Making home : orphanhood, kinship and cultural memory in contemporary American novels / / Maria Holmgren Troy, Elizabeth Kella, and Helena Wahlström |
Autore | Holmgren Troy Maria |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 254 pages) : digital file(s) |
Disciplina | 813.609 |
Collana | Contemporary American and Canadian writers |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - 21st century - History and criticism
Orphans in literature Group identity in literature Literature Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers |
Soggetto non controllato |
American novels
cultural memory family gender genre kinship multiculturalism national identity orphans race |
ISBN |
1-5261-1149-7
1-78170-728-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- 1. Orphans and American literature: Texts, intertexts, and contexts -- 2. From captivity to kinship: Indian orphans and sovereignty -- 3. Literary kinships: Euro-American orphans, gender, genre, and cultural memory -- 4. Family matters: Euro-American orphans, the bildungsroman, and kinship building -- 5. At home in the world?: Orphans learn and remember in African American novels A Coda -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Making volunteers [[electronic resource] ] : civic life after welfare's end / / Nina Eliasoph |
Autore | Eliasoph Nina |
Edizione | [Core Textbook] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (329 p.) |
Disciplina | 361.370973 |
Collana | Princeton studies in cultural sociology |
Soggetto topico |
Voluntarism - United States
Young volunteers in community development - United States Volunteer workers in community development - United States Community development - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
Soggetto non controllato |
Community House
Snowy Prairie adult volunteers bad habits bureaucracy celebrating diversity civic association civic engagement projects civic programs civic skills civic volunteering comfort community empowerment community programs community service crime prevention cultural cleansing cultural diversity cultural preservation cultural tradition culture democracy desires disadvantaged youth distant others distinct cultures diversity divided society empowerment programs empowerment projects empowerment talk everyday routines family-like attachments family food future potential historical transformations hopelessness inequality inspiring volunteers intimacy local grassroots support loyalty mismatched time frames mixers multicultural community multiculturalism needs needy volunteers non-disadvantaged youth nonprofit organization paid organizers plug-in volunteers political engagement politics potentials poverty predictable routines protectors public events safety shared experiences short-term bonds short-term volunteering social diversity social divisions sociological lessons state agency temporal disconnections temporal leapfrog timing transforming volunteers unique cultures unmet needs volunteer coordination volunteer expertise volunteer work volunteering youth participants youth program participants youth programs youth volunteers |
ISBN |
1-283-00915-3
9786613009159 1-4008-3882-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Empower Yourself! -- CHAPTER 1. How to Learn Something in an Empowerment Project -- PART ONE. Cultivating Open Civic Equality -- CHAPTER 2. Participating under Unequal Auspices -- CHAPTER 3. "The Spirit that Moves Inside You": Puzzles of Using Volunteering to Cure the Volunteer's Problems -- CHAPTER 4. Temporal Leapfrog: Puzzles of Timing -- CHAPTER 5. Democracy Minus Disagreement, Civic Skills Minus Politics, Blank "Reflections" -- PART TWO. Cultivating Intimate Comfort and Safety -- CHAPTER 6. Harmless and Destructive Plug-in Volunteers -- CHAPTER 7. Paid Organizers Creating Temporally Finite, Intimate, Family-like Attachments -- CHAPTER 8. Publicly Questioning Need: Food, Safety, and Comfort -- CHAPTER 9. Drawing on Shared Experience in a Divided Society: Getting People Out of Their "Clumps" -- PART THREE. Celebrating Our Diverse, Multicultural Community -- CHAPTER 10. "Getting Out of Your Box" versus "Preserving a Culture": Two Opposed Ways of "Appreciating Cultural Diversity" -- CHAPTER 11. Tell Us about Your Culture: What Participants Count as "Culture" -- CHAPTER 12. Celebrating ... Empowerment Projects! -- CONCLUSION. Finding Patterns in the "Open and Undefined" Organization: Gray Flannel Man Is Mostly Dead -- APPENDIX 1. On Justification -- APPENDIX 2. Methods of Taking Field Notes and Making Them Tell a Story -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Backmatter |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456896103321 |
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Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2011 | ||
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Making volunteers [[electronic resource] ] : civic life after welfare's end / / Nina Eliasoph |
Autore | Eliasoph Nina |
Edizione | [Core Textbook] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (329 p.) |
Disciplina | 361.370973 |
Collana | Princeton studies in cultural sociology |
Soggetto topico |
Voluntarism - United States
Young volunteers in community development - United States Volunteer workers in community development - United States Community development - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
