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Korean Shamanism The Cultural Paradox

Korean Shamanism The Cultural Paradox

Title first published in 2003. Shamanism has a contradictory position within the Korean cultural system leading to the periodical suppression of shamanism yet also paradoxically ensuring its survival throughout Korean history. This book examines the place of shamans within contemporary society as a cultural practice in which people make use of shamanic ritual and disputing the prevalent view that shamanism is 'popular culture' a 'women's religion' or 'performing arts'. Directly confronting the prejudice against shamans and their paradoxical situation in a modern society such as Korea this book reveals the cultural discrepancy between two worlds in Korean culture the ordinary world and the shamanic world showing that these two worlds cannot be reconciled. This unique study of shamanism offers a significant contribution to growing studies in indigenous anthropology and indigenous religions and provides a captivating read for a wide range of readers through retelling the stories-never-to-be-told involving shamanic ritual. | Korean Shamanism The Cultural Paradox

GBP 130.00
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Lying Truthtelling and Storytelling in Children’s and Young Adult Literature Telling It Slant

Lying Truthtelling and Storytelling in Children’s and Young Adult Literature Telling It Slant

Even though we instruct our children not to lie the truth is that lying is a fundamental part of children’s development—socially cognitively emotionally morally. Lying can sometimes be more compassionate than telling the truth even more ethical. Reading specific children’s books can instruct child readers how to be guided by an etiquette of lying to know when to tell the truth and when to lie. Equally important these stories can help prevent them from being prey to those liars who are intent on taking advantage of them. Becoming a critical reader requires that one learn how to lie judiciously as well as to see through others’ lies. When humans first began to speak we began to lie. When we began to lie we started telling stories. This is the paradox that in order to tell truthful stories we must be good liars. Novels about child-artists showcased here illustrate how the protagonist embraces this paradox accepting the stigma that a writer is a liar who tells the truth. Emily Dickinson’s phrase “tell it slant” best expresses the vision of how writers for children and young adults negotiate the conundrum of both protecting child readers and teaching them to protect themselves. This volume explores the pervasiveness of lying as well as the necessity for lying in our society; the origins of lying as connected to language acquisition; the realization that storytelling is both lying and truthtelling; and the negotiations child-artists must process in order to grasp the paradox that to become storytellers they must become expert liars and lie-detectors. | Lying Truthtelling and Storytelling in Children’s and Young Adult Literature Telling It Slant

GBP 130.00
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Corporate Share Buybacks Impact on Equity Incentive Pay and Shareholder Value

Corporate Share Buybacks Impact on Equity Incentive Pay and Shareholder Value

This book integrates elements from agency theory and signalling theory and draws upon recent changes in the Australian payout policy and incentives pay for risk-averse employees to provide theoretical and empirical analyses that explain the paradox of the popularity of on-market stock buyback activities in a market environment characterised by reasonably high share prices. The authors utilise a dynamic model that rationalises this paradox which is divided into three components. The first component predicts that executives may be conducting on-market stock buyback programmes (SBPs) to adjust equity-based remuneration for risk-averse employees thereby motivating their performance without granting them additional costly equity incentive plans (EIPs); the second component predicts that companies are likely to invest in SBPs to increase the ownership stakes of employees in the firm thereby inducing risk-averse employees to increase their productivity which increases firm value; while the third component predicts that shareholders would benefit from incentives-induced buybacks if a firm’s opportunity cost of funds spent on buybacks is less than its inverse price-to-earnings ratio. The authors’ findings highlight differences in the market responses towards announced repurchase motives implying that not all incentives-induced buybacks are value-destructive buybacks. Specifically the widespread assumption that SBPs stifle investments in human and capital stock may be subjective as the findings show that incentives-induced buybacks may be value-creative or value-destructive depending on share repurchase motives of SBPs. This book will be a useful guide for scholars and researchers of finance corporate finance financial economics and financial accounting. | Corporate Share Buybacks Impact on Equity Incentive Pay and Shareholder Value

