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The politics of ethnicity in Central Europe

Obrazy
Autor
ed. by Karl Cordell
Place of publication
Basingstoke

Publisher

Publication date
2000
Table of Contents

Acknowlegements ix
Prefatory Remarks x
Place-Names xi
Notes on Contributors . . xix
Chronology of Silesia . . xxi
Maps . . xxiii-xxix
Introduction . . 1

1 Nationalism and the Nation-State in Central Europe . . 6
2 Ethnic Conflict and Conciliation in Central Europe Today . . 26
3 The Germans and Central Europe in the Pre-Modern Era . . 50
4 Silesia and the Dawning of the Modern Era . . 66
5 Upper Silesia 1918-45 . . 92
6 Polish and Czech Silesia under Communist Rule: A Comparison . . 131
7 The Articulation of Identity in Silesia since 1989 . . 161
8 The Future of Silesia . . 188


Conclusion . . 204
Index . . 208

Body piercing and identity construction : a comparative perspective - New York, New Orleans, Wrocław

Obrazy
Autor
Lisiunia A. Romanienko
Place of publication
Basingstoke

Publisher

Publication date
2011
Table of Contents

List of Images, Figures, and Tables . . ix
Preface . . xi

1 Nonverbal Communication . . 1
2 Verbal Communication . . 13
3 Bohemian Network . . 33
4 Ideological Apparatus . . 51
5 Economic Contestation . . 65
6 Digital Contestation . . 95
7 Biker Contestation . . 117
8 Sexual Sabotage . . 131
9 Political Sabotage . . 141
10 Aesthetic Sabotage . . 163
11 Organic Sabotage . . 189

Notes . . 223
References . . 233
Index . . 251

Germany, Poland and the Common Security and Defence Policy : converging security and defence perspectives in an enlarged EU

Obrazy
Autor
Laura Chappell
Place of publication
Basingstoke

Publisher

Publication date
2012
Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables . . viii
List of Abbreviations . . ix
Acknowledgements . . xi

1 Introducing Germany, Poland and the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) . . 1
2 Constructing an Analytical Framework . . 14
3 The Development of German and Polish Strategic Cultures . . 35
4 German and Polish Roles and the CSDP . . 68
5 Germany, Poland and the European Security Strategy: Analysing Continuity and Change . . 109
6 Developing the EU Battlegroup Concept: The Perceptions and Contributions of Germany and Poland . . 138
7 Conclusion . . 170

Notes . . 199
References . . 206
Index . . 228

Series
(New Perspectives in German Political Studies)

Culture, health, and religion at the millennium : Sweden unparadised

Obrazy
Autor
edited by Marie Demker, Yvonne Leffler, and Ola Sigurdson
Place of publication
Basingstoke

Publisher

Publication date
2014
Table of Contents

Introduction: How Gloomy Is Sweden at the Millennium? . . 1

1. Hygiene as Metaphor: On Metaphorization, Racial Hygiene, and the Swedish Ideals of Modernity . . 19
2. From Shared Resources to Shared Values . . 51
3. "It's Not about Religion, but about Manipulation": Polemical Discourse against Sects and Cults in Sweden . . 77
4. Something Happened, but What?: On Roy Andersson's Cinematic Critique of the Development of the Welfare State . . 9
5. Sex and Sin in a Multicultural Sweden . . 133
6. Chick Lit as Healing and Self-Help Manual? . . 155

Bibliography . . 183
Notes on Contributors . . 195
Index of Names . . 197

Gaming in social, locative, and mobile media

Obrazy
Autor
Larissa Hjorth, Ingrid Richardson
Place of publication
Basingstoke

Publisher

Publication date
2014
Table of Contents

List of Figures . . vi
Acknowledgements . . vii

1 Introduction . . 1

Section I Mobile Media Games
2 The Histories of Mobile Media and Mobile Gaming . . 17
3 Locating the Mobile: The Unruly and Ambiguous Rise of Mobile Gaming . . 30
4 Reconceptualising Casual Play .  43