Community House
Snowy Prairie adult volunteers bad habits bureaucracy celebrating diversity civic association civic engagement projects civic programs civic skills civic volunteering comfort community empowerment community programs community service crime prevention cultural cleansing cultural diversity cultural preservation cultural tradition culture democracy desires disadvantaged youth distant others distinct cultures diversity divided society empowerment programs empowerment projects empowerment talk everyday routines family-like attachments family food future potential historical transformations hopelessness inequality inspiring volunteers intimacy local grassroots support loyalty mismatched time frames mixers multicultural community multiculturalism needs needy volunteers non-disadvantaged youth nonprofit organization paid organizers plug-in volunteers political engagement politics potentials poverty predictable routines protectors public events safety shared experiences short-term bonds short-term volunteering social diversity social divisions sociological lessons state agency temporal disconnections temporal leapfrog timing transforming volunteers unique cultures unmet needs volunteer coordination volunteer expertise volunteer work volunteering youth participants youth program participants youth programs youth volunteers |
ISBN |
1-283-00915-3
9786613009159 1-4008-3882-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Empower Yourself! -- CHAPTER 1. How to Learn Something in an Empowerment Project -- PART ONE. Cultivating Open Civic Equality -- CHAPTER 2. Participating under Unequal Auspices -- CHAPTER 3. "The Spirit that Moves Inside You": Puzzles of Using Volunteering to Cure the Volunteer's Problems -- CHAPTER 4. Temporal Leapfrog: Puzzles of Timing -- CHAPTER 5. Democracy Minus Disagreement, Civic Skills Minus Politics, Blank "Reflections" -- PART TWO. Cultivating Intimate Comfort and Safety -- CHAPTER 6. Harmless and Destructive Plug-in Volunteers -- CHAPTER 7. Paid Organizers Creating Temporally Finite, Intimate, Family-like Attachments -- CHAPTER 8. Publicly Questioning Need: Food, Safety, and Comfort -- CHAPTER 9. Drawing on Shared Experience in a Divided Society: Getting People Out of Their "Clumps" -- PART THREE. Celebrating Our Diverse, Multicultural Community -- CHAPTER 10. "Getting Out of Your Box" versus "Preserving a Culture": Two Opposed Ways of "Appreciating Cultural Diversity" -- CHAPTER 11. Tell Us about Your Culture: What Participants Count as "Culture" -- CHAPTER 12. Celebrating ... Empowerment Projects! -- CONCLUSION. Finding Patterns in the "Open and Undefined" Organization: Gray Flannel Man Is Mostly Dead -- APPENDIX 1. On Justification -- APPENDIX 2. Methods of Taking Field Notes and Making Them Tell a Story -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Backmatter |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781293903321 |
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Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2011 | ||
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Making volunteers [[electronic resource] ] : civic life after welfare's end / / Nina Eliasoph |
Autore | Eliasoph Nina |
Edizione | [Core Textbook] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (329 p.) |
Disciplina | 361.370973 |
Collana | Princeton studies in cultural sociology |
Soggetto topico |
Voluntarism - United States
Young volunteers in community development - United States Volunteer workers in community development - United States Community development - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
Community House
Snowy Prairie adult volunteers bad habits bureaucracy celebrating diversity civic association civic engagement projects civic programs civic skills civic volunteering comfort community empowerment community programs community service crime prevention cultural cleansing cultural diversity cultural preservation cultural tradition culture democracy desires disadvantaged youth distant others distinct cultures diversity divided society empowerment programs empowerment projects empowerment talk everyday routines family-like attachments family food future potential historical transformations hopelessness inequality inspiring volunteers intimacy local grassroots support loyalty mismatched time frames mixers multicultural community multiculturalism needs needy volunteers non-disadvantaged youth nonprofit organization paid organizers plug-in volunteers political engagement politics potentials poverty predictable routines protectors public events safety shared experiences short-term bonds short-term volunteering social diversity social divisions sociological lessons state agency temporal disconnections temporal leapfrog timing transforming volunteers unique cultures unmet needs volunteer coordination volunteer expertise volunteer work volunteering youth participants youth program participants youth programs youth volunteers |
ISBN |
1-283-00915-3
