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Recent America: The United States Since 1945 (Third Edition)
by Dewey Grantham Thomas Maxwell-LongThis third edition of "Recent America" is an extensive revision that includes entirely new material to carry the coverage forward into the second decade of the twenty-first century--right up through the recent midterm elections of 2010. With an emphasis on national politics, the ever-evolving multicultural American society, the role of the United States in international affairs, and economic trends, this third considers changes in American literature, fine arts, music, film, pop culture, and sports and their relationships to social, cultural, and economic trends. The incorporation of these often overlooked historical themes presents a more relevant and inclusive recent history of the United States. Building upon the tradition set forth by Dewey Grantham in the first and second editions of his highly readable and informative survey history of the United States since World War II, Thomas Maxwell-Long brings new perspectives and explores new realities that Americans did not face even as recently as the turn of the century. The result provides students with an engaging, well-rounded, and thoughtfully illustrated narrative that reconstructs history and also makes strong connections between the present and the past.
Recent Developments in Chinese Urban Planning
by Qisheng Pan Jason CaoThis book provides a comprehensive overview of the most recent development of Chinese cities. It discusses a broad range of subjects of urban planning, including environmental planning, transportation planning, historical preservation, economic development, geographic information systems (GIS) and other technological applications. China, the most populous country in the world, has experienced unprecedented urbanization in a relatively short period. During the past decades, urbanization in China has centered on land development through industrialization and investment, but it has largely ignored the prosperity and well-being of the people. Livable cities are not just those with magnificent buildings and infrastructure; they are great places where people want to live. China's recently inaugurated leaders have proposed a new model to actively and prudently enhance the quality of urbanization through compact, intelligent, and low-carbon development. It symbolizes the departure from land-centered urban development to a form of people-oriented urbanization, as China's Premier, Li Keqiang, has advocated. This new model offers a platform for planning researchers and practitioners to tackle urbanization challenges, such as social equity, environment, energy, ecological and historic preservation, affordable housing, and externalities of mega cities. Furthermore, people-oriented urbanization calls for public participation and stakeholder engagement in the planning process. This book brings together planners, designers, scholars, scientists, and government officials from China and all over the world to exchange ideas on urban regeneration.
Recent Developments in Chinese Urban Planning: Selected Papers from the 8th International Association for China Planning Conference, Guangzhou, China, June 21 - 22, 2014 (GeoJournal Library #114)
by Qisheng Pan Jason CaoThis book provides a comprehensive overview of the most recent development of Chinese cities. It discusses a broad range of subjects of urban planning, including environmental planning, transportation planning, historical preservation, economic development, geographic information systems (GIS) and other technological applications. China, the most populous country in the world, has experienced unprecedented urbanization in a relatively short period. During the past decades, urbanization in China has centered on land development through industrialization and investment, but it has largely ignored the prosperity and well-being of the people. Livable cities are not just those with magnificent buildings and infrastructure; they are great places where people want to live. China’s recently inaugurated leaders have proposed a new model to actively and prudently enhance the quality of urbanization through compact, intelligent, and low-carbon development. It symbolizes the departure from land-centered urban development to a form of people-oriented urbanization, as China’s Premier, Li Keqiang, has advocated. This new model offers a platform for planning researchers and practitioners to tackle urbanization challenges, such as social equity, environment, energy, ecological and historic preservation, affordable housing, and externalities of mega cities. Furthermore, people-oriented urbanization calls for public participation and stakeholder engagement in the planning process. This book brings together planners, designers, scholars, scientists, and government officials from China and all over the world to exchange ideas on urban regeneration.
Recent Developments in the South China Sea Dispute: The Prospect of a Joint Development Regime
by Wu Shicun Hong NongThe South China Sea region contains potentially huge deposits of petroleum and natural gas, important shipping lanes and fishing areas, and is subject to a number of maritime territorial disputes. This edited volume analyzes the most recent development in the South China Sea dispute looking at the positions taken by China, the ASEAN countries, and the US. In recent years maritime joint development zones have emerged as an important means to overcome deadlock in relation to maritime jurisdictional claims. This book tests the applicability of joint development regime in this region and explores the prospect of joint development of resources as a way to successfully manage the conflict in the South China Sea. Eminent scholars in the field of South China Sea studies have contributed original chapters to the volume covering such issues as: the legal framework for joint development; how joint development might work in practice; the challenges faced by and the prospects arising from joint development; and the way forward for the region.
