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Communicating with the World Interaction between Chinese and International Media

Communicating with the World Interaction between Chinese and International Media

This book analyses the creation and dissemination of discourse in China while examining how its media and the people interact and communicate with the rest of the world. It explores the interplay between language meanings social practices culture and politics in the processes of discourse generation. The book critically studies intercultural communication and Chinese discourse models at the national institutional and individual levels and the different modes of interaction between China and the world. With the help of several case studies the book analyses reports from the People’s Daily interpersonal meaning in promotional videos and advertisements in China rhetoric in the editorials of China Daily and the representation by international media like The Associated Press and The New York Times to explore differences between Chinese and the Western media reporting the same event. It also looks at the complex models through which the Chinese people—both as individuals and as a collective—communicate with and gain an understanding of the rest of the world. Rich in empirical case studies this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of Chinese Studies communication studies media and cultural studies international relations and political communication. | Communicating with the World Interaction between Chinese and International Media

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American Isolationism Between the World Wars The Search for a Nation's Identity

American Isolationism Between the World Wars The Search for a Nation's Identity

American Isolationism Between the World Wars: The Search for a Nation's Identity examines the theory of isolationism in America between the world wars arguing that it is an ideal that has dominated the Republic since its founding. During the interwar period isolationists could be found among Republicans and Democrats Catholics and Protestants pacifists and militarists rich and poor. While the dominant historical assessment of isolationism — that it was provincial and short-sighted — will be examined this book argues that American isolationism between 1919 and the mid-1930s was a rational foreign policy simply because the European reversion back to politics as usual insured that the continent would remain unstable. Drawing on a wide range of newspaper and journal articles biographies congressional hearings personal papers and numerous secondary sources Kenneth D. Rose suggests the time has come for a paradigm shift in how American isolationism is viewed. The text also offers a reflection on isolationism since the end of World War II particularly the nature of isolationism during the Trump era. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of U. S. Foreign Relations and twentieth-century American history. | American Isolationism Between the World Wars The Search for a Nation's Identity

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Communications and the 'Third World'

Communications and the 'Third World'

Originally published in 1971. An introduction to the rapidly-changing field of modern communications at the time this book brings together a wide range of literature from Africa Asia and Latin America. It presents a critical revaluation of the dominant theoretical perspectives which informed Third World communications studies and it challenges popular and often greatly misinformed perceptions of the nature and the uniformity of current Third World communications. The author gives an account of the significant shifts in the theoretical orientation of cultural analysis in Third World societies explaining the vast differences between these societies in their levels of industrialization communications and cultural production and their ability to utilize modern mass communications and business-oriented technologies. He reveals that the differences can sometimes be greater than those between advanced capitalist and Third World countries and comes to reject the usefulness of the concept of Third World in understanding the nature of communications systems in different national societies. | Communications and the 'Third World'

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Theater and World The Problematics of Shakespeare's History

Theater and World The Problematics of Shakespeare's History

First published in 1992 Theater and World is a detailed exploration of Shakespeare’s representation of history and how it affects the relation between theatre and world. The book focuses primarily on the Second Tetralogy (Richard II Henry IV Part I Henry IV Part II and Henry V) and includes a wealth of analysis and interpretation of the plays. In doing so it explores a wide range of topics including the relation between literary and theatrical representations and the world; the nature of illusion and reality; genre; the connection between history and fiction (especially plays); historiography and literary criticism or theory; poetry and philosophy; and irony both rhetorical and philosophical. Theater and World continues to have lasting relevance for anyone with an interest in Shakespeare’s words and his representation of history in particular. | Theater and World The Problematics of Shakespeare's History

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Between Constantinople the Papacy and the Caliphate The Melkite Church in the Islamicate World 634-969

Between Constantinople the Papacy and the Caliphate The Melkite Church in the Islamicate World 634-969

