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Howard S. Becker Sociology and Music in the Chicago School

Howard S. Becker Sociology and Music in the Chicago School

Who is Howard S. Becker? This book traces his career examining his work and contributions to the field of sociology. Themes covered include Becker’s theoretical conceptualizations approaches teaching style and positioning in the intellectual milieu. Translated from French by sociologist Robert Dingwall the English edition benefits from an editorial introduction and additional referencing as well as a new foreword by Becker himself. | Howard S. Becker Sociology and Music in the Chicago School

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Indigenous Religion(s) in Sápmi Reclaiming Sacred Grounds

Indigenous Religion(s) in Sápmi Reclaiming Sacred Grounds

Indigenous religion(s) are afterlives of a particular sort shaped by globalising discourses on what counts as an indigenous religion on the one hand and the continued presence of local traditions on the other. Focusing on the Norwegian side of Sápmi since the 1970s this book explores the reclaiming of ancestral pasts and notions of a specifically Sámi religion. It connects religion identity and nation-building and takes seriously the indigenous turn as well as geographical and generational distinctions. Focal themes include protective activism and case studies from the art and culture domain both of which are considered vital to the making of indigenous afterlives in indigenous formats. This volume will be of great interest to scholars of Global Indigenous studies Sámi cultural studies and politics Ethnicity and emergence of new identities Anthropology Studies in religion and folklore studies. | Indigenous Religion(s) in Sápmi Reclaiming Sacred Grounds

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Being Spiritual but Not Religious Past Present Future(s)

Being Spiritual but Not Religious Past Present Future(s)

In its most general sense the term Spiritual but Not Religious denotes those who on the one hand are disillusioned with traditional institutional religion and on the other hand feel that those same traditions contain deep wisdom about the human condition. This edited collection speaks to what national surveys agree is a growing social phenomenon referred to as the Spiritual but Not Religious Movement (SBNRM). Each essay of the volume engages the past present and future(s) of the SBNRM. Their collective contribution is analytic descriptive and prescriptive taking stock of not only the various analyses of the SBNRM to date but also the establishment of a new ground upon which the continued academic discussion can take place. This volume is a watershed in the growing academic and public interest in the SBNRM. As such it will vital reading for any academic involved in Religious Studies Spirituality and Sociology. | Being Spiritual but Not Religious Past Present Future(s)

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A Russian Perspective on Theoretical Archaeology The Life and Work of Leo S. Klejn

A Russian Perspective on Theoretical Archaeology The Life and Work of Leo S. Klejn

Both the work and the life of Leo S. Klejn Russia’s foremost archaeological theorist remain generally unrecognized by Western scholars. Until now. In this biography and summary of his work Stephen Leach outlines Klejn’s wide-ranging theoretical contributions on the place and nature of archaeology. The book details-Klejn’s diverse work on ethnogenesis migration Homeric studies pagan Slavic religion homosexuality and the history of archaeology;-his life challenges as a Russian Jewish scholar jailed for homosexuality by the KGB and for his challenges to Marxist dogma;-his key contributions to theoretical archaeology and in particular Klejn’s comparisons between archaeologists and forensic scientists. | A Russian Perspective on Theoretical Archaeology The Life and Work of Leo S. Klejn

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U.s. Military Power And Rapid Deployment Requirements In The 1980s

U.s. Military Power And Rapid Deployment Requirements In The 1980s

This book assesses U. S. military needs in the coming decade focusing on the role of rapid deployment forces in protecting U. S. interests abroad. Dr. Cordier begins by discussing two general developments crucial to future military requirements: first increasing U. S. dependence on the global sea-lanes as links to key markets; and second improved S | U. s. Military Power And Rapid Deployment Requirements In The 1980s

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Sensory-Based Relational Art Therapy Approach (S-BRATA) Supporting Psycho-Emotional Needs in Children with Autism

Sensory-Based Relational Art Therapy Approach (S-BRATA) Supporting Psycho-Emotional Needs in Children with Autism

This book bridges art therapy practice and research by presenting sensory-based relational art therapy approach (S-BRATA) a clinically tested framework for working with children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) that explicitly addresses sensory dysfunction and its impact on impaired attachment. The author shows how art therapy can facilitate attachment while addressing sensory problems that might underlie impaired attachment shifting the focus from the behavioral to the emotional development of the child with autism. The book additionally challenges traditional aspects of art therapy practice particularly the focus on the relational aspect of the intervention and not the art product. Not restrictive or prescriptive and with the potential to be adapted to other interventions S-BRATA provides an explicit framework for doing art therapy with children on the spectrum that opens the scope of art therapy practice and encourages flexibility and adaptation. Clinicians students and parents alike will benefit from the text’s clear outline for relational development with individuals on the spectrum and its emphasis on the importance of the psycho-emotional health of a child with ASD. | Sensory-Based Relational Art Therapy Approach (S-BRATA) Supporting Psycho-Emotional Needs in Children with Autism

