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1943-, Thompson Billie, ed. The conscious ear: My life of transformation through listening. Station Hill Press, 1991.
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The medieval cult of saints: Formations and transformations. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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Luo, Zhexi. Terrestrial Mesonychia to aquatic Cetacea: Transformation of the basicranium and evolution of hearing in whales. Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan, 1999.
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Gérard, Etienne, and Nolwen Henaff, eds. Inégalités en perspectives. Editions des archives contemporaines, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.17184/eac.9782813002310.
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La lutte contre les inégalités occupe aujourd’hui le devant de la scène internationale. Mais la lumière projetée sur leurs dimensions économiques laisse souvent dans l’ombre les conditions sociales de leur production, les modalités de leur traitement, ou encore les transformations sociales qu’elles portent en elles. Comment et par qui sont définis les indicateurs de mesure des inégalités? Comment les inégalités sont-elles perçues par les individus ou les groupes sociaux qui les subissent? L’ouvrage interroge les registres discursifs employés par les différents acteurs, et s’emploie ainsi à déplacer le regard pour explorer les inégalités dans toute leur complexité. Il s’attache aussi à décrypter les inégalités dans leurs contextes sociaux et culturels de production. Enfin, il analyse plusieurs processus de leur transformation enclenchés par la mondialisation, tels que les mobilités et les migrations. De l’échelle locale la plus fine du village – en Afrique, en Asie, en Amérique latine – à l’échelle mondiale, une approche au plus près des populations apporte ici un éclairage fécond et nourrit le débat actuel sur les transformations sociales au niveau global.
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Daniel Spoerri: Eat Art in Transformation. Silvana, 2016.
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Tomatis, Alfred A. The Conscious Ear: My Life of Transformation Through Listening. Station Hill Press, 1992.
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Frye, Timothy. Economic Transformation and Comparative Politics. Edited by Carles Boix and Susan C. Stokes. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199566020.003.0038.
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This article discusses how research on the transformation of command economies has contributed to the broader literature in comparative politics. It depicts the great variation in economic reform across countries over the last fifteen years, and examines how the European Union (EU), quality of governance, regime type, and interest groups influenced economic reform. The article attempts to identify ways in which stronger causal links between middle-range factors and economic reform can be linked. Arguments criticizing middle-range theories due to lack of causal depth are reviewed as well. The article ends by presenting an attempt to combine temporally proximate and distant factors into an explanation for reform outcomes in the region. The argument is focused on the impact of executive partisanship, democratic institutions, and the relation of the Communist Party to national sovereignty before 1989.
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Wilkinson, Michael A. Authoritarian Liberalism and the Transformation of Modern Europe. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198854753.001.0001.
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<Online Only>This book recounts the transformation of Europe from the interwar era until the euro crisis, using the tools of constitutional analysis and critical theory. The central claim is twofold: post-war Europe is reconstituted in a manner combining political authoritarianism and economic liberalism, producing an order which is now in a critical condition. The book begins in the interwar era, when liberalism, unable to deal with mass democracy and the social question, turns to authoritarianism in an attempt to suppress democracy, with disastrous consequences in Weimar and elsewhere. After the Second World War, partly on the basis of a very different diagnosis of interwar collapse, and initially through a passive authoritarianism, inter-state sovereignty is reconfigured, state-society relations are depoliticized, and social relations transformed. Integration is substituted for internationalism, technocracy for democracy, and economic liberty for political freedom and class struggle. This transformation takes time to unfold, and it presents continuities as well as discontinuities. It is deepened by the neo-liberalism of the Maastricht era and the creation of Economic and Monetary Union, and yet countermovements then also emerge: geopolitically, in the return of the German question; and domestically, in the challenges presented by constitutional courts and anti-systemic movements. Struggles over sovereignty, democracy, and political freedom resurface, but are then more actively repressed through the authoritarian liberalism of the euro crisis phase. This leads now to an impasse. Anti-systemic politics return but remain uneasily within the EU, suggesting that the post-war order of authoritarian liberalism is reaching its limits. As yet, however, there has been no definitive rupture.</Online Only>
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Pourchez, Laurence, ed. Naître et grandir. Normes du Sud, du Nord, d’hier et d’aujourd’hui. Editions des archives contemporaines, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.17184/eac.9782813002617.