Recent Health Policy Innovations in Social Security (International Social Security Ser. #Vol. 5)
by Aviva Ron Xenia Scheil-AdlungThe debate about health care reform has gone on for many years. The debate has generated often innovative ideas for reform that transcend national boundaries. For example, proposals have been made for an extension of health insurance with a framework of social protection; progressive development of funding methods; controls on expenditure; bringing benefits into line with what is actually needed; and the application of technological advances.The book concentrates on health insurance policy innovations in selected countries in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. In addition this book addresses recent institutional economic findings with regard to application of information technology in health insurance systems. Topics discussed include: new approaches in extending coverage in a health insurance system, confronting resource scarcity: innovative strategies, refining benefits to meet current needs, new institutional and administrative frameworks, and transformation through information technology systems. Many of the innovations presented here have already been integrated into existing reforms and the authors refer to concrete developments in individual countries and regions. This book presents those important innovations to social health insurance systems in industrialized and developing countries that have been brought forward in recent years and, as far as possible, already evaluated. In doing so, the intention is to show developments that are valid for more than one country and could have long term impact on health insurance systems. This book is intended to promote deeper exchanges of experience between differing regions, countries, and health insurance systems. In this way it will stimulate ideas for politicians and practitioners, scientists and other experts.
Recent Perspectives on Early Childhood Education in Canada
by Nina Howe Larry ProchnerEarly childhood education is critical for preparing children for success in formal school settings, and as such, is a major concern throughout the world. This volume brings together ground-breaking research in this area to help practitioners, students, policy makers, curriculum designers, and intervention program developers understand the latest ideas and advances in the field.Recent Perspectives of Early Childhood Education and Care in Canada centres on three key themes. The first provides a survey of historical, social policy, economic, and provincial regulations and policies related to early childhood education and care. The second focuses on issues related to children's learning, curriculum, and teachers. The final theme addresses recent developments in government involvement in early childhood education and care that are unique to Canada. The contributors to this volume demonstrate the pressing need that exists to further public discussion on early childhood education to help policymakers shape better decisions for Canadian families.
Recentering Africa in International Relations: Beyond Lack, Periphery And Failure
by Zubairu Wai Marta Iñiguez de HerediaThis innovative book responds to an existing demand for taking Africa out of a place of exception and marginality, and placing it at the center of international relations and world politics. Bringing together a number of scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds to stage a critical intervention into the problematic ways Africa is accounted for in the dominant discourses of international relations and global politics, it challenges the structural and epistemic biases of IR that render the contributions of the continent invisible, and situates the continent as a global region that exists beyond notions of lack, disorder, and failure. Through these interventions, the volume contributes to a rethinking of IR, and the conditions of possibility for imagining a world otherwise beyond frames that fetishize Africa paradoxically as transparent and invisible.
Recentering Pacific Asia: Regional China and World Order
by Brantly WomackThe Pacific Rim of Asia – Pacific Asia – is now the world's largest and most cohesive economic region, and China has returned to its center. China's global outlook is shaped by its regional experience, first as a pre-modern Asian center, then displaced by Western-oriented modernization, and now returning as a central producer and market in a globalized region. Developments since 2008 have been so rapid that future directions are uncertain, but China's presence, population, and production guarantee it a key role. As a global competitor, China has awakened American anxieties and the US-China rivalry has become a major concern for the rest of the world. However, rather than facing a power transition between hegemons, the US and China are primary nodes in a multi-layered, interconnected global matrix that neither can control. Brantly Womack argues that Pacific Asia is now the key venue for working out a new world order.