This volume examines the Melkite church from the Arab invasion of Syria in 634 until 969. The Melkite Patriarchates were established in Antioch Jerusalem and Alexandria and following the Arab campaigns in Syria and Egypt they all came under the new Muslim state. Over the next decades the Melkite church underwent a process of gradual marginalization moving from the privileged position of the state confession to becoming one of the religious minorities of the Caliphate. This transition took place in the context of theological and political interactions with the Byzantine Empire the Patriarchate of Constantinople the Papacy and over time with the reborn Roman Empire in the West. Exploring the various processes within the Melkite church this volume also examines Caliphate–Byzantine interactions the cultural and religious influences of Constantinople the synthesis of Greek Arab and Syriac elements the process of Arabization of communities and Melkite relations with distant Rome. | Between Constantinople the Papacy and the Caliphate The Melkite Church in the Islamicate World 634-969

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Pandora ME Gold The Elements Medallions

Pandora ME Gold The Elements Medallions

The Elements Medallion Charm from Pandora features an intriguing and luxurious 14kt gold-plated design that is compatible only with other Pandora ME items, which allows you to embrace the elements in style. Your attention becomes drawn to the interplay between shapes and symbolism. This is represented by a graphic interplay between the four elements, earth, water, air, and fire, coming together in a harmonious balance. Featuring round brilliant-cut clear-white zirconia stones, wear yours on a Pandora ME chain necklace, bracelet, or hoop earrings with compatible styling connectors to show off your unique style. ME Gold The Elements Medallions. Only compatible with other Pandora ME items. Genuine Pandora pendant charm. For Pandora charm bracelets and necklace pendants. Showcases sparkling clear-white zirconia stones. Hand-crafted using silver with a unique 14kt gold blend. Product code: 762318C01.

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The Routledge Companion to World Literature and World History

The Routledge Companion to World Literature and World History

The Routledge Companion to World Literature and World History is a comprehensive and engaging volume combining essays from historians and literary academics to create a space for productive cross-cultural encounters between the two fields. In addition to the 27 essays the Companion includes general introductions from two of the leading scholars of history and literature David Damrosch and Patrick Manning as well as personal testimonies from artists working in the area and editorials asking provocative questions. The volume includes sections on:People – with essays looking at World Literature Intellectual Commerce Religion language and war and Indigenous ethnographyNetworks and methods – examining maps geography morality and the crises of world literatureTransformations – including essays on race colonialism and the non-humanInterdisciplinary and groundbreaking this volume brings to light various ways in which scholars of literature and history analyse assimilate or reveal the intellectual heritage of the past at the same moment as they try consciously to deal with an unending amount of new information and an awareness of global connections and discrepancies. Including work from leading academics in the field as well as newer voices the Companion is ideal for students and scholars alike.

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Cooperatives and the World of Work

Cooperatives and the World of Work

As the world of work and jobs is more uncertain than ever because of various trends impacting it including the rise of robotics and the gig economy Cooperatives and the World of Work furthers the debate on the future of work sustainable development and the social and solidarity economy of which cooperatives are a fundamental component. Throughout the book the authors who are experts in their respective fields do not limit themselves to praising the advantages of the cooperative model. Rather they challenge the narrow understanding of cooperatives as a mere business model and raise debate on the more fundamental role that cooperatives play in responding to social changes and in changing society itself. The book is unique in tracing the historical connection between cooperatives and the world of work since the end of the First World War and the recent shifts and restructuring in enterprise and the workplace. It presents a redefinition of the very concept of work focusing on organizational innovation. This book is published in recognition of 100 years of the International Labour Organization and gathers together research from leading experts who were brought together at an event co-hosted by the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) and the International Labour Organization (ILO).

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Modern France and the World

Modern France and the World

Modern France and the World provides an engaging global history of the key events of modern France and its empire. It moves beyond the traditional political narrative of the development of the French Republican nation-state to offer both national and international perspectives of its evolution. The volume illustrates the integral exchanges that have taken place between France and the modern world from global trade in the eighteenth century to the impact of postcolonial immigration and globalization on French identity and on France’s diverse population. It includes the voices of women colonized populations and those who both embraced and challenged the spread of French ideas and values around the globe. Drawing on methodologies of social cultural and gender history this textbook integrates a wide range of analytical tools to entice readers to engage more deeply in France’s dynamic global history. By presenting the history of France and its global engagements from the mid-seventeenth century to the present this volume is an essential resource for all students who study the history politics and culture of modern France.

