Terug naar de spaanse burgeroorlog - henk driessen - paperback (9789089645128)

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"http://www.aup.nl/media/import/Inhoudsopgave%20en%20Hoofdstuk%201.pdf">Klik hier voor de Inhoudsopgave en Hoofdstuk 1 [-]In dit boek verdiept Henk Driessen zich in het onvoltooid verleden van de inwoners van een dorp en plattelandsstad in het zuiden van Spanje. Hij concentreert zich daarbij in het bijzonder op de Spaanse Burgeroorlog, de cultu

Educational reception in rotterdam and barcelona - maría bruquetas-callejo - ebook (9789048523108)

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The reception of newcomer youngsters by schools constitutes a policy issue in Europe already for decades. This book deals with how practitioners in Rotterdam and Barcelona apply existing policies for the reception of immigrant students, the dilemmas they face and the strategies they design as a response. Using a combination of discursive, organizational, and ethnographic research techniques, the author studies to what extent practices conform to policies, and to what extent they diverge from them in basic principles. This book analyzes the influence of institutional frameworks on the practices of policy implementers by comparing Netherlands and Spain -specifically Barcelona and Rotterdam-, two cases which are very different in terms of their national policies of integration, their educational systems and their programs for educational reception. Much can be learned over the reception practices of secondary schools, but above all over how policy gaps work, and the common and specific features that they present across different countries. In short, this is an indispensable reading for scholars, policymakers and practitioners alike, which offers new insights about the policy-practice gap and the role of policy practitioners in it.

Rival kurdish movements in turkey - mustafa gürbüz - ebook (9789048527427)

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This book explores the conditions that encourage non-violent civic engagement in emerging civil societies. Gürbüz examines the radical transformations over the past decade in the politics of Turkey'ss Kurdish minority. On the eve of the new millennium, the Turkish state was still openly denying the existence of Kurds, calling them "mountain Turks," and Kurdish populated cities were ruled under martial law. Kurdish politics in Turkey was dominated by a revolutionary movement, the PKK, which engaged in violent clashes with the state. Less than a decade later, the PKK'ss rebellion had all but ended, and Kurdish political and civic movements of numerous stripes had emerged. The Turkish state even introduced an official Kurdish-language TV channel. How did this rapid change occur? Gürbüz proposes that contending social movements has transformed the politics of the region, ushering in an era of post-conflict political and cultural competition.

The governance of international migration - aysen üstübici - ebook (9789048532803)

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As concern about immigration has grown within Europe in recent years, the European Union has brought pressure to bear on countries that are allegedly not sufficiently governing irregular migration with and within their borders. This book looks at that issue in Turkey and Morocco, showing how it affects migrants in these territories, and how migrant illegality has been produced by law, practiced and negotiated by the state, other civil society actors, and by migrants themselves. Aysen Üstübici focuses on a number of different aspects of migrant illegality, such as experiences of deportation, participation in economic life, and access to health care and education, in order to reveal migrants's strategies and the various ways they seek to legitimise their stay.

Plezier in poëzie - jos kleemans, judit gera - ebook (9789048557455)

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Gedichten worden vaak als (te) moeilijk ervaren. Het vergt wat kennis en oefening om er plezier aan te beleven. En plezier in het lezen van gedichten is precies wat deze inleiding in de poëzie wil bevorderen. Docenten Judit Gera en Jos Kleemans hebben hun boek in de eerste plaats geschreven voor buitenlandse studenten die Nederlands leren, maar het is een aanrader voor iedereen met belangstelling voor poëzie. Het boek behandelt enkele theoretische en vooral praktische aspecten van poëzieanalyse. Een stappenplan, een woordenlijst en een reeks van uitdagende vragen bij de gedichten zijn als hulpmiddelen bij het lezen opgenomen. In het tweede deel van het boek staan per gedicht uitgewerkte analyses, die in dialoog tot stand zijn gekomen. Ze zijn bedoeld als aansporing tot kritiek daarop en tot het opnieuw lezen van de gedichten. Er wordt aandacht besteed aan vrouwelijke en mannelijke, Nederlandse en Vlaamse dichters, met verschillende culturele achtergronden.

