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2. Divided Memory: Dealing with the Past in the East German Town of Eisenhüttenstadt after the Upheaval of 1989–90
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Stanislav Serhiienko
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History (General) and history of Europe ,Political science (General) ,JA1-92 - Abstract
This paper explores perceptions of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in Eisenhüttenstadt, the “first socialist town of Germany,” following the collapse of the state socialist dictatorship in East Germany. Despite its being the most well-known “socialist town” in Eastern Bloc, no systematic research has been done into how the town dealt with its troubled past. By analyzing discussion and representation of the town’s past in the public space through the year 2010, this study investigates how a town like Eisenhüttenstadt, which has no pre-socialist history, dealt with its past as East Germany transitioned away from state socialism. It also examines the impact of the town’s unique past on its current identity. The author argues that Diktaturgedächtnis [the memory of dictatorship], the lack of a pre-socialist past, and the town’s rejection of radical strategies for dealing with the past have led to complex collective memories and town identity in Eisenhüttenstadt. This complexity manifests itself in the embrace of different symbolic representations of history in different parts of the town and in splits in the public and private, and internal and external, collective memories.
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- 2025
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3. Between east and west, between past and future: The effects of exclusive historical victimhood on geopolitical attitudes in Hungary and Serbia.
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Ivanović J, Vincze O, Jevtić M, Szabó Z, Csertő I, Choi SY, and Liu JH
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- Humans, Serbia, Hungary, Male, Female, Adult, Middle Aged, Young Adult, Crime Victims, Adolescent, Politics, Attitude
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In Eastern Europe, collective victim beliefs have become integral elements of national ideologies, especially amid rising geopolitical polarization. In this study, we investigated how exclusive victimhood was related to geopolitical attitudes in Hungary and Serbia. The study involved Serbian (N = 630) and Hungarian (N = 471) adult national samples stratified by gender, age, political orientation, and place of residence. As expected, exclusive victimhood predicted higher support for a geopolitical shift from the West (i.e., EU and US) to the East (i.e., Russia and China) via Euroscepticism in both samples. In Serbia, the strongest indirect effect was observed among participants with neutral attitudes towards the war in Ukraine. In Hungary, there was no expected moderated mediation while the direct effect of exclusive victimhood on the West-to-East geopolitical shift was largest for pro-Russian participants and non-significant for pro-Ukrainian participants. Different measures of ethnic identity showed no expected moderation effect, but an exploratory analysis revealed that exclusive victimhood partially mediated the relationship between identity measures (superiority and attachment) and support for a pro-Eastern (vs. pro-Western) geopolitical orientation. We discuss how the construals of the past based on exclusive victimhood shape future geopolitical preferences of the public in Hungary and Serbia., (© 2024 British Psychological Society.)
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- 2025
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4. Global perceptions of state apologies for human rights violations.
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Schaafsma J, de Groot M, and Sagherian-Dickey T
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- Humans, Male, Female, Adult, Middle Aged, Young Adult, Social Perception, Human Rights, Cross-Cultural Comparison, Attitude, Human Rights Abuses
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State apologies for human rights violations are often seen as a key mechanism in reconciliation processes. Nevertheless, they are often contested as well and have not been embraced equally by countries around the world. This raises questions about their universal value and potential to address or redress past harmdoing by countries. In a study across 33 countries (n = 11,023), we found that people around the world consider apologies by states for human rights violations to be reasonably important but tend to be less supportive of the idea that their own country should apologize for past harmdoing. We found that this discrepancy was amplified in countries with stronger honour norms and a stronger collective sense of victim- rather than perpetratorhood. Moving beyond the decontextualized approach that has prevailed in previous psychological research on this topic, our findings show that people's attitudes towards apologies by their country do not exist in a cultural and social vacuum but depend on the extent to which the broader context affords a critical reflection on past harmdoing. As such, they help explain why some countries have been reluctant to offer apologies, and why such gestures may also be more controversial in some contexts than in others., (© 2024 British Psychological Society.)
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- 2025
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5. From the ‘Russian idea’ to the ‘Russian World’
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Soboleva, Maja
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- 2025
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6. Archaeology, Activism, and Protest: Mobilizing the Past for Social Change
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Casimiro, Tânia Manuel and Pacheco, Susana
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- 2025
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7. A systematic review of machine learning findings in PTSD and their relationships with theoretical models
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Blekic, Wivine, D’Hondt, Fabien, Shalev, Arieh Y., and Schultebraucks, Katharina
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- 2025
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8. Architecture and Videogames : Intersecting Worlds
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Vincent Hui, Ryan Scavnicky, Tatiana Estrina, Vincent Hui, Ryan Scavnicky, and Tatiana Estrina
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- Architecture and recreation, Architecture--Video games
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This book explores and affirms the emergent symbiosis between videogames and architecture, including insights from a diverse range of disciplines.With contributions from authorities in both architecture and videogame industries, it examines how videogames as a medium have enlightened the public about the built environments of the past, offered heightened awareness of our current urban context, and presented inspiration for the future directions of architecture. A relatively nascent medium, videogames have rapidly transitioned from cultural novelty to architectural prophet over the past 50 years. That videogames serve as an interactive proxy for the real world is merely a gateway into just how pervasive and potent the medium is in architectural praxis. If architecture is a synthesis of cultural value and videogames are a dominant cultural medium of today, how will they influence the architecture of tomorrow?The book is split into seven sections: Cultural Artifacts, Historic Reproduction, Production Technologies, Design Pedagogy, Proxies and Representation, Bridging Worlds, and Projected Futures.
