The State As Cultural Practice

Author : Mark Bevir,R. A. W. Rhodes
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191614804

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The State as Cultural Practice by Mark Bevir,R. A. W. Rhodes Pdf

The State as Cultural Practice offers a fully worked out account of the authors' distinctive interpretive approach to political science. It challenges the new institutionalism, probably the most significant present-day strand in both American and British political science. It moves away from such notions as 'bringing the state back in', 'path dependency' and modernist empiricism. Instead, Bevir and Rhodes argue for an anti-foundational analysis, ethnographic and historical methods, and a decentred approach that rejects any essentialist definition of the state and espouses the idea of politics as cultural practice. The book has three aims: · to develop an anti-foundational theory of the state · to develop a new research agenda around the topics of rule, rationalities, and resistance · by exploring empirical shifts and debates about the changing nature of the state to show how anti-foundational theory leads us to see them differently. Bevir and Rhodes argue for the idea of 'the stateless state' or the state as meaning-in-action. So, the state is neither monolithic nor a causal agent. It consists solely of the contingent actions of specific individuals; of diverse beliefs about the public sphere, about authority and power, which are constructed differently in contending traditions. Continuity and change are products of people inheriting traditions and modifying them in response to dilemmas. A decentred approach explores the limits to the state and seeks to develop a more diverse view of state authority and its exercise. In short, political scientists need to bring people back in to the study of the state.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:804907204

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Author : Laurens Schlicht,Carla Seemann,Christian Kassung
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030394196

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Mind Reading as a Cultural Practice by Laurens Schlicht,Carla Seemann,Christian Kassung Pdf

This book provides a genealogical perspective on various forms of mind reading in different settings. We understand mind reading in a broad sense as the twentieth-century attempt to generate knowledge of what people held in their minds – with a focus on scientifically-based governmental practices. This volume considers the techniques of mind reading within a wider perspective of discussions about technological innovation within neuroscience, the juridical system, “occult” practices and discourses within the wider field of parapsychology and magical beliefs. The authors address the practice of, and discourses on, mind reading as they form part of the consolidation of modern governmental techniques. The collected contributions explore the question of how these techniques have been epistemically formed, institutionalized, practiced, discussed, and how they have been used to shape forms of subjectivities – collectively through human consciousness or individually through the criminal, deviant, or spiritual subject. The first part of this book focuses on the technologies and media of mind reading, while the second part addresses practices of mind reading as they have been used within the juridical sphere. The volume is of interest to a broad scholarly readership dealing with topics in interdisciplinary fields such as the history of science, history of knowledge, cultural studies, and techniques of subjectivization.

Author : Jim Lantz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04
Category : Minorities
ISBN : 9780190615796

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Cross-Cultural Practice, Second Edition by Jim Lantz Pdf

Cultural awareness in the helping professions is crucial to providing the best possible care. In this expanded new edition of Cross-Cultural Practice, the authors uniquely present factors common to diverse ethnic and cultural populations that are useful in building cross-cultural competence. Building on the existential concepts of Victor Frankl, the text provides a framework for helping families and individuals discover meaning and meaning opportunities in daily living. The book is organized into chapters dedicated to specific population profiles. New chapters give an overview of key concepts used throughout the book and summarize the authors' theoretical approach toward cross-cultural practice.

Author : María del Carmen Salazar,Jessica Lerner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429820694

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Teacher Evaluation as Cultural Practice by María del Carmen Salazar,Jessica Lerner Pdf

Moving beyond the expectations and processes of conventional teacher evaluation, this book provides a framework for teacher evaluation that better prepares educators to serve culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) learners. Covering theory, research, and practice, María del Carmen Salazar and Jessica Lerner showcase a model to aid prospective and practicing teachers who are concerned with issues of equity, excellence, and evaluation. Introducing a comprehensive, five-tenet model, the book demonstrates how to place the needs of CLD learners at the center and offers concrete approaches to assess and promote cultural responsiveness, thereby providing critical insight into the role of teacher evaluation in confronting inequity. This book is intended to serve as a resource for those who are committed to the reconceptualization of teacher evaluation in order to better support CLD learners and their communities, while promoting cultural competence and critical consciousness for all learners.

Author : Christopher Hood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198297659

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The Art of the State by Christopher Hood Pdf

Bringing a new conceptual framework and valuable historical perspective to various approaches to public management, this study uses cultural theory to show why ideas about how to manage government are inherently plural and contradictory.

Author : George Steinmetz
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501717789

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State/Culture by George Steinmetz Pdf

What impact does culture have on state-formation and public policy? How do states affect national and local cultures? How is the ongoing cultural turn in theory reshaping our understanding of the Western and modernizing states, long viewed as the radiant core of a universal, context-free rationality? This eagerly awaited volume brings together pioneering scholars who reexamine the sociology of the state and historical processes of state-formation in light of developments in cultural analysis.The volume first examines some of the unsatisfying ways in which cultural processes have been discussed in social science literature on the state. It demonstrates new and sophisticated approaches to understanding both the role culture plays in the formation of states and the state's influence on broad cultural developments. The book includes theoretical essays and empirical studies; the latter essays are concerned with early modern European nations, non-European countries undergoing political modernization, and twentieth-century Western nation-states. A wide range of perspectives are presented in order to delineate this emergent area of research. Together the essays constitute an agenda-setting work for the social sciences.

