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(Re)Considering Blackness in Contemporary Afro-Brazilian (Con)Texts - - Bog - Peter Lang Publishing Inc - Plusbog.dk

(Re)Considering Blackness in Contemporary Afro-Brazilian (Con)Texts - - Bog - Peter Lang Publishing Inc - Plusbog.dk

(Re)Considering Blackness in Contemporary Afro-Brazilian (Con)Texts critically interrogates the issue of Blackness in Brazil under the lens of cultural studies – broadly defined to include utterances on transnationalism and cosmopolitanism. From a multidisciplinary perspective, this collection of scholarly articles queries the notions of national and racial identity and ambivalence, through critical analysis of contemporary (mid-twentieth century to the present) Brazilian cultural materiality, including literature, religion, film/video and theatrical production, and cultural anthropological manifestations. The book’s purpose is to understand how multiethnic nations, such as Brazil, negotiate issues of Blackness in contemporary contexts. All of the contributing authors are leading Brazilian scholars in the areas of race, gender, theatre, music, literature, film, and religion studies. By concentrating on how these disciplines and ideologies relate to matters concerning Blackness in the construction of identities in Brazil, this book will be of significant value to scholars in the areas of Brazilian studies, Latin American studies, interdisciplinary studies, cultural studies, and African Diaspora studies.

DKK 292.00
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Casa en que nunca he sido extrana - - Bog - Peter Lang Publishing Inc - Plusbog.dk

Casa en que nunca he sido extrana - - Bog - Peter Lang Publishing Inc - Plusbog.dk

Casa en que nunca he sido extraña. Las poetas hispanoamericanas: identidades, feminismos, poéticas (Siglos XIX-XXI) reúne artículos de destacados académicos y estudiosos de Europa y América con aproximaciones a relevantes autoras de la poesía de América Latina desde el siglo XIX hasta la actualidad, a partir de tres perspectivas: las identidades (entendidas en su relación con las naciones latinoamericanas, así como en su dimensión subjetiva), los feminismos y las poéticas. Los capítulos se dedican a las siguientes poetas: Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Laura Méndez de Cuenca, Juana Borrero, Mercedes Matamoros, Delmira Agustini, Alfonsina Storni, Gabriela Mistral, Juana de Ibarbourou, Dulce María Loynaz, Josefina Plá, Blanca Varela, Nivaria Tejera, Carmen Naranjo, Isel Rivero, Lina de Feria, Magali Alabau, Elvira Hernández, Eugenia Brito, Piedad Bonnett, Alicia Genovese, Verónica Zondek, Ivonne Coñuecar y Gabriela Wiener, entre otras. El libro se completa con un Anexo de textos literarios: la lectura de Josefina de Diego de fragmentos de Pequeñas memorias , texto autobiográfico inédito de Fina García Marruz, y poemas inéditos de prestigiosas autoras hispanoamericanas actuales: Magali Alabau (Cuba), Márgara Russotto (Venezuela), Carmen Ollé (Perú), Elvira Hernández (Chile), Piedad Bonnett (Colombia) y Alicia Genovese (Argentina).

DKK 888.00
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God, Guns, Capitalism, and Hypermasculinity - Warren J. Blumenfeld - Bog - Peter Lang Publishing Inc - Plusbog.dk

God, Guns, Capitalism, and Hypermasculinity - Warren J. Blumenfeld - Bog - Peter Lang Publishing Inc - Plusbog.dk

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, gun-related deaths have reached epidemic proportions in the Unites States, snuffing out the lives of well over 30,000 people (with 1/3 homicides and the remainder suicides and accidents) and wounding many more annually. Everytown organization found that on average, 96 people are killed by guns every day, and for every person killed by a gun, two more are injured. Seven children and teens are killed on average daily. Many of the guns used in these killings reach military-level weapons power, guns which currently remain legal to purchase. Today in the United States, there are approximately 120.5 firearms per 100 people. The Unites States ranks high when compared with 22 other wealthy industrialized nations in per capita gun-related deaths with 3.85 per 100,000 residents, compared, for example, with the United Kingdom at 0.07, Japan at 0.04, Germany at 0.12, Indonesia at 0.10, and Oman at 0.06. This book covers issues of firearms violence and efforts at common sense reform from multiple perspectives, including a culture and climate of firearms addressed from a historical, social, governmental, legal, and psychological perspective; political activism and organizing strategies; and options for reform. It is written in a clear and accessible style from a progressive political perspective.

