Based on studying political systems and the news industry, this book examines the tension between the hierarchical configurations of racial discrimination and the ideals of equality found in Western democracy to explore how and why the reality of racism persists in modern-day democratic societies.
Girls' Media in the Women's Liberation Era is a critical analysis and cultural history of popular girls' media narratives produced in the United States between 1968 and 1980-the era of the second-wave feminist movement-and girls' responses to those narratives.
From leading abolitionist organizers, a much-needed intervention arguing that the systems that purport to protect children make them-and our communities-less safe.
Por su calidad intelectual y academica este libro fue galardonado con el Premio Iberoamericano de la Latin American Studies Association (LASA), que se entrega anualmente a la mejor publicacion sobre Latinoamerica en el area de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades.
South Africa's Gen Z is currently navigating a dynamic landscape of social, cultural, and political change, balancing issues of identity, belonging, and connecting in a diverse world.
Este libro presenta estudios paradigmaticos sobre los pueblos kolla, omaguaca, aymara, guarani, diaguita, calchaqui, toba-qom y mapuche, que habitan en la Argentina en comunidades rurales o bien como originarios urbanos en la metropoli de Buenos Aires y las comunidades originarias de Chiapas (Mexico).
During the last twenty years, voices from the First Nations have become louder, expressing their own solutions to problems that have plagued their communities since contact with the Europeans.
El libro que tiene entre sus manos brinda diversas aproximaciones sobre la riqueza pluricultural que se manifiesta en las cocinas y culturas alimentarias que dan cuenta de este complejo sistema de relaciones e influencias filipinas, afrodescendientes e indigenas, entre muchas otras, con particular atencion en Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Espana y Mexico.
Ominous Homelands in World Cinema examines contemporary films from a range of national settings that expose and critically engage with representations of "e;Homeland"e; - a term that resurfaced with renewed intensity in the United States through the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security after 9/11 and gained traction across Europe, contributing to the formation of new securitarian configurations whose impact has resonated globally.
The De Gruyter Handbook on Law and Digital Technologies provides a comprehensive, accessible and thought-provoking guide to the current and future regulation of digital technologies.
In the early twenty-first century, white-owned farms in Zimbabwe were subject to large-scale occupations by black urban dwellers in an increasingly violent struggle between national electoral politics, land reform, and contestations over democracy.
Aufklärung – inzwischen postmodern überholt und damit Geschichte geworden oder womöglich sogar ein zivilisatorischer Irrweg, der zu kritischer Bestreitung und mehr oder weniger radikaler Umkehr Anlass gibt?
Networks of Belonging examines how digitally networked communication technologies create spaces of belonging for people of refugee and migrant backgrounds in resettlement contexts, focusing on Australia.
Miskwabik, Metal of Ritual examines the thousands of beautiful and intricate ritual works of art-from ceremonial weaponry to delicate copper pendants and ear ornaments-created in eastern North America before the arrival of Europeans.
