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Diasporic Hallyu : The Korean Wave in Korean Canadian Youth Culture
This open access book examines the lived experiences of diasporic Korean youth in light of the transnational flows of South Korean popular culture, known as the Korean Wave, or Hallyu. Drawing on an ethnographic study of Korean Canadian youth and their engagement with the Korean Wave, the book proposes a critical understanding of the interactions between diasporic youth audiences and popular cu…
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- 9
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030949648
- Collation
- ix; 152p;
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- -
- Call Number
- 305.2350971 DIA K
City of crisis : the multiple contestation of southern European cities
The ongoing crisis in Europe has dramatic impact on the life in many Southern European cities: Unemployment, social deprivation, poverty, political instability, severe cuts in the welfare state budgets and a wide spread feeling of despair have eroded much of the social foundation of the cities. In this book, contributors from Spain, Greece, Portugal and Italy provide an insight into the complex…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783839428429
- Collation
- 249 p. : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 337.142 ECK c
Mnemonic solidarity : global interventions
This open access book provides a concise introduction to a critical development in memory studies. A global memory formation has emerged since the 1990s, in which memories of traumatic histories in different parts of the world, often articulated in the terms established by Holocaust memory, have become entangled, reconciled, contested, conflicted and negotiated across borders. As historical act…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030576691
- Collation
- xi, 135p, : ill
- Series Title
- Entangled Memories in the Global South
- Call Number
- 306.09 JIE m
Precarious crossings : immigration, neoliberalism, and the Atlantic
Examines the underlying precarity in twenty-first-century immigrant fiction and reveals the contradictions inherent in neoliberalism as an ideology.
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780814255520
- Collation
- ix, 232 p. : ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 809.933552 PER p
Adaptation in the age of media convergence
This collection considers new phenomena emerging in a convergence environment from the perspective of adaptation studies. The contributions take the most prominent methods within the field to offer reconsiderations of theoretical concepts and practices in participatory culture, transmedia franchises, and new media adaptations. The authors discuss phenomena ranging from mash-ups of novels and Yo…
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- 10
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789048534012
- Collation
- 232 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 700.457 FEH a
Development in turbulent times : the many faces of inequality within Europe
This open access book explores the most recent trends in the EU in terms of development, progress, and performance. Ten years after the 2008 economic crisis, and amidst a digital revolution that is intensifying the development race, the European Union, and especially Central and Eastern Europe, are ardently searching for their development priorities. Against this background, by relying on a cro…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030113612
- Collation
- 197p. ; ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 330.94 PAU d
Pecalang: Kearifan Lokal Hukum Adat Bali
Keberadaan masyarakat hukum adat di Indonesia hingga saat ini belum berada dalam keadaan yang stabil, baik dari segi politik, hukum, budaya, maupun ekonomi. Bahkan, sering kali dijumpai konflik yang terjadi di masyarakat hukum adat yang bertolakbelakang dengan kepentingan negara. Meskipun demikian, tidak semua masyarakat saling berkonflik, masih terdapat masyarakat yang berusaha menjaga kebuday…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9786024962685
- Collation
- xix, 196 p.; 14,8 × 21 cm
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- -
- Call Number
- 340.5 MUL p
DiverCity - global cities as a literary phenomenon : Toronto, New York, and L…
Based on the structured analysis of selected North American novels, this work examines global cities as a literary phenomenon (»DiverCity«). By analyzing Dionne Brand's Toronto, »What We All Long For« (2005), Chang-rae Lee's New York, »Native Speaker« (1995), and Karen Tei Yamashita's Los Angeles, »Tropic of Orange« (1997), Melanie U. Pooch provides the connecting link f…
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- 20
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783839435410
- Collation
- 241 p. : ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 810.9 POO d
Negotiating climate change in crisis
Climate change negotiations have failed the world. Despite more than thirty years of high-level, global talks on climate change, we are still seeing carbon emissions rise dramatically. This edited volume, comprising leading and emerging scholars and climate activists from around the world, takes a critical look at what has gone wrong and what is to be done to create more decisive action. Com…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781800642621
- Collation
- xxxiii, 474 p. ; ill
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- -
- Call Number
- 363.73874 BOH n
Hybridity, or the cultural logic of globalization
The intermingling of people and media from different cultures is a communication-based phenomenon known as hybridity. Drawing on original research from Lebanon to Mexico and analyzing the use of the term in cultural and postcolonial studies (as well as the popular and business media), Marwan Kraidy offers readers a history of the idea and a set of prescriptions for its future use. Kraidy analyz…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 1592131433
- Collation
- xiii, 211 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 306 KRA h
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