Kategoria BISAC: Political Science >> Public Policy - Cultural Policy

Canada is considered a leader when it comes to LGBTQ rights, yet this is a fairly recent phenomenon, one that is largely due to the tireless work of disparate groups of LBGTQ activists. "Queer Mobilizations" examines the relationships between LGBTQ activists and local, regional, and federal Canadian governments. The contributors explore how various governments have tried to regulate and repress LGBTQ movements, and how, in turn, queer activists have successfully shaped public policy across the political spectrum, from city halls to Parliament Hill.

Just what is a generation? And why, if at all, does it matter? This book asks what generation means to ordinary people, arguing that generation is real and it matters, but not in the ways that we think. Generations are not groups of people who can be categorized and attributed with static, immutable and universal characteristics, nor are they reducible to cohorts, as is the tendency in much social research. Rather, the book reveals generation to be a social phenomenon and a mechanism of social change - as a constellation of ideas and discourses that explains what happens when ideas...

"Ethnic Studies . . . has drawn higher education, usually kicking and screaming, into the borderlands of scholarship, pedagogy, faculty collegiality, and institutional development," Johnnella E. Butler writes in her Introduction to this collection of lively and insightful essays. Some of the most prominent scholars in Ethnic Studies today explore varying approaches, multiple methodologies, and contrasting perspectives within the field. Essays trace the historical development of Ethnic Studies, its place in American universities and the curriculum, and new directions in contemporary...

Cultural Heritage and the Future for the first time brings together a diverse, international group of scholars and experts interested in the relations between cultural heritage and the future. 'Preserving the past for the future' is an oft used phrase but what that future will be has never before attracted substantial research and debate in heritage studies. The present book offers a balance of theoretical and empirical content, with extensive case-studies from the US, Europe and Australia. Intended to stimulate multidisciplinary debate and discussion the book will explicitly...