GBP 130.00
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Adjustment Poverty and Employment in Mexico

Adjustment Poverty and Employment in Mexico

This title was first published in 2000: Analyzing the poverty trends in Mexico during the 1980s and early 1990s this work is concerned with the extent to which changes in the levels of poverty have modified the extent of participation in the labour market. The period covered is 1982 to 1994 when the Mexican economy experienced an economic crisis and the government set in motion the main stabilization policies and structural adjustment reforms. The author challenges the idea that adjustment reforms have had social costs in terms of income and formal employment loss. Despite income losses well-being indicators continued to improve; and employment statistics show that employment grew despite the economic crisis and adjustment. The paradox of household income decline and the increase in income poverty is explained. | Adjustment Poverty and Employment in Mexico

GBP 105.00
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Not the Future We Ordered Peak Oil Psychology and the Myth of Progress

Not the Future We Ordered Peak Oil Psychology and the Myth of Progress

For well over half a century since the first credible warnings of petroleum depletion were raised in the 1950s contemporary industrial civilization has been caught in a remarkable paradox: a culture more focused on problem solving than any other has repeatedly failed to deal with or even consider the problem most likely to bring its own history to a full stop. The coming of peak oil-the peaking and irreversible decline of world petroleum production-poses an existential threat to societies in which every sector of the economy depends on petroleum-based transport and no known energy source can scale up extensively or quickly enough to replace dwindling oil supplies. Not The Future We Ordered is the first study of the psychological dimensions of that decision and its consequences as a case study in the social psychology of collective failure and as an issue with which psychologists and therapists will be confronted repeatedly in the years ahead. | Not the Future We Ordered Peak Oil Psychology and the Myth of Progress

GBP 130.00
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The 'Empty' Church Revisited

The 'Empty' Church Revisited

When did churches start to appear more empty than full - and why? The very physicality of largely empty churches and chapels in Britain plays a powerful role in popular perceptions of 'religion'. Empty churches are frequently cited in the media as evidence of large scale religious decline. The 'Empty' Church Revisited presents a systematic account of British churchgoing patterns over the last two hundred years uncovering the factors and the statistics behind the considerable process of decline in church attendence. Dispelling as myth the commonly held views that the process of secularization in British culture has led to the decline in churchgoing and resulted in the predominantly empty churches of today Gill points to physical factors economics and issues of social space to shed new light on the origins of empty churches. This thoroughly updated edition of Robin Gill's earlier work The Myth of the Empty Church presents new data throughout to explore afresh the paradox of church building activity in a context of decline the patterns of urbanisation followed by sub-urbanisation affecting churches changes in patterns of worship and changes within the sociology of religion in the last decade.

GBP 175.00
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Agency Security and Governance of Small States A Global Perspective

Agency Security and Governance of Small States A Global Perspective

Agency Security and Governance of Small States examines what seems to be a defining paradox of Small-State Studies: the simultaneous coexistence (and possible co-dependence) of vulnerability and opportunity related to small-state size. This book analyses small states within the framework of this apparent paradox. Traditionally Small-State Studies has focused on three guiding questions: what constitutes a ‘small state’? What explains small-state influence in global affairs? Are small states truly vulnerable to security threats given the expansion of multilateralism and regionalism throughout the world? This book contends that new questions should be asked which recognise the important shifts in twenty-first century security paradigms to better understand how some states deploy their smallness as a resource for agency in supranational contexts. By varying historical geographical security and governance contexts the book embraces a most-different-cases approach. The historical perspective is often neglected in Small-State Studies but contributes to understanding how small states have often over time transformed perceived insecurity into agency. By focusing on different world regions the authors enable the comparative analysis of collective actions and the creation and implementation of institutions for ‘common sense purposes’ within a geographical region. Of particular contemporary importance the book includes contributions which contend with hard-security issues alongside other soft-security challenges. The comparison of case studies confirms that hard-security vulnerability and soft-security opportunities seem to be two sides of the same coin which reinforces the book’s focus on small-state paradoxes and raises the question of whether smallness can be considered the defining characteristic of governance in these countries. This book will have a broad appeal because of the different world regions it analyses. It will be of interest to postgraduate students scholars and researchers of international relations security sustainability governance development and political economy as well as Small-State Studies. The Chapters 4 8 and 11 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. The publication of Chapter 4 as Open Access has been made possible by the Institute of History at the University of Luxembourg. The publication of Chapter 8 as Open Access has been made possible by Western Sydney University. The publication of Chapter 11 as Open Access has been made possible by the University of Hamburg. | Agency Security and Governance of Small States A Global Perspective