Recently Acceded Members of the World Trade Organization: Membership, the Doha Development Agenda, and Dispute Settlement
by Kenji TakamiyaThe book sheds light on trade policies of developing economies that joined the multilateral trading system after establishment of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995, once known as the recently acceded members (RAMs). Its detailed case studies on Georgia, the People’s Republic of China, Viet Nam and Ecuador examine their engagement in accession and Doha Round negotiations and, where relevant, dispute settlement at the WTO. Using the economic theories of trade agreements and negotiations as a guide for intellectual inquiries, this book assesses motivations accounting for the RAMs’ evolving behaviors in the multilateral trading system. The first two chapters present background and overview, followed by four chapters on country-specific case studies. The book is concluded with the last chapter that provides one possible explanation of why the Doha Round has been faced with deadlocks while accession and dispute settlement have been working effectively.
Recentralisation in Colombia (Executive Politics and Governance)
by Julián D. López-MurciaThis book tackles the question of how to characterise and account for recentralisation in Colombia between central and lower levels of government across a 26-year period. Around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has once again put the distribution of responsibilities, resources, and authority between different levels of government at the heart of political debate. This book brings this issue to light as a topic central to the study of public administration.Drawing on extensive fi eldwork with more than a hundred interviews with former presidents, ministers, members of congress, governors, local mayors and subnational public offi cials, as well as documentary sources, it begins with a historical account of recentralisation processes in the world. It then proposes a theoretical framework to explain these processes, before tracing and carefully comparing recentralisation episodes in Colombia using theory-guided process tracing.
The Reception of Paul the Apostle in the Works of Slavoj Žižek (Radical Theologies and Philosophies)
by Ole Jakob LølandThis is the first book devoted entirely to exploring Žižek's peculiar kind of Paulinism. It seeks to provide a full map of the Marxist philosopher’s interpretations of Paul and critically engage with it. As one of several radical leftists of European critical thought, Žižek embraces the legacy of an ancient apostle in fascinating ways. This work considers Žižek's philosophical and political readings of Paul through the lens of reception history, and argues that through this recent philosophical turn to Paul, notions of the historical and philosophical are reproduced and negotiated anew.
Reception of Soft and Sharp Powers: Turkey’s Civilizational Populist TV Dramas in Pakistan
by Ihsan Yilmaz Kainat ShakilThis book examines the projection of soft and sharp powers through the Turkish civilizational populist TV series "Resurrection: Ertugrul" and its reception in Pakistan. By analyzing the content of the series, elite responses, interviews with ordinary Pakistanis, and Pakistani cyberspace, the book argues that beyond soft power, the show exerts Turkey’s sharp power transnationally, through themes of authoritarianism, violence, warfare, desire for killing and dying, Islamist collective victimhood, conspiracy theories and anti-Christian sentiments. The book contributes to the literatures on sharp power, populism, and authoritarianism.
Recess: Its Role in Education and Development (Developing Mind Series)
by Anthony D. PellegriniWriting a book about recess could be a very questionable endeavor for a serious academic psychologist. At first blush it seems to be a pretty trivial topic. It's the time during the school day where there's a break from what's typically considered the most serious work of the day--reading, writing, and arithmetic. Reflecting this trivial tenor, it's also that time of the school day that kids--perhaps only half jokingly--say is their favorite part of school. This perception has lead many schools to question the role of recess in the school day. This book is an attempt to broach two views of recess--the perceived value of recess and the movement to eliminate or reduce the school recess period from the primary school day. Due to tightened school budgets and the emphasis on testing, many elementary schools eliminate recess, gym classes, and play periods to the developmental detriment of the very children the schools are supposed to serve. Author Anthony Pellegrini has conducted a number of careful studies regarding student attentiveness and performance within programs that have recess periods, and those that don't. The data show that students need recess in order to blow off energy and interact with each other in the unstructured recess environment in order to grow socially. The goal of Recess is to help readers realize the importance of recess and counter the trend to eliminate it from schools. This book appeals to academics, teachers, administrators, and parents.
