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This essay observes the Italian situation in order to make an "anthropology of the sciences of culture" and in order to highlight the contribution that the sciences of culture could offer for a better understanding of the political processes that are taking place. In fact, some political problems of today could be interpreted through the particular lens of "demology", or study of "popular culture", which was a very important part of the Italian anthropological sciences. The same political problems of today could be interpreted as the cause and effect of the events of the Italian anthropological sciences, and of the attitude of intellectuals towards "non-intellectuals". The essay makes "theory" and does not report the experiences on the ground on which it rests, because it is the sum of the results of a thirty-year ethnography on this field, for which the Author refers to her volumes and articles mentioned in the bibliography. This Italian case is illuminating, and can provide an historical reading key to understand folklore and cultures in general.

The emergence of the digital society has become one of the most pressing research topics in social science. So far, political science has been at the margins of the debate because it has been restricted by a rather narrow focus on networked communications. The paper attempts to change this by presenting a more encompassing way to address digitalisation from within political science. After briefly criticising the development of the research in political science the paper reconstructs at length some of the most popular conceptualisations in neighbouring disciplines. While we highlight the commonalities and strengths of those approaches in theorising digitalisation, we criticise their rather derivative understanding of democratic practices and the political as such. We go on to propose a modified understanding - which we term the "digital constellation" - that looks at the changing shape of democracy by developing a much more nuanced understanding of the interplay between societies and technologies. Finally, we illustrate the argument in an exemplary analysis of the changes occurring in political representation in the context of digitalisation.

Refusal to allow the workers to take a direct part in industrial management or leadership and the emergence of the intelligentsia as a privi leged layer, as in the Soviet Union, were confirmed in the first ten years of existence of the Rumanian Popular Republic. The strengthening of the social category of the medium farmers, owning their own farms of between 5 and 20 hectares, is one of the most revealing phenomena of social stratification in that Eastern European "Popular Democracy," differing in this from the Soviet Union.

International audience ; Football is, incontestably, the most popular sport in France and has been for a long time. Formany years, though, it lacked the passion and excess that can be seen in England or Italy. Therehave also traditionally been fewer spectators. No city has been able to support two teams. The'ends' occupied by the 'ultras' have seemed empty compared to the 'kops', 'curves' and 'sides'in grounds elsewhere in Europe. And the French police could once have testified that Frenchhooligans were far easier to control than their foreign counterparts. But French football hasbecome increasingly popular since the beginning of the 1980s. In 1999-2000, attendances reachednew record levels with an average of 22,000 spectators per game. Although these are wellbelow the attendance figures for Germany and England, French club teams are now playing to50-80% of capacity. The number of season ticket holders has also increased from 150,000 in1998-1999 to 211,000 in 2000-2001. The transformation is also qualitative for fans' involvementin the clubs is now much stronger. But it is now clear that these changes were part of a dramaticexpansion of different forms of 'supporterism', including hooliganism and the style of supportingassociated with the ultras. The behaviour of the French ultras and the development ofhooliganism are spectacular aspects of changes in the ways in which collective and individualidentities are now produced in France: personal identities, or identities linked with gender, localityor age, are now as important as political identities – whether republican or clerical, of the leftor of the right - as expressions of an ideal conception of what it means to be French. ; Si l'Angleterre ou l'Italie pèchent par excès de passion pour le football, la France péchait plutôtpar défaut, au moins jusqu'aux années récentes. Il faut attendre, en France, la saison 1987-88pour retrouver le meilleur niveau de spectateurs, atteint en 1950-51 avec près de 12 000 spectateurs,le public du football ne cessant de décroître ...

Examines the institutional developments in 28 transition economies over the past two decades and concludes that, contrary to popular belief, institutions were not neglected; while personalities mattered as much as policies for outcomes, getting the basic institutions right was the most important aspect of a successful transition.