DKK 272.00
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“¿Y cual es mi lugar, senor, entre tus actos?” - Rosario M. Swanson - Bog - Peter Lang Publishing Inc - Plusbog.dk

“¿Y cual es mi lugar, senor, entre tus actos?” - Rosario M. Swanson - Bog - Peter Lang Publishing Inc - Plusbog.dk

Este trabajo estudia a fondo la producción dramática de Rosario Castellanos. Con este estudio se pretende rectificar el vacío crítico existente en torno a la dramaturgia de esta importante autora mexicana del siglo veinte. La organización cronológica de este trabajo, comenzando con su primer drama Tablero de damas (1952), seguido por sus poemas dramáticos Salomé y Judith (1959), hasta concluir con su última obra, El eterno femenino (1975), permite rastrear el desarrollo de las ideas de la autora respecto al lugar que la mujer ocupa en el imaginario mexicano, tema central de sus dramas, y el desarrollo de su perspectiva feminista. En su dramaturgia se observa su esfuerzo por entender la conexión entre el importe simbólico de los mitos sobre la mujer y las consecuencias que dichos mitos tienen en la vida de las mujeres, aún a pesar de las nuevas oportunidades que se habían abierto a la mujer como resultado de la Revolución y modernidad mexicanas. Dado su alcance y profundidad, este estudio es indispensable en cursos universitarios de literatura latinoamericana y mexicana, escritura de mujeres, drama, poesía y cursos especializados en Rosario Castellanos. El enfoque en la mujer y su lugar en la sociedad, hace de este estudio un aporte singular a los estudios de género y procesos de formación nacional. Profesores y estudiantes de licenciatura y de posgrado se beneficiarán de la penetrante lectura de la obra dramática de esta importante escritora mexicana feminista del siglo veinte.

DKK 678.00
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Evagrio Pontico y la acedia - Ruben Pereto Rivas - Bog - Peter Lang Publishing Inc - Plusbog.dk

Evagrio Pontico y la acedia - Ruben Pereto Rivas - Bog - Peter Lang Publishing Inc - Plusbog.dk

La primera introducción completa y sistemática en lengua española a Evagrio Póntico, "el monje más culto del siglo IV", esta obra se concentra sobre todo en el tratamiento de la acedia. Se presenta la vida y obra de Evagrio con acertados comentarios y amplias contextualizaciones que permiten situar y comprender la doctrina evagriana. Su teología y filosofía es analizada detalladamente, destacando su ubicación en la Escuela de Alejandría como seguidor de Orígenes. El libro dirige su mayor concentración y análisis al concepto de la acedia , un fenómeno espiritual y psicológico del que Evagrio es su primer teorizador. Comenzando por una arqueología del término que se remonta a la literatura clásica griega, Rubén Peretó Rivas enfoca desde distintos ángulos la complejidad de esta particular patología , descubriendo no solamente sus aspectos ascéticos que se enmarcan en la historia de la espiritualidad cristiana, sino también su dinámica psicológica, que la transporta al ámbito de estudio propio de la psicología. Con los aportes realizados por las investigaciones más recientes en el ámbito de la patrística, la profusa documentación bibliográfica que aparece comentada en el libro es suficiente para introducir al lector en el estudio de un autor, Evagrio Póntico, que se ha convertido en objeto de atención de numerosos especialistas en la última década.

DKK 712.00
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Cervantes transatlantico / Transatlantic Cervantes - - Bog - Peter Lang Publishing Inc - Plusbog.dk

Cervantes transatlantico / Transatlantic Cervantes - - Bog - Peter Lang Publishing Inc - Plusbog.dk

Si bien Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra jamás pisó el continente americano, se sabe que por lo menos en dos ocasiones buscó establecerse en él. Su anhelo, sin embargo, jamás se concretó. Con todo, el Nuevo Mundo cautivó poderosamente su interés e imaginación. Por una parte, el alcalaíno fue un lector puntual de los diversos textos que durante el siglo XVI dieron fe de la conquista de las tierras americanas y de los conflictos que surgieron en dichos territorios; y, por otra, América tuvo para él desde muy joven un interés literario, según se deduce de su primera novela, La Galatea , donde en el Canto de Calíope hace un conocido elogio de los poetas del Nuevo Mundo. Asimismo, precisa señalar que muy pronto llegaron las obras de Cervantes al Nuevo Mundo y fueron leídas con sumo interés y gusto por sus habitantes, sobre todo el Quijote . El impacto de la obra cervantina en el desarrollo de la literatura latinoamericana y en su imaginario no puede ser subrayado lo suficiente. Si ya en la época colonial Cervantes influyó en algunas figuras señeras de las letras en América Latina, en el siglo XX su huella fue decisiva y alcanzó a autores de la talla de Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges o Mario Vargas Llosa. En Cervantes transatlántico / Transatlantic Cervantes prestigiosos investigadores de Estados Unidos, Europa y Latinoamérica estudian la presencia de América y de lo americano en la obra de Cervantes desde una perspectiva multidisciplinaria.