Author : Lars Gustaf Andersson,John Sundholm
Publisher : Intellect (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 1783209860

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The Cultural Practice of Immigrant Filmmaking by Lars Gustaf Andersson,John Sundholm Pdf

Based on a research project funded by the Swedish Research Council, this book analyses 40 years of post-war independent immigrant filmmaking in Sweden. John Sundholm and Lars Gustaf Andersson consider the creativity that lies in the state of exile, offering analyses of over 50 rarely seen immigrant films that would otherwise remain invisible and...

Author : Norma Mendoza-Denton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781118910870

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Homegirls by Norma Mendoza-Denton Pdf

In this ground-breaking new book on the Norteña and Sureña (North/South) youth gang dynamic, cultural anthropologist and linguist Norma Mendoza-Denton looks at the daily lives of young Latinas and their innovative use of speech, bodily practices, and symbolic exchanges that signal their gang affiliations and ideologies. Her engrossing ethnographic and sociolinguistic study reveals the connection of language behavior and other symbolic practices among Latina gang girls in California, and their connections to larger social processes of nationalism, racial/ethnic consciousness, and gender identity. An engrossing account of the Norte and Sur girl gangs - the largest Latino gangs in California Traces how elements of speech, bodily practices, and symbolic exchanges are used to signal social affiliation and come together to form youth gang styles Explores the relationship between language and the body: one of the most striking aspects of the tattoos, make-up, and clothing of the gang members Unlike other studies – which focus on violence, fighting and drugs – Mendoza-Denton delves into the commonly-overlooked cultural and linguistic aspects of youth gangs

Author : Johann Caspar Bluntschli,David George Ritchie,Percy Ewing Matheson,Sir Richard Lodge
Publisher : Oxford, Clarendon
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Political science
ISBN : UIUC:30112021071557

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The Theory of the State by Johann Caspar Bluntschli,David George Ritchie,Percy Ewing Matheson,Sir Richard Lodge Pdf

Author : Rustom Bharucha
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2000-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0819564249

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The Politics of Cultural Practice by Rustom Bharucha Pdf

Refuting the notion that the West is everywhere, Rustom Bharucha draws on the emergent cultures of secular struggle in contemporary India to engage with the volatile global issues of intellectual property rights, cultural tourism, and the marking of minorities on the basis of religion, caste, language, gender, and sexuality.

Author : Melania Bucciarelli,Berta Joncus
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781843833178

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Music as Social and Cultural Practice by Melania Bucciarelli,Berta Joncus Pdf

"The linking theme of the essays collected here is the intersection of musical work with social and cultural practice. Inspired by Professor Strohm's ideas, as is fitting in a volume in his honour, leading scholars in the field explore diverse conceptualizations of the 'work' within the contexts of a specific repertory, over four main sections. Music in Theory and Practice studies the link between treatises and musical practice, and analyses how historical writings can reveal period views on the 'work' in music before 1800. Art and Social Process: Music in Court and Urban Societies looks at the social and cultural practices informing composition from the late Renaissance until the mid-eighteenth century, and interrogates current notions of canon formation and the exchange between local and foreign traditions. Creating an Opera Industry focuses on how genre and artistic autonomy were defined in operas from diverse eras and countries, explaining the role of literature and politics in this process. Finally, The Crisis of Modernity treats nineteenth-century music, offering new models for 'work' and 'context' to challenge reigning theories of the meaning of these terms."--Publisher's website.

Author : Yatta Kanu
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780802090782

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Curriculum as Cultural Practice by Yatta Kanu Pdf

Curriculum as Cultural Practice aims to revitalize current discourses of curriculum research and reform from a postcolonial perspective.

Author : Ranjan Datta
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-13T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773631714

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Reconciliation in Practice by Ranjan Datta Pdf

In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released a report designed to facilitate reconciliation between the Canadian state and Indigenous Peoples. Its call to honour treaty relationships reminds us that we are all treaty people — including immigrants and refugees living in Canada. The contributors to this volume, many of whom are themselves immigrants and refugees, take up the challenge of imagining what it means for immigrants and refugees to live as treaty people. Through essays, personal reflections and poetry, the authors explore what reconciliation is and what it means to live in relationship with Indigenous Peoples. Speaking from their personal experience — whether from the education and health care systems, through research and a community garden, or from experiences of discrimination and marginalization — contributors share their stories of what reconciliation means in practice. They write about building respectful relationships with Indigenous Peoples, respecting Indigenous Treaties, decolonizing our ways of knowing and acting, learning the role of colonized education processes, protecting our land and environment, creating food security and creating an intercultural space for social interactions. Perhaps most importantly, Reconciliation in Practice reminds us that reconciliation is an ongoing process, not an event, and that decolonizing our relationships and building new ones based on understanding and respect is empowering for all of us — Indigenous, settler, immigrant and refugee alike.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1472545826

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The Politics of Cultural Practice by Anonim Pdf

"Is equitable global culture exchange possible? Who determines this exchange and at whose expense? Can community and place survive the anonymity of the market and the patriarchy of the state? How can cultural practice provoke new modes of resistance in an age of globalization? 'The Politics of Cultural Practice' defies the homogenizing and anti-democratic forces of globalization. Refuting the assumption that the West is everywhere, the book draws on the emergent cultures of sexual struggle in contemporary India to engage with the volatile global issues of intellectual property rights, cultural tourism and the marking of minorities on the basis of religion, caste, language, gender and sexuality. A dazzling analysis of life, politics and art in our globalizing world, 'The Politics of Cultural Practice' demonstrates the power of the intercultural imaginary to radically shape the 21st century."--Bloomsbury Publishing.