The year 2015 was a paradoxical one for Luxembourg. Its first half saw the government carrying its task of 'nation branding', trying to change its image (of tax haven and socially conservative policies) with a step toward a greater separation between church and state, several potential constitutional reforms aimed at a more inclusive democracy, and more indirectly through Prime Minister Bettel, who married his male companion less than a year after the adoption of gay marriage in the Grand-Duchy. Popular resentment regarding the exclusion of the Christian Social People's Party (CSV) from government still loomed large, and partially explained the disastrous defeat of a consultative referendum for the tripartite coalition.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Mapping New Realms in the Study of Contemporary European Monarchies -- "We'll Never be Royals" – or Will We? Exploring Meghan Markle's Impact on the British Royal Family Brand -- Your Media Majesty: Three Kings and Radio in the Inter-War Years -- European Royals and their Colonial Realms: Honors and Decorations -- Between Politics and Dynastic Survival: 19th-Century Monarchy in Post-Revolutionary Europe (1815-1918) -- Who's Queen? Elizabeth I in Contemporary Culture -- "Empires of all kinds collapse, but the fake tsars, they last forever." Modern and Contemporary Memories of Tsar Šćepan Mali (1767-1773) -- Long May He (Not) Reign? Literary Depictions of a 'Meddling' Future Monarch. Prince Charles in Mike Bartlett's Play King Charles III (2014) and in Catherine Mayer's Biography Charles: The Heart of a King (2015) -- Gendered Strategies of Power: Queen Elizabeth II as a Politician in the Plays The Audience (2015 [2013]) and Handbagged (2013) -- The (In)Significance of Queen Victoria in Neo-Victorian Comics -- Monarchy and the Alien: Three Queens as Sites of Memory in Doctor Who -- 'Party at the Palace': Popular Cultural Celebrations in the Context of Queen Elizabeth II's Golden and Diamond Jubilee -- Afterword: The British Monarchy and Brexit -- Authors

Introduction: (cultural) politics in a supposedly post-political age -- Mapping a conflictual cultural landscape -- Articulation of an agonistic actor -- Bridge : how to institutionalize agonistic agency? -- (re)negotiating steering and rowing in governance -- Distillate and outlook -- Appendix: List of conducted interviews -- Index.

How and why does a catastrophic disaster change public discourse and social narratives? This is the first book to comprehensively investigate how Japanese newspapers, TV, documentary films, independent journalists, scientists, and intellectuals from the humanities and social sciences have critically responded to the Fukushima nuclear disaster over the last decade. In Japan, nuclear power consistently had more than 70% support in opinion polls. However, the Fukushima disaster of 2011 has caused a shift in public opinion, and the majority of the population now desire an end to nuclear power in Japan. Alternative energy and countermeasures against climate change have thus become hot-button issues in public discourse. Moreover, topics previously left undiscussed have become common talking points among journalists and intellectuals: Concealed power structural dynamics that work upon Japan⁰́₉s politics, bureaucracy, industry, academia, and media; Japan⁰́₉s peculiar, strong support for nuclear power, despite being a nation subjected to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and its latent ability to develop nuclear weapons by utilizing the plutonium generated by its power plants; and Japan⁰́₉s dependence on the US⁰́₉ nuclear umbrella. These discussions have often evolved into macro-level controversies over ⁰́₈Japan⁰́₉ and its ⁰́₈modernity⁰́₉. In this book, Hidaka critically evaluates how the Fukushima disaster has shaken hegemonic public discourse and compares it to the impact of previous moments of ⁰́₈disaster culture⁰́₉ in modern Japanese history, such as The Great Kanto Earthquake and the Pacific War. Offers vital insights into contemporary Japanese culture and social discourse for students and scholars alike.

Monografie prezentuje novou teoretickou perspektivu sociokulturní antropologie, která navazuje na aktuální zahraniční práce v tomto oboru. Kvantová antropologie opouští chápání člověka v pojetí klasické fyziky a hledá naopak ukotvení, které nabízí současná kvantová filozofie a teorie kvantové mechaniky. Z této perspektivy, a s odkazem na současný ontologický obrat v antropologii, reinterpretují autoři chápání kultury, sociálních skupin, jazyka, dekonstrukce, symbolů, mýtů či rituálů. Pozornost je věnována také podstatě percepční zkušenosti, prožívání, kolektivnímu vědomí a emocím. The book offers a fresh look on man, cultures, and societies built on the current advances in the fields of quantum mechanics, quantum philosophy, and quantum consciousness. The authors have developed an inspiring theoretical framework transcending the boundaries of particular disciplines in social sciences and the humanities. Quantum anthropology is a perspective, studying man, culture, and humanity while taking into account the quantum nature of our reality. This framework redefines current anthropological theory in a new light, and provides an interdisciplinary overlap reaching to psychology, sociology, and consciousness studies.

