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An assessment of contemporary global preparedness monitoring. This book presents an encompassing understanding of the practice of monitoring, measuring, and assessing how well countries have prepared for a pandemic. It explains the much-discussed failure of preparedness monitoring in the COVID-19 pandemic and the paradoxical introduction of even more preparedness monitoring in the moment of its obvious failure. Combining unique ethnographic observations and document analysis, this research allows us to understand the power relations that inform preparedness governance, the contradictive politics of accountability, and the developmental project and specific soft-law character of preparedness monitoring. The study questions the modernism inherent in infrastructural thinking, be it in the practice of preparedness monitoring or the study's infrastructural analytics derived from science and technology studies and actor-network theory.

A new edition of sociologist Gabriele Rosenthal's classic 1995 work on phenomenology and Gestalt theory. How do people narrate events in their life stories and the history of their family or families? How are narratives and experiences in the present related to experiences and narratives in the past? In this foundational work by sociologist Gabriele Rosenthal, he answers these questions with a theoretical and empirical study of the interconnections between remembering, experiencing, and presenting what was experienced at different points of the life course and of the associated collective histories. He also discusses rules for conducting interviews that support processes of remembering and for carrying out an analysis that does justice to this dialectic. This edition contains a new introduction and a new chapter that explores the later expansion of Rosenthal's approach to sociological biographical research, reflecting the inspiration she took from the figurational sociology of Norbert Elias. With its analysis of the complex relationships between experiencing, remembering, and presenting, Experienced Life and Narrated Life Story makes an important contribution to the theoretical foundations of biographical research.

Terrorist, Ölscheich, voll verschleierte Frau - Stereotype über Araber sind seit dem 11. September in den US-Medien und der Populärkultur omnipräsent. Selten kommt die arabische Minderheit in den USA selbst zu Wort. Dieses Buch untersucht deshalb den literarischen Selbstausdruck arabisch-amerikanischer Autorinnen und Autoren. So wird sichtbar, was es bedeutet, im eigenen Land zum Feind geworden zu sein. Dabei wird auch die kritische Auseinandersetzung mit patriarchalen Strukturen und religiösem Eifer in der arabisch-amerikanischen Community und der arabischen Welt einbezogen.

This book examines the role of East Asia in WWI.

Explores the production and distribution of facts: their life cycles as well as the material networks through which they travel. This volume includes discussions about how facts are reassembled into practical knowledge, how they translate locally, and what lessons may be learned from those who attempt to regulate fact production and circulation.

Aims to rejuvenate scholarship by developing a comprehensive theory of social movements and political change. Reviewing the literature on the political outcomes of social movements, this book analyzes the examples of the American civil rights movement and anti-nuclear energy efforts in eighteen countries to forge an understanding of their impact.