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The Organisational Artefacts and Organisational Rituals of Festivals
The aim of this chapter is to explore the topic of music festivals as organisations in greater detail, with insights drawn from the perspective of...
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Tactics for Becoming Visible: South Asian Minorities in the Times of Communicative Capitalism
We explore the tactics of becoming visible and their relationship to alleviating or exacerbating precarious forms of life for minorities in South...
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Indigenous Political Participation in Peru: A History of Racism, Exclusion, and Violence
Peru is a country that was built upon ethnic and racial divisions, which had their origins in the time of the Spanish settlement. This division has...
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Neither Snake Oils nor Miracle Cures: Interpreting Nineteenth-Century Patent Medicines
Archaeologists frequently discover 19th-century patent- and proprietary-medicine bottles at sites across the U.S. The unregulated medical mixtures...
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From the “Gun” to “Keyboards”: Pursuing Social Media Usage to Contest Political and Social Oppression in Zimbabwe
Change is inevitable in Zimbabwe despite authoritarian forces stifling political, social, and economic freedoms. Zimbabwe wedged an armed struggle...
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Assisting Whistleblowers in Advancing Social Justice in the Workplace
This chapter explores how perceptions of workplace fairness relate to whistleblower processes and outcomes. It then considers possible interventions...
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Parenting and Parent-Child Relationships in Chile
This chapter reviews scholarly literature and theory related to parenting and parent-child/adolescent relationships in Chile. Consistent with most...
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Metabolic Transitions: A Theory of Socio-ecological Transformation
In the preceding chapters, we described the concept of social metabolism in detail and synthesized it in a basic model. We also distinguished three...
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Networking Voices of Dissent: Korea-Japan Civic Alliance and Transnational Solidarity for Anti-Olympic Movement
Over the last few years, an alliance of Asian civic activists has developed around a shared opposition to the Olympic Games. This paper illustrates...
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The Tshwa San of Zimbabwe—Land, Livelihoods, and Ethnicity
Tshwa San live primarily in western Zimbabwe in Tsholotsho District of Matabeleland North and Bulilimamangwe District in Matabeleland South and are...
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Reinterpretation of the autonomy of art in the contemporary environment
This paper examines current status of art in society from the perspective of ‘Yin and Yang’ philosophy (Chinese Philosophy of Change) by using the...
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Technology and Alienation
Chapter 3 “Technology and Alienation” explores the downsides and potential alienating effects of immersion in a high-tech world, as well as...
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Modern Law, Traditional “Shalish” and Civil Society Activism in Bangladesh
This chapter examines problems of legal pluralism in Bangladesh by focusing on shalish, the informal dispute resolution and mediation often involving...
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Living Memories of Caste: The Thoti’s Stick
The hegemonisation of the self is reflected through multiple processes and the focus of this chapter is on caste hegemony which contains an entire...
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Liberal, Republican, Conservative and Social-Democratic Mindsets? Exploring the existence of Citizenship Regimes in Civic Attitudes
This paper explores whether civic attitudes cluster in ways that correspond to distinct citizenship regimes. Drawing on political philosophy and...
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Human Dignity as a Global Common Good
This article tackles the question of what makes human dignity so central in human morality and law, focusing not on specific understandings of human...
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Cultural Roads and Itineraries in the Humanities and Social Sciences
This chapter provides an interdisciplinary overview of the notion of roads, with a particular focus on cultural roads and cultural itineraries. The...
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Multiculturalism Today: Difference, Equality and Interculturalism
This chapter maps the current state of the academic debate on multiculturalism and multicultural equality. It gives a brief historical overview of...
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What Is Alternative Journalism?
Various scholars have addressed the question of what alternative media is and, yet, to speak of the term is inevitably to come across a lack of...