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Disability, Avoidance, And The Academy: Challenging Resistance
by David Bolt Claire PenkethDisability is a widespread phenomenon, indeed a potentially universal one as life expectancies rise. Within the academic world, it has relevance for all disciplines yet is often dismissed as a niche market or someone else's domain. This collection explores how academic avoidance of disability studies and disability theory is indicative of social prejudice and highlights, conversely, how the academy can and does engage with disability studies. This innovative book brings together work in the humanities and the social sciences, and draws on the riches of cultural diversity to challenge institutional and disciplinary avoidance. Divided into three parts, the first looks at how educational institutions and systems implicitly uphold double standards, which can result in negative experiences for staff and students who are disabled. The second part explores how disability studies informs and improves a number of academic disciplines, from social work to performance arts. The final part shows how more diverse cultural engagement offers a way forward for the academy, demonstrating ways in which we can make more explicit the interdisciplinary significance of disability studies - and, by extension, disability theory, activism, experience, and culture. Disability, Avoidance and the Academy: Challenging Resistance will interest students and scholars of disability studies, education studies and cultural studies.
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by David Bolt Claire PenkethDisability is a widespread phenomenon, indeed a potentially universal one as life expectancies rise. Within the academic world, it has relevance for all disciplines yet is often dismissed as a niche market or someone else's domain. This collection explores how academic avoidance of disability studies and disability theory is indicative of social prejudice and highlights, conversely, how the academy can and does engage with disability studies. This innovative book brings together work in the humanities and the social sciences, and draws on the riches of cultural diversity to challenge institutional and disciplinary avoidance. Divided into three parts, the first looks at how educational institutions and systems implicitly uphold double standards, which can result in negative experiences for staff and students who are disabled. The second part explores how disability studies informs and improves a number of academic disciplines, from social work to performance arts. The final part shows how more diverse cultural engagement offers a way forward for the academy, demonstrating ways in which we can make more explicit the interdisciplinary significance of disability studies - and, by extension, disability theory, activism, experience, and culture. Disability, Avoidance and the Academy: Challenging Resistance will interest students and scholars of disability studies, education studies and cultural studies.
Disability, Avoidance and the Academy: Challenging Resistance (Routledge Advances in Disability Studies)
by David Bolt Claire PenkethDisability is a widespread phenomenon, indeed a potentially universal one as life expectancies rise. Within the academic world, it has relevance for all disciplines yet is often dismissed as a niche market or someone else’s domain. This collection explores how academic avoidance of disability studies and disability theory is indicative of social prejudice and highlights, conversely, how the academy can and does engage with disability studies. This innovative book brings together work in the humanities and the social sciences, and draws on the riches of cultural diversity to challenge institutional and disciplinary avoidance. Divided into three parts, the first looks at how educational institutions and systems implicitly uphold double standards, which can result in negative experiences for staff and students who are disabled. The second part explores how disability studies informs and improves a number of academic disciplines, from social work to performance arts. The final part shows how more diverse cultural engagement offers a way forward for the academy, demonstrating ways in which we can make more explicit the interdisciplinary significance of disability studies – and, by extension, disability theory, activism, experience, and culture. Disability, Avoidance and the Academy: Challenging Resistance will interest students and scholars of disability studies, education studies and cultural studies.
Disability, Avoidance and the Academy: Challenging Resistance (Routledge Advances in Disability Studies)
by David Bolt Claire PenkethDisability is a widespread phenomenon, indeed a potentially universal one as life expectancies rise. Within the academic world, it has relevance for all disciplines yet is often dismissed as a niche market or someone else’s domain. This collection explores how academic avoidance of disability studies and disability theory is indicative of social prejudice and highlights, conversely, how the academy can and does engage with disability studies. This innovative book brings together work in the humanities and the social sciences, and draws on the riches of cultural diversity to challenge institutional and disciplinary avoidance. Divided into three parts, the first looks at how educational institutions and systems implicitly uphold double standards, which can result in negative experiences for staff and students who are disabled. The second part explores how disability studies informs and improves a number of academic disciplines, from social work to performance arts. The final part shows how more diverse cultural engagement offers a way forward for the academy, demonstrating ways in which we can make more explicit the interdisciplinary significance of disability studies – and, by extension, disability theory, activism, experience, and culture. Disability, Avoidance and the Academy: Challenging Resistance will interest students and scholars of disability studies, education studies and cultural studies.
