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China's Embedded Activism

Author : Peter Ho
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134080549
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book China's Embedded Activism written by Peter Ho and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-10-19 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years China has been remarkable in achieving extraordinary economic transformation, yet without fundamental political change. To many observers this would seem to imply a weakness in Chinese civil society. However, though the idea of democracy as multitudes of citizens taking to the streets may be attractive, it is simultaneously misleading as it disregards the nature of political change taking place in China today: a gradual shift towards a polity adapted to a pluralist society. At the same time, one may wonder what the limited political space implies for the development of a social movement in China. This book explores this question by focusing on one of the most active areas of Chinese civil society: the environment. China’s Embedded Activism argues that China’s semi-authoritarian limitations on the freedom of association and speech, coupled with increased social spaces for civic action has created a milieu in which activism occurs in an embedded fashion. The semi-authoritarian atmosphere is restrictive of, but paradoxically, also conducive to nationwide, collective action with less risk of social instability and repression at the hand of the governing elite. Rich in case studies about environmental civic organizations in China, and written by a team of international experts on social movements, NGOs, democratization, and civil society, this book addresses a wide readership of students, scholars and professionals interested in development, geography and environment, political change, and contemporary Chinese society.

TESOL and Sustainability

Author : Jason Goulah
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350115096
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book TESOL and Sustainability written by Jason Goulah and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the burgeoning field of ecolinguistics, little attention has been given to the ways in which English language teaching is and has become implicated in global ecological crises. This book begins a dialogue about the opportunities and responsibilities presented to the TESOL field to re-orient professional practice in ways that drive cultural change and engender alternate language practices and metaphors. Covering a diverse range of topics, including anthropogenic climate change, habitat loss, food insecurity and mass migration, chapters argue that such crises require not only technological innovation, but also cultural changes in how human beings relate to each other and their environment. Arguing that it is incumbent upon the field of English language teaching to reckon with such cultural changes in how and what we teach, TESOL and Sustainability addresses the ways in which discourses such as eco-pedagogy, the critique of neo-liberalism, non-Western philosophy and post-humanist thought can and must inform how and what is taught in ESL and EFL classrooms.

Nightwork, updated edition

Author : Institute Historian T. F. Peterson
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262295016
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Nightwork, updated edition written by Institute Historian T. F. Peterson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2011-03-11 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively introduction to MIT hacks, from the police car on the Great Dome to the abduction of the Caltech cannon. An MIT "hack" is an ingenious, benign, and anonymous prank or practical joke, often requiring engineering or scientific expertise and often pulled off under cover of darkness—instances of campus mischief sometimes coinciding with April Fool's Day, final exams, or commencement. (It should not be confused with the sometimes non-benign phenomenon of computer hacking.) Noteworthy MIT hacks over the years include the legendary Harvard–Yale Football Game Hack (when a weather balloon emblazoned “MIT” popped out of the ground near the 50-yard line), the campus police car found perched on the Great Dome, the apparent disappearance of the Institute president's office, and a faux cathedral (complete with stained glass windows, organ, and wedding ceremony) in a lobby. Hacks are by their nature ephemeral, although they live on in the memory of both perpetrators and spectators. Nightwork, drawing on the MIT Museum's unique collection of hack-related photographs and other materials, describes and documents the best of MIT's hacks and hacking culture. This generously illustrated updated edition has added coverage of such recent hacks as the cross-country abduction of rival Caltech's cannon (a prank requiring months of planning, intricate choreography, and last-minute improvisation), a fire truck on the Dome that marked the fifth anniversary of 9/11, and numerous pokes at the celebrated Frank Gehry-designed Stata Center, and even a working solar-powered Red Line subway car on the Great Dome. Hacks have been said to express the essence of MIT, providing, as alumnus Andre DeHon observes, "an opportunity to demonstrate creativity and know-how in mastering the physical world." What better way to mark the 150th anniversary of MIT's founding than to commemorate its native ingenuity with this new edition of Nightwork?