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Trade Policy Protectionism and the Third World

Trade Policy Protectionism and the Third World

The 1980s saw an alarming revival of protectionism among Western countries as a result of a decade of persistent economic crises slow growth industrial decline and rising unemployment. The two major actors the US and the European Community between them bore the major responsibility for the breakdown of the liberal world trading system. Protection in the 1970s and 1980s took the form of replacing free international markets by bilateral agreements. This book first published in 1986 examines the European Community’s Generalized System of Preferences whereby the manufactured exports of developing nations would have duty-free access to the markets of the EEC and the consequences to this System of the new protectionism. | Trade Policy Protectionism and the Third World

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Intelligence on the Frontier Between State and Civil Society

Intelligence on the Frontier Between State and Civil Society

Intelligence on the Frontier Between State and Civil Society shows how today’s intelligence practices constantly contest the frontiers between normal politics and security politics and between civil society and the state. Today’s intelligence services face the difficult task of having to manage the uncertainties associated with new threats by inviting civil actors in to help while also upholding their own institutional authority and responsibility to act in the interest of the nation. This volume examines three different perspectives: Managerial practices of intelligence collection and communication; the increased use of new forms of data (i. e. of social media information); and the expansion of intelligence practices into new areas of concern for example cybersecurity and the policing of (mis-)information. This book accurately addresses these three topics and all chapters shine more light on the inclusion and exclusion of civil society in the secret world of intelligence. By scrutinizing how intelligence services balance the inclusion of civil society in security tasks with the need to uphold their institutional authority Intelligence on the Frontier Between State and Civil Society will be of great interest to scholars of Security Studies and Intelligence Studies. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of Intelligence and National Security.

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The Shaman and the Magician Journeys Between the Worlds

The Shaman and the Magician Journeys Between the Worlds

Originally published in 1982 The Shaman and the Magician draws on the author’s wide experience of occultism western magic and anthropological knowledge of shamanism to explore the interesting parallels between traditional shamanism and the more visionary aspects of magic in modern western society. In both cases as the author shows the magician encounters profound god-energies of the spirit and it is up to the individual to interpret these experiences in psychological or mythological terms. The book demonstrates that both shamanism and magic offer techniques of approaching the visionary sources of our culture. | The Shaman and the Magician Journeys Between the Worlds

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Violence and Gender in the Globalized World The Intimate and the Extimate

Violence and Gender in the Globalized World The Intimate and the Extimate

Violence and Gender in the Globalized World expands the present discourse on gender and violence discovering new ways to address the complexities encountered in academic research on the topic. Through the introduction of a variety of uncommonly discussed geopolitical sites and dynamics the book redefines the critical picture of gender violence in the age of globalization adopting diverse methodological approaches and various disciplinary praxes in its investigation of the question of violence against women across the globe. With an international team of contributors comprising both scholars and activists this volume bridges the gap between academic and activist perspectives on gender violence. As such it will be of interest to anyone conducting research in the areas of gender and sexuality human rights cultural studies political science history postcolonialism and colonialism sociology anthropology philosophy and religion. | Violence and Gender in the Globalized World The Intimate and the Extimate

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The World of The Walking Dead

The World of The Walking Dead

An accessible introduction to the world of The Walking Dead this book looks across platforms and analytical frameworks to characterize the fictional world of The Walking Dead and how its audiences make use of it. From comics and television to social media apps and mobile games utilizing concepts derived from literary studies media studies history anthropology and religious studies Matthew Freeman examines the functions and affordances of new digital platforms. In doing so he establishes a new transdisciplinary framework for analyzing imaginary worlds across multiple media platforms bolstering the critical arena of world-building studies by providing a greater array of vocabulary concepts and approaches. The World of The Walking Dead is an engaging exploration of stories their platforms and their reception ideal for students and scholars of world-building film and TV studies new media and everything in-between.

