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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -What are organizations Where do they come from How are they transformed and adapted to new situations In the digital age and in the global network society, traditional theories of the organization can no longer answer these questions. Based on actor-network theory, this book explains organizations as flexible, open networks in which both human and non-human actors enter into socio-technical assemblies by constantly negotiating and re-negotiating programs of action. Organizations are not macro social structures or autonomous systems operating behind the backs of individuals. Instead, they are scalable actor-networks guided by network norms of connectivity, flow, communication, participation, authenticity, and flexibility. 272 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -What are organizations Where do they come from How are they transformed and adapted to new situations In the digital age and in the global network society, traditional theories of the organization can no longer answer these questions. Based on actor-network theory, this book explains organizations as flexible, open networks in which both human and non-human actors enter into socio-technical assemblies by constantly negotiating and re-negotiating programs of action. Organizations are not macro social structures or autonomous systems operating behind the backs of individuals. Instead, they are scalable actor-networks guided by network norms of connectivity, flow, communication, participation, authenticity, and flexibility. 272 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This volume is a response to the growing need for new methodological approaches to the rapidly changing landscape of new forms of performative practices. The authors address a host of contemporary phenomena situated at the crossroads between science and fiction which employ various media and merge live participation with mediated hybrid experiences at both affective and cognitive level. All essays collected here move across disciplinary divisions in order to provide an account of these new tendencies, thus providing food for thought for a wide readership ranging from performative studies to the social sciences, philosophy and cultural studies. 260 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Automated facial recognition algorithms are increasingly intervening in society. This book offers a unique analysis of these algorithms from a critical visual culture studies perspective. The first part of this study examines the example of an early facial recognition algorithm called »eigenface« and traces a history of the merging of statistics and vision. The second part addresses contemporary artistic engagements with facial recognition technology in the work of Thomas Ruff, Zach Blas, and Trevor Paglen. This book argues that we must take a closer look at the technology of automated facial recognition and claims that its forms of representation are embedded with visual politics. Even more significantly, this technology is redefining what it means to see and be seen in the contemporary world. 198 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This volume is a response to the growing need for new methodological approaches to the rapidly changing landscape of new forms of performative practices. The authors address a host of contemporary phenomena situated at the crossroads between science and fiction which employ various media and merge live participation with mediated hybrid experiences at both affective and cognitive level. All essays collected here move across disciplinary divisions in order to provide an account of these new tendencies, thus providing food for thought for a wide readership ranging from performative studies to the social sciences, philosophy and cultural studies. 260 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Automated facial recognition algorithms are increasingly intervening in society. This book offers a unique analysis of these algorithms from a critical visual culture studies perspective. The first part of this study examines the example of an early facial recognition algorithm called »eigenface« and traces a history of the merging of statistics and vision. The second part addresses contemporary artistic engagements with facial recognition technology in the work of Thomas Ruff, Zach Blas, and Trevor Paglen. This book argues that we must take a closer look at the technology of automated facial recognition and claims that its forms of representation are embedded with visual politics. Even more significantly, this technology is redefining what it means to see and be seen in the contemporary world. 198 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -What are organizations Where do they come from How are they transformed and adapted to new situations In the digital age and in the global network society, traditional theories of the organization can no longer answer these questions. Based on actor-network theory, this book explains organizations as flexible, open networks in which both human and non-human actors enter into socio-technical assemblies by constantly negotiating and re-negotiating programs of action. Organizations are not macro social structures or autonomous systems operating behind the backs of individuals. Instead, they are scalable actor-networks guided by network norms of connectivity, flow, communication, participation, authenticity, and flexibility.