The Second Cognitive Revolution

Author : Bo Allesøe Christensen
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303026680X
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Second Cognitive Revolution written by Bo Allesøe Christensen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rom Harré’s career spans more than 40 years of original contributions to the development of both psychology and other human and social sciences. Recognized as a founder of modern social psychology, he developed the microsociological approach ‘ethogenics’ and facilitated the discursive turn within psychology, as well as developed the concept of positioning theory. Used within both philosophy and social scientific approaches aimed at conflict analysis, analyses of power relations, and narrative structures, the development and impact of positioning theory can be understood as part of a second cognitive revolution. Whereas the first cognitive revolution involved incorporating cognition as both thoughts and feelings as an ineliminable part of psychology and social sciences, this second revolution released this cognition from a focus on individuals, and towards a focus of understanding individuals as participating in public practices using public discourses as part of their cognition. This edited volume adds to the scholarly conversation around positioning theory, evaluates Rom Harré’s significance for the history and development of psychology, and highlights his numerous theoretical contributions and their lasting effects on the psychological and social sciences. Included among the chapters: What is it to be a human being? Rom Harré on self and identity The social philosophy of Harré as a philosophy of culture The discursive ontology of the social world Ethics in socio-cultural psychologies Discursive cognition and neural networks The Second Cognitive Revolution: A Tribute to Rom Harré is an indispensable reader for anyone interested in his cognitive-historical turn, and finds an audience with academics and researchers in the social and human science fields of cognitive psychology, social psychology, discursive psychology, philosophy, sociology, and ethnomethodology.

Green Asia

Author : Tania Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131752473X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Green Asia written by Tania Lewis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic development in Asia is associated with expanding urbanism, overconsumption, and a steep growth in living standards. At the same time, rapid urbanisation, changing class consciousness, and a new rural–urban divide in the region have led to fundamental shifts in the way ecological concerns are articulated politically and culturally. Moreover, these changes are often viewed through a Western moralistic lens, which at the same time applauds Asia’s economic growth as the welcome reviver of a floundering world economy and simultaneously condemns this growth as encouraging hyperconsumerism and a rupture with more natural ways of living. This book presents an analysis of a range of practices and activities from across Asia that demonstrate that people in Asia are alert to ecological concerns, that they are taking action to implement new styles of green living, and that Asia offers interesting alternatives to narrow Anglo-American models of sustainable living. Subjects explored include eco-tourism in the Philippines, green co-operatives in Korea, the importance of "tradition" within Asian discourses of sustainability, and much more.

America's Army and the Language of Grunts

Author : E. Kelly Taylor
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1438962509
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book America's Army and the Language of Grunts written by E. Kelly Taylor and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: «a powerful sketch of America's Soldiers depicted in their unique lingo legacy ... «a fascinating array of cultural jargon based on a proud history and known as the language of Grunts ... «compelling leadership lessons built on a legacy fashioned by Warriors, celebrated by Veterans, shared with families, and intriguing to citizens ... «Americans share the pride of ownership -all contributing to the rich cultural lingo of our Nation's Army ... «a timely insight into America's Army and her Citizen Soldiers, viewed through a proud legacy of lingo steeped in tradition and filled with contemporary influences ... the old, and the new ...

Sustaining Language

Author : Alwin Fill
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825898588
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Sustaining Language written by Alwin Fill and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2007 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can language diversity be sustained on this Earth? Can the resource language be used in a sustainable way? The essays in this volume address language loss in the age of globalization and discuss how language construes our view of Nature and Environment. The volume is also a plea for using an ecolinguistic perspective in school teaching.

Peirce, Signs, and Meaning

Author : Floyd Merrell
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 144263118X
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Peirce, Signs, and Meaning written by Floyd Merrell and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1997-05-24 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: C.S. Peirce was the founder of pragmatism and a pioneer in the field of semiotics. His work investigated the problem of meaning, which is the core aspect of semiosis as well as a significant issue in many academic fields. Floyd Merrell demonstrates throughout Peirce, Signs, and Meaning that Peirce's views remain dynamically relevant to the analysis of subsequent work in the philosophy of language. Merrell discusses Peirce's thought in relation to that of early twentieth-century philosophers such as Frege, Russell, and Quine, and contemporaries such as Goodman, Putnam, Davidson, and Rorty. In doing so, Merrell demonstrates how quests for meaning inevitably fall victim to vagueness in pursuit of generality, and how vagueness manifests an inevitable tinge of inconsistency, just as generalities always remain incomplete. He suggests that vagueness and incompleteness/generality, overdetermination and underdetermination, and Peirce's phenomenological categories of Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness must be incorporated into notions of sign structure for a proper treatment of meaning. He also argues that the twentieth-century search for meaning has placed overbearing stress on language while ignoring nonlinguistic sign modes and means. Peirce, Signs, and Meaning is an important sequel to Merrell's trilogy, Signs Becoming Signs', Semiosis in the Postmodern Age, and Signs Grow. This book is not only a significant contribution to the field of semiotics, it has much to offer scholars in literature, philosophy, linguistics, cultural studies, and other academic disciplines in which meaning is a central concern.