9786613009159 1-4008-3882-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Empower Yourself! -- CHAPTER 1. How to Learn Something in an Empowerment Project -- PART ONE. Cultivating Open Civic Equality -- CHAPTER 2. Participating under Unequal Auspices -- CHAPTER 3. "The Spirit that Moves Inside You": Puzzles of Using Volunteering to Cure the Volunteer's Problems -- CHAPTER 4. Temporal Leapfrog: Puzzles of Timing -- CHAPTER 5. Democracy Minus Disagreement, Civic Skills Minus Politics, Blank "Reflections" -- PART TWO. Cultivating Intimate Comfort and Safety -- CHAPTER 6. Harmless and Destructive Plug-in Volunteers -- CHAPTER 7. Paid Organizers Creating Temporally Finite, Intimate, Family-like Attachments -- CHAPTER 8. Publicly Questioning Need: Food, Safety, and Comfort -- CHAPTER 9. Drawing on Shared Experience in a Divided Society: Getting People Out of Their "Clumps" -- PART THREE. Celebrating Our Diverse, Multicultural Community -- CHAPTER 10. "Getting Out of Your Box" versus "Preserving a Culture": Two Opposed Ways of "Appreciating Cultural Diversity" -- CHAPTER 11. Tell Us about Your Culture: What Participants Count as "Culture" -- CHAPTER 12. Celebrating ... Empowerment Projects! -- CONCLUSION. Finding Patterns in the "Open and Undefined" Organization: Gray Flannel Man Is Mostly Dead -- APPENDIX 1. On Justification -- APPENDIX 2. Methods of Taking Field Notes and Making Them Tell a Story -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Backmatter |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826447603321 |
Eliasoph Nina
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Medkulturni odnosi kot aktivno državljanstvo |
Autore | Lukšič Hacin Marina |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ljubljana, Slovenia : , : ZRC SAZU, Založba ZRC, , 2011 |
Soggetto topico | Multicultural education |
Soggetto non controllato |
Slovenian
citizenship human rights intercultural communication multiculturalism national identity |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | slv |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910557880203321 |
Lukšič Hacin Marina
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Ljubljana, Slovenia : , : ZRC SAZU, Založba ZRC, , 2011 | ||
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Moses and multiculturalism [[electronic resource] /] / Barbara Johnson ; foreword by Barbara Rietveld |
Autore | Johnson Barbara <1947-2009.> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (127 p.) |
Disciplina | 222/.1092 |
Collana | Flashpoints |
Soggetto topico | Multiculturalism |
Soggetto non controllato |
bible stories
bible biblical figures biblical passages christian stories christian contemporary multiculturalism critical theory cross cultural discussion books ethical debates foundation narratives historical perspective literary criticism literary theory moses movies multicultural story multiculturalism nationalism novels opera philosophical questions philosophy poems religious literature semiotics sigmund freud story of moses world religions |
ISBN |
1-282-76398-9
9786612763984 |
Classificazione | 11.41 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Biblical Moses -- Chapter 2. Moses and the Law -- Chapter 3. Flavius Josephus -- Chapter 4. Frances E. W. Harper -- Chapter 5. Moses, the Egyptian -- Chapter 6. Freud's Moses -- Chapter 7. Hurston's Moses -- Chapter 8. The German Moses -- Chapter 9. Moses, the Movie -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996320163003316 |
Johnson Barbara <1947-2009.>
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Moses and multiculturalism [[electronic resource] /] / Barbara Johnson ; foreword by Barbara Rietveld |
Autore | Johnson Barbara <1947-2009.> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (127 p.) |
Disciplina | 222/.1092 |
Collana | Flashpoints |
Soggetto topico | Multiculturalism |
Soggetto non controllato |
bible stories
bible biblical figures biblical passages christian stories christian contemporary multiculturalism critical theory cross cultural discussion books ethical debates foundation narratives historical perspective literary criticism literary theory moses movies multicultural story multiculturalism nationalism novels opera philosophical questions philosophy poems religious literature semiotics sigmund freud story of moses world religions |
ISBN |
1-282-76398-9
9786612763984 |
Classificazione | 11.41 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Biblical Moses -- Chapter 2. Moses and the Law -- Chapter 3. Flavius Josephus -- Chapter 4. Frances E. W. Harper -- Chapter 5. Moses, the Egyptian -- Chapter 6. Freud's Moses -- Chapter 7. Hurston's Moses -- Chapter 8. The German Moses -- Chapter 9. Moses, the Movie -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910132712103321 |
Johnson Barbara <1947-2009.>
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Multiculturalism in the British Commonwealth : Comparative Perspectives on Theory and Practice / / Mark Bevir, Richard T. Ashcroft |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2019] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xi, 299 pages) : illustrations; PDF, digital file(s) |
Disciplina | 305.800971241/0905 |
Soggetto topico | Multiculturalism - Commonwealth countries - 20th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
constitutionalism
cultural diversity decolonization globalization group politics immigration increased demographic diversity indigenous peoples legal strategies liberal democratic citizenship liberal democratic governance multiculturalism nation state building national minorities nationalism political economy political strategies political theory practice public debates remaking of the world secularism social diversity social theory theory |
