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The Cultural and Political Intersection of Fair Trade and Justice is an ethnographic study of the effects of Fair Trade on indigenous women, as reported by the women themselves, and seeks to develop a deeper understanding of Fair Trade, globalization, culture, and policy in building justice, In The Cultural and Political Intersection of Fair Trade and Justice, Stenn uses Amartya Sen's theory of justice and Geert Hofstede's theory of cultural dimensions to answer the question: 'Is Fair Trade fair?' This exciting new volume focuses on a study of the effects of Fair Trade on indigenous women. Their stories are reported by the women themselves, which Stenn uses to develop a deeper understanding of Fair Trade, globalization, culture, and policy in building justice. This comparative study of Fair Trade and its effect on Bolivia's Andean women, working independently in handicrafts and collaboratively in agriculture, analyzes how Fair Trade has grown to become a multi-billion dollar, global industry. Stenn's 15 years of working with indigenous Andean women makes this in invaluable source for the study of Fair Trade and for Bolivia's population

With the major growth of the world's population over the past century, as well as rapid urbanisation, people increasingly live in crowded cities. This trend is often accompanied by proliferation of poorly built housing, uncontrolled use of land, occupation of unsafe environments and overstretched services. When a natural hazard strikes such a city many people are vulnerable to loss of life and property. This book explores what these people think and feel about the threats that they face. How do they live with perils ranging from earthquakes to monsoons, from floods to hurricanes, in the 21st century?The authors are drawn from a large range of disciplines: Psychology, Engineering, Geography, Anthropology and Urban Planning. They also reflect on how perils are represented in multiple cultures: the United States, Japan, Turkey, Bangladesh, the United Kingdom and New Zealand. The book therefore not only brings to light the ways that different cultures represent natural hazards but also the different ways in which various disciplines write about living with perils in the 21st century.The book is addressed both to researchers and to organizations involved with risk management and risk mitigation

Sexuality in modern western culture is central to identity but the tendency to define by sexuality does not apply to the premodern past. Before the 'invention' of sexuality, erotic acts and desires were comprehended as species of sin, expressions of idealised love, courtship, and marriage, or components of intimacies between men or women, not as outworkings of an innermost self. With a focus on c. 1100–c. 1800, this book explores the shifting meanings, languages, and practices of western sex. It is the first study to combine the medieval and early modern to rethink this time of sex before sexuality, where same-sex and opposite-sex desire and eroticism bore but faint traces of what moderns came to call heterosexuality, homosexuality, lesbianism, and pornography.This volume aims to contribute to contemporary historical theory through paying attention to the particularity of premodern sexual cultures. Phillips and Reay argue that students of premodern sex will be blocked in their understanding if they use terms and concepts applicable to sexuality since the late nineteenth century, and modern commentators will never know their subject without a deeper comprehension of sex's history.

The human body is not a given fact; it is not, as Descartes believed, a "(Bmachine made up of flesh and bones." The body is acquired, achieved, and learned. It is thus full of mimetic and mnemonic implications. The body remembers, and it does so in collectively relevant ways. Gestures, corporeal and phonetic rhythms, affective idioms, and emotional styles -- perceptual, sensorial, motoric, and affective schemata -- are all largely learned in shared social contexts. These aspects of the embodied experience are often consigned to habit, to bodily automatisms, and to corporeal memories that reflect aspects of culture. But if the body reflects certain aspects of culture that press to become naturalized and organically attached to social actors, it also resists these kinds of cultural pressures. These adaptive and resistive dynamics, as this book shows, are not without consequences for individuals and groups. These processes can result in both advantages and disadvantages for social actors. They can take us toward certain futures while foreclosing others. It is therefore necessary to understand how, why, and to what extent corporeal memories are constructed but also resisted, modified, or created anew

Front Cover -- Musical Performance and the Changing City -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Introduction: Musical Performance and the Changing City -- Part I: Placemaking -- 1. "From the Big Dig to the Big Gig": Live Music, Urban Regeneration, and Social Change in the European Capital of Culture 2008 -- 2. Sounding Austin: Live Music, Race, and the Selling of a City -- 3. Sounding Out the Cuban Diaspora in Barcelona: Music, Migration and the Urban Experience -- 4. Destination "Three Days Awake": Cultural Urbanism at a Popular Music Festival Outside the City -- Part II: Scenes and Venues -- 5. Digital Underground: Musical Spaces and Microscenes in the Postindustrial City -- 6. The Advent of Rock Clubs for the Gentry: Berlin, Copenhagen, and New York -- 7. Collectivities and Mixed-Mediations in Amsterdam's Translocal Jazz Scene -- 8. The Quality of Mutuality: Jazz Musicians in the Athenian Popular Music Industry -- Part III: Nightlife -- 9. Crowd Solidarity on the Dance Floor in Paris and Berlin -- 10. The Sound Culture of Dubstep in London -- 11. The Networking Logic of the Postindustrial Music Milieu: A City of London Ethnographic Moment -- Contributors -- Index.

