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    Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
    Publication Date: 2024-02-22
    Description: This volume brings together the papers presented at the international symposium Rethinking Nature in Contemporary Japan: Facing the Crisis held at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in March 2015, as the last of a three-years research project on post-Fukushima Japan funded by the Japan Foundation. The book focuses on Religion and Thought, Fine Arts, Music, Cinema, Animation and Performing Arts (Theatre and Dance), from a multidisciplinary perspective.
    Keywords: Landscape,Tokyo,Japanese Traditional Music,Resilience,1960s,Emplacement,Garden,Seismic ambient noise,Exhibition,Post-bubble,Great Kantō Earthquake (1923),Japanese New Wave,Enka,Street singers,Ecomusicology,Nature,Environment,Japanese underground music,Music and Nature,Natural environment,Acoustic corporeality,Art,Housing,Gagaku,Film production,Perception,Ideas on music,Japan,Performance art and disaster,Antinuclear protest,Masumura Yasuzō,Japanese Music,Hōgaku,Japanese Cinema,The pratice of music
    Language: English
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    Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
    Publication Date: 2024-02-22
    Description: Il presente volume consiste in una miscellanea di studi su vari temi del mondo classico offerta da amici, colleghi, ed ex-allievi, a Ettore Cingano, Professore Ordinario di Letteratura Greca presso l’Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, in occasione del suo settantesimo compleanno. I contributi qui presentati coprono, con approcci metodologici variegati, una vasta area della cultura classica: dall’epica arcaica e la lirica arcaica e tardo-arcaica alla storia degli studi e alla ricezione antica e moderna della classicità, dalla poesia latina alla storia politica e del pensiero, dalla poesia ellenistica alla prosa imperiale, dalla linguistica alla metrica.
    Keywords: Evenius,Glaucus of Rhegium,Platon curapalates,Epigram,Latin Literature,Apollonios Malakos,Ass,Lyric poetry,Augustus,Poetry and religion,Herodotus,Poseidippus,Intertextuality,Didactic poetry,Hesiod,Theognis,Ancient reception,Early Greek hexameter poetry,Civil wars at Rome,Aphrodite,Metric-rhythmic variation,Corinna,Hecataeus of Miletus,Freud,Ancient readership,Hexameter,Pragmatics,Enunciation,Tragic irony,Delphic verse oracles,Magic,Alcibiades,Romance,Moirai,Oracular poetry,Epicleseis,Hellenistic,Anthropology,Homeric Hymns,Textual history,Alcman,Antigone,Hedylus,Lyric Poetry,Atalanta,Amphiaraus,Antinoupolis,Etymology,Codex,Aristophanes,Garland,Priapus,Aelian,Alexandrian scholarship,Narrative,Aeschines,Eschatology,Ritual,Dionysus,Cleopatra,Erotodidaxis,Etymologica,Epic,Programmatic,Local traditions,Pindar,Sexual meaning,Volcanism,Caesarion,Iphigenia,Dictys of Crete,Pythian Apollo,Eratosthenes’ Catasterismoi,PSI X 1174,Aspasia,Sacrifice,Ausonius,Second stasimon,Sublime,Greek Popes,Virgil,Human error,Hyginus’ Astronomica,Hesiodic Catalogue of Women,Prometheus Bound,Sicily,Socrates,Perioikoi,Pope John VII,Eumenides,Callimachus,Catalogue of Women,Poetic allusivity,Poetry,Verbal adjectives,Cyprus,Homeric hymn,Collection,Byzantine poetry,Asclepiades,Ps,μάχλος,Christian poetry,Ancient scholarship,Didymus,Dares the Phrygian,Epitaphs of animals,Ancient exegesis of comedy,Typhonomachy,Funerary epigram,Theban saga,Aristophanic scholia,Carmina Latina Epigraphica 1395,Odyssey,Text and image,Corinthian vases,Critical editions,Oxyrhynchus,Aeschylus,Curse,Plato,Commentary,Sophocles,Audience,Greek Poetry,Hermes,impersonation,Adespota,Aristocracy,Roman epic and politics,Greek Literature,Knowledge,Linguistics,Elegy,A personal anthology of modern Greek poems (from D,Frazer,Homeric model,Euphronius,Athenaeus,Venus,Boeotian dialect,Heraclides of Pontus,Carthage and Alexandria in the Aeneid,Metaphors,Antiatticist,Kitharōidia,Fragmentary poetry,Comparatives,Prose,Greek epigram,Byzantine Rome,Xenophon,Authorship,Ancient Rhetoric,Epiploke,Narratology,Aulōidia,Epithets,Longinus,Book,Tragedy,Second Sophistic,Papyrology,Trojan War,Mount Etna,Body doubles,Plutarch’s De musica,Reperformance,Inscribed Greek verse,Solon,Strabo,Rhodes,Ibycus,Heracles,Homer,Lexicography,The Greek West,Pyrwias,Folklore,Iliad,Melampous,Herodicus,Cyrene,Dancers,μαχλοσύνη,Late Latin epigrams,Parthenopaeus
    Language: English , Italian , French
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    Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
    Publication Date: 2024-02-22
    Description: In the last twenty years, Food Studies have fortunately become increasingly widespread and reflected in important academic and business institutions, as well as closely connected to popular media. They offer multidisciplinary perspectives of the relationship between food and the different components of the societies to which they are linked, in particular; science, culture, communication, economics, finance, and environmental sustainability. The approach to the subject, precisely because of its broad spectrum, allows a wide range of scholars and experts from different sectors to study the relationship with their respective disciplines in progressively dynamic and transversal ways. The Food+ Symposium, organised by Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in collaboration with the Consulate General of Japan in Milan, hosted some of the most prestigious names in different fields, with particular reference to the specificities of two of the countries where food has traditionally had greater symbolic value: Italy and Japan. These two culinary realities are now exported all over the world and have been for a long time representative of lifestyles, social and economic dynamics, in many cases similar all along their respective histories. This volume, therefore, presents the result of the contributions offered by the main exponents of the Italian-Japanese economic-cultural scene, intended as a starting point for further investigations.The participation of authorities and guests, managers, experts, journalists and scholars from Japan and Italy to the Symposium, gave a chance to achieve a great overview into Food Studies. Our guests have presented a great number of implications of the cultural representations of Food Culture analysed in a multi-perspective approach, underlying the value of Food and cuisine in Japan and Italy nowadays as in the past, through a considerable transition between tradition and modernity.
    Keywords: Gastronomy,Itami,Performing arts,Post-corona,Death,Ozu Yasujiro,Ferreri,Culture,Gen Y and Z,Sustainability,F&amp ; B,B-kyū gurume,Nō,Symbolism,Symbolic meaning,Traditional family,Symposium,Trade,Life,Miike Takashi,Marketing,Morita Yoshimitsu,Design,Arts,Food,Dining scenes,Innovation,Tampopo,Transversal,Interdisciplinary,Japanese diet,Investments and trends,Post-pandemic,Omnichannel journey,Globalisation,Acculturation,Consumers,Food experience,Perceptions,F&B,Nostalgia,National Identity,Meals,Consumption,Restaurants,Shin’ya Shokudō,Soft power,Anthropology,Media narratives,Commerce,Online experience,Cinema,Japan,Publishing,Venice,Food consumption,La Grande Bouffe,Media,Kabuki,Italy,Storytelling,Sushi,Made in Italy,Consumactors,Food culture,Kyōgen
    Language: English
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    New York University Press | NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: In The Sense of Justice, distinguished legal author Markus Dirk Dubber undertakes a critical analysis of the “sense of justice”: an overused, yet curiously understudied, concept in modern legal and political discourse. Courts cite it, scholars measure it, presidential candidates prize it, eulogists praise it, criminals lack it, and commentators bemoan its loss in times of war. But what is it? Often, the sense of justice is dismissed as little more than an emotional impulse that is out of place in a criminal justice system based on abstract legal and political norms equally applied to all. Dubber argues against simple categorization of the sense of justice. Drawing on recent work in moral philosophy, political theory, and linguistics, Dubber defines the sense of justice in terms of empathy—the emotional capacity that makes law possible by giving us vicarious access to the experiences of others. From there, he explores the way it is invoked, considered, and used in the American criminal justice system. He argues that this sense is more than an irrational emotional impulse but a valuable legal tool that should be properly used and understood.
    Keywords: Jurisprudence and general issues ; thema EDItEUR::L Law::LA Jurisprudence and general issues
    Language: English
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    New York University Press | NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-05
    Description: After Race pushes us beyond the old "race vs. class" debates to delve deeper into the structural conditions that spawn racism. Darder and Torres place the study of racism forthrightly within the context of contemporary capitalism. While agreeing with those who have argued that the concept of "race" does not have biological validity, they go further to insist that the concept also holds little political, symbolic, or descriptive value when employed in social science and policy research. Darder and Torres argue for the need to jettison the concept of "race," while calling adamantly for the critical study of racism. They maintain that an understanding of structural class inequality is fundamentally germane to comprehending the growing significance of racism in capitalist America.
    Keywords: Social discrimination and equal treatment ; Human rights, civil rights ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFA Social discrimination and social justice ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPV Political control and freedoms::JPVH Human rights, civil rights
    Language: English
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    New York University Press | NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-07
    Description: Images of diamonds appear everywhere in American culture. And everyone who has a diamond has a story to tell about it. Our stories about diamonds not only reveal what we do with these tiny stones, but also suggest how we create value, meaning, and identity through our interactions with material culture in general. Things become meaningful through our interactions with them, but how do people go about making meaning? What can we learn from an ethnography about the production of identity, creation of kinship, and use of diamonds in understanding selves and social relationships? By what means do people positioned within a globalized political-economy and a compelling universe of advertising interact locally with these tiny polished rocks? This book draws on 12 months of fieldwork with diamond consumers in New York City as well as an analysis of the iconic De Beers campaign that promised romance, status, and glamour to anyone who bought a diamond to show that this thematic pool is just one resource among many that diamond owners draw upon to engage with their own stones. The volume highlights the important roles that memory, context, and circumstance also play in shaping how people interpret and then use objects in making personal worlds. It shows that besides operating as subjects in an ad-burdened universe, consumers are highly creative, idiosyncratic, and theatrical agents.
    Keywords: Anthropology ; Sociology ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
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    Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
    Publication Date: 2024-02-22
    Description: This volume, which collects the proceedings of the international study day Intersections. New Perspectives for Public Humanities, aims at shedding light on the often complicated and chaotic ‘texture’ of public humanities in order to foster a less marginal place for this field of study. The choice to focus the analysis on a selection of case studies that includes history, cultural heritage, archaeology, and literature leads to redesigning a profile whose main feature is to create bridges between specialised knowledge domains and large audiences and identifying methods and models that can make humanistic knowledge ‘actionable’ in our society.
    Keywords: Brain computer interface,History,Research,Public,Cultural heritage,Media art,Entertainment,Sustainability,Fascism,Discipline,Learning,Bolzano,Pandemic crisis,Diversity,Environmental humanities,Inclusion,De-fascistization,Public humanities,Contemporary literature,Public archaeology,Digital,Museology,Public history,20th century,Citizen science,Museum,Trieste,Teaching,Virtual heritage,Mental health,Museums,Women artists,Cultural landscape,Communities,Dissemination,University,Knowledge design,Landscape archaeology,Public History,Digital technologies,Public engagement,Venice,Digital humanities,Intersections,Architecture,Creative industries,Venice lagoon,Italy,Wellbeing,Women writers,Young people,Literary canons,Water management,Citizen-science,Collections,Cultural heritage management
    Language: English , Italian
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    New York University Press | NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: A landmark work of lesbian literature with a reflective introduction written by the author twenty years later Lover was first published in 1972 to tremendous critical acclaim. Emerging out of the women's and gay liberation movement alongside the early work of writers such as Rita Mae Brown and Jill Johnston, the novel features fictional and historical characters who run the gamut from saint to white trash, and who are by turn vulnerable and strong. One of the finest examples of early post-Stonewall lesbian fiction, Lover paints a fascinating mural of one of the most significant times in LGBTQ history. In the introduction to this updated edition edition, Bertha Harris offers a window into the cultural and personal milieu in which she wrote. Revealing the real-life personalities behind some of the novel's characters, Harris reframes the story within its unique moment in time, and gives readers new insights into the heady post-Stonewall days. This audacious and outrageous novel is a gem of early lesbian writing, ready to be rediscovered by a new generation.
    Keywords: Fiction: general and literary ; thema EDItEUR::F Fiction and Related items
    Language: English
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    Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
    Publication Date: 2024-02-22
    Description: Il Dottorato di ricerca in Storia Antica e Archeologia, oggi confluito in quello in Scienze dell’Antichità in convenzione con Udine e Trieste, ha rappresentato, a Ca’ Foscari, un momento importante di crescita del settore antichistico con la formazione di un gruppo di giovani studiosi attivi e apprezzati in diversi settori, in Italia e all’estero. Questo volume riunisce i contributi di due seminari sviluppati dai dottorandi su temi comuni, uno relativo al ruolo delle élites, l’altro a quello del sacro, tra antichità e medioevo. È una testimonianza del lavoro svolto e curato dai dottorandi, un momento di formazione che ritrova oggi nel nuovo dottorato la sua tradizione.
    Keywords: Elite culture,Sanctuary,Élites,Altino,Sleeping Cupid,Pherse,Eurasian steppes,Funerary rituals,Corinthian, Corinthian,Etruscan mirror,Minoan Palace,Iconography,Bacchic child,Metus,Coeli,Medusa,Palazzo Pitti,Thesmophorion,Iron Age,Monumental build- ings,Kurgan,Dionysus,Social complexity,Mysteries,Religious Studies,Crete,Scythians,Status-symbol,Cristiano Grottanelli,Inscriptions,Malia,Gela,Sacrifice,Production and consumption,Elite groups,Greece,Protopalatial sites,Menerva,Religious beliefs,Roma,Early Helladic period,Deposits,Perseo,Antiquity,Prosopography,Epigraphy,Iconology,Kotylai,Instrumenta inscripta,Necropolis,Roman sculpture,Orientalia
    Language: English , Italian
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    New York University Press | NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: Since the fall of communism, laissez-faire capitalism has experienced renewed popularity. Flush with victory, the United States has embraced a particularly narrow and single-minded definition of capitalism and aggressively exported it worldwide. The defining trait of this brand of capitalism is an unwavering reverence for the icons of the market. Although promoted as a laissez-faire form of capitalism, it actually reflects the very evils of selfishness and greed by entrepreneurs that concerned Adam Smith. Capitalism, however, can thrive without an extreme emphasis on efficiency and personal autonomy. Americans often forget that theirs is a rather peculiar form of capitalism, that other Western nations successfully maintain capitalistic systems that are fundamentally more balanced and nuanced in their effect on society. The unnecessarily inhumane aspects of American capitalism become apparent when compared to Canadian and Western European societies, with their more generous policies regarding affirmative action, accommodation for disabled persons, and family and medical leave for pregnant woman and their partners. In American Law in the Age of Hypercapitalism, Ruth Colker examines how American law purports to reflect--and actively promotes--a laissez-faire capitalism that disproportionately benefits the entrepreneurial class. Colker proposes that the quality of American life depends also on fairness and equality rather than simply the single-minded and formulaic pursuit of efficiency and utility.
    Keywords: Jurisprudence and general issues ; thema EDItEUR::L Law::LA Jurisprudence and general issues
    Language: English
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    Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
    Publication Date: 2024-02-22
    Description: This volume collects a series of theoretical and practical interventions in the area of blended learning globally. It aims to present pedagogues working in higher education contexts in the developing world with models of successful blended learning initiatives designed and implemented by committed educators working with student bodies characterised by unequal access to technology and connectivity. The twelve individual chapters of this volume are an invaluable practical resource for educators but when taken as a whole the collection provides a counter to commonplace beliefs about blended learning originating within the institutions of wealthy countries. It offers theoretical, material and socially grounded currents for thinking about the place of blended learning in the Global South and is a work of resistance to pedagogical epistemologies with ‘first world’ and neoliberal biases.
    Keywords: Video game-based learning,Second language acquisition,Intercultural citizenship,Blended learning,Pedagogy,Online learning,Digital portfolios,English literature,Foreign language teaching,Game-based learning,Peerinstruction,Global citizenship,Instructional design,Humanities,Flipped classroom,Italian,Digital,Reciprocal peer learning,Learning management systems,Translation,Oppressed,Educational change,Intercultural encounters,Online,Formative assessment,Text-writing,Reading postures,Virtual learning environments,eTandem,Student-centred learning,Teaching,Reflective teaching,Gamification,Intercultural competence,Language learning,Email,Gender equality,Peer-centred cycle,E-learning,Digital stories,Digital educational Technology,Literary analysis,Pre-service teachers,Computer assisted instruction,Institutional culture,Just-in-time teaching,Telecollaboration,Active citizenship,Distance learning,French foreign language,Higher education,Computer assisted language learning,Virtual exchange,E-portfolios,Students,Deep reading,Italian as a second language
    Language: English
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    Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
    Publication Date: 2024-03-23
    Description: This volume examines the entanglements between contemporary art practices, ecology, and non-human subjects through contributions from scholars, art writers, critics, artist-researchers and designers. The collected essays reveal contemporary art’s potential to reorient epistemological and ontological coordinates amid ecological and existential crises, questioning human exceptionalism and the exploitative logics of extractivism and planetary industrialization. Central to the volume are issues of environmental degradation and violence, racial capitalism, colonial legacies, the emergence of the Anthropocene, in relation to the diverse terrain of contemporary art practices. Emphasizing the agency of more-than-human collaborators, from animals to microbial ecologies, and from oceans to nuclear waste, these practices expose injustices, reclaim damaged ecosystems, and propose alternative ways of being in and with the planet. Artist-researchers contribute perspectives that open up new avenues for knowledge creation in the disrupted landscapes of the Anthropocene, pointing to symbiotic relationships between humans and non-human entities that are only beginning to be explored. By sharing theoretical frameworks and languages, the artists’ and writers’ contributions make clear that the environmental crises impacting the ecosystems require new collaborations to build common epistemological grounds, and shared visions of planetary futures.
