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Music And Social Movements - Mobilizing Traditions In The Twentieth Century

by Andrew Jamison e Ron Eyerman

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 In their groundbreaking new study of the music of activism, Ron Eyerman and Andrew Jamison examine the mobilization of cultural traditions and the formation of collective identities through music and song. Chapters consider folk and country music, black music, and music of sixties social movements.
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Performing Civility - International Competitions In Classical Music

by Lisa (University Of Edinburgh) Mccormick

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 Lisa McCormick considers the history of classical music competitions and their role in society by examining their highlights and ongoing controversies. She explains why, despite a widespread belief that performances cannot be ranked, aspiring musicians still enter them, professionals still judge them, and audiences still invest emotionally in the results.
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Performing Civility - International Competitions In Classical Music

by Lisa (University Of Edinburgh) Mccormick

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 Lisa McCormick considers the history of classical music competitions and their role in society by examining their highlights and ongoing controversies. She explains why, despite a widespread belief that performances cannot be ranked, aspiring musicians still enter them, professionals still judge them, and audiences still invest emotionally in the results.
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Music And Social Movements - Mobilizing Traditions In The Twentieth Century

by Andrew Jamison e Ron Eyerman

30,48€ + 10% CARD

 In their groundbreaking new study of the music of activism, Ron Eyerman and Andrew Jamison examine the mobilization of cultural traditions and the formation of collective identities through music and song. Chapters consider folk and country music, black music, and music of sixties social movements.
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Identity Before Identity Politics

by Linda (Washington University, St Louis) Nicholson

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 Places identity politics in its historical framework, analyzing the evolution of the concepts and traditions of racial and gender identity. Linda Nicholson examines how changing ideas about social identity both helped and hindered successive social movements and explains the shift to a new discourse of identity politics in the 1960s.
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Blood Sacrifice And The Nation - Totem Rituals And The American Flag

by Carolyn (University Of Pennsylvania) Marvin e David W. (University Of Pennsylvania) Ingle

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 American patriotism is a civil religion organized around a sacred flag. Its citizens periodically sacrifice their children to unify the group. Using an anthropological approach, this groundbreaking study explains the rituals of American nationalism, and analyses the malaise pervading post-war American society.
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The Simulation Of Surveillance - Hypercontrol In Telematic Societies

by William (Whitman College, Washington) Bogard

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 This compelling book, first published in 1996, is an exploration of the imaginary of perceptual control technologies at the beginning of the twenty-first century. William Bogard offers a Postmodern critique of simulation technologies: virtual reality, computer profiling, AI and genetic mapping.
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Challenging Codes - Collective Action In The Information Age

by Alberto (Universita Degli Studi Di Milano) Melucci

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 Leading social theorist Alberto Melucci builds on his highly influential Nomads of the Present to consider collective action in the postmodern age of information. Challenging Codes shares the social psychological perspective of its companion volume The Playing Self.
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Arab Soccer In A Jewish State - The Integrative Enclave

by Tamir (Assistant Professor, University Of Florida) Sorek

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 The growing success of Arab soccer teams and players in Israel highlights fundamental tensions and contradictions in Israeli collective identity and in Arab-Jewish relations. This book analyses the political significance of sport in ethno-national conflicts and argues that equality in the soccer sphere legitimises contemporary inequality between Jews and Arabs.
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Matters Of Culture - Cultural Sociology In Practice

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 Matters of Culture, first published in 2004, is an introduction to some of the best theorizing in cultural sociology, focusing in particular on questions of power, the sacred and cultural production. Contains a major theoretical introduction that lays out the internal structure of the field and contributions from leading academics.
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Nation And Commemoration - Creating National Identities In The United States And Australia

by Lynette P. (University Of Notre Dame, Indiana) Spillman

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 What are the experiences and symbols which define nationhood? Nation and Commemoration focuses on the major centennial and bicentennial celebrations to examine how two similar sets of people, Australians and Americans, have created and recreated their different national identities.
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Colonial Fantasies - Towards A Feminist Reading Of Orientalism

by Meyda (Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey) Yegenoglu

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 Colonial Fantasies, first published in 1998, examines the Western fascination with the veiled women of the Orient. It challenges dualistic conceptions of identity and difference, West and East, and questions the traditional masculinist assumptions of Orientalism and feminist discourses which seek to 'liberate' the veiled woman.
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Distant Suffering - Morality, Media And Politics