Recession at Work: HRM in the Irish Crisis (Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies #55)
by Bill Roche Paul Teague Anne Coughlan Majella FahyHow has the recession affected the conduct of human resource management? How have HR departments and managers fared? Have leading firms taken measures to sustain and revive their businesses through innovative HR measures? How have union representation and influence been affected? Is the recession reshaping work and employment practices? These are among the questions answered in Recession at Work, the first systematic study in Europe to deal with the effects of the economic crisis on people at work. Drawing on survey data for Ireland provided by nearly 500 managers responsible for human resources, on focus groups of HR managers and trade union officials, and on detailed case studies of six major firms, the book provides an unrivalled picture of the effects of the current recession on how people are managed and how they are represented by trade unions. Examining the effects of the Irish recession on work and employment in the context of international experience and commentary, this book provides detailed information and analysis on the ways in which firms have sought to handle the challenges that have arisen since the severe reverse in Ireland’s economic fortunes in 2008.
Recessional: The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch
by David MametIn RECESSIONAL David Mamet calls out, skewers, mocks, and, most importantly, dissects the virus of conformity which is now an existential threat to the West. A broad-ranging journey through history, the Bible, and literature, RECESSIONAL examines how politics and cultural attitudes about rebellion have shifted in the United States in the last generation. <p><p>By screaming down freedom of thought and expression, Mamet explains, we kill invention and democracy – the foundations of security and growth. A wickedly funny, wistful and wry appeal to the free-thinking citizen, RECESSIONAL is a vital warning that if we don’t confront the cultural thuggery now, the commissars and their dupes will transform the Land of the Free into the dictatorship at which they aim. <p> <b>New York Times Bestseller</b>
Recht auf Liebe: Eine Diskursanalyse über die gleichgeschlechtliche Ehe in Deutschland (Theorie und Praxis der Diskursforschung)
by Sabine Exner-KrikorianSabine Exner-Krikorian untersucht in dieser Studie den Diskurs über die gleichgeschlechtliche Ehe in Deutschland von 1998 bis 2017. Sie geht der Frage nach, wie zeitgenössische religiöse, politische und gesellschaftliche Akteur*innen um die Deutungshoheit von Ehe wetteifern. Im Detail wird gezeigt, dass die Diskursakteur*innen in diesem Aushandlungsprozess die Prämisse einer angenommenen Moderne, die Dichotomie religiös/säkular sowie Narrative von und über Religion(en) als diskursive Strategien einsetzen. Eingebettet ist die Analyse in eine historische Rekonstruktion der Ehe seit der Reformation als Deutungs- und Machtkampf politischer und religiöser Akteur*innen. Mit einem zeit-, akteurs- und arenaspezifischen Ansatz verknüpft die Autorin methodologisch die Wissenssoziologische Diskursanalyse (WDA) nach Reiner Keller mit einem religionswissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisinteresse.
recht extrem? Dynamiken in zivilgesellschaftlichen Räumen
by Julian Sehmer Stephanie Simon Jennifer Ten Elsen Felix ThieleDer Band stellt sich der Herausforderung, Erkenntnisse zu Rechtsextremismus und -populismus über einen Zugang zu zivilgesellschaftlichen Räumen, Dynamiken und Akteur*innen zu erweitern und zu systematisieren. Dabei bietet der Band eine Einführung grundlegender Verständigungen zu den Themenkomplexen Zivilgesellschaft, Rechtsextremismus und Rechtspopulismus, um sich daran anschließend den Analysen von Dynamiken in einzelnen (zivil-)gesellschaftlichen Räumen, über diese hinweg und in Bezug auf Erziehung, Bildung und Soziale Arbeit zuzuwenden. Aus unterschiedlichen disziplinären Perspektiven (Politikwissenschaft, Erziehungswissenschaft, Soziale Arbeit, Soziologie, Sprachwissenschaften und Theologie) werden rechte Dynamiken, Narrative und Diskursverschiebungen analysiert und Gegenstrategien diskutiert.