    Keywords: Blackbird,Cosmopolitics,Nuclear knowledge,Toxicity,Extraction,Mediterranean Sea,Pluriversal ontologies,Ecology,Colonialism,Synesthesia,Ecomaterialism,Mimicry,Ecosystems,Multispecies,Non-human animals,Cultural heritage-making,Re-worlding,Water,Archiving method,Vernacular design,Regionalism,Anthropocene,Imagining otherwise,Permaculture,Environment,Networks,Aurality,Coppice,Ecological art practices,Visitation,Woodland,Eco-art,Multispecies studies,Spores,Plantationocene,Radioactive legacies,Contemporary art,Art practices,Migration,Narratives,Platforms,Speculative practices,Materiality,Racialized labour,Architecture,Birdsong,Biopolitics,Visual Art ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts
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    New York University Press | NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-04
    Description: In its steady march across the United States, methamphetamine has become, to quote former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, “the most dangerous drug in America.” As a result, there has been a concerted effort at the local level to root out the methamphetamine problem by identifying the people at its source—those known or suspected to be involved with methamphetamine. Government-sponsored anti-methamphetamine legislation has enhanced these local efforts, formally and informally encouraging rural residents to identify meth offenders in their communities. Policing Methamphetamine shows what happens in everyday life—and to everyday life—when methamphetamine becomes an object of collective concern. Drawing on interviews with users, police officers, judges, and parents and friends of addicts in one West Virginia town, William Garriott finds that this overriding effort to confront the problem changed the character of the community as well as the role of law in creating and maintaining social order. Ultimately, this work addresses the impact of methamphetamine and, more generally, the war on drugs, on everyday life in the United States.
    Keywords: Anthropology ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology
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    Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
    Publication Date: 2024-02-22
    Description: Come definire la letteratura della migrazione? Attraverso una serie di casi di studio che vanno dalla Turchia alla Cina, passando per l’Armenia e l’Iran, Orienti migranti: tra letteratura e traduzione analizza ‘zone di contatto’ a metà tra più lingue e paesi, allo scopo di delineare un modello di letteratura al contempo locale e globale e che considera il migrante un tropo ricorrente della contemporaneità. Il volume è così l’occasione per intraprendere un viaggio dell’immaginazione verso est, verso un altrove linguistico e letterario che – in fin dei conti – non è poi così lontano.
    Keywords: Family identity,Garod,Language,Armenian,Ethnic identity,Qing,Memory,Migration literature,William Saroyan,City,Cosmopolitan dimension,Qiu Xiaolong,Identity,Sinophone writing,Armenian-American cultural blend,Crime fiction,Migration
    Language: English , Italian
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    New York University Press | NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-06
    Description: The Lebanese are the largest group of Middle Eastern immigrants in the United States, and Lebanese immigrants are also prominent across Europe and the Americas. Based on over eighty interviews with first-generation Lebanese immigrants in the global cities of New York, Montreal and Paris, this book shows that the Lebanese diaspora – like all diasporas – constructs global relations connecting and transforming their new societies, previous homeland and world-wide communities. Taking Lebanese immigrants’ forms of identification, community attachments and cultural expression as manifestations of diaspora experiences, Dalia Abdelhady delves into the ways members of Lebanese diasporic communities move beyond nationality, ethnicity and religion, giving rise to global solidarities and negotiating their social and cultural spaces. The Lebanese Diaspora explores new forms of identities, alliances and cultural expressions, elucidating the daily experiences of Lebanese immigrants and exploring new ways of thinking about immigration, ethnic identity, community, and culture in a global world. By criticizing and challenging our understandings of nationality, ethnicity and assimilation, Abdelhady shows that global immigrants are giving rise to new forms of cosmopolitan citizenship.
    Keywords: Sociology ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
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    New York University Press | NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-08
    Description: After all the green beer has been poured and the ubiquitous shamrocks fade away, what does it mean to be Irish American besides St. Patrick’s Day? Who’s Your Paddy traces the evolution of “Irish” as a race-based identity in the U.S. from the 19th century to the present day. Exploring how the Irish have been and continue to be socialized around race, Jennifer Nugent Duffy argues that Irish identity must be understood within the context of generational tensions between different waves of Irish immigrants as well as the Irish community’s interaction with other racial minorities. Using historic and ethnographic research, Duffy sifts through the many racial, class, and gendered dimensions of Irish-American identity by examining three distinct Irish cohorts in Greater New York: assimilated descendants of nineteenth-century immigrants; “white flighters” who immigrated to postwar America and fled places like the Bronx for white suburbs like Yonkers in the 1960s and 1970s; and the newer, largely undocumented migrants who began to arrive in the 1990s. What results is a portrait of Irishness as a dynamic, complex force in the history of American racial consciousness, pertinent not only to contemporary immigration debates but also to the larger questions of what it means to belong, what it means to be American.
    Keywords: History ; Anthropology ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology
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    New York University Press | NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: "When BooBoo stabs Morris Boyle I am reading a news magazine that someone has smuggled into the wing." Thus, the protagonist of this novella introduces us to prison, one of the several worlds he inhabits, worlds most of us would rather ignore but which inexorably, through what we see and hear and read and live on uncountable American streets, has become the one world we can no longer avoid. It seduces us with the voice of drugs and violence. Of the disenfranchised. Of those both at once outside and standing within the center of what no longer holds. It informs us of who we are today.
    Keywords: Fiction: general and literary ; thema EDItEUR::F Fiction and Related items
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    Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
    Publication Date: 2024-02-22
    Description: Il volume che qui vede la luce costituisce il secondo capitolo del progetto METra (Mapping Epic in Tragedy – Epica e tragedia greca: una mappatura) e contiene i contributi presentati durante il Seminario Internazionale METra 2, tenutosi a Verona nel giugno 2022. Proseguendo sulle direttrici di ricerca i cui esiti sono ora disponibili in METra 1 (Lexis Supplementi 11, 2022), questa seconda raccolta indaga ulteriori aspetti dell’eredità omerica ed epica in tragedia. Come nel volume precedente, i saggi propongono approcci disciplinari diversificati: dallo studio metrico, linguistico e stilistico all’intertestualità, dalla ricerca dell’allusione alla riflessione sull’eventuale persistenza, tra Grecia arcaica e classica, di sistemi culturali ed etico-religiosi, senza trascurare il dialogo con la modernità.
    Keywords: Persians,Aeschylus’ Libation Bearers,Parodos,Metaphor,Oratio recta,Tragic formularity,Aristocratic ideology,Epics,Funeral ideology,Modern epic,Dactylo-epitrites,Ancient Greek Thought,Anapaests,God’s will,Intertextuality,Dactyls,Gods,Homeric poems,Trojan Women,Dialogue,Ethics,Nikos Kazantzakis,Odyssey,War,τις-Rede,Aeschylus,Greek tragedy,Ajax,Epic lexicon,Tragedy and polis,Sophocles,Euripides,Funeral lament,Athena’s name,Epic language,Homer,Autocitation,Iliad,Performance,Reciprocity,Agency,Hecuba,Ulysses,Andromache,Helen,Lyric Poetry,Kunstsprache,Greek prayers,Drama,Funeral rite,Fragments,Attic tragedy
    Language: English , Italian
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    Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
    Publication Date: 2024-02-22
    Description: ‘Volontà’ discende, etimologicamente, da voluntas. Ma nell’accezione di voluntas non è più avvertita la plurivocità terminologica presente nella lingua greca. Di conseguenza la teoria dell’azione ampiamente affrontata nel contesto del pensiero classico (si pensi, tra gli altri, alle Etiche aristoteliche) ne ha risentito, finendo per risolversi, in ambito romano, in un quadro concettuale semplificato. I saggi qui raccolti hanno consentito di mettere a fuoco un vero e proprio nuovo paradigma articolato. Al suo interno si colloca una rinnovata concezione di ‘volontà’: quella che si dispiega nella moderna interpretazione dell’‘atto volontario’ e del ‘volontarismo’ tout-court.
    Keywords: Cynicism,Boulesis,Weakness of assent (asthenês sunkatathesis),Stoic psychology,Choice,Fate,Passion,Masculinity,Lucan,Power,Seneca,Original sin,Sponte,Uoluntas,Strength,Virtus,Mens,Augustine,Fortuna,Tragedy,Events,Anger,Action,Cicero,βούλησις,Audacia,Voluntas,Stoicism,Odysseus,Desire,Heracles,Will,Prohairesis,De ira,Temeritas,Historia naturalis,Epibole,Heroes,Officium,Socrates,Velleitas,Impulse,Responsibility,Gods
    Language: English , Italian , French
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    Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: Taking Italy and Poland as its main case studies, this book re-examines the major political and ideological confrontations that crossed Cold War Europe from the perspective of ordinary families and of those who sought to regulate the way in which they lived. Crossing the iron curtain, and looking at two countries hardly ever brought together in historical analysis, the book shows the extent to which the battle over the regulation of family and marriage shaped the social, political and cultural landscape of postwar Europe.
    Keywords: Family,Cold War,Catholic Church,Poland,Postwar,Italy,Divorce,Marriage,Communism ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    New York University Press | NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-06
    Description: A political biography that reveals new sides to Helen Keller Several decades after her death in 1968, Helen Keller remains one of the most widely recognized women of the twentieth century. But the fascinating story of her vivid political life—particularly her interest in radicalism and anti-capitalist activism—has been largely overwhelmed by the sentimentalized story of her as a young deaf-blind girl. Keller had many lives indeed. Best known for her advocacy on behalf of the blind, she was also a member of the socialist party, an advocate of women's suffrage, a defender of the radical International Workers of the World, and a supporter of birth control—and she served as one of the nation's most effective but unofficial international ambassadors. In spite of all her political work, though, Keller rarely explored the political dimensions of disability, adopting beliefs that were often seen as conservative, patronizing, and occasionally repugnant. Under the wing of Alexander Graham Bell, a controversial figure in the deaf community who promoted lip-reading over sign language, Keller became a proponent of oralism, thereby alienating herself from others in the deaf community who believed that a rich deaf culture was possible through sign language. But only by distancing herself from the deaf community was she able to maintain a public image as a one-of-a-kind miracle. Using analytic tools and new sources, Kim E. Nielsen's political biography of Helen Keller has many lives, teasing out the motivations for and implications of her political and personal revolutions to reveal a more complex and intriguing woman than the Helen Keller we thought we knew.
    Keywords: activism ; biography ; complex ; controversial ; explore ; first ; Kellers ; landscape ; political ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose::DNB Biography: general::DNBH Biography: historical, political and military ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFM Disability: social aspects
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    New York University Press | NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: It is an article of faith in America that scientific advances will lead to wondrous progress in our daily lives. Americans proudly support scientific research that yields stunning breakthroughs and Nobel prizes. We relish the ensuing debate about the implications—moral, ethical, practical—of these advances. Will genetic engineering change our basic nature? Will artificial intelligence challenge our sense of human uniqueness? And yet the actual implementation of these technologies is often sluggish and much-delayed. From Star Trek to Jurassic Park, the American imagination has always been fascinated by the power of scientific technology. But what does the reality of scientific progress mean for our society? In this controversial book, Steven Goldberg provides a compelling look at the intersection of two of America's most powerful communities—law and science—to explain this apparent contradiction. Rarely considered in tandem, law and science highlight a fundamental paradox in the American character, the struggle between progress and process. Science, with its ethic of endless progress, has long fit beautifully with America's self image. Law, in accordance with the American ideal of giving everyone a fair say, stresses process above all else, seeking an acceptable, rather than a scientifically correct, result. This characteristic has been especially influential in light of the explosive growth of the legal community in recent years. Exposing how the legal system both supports and restricts American science and technology, Goldberg considers the role and future of three projects—artificial intelligence, nuclear fusion, and the human genome initiative—to argue for a scientific vision that infuses research with social goals beyond the pure search for truth. Certain to provoke debate within a wide range of academic and professional communities, Culture Clash reveals one of the most important and defining conflicts in contemporary American life.
    Keywords: American ; between ; both ; character ; Clash ; conflict ; contemporary ; Culture ; defining ; Exposing ; fundamental ; Goldberg ; highlights ; important ; legal ; life ; paradox ; process ; progress ; restricts ; reveals ; science ; struggle ; supports ; system ; technology ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies ; thema EDItEUR::L Law::LN Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law::LND Constitutional and administrative law: general
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    New York University Press | NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-04
    Description: Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series Neither Fugitive nor Free draws on the freedom suit as recorded in the press and court documents to offer a critically and historically engaged understanding of the freedom celebrated in the literary and cultural histories of transatlantic abolitionism. Freedom suits involved those enslaved valets, nurses, and maids who accompanied slaveholders onto free soil. Once brought into a free jurisdiction, these attendants became informally free, even if they were taken back to a slave jurisdiction—at least according to abolitionists and the enslaved themselves. In order to secure their freedom formally, slave attendants or others on their behalf had to bring suit in a court of law. Edlie Wong critically recuperates these cases in an effort to reexamine and redefine the legal construction of freedom, will, and consent. This study places such historically central anti-slavery figures as Frederick Douglass, Olaudah Equiano, and William Lloyd Garrison alongside such lesser-known slave plaintiffs as Lucy Ann Delaney, Grace, Catharine Linda, Med, and Harriet Robinson Scott. Situated at the confluence of literary criticism, feminism, and legal history, Neither Fugitive nor Free presents the freedom suit as a "new" genre to African American and American literary studies.
    Keywords: African ; American ; confluence ; criticism ; feminism ; Free ; freedom ; Fugitive ; genre ; history ; legal ; literary ; Neither ; new ; presents ; Situated ; studies ; suit ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies
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    Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
    Publication Date: 2024-02-22
    Description: Renaissance antiquarianism can be defined as a cultural phenomenon that aims to interpret the past by cross-referencing heterogeneous sources accumulated and collected over time. This entailed the use of new investigative techniques which involved combining literary sources and material findings to provide a reliable foundation for the idea of history. Atlas of Renaissance Antiquarianism, moving along different lines of theoretical and practical conceptualisation, declines the matters according to a plethora of different disciplines: philology, iconology, numismatics, epigraphy, chronology, conviviality, art, and fashion. The purpose of this manyfold investigation is to demonstrate how the antiquarian approach – that based the growth of thought on documented sources and empirical evidence – represented a methodological perspective capable to influence the way the past was viewed through a critical analysis of sources.
    Keywords: Classical Tradition,Epistolography,Collecting,Antiquarianism,Renaissance
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    Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
    Publication Date: 2024-02-22
    Description: Atti del IV Congresso della società di Didattica delle Lingue e Linguistica Educativa DILLE (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, 2-4 febbraio 2017). Il fenomeno dell’internazionalizzazione è sempre più presente in ogni sfera della vita economica, sociale e culturale del paese. In ambito educativo, l’internazionalizzazione è associata a nuove condizioni culturali e linguistiche, nuove esigenze e problemi, e i suoi effetti sono ad ampio raggio, dal momento che il fenomeno produce un impatto importante sull’educazione linguistica, sui programmi formativi per gli studenti, sulla formazione dei docenti, sull’erogazione di corsi. Dietro lo sfondo della crescente natura internazionale del sistema educativo, i contributi presentati al Congresso hanno esplorato le implicazioni per l’insegnamento/apprendimento delle lingue e per l’educazione linguistica in generale.
    Keywords: Language teaching,Multilingualism,Text meaning,Resilience,Italian as FL/SL,Discourse community,Internationalisation,Foreign university students,Language Policy,Second generation,Multiculturalism,Plurilingual communication,Academic vocabulary,CEFR,Academic Italian,Reading,Italian,Students’ perception,Interculturality,Higher Education,Italian language,Arabic,ICC,Reading skills,Linguistic and Intercultural Needs,Longitudinal studies,Authentic video,Ethnicization,Intercultural skills,Academic writing,ICT,Italian for academic purposes,Intercultural education,Italian as L2,Simplification,Study abroad,Non-formal learning,Plurilingualism,International classroom,Writing approach,Culture,Vocabulary acquisition,Lecturing styles,Listening comprehension,Multiethnic classroom,Teacher training,Language testing,Non-native speaker,Second Language,French/Spanish/German,English-Taught Programs,Key competences,Integration,Assessing initial preparation,International students,Migrant students,Italian dialects,Blogging,Competencies,Student perceptions,Proverbs,Malta,Content subject teacher,Museum learning,Oral intercomprehension didactic methods,Urban context,Literature,Mitigation,Teaching foreign languages,Self-assessment,Bilingualism,Placement test,Sociolinguistics,CLIL,Education,Higher education,Erasmus,L2 Italian,Minority language university students,Certificate in “Italian Language Teaching” DILS-PG,Academic language,EMI,Candidates,Language proficiency,Applied linguistics,Language for academic purposes,English-as-a-Foreign-Language,Bilingual education,Interlinguistic strategies,Intercomprehension among related languages,Cooperative language learning and teaching,Categorization analysis,Internationalization,Learner autonomy,Content and Language integrated learning,Literacy,Academic discourse,",Heritage language,Pragmatic competence,ICLHE,Testing academic language proficiency,Non-professional mediation,Young learners,Intercultural communicative competence assessment,Italian as a Second Language,Knowledge,Method,University students’ communicative skills,Linguistic repertoires,Teachers Training,Incidental learning,Rhetoric,Linguistic diversity,Teacher Training,Carinthia,Student mobility,Integrated curriculum,Austria,Team teaching,Intercultural communicative competence,Linguistic and cultural diversity,Language education,School,Language teacher profile,Heteroglossia,Italian L2,Scholarly interaction,Internationalization of research,Language awareness,Learners,Intercomprehension,English-medium instruction,European policies,Child language brokering,Interaction studies,Methodological innovation,Subtitles,ETP,Intercultural language education,Text,Alphabetization,Language Testing,Linguistic Landscape,International classes,Conversation analysis,Teachers training,Intercultural learning,Language competences,Romance languages teaching,Scaffolding,Intercultural communication,Skills,Immigrant languages
    Language: English , Italian
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    New York University Press | NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: "Defines the challenges facing the movement and offers comprehensive prescriptions for its successful transformation." —The George Washington Law Review A valuable analysis of the rise, fall, and--hopefully—the revival of unionism in America. [The book] distills into readable form a mass of legal and empirical analysis of what has been happening in the workplaces of the United States and other industrial democracies. Most important, Craver has drawn a blueprint of what must be done to save collective bargaining in this century—must reading for scholars, lawmakers, and, especially, union leaders themselves. —Paul C. Weiler, Harvard Law SchoolAuthor of Governing the Workplace: The Future of Labor and Employment Law "A thoroughly researched, insightful, and readable look at why American unions have declined. . . . This is a very informative analyis of a vital topic, and it will have a multidisciplinary appeal to anyone interested in union- management relations. —Peter Feuille, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, University of IllinoisWhen employees at firms like Greyhound and Eastern Airlines walk out to protest wage and benefit reductions, they are permanently replaced and their representative labor unions destroyed. Every year, the threat or drama of a high-profile strike—in air traffic control towers, at Amtrak, or at Caterpillar—makes national headlines and, every year, several hundred thousand unrepresented American employees are discharged without good cause. During the past decade, employer opposition to unions has increased. Industrial and demographic changes have eroded traditional blue-collar labor support, and class-based myths have discouraged organization among white-collar workers. As the American labor movement begins its second century, it is confronted by challenges that threaten its very existence. Is the decline of the American labor movement symptomatic of a terminal condition? In this work, Charles Craver presents an incisive analysis of the current state of the American labor movement and a manifesto for how this crucial institution can be revitalized. Journeying with the reader from the inception of labor unions through their heyday and to the present, Craver examines the roots of their decline, the current factors which contribute to their dismal condition, and the actions that are needed--such as the recruitment of female and minority employees and appeals to white-collar personnel--that are necessary to ensure union viability in the 21st century. Craver thoughtfully discusses what labor organizations must do to organize new workers, to enhance their economic and political power, and to adapt to modern-day advances and to an increasingly global economy. He also suggests changes that must be made in the National Labor Relations Act. This book is essential reading for lawyers, scholars, and policy-makers, as well as all those concerned with the future of the labor movement.
