Автор: Eric S. HenryНазвание: The Future Conditional: Building an English-Speaking Society in Northeast ChinaISBN: 1501754904 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501754906 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)Рейтинг: Цена: 16302.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.Описание: In The Future Conditional, Eric S. Henry brings twelve-years of expertise and research to offer a nuanced discussion of the globalization of the English language and the widespread effects it has had on Shenyang, the capital and largest city of China's northeast Liaoning Province. Adopting an ethnographic and linguistic perspective, Henry considers the personal connotations that English, has for Chinese people, beyond its role in the education system. Through research on how English is spoken, taught, and studied in China, Henry considers what the language itself means to Chinese speakers. How and why, he asks, has English become so deeply fascinating in contemporary China, simultaneously existing as a source of desire and anxiety? The answer, he suggests, is that English-speaking Chinese consider themselves distinctly separate from those who do not speak the language, the result of a cultural assumption that speaking English makes a person modern. Seeing language as a study that goes beyond the classroom, The Future Conditional assesses the emerging viewpoint that, for many citizens, speaking English in China has become a cultural need—and, more immediately, a realization of one's future.
In The Future Conditional, Eric S. Henry brings twelve-years of expertise and research to offer a nuanced discussion of the globalization of the English language and the widespread effects it has had on Shenyang, the capital and largest city of China's northeast Liaoning Province. Adopting an ethnographic and linguistic perspective, Henry considers the personal connotations that English, has for Chinese people, beyond its role in the education system. Through research on how English is spoken, taught, and studied in China, Henry considers what the language itself means to Chinese speakers. How and why, he asks, has English become so deeply fascinating in contemporary China, simultaneously existing as a source of desire and anxiety? The answer, he suggests, is that English-speaking Chinese consider themselves distinctly separate from those who do not speak the language, the result of a cultural assumption that speaking English makes a person modern.
Seeing language as a study that goes beyond the classroom, The Future Conditional assesses the emerging viewpoint that, for many citizens, speaking English in China has become a cultural need—and, more immediately, a realization of one's future.
Автор: Llorйns HildaНазвание: Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental JusticeISBN: 0295749407 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780295749402 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)Рейтинг: Цена: 3762.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.Описание: When Hurricanes Irma and Mar?a made landfall in Puerto Rico in September 2017, their destructive force further devastated an archipelago already pummeled by economic austerity, political upheaval, and environmental calamities. To navigate these multiple ongoing crises, Afro–Puerto Rican women have drawn from their cultural knowledge to engage in daily improvisations that enable their communities to survive and thrive. Their life-affirming practices, developed and passed down through generations, offer powerful modes of resistance to gendered and racialized exploitation, ecological ruination, and deepening capitalist extraction. Through solidarity, reciprocity, and an ethics of care, these women create restorative alternatives to dispossession to produce good, meaningful lives for their communities.Making Livable Worlds weaves together autobiography, ethnography, interviews, memories, and fieldwork to recast narratives that continuously erase Black Puerto Rican women as agents of social change. In doing so, Llor?ns serves as an “ethnographer of home” as she brings to life the powerful histories and testimonies of a marginalized, disavowed community that has been treated as disposable.
When Hurricanes Irma and Mar?a made landfall in Puerto Rico in September 2017, their destructive force further devastated an archipelago already pummeled by economic austerity, political upheaval, and environmental calamities. To navigate these multiple ongoing crises, Afro–Puerto Rican women have drawn from their cultural knowledge to engage in daily improvisations that enable their communities to survive and thrive. Their life-affirming practices, developed and passed down through generations, offer powerful modes of resistance to gendered and racialized exploitation, ecological ruination, and deepening capitalist extraction. Through solidarity, reciprocity, and an ethics of care, these women create restorative alternatives to dispossession to produce good, meaningful lives for their communities.
Making Livable Worlds weaves together autobiography, ethnography, interviews, memories, and fieldwork to recast narratives that continuously erase Black Puerto Rican women as agents of social change. In doing so, Llor?ns serves as an “ethnographer of home” as she brings to life the powerful histories and testimonies of a marginalized, disavowed community that has been treated as disposable.