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This volume is a response to the growing need for new methodological approaches to the rapidly changing landscape of new forms of performative practices. The authors address a host of contemporary phenomena situated at the crossroads between science and fiction which employ various media and merge live participation with mediated hybrid experiences at both affective and cognitive level. All essays collected here move across disciplinary divisions in order to provide an account of these new tendencies, thus providing food for thought for a wide readership ranging from performative studies to the social sciences, philosophy and cultural studies.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Automated facial recognition algorithms are increasingly intervening in society. This book offers a unique analysis of these algorithms from a critical visual culture studies perspective. The first part of this study examines the example of an early facial recognition algorithm called 'eigenface' and traces a history of the merging of statistics and vision. The second part addresses contemporary artistic engagements with facial recognition technology in the work of Thomas Ruff, Zach Blas, and Trevor Paglen. This book argues that we must take a closer look at the technology of automated facial recognition and claims that its forms of representation are embedded with visual politics. Even more significantly, this technology is redefining what it means to see and be seen in the contemporary world.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Immanuel Wallerstein's world-systems theory can help to better understand and describe developments of the 21st century. The contributors address the possibilities to reread Wallerstein's theoretical thoughts and ideas that are related to different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. The presented interdisciplinary approach of this anthology thereby intends to highlight the broader value of Wallerstein's ideas, even almost five decades after the famous sociologist and economic historian first expressed them.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - What are organizations Where do they come from How are they transformed and adapted to new situations In the digital age and in the global network society, traditional theories of the organization can no longer answer these questions. Based on actor-network theory, this book explains organizations as flexible, open networks in which both human and non-human actors enter into socio-technical assemblies by constantly negotiating and re-negotiating programs of action. Organizations are not macro social structures or autonomous systems operating behind the backs of individuals. Instead, they are scalable actor-networks guided by network norms of connectivity, flow, communication, participation, authenticity, and flexibility.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This volume is a response to the growing need for new methodological approaches to the rapidly changing landscape of new forms of performative practices. The authors address a host of contemporary phenomena situated at the crossroads between science and fiction which employ various media and merge live participation with mediated hybrid experiences at both affective and cognitive level. All essays collected here move across disciplinary divisions in order to provide an account of these new tendencies, thus providing food for thought for a wide readership ranging from performative studies to the social sciences, philosophy and cultural studies.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Automated facial recognition algorithms are increasingly intervening in society. This book offers a unique analysis of these algorithms from a critical visual culture studies perspective. The first part of this study examines the example of an early facial recognition algorithm called »eigenface« and traces a history of the merging of statistics and vision. The second part addresses contemporary artistic engagements with facial recognition technology in the work of Thomas Ruff, Zach Blas, and Trevor Paglen. This book argues that we must take a closer look at the technology of automated facial recognition and claims that its forms of representation are embedded with visual politics. Even more significantly, this technology is redefining what it means to see and be seen in the contemporary world.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - How do humans, their needs, and technology interact in society Marcel Siegler explores the dialectical relationship between human needs and desires, the demands and requirements of the built world, and the forms of organization that hold both humans and the built world together. He argues that complex societal constellations emerge from the actions individuals perform with the technological means at hand to satisfy their needs and desires in the short and long run. Based on a novel, complementary reading of French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, the study develops a conceptual framework for analyzing the intricate machinations of sociotechnical systems from a perspective on situated human-technology interaction.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Focusing on a private collection of 60 postcards of modern architecture in Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai and Agra, the contributors to this volume explore the many dimensions of modern architecture in India from the 1890s to the 1970s and share their own perspective on these objects. Experts on architectural history and visual studies, as well as postcard collectors provide new insights into a territory and its architectural heritage which is still largely unknown in Europe, and reflect on the postcard as a medium for historical research.