    Keywords: Labour / income economics ; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCF Labour / income economics
    Language: English
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    New York University Press | NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-06
    Description: Beginning in the late 1970s and early 1980s, significant numbers of Haitian immigrants began to arrive and settle in Miami. Overcoming some of the most foreboding obstacles ever to face immigrants in America, they, their children, and now their grandchildren, as well as more recently arriving immigrants from Haiti, have diversified socioeconomically. Together, they have made South Florida home to the largest population of native-born Haitians and diasporic Haitians outside of the Caribbean and one of the most significant Caribbean immigrant communities in the world. Religion has played a central role in making all of this happen. Crossing the Water and Keeping the Faith is a historical and ethnographic study of Haitian religion in immigrant communities, based on fieldwork in both Miami and Haiti, as well as extensive archival research. Where many studies of Haitian religion limit themselves to one faith, Rey and Stepick explore Catholicism, Protestantism, and Vodou in conversation with one another, suggesting that despite the differences between these practices, the three faiths ultimately create a sense of unity, fulfillment, and self-worth in Haitian communities. This meticulously researched and vibrantly written book contributes to the growing body of literature on religion among new immigrants, as well as providing a rich exploration of Haitian faith communities.
    Keywords: Religion and beliefs ; Anthropology ; thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology
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    Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
    Publication Date: 2024-02-22
    Description: It is a well-known fact that organised crime has developed into an international network including very diverse actors – ranging from the simple ‘grave diggers’ to powerful and wealthy white-collar professionals – that adopt illegal practices like money laundering, fraud and forgery. This criminal system, ultimately, damages and disintegrates our cultural identity and, in some cases, fosters political corruption, terrorism or civil unrest through the transnational and illicit trafficking of cultural property. The forms of ‘ownership’ of Cultural Heritage are often indistinct, and – depending on the national legislation of reference – the proprietorship and trade of historical and artistic assets of value may be legitimate or not. Casual collectors and criminals have always taken advantage from these ambiguities and managed to place on the market items obtained by destruction and looting of museums, monuments and archaeological areas. Thus, over the years, even the most renowned museum institutions might have - more or less consciously – displayed, hosted or lent cultural objects of illicit origin. Ransacking, thefts, clandestine exports and disputable transactions are crimes that primarily affect countries that are rich in artistic and archaeological assets, but such activities do not involve just some countries. This is an international border-crossing phenomenon that starts in given countries and expands to many others. Some are briefly passed through while a handful of powerful and rich ones are the actual destination marketplaces. Drawing from the experience of the conference Stolen Heritage (Venice, December 2019), held in the framework of the H2020 NETCHER (NETwork and digital platform for Cultural Heritage Enhancing and Rebuilding) project, this edited volume focuses on illicit trafficking in cultural property addressing the issue from a multidisciplinary perspective and featuring papers authored by international experts and professionals actively involved in Cultural Heritage protection. The articles included expand on such diverse topics as the European legislation regulating import, export, trade and restitution of cultural objects; ‘conflict antiquities’ and cultural heritage at risk in the Near and Middle East; looting activities and illicit excavations in Italy; the use of technologies to counter looting practices and the publication of unprovenanced items. This collection is meant as a valuable resource to disseminate new results of the research as well as to facilitate a better understanding of the international legislation related to the protection of Cultural Heritage.
    Keywords: Cyprus,Gianfranco Becchina,Circulation of cultural goods,Cultural heritage,Internal market,Reliefs,Organised Crime,Satellites,Organised crime,Archaeological remote sensing,Syria,Preservation,Cut-off date,Online journalism,Political violence,Feature extraction,Organised cultural property crime,Protection of archaeological heritage,Threat,Directive 2014/60/EU,UNESCO,Pattern recognition,J,German Cultural Property Act,Heritage,Change detection,Art market,Sentinel-2,Conflict antiquities,Cultural property,Social media,Louvre,Staatliche Museen Berlin,Art-crime,Vandalism,Apulian Vases,Trapezophoros,Turkey,Funerary portraits,Iraq,Illicit trade,United Kingdom,European Association of Archaeologists,Information,Giacomo Medici,Resolution,COSMO-SkyMed,Palmyra,Paul Getty,Narcotics trafficking,Brexit,Antiquities trafficking,Google Earth,Looting,Regulation (EU) 2019/880,Unidroit 1995 Convention,Synthetic Aperture Radar,Germany,Cross-media
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    New York University Press | NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: Science fiction films, from the original Frankenstein and The Fly to Blade Runner and The Terminator, traditionally have been filled with aliens, spaceships, androids, cyborgs, and all sorts of robotic creatures along with their various creators. The popular appeal of these characters is undeniable, but what is the meaning of this generation of creatures? What is the relationship of mad scientist to subject, of human to android, of creature to creator? Androids, Humanoids, and Other Folklore Monsters is a profound investigation of this popular cultural form. Starting his discussion with the possible source of these creatures, anthropologist and writer Per Schelde identifies the origin of these critters in the folklore of past generations. Continuing in the tradition of ancient folklore, contends Schelde, science fiction film is a fictional account of the ongoing battle between nature and culture. With the advance of science, the trolls, dwarves, pixies, nixies, and huldres that represented the unknown natural forces of the world were virtually killed off by ever-increasing knowledge and technology. The natural forces of the past that provided a threat to humans were replaced by the danger of unknown scientific experiments and disasters, as represented by their offspring: science fiction monsters. As the development of genetics, biomedical engineering, and artificial intelligence blur the lines between human and machine in the real world, thus invading the natural landscape with the products of man's techno-culture, the representation of this development poses interesting questions. As Per Schelde shows, it becomes increasingly difficult in science fiction film to define the humans from their creations, and thus increasingly difficult to identify the monster. Unlike science fiction literature, science fiction film has until now been largely neglected as a genre worthy of study and scholarship. Androids, Humanoids, and Other Folklore Monsters explores science fiction (sf) film as the modern incarnation of folklore, emblematic of the struggle between nature and culture—but with a new twist. Schelde explains how, as science conquered the forests and mountains of the wild, the mythic creatures of these realms—trolls, elves, and ogres—were relegated to cartoons and children's stories. Technology and outer space came to represent the modern wild, and this new unknown came alive in the popular imagination with the embodiments of our fears of that unknown: androids, cyborgs, genetics, and artificial intelligence gone awry. Implicit in all of these is a fear, and an indictment, of the power of science to invade our minds and bodies, replacing the individual soul with a mechanical, machine-made one. Focusing his analysis on sixty-five popular films, from Frankenstein and Metropolis to Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Terminator, and Blade Runner, Per Schelde brings his command of traditional folklore to this serious but eminently readable look at SF movies, decoding their curious and often terrifying images as expressions of modern man's angst in the face of a rapidly advancing culture he cannot control. Anyone with an interest in popular culture, folklore, film studies, or science fiction will enjoy this original and comprehensive study.
    Keywords: Film history, theory and criticism ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATF Films, cinema::ATFA Film history, theory or criticism
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    Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
    Publication Date: 2024-02-22
    Description: L’esplorazione dell’arte armena iniziò nel diciannovesimo secolo grazie a storici dell’arte francesi, russi, tedeschi, finlandesi, austriaci e armeni e continuò nel ventesimo secolo prevalentemente con studiosi russi, armeni, ucraini, americani e italiani, che hanno portato all’attenzione del largo pubblico, non solo dei ricercatori, il patrimonio artistico di un territorio che supera i confini dell’attuale Armenia, e investe un’area definita Subcaucasia, termine con il quale si intende il territorio che dal Caucaso meridionale trapassa negli altopiani iranico e anatolico. L’interesse per l’arte armena, dai manoscritti miniati, ai khachkar, alle architetture, è cresciuto negli ultimi vent’anni conferendo a queste testimonianze una dimensione globale. Il volume illustra le caratteristiche, i temi e i metodi dei vari percorsi di ricerca emergenti dalle diverse tradizioni storiografiche tracciando così una mappa che aiuta ad orientarsi tra i fenomeni artistici e culturali di questo complesso territorio, fornendo diverse chiavi per comprenderli e ragionamenti utili per le future indagini scientifiche.
    Keywords: Research,Silverwork,Anatolia,Armenia,Armenian-Islamic ‘syncretism’,Bronze Age archaeology,Illustrated manuscripts,Seljuk and Ilkhanid architecture,Study trips,Armenian-Georgian architectural relationship,Armenian-Georgian cultural ties,Replica,Preservation,Armenian architecture,CSDCA Centro Studi e Documentazione sulla Cultura ,Caucasus,Icons,Armenian art,Repatriation movement,Cultural Ecology,Nakhchivan,Megalithic art,South Caucasus archaeology,Iran,Heritage,Monumentality,Milan Polytechnic University,Nikolay Brunov,Early Modern Armenian Studies,Cross-stones,Historiography,Historiograhy,Wall paintings,Textiles,Romania,CSDCA - Centro Studi e Documentazione Cultura Arme,History of art,Aleksej Nekrasov,Armenian history,Khachkar,Medieval architecture,Yovnatʽanean family,Varazdat Harutyunyan,Medieval art,Medieval Armenian art and Soviet Union,Photography,Adriano Alpago Novello,Armenian prehistory,Mikhail Babentchikov,Julfa,Dragon-stones,Architecture,Etchmiadzin cathedral,Middle Ages,Destruction,Alexey Lidov
    Language: English , Italian
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    Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
    Publication Date: 2024-02-22
    Description: The Jesuit textual production from the sixteenth century leaves no doubt that the Japanese evangelising enterprise was publicised as the epitome of success. Francisco Cabral, third superior of the mission, who had initially shared this judgement, in time began fearing that the mission was, instead, doomed to failure. As he perceived the loosening of the internal ties of the Society of Jesus, and the salvation of the catechumens as more and more independent of that of the Jesuits, Cabral concluded that God had abandoned the mission. This study, using little-known manuscript sources, examines Cabral’s attitudes towards his confreres and the Japanese people, to illuminate how particular salvation mechanics could define early modern Catholic missions.
    Keywords: History of Catholicism in Japan,Early modern Catholicism,Catholic soteriology,Early modern Jesuit missions,Japanese Jesuit mission
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    New York University Press | NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-04
    Description: One fifth of the population of the United States belongs to the immigrant or second generations. While the US is generally thought of as the immigrant society par excellence, it now has a number of rivals in Europe. The Next Generation brings together studies from top immigration scholars to explore how the integration of immigrants affects the generations that come after. The original essays explore the early beginnings of the second generation in the United States and Western Europe, exploring the overall patterns of success of the second generation. While there are many striking similarities in the situations of the children of labor immigrants coming from outside the highly developed worlds of Europe and North America, wherever one looks, subtle features of national and local contexts interact with characteristics of the immigrant groups themselves to create variations in second-generation trajectories. The contributors show that these issues are of the utmost importance for the future, for they will determine the degree to which contemporary immigration will produce either durable ethno-racial cleavages or mainstream integration. Contributors: Dalia Abdel-Hady, Frank D. Bean, Susan K. Brown, Maurice Crul, Nancy A. Denton, Rosita Fibbi, Nancy Foner, Anthony F. Heath, Donald J. Hernandez, Tariqul Islam, Frank Kalter, Philip Kasinitz, Mark A. Leach, Mathias Lerch, Suzanne E. Macartney, Karen G Marotz, Noriko Matsumoto, Tariq Modood, Joel Perlmann, Karen Phalet, Jeffrey G. Reitz, Rubén G. Rumbaut, Roxanne Silberman, Philippe Wanner, Aviva Zeltzer-Zubida, andYe Zhang.
    Keywords: Ethnic studies ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies
    Language: English
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    New York University Press | NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: The Clinton presidency is pivotal, occurring at a particularly sensitive time in American and world history. The Cold War has ended; yet Americans face daunting social and economic problems and are increasingly divided about how to address them. In this perceptive psychological portrait of Clinton and his presidency, expert Stanley Renshon investigates whether Clinton has demonstrated the requisite qualities of judgment, vision, character, and skill to meet the challenges he faces, domestically and internationally, and whether he merits another term. Renshon incisively analyzes Clinton's sweeping ambitions, his enormous confidence in himself and his goals, and his success in convincing people that he genuinely cares about them. He reveals a Bill Clinton whose capacity for political success is often undermined by the very traits for which many praise him. His unusually high self-confidence, for instance, leads him to believe that he can accomplish what others have not, that he can, for instance, reconcile polar opposites such as liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans. Remarkably persistent throughout Clinton's career are certain character traits which have defined him to the public--his tendency to make promises he can't keep, his ability to win people over in person, his sudden blind rages. Renshon traces the development of Clinton's character from his early family experiences to his highly successful adolescence and long political career. He illustrates how each step along the way--Clinton's inconsistent experiences as an adored but disregarded child, his attempt to avoid the draft and the consequences of doing so, his marriage to Hillary Rodham whose own psychology has both helped and hurt him, and his tenure as governor during which his character first became a political issue--is crucial to understanding his erratic and controversial presidency. Renshon explores the nature of the Clinton marriage as a political partnership and looks at Hillary Clinton as an associate president. High Hopes gives us a new understanding of why a man with so many talents has become a president whose performance has not measured up to his promise.
    Keywords: Politics and government ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government
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    New York University Press | NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: How did Judaism, a religion so often defined by its minority status, attain equal footing in the trinity of Catholicism, Protestantism, and Judaism that now dominates modern American religious life? THE AMERICANIZATION OF THE JEWS seeks out the effects of this evolution on both Jews in America and an America with Jews. Although English, French, and Dutch Jewries are usually considered the principal forerunners of modern Jewry, Jews have lived as long in North America as they have in post- medieval Britain and France and only sixty years less than in Amsterdam. As one of the four especially creative Jewish communities that has helped re-shape and re-formulate modern Judaism, American Judaism is the most complex and least understood. German Jewry is recognized for its contribution to modern Jewish theology and philosophy, Russian and Polish Jewry is known for its secular influence in literature, and Israel clearly offers Judaism a new stance as a homeland. But how does one capture the interplay between America and Judaism? Immigration to America meant that much of Judaism was discarded, and much was retained. Acculturation did not always lead to assimilation: Jewishness was honed as an independent variable in the motivations of many of its American adherents- -and has remained so, even though Jewish institutions, ideologies, and even Jewish values have been reshaped by America to such an degree that many Jews of the past might not recognize as Jewish some of what constitutes American Jewishness. This collection of essays explores the paradoxes that abound in the America/Judaism relationship, focusing on such specific issues as Jews and American politics in the twentieth century, the adaptation of Jewish religious life to the American environment, the contributions and impact of the women's movement, and commentaries on the Jewish future in America.
    Keywords: Ethnic studies ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies
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    Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
    Publication Date: 2024-02-22
    Description: The volume publishes the proceeding of the workshop Wisdom Between East and West: Mesopotamia, Greece and Beyond held at the University of Turin on 26-27 October 2022. The volume collects papers from Assyriologists, Classicists and Biblical scholars around the topic of wisdom. Scholars have investigated wisdom from various angles, from speculative thought to literature, from science, to dance, to proverbs.
    Keywords: Bull-Leaping,Dance,Astronomy,Parody,Science,Scholarly text compilation,Rational medicine,Babylonian Theodicy,Law,Episteme,Magical medicine,Tupšarrūtu,Dialectics in Assyro-Babylonian texts,Satire,Cuneiform world,Sumerian,Religious medicine,Scientia,Narrative Dances,Dialogue and debate,Wisdom literature,Folktale,Morality tale,Royal legislation,Hittites,Egyptian medicine,Nēmequ,Cult Festivals,Greek medicine,Babylonian literature,Scribal education,Erra and Išum
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    Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
    Publication Date: 2024-02-22
    Description: I contributi raccolti nel presente volume delineano lo stato dell’arte delle ricerche di linguistica slava svolte recentemente nell’ambito della slavistica italiana. I saggi sono dedicati a temi di morfologia, sintassi, semantica, lessicologia, pragmatica, sociolinguistica e didattica delle lingue slave, in ottica contrastiva, sincronica o diacronica, secondo quadri teorici e approcci metodologici di scuole e tradizioni diverse. La grande varietà dei temi trattati dagli autori, non solo italiani, è la più viva testimonianza della vivacità e della ricchezza che oggi permeano lo studio delle lingue slave in Italia e non solo.