With the major growth of the world's population over the past century, as well as rapid urbanisation, people increasingly live in crowded cities. This trend is often accompanied by proliferation of poorly built housing, uncontrolled use of land, occupation of unsafe environments and overstretched services. When a natural hazard strikes such a city many people are vulnerable to loss of life and property. This book explores what these people think and feel about the threats that they face. How do they live with perils ranging from earthquakes to monsoons, from floods to hurricanes, in the 21st century?The authors are drawn from a large range of disciplines: Psychology, Engineering, Geography, Anthropology and Urban Planning. They also reflect on how perils are represented in multiple cultures: the United States, Japan, Turkey, Bangladesh, the United Kingdom and New Zealand. The book therefore not only brings to light the ways that different cultures represent natural hazards but also the different ways in which various disciplines write about living with perils in the 21st century. The book is addressed both to researchers and to organizations involved with risk management and risk mitigation.

"This book is an edition of primary source texts. It presents ethnographic material recorded by two Missionary Benedictines who were sent out from St. Ollilien to south-east Tanganyika (today Tanzania) in the 1920s: Joachim Ammann OSB (1898-1981) and Meinulf Küsters OSB (1890-1947). The work of these two missionaries has been preserved in the form of typewritten manuscripts kept in the archives of the Benedictine abbey in Ndanda (south-east Tanzania). The manuscripts are related to each other in a way that means it is not always easy to tell who is the originator of the contents. ... Part I, the first of Amman's two typescripts, offers an overview of the traditional culture of the Mwera.... Part II, Amman's second typescript, gives a detailed description of initiation rites for boys and girls. ... Part III of this edition of the texts contains some of the field notes written by Meinulf Küsters OSB when he worked among the Mwera in 1927/1928. His aim was to give at least a sketchy description of all important aspects of Mwera culture"--P. 259-260

Digital media and network technologies are now part of everyday life. The Internet has become the backbone of communication, commerce, and media; the ubiquitous mobile phone connects us with others as it removes us from any stable sense of location. Networked Publics examines the ways that the social and cultural shifts created by these technologies have transformed our relationships to (and definitions of) place, culture, politics, and infrastructure. Four chapters--each by an interdisciplinary team of scholars using collaborative software--provide a synoptic overview along with illustrative case studies. The chapter on place describes how digital networks enable us to be present in physical and networked places simultaneously--often at the expense of nondigital commitments. The chapter on culture explores the growth and impact of amateur-produced and remixed content online. The chapter on politics examines the new networked modes of bottom-up political expression and mobilization. And finally, the chapter on infrastructure notes the tension between openness and control in the flow of information, as seen in the current controversy over net neutrality.

Preface. Paying attention to Chinese interpretations / Pan Shiwei -- Introduction. Academic inquiries into the "Chinese success story" / Deng Zhenglai -- pt. I. Theoretical reflections. 1. Universalism and critique of ideology in global politics / Tong Shijun. 2. Toward the true world culture - The multiple universalities in the era of globalization / Chen Lai. 3. Economic globalization and cultural pluralism / Wan Junren -- pt. II. Chinese perspectives on globalization. 4. Premise analysis of the fundamental tasks of China's contemporary legal philosophy - "The world structure" as a historic condition / Deng Zhenglai. 5. China's perspective on the globalization research / Yu Keping. 6. Chinese world outlook: all-under-heaven system / Zhao Tingyang. 7. The dialectic and historical determination of cultural subjectivity / Zhang Xudong -- pt. III. Globalization and localization: case study. 8. China: a society of intra-systems / Wang Hui. 9. The Chinese model of development: an international perspective / Cheng Yung-nien. 10. Globalization: production of culture and cultural identity - Ethnic group, local society and transnational cultural circle / Ma Guoqing. 11. Globalization and regional income inequality empirical evidence from within China / Guanghua Wan, Ming Lu and Zhao Chen.

Families international – the new milestone How may care be secured—particularly in ageing societies, how may families, relatives and friends support each other and live together beyond market reasons? How can social welfare be secured? How do different countries and different cultures solve the problems they may or may not, now or in days to come, share with other countries and cultures? Families, as is found in this publication by internationally renowned experts, are the base and well of society's fortune in a humane paradigm. Furthermore, it is the very backbone of lifelong solidarity in inter-generational relations, and the very place where the readiness of taking on care and responsibility are experienced and learned. The publication's underlying idea opens up two perspectives: on the one hand, differences and similarities in family life forms are chiselled out on the base of an international cooperation. Simultaneously, the international authors are called upon to express their ideas about their own country's future more distinctly and clearly; thus, distinctions and similarities of the respective paths of development are rather easily perceived.