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Comment les pratiques tant familiales que professionnelles associées à la naissance et à la petite enfance nous renseignent-elles sur les normes en vigueur dans chaque société ? Il s’agit, dans cet ouvrage, d’interroger tant les conduites de maternage présentes dans différentes cultures que le passé, le présent, mais aussi l’environnement lui-même, de croiser les regards et de tenter une approche pluridisciplinaire de la naissance et de la petite enfance. Notre fil d’Ariane sera la norme, le rapport à la norme et son évolution, sachant que cette compréhension constitue, en ce début de XXIe siècle, l’un des défis majeurs de l’anthropologie de la naissance et de l’enfance. Cet ouvrage commun regroupe 16 articles rédigés à partir des contributions présentées lors d’un colloque intitulé “Du sud au nord, naître hier, aujourd’hui, ici et ailleurs”, qui s’est tenu à Saint-Denis de La Réunion en mai 2013. Il s’agissait, par ce colloque international pluridisciplinaire, d’aller du Sud, de l’archipel des Mascareignes, de la région Sud-Ouest de l’Océan Indien, au Nord ou à d’autres aires géographiques afin de pouvoir comparer les contextes et les pratiques. Nous souhaitions faire une sorte d’arrêt sur image sur les avancées scientifiques intervenues depuis le début du XXIe siècle, instaurer un dialogue sud-nord et ouvrir le débat sur l’histoire, l’évolution et l’actualité de pratiques d’ici et d’ailleurs, dans des disciplines variées telles que l’histoire, la démographie, la sociologie, l’anthropologie, l’épidémiologie, la médecine. Partant d’un regard local sur la fécondité, la grossesse et la naissance, l’objectif de ces échanges était de rompre avec une habitude qui veut que les discussions sur ces thèmes soient uniquement le produit de chercheurs occidentaux sur les sociétés du sud. En effet, dans un contexte planétaire de circulation des idées et des pratiques, des échanges de regards non seulement entre disciplines mais aussi entre continents sont dorénavant opportuns. Car finalement, que l’on se situe du point de vue de l’évolution du contexte global des sociétés, des transformations en cours dans l’environnement, dans les rites de la naissance, qu’il s’agisse d’attribuer un nom au nouveau-né ou de nous interroger sur les pratiques professionnelles de celles qui mettent les enfants au monde, c’est toujours le rapport à une norme qui est en jeu, la relation à des valeurs qui se transforment et évoluent partout et à tous les niveaux. Et de ces modifications, les femmes et leurs nouveau-nés ne sortent pas toujours vainqueurs, loin s’en faut. ..
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Baev, Jordan. Bulgaria and Romania. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198790501.003.0015.
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The evolution of the security and defence reforms in Bulgaria and Romania after the cold-war era includes the elaboration of leading strategic and doctrinal acts, a change from conscript to professional national armies, the implementation of the principles of civil–military relations with the establishment of integrated defence ministries and strong democratic oversight, and the achievement of interoperability in the accession process to NATO and EU membership. Bulgaria and Romania have had a similar process of military transformation and geopolitical reorientation from the East to the West in their common transition to a pluralist democracy. A significant requirement in the process of transformation was the establishment and training of specially qualified mobile forces capable of participating in NATO- or EU-led peace missions. Bulgaria and Romania have also actively contributed to the development of regional defence cooperation in south-eastern Europe by launching various multinational initiatives.
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Grimm, Dieter. The Basic Law as a Barrier against a Transformation of the EU into a State. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805120.003.0011.
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This chapter examines how Germany’s Basic Law can prevent the transformation of the European Union into a state. It begins with a discussion of the German Federal Constitutional Court’s (Bundesverfassungsgericht) 2009 decision on the compatibility of the Lisbon Treaty with the Basic Law. In particular, it highlights the message of the Bundesverfassungsgericht’s judgment: that European integration will not be hindered by Germany but finds it limits in the Basic Law. It then explains why, on the side of the EU, the German Court puts so much weight on the treaty character of the EU’s legal basis and why, on the side of the Member States, much emphasis is placed on sovereignty. It also considers the question of whether Germany would be allowed to join a federal European state if its democratic legitimacy were at the level required by Article 79(3) Basic Law.