DKK 648.00
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Intercultural Communication as a Clash of Civilizations - Tal Samuel Azran - Bog - Peter Lang Publishing Inc - Plusbog.dk

Intercultural Communication as a Clash of Civilizations - Tal Samuel Azran - Bog - Peter Lang Publishing Inc - Plusbog.dk

Intercultural Communication as a Clash of Civilizations argues that Al-Jazeera is not an agent of globalization, as is widely argued, but a tool used by the Qatari government to advance its political as well as Islamist goals. This book also maps the Western tendency to reject the network outright despite Al-Jazeera’s billion-dollar investments designed to gain entrance into Western markets; it shows empirically that this rejection is similarly rooted in religious, cultural and national motives. This book asserts that the main outcome of Al-Jazeera’s activities is the promotion of religious and cultural conflicts. The network persistently portrays global events through the prism of conflicting religious and cultural values – propelling a clash of civilizations as per Samuel P. Huntington’s well-known thesis.

DKK 302.00
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Cabrera Infante's Tres Tristes Tigres - Carmen Teresa Hartman - Bog - Peter Lang Publishing Inc - Plusbog.dk

Cabrera Infante's Tres Tristes Tigres - Carmen Teresa Hartman - Bog - Peter Lang Publishing Inc - Plusbog.dk

The opening statement of Cabrera Infante’s Tres tristes tigres is crucial to its reading. Pronounced by a feminine voice, it is the very embodiment of the negativity of language to tell, desire, as well as absence of being and of story. The first sentence of the text is the first detour the «show» announced in the prologue takes. As per the dictum, the adverb «nunca» of the first sentence becomes a spell that captures any attempt to tell, destabilizing the concept of the familiar and challenging notions of power, silence, loquaciousness, and the feminine as an excluded element. In this manner, the text offers us a vision of the speaking subject attempting to tell a story: a fragmented body before an elusive past, attempting to catch a fleeting signifier: «...la escritura no es más que un intento de atrapar la voz humana al vuelo.»

DKK 559.00
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Measuring the Impact of Social Media on Business Profit & Success - Cong Li - Bog - Peter Lang Publishing Inc - Plusbog.dk

Measuring the Impact of Social Media on Business Profit & Success - Cong Li - Bog - Peter Lang Publishing Inc - Plusbog.dk

An organization can have a high number of «likes» on its Facebook page and lots of «followers» on its Twitter account, but does that mean anything from a financial perspective? Is it worth the organization’s effort to maintain an active presence on social media in order to generate more revenue? Is it possible to use social media metrics such as the number of «likes» and the number of «followers» to predict an organization’s «success» even though those metrics are nonfinancial indicators? Prior research studies have looked at how organizations should utilize social media, but few studies have provided strong empirical evidence to support how the outcome of using social media should be measured and why. Focusing on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and YouTube, this book examines how Fortune 500 companies use social media. Collected over a five-year period, the authors assess the companies’ social media activities and their business performance data, such as stock return, total revenue, net income, and earnings per share. These data, both financial and nonfinancial, are matched and statistically analyzed to see whether a company’s social media activities are significantly associated with its business performance.

DKK 312.00
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Colleges at the Crossroads - - Bog - Peter Lang Publishing Inc - Plusbog.dk

Colleges at the Crossroads - - Bog - Peter Lang Publishing Inc - Plusbog.dk

Focusing on crucial issues in higher education, this book challenges readers to go beyond taken-for-granted assumptions about America’s colleges and universities and instead critically examine important questions facing them in today’s troubled world. Each chapter presents divergent perspectives, that is, "pro" and "con" views, in the hope of stimulating reasoned dialogue among students, faculty, administrators, and the public at large. Readers will explore how internal factors in the academic community often interact with external social, economic, and political influences to produce conflictual results. They will see that academe is hardly value-neutral and inevitably political. This book urges them to transcend strident political persuasion and instead engage in the careful analysis needed to make colleges better. The text provides in-depth appraisal of key topics of controversy: the purposes of higher education, liberal education, academic freedom, political correctness, tenure, shared governance, faculty workload, admissions tests, student learning, Greek life, the worth of college, equity and social justice, athletics, student entitlement, technology and distance instruction, and college amenities. The book will appeal to students, faculty, staff, and all those interested in the future of higher education. It is especially useful for courses in contemporary issues in higher education, foundations of higher education, higher education and society, college student development, and the organization and administration of higher education.