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- 2025
9. Heritage and Its Missions : Contested Meanings and Constructive Appropriations
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Cristóbal Gnecco, Adriana Schmidt Dias, Cristóbal Gnecco, and Adriana Schmidt Dias
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Explores how heritage discourses and local publics interact at Catholic mission sites in the southwestern United States, northern Mexico, and the Southern ConeInterdisciplinary in scope and classed under the name “critical heritage studies,” Heritage and Its Missions makes extensive use of ethnographic perspectives to examine heritage not as a collection of inert things upon which a general historical interest is centered, but as a series of active meanings that have consequences in the social, political, and economic arenas. This approach considers the places of interaction between heritage discourses and local publics as constructed spaces where the very materiality of the social and the political unfolds.Heritage and Its Missions brings together researchers from several countries interested in the pre-republican Catholic missions in the Americas as heritage. Each essay discusses the past and current heritage meanings applied to a specific mission by national and multicultural states, local Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities, international heritage institutions, and scholars. They then address how heritage actors produce knowledge from their positioned perspectives; how different actors, collectives, communities, and publics relate to them; how heritage representations are deployed and contested as social facts; and how different conceptions of “heritage” collide, collaborate, and intersperse to produce the meanings around which heritage struggles unfold.
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- 2025
10. The Routledge Companion to African Diaspora Art History
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Eddie Chambers and Eddie Chambers
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- Art, African--21st century, Art, African--20th century, Art and society--Africa--History--20th century
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This is an authoritative companion that is global in scope, recognizing the presence of African Diaspora artists across the world. It is a bold and broad reframing of this neglected branch of art history, challenging dominant presumptions about the field.Diaspora pertains to the global scattering or dispersal of, in this instance, African peoples, as well as their patterns of movement from the mid twentieth century onwards. Chapters in this book emphasize the importance of cross-fertilization, interconnectedness, and intersectionality in the framing of African Diaspora art history. The book stresses the complexities of artists born within, or living and working within, the African continent, alongside the complexities of Africa-born artists who have migrated to other parts of the world. The group of international contributors emphasizes and accentuates the interplay between, for example, Caribbean art and African Diaspora art, or Latin American art and African Diaspora art, or Black British art and African Diaspora art.The book will be of interest to scholars and students working in art history, the various branches of African studies, African American studies, African Diaspora studies, Caribbean studies, and Latin American studies.
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- 2025
11. East Central Europe Since 1989 : Politics, Culture, and Society
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Sabrina P. Ramet, Lavinia Stan, Sabrina P. Ramet, and Lavinia Stan
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- Post-communism--Europe, Eastern
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This groundbreaking treatment of post-communist developments in East Central Europe examines politics, economics, media, religious institutions, transitional justice, gender inequality, and literature, highlighting the overt functions, latent functions, and side effects associated with each sphere.Communism in East Central Europe had cracks from the beginning, as uprisings in East Germany in 1953 and Hungary in 1956 demonstrated. But with the establishment of the Independent Trade Union Solidarity in Poland in the Summer of 1980, communism went into steady decline and, between 1988 and 1991, crumbled. What followed has been an unsteady transition to various forms of often corrupt pluralism with democracy doing best in the Czech Republic (with the exception of the years 2017–2021) and Slovenia, and worst in Hungary, Albania, Serbia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Drawing on the functionalist theory of Robert K. Merton, the authors examine what policymakers – communist and post-communist – were or are trying to accomplish, the intended and unintended results of these policies, and the side-effects they have produced. This volume will be of interest not only to specialists in East Central Europe but also to graduate and undergraduate students, members of the diplomatic corps, and general readers.
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- 2025
12. Photography, Ecology and Historical Change in the Anthropocene : Activating Archives
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Bergit Arends and Bergit Arends
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- Photography--Archive applications--Case studies, Global environmental change--Case studies, Photography, Artistic--Themes, motives, Geology, Stratigraphic--Anthropocene, Social ecology, Human ecology
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Moving beyond existing scholarship, this book connects photography, archives, ecology and historical change and critically applies the Anthropocene as framework to the in-depth study of artists'projects. It discards single modes of seeing environmental transformations in favour of a multiple and de-centred environmental imagination.Bergit Arends uses multidisciplinary perspectives to view localized environmental, social and political issues through research-based artistic practices. The book not only makes available original research into newly and recently discovered archives of ecological and historical change but also shows how this research is manifest in exhibition formats. This book presents international, transhistorical projects by contemporary visual artists who use archives together with photography as documentary and performative media for the comparative study of environments and places. A wide array of artists from diverse backgrounds working primarily in Europe and North America from the 1970s to the present day are discussed and set in relation to Anthropocene narratives. Case studies include environmental archive-based work by Nguyen the Thuc, Christiane Eisler, Chrystel Lebas, Mark Dion, Joy Gregory and Philip Miller.The book will be of interest to scholars working in photography, archive studies, art history, visual culture, environmental humanities and ecocriticism.
