated, generate new knowledge of the marginalised and disadvantaged sectors of modern society, reflecting the social realities of globalisation.Focusing on Southeast Asia with comparisons across nations in the Levant and the Middle East, Europe, and the United States, Wazir Jahan Karim vividly demonstrates how plural political economies have emerged and rendered flaws in the globalisation process. As powerful elites compete to accumulate and control wealth, power, and vital global resources, the growing phenomenon of global agencing, wealth- and poverty-generating institutions exist together in complex networks of hierarchical relationships, strategies, and alliances, with dire consequences for those on the receiving end of the global spectrum.

Author : Michael Mack
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781623569792

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Philosophy and Literature in Times of Crisis by Michael Mack Pdf

Highlighting literature and philosophy's potential impact on economics, health care, bioethics, public policy and theology, this book analyses the heuristic value of fiction. It alerts us to how we risk succumbing to the deceptions of fiction in our everyday lives, because fictional representations constantly feign to be of the real and claim a reality of their own. Philosophy and literature disclose how the substantive sphere of social, economic and medical practice is sometimes driven and shaped by the affect-ridden and subjective. Analysing a wide range of literature-from Augustine, Shakespeare, Spinoza and Deleuze to Kafka, Sylvia Plath, Philip Roth, W. G. Sebald and Jonathan Littell-Michael Mack rethinks ethical attitudes towards the long or eternal life. In so doing he shows how philosophy and literature turn representation against itself to expose the hollowness of theologically grand concepts that govern our secular approach towards ethics, economics and medicine. Philosophy and literature help us resist our current infatuation with numbers and the numerical and contribute towards a future politics that is at once singular and diverse.

Author : Swatahsiddha Sarkar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000581300

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Contours of South Asian Social Anthropology by Swatahsiddha Sarkar Pdf

This book presents a conceptual and methodological framework to understand South Asia by engaging with the practices of sociology and social anthropology in India and Nepal. It provides a new imagination of South Asia by connecting historical, political, religious and cultural divides of the region. Drawing from the experiences of Indian and Nepali social anthropology, the book discusses the presence of Nepal studies in Indian social anthropology and vice versa. It highlights Nepal or South Asia as a subject for social anthropological research and stresses on pluriversal knowledge production through regional scholarship, dialogic social anthropology, South Asian episteme, post-Western social anthropology and the decolonisation of disciplines. In exploring the themes and problems of doing social anthropology in Nepal by Indian scholars, the book assesses the scope of developing the South Asian social anthropological worldview. It explains why social anthropological and sociological inquiry in India has failed to surpass its focus beyond the territorial limits of the nation state. The book examines the issues of methodological nationalism and social anthropological research tradition in South Asia. By using the Saidian framework of travelling theory and Bhambra’s idea of connected sociologies, it shows how social anthropology can develop disciplinary crossroads within South Asia. This book will be of interest to students, teachers and researchers of South Asian studies, anthropology, sociology, social anthropology, South Asian sociology, cultural anthropology, social psychology, area studies, cultural studies, Nepal studies and Global South studies.

Author : Raffaele Marchetti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351117487

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Government–NGO Relationships in Africa, Asia, Europe and MENA by Raffaele Marchetti Pdf

This volume brings together some of the most recent scholarship on government and civil society. It examines the axis of the relationship between national governments and civil society organisations (NGOs) by highlighting commonalities as well as differences among four key regions in the world. Using the stability vs. instability framework, the book explores a range of pertinent issues, including human rights, development, foreign policy, state-building, regime change, governance frameworks, wars and civil liberties. It studies diverse situations, from those entailing comprehensive cooperation to those involving politically contentious and revolutionary activities. With case studies from Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), this volume will be useful to scholars and researchers of political science, global politics, international relations, sociology, development studies, global governance and public policy, as well as to those in the development sector and NGOs.

Author : Dawn M. Elmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Ecosystem health
ISBN : MINN:31951D02996595F

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Understanding the Links Between Ecosystem Health and Social System Well-being by Dawn M. Elmer Pdf

Author : Christopher A. Airriess
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442218574

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Contemporary Ethnic Geographies in America by Christopher A. Airriess Pdf

Ethnic diversity has marked the United States from its inception, and it is impossible to separate ethnicity from an understanding of the United States as a country and “Americans” as a people. Since the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, the United States has experienced watershed transformations in its social, cultural, and ethnic geographies. Considering the impact of these wide-ranging changes, this unique text examines the experiences of a range of ethnic groups in both historical and contemporary context. It begins by laying out a comprehensive conceptual framework that integrates immigration theory; globalization; transnational community formation; and urban, cultural, and economic geography. The contributors then present a rich set of case studies of the key Latin American, Asian American, and Middle Eastern communities comprising the vast majority of newer immigrants. Each case offers a brief historical overview of the group’s immigration experience and settlement patterns and discusses its contemporary socioeconomic dynamics. All these communities have transformed—and been transformed by—the places in which they have settled. Exploring these changing communities, places, and landscapes, this book offers a nuanced understanding of the evolution of America's contemporary ethnic geographies.

