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Television in Transition in East Asia

Television in Transition in East Asia

This book examines the development of television broadcasting in Japan Hong Kong and South Korea. It explores the policy regimes guiding the development of television broadcasting as a powerful institution and the extent to which new forms of television have become part of each country’s contemporary media mix. It analyses the interests involved in key policy decisions the institutional dynamics promoting or inhibiting new media markets and the relative importance in the different countries of cable satellite digital broadcasting and the use of the Internet for purposes associated with television broadcasting. The nature of television regimes in each of the three countries is very different and the contrasting situations provide great insights into how television is developing and how it could develop further both in East Asia and worldwide. | Television in Transition in East Asia

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Made in Yugoslavia Studies in Popular Music

Made in Yugoslavia Studies in Popular Music

Made in Yugoslavia: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history sociology and musicology of popular music in Yugoslavia and the post-Yugoslav region across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book consists of chapters by leading scholars and covers the major figures styles and social contexts of music in the region that for most of the past century was known as Yugoslavia. Exploring the role played by music in Yugoslav art culture social movements and discourses of statehood this book offers a gateway into scholarly explanation of a key region in Eastern Europe. An introduction provides an overview and background on popular music in Yugoslavia followed by chapters in four thematic sections: Zabavna-Pop; Rock Punk and New Wave; Narodna (Folk) and Neofolk Music; and the Politics of Popular Music Under Socialism. | Made in Yugoslavia Studies in Popular Music

GBP 36.99
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Made in Nusantara Studies in Popular Music

Made in Nusantara Studies in Popular Music

Made in Nusantara serves as a comprehensive introduction to the history sociology ethnography and musicology of historical and contemporary popular music in maritime Southeast Asia. Each essay covers major figures styles and social contexts of genres of a popular nature in the Nusantara region including Malaysia Indonesia Brunei Singapore and the Philippines. Through a critical investigation of specific genres and their spaces of performance production and consumption the volume is organised into four thematic areas: 1) issues in Nusantara popular music; 2) history; 3) artists and genres; and 4) national vs. local industries. Written by scholars working in the region Made in Nusantara brings local perspectives to the history and analysis of popular music and critically considers conceptualisations developed in the West rendering it an intriguing read for students and scholars of popular and global music. | Made in Nusantara Studies in Popular Music

GBP 36.99
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Temporalities in/of Crises in Anglophone Literatures

Temporalities in/of Crises in Anglophone Literatures

Literary works play a crucial role in modelling and conceptualising temporalities. This becomes particularly apparent in times of crises which put conventionalised temporal patterns and routines under pressure. During crises past present and future appear to collapse into each other and give way to temporal disjunction and rupture. Offering pluralised and context-sensitive approaches to temporalities in and of crises this volume explores how literature’s engagement with crises suggests both the need for and possibility of rethinking ‘time’. The volume is committed to examining the affordances of specific genres and their potential in pointing beyond temporalities of crises to facilitate a sense of futurity. Individual essays are grounded in recent theories of temporality and literary form which are related to novel advancements in ecocriticism queer studies affect theory and postcolonial studies. The chapters cover a broad range of examples from different literary genres to reveal the knowledge of literature about temporalities in and of crises. | Temporalities in/of Crises in Anglophone Literatures

GBP 130.00
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Shamanism in Siberia Sound and Turbulence in Cursing Practices in Tuva

Shamanism in Siberia Sound and Turbulence in Cursing Practices in Tuva

The focus of this book is on the phenomenon of cursing in shamanic practice and everyday life in Tuva a former Soviet republic in Siberia. Based on extensive anthropological fieldwork where the author interacted with a wide range of people involved in cursing practices the book examines Tuvans’ lived experience of cursing and shamanism thereby providing deep insights into Tuvans’ intimate and social worlds. It highlights especially the centrality of sound: how interactions between humans and non-humans are brought about through an array of sonic phenomena such as musical sounds sounds within words and non-linguistic vocalisations and how such sonic phenomena are a key part of dramatic cursing events and wider shamanic performance and ritual involving humans and spirits alike. Overall the book reveals a great deal about occult practices and about social change in post-Soviet Tuva. Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | Shamanism in Siberia Sound and Turbulence in Cursing Practices in Tuva

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Lives in Motion Celebrating Dance in Thailand