Leistung und Leistungsprinzip: Zur Konzeption, Wirklichkeit und Möglichkeit eines gesellschaftlichen Gestaltungsprinzips. Ein Beitrag zur Sozialkunde der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
by Karl Martin Bolte
Soziale Ungleichheit (Beiträge zur Sozialkunde)
by Karl Martin Bolte Dieter Kappe Friedhelm Neidhardt
Ubiquitous Computing, Complexity and Culture
by Jay David Bolter Ulrik Ekman Lily Diaz Morten Sondergaard Maria EngbergThe ubiquitous nature of mobile and pervasive computing has begun to reshape and complicate our notions of space, time, and identity. In this collection, over thirty internationally recognized contributors reflect on ubiquitous computing’s implications for the ways in which we interact with our environments, experience time, and develop identities individually and socially. Interviews with working media artists lend further perspectives on these cultural transformations. Drawing on cultural theory, new media art studies, human-computer interaction theory, and software studies, this cutting-edge book critically unpacks the complex ubiquity-effects confronting us every day. The companion website can be found here: http://ubiquity.dk
Ubiquitous Computing, Complexity and Culture
by Jay David Bolter Ulrik Ekman Lily Diaz Morten Sondergaard Maria EngbergThe ubiquitous nature of mobile and pervasive computing has begun to reshape and complicate our notions of space, time, and identity. In this collection, over thirty internationally recognized contributors reflect on ubiquitous computing’s implications for the ways in which we interact with our environments, experience time, and develop identities individually and socially. Interviews with working media artists lend further perspectives on these cultural transformations. Drawing on cultural theory, new media art studies, human-computer interaction theory, and software studies, this cutting-edge book critically unpacks the complex ubiquity-effects confronting us every day. The companion website can be found here: http://ubiquity.dk
Aid and Other Dirty Business: How Good Intentions Have Failed the World's Poor
by Giles BoltonDo you know why Africa is so poor? What really happens to your charity money? Why do trade rules fail African countries and yet cost you too? We've heard it all before: the corrupt leaders, heartless global corporations, the wicked World Bank.But the answers are much closer to home... and so are the solutionsWhen Giles Bolton began working in the world of aid and development, he travelled to Africa convinced that he could solve problems, save villages and sing songs with the locals under a shimmering sunset. The reality proved rather less romantic, and far more shocking...Aid and Other Dirty Business is a radical, brilliantly readable and totally original approach to the seemingly unending problem of poverty in Africa. It may change your life, but, more importantly, it will help you change the lives of others.
Reflective Practice: Writing and Professional Development (PDF)
by Gillie BoltonIn the new third edition of this popular and highly readable book, the author draws on her considerable experience and extensive research to demonstrate a creative dynamic mode of reflection and reflexivity.
Film and Female Consciousness: Irigaray, Cinema and Thinking Women
by L. BoltonFilm and Female Consciousness analyses three contemporary films that offer complex and original representations of women's thoughtfulness and individuality: In the Cut (2003), Lost in Translation (2003) and Morvern Callar (2002). Lucy Bolton compares these recent works with well-known and influential films that offer more familiar treatments of female subjectivity: Klute (1971), The Seven Year Itch (1955) and Marnie (1964). Considering each of the older, celebrated films alongside the recent, unconventional works illustrates how contemporary filmmaking techniques and critical practices can work together to create provocative depictions of on-screen female consciousness.Bolton's approach demonstrates how the encounter between the philosophy of Luce Irigaray and cinema can yield a fuller understanding of the fundamental relationship between film and philosophy. Furthermore, the book explores the implications of this approach for filmmakers and spectators, and suggests Irigarayan models of authorship and spectatorship that reinvigorate the notion of women's cinema.