Author : Georg Wiessala
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136171611

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European Studies in Asia by Georg Wiessala Pdf

As countries across Asia continue to rise and become more assertive global powers, the role that Higher Education has played, and continues to play, in this process is an issue of growing pertinence. Furthermore, understanding the relationship between Europe and Asia fostered by historical and contemporary knowledge transfer, including Higher Education, is crucial to analysing and encouraging the progress of both regional integration and inter-regional cooperation. With a specific focus on international Higher Education, European Studies in Asia investigates knowledge transfer and channels of learning between Europe and Asia from historical, contemporary and teaching perspectives. The book examines a selection of significant historical precedents of intellectual dialogue between the two regions and, in turn, explores contemporary cross-regional discourses both inside and outside of the official frameworks of the European Union (EU) and the Asia--Europe Meetings (ASEM). Drawing on extensive case studies based on many of his own teaching experiences, Georg Wiessala addresses key questions, such as the nature and construction of the European Studies in Asia curriculum; aspects of ‘values’, co-constructed learning and adult pedagogy in the discipline of European Studies in Asia; the politics of Asian host cultures, the ‘internationalization’ of Asian Higher Education and the experiences and expectations of tertiary sector students of this subject in Asia, Australia and New Zealand. In doing so, the author articulates a range of outcomes for the further development of Higher Education cooperation agendas between Asia and Europe, in the discipline of European Studies, and in related fields such as International Relations. This case study-led book makes an original and novel contribution to our understanding of European Studies in Asia. As such, it will be of great interest to students and scholars of Asian Education, Comparative Education, European Studies and International Relations.

Author : Jim Slater,Roger Strange
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134776559

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Business Relationships with East Asia by Jim Slater,Roger Strange Pdf

This volume analyses the business environment in East Asia with reference to trade and investment flows within the region and between East Asia and Europe. Focusing on the two-way flow of management ideas, investment and technology, this study highlights the way in which both sides can benefit.

Author : Carol Johnson,Vera Mackie,Tessa Morris-Suzuki
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781925022599

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The Social Sciences in the Asian Century by Carol Johnson,Vera Mackie,Tessa Morris-Suzuki Pdf

In this collection of essays, we reflect on what it means to practise the social sciences in the twenty-first century. The book brings together leading social scientists from the Asia-Pacific region. We argue for the benefit of dialogue between the diverse theories and methods of social sciences in the region, the role of the social sciences in addressing real-world problems, the need to transcend national boundaries in addressing regional problems, and the challenges for an increasingly globalised higher education sector in the twenty-first century. The chapters are a combination of theoretical reflections and locally focused case studies of processes that are embedded in global dynamics and the changing geopolitics of knowledge. In an increasingly connected world, these reflections will be of global relevance

Author : Rahat Sabyrbekov,Indra Overland,Roman Vakulchuk
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783031298318

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Climate Change in Central Asia by Rahat Sabyrbekov,Indra Overland,Roman Vakulchuk Pdf

This open access book explores climate change impacts, adaptation, and mitigation in Central Asia and discusses policy options for the Central Asian governments. To address the urgent need for local scholarship on climate change in Central Asia, and in particular the need for more research by social scientists, this book features a wide range of contributions on climate change impacts, adaptation and mitigation in the region. Each chapter makes an important contribution to social science scholarship on climate change and decarbonization in Central Asia. Topics include decarbonization opportunities, carbon pricing instruments, the geo-economics of the energy transition, the relationship between human mobility and climate change. The book thus offers valuable insights for both academics and policymakers.

Author : Adam Kuper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781134450831

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The Social Science Encyclopedia by Adam Kuper Pdf

The Social Science Encyclopedia, first published in 1985 to acclaim from social scientists, librarians and students, was thoroughly revised in 1996, when reviewers began to describe it as a classic. This third edition has been radically recast. Over half the entries are new or have been entirely rewritten, and most of the balance have been substantially revised. Written by an international team of contributors, the Encyclopedia offers a global perspective on the key issues within the social sciences. Some 500 entries cover a variety of enduring and newly vital areas of study and research methods. Experts review theoretical debates from neo-evolutionism and rational choice theory to poststructuralism, and address the great questions that cut across the social sciences. What is the influence of genes on behaviour? What is the nature of consciousness and cognition? What are the causes of poverty and wealth? What are the roots of conflict, wars, revolutions and genocidal violence? This authoritative reference work is aimed at anyone with a serious interest in contemporary academic thinking about the individual in society.

Author : Kleinsy Bonilla,Milena Pavan Serafim,Luisa F. Fernanda Echeverría-King,Derya Buyuktanir Karacan ,Olusola Oluwayemisi Ololade,Nimita Pandey,Tebogo Mabotha,Huda Omer Basaleem,Rana Dajani,Olubukola Oluranti Babalola ,Jae Sung Kwak
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832513606

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Engaging Scientific Diasporas for Development: Policy and Practices by Kleinsy Bonilla,Milena Pavan Serafim,Luisa F. Fernanda Echeverría-King,Derya Buyuktanir Karacan ,Olusola Oluwayemisi Ololade,Nimita Pandey,Tebogo Mabotha,Huda Omer Basaleem,Rana Dajani,Olubukola Oluranti Babalola ,Jae Sung Kwak Pdf