Lives in Motion Celebrating Dance in Thailand

Lives in Motion celebrates dance in Thailand focusing on the diversity of Thailand’s dance cultures and their place in today’s world. Giving voice to eminent artists and scholars on the complex roles that Thailand is pursuing for artful movement at home and abroad the book provides key perspectives on Thai dance traditions and practitioners. It explores the many forms and meanings in contemporary dance changing local traditions in the country the evolution of Thai dance on the global stage and hybrid features of the Thai dance world. The book examines how hybridity has been integral to dance cultures in Thailand and discusses how they have actively adapted and negotiated their knowledge in relation to modernity and globalization. Developing new models standards and sites for dance movement and theater dance in Thai has been advancing in innovative ways whether it is to include fresh forms of skilled bodily movement or to expand in new arenas like tourism and online platforms. Similarly old systems of training which included artists’ homes palaces and temples have been adapted into the new world of modern education media home schooling and new community rituals. A pioneering contribution on Thai performing arts this volume examines contemporary Thai dance cultures in the local national regional and global contexts. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of dance and performance studies cultural studies Southeast Asia studies and art. | Lives in Motion Celebrating Dance in Thailand

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Milestones in Dance in the USA

Milestones in Dance in the USA

Embracing dramatic similarities glaring disjunctions and striking innovations this book explores the history and context of dance on the land we know today as the United States of America. Designed for weekly use in dance history courses it traces dance in the USA as it broke traditional forms crossed genres provoked social and political change and drove cultural exchange and collision. The authors put a particular focus on those whose voices have been silenced unacknowledged and/or uncredited – exploring racial prejudice and injustice intersectional feminism protest movements and economic conditions as well as demonstrating how socio-political issues and movements affect and are affected by dance. In looking at concert dance vernacular dance ritual dance and the convergence of these forms the chapters acknowledge the richness of dance in today’s USA and the strong foundations on which it stands. Milestones are a range of accessible textbooks breaking down the need-to-know moments in the social cultural political and artistic development of foundational subject areas. This book is ideal for undergraduate courses that embrace culturally responsive pedagogy and seek to shift the direction of the lens from western theatrical dance towards the wealth of dance forms in the United States. | Milestones in Dance in the USA

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Made in Scotland Studies in Popular Music

Made in Scotland Studies in Popular Music

Made in Scotland: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history politics culture and musicology of twentieth- and twenty-first-century popular music in Scotland. The volume consists of essays by local experts and leading scholars in Scottish music and culture and covers the major figures styles and social contexts of popular music in Scotland. Each essay provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance. The book includes a general introduction to Scottish popular music followed by essays organized into three thematic sections: Histories Politics and Policies and Futures and Imaginings. Examining music as cultural expression in a country that is both a nation and a region within a larger state this volume uses popular music to analyse Scottishness independence and diversity and offers new insights into the complexity of cultural identity the power of historical imagination and the effects of power structures in music. It is a vital read for scholars and students interested in how popular music interacts with and shapes such issues both within and beyond the borders of Scotland. | Made in Scotland Studies in Popular Music

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Made in Ireland Studies in Popular Music

Made in Ireland Studies in Popular Music

Made in Ireland: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history sociology and musicology of 20th- and 21st-century Irish popular music. The volume consists of essays by leading scholars in the field and covers the major figures styles and social contexts of popular music in Ireland. Each essay provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance to Irish popular music. The book is organized into three thematic sections: Music Industries and Historiographies Roots and Routes and Scenes and Networks. The volume also includes a coda by Gerry Smyth one of the most published authors on Irish popular music. | Made in Ireland Studies in Popular Music

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Qualitative Research in Criminology Advances in Criminological Theory

Qualitative Research in Criminology Advances in Criminological Theory

This volume investigates the significant role qualitative research plays in expanding and refining our understandings of crime and justice. It features seventeen original essays that discuss the relationship between methodology and theory. The result is a theoretically engaged volume that explores the approaches of qualitative scholars in the collection and treatment of data in criminological scholarship. Among the key issues addressed in the volume are methodological rigor in qualitative research; movement between method theory building theoretical refinement and expansion; diversity of qualitative methodologies from classic field research to contemporary innovations; and considerations of the future of qualitative criminological research. Qualitative research use has expanded rapidly in the last twenty years. This latest volume of Advances in Criminological Theory presents a cogent appraisal of qualitative criminology and the ways in which rigorous qualitative research contributes to theorizing about crime and justice. | Qualitative Research in Criminology Advances in Criminological Theory