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The Challenges Of Southsouth Cooperation

The Challenges Of Southsouth Cooperation

The process of economi c coopera t i on among devel oping countrie s ha s come a l ong way s i nce the ea rl y 1960s . A l ong s i de the movement f rom the e s tab l i s hment of reg i onal and subreg i on a l i n tegration and cooperati on g rou p i ngs to the e l aborati on of concepts and a pproaches for g l obal and i nterreg i onal coopera t i on ( such a s for exampl e the scheme for a gl oba l sys tem of trade preferences a mong deve l o p ing countries ) there has b een a n exten s ion of the scope of coopera t i on ori g ina l l y focused on trade to other a rea s i ncl u d ing moneta ry a n d f i nan c i a l ma tters produ c t ion ma rketing and s o on . Today the proce s s of economic cooperation among deve l o p ing countri es occu p i e s an i mportan t pl ace i n the economi c s t rategies a n d pol ic ies of devel o p i n g countrie s and in recent years wit h the marked deteri o ration in the wo rl d economi c s i tu a t io n and the wea ken i ng of i n ternat i onal cooperati on for deve l opmen t it has acqu ired even grea ter importa nce and u rgency . I n deed i n v iew of the pro s pects for the worl d economy for th e comi n g yea rs i t h a s b ecome an i mpera t i ve i f the devel oping cou n t ries a re going to b e abl e to env i sage the transformation of their economies and the g rowth ra tes th ey need . | The Challenges Of Southsouth Cooperation

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Soviet Society And Culture Essays In Honor Of Vera S. Dunham

Soviet Society And Culture Essays In Honor Of Vera S. Dunham

Academic analysis has not always kept pace with the dramatic changes that have occurred in the USSR since Stalin’s time for objective study has often been overshadowed—especially in the 1980s—by publicity concerning the negative aspects of the “Evil Empire. ” Recently however because of reforms initiated by Gorbachev the dynamics of the Soviet system have come into sharper focus. This book provides a wide-ranging detailed view of economic social ideological and literary aspects of the Soviet system leading up to the Gorbachev era. The essays include both historical and contemporary perspectives on the sources of stability (and stagnation) in the post-Stalin years. Examining the intricate fabric of Soviet society the contributors provide insights into the social and cultural motivations for Gorbachev’s “restructuring” policies. Their themes echo the work of Vera S. Dunham who for more than four decades has focused on diverse aspects of Soviet society and culture particularly on the noncoercive means of social control that have often been overlooked but that are a vital component of the Soviet system. | Soviet Society And Culture Essays In Honor Of Vera S. Dunham

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Mobile and Entangled America(s)

Mobile and Entangled America(s)

A superb combination of focused case studies and high level conceptual thinking this volume is an important monument in the ongoing development of Inter-American studies The articles gathered here closely examine a wide variety of cultural phenomena implicated in the 'entanglements' which have defined the history of the Americas. From religious networks to music and dance and across a range of literary and artistic works the mobility of people objects and ideas in the Americas is expertly mapped. At the same time the book represents a serious enterprise of theory-building. Drawing on the histories of postcolonial thought mobility studies and work on human migration Mobile and Entangled America(s) clearly establishes a new interdisciplinary field attentive both to the complexities of cultural form and the pervasiveness of power relations. Each article stands as a significant piece of scholarship on its own but all are in dialogue with each other. The result is a richly satisfying and important volume of cultural scholarship.

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A Competitive Assessment Of The U.S. Civil Aircraft Industry

A Competitive Assessment Of The U.S. Civil Aircraft Industry

In 1985 the U. S. aerospace industry achieved a $13. 1 billion trade surplus and contributed $89. 2 billion in shipments to the U. S. economy. Without·aerospace the U. S. trade balance in high technology industries would-for the first time-have fallen into a deficit. Civil aircraft play a significant role in the U. S. aerospace industry and U. S. civil aircraft have dominated world markets (particularly the large transport segment) since the development of jet engine aircraft in the 1950s. This dominance has recently been challenged by the emergence of the European Airbus Industrie which has achieved a significant market position in wide-body aircraft and appears committed to the development of a diversified family of civil aircraft. Industry observers are also concerned about the possibility of Japan entering the large transport competition. In this assessment the U. S. Department of Commerce examines the prospects for continued international competitiveness of U. S. civil aircraft. The report identifies key factors that will determine the shape of future competition develops alternative scenarios for the future and presents-a framework within which developments can be monitored and measured. | A Competitive Assessment Of The U. S. Civil Aircraft Industry

