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Warfare in African History
by Richard J. ReidThis book examines the role of war in shaping the African state, society, and economy. Richard J. Reid helps students understand different patterns of military organization through Africa's history; the evolution of weaponry, tactics, and strategy; and the increasing prevalence of warfare and militarism in African political and economic systems. He traces shifts in the culture and practice of war from the first millennium into the era of the external slave trades, and then into the nineteenth century, when a military revolution unfolded across much of Africa. The repercussions of that revolution, as well as the impact of colonial rule, continue to this day. The frequency of coups d'états and civil war in Africa's recent past is interpreted in terms of the continent's deeper past.
Warfare in the American Homeland: Policing and Prison in a Penal Democracy
by Joy JamesThe United States has more than two million people locked away in federal, state, and local prisons. Although most of the U. S. population is non-Hispanic and white, the vast majority of the incarcerated--and policed--is not. In this compelling collection, scholars, activists, and current and former prisoners examine the sensibilities that enable a penal democracy to thrive. Some pieces are new to this volume; others are classic critiques of U. S. state power. Through biography, diary entries, and criticism, the contributors collectively assert that the United States wages war against enemies abroad and against its own people at home. Contributors consider the interning or policing of citizens of color, the activism of radicals, structural racism, destruction and death in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, and the FBI Counterintelligence Program designed to quash domestic dissent. Among the first-person accounts are an interview with Dhoruba Bin Wahad, a Black Panther and former political prisoner; a portrayal of life in prison by a Plowshares nun jailed for her antinuclear and antiwar activism; a discussion of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement by one of its members, now serving a seventy-year prison sentence for sedition; and an excerpt from a 1970 letter by the Black Panther George Jackson chronicling the abuses of inmates in California's Soledad Prison. Warfare in the American Homeland also includes the first English translation of an excerpt from a pamphlet by Michel Foucault and others. They argue that the 1971 shooting of George Jackson by prison guards was a murder premeditated in response to human-rights and justice organizing by black and brown prisoners and their supporters. Contributors. Hishaam Aidi, Dhoruba Bin Wahad (Richard Moore), Marilyn Buck, Marshall Eddie Conway, Susie Day, Daniel Defert, Madeleine Dwertman, Michel Foucault, Carol Gilbert, Sirne Harb, Rose Heyer, George Jackson, Joy James, Manning Marable, William F. Pinar, Oscar Lpez Rivera, Dylan Rodrguez, Jared Sexton, Catherine vn Bulow, Laura Whitehorn, Frank B. Wilderson III
Warring Souls: Youth, Media, and Martyrdom in Post-Revolution Iran
by Roxanne VarziWith the first Fulbright grant for research in Iran to be awarded since the Iranian revolution in 1979, Roxanne Varzi returned to the country her family left before the Iran-Iraq war. Drawing on ethnographic research she conducted in Tehran between 1991 and 2000, she provides an eloquent account of the beliefs and experiences of young, middle-class, urban Iranians. As the first generation to have come of age entirely in the period since the founding of the Islamic Republic of Iran, twenty-something Iranians comprise a vital index of the success of the nation's Islamic Revolution. Varzi describes how, since 1979, the Iranian state has attempted to produce and enforce an Islamic public sphere by governing behavior and by manipulating images--particularly images related to religious martyrdom and the bloody war with Iraq during the 1980s--through films, murals, and television shows. Yet many of the young Iranians Varzi studied quietly resist the government's conflation of religious faith and political identity. Highlighting trends that belie the government's claim that Islamic values have taken hold--including rising rates of suicide, drug use, and sex outside of marriage--Varzi argues that by concentrating on images and the performance of proper behavior, the government's campaign to produce model Islamic citizens has affected only the appearance of religious orthodoxy, and that the strictly religious public sphere is partly a mirage masking a profound crisis of faith among many Iranians. Warring Souls is a powerful account of contemporary Iran made more vivid by Varzi's inclusion of excerpts from the diaries she maintained during her research and from journal entries written by Iranian university students with whom she formed a study group.
