Author: Steven C. Ward
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: truth, reconfiguring
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 1996-08
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0847682609
ISBN-13: 9780847682607

This refreshingly original book links the postmodern critique of notions such as "reality" and "truth" with approaches to knowledge found in science and technology studies (STS), a field also discontent with traditional epistemology. Exploring STS approaches to knowledge, such as actor-network theory, Ward forges a path through the impasse of the modernism vs. postmodernism debate. "Reconfiguring Knowledge" is an important work for social scientists and theorists, philosophers, historians, and scholars of science and technology.

Author: Michael Hanagan
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: states, reconfiguring, citizenship, extending
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 1999-01-14
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0847691284
ISBN-13: 9780847691289

Citizenship has come under intense discussion recently because of threats to welfare and shifting immigration policies. The European Union has opened transnational citizenship rights and fledgling democracies throughout the world are struggling to establish their own versions of citizenship. "Extending Citizenship, Reconfiguring States" connects all these current discussions and places them in historical perspective. The book presents a thematically unified analysis of changing citizenship practices over two centuries-from the eve of the French Revolution to contemporary China. Showing how rig

Author: Bertrand Maitre
Publisher: Economic and Social Reseach Institute (ESRI)
Keywords: poverty, ireland, consistent, deprivation, measurement, reconfiguring
Number of Pages: 49
Published: 2006-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0707002451
ISBN-13: 9780707002453

Author: Leigh Ann Wheeler
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Pre
Keywords: american, political, history, reconfiguring, america, reform, politics, womanhood, obscenity
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2007-02-28
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0801886384
ISBN-13: 9780801886386

Radio "shock jocks," Super Bowl entertainment, music videos, and internet spam -- all of these topics inspire passionate disagreements about whether and how to regulate sexually explicit material. But even in the midst of heated debate, most people agree that children should be shielded from exposure to pornographic images. Why are children the focal point of debates over sexually explicit material? And how did a culture rooted in Puritanism and Victorianism become saturated with sex? In Against Obscenity, Leigh Ann Wheeler offers new answers to these questions through a study of women’s

Author: Daniel R. Schwarz
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: modern, art, literature, relationship, modernism, explorations, reconfiguring
Number of Pages: 244
Published: 1997-09-15
List price: $42.00
ISBN-10: 0312126603
ISBN-13: 9780312126605

Reconfiguring Modernism explores the relationship between modern literature and modern art. Spanning the high modernist period between the late-nineteenth century and World War 2, the cultural interrelationships between painters such as Manet, Gauguin, Cezanne, and Picasso, and writers such as James, Conrad, Eliot and Joyce are explored. The influence of African, Asian and Pacific cultures on European modernism is also examined. Schwarz considers texts - visual and written - of the modern period as a contoured textual field without absolute borders, crucial to our understanding of modernism in

Author: Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: american, identity, reconfiguring, political, history, african, power, radical, politics, black
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2005-05-05
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0801882753
ISBN-13: 9780801882753

In the 1960s, the Nation of Islam and the Black Panther Party gave voice to many economically disadvantaged and politically isolated African Americans, especially outside the South. Though vilified as extremist and marginal, they were formidable agents of influence and change during the civil rights era and ultimately shaped the Black Power movement. In this fresh study, drawing on deep archival research and interviews with key participants, Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar reconsiders the commingled stories of -- and popular reactions to -- the Nation of Islam, Black Panthers, and mainstream civil rights

Author: Konrad H. Jarausch
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Keywords: german, studies, series, association, vol, modern, reconfiguring, identities, unity
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 1997-09
List price: $16.50
ISBN-10: 1571810412
ISBN-13: 9781571810410

After the fall of the Wall revealed the precariousness of GDR loyalties and precipitated the rush to unity, the enlarged Federal Republic can no longer be considered a provisional construct; it is forced to rethink its own role and purpose as a nation-state. In order to probe this new uncertainty and to explore the consequences of unification for German politics, history and culture, political scientists, historians and literary scholars have come together in this volume to focus on the main issues of the current debate such as the shadow of the Nazi past, the threat of xenophobia, new regiona