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Author: Kristien Ring
Publisher: Jovis Verlag
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 180
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKEmerging Identities-East! ISBN 3-936314-69-1 / 978-3-936314-69-4 Hardcover, 8.5 x 6 in. / 178 pgs / 600 color. / U.S. $22.00 CDN $26.00 August / Architecture
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2007-10-30
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9047427831
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnder the simultaneous influences of globalization and localization, there has emerged a prevalent social formation based on a hybridized culture in which the cultural norms are many and various: boundary transcendence, alternative cultures, cultural hybridity, cultural creativity, connectivity, tolerance, multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism. While the economic forces shaping globalization are powerful and seemingly getting stronger, they are not immutable, nor are their effects predictable or necessarily overwhelming. Contributors to this book are optimistic that the socio-cultural formations of the future, such as cultural hybridity and cosmopolitanism, will be a viable option for constructing new or renewed global communities of migrants around the world. It is on these diasporic communities that the self-definition (the self-identity) and cultural expansion of all migrants depend, and it is with these tools that migrants are best equipped to navigate the raging torrents of globalization in the new millennium of a post-postmodern era. Globalization brings with it a fear, a sense of loss and demise. It also brings with it a new sense of opportunity and hope. It is in this spirit that this book should be read. Contributors: Chan Kwok-bun, Jan W. Walls, David Hayward, Michael E. DeGolyer, Lam Wai-man, Georgette Wang, Emilie Yeh Yueh-yu, Lu Fang, Nan M. Sussman, Rie Ito, Oscar Bulaong Jr., Brian Chan Hok-shing, Millie Creighton, Anthony Y.H. Fung, Ho Wai-chung, Chiou Syuan-Yuan, Chris Wood, Chung Ling, Steve Fore, Todd Joseph Miles Holden, Ashley Tellis, Jeffrey S. Wilkinson, Steven McClung
Author: Gisela Brinker-Gabler
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780816624607
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Philip Wood
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2013-04-04
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 0199915407
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the importance of the past, both real and imagined, in constructing contemporary culture in the period AD 500-1000. It goes beyond 'history-writing' in a narrow sense to examine philosophy, theology, liturgy and jurisprudence as vehicles for tradition and the imagination of a past 'golden age'. The papers straddle the Roman-Persian frontier and go well into the Islamic period: together, they push the boundaries of late antiquity' into the varied language traditions: not just Greek, but also Syriac, Armenian, Coptic and Arabic.
Author: Francesca Helm
Publisher: Research-publishing.net
Published: 2018-07-08
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 2490057189
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores how identities emerge and are negotiated by young people in online facilitated dialogue, a form of virtual exchange. It offers a framework for this type of exploration based on the assumption that both the situated context and the technologies mediating online interactions influence, but do not necessarily determine, the interactions taking place and the participants’ identity orientations. Identity is viewed not as fixed and static, but rather multiple and fluid as interactants position themselves in relation to one another. This framework is then applied to the analysis of one specific virtual exchange context, and the interactions over several weeks of a group of participants from a wide range of backgrounds.
Author: Rex Li
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-11-21
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 1134059612
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Rising China and Security in East Asia provides a systematic and in-depth analysis of the security discourse of Chinese elites on the major powers in East Asia, namely the US, Japan and Russia, and how China perceives their global security strategy.
Author: Mai Yamani
Publisher: Royal Institute for International Affairs
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of the forces affecting the attitudes, motivation and aspirations of the new generation in Saudi Arabia, structured around the themes of identity and change. It explores the tension between perceptions of tradition and modernity.
Author: Justin Yoo
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-10-29
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 135125474X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book brings together recent developments in modern migration theory, a wide range of sources, new and old tools revisited (from GIS to epigraphic studies, from stable isotope analysis to the study of literary sources) and case studies from the ancient eastern Mediterranean that illustrate how new theories and techniques are helping to give a better understanding of migratory flows and diaspora communities in the ancient Near East. A geographical gap has emerged in studies of historical migration as recent works have focused on migration and mobility in the western part of the Roman Empire and thus fail to bring a significant contribution to the study of diaspora communities in the eastern Mediterranean. Bridging this gap represents a major scholarly desideratum, and, by drawing upon the experiences of previously neglected migrant and diaspora communities in the eastern Mediterranean from the Hellenistic period to the early mediaeval world, this collection of essays approaches migration studies with new perspectives and methodologies, shedding light not only on the study of migrants in the ancient world, but also on broader issues concerning the rationale for mobility and the creation and features of diaspora identities.
Author: Jan Fellerer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-08-16
Total Pages: 470
ISBN-13: 1000497275
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Katharina Schramm
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0857452541
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRacial and ethnic categories have appeared in recent scientific work in novel ways and in relation to a variety of disciplines: medicine, forensics, population genetics and also developments in popular genealogy. Once again, biology is foregrounded in the discussion of human identity. Of particular importance is the preoccupation with origins and personal discovery and the increasing use of racial and ethnic categories in social policy. This new genetic knowledge, expressed in technology and practice, has the potential to disrupt how race and ethnicity are debated, managed and lived. As such, this volume investigates the ways in which existing social categories are both maintained and transformed at the intersection of the natural (sciences) and the cultural (politics). The contributors include medical researchers, anthropologists, historians of science and sociologists of race relations; together, they explore the new and challenging landscape where biology becomes the stuff of identity.