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The romance of extraction underlies and partly defines Western modernity and our cultural imaginaries. Combining affect studies and environmental humanities, this volume analyzes societies' devotion to extraction and fossil resources. This devotion is shaped by a nostalgic view on settler colonialism as well as by contemporary »affective economies« (Sara Ahmed). The contributors examine the links between forms of extractivism and gendered discourses of sentimentality and the ways in which cultural narratives and practices deploy the sentimental mode (in plots of attachment, sacrifice, and suffering) to promote or challenge extractivism.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -In Bolivia's plurinational conjuncture, novel political articulations, legal reform, and processes of collective identification converge in unprecedented efforts to 're-found' the country and transform its society. This ethnography explores the experiences of Afrodescendants in plurinational Bolivia and offers a fresh perspective on the social and political transformations shaping the country as a whole. Moritz Heck analyzes Afrobolivian social and cultural practices at the intersections of local communities, politics, and the law, shedding light on novel articulations of Afrobolivianity and evolving processes of collective identification. This study also contributes to broader anthropological debates on blackness and indigeneity in Latin America by pointing out their conceptual entanglements and continuous interactions in political and social practice. 326 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -In Bolivia's plurinational conjuncture, novel political articulations, legal reform, and processes of collective identification converge in unprecedented efforts to 're-found' the country and transform its society. This ethnography explores the experiences of Afrodescendants in plurinational Bolivia and offers a fresh perspective on the social and political transformations shaping the country as a whole. Moritz Heck analyzes Afrobolivian social and cultural practices at the intersections of local communities, politics, and the law, shedding light on novel articulations of Afrobolivianity and evolving processes of collective identification. This study also contributes to broader anthropological debates on blackness and indigeneity in Latin America by pointing out their conceptual entanglements and continuous interactions in political and social practice. 326 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Bereits vor der Corona-Pandemie waren unterschiedliche gesellschaftliche Krisen auszumachen: Soziale Ungleichheiten, der aufkommende Rechtspopulismus und der menschengemachte Klimawandel stellen uns vor große Herausforderungen. Auch die Kulturinstitutionen bleiben von diesen Entwicklungen nicht unberührt. Neben einem Publikumsrückgang und Relevanzfragen gibt es zunehmend Kritik an veralteten Führungsstilen. Es scheint, als ob viele Einrichtungen dem Wandel gesellschaftlicher Erwartungen nicht mehr gerecht werden. Die Beiträger\*innen versammeln Stimmen von Menschen aus dem Kulturbereich, die schonungslos Bedarfe offenlegen - und damit für eine Kulturpolitik der Transformation werben. 240 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Bereits vor der Corona-Pandemie waren unterschiedliche gesellschaftliche Krisen auszumachen: Soziale Ungleichheiten, der aufkommende Rechtspopulismus und der menschengemachte Klimawandel stellen uns vor große Herausforderungen. Auch die Kulturinstitutionen bleiben von diesen Entwicklungen nicht unberührt. Neben einem Publikumsrückgang und Relevanzfragen gibt es zunehmend Kritik an veralteten Führungsstilen. Es scheint, als ob viele Einrichtungen dem Wandel gesellschaftlicher Erwartungen nicht mehr gerecht werden. Die Beiträger\*innen versammeln Stimmen von Menschen aus dem Kulturbereich, die schonungslos Bedarfe offenlegen - und damit für eine Kulturpolitik der Transformation werben. 240 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Eltern geraten oft an die Grenzen ihrer Belastbarkeit: Kinder zu versorgen ist harte Arbeit, die zunehmend unter ungenügenden sozio-ökonomischen Rahmenbedingungen realisiert werden muss. Dennoch konzentrieren sich Wissenschaft und Politik in ihren Analysen immer noch auf die Erwerbsarbeit. Diese Studie ändert das: Wibke Derboven blickt unter arbeitssoziologischer Perspektive tief hinein in die Arbeit von Eltern verschiedenster gesellschaftlicher Bereiche. Ihre Ergebnisse zeigen ein gleichermaßen breites wie differenziertes Bild elterlicher Arbeitsweisen und machen deutlich: Eltern haben zum Teil höhere Anforderungen zu meistern als Erwerbsarbeitende der obersten Hierarchieebenen. 180 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Eltern geraten oft an die Grenzen ihrer Belastbarkeit: Kinder zu versorgen ist harte Arbeit, die zunehmend unter ungenügenden sozio-ökonomischen Rahmenbedingungen realisiert werden muss. Dennoch konzentrieren sich Wissenschaft und Politik in ihren Analysen immer noch auf die Erwerbsarbeit. Diese Studie ändert das: Wibke Derboven blickt unter arbeitssoziologischer Perspektive tief hinein in die Arbeit von Eltern verschiedenster gesellschaftlicher Bereiche. Ihre Ergebnisse zeigen ein gleichermaßen breites wie differenziertes Bild elterlicher Arbeitsweisen und machen deutlich: Eltern haben zum Teil höhere Anforderungen zu meistern als Erwerbsarbeitende der obersten Hierarchieebenen. 