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This volume examines the transformation of politics and social movements at various levels. Starting with a transformation of identity within social movements, it goes on to discuss changes in the scale of social movement mobilisation. The impact of social movements on the state is also considered, with a particular focus upon the ways in which the state is able to incorporate apparently radical political agendas. Finally, the book examines th...

Stressing the variety of ways in which consumption is structured and organised through cultures and showing how these cultural technologies construct the person, the senses and the self, this book stands at the interface of the sociologies of culture and consumption. Arranged in two sections: Homes and Households, Places and Spaces, and Technologies of Consumption and Waste, the book includes chapters on youth consumption, cultures of the hous...

Roudinesco follows the development of Lacan′s career from his early clinical practice and conflicts with the establishment, as he constantly pushed the boundaries of psychoanalysis from its roots in biology and neurology to a powerful critical tool that resonated in fields ranging from literary theory to feminist politics.

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Die Einführung der Innovation des Digital-TV ist in vielen Ländern ein Erfolg. In Deutschland entwickelt sich der Markt hingegen nur langsam. Um am Übergang zur Informationsgesellschaft teilhaben zu können, kann auf die Digitalisierung des wichtigsten Massenmediums nicht verzichtet werden. Von dieser Hypothese ausgehend soll diese Arbeit die aktuelle Entwicklungssituation des digitalen Fernsehens in Deutschland dars...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Managementkonzepte unterliegen in neuerer Zeit nahezu exponentiellen Halbwertszeiten. Nur wenige Konzepte sorgen für wirklich neue Anregungen. Das Shareholder Value Konzept wird derzeit kontrovers diskutiert. Zwischen "Ei des Kolumbus" und "Wiederauferstehung des Frühkapitalismus" werden vielschichtige Meinungen verbreitet. Dabei sind Abneigung und Interesse am Shareholder Value durch oberflächliche Betrachtung oft g...

Focuses on the impact and influence of the Japanese military occupation on Sarawak and its people.

An analysis of the argument about intention in the study of literature, with reference to Kant and contemporary philosophers of language and action.

How Sanctions Work surveys theories of international sanctions and offers detailed analyses of the effect of sanctions on apartheid South Africa. Chapters by respected international experts cover cultural isolation, oil and military embargoes, trade boycotts, financial sanctions and divestment, consequences for black South Africans, and regional effects. The book shows how sanctions both directly and indirectly hurt the apartheid regime while ...

The way in which states are dealing with one another has changed more in the past decades than in the 350 years since the Peace of Westphalia. This accessible volume supplements the analyses of more familiar topics in the introductory literature on diplomacy. Experts from nine countries examine some of the ways in which diplomatic practice after 1945 has adapted to fundamental changes in international relations, or is still trying to come to t...

This is the first of five volumes reporting on the UNU-WIDER study on New Regionalism. It deals with the conceptions and meanings of two processes which probably will have a crucial influence on the shape of the 'new world order' - globalization and regionalization. These studies relate to each other as challenge to response, globalization being the challenge of economic and cultural homogenization of the world and regionalization being a soci...

Processes of change, stagnation and development in the countries of the Gulf Co-operation Council are analyzed in this book. The contributors show impact of oil revenues on population change and social development and on redefining the socio-economic role of the state. Oil could open venues for industrialization and development. However, lack of population policies, problems of human resources development, the rather slow change in gender rela...