Rechte Akteure im Betrieb: Sechs EU-Länder im Vergleich
by Seongcheol Kim Samuel Greef Wolfgang SchroederDieses Buch ist die erste vergleichende Studie über rechte Kommunikations- und Organisierungsbestrebungen auf betrieblicher Ebene sowie gewerkschaftliche Gegenreaktionen. Im Rahmen eines europäischen Sechs-Länder-Vergleichs (Belgien, Deutschland, Frankreich, Italien, Polen, Ungarn), der auch eine Betriebsfallstudie für jedes Land umfasst, wird eine Klassifikation rechter Aktivitäten und gewerkschaftlicher Reaktionen herausgearbeitet. Der Band beruht auf einem in Zusammenarbeit mit Gewerkschaften durchgeführten Forschungsprojekt und damit auf einem Theorie-Praxis-Dialog zu diesem hochaktuellen Thema.
Rechtliche Freiheit: Politik und Recht in der kategorialen Wahrnehmung (Politische Bildung)
by Julia NeuhofJulia Neuhof zeigt, dass Komplexität und Unübersichtlichkeit politisch-rechtlicher Entwicklungen in der modernen Gesellschaft über eine kategorial orientierte politische Bildung vermittelbar sein können. Die Voraussetzungen hierfür werden in einer qualitativen Studie zu der Wahrnehmung rechtlicher Freiheit mit Schülerinnen erfasst. So existieren thematisch vielfältige Kategorisierungen der Lernenden. Für diese lassen sich auf dem politikdidaktisch tradierten Weg kategorialer Bildung Anschlüsse an sozialwissenschaftliche Begriffe zur Deutung politisch-rechtlicher Realität schaffen. Darüber hinaus bestehen jedoch Wahrnehmungshindernisse in der kategorialen Erschließung, die neue politikdidaktische Lehr-Lern-Strategien erforderlich machen. Wie diese aussehen können, wird von der Autorin im Kontext politisch-rechtlichen Lernens vorgeschlagen.
Rechtsextremismus, Demokratiebildung, gesellschaftliche Integration: Interdisziplinäre Debatten und Forschungsbilanzen
by Andreas Beelmann Danny MichelsenDer Band präsentiert aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse des Zentrums für Rechtsextremismusforschung, Demokratiebildung und gesellschaftliche Integration (KomRex) der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. Im ersten Teil werden neben Analysen zum Thema Rechtsextremismus und Radikalisierung aktuelle Befunde der politischen Einstellungsforschung vorgestellt, die u. a. auf Daten des jährlich durchgeführten Thüringen-Monitors basieren. Der zweite Teil fragt nach Grundlagen für eine zeitgemäße Demokratiepädagogik und Extremismusprävention sowie nach den Voraussetzungen für eine erfolgreiche Integration von Migrant*innen.
Rechtsextremismus in Deutschland: Eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme
by Armin Pfahl-TraughberGegenwärtig ist viel vom „Rechtsruck“ die Rede. Doch in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland hat es immer auch Rechtsextremismus gegeben. Die aktuellen Entwicklungen sollten daher im Kontext der Vergangenheit gesehen werden. Das vorliegende Buch versteht sich sowohl als Einführung wie als Überblicksdarstellung dazu. Es werden die zentralen Begriffe definiert und konkretisiert sowie die Ideologieelemente und -familien erläutert und unterschieden. Der inhaltlichen Kern besteht aus einer Darstellung und Einschätzung der Entwicklung des parteiförmigen und kulturellen, aktionsorientierten und organisationsförmigen, subkulturellen und bewegungsförmigen, gewalttätigen und terroristischen Rechtsextremismus. Dabei werden auch die AfD, die Neue Rechte oder Pegida als neue Phänomene behandelt und eingeschätzt. Außerdem stehen die rechtsextremistischen Einstellungen in der Gesellschaft mit im Zentrum. Und dann werden die Erklärungsansätze noch beschreibend dargestellt und kritisch erörtert. All dies mündet in einer bilanzierenden Gefahrenpotentialeinschätzung
Rechtsextremismus in Schule, Unterricht und Lehrkräftebildung (Edition Rechtsextremismus)
by Jan Schedler Sabine Achour Gabi Elverich Annemarie JordanSchule kommt eine Schlüsselfunktion in der Auseinandersetzung mit dem Rechtsextremismus zu. In ihrem bildungspolitischen Auftrag kann Schule nicht neutral sein. Sie hat die Aufgabe, pluralistische, demokratische und menschenrechtsorientierte Haltungen und Werte zu vermitteln. Dieser Band gibt einen Überblick über das Thema Rechtsextremismus und Schule sowie Verweise auf praktische Handlungsperspektiven. Neben einer Bestandsaufnahme schulischer Ansätze zur Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema Rechtsextremismus wird auch die Lehrkräftebildung in den Blick genommen.