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Japan s Search for Strategic Security Partnerships

Japan s Search for Strategic Security Partnerships

As tensions between China and Japan increase including over the disputed islands in the East China Sea Japan has adopted under Prime Minister Abe a new security posture. This involves internally adapting Japan’s constitutional position on defence and externally building stronger international relationships in the Asia-Pacific region and more widely. This book presents a comprehensive analysis of these developments. It shows how trust and co-operation with the United States the only partner with which Japan has a formal alliance is being rebuilt discusses how other relationships both on security and on wider issues are being formed in the region and with European countries and the EU with the relationships with India and Australia being of particular importance and concludes by assessing the likely impact on the region of Japan’s changing posture and new relationships. | Japan�s Search for Strategic Security Partnerships

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U.S.-Japanese Energy Relations Cooperation And Competition

U.S.-Japanese Energy Relations Cooperation And Competition

Originally published in 1984 this collection of original papers highlights the major problems and challenges that lie ahead in U. S. Japanese energy relations. Energy cooperation both through joint projects and bilateral planning has become an important barometer of the U. S. diplomatic relationship with Japan as evidenced by the high-level U. S. Japan Energy Working Group set up in January 1984 following Prime Minister Nakasone's visit to Washington. Contributions to this book detail the problems posed by energy security differences and uncertain oil markets; U. S. crude oil exports to Japan; and nuclear coal solar-energy; and they consider the prospects for conflict over investment in Siberia and Asia | U. S. Japanese Energy Relations Cooperation And Competition

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Democracies Against Hitler Myth Reality and Prologue

Democracies Against Hitler Myth Reality and Prologue

First published in 1999 what the confrontation between democracies and Hitlerism tells us about democracy is the subject of this book. It examines the response of political democracies to the phenomenon of Hitlerism beginning with democracy in Germany itself in the ’20’s and ’30’s and ending up with Britain and the U. S. in the ’40’s. Contrary to mythology this response was far more a failure than a success. An iconoclastic treatment it anticipates the crises of the future. . | Democracies Against Hitler Myth Reality and Prologue

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The Future of U.S. Empire in the Americas The Trump Administration and Beyond

The Future of U.S. Empire in the Americas The Trump Administration and Beyond

With the rise of President Trump many are coming to question where the United States (U. S. ) is headed and whether we might witness an imperial decline under Trump. Social scientists largely recognize the contemporary hegemonic position of the U. S. at the global level but questions persist concerning the future of the U. S. Empire. With the Trump Administration at the helm these questions are all the more salient. Drawing on the expertise of a panel of contributors and guided by Michael Mann’s model of power this book critically interrogates the future of U. S. global power and provides insights on what we might expect from the U. S. Empire under Trump. Recognizing that U. S. imperial power involves an array of sources of power (ideological economic military and political) the contributors analyze the Trump Administration’s approach towards nine countries in the Western Hemisphere and five sets of global policies including inter-American relations drugs trade the environment and immigration. Each case presents a historical look at the trajectory of relations as they have developed under Trump and what we might expect in the future from the administration. The Future of U. S. Empire in the Americas will be of great interest to students and scholars of U. S. foreign policy Foreign Policy Analysis political sociology and American politics. | The Future of U. S. Empire in the Americas The Trump Administration and Beyond

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Soviet Perceptions Of The Oil Factor In U.s. Foreign Policy The Middle Eastgulf Region

Soviet Perceptions Of The Oil Factor In U.s. Foreign Policy The Middle Eastgulf Region

How Soviet leaders perceive U. S. intentions capabilities and actions plays an important role in the formation of the Soviet Union's foreign policy and its relations with the United States. This book focuses on one set of Soviet perceptions-how the oil shortages and subsequent developments influenced U. S. policy in the Middle East-Gulf region and what the implications of that policy are for the Soviet Union. Although the 1973 energy crisis and related events all represented severe blows to Washington there were costs for Moscow as well; negative developments for one superpower says Dr. Sawyer do not necessarily result in unadulterated gains for the other. Emphasizing this theme he assesses Soviet perceptions of the 1973 energy crisis and the intensification of U. S. interest in the Middle East-Gulf region; the Camp David accords and the Egyptian-Israeli Treaty; the impact of the Iranian revolution on U. S. and Soviet positions in the region; the effect of the Soviet invasion of Afganistan on U. S. policy; the Iraqi-Iranian war; and the Soviet response to Washington's concern over U. S. energy vulnerability. | Soviet Perceptions Of The Oil Factor In U. s. Foreign Policy The Middle Eastgulf Region