An increasingly popular tendency can be observed in numerous states in Europe and globally, where modern forms of casting votes are implemented, including, first and foremost, electronic voting via the Internet or mobile telephones. In the opinion of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) advocates modern civilization is facing an era of electronic democracy, which constitutes this new form of exercising power, based on information and communication tools. Estonia is a European leader in applying electronic voting for election procedures. The paper presents an analysis of Estonia's experience in the field of e-voting in the elections of 2005–2009.

Section I A: Non-fiction fathers: faatherhood in sociological, psychological, and political discourse: Fatherhood in local contexts: Confronting or confirming Westernization? masculinity and fatherhood in Indonesian lifestyle magazines -- Father managers (un)doing traditional masculinity -- Visions of fatherhood of young homosexual and bisexual men in Lithuania -- Portrayal of homosexual fathers in American children's literature since the 1990s -- Section I B: Non-fiction fathers: fatherhood in sociological, psychological, and political discourse: Fathers versus particular challenges: Fatherhood from fathers' own perspective -- "I want daddy": a father as a caregiver of a hospitalized child in the eyes of hospital staff -- Section II A: Paper papas: fatherhood in literature: Fatherhood in contemporary popular fiction: Fatherhood, masculinity and complex father-child relationships in Tim Winton's fiction -- Ouroboros of the man's world: fatherhood and the rite of passage in Mario Vargas Llosa and James Joyce -- Biological, absent, reluctant: the fathers and father figures in Nick Hornby's Slam and About a boy -- Patriarchal fathers, submissive daughters in the fiction of Margaret Atwood and Hanan Al-Shaykh -- Section II B: Paper papas: fatherhood in literature: Fatherhood in World literatures: Displays of father-apparition in contemporary context of Iranian young adult literature -- Rebels with(out) a cause and their Soviet fathers in Serhiy Zhadan's Depeche Mode -- Fathers and children in the plays of Miro Gavran -- Section III: On-screen dads: fatherhood in films: "We're his goddamn kids, too": reflecting fatherhood in public responses to the death of Robin Williams -- Masculinity and fatherhood in Ang Lee's Pushing Hands -- Section IV: Primetime pops: fatherhood in popular culture: Different notions of fatherhood in anime series Naruto and in the first part of Karl Ove Knausgard's autobiographical novel My Struggle -- My boy has reached that age when he wants to do the driving: on fathers and cars -- From Tarzan to Homer Simpson: banalization and masculine violence in contemporary societies -- Horned, emperor, pope: fathers in divination handbooks.

International audience ; In Maputo, the political and economic capital city of Mozambique, tens of thousands of foreigners have settled, coming from various parts of the world and in particular from Africa and China. Although they are not so numerous they are very visible because many of them are involved in the retail shopping in the peripheral and working-class areas called bairros. Based on an ethnographic approach, the paper deals with the ways and means the foreigners get integrated to the city life: throughout daily life practices such as mobilities, leisure, worship or living places, an ordinary cosmopolitanism emerges, including frequent interactions between local and foreign city dwellers. The case study of the foreigners in Maputo epitomises that cities at the margin of globalisation have become places of intense circulations and encounters between people of various origins. They also welcome newly-created and daily practices which can be characterized as cosmopolitan ones although ephemeral. ; Maputo, la capitale politique et économique, du Mozambique, accueille quelques dizaines de milliers d'étrangers de provenances diverses, en particulier d'Afrique et de Chine. Quoique peu nombreux à l'échelle urbaine, ils sont très visibles, en raison de leur présence prononcée dans le commerce de proximité, dans les quartiers périphériques et populaires de la ville, les bairros. À partir d'une démarche ethnographique, l'article porte sur les formes d'intégration à la ville de ces étrangers : à travers les pratiques du quotidien (déplacements, loisirs, culte, choix résidentiels), c'est un cosmopolitisme ordinaire qui se dessine, avec des interactions fréquentes entre citadins locaux et étrangers. Le cas des étrangers à Maputo illustre que les villes des marges de la mondialisation sont devenues des lieux de circulations intenses, de rencontre entre originaires de pays éloignés et de création de pratiques quotidiennes que l'on peut qualifier de cosmopolites, même si éphémères. ; Maputo, a capital política e ...