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- 2025
13. Qualitative Approaches to the Social Psychology of Populism : Unmasking Populist Appeal
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Inari Sakki and Inari Sakki
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This edited volume presents a social psychological exploration of populism and provides a unique qualitative understanding of the phenomenon's appeal, bringing together an international mix of experts to interrogate populist attraction worldwide.Featuring contributions from Finland, Greece, and Switzerland, the book offers nuanced theoretical, methodological, and empirical approaches for understanding populism, with chapters investigating topics such as populist communication, lay discourse, social representations of the elite and the people, and the mobilisation of young people. Unmasking the persuasive appeal of populism, the book provides examples of qualitative approaches within social, cultural, and political psychology. It draws from established theoretical traditions such as social representations theory and social identity theory, as well as critical discursive approaches, to demonstrate how to study complex relational phenomena such as populism.With its novel inclusion of innovative qualitative methods for examining the social psychology of populism – providing a useful toolkit for qualitative research across various societal and political topics – this book will appeal to scholars, postgraduate students, and researchers studying social and political psychology, communication, qualitative research methods, and political behaviour more broadly.
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- 2025
14. Key Terms of Public History
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Christine Gundermann, Juliane Brauer, Filippo Carlà-Uhink, Judith Keilbach, Georg Koch, Thorsten Logge, Daniel Morat, Arnika Peselmann, Stefanie Samida, Astrid Schwabe, Miriam Sénécheau, Christine Gundermann, Juliane Brauer, Filippo Carlà-Uhink, Judith Keilbach, Georg Koch, Thorsten Logge, Daniel Morat, Arnika Peselmann, Stefanie Samida, Astrid Schwabe, and Miriam Sénécheau
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This volume introduces key terms of public history and makes them accessible via the most important subject areas and central research perspectives. It is aimed at students, teachers and practitioners who deal with history in the public sphere and offers approaches to the theoretical foundation of public history as part of historical cultural studies.
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- 2025
15. Historical Consciousness and Practical Life : A Theory and Methodology
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Paul Zanazanian and Paul Zanazanian
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- History--Psychological aspects--Methodology, History--Social aspects, Canadians, English-speaking--Que´bec (Province)
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Historical Consciousness and Practical Life introduces a novel approach to examining how people construct and employ historical knowledge in their daily lives. In viewing history as an embodied cultural practice that constitutes the background to our meaning-making, the book demonstrates how researchers and others can investigate the ways in which people make sense of time's flow in their now-moment engagements with the world and use that information to position themselves regarding key social problems with historical roots. The book provides a glimpse at how humans enter historically embedded thinking problems, seeking to resolve them. Paul Zanazanian draws on a study of the community leaders of English-speaking Quebec to illustrate the practical life methodology's workings. In looking at their different uses of history for strengthening their group's vitality in the province, he identifies five key stances these leaders employ for positioning their sense of purpose and responsibility for securing English-speaking Quebec's future. Ultimately, Historical Consciousness and Practical Life argues that community leaders who complicate and problematize their uses of history are the best positioned to make positive transformations for their group.
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- 2025
16. Medieval Spaces in Comics : Affect and Ideology
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Elizabeth Allyn Woock and Elizabeth Allyn Woock
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- History in comics, Middle Ages--Comic books, strips, etc.--History and criticism
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This book proposes a conceptual framework for analyzing and discussing narrative space in comics. Building on Mieke Bal's phenomenological approach to cultural analysis (2002), Gaston Bachelard's Poetics of Space (1996), and Geraint D'Arcy's use of the mise en scène to describe space in the comics format (2020), this book layers in a nuanced approach to the depiction of medieval environments through affect theory and poetics to interrogate the staging of ideas which are associated with the medieval period. Considering the action, setting, and story – as well as affect, atmosphere, and mood – medieval space is contextualized as an ethically complex poetic image. This book also explores the communicative possibilities of the comics format, and seeks to show rather than just tell the methodologies of space in comics-based research through illustrating key sections of the text.
