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This thoughtful and wide-ranging open access volume explores the forces and issues shaping and defining contemporary identities and everyday life in Brunei Darussalam. It is a subject that until now has received comparatively limited attention from mainstream social scientists working on Southeast Asian societies. The volume helps remedy that deficit by detailing the ways in which religion, gender, place, ethnicity, nation-state formation, migration and economic activity work their way into and reflect in the lives of ordinary Bruneians. In a first of its kind, all the lead authors of the chapter contributions are local Bruneian scholars, and the editors skilfully bring the study of Brunei into the fold of the sociology of everyday life from multiple disciplinary directions. By engaging local scholars to document everyday concerns that matter to them, the volume presents a collage of distinct but interrelated case studies that have been previously undocumented or relatively underappreciated. These interior portrayals render new angles of vision, scale and nuance to our understandings of Brunei often overlooked by mainstream inquiry. Each in its own way speaks to how structures and institutions express themselves through complex processes to influence the lives of inhabitants. Academic scholars, university students and others interested in the study of contemporary Brunei Darussalam will find this volume an invaluable resource for unravelling its diversity and textures. At the same time, it hopefully stimulates critical reflection on positionality, hierarchies of knowledge production, cultural diversity and the ways in which we approach the social science study of Brunei. I wish to commend the editors for bringing this volume to fruition. It is an important book in the context of Southeast Asian sociology and even more important for the development of our social, geographical, cultural and historical knowledge of Brunei. -Victor T. King, University of Leeds

This thoughtful and wide-ranging open access volume explores the forces and issues shaping and defining contemporary identities and everyday life in Brunei Darussalam. It is a subject that until now has received comparatively limited attention from mainstream social scientists working on Southeast Asian societies. The volume helps remedy that deficit by detailing the ways in which religion, gender, place, ethnicity, nation-state formation, migration and economic activity work their way into and reflect in the lives of ordinary Bruneians. In a first of its kind, all the lead authors of the chapter contributions are local Bruneian scholars, and the editors skilfully bring the study of Brunei into the fold of the sociology of everyday life from multiple disciplinary directions. By engaging local scholars to document everyday concerns that matter to them, the volume presents a collage of distinct but interrelated case studies that have been previously undocumented or relatively underappreciated. These interior portrayals render new angles of vision, scale and nuance to our understandings of Brunei often overlooked by mainstream inquiry. Each in its own way speaks to how structures and institutions express themselves through complex processes to influence the lives of inhabitants. Academic scholars, university students and others interested in the study of contemporary Brunei Darussalam will find this volume an invaluable resource for unravelling its diversity and textures. At the same time, it hopefully stimulates critical reflection on positionality, hierarchies of knowledge production, cultural diversity and the ways in which we approach the social science study of Brunei. I wish to commend the editors for bringing this volume to fruition. It is an important book in the context of Southeast Asian sociology and even more important for the development of our social, geographical, cultural and historical knowledge of Brunei. -Victor T. King, University of Leeds

This book critically examines the ever-evolving relationship between gender, identity and technology, investigating how identity is shaped, expressed and contested within virtual environments.

This volume takes the debate of citizenship in South Africa in a more theoretical and empirical direction while engaging with knowledge produced elsewhere in the world. It investigates the making of gendered citizenship, institutionalization of gender politics and the state of gendered policy making.

As the war on terror spreads and deepens, it is more important than ever to examine how diverse international actors are using the war on terror as an opportunity to reinforce existing gendered, raced, classed and sexualized inter/national relations. This book examines the official war stories about why and against whom the war on terror is being waged.

In the context of renewed attempts to theorise a crisis-prone capitalism, (Mis)readings of Marx in Continental Philosophy critically reflects on the ways in which major continental philosophers related to the theoretical and political legacy of Karl Marx, and identifies new possibilities for combining Marxs insights with those of recent continental thought. For a generation of leading European philosophers in the twentieth century, Marxism was no longer an unsurpassable horizon but a horizon in need of surpassing. The book provides striking new critical readings of the role of Marx in the work of these thinkers, their Marxist predecessors and their post-Marxist followers. It brings together both leading and emerging figures in continental philosophy and Marxism to address the interpretations of Marx offered by major European thinkers of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries: Benjamin, Adorno, Arendt, Althusser, Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, Negri, Badiou, Agamben, Ranciere, Latour and iek.

(Sub)Urban Sexscapes presents a mix of geographical, sociological, urban planning and legal viewpoints of the commercial sex industry - sex shops, strip clubs, gentlemens clubs, brothels and sex workers. The collection showcases contemporary and historical examples of the location, impacts and regulation of commercial sex industry activities in the USA, UK, Australia and Morocco.

The study of citizenship in the context of South Africa implicitly challenges the rights-based democracy in South Africa, while literature regarding women and citizenship has greatly contributed to a new understanding of citizenship. Locally, many global processes are reproduced in the discourse of rights-claiming, issues of institutional representation, bodily integrity in the face of violence, and care in the face of a lack of care. This volume takes the debate of citizenship in South Africa in a more theoretical and empirical direction while engaging with knowledge produced elsewhere in the world. As part of the Gender in a Local/Global World series, it investigates the making of gendered citizenship, institutionalization of gender politics, the state of gendered policy making, local citizenship, rights, the womens movement, gendered violence, as well as citizenship and the body.

This edited volume explores how different lives, experiences and forms of political action might be engendered when subjects are excluded, made vulnerable and invisible from contemporary forms of citizenship. It was originally published as a special issue of Citizenship Studies.

The empirical studies in this book explore the implications of the new digital conditions for the ways in which digitally mediated social interactions, practices and environments shape everyday participation, engagement or protest and their subjective as well societal meaning.

