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In Permanent Transit: Discourses and Maps of the Intercultural Experience builds interdisciplinary approaches to the study of migrations, traffics, globalisation, communication, regulations, arts, literature, and other intercultural processes, in the context of past and present times. The book offers a convergence of perspectives, combining conceptual and empirical work by sociologists, anthropologists, historians, linguists, educators, lawyers, media specialists, and literary studies writers, in their shared attempt to understand the many routes of the intercultural experience. This Permanent Transit generates an overlapping of cultures, characteristic of a site of cultural translation. In ...
The first decades of the new millennium have been marked by major political changes. Although The West has wished to revisit internal and international politics concerning migration policies, refugee status, integration, secularism, and the dismantling of communitarianism, events like the Syrian refugee crisis, the terrorist attacks in France in 2015-2016, and the economic crisis of 2008 have resurrected concepts such as national identity, integration, citizenship and re-shaping state policies in many developed countries. In France and Canada, more recent public elections have brought complex democratic political figures like Emmanuel Macron and Justin Trudeau to the public eye. Both leaders...
There is consensus in literature that urban areas have become increasingly vulnerable to the outcomes of economic restructuring under the neoliberal political economic ideology. The increased frequency and widening diversity of problems offer evidence that the socio-economic and spatial policies, planning and practices introduced under the neoliberal agenda can no longer be sustained. As this shortfall was becoming more evident among urban policymakers, planners, and researchers in different parts of the world, a group of discontent researchers began searching for new approaches to addressing the increasing vulnerabilities of urban systems in the wake of growing socio-economic and ecological...
Charts the Union's development from its conception through to the implementation of the Maastricht Treaty and its continuing activities. Includes an A-Z section of concise definitions and explanations of organizations, acronyms and terms. The most extensive collection of information available on the European Union. The third edition of this definitive reference work has been thoroughly revised and updated to provide the latest information on the EU. It charts the Union's development from its conception through to the creation of the single market in 1992, to the implementation of the Maastricht Treaty and its continuing activities. Contents include: An A-Z section of concise definitions and ...
Whose City is That? shows that Istanbul is produced not only by strong and systematic efforts, corporate influences and/or marketing activities, but also by individual contributions and coincidences. As such, the primary purpose of this book is to find the answer of to whom Istanbul does belong, presenting the reader with the richness of human experience and the practice of everyday life. The chapters in this book are therefore focused on the physical and economic dimensions, as well as the imaginary, fictional and hyper-real dimensions, expressing the concern of bringing the real and imaginary borders of the city together. The book provides an understanding that for each inhabitant there is...
This revealing portrait of the oceanic Dutch Empire exposes the maritime world as a catalyst for the downfall of European imperialism.
Leisure time today is driven by fandom. Once viewed as a social pariah, the fan and associated fandom as a whole has transformed into a popularized social construct researchers are still attempting to understand. Popular culture in the modern era is defined and dominated by the fan, and the basis of fandom has established its own identity across several platforms of media. As some forms of fandom have remained constant, including sports and cinema, other structures of fandom are emerging as the mass following of video games and cosplay are becoming increasingly prominent. Fandom has been established as an important facet in today’s society, and necessary research is required for understand...
Os artigos presentes neste livro são fruto das discussões do XV Fórum de Analise de Conjuntura, organizado pelo Grupo de Pesquisa Estudos da Globalização e ocorrido entre 16 e 18 de novembro de 2015 na Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências (FFC) da Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Abordaram a conjuntura econômica e política dos principais países da América Latina, com especial atenção ao Brasil, que vive complexa crise econômica e política. Em termos mais gerais, os temas do desemprego, do meio ambiente, da desigualdade social, do acesso a serviços públicos universais, das estratégias de desenvolvimento e inserção na economia mundial, do grau de autonomia dos Estados na...
O presente livro condensa os resultados das discussões e das reflexões ocorridas no XIV Fórum de Análise de Conjuntura “Os rumos da política e da economia brasileiras no ano de eleições”. O Fórum de Conjuntura, um dos eventos mais tradicionais da Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências da Unesp, destina-se a discussão de temas candentes da conjuntura política, social e econômica nacional e internacional. Nesta edição o tema do evento consistiu na conjuntura eleitoral, que foi abordada ao longo das mesas em seus múltiplos aspectos. Os trabalhos apresentados também buscaram situar o Brasil no contexto de crise do capitalismo global, além de traçarem um paralelo da situação brasileira com a de alguns países da América Latina, em especial com a Argentina.