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Shooting to Kill? Policing, Firearms and Armed Responseexplores the dilemma of armed response policing in the UK, and policing in a gun culture. Offers the first critical exploration of the ACPO code of guidance on Police Use of Firearms and other tactical manualsIncludes interviews with senior police firearms managers and critical case studies of police firearms incidentsFeatures the first in-depth, academic analysis of the Stockwell shooting incident and the Kratos policyProvides a review of key developments in armed response policing around the worldDescribes the crucial phases in armed response policy development in Britain and explores the consequences of arming the police Peter Squiresis Professor of Criminology and Public Policy at the University of Brighton. He has published a number of books, including Gun Culture or Gun Controland Community Safety. Squires' recent work has focused upon gun crime and policing, and gangs and anti-social behaviour.Peter Kennisonwas a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Criminology and Sociology at Middlesex University. He was also Undergraduate Programme Leader for Criminal Justice and Criminology, and Policing. Kennison was a police officer in London for over 25 years.

"The Handbook of Business Practices and Growth in Emerging Markets consists of a collection of specially commissioned chapters that describe the current business environment, organizational culture, consumer behavior, financial investment climate, and examples of best prevailing practices in emerging markets. It covers all the major functional areas of business marketing, strategy, operations and finance, in all continents.The focus of each chapter is on the identification of different business issues in different emerging markets (including Asia, Africa and South America) and on the implementation of a proposed set of recommendations, using both qualitative and quantitative techniques to assist in decision making and in improving organizational efficiency and effectiveness. Readers will also appreciate the multidimensional view of financial and non-financial performance measurement of businesses. Specifically, the goal of this research based handbook is to provide a comprehensive guide for business students and managers by discussing a range of issues from the diverse emerging markets and enabling them to develop a strategic mindset for a market oriented culture. Given the changing business dynamics, government policies and demands in industries, this handbook is both timely and topical."--BOOK JACKET

Latina/o Social Ethics strives to create a liberative ethical approach to the Hispanic experience by using its own tools and materials. First explaining why Eurocentric ethical paradigms are inadequate in their attempts to liberate oppressed communities, Miguel De La Torre looks with Hispanic eyes at three major ethicists of the twentieth century--Walter Rauschenbusch, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Stanley Hauerwas--and how ethics is presented in U.S. culture wars, from the Religious Right to the Religious Left. He deconstructs these ethical paradigms and demonstrates why all are detrimental to and irreconcilable with the Hispanic social location. With a clean slate, De La Torre moves to constructing a new Hispanic-centered ethical paradigm that is rooted in the Latino community way of being. Reviewing the field of Hispanic ethical thought, De La Torre pays special attention to specific concepts ripe with potential that have been developed over the past generation. In the final chapter, De La Torre offers his own constructive paradigm--an ethics para joder, which is rooted in the Latina/o experience, and by which, he argues, the Hispanic community can survive within U.S. culture. --From publisher's description.

Racialized mediated performance and contemporary masculinity. The dilemma of the Italian American male / Marc DiPaolo -- Patrick Bateman as "average white male" in American psycho / Daniel Mudie Cunningham -- Ambivalence, desire and the re-Imagining of Asian masculinity in Better luck Tomorrow / Ruthann Lee -- The Black interior, reparations and African American masculinity in The wiz / Jesse Scott -- Flavor of love and the rise of neo-minstrelsy in reality television / Valerie Palmer-Mehta and Alina Haliliuc -- Bold, beautiful and unnecessarily maligned / Daryl Carter -- Celebrity culture and racial masculinities: The case of Will Smith / David Magill -- Contemporary mediated performance and the cultural politics of masculinity. Constructions of mathematical masculinities in popular culture / Marie-Pierre Moreau, Heather Mendick and Debbie Epstein -- Killing off white hegemonic masculinity in Indian killer / Jane E. Rose -- Narrative's role in constructing masculinities in We were soldiers / Bradley Smith -- Masculinity and domesticity in "A home at the end of the world," and "Househusband" / Helena Wahlstrom -- Anxious male domesticity and gender troubled corrections / Kristin Jacobson / Neil LaBute's Bodies in question / Marc Shaw -- O.J. Simpson: tabloidized, sexualized, racialized and largely despised / Elwood Watson -- Major league baseball and the cultural politics of sexuality / Rachelle Sussman

'Street capital' introduces the worlds of young black men dealing cannabis at a drug scene called The River in Oslo, Norway. The lives of these men are structured by a huge and complex cannabis economy and they are involved in fights, robberies and substance abuse. They lack jobs and education, and many of them do not have family or close friends, yet they do have 'street capital': the knowledge, skills and competence necessary to manage life on the streets. Centred on this concept of 'street capital', this unique book presents a new theoretical framework - inspired by and expanding on the work of Pierre Bourdieu, the French sociologist - for understanding street cultures. It is based on extensive fieldwork and repeated in-depth interviews with dealers aged between 15 and 30, which explore themes including marginalisation, discrimination, cannabis dealing and drug use, violence, masculinity, hip-hop culture, experiences with the welfare system, and issues of immigration and racism. The book also analyses the discursive practice of marginalised people on the street and identifies the narratives by which these young men live.