Автор: Stephenson Max OНазвание: Building Walls and Dissolving BordersISBN: 140943835X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409438359 Издательство: Taylor&FrancisРейтинг: Цена: 22968.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.Описание: This book explores walls as the consequence of a changing web of social relationships. Whether walls are physical objects on the landscape or metaphors for difference among specific groups or communities, the writers consider them as heterotopias, powerful sites around which ways of living together are contested and transformed.
Автор: David E J RНазвание: Brown Skin, White MindsISBN: 1623962072 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781623962074 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)Рейтинг: Цена: 4990.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.Описание: Filipino Americans have a long and rich history with and within the United States, and they are currently the second largest Asian group in the country. However, very little is known about how their historical and contemporary relationship with America may shape their psychological experiences. The most insidious psychological consequence of their historical and contemporary experiences is colonial mentality or internalised oppression. Some common manifestations of this phenomenon are described below:<ul><li>Skin-whitening products are used often by Filipinos in the Philippines to make their skins lighter. Skin whitening clinics and businesses are popular in the Philippines as well. The ""beautiful"" people such as actors and other celebrities endorse these skin-whitening procedures. Children are told to stay away from the sun so they do not get ""too dark."" Many Filipinos also regard anything ""imported"" to be more special than anything ""local"" or made in the Philippines.</li><li>In the United States, many Filipino Americans make fun of ""fresh-off-the-boats"" (FOBs) or those who speak English with Filipino accents. Many Filipino Americans try to dilute their ""Filipino-ness"" by saying that they are mixed with some other races. Also, many Filipino Americans regard Filipinos in the Philippines, and pretty much everything about the Philippines, to be of ""lower class"" and those of the ""third world."" </li></ul>The historical and contemporary reasons for why Filipino -/ Americans display these attitudes, beliefs, and behaviours - often referred to as colonial mentality - are explored in Brown Skin, White Minds. This book is a peer-reviewed publication that integrates knowledge from multiple scholarly and scientific disciplines to identify the past and current catalysts for such self-denigrating attitudes and behaviours. It takes the reader from indigenous Tao culture, Spanish and American colonialism, colonial mentality or internalized oppression along with its implications on Kapwa, identity, and mental health, to decolonization in the clinical, community, and research settings.<br><br>This book is intended for the entire community - teachers, researchers, students, and service providers interested in or who are working with Filipinos and Filipino Americans, or those who are interested in the psychological consequences of colonialism and oppression. This book may serve as a tool for remembering the past and as a tool for awakening to address the present.
Автор: Eric S. HenryНазвание: The Future Conditional: Building an English-Speaking Society in Northeast ChinaISBN: 1501755161 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501755163 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)Рейтинг: Цена: 3881.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.Описание: In The Future Conditional, Eric S. Henry brings twelve-years of expertise and research to offer a nuanced discussion of the globalization of the English language and the widespread effects it has had on Shenyang, the capital and largest city of China's northeast Liaoning Province. Adopting an ethnographic and linguistic perspective, Henry considers the personal connotations that English, has for Chinese people, beyond its role in the education system. Through research on how English is spoken, taught, and studied in China, Henry considers what the language itself means to Chinese speakers. How and why, he asks, has English become so deeply fascinating in contemporary China, simultaneously existing as a source of desire and anxiety? The answer, he suggests, is that English-speaking Chinese consider themselves distinctly separate from those who do not speak the language, the result of a cultural assumption that speaking English makes a person modern. Seeing language as a study that goes beyond the classroom, The Future Conditional assesses the emerging viewpoint that, for many citizens, speaking English in China has become a cultural need—and, more immediately, a realization of one's future.
Автор: Catherine KingfisherНазвание: Collaborative Happiness: Building the Good Life in Urban Cohousing CommunitiesISBN: 1800732392 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781800732391 Издательство: BerghahnРейтинг: Цена: 16988.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.Описание: Understudied relative to other forms of intentional community, and under-recognized in policy-making circles, urban cohousing communities situate wellbeing as simultaneously social and subjective, while catering for groups of people so diverse in age. Collaborative Happiness looks at two such urban cohousing communities: Kankanmori, in Tokyo; and Quayside Village, in Vancouver. In expanding beyond mainstream approaches to happiness focused exclusively on the individual, Quayside Village and Kankanmori provide an alternative model for how to understand and practice the good life in an increasingly urbanized world marked by crisis of both social and environmental sustainability.