    Keywords: Current Relevance,Russian Heritage Speakers,Slovene,Deixis,Czech language,Transfer,Locational,Negative Concord,Verb,Discourse/pragmatic markers, ved', Russian-Italian,Spatial metaphor,Italian,Czech,Present gerund,Passive voice,Competing inflectional case endings,Pragmatics,Nominative case,Background knowledge,Russian Renarrative markers,Manuscripts,Indefinite article,Fixed expression,Contrastive interlanguage analysis,Verbal aspect,17th century,Aktionsart,Conjunction chot’,Supralexical prefixes,Russian,Macedonian,Semantic shift,Articles,Verbs of motion,Oblique case,Slovo,Variation,Morphosyntactic structure,Saturday Russian Schools,Phraseology,Language standardisation,Aspectual pairs,Metaphor,Meta-linguistic analysis,Bulgarian,Spatial prefixes,Dynamic modality,Italian verb ‘fare’,Negative polarity items,Zonal inclusion,Language Learning,Slovo, the prefix iz-/vy-,Female referent,Indefiniteness,Scalar semantics,Slovenian,Neologisms,Comitative,Imperfective general-factual (IGF),Resian,Ved',Derivation,Delimitatives,Areal distribution,Non-paradigmatic imperative forms,Subjunctive complements,Metonymy,Resumption,Russian as a foreign language,Linguistic gender,Word formation,Běžati,Verbal mood,Anglicism,L2 Russian,With-phrase,Alienable,Factual meaning,Location-possession,Polish,Derivational models,Heritage Languages,Nonce compounds,Semantics,Aspect,Dialects,Litoral dialect,Part-of-speech affiliation,Albanian,Natural gender,Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis,Syntactic idioms,Truthfulness,Vocabulary articles,Learner corpus,Grammaticalization,Romance languages,Syntactic environment,Corpus-based contrastive analysis,Evidentiality,Resultative constructions,Relative Introducers,Croatian,Morphosyntax,Ukrainian,Linguistic minorities,Verbal lexicon,Minimizers,Tense,Negative indefinites,Old-Russian language,Discourse/pragmatic markers,Bilingualism and Migration,Contrastive studies,Morphology,Slavic languages,Perfective,Language planning,Past gerund,Slavic aspect,Evaluation,Present participle,Secondary borrowing,Negation,Irrealis,Predicative possession,Syntax,Non-past,Actionality,Distance,Intensification,Internet linguistics,Support (light) verb constructions,Productivity,Gradual verbs,Russian-Italian contrastive analysis,Inalienable,Contemporary Russian,Corpus,Modal logic,Modality of strong obligation,Linguistic coding,Taboo words,Restrictive/non-restrictive,Vocative case,Emotion verbs,International recognition,The prefix iz-/vy-,Deadjectival verbs,Grammatical aspect,Clausal mood,Translation,Causation,Language Acquisition,Relative Clauses,Derogatory words,Intercomprehension,Slavonic,Mood and modality,Suffixation,Telicity,Parallel corpora,Prepositions,Analogy,Neologism,Causative verbs,Neosemy,Lexicography,Discontinuous past,Prefixes,Molise Slavic,Colloquial Slovenian,Iintensification,Early East Slavic language,Preposition,Semantic Roles,Numeral one,Mood and moality,Aorist,Perfect,Slavic languages (Serbian, Polish, Bulgarian),Etiquette formulas
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    Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
    Publication Date: 2024-02-22
    Description: This volume brings together contributions from the international conference "Literatur zwischen Migration und Globalisierung. Formen der Komplexität in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur", which took place in May 2022 at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. It aims to reflect on the literature of migration of the last thirty years and to situate it in the increasingly complex world of our globalised present, crossed by the movements of people and cultures. The reflections of the individual essays take, as point of departure, the common observation that the literature of (post)migration is characterised by careful linguistic research and radical aesthetic experimentation, capable of interrogating our intercultural reality and of restoring a likewise complex image of the world and of society. The contributors that have converged in the present volume focus on examining the issues of complexity and identity, which, in the texts they discuss, are inextricably linked to the narration of spaces, borders, and movements. In the works of Uljana Wolf, Olga Grjasnowa, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Michael Stavarič, Terézia Mora, Emilia Smechowski, Feridun Zaimoglu, and Sasha Marianna Salzmann, the literary language variously becomes a means to explore new possibilities of meaning, to recover what has been erased, to reconstruct the biographical stratifications inscribed in the bodies, to feel at home in a foreign world, to criticise the historical memory of society, to register bilingualisms, conflicts, and ‘in-betweenness’, and hence to narrate the new forms of identity, of hybrid identity, of postidentity, and of gender identity that are formed as a result of first, second, or third generation migrations and in correspondence with precise geographical and human spaces.
    Keywords: Narrative discourse,Dance,Postmigrant,German-Polish relations,Gender,“Normalisierung”,Alle Tage,Multilingualism,Postmigrantische Gesellschaft,“Berliner Republik”,Border,Komplexität,Body,Space and literature,Körper,Michael Stavarič,Postmigration,Grenze,Multiculturalism,Biography,German literature,Memory culture,Identity and alterity,Mother tongue,Intercultural literature,Kontrolle,Sasha Marianna Salzmann,Wir Strebermigranten,Poetic speech act,Postidentity,Tanz,Trauma and literature,Berlin Republic,Austrian literature,Sexuality,Identity,Geschichts- und Erinnerungskultur,Normalisation,Trauma,Olga Grjasnowa,Postmigrant society,Migration,Emilia Smechowski,Postmigrant literature,Control,Identität,Postmigrantische Literatur,Postmigrantisch,Ellis Island,Intersectionality,Complexity,Rückkehr nach Polen,Postmonolingualism,Multikulturalismus
    Language: German
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    Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
    Publication Date: 2024-02-22
    Description: What are the challenges posed to English language examining boards by the phenomenal growth of English as a lingua franca? This volume takes a critical look at existing international English language certification, which assesses test takers on the basis of the proximity of their performance to native speaker models. It describes a pilot project to develop an ‘ELF aware’ certification for higher education, and concludes that it may be necessary to introduce new assessment criteria to reflect the ability of users of English to communicate successfully in an international environment.
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    Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
    Publication Date: 2024-02-22
    Description: This volume include essays originally delivered at the international workshop Italy, Europe, China: Economic, Political and Cultural Relations During the Cold War Years (1949-1971) held at the Department of Asian and African Studies of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice on 13th-14th February 2014 as well as invited research papers by two international outstanding scholars who have made valuable contributions to the study of China’s foreign policy and engagement in the ’50s and ’60s. The book illustrates recent trends in international research on China-Western Europe relations in the years of intense Cold War, complicating the long-held image of Mao-era China as sealed off from the outside world.
    Keywords: CCP,Ost-Ausschuss der Deutschen Wirtschaft,French foreign policy,Foreign experts,Devaluation,China’s Communist Youth League,Sino-Italian Relations,German business,Twentieth century,Foreign policy,Mao Zedong,Velio Spano,Chinese Communist Party,China,China-Italy relations,Review article,Federal Republic of Germany,Riots,People’s Republic of China,Cold war,Cold War,Cold War years,Mao era,East-West Trade,European residents,Word Federation of Democratic Youth,1949 China,Chinese scholars,Hong Kong,International economic relations,China National Import & Export Corporation,Chinese Committee for the Promotion of Internation,European students,United States,Bruno Bernini,ICP,Italy,Recognition,Sterling,China National Import &amp ; Export Corporation,PRC,COCOM
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    New York University Press | NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-05
    Description: Psychology's approach to sexual orientation has long had its foundation in essentialism, which undergirds psychological theory and research as well as clinical practice and applications of psychology to public policy issues. It is only recently that psychology as a discipline has begun to entertain social constructivism as an alternative approach. Based on the belief that thoughtful dialogue can engender positive change, Conversations about Psychology and Sexual Orientation explores the implications for psychology of both essentialist and social constructionist understandings of sexual orientation. The book opens with an introduction presenting basic theoretical frameworks, followed by three application sections dealing with clinical practice, research and theory, and public policy. In each, the discussion takes the form of a conversation, as the authors first consider essentialist and constructionist approaches to the topic at hand. These thoughts, in turn, are followed by responses from distinguished scholars chosen for their expertise in a particular area. By providing an array of comments and thoughtful responses to topics surrounding psychology's approaches to sexual orientation, this valuable study sheds new light on the contrasting views held in the field and the ways in which essentialist and constructionist understandings may be applied to specific practices and policies.
    Keywords: Psychology: sexual behaviour ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMU Psychology: sexual behaviour
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    Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
    Publication Date: 2024-02-22
    Description: Pandemics are disruptive events that have profound consequences for society and the economy. This volume aims to present an analysis of the economic impact of COVID-19 and its likely consequences for our future. This is achieved by drawing from the expertise of authors who specialise in a wide range of fields including fiscal and monetary policy, banking, financial markets, pensions and insurance, artificial intelligence and big data, climate change, labour market, travel, tourism and politics, among others. We asked contributing authors to write their chapters for a non-technical audience so that their message could reach beyond academia and professional economists to policy makers and the wider society. The material in this volume draws from the latest research and provides a wealth of ideas for further investigations and opportunities for reflection. This also makes it an ideal learning tool for economics and finance students wishing to gain a deeper understanding of how COVID-19 could influence their disciplines.
    Keywords: Policy complementarity,Gender,Investment banking,Solvency ratio,Resilience,Sovereign Yields,Spillover effects,Start-ups,Expected Shortfall,Data analytics,Pension transfers,Pension withdrawals,Public policy distortions,Zombie lending,Measurement,Local credit,ECB announcements,OPEC,Energy supply,Industry sectors,Fund raising,Tourism,Great Depression,Oil markets,Commercial,Brain circulation,Growth,Pension contributions,Coronavirus,Unemployment,High growth enterprises,Virtual tourism,Technology in pandemic,Portfolio Optimization,Mergers,Bank of England,Business interruption risk,Careers,Collaboration,Sports Finance,Protectionism,Bank default,ECB,Black Death,Equity market performance,Energy demand,Stock markets,Labour market,Oil prices,Debt,Trade,Green Deal,Alternative data,Dynamic Capabilities,Technology,Travel barriers,Basel,Gold,Internal migration,Decision-making,Political economy of policymaking,Future of Work,Flight-to-quality,Digital transformation,Solvency 2,Climate change,Travel,Beta,Residential,State pensions,Non-macro-related uncertainty,Talent mobility,Covid-19,Repo specialness,Public debt sustainability,Cryptocurrency,Populism,Tail risk,Market risks,Incentive compatibility,Venture capital,Sports Economics,Investment,Credit default risk,Longevity,Employment,Political uncertainty,Skills,Value-at-Risk,European repo market,Bitcoin,International researchers,Quantitative Easing,Real Estate,Soccer,Recovery policy,Sports Management,Private equity,Regulation,Acquisitions,Childcare,Central Bank,Pandemic,Italy,Festivals,Far right parties,Xenophobia,Technology impact,Ambiguity,Pandemics,Altcoin,Corporate investments,Bank risk,CAPM,Austerity,Pension scams,AI,COVID-19 crisis,Treasury,Revenues,Pay,Volatility,Financial crisis,Home production,COVID-19 pandemic,Artificial intelligence,Interest Rates,Country risk,Mortality,Economic History,Economic recovery,Pensions,Fiscal policy,Market risk,Fiscal inequality,Recovery,Informal economy,Data interface,COVID-19,Lockdown,Fiscal Policy
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    Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
    Publication Date: 2024-02-22
    Description: This volume brings together scholars from different backgrounds and career stages to rethink the role and scope of intertextuality in the context of premodern Japan. From antiquity to the rise of modernity, originality through repetition persists as a staple in the literary, performative, and artistic traditions of this country. Nonetheless, rather than slavish recycling of pre-existing tropes, the redeployment of familiar motifs by patterns of borrowing, allusion, and imitation would become a means to explore untrodden creative pathways and craft a shared sense of cultural belonging. Stemming from an international symposium hosted at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in 2021 with the generous support of The Japan Foundation, the papers in this collection offer a thoughtful contribution to this debate by engaging texts from different historical periods, media, and genres – be it poetic, narrative, theatrical, visual, or religious. Although intertextuality may not be a new topic, the essays that follow attest to the enduring appeal of a concept whose explanatory power proves most effective when combined with other methods of inquiry, such as discourse analysis, social sciences, gender studies, and material culture. Thus, while opening new windows onto Japan’s literary worlds, these cross-disciplinary approaches provide further insights into the uses (and abuses) of the past in a non-Western non-modern society.
    Keywords: Katsura Bunji I,Tsuruya Nanboku IV,Kana literature,Shinkokinshū,Court Diary,Buddhism,Sūtras,Dōgen,Commentaries,Kokin wakashū,Temporality,Outer writings,Kawara-no-in,Intertextuality,Premodern Japanese literature,Utatane,Nihon ryōiki,Re-interpretation,Sarayashiki,Ise monogatari,Nun Abutsu,San’yūtei Enchō,Religion,Fujiwara no Shunzei (Toshinari),Female enlightenment,Chinese novels,Ki no Tsurayuki, Kagerō nikki,Roland Barthes,Waka,Edo literature,Fujiwara no Teika (Sadaie),Japanese poetry,Text,Sharebon,Baba Bunkō,Morishima Chūryō,Layers of narration in intertextuality,Gender dynamics,Classical Chinese literature,Inner scriptures,Genji monogatari,Book indexes,Kabuki,Metatextuality,Nō theatre,Sarashina nikki,Yomihon,Zen,Fantastic literature,Mythologies
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    New York University Press | NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: Despite tremendous advances in civil rights, we live in a world where the sexes remain sharply segregated from birth to death: in names, clothing, social groupings, and possessions; in occupations, civic association, and domestic roles. Gender separatism, so pervasive as to be almost invisible, permeates the fabric of our daily social routines. Preferring a notion of gender that is fluid and contextual, and denying that separatism is inevitable, Nancy Levit dismantles the myths of gender essentialism Drawing on a wealth of interdisciplinary data regarding the biological and cultural origins of sex differences, Levit provides a fresh perspective on gendered behaviors and argues the need for careful cultivation of new relations between the sexes. With its focus particularly on men, The Gender Line offers an insightful overview of the construction of gender and the damaging effects of its stereotypes. Levit analyzes the ways in which law legitimizes the social segregation of the sexes through legal decisions regarding custody, employment, education, sexual harassment, and criminal law. In so doing, she illustrates the ways in which men's and women's oppressions are intertwined and how law molds the very definition of masculinity. Applying feminist methodology to the doctrine of feminism itself, Levit artfully demonstrates that gender separatism infects even our contemporary views of feminism. Levit asks questions that have been too long been unspoken--those that lie at the core of the feminist project, yet threaten its very foundations. Revealing masculinity as both a privileged and a victimized condition, she calls for a step forward, past the bounds of contemporary feminism and its conflicts, toward a more egalitarian and inclusive feminism. This brand of feminism would reshape traditional masculinity, invite men into feminist dialogue, and claim men as political allies.
    Keywords: Gender studies, gender groups ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups
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    Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
    Publication Date: 2024-02-22
    Description: Once hailed as superpower and benchmark of Post-Fordism management, Japan’s economy and its corporations are taken as negative example of insufficient compliance to neoliberalist policies. This book demonstrates that the problems of Japan’s economy and corporations are more universal: encountering the limits of mass-industrialised production and consumption, large corporations fail to ignite innovation by decentralisation and bottom-up participation. Instead, they increase their returns by ongoing cost reduction and centralization, adhere to large-scale technology, fuel profits into M&A to defend their traditional business models and privilege capital providers and top executives.
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    New York University Press | NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-06
    Description: An "experienced overseer of intelligence" maps out the future of American intelligence and security Recent years have seen numerous books about the looming threat posed to Western society by biological and chemical terrorism, by narcoterrorists, and by the unpredictable leaders of rogue nations. Some of these works have been alarmist. Some have been sensible and measured. But none has been by Loch Johnson. Johnson, author of the acclaimed Secret Agencies and "an experienced overseer of intelligence" (Foreign Affairs), here examines the present state and future challenges of American strategic intelligence. Written in his trademark style--dubbed "highly readable" by Publishers Weekly--and drawing on dozens of personal interviews and contacts, Johnson takes advantage of his insider access to explore how America today aspires to achieve nothing less than "global transparency," ferreting out information on potential dangers in every corner of the world. And yet the American security establishment, for all its formidable resources, technology, and networks, currently remains a loose federation of individual fortresses, rather than a well integrated "community" of agencies working together to provide the President with accurate information on foreign threats and opportunities. Intelligence failure, like the misidentified Chinese embassy in Belgrade accidentally bombed by a NATO pilot, is the inevitable outcome when the nation's thirteen secret agencies steadfastly resist the need for central coordination. Ranging widely and boldly over such controversial topics as the intelligence role of the United Nations (which Johnson believes should be expanded) and whether assassination should be a part of America's foreign policy (an option he rejects for fear that the U.S. would then be cast not only as global policeman but also as global godfather), Loch K. Johnson here maps out a critical and prescriptive vision of the future of American intelligence.
    Keywords: Warfare and defence ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JW Warfare and defence
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    Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
    Publication Date: 2024-02-22
    Description: Frutto di ricerche svolte in diversi Paesi europei, questo libro analizza il fenomeno del posting of workers in un’ottica internazionale e interdisciplinare, con particolare attenzione alle condizioni di lavoro, salute e sicurezza, alle questioni normative, agli illeciti, alle violazioni dei diritti dei lavoratori in distacco transnazionale. Da questa disamina ricca di documentazione, il posting of workers emerge come una nuova frontiera della svalorizzazione del lavoro, che estremizza tendenze caratteristiche delle trasformazioni del lavoro avvenute negli ultimi decenni a scala globale, in primis la precarizzazione e il dumping sociale.
    Keywords: Working conditions,European law,Health,Precarious work,Posting labour,Internal market,Labour exploitation,Collaboration,Non-European,European Labour Authority (ELA),Slovenia,Law applicable,Transnational labour market,Austria,Subcontracting,Wage dumping,Labour market,EU,Dumping,Occupational safety and health,The Aarhus Light Rail,Undeclared work,Belgium,Precariousness,Transnational posting of workers,Cross-border,The Copenhagen Metro,Free movement of workers,Freedom to provide services,European Union,Occupational Safety and Health (OSH),Posted work,Directive 96/71/EC,Trade Union,Rule enforcement,Precarity,Cross-border labour recruitment,Employment conditions,Labour migration,Language barriers,Exploitation,Inspection services,Outsourcing,Housing,Inspection activity,Construction sector,Directive 2014/67/EU,Labour flexibility,Posted workers,OSH,Atypical employment,Social dumping,Public works,Rule Enforcement,Posting of workers,Free provision of services,Third country nationals,Work transformation,Labour mobility,Italy,Applicable labour law regime,Unions,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Collective rights,Germany,Flexibility
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    New York University Press | NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: Whether in the form of the ongoing automotive wars, books and films such as Michael Crichton's Rising Sun, or George Bush's ill-fated trip to Japan in 1991, frictions between the United States and Japan have been steadily on the rise. Americans are bombarded with images of Japan's fundamental difference; at the same time, voices in Japan call for a Japan That Can Say No. If the guiding principle of the Clinton administration is indeed new values for a new generation, how will this be reflected in U.S.-Japanese relations? Convinced that no true solution to U.S.-Japanese frictions can be achieved without tracing these frictions back to their origin, Ryuzo Sato here draws on a binational experience that spans three decades in both the Japanese and American business and academic communities to do just that. In an attempt to bridge the communication gap between the two countries and dispel some of the mutual ignorance and misunderstanding that prevails between the two, Sato addresses the following questions: --Is Japan really different? --Has America's sun set? --How have conflicting views on the role of government affected U.S.-Japan relations? --What are the real differences in American and Japanese industrial policies? --What is the anatomy of U.S.-Japanese antagonisms? --What effect has the collapse of the bubble economy had on relations? --What is Japan's future course? Is it truly a technological superpower? Can it avoid international isolation? An incisive personal look at one of the most important political and economic global relationships, written by a major player in the world of international business and finance, THE CHRYSANTHEMUM AND THE EAGLE provides a readable and engaging tour of U.S.-Japan relations, past and present.
