Postcollectivity

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004694880

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Postcollectivity by Anonim Pdf

Most of the phenomena described in this book have arisen as a result of various crises, disasters, threats, and forms of violence (such as wars, refugee crises, and political regimes, but also devastating practices of the anthropogenic drive and environmental pollution). Others are a form of response to new political, social and cultural changes that we are experiencing due to the rapid development of technology or progressive economic stratification. The research perspective proposed in Postcollectivity draws on the authors' approaches, combining academic and theoretical discourse with social engagement and artistic practice with critical thought. Contributors are: Harshavardhan Bhat, Stephen Dersley, Adela Goldbard, Carly E. Gray, Agnieszka Jelewska, Peter H. Kahn, Jr., Michał Krawczak, Grant Leuning, Ania Malinowska, Anna Nacher, Andrzej W. Nowak, Julian Reid, Pepe Rojo, Sarena Sabine, Jens Schröter, Jan Stasieńko and Brett Zehner.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Ranching
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123119591

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Rangeland Ecology & Management by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9004694870

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Postcollectivity by Anonim Pdf

Postcollectivity designates the transition phase between the disintegration of traditionally understood collectives (people who act together and produce goods or resources) and a move towards emerging contemporary communication models, forms of knowledge production and sharing practices needed to regain agency in crises.

Author : Mark R. Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003-11-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134409464

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Democratic Revolutions by Mark R. Thompson Pdf

Despite enormous differences between Asia and Eastern Europe, there are striking similarities between the peaceful, spontaneous, urban-based and cross-class democratic uprisings against unyielding dictatorships that have occurred in the two regions. The book explores the kind of non-democratic regimes that are particularly vulnerable to democratic revolutions. It examines why and how democrats rebel and what the results of democratic revolutions have been. Questions posed in this book include: * Why were communist rulers shot in China but not in Eastern Europe? * Why did stolen elections lead to the overthrow of Miloevic in Serbia? * Why have there been so many women leading democratic revolutions in Asia? This book attempts to democratize theories of revolution and revolutionize democratic transitions. Cases and comparisons are drawn from 15 democratic revolutions over the last two decades and the book includes in-depth studies of East Germany, China, Serbia and the Philippines.

Author : Chester Litvin PhD
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781532065439

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Escape from Kolyma by Chester Litvin PhD Pdf

Professor Stepan Kryvoruchko PhD is a scholar who believes that Aborigin, an area soiled by ruination, is inflicted with psychological infections. Viruses were killing individuality. Aborigin’s Superior Leader, a dictator and tyrant who designed a crematory with a network of labor camps, has moved modern Aborigine back to Golden Horde time. As a collective imposes its doctrine on the population, no one knows what is next. Aaron Kaufman has the misfortune of living in Aborigin. Although atrocities have taken the lives of millions including many of his relatives, Aaron has somehow managed to survive. Unfortunately, lies are everywhere. The collective has created double standards in an attempt to alter the nature of man. While the doctrine speaks of the birth of a new, refined man and declared rogues as socially friendly, the collective creates competitions for terrestrials while developing a system of pacifying rebels. Now only time will tell if Aaron find a way to escape the ruthless collective and carve out a new life for himself and whether Professor Kryvoruchko will somehow find the reason for the infection that is plaguing the people of Aborigin. In this science fiction tale, a professor and a young man living in an area devastated by a ruthless dictator embark on separate journeys to learn the truth about themselves and their destinies.

Author : Yunxiang Yan
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804764117

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Private Life under Socialism by Yunxiang Yan Pdf

For seven years in the 1970s, the author lived in a village in northeast China as an ordinary farmer. In 1989, he returned to the village as an anthropologist to begin the unparalleled span of eleven years’ fieldwork that has resulted in this book—a comprehensive, vivid, and nuanced account of family change and the transformation of private life in rural China from 1949 to 1999. The author’s focus on the personal and the emotional sets this book apart from most studies of the Chinese family. Yan explores private lives to examine areas of family life that have been largely overlooked, such as emotion, desire, intimacy, privacy, conjugality, and individuality. He concludes that the past five decades have witnessed a dual transformation of private life: the rise of the private family, within which the private lives of individual women and men are thriving.