GBP 130.00
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Exploring End of Life Experience Facing Death

Exploring End of Life Experience Facing Death

The groundbreaking contribution made by this unique book draws on the experiences recorded by five people who are facing death – Jenny Diski Philip Gould Christopher Hitchens Michael Mayne and Cory Taylor. Analysing the key themes that emerge from a psychodynamic perspective the book describes how the memoirists respond to the first shock of receiving a terminal diagnosis how they meet the challenge of continuing an active life when the illusion of an open-ended future has gone and finally how they struggle with accepting death as it overtakes them. The author argues that the ability to accept personal death is the key to resolving the paradox of our need to survive at all costs while at the same time however much we might deny it we know that we must die. In a society where death and dying occur largely out of sight this book provides information about what it is like to die – physically psychologically and emotionally – and invites us to think about coming to terms with death. Exploring End of Life Experience is an important contribution to the interdisciplinary literature on death and dying relevant to scholars and practitioners in medicine nursing psychology and the wider medical humanities. | Exploring End of Life Experience Facing Death

GBP 130.00
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Political Parties in Britain 1783-1867

Political Parties in Britain 1783-1867

The theme of Professor Evan's book is the growth of a recognizable modern party system from the much looser and often family-based attachments of the eighteenth century. He examines the significance of the terms 'Whig' and 'Tory' in the later eighteenth century and the growth of a party aligment between 1788 and 1812 - a period in which war was a major factor in polarization. He discusses the years of Tory hegemony under Liverpool and the decline of the independent member and then takes as his main themes the transition from Whigs to Liberals and from Tories to Conservatives in the period of 1830-46 which saw so much concern both with political reform and with social questions. He also examines the substantial growth of political organizations. Professor Evans goes on to deal with the paradox that though the Tory party was shattered by the corn law crisis the subsequent period to 1867 saw an increasing importance being attached to party allegiance. He also discusses the waning power of the Crown the growing importance of general elections and various areas of divergence between parties. Although the emphasis of this book is necessarily thematic a firm sense of chronology is always maintained. | Political Parties in Britain 1783-1867

GBP 175.00
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The 'Empty' Church Revisited

The 'Empty' Church Revisited

This title was first published in 2003. When did churches start to appear more empty than full - and why? The very physicality of largely empty churches and chapels in Britain plays a powerful role in popular perceptions of 'religion'. Empty churches are frequently cited in the media as evidence of large scale religious decline. The Empty Church Revisited presents a systematic account of British churchgoing patterns over the last two hundred years uncovering the factors and the statistics behind the considerable process of decline in church attendence. Dispelling as myth the commonly held views that the process of secularization in British culture has led to the decline in churchgoing and resulted in the predominantly empty churches of today Gill points to physical factors economics and issues of social space to shed new light on the origins of empty churches. This thoroughly updated edition of Robin Gill's earlier work The Myth of the Empty Church presents new data throughout to explore afresh the paradox of church building activity in a context of decline the patterns of urbanisation followed by sub-urbanisation affecting churches changes in patterns of worship and changes within the sociology of religion in the last decade. | The 'Empty' Church Revisited