Lasting Screen Stars: Images that Fade and Personas that Endure
by Lucy Bolton Julie Lobalzo WrightLasting Stars examines the issue of stardom and longevity and investigates the many reasons for the persistence or disappearance of different star personas. Through a selection of chapters that look at issues such as inappropriate ageing, national identity and physical characteristics, this book will be the first volume to consider in depth and breadth the factors that affect the longevity of film stardom.The range of stars includes popular stars who are approached from fresh angles (Brando, Loren), less popular stars whose lower-profiles than their peers may be surprising (Taylor, Shearer) and stars whose national identity is integral to their perception as they age (Riva, Bachchan, Pavor). There are stars from the beginning of Hollywood (Valentino, Reid) to the present day (Jolie), and those who made uneasy transitions between countries (Mason), ages (Ringwald) and industrial eras (Keaton). The book examines the range of factors that affect how star images endure, including appropriate and inappropriate ageing (Griffith), race (Ice Cube) and digital technologies (Lee).
Making Energy Markets: The Origins of Electricity Liberalisation in Europe
by Ronan BoltonMaking Energy Markets charts the emergence and early evolution of electricity markets in western Europe, covering the decade from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Liberalising electricity marked a radical deviation from the established paradigm of state-controlled electricity systems which had become established across Europe after the Second World War. By studying early liberalisation processes in Britain and the Nordic region, and analysing the role of the EEC, the book shows that the creation of electricity markets involved political decisions about the feasibility and desirability of introducing competition into electricity supply industries. Competition introduced risks, so in designing the process politicians needed to evaluate who the likely winners and losers might be and the degree to which competition would impact key national industries reliant on cross-subsidies from the electricity sector, in particular coal mining, nuclear power and energy intensive production. The book discusses how an understanding of the origins of electricity markets and their political character can inform contemporary debates about renewables and low carbon energy transitions.
Bildungsmigranten aus dem subsaharischen Afrika in Moskau und St. Petersburg: Selbst- und Fremdbilder (Edition Centaurus - Sozioökonomische Prozesse in Asien, Afrika und Lateinamerika)
by Svetlana BoltovskajaDie Sowjetunion bildete Hunderttausende junge AfrikanerInnen aus. Heute lebt in Moskau und St. Petersburg eine zahlenmäßig kleine, aber aktive afrikanische Community, deren Kern aus ehemaligen Bildungsmigranten besteht. Diese interdisziplinäre Studie erweitert das Untersuchungsgebiet der internationalen Black Studies auf Russland. Sie beschäftigt sich mit der Geschichte der Bildungsmigration aus dem subsaharischen Afrika und fokussiert vor allem die postsowjetische Zeit, in der eine wirtschaftliche und gesellschaftspolitische Transformation in Russland sowie in afrikanischen Staaten stattfand. Um wirtschaftliche, rechtliche, soziale und kulturelle Aspekte der afrikanischen Bildungsmigration besser zu verstehen, werden sowjetische bzw. russische Afrika-Diskurse untersucht sowie empirische Daten aus den zwischen 2006 und 2010 durchgeführten Interviews mit Experten, Aktivisten afrikanischer Organisationen und Bildungsmigranten ausgewertet.Welche Faktoren bestimmen die Zuwanderung und Lebenssituation afrikanischer Bildungsmigranten und ihre Interaktion mit der Bevölkerung Russlands? Welche Afrika-Diskurse existierten in der Sowjetunion? Wie verwandelten sie sich in der Populärkultur und in der öffentlichen Meinung nach 1991? Wie weit werden sie von alltäglichen Vorurteilen, Stereotypen und Wertungen geprägt? Wie sehen afrikanische Bildungsmigranten Russland? Wie begegnen sie dem russischen Afrika-Bild und welche Auswirkungen hat dies auf ihre Lebenssituation, Identitätsbildung, Selbstdarstellung und Überlebensstrategien? Diese Studie versucht, all diese Fragen zu beantworten und ist für Ethnologen, Afrikanisten, Slavisten, Historiker, Politik- und Kulturwissenschaftler sowie für alle, die sich für die Geschichte Afrikas und Russlands interessieren, geschrieben.
