Category: Cultural

By André Habisch, René Schmidpeter

This booklet presents a multidisciplinary method of company Social accountability. whereas for many years a simply mathematical-technical orientation ruled the company curriculum, this e-book provides CSR and sustainability as a enterprise idea embedded in its cultural and non secular context. It at the start methods useful knowledge from various cultural and spiritual traditions as a resource of religious capital for sustainable company practices. for that reason, it hyperlinks present CSR suggestions and the most recent pondering in CSR with long-standing cultural and non secular wisdom, selling a extra finished view on sustainability administration and its implementation at company organizations. The ebook collects and unites viewpoints from a number of cultural and non secular contexts, supplying a entire advisor for overseas and globally lively businesses.

By Klaus Mladek

This assortment makes a speciality of the cultural background of the police as an establishment from the 16th to the 20 th centuries. opposite to such a lot reports at the legislations and the country, Police Forces demonstrates how profoundly smooth democracies are enveloped through extra casual and no more codified modes of social regulate. In a time while the rule of thumb of legislation seems to be at the retreat, 'police reports' emerges as a box in its personal correct. This quantity is helping stake out this new self-discipline, together with the complex hyperlink among police and the legislations, 'might' and 'right,' nation violence, surveillance applied sciences, politics and resistance. Police Forces considers the query of legislation and order from less than: alleyways, borders, police stations, legislation places of work, bureaucracies, and the minds of directors, within which the quotidian workings of the legislations spread.

By Haim Yacobi, Tovi Fenster

Contents: advent, Haim Yacobi and Tovi Fenster; Remembering forgotten landscapes: neighborhood gardens in ny urban and the reconstruction of cultural variety, Efrat Eizenberg; reminiscence, acceptance and the structure of a diasporic position: the case of Netivot, Israel, Haim Yacobi; Neighbourhood and belonging: Turkish immigrant ladies developing the standard public house, Eda Unlu-Yucesoy; reminiscence, belonging, and resistance: the fight over position one of the Bedouin-Arabs of the Negev, Safa Abu-Rabia; One position - assorted stories: the case of Yaad and Miaar, Tovi Fenster; The reconstructed urban as rhetorical area: the case of Volgograd, Elena Trubina; Seoul: urban, id, and the development of the earlier, man Podoler; 'We won't promote our country!': the reconfiguration of Jewish city estate and ethno-national political discourses and tasks in (post) Socialist Romania, Damiana Gabriela Otoiu; Forgetting and remembering: Frankfurt's Altstadt after the second one global battle, Marianne Rodenstein; From 'patrimoine partage' to 'whose heritage'? serious reflections on colonial outfitted history within the urban of Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Johan Lagae; Epilogue, Tali Hatuka; Index

By Robert Launay

The be aware dyula skill 'trader' within the Manding language. it's also the identify of yes Manding-speaking ethnic minorities in elements of northern Ivory Coast, who, for hundreds of years prior to the arrival of colonial rule, loved a digital buying and selling monopoly over the neighborhood quarter. within the first a part of this booklet Robert Launay describes Dyula groups sooner than the twentieth-century colonial interval: he discusses the neighborhood symbiosis among Dyula investors and Senufo farmers; the association of Dyula job; and the department of the groups into rather small extended family wards with excessive charges of in-marriage. the second one half examines the ways that either groups have tailored to the hot lack of their buying and selling monopoly, and the options they've got hired, similar to emigration, the assimilation of Western schooling and the adoption of recent occupations, to carve out a brand new financial area of interest for themselves. As an account of the incorporation of 'traditional' neighborhood right into a glossy city, the ebook might be of curiosity to anthropologists and others excited about improvement and modernisation in Africa and the 3rd global.

By Barrett Watten

As one of many founding poets and editors of the Language university of poetry and certainly one of its important theorists, Barrett Watten has constantly challenged the limits of literature and artwork. within the Constructivist second, he deals a sequence of theoretically proficient and textually delicate readings that develop a revisionist account of the avant-garde in the course of the methodologies of cultural reports. His significant themes comprise American modernist and postmodern poetics, Soviet constructivist and post-Soviet literature and paintings, Fordism and Detroit techno - every one proposed as exemplary of the social building of aesthetic and cultural kinds. His publication is a full-scale try and position the linguistic flip of severe idea and the self-reflexive foregrounding of language via the avant-garde because the Russian Formalists relating to the cultural politics of postcolonial stories, feminism and race conception. As such, it's going to offer an important revisionist viewpoint inside of modernist and avant-garde experiences.

By Christopher Prendergast

By Patricia Boling

The work-family regulations of Sweden and France are frequently held up as types for different countries to stick with, but political buildings and assets can current hindrances to basic switch that has to be taken under consideration. Patricia Boling argues that we have to imagine realistically approximately the right way to create political and coverage switch during this important quarter. She evaluates coverage techniques within the US, France, Germany and Japan, interpreting their coverage histories, energy assets, and political associations to give an explanation for their methods, and to suggest real looking trajectories towards switch. Arguing that a lot of the tale lies within the means that activity markets are dependent, Boling exhibits that after ladies have average probabilities of resuming their careers after giving start, they're prone to have young children than in international locations the place even short breaks placed an finish to a profession, or the place motherhood restricts them to part-time paintings.

By Allen Batteau

During this selection of fourteen essays, students of Appalachian tradition and society study how the folk cope with and adapt to the pressures of swap thrust upon them. Appalachia and America will attract a large diversity of individuals attracted to the southern mountains or within the coverage problems with social welfare. It bargains cogently with the latest type of clash affecting not just groups in Appalachia, yet city and rural groups in the US at large―the fight for neighborhood values and methods of existence within the face of far away and robust bureaucracies.

By Abner Cohen

Central to this unique research, first released in 1974, is that Political guy can also be Symbolist guy, that guy is two-dimensional. The e-book explores the probabilities of the systematic learn of the dialectical interdependence among strength relationships and symbolic motion in smooth, advanced society. The dialogue specializes in the methods through which curiosity teams, that can't organise themselves officially, manage kinds of symbolic formations to articulate a few simple organisational capabilities: uniqueness, verbal exchange, decision-making, authority, ideology and socialisation. The research is labored out by way of particular case reports of other varieties of groupings, or ‘invisible firms’ – ethnic, elitist, non secular, ritually mystery, cousinhood – which wade through procedures of cultural metamorphosis, transferring from one symbolic technique to one other, in line with alterations of their conditions. In end, the dialogue is delivered to endure at the examine of stratification in large-scale business society generally.

By Sonia Madrid Cánovas

¿Puede los angeles publicidad ser un objeto de investigación científica entendida como discurso? ¿Cuáles son los elementos esenciales del texto publicitario? ¿Puede existir el signo publicitario? ¿Qué metodología nos permite comprender l. a. actividad discursiva publicitaria? ¿Cuáles son las diferencias entre los modelos de análisis? Son algunas de las preguntas que planteamos en este libro. Porque l. a. publicidad no sólo proyecta interrogantes desde el punto de vista de l. a. conveniencia, l. a. moralidad, los angeles estética, l. a. sociología o l. a. creatividad. En cuanto constructo sígnico, semiótico, en cuanto discurso híbrido en el que se imbrican varios sistemas de significación que convergen en un itinerario de sentido, merece un espacio propio de atención que es el que aquí presentamos.