The Aesthetics and Politics of Cinematic Pedestrianism: Walking in Films offers a rich exploration of the cinematic aesthetics that filmmakers devised to reflect the corporeal and affective experience of walking in the city.
Sino-American Relations brings together high-quality research articles in order to examine one aspect of the political mechanism of modern China, from empire to the PRC: political initiatives to root out corruption.
During the 24-year Indonesian occupation of East Timor, thousands of people died, or were killed, in circumstances that did not allow the required death rituals to be performed.
This Handbook focuses on Japan's public administration and bureaucracy at its national level, and the effects of national politics on administrative decision-making and outcomes.
At the heart of modern Japan there remains an intractable and divisive social problem with its roots in pre-history, namely the ongoing social discrimination against the Dowa communities, otherwise known as Buraku.
The two most recent EU enlargements in May 2004 and in January 2007 have greatly increased the diversity of historic experiences and contemporary conceptions of statehood, nation-building and citizenship within the Union.
Drawing on the corporate and national archives of the former Czechoslovakia, this important volume contributes to the debate on the circulation of technical and organisational knowledge in twentieth-century Europe.
Based on the author's extensive fieldwork among the Akha people prior to full nation-state integration, this illuminating study critically re-examines assumptions about space, power, and the politics of identity, so often based on modern, western contexts.
This collection of essays explores the development of electronic sound recording in Japanese cinema, radio, and popular music to illuminate the interrelationship of aesthetics, technology, and cultural modernity in prewar Japan.
This book explores the historical and contemporary processes that have made and remade Mongolia as it is today: the construction of ethnic and national cultures, the transformations of political economy and a 'nomadic' pastoralism, and the revitalization of a religious and cosmological heritage that has led to new forms of post-socialist politics.
This book examines how the Netherlands managed to create and maintain one of the world's most generous and inclusive welfare systems despite having been dominated by Christian-democratic or conservative, rather than socialist dominated governments, for most of the post-war period.
Long before China promulgated the official One Belt One Road initiatives, vast networks of cross-border exchanges already existed across Asia and Eurasia.
Here is a new, challenging appraisal of Norway, the author's country of birth, that redefines its history, culture and heritage - 'after Ibsen' - and looks, with a degree of ominous foreboding, at its future and the future of Europe.
Visual Culture of Post-Industrial Europe investigates visual cultural projects in Europe from the 1970s onwards in response to industrial closures, resultant unemployment, diminished social services and shattered identities.
Monstrous Beings and Media Cultures examines the monsters and sinister creatures that spawn from folk horror, Gothic fiction, and from various sectors of media cultures.
Dante's Gluttons: Food and Society from the Convivio to the Comedy explores how the medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) uses food to express and condition the social, political, and cultural values of his time.
Film, like the printed imagery inaugurated during the Renaissance, spread ideas - not least the idea of the power of visual art - across not only geographical and political divides but also strata of class and gender.
Figuring Faith and Female Power in the Art of Rubens argues that the Baroque painter, propagandist, and diplomat, Peter Paul Rubens, was not only aware of rapidly shifting religious and cultural attitudes toward women, but actively engaged in shaping them.
Anthropologist Dr Ad Borsboom, chair of Pacific Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, devoted his academic career from 1972 onwards to the transmission of cultural knowledge.
During the 24-year Indonesian occupation of East Timor, thousands of people died, or were killed, in circumstances that did not allow the required death rituals to be performed.
Die qualitative Studie untersucht Wahrnehmungen und Erfahrungen von Religionslehrkraften mit un-/sichtbaren Behinderungen, hinterfragt gesellschaftliche Behinderungsbilder und analysiert die ihnen zugrunde liegenden Denk- und Handlungsstrukturen.
This ethnography explores how Balinese citizens produce postcolonial intimacy-a complex interaction of claims to proximity and mutuality between themselves and the Dutch under colonialism that continues today.
Die qualitative Studie untersucht Wahrnehmungen und Erfahrungen von Religionslehrkraften mit un-/sichtbaren Behinderungen, hinterfragt gesellschaftliche Behinderungsbilder und analysiert die ihnen zugrunde liegenden Denk- und Handlungsstrukturen.
Die uralte Kraft der Gottinnen ist in Indien lebendig wie kaum anderswo - in prachtigen Festen, geheimnisvollen Ritualen und einer Spiritualitat, die Korper, Geist und Seele beruhrt.
It Began in Den Helder by Gurubesar Lancar Ida-Bagus is an uncompromising and deeply personal indictment of the often-hidden forms of discrimination, social inequality, and mental enslavement in Den Helder and its surroundings.
Explorer les politiques publiques du sport, c'est d'abord parler des valeurs autour desquelles le sport s'est construit et perpetue, et qui permettent de former societe.
This book analyzes the development of Jewish positions on the relationship between Church and State from the Revolution until the Great War It is a comprehensive study of the complex interplay among different segments of the Jewish population and the communitys attempt to come to terms with its social and religious status in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Noch immer werden Frauen, die sich in extremistischen Bewegungen engagieren, von der Forschung und Offentlichkeit kaum beachtet oder medial einseitig als "e;Terror-Braute"e; oder "e;Flinten-Weiber"e; dargestellt.
Noch immer werden Frauen, die sich in extremistischen Bewegungen engagieren, von der Forschung und Offentlichkeit kaum beachtet oder medial einseitig als "e;Terror-Braute"e; oder "e;Flinten-Weiber"e; dargestellt.
Seit Jahrtausenden faszinieren sie die Menschheit: die Nagas - geheimnisvolle Schlangenwesen, die in Mythen und Legenden als Huter des Wassers, Beschutzer der Schatze und gottliche Ahnen von Konigen erscheinen.
The book "e;Mastering Problem-Based Learning: Principles, Procedures, and Best Practices"e; is a collective and collaborative work by ten PBL experts who possess an insightful understanding of PBL, extensive experience, and a successful track record, particularly in medical and health education.
Fuball und Judisches Leben: Geschichten von Solidaritat und HerausforderungJudische Menschen sind ein aktiver Teil der deutschen Gesellschaft, auch im Fu ball: auf den Rangen und auf den Platzen.