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Social Work in Health Settings Practice in Context

Social Work in Health Settings Practice in Context

This fully revised and expanded fifth edition of Social Work in Health Settings: Practice in Context maintains its use of the Practice-in-Context (PiC) decision-making framework to explore a wide range of social work services in healthcare settings. The PiC is updated in this edition to attend to social determinants of health and structural conditions. The PiC framework is applied in over 30 case chapters to reflect varied health and social care settings with multiple populations. Fully updated to reflect the landscape of healthcare provision in the US since the Affordable Care Act was reaffirmed in 2020 the cases are grounded by primer chapters to illustrate the necessary decisional and foundational skills for best practices in social work in health settings. The cases cover micro through macro level work with individuals families groups and communities across the life course. The PiC framework helps maintain focus on each of the practice decisions a social worker must make when working with a variety of clients (including military veterans refugees LGBTQ+ clients). The ideal textbook for social work in healthcare and clinical social work classes this thought-provoking volume thoroughly integrates social work theory and practice and provides an excellent opportunity for understanding particular techniques and interventions. | Social Work in Health Settings Practice in Context

GBP 56.99
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Participation in Industry

Participation in Industry

This book first published in 1973 analyses and sets in context one of the major issues in the growth of the European economy. Workers’ participation played an increasingly vital role in industrial relations. This book looks at the background and development of different types of participation in Britain ranging from workers’ attempts at co-operative production through the schemes in the nationalised industries of mining and steel to the Fairfields Experiment and the Upper Clyde ‘work-in’ in shipbuilding. This book concludes with an account of the developments in worker councils and worker directors in nine other European countries. | Participation in Industry

GBP 31.99
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Climate Change Law in China in Global Context

Climate Change Law in China in Global Context

In Climate Change Law in China in Global Context seven climate change law scholars explain how the country’s legal system is gradually being mobilized to support the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in China and achieve adaptation to climate change. There has been little English scholarship on the legal regime for climate change in China. This volume addresses this gap in the literature and focuses on recent attempts by the country to build defences against the impacts of climate change and to meet the country’s international obligations on mitigation. The authors are not only interested in China’s laws on paper; rather the book explains how these laws are implemented and integrated in practice and sheds light on China’s current laws laws in preparation the changing standing of law relative to policy and the further reforms that will be necessary in response to the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change. This comprehensive and critical account of the Chinese legal system’s response to the pressures of climate change will be an important resource for scholars of international law environmental law and Chinese law.

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Advances in Metaheuristics Applications in Engineering Systems

Advances in Metaheuristics Applications in Engineering Systems

Advances in Metaheuristics: Applications in Engineering Systems provides details on current approaches utilized in engineering optimization. It gives a comprehensive background on metaheuristic applications focusing on main engineering sectors such as energy process and materials. It discusses topics such as algorithmic enhancements and performance measurement approaches and provides insights into the implementation of metaheuristic strategies to multi-objective optimization problems. With this book readers can learn to solve real-world engineering optimization problems effectively using the appropriate techniques from emerging fields including evolutionary and swarm intelligence mathematical programming and multi-objective optimization. The ten chapters of this book are divided into three parts. The first part discusses three industrial applications in the energy sector. The second focusses on process optimization and considers three engineering applications: optimization of a three-phase separator process plant and a pre-treatment process. The third and final part of this book covers industrial applications in material engineering with a particular focus on sand mould-systems. It also includes discussions on the potential improvement of algorithmic characteristics via strategic algorithmic enhancements. This book helps fill the existing gap in literature on the implementation of metaheuristics in engineering applications and real-world engineering systems. It will be an important resource for engineers and decision-makers selecting and implementing metaheuristics to solve specific engineering problems. | Advances in Metaheuristics Applications in Engineering Systems

GBP 175.00
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Language in Society in Bangladesh and Beyond Voices of the Unheard in the Global South

Language in Society in Bangladesh and Beyond Voices of the Unheard in the Global South