Warring with Words: Narrative and Metaphor in Politics (Claremont Symposium on Applied Social Psychology Series)
by Michael Hanne William D. Crano Jeffrey Scott MioScholars in many of the disciplines surrounding politics explicitly utilize either a narrative perspective or a metaphor perspective (though rarely the two in combination) to analyze issues -- theoretical and practical, domestic and international -- in the broad field of politics. Among the topics they have studied are: competing metaphors for the state or nation which have been coined over the centuries in diverse cultures; the frequency with which communal and international conflicts are generated, at least in part, by the clashing religious and historical narratives held by opposing groups; the cognitive short-cuts employing metaphor by which citizens make sense of politics; the need for political candidates to project a convincing self-narrative; the extent to which the metaphors used to formulate social issues determine the policies which will be developed to resolve them; the failure of narratives around the security of the nation to take account of the individual experiences of women and children. This volume is the first in which eminent scholars from disciplines as diverse as social psychology, anthropology, political theory, international relations, feminist political science, and media studies, have sought to integrate the narrative and the metaphor perspectives on politics. It will appeal to any scholar interested in the many ways in which narrative and metaphor function in combination as cognitive and rhetorical instruments in discourse around politics.
The Warrior and the Pacifist: Competing Motifs in Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
by Lester R. KurtzThis book looks at two contradictory ethical motifs—the warrior and the pacifist—across four major faith traditions—Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—and their role in shaping our understanding of violence and the morality of its use. The Warrior and the Pacifist explores how these faith traditions, which now mutually inhabit our life spaces, bring with them across the millennia the moral teachings that have traveled from prehistoric humanity, embedded in the beliefs, rituals, and institutions socially constructed by humans to deal with ultimate concerns, core aspects of daily personal and social life, and life transitions.
Warriors or Peacekeepers?: Building Military Cultural Competence
by Kjetil Enstad Paula Holmes-EberAs the past two decades of war in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Darfur and the Congo have revealed, war in the twenty-first century looks nothing like the traditional state-to-state conflicts of World Wars I and II which defined the previous century. Resolving today’s conflicts - typically based on complex ethnic, religious, economic and political dynamics - requires far more than mere military strength and technology. The military officer of today must simultaneously be a warrior and diplomat, combatant and humanitarian worker, soldier and peacekeeper. But how can today’s militaries prepare their leaders for such multifaceted roles? Warriors or Peacekeepers seeks to provide answers to this question, comparing and contrasting research on the successes and failures of military cultural education and training programs in seven different countries on three continents (U.S., Canada, Argentina Norway, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands). This anthology consists of three main sections. The first addresses the theoretical issues of developing the warrior-peacekeeper: what constitutes cultural competence in the officer profession and the pedagogical challenges associated with developing such competence. The second compares teaching practices from various military educational institutions and provides insight into such issues as: how language training can build cultural awareness, helping officers navigate the ethical and moral challenges of dealing with gender in radically different cultures and the best didactic models to develop reflective skills in military leaders. The third section examines the structural and organizational conditions which historically have aided or impeded educational and organizational change in the military. This book will appeal to military academic communities, educational institutions, scholars in security studies, peacekeeping and conflict studies; and to decision-makers in governments and administration.
