Advances in machine tool design and research : proceedings of the 11th international M.T.D.R. conference : University of Birmingham , September 1970 / edited by S.A. Tobias ... [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNISA990000132840203316
• Autore: International machine tool design research conference : 11. : 1970
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Elkins Park (Pa) : Franklin Book Company, stampa 1995
• Descrizione fisica: 2 v. ; 24 cm
• Disciplina: 621.902
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: originariamente pubbl. oxford : pergamon press, 1970

The dialectics of citizenship [[electronic resource] ] : exploring privilege, exclusion, and racialization / / Bernd Reiter

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910788499003321
• Autore: Reiter Bernd <1968->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, c2013
• ISBN: 1-62895-162-1; 1-60917-351-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (221 p.)
• Disciplina: 323.601
• Soggetti: Autonomy; Citizenship
• 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The epistemology and methodology of exploratory social science research: crossing Popper with Marcuse -- Conceptualizing citizenship: disjunctive, dual, divided, entangled, or what? -- Classical citizenship: ; the political and the social -- Medieval European citizenship: Christian rights and Jewish duties -- France: liberalism unveiled -- The postcolonial within: Portugal, white, and European -- Brazil: experts in exclusion -- Colombia: when law and reality clash -- Conclusion: learning from exploratory research.
• Sommario/riassunto: What does it mean to be a citizen? What impact does an active democracy have on its citizenry and why does it fail or succeed in fulfilling its promises? Most modern democracies seem unable to deliver the goods that citizens expect; many politicians seem to have given up on representing the wants and needs of those who elected them and are keener on representing themselves and their financial backers. What will it take to bring democracy back to its original promise of rule by the people? Bernd Reiter's timely analysis reaches back to ancient Greece and the Roman Republic in searc