peter lang apr 2023 (128 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In the second edition of Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism, Henry A. Giroux uses the metaphor of the zombie to highlight how America has embraced a machinery of social and civil death that chills any vestige of a robust democracy. He charts the various ways in which the political, corporate, and intellectual zombies that rule America embrace death-dealing institutions such as a bloated military, the punishing state, a form of predatory capitalism, and an authoritarian, death-driven set of policies that sanction torture, targeted assassinations, and a permanent war psychology. The author argues that government and corporate paranoia runs deep in America. While maintaining a massive security state, the ruling forces promote the internalization of their ideology, modes of governance, and policies by either seducing citizens with the decadent pleasures of a celebrity-loving consumer culture or by beating them into submission. Giroux calls for a systemic alternative to zombie capitalism through a political and pedagogical imperative to address and inform a new cultural vision, mode of individual subjectivity, and understanding of critical agency. As part of a larger effort to build a broad-based social movement, he argues for a new political language capable of placing education at the center of politics. Connecting the language of critique to the discourse of educated hope he calls for the reclaiming of public spaces and institutions where formative cultures can flourish that nourish the radical imagination, and the ongoing search for justice, equality, and the promise of a democracy to come.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 230 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Written by a professor of clinical psychology, this book is accessible to thoughtful readers interested in the relation between spirituality and mental disorders. It comprises two main parts: The first part tells the story of how a psychologist-cum-patient performs a self-study of 'madness' in great detail. It belongs to the long tradition of ideographic studies that attend to the uniqueness of each individual.The author says: 'During episodes, manic symptoms are manifest. Yet, I become more colorful, sensitive, generous, and loving. I see beauty everywhere and delight in the simple things of life. I glimpse into mystical magnanimity. All these inform me that my quest for spirituality is wedded to madness. Now, I can bear testimony that on balance the creative energy of madness may enrich rather than damage one¿s life. It is possible to retain a measure of madness in dignified living and of dignity even in a state of madness.'Adhering to the nomothetic tradition of knowledge generation, the second part gives extensive coverage to various aspects of mental disorders from a scientific perspective, including the ethical, political, and sociocultural contexts in which mental disorders occur. It resolves apparent contradictions between dualities, such as normality and abnormality, individualism and collectivism, and Eastern and Western values.In the end, the reader may learn that it is possible to harness the creative energy of madness to enrich one¿s spiritual life¿a topic that can hardly be found in psychiatric texts.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 446 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Updated with both a new introduction and a series of interviews, the second edition of Education and the Crisis of Public Values examines American society¿s shift away from democratic public values, the ensuing move toward a market-driven mode of education, and the last decade¿s growing social disinvestment in youth. The book discusses the number of ways that the ideal of public education as a democratic public sphere has been under siege, including full-fledged attacks by corporate interests on public school teachers, schools of education, and teacher unions. It also reveals how a business culture cloaked in the guise of generosity and reform has supported a charter school movement that aims to dismantle public schools in favor of a corporate-friendly privatized system. The book encourages educators to become public intellectuals, willing to engage in creating a formative culture of learning that can nurture the ability to defend public and higher education as a general good ¿ one crucial to sustaining a critical citizenry and a democratic society.Peter Lang Group AG Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaft, Place de la gare 12, 1003 LAUSANNE 218 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Weaving together a diverse range of scholarly-activist intersectional voices from around the world, Critical Animal Studies and Activism: International Perspectives on Total Liberation and Intersectionality co-edited by Anthony J. Nocella II and Richard J. White makes a powerful contribution to knowledge and understanding. It is essential reading for environmentalists, animal advocates, social justice organizers, policy-makers, social change-makers, and indeed for all those who care about the future of this planet. This book spans many scholar disciplines and activist social movements, and provides new insights to fundamental debates surrounding inter-species justice, liberation, and democracy. This critical theory for total liberation book expands the understanding of one struggle one fight: for human freedom, for animal rights, and for the liberation of the earth herself. Rooted in a radical praxis, the book argues that those in academia that claim critical animal studies, need to hit the streets with the protesters and the protesters need to join the theoretical conversations. Theory and practice and not binaries, but two pieces of a larger goal. Read this book and use its arguments to take the fight to smash capitalism, oppression, and domination in all its forms!Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 198 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -What does it mean to be white in a society that proclaims race meaningless, yet is deeply divided by race In the face of pervasive racial inequality and segregation, most white people cannot answer that question. In the second edition of this seminal text, Robin DiAngelo reveals the factors that make this question so difficult: mis-education about what racism is; ideologies such as individualism and colorblindness; segregation; and the belief that to be complicit in racism is to be an immoral person. These factors contribute to what she terms white racial illiteracy. Speaking as a white person to other white people, DiAngelo clearly and compellingly takes readers through an analysis of white socialization. Weaving research, analysis, stories, images, and familiar examples, she provides the framework needed to develop white racial literacy. She describes how race shapes the lives of white people, explains what makes racism so hard to see, identifies common white racial patterns, and speaks back to popular narratives that work to deny racism. Written as an accessible overview on white identity from an anti-racist framework, What Does It Mean to Be White is an invaluable resource for members of diversity and anti-racism programs and study groups, and students of sociology, psychology, education, and other disciplines. This revised edition features two new chapters, including one on DiAngelös influential concept of white fragility. Written to be accessible both within and without academia, this revised edition also features discussion questions, an index, and a glossary.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 380 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -A Hundred Thousand Orphans vividly documents the war and orphanage environments experienced by thousands of traumatized Eritrean children and the long-term consequences their unique education¿largely the egalitarian values inherent to the Eritrean culture¿has on their ability to socially integrate into society as adults. Dr. Wolff applies his expertise as a psychiatrist and authority on child development to evaluate the effects of war and orphanage conditions on the development of Eritreäs war orphans. In this insightful account, he documents the growth of these orphans over a thirty-year period, providing one of the most in-depth accounts of the effect war and conflict have on children. Dr. Wolff presents a strategy that successfully integrated hundreds of orphans into post-war society and provides it as a model for giving traumatized children hope for recovery and an opportunity to overcome destructive circumstances to heal. This is a framework that will have applications around the world in diverse situations concerning childhood development and trauma.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 214 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Do African American lives matter to the nation¿s press And if they do, how does the press demonstrate this These are the driving questions of this book, for which the author employed content analysis of eight U.S. newspapers with national or statewide readership to explore their coverage of the Black Lives Matter movement. More specifically the research examines how these newspapers covered police beatings and slayings of unarmed African Americans, beginning with the brutal beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police in 1991, through the killings of these citizens after that, taking in victims that include the 1995 beating and ensuing death of Jonny Gammage at the hands of police in suburban Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the 2014 slaying of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and ending with the 2020 slaying of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota. These narratives took in far more than the fatal incidents. They included local and national protests, some of them violent; political fallout from presidents and senators to governors and mayors; funeral services that drew local and national civil-rights leaders and religious figures; and neighborhoods impacted and residents¿ lives upended ¿ all reported in varying degrees of depth and focus by the local and national newspapers.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 316 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -A troubling development of the brutal century recently passed has been the growing use of children for war. World War I became the first 'total war' of modern times. To engage in war on immense scale authorities believed everyone must participate. That included children. Relentless campaigns of propaganda in both world wars focused special attention on kids. The immense scope of total war grew to dominate children¿s lives, their daily existence militarized by a world preoccupied by conflict.But we have often ignored wartime contributions of children. What were they expected to do How were they persuaded to do it How did it contribute to the war In what ways did it affect their lives What did they think about that This history attempts to respond by examining activities of home-front children in the United States during both world wars.This revised edition considers recent research to extend the discussion of children¿s experiences in war. It includes an examination of comic books, considers fitness standards, and discusses Boy Scouts and other groups for children. It also moves the work beyond the United States to consider activities of children in twenty-first century wars, as observers and, tragically, as participants.This fully referenced text is of interest to students of war and childhood. But, it is also written for a general audience interested in how children respond to war. Many Americans experienced war as children, and many others have parents who did. This book is also for them.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 336 pp. Englisch.