Rechtspopulismus: Überblick über Theorie und Praxis (essentials)
by Tanja WolfZiel dieses essential ist, das Ph#65533;nomen des Rechtspopulismus mittels konkreter Begriffsdefinition, zentraler Merkmale und ausgew#65533;hlter Fallbeispiele pr#65533;zise und leicht verst#65533;ndlich zu erkl#65533;ren. Die Diskussion um die Findung einer einheitlichen Definition sowie die fr#65533;hesten populistischen Bewegungen, wie etwa die People's Party, werden beschrieben um das Verst#65533;ndnis f#65533;r das Konzept des (Rechts-)populismus und seine Grenzen zu sch#65533;rfen. Verschiedene typische Charakteristika wie das spezielle Verh#65533;ltnis zu den Medien oder der charismatische Anf#65533;hrer sollen den Blick f#65533;r populistische Ph#65533;nomene in der heutigen Zeit kl#65533;ren und die Analyse der beiden Fallbeispiele PVV und AfD, sowie ihre spezifischen Eigenheiten leichter nachvollziehbar machen.
Rechtspopulismus in Deutschland: Wahlverhalten in Zeiten politischer Polarisierung
by Heinz Ulrich Brinkmann Karl-Heinz ReubandWelchen Stellenwert haben soziökonomische, politische und kulturelle Faktoren für rechtspopulistischen Protest und die Wahl der AfD? Welchen Einfluss nehmen regionale Lebensbedingungen und Sozialisationsprozesse? Und wie sehr wirkt die „Flüchtlingskrise“ ein, selbst nachdem sie aus dem Blickpunkt der Öffentlichkeit gerückt ist? Auf der Basis neuer empirischer Befunde und Analysen werden in dem vorliegenden Band Prozesse und Potentiale gesellschaftlicher Polarisierung untersucht und neue Perspektiven eröffnet.
Rechtsterrorismus: Radikale Milieus, Politische Gelegenheitsstrukturen und Framing am Beispiel des NSU (Bürgergesellschaft und Demokratie)
by Jan SchedlerDer „Nationalsozialistische Untergrund“ (NSU) ermordete bis zu seiner Selbstaufdeckung 2011 zehn Menschen und verletzte zahlreiche weitere. Zwischen 1999 und 2011 verübte die Gruppe zehn Mordanschläge und drei Sprengstoffanschläge. Während die Bundesanwaltschaft im NSU-Prozess das Bild eines isolierten und nur von einzelnen Neonazis unterstützten Trios zeichnete, dem auch das Gericht in seinem Urteil folgte, zeichnet diese Studie ein verzweigtes Netzwerk nach und betont die Rolle der neonazistischen Bewegung bei der Entstehung, Radikalisierung und Unterstützung des NSU. Unter Rückgriff auf Ansätze aus der Forschung zu sozialen Bewegungen wird neben der Bedeutung radikaler Milieus auch die gesellschaftlicher Kontextbedingungen herausgearbeitet. Zu diesen Gelegenheitsstrukturen zählen etwa das Protest Policing, insbesondere die Vertrauenspersonenpraxis der Verfassungsschutzämter, oder der Asyldiskurs in den frühen 1990er Jahren. Auf der Grundlage von empirischem Material aus der neonazistischen Bewegung wird zusätzlich der bewegungsinterne Gewaltdiskurs untersucht und die diskursive Konstruktion von Deutungs- und Handlungsrahmen in Bewegung und radikalen Milieus und ihre Bedeutung für die Gewaltpraxis des NSU analysiert. Damit zeigt diese Studie Perspektiven für die Erforschung des Rechtsterrorismus auf, die auch unabhängig vom NSU relevant sind.