Finanztango: Wirtschaftliche Beziehungen und ihr Management in der Wirtschaftskommunikation
by Klaus Boltres-Streeck Susanne FemersWirtschaftskommunikation ist eine vielfältige Managementaufgabe. Gegenstände der Steuerung sind zweifelsohne die Inhalte und Instrumente der Kommunikation. Management in der Wirtschaftskommunikation bedeutet aber mehr: Vielfältige Beziehungen der Akteure im Kommunikationsprozess sind von Kommunikationsmanagern aktiv und bewusst zu gestalten. Im „Finanztango“ dieser Wirtschaftsbeziehungen sind daher für zielorientierte Kommunikation die Parkettbeschaffenheit zu prüfen, die gemeinsamen Schrittfolgen genau zu planen und mögliche Hindernisse abzuschätzen. Dieses Buch bündelt und systematisiert Wissen zum Beziehungsmanagement, damit die Pflicht nicht zur Bürde und die Kür ohne Abzug in der B-Note absolviert wird.
From Poverty to Well-Being and Human Flourishing (Volume 1): Integrated Conceptualisation and Measurement of Economic Poverty
by Julio BoltvinikThis book offers a holistic view of Julio Boltvinik’s vast and important work on poverty conceptualisation and measurement. While well known to Spanish-speaking audiences, this volume brings these works together to offer access for English-speaking audiences for the first time. The book provides the foundations, application and empirical examples of Boltvinik’s Integrated Poverty Measurement Method, which could potentially transform poverty narratives globally as it has done in Mexico. Deeply critical of available poverty approaches, it provides a challenging and radically new way of conceiving and measuring poverty, offering the only multidimensional poverty measurement method which includes time poverty and allows all Aggregate Poverty Measures to be fully calculated.
From Poverty to Well-Being and Human Flourishing (Volume 1): Integrated Conceptualisation and Measurement of Economic Poverty
by Julio BoltvinikThis book offers a holistic view of Julio Boltvinik’s vast and important work on poverty conceptualisation and measurement. While well known to Spanish-speaking audiences, this volume brings these works together to offer access for English-speaking audiences for the first time. The book provides the foundations, application and empirical examples of Boltvinik’s Integrated Poverty Measurement Method, which could potentially transform poverty narratives globally as it has done in Mexico. Deeply critical of available poverty approaches, it provides a challenging and radically new way of conceiving and measuring poverty, offering the only multidimensional poverty measurement method which includes time poverty and allows all Aggregate Poverty Measures to be fully calculated.
Pacific Romanticism: Tahiti and the European Imagination (Non-ser.)
by Alexander H. BolyanatzEuropeans' romanticist imaginings of people from the South Pacific have been around since the Enlightenment and have been significantly informed by the accounts of voyages to Tahiti by people such as Louis Bougainville. This book shows that the overtly promiscuous behavior that the French perceived as hospitality on the part of the Tahitians in 1768 was actually a defensive ploy, and that our contemporary image of sex and sexuality in Pacific Island societies is influenced by a fantasy based on this French misperception.This volume takes a very detailed look at traditional Tahitian culture and society and provides a realistic description of what happened on Tahiti when Europeans encountered the people who lived there. Bolyanatz provides a very readable history of South Pacific exploration and Enlightenment thinking. Anyone interested in the development of Enlightenment thought and the way it has developed since the 18th century will enjoy this book.