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- 2025
17. Critical Theories in Dark Tourism : Issues, Complexities and Future Directions
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Nitasha Sharma, Annaclaudia Martini, Dallen J. Timothy, Nitasha Sharma, Annaclaudia Martini, and Dallen J. Timothy
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This book facilitates a critical investigation of gaps in theorizing and framing dark tourism by navigating through some onto-epistemological issues, theoretical entanglements, future possibilities, and the application of critical theoretical perspectives related to affect and emotions, human-animal studies, postcolonialism, feminism, trauma studies, posthumanism, power and identity. In doing so, it advances the need to connect critical theory, pragmatism and contemporary issues of social and global relevance.'Given the growing body of critical research within tourism studies, dark tourism has somewhat lagged behind. For example, critical tourism researchers have been examining postcolonialism for two decades, but dark tourism research has only sporadically engaged with this topic. Similarly, the issue of gender has been curiously neglected within dark tourism. In addition, dark tourism research has tended to shy away from the ‘big'challenges facing contemporary societies. Through its engagement with a range of critical theories, this volume not only addresses gaps in the existing dark tourism literature but also moves the debate forward in exciting new directions. This volume is well-placed to demonstrate to other disciplines and fields that dark tourism research can be critical, theoretically grounded, and transformative.'– Duncan Light
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- 2025
18. Immersive Storytelling and Spectatorship in Theatre, Museums, and Video Games
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Kelly I. Aliano and Kelly I. Aliano
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Immersive Storytelling and Spectatorship in Theatre, Museums, and Video Games is the first volume to explore immersion as it is experienced in all three of these storytelling forms: the theatre, museums and historic sites, and video games. It theorizes what it means for a work to be called immersive and how immersion impacts audience experience in each of these modes.The presentation of story is deepened when it involves the spectator in an immersive way. Author Kelly I. Aliano concentrates on the central idea that the use of immersion in each medium allows the story being told to feel present for the spectator. It puts them at the center of the experience, making its events for and about them. Throughout, the book discusses how immersion is employed to make narrative feel more resonant and relevant for the audience. Analyzing the impact of offering a first-hand experience of story events, this book looks at how immersive storytelling can highlight the ways in which we can interact with and shape our understandings of ourselves and our society as well as our histories and identities.Ideal for students, scholars, and researchers of immersive theatre, spectatorship, museum studies, and video game studies, this is an innovative study into the power of immersive storytelling across three interactive mediums.
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- 2025
19. The Nordic Populist Radical Right : Voters, Ideology, and Political Interactions
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Ann-Cathrine Jungar and Ann-Cathrine Jungar
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- Populism--Scandinavia, Right-wing extremists--Scandinavia, Political parties--Scandinavia, Political culture--Scandinavia
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This edited volume examines populist radical right parties in the Nordic region.Somewhat surprisingly given the image of a consensual, egalitarian, and progressive region of Europe, the Nordic countries have been fertile ground for the radical right. Not only have radical right parties persisted for many decades, but they are currently much stronger in this region than in most other European countries today. In this book, the contributors analyse the electoral, ideological, and organisational aspects of the radical right in the Nordic region: The Progress Party in Norway (Fremskrittspartiet, FrP), the Sweden Democrats (Sverigedemokraterna, SD), Danish People's Party (Dansk Folkeparti, DF), and the Finns party (Perussuomalaiset, PS). It also explores how mainstream parties and the media have reacted to the rise of the radical right, whether the radical right is integrated into mainstream politics, the extent to which they challenge the dominant ideological paradigm of Nordic politics and whether they mobilise and organise differently to other parties. Understanding the Nordic radical right is crucial to comprehending the transformation of Nordic politics but also changes in European politics more generally.This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Scandinavian politics, populism, the radical right, and comparative party politics.
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- 2025
20. Central and Eastern European Histories and Heritages in Video Games
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Michał Mochocki, Paweł Schreiber, Jakub Majewski, Yaraslau I. Kot, Michał Mochocki, Paweł Schreiber, Jakub Majewski, and Yaraslau I. Kot
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- Representation (Philosophy), Video game characters--Design, Video games--Europe, Central--History, Video games--Europe, Eastern--History
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This book explores the representations of Central and Eastern European histories in digital games.Focusing on games that examine a range of national histories and heritages from across Central and Eastern Europe, the volume looks beyond the diversity of the local histories depicted in games, and the audience reception of these histories, to show a diversity of approaches which can be used in examining historical games – from postcolonialism to identity politics to heritage studies. The book includes chapters on Serbia, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Hungary, Estonia, Slovakia, Czechia, Finland, and (a Western guest with regional connections) Luxembourg. Through the lens of video games, the authors address how nations struggle with the legacies of war, colonialism, and religious strife that have been a part of nation-building - but also how victimized cultures can survive, resist, and sometimes prevail.Appealing primarily to scholars in the fields of game studies, heritage studies, postcolonial criticism, and media studies, this book will be particularly useful for the subfields of historical game studies and postcolonial game studies.