Looking at two salient characteristics of our current environment -- the declining influence of political parties; the communication revolution via the internet, social media, and cable television; and the impact of money -- this book asks whether our now-fully democratized presidential selection process has diminished the quality of our presidential candidates and the campaigns they run, whether the turn to demagoguery that the Founders feared has materialized, what the consequences of our presidential selection process have been for American government, and whether it would be valuable to rethink our wholehearted commitment to popular election of the President.

Drawing together the latest research from Australia, Canada, the UK, and the US, (Re)Thinking Violence in Health Care Settings engages with the work of critical theorists such as Bourdieu, Butler, Foucault, Latour, and Zizek, amongst others, to address the issue of violence and theorise its workings in creative and controversial ways.

This landmark study in the sociology of religion sheds new light on the question of what has happened to religion and spirituality since the 1960s in modern societies. Exposing several analytical weaknesses of todays sociology of religion, the authors present a new theory of religious-secular competition and a new typology of ways of being religious/secular. Drawing on a Swiss society as their test case, they use both quantitative and qualitative methodologies to identify four ways of being religious/secular in a modern society: institutional, alternative, distanced and secular.

La Declaración Universal de los Derechos Humanos, proclamada por la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas en 1948, situó la dignidad humana entre los conceptos fundamentales de la Filosofía Moral. Desde entonces, los medios de comunicacion han desempeñado un papel decisivo en su promocion y salvaguarda; pero tambien en la construccion y diseminacion de indignidades. La obra examina esa doble faz en la sociedad actual, mediante el analisis de algunos relatos paradigmaticos donde los medios despliegan todo su potencial: las informaciones sobre los geriatricos al inicio de la pandemia; los procesos de resignificacion del pasado cultural; el sensacionalismo de los "reality shows" en la construccion social de los personajes femeninos, y el repaso de las (in)dignidades mas recurrentes del entorno digital.

En esta nueva obra, el doctor Eben Alexander ha estudiado lo que han dicho las tradiciones religiosas de todo el mundo y los filósofos sobre la supervivencia del alma después de la muerte, y ha llegado a la conclusion de que existen grandes similitudes entre esas voces del pasado y los relatos de la actualidad.El mapa del cielo explora la historia espiritual de la humanidad y el nacimiento de la ciencia moderna en el siglo XVII, y nos muestra cual es nuestro verdadero destino.

When direct elections for the European Parliament were first organized in 1979, the idea was that such direct elections would increase the democratic legitimacy and accountability of the Parliament. Moreover, the elections were expected to raise public interest, engagement and support for the European project. Did these elections help to increase legitimacy and accountability? Did they increase interest in and support for the 'European project'? Or, did these elections have unintended (and perhaps undesirable) consequences? This volume focuses on the consequences of European elections for public debate and involvement, for party systems, and for public opinion. EP elections have caused a number of intended consequences: the salience of the elections in the media has gone up and over time electoral competition becomes more important, engaging in the campaign can help improve EU evaluations, and Europe as a topic has become more important for voting at EP elections, boosting the prevalence of so-called EU voting. A number of intended consequences have not materialized during the life of the EP so far: knowledge or turnout levels have not gone up and citizens have not become better at judging what political parties are offering. The EP elections have, however, also yielded a number of unintended consequences: EP elections dampen turnout for first time voters in subsequent elections, EP elections cause temporary decline in EU support, and the elections have become a strategic arena for political parties to position themselves on EU issues and for new movements and parties to boost or sustain their success.

The empirical studies in this book explore the implications of the new digital conditions for the ways in which digitally mediated social interactions, practices and environments shape everyday participation, engagement or protest and their subjective as well societal meaning.

Uno de los personajes más polémicos y sorprendentes de los últimos tiempos reflexiona sobre diversos temas de actualidad que más preocupan a la sociedad. Un libro inteligente, mordaz y lleno de ingenio que no dejara indiferente al lector. Es un libro inteligente y entretenido, de estilo agil y atrayente. El autor es un controvertido personaje, muy conocido por su participacion como jurado en OT, que comienza su nueva temporada en febrero y en el que volvera a participar como jurado.

No espere el lector encontrar en estos textos unas conferencias al uso de un profesor académico normal, pues estas se suelen confeccionar, desde ya ha hace mucho tiempo, con unos parámetros muy distintos a los que aqui emplea Leonardo Polo. En este texto se encontraran conferencias, conversaciones, cursos grabados, etc., que conformaran un nuevo titulo de la Serie B de las Obras Completas. Esos ineditos estan formados, principalmente, por bastantes textos escritos (algunos manuscritos, pero la mayor parte mecanografiados) y un gran numero de grabaciones, tanto de audio como de video.

La persona humana está llamada a alcanzar la perfección y la felicidad, la unión con Dios por el conocimiento y el amor, a través de la identificación con Cristo.Identificarse con Cristo supone vivir las virtudes humanas y sobrenaturales.En este Manual se estudian las virtudes humanas (salvo la justicia y las virtudes directamente relacionadas con ella, que son objeto de la Moral social). Cuando se reflexiona sobre las virtudes humanas, es imprescindible ponerlas en relacion con las virtudes sobrenaturales (teologales y dones del Espiritu Santo), porque la persona cristiana, que debe identificarse con Cristo (perfecto Dios y hombre perfecto) y continuar su mision en el mundo, debe ser al mismo tiempo muy humana y muy sobrenatural.La exposicion de las virtudes que se hace en el presente Manual tiene siempre en cuenta que son perfecciones que potencian la libertad de la persona para que, con la fuerza del Espiritu Santo, alcance la identificacion con Cristo.Tomas Trigo (Villanueva de Arosa, 1953) es profesor de Teologia Moral en la Facultad de Teologia de la Universidad de Navarra.