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Bideleux, Robert. European Integration: The Rescue of the Nation State? Edited by Dan Stone. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199560981.013.0019.
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Rejecting claims that European integration has been inimical or antithetical to nations, states, and ‘national’ interests, Alan Milward's The European Rescue of the Nation-State (1992) argues that the relationship between European integration and the nation-state has been mutually beneficial and supportive. This article discusses the European Union's ‘rescues’ of small and sub-state nations, languages, cultures, and minorities; EU state-building and ‘rescues of the nation-state’ in the post-Communist East Central European, Baltic, and Balkan regions; transformations of the states in need of ‘rescue’, focusing on ‘embedded neoliberalism’; the EU and ‘the nation-state’ after the Lisbon Treaty of 2009; the ‘Great Recession’ of 2008–2009 and the eurozone crises of 2010–2012; and the decade-long ‘money illusion’ of economic prosperity in Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain.
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Gheciu, Alexandra. Toward a New Political Economy of Security Provision. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198813064.003.0003.
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Chapter 3 places the analysis of developments in Eastern Europe in a broader international context, examining how the transformation of the field of security has been shaped by processes of European integration as well as globalization—particularly through the influx into Eastern Europe of multinational corporations, including global security companies. In particular, as each of the countries examined in this book embarked upon processes of European integration, they came to be deeply affected by EU legislation and specific accession/partnership conditionality, including in the field of security. In addition, the chapter explores the ways in which dynamics of European integration and globalization have generated new opportunities for reshaping the field of security for a series of domestic actors engaged in performing security.
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Geddes, Andrew. Global and Regional Cooperation on Migration. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.200.
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The problem of international migration is that global cooperation is somewhat rare. If international cooperation is to develop, then it will depend on states; but effective cooperation would also impose real constraints on states. Moreover, as states and their borders give meaning to international migration, it follows that the development, consolidation, and transformation of the state system is a key factor determining the possibilities for the global and regional governance of migration to develop. Existing forms of regional integration and their migration provisions as well as regional consultation processes (RCPs) can serve as a mechanism for intraregional communication, the sharing of knowledge, and for the dissemination of policy ideas and practices. The EU has already been discussed as the world’s most highly developed form of regional integration. It is the only international organization with the power and capacity to make and implement laws through its own institutional system that must be implemented by member states. The EU moreover has a highly developed system of internal free movement for nationals of its own states and has developed a border-free travel area for participating states. These developments constitute the hallmark of a highly developed intra-EU migration framework linked to the creation of the “single market.”
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Gálvez, Alyshia. Eating NAFTA. University of California Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520291805.001.0001.
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In the two decades since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect, Mexico has seen an epidemic of diet-related illness. While globalization has been associated with an increase in chronic disease around the world, in Mexico, the speed and scope of the rise has been called a public health emergency. The shift in Mexican foodways is happening at a moment when the country’s ancestral cuisine is now more popular and appreciated around the world than ever. What does it mean for their health and well-being when many Mexicans eat fewer tortillas and more instant noodles, while global elites demand tacos made with handmade corn tortillas? This book examines the transformation of the Mexican food system since NAFTA and how it has made it harder for people to eat as they once did. The book contextualizes NAFTA within Mexico’s approach to economic development since the Revolution, noticing the role envisioned for rural and low-income people in the path to modernization. Examination of anti-poverty and public health policies in Mexico reveal how it has become easier for people to consume processed foods and beverages, even when to do so can be harmful to health. The book critiques Mexico’s strategy for addressing the public health crisis generated by rising rates of chronic disease for blaming the dietary habits of those whose lives have been upended by the economic and political shifts of NAFTA.
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Hedberg, Masha, and Andres Kasekamp. Baltic States. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198790501.003.0012.