    Keywords: International business ; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KJ Business and Management::KJK International business
    Language: English
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    New York University Press | NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-07
    Description: Offers an analysis of Soviet Jewish society after the death of Joseph Stalin At the beginning of the twentieth century, more Jews lived in the Russian Empire than anywhere else in the world. After the Holocaust, the USSR remained one of the world’s three key centers of Jewish population, along with the United States and Israel. While a great deal is known about the history and experiences of the Jewish people in the US and in Israel in the twentieth century, much less is known about the experiences of Soviet Jews. Understanding the history of Jewish communities under Soviet rule is essential to comprehending the dynamics of Jewish history in the modern world. Only a small number of scholars and the last generation of Soviet Jews who lived during this period hold a deep knowledge of this history. Jews in the Soviet Union, a new multi-volume history, is an unprecedented undertaking. Publishing over the next few years, this groundbreaking work draws on rare access to documents from the Soviet archives, allowing for the presentation of a sweeping history of Jewish life in the Soviet Union from 1917 through the early 1990s. Volume 5 offers a history of Soviet Jewry from the demise of the brutal dictator Joseph Stalin to the military confrontation between Israel and Arab states in 1967 known as the Six-Day War. Both historic events deeply affected Soviet Jews, who numbered over two million in the wake of the Holocaust and still formed at that point the second-largest Jewish population in the world. Stalin’s death led to the release of political prisoners and the reduction of the level of fear in society. The economy was growing and conditions of life were improving. At the same time, the state had doubts about the loyalty of the Jewish population and imposed limitations on their educational and career prospects. The relatively liberal period associated with Nikita Khrushchev’s “thaw” after the Stalinist bitter frost became a prelude to the years when contemplation about, or practical steps toward, emigration to Israel or elsewhere began to play an increasing role in the lives of Soviet Jews. In this pioneering analysis of the “thaw” years in Soviet Jewish history, Gennady Estraikh focuses both on the factors driving emigration and dissent, and on those Jews who were able to attain a high standard of living, and to rise to esteemed positions in managerial, academic, bohemian, and other segments of the Soviet elite.
    Keywords: Social and cultural history ; Social groups: religious groups and communities ; History of specific lands ; Judaism ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSR Social groups: religious groups and communities ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHQ History of other geographical groupings and regions ; thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRJ Judaism
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    Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
    Publication Date: 2024-02-22
    Description: Between the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century the British Museum acquired as part of its cuneiform collections 120 economic tablets from Uruk dating to the Seleucid period; they belong to what has been described as “the most spectacular Hellenistic archives available today”. This book offers an analysis of the collection, accompanied by text editions. The approach adopted is to explore the documents in three main thematic sections: arable land, urban properties, and temple prebends. The administrative texts have been treated as a group. Particular attention is paid to the role played by specific families, individuals or groups in each area of interest, as well as to shedding new light on the ownership patterns and business strategies that characterised the activities of the parties to the documents.
    Keywords: Administrative texts,Seleucid period,British Museum,Urban properties,Cuneiform tablets,Prebends,Arable land
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    New York University Press | NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: As we approach the 21st century, we also approach the third decade of the AIDS epidemic. Mental health care providers must face the crucial fact that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and the condition it causes, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is the leading cause of death among Americans aged 25-44 years. HIV Mental Health for the 21st Century provides a roadmap for mental health professionals who seek to develop new strategies aimed at increasing the longevity and quality of life for people living with HIV/AIDS, as well as at controlling the future spread of the disease. Divided into five sections, this volume covers basic concepts in HIV/AIDS mental health; specialized aspects of HIV/AIDS clinical care; models of clinical care; program evaluation; and HIV mental health policy and programs. Chapters treat issues such as feelings of caregivers, the role of spirituality in mental health care, rural practice, mental health home care, and working with children.
    Keywords: Psychotherapy ; thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MK Medical specialties, branches of medicine::MKM Clinical psychology::MKMT Psychotherapy
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    New York University Press | NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-06
    Description: Engages with the perspectives of people with autism, in their own voices Autism has been defined by experts as a developmental disorder affecting social and communication skills as well as verbal and nonverbal communication. It is said to occur in as many as 2 to 6 in 1,000 individuals. This book challenges the prevailing, tragic narrative of impairment that so often characterizes discussions about autism. Autism and the Myth of the Person Alone seriously engages the perspectives of people with autism, including those who have been considered as the most severely disabled within the autism spectrum. The heart of the book consists of chapters by people with autism themselves, either in an interview format with the author or written by themselves. Each author communicates either by typing or by a combination of speech and typing. These chapters are framed by a substantive introduction and conclusion that contextualize the book, the methodology, and the analysis, and situate it within a critical disability studies framework. The volume allows a look into the rich and insightful perspectives of people who have heretofore been thought of as uninterested in the world.
    Keywords: Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome ; thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MK Medical specialties, branches of medicine::MKJ Neurology and clinical neurophysiology::MKJA Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome
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    NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-02
    Description: Follows centuries of New York activism to reveal the city as a globally influential machine for social change Activist New York surveys New York City’s long history of social activism from the 1650’s to the 2010’s. Bringing these passionate histories alive, Activist New York is a visual exploration of these movements, serving as a companion book to the highly-praised Museum of the City of New York exhibition of the same name. New York’s primacy as a metropolis of commerce, finance, industry, media, and ethnic diversity has given it a unique and powerfully influential role in the history of American and global activism. Steven H. Jaffe explores how New York’s evolving identities as an incubator and battleground for activists have made it a “machine for change.” In responding to the city as a site of slavery, immigrant entry, labor conflicts, and wealth disparity, New Yorkers have repeatedly challenged the status quo. Activist New York brings to life the characters who make up these vibrant histories, including David Ruggles, an African American shopkeeper who helped enslaved fugitives on the city’s Underground Railroad during the 1830s; Clara Lemlich, a Ukrainian Jewish immigrant who helped spark the 1909 “Uprising of 20,000” that forever changed labor relations in the city’s booming garment industry; and Craig Rodwell, Karla Jay, and others who forged a Gay Liberation movement both before and after the Stonewall Riot of June 1969. The city’s inhabitants have been at the forefront of social change on issues ranging from religious tolerance and minority civil rights to sexual orientation and economic justice. Across 16 lavishly illustrated chronological chapters focusing on specific historical episodes, Jaffe explores how New York and New Yorkers have changed the way Americans think, feel, and act.
    Keywords: Social & cultural history ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history
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    Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
    Publication Date: 2024-02-22
    Description: This volume analyses exclusion processes, segregation dynamics and the forms of discrimination of refugees and asylum seekers in Italy, where the reception system is marked by opaqueness and arbitrariness and is becoming increasingly similar to the model of “camps”. The numerous vibrant contributions present a fully-fledged system of inferiorization, characterised by labour exploitation, housing discomfort, meagre rights and control strategies, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has led to a sharp worsening of the health, work, housing and administrative conditions. A framework that has found opposition in the daily resistance and in the struggles of asylum seekers.
    Keywords: Syndemics,Inferiorisation,Ethnicity,Emplacement,Emersion procedure,Asylum seekers,Third sector organizations,Inclusion,Trentino,Coronavirus emergency,Ghettos,Migrant farmworkers,Coronavirus,Asylum right,Racial inequalities,Novel Coronavirus,Asylum System,Intercultural relations,Homelessness,Refugees and asylum seekers,Social innovation,Inequalities,Caregiving,Civil society,Bologna area,Migration policies,Gender-based violence,Reception,Brenner,Forced migrant women,Tent city,Refugees,Migrants exploitation,Racial discrimination,Ecological rift,Migration,Italian Reception System,Racism,Social exclusion,Emergency,Direct social action,Humanitarianism,Milan,Gioia Tauro Plain,Forced (im)mobility,Employment,European Union,Health disparities,Referral system,Socio-legal operator,Protection void,The state,Law 132/2018,Fundamental rights,Model,Informal settlements,Welfare,Pandemic,Italy,Receiving System,Amnesty,Borders,Domestic space as a part of migrant reception syst,Public health,Credibility assessment,Immigrant workers,Asylum,Trafficking in human beings,Immigration policies,Unaccompanied migrants,Italian reception system,Exploitation,Bozen,Agriculture,Exclusion,Reception system,Struggles,Regularisation,Immigrants,COVID-19
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    New York University Press | NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: In this unusual and much-needed reappraisal of Freud's clinical technique, M. Guy Thompson challenges the conventional notion that psychoanalysis promotes relief from suffering and replaces it with a more radical assertion, that psychoanalysis seeks to mend our relationship with the real that has been fractured by our avoidance of the same. Thompson suggests that, while avoiding reality may help to relieve our experience of suffering, this short-term solution inevitably leads to a split in our existence. M. Guy Thompson forcefully disagrees with the recent trend that dismisses Freud as an historical figure who is out of step with the times. He argues, instead, for a return to the forgotten Freud, a man inherently philosophical and rooted in a Greek preoccupation with the nature of truth, ethics, the purpose of life and our relationship with reality. Thompson's argument is situated in a stunning re-reading of Freud's technical papers, including a new evaluation of his analyses of Dora and the Rat Man in the context of Heidegger's understanding of truth. In this remarkable examination of Freud's technical recommendations, M. Guy Thompson explains how psychoanalysis was originally designed to re-acquaint us with realities we had abandoned by encountering them in the contest of the analytic experience. This provocative examination of Freud's conception of psychoanalysis reveals a more personal Freud than we had previously supposed, one that is more humanistic and real.
    Keywords: abandoned ; analytic ; contest ; designed ; encountering ; experience ; explains ; originally ; psychoanalysis ; re-acquaint ; realities ; them ; Thompson ; with ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMA Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints::JMAF Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology
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    Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
    Publication Date: 2024-02-22
    Description: This volume collects papers presenting corpus-based research on Chinese language and linguistics, from both a synchronic and a diachronic perspective. The contributions cover different fields of linguistics, including syntax and pragmatics, semantics, morphology and the lexicon, sociolinguistics, and corpus building. There is now considerable emphasis on the reliability of linguistic data: the studies presented here are all grounded in the tenet that corpora, intended as collections of naturally occurring texts produced by a variety of speakers/writers, provide a more robust, statistically significant foundation for linguistic analysis. The volume explores not only the potential of using corpora as tools allowing access to authentic language material, but also the challenges involved in corpus interrogation, analysis, and building.
    Keywords: Productivity,Actuality entailment,Chinese constructicon,Goal-oriented modality,Early Hong Kong society,Collostructional analysis,Linguistic database,Evaluative stance,Sentence-initial indefinites (SIIs),Categorization,Complement of State,Corpus-based,Evidentiality,Principle of compositionality,Construction grammar,Animacy,Construction Grammar,Complement of Manner,Near-synonymy,Quantitative analysis,Laudato Si’,Neologisms,Constructicography,Terms of address,Cantonese corpus,Corpus-based study,Manual motor metaphor,Derivation,Chinese character variants,Eluclidean distance,Explicitation,Iconicity,Language engineering,Multifactorial,Chinese-English modality,Form and meaning representation,Family culture,Assessment,Object manipulation,Word formation,Co-varying collexeme analysis,Chinese complement construction,Affixes,Embodiment,Corpus-based sociolinguistic study,Qualitative analysis,Object Manipulation,Complement of state,Chinese syntax,Corpus study,Deontic modality,Digital humanities,Prototype,Counterfactuality,Context,Chinese,Information structure,Medieval Chinese,Manual Motor Metaphor,Chinese Complement Construction,Complement of manner,XML mark-up,Evaluative Stance
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    Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
    Publication Date: 2024-02-22
    Description: Il volume miscellaneo che qui si presenta è stato pensato da amici e colleghi non solo come omaggio a Paolo Mastandrea, ma anche e soprattutto come illustrazione delle innumerevoli prospettive aperte dai suoi studi: l’indagine dei meccanismi dell’intertestualità nel mondo antico; l’analisi filologica di tradizioni controverse; i numerosi problemi storico-letterari offerti dai testi della Tarda Antichità latina; l’esame della ricezione umanistica e rinascimentale dell’eredità classica. Non si è naturalmente trascurato il contributo cruciale portato dallo studioso alla teorizzazione e allo sviluppo, fin dagli anni Novanta, di strumenti informatici di ricerca testuale, la cosiddetta ‘galassia Musisque Deoque’, di cui si tiene conto in molti dei lavori presenti nel volume.
    Keywords: Vergilian tradition,Formulas,Fortuna Catulli,Declamationes,Dramaturgy,FAIR principles,Neo-Latin elegy,Nicolò d’Arco,Orality,Auienus,Misplacements,Manuscript tradition,De magistratibus,Roman consulate,Scholar exercise,Laudatio puellae,Intertextuality,Lucretius,‘Doge’ of Venice,Latin philology,Tacitus (Emperor),Christian Afterlife,12,Pliny the Elder,Hexameter,Roman aristocracy,Laocoon,Griphus,Examinatio,Latin historiography,Pupienus,Catabasis,Tibullus,Venice Ducal palace,Christian literature,Book circulation,Epic poetry,Latin Language,Fables,Conjectures,Things,Republicanism,Bacchus,Musisque Deoque,Alcimus Avitus,Late Latin poetry,Latin poetry,Catullus,Propertian intertextuality,Sallust,Inscriptions,Book of Daniel,Corippus,Book 3,Fortleben of Classics,Florentine Renaissance,Ausonius,Epigrammata Bobiensia,Metellus,Animus,Peleus,Virgil,Metamorphoses,Variatio,Principate,Machiavelli,Classical literature,Ancient roman epic,Symposius,Experimentalism,Hymn,Princeps,Late Latin literature,Late antiquity,Textual criticism,Hymnodic formulas,Tales,Epistulae,Propertius,Roman Empire,Servius auctus,Seneca,Macrobe,Sidonius,Portraits,am,Historia Augusta,Claudian,Italian Reinassance,Religious identity,Fortuna,Religion,Balbinus,Zodiac dish,Cicero,Digital Humanities,Roman Republic,Aeneid,Critical edition,Ovid,Characters,Medea,Style,Epos,Phaedrus,Classical philology,Optatianus Porfyrius,Book circulation,Aratus,Farewell from elegiac poetry,Monologue,3,Martial,Lucan,Open data,Cerberus,John Lydus,Rusticitas,Neo-Latin poetry,Objects,Carmen 9,Remigius of Reims,Saturnalia,Narratology,Vergil,Eratosthenes of Cyrene,Roman Senate,Bucolics,Carmina minora,Maximinus,Philology,Clinamen,Diomedes,Visuality,Sidonius Apollinaris
    Language: English , Italian , French
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    Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
    Publication Date: 2024-02-22
    Description: Papers contained in this volume were prepared for the XV East Asia Net (EAN) Research Workshop, held at University Ca’ Foscari of Venice in Spring 2015. The workshop addressed two themes: the nature-culture-society nexus and cultural diplomacy. Works featured in this book draw from a variety of disciplinary and methodological approaches, representative of the the current trends in multidisciplinary research in the field of Asian Studies.
    Keywords: Hanban,Renewable energies,Seascape,Hanoi,Science,Globalization,Seawater,China,Development cooperation,Water management and regulation,Folk religion,Landscape phenomenology,Technology,Cultural diplomacy,Vietnam,Spectacular society,Cultural policy,Small and micro-scale hydropower,Environmental anthropology,Confucius Institutes,Chinese ecological discourse, ecological Marxism, ,Soft power,Japan,Modernity,Japanese fishing communities,Feed-in-Tariff,Web-based charm offensive,PRC,Postcolonial
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    New York University Press | NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-06
    Description: Two phenomena have shaped American criminal law for the past thirty years: the war on crime and the victims' rights movement. As incapacitation has replaced rehabilitation as the dominant ideology of punishment, reflecting a shift from an identification with defendants to an identification with victims, the war on crime has victimized offenders and victims alike. What we need instead, Dubber argues, is a system which adequately recognizes both victims and defendants as persons. Victims in the War on Crime is the first book to provide a critical analysis of the role of victims in the criminal justice system as a whole. It also breaks new ground in focusing not only on the victims of crime, but also on those of the war on victimless crime. After first offering an original critique of the American penal system in the age of the crime war, Dubber undertakes an incisive comparative reading of American criminal law and the law of crime victim compensation, culminating in a wide-ranging revision that takes victims seriously, and offenders as well. Dubber here salvages the project of vindicating victims' rights for its own sake, rather than as a weapon in the war against criminals. Uncovering the legitimate core of the victims' rights movement from underneath existing layers of bellicose rhetoric, he demonstrates how victims' rights can help us build a system of American criminal justice after the frenzy of the war on crime has died down.
    Keywords: Law: Human rights and civil liberties ; thema EDItEUR::L Law::LN Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law::LND Constitutional and administrative law: general::LNDC Law: Human rights and civil liberties
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    New York University Press | NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-04
    Description: Welcomed as liberation and dismissed as exploitation, egg freezing (oocyte cryopreservation) has rapidly become one of the most widely-discussed and influential new reproductive technologies of this century. In Freezing Fertility, Lucy van de Wiel takes us inside the world of fertility preservation—with its egg freezing parties, contested age limits, proactive anticipations and equity investments—and shows how the popularization of egg freezing has profound consequences for the way in which female fertility and reproductive aging are understood, commercialized and politicized. Beyond an individual reproductive choice for people who may want to have children later in life, Freezing Fertility explores how the rise of egg freezing also reveals broader cultural, political and economic negotiations about reproductive politics, gender inequities, age normativities and the financialization of healthcare. Van de Wiel investigates these issues by analyzing a wide range of sources—varying from sparkly online platforms to heart-breaking court cases and intimate autobiographical accounts—that are emblematic of each stage of the egg freezing procedure. By following the egg’s journey, Freezing Fertility examines how contemporary egg freezing practices both reflect broader social, regulatory and economic power asymmetries and repoliticize fertility and aging in ways that affect the public at large. In doing so, the book explores how the possibility of egg freezing shifts our relation to the beginning and end of life.
    Keywords: Egg freezing ; Fertility preservation ; Reproductive ageing ; Oocyte cryopreservation ; Reproductive studies ; Frozen eggs ; Reproductive politics ; Gender ; Egg donation ; Embryo selection ; Human egg ; Gender Politics ; History of reproduction ; Media analysis ; Biological clock ; Single women ; Lifestyle ; Life course management ; Reproductive decision-making ; Fertility ; Anticipation ; Precarity ; Queer theory ; Preparedness ; Embodiment ; Affect theory ; Medical imagery ; Fertility insurance ; Fertility markets ; Fertility loans ; Political economy of reproduction ; Biovalue ; Time-lapse embryo imaging ; Patenting ; Datafication ; Automation ; Add-on technologies ; IVF ; Mergers and Acquisitions ; Older motherhood ; Age-related infertility ; Successful ageing ; Posthumous reproduction ; Reproductive loss ; Singlehood ; Cross-border reproductive care ; Egg banks ; Cloning ; SCNT ; Mitochondrial transfer ; Global biopolitics of ageing ; Biopolitics ; Biocapital ; Fertility education ; Financial inducement ; Kinship ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBK Sociology: family and relationships ; thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MF Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences::MFK Human reproduction, growth and development::MFKC Reproductive medicine
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    New York University Press | NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: Whether in the form of Christmas trees in town squares or prayer in school, fierce disputes over the separation of church and state have long bedeviled this country. Both decried and celebrated, this principle is considered by many, for right or wrong, a defining aspect of American national identity. Nearly all discussions regarding the role of religion in American life build on two dominant assumptions: first, the separation of church and state is a constitutional principle that promotes democracy and equally protects the religious freedom of all Americans, especially religious outgroups; and second, this principle emerges as a uniquely American contribution to political theory. In Please Don't Wish Me a Merry Christmas, Stephen M. Feldman challenges both these assumptions. He argues that the separation of church and state primarily manifests and reinforces Christian domination in American society. Furthermore, Feldman reveals that the separation of church and state did not first arise in the United States. Rather, it has slowly evolved as a political and religious development through western history, beginning with the initial appearance of Christianity as it contentiously separated from Judaism.In tracing the historical roots of the separation of church and state within the Western world, Feldman begins with the Roman Empire and names Augustine as the first political theorist to suggest the idea. Feldman next examines how the roles of church and state variously merged and divided throughout history, during the Crusades, the Italian Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation, the British Civil War and Restoration, the early North American colonies, nineteenth-century America, and up to the present day. In challenging the dominant story of the separation of church and state, Feldman interprets the development of Christian social power vis--vis the state and religious minorities, particularly the prototypical religious outgroup, Jews.