Corpus-Assisted Ecolinguistics

Author : Robert Poole
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350138576
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Corpus-Assisted Ecolinguistics written by Robert Poole and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corpus-Assisted Ecolinguistics introduces and integrates key research concepts, principles and techniques in ecolinguistics and corpus-assisted discourse study, answering foundational questions for researchers new to the discipline and asserting the urgent need to expand its scope. Breaking new ground, the book analyzes under-explored environmental discourses that have a tangible impact on ecological wellbeing and sustainability by perpetuating harmful attitudes, practices and ideologies. Chapters present in-depth case studies, including an analysis of the evolving representations of wilderness, an eco-stylistic analysis of a popular novel, and an investigation of the use of humor in reports on animal escapes from slaughterhouses. The studies employ a range of corpus analysis techniques to show how ecological degradation and crisis have become normalized, and even trivialized, in popular discourse but also spaces where positive discourse practices are present. By applying tools from corpus linguistics to a diverse range of environmental discourses, this book makes a significant contribution to advancing the field of ecolinguistics.

Collaboration for Sustainable Tourism Development

Author : Janne Liburd
Publisher : Goodfellow Publishers Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1911635026
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Collaboration for Sustainable Tourism Development written by Janne Liburd and published by Goodfellow Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2018-07-20 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the role of collaboration in tourism to sustain livelihoods, create profitable partnerships, and protect cultures and the environment. Based on robust research, it critically examines how collaboration enables (or impedes) sustainable tourism development, and suggests a role for collaboration.

The Army Communicator

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Army Communicator written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Modeling: Gateway to the Unknown

Author : Rom Harré
Publisher : Gulf Professional Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780444514646
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Modeling: Gateway to the Unknown written by Rom Harré and published by Gulf Professional Publishing. This book was released on 2004-05-14 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by Daniel Rothbart of George Mason University in Virginia, this book is a collection of Rom Harré's work on modeling in science (particularly physics and psychology). In over 28 authored books and 240 articles and book chapters, Rom Harré of Georgetown University in Washington, DC is a towering figure in philosophy, linguistics, and social psychology. He has inspired a generation of scholars, both for the ways in which his research is carried out and his profound insights. For Harré, the stunning discoveries of research demand a kind of thinking that is found in the construction and control of models. Iconic modeling is pivotal for representing real-world structures, explaining phenomena, manipulating instruments, constructing theories, and acquiring data. This volume in the new Elsevier book series Studies in Multidisciplinarity includes major topics on the structure and function of models, the debates over scientific realism, explanation through analogical modeling, a metaphysics for physics, the rationale for experimentation, and modeling in social encounters. * A multidisciplinary work of sweeping scope about the nature of science * Revolutionary interpretation that challenges conventional wisdom about the character of scientific thinking * Profound insights about fundamental challenges to contemporary physics * Brilliant discoveries into the nature of social interaction and human identity * Presents a rational conception of methods for acquiring knowledge of remote regions of the world * Written by one of the great thinkers of our time.

The Future of Environmental Criticism

Author : Lawrence Buell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405151978
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Future of Environmental Criticism written by Lawrence Buell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by one of the world’s leading theorists in ecocriticism, this manifesto provides a critical summary of the ecocritical movement. A critical summary of the emerging discipline of “ecocriticism”. Written by one of the world’s leading theorists in ecocriticism. Traces the history of the ecocritical movement from its roots in the 1970s through to its diversification and proliferation today. Takes account of different ecocritical positions and directions. Describes major tensions within ecocriticism and addresses major criticisms of the movement. Looks to the future of ecocriticism, proposing that discourses of the environment should become a permanent part of literary and cultural studies.

Greenspeak

Author : Rom Harré
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780761917045
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Greenspeak written by Rom Harré and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1998-11-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this interdisciplinary examination of the discourse of environmentalism, the authors explore the linguistic, philosophical, psychological and cultural-historical aspects of environmental discourse; rather than environmental phenomena themselves. This volume is not advocacy on environmentalism, rather, it is an analysis of the means of persuasion and the techniques of advocacy used by both sides of the environmental debate between `conservationists' and `conservatives'. The book includes an analysis of the concepts of time and space in their linguistic manifestations. Another theme is the interdependencies of the natural world with political and economic institutions.