Author : Philip Selznick
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Law
ISBN : 0742516253

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Legality and Community by Philip Selznick Pdf

Twenty-three essays from the fields of sociology, legal theory, social theory, and moral philosophy consider the role of basic moral and social commitments, the ideal of legality, the sociology of institutions, and the search for community. Questions surrounding the need for responsive law and governance, the development of humane institutions, and the balance between freedom and communal life are expressly considered. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : California State Personnel Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : California
ISBN : UCBK:C109433049

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Report in Response to House Resolution 530 by California State Personnel Board Pdf

Author : Anthony Reed
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421415215

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Freedom Time by Anthony Reed Pdf

Experimental poetry and prose by black writers rejects traditional interpretations of social protest and identity formation to reveal radical new ways of perceiving the world. Winner, 2016 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, Modern Language Association Standard literary criticism tends to either ignore or downplay the unorthodox tradition of black experimental writing that emerged in the wake of protests against colonization and Jim Crow–era segregation. Histories of African American literature likewise have a hard time accounting for the distinctiveness of experimental writing, which is part of a general shift in emphasis among black writers away from appeals for social recognition or raising consciousness. In Freedom Time, Anthony Reed offers a theoretical reading of "black experimental writing" that presents the term both as a profound literary development and as a concept for analyzing how writing challenges us to rethink the relationships between race and literary techniques. Through extended analyses of works by African American and Afro-Caribbean writers—including N. H. Pritchard, Suzan-Lori Parks, NourbeSe Philip, Kamau Brathwaite, Claudia Rankine, Douglas Kearney, Harryette Mullen, and Nathaniel Mackey—Reed develops a new sense of the literary politics of formally innovative writing and the connections between literature and politics since the 1960s. Freedom Time reclaims the power of experimental black voices by arguing that readers and critics must see them as more than a mere reflection of the politics of social protest and identity formation. With an approach informed by literary, cultural, African American, and feminist studies, Reed shows how reworking literary materials and conventions liberates writers to push the limits of representation and expression.

Author : Arthur Kleinman,Yunxiang Yan,Jing Jun,Sing Lee,Everett Zhang,Pan Tianshu,Wu Fei,Jinhua Guo
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-26
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780520269453

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Deep China by Arthur Kleinman,Yunxiang Yan,Jing Jun,Sing Lee,Everett Zhang,Pan Tianshu,Wu Fei,Jinhua Guo Pdf

"Deep China investigates the emotional and moral lives of the Chinese people as they adjust to the challenges of modernity. Sharing a medical anthropology and cultural psychiatry perspective, the contributors--Arthur Kleinman, Yunxiang Yan, Jing Jun, Sing Lee, Everett Zhang, Pan Tianshu, Wu Fei, and Guo Jinhua--explore the remaking of the moral person during China's profound social and economic transformation, unraveling the shifting practices and struggles of contemporary life."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Patricia Aufderheide
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520401655

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Kartemquin Films by Patricia Aufderheide Pdf

"The evolution of Kartemquin Films--Peabody, Emmy and Sundance-awarded and Oscar-nominated makers of such hits as Hoop Dreams and Minding the Gap--is also the story of U.S. independent documentary film over the last seventy years, and of storytelling for a stronger democracy. Kartemquin filmmakers, emulating the ideals of pragmatic philosopher John Dewey, made their studio into a central Chicago-area media institution; they became national activists for more vibrant and truly public media; they boldly confronted the realities of gender, race and class as they carved out ways to make socially-engaged films in an entertainment business and innovated engagement and impact strategies. This inside look at Kartemquin's growth from the days of 16mm to the streaming era draws from interviews, scholarship and personal experience"--

