Suchergebnisse

Civil society in politics and Southeast Asia in civil society: Conceptual foundations / Meredith L. Weiss & Eva Hansson -- From activist media to algorithmic politics: The internet, social media, and civil society in Southeast Asia / Merlyna Lim -- Contemporary arts in and for civil society / Minna Valjakka -- Spatial perspectives: Civil society activism as struggles for space in urbanising Southeast Asia / Rita Padawangi -- Legal mobilization and civil society: On the use and usefulness of strategic litigation in Southeast Asia / Ward Berenschot & Adriaan Bedner -- Civil society and efforts at regime change in Southeast Asia / Andreas Ufen -- Civil society and the contentious politics of democratization and autocratization in Myanmar / Kristian Stokke -- Civil society activism beyond the nation-state: Legitimating ASEAN? / Anders Uhlin -- Failing financing of civil society in Southeast Asia / Rosalia Sciortino -- Civil society leadership / Astrid Norén-Nilsson -- Violence and civil society in Southeast Asia / Joakim Kreutz -- Civic society and gender advancement in Thailand / Duanghathai Buranajaroenkij -- The LGBT movement in Vietnam / Helle Rydström, Hương Thu Nguyẽ̂n, & An Ngọc Hoàng -- Indigenous groups and ethnic minorities / Jacques Bertrand & Cheng Xu -- Religion and civil society in Southeast Asia / Carlo Bonura -- Organized labour and autocratization in Southeast Asia / Teri Caraway -- Business associations and civil society in Southeast Asia / Ryan Tans -- Vernacularising human rights in Southeast Asia / Edmund Bon Tai Soon & Wong Pui Yi -- Civil society and environmentalism: Crossing frontiers of activism -- Oliver Pye -- Multi-level migrant civil society activism in Southeast Asia / Stefan Rother -- Southeast Asia's glocalized civil society landscapes: National topographies and transnational contours / David Camroux.

Travel Writing in Mongolia and Northern China, 1860–2020 invites readers to explore Mongolia as an important cultural space for Western travelers and their audiences over three historical eras. Travelers have framed their experiences and observations through imaginative geographies and Orientalizing discourses, fixing Mongolia as a peripheral, timeless, primitive, and parochial place. Readers can examine the travelers' literary and rhetorical strategies as they make themselves more credible and authoritative and as they identify themselves with Mongolians and Mongolian culture or, conversely, distance themselves. In this book, readers can also approach travel writing from the perspective of women travelers, Mongolian socialist intellectuals, twenty-first-century travelers, and a Han Chinese writer, Jiang Rong, who promotes cultural harmony yet anticipates the disappearance of Mongolian culture in China.

Roman amphitheatres are an interesting field of investigation and allow to analyze and classify structural instability, recurrent forms of degradation and anomalies related to their accessibility. These critical issues emerge, in particular, from the study of two interesting case studies, the Roman Amphitheatre in Tarragona, Spain, and the Roman Amphitheatre of Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Italy. Through a contextual interpretation of literary, historiographic and iconographic testimonies, in the light of the expertise of architectural restoration and an in situ cognitive campaign supported by surveys, the main theoretical and design nodes connected to the restoration and enhancement of these monumental complexes are identified: knowledge, conservation, use and management, understood as scheduled maintenance and constant monitoring.

Conversations around diversity, equity, and inclusion in science communication are in danger of generating much concern without effecting change and systematic transformations.

This radical volume addresses these circular discourses and reveals the gaps in the field. Putting the spotlight on the marginalised voices of so-called 'racialised minorities', and those from Global South regions, it interrogates the global footprint of the science communication enterprise.

Moving beyond tokenistic and extractive approaches, this book creates a space for academics and practitioners to challenge issues around race and sociocultural inclusion, providing mutual learning, paradigm-shifting perspectives, and innovative ways forward for the science communication advancement agenda.

Chapter 12 is available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

Sanskrit narrative is the lifeblood of Indian culture,
encapsulating and perpetuating insights and values central to Indian thought and
practice. This volume brings together eighteen of the foremost scholars across
the globe, who, in an unprecedented collaboration, accord these texts the
integrity and dignity they deserve. The last time this was attempted, on a much
smaller scale, was a generation ago, with Purāṇa Perennis (1993). The
pre-eminent contributors to this landmark collection use novel methods and
theory to meaningfully engage Sanskrit narrative texts, showcasing the state of
contemporary scholarship on the Sanskrit epics and purāṇas.