This collection presents a holistic picture of the sociolinguistic landscape in Bangladesh offering a critical understanding of language ideologies and social inequalities in the country as they connect more widely to dynamics in the Global South. The book seeks to untangle the voices embedded in the language practices of a range of communities and professions in the region which have been little studied in the literature and encourage a rethinking of the relationships between language and nationality class ethnicity race and gender. Highlighting perspectives from established and emerging researchers and drawing on a wide range of theoretical approaches and methodologies the volume is organized around such key themes as bilingualism and diglossia; language variation across domains; language and identity in literature; and the interconnectedness of language identity and globalization. Taken together the collection calls attention to the socially and spatially situated nature of language practices in Bangladesh and in turn the ways in which scholars in the Global South make sense of the sociolinguistic landscape at both the local and global levels. This book will appeal to scholars working in sociolinguistics particularly those working on language policy language and identity language variation and in or about the Global South. | Language in Society in Bangladesh and Beyond Voices of the Unheard in the Global South

GBP 130.00
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LatinX Voices Hispanics in Media in the U.S

LatinX Voices Hispanics in Media in the U.S

LatinX Voices is the first undergraduate textbook that includes an overview of Hispanic/LatinX Media in the U. S. and gives readers an understanding of how media in the United States has transformed around this audience. Based on the authors’ professional and research experience and teaching broadcast media courses in the classroom this text covers the evolving industry and offers perspective on topics related to Latin-American areas of interest. With professional testimonials from those who have left their mark in print radio television film and new media this collection of chapters brings together expert voices in Hispanic/LatinX media from across the U. S. and explains the impact of this population on the media industry today. | LatinX Voices Hispanics in Media in the U. S

GBP 52.99
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Solitary Waves in Plasmas and in the Atmosphere

Solitary Waves in Plasmas and in the Atmosphere

First Published in 1992. This book arose as a result of the authors work on the review ‘Solitary Vortices in Plasmas’ written for the Soviet Journal of Plasma Physics. With the development of nonlinear wave theory some novel concepts came into use such as solitary waves solitary vortices and solitons. There is still some inconsistency in the use of these terms. The study of solitary waves (solitons) should ultimately lead to a better understanding of the internal structure of elementary particles. That is why solitons are attracting great attention from physicists and mathematicians. The material presented in this book shows that solitons are also of interest in plasma physics and geophysics where these concepts have many important applications. | Solitary Waves in Plasmas and in the Atmosphere

GBP 56.99
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Virtual Aesthetics in Architecture Designing in Mixed Realities

Virtual Aesthetics in Architecture Designing in Mixed Realities

Virtual Aesthetics in Architecture: Designing in Mixed Realities presents a curated selection of projects and texts contributed by leading international architects and designers who are using virtual reality technologies in their design process. It triggers discussion and debate on exploring the aesthetic potential and establishing its language as an expressive medium in architectural design. Although virtual reality is not new and the technology has evolved rapidly the aesthetic potential of the medium is still emerging and there is a great deal more to explore. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the current use of virtual reality technologies in the architectural design process. Contributions are presented in six parts fully illustrated with over 150 images. Recent projects presented are distributed in five themes: introduction to mixed realities; space and form; context and ambiguity; materiality and movement; body and social. Each theme includes richly illustrated essays by leading academics and practitioners including those from Zaha Hadid Architects and MVRDV detailing their design process using data-driven methodologies. Virtual Aesthetics in Architecture expands the use of technology per se and focuses on how architecture can benefit from its aesthetic potential during the design process. A must-read for practitioners academics and students interested in cutting-edge digital design. | Virtual Aesthetics in Architecture Designing in Mixed Realities

GBP 35.99
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Spirituality in Education in a Global Pluralised World

Spirituality in Education in a Global Pluralised World

A particular problem associated with international research in the field of spirituality and education is the reluctance of scholars to agree on what spirituality means with numerous descriptions increasing ambiguity and reducing the impact of research in the discipline. This book argues that it is important to understand spirituality as a unifying concept that has the potential to be meaningful in its application to the lives of children and young people in areas of learning and wellbeing. Chapters show why and how spiritual learning should be addressed across the curriculum with implications for the design of learning programs and environments. | Spirituality in Education in a Global Pluralised World

GBP 42.99
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Reform in Europe Breaking the Barriers in Government

Reform in Europe Breaking the Barriers in Government

One of the most prevailing myths within the social sciences is the difficulty of achieving reform. Governments are either unwilling to push for reform or if they are willing they are unable to do so. This volume illustrates that reform can and does happen and therefore need not by mythologized. Through carefully selected case studies the contributions to this volume illustrate reform in several policy sectors and countries to include the smoking bans in Ireland public housing in the Netherlands and asylum procedures in Germany. Designed to enhance our understanding of the reform process this volume is highly suited to the fields of public administration and policy. | Reform in Europe Breaking the Barriers in Government