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Communication and the First World War

Communication and the First World War

Despite the voluminous historical literature on the First World War a volume devoted to the theme of communication has yet to appear. From the communication of war aims and objectives to the communication of war call-up and war experience and knowledge this volume fills the gap in the market including the work of both established and newly emerging scholars working on the First World War across the globe. The volume includes chapters that focus on the experience of belligerent and also neutral powers thus providing a genuinely representative dimension to the subject. | Communication and the First World War

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Going Global in the World Language Classroom Ideas Strategies and Resources for Teaching and Learning With the World

Going Global in the World Language Classroom Ideas Strategies and Resources for Teaching and Learning With the World

With this practical resource you’ll learn how to promote global readiness and build international connections in the world language classroom. Master educator Erin E. H. Austin shares original strategies to facilitate productive language learning and demonstrates how to foster a rigorous inclusive and enriching environment. Designed to improve student motivation and engagement the book is a shift from teaching about the world to teaching with the world. You’ll come away with plenty of inspiring and effective ways to not only invite the world into the classroom but also bring the classroom to the world and in so doing support an inviting classroom environment. The book abounds with low-cost ready-to-implement tools activities and lesson ideas. The approaches in this book include coordinating international and world language events at school using online resources to connect students to new languages and cultures and broadening student horizons through books and podcasts. Austin also offers ways that further develop students’ global education through travel and study abroad opportunities. With this book your students will become culturally literate motivated language learners who will be ready to enter the global community and continue to learn from and with the world. | Going Global in the World Language Classroom Ideas Strategies and Resources for Teaching and Learning With the World

GBP 26.99
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Atmospheres and the Experiential World Theory and Methods

Atmospheres and the Experiential World Theory and Methods

We live in atmospheres we talk about them and we move through them. They offer us an important route into comprehending several aspects of human life and experience what is important to people the environments life is played out in and the processes of change and possible futures. Atmospheres are an ephemeral yet inescapable element of our everyday experiential and conceptual environments. They are continually beyond our grasp as they undergo constant transformation. By interrogating atmospheres this book arrives at new ways of thinking about the relationships between people space time and events. Atmospheres and the Experiential World explores the ways we engage with these affective modes and the possibilities they offer for researchers designers and policy-makers to make and intervene in the world. Chapters propose an approach to atmospheres that is not fixed to certain forms or boundaries. Instead this book argues that atmospheres should be conceptualised as dynamic and changing configurations that allow analytical insight into a range of topics when we think in about and through them. This book offers scholars designers and creative practitioners professionals and students a research-based way of understanding and intervening in atmospheres. | Atmospheres and the Experiential World Theory and Methods

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US Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War in Africa A Bridge between Global Conflict and the New World Order 1988-1994

US Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War in Africa A Bridge between Global Conflict and the New World Order 1988-1994

This book investigates the end of the Cold War in Africa and its impact on post-Cold War US foreign policy in the continent. The fall of the Berlin Wall is widely considered the end of the Cold War; however it documents just one of the many ends since the Cold War was a global conflict. This book looks at one of the most neglected extra-European battlegrounds the African continent and explores how American foreign policy developed in this region between the late 1980s and the early 1990s. Drawing on a wide range of recently disclosed documents the book shows that the Cold War in Africa ended in 1988 preceding the fall of the Berlin Wall. It also reveals how since then some of the most controversial and inconsistent episodes of post-Cold War US foreign policy in Africa have been deeply rooted in the unique process whereby American rivalry with the USSR found its end in the continent. The book challenges the traditional narrative by presenting an original perspective on the study of the end of the Cold War and provides new insights into the shaping of US foreign policy during the so-called ‘unipolar moment’. This book will be of much interest to students of Cold War history US foreign policy African politics and international relations. | US Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War in Africa A Bridge between Global Conflict and the New World Order 1988-1994

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Between Democracy and Law The Amorality of Secession

Between Democracy and Law The Amorality of Secession

This volume purports to explore the legal and political issues triggered by the new wave of secessionism. More specifically those issues concern the interplay between notions of democracy (and democratic ends and means) and law (and the rule of law and constitutionalism). Against this background the editors use amorality in order to escape the terrain of the justification of secession by making a distinction between the democratic theory of secession and the theory of democratic secession. In the first section the theoretical nexus democracy-secession has been approached both from a legal and political theory perspective. The second section of the book examines the instruments that the theory of democratic secession invokes in order to justify secession and presents both legal and political science contributions. The third section focuses on social movements and political actors. The fourth section focuses on two case studies due to the awareness of the importance of the difference between secession in a democratic occidental context (which call into play the discussion of the democratic theories) and separations in a non-democratic context (where the nexus between secession and democracy is not really central). | Between Democracy and Law The Amorality of Secession