The animal rights struggle - christophe traïni - ebook (9789048527038)

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Since the early nineteenth century, numerous campaigns have denounced the mistreatment of animals. This book compares the British and French histories of the animal-protection movement to retrace its origins and impact up to the present day. As Christophe Traïni shows, the struggle for animal rights - inextricably linked to the rise of philanthropy and established long before the birth of the ecology movement - developed out of several important social and political processes, including changes in sensibilities and socially approved emotions, new definitions of what constitutes legitimate violence, and the influence of religious beliefs.

Medium, messenger, transmission - sybille krämer - ebook (9789048524990)

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This rich study provides a comprehensive introduction to media philosophy while offering a new perspective on the concept and function of transmission media in all systems of exchange. Krämer uses the figure of the messenger as a key metaphor, examining a diverse range of transmission events, including the circulation of money, translation of languages, angelic visitations, spread of infectious diseases, and processes of transference and counter-transference that occur during psychoanalysis.

Three months in mao's china - erik-jan zürcher, kim van der zouw - ebook (9789048531585)

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In the fall of 1964, sinologist Erik Zürcher traveled for the first time to China, a country he had been studying since 1947. A collection of Zürcher'ss personal writings from his trip, including letters and diary entries, Three Months in Mao'ss China offers not only new insights about the great scholar, but also a rich picture of communist China, which was in those days still almost completely inaccessible to Westerners. During a tumultuous time in world politics, as Nikita Khrushchev was deposed, Lyndon Johnson won the US presidential election against Barry Goldwater, and China became a nuclear power, Zürcher experienced the reality of China under Mao Zedong. Only recently discovered, these documents portray through an expert'ss eye a land in the midst of its own massive political, social, and economic change. Both a fascinating account by an informed outsider and a reminder of just how much China and the rest of the world have changed over the last fifty years, this is essential reading for anyone interested in East Asia and Asian history as a whole. Erik Zürcher (1928-2008) was professor of the history of East Asia at Leiden University. Erik-Jan Zürcher is professor of Turkish studies at Leiden University. Kim van der Zouw is editor of educational material. Vivien Collingwood is a translator and editor based in the Netherlands

Issue mapping for an ageing europe - aleksandra kil - ebook (9789048524457)

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Issue Mapping for an Ageing Europe is a seminal guide to mapping social and political issues with digital methods. The issue at stake concerns the imminent crisis of an ageing Europe and its impact on the contemporary welfare state. The book brings together three leading approaches to issue mapping: Bruno Latour'ss social cartography, Ulrich Beck'ss risk cartography and Jeremy Crampton'ss critical neo-cartography. These modes of inquiry are put into practice with digital methods for mapping the ageing agenda, including debates surrounding so-called 'sold age's, cultural philosophies of ageing, itinerant care workers, not to mention European anti-ageing cuisine. Issue Mapping for an Ageing Europe addresses an urgent social issue with new media research tools.

Real life cryptology - benedek láng - ebook (9789048536696)

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A large number of enciphered documents survived from early modern Hungary. This area was a particularly fertile territory where cryptographic methods proliferated, because a large portion of the population was living in the frontier zone, and participated (or was forced to participate) in the network of the information flow. A quantitative analysis of sixteenth-century to seventeenth-century Hungarian ciphers (300 cipher keys and 1,600 partly or entirely enciphered letters) reveals that besides the dominance of diplomatic use of cryptography, there were many examples of "private" applications too. This book reconstructs the main reasons and goals why historical actors chose to use ciphers in a diplomatic letter, a military order, a diary or a private letter, what they decided to encrypt, and how they perceived the dangers threatening their messages.