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The present book represents an interesting dialogue between two worlds ¿ the world of psychology in the Islamic context, also called Islamic psychology, and the findings of the Western psychology ¿ of which integration is important. In this first volume of the book series the contributions of the Islamic Psychology and biopsychologicalbasics in Education and life are drawn from the presentations of scholars and practitioners who gathered in 2018 for an International BIONET Conference at the Islamic University of Indonesia in Yogyakarta, along with participants from many Countries of the so called western and Islamic world. There they led a dialogue in psychology, spirituality, biocentric-oriented, which means life-oriented, science and art. During this conference these fields were scientifically discussed and practically experienced in an interdisciplinary and integrative way. This is the basic idea of Biocentric Science and BIONET ¿ a meeting of people who can experience spiritual approaches, art and make and exchange knowlegde about their scientific studies about it.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 256 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -«Pedagogy of Insurrection» by Peter McLaren has won the American Educational Research Association, Division B Outstanding Book Recognition Award 2016.Peter McLaren, named Outstanding Educator in America by the Association of Educators of Latin America and the Caribbean in 2013 and winner of numerous awards for his scholarship and international political activism, has penned another classic work with Pedagogy of Insurrection. One of the educators that Ana Maria (Nita) Araújo Freire credits as an architect of what has come to be known worldwide as critical pedagogy, and who Paulo Freire named his ¿intellectual cousin,¿ McLaren has consistently produced iconoclastic work that has been heralded by educators worldwide as among some of the most significant commentary on the state of education. He is Honorary President of the Instituto McLaren de Pedagogía Crítica y Educación Popular in Ensenada, México, and Honorary Director of the Center for Critical Pedagogy Research at Northeast Normal University in China.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 496 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book concerns the border area between philosophy and social sciences. To explain the status of social sciences, not only cognitive involvement of theory is necessary, but also ontic. Hence epistemology and ontology need to be combined in meta-reflection on knowledge about society. Hence my proposition is social onto-epistemology. 188 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -«This labour of love is everything a critical biography should be: informative, gossipy, admiring and more than capable of restoring Sharp¿s reputation, giving him his rightful place in both Scottish literature and Scottish screen writing history. »(Carl MacDougall, writer and former President of Scottish PEN)«If Alan Sharp¿s career was a unique one within modern Scottish culture, it has proved an underexplored one within modern Scottish Cultural Studies. 'The Anti-herös Journey' remedies that collective oversight by making a compelling and critically informed case for both the individual singularity and international significance of Sharp¿s creative voice.»(Jonathan Murray, Senior Lecturer in Film and Visual Culture, Edinburgh College of Art)Alan Sharp was Scotland¿s greatest screenwriter and one of its most important transnational writers. The adopted son of a Greenock shipyard worker, he became a bestselling novelist, a leading playwright, a record-breaking Hollywood screenwriter and the central figure of a new Scottish national film industry. Today, however, his books, television plays and screenplays are forgotten.This study seeks to restore his work to the prominence it deserves. Including previously unknown work available only now in the Alan Sharp papers collection in the University of Dundee Archive, it traces the life¿s work of a man who made a unique contribution to Scottish culture and considers his themes, especially his awareness of landscape and his use of the ambivalent male protagonist, the anti-hero.Working in exile but consistently «coming back» to his homeland, Sharp wrote from a point of view which allowed him to love Scottish culture without having to pamper it and gave him the detachment to connect it with others. «The Anti-herös Journey» seeks to reposition him as a vital component of Scottish cultural studies from the 1960s into the twenty-first century and proposes that he should be re-evaluated as a major contributor to contemporary transnational Scottish cultural history.