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Since the end of the cold war, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania have been confronted with four major milestones that necessitated the cardinal transformation of their national security and defence policies: the collapse of the Soviet Union, NATO membership, EU accession, and the resurgence of Russia under Putin. This chapter analyses the countries’ responses to these changes and challenges, tracing and explaining the evolution of Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian national strategies, military doctrines, and capabilities since 1989. It both provides an analytical overview of how the countries collectively have adjusted to the new regional and international security order, as well as compares the similarities and differences in their security outlooks, postures, and actions, in order to shed light on the degree of convergence and divergence among these three post-communist states.
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Psygkas, Athanasios. Greece. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190632762.003.0004.
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The chapter traces Greece’s traditional focus on conventional notions of administrative accountability through legislative delegation and the involvement of the Council of State as a consultative and judicial body. The pattern of state-society relations in the country has also been described as statist. The EU public consultation mandates were therefore transposed into an institutional environment which, like France, was not particularly hospitable to the idea of open public involvement in policymaking. Nevertheless, the Greek case is distinctive. The chapter assesses the transformative impact of EU law against the specific background of the twin challenge facing Greece: weak administrative capacity and an underdeveloped civil society. The case illustrates that the introduction of participatory processes is a necessary but not always a sufficient condition for the new accountability paradigm to take strong roots. It may, however, helpfully turn the spotlight on structural deficiencies and the need for institutional reform.
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Gilli, Andrea, and Mauro Gilli. Emerging Technologies: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198790501.003.0044.
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This chapter investigates the challenges and constraints European countries have faced in the adoption, integration, and production of unmanned aerial systems—also known as drones or remotely piloted vehicles. It illustrates the broader technological transformations that have accompanied the rise of unmanned systems and qualifies their nature and features. It then discusses the various European projects in this field and their outcomes, looking at three periods: the 1990s, the 2000s, and the 2010s. The analysis considers both the more successful cases as well as the more controversial programmes, discussing—when possible—the factors contributing to these outcomes, including the role of bilateral cooperation, of the EU, of NATO, and of industry. The chapter concludes with an overview of the field including the challenges ahead.
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Grimm, Dieter. Europe Needs Principles, Not Pragmatism. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805120.003.0012.
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This chapter examines the question of European statehood, arguing that what is needed is not pragmatism but greater orientation to principles and more explanations of consequences. It first considers the EU’s ultimate goal: whether it should become the United States of Europe or whether it should remain a community of Member States who unite for specific purposes in areas that they can better address unitedly than separately. It then explains how the transformation of European institutions in accordance with a nation-state model would lead towards a European state, suggesting that one cannot transform the EU’s institutional structure on the nation-state model and at the same time defer to a later date the question of European statehood. It also considers the German Federal Constitutional Court’s role in bridging the scope of EU powers and the autonomy of European decision-making on the one hand, and European democracy on the other.
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Karapapa, Stavroula. Defences to Copyright Infringement. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198795636.001.0001.
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Defences to copyright infringement have gained increased significance over the past twenty years. The fourth industrial revolution emerged with the development of innovative copy-reliant services and business models, transforming the way in which copyright works can be used, from digital learning methods to mass digitization initiatives, media monitoring services, image transformation tools, and content mining technologies. The lawfulness of such innovative services and business methods, which arguably have the potential to enhance public welfare, is dubious and challenges copyright law. EU copyright contains specifically enumerated, narrowly drafted, and strictly interpreted defensive rules, often taking the form of the so-called exceptions and limitations to copyright. Because the fourth industrial revolution promises innovation and business growth—stated objectives of EU copyright—it invites an examination of defensive rules as a whole. The book adopts a holistic approach in its exploration of the limits of permissibility under EU copyright, including legislatively mentioned exceptions and limitations, doctrinal principles, and rules external to copyright, with a view to unveiling possible gaps and overlaps, offering a novel classification of defensive rules, and evaluating the adaptability of the law towards technological change. Discussing recent legislative developments, such as the provisions of the Digital Single Market Directive, Court of Justice of the European Union case law, and insights from national laws and cases, the book tells the story of copyright from the perspective of copyright defences, offering positivist and normative insights into law and doctrine and arguing towards a principle-based understanding of the scope of defences that could inform future law and policy making.
