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Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Consumer Culture and Its Futures: Dreams and Consequences -- Introduction -- Dreams of Consumption -- Cockaigne and Peasant Dreams of Abundance -- Court Society Dreams of Splendour and Luxury -- The Birth of a Consumer Culture -- The American Dream -- Consumer Rhythms and the Timing of Consumption -- Consume Productively 24/7 -- Profiling, Tracking, and Data Harvesting -- Immaterial and Informational Lifestyle Construction -- Consumption Experiences, Prosumption, and Curating Lifestyles -- The Consequences of Consumption -- Consumer Culture Futures -- References -- "You Are a Socialist Child Like Me": Goods and Identity in Bulgaria -- Introduction -- Socialist Consumption: Coping with Shortages -- Overvaluation of Goods in Socialism: "Be Mine Forever" -- Postsocialism: The Unusual Consumers -- Conclusion -- References -- Consumer Culture from Socialist Yugoslavia to Post-socialist Serbia: Movements and Moments -- From Scratch: Affirming Consumption in Socialist Yugoslavia -- "One Step Forward, Two Steps Backwards": Continuities and Discontinuities -- Changing Society -- Changing Attitudes Toward Materiality, Materialism, and Money -- Changes in the Imaginary Community of Consumers -- Conclusion -- References -- Overview of Consumer Culture in Bulgaria: From Perestroika to Facebook -- Before 1989 -- Bulgaria's Transition to Consumer Society -- The V-Like Structure of the Consumer Revolution from 1989 to 2008 -- The Bulgarian New Deal (1999-2008) -- New Forms of Consumption After the Rise of Social Media -- The Rise of Brands -- Practices and Rituals -- E-Consumption on Facebook -- Names -- Profile Pictures -- Family and Relationships -- Cover Photo -- Timeline/Status -- Likes -- Albums -- Conclusions -- References.

This paper aims to discuss the importance of trust in higher education management and organizational culture, in some of its advantages but also limitations.


Received: 23 September 2021 / Accepted: 11 November 2021 / Published: 3 January 2022

This volume presents an interesting case study dealing with the relationship between bilingualism and society in 14th-century Florence. Francesco da Barberino's Documenta Amoris are a sort of orthodox contrappunto of the Commedia, in which Dante's linguistic experimentation is substituted by Francesco's rigid bilingualism. The book provides one of the first interpretations of this fundamental figure of 14th-century Florentine culture.

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- The Unfolding Market -- The New Bazaar -- The Interface of Cultures -- The BAC: A British-American Corporation -- The SHOCII: A Swedish Subsidiary -- The Hilton Roulunds: A Danish Multinational -- The VM: An Indo-Japanese Joint Venture -- The KIMCO: A South Korean Subsidiary -- Perspectives and Strategies -- References -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Author Index -- Subject Index -- About the Author.

Communicating Social Change: Structure, Culture, and Agency explores the use of communication to transform global, national, and local structures of power that create and sustain oppressive conditions. Author Mohan J. Dutta describes the social challenges that exist in current globalization politics, and examines the communicative processes, strategies, and tactics through which social change interventions are constituted in response to the challenges. Using empirical evidence and case studies, he documents the ways through which those in power create conditions at the margins, and he provides.

Translating Childhoods, a unique contribution to the study of immigrant youth, explores the "work" children perform as language and culture brokers. Children shoulder basic and more complicated verbal exchanges for non-English speaking adults. Readers hear, through children's own words, what it means be the "keys to communication" that adults otherwise would lack. From ethnographic data and research, Marjorie Faulstich Orellana's study expands the definition of child labor by assessing children's roles as translators and considers how sociocultural learning and dev

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Re-placing the Popular -- 1. Dancing ... (Popular Music) -- 2. In Spite of ... (Postmodernity) -- 3. Myself ... (Politics) -- Conclusion: From Media to Popular Culture to Everyday Life (1991) -- Notes -- References -- Index

In Fabricating the Absolute Fake, Jaap Kooijman explores the ways people around the world interpret and attempt to reproduce "Americanness." Tracing the ways America has been appropriated by pop culture produced outside the United States, he examines such icons as the Elvis-inspired performer Lee Towers and the Moroccan-Dutch rapper Ali B. This revised edition features a new chapter on Barack Obama's global celebrity and an afterword on teaching American pop culture. Like the first edition, it will prove an illuminating resource for scholars of American culture and popular cultures the world o

Intro -- Unveiling God -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Christologies Used in Islamic Contexts -- Chapter 2: Monotheism in First Century Judaism -- Chapter 3: Contextualisation of Christology in the NT: Using the Existing Concept of Monotheism -- Chapter 4: Contextualisation of Christology in the NT: Using Jewish Concepts of Theophany, Epiphany and Monolatry -- Chapter 5: Monotheism in the Islamic Context -- Chapter 6: Contextualising Christology for Islamic Culture -- Conclusions -- Glossary of key Islamic terms -- APPENDIX A: Evolutionary Christology -- APPENDIX B: Second Temple Jewish Monotheism and the Origins of NT Christology: The Scholarly Debate -- APPENDIX C: Profile of Islamic Texts -- APPENDIX D: The Effect of Gender Reversal Reading on the Lover/Beloved Imagery in mystical Poetry -- Bibliography -- Index of modern scholars -- Index of primary sources -- Subject index.

"The idea that citizenship was the right of all humanity emerged during the French Revolution. However, this right was limited by gender, class and race. Studying Europe and its colonies and , the United States, Lebanon, and Dutch Indonesia, this book analyses images of masculine citizenship in political rhetoric, culture, art andand various colonial political struggles from the 18th to the 20th centuries. Politicians manipulated the rhetoric of masculine citizenship, using images of paternity and fraternity. Art represented competing images of the masculine citizen, ranging from the black revolutionary to the neo-Greek white statue. Colonial Political subjects in empires and colonies subjects appropriated and subverted these western ideals, revealing the exclusions in the rhetoric of masculine citizenship." -- Publisher's description

In this study, I address contemporary ways of looking after children and care giving roles women play in today's Aboriginal community in Brisbane, Australia. Data were collected through participant observation and interviews during field work in a family care centre managed by Indigenous women with the staff and their clients. My main contribution is in describing how various activities of the centre, such as parental programmes, women's gatherings, and rites of passage reflect the traditional models of child care and women's position in the family environment and how these models are perpetuated again in the modern urban environment. Furthermore, I present the implications for the contemporary Aboriginal community's understanding of their current culture as dynamic and open to change.