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Despite growing numbers of drug users in prisons all over the western world, drug exchange behind bars has received little scholarly attention. The few studies that exist describe the prison drug economy as mainly following market-based principles of exchange. However, ethnographic fieldwork in a closed Norwegian prison reveals something different: prisoners share their drugs, rather than selling them. In this article, I describe and try to explain this 'culture of sharing'. Drawing on anthropological theories of exchange, drug sharing is understood as continuous gift-giving. The gift perspective allows us to see how sharing is shaped by motives of caring, compassion and solidarity, while it simultaneously emphasizes the self-interest embedded in such drug exchanges. The article argues that sharing is a highly effective form of drug exchange because there is a strong commitment to reciprocate when a prisoner receives drugs. The 'culture of sharing' is both contingent upon and produces social relations between prisoners. On the one hand, it offers an inclusive and solidary community for drug using prisoners; on the other hand it is upheld by strong social controls, by which deviations from accepted norms of conduct (i.e. failing to share) are sanctioned in a variety of ways.

Protestors across the world use aesthetics in order to communicate their ideas and ensure their voices are heard. This book looks at protest aesthetics, which we consider to be the visual and performative elements of protest, such as images, symbols, graffiti, art, as well as the choreography of protest actions in public spaces. Through the use of social media, protestors have been able to create an alternative space for people to engage with politics that is more inclusive and participatory than traditional politics. This volume focuses on the role of visual culture in a highly mediated environment and draws on case studies from Europe, Thailand, South Africa, USA, Argentina, and the Middle East in order to demonstrate how protestors use aesthetics to communicate their demands and ideas. It examines how digital media is harnessed by protestors and argues that all protest aesthetics are performative and communicative

Protestors across the world use aesthetics in order to communicate their ideas and ensure their voices are heard. This book looks at protest aesthetics, which we consider to be the visual and performative elements of protest, such as images, symbols, graffiti, art, as well as the choreography of protest actions in public spaces. Through the use of social media, protestors have been able to create an alternative space for people to engage with politics that is more inclusive and participatory than traditional politics. This volume focuses on the role of visual culture in a highly mediated environment and draws on case studies from Europe, Thailand, South Africa, USA, Argentina, and the Middle East in order to demonstrate how protestors use aesthetics to communicate their demands and ideas. It examines how digital media is harnessed by protestors and argues that all protest aesthetics are performative and communicative.

"The exciting diasporic sounds of the London Asian urban music scene are a cross-section of the various genres of urban music that include bhangra "remix," R&B and hip hop styles, as well as dubstep and other "urban" sample-oriented electronic music. This book brings together a unique analysis of urban underground music cultures in exploring just how members of this "scene" take up space in "upper-diverse" London. It provides a fresh perspective on the creativity of British South Asian youth culture, and makes a significant sociological intervention into this area by bringing the focus back onto urgent issues of "race" ethnicity alongside class and gender within youth cultural studies"--

This review situates Shelly Chan's analysis of temporality in Chinese migrations as "diaspora moments" in response to leading opponents of the application of diaspora in Chinese overseas studies. Chan's astute and carefully framed identification of key moments when Chinese overseas significantly influenced national culture, ideologies, and institutions complicates but does not ameliorate the political pressures driving articulations such as Shu-mei Shih's call for Sinophone studies as strategies for ethnic Chinese around the world to claim localized identities and belongings.

Key Features:First book that offers a detailed study of the Singaporean public service sectorIncludes many interesting case studies, such as economic development, the integrated resorts, Workfare policy, water management, land transport, telecommunications liberalization, scenario planning, budgeting pactices, E-government, education policy changes, healthcare, Central Provident Fund, and personnel management reformsIncludes excerpts of interviews with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Minister-in-charge of the Civil Service Teo Chee Hean, Head of Civil Service Peter Ho and Chairman of the Economic Development Board Lim Siong GuanProvides analytical insights, lessons learnt and guidelines for applying the principles beyond Singapore to other countries and beyond the public sector to the business worldForeword by Michael E. Porter of Harvard Business School.

A wedding is a family tradition reflected in every language and culture, which is implemented in a number of cultural rituals, customs and rituals. A wedding is a day when two young people decide to move on together in order to love and respect each other forever. As for the linguoculturological approach to the study of wedding discourse, scientists declare its cultural, linguistic, psychological and social significance for science. This article discusses issues related to the understanding of family happiness in Russian and Chinese linguistic cultures, which allows us to explore a number of traditions and rituals that reflect the mentality of people participating in the wedding ceremony.

Preliminary Material /Norbert Götz and Carl Marklund -- Introduction /Norbert Götz and Carl Marklund -- The Concept of Openness: Promise and Paradox /Norbert Götz -- A Nordic Paradox of Openness and Consensus? The Case of Finland /Johanna Rainio-Niemi -- Ruptures in National Consensus: Economic versus Political Openness in the Globalization Debate in Finland /Lotta Lounasmeri and Tuomas Ylä-Anttila -- Nordic Openness in Finland: European Integration, Ideational Transfer, and Institutional Traditions /Tero Erkkilä -- The Nordic Ideal: Openness and Populism According to the Finns Party /Ainur Elmgren -- The Procedural Openness of Nordic Welfare State Restructuring /Johannes Kananen -- Open Skies, Open Minds? Shifting Concepts of Communication and Information in Swedish Public Debate /Carl Marklund -- Openness and Elite Oral History: The Case of Sweden /Ylva Waldemarson -- Exporting Nordic Parliamentary Oversight to the European Union /Ann-Cathrine Jungar -- Adopting a New Political Culture: Obstacles and Opportunities for Open Government in Austria /Peter Parycek and Judith Schossböck -- From Promise to Compromise: Nordic Openness in a World of Global Transparency /Carl Marklund -- Index /Norbert Götz and Carl Marklund.

Xiangxi Miao embroidery carries the Miao people's past memory and future vision and is also linked to the mysterious Xiangxi Miao witch culture inextricably. This paper analyses the relationship between the culture of myths and legends and the culture of gods and witches and their impacts on Miao embroidery. The culture of myths and legends is mainly reflected in the living of totem worship, the culture of gods and witches includes the worship of multiple gods and the flourishing of the Nuo ritual, which have engraved a special national mark on Xiangxi Miao embroidery.

In this perceptive analysis, Dana Cloud traces the replacement of social and political activism by the pursuit of personal, psychological change. She identifies the new movement as the "rhetoric of therapy", where a persuasive cultural discourse that applies concepts such as coping and adapting replaces active attempts to reform flawed systems of social and political power. Cloud focuses on the therapeutic discourse that emerged after the Vietnam War and links its rise to specific political and economic interests. Critical case studies identify the extent to which therapeutic di

A comparison of three surveys of Hong Kong journalists from 1996 to 2006 finds that media professionalism remains intact in spite of significant socio-political changes. However, the media's performance has been in doubt as reflected in credibility decline and rising self-censorship. Factors accounting for this apparent disjunction between professionalism and performance include the proliferation of journalism education, the entrenchment of press freedom in Hong Kong's political culture, the journalists' need for a self-defense and survival strategy, and the media market as a balancing force of political pressure. It is the interplay of all these factors that matters. (Asian J Commun/NIAS)