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Ryder, Andrew. Britain and Europe at a Crossroads. Policy Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529200515.001.0001.
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Britain and Europe at a Crossroads: The Politics of Anxiety and Transformation dissects the complex social, cultural and political factors that led the UK to take its decision to leave the EU and examines the far-reaching consequences of that decision. Developing the conceptual framework of securitization, the book uses primary sources and a focus on rhetoric and discourse analysis to examine the ways that political elites engineered a politics of fear, insecurity and Brexit nationalism before and after the Brexit vote. The book situates Brexit within a wider shift in international political ideas, traces the resurgence in popularity of far-right politics and explores how Britain and Europe now face a choice between further neoliberal reform or radical democratic and social renewal. The book posits a number of policy responses that might serve as antidotes to the causes of Brexit and radical right populism centred on a new Social Europe, redistribution and social justice and forms of deliberative democracy that extend participation and preserve representative judgement in the British tradition of ‘pouring new wine into old bottles’.
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Parr, Sean M. Vocal Virtuosity. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197542644.001.0001.
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Vocal Virtuosity is a book about the apex of operatic vocalism. Nothing strikes the ear quite like a soprano singing in the sonic stratosphere. Whether thrilling, chilling, or repellent to the listener, the reaction to cascades of coloratura with climaxing high notes is strong. Coloratura—agile, rapid-fire singing—was originally essential for all singers, but its function changed greatly when it became the specialty of particular sopranos over the course of the nineteenth century. The central argument of Vocal Virtuosity runs counter to the historical commonplace that coloratura became an anachronism in nineteenth-century opera. Instead, the book demonstrates that melismas at mid-century were made modern. Coloratura became an increasingly marked musical gesture during the century with a correspondingly more specific dramaturgical function. In exploring this transformation, Parr’s research reveals the instigators of this change in vocal practice and the perpetuators of the art of coloratura. Vocal Virtuosity examines the historical traces of Parisian singers who were the period’s greatest exponents of vertiginous vocality as archetypes of the modern coloratura soprano. The book also explores what melismas can signify in operatic performance while constructing the historical trajectory of coloratura as it became gendered the provenance of the female singer. In arguing that vocal virtuosity was a source of power for women, generating space for female authorship and creativity, the book reclaims a place in history for the coloratura soprano.
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White, Jonathan. Politics of Last Resort. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198791720.001.0001.
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Prominent in the EU’s recent transformations has been the tendency to advance extraordinary measures in the name of crisis response. From emergency lending to macro-economics, border management to Brexit, policies are pursued unconventionally and as measures of last resort. This book investigates the nature, rise, and implications of this politics of emergency as it appears in the transnational setting. As the author argues, recourse to this method of rule is an expression of the deeper weakness of executive power in today’s Europe. It is how policy-makers contend with rising socio-economic power and diminishing representative ties, seeking fall-back authority in the management of crises. In the structure of the EU they find incentives and few impediments. Whereas political exceptionalism tends to be associated with sovereign power, here it is power’s diffusion and functional disaggregation that spurs politics in the emergency mode. The effect of these governing patterns is not just to challenge and reshape ideas of EU legitimacy rooted in constitutionalism and technocracy. The politics of emergency fosters a counter-politics in its mirror image, as populists and others play with themes of necessity and claim the right to disobedience in extremis. The book examines the prospects for democracy once the politics of emergency takes hold, and what it might mean to put transnational politics on a different footing.
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Lemon, Robert. The Taco Truck. University of Illinois Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042454.001.0001.
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When primarily immigrant, day-laboring clientele eat a meal at a traditional taco truck, the taco truck becomes a significant social space in which Mexican cultural identity is reaffirmed. But the traditional taco truck is also a politically charged symbolic space that can spark heated debates about Latino culture and the uses of street spaces in cities. This book uses the taco truck as a vehicle to tell a story about the Mexican American experience and identity and deconstructs the myriad meanings taco trucks represent to diverse community groups and how such meanings influence urban politics and the built environment. The traditional taco truck is a powerfully transformative feature of the American landscape because the trucks’ social spaces intersect with complex geographic processes of immigration, class, ethnicity, gentrification, commodification, food-ways, and the right to public space. Thus the book is also about power, privilege, and the political economy of cities and the novel ways marginalized Mexican immigrants take and remake urban space through their food practices. Through investigating taco trucks in various U.S. metropolises, this book elucidates the ways neoliberal cities work and how Mexican immigrants claim their right to the city.