DKK 494.00
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Colleges at the Crossroads - - Bog - Peter Lang Publishing Inc - Plusbog.dk

Colleges at the Crossroads - - Bog - Peter Lang Publishing Inc - Plusbog.dk

Focusing on crucial issues in higher education, this book challenges readers to go beyond taken-for-granted assumptions about America’s colleges and universities and instead critically examine important questions facing them in today’s troubled world. Each chapter presents divergent perspectives, that is, "pro" and "con" views, in the hope of stimulating reasoned dialogue among students, faculty, administrators, and the public at large. Readers will explore how internal factors in the academic community often interact with external social, economic, and political influences to produce conflictual results. They will see that academe is hardly value-neutral and inevitably political. This book urges them to transcend strident political persuasion and instead engage in the careful analysis needed to make colleges better. The text provides in-depth appraisal of key topics of controversy: the purposes of higher education, liberal education, academic freedom, political correctness, tenure, shared governance, faculty workload, admissions tests, student learning, Greek life, the worth of college, equity and social justice, athletics, student entitlement, technology and distance instruction, and college amenities. The book will appeal to students, faculty, staff, and all those interested in the future of higher education. It is especially useful for courses in contemporary issues in higher education, foundations of higher education, higher education and society, college student development, and the organization and administration of higher education.

DKK 795.00
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Worship and the Risen Jesus in the Pauline Letters - Tony Costa - Bog - Peter Lang Publishing Inc - Plusbog.dk

Worship and the Risen Jesus in the Pauline Letters - Tony Costa - Bog - Peter Lang Publishing Inc - Plusbog.dk

The very essence of the existential relationship between the human and the divine is communicated by the English word, ‘worship’. Although the word appears to carry a univocal meaning in English, no such word per se exists in the Greek New Testament. The English word at best explains but does not adequately and completely define the dynamics involved in the relationship between humanity and God. Worship and the Risen Jesus in the Pauline Letters approaches the subject of Christian worship in respect to its origins from the perspective of the earliest New Testament writer: Paul. This book seeks to address the relative absence in scholarship of a full treatment of worship in the Pauline Letters. Closely related to the theme of Christian worship in the Pauline Letters is the person of the risen Jesus and the place he occupies in the faith community. This work proposes a proper working definition of, including criteria for, ‘worship’. Paul employed an array of Greek words as descriptors to communicate the various nuances and dimensions related to one’s relationship with God. ‘Worship’ also functioned for Paul as a boundary marker between believers and unbelievers vis-à-vis baptism and the Eucharist. The eschatological and teleological aspects of worship are also examined through a study of the Carmen Christi (Phil 2: 6–11). This study maintains that worship in Paul is not defined by any one word but is rather a composite and comprehensive personal religious relationship between the worshipper and God.

DKK 808.00
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International Handbook of Progressive Education - - Bog - Peter Lang Publishing Inc - Plusbog.dk

International Handbook of Progressive Education - - Bog - Peter Lang Publishing Inc - Plusbog.dk

The International Handbook of Progressive Education engages contemporary debates about the purpose of education, presenting diverse ideas developed within a broadly conceived progressive education movement. It calls for a more critical and dynamic conception of education goals as a necessary element of a healthy society. The scope is global, with contributing authors and examples from around the world. The sweep includes past, present, and future. Even for those who lament its failures, progressive education still seems to be asking the right questions. There is a vision, the progressive impulse, which goes beyond educational practice per se to include inquiry into a conception of the good life for both individuals and society. Because progressivists tend to dispute the status quo and the extent to which it nurtures that good life, there is an underlying critical edge to progressive thinking, one that has sharpened in recent progressive education discourse. The handbook’s inquiry into progressive education starts with a number of intriguing and difficult questions: How has progressive education fared in different contexts? How do progressive methods relate to ideas of constructivist, discovery, problem-based, experiential, and inquiry-based teaching? And do they «work»? If progressive education offers an important alternative, why has it often been ignored, abandoned, or suppressed? What is the relevance of its tenets, methods, and questions in the new information age and in a world facing global changes in environment, politics, religion, language, and every other aspect of society?