GBP 11.99
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Explorations in Reconciliation New Directions in Theology

Explorations in Reconciliation New Directions in Theology

Theologians and scholars of religion draw on rich resources to address the complex issues raised by political reconciliation in the Middle East the former Yugoslavia South Africa Northern Ireland and elsewhere. The questions addressed include: Can truth set a person or a society free? How is political forgiveness possible? Are political personal and spiritual reconciliation essentially related? Explorations in Reconciliation brings Catholic Protestant Mennonite Jewish and Islamic perspectives together within a single volume to present some of the most relevant theological work today. The Open Access version of this book available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com/books/e/ISBN has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. The support of the Irish School of Ecumenics Trust in making this OA version possible is gratefully acknowledged. | Explorations in Reconciliation New Directions in Theology

GBP 38.99
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Racism in Contemporary Germany Islamophobia in East and West

Racism in Contemporary Germany Islamophobia in East and West

This book presents a critical and empirically informed examination of Islamophobia and related issues of racism and nationalism in Germany today with particular attention to the East/West distinction. The authors representing several disciplines such as anthropology sociology and media and literary studies situate the topic in the global and German context of the 2015-16 migration crisis and its aftermath and of the ongoing transformations seen in the postsocialist regions of the European Union. Since the 2015-16 refugee crisis illiberal leaders and parties within Europe have instrumentalized Islamophobia in an attempt to dislodge the traditional political elites. Strikingly such illiberal movements have been most successful in the formerly socialist areas of the EU. This is mirrored within Germany itself where political formations with an Islamophobic agenda remain more popular in the East than in the West. This volume examines the reasons for this difference including not only the ideological heritage of Soviet-dominated socialism but also the effects of western interventions in the formerly socialist areas in and beyond Germany since the end of the Cold War. Some Islamophobic and other hateful tendencies were in fact introduced from and continue to prosper also in the West. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary European Studies. | Racism in Contemporary Germany Islamophobia in East and West

GBP 130.00
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Methods in Product Design New Strategies in Reengineering

Methods in Product Design New Strategies in Reengineering

As industries adopt consumer-focused product development strategies they should offer broader product ranges in shorter design times and the processes that can manufacture in arbitrary lot sizes. In addition they would need to apply state-of-the-art methods and tools to easily conduct early product design and development trade-off analysis among competing objectives. Methods in Product Design: New Strategies in Reengineering supplies insights into the methods and techniques that enable implementing a consumer-focused product design philosophy by integrating design and development capabilities with intelligent computer-based systems. The book defines customer focused design and discusses ways to assess changing demands and sources and delves into what is needed to successfully manufacture goods in a demanding market. It reviews proven methods for assessing customer need. Then after showing how changing needs impact the reengineering of products it explains how change can be efficiently achieved. It details how IT advances and technology support customer-focused product development discusses cutting-edge mass customization principles that maximize cost-effective production and illustrates how to implement effective predictive maintenance policies. Methods in Product Design: New Strategies in Reengineering provides methods state-of-the-art technologies and new strategies for customer-focused product design and development that allow organizations to quickly respond to the demanding global marketplace. | Methods in Product Design New Strategies in Reengineering

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Identities In-Between in East-Central Europe

Identities In-Between in East-Central Europe

This volume addresses the question of ‘identity’ in East-Central Europe. It engages with a specific definition of ‘sub-cultures’ over the period from c. 1900 to the present and proposes novel ways in which the term can be used with the purpose of understanding identities that do not conform to the fixed standard categories imposed from the top down such as ‘ethnic group’ ‘majority’ or ‘minority’. Instead a ‘sub-culture’ is an identity that sits between these categories. It may blend languages e. g. dialect forms cultural practices ethnic and social identifications or religious affiliations as well as concepts of race and biology that similarly sit outside national projects. | Identities In-Between in East-Central Europe

GBP 39.99
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Education and Research in Public Administration in Africa

Education and Research in Public Administration in Africa

Originally published in 1974 this book is a valuable contribution to the literature about the African context of public administration. The application of research to public administration and the communication of research findings are discussed in depth. All aspects of the subject are presented: non-university based non-academic institutes as well as undergraduate and post-graduate programmes. The book concludes with some non-African comparisons from Australia France the USA and UK. | Education and Research in Public Administration in Africa

GBP 80.00
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