The Wars of Afghanistan
by Peter TomsenThis revelatory, unprecedented, insiderOCOs account of AfghanistanOCOs history since the 1970s, and of U. S. involvement, is indispensable reading for anyone concerned about the current war"
The Wars We Inherit: Military Life, Gender Violence, and Memory
by Lori E. AmyBy combining personal memoir and critical analysis, Lori Amy links the violence we live in our homes to the violence that structures our larger culture. The Wars We Inherit brings insights from memory and trauma studies to the story of violence in the author's own family. In this brave, fascinating and compelling book, Amy concerns herself with the violence associated with the military, and how this institution of public, cultural violence, with its hypermasculinity, pervades society with physical, verbal, emotional and sexual aggression. She uses her war-veteran father to represent the chaotic and dehumanizing impact of war to show how violence is experienced and remembered. Amy provides examples that support the relationship between military structures and domestic violence, or how the sexual violence that permeates her family prompts debates about the nature of trauma and memory. In addition, Amy employs feminist psychoanalytic theory, cultural and trauma studies, and narrative theory, to explain how torture in Abu Ghraib is on a direct continuum with the ordinary violence inherent in our current systems of gender and nation. Placing individual experience in cultural context, Amy argues that "if we can begin, in our own lives, to transform the destructive ways that we have been shaped by violence, then we might begin to transform the cultural conditions that breed violence. "
Warsaw Housing Cooperative: City in Action (The Urban Book Series)
by Magdalena Matysek-ImielińskaThis book discusses the unknown and remote urban experiment of modernist social practices and dreams of a better tomorrow. It describes the history of the Warsaw Housing Cooperative not as a historical relic or a single case study, but instead analyses this working-class social housing estate – in itself an extremely interesting emancipatory project – from the perspective of contemporary urban studies.It focuses on issues related to the power of architecture, architects and the estate residents themselves: the city's performative actions, problems related to the polycentric character of the city authorities, the opportunities of building urban institutions, and social identities and urban common goods. Inspired by the history of the Warsaw Housing Cooperative, the book investigates how the estate residents, assisted by social reformers (today called urban activists), organised the urban space of performative democracy, and how they developed anti-capitalist, urban-survival strategies and created new lifestyles. It also analyses how passive tenants turned into active citizens claiming their right to the city.The inspiring book is intended for researchers in the field of performative studies, urban sociologists, critical urban studies researchers, animators of social life and urban activists.
Warum Achtsamkeit?: Coachingimpulse zur (Selbst-)Führung
by Nikola PlohrDas Buch folgt dem Anliegen, einen Dialog zu eröffnen und zum Nachdenken und Reflektieren anzuregen. Der Prozess, durch den das Buch die Leser*Innen leitet ist für alle geeignet, die sich mehr mit sich selbst und ihren inneren Mustern beschäftigen möchten und auch offen sind für neue Anregungen im Umgang mit anderen. Der Text führt von innen nach außen, aus der Theorie in die Praxis und aus der Reflexion ins Tun. Der erste Teil, Inner Leadership, widmet sich den vielschichtigen Möglichkeiten zur Selbstreflexion, die für das zeitgenössische Verständnis von Führung unabdinglich ist. Achtsamkeit hält als Praxis und Begriff den Raum für die Hinwendung zum Innenleben, den inneren Geschichtenerzähler*Innen, dem individuellen Umgang mit Kritik, Emotionen und dem allgegenwärtigen Streben nach Anerkennung. Im zweiten Teil wird die teambasierte Führungspraxis in den Fokus gerückt. Unter dem Schlagwort Mindful Leadership werden einige der vielen zwischenmenschlichen Ebenen und Verbindungen beleuchtet, die nicht nur das Arbeitsleben prägen. Darunter: Kommunikation, Inspiration, Mut, Entscheidungen, sowie Zugehörigkeit und Nachhaltigkeit. Jedes Kapitel endet mit Reflexionsfragen und Übungen, die aus der Theorie in die Praxis überleiten.
Warum der Spaß am Bösen ein Teil von uns ist
by Christoph KlotterIn der Auseinandersetzung mit de Sade und Freud erhält der Leser eine Anregung, die Geschichte des Bösen neu zu denken, das Böse als Teil des Menschen und seiner Kultur zu denken. Neben Errungenschaften wie Demokratie, Menschenrechten und persönlicher Freiheit wird nämlich zu oft vergessen, dass dieser Kultur auch Schattenseiten innewohnen. Dass der Mensch fragmentiert ist, widersprüchlich fühlt und handelt, wird negiert. Als Folge vertieft sich seine Zerrissenheit. Das Buch ist somit auch eine Anregung für die wachsende Anzahl derer, die sich derzeit darüber Gedanken machen, warum das Böse offenkundig erstarkt und sich ungehemmt zeigt.