Constant Interruptions

Author : M. Craig Williams
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1936236230
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Constant Interruptions written by M. Craig Williams and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-08-05 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Williamss book is completely outrageous! If Mr. Williams thinks hes funny then hed better learn to ignore all of the simpletons who have the courage to laugh at his numerous valid points and entertaining shenanigans! Ms. Ethel Moore-Moore of the Young Eager Lady Libertarians The fine art of satire is reborn through the breakout brilliance of M. Craig Williams. Boldly combining normal, everyday life with offbeat characters, comedic circumstances, and heartrending reflections from his unlimited imagination, Constant Interruptions is Williamss triumphant literary dbut. From his humble abode in the fictional city of Umbrage, Ontario, Craig warmly invites you to join him on an epic, life-changing journey into the realm of the politically incorrect. Hopping from caf to caf, through the winding streets of his fictional hometown, Williams introduces, in his distinctively informal style, a collection of endearing and ironic individuals whose frantic antics are certain to entertain readers of all ages. Constant Interruptions openly examines the subtle intricacies of our delicate human nature in a refreshing manner. The lovable lives of Craigs creations grant us a glimpse at our own personal quest for purpose and recognition.

Resigned Activism, revised edition

Author : Anna Lora-Wainwright
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262365316
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Resigned Activism, revised edition written by Anna Lora-Wainwright and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the daily grind of living with pollution in rural China and of the varying forms of activism that develop in response. Residents of rapidly industrializing rural areas in China live with pollution every day. Villagers drink obviously tainted water and breathe visibly dirty air, afflicted by a variety of ailments—from arthritis to nosebleeds—that they ascribe to the effects of industrial pollution. In Resigned Activism, Anna Lora-Wainwright explores the daily grind of living with pollution in rural China and the varying forms of activism that develop in response. This revised edition offers expanded acknowledgment of the contributions of Lora-Wainwright’s collaborators in China. Lora-Wainwright finds that claims of health or environmental damage are politically sensitive, and that efforts to seek redress are frustrated by limited access to scientific evidence, growing socioeconomic inequalities, and complex local realities. Villagers, feeling powerless, often come to accept pollution as part of the environment; their activism is tempered by their resignation. Drawing on fieldwork done with teams of collaborators, Lora-Wainwright offers three case studies of “resigned activism” in rural China, examining the experiences of villagers who live with the effects of phosphorous mining and fertilizer production, lead and zinc mining, and electronic waste processing. The book also includes extended summaries of the in-depth research carried out by Ajiang Chen and his team in some of China’s “cancer villages,” village-sized clusters of high cancer incidence. These cases make clear the staggering human costs of development and the deeply uneven distribution of costs and benefits that underlie China’s economic power.

Chase the Rabbit

Author : F. A. Grieger
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1490862897
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Chase the Rabbit written by F. A. Grieger and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2015-04-08 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans are being lied to … We are lied to by our government, misled by the entertainment media, indoctrinated by our educational institutions, defrauded by our banking institutions, and subjugated by our employers. Nevertheless, we willingly grant these institutions power over nearly every aspect of our lives, and we even admire and assist those who are exploiting us. What is the purpose of the lies? To con each and every one of us out of our property rights, and to coerce us into consenting to our own fleecing—while venerating and revering the thieves. This is true no matter if one is truly poor, or one is a member of the upper-middle class. It doesn’t matter if you are black, white, Latino, Asian, straight, gay, lesbian, Democrat, Republican, employee, manager, small-business owner, or greyhound dog. No matter how you earn your living, all those in the middle class have one thing in common. Like the greyhounds in a dog race, we have all been duped into pursuing an illusion, a goal that has been held in front of us as “The American Dream,” a goal that has been deliberately rendered unattainable. This is because the act itself of “chasing the rabbit” is what enriches those few who benefit from our daily economic activity. Making the rabbit uncatchable ensures that we can never stop running after it. If you’re a parent who cares about your children’s future, if you’re elderly and burdened with constant worry about surviving on a fixed income from social security, if you’re a small business owner drowning in the quicksand of onerous taxes and crippling regulation, if you’re a college student or recent graduate crippled with student loan debt—struggling or even unable to find a decent paying job, or if you’re simply fed up with government lies and propaganda touting false hope and change for greater economic prosperity, financial security, and opportunity—all of which remain perpetually out of reach … …within these pages, you will learn what you can do about it.