Convergence Media History explores the ways that digital convergence has radically changed the field of media history. Writing media history is no longer a matter of charting the historical development of an individual medium such as film or television. Instead, now that various media from blockbuster films to everyday computer use intersect regularly via convergence, scholars must find new ways to write media history across multiple media formats. This collection of eighteen new essays by leading media historians and scholars examines the issues today in writing media history and histories. Each essay addresses a single medium-including film, television, advertising, sound recording, new media, and more-and connects that specific medium's history to larger issues for the field in writing multi-media or convergent histories. Among the volume's topics are new media technologies and their impact on traditional approaches to media history; alternative accounts of film production and exhibition, with a special emphasis on film across multiple media platforms; the changing relationships between audiences, fans, and consumers within media culture; and the globalization of our media culture.

What is honor? Has its meaning changed since ancient times? Is it an outmoded notion? Does it still have the power to direct our behavior? In this provocative book Alexander Welsh considers the history and meaning of honor and dismisses the idea that we live in a post-honor culture. He notes that we have words other than honor, such as respect, self-respect, and personal identity, that show we do indeed care deeply about honor. Honor, he argues, is a continuing process of respect that motivates or constrains members of a peer group. Honor's dictates function as moral imperatives. Surprisingly, little systematic study of the history of honor in Western culture has been attempted. Offering a welcome remedy, Welsh provides a genealogy of approaches to the subject, mining some of the most influential texts of the Western tradition. He rereads with fascinating results the works of Aristotle, Cicero, Shakespeare, Mandeville, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Kant, Adam Smith, and others. With a sharp focus on the intersection of honor and ethics in both literature and philosophy, Welsh invites new and constructive debate on a topic of vital interest

When the German-Jewish philosopher Franz Rosenzweig entitled his 1926 collection of essays on Jewish and universal cultural topics Zweistromland-a land of two rivers-he meant to underscore, indeed celebrate, the fact that German-Jewish culture is nurtured by both German culture and the Jewish religious and cultural heritage. In this thought-provoking book, Paul Mendes-Flohr explores through the prism of Rosenzweig's image how German Jews have understood and contended with their twofold spiritual patrimony. He deepens the discussion to consider also how the German-Jewish experience bears upon the general modern experience of living with multiple cultural identities.German Jews assimilated the cultural values of Germany but were not themselves assimilated into German society, Mendes-Flohr contends. Yet, by virtue of their adoption of values sponsored by enlightened German discourse, they were no longer unambiguously Jewish. The author discusses how their identity and cultural loyalty became fractured and how German Jews-like other Jews and indeed like all denizens of the modern world-were obliged to confront the challenges of living with plural identities and cultural affiliations

The white male gap -- Up from the ashes, the new conservatism, and the white everyman -- The apex of liberalism to the dawn of the new conservatism (1962-1972) -- Southern man -- Blue collar backlash: Nixon and the men he understood -- The disjointing of the FDR coalition and the false dawn of Carter (1972-1979) -- The measure of the man: the politics of personal manhood -- God, manhood, and moral values -- The strategic rise of Reagan and the white male gap (1980) -- Millett versus Mailer: -- Vietnam, feminism, and white manhood as vice -- The peculiar American conservatism, patriotism, and the classic male -- Echo chamber journalism and living with the likeminded -- The value of grit -- Against God and country: the perception of the effete liberal elitist -- 'Those who work hard and play by the rules' (1992) -- The angry white male: kicked out and charged with abandonment -- The hard way, and soccer moms: the race of 1996 -- Politics of the common man and gun culture -- The 'feminine party' in wartime: Bush, Kerry, and bravado -- The political culture of white manhood: -- Taxed, downsized, emasculated, dreaming, believing, and antagonized -- Conclusion

In this book Denis M. Provencher examines the tensions between Anglo-American and French articulations of homosexuality and sexual citizenship in the context of contemporary French popular culture and first-person narratives. In the light of recent political events and the perceived hegemonic role of US forces throughout the world, an examination of the French resistance to globalization and 'Americanization', is timely in this context. He argues that contemporary French gay and lesbian cultures rely on long-standing French narratives that resist US models of gay experience. He maintains that French gay experiences are mitigated through (gay) French language that draws on several canonical voices - including Jean Genet and Jean-Paul Sartre - and various universalistic discourses. Drawing on material from a diverse array of media, Queer French draws out the importance of a French gay linguistic and semiotic tradition that emerges in contemporary textual practices and discourses as they relate to sexual citizenship in 20th- and 21st-century France. It will appeal to an interdisciplinary readership in gender and sexuality studies, cultural studies, linguistics, media and communication studies and French studies.