Warum kaufen Kunden, was sie kaufen: So entsteht Shopper Motivation – Erkenntnisse der Neurowissenschaft für Marketing und Handel
by Enrique StrelowDieses Buch liefert eine Vielzahl von Anregungen, Ladengeschäfte und die Präsentation der Ware so zu gestalten, dass dem Kunden die Kaufentscheidung leichter fällt und die Kauffreude wächst. Der unterhaltsam geschriebene Text enthält viele Insights aus der Praxis. Enrique Strelow rückt die Marken- und Werbewirkung in eine neue Perspektive, weil er den Kaufakt aus der Sicht des Kaufenden betrachtet und mit den Erkenntnissen der Neuroscience analysiert. Das bereichert die Vorstellungswelt und Gestaltungsspielraum von Verkäufern, Händlern und Marketiers. Dies ist ein Buch für Praktiker. Es werden die wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse der Shopper NeuroScience im Hinblick auf ihre praktische Relevanz „vor Ort“ verständlich dargestellt. Da es für alle Praktiker insbesondere um Umsatz geht, gibt es im Buch zahlreiche Anregungen, Beispiele und Bebilderungen. Ein wichtiges Buch für alle, die Umsätze generieren wollen oder müssen.Aus dem InhaltErkenntnisse der Hirnforschung und ihre Bedeutung für Marketing, Sales und HandelWarum zwei Drittel aller neu eingeführten Marken und Produkte floppen – und was man dagegen tun kannWarum der Preis eine wichtige Rolle spielt, aber beileibe nicht die einzige Möglichkeit ist, einen Shopper zu motivierenWie Licht und Beleuchtung die Shopper Motivation positiv beeinflussenLeserstimmenDieses Buch ist anders als andere Bücher. Es lockt nicht mit schnellen Patentlösungen, die oftmals zu folgenreichen und kostspieligen Entscheidungen führen, sondern bricht mit vertrauten Denk- und Handlungsmustern. Dabei zeigt es Optimierungspotenziale auf. Eine lohnenswerte Lektüre! Heinz Zurheide, Zurheide Feine Kost KG„Enrique Strelow begleitet uns schon seit vielen Jahren. Viele seiner innovativen und wirksamen Ideen haben die Umsätze unserer Märkte beflügelt.“ Karsten Nüsken, Edeka Nüsken, Soest„Seit einigen Jahren leistet Enrique Strelow wichtige Beiträge zur Inszenierung und Licht-Gestaltung unserer Neu-Eröffnungen und Markt-Modernisierungen. Die Umsatzentwicklung spricht eindeutig für die Qualität seiner Konzepte.“ Andreas Nolte, Edeka Nolte, Wiesbaden
Warum scheitern Manager?
by Uwe Peter KanningManagementfehler haben mitunter weitreichende Konsequenzen für viele Menschen, die davon unmittelbar oder indirekt betroffen sind. Fast jeder kennt Fälle in seinem Umfeld oder glaubt Betroffener von Managementfehlern zu sein. Wenn Sie wissen möchten, wie Managementfehler entstehen und wodurch sie sich ein Stück weit eindämmen lassen, ist dieses Buch genau richtig für Sie, denn hier werden beispielsweise die folgenden Fragen beantwortet: Wie wird man (Spitzen-)Manager*in?An welchen Eigenschaften scheitern Manager*innen? Warum treffen Manager*innen Fehlentscheidungen?Wie täuschen Manager*innen sich und andere?Warum werden sie nicht frühzeitig gestoppt? Anhand von interessanten Informationen und Stories erhalten Sie einen Einblick in konkrete und bekannte Fälle von Missmanagement. Aufgrund der augenöffnenden Analyse, die auf psychologischen Erkenntnissen basiert, können Sie wertvolle Schlussfolgerungen ziehen. Zielgruppen: Berufstätige und alle, die sich ein gutes Management wünschen, sowie diejenigen, die Führungskräfte, Manager und Managerinnen, einstellen, sie führen oder mit ihnen zusammenarbeiten. Zum Autor: Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Uwe Peter Kanning ist Professor für Wirtschaftspsychologie an der Hochschule Osnabrück. Er ist Autor zahlreicher Bücher. Seine Arbeit wurde vielfach ausgezeichnet, u.a. 2016 „Professor des Jahres“ (UnicumBeruf) oder 2019 Wahl unter die „40 führenden Köpfe des Personalwesens“ (Personalmagazin). Seit 1997 berät er Unternehmen und Behörden bei wirtschaftspsychologischen Fragestellungen.
