Theorizing The Local

Author : Richard Wolf
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190450236

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Over the past four decades, the "globalized" aspects of cultural circulation have received the majority of scholarly-and consumer-attention, particularly in the study of South Asian music. As a result, a broad range of community-based and other locally focused performance traditions in the regions of South Asia have remained relatively unexplored. Theorizing the Local provides a challenging and compelling counterperspective to the "globalized," arguing for the value of comparative microstudies that are not concerned primarily with the flow of capital and neoliberal politics. What does it mean for musical activities to be local in an increasingly interconnected world? To what extent can theoretical activity be localized to the very acts of making music, interacting, and composing? Theorizing the Local offers glimpses into rich musical worlds of south and west Asia, worlds which have never before been presented in a single volume. The authors cross the traditional borders of scholarship and region, exploring in unmatched detail a vast array of musical practices and significant ethnographic discoveries-from Nepal to India, India to Sri Lanka, Pakistan to Iran. Enriched by audio and video tracks on an extensive companion Web site, Theorizing the Local is an important study of South Asian musical traditions that offers a broader understanding of 21st-century music of the world.

Author : Richard Wolf
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 0199716005

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Over the past four decades, the "globalized" aspects of cultural circulation have received the majority of scholarly-and consumer-attention, particularly in the study of South Asian music. As a result, a broad range of community-based and other locally focused performance traditions in the regions of South Asia have remained relatively unexplored. Theorizing the Local provides a challenging and compelling counterperspective to the "globalized," arguing for the value of comparative microstudies that are not concerned primarily with the flow of capital and neoliberal politics. What does it mean for musical activities to be local in an increasingly interconnected world? To what extent can theoretical activity be localized to the very acts of making music, interacting, and composing? Theorizing the Local offers glimpses into rich musical worlds of south and west Asia, worlds which have never before been presented in a single volume. The authors cross the traditional borders of scholarship and region, exploring in unmatched detail a vast array of musical practices and significant ethnographic discoveries-from Nepal to India, India to Sri Lanka, Pakistan to Iran. Enriched by audio and video tracks on an extensive companion Web site, Theorizing the Local is an important study of South Asian musical traditions that offers a broader understanding of 21st-century music of the world.

Author : Ricard Zapata-Barrero,Tiziana Caponio,Peter Scholten
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1006699018

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Symposium: Theorizing "the Local Turn" in the Governance of Immigrant Policies by Ricard Zapata-Barrero,Tiziana Caponio,Peter Scholten Pdf

Author : George A. Boyne
Publisher : Springer
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1998-08-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230373099

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Public Choice Theory and Local Government by George A. Boyne Pdf

This book evaluates the validity of a key proposition of public choice theory: that competition is associated with superior performance by governmental organisations. Three forms of competition in local government are identified: competition between local authorities, competition between councils and private contractors, and competition between parties for political power. The extent and consequences of competition are assessed in both the UK and USA. The analysis is used to draw conclusions on the effects of competition and the validity of public choice theory.

Author : Desmond S. King,Gerry Stoker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1996-07-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349247561

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Rethinking Local Democracy by Desmond S. King,Gerry Stoker Pdf

The transformation of British local government into a new and complex system of local governance raises fundamental theoretical questions as well as empirical ones. Rethinking Local Democracy argues that traditional defences of local government are no longer adequate and that the case for local autonomy and local democracy needs to be radically rethought. It brings together a set of specially-commissioned chapters by leading academics designed to stimulate and contribute to debate on these issues.

