This book explores the history of Jewish eating and identity, from the Bible to the present. In this colourful history, we get more than a taste of how expressive and crucial eating choices have always been.
This book explores the history of Jewish eating and identity, from the Bible to the present. In this colourful history, we get more than a taste of ho...
In the first decade of the twentieth-century, many composers rejected the principles of tonality and regular beat. This signaled a dramatic challenge to the rationalist and linear conceptions of music that had existed in the West since the Renaissance. The 'break with tonality', Neo-Classicism, serialism, chance, minimalism and the return of the 'sacred' in music, are explored in this book for what they tell us about the condition of modernity. Modernity is here treated as a complex social and cultural formation, in which mythology, narrative, and the desire for 're-enchantment' have not...
In the first decade of the twentieth-century, many composers rejected the principles of tonality and regular beat. This signaled a dramatic challen...
In recent decades, human rights have come to occupy an apparently unshakable position as a key and pervasive feature of contemporary global public culture. At the same time, human rights have become a central focus of research in the social sciences, embracing distinctive analytical and empirical agendas for the study of rights. This volume gathers together original social-scientific research on human rights, and in doing so situates them in an open intellectual terrain, thereby responding to the complexity and scope of meanings, practices, and institutions associated with such rights....
In recent decades, human rights have come to occupy an apparently unshakable position as a key and pervasive feature of contemporary global public ...
Drawing on primary research in the USA, Canada, Australia, Ireland and the UK, this title provides a provocative insight into the brutality of incarceration in 'civilised' states and its links to the revelations of torture and abuse in the 'war on terror'.
Drawing on primary research in the USA, Canada, Australia, Ireland and the UK, this title provides a provocative insight into the brutality of incarce...
Postmarxism is often depicted as a point of intersection for a set of inter-disciplinary theories that are in themselves complex and dense.
Bringing the postmarxist theory of Ernesto Laclau into the field of political sociology through a close reading and analysis of postmarxism and its relationship to 'the social', A Sociology of Postmarxism develops key postmarxist arguments in an engaging and sociologically applicable way. Indeed, through a threefold method of analysis, Howson first unpacks the relationship between 'the social' and 'the political' by analysing key allied...
Postmarxism is often depicted as a point of intersection for a set of inter-disciplinary theories that are in themselves complex and dense.
How does political policy-making shape the creative activities of artists? Do the political interests of artists influence actual political practices in any way? Legislating Creativity examines the relationship between art and politics through an analysis of controversial art projects tied to the National Endowment for the Arts during the Culture Wars (late 1980s-1990s). Though there have always been tensions in government funding for the arts, these controversies intensified the public debates surrounding art/politics and remain as a focal point in conversations that continue...
How does political policy-making shape the creative activities of artists? Do the political interests of artists influence actual political practic...
This charts the relation between religion and social problems, examining the role of religion in assessing, constructing, and solving social problems. It is a broad and path-breaking contribution to the fields of sociology of religion, sociology of social problems, and religious studies.
This charts the relation between religion and social problems, examining the role of religion in assessing, constructing, and solving social problems....
Rom Harre has pushed the boundaries of our thinking about people and societies and has challenged the orthodox philosophy of science and social psychology. His countless books and articles have inspired generations of scholars in philosophy, psychology, linguistics, cognitive science and social theory. The diversity of his work makes that some see him as a leading figure in the critical realist school of philosophy of science, other as a key player in developing a social constructionist approach to psychology. The present volume brings together a careful selection of his key writings and...
Rom Harre has pushed the boundaries of our thinking about people and societies and has challenged the orthodox philosophy of science and social psy...
This book examines the everyday living conditions experienced and also shaped by young people in Europe. Contributors reflect on the current context of economic, social and political change affecting youth in the critical transition from dependence to independence. The volume provides the reader with a multi-dimensional and interdisciplinary view of youth cultures, drawn from a variety of recent research throughout the continent.
This book examines the everyday living conditions experienced and also shaped by young people in Europe. Contributors reflect on the current contex...