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- 2025
21. Contemporary Asian Popular Culture Vol. 1 : Squid Game, Utopias, and Dystopias
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Yeojin Kim, Dharshani Lakmali Jayasinghe, Hiba Aleem, Karen A. Ritzenhoff, Yeojin Kim, Dharshani Lakmali Jayasinghe, Hiba Aleem, and Karen A. Ritzenhoff
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- Ethnology—Asia, Culture, Motion pictures—Asia, Popular Culture, Ethnology
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This first of two volumes explores how contemporary Asian popular culture reflects and critiques social issues. The authors, from different scholarly backgrounds, examine how shows like Squid Game present a scathing critique of oppressive socio-economic structures, conceptualize national heterotopias, utopias, and dystopias, and facilitate understanding of identity formation and discourses of resistance. The volume encompasses chapters discussing themes that intersect gender, race, politics, and social dynamics. It showcases ongoing developments in Asian popular culture in the wake of the global popularity of Squid Game and in anticipation of its second season release in December 2024.
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- 2025
22. Irony in International Politics
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Johanna Vuorelma and Johanna Vuorelma
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Irony in International Politics investigates ironic language in international politics, focusing on how political leaders use irony to articulate failures of the liberal international order. Underlining the political, performative, and affective nature of irony in international politics, the book introduces a novel typology of four forms of irony: justice-seeking irony, hegemony-seeking irony, recognition-seeking irony, and disruption-seeking irony. Irony is typically understood as a tool of the underdog who seeks to reveal the hypocritical nature of the powerful, but Irony in International Politics shows that irony is increasingly used by the powerful who expose that there is a wide gap between the ideal and the actual in international politics. Studying cases from Turkey, the United Kingdom, Hungary, the United States, Sweden, Germany, Greece, and Russia, the book illustrates how the post-Cold War era represents a distinct scene of irony with its particular identity struggles and power asymmetries that have prompted ironic reactions.
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- 2025
23. Routledge Handbook of the Influence Industry
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Emma L. Briant, Vian Bakir, Emma L. Briant, and Vian Bakir
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- Public relations, Propaganda, Digital media--Political aspects, Social influence
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This Handbook provides the first comprehensive examination of the influence industry and how it operates worldwide across different domains.The rapid evolution of emerging technologies and data-driven persuasive practices has been linked to the spread of misleading content in domestic and foreign influence campaigns. This has prompted worldwide public and policy discussions about disinformation and how to curb its spread. However, less attention has been paid to the increasingly data-driven commercial industry taking advantage of the opportunities these new technologies afford. The handbook uses the term ‘influence'here to include not only messaging and public relations (PR), which fell within the traditional focus of propaganda studies, but to consider the infrastructure and actors behind an advanced array of capabilities that can be used in a coordinated way to affect an audience's emotions, ideas and behaviors in order to advance a state or non-state actor's objectives – increasingly based on data-driven profiling. The volume fills a gap in scholarship exploring the recent technical, political and economic development of this industry, surveying the extent of different technologies and services offered to clients worldwide across multiple domains (commercial, political, national security and government). The chapters are divided into three thematic sections and evaluate Influence Industry practices, aims and effectiveness across audiences; business practices and economics; and democratic structures and human rights. They also offer advice for researchers and consider key ethical issues and new regulatory approaches.This volume will be of much interest to students of political science, propaganda studies, sociology, communication studies and journalism.
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- 2025
24. Bringing History to Life : Teaching Fact and Fiction
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Marc-André Éthier, David Lefrançois, Marc-André Éthier, and David Lefrançois
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History has never been as present in our daily lives as it is today. Through any number of media outlets, tens of millions of people are in daily contact with historical discourses and practices. Between games, informational articles, social media posts and other sources, history is everywhere—in Civilization VI, live-action role-playing games, The Berlin Trilogy, Game of Thrones, and the works of Tolkien or Satrapi. This rise in popularity of history, along with an unprecedented access to social platforms, provide opposing and irreconcilable views of what should be commemorated (or debunked), of decolonization and reconciliation, and of other historical and social justice questions such as the elimination of police brutality and racism. How can we help our youth develop the critical thinking they need to address these questions?Reflecting on the use of works of non-academic history in the classroom, the authors of this book explore the use of popular or public history to teach historical thinking that will enable students to become informed and engaged citizens.
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- 2025
25. Botanical Culture and Popular Belief in Shakespeare's England
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Bonnie Lander Johnson and Bonnie Lander Johnson
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- Literary criticism, Botany in literature, Authors and readers--History, Literature and society--History--16th century, Literature and society--History--17th century
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The Shakespearean stage offered London playgoers a glimpse of the illiterate and rural plant cultures rapidly disappearing from their increasingly urban and sophisticated lives. The same cultures also circulated in popular texts offstage: bawdy tree ballads, botanical tales, almanacs and accounts of kitchen physic. Here Bonnie Lander Johnson argues that, while Shakespeare's plants offered audiences a nostalgic vision of childhood, domestic education and rural pastimes, this was in fact done with an ironic gesture that claimed for illiterate culture an intellectual relevance ignored by the learned and largely Protestant realm of print. Addressing a long-standing imbalance in early modern scholarship, she reveals how Shakespeare's plays – and the popular, low botanical beliefs they represent – engaged with questions usually deemed high, literate and elite: theological and liturgical controversies, the politics of state, England's role in Elizabethan naval conflict and the increasingly learned realm of medical authority.