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The China Quandary Domestic Determinants Of U.s. China Policy 19721982

The China Quandary Domestic Determinants Of U.s. China Policy 19721982

Although the United States has established formal diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China (PRC) achieving major advances in economic and cultural relations it continues to be bedevilled by serious dilemmas regarding such issues as future relations with Taiwan U. S. PRC military ties the extent and type of U. S. aid to China and the need for secrecy in U. S. China policy versus traditional American demands for open diplomacy. U. S. scholars have been clear about the international factors influencing current U. S. PRC relations; however the domestic political factors that have contributed in a major way to the creation of the dilemmas we face in formulating China policy today remain poorly understood. This book concentrates on these domestic determinants of recent U. S. China policy. Pointing to the compromises and contradictions in policy choices made by leaders who have sharply differing conceptions of the goals of policy and their appropriate implementation Dr. Sutter draws on a wide array of recent U. S. government publications and more than one hundred interviews with officials of the Carter and Reagan administrations and Congress to examine differences in views divergencies in policy approaches and the confusion that results. He specifically treats key issues such as the Taiwan Relations Act and possible U. S. arms sales to China as well as summarizing and assessing domestic and foreign policy interests of the United States in relation to China and offering policy options for the problems that lie ahead. | The China Quandary Domestic Determinants Of U. s. China Policy 19721982

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T. S. Eliot’s Ariel Poems Making Sense of the Times

T. S. Eliot’s Ariel Poems Making Sense of the Times

T. S. Eliot once stated that the supreme poet in writing himself writes his time. In saying that he honoured Dante and Shakespeare but this pithy remark fittingly characterises his own work including The Ariel Poems with which he promptly and pointedly responded to the problems of his times. Published with unwavering regularity a poem a year the Ariels were composed in the period when Eliot was mainly writing prose; and like his prose they reverberated with diverse contemporary issues ranging from the revision of the Book of Common Prayer to the translations of Heidegger to the questions of leadership and populism. In order to highlight the poems' historical specificity this study seeks to outline the constellations of thought connecting Eliot’s poetry and prose. In addition it attempts to expose the Ariels’ shared arc of meaning an unobtrusive incarnational metaphor determining the perspective from which they propose an unorthodox understanding of the epoch— an underlying pattern of thought bringing them together into a conceptually discrete set. This is the first study that both universalizes and historicises the series striving to disclose the regular without suppressing the random. Approaching the series as a system of orderly disorder the notion very much at home with chaos theory it suggests new intellectual contexts offering interpretations that are either fresh or significantly reangled. Chapter 5 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. | T. S. Eliot’s Ariel Poems Making Sense of the Times

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What Is to Be Done About Violence Against Women? Gendered Violence(s) in the Twenty-first Century

What Is to Be Done About Violence Against Women? Gendered Violence(s) in the Twenty-first Century

This book maps the problems and possibilities of the policies and practices designed to tackle violence against women in the domestic sphere over the last 40 years. In 2018 the United Nations declared the home the most dangerous place for women around the word and in early April 2020 the United Nations Population Fund predicted that for every three months that government-enforced lockdowns in response to coronavirus an additional 15 million cases of domestic violence would occur worldwide. This book asks the simple yet critical question: how can governments best ensure women’s safety in the twenty-first century? Taking its title from Elizabeth Wilson’s 1983 book and her three-level approach of considering the role of social policy the law and ideology Fitz-Gibbon and Walklate draw on their expertise of femicide domestic abuse and family violence to examine the salience of global and local policy and practice responses to such violence(s) and to ask timely questions about the ongoing value of the recourse to the criminal law for twenty-first century policy. Comparative in orientation appreciative of the importance of geographical and social context and committed to understanding the historical processes that continue to frame policy responses this book takes a long hard look at what has and has not been achieved in relation to domestic abuse and family violence and seeks to challenge all that has come to be taken for granted in responding to such violence(s). Published in the 40th Anniversary of Elizabeth Wilson’s ground-breaking contribution this book is destined to become a classic in its own right. It is essential reading for all those engaged in feminist criminology gender and crime family and domestic violence and violence against women. | What Is to Be Done About Violence Against Women? Gendered Violence(s) in the Twenty-first Century

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