Kinship and Modernization in Mediterranean Society
Author: Center for Mediterranean Studies
Publisher: Rome : Center for Mediterranean Studies, American Universities Field Staff
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 182
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Author: Center for Mediterranean Studies
Publisher: Rome : Center for Mediterranean Studies, American Universities Field Staff
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 182
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John George Peristiany
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9780910116886
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Vassos Argyrou
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996-06-13
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0521560950
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe subject of Vassos Argyrou's study is modernisation, as reflected in the changing nature of wedding celebrations in Cyprus over two generations from the 1930s to the present day. He argues that modernisation is not a secular, progressive process, that remodels the life of a society, ironing out local differences. Rather, it is a legitimising discourse. It is an idiom which Greek Cypriots employ to represent, and contest, relationships between social classes, old and young, men and women, city folk and villagers. At the same time, by involving modernisation, they are submitting to foreign standards, and accepting the symbolic domination of Europe.
Author: Monica M. E. Bonaccorso
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781845451134
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on Southern Europe, this study looks at currently hotly debated issues of kinship, gender and modern medical technologies. It challenges established ideas of cultural continuities and discontinuities within the European context and offers fresh insights into longstanding questions regarding gender and kin relatedness.
Author: Gideon M. Kressel
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9783447032940
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jeffrey K. Olick
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2003-07-21
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780822330639
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese essays emphasize that memory itself has a history, in that not only do particular meanings change, but the very faculty of memory - its place in social relations & the forms it takes - varies over time.
Author: Gershon Shafir
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-02-13
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 0429975791
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe New Israel: Peacemaking and Liberalization argues that the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian peace process will be expedited by increased economic liberalization. Israel has undergone dramatic economic change in the 1990s, shifting from a strongly protectionist, state-centered economy to a more international, neoliberal one. The book maintains that these fundamental changes have in turn transformed Israeli society as a whole, resulting in a significant moderation of attitudes toward the Palestinian people and Palestinian nationalism. The New Israel contains contributions from both established Israeli sociologists and promising young scholars. The New Israel: Peacemaking and Liberalization is an insightful commentary on one of the most crucial international issues of our time.
Author: Beverly Mizrachi
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2013-05-01
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 0814338585
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHer volume will appeal to students and teachers of sociology, anthropology, ethnography, and Middle East studies as well as readers interested in immigration and women's studies.
Author: Uri Ram
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-18
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 1135926824
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book focuses on how globalization is impacting contemporary Israel. It is a concise and originally argued introduction to Israel, but the author, Uri Ram, is careful to frame his analysis in a broader discussion of Israeli history and broader social currents. Focusing in particular on two defining – and conflicting – contemporary trends; one toward advanced liberal democracy with a cosmopolitan edge, and the other toward ethno-religious traditionalism and rejection of the secularism associated with market driven globalization. The cosmopolitan, high-tech driven city of Tel Aviv represents the former trend, and Jerusalem – a city increasingly dominated by orthodox Jews – represents the latter. Using Benjamin Barber's Jihad versus McWorld thesis to good effect, Ram's book will stand as an ideal introduction to contemporary Israel and its place in the world.
Author: Asa Maron
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017-07-07
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0192511459
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the politics, institutional dynamics, and outcomes of neoliberal restructuring in Israel. It puts forward a bold proposition: that the very creation of a neoliberal political economy may be largely a state project. Correspondingly, it argues that key political conflicts surrounding the realization of this project may occur within the state. Neoliberal restructuring and the institutionalization of permanent austerity are dependent on reconfigured power relations between state actors and are manifested in a new institutional architecture of the state. This architecture, in turn, is the context in which efforts to change social and employment policies play themselves out. The volume frames the coming of neoliberalism in Israel as a set of concrete and far-reaching changes in the power and modes of operation of the key players in the political economy. These changes undermined and neutralized veto players and enabled the ascendance of two state agencies - the Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank - which gained greatly augmented authority and autonomy. These reconfigurations were set in motion by state initiatives that combined punctuated and incremental change. The volume comprises case studies of changes in specific social and labor market policies, revealing a close elective affinity between programmatic neoliberal changes on the one hand, and on the other the proactive drive of the Ministry of Finance to enhance its control over public spending and policy design. The book explores successful neoliberal reforms but also reforms that were blocked, undermined, or overturned by opposition, emphasizing the importance of reformers' capacity to translate temporary achievements into entrenched strategic advantages.