Author : Moritz Baumgärtel,Sara Miellet
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781316517840

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Theorizing Local Migration Law and Governance by Moritz Baumgärtel,Sara Miellet Pdf

In many regions around the world, the governance of migration increasingly involves local authorities and actors. This edited volume introduces theoretical contributions that, departing from the 'local turn' in migration studies, highlight the distinct role that legal processes, debates, and instruments play in driving this development. Drawing on historical and contemporary case studies, it demonstrates how paying closer analytical attention to legal questions reveals the inherent tensions and contradictions of migration governance. By investigating socio-legal phenomena such as sanctuary jurisdictions, it further explores how the law structures ongoing processes of (re)scaling in this domain. Beyond offering conceptual and empirical discussions of local migration governance, this volume also directly confronts the pressing normative questions that follow from the growing involvement of local authorities and actors. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Author : Jean Comaroff,John L. Comaroff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317250623

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Theory from the South by Jean Comaroff,John L. Comaroff Pdf

As nation-states in the Northern Hemisphere experience economic crisis, political corruption and racial tension, it seems as though they might be 'evolving' into the kind of societies normally associated with the 'Global South'. Anthropologists Jean and John Comaroff draw on their long experience of living in Africa to address a range of familiar themes - democracy, national borders, labour and capital and multiculturalism. They consider how we might understand these issues by using theory developed in the Global South. Challenging our ideas about 'developed' and 'developing' nations, Theory from the South provides new insights into key problems of our time.

Author : Victoria Bernal,Inderpal Grewal
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822377191

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Theorizing NGOs by Victoria Bernal,Inderpal Grewal Pdf

Theorizing NGOs examines how the rise of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) has transformed the conditions of women's lives and of feminist organizing. Victoria Bernal and Inderpal Grewal suggest that we can understand the proliferation of NGOs through a focus on the NGO as a unified form despite the enormous variation and diversity contained within that form. Theorizing NGOs brings together cutting-edge feminist research on NGOs from various perspectives and disciplines. Contributors locate NGOs within local and transnational configurations of power, interrogate the relationships of nongovernmental organizations to states and to privatization, and map the complex, ambiguous, and ultimately unstable synergies between feminisms and NGOs. While some of the contributors draw on personal experience with NGOs, others employ regional or national perspectives. Spanning a broad range of issues with which NGOs are engaged, from microcredit and domestic violence to democratization, this groundbreaking collection shows that NGOs are, themselves, fields of gendered struggles over power, resources, and status. Contributors. Sonia E. Alvarez, Victoria Bernal, LeeRay M. Costa, Inderpal Grewal, Laura Grünberg, Elissa Helms, Julie Hemment, Saida Hodžic, Lamia Karim, Sabine Lang, Lauren Leve, Kathleen O'Reilly, Aradhana Sharma

Author : Rico Isaacs,Alessandro Frigerio
Publisher : Springer
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319973555

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Theorizing Central Asian Politics by Rico Isaacs,Alessandro Frigerio Pdf

This book brings together a series of innovative contributions which provide an eclectic view of how theorizing politics plays out in Central Asia. How are the concepts of governance, legitimacy, ideology, power, order, and the state framed in the region? How can we use the experiences of the Central Asian states to renovate political theorizing? In addressing these questions, the volume relies on the contributions of many young and local researchers, whose chapters are primed to address three key themes: exploring models of governance, revealing ideological justifications, and reframing state and order. Utilizing a range of single and comparative case studies from across the Central Asian space, this illuminating and original volume opens up a new space for political theorists, regional specialists and students of politics to begin reconsidering how we approach the theorization of regions of the world assumed to be on the periphery.

Author : CAROLE MCCANN,Seung-kyung Kim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1010 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135073831

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Feminist Theory Reader by CAROLE MCCANN,Seung-kyung Kim Pdf

The third edition of the Feminist Theory Reader anthologizes the important classical and contemporary works of feminist theory within a multiracial transnational framework. This edition includes 16 new essays; the editors have organized the readings into four sections, which challenge the prevailing representation of feminist movements as waves. Introductory essays at the beginning of each section lay out the framework that brings the readings together and provide historical and intellectual context. Instructors who have adopted the book can email [email protected] to receive test questions associated with the readings. Please include your school and location (state/province/county/country) in the email. Now available for the first time in eBook format 978-0-203-59831-3.

Author : Robert T. Craig,Heidi L. Muller
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1412952379

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Theorizing Communication by Robert T. Craig,Heidi L. Muller Pdf

Presents the collection of primary-source readings built around the idea that communication theory is a field with an identifiable history and has developed within seven main traditions of thought - the rhetorical, semiotic, phenomenological, cybernetic, sociopsychological, sociocultural, and critical traditions.