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- 2025
26. Studien zur jüdischen Bibel : Band 2
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Johann Maier, Franz David Hubmann, Josef Marius Oesch, Johann Maier, Franz David Hubmann, and Josef Marius Oesch
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Der 2019 verstorbene Judaist Johann Maier gehörte zu den renommiertesten Vertretern seines Fachs in Deutschland. Eine Auswahl seiner wichtigen, teils bahnbrechenden Schriften zur Geschichte, Religionsgeschichte und Literatur des Judentums wird in diesem Band gemeinsam mit einem umfassenden Schriftenverzeichnis dargeboten.
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- 2025
27. The Bloomsbury Handbook of North Korean Cinema
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Travis Workman, Dong Hoon Kim, Immanuel Kim, Travis Workman, Dong Hoon Kim, and Immanuel Kim
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- Motion pictures--Korea (North)--History
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This first handbook on North Korean cinema contests the assumption that North Korean film is “unwatchable,” in terms of both quality and accessibility, refusing to reduce North Korean cinema to political propaganda and focusing on its aesthetic forms and cultural meanings. Since its founding in 1948, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) has played diverse roles: a Cold War communist threat to the US, the other half of a divided nation to South Korea, an ally to the Soviet Union and China, one model for anti-colonialism to national liberation movements, an exotic political and cultural anomaly in the era of globalization. This handbook provides a solid and diverse foundation for the expanding scholarship on North Korean cinema. It is also a road map for connecting this field to broader issues in film and media studies: film history, affect and ideology, genre, and transnational cinema cultures. By connecting the worlds of North Korean cinema to broader questions in global cinema studies, this book explores the complexity of a national cinema too often reduced to a single image.
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- 2025
28. Gender by the Book : 21st-Century French Children's Literature
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Julie Fette and Julie Fette
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- Gender identity in literature, Children's literature--21st century--History and criticism, Children's literature, French--History and criticism, Children--Books and reading--France--History--21st century, Press, Juvenile--France--History--21st century, Book clubs (Bookselling)--France--History--21st century, Children's libraries--France--History--21st century
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Gender by the Book investigates the gender representations that French children's literature transmits to readers today. Using an interdisciplinary, mixed methods approach, this book grounds its literary analysis in a sociohistorical examination of three key institutions – libraries, book clubs, and subscription magazines – that circulate reading material to children. It shows how French policies, cultural beliefs, and market forces influence the content of children's literature, including tensions between State support for unprofitable artistic endeavors and a belief in children's right to high-quality products on the one hand, and suspicion of activism as anathema to creativity and fear of losing boy readers on the other. In addition, the notion of universalism, which asserts that equality is best achieved when society is blind to differences, thwarts a diverse and equitable array of literary representations. Nevertheless, conditions are favorable for 21st-century French children's publishers to offer a robust body of richly entertaining egalitarian literature for children.This title is freely available as open access thanks to generous support from the Fondren Library at Rice University.
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- 2025
29. Civic and Uncivic Values in Hungary : Value Transformation, Politics, and Religion
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Sabrina P. Ramet, László Kürti, Sabrina P. Ramet, and László Kürti
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- Social values--Hungary, Political ethics--Hungary, Civics, Hungarian
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This book offers an analysis of values in Hungary.Following the proposition that civic values are crucial to liberal democracy and conducive to international peace, this book examines the extent to which these values are respected and practised in a number of policy spheres, with chapters devoted to the political system, the media, religion, relations with the European Union, history textbooks, cinema, Roma, and the attitudes of Hungarian women voters. The book also charts how, under Prime Minister Orbán, Hungary has gravitated away from the civic values spelled out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Charter of the European Union.This book will prove to be of great use to scholars and students of democracy, East Central Europe, minorities, Hungarian contemporary history and politics, civic culture, gender studies, nationalism, human rights, and more broadly the social sciences.
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- 2025
30. Monstrosity in Games and Play : A Multidisciplinary Examination of the Monstrous in Contemporary Cultures
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Sarah Stang, Mikko Meriläinen, Joleen Blom, Lobna Hassan, Sarah Stang, Mikko Meriläinen, Joleen Blom, and Lobna Hassan
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Monsters fascinate us. From ancient folklore to contemporary digital games, they are at the core of the stories we tell. They reflect our fears, deepest desires, and the monstrosity hidden within ourselves. Monsters hold a mirror to our contemporary society and reveal who we truly are. This edited collection examines monsters and monstrosity in games and play. Monsters are a key feature of most games: we fight, kill, and eat them—and sometimes, we become them. However, monsters in games and play are not only entertaining but also a reflection of the monstrosity of our world. In this book, twenty-two scholars explore how themes such as mental health, colonialism, individualism, disability, gender, sexuality, racism, and exclusion are reflected in the monsters we interact with in games, play, and our daily lives both online and offline. Monstrosity in Games and Play is recommended to readers interested in the monstrous in contemporary game cultures and their surrounding societies.
