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For (Dear) Life
When Canadian Alice Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013, she had already declared her resignation from the post of short story writer following the publication of her 2012 collection Dear Life. This present volume offers critical analyses of Alice Munro's complete final short story collection. The book's contributors exercise in-depth, close readings of each individual story and situate them in Munro's lifetime oeuvre, as well as in her work's critical reception to date. Scholars set out to show how complex, irritating, disturbing, and enchanting Munro's stories are, and how often all that matters is to hold life dear - or to hold on for (dear) life. (Series: MasteRResearch - Vol. 7) [Subject: Literary Criticism]
Canadian craft and museum practice, 1900-1950
This book presents the first overview of craft activity, as an integral part of Canadian culture between 1900 and 1950, and reviews the tone and focus of contemporaneous writing about craft. It explores the diversity of all aspects of craft, including makers, production, organization, education, and government involvement.
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The Politics of Dissensus
The Politics of Dissensus inverts the traditional perspective on the study of parliamentary politics by focusing on its less obvious and less well-known aspects. Dissensus instead of consensus becomes the condition for the intelligibility of parliamentary politics. Such politics is indebted to the rhetorical culture of addressing issues from opposite perspectives and debating the alternatives pro et contra: no motion is approved without a thorough examination of, and confrontation among, imaginable alternatives. Establishing the openness of political debating, parliamentarism has become a distinctive historical contribution to the rise of parliamentary democracy. Parliament in Debate refers ...
Umweltgerechtigkeit
Die Interdependenz zwischen sozialen, okologischen und wirtschaftlichen Herausforderungen erfahrt unter dem Topos der Nachhaltigkeit umfassende Wurdigung in aktuellen Diskursen. Hier setzt das Leitkonzept Umweltgerechtigkeit an und betrachtet das Aufgabenfeld, welches bei der planenden Gestaltung der menschlichen Lebensumwelt in hochverdichteten Innenstadtgebieten entsteht. Eine Dimension der sozialen Teilhaberechte bildet in diesem Kontext die Existenz einer okologisch nachhaltig gestalteten und damit gesunden Lebensumwelt. Die jedenfalls mittelbar nach sozialen Gesichtspunkten erfolgende ungleiche Verteilung von Umweltgutern und -lasten ruft daher den regulierenden Sozial- und Umweltstaat in seiner Gewahrleistungsverantwortung auf den Plan. Umweltgerechtigkeit soll als Leitkonzept dazu beitragen, Planungsentscheidungen in umweltrelevanten Konstellationen verteilungs- und verfahrensgerechter zu gestalten.
The Meanings of Europe
What is Europe? What are the contents of the concept of Europe? And what defines European identity? Instead of only asking these classical questions, this volume also explores who asks these questions, and who is addressed with such questions. Who answers the questions, from which standpoints and for what reasons? Which philosophical, historical, religious or political traditions influence the answers? This book addresses its task in three parts. The first concentrates on the controversies around the meaning of Europe. The second focuses on the role of the European Union. The third discusses Europe and its relations to different types of otherness, or rather, non-European-ness. The volume produces a complex and plural picture of the concepts, ideas, debates and (ex)changes associated with the concept of Europe, and has a clear significance for today’s debates on European identity, Europeanization, and the EU.
Inventing the EU as a Democratic Polity
The EU as a democratic polity has been invented: it is a product of creative and innovative actors and thinkers that conceptualized and by and by helped to realise it, from the beginning up to the present. But the concepts, ideas, and utopias of a democratic Europe differ considerably. The processes of inventing and building a democratic EU are marked by conceptual controversies in both public and academic debates. These are the resource for the present book, which focuses on the concepts, actors and controversies related to inventing the EU as a democratic polity. The chapters study exemplary long-term and detail cases related to inventing and institutionalizing the decisive elements of representative democracy in the EU—a parliament, citizens that vote for it in universal suffrage and governmental bodies that are linked to parliament in much the same way as government is in a parliamentary democracy.
Global Justice and Development
Defending a procedural conception of global justice that calls for the establishment of reasonably democratic arrangements within and beyond the state, this book argues for a justice-based understanding of social development and justifies why a democracy-promoting international development practice is a requirement of global justice.
Germans to America
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