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This book makes a relevant contribution to a Marxist critical explanation of social conflicts, social movements and protests. There is abundant literature on social conflict and social movements from Marxist perspectives. However, rigorous criticism, both theoretical and methodological, is scarce. The objective of this volume is the collection of works developing a critical reflection on the categories of theories about contentious collective action and social movements from a Marxist perspectiv...

This book investigates the impact of internet use on anti-government protesting under authoritarian rule. By breaking up the causal chain into various steps, it provides a thorough and nuanced understanding of internet's role in different stages of the mobilization process. It argues that the impact of internet use on anti-governmental protesting differs per step in the 'mobilization chain', and also that the effect depends on both the on- and offline repression of the regime, as well as on the...

During the past thirty years, the study of medieval families has emerged as a focus of discussion in European history. Largely unexplored in professional publications and teaching curricula until the 1970s, family history is now accepted as an aspect of medieval history essential to the development of the period's institutions and culture, and a field useful to comparative family studies. The present volume brings together essays by historians, art historians, and literary scholars about the st...

Die Arbeit widmet sich der Verknupfung sozialwissenschaftlicher Umweltbewusstseins- und soziologischer Lebensstilforschung in der Absicht, systematisch definitive Merkmale und charakteristische Muster eines umweltgerechten Verbraucherverhaltens bzw. von oekologischen Lebensstilen herauszuarbeiten. Im Rahmen einer Sekundaranalyse werden empirische oekologierelevante Lebensstiltypen auf einer metakategorialen Ebene einem utilitaren und einem suffizienzorientierten Lebensstilpol zugeordnet. Abschli...

Exploring the streets of London, Manchester, Belfast, Edinburgh or Cardiff, one cannot help but notice the striking transformations taking place in the urban landscapes. This prominent regeneration of urban areas in the UK and around the world has become an increasingly important issue amongst governments and populations. The growing concern has been a result of the impacts of the decline of cities since the collapse of manufacturing industries and the heightening of global competition. A range...

The Victorians were fascinated with intersections between different races. Whether in sexual or domestic partnerships, in interracial children, racially diverse communities or societies, these 'racial crossings' were a lasting Victorian concern. But in an era of imperial expansion, when slavery was abolished, colonial wars were fought, and Britain itself was reformed, these concerns were more than academic. In both the British empire and imperial Britain, racial crossings shaped what people thou...

Rather than interpreting the Olympics as primarily a sporting event of international or national significance, this book understands the Games as a civic project for the host city that serves as a catalyst for a variety of urban interests over a period of many years from the bidding phase through the event itself. Traditional Olympic studies have tended to examine the Games from an outsider's perspective or as something experienced through the print media or television. In contrast, the focus pr...

The individualism and restless mobility of modernity have become disorienting and frightening. Our nostalgia for premodern times, when natural bonds to kith and kin were unshakable, continues to surface - most recently in the popular phenomenon of support groups. "On Community" examines this philosophical issue of community for the postmodern mind by presenting 13 original essays by specialists currently working on this problem. The first four essays, by Eliot Deutsch, R.W. Hepburn, Hilary Putna...

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A clear-eyed warning about the increasingly destructive influence of America’s “shame industrial complex” in the age of social media and hyperpartisan politics—from the New York Times bestselling author of Weapons of Math Destruction “O’Neil reminds us that we must resist the urge to judge, belittle, and oversimplify, and instead allow always for complexity and lead always with empathy.”—Dave Eggers, author of The Every Shame is a powerful and sometimes useful...

Geographies of the Imagination was designed and created with nine Chilean political exiles living in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. This ethnography presents and analyzes the creation of a collaborative artwork, its exhibition, and its viewing as dynamic and performative sites for the creation of the exiles’ memories and reflections on migration, exile and identity.

This Brief addresses the causes, assessment, and treatment of ADHD in Lebanese schoolchildren. It details how the disorder is currently defined in Lebanese elementary schools and examines schoolteachers’ understanding of and conceptions about ADHD across three domains: general knowledge; symptoms and diagnosis; and treatment. This concise volume presents the authors’ research into Lebanese schoolteachers’ knowledge of ADHD and their ability and readiness to address the psychological and academic...