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- 2025
31. Cold War Museology
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Jessica Douthwaite, Holger Nehring, Samuel J.M.M. Alberti, Jessica Douthwaite, Holger Nehring, and Samuel J.M.M. Alberti
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- Museum studies--Europe, Museums--Philosophy, Cold War--Museums--Europe, Cold War--Exhibitions
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Cold War Museology is the first volume to bring together interdisciplinary and international contributions from leading practitioners and academics specialising in Cold War museology. Bringing the most recent historiography of the Cold War into conversation with museological theory and practice, chapters within the volume analyse the current condition of Cold War museology. By unpicking some of the unique challenges facing museum specialists dealing with the Cold War, this book takes a lead in developing the collection, display and interpretation of this history. The chapters question what makes a Cold War object; address the complexity of Cold War time; face up to questions of Cold War race, gender and imperialism; and reveal how to materialise the Cold War imaginary in museums. Most importantly perhaps, the volume demonstrates that, a consideration of the interconnecting forces of global twentieth-century history enables experts to add important complexity and nuance to the narratives with which they work and improve visitor understandings through innovative interpretations.Cold War Museology will encourage readers towards a more nuanced, holistic and inclusive approach to Cold War materiality in museums. It will be of great interest to academics, museum professionals and students engaged in the study of museums, heritage and the Cold War, as well as those with an interest in archaeology, media, culture and memory.
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- 2025
32. Modern Russian Cinema As a Battleground in Russia's Information War
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Alexander Rojavin, Helen Haft, Alexander Rojavin, and Helen Haft
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- Motion pictures--Political aspects--Russia (Federation), Motion pictures--Russia (Federation)--History, Information warfare--Russia (Federation), Motion pictures in propaganda
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This book explores how modern Russian cinema is part of the international information war that has unfolded across a variety of battlefields, including social media, online news, and television. It outlines how Russian cinema has been instrumentalized, both by the Kremlin's allies and its detractors, to convey salient political and cultural messages, often in subtle ways, thereby becoming a tool for both critiquing and serving domestic and foreign policy objectives, shaping national identity, and determining cultural memory. It explains how regulations, legislation, and funding mechanisms have rendered contemporary cinema both an essential weapon for the Kremlin and a means for more independent figures to publicly frame official government policy. In addition, the book employs formal cinematic analysis to highlight the dominant themes and narratives in modern Russian films of a variety of genres, situating them in Russia's broader rhetorical ecosystem and explaining how they serve the objectives of the Kremlin or its opponents.
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- 2025
33. On the Very Edge : Bidentities in Michelle Cliff’s Fiction
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Ian Kinane and Ian Kinane
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- Literary criticism, Identity (Psychology) in literature, Bisexuality in literature, Biculturalism in literature, Multiracial people in literature
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On the Very Edge: Bidentities in Michelle Cliff's Fiction uses the life and work of bisexual, biracial, and bicultural author Michelle Cliff (1946–2016) to develop an entirely new approach to intersectional cultural, race, and gender/sexuality studies that prioritizes “bi-ness” as a methodological tool. The book focuses not “simply” on bisexuality, biracialism, or biculturalism as isolated identity concepts; rather, it explores the very nature of these intersectional identity categories as configured by Cliff. The text, therefore, represents a reclamation of bi identity in Cliff's work as a much broader cultural, and not just sexual or racial, category, arguing that Cliff's spaces and/or stages of “bi-ness” are in themselves significant in understanding contemporary global identity politics, as well as in navigating complex and often damaging identity constructs.Michelle Cliff, partnered with poet Adrienne Rich and “passing” as white, had an often-invisible sexuality and cultural identity. Yet her acclaimed work—Abeng, No Telephone to Heaven, Bodies of Water, If I Could Write This in Fire, Free Enterprise, and others—demonstrates the intersections between bisexuality, biracialism, and biculturalism in often profound ways. Drawing on original research, interviews, diaries, editorials, and other correspondences, On the Very Edge will have far-reaching implications in the understanding of complex Caribbean identity politics and intersectional race, gender, and sexuality studies at large.