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Taylor-Gooby, Peter, Benjamin Leruth, and Heejung Chung, eds. After Austerity. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198790266.001.0001.
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European welfare states are undergoing profound change, driven by globalisation, technical changes, and population ageing. More immediately the aftermath of the Great Recession and unprecedented levels of immigration have imposed additional pressures. This book examines welfare state transformations across a representative range of European countries and at the EU level, and considers likely new directions in social policy. It reviews the dominant neo-liberal austerity response and discusses social investment, fightback, welfare chauvinism and protectionism. It argues that the class solidarities and cleavages that shaped the development of welfare states are no longer powerful. Tensions surrounding divisions between old and young, women and men, immigrants and denizens, and the winners in a new more competitive world and those who feel left behind are becoming steadily more important. European countries have entered a period of greater political instability and this is reflected in policy directions. Austerity predominates nearly everywhere, but patterns of social investment, protectionism, neo-Keynesian intervention and fightback vary between countries. We identify areas of convergence and difference in European welfare state futures.
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Cremona, Marise, and Claire Kilpatrick, eds. EU Legal Acts. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198817468.001.0001.
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In this collection of essays, which were first presented at the Academy of European Law in Florence, we bring together a series of contributions which explore the changing landscape of the EU’s legal acts, and the boundaries between legal acts and acts and processes which may create norms but which do not create ‘law’ in the traditional sense. We bring together two different ways of looking at this picture. The first is to focus on the transformations in and challenges to the EU’s ‘classic’ or traditional legal acts, in particular since the reconfiguration of the categories of legal act and the procedures for their adoption by the Lisbon Treaty. The second perspective is to focus on those acts found at – or beyond – the margin of the classic EU legal acts, including acts of the Member States such as inter se treaties; self-regulation and collective agreements; so-called soft law; and decision-making outside the normal legislative procedures. On the one hand, the volume is concerned to explain this somewhat puzzling adaptability of the EU legal order given that the legal instruments at the Union’s disposal appear essentially the same as they were when the Treaty of Rome came into force 60 years ago (regulations, directives, decisions and international agreements). On the other, it explores the challenges the making and quality of acts pose for the EU’s legal order, such as alterations to institutional balance and the roles of the different institutional actors and challenges to the rule of law.
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Chislett, William. Spain. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780199936441.001.0001.
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Spain has undergone significant transformations over the past three decades, from a dictatorship to a democracy and from a mostly local and agriculture-based economy to one of the biggest financial systems in the EU and internationally. Until 2008, it enjoyed a major influx of foreign investment and the most rapid economic growth of any of the countries in the EU, resulting in half of the new jobs created during the early days of the Union. Yet, it now faces the highest rate of unemployment in Europe and slow growth for the foreseeable future. Additionally, the country faces internal strife from the separatist Catalan region and stringent austerity measures. In Spain: What Everyone Needs to Know, veteran journalist William Chislett recounts the country's fascinating and often turbulent history, beginning with the Muslim conquest in 711 and ending with the nation's deep economic crisis, sparked by the spectacular collapse of its real estate and construction sectors. He explains how some of the ghosts of the 1936-39 Civil War were laid to rest and the country moved to democracy, and covers issues such as the devolution of power to the country's 17 regions, the creation of a welfare state, the influx of several million immigrants over a very short time span, the religious cleavage, the strengths and weaknesses of the economy and how the country can create a more sustainable economic model. What happens in Spain matters. As Chislett shows, the country is much more than bullfighting and flamenco. It is an international economic power, and its future will significantly shape that of the European Union.
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Yilmaz, Fatih, María Jesús Santos Sánchez, Araceli Queiruga-Dios, Jesús Martín-Vaquero, and Melek Sofyalioğlu, eds. International Conference on Mathematics and its Applications in Science and Engineering (ICMASE 2020). Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14201/0aq0302.
