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Between Prague Spring and French May
Abandoning the usual Cold War–oriented narrative of postwar European protest and opposition movements, this volume offers an innovative, interdisciplinary, and comprehensive perspective on two decades of protest and social upheaval in postwar Europe. It examines the mutual influences and interactions among dissenters in Western Europe, the Warsaw Pact countries, and the nonaligned European countries, and shows how ideological and political developments in the East and West were interconnected through official state or party channels as well as a variety of private and clandestine contacts. Focusing on issues arising from the cross-cultural transfer of ideas, the adjustments to institutional and political frameworks, and the role of the media in staging protest, the volume examines the romanticized attitude of Western activists to violent liberation movements in the Third World and the idolization of imprisoned RAF members as martyrs among left-wing circles across Western Europe.
Pragmatist Governance
The philosophy of pragmatism advances an evolutionary, learning-oriented perspective that is problem-driven, reflexive, and deliberative.
An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies
An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies, Second Edition reflects the latest advances in the field while continuing to provide students with a road map to the complex interdisciplinary terrain of science and technology studies. Distinctive in its attention to both the underlying philosophical and sociological aspects of science and technology Explores core topics such as realism and social construction, discourse and rhetoric, objectivity, and the public understanding of science Includes numerous empirical studies and illustrative examples to elucidate the topics discussed Now includes new material on political economies of scientific and technological knowledge, and democratizing technical decisions Other features of the new edition include improved readability, updated references, chapter reorganization, and more material on medicine and technology
Subcultures, Popular Music and Social Change
Style-based subcultures, scenes and tribes have pulsated through the history of social, economic and political change. From 1940s zoot-suiters and hepcats; through 1950s rock ’n’ rollers, beatniks and Teddy boys; 1960s surfers, rudeboys, mods, hippies and bikers; 1970s skinheads, soul boys, rastas, glam rockers, funksters and punks; on to the heavy metal, hip-hop, casual, goth, rave, hipster and clubber styles of the 1980s, 90s, noughties and beyond; distinctive blends of fashion and music have become a defining feature of the cultural landscape. Research into these phenomena has traversed the social sciences and humanities, and Subcultures, Popular Music and Social Change assembles impo...
Handbook on Participatory Action Research and Community Development
This Handbook is a critical resource for carefully considering the possibilities and challenges of strategically integrating participatory action research (PAR) and community development (CD). Utilizing practical examples from diverse contexts across five continents, it looks at how communities are empowering themselves and bringing about systemic change.
Handbook Transdisciplinary Learning
What is transdisciplinarity - and what are its methods? How does a living lab work? What is the purpose of citizen science, student-organized teaching and cooperative education? This handbook unpacks key terms and concepts to describe the range of transdisciplinary learning in the context of academic education. Transdisciplinary learning turns out to be a comprehensive innovation process in response to the major global challenges such as climate change, urbanization or migration. A reference work for students, lecturers, scientists, and anyone wanting to understand the profound changes in higher education.
London’s Working-Class Youth and the Making of Post-Victorian Britain, 1958–1971
This book examines the emergence of modern working-class youth culture through the perspective of an urban history of post-war Britain, with a particular focus on the influence of young people and their culture on Britain’s self-image as a country emerging from the constraints of its post-Victorian, imperial past. Each section of the book – Society, City, Pop, and Space – considers in detail the ways in which working-class youth culture corresponded with a fast-changing metropolitan and urban society in the years following the decline of the British Empire. Was teenage culture rooted in the urban experience and the transformation of working-class neighbourhoods? Did youth subcultures emerge simply as a reaction to Britain's changing racial demographic? To what extent did leisure venues and institutions function as laboratories for a developing British pop culture, which ultimately helped Britain re-establish its prominence on the world stage? These questions and more are answered in this book.
Governance
Dieses Lehrbuch präsentiert in neuer Auflage und 17 Beiträgen einen komprimierten Überblick über den Themenkreis "Governance". Dazu ist der Band in drei Teile gegliedert: Der erste Teil widmet sich Akteuren und Steuerungsmodi sowie den einzelnen administrativen Ebenen von Governance. Der zweite Teil analysiert ausgewählte Politikfelder (Haushalt, Sicherheit, Umwelt/Nachhaltigkeit, Regionales, Integration, Kultur, Hochschule), während der abschließende Teil des Bandes einen internationalen und bewertend evaluierenden Blick auf den Themenkreis „Governance“ einnimmt.
Verwaltungspsychologie
Häufig wird das Handeln in der öffentlichen Verwaltung allein auf rechtliche oder administrative Aspekte reduziert. Die Arbeit in der öffentlichen Verwaltung ist allerdings maßgeblich durch den Umgang mit Menschen geprägt. Das Verhalten und Erleben von Menschen im Kontext der öffentlichen Verwaltung wird in diesem Lehrbuch praxisnah und fundiert veranschaulicht. Ausgehend von der Personalauswahl und -entwicklung werden Aspekte der Führung und Motivation sowie Gruppenprozesse, Belastungen und Konflikte, Bürgerbeteiligung, Wissens- und Gesundheitsmanagement thematisiert. Dabei wird der aktuelle Forschungsstand aufgegriffen und die Relevanz des jeweiligen Themas an Sachverhalten aus der...