    Keywords: Legal history ; thema EDItEUR::L Law::LA Jurisprudence and general issues::LAZ Legal history
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-04
    Description: When we imagine the activities of Asian American women in the mid-twentieth century, our first thoughts are not of skiing, beauty pageants, magazine reading, and sororities. Yet, Shirley Jennifer Lim argues, these are precisely the sorts of leisure practices many second generation Chinese, Filipina, and Japanese American women engaged in during this time. In A Feeling of Belonging, Lim highlights the cultural activities of young, predominantly unmarried Asian American women from 1930 to 1960. This period marks a crucial generation—the first in which American-born Asians formed a critical mass and began to make their presence felt in the United States. Though they were distinguished from previous generations by their American citizenship, it was only through these seemingly mundane “American”activities that they were able to overcome two-dimensional stereotypes of themselves as kimono-clad “Orientals.” Lim traces the diverse ways in which these young women sought claim to cultural citizenship, exploring such topics as the nation's first Asian American sorority, Chi Alpha Delta; the cultural work of Chinese American actress Anna May Wong; Asian American youth culture and beauty pageants; and the achievement of fame of three foreign-born Asian women in the late 1950s. By wearing poodle skirts, going to the beach, and producing magazines, she argues, they asserted not just their American-ness, but their humanity: a feeling of belonging.
    Keywords: 1930 ; 1960 ; activities ; American ; Asian ; cultural ; from ; highlights ; predominantly ; unmarried ; women ; young ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC6 Cultural studies: customs and traditions ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups::JBSF1 Gender studies: women and girls
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-06
    Description: Few afflictions are as frightening or as heartbreaking as mental illness. It may be a topic that many would prefer to sweep under the rug, but it is a fact of life that we as a society can and must face. We have come a long way over the past few decades in our understanding of mental illness and its potential treatments. Yet, tragically, many across the country who struggle with serious mental illness are unable to find effective, quality medical treatment. As a federal commission on mental health concluded, the system of care is in shambles. But why? And how do we fix it? Timothy A. Kelly, former Commissioner of Virginia’s Department of Mental Health, Retardation, and Substance Abuse, brings his three decades of experience as mental health commissioner, psychology professor, and clinician to bear in confronting this crisis in America’s mental health care system. In clear and accessible terms, he exposes the weaknesses in the current system, examining how and why one of the world’s richest and most advanced countries has allowed its most vulnerable citizens to be victimized by the very system designed to help them. Armed with the latest statistics, a lifetime of experience, and heartrending life stories, Kelly argues that the patchwork of care traditionally employed to treat mental illness is simply not up to the task, and that what we need is profound, fundamental, and system-wide change. He then goes on to provide an easy-to-follow road map for achieving lasting transformation, centered on five recommendations for creating a truly effective mental health system of care that enables patients to achieve a lasting recovery. Mental illness is not going to just go away, but Kelly prescribes a comprehensive plan to make treatment accessible and effective so that those who suffer can rejoin their families and their communities. He shows how a transformed system of community-based care allows those with serious mental illness to finally be able to go home.
    Keywords: care ; crippled ; diagnoses ; expert ; health ; leading ; mental ; system ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-07
    Description: How do you tell the difference between a “good kid” and a “potential thug”? In Dangerous or Endangered?, Jennifer Tilton considers the ways in which children are increasingly viewed as dangerous and yet, simultaneously, as endangered and in need of protection by the state. Tilton draws on three years of ethnographic research in Oakland, California, one of the nation’s most racially diverse cities, to examine how debates over the nature and needs of young people have fundamentally reshaped politics, transforming ideas of citizenship and the state in contemporary America. As parents and neighborhood activists have worked to save and discipline young people, they have often inadvertently reinforced privatized models of childhood and urban space, clearing the streets of children, who are encouraged to stay at home or in supervised after-school programs. Youth activists protest these attempts, demanding a right to the city and expanded rights of citizenship. Dangerous or Endangered? pays careful attention to the intricate connections between fears of other people’s kids and fears for our own kids in order to explore the complex racial, class, and gender divides in contemporary American cities.
    Keywords: American ; attention ; between ; careful ; cities ; class ; complex ; connections ; contemporary ; Dangerous ; divides ; Endangered ; explore ; fears ; gender ; intricate ; kids ; order ; other ; pays ; peoples ; racial ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSD Urban communities
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-04
    Description: In January 2009, Barack Obama became the 44th president of the United States. In the weeks and months following the election, as in those that preceded it, countless social observers from across the ideological spectrum commented upon the cultural, social and political significance of “the Obama phenomenon.” In “At this Defining Moment,” Enid Logan provides a nuanced analysis framed by innovative theoretical insights to explore how Barack Obama’s presidential candidacy both reflected and shaped the dynamics of race in the contemporary United States. Using the 2008 election as a case study of U.S. race relations, and based on a wealth of empirical data that includes an analysis of over 1,500 newspaper articles, blog postings, and other forms of public speech collected over a 3 year period, Logan claims that while race played a central role in the 2008 election, it was in several respects different from the past. Logan ultimately concludes that while the selection of an individual African American man as president does not mean that racism is dead in the contemporary United States, we must also think creatively and expansively about what the election does mean for the nation and for the evolving contours of race in the 21st century.
    Keywords: Society and culture: general ; Ethnic studies ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies
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    New York University Press | NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-04
    Description: From 1944 to 1946, as the world pivoted from the Second World War to an unsteady peace, Americans in more than two hundred cities and towns mobilized to chase an implausible dream. The newly-created United Nations needed a meeting place, a central place for global diplomacy—a Capital of the World. But what would it look like, and where would it be? Without invitation, civic boosters in every region of the United States leapt at the prospect of transforming their hometowns into the Capital of the World. The idea stirred in big cities—Chicago, San Francisco, St. Louis, New Orleans, Denver, and more. It fired imaginations in the Black Hills of South Dakota and in small towns from coast to coast. Meanwhile, within the United Nations the search for a headquarters site became a debacle that threatened to undermine the organization in its earliest days. At times it seemed the world’s diplomats could agree on only one thing: under no circumstances did they want the United Nations to be based in New York. And for its part, New York worked mightily just to stay in the race it would eventually win. With a sweeping view of the United States’ place in the world at the end of World War II, Capital of the World tells the dramatic, surprising, and at times comic story of hometown promoters in pursuit of an extraordinary prize and the diplomats who struggled with the balance of power at a pivotal moment in history.
    Keywords: History of the Americas ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas
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    Publication Date: 2024-02-22
    Description: Narratives of Violence is a contribution to the ethical turn in literary studies. In the current context of systemic political violence unleashed in the wake of 9/11 and the global advance of capitalism and neoliberalism, literature constitutes a particularly timely device to raise awareness about injustice, the abuse of power, and the violation of human rights. Literature may also be helpful in order to face social challenges such as peaceful coexistence with immigrants and displaced people, and the settling of refugees. This book is an invitation to read a selection of narratives of violence anchored in different geopolitical realities, and located in historical contexts ranging from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day. By adopting ethical criticism in order to tackle the dilemmas posed by these stories, we aim to contribute to the configuration of global imaginaries based on respect, recognition, and empathy, especially towards those who are most vulnerable. This collection offers critical readings of works of various genres, originally written in different languages. Authors discussed comprise Mrīrīda nʾait ʿAtiq (Morocco), Janina Hescheles (Poland), Eva Koch (Denmark), María Galindo (Bolivia) and Sonia Sánchez (Argentina), Najat El Hachmi (Morocco-Catalonia), Arundhati Roy (India), Leila Abdelrazaq (Palestine), and Yū Miri, Murata Sayaka, and Kawakami Mieko (Japan). The corpus includes biographical, autobiographical, testimonial, and fictional narratives, sometimes very close to documentary or life history. The works analysed in this collection portray experiences of violence and oppression caused by social, political, economic, and military conflicts. The novelty of this book lies in the challenge it poses to the Western-centric and patriarchal bias often found in similar collections of scholarly essays. Thus, the book focuses on female authors, seeking to give visibility and voice to women victims, generally forgotten in hegemonic cultural discourses.
    Keywords: Polish Jewishness,Spanish Civil War,Symbolic violence,Gender,Jay Winter,Murata Sayaka,Graphic memoir,Sustainability,Catalan literature,Respect,Villar,Japanese literature,Amazīgh culture,Palestine,Colonialism,Body,Political violence,Systemic violence,Temporality,Interactive visual art,Youth,Genealogies,Anal sex,Violence,Jean Laplanche,Testimony,Psychoanalysis,Precariousness,Memory,Prostitution,Reading,Najat El Hachmi,Subalternity,Ethics,Guerrillas,Body literature,India,Nini Haslund Gleditsch,Morocco,Holocaust,Walter Benjamin,Villar - Los hijos de Manuela,Testimonial narrative,Dignity,Representation,Economic violence,Ethical turn,Historical memory,Marianne Hirsch,Identity,Literature,Epistemic violence,Maurice Halbwachs,Yū Miri,Eva Koch,Memoir,Mrīrīda nʾait ʿAtiq,Kawakami Mieko,Feminism,Oliva and Norwegian humanitarian aid,Immigration,Postcolonialism,Argentinean feminist movement,Heroism,Violence against women,Exile,Human rights
    Language: English , Catalan , Spanish
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-05
    Description: While the United States was dominant in the development of psychology for much of the twentieth century, other countries have experienced significant growth in this area since the end of World War II. The percentage of those in the discipline who live and work in the United States has been growing smaller, and it is now impossible to completely understand the field if developments in psychology outside of the United States are ignored. Internationalizing the History of Psychology brings together luminaries in the field from around the world to address the internationalizing of psychology, each raising core issuesconcerning what an international perspective can contributeto the history of psychology and to our understanding of psychology as a whole. For too long, much of what we havetaken to be the history of psychology has actually been thehistory of American psychology. This volume, ideal for student use and for those in the field, illuminates how what we have been missing may change our views of the nature of psychology and its history. Contributors: Ruben Ardila, Geoffrey Blowers, Adrian C. Brock, Kurt Danziger, Aydan Gulerce, John D. Hogan, Naomi Lee, Johann Louw, Fathali M. Moghaddam, Anand C. Paranjpe, Irmingard Staeuble, Cecilia Taiana, and Thomas P. Vaccaro.
    Keywords: Psychology ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology
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    New York University Press | NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: One of literature's greatest gifts is its portrayal of realistically drawn characters--human beings in whom we can recognize motivations and emotions. In Imagined Human Beings, Bernard J. Paris explores the inner conflicts of some of literature's most famous characters, using Karen Horney's psychoanalytic theories to understand the behavior of these characters as we would the behavior of real people. When realistically drawn characters are understood in psychological terms, they tend to escape their roles in the plot and thus subvert the view of them advanced by the author. A Horneyan approach both alerts us to conflicts between plot and characterization, rhetoric and mimesis, and helps us understand the forces in the author's personalty that generate them. The Horneyan model can make sense of thematic inconsistencies by seeing them as the product of the author's inner divisions. Paris uses this approach to explore a wide range of texts, including Antigone, "The Clerk's Tale," The Merchant of Venice, A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, Great Expectations, Jane Eyre, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Wuthering Heights, Madame Bovary, The Awakening, and The End of the Road.
    Keywords: Literature: history and criticism ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism
    Language: English
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    New York University Press | NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-04
    Description: Important insights into the life and mind of one of the most significant civil rights leaders of the twentieth century A. Philip Randolph, founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, was one of the most effective black trade unionists in America. Once known as "the most dangerous black man in America," he was a radical journalist, a labor leader, and a pioneer of civil rights strategies. His protegé Bayard Rustin noted that, "With the exception of W.E.B. Du Bois, he was probably the greatest civil rights leader of the twentieth century until Martin Luther King." Scholarship has traditionally portrayed Randolph as an atheist and anti-religious, his connections to African American religion either ignored or misrepresented. Taylor places Randolph within the context of American religious history and uncovers his complex relationship to African American religion. She demonstrates that Randolph’s religiosity covered a wide spectrum of liberal Protestant beliefs, from a religious humanism on the left, to orthodox theological positions on the right, never straying far from his African Methodist roots.
    Keywords: Biography: religious and spiritual ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose::DNB Biography: general::DNBX Biography: religious and spiritual
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    New York University Press | NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-04
    Description: Can individuals believe that they are acting with integrity, yet in disobedience to the dictates of their conscience? Can they retain fidelity to their conscience while ignoring a sense of what integrity requires? Integrity and conscience are often thought to be closely related, perhaps even different aspects of a single impulse. This timely book supports a different and more complicated view. Acting with integrity and obeying one's conscience might be mutually reinforcing in some settings, but in others they can live in varying degrees of mutual tension. Bringing together prominent scholars of legal theory and political philosophy, the volume addresses both classic ruminations on integrity and conscience by Plato, Hume, and Kant as well as more contemporary examinations of professional ethics and the complex relations among politics, law and personal morality.
    Keywords: Jurisprudence and general issues ; thema EDItEUR::L Law::LA Jurisprudence and general issues
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    New York University Press | NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-04
    Description: Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series Beyond the Nation charts an expansive history of Filipino literature in the U.S., forged within the dual contexts of imperialism and migration, from the early twentieth century into the twenty-first. Martin Joseph Ponce theorizes and enacts a queer diasporic reading practice that attends to the complex crossings of race and nation with gender and sexuality. Tracing the conditions of possibility of Anglophone Filipino literature to U.S. colonialism in the Philippines in the early twentieth century, the book examines how a host of writers from across the century both imagine and address the Philippines and the United States, inventing a variety of artistic lineages and social formations in the process. Beyond the Nation considers a broad array of issues, from early Philippine nationalism, queer modernism, and transnational radicalism, to music-influenced and cross-cultural poetics, gay male engagements with martial law and popular culture, second-generational dynamics, and the relation between reading and revolution. Ponce elucidates not only the internal differences that mark this literary tradition but also the wealth of expressive practices that exceed the terms of colonial complicity, defiant nationalism, or conciliatory assimilation. Moving beyond the nation as both the primary analytical framework and locus of belonging, Ponce proposes that diasporic Filipino literature has much to teach us about alternative ways of imagining erotic relationships and political communities.
    Keywords: Social and cultural anthropology ; Cultural studies: customs and traditions ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC6 Cultural studies: customs and traditions
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    New York University Press | NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-06
    Description: Adolescents are infamous for their rebellious behavior. Indeed,much of the focus of therapy and clinical intervention with troubled adolescents focuses on their presumed need to rebel against their parents as they define their own identities. Yet psychologist Vivian Center Seltzer argues that approaching work with adolescent clients with this presumption in mind is likely to miss the roots of their problem behavior. Rather than acting out against parental authority, adolescents in need of clinical help are most often dealing with their disappointing comparisons with their peers—the most relevant others to them during this period of their development. Seltzer explains that it is countless interactions with their peers, at school and elsewhere outside of the home, that are the primary mode of psychological and social development for adolescents. Practitioners must recognize this crucial influence, and perhaps forgo traditional approaches, in order to better work with their adolescent clients. Peer-Impact Diagnosis and Therapy is a practical professional guide for how to approach and aid troubled teens by accessing the wealth of insight to be gained from understanding the influence of peer interactions on development and on behavior. Full of diagnostic categories and protocols for use with all types of adolescents, as well as guidance, tips, case studies, and offering a targeted model for adolescent group therapy, Seltzer provides professionals with all the tools they need to assist teens on their road to adulthood.
    Keywords: accessing ; Adolescents ; approach ; behavior ; development ; Diagnosis ; from ; gained ; guide ; Handbook ; influence ; insight ; interactions ; peer ; Peer-Impact ; practical ; Practice ; professional ; Successful ; teens ; Therapy ; troubled ; understanding ; wealth ; with ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMC Child, developmental and lifespan psychology ; thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MK Medical specialties, branches of medicine::MKM Clinical psychology
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    New York University Press | NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: "A well-organized and engaging read." —Religious Studies Review The first in-depth look at...an important nineteenth century Jewish thinker and historian. Well-written [and] well- researched." —The Jerusalem Post Magazine "A significant contribution to our understanding of the rise of modern Judaism in its East European manifestation." —Choice Harris examines Nachman Krochmal's work, particularly as it aimed to guide Jews through the modern revolution in metaphysical and historical thinking, thus enabling them to commit themselves to Judaism without sacrificing intellectual integrity.
    Keywords: Judaism ; thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRJ Judaism
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: George Eliot has been widely praised both for the richness of her prose and the universality of her themes. In this compelling study, Peggy Fitzhugh Johnstone goes beyond these traditional foci to examine the role of aggression in Eliot's fiction and to find its source in the author's unconscious sense of loss stemming from traumatic family separations and deaths during her childhood and adolescence. Johnstone demonstrates that Eliot's creative work was a constructive response to her sense of loss and that the repeating patterns in her novels reflect the process of release from her state of mourning for lost loved ones.
    Keywords: Literature: history and criticism ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism
    Language: English
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    Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
    Publication Date: 2024-02-22
    Description: This book gathers together two essays. The first deals with the origins of the character of Farhād, the unlucky lover of Shīrīn, who – in the Persian narrative tradition – digs a route through Mount Bīsutūn and accomplishes other admirable works. The essay suggests that Farhād, as we know him from long narrative poems, historical chronicles, and reports by geographers and travelers, is the issue of a conflation between the legendary character of the Master of Mount Bīsutūn and a historical personage, Farrahān, the general-in-chief of the Sasanid king Khusraw II Parvīz’s army (r. 590-628 EC), as this figure was re-elaborated in a number of later legends. The second essay identifies a character named ‘Būrān-dukht’ as the prototype from which Turandot, the heroine of the tale well-known in Europe from Puccini’s opera (1926), springs. Two historical personages, both called Būrān or Būrān-dukht, are relevant in this line of development: the first is the daughter of the Sasanid king Khusraw II Parvīz (r. 580-628 CE), who was queen of Persia for a short period (630-631 CE); the other is the daughter of Ḥasan b. Sahl, wife of Caliph al-Maʾmūn (813-833 CE).