ISBN | 0-520-29932-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. What is Postwar Multiculturalism in Theory and Practice? -- 2. British Multiculturalism after Empire: Immigration, Nationality, and Citizenship -- 3. Accentuating Multicultural Britishness: An Open or Closed Activity? -- 4. Multiculturalism in a Context of Minority Nationalism and Indigenous Rights: The Canadian Case -- 5. Australia's "Liberal Nationalist" Multiculturalism -- 6. Multiculturalism, Biculturalism, and National Identity in Aotearoa / New Zealand -- 7. Multiculturalism in India: An Exception? -- 8. Secularism in India: A "Gandhian" Approach -- 9. Contesting Multiculturalism: Federalism and Unitarism in Late Colonial Nigeria -- 10. Arrested Multiculturalisms: Race, Capitalism, and State Formation in Malaysia and Singapore -- 11. The Cunning of Multiculturalism: A Perspective from the Caribbean -- 12. Comparative Perspectives on the Theory and Practice of Multiculturalism: Lessons from the Commonwealth -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910332652003321 |
Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2019] | ||
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Multiculturalism in the British Commonwealth : Comparative Perspectives on Theory and Practice / / Mark Bevir, Richard T. Ashcroft |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2019] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xi, 299 pages) : illustrations; PDF, digital file(s) |
Disciplina | 305.800971241/0905 |
Soggetto topico | Multiculturalism - Commonwealth countries - 20th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
constitutionalism
cultural diversity decolonization globalization group politics immigration increased demographic diversity indigenous peoples legal strategies liberal democratic citizenship liberal democratic governance multiculturalism nation state building national minorities nationalism political economy political strategies political theory practice public debates remaking of the world secularism social diversity social theory theory |
ISBN | 0-520-29932-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. What is Postwar Multiculturalism in Theory and Practice? -- 2. British Multiculturalism after Empire: Immigration, Nationality, and Citizenship -- 3. Accentuating Multicultural Britishness: An Open or Closed Activity? -- 4. Multiculturalism in a Context of Minority Nationalism and Indigenous Rights: The Canadian Case -- 5. Australia's "Liberal Nationalist" Multiculturalism -- 6. Multiculturalism, Biculturalism, and National Identity in Aotearoa / New Zealand -- 7. Multiculturalism in India: An Exception? -- 8. Secularism in India: A "Gandhian" Approach -- 9. Contesting Multiculturalism: Federalism and Unitarism in Late Colonial Nigeria -- 10. Arrested Multiculturalisms: Race, Capitalism, and State Formation in Malaysia and Singapore -- 11. The Cunning of Multiculturalism: A Perspective from the Caribbean -- 12. Comparative Perspectives on the Theory and Practice of Multiculturalism: Lessons from the Commonwealth -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996312639603316 |
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Policy transformation in Canada : is the past prologue? / / Carolyn Hughes Tuohy, Sophie Borwein, Peter John Loewen, Andrew Potter |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (200 pages) |
Disciplina | 320.60971 |
Soggetto topico |
Political planning - Canada
Policy sciences - Canada |
Soggetto non controllato |
Canada
Indigenous relations bilingualism centennial cultural diversity environment global economic integration intergenerational equity just society managing diversity modern welfare state multiculturalism transformative public policymaking |
ISBN |
1-4875-1987-7
1-4875-1986-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Downstream from the Centennial: Navigating Fifty Years of Policy Change -- 2. Dreams along a Journey -- 3. Discounting Now and Then -- 4. Postponed Adulthood, the Inequality Surge, and the Millennial Burden -- 5. Half a Century of Pension Reform in Canada -- 6. The Economy: From Innovation to Policy -- 7. Natural Resources, Federalism, and the Canadian Economy -- 8. Environmental Policy Transformations and Canada at 150 -- 9. The Environment as an Urban Policy Issue in Canada -- 10. Canada's Radical Fiscal Federation: The Next Fifty Years -- 11. Reasonable Accommodation, Diversity, and the Supreme Court of Canada -- 12. Invisibility, Wilful Blindness, and Impending Doom: The Future (if Any) of Canadian Federalism -- 13. Canadian Federalism, Canadian Allegiance, and Economic Inequality -- 14. Indigenous-Canadian Relations at the Sesquicentennial: An Opportunity for Real and Lasting Transformation -- 15. Reconciliation with a Question Mark: Three Moments -- 16. Reconciliation, Colonization, and Climate Futures -- 17. Fifty Years of Canadian Immigration Policy -- 18. From Gérin-Lajoie to USMCA: The Role of the Canadian Provinces in Trade Negotiation -- 19. Canada and the World: Managing Insecurity in a Changing Global Order -- 20. Has Canada Reached Policy Gridlock? -- Contributors |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910586000103321 |
Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] | ||
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