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Music And Social Movements - Mobilizing Traditions In The Twentieth Century

de Andrew Jamison e Ron Eyerman

30,48€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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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

de Lisa (University Of Edinburgh) Mccormick

45,96€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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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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The Problem Of Universals In Contemporary Philosophy

128,43€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 The problem of universals is one of the most fascinating and enduring topics in the history of metaphysics, with roots in ancient and medieval philosophy. The contributors to this book provide a critical, up-to-date and original overview of the contemporary debate on the problem of universals.
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Performing Civility - International Competitions In Classical Music

de Lisa (University Of Edinburgh) Mccormick

133,84€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 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.
INGLÊS

Music And Social Movements - Mobilizing Traditions In The Twentieth Century

de Andrew Jamison e Ron Eyerman

30,48€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 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

de Linda (Washington University, St Louis) Nicholson

50,02€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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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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Principles Of Cognitive Radio

de Andrea J. (Stanford University, California) Goldsmith, Ezio (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) Biglieri, H. Vincent (Princeton University, New Jersey) Poor, Larry J. (Rutgers University, New Jersey) Greenstein e Narayan B. (Rutgers University, New Jersey) Mandayam

85,17€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Expert authors draw on fundamentals of information theory, network theory, propagation, optimisation and signal processing, to explain the core physical and networking principles of cognitive radio and key design considerations for developing new cognitive radio systems.
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The Performative Presidency - Crisis And Resurrection During The Clinton Years

de Jason L. Mast

128,43€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 A diverse set of literatures including studies of presidential leadership strategies, citizenship and the media are combined to offer a new account of turn-of-the-century American politics. The Performative Presidency brings ritual and discourse theories, as well as concepts from performance studies, to examine power and politics in late-modern America.
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The Evolutionary Foundations Of Economics

128,43€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This 2005 volume brings together fifteen original articles from eminent economists in their common efforts to reconstruct economics as an evolutionary science. Using meso economics as an analytical entity, bridging micro and macro economics as well as static and dynamic realms, a unified economic theory emerges.
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Identity Before Identity Politics

de Linda (Washington University, St Louis) Nicholson

85,17€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 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

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

39,20€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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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

de William (Whitman College, Washington) Bogard

45,96€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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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

de Alberto (Universita Degli Studi Di Milano) Melucci

120,32€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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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

de Tamir (Assistant Professor, University Of Florida) Sorek

45,96€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 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

63,54€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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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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Colonial Fantasies - Towards A Feminist Reading Of Orientalism

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

27,04€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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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

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

31,09€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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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

de Alberto (Universita Degli Studi Di Milano) Melucci

58,13€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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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

de Alberto (Universita Degli Studi Di Milano) Melucci

64,89€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 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

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

33,80€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 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

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

141,95€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 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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The Work Of Global Justice - Human Rights As Practices

de Fuyuki (York University, Toronto) Kurasawa

141,95€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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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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Arab Soccer In A Jewish State - The Integrative Enclave

de Tamir (Assistant Professor, University Of Florida) Sorek

133,84€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 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.
INGLÊS

The Work Of Global Justice - Human Rights As Practices

de Fuyuki (York University, Toronto) Kurasawa

45,96€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 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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