Was bewirkt Psychologie in Arbeit und Gesellschaft? (Der Mensch im Unternehmen: Impulse für Fach- und Führungskräfte)
by Christoph Negri Maja GoedertierWas bewirkt Psychologie in Arbeit und Gesellschaft?Zum hundertjährigen Bestehen des IAP, dem Institut für Angewandte Psychologie in Zürich, bietet dieses IAP Jubiläumsbuch einen reflektierten Überblick sowie wertvolle Einblicke in die vielfältigen Tätigkeits- und Forschungsbereiche des IAP in der Angewandten Psychologie.Basierend auf dem Erkenntnisgewinn von einhundert Jahren zeigt es auf, wie die Angewandte Psychologie als zentrale Bereicherung für die Gesellschaft und die Arbeitswelt wirkt und wie sich die Angewandte Psychologie über diese Zeitspanne weiterentwickelt hat. Anschauliche Beispiele und fundierte Erkenntnisse von Psychologinnen und Psychologen zu folgenden Themengebieten machen diese Lektüre für jeden zu einer Bereicherung:Historie und Zukunft der psychologischen Tätigkeit am IAPPsychologische Diagnostik und BeratungFührungLehren und LernenCoachingLaufbahngestaltungOrganisationsberatung Jedes Kapitel enthält:Kurzreflexion mit Hinweisen, woher das Wissen am IAP stammtInsights in die aktuellen Tätigkeitsfelder und was das IAP bieten kannAusblick und zukunftsgerichtete TrendsZusätzlich ist das Buch mit digitalen Beiträgen, d.h. Videoclips, angereichert. Zu den HerausgebendenProf. Dr. Christoph Negri ist Leiter des IAP Institut für Angewandte Psychologie an der ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. Seit 2015 führt er am IAP verstärkt neue Entwicklungen im Bereich Lernen und Lehren ein und treibt den digitalen Wandel im Institut und in der Weiterbildung und Dienstleistung voran.Maja Goedertier ist Beraterin am IAP Institut für Angewandte Psychologie an der ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. Ihr psychologisches Wissen und Können, verbindet sie mit langjähriger Erfahrung als psychologische Beraterin.
Was bleibt - die DDR aus der Perspektive von Kindern: Eine qualitative Studie zum historisch-politischen Lernen im Sachunterricht (Sachlernen & kindliche Bildung – Bedingungen, Strukturen, Kontexte)
by Julia PeukeDer Zeitgeschichte wird aufgrund ihrer Nähe zur Gegenwart und der Zugänglichkeit zu Quellen besonderes Potenzial für das historisch-politische Lernen im Sachunterricht zugeschrieben. Ausgehend von diesem Grundgedanken befasst sich das vorliegende Buch mit der Frage, welche Theorien Kinder zur DDR und damit auch zur deutschen Teilungsgeschichte haben und wie sich diese in den Diskurs zum zeithistorischen Lernen in der Grundschule einordnen lassen. Dabei wird zudem das Machtkonzept der Kinder vertieft in den Blick genommen. Anhand der Befunde der qualitativen Studie wird die Verschränkung von Zeitgeschichte mit politischen Konzepten und somit auch dem historischen und politischen Lernen deutlich.