Section II Locative Media and Games
5 Ambient Play . . 59
6 Locating the Game: Location-Based Services (LBSs) and Playful Visualities  . . 76
7 Co-presence Cafe Cultures: Kakao, Games, and Camera Phone Photo-Sharing in Seoul, South Korea . . 92

Section III Social, Locative, and Mobile: New Cartographies of Gaming and Play
8 Social Media, Facebook Games, and Fantasy Sport . . 111
9 Locating Home: Cross-generational Play and Co-presence . . 126
10 Games and Cultural Play . . 139
11 Beyond the Casual: Situating Ambient and Cultural Play . . 153

References . . 162
Index . . 178

Deportation and the confluence of violence within forensic mental health and immigration systems

Obrazy
Autor
Ameil J. Joseph
Place of publication
Basingstoke

Publisher

Publication date
2015
Table of Contents

List of Figures . . ix
Acknowledgments . . x

1 Introduction: Outlining the Problem - The Confluence of Mental Health, Criminal Justice, and Immigration in the Authorization of Deportation . . 1
2 The Necessity of an Attention to Colonization: An Addition to Mental Health Literature . . 18
3 The Canadian Forensic Mental Health System: An Overview . . 43
4 Conceptualizing the Violence of Deportation at the Confluence of Criminal Justice, Mental Health, and Immigration Systems . . 55
5 Colonial Continuities and Colonial Technologies of Difference . . 83
6 A Postcolonial Document Analysis of Confluence . . 113
7 Historical Data - Archival Artifacts: Deportation and the Enforcement of Undesirability . . 124
8 Case Studies - The Appeals Division of the IRB: Stories of Resistance . . 146
9 Confluence: The Untreatable, the Unrehabilitatable, and the Undeserving Alien . . 157
10 Conclusion: (Re)Producing (Neo)Colonial Relations of Authority and Racial and Eugenic Systems of Violence . . 227

Appendix: Correspondence from Citizenship and Immigration Canada Regarding the Identification of People by the CBSA for Removal/Deportation . . 232

Notes . . 234
References . . 239
Index . . 253

The failure of Italian nationhood : the geopolitics of a troubled identity

Obrazy
Autor
Manlio Graziano ; [translated to English by Brian Knowlton]
Place of publication
Basingstoke

Publisher

Publication date
2013
Table of Contents

Preface to the English Edition . . ix
Introduction to the English Edition . . xi
Introduction . . 1
Foreword: The "Original Sin" . . 13

Part I: The Original Characteristics
1 How Premature Development Became a Factor of Backwardness . . 27
2 The Phantom Nation . . 35
3 The Northern Question . . 43
4 Inventing Ancestors . . 49
5 The Unhappy Consciousness of Italian Development . . 55
6 A Culture without a Nation . . 61
7 The Difficult Italianization of the Piedmont . . 69
8 The Difficult Piedmontization of Italy . . 75
9 The Moderate Social Bloc . . 81

Part II: The Permanencies
10 Transformism . . 91
11 Internationalization Crises and Transformism . . 99
12 Emerging Sectors and Transformism . . 105
13 The Southern Question . . 111

Part III: Identity and Sovereignty
14 A Counter-Reformist Identity . . 121
15 A Civil "Guelph" Religion . . 129
16 The Quest for a Civil Italian Religion . . 137
17 A Petit-Bourgeois Fatherland . . 145
18 A Country of Limited Sovereignty . . 153
19 Identity and Development . . 161
20 The Failure of "Democratic Nationalization" . . 167
21 Italian Metamorphoses . . 177
22 Between Europe and the Mediterranean . . 183
23 The Intel-nationalization Crisis of the 1990s . . 1992

Conclusion . . 199
Biographies . . 203
Notes . . 217
References . . 249
Index . . 259

Series
(Italian and Italian American Studies)