Architectuur en geschiedenis - lex bosman - ebook (9789048520961)

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Oratie Architectuurgeschiedenis van 9 oktober 2008 De (re-)constructies van het verleden in historische disciplines zoals de kunst- en architectuurgeschiedenis veranderen regelmatig. Dit gebeurt onder invloed van uiteenlopende factoren binnen en buiten de eigen discipline. In het verleden werden echter ook constructies van een verder weg gelegen geschiedenis gemaakt om de positie van een opdrachtgever (bijvoorbeeld vorsten) of een opdrachtgevende instelling (bijvoorbeeld stedelijke overheden of kloosters) een plaats te geven. Het construeren van een specifiek verleden speelde in de architectuurgeschiedenis een belangrijke rol, omdat gebouwen uitstekende zichtbare tekens waren van macht en gepretendeerde posities. In zijn oratie bespreekt Lex Bosman aan de hand van de omgang (ambulatorium) de problematiek van de constructies van een architectonische geschiedenis in de architectuurgeschiedenis van zowel toen als nu. De belangrijkste gebouwen die hierbij ter sprake komen zijn de bisschopskerk van Rome, de St. Jan van Lateranen (vierde en vijfde eeuw), de vroegere bisschopskerk van Keulen (begin negende eeuw) en het beroemde kloosterplan van St. Gallen van rond 830.

Visions of savage paradise - r.p. brienen - ebook (9789048505548)

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De schilderijen van de Nederlandse kunstenaar Albert Eckhout zijn onlangs getoond op diverse internationale tentoonstellingen in Denemarken, Brazilië en Nederland. Echter, de meest recente monografie van deze kunstenaar, die tijdens de periode dat Brazilië gekoloniseerd was door Nederland en bestuurd werd door de West Indie Compagnie, komt uit 1938

Educational mobility of second-generation turks - phillipp schnell - ebook (9789048523184)

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This volume investigates educational inequalities among children of Turkish immigrants in Austria, France, and Sweden. One of the largest immigrant groups in these countries, Turks nonetheless face discrimination and limited opportunities, and this study shows how those problems play out in education. One of its key findings is that systems that provide more favorable institutional arrangements lead to greater economic mobility in the second generation. -Philipp Schnell is a Post-Doctoral researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and affiliated researcher at the Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies.

New publication cultures in the humanities - ebook (9789048519712)

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The changes we have seen in recent years in the scholarly publishing world - including the growth of digital publishing and changes to the role and strategies of publishers and libraries alike - represent the most dramatic paradigm shift in scholarly communications in centuries. This volume brings together leading scholars from across the humanities to explore that transformation and consider the challenges and opportunities it brings.

De wereld in evenwicht - j. dieleman - ebook

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Migration from the middle east and north africa to europe - ebook (9789048523177)

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One of the most important challenges concerning the future of the European Union is the demographic reproduction of the European population. Decreasing birth-rates and the retirement of the baby boomers will dramatically reduce the labour force in the EU, which will entail not only a lack of manpower but also lower contributions to European social systems. It seems clear that the EU will have to counterbalance this population decrease by immigration in the coming years. Migration Between the Middle East, North Africa and Europe takes this challenge as a point of departure for analysing the MENA region, in particular Morocco, Egypt and Turkey, as a possible source of future migration to the European Union. At the same time, it illustrates the uncertainties implied in such calculations, especially at a time of radical political changes, such as those brought about by the Arab Uprising.

De staat van nederland innovatieland - ebook (9789048517176)

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Nederland behoort tot de rijkste en meest welvarende landen in de wereld. Toch is continuering van deze positie niet vanzelfsprekend en zijn de uitdagingen groot. De wereld om ons heen wordt slimmer, sneller en concurrerender. Maatschappelijke problemen als vergrijzing en grondstoffen- en energieschaarste worden nijpender met steeds verstrekkender gevolgen. Innovatie wordt in brede kring gezien als een van de belangrijke sleutels voor de oplossing van deze vraagstukken. Maar wat weten we eigenlijk van onze innovatieprestaties? Welke nieuwe groeiers kent Nederland en hoe doen buitenlandse ondernemingen het in ons land? Stroken onze ambities met de aanwezige kennis en kunde, of is er meer nodig? Welke trends en ontwikkelingen gaan we eigenlijk tegemoet? Deze eerste editie van De Staat van Nederland Innovatieland 2012 is tot stand gekomen vanuit de urgente behoefte om hierop een samenhangend, dieper en gedetailleerder zicht te krijgen. Op basis van deze analyse, op micro-, meso- en macroniveau, worden concrete aanbevelingen gedaan voor de nieuwe impulsen die Nederland als innovatieland nu nodig heeft. Frans van der Zee, Walter Manshanden, Frank Bekkers, Tom van der Horst (projectleider). Met bijdragen van: Marcel de Heide, Erik Frinking, Sophie Roborgh, Thijmen van Bree, Jinxue Hu, Evgueni Poliakov en Elmer Rietveld.