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- 2025
34. Nusantara : Indonesia Builds a New Capital
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Robert Templer and Robert Templer
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INDONESIA BUILDS A NEW CAPITAL Indonesia has a new capital city deep in the lush forests of Borneo. Nusantara will soon replace Jakarta, a city built by the Dutch in the 17th century that has grown into one of the largest metropolises in the world with a population of over 30 million people. The new capital could not be more different: it is planned as a forest city with 75 per cent of the land set aside to provide access for wildlife; buildings will be connected by walkways to encourage pedestrians; and there is a commitment to green energy and transport from the start. Nusantara's architects and planners, all of them Indonesian, have set out a dream of a global city to be built over the next two decades, growing to house a population of four million. President Joko Widodo has even announced plans to bid for the 2036 Olympics there. The ambition is a city that represents the diversity of Indonesia and balances economic development across the archipelago, which for decades has been concentrated on Java.That island is less than a tenth of the area of Indonesia but is home to 60 per cent of the population and the same share of the economy. This has come at a high cost. Jakarta is sinking more rapidly than any other city on the planet and suffers from regular floods. The city was until recently the largest without a metro system; now it has just one line connecting 13 stations. The vast sprawl of concrete and motorways is covered most days in a thick haze; it is regularly ranked as the world's most polluted city.But Indonesia the country is taking a $40-billion gamble on whether moving the capital will help alleviate the problems of Jakarta and provide other benefits such as balancing economic development. The site chosen for Nusantara is near the coast of Borneo, close to the provincial capital of East Kalimantan and in an area with rapid economic growth due to energy and mineral extraction. Purpose-built capitals have a poor record of achieving their ambitions; they often end up as soulless monuments to oppressive regimes. They are also both a symptom and a driver of bad government by leaders who become isolated from their people. Will the remoteness of Nusantara cut Indonesians off from the leaders at a time when their quality of democracy is in decline? As the world's largest Muslim country and the third largest democracy, it is a question that matters beyond its shores. Nusantara could become a model for Indonesia and the region; a carbon-neutral city built not as a monument to a dictator but as a capital that respects the environment and promotes new ways of urban living for the 21st century. Or if it lacks support from successive government and fails to attract the necessary investment it may become one of the many sad and empty capitals that dot the world, another utopian vision fallen flat.
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- 2025
35. Europe Without Borders : A History
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Isaac Stanley-Becker and Isaac Stanley-Becker
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- Admission of nonimmigrants--Europe--History, Freedom of movement--Europe--History, Noncitizens--Civil rights--Europe, Border security--Europe--History
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The contested creation of free movement—for people and goods—in the Schengen area of EuropeEurope is a place of free movement among nations—or is it? The Schengen area, established in 1985 and today encompassing twenty-nine European countries, allows people, goods, and capital to cross borders without restraint. Schengen transformed European life, advancing both a democratic project of transnational citizenship and a neoliberal project of international free trade. But the right of free movement always excluded non-Europeans, especially migrants of color from former colonies of the Schengen states. In Europe without Borders, Isaac Stanley-Becker explores the contested creation of free movement in Schengen, from treatymaking at European summits and disputes in international courts to the street protests of undocumented immigrants who claimed free movement as a human right.Schengen laid the groundwork for the making of a single market and the founding of the European Union. Yet its emergence is one of the great untold stories of modern European history, one hidden in archives long embargoed. Stanley-Becker is among the first to have access to records of the treatymaking—such as letters between France's François Mitterrand and West Germany's Helmut Kohl—and Europe without Borders offers a pathbreaking account of Schengen's creation. Stanley-Becker argues that Schengen gave a humanist cast to a market paradigm; but even in pairing the border crossing of human beings with the principles of free-market exchange, this vision of free movement was hedged by alarm about foreign migrants. Meanwhile, these migrants—the sans-papiers—saw in the promise of a borderless Europe only a neocolonial enterprise.
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- 2025
36. Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Governance and Business Ethics in Tourism Management : A Business Strategy for Sustainable Organizational Performance
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Erum Shaikh, Kuldeep Singh, Erum Shaikh, and Kuldeep Singh
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- Business ethics, Corporate governance, Social responsibility of business
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In recent years, there has been a rapid increase in public pressure on the accountability of business organizations. Financial crises and corporate scandals around the world have raised serious concerns about the implications for the social and environmental impacts of industry and enterprises. Consequently, there is a growing social demand for transparency in business management. These efforts to instil good practice and ethical behaviour have been particularly pronounced in the tourism and hospitality sectors, where corporate social responsibility is seen as essential for the future of the industry. Drawing on research from around the world, this collection of essays explores key challenges, solutions and applications of business ethics, CSR, and corporate governance in the tourism industry. This book will be a reading companion mainly for tourism management students in higher academic organizations but will also be of interest to professionals, policymakers, and planners in the field of tourism management and marketing.
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- 2025
37. The Indian Farmers’ Protest of 2020–2021 : Agrarian Crisis, Dissent and Identity
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Christine Moliner, David Singh, Christine Moliner, and David Singh
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- Farmers--Political activity--India, Farmers' Protests, India, 2020-2021, Peasant uprisings--India, Agriculture and state--India, Agricultural laws and legislation--India
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The Kisan Andolan or the Indian farmers'protest of 2020–2021 is one of the longest and biggest (and victorious) social movements in the history of independent India. This book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to contextualise the movement in the long run. It engages with the historical, social and religious roots of the Andolan, examining what makes it so unique and transformative for Indian polity. It explores the (dis)continuities with previous resistance and contestation movements in India and globally, and debates the role so far of regional, religious and class-caste-gender identities. Through interviews, the volume also gives a specific voice and platform to grassroots activists and farmers from the movement.Part of the Social Movements and Transformative Dissent series, the book will appeal to scholars, activists and a wider audience interested in social movements and dissent politics in India and the Global South. It will also be of interest to students of economics, political science, anthropology, sociology, government, agrarian studies, Sikh and Punjab studies, politics, international relations and diaspora studies.
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- 2025
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