In this compelling and readable study of machismo in one of Latin America's most populous cities, Matthew Gutmann overturns many stereotypes of male culture in Mexico. In their place he offers a sensitive, wide-ranging, often surprising look at how Mexican men see themselves, parent their children, relate to women, socialize among themselves, and talk about sex in their daily lives. Gutmann finds that men and women are responding to sweeping social forces in Mexico, just as they are in the United States, with women often initiating changes in male attitudes and behaviors. The Meanings of Macho takes the reader into Santo Domingo, Mexico City, the working-class neighborhood where Gutmann and his family lived. Exploring women's conceptions about men as well as men's ideas about themselves, Gutmann uncovers intriguing, complicated sexual politics among friends and informants. He discovers that, against stereotype, many men's nuanced, complicated sense of sexual identity encompasses considerable child care responsibilities and recognition of a newfound female autonomy. He also considers the kinds of homosocial space men are afforded in their culture, how violence against women plays itself out in this community, and the role of alcohol in male socializing

Contents: Chapter I: Conceptual Frameworks of the Creative City Debate: Lidia Varbanova: Our Creative Cities Online; Žaklina Gligorijević: Forces and Trends Shaping the Contemporary City: The Creative Sector in Creative Cities; Milena Dragičević-Šešić: Culture as a Resource of City Development; Jaka Primora: Attitudes of Cultural Workers towards Creative Industries Development and the City in Southeastern Europe; Ivana Jašić: Cities on the Global Market: Territorial Marketing Planning Strategies. Chapter I: Case Studies from the Region: Maja Breznik
The Role of Culture in the Strategies of "City Regeneration"; Krisztina Keresztély: Cultural Policies and Urban Rehabilitation in Budapest; Nada Švob-Đokić: Zagreb: Urban Cultural Identities and City Growth; Inga Tomić-Koludrović, Mirko Petrić: New Cultural Tourists in a Southeastern European City: The Case of Split; Ana Žuvela: Developing Cultural Strategy in the City of Dubrovnik; Fatjon Dragoshi: TI-RAMA: My Creative City - Case study: Tirana; Nevena Daković; Cityscape and Cinema; Snežana Krstanović: The Position of Cultural Resources in the Urban Regeneration Process - Case study: Pančevo; Dona Kolar-Panov, Violeta Simjanovska, Katerina Mojančevska: City Regeneration Policies and Practices - Case study: Skopje.

This book explains and demonstrates how the Norwegian case of environmentalism is unique. The two connected anomalies of an inclusive and state friendly society and a strong orientation and commitment to local communities make the case stand apart from mainstream international definitions of environmentalism. The authors study a specific political culture with a rather unique combination of state structure and civil society of which organized environmentalism is an important part. The political culture influences organizational form and organizational ideology as well as the way these organistions are linked to and interact with the goverment. The study shows why international non-government organizations (INGOs) which are successful elsewhere, such as Greenpeace, are unable to establish themselves in some countries. The study compares Norwegian environmentalism with perspectives and findings from other political systems. More generally, this is also a study on the role of voluntary organizations and civil society in a specific type of democracy. The book throws light on why the working of the Norwegian political system - as well as the Scandinavian political systems more generally - is often misunderstood in the international literature.

This edited collection traces the social, economic, political, and cultural dimensions of Korea's dramatic transformation since the late nineteenth century. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the chapters examine the internal and external forces which facilitated the transition towards industrial capitalism in Korea, the consequences and impact of social change, and the ways in which Korean tradition continues to inform and influence contemporary South Korean society. Transformations in Twentieth Century Korea employs a thematic structure to discuss the interrelated elements of Korea's modernization within agriculture, business and the economy, the state, ideology and culture, and gender and the family. The essays in this volume encompass the Choson dynasty, the colonial period, and postcolonial Korea. Collectively, they provide us with an original and innovative approach to the study of modern Korea, and show how knowledge of the country's past is critical to understanding contemporary Korean society. With contributions from a number of prominent international scholars within sociology, economics, history, and political science, Transformations in Twentieth Century Korea incorporates a global framework of historical narrative, ideology and culture, and statistical and economic analysis to further our understanding of Korea's evolution towards modernity.

Intro -- The German Invention of Race -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The German Invention of Race -- I Modes of Difference: Race, Color, Culture -- 1. What "Progresses" HasRace-Theory Made Since theTimes of Leibniz and Wolff? -- 2. Laocoön and the Hottentots -- II. Race in Philosophy: The Problem of Kant -- 3. Policing Polygeneticism in Germany, 1775(Kames,) Kant, and Blumenbach -- 4. Kant's Conception of a Human Race -- 5. Kant and Blumenbach's Polyps: A Neglected Chapter in theHistory of the Concept of Race -- 6. Race, Freedom and the Fallin Steffens and Kant -- III. Race in the Sciences of Culture -- 7. The German Invention of Völkerkunde Ethnological Discourse in Europe and Asia, 1740-1798 -- 8. Gods, Titans, and Monsters: Philhellenism, Race, and Religion in Early-Nineteenth-Century Mythography -- 9. From Indo-Germans to Aryans: Philology and the Racialization of Salvationalist National Rhetoric, 1806-30 -- IV. Race in the Political Sphere -- 10. Policing the Menschen=Racen -- 11. Jewish Emancipation and thePolitics of Race -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.