This book offers an overview of social media usage in Japan and describes its role in society during mid-level disruptions by natural disasters. Conceived during and after the Great East Japan Earthquake that devastated large portions of the north-eastern area of Japan, this volume addresses the links between Japanese civil society and the social media scene, using both traditional hypothesis t…
1. Introduction -- 2. Collective Recollections: Approaches to Memory in Sociology -- 3. Our Town–Our School–My Research -- 4. Narrating Recollections -- 5. Constructing a Cultural Trauma -- 6. Silence, Youth, and Change -- 7. Fine Families and a Forgotten Past: The New Narrative -- 8. Techniques of Memory -- 9. Conclusion.This illuminating volume examines how the 1963 bombing of the Sixteen…
Chapter 1: Food Security and the Colonial Impact -- SECTION 1: Food and Food Knowledge -- Chapter 2: Framing Indigenous Foodways Prior to Colonization -- Chapter 3: Endogenous Edible Foods at First Contact -- Chapter 4: Bringing Exogenous Foods to Australia -- SECTION 2: Food across the Colonial Frontier -- Chapter 5: Surviving the Emergency Food Context -- Chapter 6: Provisions, Seed Collector…
Introduction -- Hopeful Disappointment. Cultural Morphology and the Relation between China and Europe -- Self as Other. Indigenous Psychology and the Defining of a Chinese Subjectivity -- The Chineseness of Huang Yong Ping and the risks of essentialisation -- The attempt of the Xieyi (essentialist) Theatre 寫意話劇 in the history of the Chinese Spoken Theatre -- Manzhouli or Manchzhuriya? L…
Introduction -- Understanding Youth Rights -- Conflict in North east India: An Overview -- Youth Participation in Conflict in North East India -- Youth Rights in North East India -- Conclusion.This book examines how conflict has affected the rights of youth in Northeast India. Examining youth engagement in protracted conflict and its impact on youth rights, the author considers the complex issu…
The Human-Computer Interface -- Semiotic Mirrors: The Interface as a Place of Sign/Signal Mediating -- Embodiment: The Role of the Body, Gaze Behavior and Emotions -- Counting as Machine, Counting as Human.Claude Draude analyzes embodied software agents – interface solutions that are designed to talk back and give emotional feedback – from a gender and media studies perspective. She address…
1. Introduction -- 2. Beyond Body-Centrism: Contemporary Food Discourses and Feminist Research -- 3. A Smorgasbord of Food Femininities: Analysing Gender in Popular Food Discourses -- 4. Femininities-Lite: Feminist Empowerment and Diet Culture -- 5. Cooking Up Femininities: The Conflict Between Motherhood and Pleasure -- 6. Flavours of Feminism: The Personal is Personal -- 7. Unveiling a Patho…
1. Introduction: Urban Utopias - Excess and Expulsion in Neoliberal India and Sri Lanka -- 2. The Impossibility of World Class Slum Free Indian Cities and the Fantasy of ‘Two Indias’ -- 3. Guarded Luxotopias and Expulsions in New Delhi: Aesthetics and Ideology of Outer and Inner Spaces of an Urban Utopia -- 4. Golden or Green? Growth Infrastructures and Resistance in Goa -- 5. Vikasanam: Th…
1. Introduction -- 2. Doing Family: Exploring Everyday Lived Culture -- 3. Bilingualism: A Gift or a Burden -- 4. Food Choices in Mixed Families -- 5. Forming a Mixed Family Culture: In Search of Home and Friends -- 6. Conclusion.This book offers a nuanced picture of mixed family life in the UK. Specifically, the book explores how parents from different backgrounds create a place of belonging f…
Part I. Communities, Development and Culture -- Chapter 1. Re-thinking Community Quality of Life in Latin American Countries; Graciela Tonon -- Chapter 2. Quality of Life of the Guarani Community in South America; Lía Rodriguez de la Vega and Héctor Rodriguez -- Chapter 3. Exploring the Concept and Practices of Felicitas Publica at Lisbon University: A Community and Relational Approach to Wel…