The prosecutor and the judge - heikelina verrijn stuart, m. simons - ebook (9789048511334)

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Diepte-interviews met Benjamin Ferencz en Atonio Cassese over oorlogsmisdaden, de menselijke wreedheid, de beperkingen van de internationale rechtbanken en meer. De prestigieuze Praemium Erasmianum 2009 werd toegekend aan Benjamin Ferencz en Antonio Cassese, die de belichaming zijn van de geschiedenis van het internationaal strafrecht van Neurenberg tot Den Haag. The Prosecutor and the Judge is een ontmoeting met deze twee opmerkelijke mannen, in de vorm van diepte-interviews door Heikelina Verrijn Stuart en Marlise Simons. De interviews gaan over werk en ideeën, over de oorlogsmisdaden, de menselijke wreedheid, het eigenbelang van staten; over wroeging in de rechtszaal, teruggave en compensatie voor de slachtoffers en over de kracht en de beperkingen van de internationale rechtbanken.

The costs and cost-effectiveness of tuberculosis control - anna vassall - ebook

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The illiterate listener - henkjan honing - ebook (9789048526987)

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Al sinds onze babytijd hebben wij, mensen, een grote perceptuele gevoeligheid voor zowel de melodische, ritmische als dynamische aspecten van spraak en muziek. Het gaat, voor zover we nu weten, om een uniek menselijke aanleg voor het waarnemen, interpreteren en waarderen van muziek, nog voordat er een woord gesproken, of zelfs maar bedacht is. Het is het preverbale en preletter stadium waar het muzikale luisteren vol van is. Muziek speelt op een intrigerende manier met ons gehoor, ons geheugen, onze emoties en onze verwachtingen. Als luisteraar zijn we ons er vaak niet van bewust, maar we spelen een actieve rol bij wat muziek spannend, troostend of opwindend maakt, omdat luisteren zich niet afspeelt in de buitenwereld van de klinkende muziek, maar in de stille binnenwereld van ons hoofd en onze hersenen. -Henkjan Honing is als KNAW-Muller hoogleraar muziekcognitie verbonden aan de capaciteitsgroep muziekwetenschap, het Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) en het Cognitive Science Center Amsterdam (CSCA) van de Universiteit van Amsterdam. Honing doet onderzoek naar de temporele aspecten van muziek (zoals ritme, timing en tempo), de rol van waarneming, aandacht, verwachting en geheugen in het proces van het luisteren naar muziek, en bestudeert de cognitieve mechanismen die ten grondslag liggen aan muzikaliteit.

Urban livelihoods, institutions and inclusive governance in nairobi - bob hendriks - ebook (9789048513284)

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Nairobi|Urban Livelihoods|Quality of life|Inclusive Governance|Governance Networks|Accountability|Influence|Spaces|Political Rights

Vredehandel - violet soen - ebook (9789048515240)

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De Nederlandse Opstand wordt gewoonlijk beschreven als een onomkeerbaar proces van politieke polarisering, religieuze radicalisering en militaire mobilisering. Toch vonden tot 1581 telkens opnieuw verzoeningspogingen plaats om verdere escalatie van het conflict te voorkomen. Daarbij probeerden zowel edellieden als koninklijke en keizerlijke vertegenwoordigers het conflict op diplomatieke en verzoenende wijze te beslechten. Welke verzoeningspogingen werden ondernomen? Waarom werd dit telkens opnieuw geprobeerd? En vooral, in welke mate hadden deze toenaderingspogingen kans van slagen? Op basis van archivalische en gedrukte bronnen brengt dit boek de redenen voor, en mogelijkheden van de vredesonderhandelingen tijdens de beginjaren van de Opstand in kaart. Uitgaand van de raak- en breekpunten tussen adellijke en Habsburgse verzoeningspogingen werpt dit boek een nieuw licht op de vraag waarom de onderhandelde hereniging met Filips II in 1579- 1580 gedeeltelijk plaatsvond en zo een bijkomend motief creëerde voor het Plakkaat van Verlatinge in 1581.