Was ist ein Migrationsregime? What Is a Migration Regime? (Migrationsgesellschaften Ser.)
by Andreas Pott Christoph Rass Frank WolffDer Begriff des Migrationsregimes erfreut sich großer Beliebtheit. Er verspricht einen analytischen Zugriff auf die Komplexität der Beziehung von Migration und Regulation. Dabei wird er jedoch sehr unterschiedlich genutzt und gedeutet. Die Herausgeber des Sammelbandes verstehen diese Vielstimmigkeit als einen Aufruf zur Debatte. Aufbauend auf einem längeren Austauschprozess auf Tagungen und Workshops haben sie Forscher*innen, die zentrale Fachrichtungen einer interdisziplinären Migrationsforschung und deren unterschiedliche Perspektiven vertreten, eingeladen, die Grundannahmen, Potentiale und Herausforderungen des Ansatzes zu diskutieren. Die so versammelten kritischen Einsichten in ein Schlüsselkonzept der modernen Migrationswissenschaft leuchten Wege aus, wie Fragen von Machtverteilung, Agency und Aushandlung systematischer in die Migrationsforschung einbezogen werden können.
Was Menschen verbindet: Sozialer Klimawandel durch neue Wertschätzung
by Stephan Petzolt Natalja Althauser Cristina Petzolt Stephan GrabmeierDieses Buch entwickelt die relevanten Facetten von Wertschätzung und zeigt die Verbindung zu Wertschöpfung in Zeiten von Industrie 4.0, der Digitalisierung und des Klimawandels auf. Dabei wird deutlich, dass Wertschätzung sowohl für den Einzelnen, als auch für das Miteinander einen besonderen Stellenwert hat. Wertschätzung sorgt für Selbstbewusstsein, Selbstwirksamkeit und bildet die Grundlage für adäquate Kommunikation auf Augenhöhe. Auf organisationaler Ebene bewirkt Wertschätzung eine Verminderung von Komplexität und ermöglicht angstfreie Räume ohne Repressalien. Das Buch zeigt neue Formen der Wertschöpfung, in denen Risiken und Fehler frühzeitig erkannt werden und der Auftrag der Organisation im Zentrum kollektiver Aktivitäten steht. Darüber hinaus bietet Wertschätzen praktische Anregungen sowohl zur individuellen als auch organisationalen Weiterentwicklung.
Wash, Wear, and Care: Clothing and Laundry in Long-Term Residential Care
by Pat Armstrong Suzanne DayClothing and appearance are steeped in social and personal significance, conveying individuals’ gender, class, culture, and occupation. In the communal setting of long-term residential care, where residents’ autonomy and mobility are often limited but their dignity and identity are paramount, clothes have become crucial issues and the source of tension for residents, their families, and staff. Assessing the neglected but important labour involved in ensuring that clothes promote respect for both the washers and the wearers, Wash, Wear, and Care analyzes the roles that laundry and clothing play in nursing homes, and raises questions about the wider social, political, economic, and historical contexts of these facilities. Drawing on interviews and observations from twenty-seven long-term residential care homes across Canada, Germany, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States, Pat Armstrong and Suzanne Day provide an extensive and vital base of information on the daily organization, tasks, meanings, and concerns associated with clothing, laundry, dressing, and appearance in care facilities. An original study of an overlooked subject, Wash, Wear, and Care illuminates the shifting political and economic dynamics at work in long-term residential care homes and the health care system, raising larger theoretical and policy questions in the process.