Understudied relative to other forms of intentional community, and under-recognized in policy-making circles, urban cohousing communities situate wellbeing as simultaneously social and subjective, while catering for groups of people so diverse in age. Collaborative Happiness looks at two such urban cohousing communities: Kankanmori, in Tokyo; and Quayside Village, in Vancouver. In expanding beyond mainstream approaches to happiness focused exclusively on the individual, Quayside Village and Kankanmori provide an alternative model for how to understand and practice the good life in an increasingly urbanized world marked by crisis of both social and environmental sustainability.
Автор: Hornsby-Gutting AngelaНазвание: Black Manhood and Community Building in North Carolina, 1900?1930ISBN: 0813036798 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813036793 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)Рейтинг: Цена: 3505.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.Описание: Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Report is a major annual publication of the Trade and Investment Division of United Nations ESCAP. It provides information on and independent analyses of trends and developments in intra- and inter-regional trade in goods and services; foreign direct investment; trade facilitation measures; trade policy measures; and preferential trade policies and agreements.
Автор: Maisel SebastianНазвание: Yezidis in Syria: Identity Building among a Double MinorityISBN: 1498549802 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498549806 Издательство: BloomsburyРейтинг: Цена: 5346.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.Описание: This book highlights the complicated diversity of Syria`s ethnic and religious fragmentation on the basis of the identity building process among the Yezidis, the lowest in the country`s socio-economic and political hierarchy.
Автор: Delgado Joгo M. P. Q.Название: New Approaches to Building Pathology and DurabilityISBN: 9811092184 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789811092183 Издательство: SpringerРейтинг: Цена: 20962.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.Описание: This book presents a collectionof recent research works intended to assist in theeffective management of service loss. It develops and evaluates methodologiesfor the assessment of defects and failures, and proposes methodologies forpreventing and mitigating building defects.
Автор: Kareem RabieНазвание: Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West BankISBN: 1478014091 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781478014096 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)Рейтинг: Цена: 3505.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.Описание: In 2008, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad invited international investors to the first-ever Palestine Investment Conference, which was designed to jump-start the process of integrating Palestine into the global economy. As Fayyad described the conference, Palestine is “throwing a party, and the whole world is invited.” In this book Kareem Rabie examines how the conference and Fayyad's rhetoric represented a wider shift in economic and political practice in ways that oriented state-scale Palestinian politics toward neoliberal globalization rather than a diplomatic two-state solution. Rabie demonstrates that private firms, international aid organizations, and the Palestinian government in the West Bank focused on large-scale private housing development in an effort toward state-scale economic stability and market building. This approach reflected the belief that a thriving private economy would lead to a free and functioning Palestinian state. Yet, as Rabie contends, these investment-based policies have maintained the status quo of occupation and Palestine's subordinate and suspended political and economic relationship with Israel.
Автор: Carlisle Steven GrantНазвание: Narrative Practice and Cultural Change: Building Worlds with Karma, Ghosts, and Capitalist Invaders in ThailandISBN: 3030495507 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030495503 Издательство: SpringerРейтинг: Цена: 6986.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.Описание: This book presents a unique approach to person-centered anthropology, providing a new form of practice theory that incorporates and explains sources of cultural change.
Автор: Margaret MagatНазвание: Balut: Fertilized Eggs and the Making of Culinary Capital in the Filipino DiasporaISBN: 1350257966 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350257962 Издательство: Bloomsbury AcademicРейтинг: Цена: 5067.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.Описание: In this book, Margaret Magat explores both the traditional and popular culture contexts of eating balut. Balut—fertilized duck or chicken eggs that have developed into fully formed embryos with feathers and beaks—is a delicacy which elicits passionate responses. Hailed as an aphrodisiac in Filipino culture, balut is often seen and used as an object of revulsion in Western popular culture. Drawing on interviews, participant observation, reality television programs, travel shows, food blogs, and balut-eating contests, Magat examines balut production and consumption, its role in drinking rituals, sex, and also the vampire-like legends behind it. Balut reveals how traditional foods are used in the performance of identity and ethnicity, inspiring a virtual online cottage industry via social media. It also looks at the impact globalization and migration are having on cultural practices and food consumption across the world. The first academic book on balut, this is essential reading for anyone in food studies, folklore studies, anthropology, and Asian American studies.