Author : Irving Massey
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780292749993

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The Neural Imagination by Irving Massey Pdf

Art and technology have been converging rapidly in the past few years; an important example of this convergence is the alliance of neuroscience with aesthetics, which has produced the new field of neuroaesthetics. Irving Massey examines this alliance, in large part to allay the fears of artists and audiences alike that brain science may "explain away" the arts. The first part of the book shows how neuroscience can enhance our understanding of certain features of art. The second part of the book illustrates a humanistic approach to the arts; it is written entirely without recourse to neuroscience, in order to show the differences in methodology between the two approaches. The humanistic style is marked particularly by immersion in the individual work and by evaluation, rather than by detachment in the search for generalizations. In the final section Massey argues that, despite these differences, once the reality of imagination is accepted neuroscience can be seen as the collaborator, not the inquisitor, of the arts.

Author : Jie Lu
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199378746

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Varieties of Governance in China by Jie Lu Pdf

"This book argues that any institution that can efficiently solve the problems of collective action and accountability is able to uphold quality governance in local communities, regardless of their nature and origins. The respective performance of different types of institutions, however, is contingent upon the characteristics of the social environment in which they are embedded. Such social environment characteristics are, in turn, closely shaped by the structural features of the local communities. This book further argues that, among a variety of factors that might have contributed to the structural transformation of rural communities, the most salient is a major phenomenon witnessed in many developing countries: rural-urban migration. More specifically, in local communities with distinct levels of outward migration, community members' contextualized choices between indigenous relation-based and imposed rule-based institutions for local governance issues are likely to unfold in different ways. This generates distinct dynamics of institutional change in these communities with varying communal structures. This is the first book that uses a coherent framework to simultaneously examine various aspects of rural China's governance (including public goods provision, conflict resolution, disaster and crisis relief, and raising modest credit and small loans) and covers both formal and informal institutions"--

Author : Thomas P. Bernstein,Xiaobo Lü
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003-03-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139438049

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Taxation without Representation in Contemporary Rural China by Thomas P. Bernstein,Xiaobo Lü Pdf

The financial burden imposed upon the Chinese farmer by local taxes has become a major source of discontent in the Chinese countryside and a worrisome source of political and social instability for the Chinese government. Bernstein and Lü examine the forms and sources of heavy, informal taxation, and shed light on how peasants defend their interests by adopting strategies of collective resistance (both peaceful and violent). Bernstein and Lü also explain why the central government, while often siding with the peasants, has not been able to solve the burden problem by instituting a sound, reliable financial system in the countryside. While the regime has, to some extent, sought to empower farmers to defend their interests - by informing them about tax rules, expanding the legal system, and instituting village elections, for example, these attempts have not yet generated enough power from 'below' to counter powerful, local official agencies.

Author : David J. Spielman,Rajul Pandya-Lorch
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Proven Successes in Agricultural Development by David J. Spielman,Rajul Pandya-Lorch Pdf

The world has made enormous progress in the past 50 years toward eliminating hunger and malnutrition. While, in 1960, roughly 30 percent of the world's population suffered from hunger and malnutrition, today less than 20 percent doessome five billion people now have enough food to live healthy, productive lives. Agricultural development has contributed significantly to these gains by increasing food supplies, reducing food prices, and creating new income and employment opportunities for some of the world's poorest people.This book examines where, why, and how past interventions in agricultural development have succeeded. It carefully reviews the policies, programs, and investments in agricultural development that have reduced hunger and poverty across Africa, Asia, and Latin America over the past half century. The 19 successes included here are described in in-depth case studies that synthesize the evidence on the intervention's impact on agricultural productivity and food security, evaluate the rigor with which the evidence was collected, and assess the tradeoffs inherent in each success. Together, these chapters provide evidence of "what works" in agricultural development.