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This abstract booklet includes the abstracts of the papers that have been presented at International Conference on Mathematics and its Applications in Science and Engineering (ICMASE 2020) which is held in Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University, Ankara, Turkey between 9-10 July, 2020, via Online because of Covid 19 pandemia. The aim of this conference is to exchange ideas, discuss developments in mathematics, develop collaborations and interact with professionals and researchers from all over the world in with some of the following interesting topics: Functional Analysis, Approximation Theory, Real Analysis, Complex Analysis, Harmonic and non-Harmonic Analysis, Applied Analysis, Numerical Analysis, Geometry, Topology and Algebra, Modern Methods in Summability and Approximation, Operator Theory, Fixed Point Theory and Applications, Sequence Spaces and Matrix Transformation, Modern Methods in Summability and Approximation, Spectral Theory and Diferantial Operators, Boundary Value Problems, Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations, Discontinuous Differential Equations, Convex Analysis and its Applications, Optimization and its Application, Mathematics Education, Application on Variable Exponent Lebesgue Spaces, Applications on Differential Equations and Partial Differential Equations, Fourier Analysis, Wavelet and Harmonic Analysis Methods in Function Spaces, Applications on Computer Engineering, Flow Dynamics. However, the talks are not restricted to these subjects only. I am pleased to tell that this conference is also organized as a final multiplier event of the Rules_Math Project, supported by the EU.
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Dworkin, Craig. Helicography. punctum books, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.53288/0352.1.00.
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Part art history essay, part experimental fiction, part theoretical manifesto on the politics of equivalence, Helicography examines questions of scale in relation to Robert Smithson’s iconic 1970 artwork Spiral Jetty. In an essay and film made to accompany the earthwork, Smithson invites us to imagine the stone helix of his structure at various orders of magnitude, from microscopic molecules to entire galaxies. Taking up this invitation with an unrelenting and literal enthusiasm, Helicography pursues the implications of such transformations all the way to the limits of logic. If other spirals, from the natural to the man-made, were expanded or condensed to the size of Spiral Jetty, what are the consequences of their physical metamorphoses? What other equivalences follow in turn, and where do their surprising historical, cultural, and mechanical connections lead? This book considers a number of forms in order to find out: the fluid vortices of whirlpools, hurricanes, and galaxies; the delicate shells of snails and the threatening pose of rattlesnakes; prehistoric ferns and the turns of the inner ear; the monstrous jaws of ancient sharks; a baroque finial scroll on a bass viol; a 19th-century watch spring; phonograph discs and spooled film; the largest open-pit mine on the planet. The result is a narrative laboratory for the “science of imaginary solutions” proposed by Alfred Jarry (whose King Ubu also plays a central role in the story told here), a work of fictocriticism blurring form and content, and the story of a single instant in time lost in the deserts of the intermountain west.
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Farrell, David M., and Niamh Hardiman, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Irish Politics. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198823834.001.0001.
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Ireland has enjoyed continuous democratic government for almost a century, an unusual experience among countries that gained their independence in the twentieth century. But the way this works has changed dramatically over time. Ireland’s colonial past has had an enduring influence over political life, enabling stable institutions of democratic accountability, while also shaping economic underdevelopment and persistent emigration. More recently, membership of the EU has brought about far-reaching transformation across almost all aspects of life. But the paradoxes have only intensified. Now one of the most open economies in the world, Ireland has experienced both rapid growth and a severe crash in the wake of the Great Recession. By some measures, Ireland is among the most affluent countries in the world, yet this is not the lived experience for many of its citizens. Ireland is an unequivocally modern state, yet public life continues to be marked by ideas and values in which tradition and modernity are uneasy bedfellows. It is a small state that has ambitions to carry more weight on the world stage. Ireland continues to be deeply connected to Britain through ties of culture and trade, now matters of deep concern post-Brexit. And the old fault lines between North and South, between Ireland and Britain, which had been at the core of one of Europe’s longest and bloodiest civil conflicts, risk being reopened. These key issues are teased out in this book, making it the most comprehensive volume on Irish politics to date.