Suchergebnisse

Civilisations balanced between Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft -- The cyclical rise, decline and rebirth of civilisations -- Western civilisation as an amalgam of political liberalism and nationhood -- The postmodernist graveyard of western civilisation -- The rise of western geoeconomics as the tool for neo-Gesellschaft -- Unconstrained economic liberalism : death of community and society -- The geography of Russia's Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft -- Russia's Eurasian resurgence : neomodernism and geoeconomics -- The rise of populists in the West and their affinity towards Russia -- Conclusion : cooperation and competition in the post-western world.

In Japan, people often refer to August 15, 1945 as the end of "that war." But the duration of "that war" remains vague. At times, it refers to the fifteen years of war in the Asia-Pacific. At others, it refers to an imagination of the century long struggle between the East and the West that characterized much of the 19th century. This latter dramatization in particular reinforces longstanding Eurocentric and Orientalist discourses about historical development that presume the non-West lacks historical agency. Nearly 75 years since the nominal end of the war, Japan's "history problem" – a term invoking the nation's inability to come to terms with its imperial past – persists throughout Asia today.Going beyond well-worn clichés about the state's use and abuse of discourses of historical modernity, Koyama shows how the inability to confront the debris of empire is tethered to the deferral of agency to a hegemonic order centered on the United States. The present is thus a moment one stitched between the disavowal of responsibility on the one hand, and the necessity of becoming a proper subject of history on the other. Behind this seeming impasse lay questions about how to imagine the state as the subject of history in a postcolonial moment – after grand narratives, after patriotism, and after triumphalism.

Religious heretics -- six characters in search of God -- Fin de siècle Hebrew Nietzscheanism -- It would be a good thing if the God of Zarathustra were the God of Israel -- Bereavement, breakdown and the great heresy -- Nietzschean religious Jews -- A Nietzschean Hassid taken to Treblinka -- Zarathustra faces Mount Sinai -- The resurrection of myth -- It came over me like a revelation -- Zarathustra or Messiah? -- Nietzsche in the Holy Land -- The Nietzschian ethos and the Canaanite spirit -- Hebrew Hellenism.

part, PART I Perception and Communication -- chapter 1 Context: Why It Matters -- chapter 2 Perception and Cognition -- chapter 3 Communication Principles -- part, PART II Making Sustainability Visible -- chapter 4 Metaphor -- chapter 5 Stories -- chapter 6 Interpretive Exhibits and Signs -- chapter 7 Wayfinding -- chapter 8 Visible Processes -- part, PART III Practical Details -- chapter 9 Graphic Design 101 -- chapter 10 Images -- chapter 11 Graphs and Diagrams Information Graphics Help Us Understand -- chapter 12 Reporting Tools -- chapter 13 Digital Media -- chapter 14 Meetings -- chapter 15 Communication Tools.

NGO's ladder to development-knowledge and the path of solicitation -- Access to water and the science of financial patronage -- Informal settlements, land mafia and failure of government policy -- Women cotton pickers in Pakistan : lost between the civil society and the state -- Why education for all does not turn into all for education? -- Universal health coverage; is health microinsurance the answer? -- Poverty alleviation and arithmetic of the poor.

Ours is the age of celebrity. An inescapable aspect of daily life in our media-saturated societies of the twenty-first century, celebrity is celebrated for its infinite plasticity and glossy seductions. But there is also a darker side. Celebrity culture is littered from end to end with addictions, pathologies, neuroses, even suicides. Why, as a society, are we held in thrall to celebrity? What is the power of celebrity in a world of increasing consumerism, individualism and globalization?

chapter 1 Perspectives on the world of the looked after and adopted child -- chapter 2 The views of adoptive parents and a foster parent on partnership working -- chapter 3 Partnership with birth families -- chapter 4 Therapeutic multi-disciplinary collaboration -- chapter 5 Helping children with challenge and change: partnership working in transitions and education -- chapter 6 Working together with the stories of children's troubled lives -- chapter 7 Finding a future beyond the crisis: looked after children in secure care -- chapter 8 Working in partnership with adolescents in care who have experienced early trauma.

This volume brings together some of the most recent scholarship on government and civil society. It examines the axis of the relationship between national governments and civil society organisations (NGOs) by highlighting commonalities as well as differences among four key regions in the world. Using the stability vs. instability framework, the book explores a range of pertinent issues, including human rights, development, foreign policy, state-building, regime change, governance frameworks, wars and civil liberties. It studies diverse situations, from those entailing comprehensive cooperation to those involving politically contentious and revolutionary activities.