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 390 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Giorgio Manganelli (1922-1990), one of Italy¿s most radical and original writers, went further than most in exploring the creative possibilities of hybrid genres and open forms. Ostentation, theatricality, and a love of drapery and verbal excess are defining features of his body of work, which ranges from prose fiction, literary criticism, and drama to travel writing, treatises, commentaries, and imaginary interviews.This study examines the wealth of Manganelli¿s imagination ¿ his grotesque animals, speaking corpses, and melancholy spectres ¿ and argues that his spectacular eloquence was shaped by an exceptional awareness of literary and philosophical models. Following Manganelli¿s lead, the author addresses issues such as the boundaries of meaningful language, the relationship between literary and visual texts, fantasy and realism, and the power of literature to express the apprehensions and intimations of human consciousness.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 258 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Les sociétés occidentales contemporaines sont marquées du sceau du « jeunisme » et de l¿obsolescence rapide des innovations. Mais, à trop se focaliser sur la nouveauté, ne se prive-t-on pas de tirer des enseignements du passé Le passé n¿a-t-il, pour le dire autrement, aucune valeur pour penser notre présent et, plus encore, notre futur Quelles sont les ramifications qui permettent des innovations plus responsables en lien avec des besoins réels Ainsi est posée la question de la contribution de l¿histoire des techniques au développement de connaissances sur le processus d¿innovation. Quels sont les concepts clés et les principaux apports de l¿histoire des techniques à l¿innovation Comment l¿histoire des techniques peut-elle nous aider à imaginer le futur L¿enjeu de ce livre n¿est pas de retourner vers un passé. Il s¿agit d¿apprécier la portée heuristique de l¿histoire des techniques et des biographies d¿innovations pour imaginer des concepts innovants à même d'apporter des réponses inédites aux grands défis du monde contemporain. Les auteurs traitent des exemples issus de secteurs industriels variés. Invité à découvrir les innovations techniques de l'entreprise de Marc Seguin, le lecteur découvrira ainsi l'histoire du four micro-onde en France, en passant par celle du Shock Absorber de SEB ou plus près de nous du vaccin anti-covid de Sanofi.Ce livre s'adresse aux chercheurs de toutes disciplines, intéressés par la valorization de leurs travaux, aux ingénieurs de R&D qui lancent des projets innovants. Il se destine aussi à un public plus large intéressé par la naissance et la diffusion des innovations.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 230 pp. Französisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Human ratings are subject to various forms of error and bias. Since the early days of performance assessment, this problem has been sizeable and persistent. For example, expert raters evaluating the quality of an essay, an oral communication, or a work sample, often come up with different ratings for the very same performance. In cases like this, assessment outcomes largely depend upon which raters happen to provide the rating, posing a threat to the validity and fairness of the assessment. This book provides an introduction to a psychometric approach that establishes a coherent framework for drawing reliable, valid, and fair inferences from rater-mediated assessments, thus answering the problem of inevitably fallible human ratings: many-facet Rasch measurement (MFRM). Throughout the book, sample data taken from a writing performance assessment are used to illustrate key concepts, theoretical foundations, and analytic procedures, stimulating the readers to adopt the MFRM approach in their current or future professional context.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 242 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The Philosophical Transactions and the letters preserved in the Royal Society¿s archives provide precious insights into the making of science and the workings of the Republic of Letters in the early and late modern periods. This book investigates the Royal Society¿s relations with Italy through a socio-historical and critical linguistic analysis of the papers concerning Italian research published in the Transactions and of the epistolary exchanges between the Society¿s Fellows and Italian scholars. The aim, from the linguistic perspective, is to describe the features and development of papers based on Italian research published in the journal, as well as the discursive aspects that characterise the exchanges between the two countries. Ultimately, from the historical and cultural point of view, the study will provide a picture of the development of Anglo-Italian relations in scientific context from the seventeenth to the end of the nineteenth century. 318 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The stories of migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe have made the headlines in the news over the last twenty years. How have these human itineraries been represented in contemporary culture This book considers the migrant¿s story as portrayed in literature, cinema, museums and festivals in Italy and France, in order to explore the widespread ethical complexities related to agency and advocacy. While typically produced in support of migrant communities, these narratives often confine the experience of displaced individuals within a Eurocentric, humanitarian discourse that is difficult to overcome. Through an interdisciplinary and postcolonial approach, the book analyses, among others, recent works by Laurent Gaudé and Emanuele Crialese, the Musée National de l¿Histoire de l¿Immigration in Paris and a community festival in Lampedusa, to highlight the complexity of advocating for migrants from a European perspective.