DKK 465.00
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Defining Literacy Standards - - Bog - Peter Lang Publishing Inc - Plusbog.dk

Defining Literacy Standards - - Bog - Peter Lang Publishing Inc - Plusbog.dk

As individual institutions of education at all levels respond to the call for greater accountability and assessment, those who teach literacy face the challenging task of choosing what to measure and how to measure it. Both defining literacy clearly and tying that definition to strategies for assessment are two of many challenges faced by educators, theorists, and members of the public who assume responsibility for assessing literacy as well as developing and improving literacy programs. In a pluralistic and democratic society sensitive to multicultural variation, we need to find our way between the competing needs for inclusiveness and for clear and useful standards. Multiple definitions of literacy raise the issue of whether there can be a standard or set of standards and if so, what they are in an environment of multiple literacies. Indeed, the downside of the defeat of older monolithic notions of literacy is the undermining or at least the questioning of well-established methods of literacy assessment. To some extent, the older methods of assessment have been revised in the light of more expansive definitions of literacy. But will this kind of revision be enough? How are the criteria for judgment to be known and applied? Thus, this volume addresses the problems of assessing literacy development in the context of multiple and inclusive definitions. Each section consists of chapters that deal with the issue of definitions per se, with standards in postsecondary settings, with the K-12 situation, and with alternative, non-school environments where literacy is critical to human functioning in a democratic society.

DKK 343.00
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Antifragility of Islamic Finance - Umar Rafi - Bog - Peter Lang Publishing Inc - Plusbog.dk

Antifragility of Islamic Finance - Umar Rafi - Bog - Peter Lang Publishing Inc - Plusbog.dk

Antifragility of Islamic Finance: The Risk-Sharing Alternative explains how risk-sharing, as defined under Islamic finance, makes financial systems antifragile. It highlights the benefits of 100% equity-based finance over debt-based finance. The recent financial crisis has given rise to discussions on a new approach to risk management called antifragility. This concept specifies conditions under which systems become resilient to shocks caused by Black Swans—highly unpredictable outlier events that have a major negative (or positive) consequence when they occur, with their occurrence only explained retrospectively. Per this concept, the long-term survivability of any system centers exclusively on its antifragile nature, that is, its ability to absorb and even benefit from Black Swan–type shocks. This book aims to investigate risk-sharing Islamic finance as an antifragile system. As a by-product of the Great Recession, the problems of debt-based financial systems are starting to be highlighted by industry and by academia. The antifragile solution for avoiding future financial crises is primarily centered on moving the existing financial system towards more equity and less debt, thereby introducing skin-in-the-game into financial transactions. This book introduces a model of a 100% equity-based financial system, centered on risk sharing , as a possible alternative to the contemporary debt-based, conventional financial system, which is based on risk transfer and on risk shifting . In essence, this book attempts to provide a practical model for an antifragile financial system by evaluating the characteristics of Islamic finance under the criteria of antifragility.

DKK 794.00
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New Literacies, New Agencies? - - Bog - Peter Lang Publishing Inc - Plusbog.dk

New Literacies, New Agencies? - - Bog - Peter Lang Publishing Inc - Plusbog.dk

From students as teachers’ pets to teachers as Second Life avatars, or from being ridiculed for not knowing your syntax to ridiculing others through multimodal remixing, something has changed in the way people are acting and being acted upon through literacies. From parallel text processing «under a cloud» to text-as-process enhanced by cloud computing, or from one laptop per child to several laptops left behind by children in creative spoken interaction, learners and educators’ actions through and around texts and technologies provide quite a telling example of such changes. From writing as technology to blogging as a tool for fostering critical mindsets within complexity, or from automatized knowledge acquisition routines to new forms of relating to knowledge and new perspectives on autonomy, social ordering and Self constitutional processes defy binaries such as agent/structure, global/local, social/technical, virtual/real, or even human/non-human. In this volume a team of scholars from some of the most prestigious Brazilian universities address these issues, and illustrate them with findings from research on the interplay between new literacies, digital technologies and social action in and out-of-school. The chapters introduce, or revisit, an array of theoretical constructs from education, sociology, linguistics and media studies, while presenting a new inside perspective about how research on new literacies is being carried out in Brazil. Altogether, they provide a very useful set of ideas, tools and analytical frameworks for researchers, teachers, and students of Education, Language and Arts and Communication worldwide, especially those concerned with technology-enhanced education and social inclusion.

DKK 332.00
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