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Japan is widely regarded as having a unique culture and a strong national identity. Paradoxically, however, many basic elements of Japanese culture are not originally Japanese. Since the beginning of its history, Japan has been one of the world s major importers of foreign cultures. Its culture was thoroughly "hybrid" long before that word became fashionable in contemporary global studies. But this does not mean that Japan s culture lacks originality. The Japanese have always made strikingly original contributions, even improvements, to whatever they imported. Even more significantly, the "hybridity" of their culture produced ongoing tensions that served as a kind of creative dynamo for Japanese writers, artists, and intellectuals. This book explores the fundamental creative tension between the native and the foreign in many areas of Japanese culture, from politics and religion to art and literature - a tension also often interpreted as between tradition and modernity

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction to Colonial Heritage in West African Cities -- General Outline of the Subject -- Spatial and Temporal Scope of the Analysis -- Objectives, Hypotheses and Research Questions -- Research Methods Applied -- Colonialism - an Outline of Literature On the Subject -- Heritage Studies - an Overview of Basic Concepts -- Material Vs. Non-Material Heritage in Urban Space -- African Colonialisms -- Africa's Decolonisation Process - the Geographical Perspective -- Notes -- References -- 2 Colonial Heritage in Modern-Day Praia -- Historical Overview -- The Location and Layout -- Buildings in Platô and Its Surroundings -- Portuguese Nomenclature in Praia -- Colonial and New Monuments -- The Cemetery, City Squares and the Marketplace -- The Cemetery -- City Squares and the Marketplace -- Colonial Heritage in Modern-Day Praia - a Summary -- Notes -- References -- 3 Colonial Heritage in Modern-Day Dakar -- Historical Overview and Location of the City -- Three Phases of French Colonial Urban Planning -- Disappearing Colonial Buildings -- Evolution of the French Dictionary of Urbanonyms and Its Decolonisation -- Modern-day Street Nomenclature in the Dakar-Plateau District -- Street Nomenclature in Dakar in the Colonial Era -- Changes in Street Nomenclature in the Dakar-Plateau District During the Colonial Period -- Changes in Dakar Street Nomenclature After 1960 -- Other Elements of Colonial Heritage -- Colonial Heritage in Modern-Day Dakar - a Summary -- Notes -- References -- 4 Colonial Heritage in Modern-Day Banjul -- Historical Overview -- Times of the British Empire -- Independent Gambia -- Buildings and Architecture - British and African Elements.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Feminist Travelling Theories and Imaginary Geographies -- 1.1 Travelling Theory and Women's Rights Demands -- 1.2 Imagination of Europe in the Ottoman Women's Rights Demands -- 1.3 Overview of this Book -- 2 Gender History, Feminist Genealogy and the Archival Turn -- 2.1 Feminist Genealogy: Untangling the past in Following Travelling of Women's Movements -- 2.2 Gender History: The Relationality between 'Herstory' and 'Poststructuralist Feminist' Approaches -- 2.2.1 Herstory and Poststructuralist Feminist Approaches to History -- 2.2.2 Approaching Herstory Research about Turkey -- 2.3 The 'Archival Turn' and Feminist Research: Turns, Terms and Archival Fetishes -- 2.4 Finding Ottoman Women, Returning to KD: Entanglements of the Archive -- 2.4.1 Key Issues about the KD Magazine -- 2.4.2 My Relationship with the Ottoman Muslim-Turkish Women and Europe -- 2.5 Conclusion -- 3 'The Sick Man of Europe': The Contexts Women's Movements Travel -- 3.1 'Waves' and 'Feminism' in 'Non-Western' Contexts -- 3.2 Political Atmosphere During Modernisation and Nationalism -- 3.2.1 Modernisation and Nationalism in 'Non-Western' Problematisations -- 3.2.2 Modernisation in Law and Parliament: The Young Turks and the 'Woman Question' -- 3.2.3 Intellectual Perspectives on Turkish and Muslim Womanhoods -- 3.2.4 Kemalism: A Form of Modernism -- 3.3 Ottoman Muslim-Turkish Women's Movements and Magazines -- 3.4 Conclusion -- 4 Negotiations in Discourses on 'Europe': The Production of Occidentalism -- 4.1 Occidentalism: Conceptualising Imagination of Europe -- 4.2 For Progress of Europe: Binaries, Demarcations and Lacks -- 4.2.1 New Directions for Truth and Knowledge: To Europe.

This concise but comprehensive book engagingly summarizes both the broad themes and specific tenets of First Amendment law, and the strongest arguments for and against protecting controversial speech such as hate speech and disinformation. It explains the many speech-protective legal rules that emerged during the Civil Rights era, demonstrating how essential free speech is for other human rights.