A Regulatory Framework for the Art Market?: Authenticity, Forgeries and the Role of Art Experts (Studies in Art, Heritage, Law and the Market #7)
by Anna BolzThis book addresses practical issues in connoisseurship and authentication, as well as the legal implications that arise when an artwork’s authenticity is challenged. In addition, the standards and processes of authentication are critically examined and the legal complications which can inhibit the expression of expert opinions are discussed. The notion of authenticity has always commanded the attention of art market participants and the general art-minded public alike. Coinciding with this, forgery is often considered to be the world’s most glamorous crime, packed with detective stories that are usually astonishing and often bizarre. The research includes findings by economists, sociologists, art historians, lawyers, academics and practitioners, all of which yield insights into the mechanics and peculiarities of the art business and explain why it works so differently from other markets. However, this book will be of interest not only to academics, but to everyone interested in questions of authenticity, forgery and connoisseurship. At the same time, one of its main aims is to advocate best practices in the art market and to stress the importance of cooperation among all disciplines with a stake in it. The results are intended to offer guidance to art market stakeholders, legal practitioners and art historians alike, while also promoting mutual understanding and cooperation.
Fußballjournalismus: Eine medienethnographische Analyse redaktioneller Arbeitsprozesse
by Marcus BölzDas Phänomen Fußball produziert mit seinen schnell wechselnden Ereignissen und Idolen fortwährenden Diskussionsstoff und verfügt über das Potenzial, Menschen über alle soziale Schichten hinweg zu faszinieren. Fußball erzählt heute globale Geschichten und inszeniert sich auf allen Kanälen als mediales Spektakel, dem (fast) keiner entkommen kann. Marcus Bölz untersucht vor dem Hintergrund der zunehmenden Professionalisierung und Kommerzialisierung des Fußballbetriebs, wie sich die Arbeit und die Selbstwahrnehmung von Sportjournalisten verändert haben. Anhand einer redaktionellen Arbeitsprozessanalyse untersucht er die zahlreichen Maxime und Praktiken deutscher Fußballjournalisten und konfrontiert Spieler, Trainer und Fans mit den Ergebnissen. Er zeigt, dass diese von der Kultur der Fußballberichterstattung teilweise eine ganz andere Vorstellung haben als die untersuchten und befragten Journalisten.
Situating Children of Migrants across Borders and Origins: A Methodological Overview (Life Course Research and Social Policies #7)
by Claudio Bolzman Laura Bernardi Jean-Marie Le GoffThis open access wide-ranging collation of papers examines a host of issues in studying second-generation immigrants, their life courses, and their relations with older generations. Tightly focused on methodological aspects, both quantitative and qualitative, the volume features the work of authors from numerous countries, from differing disciplines, and approaches. A key addition in a corpus of literature which has until now been restricted to studying the childhood, adolescence and youth of the children of immigrants, the material includes analysis of longitudinal and transnational efforts to address challenges such as defining the population to be studied, and the difficulties of follow-up research that spans both time and geographic space. In addition to perceptive reviews of extant literature, chapters also detail work in surveying the children of immigrants in Europe, the USA, and elsewhere. Authors address key questions such as the complexities of surveying each generation in families where parents have migrated and left children in their country of origin, and the epistemological advances in methodology which now challenge assumptions based on the Westphalian nation-state paradigm. The book is in part an outgrowth of temporal factors (immigrants’ children are now reaching adulthood in more significant numbers), but also reflects the added sophistication and sensitivity of social science surveys. In linking theoretical and methodological factors, it shows just how much the study of these second generations, and their families, can be enriched by evolving methodologies.This book is open access under a CC BY license
Women in the Military Orders of the Crusades (The New Middle Ages)
by M. BomThis study of the female members of the Order or Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem in the High Middle Ages analyses their presence in the context of female monasticism and compares their position to the position of women in other religious military orders. Introducing questions of gender into the history of the military orders.
Doctor (Object Lessons)
by Andrew BombackObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. A 3-year-old asks her physician father about his job, and his inability to provide a succinct and accurate answer inspires a critical look at the profession of modern medicine. In sorting through how patients, insurance companies, advertising agencies, filmmakers, and comedians misconstrue a doctor's role, Andrew Bomback, M.D., realizes that even doctors struggle to define their profession. As the author attempts to unravel how much of doctoring is role-playing, artifice, and bluffing, he examines the career of his father, a legendary pediatrician on the verge of retirement, and the health of his infant son, who is suffering from a vague assortment of gastrointestinal symptoms. At turns serious, comedic, analytical, and confessional, Doctor offers an unflinching look at what it means to be a physician today.Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.