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Introduction -- Landscape theoretical approaches - the theory of three landscapes and neopragmatic landscape research -- Aesthetics and Aisthesis of Landscape -- Neopragmatic Synthesis -- Crude oil and natural gas - formation, extraction, distribution and processing -- Oilscapes - first conceptual approaches -- Methodological approaches to Oilscapes -- Louisiana's Oilscapes.-Media representations of Oilscapes. -- Experiencing Oilscapes in Mode a and b. -- 11 Contingent Oilscapes - from Aesthetic Redescriptions to Inverse Landscapes -- Oilscapes - a second and more differentiated conceptual version -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.

Political Marketing: Theoretical and Strategic Foundations is the first comprehensive, integrated theory-to-practice text on this important subject. With insights and concepts drawn from the disciplines of Marketing, Psychology, and Political Science, this book covers every aspect of marketing's infiltration into the political process, including campaign strategy, market segmentation, and media strategy. The book is global in scope, with many examples and models drawn from countries around the world.

This volume combines ethnographic accounts of fieldwork with overviews of recent anthropological literature about the region on topics such as Islam, gender, youth, and new media. It addresses contemporary debates about modernity, nation building, and the link between the ideology of power and the production of knowledge. Contributors include established and emerging scholars known for the depth and quality of their ethnographic writing and for their interventions in current theory.

This gathering of essays by 20 scholars trained in comparative literatures, art history, critical theory, and American cultural studies further explores and expands the spirited and energetic field of visual cultural studies and its cognate or supplemental projects of "visual practices" and "visual literacy." Their topics and perspectives engage contemporary re-theorizations of "text," of "word" and "image," while their alignments, ruptures, slippages and aporias fall across a range of media

Alongside the current media public preoccupation with high risk offenders, there has been a shift towards a greater focus on risk and public protection in UK criminal justice policy. This report draws together a distinguished panel to critically consider both the theory and application of the risk concept in work with young people and young adults that offend, both in terms of public protection and of young people's own vulnerability to being harmed

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. A Sense of Place Farm Women in History and in Theory -- 2. Farming and the Mass Media -- 3. Farm Women "The Typification of the Thing America Needs" -- 4. A Message to Farm Women Consider "How Unique You Are" -- 5. For Farm Women "The Only Class of Workers Who Are Absolutely without Representation" -- 6. Passing It On -- 7. Lives in Transition -- Appendix Magazine Issues Read -- Bibliography -- Index.

Alongside the current media public preoccupation with high risk offenders, there has been a shift towards a greater focus on risk and public protection in UK criminal justice policy. This report draws together a distinguished panel to critically consider both the theory and application of the risk concept in work with young people and young adults that offend, both in terms of public protection and of young people's own vulnerability to being harmed

Building Diaspora heralds an important development in cultural studies, ethnic studies, the sociology of media, and globalization. Emily Ignacio brings an extended, incisive empirical investigation that is still quite rare in the theory-heavy yet data-light field of cyberspace cultural studies. She carefully crafts a framework in which to showcase the itinerant ideas and desires of Filipinos talking to each other from various geographical locations."--Martin Manalansan IV, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Rethinking Human Rights brings together a team of authors from fields as diverse as political theory, peace studies, international law and media studies - concerned with a new international agenda of human rights promotion. The collection presents an original and tightly argued critique of current trends and deals with a range of questions concerning the implication of human rights approaches for humanitarian aid, state sovereignty, international law, democracy and political autonomy

From tracking reports state institutions and media analysis and interviews with demobilized paramilitaries, a characterization of the rise and expansion of Bacrim in the department of Magdalena is. Under the gaze and descriptive with the collection and processing of information that enable qualitative techniques is achieved specify how they are created, positioned and expand. The research is based on the business theory to a better understanding of the criminal phenomenon approximation.

Research on word-of-mouth diffusion of news, presented initially by media, began in 1945. The Kennedy assassination stimulated numerous studies. However, by the 1970s the pace of such research slowed. At present, the tradition has all but run out. The findings of forty years yield six broad generalizations, but little theory. In view of the vital role of the news in modern society, the decline in this research tradition is difficult to understand.

The article describes a course entitled "Biosocial Approaches to Political Theory," which is currently being taught at Griffith University. Course orientation, pedagogy, assessment strategy, teaching aids, and course bibliography are described. The humanities milieu of the course produced collegial friction whose management by the instructor is discussed. The legitimacy dispute arising from the friction led to a public controversy in the national media. The politics of that dispute are analyzed.

Problems of environmental protection in the USSR : attitudes and pronouncements.
The Soviet attitude to nature has its roots in historical myths, inspired and supported by the particular Russian view of Marxist theory.
From Lenin to Brezhnev, conservation of the environment and of natural resources has figured as part of official ideology : optimism reigns throughout political literature and the media, there being only a few discordant voices to add a jarring note.

Viewing artistic works through the lens of both contemporary gerontological theory and postmodernist concepts, the contributing scholars examine literary treatments, cinematic depictions, and artistic portraits of aging from Shakespeare to Hemingway, from Horton Foote to Disney, from Rembrandt to Alice Neale, while also comparing the attitudes toward aging in Native American, African American, and Anglo American literature. The examples demonstrate that long before gerontologists endorsed a Janus-faced model of aging, artists were celebrating the diversity of the elderly, challenging the bio-m

Why talk about the global economic crisis today? The topic no longer seems as relevant or fresh as it did two years ago when we issued the call for papers. At that time, the events following the implosion of Lehman Brothers in 2008 seemed to be at the centre of everyday and media discourse: we heard it on the radio, saw it on television, read it in the printed media and thought about it in public and private places. Our imaginaries and experiences seemed to be saturated by the global economic crisis. The global economic crisis informed or structured discussions about political interventions, bailouts, quantitative easing, the nationalisation of financial institutions, and austerity programmes. The emergence of the Indignados in Spain, the public sector workers' protests in Greece, the London Riots, the Occupy Movement, the Arab Spring and the mass demonstrations in Russia and Turkey were often read through the prism of, or shared a common destiny with, the unfolding crisis. Does the decentring of the global economic crisis from public and media attention imply that the crisis is over or should we understand both the existence and the effects of subsequent events and developments as ongoing expressions of the crisis? These events and developments have included a shift in the dominant discourse from 'crisis' to 'recovery and growth', heightened concerns around migration, the fiscal and legitimation problems of political institutions, the rise of right wing parties and movements and the return of geopolitics and violent conflicts. Is it now appropriate to reassign these events and developments to the discrete domains of economics, demography, politics and geography or do we need to rethink the concept and understanding of crisis in deeper sociological terms?