Wie erschließen sich Studierende die Universität und zu wem wird man eigentlich im Laufe des Studiums? Während die durch Staat und Ökonomie induzierten Veränderungen der Bologna-Reform an den Universitäten in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten intensiv diskutiert wurden, ist die Frage, was dies für Studierende bedeutet, noch weitgehend unerforscht. Wie wirken Universitäten, wenn sie, wie es die sozialwissenschaftliche Kritik nahelegt, unternehmerisch agieren und das Studium überwiegend zur Employability befähigen soll? Sind diese Institutionen dann noch in der Lage, Bildungsprozesse jenseits von Arbeits- und Leistungsforderungen zu initiieren?

"The Sociology of Literature is a pithy primer to the history, affordances, and potential futures of this growing field of study, which finds its origins in the French Enlightenment, and its most salient expression as a sociological pursuit in the work of Pierre Bourdieu. Addressing the epistemological premises of the field at present, the book also refutes the common criticism that the sociology of literature does not take the text to be the central object of study. From this rebuttal, Gisèle Sapiro, the field's leading theorist, is able to demonstrate convincingly one of the greatest affordances of the discipline: its in-built methods for accounting for the roles and behaviors of agents and institutions (publishing houses, prize committees, etc.) in the circulation and reception of texts. While Sapiro emphasizes the rich interdisciplinary nature of the approach on display, articulating the way in which it draws on literary history, sociology, postcolonial studies, book history, gender studies, and media studies, among others, the book also stands as a defense of the sociology of literature as a discipline in its own right"--

Ethnic American Literatures and Critical Race Narratology explores the relationship between narra¬tive, race, and ethnicity in the United States. Situated at the intersection of narrative theory and context-oriented approaches in race, ethnic, and cultural studies, it interrogates the complex and varied ways in which ethnic American authors use narrative form to engage readers in issues related to race and ethnicity. The book's international group of contributors covers a wide range of primary texts that belong to the literary traditions of Latinx, African American, Native American, Asian American, Jewish American, and Arab American communities. They demonstrate that paying attention to the formal features of these texts changes our under¬standing of narrative theory and that narrative theories can help us to think about their representations of time and space, the narration of trauma and other emotional memories, and the importance of literary (meta)paratexts, genre structures, and author functions.

This book defends a relational theory of the passage of time. The realist view of passage developed in this book differs from the robust, substantivalist position. According to relationism, passage is nothing over and above the succession of events, one thing coming after another. Causally related events are temporally arranged as they happen one after another along observers' worldlines. There is no unique global passage but a multiplicity of local passages of time. After setting out this positive argument for relationism, the author deals with five common objections to it: (a) triviality of deflationary passage, (b) a-directionality of passage, (c) the impossibility of experiencing passage, (d) fictionalism about passage, and (e) the incompatibility of passage with perduring objects. Relational Passage of Time will appeal to scholars and advanced students working in philosophy of time, metaphysics, and philosophy of physics.

Ethnic American Literatures and Critical Race Narratology explores the relationship between narra¬tive, race, and ethnicity in the United States. Situated at the intersection of narrative theory and context-oriented approaches in race, ethnic, and cultural studies, it interrogates the complex and varied ways in which ethnic American authors use narrative form to engage readers in issues related to race and ethnicity. The book's international group of contributors covers a wide range of primary texts that belong to the literary traditions of Latinx, African American, Native American, Asian American, Jewish American, and Arab American communities. They demonstrate that paying attention to the formal features of these texts changes our under¬standing of narrative theory and that narrative theories can help us to think about their representations of time and space, the narration of trauma and other emotional memories, and the importance of literary (meta)paratexts, genre structures, and author functions.

This book features new perspectives on the ethics and politics of free speech. Contributors draw on insights from philosophy, psychology, political theory, journalism, literature, and history to respond to pressing problems involving free speech in liberal societies.

Recent years have seen an explosion of academic interest in free speech. However, most recent work has focused on constitutional protections for free speech and on issues related to academic freedom and campus politics. The chapters in this volume set their sights more broadly on the non-state problems that we collectively face in attempting to realize a healthy environment for free discourse. The volume's contributors share the assumption that threats to free speech do not come exclusively from state sources or bad actors, but from ordinary strategic situations in which all may be acting in good faith. Contributors take seriously the idea that our current cultural moment provides plenty of reason to be concerned about our intellectual climate and offer new insights for how to make things better.

New Directions in the Ethics and Politics of Speech will be of interest to researchers and students working in ethics, political philosophy, social theory, and law.

The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Bioethics is an outstanding resource for anyone with an interest in feminist
bioethics, with chapters covering topics from justice and power to the climate crisis. Comprising forty-two
chapters by emerging and established scholars, the volume is divided into six parts:
I Foundations of feminist bioethics
II Identity and identifications
III Science, technology and research
IV Health and social care
V Reproduction and making families
VI Widening the scope of feminist bioethics
The volume is essential reading for anyone with an interest in bioethics or feminist philosophy, and will prove
an invaluable resource for scholars, teachers and advanced students.