Wash, Wear, and Care: Clothing and Laundry in Long-Term Residential Care
by Pat Armstrong Suzanne DayClothing and appearance are steeped in social and personal significance, conveying individuals’ gender, class, culture, and occupation. In the communal setting of long-term residential care, where residents’ autonomy and mobility are often limited but their dignity and identity are paramount, clothes have become crucial issues and the source of tension for residents, their families, and staff. Assessing the neglected but important labour involved in ensuring that clothes promote respect for both the washers and the wearers, Wash, Wear, and Care analyzes the roles that laundry and clothing play in nursing homes, and raises questions about the wider social, political, economic, and historical contexts of these facilities. Drawing on interviews and observations from twenty-seven long-term residential care homes across Canada, Germany, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States, Pat Armstrong and Suzanne Day provide an extensive and vital base of information on the daily organization, tasks, meanings, and concerns associated with clothing, laundry, dressing, and appearance in care facilities. An original study of an overlooked subject, Wash, Wear, and Care illuminates the shifting political and economic dynamics at work in long-term residential care homes and the health care system, raising larger theoretical and policy questions in the process.
Washington: A History of Our National City
by Tom LewisOn January 24, 1791, President George Washington chose the site for the young nation’s capital: ten miles square, it stretched from the highest point of navigation on the Potomac River, and encompassed the ports of Georgetown and Alexandria. From the moment the federal government moved to the District of Columbia in December 1800, Washington has been central to American identity and life. Shaped by politics and intrigue, poverty and largess, contradictions and compromises, Washington has been, from its beginnings, the stage on which our national dramas have played out. In Washington, the historian Tom Lewis paints a sweeping portrait of the capital city whose internal conflicts and promise have mirrored those of America writ large. Breathing life into the men and women who struggled to help the city realize its full potential, he introduces us to the mercurial French artist who created an ornate plan for the city “en grande”; members of the nearly forgotten anti-Catholic political party who halted construction of the Washington monument for a quarter century; and the cadre of congressmen who maintained segregation and blocked the city’s progress for decades. In the twentieth century Washington’s Mall and streets would witness a Ku Klux Klan march, the violent end to the encampment of World War I “Bonus Army” veterans, the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, and the painful rebuilding of the city in the wake of Martin Luther King, Jr. ’s assassination. “It is our national center,” Frederick Douglass once said of Washington, DC; “it belongs to us, and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and its destiny. ” Interweaving the story of the city’s physical transformation with a nuanced account of its political, economic, and social evolution, Lewis tells the powerful history of Washington, DC—the site of our nation’s highest ideals and some of our deepest failures.
The Washington Post Pulitzers: Feature Writing, Gene Weingarten
by Gene WeingartenRecipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. What happens when one of the world&’s most renowned musicians appears incognito outside of a Washington, D.C. metro station to play some of the most beautiful music ever composed? In the audacious social experiment, &“Pearls Before Breakfast&”, Gene Weingarten seeks out the answer to this question as he chronicles how an audience of rush hour pedestrians pass indifferently by as international wunderkind Joshua Bell plays his Stradivarius. He also examines a horrifying phenomenon in the remarkable story "Fatal Distraction", in which he speaks to thirteen mothers and fathers whose children died as the result of being left in a sweltering car during the hot summer months. The result is an emotional revelation that inspires readers to take a closer look at the world around them.
Waste: Consuming Postwar Japan
by Eiko Maruko SiniawerIn Waste, Eiko Maruko Siniawer innovatively explores the many ways in which the Japanese have thought about waste—in terms of time, stuff, money, possessions, and resources—from the immediate aftermath of World War II to the present. She shows how questions about waste were deeply embedded in the decisions of everyday life, reflecting the priorities and aspirations of the historical moment, and revealing people’s ever-changing concerns and hopes.Over the course of the long postwar, Japanese society understood waste variously as backward and retrogressive, an impediment to progress, a pervasive outgrowth of mass consumption, incontrovertible proof of societal excess, the embodiment of resources squandered, and a hazard to the environment. Siniawer also shows how an encouragement of waste consciousness served as a civilizing and modernizing imperative, a moral good, an instrument for advancement, a path to self-satisfaction, an environmental commitment, an expression of identity, and more. From the late 1950s onward, a defining element of Japan’s postwar experience emerged: the tension between the desire for the privileges of middle-class lifestyles made possible by affluence and dissatisfaction with the logics, costs, and consequences of that very prosperity. This tension complicated the persistent search for what might be called well-being, a good life, or a life well lived. Waste is an elegant history of how people lived—how they made sense of, gave meaning to, and found value in the acts of the everyday.
