1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910461954503321

Autore

Jules-Rosette Bennetta

Titolo

Terminal signs [[electronic resource] ] : computers and social change in Africa / / by Bennetta Jules-Rosette

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 1990

ISBN

3-11-085723-5

Edizione

[Reprint 2010]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (440 p.)

Collana

Approaches to semiotics ; ; 90

Disciplina

303.48/34/096

Soggetti

Computers - Social aspects - Africa

Computers and civilization

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 bibliographical references (p. [379]-394) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Part I: Computers in an Alien Environment -- Introduction -- Chapter One: The Symbolic and the Social: Computer Use in Two African Settings -- Chapter Two: Computer-Related Successes and Excuses: The Discourse of Confrontation -- Chapter Three: New Technicians of the Sacred: Technology, Belief Systems, and Social Control -- Part II: New Technologies, Work Organization, and the Administrative Revolution -- Chapter Four: The Last Train of the Twentieth Century: The Computer Revolution in Ivory Coast -- Chapter Five: Display, Domination, and Mastery: Computers in the Kenyan Setting -- Chapter Six: Socializing Workers into the New Mechanical Solidarity -- Part III: Simulating Postmodernity -- Chapter Seven: Indigenizing the Computer: Social and Interpretive Practices Surrounding New Technologies -- Chapter Eight: The Computer Contract: A Sociosemiotic Analysis of Computer Adoption -- Chapter Nine: Terminal Signs -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Terminal signs : computers and social change in Africa   Approaches to Semiotics [AS]



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910495685003321

Autore

Wyczanski Andrzej

Titolo

La consommation alimentaire en Pologne aux xvie et xviie siècles / / Andrzej Wyczanski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris, : Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2020

ISBN

979-1-03-510465-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 p.)

Collana

Histoire moderne

Altri autori (Persone)

FlandrinJean-Louis

Soggetti

History

consommation

coutume alimentaire

condition sociale

aliment

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

La réputation des historiens polonais de l’économie et de la vie matérielle est grande parmi leurs collègues français, qui depuis plusieurs décennies les invitent à faire des conférences, des séminaires et à publier des articles dans les revues françaises. Cependant la barrière linguistique subsiste : elle fait que l’essentiel de leurs oeuvres reste inconnu du public français et des spécialistes eux-mêmes. Il en est ainsi d’Andrzej Wyczanski, dont on savait qu’il est un des principaux historiens de la consommation alimentaire au xvie et xviie siècles, mais dont on ne connaissait généralement que de brefs articles. Or il s’est appliqué, dans son principal ouvrage à comparer dans une même région les rations alimentaires des différents groupes sociaux et, d’autre part, celles d’un même groupe social dans les diverses régions d’un pays ; il fournit finalement un tableau complet et aussi précis de la consommation ancienne à l’échelle de la Pologne et une base pour évaluer la production et le revenu national. Aussi faut-il se réjouir qu’avec l’aide de Daniel Tollet - qui s’est chargé d’en établir le texte français - cet ouvrage soit aujourd’hui traduit.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910741190103321

Autore

Wallis Victor

Titolo

Socialist practice : histories and theories / / by Victor Wallis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-35066-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 pages)

Collana

Marx, Engels, and Marxisms, , 2524-7123

Disciplina

320.01

335

Soggetti

Political theory

Political economy

Political sociology

World politics

Political Theory

International Political Economy

Political Sociology

Political History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Chapter 1: Introduction -- 2. Chapter 2: Marx after a Century of “Real Socialism” -- 3. Chapter 3: The End of First-Epoch Socialism and the Problem of Transition -- 4. Chapter 4: Marxism and the Struggle for Social Justice -- 5. Chapter 5: The Dialectic of Humanity and Nature -- 6. Chapter 6: On “Market Socialism” and the Soviet Experience -- 7. Chapter 7: Workers' Control and Revolution: History and Theory -- 8. Chapter 8: The Politics of “Lesser Evil”: Historical Reflections -- 9. Chapter 9: The US Left of the 1960s and Its Legacy -- 10. Chapter 10: From Black Liberation to Mass Incarceration: A Documentary Journey -- 11. Chapter 11: Revolution and Counterrevolution in Latin America: The Filmed Experience -- 12. Chapter 12: Song and Vision in the US Labor Movement -- 13. Chapter 13: Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

The level of popular discontent—in the United States as elsewhere—has shown a dramatic increase in recent years, but has yet to crystallize



into a cohesive anti-capitalist political force. Socialist Practice aims to contribute to a popular movement for socialism. It does so by 1) revisiting, under present conditions, longstanding questions of Marxist theory and revolutionary history, and 2) illustrating the range of issues, activities, and forms of expression that can both inform and be informed by a Marxist approach. Essays spanning a range of national experiences address the crying need to generate a society-wide awakening, grounded in purposeful discussion among all those (the vast majority) whose interests are ill-served by continuation of the status quo. Victor Wallis is a professor in the Liberal Arts Department at the Berklee College of Music, USA, and was for twenty years the managing editor of Socialism and Democracy. He is the author of Red-Green Revolution: The Politics and Technology of Ecosocialism (2018) and Democracy Denied: Five Lectures on U.S. Politics (2019).