Part I: State of Research, Concepts and Methods -- Historical Disaster Experiences: First Steps towards a Comparative and Transcultural History of Disasters across Asia and Europe in the Pre-industrial Era -- Living with Hazard: Disaster Subcultures, Disaster Cultures and Risk-Mitigating Strategies -- Part II: Materiality of Disasters: Natural Impact, Social Experience -- Several Natural Disast…
INTRODUCTION. Still Paying Homage to Barcelona -- PART 1. IN THEORY -- Chapter 1. The Subject of Culture -- PART 2. TAMING THE POLITICAL CITIZEN -- Chapter 2. Culture is to the Social Materialization of Democracy as the Critical Subject is to Democratic Citizenship -- Chapter 3. Building Participatory Measures -- PART 3. THE OLYMPIC FRAMEWORK -- Chapter 4. Working for the City Image -- Chapter …
Part I: Situating Urbanization and Urban Governance -- Introduction -- Urbanization and Urban Governance in Developing Countries -- Part II: A Case Study of Mid-sized City of Jayapura, Papua, Indonesia -- An Introduction to Jayapura, Papua, Indonesia -- Types, Processes and Outputs of Formal Urban Governance in Jayapura -- Who Gains and Benefits from the Outcomes of Formal Urban Governance on B…
Chapter One -- 1.1.Industrial expansion, globalization and population health – The cases of England and Panama -- 1.2 Comparative measurement of health and development -- 1.3 A century’s worth of global change in development and health -- 1.4 What accounts for the difference in regional change? -- 1.4.1 Standard of living -- 1.4.2 Public investment, health infrastructure, and public health …
Chapter 1: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Three Sectors in Asia: The Contexts and Perspectives -- Chapter 2: BSR in Transitional China: Traditions, Practices, and Future -- Chapter 3: CSR in Japan: Towards Integration and Corporate-CSO Partnership -- Chapter 4: Business Social Responsibility in South Korea: A Study of Relationships among Korean Companies and NPOs -- Chapter 5: Corporat…
Preface; José Casanova -- Part 1: Basics of Diffused Religion -- 1. The Theory of Diffused Religion -- 2. Socialization and Diffused Religion -- 3. Values and Global Society -- 4. Diffused Secular Religiosity -- 5. World Diffused Religions -- Part 2: Diffused Religion In Practice -- 6. Religion and Politics: A Peculiar Case -- 7. Religion and Values -- 8. Diffused Values -- 9. From Invisible R…
1. Introduction -- 2. New Challenges for the Artist Enterprise -- 3. Cultural Products -- 4. The Economic Footprint of Artist-Enterprises -- 5. A Permanent and Polymorphous Figure -- 6. Fitting Artistic and Economic Dynamics -- 7. Trust as a Market Driver -- 8. Challenge of attention, Curse of liquidity -- 9. Organizing A Creative Process -- 10. Markets and Networks -- 11. Conclusion: The Artis…
1. INTRODUCTION.- 1.1 Discussed aspects and their respective salience.- 1.2 The Kam people, language, and their homeland.- 1.3 The Kam autonym and Kam history.- 1.4 Religion.- 1.5 Kam language and orthography.- 1.6 Summary.- 2. RESEARCH QUESTIONS AND FRAMEWORK.- 2.1 Scope of this present research.- 2.2 Literature review.- 2.3 Schiffrin’s five-plane discourse model.- 2.4 Summary.- …
Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The lifestyle migrants -- Chapter 3: The lifestylers' children -- Chapter 4: The lifestyle migrants' grandchildren -- Chapter 5: Conclusion.This book explores the adaptation processes of German-speaking immigrants and their descendants into New Zealand’s predominantly Anglophone society. Specifically, it considers the experiences and long-term consequence…
ReThinking Management and Cultural Turns -- Culture and Creativity -- Applications and Activities. .This book assembles multi-disciplinary contributions to delve deeper into ReThinking Management. The first part provides some foundational considerations and inspirations. Further chapters offer more specific links to the arts and creativity sectors as well as empirical research and case reflecti…