Cookies, coleslaw, and stoops - nicoline van der sijs - ebook (9789048520879)

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In 1609, the first Dutch settlers arrived in America and established trading posts, small towns, and forts up and down what we now call the Hudson River. To this day, American children are taught the thrilling history of the transformation of this settlement, New Netherland, and its capital, New Amsterdam, from landmark port into present-day New York State and the island of Manhattan. But, the Dutch legacy extended far beyond New York, as Cookies, Coleslaw and Stoops reveals. From Santa Claus (after the Dutch folklore saint Sinterklaas) and his sleigh (the pronunciation of the Dutch slee is almost identical) to a dumbhead talking poppycock, the contributions of the Dutch language to American English are indelibly embedded to some of our most vernacular terms and expressions. The menu in most of our restaurants sports some originally Dutch names, and even our dollar is named after a Dutch coin (daalder). In this captivating volume, the renowned linguist Nicoline van der Sijs glosses over 300 Dutch loan words like these that travelled to the New World on board the Dutch ship the Halve Maan, captained by Henry Hudson, which dropped anchor in Manhattan more than 400 years ago. Surprisingly, the Dutch also gave several Native American languages words for everyday things like pants, cat and turkey. Lively and accessible, the information presented in this volume charts the journey of these words into the American territory and languages, from more obscure uses which maybe have survived in only regional dialects to such ubiquitous contributions to our language like Yankee, cookie, and dope. Each entry marks the original arrival of its term into American English and adds up-to-date information on its evolving meaning, etymology, and regional spread. Not to be missed by anyone with a passion for the history behind our everyday expressions, 'sCookies, Coleslaw and Stoops's is the perfect gift for the linguistic adventurer in us all.

Improvising cinema - gilles mouellic - ebook (9789048518425)

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This spirited volume explores the history and diversity of improvisation in the cinema, including works by Jean Renoir, Jean-Luc Godard, and Nobuhiro Suwa. Gilles Mouëllic examines improvisational practices that can be specifically attributed to the cinema and argues in favors of their powers as instigators of unprecedented forms of expression. Improvising Cinema reflects both on the permanence of attempting improvisation and the relationship between technology and aesthetics. Mouëllic concludes preservation becomes even more invaluable in the case of improvisation, as the creative act exists only within the brief time span of the performance.

De geesteswetenschappelijke carrousel - e. jonker - ebook (9789048507290)

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De geesteswetenschappen nemen in hoog tempo afscheid van het postmodernisme. Filosofen, historici, sociologen en antropologen staan opnieuw voor een intellectueel draaimoment. Na de linguistic turn en de cultural turn is er nu een ethische wende. In tal van cultuurwetenschappen probeert men om oudere tradities en concepten weer zinvol in te zetten.

Zelf doen! - a.e.m. van vianen - ebook (9789048520282)

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Mensen moeten zich breed ontwikkelen willen ze flexibel inzetbaar zijn in arbeidssituaties. De traditionele loopbaan is volgens loopbaankenners verleden tijd. De trend voor de nabije toekomst is die van 'sgrenzeloze loopbanen's, waarbij werknemers vooral zelf verantwoordelijk worden gesteld voor het verloop van hun loopbaan. Deze visie is echter niet gebaseerd op een analyse van wat werknemers willen, maar ontstaan uit veronderstellingen over veranderingen in organisaties. In deze oratie worden de grenzen aan en mogelijkheden van zelfsturing in de loopbaan verkent. Mensen zijn begrensd in hun loopbaanmogelijkheden doordat ze willen werken in situaties die aansluiten bij hun capaciteiten, behoeften en waarden. In hoeverre moeten kenmerken van mensen inderdaad aansluiten bij die van arbeidsomgevingen, en welke ruimte blijft er dan nog over voor arbeidsmobiliteit? Het vermogen van werknemers om hun loopbaan te sturen moet niet worden overschat. Voor zelfsturing van werknemers is nu juist een actieve opstelling van werkgevers noodzakelijk. Annelies van Vianen is sedert 1 September 2005 benoemd tot bijzonder hoogleraar Loopbaancompetenties in Arbeids- en Leerloopbaan vanwege de Nederlandse Stichting voor Psychotechniek aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam.

