This book updates and adds to the classic Social Movements of the Sixties and Seventies, showing how social movement theory has grown and changed-from an earlier emphasis on collective behavior, to the resource mobilization approach, and currently to analyses that emphasize culture, ideology, and collective identity. Top social scientists combine insiders' insights with critical analyses to examine a wide variety of social movements active in the most recent U.S. cycle of protest....

The revised and updated third edition of The Making of Urban America includes seven new articles and a richly detailed historiographical essay that discusses the vast urban history literature added to the canon since the publication of the second edition. The authors’ extensively revised introductions and the fifteen reprinted articles trace urban development from the preindustrial city to the twentieth-century city. With emphasis on the social, economic, political, commercial, and cultura...

Over the last decade, Peru has experienced a spectacular mining boom and astronomical economic growth. Yet, for villagers in Peru's southern Andes, few have felt the material benefits. With this book, Eric Hirsch considers what growth means—and importantly how it feels. Hirsch proposes an analysis of boom-time capitalism that starts not from considerations of poverty, but from the premise that Peru is wealthy. He situates his work in a network of villages near new mining sites, agricultura...

Ancestral Presence tells a history that has more than one history in it while also telling the story of the relation between worlds.For the Fuyuge people of the Papuan highlands, the past is not ‘history’ in a conventional sense. For them, the world and its history derive from a creator force called Tidibe which is central to Fuyuge cosmology: the Fuyuge are at the ‘centre of the world’. But Fuyuge people are part of another history, too: they have experienced decades of m...

Revue Ciné-Bazar n°2. Interviews et entretiens.Sommaire :Dossier Budd Boetticher 5Interview Arnold Kunert à propos de Budd Boetticher 7Critique Bullfighter and the Lady 14Dossier Bogdanovich 25Interviews Peter Bogdanovich 27Article Du Jour le plus long au Soldat Ryan 32Critique Sorcerer de William Friedkin 36Dossier Jack...

Wenn ein schwerer Schneesturm über das Land fegt, friert das gesellschaftliche Leben scheinbar ein. Doch während die Bürger zu Hause bleiben, erwacht eine der lukrativsten und brutalsten B2B-Schattenwirtschaften der Welt: die Milliardenindustrie des kommerziellen Schneeräumens. Hinter den gelben Blinklichtern der Räumfahrzeuge verbirgt sich ein hart umkämpftes Monopol. Große Logistikkonserne sichern sich im Hochsommer exklusive Verträge mit Kommunen, Supermärkten und Flughafenbetreibern. S...

Alle Leseproben zur lit.Love 2021: Entdecken Sie die schönsten Liebesgeschichten des JahresAm 12. und 13. November 2021 steht die Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe in München wieder ganz im Zeichen der lit.Love – das Lesefestival für alle, die sich für Romane und Bücher rund um die Liebe begeistern. Wir freuen uns auf eine Vielzahl deutscher und internationaler Autor*innen und haben wieder eine spannende Mischung von Podiumsdiskussionen, Workshops und Meet&Greets ...

Policymaking is of its very nature a people-centered business-a good reason why highly effective policy analysts display not only superb technical expertise but excellent people skills as well. Those "people skills" include the ability to manage professional relationships, to learn from others about policy issues, to give presentations, to work in teams, to resolve conflict, to write for multiple audiences, and to engage in professional networking. Training programs for policy analysts oft...

Por primera vez traducido al español, La escuela que necesitamoses un libro absolutamente contracorriente.Con argumentos fundamentados en los más relevantes estudios científicos y en su amplísimo bagaje cultural, literario, histórico y filosófico, el autor procede al desmontaje pieza a pieza de la ideología pedagógica dominante que, a fuerza de repetirse, se había hecho inatacable. Durante décadas se ha teorizado y llevado a la práctica en los sistemas edu...

Technologies of Procreation bridges the gap between medical technology and cultural values. It looks at the ways in which the 'technologies of procreation' affect society from an anthropological perspective.

While cancer affects primarily the elderly, it also occurs in younger age groups, with different implications specifically relating to reproduction. Cancer can also occur during pregnancy itself. This brings together two diverse areas of medicine, encompassing the complexity of cancer and its varied biology and the equally challenging areas of fertility, conception and pregnancy. The 55th RCOG Study Group brought together a range of experts to examine these issues. This book presents the f...

This wide-ranging volume captures the diverse range of societies and experiences that form what has come to be known as Melanesia. It covers prehistoric, historic and contemporary issues, and includes work by art historians, political scientists, geographers and anthropologists. The chapters range from studies of subsistence, ritual and ceremonial exchange to accounts of state violence, new media and climate change. The ‘Melanesian world’ assembled here raises questions that cut to the hea...