1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457927303321

Titolo

Building a dynamic Europe : the key policy debates / / edited by Jordi Gual [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004

ISBN

1-107-14721-2

1-280-43743-X

0-511-16528-5

0-511-16569-2

0-511-16376-2

0-511-31269-5

0-511-49243-X

0-511-16456-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 170 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

337.1/42

Soggetti

European Union countries Economic policy

Europe Economic integration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The new governance of Europe: parliamentary or presidential? / Gérard Roland -- Improving the performance of the European social model: the welfare state over the individual life cycle / Assar Lindbeck -- Integrating and liberalizing the market for network services: gas and electricity / David M. Newbery -- Challenges for macroeconomic policy in EMU / Francesco Giavazzi -- The integration of EU banking markets / Jordi Gual.

Sommario/riassunto

This succinct book provides a broad panorama of the key economic policy challenges facing the European Union today. The enlargement of the EU and its lacklustre performance over the last decade in terms of employment and productivity growth have prompted wide-ranging calls for economic reform, both at the EU level and within member states. This volume brings together several leading thinkers in the key areas of policy under discussion, ranging from the institutional design of the



enlarged EU for efficient policy making, to the extent and nature of the integration process in markets such as those of energy and financial services. It includes an analysis of the problems of macroeconomic policy co-ordination in the EU and an analysis of the reforms in the labour markets and welfare state institutions. Timely and authoritative, this book is accessibly written and will appeal to a wide policy audience.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910267952903321

Autore

Yochim Emily Chivers

Titolo

Skate life : re-imagining white masculinity / / Emily Chivers Yochim

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : The University of Michigan Press : , : The University of Michigan Library, , [2010]

©2010

ISBN

1-282-63910-2

9786612639104

0-472-02660-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 225 pages ) : illustrations; digital file(s)

Collana

Technologies of the Imagination: New Media in Everyday Life

Disciplina

796.22

Soggetti

Skateboarding - Social aspects

Masculinity in sports

Men, White - United States - Attitudes

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Regarding Skate Life -- "The mix of sunshine and rebellion is really intoxicating": American Mythologies, Rebellious Boys, and the Multiple Appeals of Skateboarding's Corresponding Culture, 1950-2006 -- "Freedom on four wheels": Individuality, Self-Expression, and Authentic Masculinity in a Skateboarding Community -- "Why is it the things that make you a man tend to be such dumb things to do?": Never-Ending Adolescence and the (De)stabilization of White Masculine Power on MTV -- "It's just what's possible": Imagining Alternative Masculinities and Performing



White Male Dominance in Niche Skateboarding Videos -- "You do it together, and everyone just does it in their own way": Corresponding Cultures and (Anti)patriarchal Masculinity -- Method -- Notes -- Bibliography.

Sommario/riassunto

"Intellectually deft and lively to read, Skate Life is an important addition to the literature on youth cultures, contemporary masculinity, and the role of media in identity formation."  ---Janice A. Radway, Northwestern University, author of Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature    "With her elegant research design and sophisticated array of anthropological and media studies approaches, Emily Chivers Yochim has produced one of the best books about race, gender, and class that I have read in the last ten years. In a moment where celebratory studies of youth, youth subcultures, and their relationship to media abound, this book stands as a brilliantly argued analysis of the limitations of youth subcultures and their ambiguous relationship to mainstream commercial culture."  ---Ellen Seiter, University of Southern California    "Yochim has made a valuable contribution to media and cultural studies as well as youth and American studies by conducting this research and by coining the phrase 'corresponding cultures,' which conceptualizes the complex and dynamic processes skateboarders employ to negotiate their identities as part of both mainstream and counter-cultures."  ---JoEllen Fisherkeller, New York University      Skate Life examines how young male skateboarders use skate culture media in the production of their identities. Emily Chivers Yochim offers a comprehensive ethnographic analysis of an Ann Arbor, Michigan, skateboarding community, situating it within a larger historical examination of skateboarding's portrayal in mainstream media and a critique of mainstream, niche, and locally produced media texts (such as, for example, Jackass, Viva La Bam, and Dogtown and Z-Boys). The book uses these elements to argue that adolescent boys can both critique dominant norms of masculinity and maintain the power that white

heterosexual masculinity offers. Additionally, Yochim uses these analyses to introduce the notion of "corresponding cultures," conceptualizing the ways in which media audiences both argue with and incorporate mediated images into their own ideas about identity. In a strong combination of anthropological and media studies approaches, Skate Life asks important questions of the literature on youth and provides new ways of assessing how young people create their identities.    Emily Chivers Yochim is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Arts, Allegheny College.    Cover design by Brian V. Smith.