    Keywords: Persian narrative tradition,The Turandot tale,Origins of literary characters,Farhād,Turandot,Farrahān Shahr-barāz,Būrān-dukht,Niẓāmī
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    New York University Press | NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-06
    Description: Love and Money argues that we can’t understand contemporary queer cultures without looking through the lens of social class. Resisting old divisions between culture and economy, identity and privilege, left and queer, recognition and redistribution, Love and Money offers supple approaches to capturing class experience and class form in and around queerness. Contrary to familiar dismissals, not every queer television or movie character is like Will Truman on Will and Grace—rich, white, healthy, professional, detached from politics, community, and sex. Through ethnographic encounters with readers and cultural producers and such texts as Boys Don’t Cry, Brokeback Mountain, By Hook or By Crook, and wedding announcements in the New York Times, Love and Money sees both queerness and class across a range of idioms and practices in everyday life. How, it asks, do readers of Dorothy Allison’s novels use her work to find a queer class voice? How do gender and race broker queer class fantasy? How do independent filmmakers cross back and forth between industry and queer sectors, changing both places as they go and challenging queer ideas about bad commerce and bad taste? With an eye to the nuances and harms of class difference in queerness and a wish to use culture to forge queer and class affinities, Love and Money returns class and its politics to the study of queer life.
    Keywords: Entertainment and media law ; Social and cultural anthropology ; thema EDItEUR::L Law::LN Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law::LNJ Entertainment and media law ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology
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    New York University Press | NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-06
    Description: With a Foreword by Vijay Prashad and an Afterword by Gary Okihiro How might we understand yellowface performances by African Americans in 1930s swing adaptations of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, Paul Robeson's support of Asian and Asian American struggles, or the absorption of hip hop by Asian American youth culture? AfroAsian Encounters is the first anthology to look at the mutual influence of and relationships between members of the African and Asian diasporas. While these two groups have often been thought of as occupying incommensurate, if not opposing, cultural and political positions, scholars from history, literature, media, and the visual arts here trace their interconnections and interactions, as well as the tensions between the two groups that sometimes arise. AfroAsian Encounters probes beyond popular culture to trace the historical lineage of these coalitions from the late nineteenth century to the present. A foreword by Vijay Prashad sets the volume in the context of the Bandung conference half a century ago, and an afterword by Gary Okihiro charts the contours of a “Black Pacific.” From the history of Japanese jazz composers to the current popularity of black/Asian “buddy films” like Rush Hour, AfroAsian Encounters is a groundbreaking intervention into studies of race and ethnicity and a crucial look at the shifting meaning of race in the twenty-first century.
    Keywords: Ethnic studies ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies
    Language: English
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    Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
    Publication Date: 2024-02-22
    Description: The present volume collects most of the contributions to the plenary sessions held at the 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies, and incisively reflects the ever increasing broadening of the very concept of ‘Byzantine Studies’. Indeed, a particularly salient characteristic of the papers presented here is their strong focus on interdisciplinarity and their breadth of scope, both in terms of methodology and content. The cross-pollination between different fields of Byzantine Studies is also a major point of the volume. Archaeology and art history have pride of place; it is especially in archaeological papers that one can grasp the vital importance of the interaction with the so-called hard sciences and with new technologies for contemporary research. This relevance of science and technology for archaeology, however, also applies to, and have significant repercussions in, historical studies, where – for example – the study of climate change or the application of specific software to network studies are producing a major renewal of knowledge. In more traditional subject fields, like literary, political, and intellectual history, the contributions to the present volume offer some important reflections on the connection between Byzantium and other cultures and peoples through the intermediary of texts, stories, diplomacy, trade, and war.
    Keywords: Anatolia,Remote sensing,Epigrams,Interdisciplines,Water jar,Builder,Conflicts,Caucasus,Iconography,weaponry,Robert and Mildred Bliss,Byzantine Studies,Late Antiquity,Byzantine literature,Royall Tyler,Edgar,English Mandate,Silks,History of sciences,Triumphal columns,Sociology,Placemaking,Cities,interaction,Arabic,Academic practices,Textiles,Adaptations,Byzantine archaeology,William the Conqueror,Geocommunication,Metalwork,Portable art,elite,Dynasties,Ottomans,Persian,Anthropology,Normans,History of climate and society,Byzantine history,Ceramic finds,Description of cities,Epigraphy,Theories of exchange,Law history,Production,Research methodology (in Byzantine legal studies),History of Byzantine law,Material culture networks,writing,Health,Global history,Knowledge production,Constantinople,Urban archaeology,Writing,Geography,Borderland/Frontier,Viking,Spatial analysis,Interdisciplinarity,Healthscape,Power relations,Sociometry,French Mandate,Environmental history,Survival of cities,Turks,Urban rescue excavations,remote sensing,Byzantium,Anglo-Danish,Metaphrasis,Regressive engineering,Weaponry,Orestes,Transitional period,Asia,History of religions,Interactions with other cultures,Sigillographie,Head loading,Eastern Roman Empire,Foundation stories,Epigraphie,Inscriptions,Analysis,Sigillography,Gold,Reception,Residential architecture,Iconographie,Harald Hardrada,Roman administration,Literature,American University Museums,Byzantine age,Catalogue,Network analysis,Commerce,Sacred spaces,Amorium,Texts,Sacred landscapes,Progress,Education,Imperial Roman period,basileus,laudes,Consilience,Island,Byzantine identity,Alans,Imperial Roman Period,Late antiquity,builder,Tales,mercenaries,Byzantine trade,LiDAR,Translations,Early Medieval Mediterranean,Prosopographie,Adrianople,Database,Laudes,Gifts,Hybridity,Turkish,Mediterranean,diplomacy,Theory,Byzantine Constantinople,Architectural heritage,Tradition,Byzantine-Islamic relations,American university museums,Byzantine studies,Economic and non-economic exchange,Byzantine,dynasties,Cultural history,Concepts,Vocabulary,island,Byzantine legal studies,Red slip,Hadrian,Edward the Confessor,tales,Prosopography,Interaction,Italy,Iceland,quarries,Basileus,Foundation Stories,Production site,Isauria,Edirne,Studies,Stratagems,borderland/frontier,French mandate,Ceramic,Sasanian empire,Distribution patterns,Globular amphora,English mandate,Mercenaries,Eastern Christianity,Diplomacy,Cnut,Historical geography,Ragnvald,Crafts,stratagems,Constantinople, ecclesiastical architecture,Byzantine art,Methodology,texts,Culture of the collection,Embroidery,Constantinople, monasteries,Byzantine law,Bases de données,consilience,Asia Minor,Tabula Imperii Byzantini (TIB),Climate history,Syriac studies,Trade hub,Quarries,Monasteries,Italian museums and churches,Balkans,Ecclesiastical architecture,Space,gold,Elite,Byzantine-awareness,Chronicles,Roman infrastructure,Plunder,Philology,Tribute,Complexity theory,Digital humanities,Conservation policies
    Language: English , Italian , French
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    Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
    Publication Date: 2024-02-22
    Description: Il volume intende rappresentare le principali linee di ricerca sviluppate in ambito accademico italiano da studiosi nazionali e internazionali sulle aree caucasica e centroasiatica. In questa prospettiva, il volume presenta una serie di saggi che traggono spunto da interventi effettuati nell’ambito dei principali appuntamenti annuali incentrati sull’area: l’edizione del 2021 del Convegno annuale dell’Associazione per lo Studio in Italia dell’Asia centrale e del Caucaso (ASIAC) e la XV Giornata di Studi Armeni e Caucasici. Per sua natura, il volume ospita dunque contributi di differente matrice disciplinare, che spaziano da studi di carattere storico e filologico fino a studi di taglio linguistico, letterario e politologico.
    Keywords: Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia,Language,Vision of St,Herodotean Scythia,Cattle-raid,Analytical Alphabet,Oral tradition,Divorce,Marriage,Dispositif (apparatus) of security,Central Asia,Greeks,Caucasus,Constructivism,Baron de Baye,Armenian repatriation,Foucault,Court records,Homeland,Quantitative methods,Syrdon,Disciplinary mechanism,Foreign policy,Soviet Armenia,Lebanon,Kingdom of Cyprus,Multivectorism,Pontus,Scythians,Romanized Script,Abkhaz Language,Armeno-Latin Relations in the 14th Century,The geo-chromatic designation,Fændyr,Weak States,The Arabic-Islamic geographical tradition,United Nations,Nikolai Marr,Cultural transfer,The Black Sea,Uzbekistan,Abkhaz Alphabet,Ottoman Aleppo,Self-reliance,Photography,The descriptive geography,Yevgeny Polivanov,Document analysis,Codicology,Structural topic model,Ideas,Narts,Securitization,Nersēs,Diaspora,Collections,The Christian geographical tradition,Linz, Oberösterreichische Landesbibliothek, MS 447
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    New York University Press | NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-07
    Description: Helen Heran Jun explores how the history of U.S. citizenshiphas positioned Asian Americans and African Americans in interlocking socio-political relationships since the mid nineteenth century. Rejecting the conventional emphasis on ‘inter-racial prejudice,’ Jun demonstrates how a politics of inclusion has constituted a racial Other within Asian American and African American discourses of national identity. Race for Citizenship examines three salient moments when African American and Asian American citizenship become acutely visible as related crises: the ‘Negro Problem’ and the ‘Yellow Question’ in the mid- to late 19th century; World War II-era questions around race, loyalty, and national identity in the context of internment and Jim Crow segregation; and post-Civil Rights discourses of disenfranchisement and national belonging under globalization. Taking up a range of cultural texts—the 19th century black press, the writings of black feminist Anna Julia Cooper, Asian American novels, African American and Asian American commercial film and documentary—Jun does not seek to document signs of cross-racial identification, but instead demonstrates how the logic of citizenship compels racialized subjects to produce developmental narratives of inclusion in the effort to achieve political, economic, and social incorporation. Race for Citizenship provides a new model of comparative race studies by situating contemporary questions of differential racial formations within a long genealogy of anti-racist discourse constrained by liberal notions of inclusion.
    Keywords: 19th ; acutely ; African ; American ; around ; Asian ; became ; century ; citizenship ; disenfranchisement ; examines ; globalization ; identity ; II-era ; late ; loyalty ; mid- ; moments ; national ; Negro ; post-Civil ; Problem ; Question ; questions ; race ; Rights ; three ; under ; visible ; when ; World ; Yellow ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas
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    Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
    Publication Date: 2024-02-22
    Description: Questo volume esamina criticamente le grandi questioni sociali del nostro tempo: prima tra tutte la grande crisi del capitalismo globale scoppiata nel 2008, e poi le trasformazioni dello stato, la crescita strutturale delle disuguaglianze, l’attecchimento dell’ideologia neo-liberista, gli effetti sociali della rivoluzione digitale, la precarizzazione del lavoro, la condizione delle donne al lavoro. L’analisi di questi temi è fatta a partire dalla critica tagliente delle politiche del neo-liberismo operata da Luciano Gallino, il più importante sociologo italiano del dopoguerra.
    Keywords: Polarization,Automation,Neo-liberalism,State,Digitalization,Interventionist state,Job insecurity,Welfare state,Power,Casualization of labour,Labour process,Working women,Internships,Inequalities,Social classes,Globalization,Precariousness,Employment,Ideology,Individualism,Financial capital,Double crisis,Unpaid labour,Platform economy,Democracy,Luciano Gallino,Care work,Class struggle,Financial capitalism,Flexibility
    Language: English , Italian , French
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    Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
    Publication Date: 2024-02-22
    Description: This volume is intended to be a practical manual to learn the basics of the Ainu language, in its varieties of Southern Hokkaidō and Sakhalin. Each lesson presents one specific topic that is investigated taking into account both varieties of the language. Three kinds of activities guide the student throughout each lesson to inductively make generalisations on the language that can be supported by linguistic evidence and, possibly, to revise the information they were given as a start of their analysis. In order to do this, the student learns to observe the data, recognize recurring patterns and exceptions, and formulate a description of the language behaviours illustrated by the given examples. At the end of each lesson the student actively gains knowledge of the Ainu language by producing themselves a set of descriptive rules. The course aims at giving the student some basic analytical tools to approach and analyse Ainu language sources. Furthermore, the student will gain knowledge about the genealogical relationship of the Ainu language and about important sociolinguistic issues relative to its past history and present status of vitality.
    Keywords: Endangered languages,Linguistics,Language teaching,Ainu,glottodidattica,ainu,linguistica,Language analysis
    Language: English
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    Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
    Publication Date: 2024-02-22
    Description: Il libro indaga le complesse articolazioni della falsificazione epigrafica, un fenomeno ampiamente attestato in Italia fra il tardo Medioevo e il XVIII secolo. Le iscrizioni non genuine o falsae, come le chiamava Theodor Mommsen, sono quelle che si presentano come antiche, ma in realtà non lo sono. Possono essere prodotte tanto su supporto materiale, quanto semplicemente su carta. Al loro interno si distinguono diverse tipologie di documenti: falsi realizzati a scopo di dolo, repliche di iscrizioni antiche, nonché testi o monumenti che si ispirano a modelli epigrafici classici. Il volume raccoglie quindici saggi scientifici, che esaminano singoli casi di falsificazione, ricostruiscono l'epistemologia della critica dei falsi e riabilitano numerose epigrafi ritenute erroneamente false, confermandone invece l'effettiva antichità.
    Keywords: Council of Trent,Printed editions,House of Savoy,Antiquarian market in the early 1900s,Aqua Vergine,CIL VI 990*,Fake,Lucas Peto,Documentary forgeries,Fake inscriptions,Roman Liguria,Antiquarians,Amphora,Spurious imitations,Forged inscriptions,Christian forgeries,Renaissance,Fitzwilliam Museum,Aquileia,Digital editions,Decretum Rubiconis,Epigraphic forgeries,Aqueducts,Casa Museo dell’Antiquariato Ivan Bruschi,Intellectual history,Theodor Mommsen,Coarse altar,Forged blunder,Primacy of Sardinia,Critical editions,Senatus consultum,Cities,Non-alphabetic graphemes,Epigraphic research,Forgeries,Pingone,Classical scholarship,Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum,Latin poets of Renaissance,Pirro Ligorio,CIL VI 991*,G,Internet,Epigraphic forgeries on paper,Latin epigraphy,F,Manuscript,Manuscripts,False inscriptions,Pseudo-antique palaeography,Luigi Biraghi,Savoy Piedmont,Ciriaco de’ Pizzicolli,Epitaph,John Disney,Thomas Hollis,Meyranesio,Forgery,Spain,Epigraph balanced between dimensions and inscripti,Copies,Jacopo Valvasone,Inscribed zone as decorative surface,Epigraphy,Lepontic,Marche,Mariangelo Accursio,Ager Mediolanensis,Epigraphic models,Lex de imperio Vespasiani Antonio Agustín,Antonio Trevisi,Counterfeit instrumentum inscriptum,Ancient restorations
    Language: English , Italian , French
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    New York University Press | NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: What is it that makes language powerful? This book uses the psychoanalytic concepts of narcissism and libidinal investment to explain how rhetoric compels us and how it can effect change. The works of Joseph Conrad, James Baldwin, Michael Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Arthur Miller, D.H. Lawrence, Ben Jonson, George Orwell, and others are the basis of this thoughtful exploration of the relationship between language and subject. Bringing together ideas from Freudian, post- Freudian, Lacanian, and post-structuralist schools, Alcorn investigates the power of the text that underlies the reader response approach to literature in a strikingly new way. He shows how the production of literary texts begins and ends with narcissistic self-love, and also shows how the reader's interest in these texts is directed by libidinal investment. Psychoanalysts, psychologists, and lovers of literature will enjoy Alcorn's diverse and far-reaching insights into classic and contemporary writers and thinkers.
    Keywords: book ; change ; compels ; concepts ; effect ; explain ; investment ; libidinal ; narcissism ; psychoanalytic ; rhetoric ; This ; uses ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSA Literary theory ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology
    Language: English
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    Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
    Publication Date: 2024-02-22
    Description: Este volumen es un intento de renovación y desperiferialización de los estudios ibéricos, enfocando lo periférico como posicionamiento geográfico, cultural e ideológico, a la hora de cuestionar la óptica hegemónica del centro y revisar los cánones culturales preexistentes, y sus vacíos, exclusiones e invisibilidades. Se trata de una múltiple tarea – realizada desde Australia y Nueva Zelanda – que incluye el estudio de formas culturales periféricas, tanto de las llamadas nacionalidades históricas ausentes del canon cultural/literario/lingüístico castellano, como de otros grupos minorizados que han sido tradicionalmente desplazados a diferentes tipos de periferia, tales como los exiliados, los presos políticos, los inmigrantes, los gitanos, las clases trabajadoras, los sujetos coloniales o las minorías sexuales, en un contexto global.
    Keywords: Nacionalflamenquismo,Antonio Murado,Larra,Harka,Spanish regionalisms,Pedro Almodóvar,Dissatisfaction,Mercedes Núñez Targa,Sexual violence,Popular fiction,Spanish Transition,Cool capitalism,Culinary nationalism,Cultural relationships,Historical novel,Galician studies,Representation of homosexuality,National mythscape,¡A mí la Legión!,Laberinto de Pasiones,Luis Buñuel,Medieval historical fiction,Fil-Hispanic Studies,Diferente, No desearás al vecino del quinto,Middle-class,Quinqui,Ventas prison,Catalonia,Periphery,Postcolonial literary studies,Instituto Cervantes,Autarchy,Alfredo Landa,Catalan crime fiction,Francisco Leiro,Hispanic food studies,History and fiction,Gendered repression,Spain,Spanish Cultural Promotion in Asia,Spanish cuisine,Collective memory,Civil War,Philippines,Food Studies,Spanish food studies,Rumba vallecana,Spanish Cinema,Visual Art,Marta Sanz
    Language: English , Catalan , Spanish
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    Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: This is a book about the confessionalisation of science in the early modern period. It discusses the cosmological controversies raised by the appropriation of Tycho Brahe’s astronomical theories within the Jesuit milieu, by focusing on the international community of Jesuit mathematicians who taught astronomy at the College of Santo Antão, Lisbon, between 1615 and 1652. The author argues that the cultural politics of the Counter-Reformation Church curbed the reception of Tycho Brahe in this community. Despite supporting the Tychonic geo-heliocentric system and exploring cosmological ideas produced in Tycho’s Protestant milieu, the Jesuits active in Lisbon strove to confine the authority of the Lutheran astronomer to the domain of mathematics. Philosophy was expected to remain the realm of Catholic orthodoxy.