Leila Ahmed grew up in Cairo in the 1940s and '50s in a family that was eagerly and passionately political. Although many in the Egyptian upper classes were firmly opposed to change, the Ahmeds were proud supporters of independence. But when the Revolution arrived, the family's opposition to Nasser's policies led to persecutions that would throw their lives into turmoil and set their youngest child on a journey across cultures. Through university in England and teaching jobs in Abu Dhabi and America, Leila Ahmed sought to define herself - and to understand how the world defined her - as a woman, a Muslim, an Egyptian, and an Arab. Her search touched on questions of language and nationalism, on differences between men's and women's ways of knowing, and on vastly different interpretations of Islam. She arrived in the end as an ardent but critical feminist with an insider's understanding of multiculturalism and religious pluralism. In language that vividly evokes the lush summers of her Cairo youth and the harsh barrenness of the Arabian desert, Leila Ahmed has given us a story that can help us all to understand the passages between cultures that so affect our global society

In books such as The Aesthetics of Disappearance, War and Cinema, The Lost Dimension, and The Vision Machine, Paul Virilio has fundamentally changed how we think about contemporary media culture. Virilio's examinations of the connections between perception, logistics, the city, and new media technologies comprise some of the most powerful texts within his hypermodern philosophy. Virilio and the Mediapresents an introduction to Virilio's important media related ideas, from polar inertia and the accident to the landscape of events, cities of panic, and the instrumental image loop of television. John Armitage positions Virilio's essential media texts in their theoretical contexts whilst outlining their substantial influence on recent cultural thinking. Consequently, Armitage renders Virilio's media texts accessible, priming his readers to create individual critical evaluations of Virilio's writings. The book closes with an annotated and user-friendly Guide to Further Reading and a non-technical Glossary of Virilio's significant concepts. Virilio's texts on the media are vital for everyone concerned with contemporary media culture, and Virilio and the Mediaoffers a comprehensive and up to date introduction to the ever expanding range of his critical media and cultural works.

"Discover proven strategies and solutions for successful participation in the global marketWith less than fifty percent of middle market US companies succeeding at going global, corporate executives need to know how to build effective global execution platforms that will allow their organizations to thrive in a global economy. Filled with case studies and indispensable checklists, Grow Globally guides executives in crafting an actionable global strategy that will not only stand the test of change--but that will also be on target, on budget, and on time. Reveals how to anticipate change in global decision-making and execution Explores how to identify trends and respond to differences between internal corporate culture and the target culture Includes case studies, checklists, process visuals and resources, plus a website that hosts online tools and materials As the world becomes more dependent on technology and trade borders gradually disappear, your company needs to acquire the tools and skills necessary to compete in the global market. Grow Globally presents the skills needed to build a global execution platform that will keep your organization relevant and competitive in the international landscape"--

A FRAMEWORK FOR THINKING ABOUT THE MEANINGS OF NEWS. Understanding the Global Journalist : A Hierarchy of Influences Approach / Stephen D. Reese -- What is journalism : Professional Identity and ideology of journalists Reconsidered / Mark Deuze -- Deconstructing Journalism Culture : Toward a Universal Theory / Thomas Hanitzsch -- CULTURAL PRACTICE OF JOURNALISM. The Socially Responsible Existentialist: A Normative Emphasis for journalists in a new media environment / Jane B. Singer -- Blasphemy as Sacred Rite/Right : "The Mohammed Cartoons Affair" and Maintenance of Journalistic Ideology / Dan Berkowitz and Lyombe Eko -- The Journalistic Gut Feeling : Journalistic Doxa, News Habitus and Orthodox News Values / Ida Schultz -- Media Ritual in Catastrophic Time : The Populist Turn in Television Coverage of Hurricane Katrina / Frank Durham -- MAKING MEANING IN THE JOURNALISTIC INTERPRETIVE COMMUNITY. War Journalism and the "KIA Journalist" : The Cases of David Bloom and Michael Kelly / Matt Carlson -- The Importance of Ritual in Crisis Journalism / Kristina Riegert and Eva-Karin Olsson -- "Someone's Gotta Be in Control Here" : The Institutionalization of Online News and the Creation of Shared Journalistic Authority / Sue Robinson -- Broader and Deeper: A Study of Newsroom Culture in a Time of Change / David Ryfe --

"This lively and provocative book casts an anthropological eye on the field of science in a wide-ranging and innovative discussion that integrates philosophy, history, sociology, and auto-ethnography. Jonathan Marks examines biological anthropology, the history of the life sciences, and the literature of science studies while upending common understandings of science and culture with a mixture of anthropology, common sense, and disarming humor. Science, Marks argues, is widely accepted to be three things: a method of understanding and a means of establishing facts about the universe, the facts themselves, and a voice of authority or a locus of cultural power. This triple identity creates conflicting roles and tensions within the field of science and leads to its record of instructive successes and failures. Among the topics Marks addresses are the scientific revolution, science as thought and performance, creationism, scientific fraud, and modern scientific racism. Applying his considerable insight, energy, and wit, Marks sheds new light on the evolution of science, its role in modern culture, and its challenges for the twenty-first century."--Back cover