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The World Health Organization Achievements and Failures

The World Health Organization Achievements and Failures

The World Health Organization (WHO) is undergoing a crisis of credibility and challenge. Having been subjected to a severe financial crisis and criticisms of its management of pandemics such as the H1N1 flu case and the outbreak of Ebola with a new Director-General at its helm it is an ideal time to review the WHO’s past and current achievements including on-going operations and reported failures. Whilst time is given to recurrent attacks on WHO performance it is balanced by also highlighting the WHO’s leadership its member states and its influence on other actors NGOs and business. As such this study reviews the WHO’s actions in the most visible programmes such as SARS H1N1 Ebola and also smallpox malaria onchocerciasis polio and AIDS. The author also discusses the desirable balance between operational and normative functions and proposals for reform of the Organization. | The World Health Organization Achievements and Failures

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Between the Psyche and the Polis Refiguring History in Literature and Theory

Between the Psyche and the Polis Refiguring History in Literature and Theory

This title was first published in 2000. Incorporating studies of Freudian and Marxist approaches to questions of history and memory this timely collection illuminates how history is being refigured in contemporary literary cultural and theoretical studies. The contributors to this volume invite the reader to attend to the forms - linguistic visual monumental - by which a connection with or separation from the past takes place. It is current thinking about memory's relationship to history and the ongoing critical reassessment of historicism that preoccupies this collection. The volume explores the ways in which current thinking about the past operates within a dialogic space and can be located in relation to multiple perspectives. Thus cultural memory can be seen not just as a recent development within the field of cultural studies but as constructing a between-space which also draws in aspects of psychoanalysis. Similarly trauma theory may usefully be conceptualized as operating in a rich and complex dynamic between deconstruction and the work of Freud. Temporality memory and the past are attended to here in terms of the dislocations of narrative of resistances to linear genealogies to aid the reader in making unanticipated connections between theories and cultures and between the demands of the psyche and the polis. | Between the Psyche and the Polis Refiguring History in Literature and Theory

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Political Regimes in the Arab World Society and the Exercise of Power

Political Regimes in the Arab World Society and the Exercise of Power

One of the implications of Orientalism is that the Arab world as a homogenous entity is often analysed as an anomaly within the international system. This book argues that despite their differences societies across the globe ultimately construct their own history according to very similar dynamics and tensions. The methodological approach of this book using different countries within the Arab world as models offers the reader an analysis of relations between the elites and their opposition in a variety of settings. A definition of the political structure of each country is drawn from this analysis before potential future scenarios as according to country specific experts are proposed. This model provides a useful contribution to students and scholars of political science and international relations. Through providing a comparative study of the political regimes currently operating in the Arab world; their elites civil society power resources and political resistance this book illustrates that despite the image of homogeneity sometimes portrayed by the Arab world it is the multiplicity of models and heterogeneity of regimes that constitute reality. | Political Regimes in the Arab World Society and the Exercise of Power

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Liminality and the Modern Living Through the In-Between

Liminality and the Modern Living Through the In-Between

This book provides the history and genealogy of an increasingly important subject: liminality. Coming to the fore in recent years in social and political theory and extending beyond is original use as developed within anthropology liminality has come to denote spaces and moments in which the taken-for-granted order of the world ceases to exist and novel forms emerge often in unpredictable ways. Liminality and the Modern offers a comprehensive introduction to this concept discussing its development and laying out a conceptual and experiential framework for thinking about change in terms of liminality. Applying this framework to questions surrounding the implosion of ’non-spaces’ the analysis of major historical periods and the study of political revolution the book also explores its possible uses in social science research and its implications for our understanding of the uncertainty and contingency of the liquid structures of modern society. Shedding new light on a concept central to social thought as well as its capacity for pushing social and political theory in new directions this book will be of interest to scholars across the social sciences and philosophy working in fields such as social political and anthropological theory cultural studies social and cultural geography and historical anthropology and sociology. | Liminality and the Modern Living Through the In-Between

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