    Keywords: Martianus Capella,College of Saint Anthony,Confessionalisation of science,Astronomy,Cosmology,Tycho Brahe,Colégio de Santo Antão,Giovanni Paolo Lembo,Cristoforo Borri,Simon Fallon,Ignace Stafford,Copernicanism,Johann Chrysostomus Gall,Portugal,John Rishton ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: English
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    Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
    Publication Date: 2024-02-22
    Description: Questo nuovo volume della serie «Eurasiatica. Quaderni di studi su Balcani, Anatolia, Iran, Caucaso e Asia Centrale» delle Edizioni Ca’ Foscari di Venezia raccoglie diversi articoli dedicati all’Armenia, al Caucaso e all’Asia Centrale. Il volume rispecchia alcune delle principali linee di ricerca portate avanti in questi ultimi anni dagli studiosi italiani e internazionali. Ne fanno pertanto parte articoli di carattere filologico, storico, economico e politico che affrontano numerosi temi di rilievo per la conoscenza di queste regioni, caratterizzate tanto da una tradizione culturale di grande ricchezza quanto da una crescente rilevanza nello scenario politico contemporaneo.
    Keywords: Bronze Age,Niche Diplomacy,Central Asia,Caucasus,Iosafat Barbaro,Rangeland in mountain areas,Iron Age,Royal Tombs,Archaeology,EU-Russia Relations,Shida Kartli,Yaghnobis,Sickle blades,al-Fārābī,On Ikki Muqam,Nizari Ismailism,Khatay,Vopell,Herat,Sos Höyük,Heroes,Late Bronze Age,Georgia,Uighur titles,Late Chalcolithic,Lexical and morpho-syntactic gloss,Obsidian,Kura-Araxes culture,Russianisms,Turkish-Iranian contacts,Yaghnob,De facto states,Buddhism,Eastern Turkey,International Organisations,Central Asian Art Music,al-Kindī,Flint,Post-soviet City,Abkhazia,Ad hoc tools,Armenian,Kashgar,Political economy,Language contact,Tangut,Kura-Araxes,Baghdad,Timurid Culture Bukhara,Abd ul-Qādir ibn Ghaybi Marāghī,Maqām,Shash Maqom,Fireplaces,Samarkand,Turkistan,Cultures and identities in the Afghan Pamir,Safī al-Dīn,Lchashen-Tsitelgori,Sociolinguistics,Mantìq,Projectile points,Aradetis Orgora,Post-soviet Conflicts,Southern Caucasus,Ashuq-gusan,Sarmatia,South Caucasus,Doghlauri,Azerbaijani language,Ossetian poetry,Heart-shaped world map,Cooperation towards development,Simulacrization,Ottoman Empire,Sino-Persian relations,South Ossetia,Sayat Nova,Early Kurgan period,Azerbaijani,Arab Islamic Art Music,Wakhan Pamir (Afghanistan),De facto States,Early Bronze Age,Lexical influence,Gastaldi,Defter,Sociolinguistics, Language Policy, Georgian Langua,‘ibn-Sinā,Minor Powers,Persia,Arsarot,Gegharot,Italian translation,Manichaeism,Nagorno Karabakh,High mountain pastoralism,Hearths,Mountain communities of Pamir,Hissorak,Post-Soviet space,Middle Persian Texts,Kalmyk language,‘Cagi Acmet’ world-map,Khiva,Urban redevelopment,Turkestan,Diplomazia Umanitaria,Medieval Islamic geography,Ramusio,Extractive institutions,Yerevan,Cagi Acmet,Islam in Tang China,Georgian,Sultan Suleiman II,Matcha,B,ʿAlid diaspora,Wakhi,Funerary customs,G,Muhit,Sogdians,Kurgans,Zaravšan,Iron fӕndyr,Het’um of Korigos,C,Azerbaigian,Kosta Chetagurov
    Language: English , Italian
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    New York University Press | NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-07
    Description: The murky history behind municipal laws criminalizing disability In the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, municipal laws targeting "unsightly beggars" sprang up in cities across America. Seeming to criminalize disability and thus offering a visceral example of discrimination, these “ugly laws” have become a sort of shorthand for oppression in disability studies, law, and the arts. In this watershed study of the ugly laws, Susan M. Schweik uncovers the murky history behind the laws, situating the varied legislation in its historical context and exploring in detail what the laws meant. Illustrating how the laws join the history of the disabled and the poor, Schweik not only gives the reader a deeper understanding of the ugly laws and the cities where they were generated, she locates the laws at a crucial intersection of evolving and unstable concepts of race, nation, sex, class, and gender. Moreover, she explores the history of resistance to the ordinances, using the often harrowing life stories of those most affected by their passage. Moving to the laws’ more recent history, Schweik analyzes the shifting cultural memory of the ugly laws, examining how they have been used—and misused—by academics, activists, artists, lawyers, and legislators.
    Keywords: Americas ; chapter ; hard ; history ; look ; ugly ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas
    Language: English
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    Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
    Publication Date: 2024-02-22
    Description: The present volume, a collection of papers focusing on Venice and those former Venetian colonies which passed to the Ottoman Empire during the early Modern age, retraces the relationship between Venetians and Ottomans in terms of their economic and social history from the end of the XV to the XVIII century showing the permeability of the ruling forces of these two great empires within a continuous and changing stream.
    Keywords: Sehzade Mehmed,Ottoman household system,Ahd-nāme,Mehmed III,Laonicos Chalkokondyles,Rethymno,Ottoman history,Trade privileges,Income and expenses of the Ottoman Empire,Anonymous author from 1490,Byzantium,Ottoman Empire,Trade,Larnaca,Mülk villages,Chrysobull,Crete,Commodity,Tapu registers,Iacopo Promontorio de Campis,Levant,Insurances history,Venetian,John VIII Paleologus,Venetian Candia,Venetian diplomats,Felix Petantius,Sultan Mehmed II,Ottoman Candia,Ottoman Economic History,Vineyards,Property,Ottoman,Maritime transportation,Venice,Commercial partnerships history,Ottoman merchants,Murad III,16th century centralization,Venetian notaries,Spatial history,Ottoman empire
    Language: English , Turkish
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    New York University Press | NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-04
    Description: With the advent of the human genome, cloning, stem-cell research and many other developments in the way we think of the body, disability studies provides an entirely new way of thinking about the body in its relation to politics, the environment, the legal system, and global economies. Bending Over Backwards reexamines issues concerning the relationship between disability and normality in the light of postmodern theory and political activism. Davis takes up homosexuality, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the legal system, the history of science and medicine, eugenics, and genetics. Throughout, he maintains that disability is the prime category of postmodernity because it redefines the body in relation to concepts of normalcy, which underlie the very foundations of democracy and humanistic ideas about the body. Bending Over Backwards argues that disability can become the new prism through which postmodernity examines and defines itself, supplanting the categories of race, class, gender, and sexual orientation.
    Keywords: Disability: social aspects ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFM Disability: social aspects
    Language: English
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    New York University Press | NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-04
    Description: Outstanding Academic Title from 2011 by Choice Magazine While newly arrived immigrants are often the focus of public concern and debate, many Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans have resided in the United States for generations. Latinos are the largest and fastest-growing ethnic group in the United States, and their racial identities change with each generation. While the attainment of education and middle class occupations signals a decline in cultural attachment for some, socioeconomic mobility is not a cultural death-knell, as others are highly ethnically identified. There are a variety of ways that middle class Mexican Americans relate to their ethnic heritage, and racialization despite assimilation among a segment of the second and third generations reveals the continuing role of race even among the U.S.-born. Mexican Americans Across Generations investigates racial identity and assimilation in three-generation Mexican American families living in California. Through rich interviews with three generations of middle class Mexican American families, Vasquez focuses on the family as a key site for racial and gender identity formation, knowledge transmission, and incorporation processes, exploring how the racial identities of Mexican Americans both change and persist generationally in families. She illustrates how gender, physical appearance, parental teaching, historical era and discrimination influence Mexican Americans’ racial identity and incorporation patterns, ultimately arguing that neither racial identity nor assimilation are straightforward progressions but, instead, develop unevenly and are influenced by family, society, and historical social movements.
    Keywords: Ethnic studies ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies
    Language: English
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    Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
    Publication Date: 2024-02-22
    Description: Il volume raccoglie saggi di studiosi di diversa estrazione dedicati alle narrazioni che visitatori, mercanti, missionari e viaggiatori di varie epoche e provenienze hanno dedicato all’Armenia, alla sua storia, alla sua cultura. Attraverso l’analisi di fonti primarie e documenti inediti, il tema del viaggio in Armenia è affrontato in prospettiva storica, storico-artistica, religiosa, filologica e letteraria, coprendo un periodo di quasi mille anni.
    Keywords: Ōgostinos Baǰenc‘,Bitov,Armenia,Travels,Gaṙni,Naxiǰewan,Genocide stages,Travel diary,Toporov,Parrot,Armenian text,Het’um,Mechitarist Congregation,Memoirs,British noblemen,Caucasian text,Dissidents,Ottoman Empire,Travel literature,Kemal Yalçin,Armenian manuscripts,Paolo Piromalli,Journey of discovery,Western travellers,Rise of archaeology, 17th to 19th centuries,Venetian Travellers,Genocide,Paolo Maria Cittadini,Embassies,Crypto-Armenians,Strabo,Turkey,Manuscripts,Crimea,Angiolello,Identity,Western Armenia,Propaganda Fide,Dominican Order,Armenia/Armenias,Persia,Ottomans,Abovian,Early modern missions,Ararat,Catholicos,Cilicia,Cultural Memory,Jewish Russians,Councils,The Soviet Union,Free expression,Barbaro
    Language: English , Italian , French
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    Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
    Publication Date: 2024-02-22
    Description: This book offers a comprehensive linguistic evaluation of the 376 personal names attested in the roughly 600 Aramaic inscriptions of Hatra, the famous Northern Mesopotamian city that flourished in the Parthian age, between the 1st century BC and the 3rd century AD. This study benefits from the publication of many Hatran inscriptions during recent decades, which have yielded rich onomastic data, and some fresh readings of these epigraphic sources. This work is subdivided into three main parts: an “Onomastic Catalogue”, a “Linguistic Analysis”, and a “Concordances Section”. The “Catalogue” is organized as a list of entries, in which every name is transliterated, translated (whenever possible), discussed from an etymological perspective, provided with onomastic parallels, and accompanied by its attestations in the Hatran Aramaic corpus. The “Catalogue” is followed by a “Linguistic Analysis” which describes, firstly, the principal orthographic, phonological, morphological, and syntactical features of Hatran names. The linguistic discussion proper is followed by a semantic taxonomy of the names which make up the corpus and an overview of the religious significance of the theophoric names. “Charts of Concordances” end the book.
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    Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
    Publication Date: 2024-02-22
    Description: Il libro raccoglie i contributi presentati nel corso del primo Seminario internazionale METra (Mapping Epic in Tragedy – Epica e tragedia greca: una mappatura) svoltosi nel maggio del 2021 presso l’Università degli Studi di Verona. Il fine di questo volume – e del progetto da cui prende le mosse – è sondare i confini della ricca e frastagliata eredità dell’epica greca arcaica (in primis Omero) nel dramma attico. Tale eredità viene qui indagata secondo direttrici molteplici e multidisciplinari: dall’analisi linguistica e metrica all’esegesi filologica, stilistico-letteraria e drammaturgica, dalle prospettive della ricerca antropologica e storico-religiosa a quelle della storia culturale e delle idee. I saggi costituiscono – per quanto in modo inevitabilmente parziale – una prima, provvisoria ma già estesa mappatura delle fertili, continue e innovative rivisitazioni in chiave drammatica del patrimonio mitico, linguistico e culturale dell’epica messe in opera dai grandi tragediografi del V secolo a.C.
    Keywords: Prostrated characters,Penelope,Death,Love,Stesichorus,Tragic formularity,Aegisthus,Deianeira,Electra,Human,Tears,Callirrhoe,Rhetoric,Agamemnon,Prayer,Libation Bearers,Gerion,Mother,Trachiniae,Tecmessa,Orestes,Divine,Odyssey,τις-Rede,Hector,Veiled figures,Aeschylus,Laundry,Ajax,Clytemnestra,Irony,Odysseus,Euripides,Sophocles,Greek Epic,Greek Tragedy,Homer,Type-scenes,Ethical characterisation,Homeric boast,Euryalus,Hecuba,Hermes Khthonios,Pain,Nausicaa or The Washerwomen,Epic antecedents,Oresteia,Fragments,Supplication
    Language: English , Italian , Spanish
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    New York University Press | NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-07
    Description: When Nancy was in her late twenties, she began having blinding headaches, tunnel vision, and dizziness, which led to the discovery of an abnormality on her brain stem. Complications during surgery caused serious brain damage, resulting in partial paralysis of the left side of her body and memory and cognitive problems. Although she was constantly evaluated by her doctors, Nancy’s own questions and her distress got little attention in the hospital. Later, despite excellent job performance post-injury, her physical impairments were regarded as an embarrassment to the “perfect” and “beautiful” corporate image of her employer. Many conversations about brain injury are deficit-focused: those with disabilities are typically spoken about by others, as being a problem about which something must be done. In Living with Brain Injury, J. Eric Stewart takes a new approach, offering narratives which highlight those with brain injury as agents of recovery and change in their own lives. Stewart draws on in-depth interviews with ten women with acquired brain injuries to offer an evocative, multi-voiced account of the women’s strategies for resisting marginalization and of their process of making sense of new relationships to self, to family and friends, to work, and to community. Bridging psychology, disability studies, and medical sociology, Living with Brain Injury showcases how—and on what terms—the women come to re-author identity, community, and meaning post-injury.
    Keywords: Psychology ; Gender studies, gender groups ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups
    Language: English
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    New York University Press | NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-07
    Description: Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series American Arabesque examines representations of Arabs, Islam and the Near East in nineteenth-century American culture, arguing that these representations play a significant role in the development of American national identity over the century, revealing largely unexplored exchanges between these two cultural traditions that will alter how we understand them today. Moving from the period of America's engagement in the Barbary Wars through the Holy Land travel mania in the years of Jacksonian expansion and into the writings of romantics such as Edgar Allen Poe, the book argues that not only were Arabs and Muslims prominently featured in nineteenth-century literature, but that the differences writers established between figures such as Moors, Bedouins, Turks and Orientals provide proof of the transnational scope of domestic racial politics. Drawing on both English and Arabic language sources, Berman contends that the fluidity and instability of the term Arab as it appears in captivity narratives, travel narratives, imaginative literature, and ethnic literature simultaneously instantiate and undermine definitions of the American nation and American citizenship.
    Keywords: Social and cultural anthropology ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology
    Language: English
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    Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
    Publication Date: 2024-02-22
    Description: L’intelligence artificielle est en train de redéfinir la traduction automatique et le traitement automatique des langues. il est ainsi urgent de mieux en saisir les enjeux sociaux, économiques et éthiques. Ce volume collectif explore la possibilité et les contours d’un nouveau consensus entre les usages humains des langues et la contribution des machines.
    Keywords: NMT toolkits,Human translation,Online dictionaries,Information technology,Digital tools,Project management,Boundaries of the translating mind,Translator training,Natural language processing,Language learning and teaching,Machine translation,Translation workflow,Machine Translation,Post-editing,Machine translation (mt),Master’s Programme in Translation,Neural machine translation,The Free Energy Principle and Active Inference,Automatic metrics,Digital,Post-editing (pe),Body enactivism,Artificial Intelligence,Translation,Translation competence framework,NMT literacy,Digital Humanities,Integrated translation project,Directorate-general for translation,NMT specialisation,Service translation,Computer-assisted and machine translation technolo,Embodiment and enactivism in translation,Body functionalism,Institutional translation,Online corpora,Cognition,Tools,Translation competence,MT literacy,Computer-assisted translation (cat),Interdisciplinary approach,Translation technology
    Language: English , French , Italian
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    New York University Press | NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: An examination of the forces and events that led to the most successful organized crime control initiatives in American history Since Prohibition, the Mafia has captivated the media and, indeed, the American imagination. From Al Capone to John Gotti, organized crime bosses have achieved notoriety as anti- heroes in popular culture. In practice, organized crime grew strong and wealthy by supplying illicit goods and services and by obtaining control over labor unions and key industries. Despite, or perhaps because of, its power and high profile, Cosa Nostra faced little opposition from law enforcement. Yet, in the last 15 years, the very foundations of the mob have been shaken, its bosses imprisoned, its profits diminished, and its influence badly weakened. In this vivid and dramatic book, James B. Jacobs, Christopher Panarella, and Jay Worthington document the government's relentless attack on organized crime. The authors present an overview of the forces and events that led in the 1980s to the most successful organized crime control initiatives in American history. Enlisting trial testimony, secretly taped conversations, court documents, and depositions, they document five landmark cases, representing the most important organized crime prosecutions of the modern era—Teamsters Local 560, The Pizza Connection, The Commission, the International Teamsters, and the prosecution of John Gotti.
    Keywords: Criminal law: procedure and offences ; thema EDItEUR::L Law::LN Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law::LNF Criminal law: procedure and offences
    Language: English
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    Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
    Publication Date: 2024-02-22
    Description: The study of architecture, from the selection, procurement and processing of raw materials, to the construction and use of buildings as spaces of action and interaction, can provide major insights into the social organisation of ancient communities. Architecture, as a way of organising space and encoding meaning, plays an active role in structuring movement and socio-cultural identities and provides a range of potential avenues for exploring social motivations and rationales in particular contexts and environments, both at the individual and community levels. This book examines ‘architecture’ as key media for analysing socio-cultural narratives in prehistoric Cyprus and exploring the formation, reproduction and development of early Cypriot communities. In particular, the volume aims at moving beyond the classification of architectural forms and functions and exploring the social, ideological, economic and political transformations that characterised the Cypriot prehistory from the late Aceramic Neolithic until the advent of the Late Bronze Age (7000/6800-1750/1700 Cal BC) by using architectural evidence as the focal analytical data-set. The interest of this study is not only in how people constructed buildings but also in how buildings contributed to the construction and definition of new socio-cultural and economic identities during Cypriot prehistory. Through a detailed review of the existing architectural data-set available for prehistoric Cypriot settlements, the book aims to understand how the development of new concepts of architecture, and the increasing appearance of social, cultural and economic forms of complexity are mutually constituted.
    Keywords: Built environment,Prehistoric Cyprus,Architecture,Multiscalar analysis
    Language: English
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    New York University Press | NYU Press
    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: The complicity of the Hungarian Christian church in the mass extermination of Hungarian Jews by the Nazis is a largely forgotten episode in the history of the Holocaust. Using previously unknown correspondence and other primary source materials, Moshe Y. Herczl recreates the church's actions and its disposition toward Hungarian Jewry. Herczl provides a scathing indictment of the church's lack of compassion toward—and even active persecution of—Hungary's Jews during World War II.
    Keywords: Judaism ; thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRJ Judaism
    Language: English
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