In Reclaiming the Discarded Kathleen M. Millar offers an evocative ethnography of Jardim Gramacho, a sprawling garbage dump on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, where roughly two thousand self-employed workers known as catadores collect recyclable materials. While the figure of the scavenger sifting through garbage seems iconic of wageless life today, Millar shows how the work of reclaiming recyclables is more than a survival strategy or an informal labor practice. Rather, the stories of catadore...
Trustbuilding
The national director of Initiatives of Change and founder of Hope in the Cities, Rob Corcoran has been involved in promoting dialogue and conflict reconciliation among diverse and polarized racial, ethnic, and religious groups in an array of locales in Europe, South Africa, India, and the United States for over thirty years. ""Trustbuilding"" is part historical narrative and part handbook for a model of dialogue and community change that has been adopted both nationally and internationally. At...
Das Orientbild in Der Deutschsprachigen Reiseliteratur Des 20. Und 21. Jahrhunderts (Kultur - Literatur - Medien, #4)
by Karolina Rapp
Die Autorin beschaftigt sich mit den einschneidenden - traumatisierenden wie faszinierenden - Stationen der Kulturbegegnung von Ost und West. Sie untersucht die vielschichtigen Facetten des Orients als einerseits rein diskursiven, andererseits geografisch und historisch realen, wenngleich imaginar uberfrachteten Topos. Die Analyse des mythischen und modernen Orientbildes in der deutschsprachigen Reiseliteratur ist eine Ruckbesinnung auf die Fahigkeit der westlichen wie der oestlichen Kultur, Off...
Critical Vices (Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture)
by Nicholas Zurbrugg and Warren Burt
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Five Hundred Years of Chicano History in Pictures
Political institutions and practices such as the state, parliament, citizenship and nationality, the vote, the military, and the making and implementation of laws have traditionally been treated as if they were un-gendered and guided exclusively by objective reasoning and rationality. Rationality and reason, though, have been habitually ascribed to masculinity, a fact which has often been ignored in favour of the apparent gender-inclusiveness of the realm of politics.In contrast to this view, th...
Der expansive Todestrieb. Selbstzerstoerung und Attentat unter kulturwissenschaftlicher Betrachtung
by Rea Ost
River of Tears is the first ethnography of Brazilian country music, one of the most popular genres in Brazil yet least-known outside it. Beginning in the mid-1980s, commercial musical duos practicing musica sertaneja reached beyond their home in Brazil's central-southern region to become national bestsellers. Rodeo events revolving around country music came to rival soccer matches in attendance. A revival of folkloric rural music called musica caipira, heralded as musica sertaneja's ancestor, al...
Calculating the Social
Examining the increasingly powerful role of standards in the governing of economic, political and social life, this book draws upon governmentality and actor network theory to explore how standards and standardizing projects are articulated and rendered workable in practice, and the objects, subjects and forms of identity to which this gives rise.
Translating Cultures: An Introduction for Translators, Interpreters and Mediators
Die Urkunde der Stadtrechtsverleihung vom 22. März 1315 und ihre Parallelen zum Prümer Urbar
by Thomas Dunzweiler
Continuity of Norwegian Tradition in the Pacific Northwest
by Henning K. Sehmsdorf
Der Band stellt einerseits Vorgeschichte, Verlauf und Auswirkungen eines der spektakulärsten Zusammenbrüche eines Versicherungskonzerns im 20. Jahrhundert dar und bietet darüber hinaus eine am Beispiel demonstrierte, systematische Analyse der Verflechtung von Misswirtschaft mit Medien, Staat und Gesellschaft. Die Phönix Lebensversicherung, mit Sitz in Wien und Kunden in 22 Ländern, wurde im Jahr 1936 zahlungsunfähig. Sie hatte riesige Verluste aufgetürmt, Bilanzen gefälscht und Schlüsselperson...