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 248 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, the International Academic Week in Tutzing in October 2021 attempted to describe the diverging and often conflicting memory cultures in the Southeast European post-conflict societies today: the canonical and cultural memory concerning World War II and the Holocaust on the one hand and inter-generationally formed communicative memories on the other. The post-Yugoslav debates on memory are conditioned by the renewed experience of ethnic violence, displacement and genocide during the wars of the 1990s.The sixteen contributions in the four panels ¿Holocaust and Antisemitism¿, ¿Memories of Titös Yugoslaviä, ¿Memory Wars in the National Discourse¿ and ¿Writing Memory Culture¿ use multidisciplinary approaches (archival sources, oral history, fieldwork, popular culture) to highlight the socio-political contexts and medialization ofmemory production. 262 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The period from the 1850s to the 1890s in Paris marked a key turning point for poets and composers, as they grappled with the new ways in which poetry and music could intersect. Under the particular conditions of the time and place, both art forms underwent significant developments which challenged the status of each form. In both creative and critical work from this era, poets and composers offered tantalising but problematic insights into «musical» poetry and «poetic» music.The central issue examined in this book is that of what happens to poetry when it encounters music, especially as song. The author places Baudelaire¿s famous sonnet «La Mort des amants» at the heart of the analysis, tracing its transposition into song by a succession of both amateur and professional composers, examining works by Villiers de l¿Isle-Adam, Serpette, Rollinat, Debussy and Charpentier, as well as an extraordinary parodic song version by Valade and Verlaine.A companion website offers recordings of each of the songs analysed in this book.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 230 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -From Brigitte Bardot in her bikini at the Cannes Film Festival, to François Ozon¿s intimate portrayals of grief and loss, some of the most iconic and challenging moments in French cinema are associated with the beach. Cinema at the Shore argues that the Parisian cityscape is not the only significant definition of space in French cinema and instead explores the industrial, aesthetic and thematic relations of French cinema to the beach.Examining a range of films from the 1950s to the present day ¿ including popular comedies by Jacques Tati and Patrice Leconte, the lively and ruminative documentaries of Agnès Varda, the classicism of Eric Rohmer, and the provocations of Catherine Breillat ¿ this book showcases the dynamism and importance of the beach as a site for the reconfiguration of French cinematic identity itself. The beach offers a unique crystallization of our attitudes towards nature, culture, the body, space and time. In its constant mobility, its close, yet distinctive, relationship with nature, and its paradoxical centrality in the French cultural imaginary as a site of relaxation and holidays, the beachscape, re-framed and re-imaged by the camera, offers new ways of conceiving of the spatial politics of French cinema.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 250 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Le traumatisme est aujourd¿hui un paradigme essentiel dans la lecture et l¿écriture de l¿Histoire. Depuis la Deuxième Guerre mondiale et les procès de Nuremberg, qui débouchèrent sur la notion d¿imprescriptibilité des crimes, notre rapport au temps s¿est transformé. Le passé s¿est imposé au présent, et la mémoire, jadis décrié e, s¿est peu à peu hissée au rang de véritable devoir. Or, si aujourd¿hui, dans les contextes d¿après-catastrophe, l¿oubli est ce contre quoi il convient de lutter, il n¿en a pas toujours été ainsi. Dans la France des guerres de Religion, celui-ci n¿était en effet pas le mal, mais la thérapeutique politique. Face à la rupture de l¿unité religieuse qui engendra un déferlement de violence inouï , confrontant pour la première fois la conscience chrétienne à la mort de masse, la monarchie tentera, quarante ans durant, d¿abolir la mémoire des exactions commises pendant les guerres. Mais le théâtre tragique, qui renaît en France précisément au moment où éclatent les conflits civils, semble hanté par l¿actualité terrible.Quelle place ce théâtre fait-il à la mémoire des troubles Comment celle-ci s¿y exprime-t-elle, s¿y élabore-t-elle Que font les dramaturges de la violence juste passée et à quelles fins Dans ce livre, Inès Zahra examine, à l¿aune des Trauma studies, courant théorique qui questionne la manière dont le passé violent affecte le présent, les rapports qüentretiennent la tragédie franç aise de la fin du XVIe et du début du XVIIe siècles et la mémoire des guerres civiles.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 370 pp. Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Modernitalia provides a map of the Italian twentieth century in the form of twelve essays by the celebrated cultural historian Jeffrey T. Schnapp. Shuttling back and forth between literature, architecture, design, and the visual arts, the volume explores the metaphysics of speed, futurist and dada typography, real and imaginary forms of architecture, shifting regimes of mass spectacle, the iconography of labour, exhibitions as modes of public mobilization and persuasion, and the emergence of industrial models of literary culture and communication.The figures featured in the book include Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Mario Morasso, Julius Evola, Piero Portaluppi, Giuseppe Terragni, Alessandro Blasetti, Massimo Bontempelli, Giorgio de Chirico, Bruno Munari, Curzio Malaparte, and Henry Furst. Alongside these human protagonists appear granite blocks that drive the design of modern monuments, military searchlights that animate civilian shows, worker armies viewed as machines, sunglasses that tiptoe along the boundary of the private and public, newsreels as twentieth-century interpretations of Trajan¿s column, and book covers and bindings that act as authorial self-portraits. The volume captures the Italian path to cultural modernity in all of its brilliance and multiplicity.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 338 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality: Conceptual and Descriptive Issues presents ground-breaking research on the domains of evidentiality and epistemic modality. The book includes papers on key theoretical issues (the nature of evidential inference and the challengeability criterion for evidentiality), and descriptive studies covering various European languages (English, Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Romanian, Catalan and Latvian), based on general corpora or specific discourse types. The prominent corpus-based contrastive methodology uncovers a wide range of idiosyncratic discourse-pragmatic features of diverse languages, discourses and genres. The contributions are representative of the work on evidentiality and epistemic modality in a substantial number of countries.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 414 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The essays collected in this volume study the poetry and thought of four major Francophone Caribbean writers: Saint-John Perse, Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon and Édouard Glissant. In a context where identity was a question, an original conception of subjectivity appeared, as the end point rather than the origin of a process which was inseparably poetic and political. It entailed an aesthetics of dispersion or errance, rather than belonging. This volume thus questions the traditional teleological narrative of negritude as ¿renaissance¿ or ¿awakening¿. A careful look at the birth of different negritude movements shows the complexity of this history and explains Fanon¿s philosophical and political critique of the notion. These writers¿ astonishingly rich production rests on original aesthetic ideas and philosophical reflections which the vagaries of history and displacement, and their comparison with major metropolitan literary movements, had masked. Fanon¿s thought is at the heart of the book, but this volume also traces the important debates these authors had with the major French thinkers of their time, notably Bergson, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 376 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book brings together a series of papers on education in rural Zimbabwe. It is informed throughout by the generative theory of rurality, which sees rural communities as the most significant agents in solving the challenges they face. Against this theoretical backdrop, the 13 chapters challenge policy makers, researchers and educators to confront the problem of poor academic performance among learners in rural learning ecologies. The book demonstrates that rural communities, in Zimbabwe and elsewhere, can improve their educational outcomes through community-led action, involving traditional leadership and other stakeholders. The key message is that communities have the opportunity to become the authors of their own destinies in shaping future educational results.'This book brings together important views on improving learning in rural ecologies. The arguments brought forward can lead to responsive policies that can greatly benefit rural education.'¿Colwasi Mthunzi, Professor of Curriculum Innovations, Solusi University'A book that brings so much hope for rural learners and also encourages the community and parents/guardians to play an active role in the learning of their children.'¿Nosizo Shava, Senior Sociology Lecturer, Hillside Teachers College'Well-articulated papers on the ways of reducing inequalities between rural and urban education.'¿Shepherd Ndondo, Post-doc fellow in Philosophy of Education, University of Fort HareLang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 204 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Over recent decades, developing nations have been the beneficiaries of Official Development Assistance (ODA) from European and North American countries. ODA remains the central mechanism in sustaining and financing actions and processes related to international development. Despite these investments, experts continue to raise concerns about Africäs poor performance on several development indicators.This book discusses the main challenges to aid effectiveness in Africa, with a specific focus on the health sector. It provides policymakers, scholars, and development experts with innovative strategies and policy recommendations for refining aid management. The book also provides critical analysis of several global developmental frameworks and related international action plans and commitments, ranging from the 2030 Global Development Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals to the Paris Climate Agreement. Lastly, the book also analyzes several theoretical frameworks on development, including modernization, world systems, international dependency, neoclassical growth, the concept of gross national happiness, and human development.'Dr Sobtafo brings a wealth of experience and broad practice to bear in what is an important reflective analysis on aid effectiveness and the nexus with development performance. There are lessons and insights that reach beyond Africa.'