1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463984603321

Autore

Zhurzhenko Tatʹi͡ana

Titolo

Borderlands into bordered lands : geopolitics of identity in post-Soviet Ukraine / / Tatiana Zhurzhenko ; with a foreword by Dieter Segert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stuttgart, Germany : , : Ibidem Verlag, , 2014

ISBN

3-8382-6042-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (333 p.)

Collana

Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society

Disciplina

947.7086

Soggetti

Geopolitics - Ukraine

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Abbreviations; List of Images; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I Remapping the Post-Soviet Space; 1 ""Eurasia"" and Its Uses in the Ukrainian GeopoliticalImagination; 2 Slavic Sisters into European Neighbours:Ukrainian-Belarusian relations after 1991; II Bordering Nations, Transcending Boundaries; 3 Under Construction: the Ukrainian-Russian Borderfrom the Soviet Collapse to EU Enlargement; 4 Boundary in Mind: Discourses and Narrativesof the Ukrainian-Russian Border; 5 ""Slobozhanshchyna"": Re-inventing a Regionin the Ukrainian-Russian Borderlands

III Living (with the) Border6 Making Sense of a New Border: Social Transformationsand Shifting Identities in Five Near-Border Villages; 7 Becoming Ukrainians in a ""Russian"" Village:Local Identity, Language and National Belonging

Sommario/riassunto

Since 1991, post-Soviet political elites in Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus have been engaged in nation- as well as state-building. They have tried to strengthen territorial sovereignty and national security, re-shape collective identities and re-narrate national histories. Former Soviet republics have become new neighbours, partners, and competitors searching for geopolitical identity in the new ""Eastern Europe"", i.e. the countries left outside the enlarged EU. Old paradigms such as ""Eurasia"" or ""East Slavic civilisation"" have been re-invented and politically instrumentalized in the i



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464345703321

Titolo

Women's retreat : voices of female faculty in higher education / / edited by Atsuko Seto and Mary Alice Bruce

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : University Press Of America, , 2013

ISBN

0-7618-6114-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SetoAtsuko

BruceMary Alice

Disciplina

378.0082

Soggetti

Women college teachers - United States

Women in education - United States

Universities and colleges - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographies and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Section One: Career Development; Chapter 1. Parallel Play at the Mad Hatter's Tea House: Writing-In-Relation; Chapter 2. Passionate About Teaching; Chapter 3. A Photograph of Women in Academe: ""Dr. Mom""; Chapter 4. Mentoring: Authentic Connections and Pathways; Section Two: Balancing Personal and Professional Life; Chapter 5. Dancing Backward in High Heels: Balancing Traditionally Male Academia within Feminine Life; Chapter 6. Professional Expectations and Partnership: Perspectives from the Beginning, Middle, and End

Chapter 7. Can You Have It All? The Competing Worlds of Women Balancing Motherhood With an Academic Career in Counselor EducationChapter 8. Balancing Personal Life and Career; Chapter 9. Living in Two Worlds: Personal Perspectives in the Long-Distance Commuter Relationship; Section Three: Cultural and Individual Identity; Chapter 10. Transitions: A Woman on the Move!; Chapter 11. Fostering lnclusivity in Counselor Education for Culturally Diverse Women; Chapter 12. Leaving Home: Relationships and Experiences of a Lifetime; Chapter 13. An Agnostic in Full Bloom; Section Four: Spirituality

Chapter 14. Centrality of the Relationship in Counselor Education: Our



Clients, Our Students, OurselvesChapter 15. Weaving a Life Fabric-Faith, Family, and Career; Chapter 16. Soul Work: Who Am I? What Do I Stand For? Where Am I Going?; Index; About the Authors

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers inspiration and support to female faculty members in higher education who are at various stages of their professional development. Twenty-four educators share both their intuitive voices and practical knowledge on the topics of career development, balancing personal and professional life, cultural and individual identity, and spirituality.