by Luc (Ecole Des Hautes Etudes En Sciences Sociales, Paris) Boltanski

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 What is the morally acceptable response to images of starving children, bombed villages and mass graves brought to us by television? Luc Boltanski discusses the ways in which spectators have tried to respond to what they have seen and asks if there remains a place for pity in modern politics.
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The Playing Self - Person And Meaning In The Planetary Society

by Alberto (Universita Degli Studi Di Milano) Melucci

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 In this groundbreaking book, Alberto Melucci delves into questions about the self, in a globalised, information society, as both a psychological and socio-cultural entity. He examines the self as the site of highly personal experiences, such as laughing and loving, and through more impersonal experiences, such as of time.
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Challenging Codes - Collective Action In The Information Age

by Alberto (Universita Degli Studi Di Milano) Melucci

64,89€ + 10% CARD

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 Leading social theorist Alberto Melucci builds on his highly influential Nomads of the Present to consider collective action in the postmodern age of information. Challenging Codes shares the social psychological perspective of its companion volume The Playing Self.
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Genealogies Of Citizenship - Markets, Statelessness, And The Right To Have Rights

by Margaret R. (Professor Of Sociology And History, University Of Michigan, Ann Arbor) Somers

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 This book is an ambitious intertwining of multidisciplinary themes about citizenship, social exclusion, statelessness, civil society, knowledge, the public sphere, networks and narrativity. Margaret Somers offers a fundamental rethinking of democracy, freedom, rights and social justice in today's world. This is political, economic and cultural sociology and social theory at its best.
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Genealogies Of Citizenship - Markets, Statelessness, And The Right To Have Rights

by Margaret R. (Professor Of Sociology And History, University Of Michigan, Ann Arbor) Somers

141,95€ + 10% CARD

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 This book is an ambitious intertwining of multidisciplinary themes about citizenship, social exclusion, statelessness, civil society, knowledge, the public sphere, networks and narrativity. Margaret Somers offers a fundamental rethinking of democracy, freedom, rights and social justice in today's world. This is political, economic and cultural sociology and social theory at its best.
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Arab Soccer In A Jewish State - The Integrative Enclave

by Tamir (Assistant Professor, University Of Florida) Sorek

133,84€ + 10% CARD

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 The growing success of Arab soccer teams and players in Israel highlights fundamental tensions and contradictions in Israeli collective identity and in Arab-Jewish relations. This book analyses the political significance of sport in ethno-national conflicts and argues that equality in the soccer sphere legitimises contemporary inequality between Jews and Arabs.
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The Work Of Global Justice - Human Rights As Practices

by Fuyuki (York University, Toronto) Kurasawa

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 Fuyuki Kurasawa develops a new perspective on human rights and the creation of an alternative globalization. Focusing on how groups and persons struggling against transnational injustices act, he identifies five modes of practice (bearing witness, forgiveness, foresight, aid and solidarity) that represent the ethical and political substance of global justice.
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Social Performance - Symbolic Action, Cultural Pragmatics, And Ritual

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 Jeffrey C. Alexander brings together new and leading contributors to make a powerful and coherently argued case for a new direction in cultural sociology, one that focuses on the intersection between performance, ritual and social action. This is a path-breaking volume that makes a major contribution to the field.
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Illiberal Politics In Neoliberal Times - Culture, Security And Populism In The New Europe

by Mabel (Cornell University, New York) Berezin

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 Focusing on rightwing populist politics in contemporary Europe, particularly the French National Front, Mabel Berezin argues that the populist movement would not have emerged in the absence of intensified Europeanization. A compelling read which makes a novel argument about the relation between democracy and political and social security.
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Illiberal Politics In Neoliberal Times - Culture, Security And Populism In The New Europe

by Mabel (Cornell University, New York) Berezin

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 Focusing on rightwing populist politics in contemporary Europe, particularly the French National Front, Mabel Berezin argues that the populist movement would not have emerged in the absence of intensified Europeanization. A compelling read which makes a novel argument about the relation between democracy and political and social security.
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Screening The Los Angeles 'Riots' - Race, Seeing, And Resistance

by Darnell M. (University Of Southern California) Hunt

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 Darnell M. Hunt explores how race shapes the construction of news and viewers' understandings of it, by examining televised coverage of the Los Angeles 'riots' and viewers' responses to it. A major contribution to the debates about the power of television and our power to resist it.
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Social Performance - Symbolic Action, Cultural Pragmatics, And Ritual

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 Jeffrey C. Alexander brings together new and leading contributors to make a powerful and coherently argued case for a new direction in cultural sociology, one that focuses on the intersection between performance, ritual and social action. This is a path-breaking volume that makes a major contribution to the field.
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