180 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -In Bolivia's plurinational conjuncture, novel political articulations, legal reform, and processes of collective identification converge in unprecedented efforts to 're-found' the country and transform its society. This ethnography explores the experiences of Afrodescendants in plurinational Bolivia and offers a fresh perspective on the social and political transformations shaping the country as a whole. Moritz Heck analyzes Afrobolivian social and cultural practices at the intersections of local communities, politics, and the law, shedding light on novel articulations of Afrobolivianity and evolving processes of collective identification. This study also contributes to broader anthropological debates on blackness and indigeneity in Latin America by pointing out their conceptual entanglements and continuous interactions in political and social practice.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The Lower !Garib, or Orange River, flows through the historical Namaqualand and since 1990 has formed the international border between Namibia and South Africa. The contributors to this volume focus on this hardly discussed stretch of the Orange River to understand the region's social history, geography, and economy. This book brings together scholars from Namibia, South Africa, and overseas, as well as the knowledge and analysis from people living in the region. In concise chapters and short portraits, they discuss the region's past and present from a variety of perspectives.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - How is solidarity understood by the people who practice it actively and daily What is the role of solidarity in reconciling the relationship of individuals with the collective demands of communities that fight for the rights of others Based on a variety of anthropological, sociological, and philosophical writings as well as ethnographic research, Maria Giannoula takes an elaborated look at the emotional and spiritual aspects of political participation within an activist group in Greece in the 2010s. This study is a valuable resource for those researching social movements and alternative communities, focusing on the ways in which individuals organise their own forms of activism.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Immigration is a persistent and complex phenomenon intertwined with geographical, political, societal, and economic challenges. The number of international migrants has been continually increasing over the past five decades. The contributors to this volume dedicated to Professor Rebeca Raijman address various types of migrants like economic or labour migrants, forced migration and ethnic migrants. Implementing both qualitative and quantitative data and analyses, they provide insight on why individuals decide to migrate, how their decisions affect their own lives and the lives of their offspring, and how immigrants affect the receiving societies they arrive in.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The Journal of Cultural Management and Cultural Policy offers international perspectives on a wide range of issues in cultural management and cultural policy research and practice. The social situatedness of art and the interplay between artists, non-artists, institutions, and policy makers have changed in the past decades. Democracies are at risk and the geopolitical world order has changed. The global climate emergency and the rise of autocratic governments are just two forces posing new contexts and threatening possibilities for socially engaged art. At the same time, artists and curators are suspected of belonging to a new professional managerial class that entangles them in a neoliberal economic system. Can socially engaged art catalyze progressive civic consciousness Can art address big questions of social justice This issue provides some answers to these questions. …

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Russia's large-scale invasion on the 24th of February 2022 once again made Ukraine the focus of world media. Behind those headlines remain the complex developments in Ukraine's history, national identity, culture and society. Addressing readers from diverse backgrounds, this volume approaches the history of Ukraine and its people through primary sources, from the early modern period to the present. Each document is followed by an essay written by an expert on the period, and a conversational piece touching on the ongoing Russian aggression against Ukraine. In this ground-breaking collection, Ukraine's history is sensitively accounted for by scholars inviting the readers to revisit the country's history and culture.With a foreword by Olesya Khromeychuk.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Bereits vor der Corona-Pandemie waren unterschiedliche gesellschaftliche Krisen auszumachen: Soziale Ungleichheiten, der aufkommende Rechtspopulismus und der menschengemachte Klimawandel stellen uns vor große Herausforderungen. Auch die Kulturinstitutionen bleiben von diesen Entwicklungen nicht unberührt. Neben einem Publikumsrückgang und Relevanzfragen gibt es zunehmend Kritik an veralteten Führungsstilen. Es scheint, als ob viele Einrichtungen dem Wandel gesellschaftlicher Erwartungen nicht mehr gerecht werden. Die Beiträger\*innen versammeln Stimmen von Menschen aus dem Kulturbereich, die schonungslos Bedarfe offenlegen - und damit für eine Kulturpolitik der Transformation werben.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Eltern geraten oft an die Grenzen ihrer Belastbarkeit: Kinder zu versorgen ist harte Arbeit, die zunehmend unter ungenügenden sozio-ökonomischen Rahmenbedingungen realisiert werden muss. Dennoch konzentrieren sich Wissenschaft und Politik in ihren Analysen immer noch auf die Erwerbsarbeit. Diese Studie ändert das: Wibke Derboven blickt unter arbeitssoziologischer Perspektive tief hinein in die Arbeit von Eltern verschiedenster gesellschaftlicher Bereiche. Ihre Ergebnisse zeigen ein gleichermaßen breites wie differenziertes Bild elterlicher Arbeitsweisen und machen deutlich: Eltern haben zum Teil höhere Anforderungen zu meistern als Erwerbsarbeitende der obersten Hierarchieebenen.…