New germans, new dutch - liesbeth minnaard - ebook (9789048502356)

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De etnische transformatie van de Duitse en Nederlandse samenleving vraagt om diepgaande reflectie op het omstreden concept van nationale identiteit. Literatuur levert een belangrijke bijdrage aan dit proces van reflectie. New Germans, New Dutch onderzoekt migratieliteratuur in de Nederlandse en Duitse context. Literaire werken van de Turks Duitse s

Chinese heritage in the making - ebook (9789048534067)

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The Chinese state uses cultural heritage as a source of power by linking it to political and economic goals, but heritage discourse has at the same time encouraged new actors to appropriate the discourse to protect their own traditions. This book focuses on that contested nature of heritage, especially through the lens of individuals, local communities, religious groups, and heritage experts. It examines the effect of the internet on heritage-isation, as well as how that process affects different groups of people.

Nieuwe wegen voor vluchtelingen in nederland - ebook (9789048539161)

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Dit boek geeft een overzicht van de integratie van vluchtelingen en van beleidsmaatregelen die hieraan bijdragen. In 2014 en 2015 vroegen grote aantallen vluchtelingen asiel aan in Nederland. Velen van hen ontvingen een verblijfsvergunning en staan nu voor de opgave om in Nederland een nieuw leven op te bouwen. Dit boek doet verslag van hoe het hiermee gaat en welk beleid inmiddels wordt gevoerd om hun integratie te bevorderen.

Nazism and neo-nazism in film and media - jason lee - ebook (9789048528295)

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This timely book takes an original transnational approach to the theme of Nazism and neo-Nazism in film, media, and popular culture, with examples drawn from mainland Europe, the UK, North and Latin America, Asia, and beyond. This approach fits with the established dominance of global multimedia formats, and will be useful for students, scholars, and researchers in all forms of film and media. Along with the essential need to examine current trends in Nazism and neo-Nazism in contemporary media globally, what makes this book even more necessary is that it engages with debates that go to the very heart of our understanding of knowledge: history, memory, meaning, and truth.

Stories - ebook (9789048537082)

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Stories are central drivers of media today-not only do they propel plot-driven entertainment media, such as television, cinema, theatre, but also social media. Telling and having a story is widely deemed essential, both in the large and widely visible world of commerce and in the everyday social lives of individuals. Does this dynamic represent an intensification of what has always been part of culture and civilization, or has it reached a new universality? Stories identifies new phenomena in the fields of complex narration, puzzle film, and transmedia storytelling, and in turn addresses the chief issues of stories and storytelling amid the vast amount of discussion and analysis on the topic, presenting innovative and promising paths forward in research.

Technology and film scholarship - ebook (9789048525270)

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his volume brings together a wide range of research on the ways in which technological innovations have established new and changing conditions for the experience, study and theorization of film. Drawn from the IMPACT film conference (The Impact of Technological Innovations on the Historiography and Theory of Cinema) held in Montreal in 2011, the book includes contributions from such leading figures in the field as Tom Gunning, Charles Musser, Jan Olsson and Vinzenz Hediger.

Digital gaming and the advertising landscape - teresa de la hera - ebook (9789048538676)

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The evolution of the game industry and changes in the advertising landscape in recent years have led to a keen interest of marketers in using digital games for advertising purposes. However, despite the increasing interest in this marketing strategy, the potential of digital games as a medium to convey advertising messages remains unexploited. *Digital Gaming and the Advertising Landscape* explores the different ways advertising messages can be embedded within digital games. An interdisciplinary approach is used to help explain how persuasive communication works within digital games. It does so by forging new links within the area of game studies where the emphasis of this book clearly lies, while also taking up new subjects such as design theories and their relation to games as well as how this relationship may be used in a practical context.