"The Covid pandemic has caused massive disruption in the education system. The consequences for the education of the next generation are now clearly visible: a decline in learning performance, problems in psycho-social development and a deterioration in physical condition. Although all children and young people are affected, those from educationally deprived backgrounds fall behind the most. All this characterizes the Covid Generation. Educational inequity is on the rise and an educational catastrophe is looming. As important as this look back is, it is crucial to look forward. This vital book addresses the future of the Covid Generation by exploring its central issues, such as: - What must be done to educate the Covid Generation in the best possible way? - What concepts are there from an educational science perspective? - What are the lessons learned from the Covid pandemic that will continue to be important for the education system in the future? - What new teaching and learning structures need to be created? - How can we strengthen student and teacher resilience? Based on an empirical survey of the well-being and educational attainment of the Covid Generation, concepts and ideas are presented to support and develop the Covid Generation of students, to rethink the education system, and to overcome the educational climate crisis and to enable a fresh start"--

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Women's Avenues of Digital Activism: Fighting for Their Own -- Part I: Overcoming the Digital Divide and Going Viral-Women's Online Struggles for Social Change -- Part II: An Alternative Democratic Public Sphere-The Internet as a Safe Space -- Part III: Democratic Digital Discursive Spaces of and for Women-Unintended Consequences -- References -- Part I: Overcoming the Digital Divide and Going Viral: Women's Online Struggles for Social Change -- Chapter 2: KN-IT-Working: Older Women's Eco-Activism in the Digital Age-An Australian Case Study of the Knitting Nannas Against Gas and Greed's Use of Social Media for Learning and Empowerment -- Introduction -- Older Women's Online Capabilities and Activism: The Literature -- Case Study Methodology -- The Context: Fighting fracking -- Research Findings about KNAG's Use of Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 Tools -- Beginnings and Online Launch -- Overcoming the Digital Divide, Extending Digital Literacy -- Collective Identity and Community -- A Media Movement Overcoming Ageist Sexism and Climate Skepticism -- Naughty Knitting at Doubtful Creek -- "Call the Cops! It's the Knitting Nannas!" -- Fossil Fool Bulletins -- Conclusion and Implications for the Inclusion of Older Women's Online Activism -- References -- Chapter 3: "I'm at 100!": Protesting the Right-Wing Government in Austria -- Introduction and Objective -- Movements, Participatory Practices and the Public Sphere -- Findings and Discussion: Grannies against the Right -- Public Protest and Digital Activism -- Communicative Practices and Networking -- Safe Spaces and Vulnerability -- Collective Identity and Agency -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Feminists' Social Media Protests and the Digital Public Sphere in Turkey -- Introduction.

"The book is a new explanation of the decline in agricultural productivity in developing countries, transcending beyond the conventional approaches to understanding productivity using agricultural inputs and factors of production. It brings in the role of formal and informal institutions that govern transactions, property rights and accumulation. The volume addresses the misalignment of agricultural productivity with crop intensity and defines in terms of quantity of inputs, quality of mechanisation and technological progress, and degree of ensuring sustainability of ecosystem and biodiversity. The narrative and empirics present a comprehensive, well-balanced lens to perceive agrarian transition in developing countries. It lays out the dynamics of contemporary agrarian transition, starting from the shifts in land relations, productivity and class relations to present-day challenges to sustainability in agriculture. It argues that the existing process of accumulation has resulted in a non-sustainable agriculture because of market failures, caused by asymmetries of power, diseconomies of scale and unstable property rights, resulting in arrested productivity growth. The exploration of theoretical apparatuses through empirical validations reveals that agrarian transition should be understood in relation to the wider (non-agrarian) economic development in society, as political settlement and primitive accumulation permit (inhibit) property rights being re-allocated in growth-enhancing directions."

This book explores a topic that historians of philosophy have so far neglected almost completely: debates about the morality of slavery in eighteenth-century North America and Europe. Author Julia Jorati pays particular attention to the role that race plays in these debates. Each of the five chapters covers intriguing and philosophically important texts about slavery and race from a specific geographic region: North America, Scotland, England, France, and lastly, the Netherlands and Germany. The book--and a companion volume also by Jorati on slavery and race in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries--will serve as a resource for scholars, instructors, and students of philosophy and neighboring disciplines.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Terminology and Use -- Prologue: Dos Hermanos de los Selváticos -- Introduction: Histories from the Hinterlands -- Part I. Building Luzon's Racial Economy -- Chapter One. Rationalizing Race -- Chapter Two. The Work of the Filipino in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: In Two Parts -- Part II. Highlands -- Chapter Three. No Dog, No Work -- Chapter Four. They are by Nature and Custom Head Hunters -- Part III. Lowlands -- Chapter Five. Sugarcane Sakadas -- Chapter Six. Manongs on the Move -- Part IV. Filipino/America -- Chapter Seven. Two Insurgent Ethnologies -- Conclusion: A Tale of Two Mountains -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.