Author : Anna-Katharina Praetorius,Charalambos Y. Charalambous
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783031256134

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Theorizing Teaching by Anna-Katharina Praetorius,Charalambos Y. Charalambous Pdf

This open access book seeks to create a forum for discussing key questions regarding theories on teaching: Which theories of teaching do we have? What are their attributes? What do they contain? How are they generated? How context-sensitive and content-specific do they need to be? Is it possible or even desirable to develop a comprehensive theory of teaching? The book identifies areas of convergence and divergence among the answers to these questions by prominent international scholars in research on teaching. Initiating exchanges among the authors, it then evaluates whether consensus can be reached on the areas of divergence. The book concludes by discussing lessons learned from this endeavor and outlines steps that need to be taken for advancing future work on theorizing teaching. As such, the book is aimed at readers interested in an overview of the theorizing of teaching and key open questions that, if addressed, help to move the field forward.

Author : Marcelo González Gálvez,Piergiorgio Di Giminiani,Giovanna Bacchiddu
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800733299

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Theorizing Relations in Indigenous South America by Marcelo González Gálvez,Piergiorgio Di Giminiani,Giovanna Bacchiddu Pdf

"Originally published as a special issue of Social Analysis, volume 63, issue 2."

Author : Timothy Rice
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190616908

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Modeling Ethnomusicology by Timothy Rice Pdf

Ethnomusicology is an academic discipline with a very broad mandate: to understand why and how human beings are musical through the study of music in all its geographical and historical diversity. Ethnomusicological scholarship, however, has been remiss in articulating such goals, methods, and theories. A renowned figure in the field, Timothy Rice is one of the few scholars to regularly address this problem. In this volume, he offers a compilation of essays drawn from across his career that finds implicit and yet largely unrecognized patterns unifying ethnomusicology over its recent history. Modeling Ethnomusicology summarizes thirty years of thinking about the field of ethnomusicology as Rice frames and reframes the content of eight of his most important essays from their original context in relation to the environment of today's ethnomusicology. Rice proposes a variety of models meant to guide students and researchers in their study of ethnomusicology. Some of these models pull together disparate strands of the field, while others propose heuristic models that generate questions for researchers as they plan and conduct their research. A new introduction to these essays reviews the history of his writing about ethnomusicology and proposes an innovative model for theorizing in ethnomusicology by ethnomusicologists. This book will be an enduring, essential text in undergraduate and graduate ethnomusicology classrooms, as well as a must-buy for established scholars in the field.

Author : RAEWYN. CONNELL
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 036771941X

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Southern Theory by RAEWYN. CONNELL Pdf

Southern Theory presents the case for a radical re-thinking of social science and its relationships to knowledge, power and democracy on a world scale. Mainstream social science pictures the world as understood by the educated and affluent in Europe and North America. From Weber and Keynes to Friedman and Foucault, theorists from the global North dominate the imagination of social scientists, and the reading lists of students, all over the world. For most of modern history, the majority world has served social science only as a data mine. Yet the global South does produce knowledge and understanding of society. Through vivid accounts of critics and theorists, Raewyn Connell shows how social theory from the world periphery has power and relevance for understanding our changing world from al-Afghani at the dawn of modern social science, to Raul Prebisch in industrialising Latin America, Ali Shariati in revolutionary Iran, Paulin Hountondji in post-colonial Benin, Veena Das and Ashis Nandy in contemporary India, and many others. With clarity and verve, Southern Theory introduces readers to texts, ideas and debates that have emerged from Australia's Indigenous people, from Africa, Latin America, south and south-west Asia. It deals with modernisation, gender, race, class, cultural domination, neoliberalism, violence, trade, religion, identity, land, and the structure of knowledge itself. Southern Theory shows how this tremendous resource has been disregarded by mainstream social science. It explores the challenges of doing theory in the periphery, and considers the role Southern perspectives should have in a globally connected system of knowledge. Southern Theory draws on sociology, anthropology, history, psychology, economics, philosophy and cultural studies, with wide-ranging implications for social science in the 21st century.