Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form, Ngai Sianne
Автор: Ngai Sianne Название: Our Aesthetic Categories ISBN: 0674088123 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674088122 Издательство: Harvard University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 4148.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The zany, the cute, and the interesting saturate postmodern culture, dominating the look of its art and commodities as well as our ways of speaking about the ambivalent feelings these objects often inspire. In this study Ngai offers an aesthetic theory for the hypercommodified, mass-mediated, performance-driven world of late capitalism.
Автор: Chan Jenny, Selden Mark, Pun Ngai Название: Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn, and the Lives of China`s Workers ISBN: 1642592250 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781642592252 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Цена: 5067.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
Suicides, excessive overtime, and hostility and violence on the factory floor in China. Drawing on vivid testimonies from rural migrant workers, student interns, managers and trade union staff, Dying for an iPhone is a devastating expose of two of the world's most powerful companies: Foxconn and Apple.
As the leading manufacturer of iPhones, iPads, and Kindles, and employing one million workers in China alone, Taiwanese-invested Foxconn's drive to dominate global electronics manufacturing has aligned perfectly with China's goal of becoming the world leader in technology. This book reveals the human cost of that ambition and what our demands for the newest and best technology means for workers.
Foxconn workers have repeatedly demonstrated their power to strike at key nodes of transnational production, challenge management and the Chinese state, and confront global tech behemoths. Dying for an iPhone allows us to assess the impact of global capitalism's deepening crisis on workers.'
Автор: Mike Bottery, Wong Ping-Man, George Ngai Название: Sustainable School Leadership: Portraits of Individuality ISBN: 135000524X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350005242 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 13464.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: We live in a complex age, with multiple challenges to the practice of educational leadership, and where there is widespread evidence of individuals wanting to retire early from leadership positions, and of fewer wishing to take up the role.
This highly experienced team of cross-cultural researchers combine scholarly research with over a decade of extensive empirical research using an innovative 'portrait' methodology to investigate the challenges that educational leaders on two continents currently face. The kinds of challenges described include: - the personal (e.g. being new to the job, coping with the role, approaching retirement) - the inter-personal (e.g. power relations, personal challenges with staff, parents and children) - the local (e.g. issues faced by the school in the community) - the national (e.g. government initiatives, inspection) - the global (e.g. the impact of economic forces on political and institutional management).
Sustainable School Leadership then contributes to the field of educational leadership in several ways. First, the authors bring scholarly enquiry to life by providing detailed descriptions of the challenges which individual educational leaders face in different cultures in a globalised world. Second, they show how the combined insights from individual portraits provide important and meaningful critiques of national policies and organizational functioning. Such critiques can then inform current and future leadership research by a better understanding of how links between the micro-, meso-, and macro-levels of education promote or discourage school leaders' sustainability. Finally, the authors present important cross-cultural comparisons of eastern and western approaches to educational leadership, suggesting that sustainability - or a lack of it - may have different roots in different cultures. Sustainable School Leadership is relevant to students on educational leadership and management courses, academics and researchers and school leaders.
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