¿Michael Upton, New Zealand Ambassador to Ethiopia and the African Union'The book does first of all place people at the centre of the analysis, hence the pertinence of health and development as a focus. It further questions the common certainties on ODA and economic development and expands the discussion to include key drivers of human development and the necessity of partnership in an interdependent world. A pragmatic approach to deepen our understanding of complex issues that require more than simple solutions. Great ideas and questions for scholars, policy makers, and health and development practitioners.'¿ Elhadj As Sy, Chairman, Koffi Annan Foundation; Former Secretary General, The International Federation of Red Cross Crescent Societies (IFRC); and Former UNICEF Regional Director, Eastern and Southern AfricaBooks on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 152 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Multilinguals are not multiple monolinguals. Yet multilingual assessment proceeds through monolingual normsas if fair conclusions were possible in the absence of fair comparison. In addition, multilingualism concerns what people do with language, not what languages do to people. Yet research focus remains on multilinguals¿ languages, as if languages existed despite their users. This book redresses these paradoxes. Multilingual scholars, teachers and speech-language clinicians from Europe, Asia, Australia and the US contribute the first studies dedicated to multilingual norms, those found in real-life multilingual development, assessment and use. Readership includes educators, clinicians, decision-makers and researchers interested in multilingualism. 434 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book focuses on Luther¿s very last lectures, which interpret the Joseph story in the final chapters of Genesis. Scholars have frequently neglected the later Luther and the Genesis Lectures, making this an important new contribution to the field. Luther¿s lectures are not a modern scientific commentary, but enarrations, as Kenneth Hagen calls them, filled with public proclamation, expanded narrative, and a performative sense of language. The author furthers Oswald Bayer¿s performative interpretation of Luther¿s theology with a more sophisticated linguistic philosophy, while continuing Bayer¿s theological direction.The book is an important new contribution to Luther studies and will be of interest to seminarians as well as to students of hermeneutics, homiletics, the relevance of the performative in proclamation, and philosophy of language.'Peter D. S. Krey offers a theologically expansive and polyvalent reading of Luther¿s lectures on the last chapters of Genesis, the story of Joseph and his family in Egypt. Composed at the end of his days, the lectures were fully informed not only by Luther¿s mature theology, but also by his own lifelong struggles with hopelessness and fear. Krey¿s writing is lively, at times moving, his scholarship capacious. His book calls renewed attention to this most important work just when our own deeply troubled world needs it most.'¿Christine Helmer, Peter B. Ritzma Chair of Humanities, Professor of German and Religious Studies, Northwestern University'Dr. Peter Krey takes the reader on an energetic ride, as he examines Luther¿s reading of the Joseph Story through a variety of intriguing interpretive lenses. With his unique and empathetic approach, Krey has accumulated an original examination of a key section of Luther¿s Genesis lectures. Luther is alive on these pages that lay out the complexity of his theological language in ways that resonate with both mind and heart.'¿Rev. Dr. Brooks Schramm and Rev. Dr. Kirsi Stjerna, Editors/Authors of Martin Luther, the Bible, and the Jewish PeopleBooks on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 318 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -La poétique de l¿étrangeté est l¿expression d¿un retour au corps par lequel le roman contemporain interroge sa propre capacité à penser le monde social. Dans les ¿uvres de Suzette Mayr, de Marie NDiaye et de Yoko Tawada, étudiées dans cet ouvrage, le corps apparaît comme un objet étrange, dont l¿évidence naturelle ne va plus de soi. Il est caractérisé par sa malléabilité, voire par ses métamorphoses; en même temps, il porte les marques des catégories de la domination. La poétique de l¿étrangeté peut être interprétée comme une traduction littéraire du tournant théorique «matérialiste queer», qui s¿efforce d¿analyser ensemble la dynamique du pouvoir, fondée sur la production des subjectivités, et le caractère structurel de la domination, qui repose sur des bases socio-économiques. Le corps est à la fois dénaturalisé et ressaisi comme le signe d¿une histoire intersectionnelle. Il n¿est pas tant l¿expression d¿une vérité de l¿identité que la construction narrative d¿un point de vue situé. C¿est à partir d¿un corps fictif que s¿écrit une certaine perception du monde, que se redéfinissent les formes romanesques, et que se crée un usage étrange de la langue. Le dialogue entre la théorie et la fiction, qui prend source dans leur étrangeté réciproque, invite alors à imaginer la nature dénaturalisée du corps, tout comme la reconfiguration littéraire du monde social.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 394 pp. Französisch.