Waste and Consumption: Capitalism, the Environment, and the Life of Things (Framing 21st Century Social Issues)
by Simonetta Falasca-ZamponiThis book examines the link between waste and consumption through a cultural approach that integrates environmental concerns with reflections on the role that consumption has come to occupy in our contemporary capitalist societies. The mutual relationship between capitalism and consumption is addressed along with early critiques of industrialization that exposed environmental problems. Toxic waste and its illegal dumping are examined, along with the problem of abuse of poorere areas and nations when it comes to disposing of toxic material. The question of solutions to the problems created by consumption and waste is raised and the claim is advanced that we do not necessarily need to stop being consumers. This timely book can be used in introductory sociology, social problems, and classes on environment and sustainability. This book is part of the Framing 21st Century Social Issues Series which offers readable, teachable "thinking frames" on today's social problems and social issues by leading scholars, all in short 60 page or shorter formats, and available for view on http://routledge.customgateway.com/routledge-social-issues.html. For instructors teaching a wide range of courses in the social sciences, the Routledge Social Issues Collection now offers the best of both worlds: originally written short texts that provide "overviews" to important social issues as well as teachable excerpts from larger works previously published by Routledge and other presses.
Waste and Discards in the Asia Pacific Region: Social and Cultural Perspectives (Routledge Studies in Sustainability)
by Viktor Pál Iris BorowyThis book uncovers, explores and analyses the cultural and social factors and values that lie behind waste making, recycling and disposal in the Asia Pacific region, where impressive economic growth has led to significant increases in production, consumption and concomitant waste production. This volume demonstrates the immense scope of waste as a multi-sectoral phenomenon, covering discussions on food, menstrual products, sewage, electronics, scrap, nuclear waste, plastics, and even entire villages as they are submerged underwater by dam building, considered expendable in favour of economic growth. It discusses the wide range of approaches and contexts through which people interact with waste, including socio-economic analysis, participatory observation, laboratory science, art, video, installations, literature and photography. Case studies focusing on India, China and Japan, in addition to other regional examples, demonstrate the ubiquity of waste, materially and geographically. It examines the duality of waste management, fostering community building while simultaneously excluding marginalised groups; how it can be linked to efforts creating circular economies, to then reappear in oceanic garbage patches; or technical waste repurposed for high-tech laboratory research before being discarded once again. This timely and wide-ranging collection of essays will be an important read for scholars, researchers and students in sustainability, development studies, discard studies, and social and cultural history, particularly focusing on countries in the Asia-Pacific.
Waste and the City: The Crisis of Sanitation and the Right to Citylife
by Colin McFarlaneSanitation is fundamental to urban public life and health. We need Sanitation for All.In an age of pandemics the relationship between the health of the city and good sanitation has never been more important. Waste in the City is a call to action on one of modern urban life&’s most neglected issues: sanitation infrastructure. The Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare the devastating consequences of unequal access to sanitation in cities across the globe. At this critical moment in global public health, Colin McFarlane makes the urgent case for Sanitation for All.The book outlines the worldwide sanitation crisis and offers a vision for a renewed, equitable investment in sanitation that democratises and socialises the modern city. Adopting Henri Lefebvre&’s concept of &‘the right to the city&’, it uses the notion of &‘citylife&’ to reframe the discourse on sanitation from a narrowly-defined policy discussion to a question of democratic right to public life and health. In doing so, the book shows that sanitation is an urbanizing force whose importance extends beyond hygiene to the very foundation of urban social life.