The umbrella movement - ebook (9789048535248)

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This volume examines the most spectacular struggle for democracy in post-handover Hong Kong. Bringing together scholars with different disciplinary focuses and comparative perspectives from mainland China, Taiwan and Macau, one common thread that stitches the chapters is the use of first-hand data collected through on-site fieldwork. This study unearths how trajectories can create favourable conditions for the spontaneous civil resistance despite the absence of political opportunities and surveys the dynamics through which the protestors, the regime and the wider public responses differently to the prolonged contentious space. *The Umbrella Movement: Civil Resistance and Contentious Space in Hong Kong* offers an informed analysis of the political future of Hong Kong and its relations with the authoritarian sovereignty as well as sheds light on the methodological challenges and promises in studying modern-day protests.

Becoming a european homegrown jihadist - bart schuurman - ebook (9789048538300)

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How and why do people become involved in European homegrown jihadism? This book addresses this question through an in-depth study of the Dutch Hofstadgroup, infamous for containing the murderer of filmmaker Theo van Gogh, who was killed in November 2004 in Amsterdam, and for plotting numerous other terrorist attacks. The Hofstadgroup offers a window into the broader phenomenon of homegrown jihadism that arose in Europe in 2004 and is still with us today. Utilizing interviews with former Hofstadgroup participants and the extensive police files on the group, Becoming a European Homegrown Jihadist overcomes the scarcity of high-quality data that has hampered the study of terrorism for decades. The book advances a multicausal and multilevel understanding of involvement in European homegrown jihadism that is critical of the currently prevalent 'sradicalization's-based explanatory frameworks. It stresses that the factors that initiate involvement are separate from those that sustain it, which in turn are again likely to differ from those that bring some individuals to actual acts of terrorism. This is a key resource for scholars of terrorism and all those interested in understanding the pathways that can lead to involvement in European homegrown jihadism.

Colonialism, institutional change, and shifts in global labour relations - ebook (9789048535026)

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This book offers a view of shifts in labour relations in various parts of the world over a breathtaking span, from 1500 to 2000, with a particular emphasis on colonial institutions.

Cinematic vitalism - inga pollmann - ebook (9789048534005)

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This book draws new connections between twentieth-century German and French film theory and practice and vitalist conceptions of life from biology and philosophy. Inga Pollmann shows how the links between the two created a modernist, experimental, and cinematic strand of vitalism in and around the movie theatre. Articulated by film theorists, filmmakers, biologists and philosophers, this cinematic vitalism maps out connections among human beings, milieus, and technologies that continue to structure our understanding of film.

Consuming life in post-bubble japan - ebook (9789048530021)

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This multidisciplinary book analyses the contradictory coexistence of consumerism and environmentalism in contemporary Japan. It focuses on the dilemma that the diffusion of the concepts of sustainability and recycling has posed for everyday consumption practices, and on how these concepts have affected, and were affected by, the production and consumption of art. Special attention is paid to the changes in consumption practices and environmental consciousness among the Japanese public that have occurred since the 1990s and in the aftermath of the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disasters of March 2011.

Microfoundations of the arab uprisings - ebook (9789048536160)

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This book brings together a roster of prominent contributors to present a strategic interactionist perspective on the study of contentious politics in the Middle East in response to the Arab uprisings. The common thread among the contributions is an interest in the micro-level interactions between various strategic players, including not only the mobilisation of protestors during the uprisings but also the responses of regimes. The book also examines short to medium-term adaptations of the regimes and the collective action of opponents in the post-uprisings period, as well as the subsequent trajectories of the protesters themselves in the face of new forms of authoritarianism or democratisation.

Kurt baschwitz - jaap ginneken - ebook (9789048537280)

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In this accessible, unique study of a forgotten but noteworthy figure, the author tells the story of the life of Kurt Baschwitz (1886-1968), a scholar who fled from the Nazis. He wrote six books, never translated into English, on four related themes: the press, propaganda, politics, and persecution. Baschwitz independently developed concepts that are now seen as key to communication science and social psychology, and the author places Baschwitz'ss ideas in the wider context of his dramatic life and times.