GBP 100.00
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The Future of Religious Heritage Entangled Temporalities of the Sacred and the Secular

The Future of Religious Heritage Entangled Temporalities of the Sacred and the Secular

The Future of Religious Heritage examines the resurgence of religious heritage in a secular age and frames such heritage as both legacy from the past and promise for the future. Drawing on case studies from across Europe this volume addresses the intersection of three well-defined areas of research: secularism religious heritage and the question of renewal. Considering the heritagisation of religion and the sacralisation of heritage contributions to the book consider to what extent the idea of renewal so pivotal to religious and secular ontologies is present in heritage formations. Thinking about the temporalities of re-enactment and reconstruction this volume examines whether heritage practices incorporate religious time into secular practice. Problematising such temporalities of the sacred in our post-secular age the volume explores how these intersections of religious and secular time in heritage practices inform constructions of the future. The Future of Religious Heritage addresses the paradox of the secularisation of religion and the sacralisation of heritage in a post-secular age. It will appeal to academics and students with an interest in critical heritage studies religion and (post)secularism and will also be of interest to those studying re-enactment regeneration and renewal. | The Future of Religious Heritage Entangled Temporalities of the Sacred and the Secular

GBP 120.00
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Rethinking Illicit Economies in Opium and Cocaine Policy Responses to Drug Crops in the Global South

Rethinking Illicit Economies in Opium and Cocaine Policy Responses to Drug Crops in the Global South

This book investigates the cross-border trade in illicit drug crops in the global south. It exposes an important paradox: despite all the dangers and negative consequences of these criminal networks in many cases they also provide marginalised and excluded communities with important private sources of protection investment and employment. This book reconstructs and compares socioeconomic contexts criminal careers and changes in farmgate prices of illicit coca and opium poppy crops in Afghanistan Myanmar Colombia and Bolivia. It investigates the politics of strange bedfellows; informal bankers-without-suits providing cross-border financial services to the undocumented and the unbanked; the criminals without borders; and the mystery of illicit crop prices. The book challenges commonly held assumptions and casts new light on how relationships of conflict and accommodation are arranged and re-arranged in fluid everchanging contexts producing often paradoxical outcomes. It then suggests policy reforms and alternative approaches to drug policy development aid and peacebuilding work. Researchers and students across development peacebuilding illicit economies and conflict studies will find this book an important source of original research and analysis. It will also be useful for politicians commentators and public officials considering what to do differently in tackling illicit drug economies. | Rethinking Illicit Economies in Opium and Cocaine Policy Responses to Drug Crops in the Global South

GBP 130.00
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From Policy to Administration Essays in Honour of William A. Robson

From Policy to Administration Essays in Honour of William A. Robson

First published in 1976 From Policy to Administration is not the conventional Festschrift written by many hands on many unrelated subjects- rather it is a tight collection of essays conceived and written around a unified theme. From one point of view policy and administration are at two opposite ends of the governmental spectrum; but at the same time both are aspects of almost every single government activity and the essays in this book set out to reflect this apparent paradox. Dr Jones finds symptoms of it at the administrative heart of the policy making machine while Professor Friedrich looks at the nature of that machine and its relation to democratic forms. Four central essays by Professors Bernard Crick Peter Self John Mackintosh and Mr Sharpe link policy making and administration to the controversies about participation decentralisation and devolution. Mr Foster considers the public corporation as a dynamic instrument concerned with the problem of efficiency. The book concludes with essays by Professors Mitchell and Griffith on the involvement of legal processes in the structure and functioning of policy and administration. The book does not attempt to cover all of William Robson’s interests. It is a mark of the versatility of his genius that no book could do that and remain unified. This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of public administration and political studies. | From Policy to Administration Essays in Honour of William A. Robson

GBP 99.99
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Allied Air Attacks and Civilian Harm in Italy 1940–1945 Bombing among Friends

Allied Air Attacks and Civilian Harm in Italy 1940–1945 Bombing among Friends

Tens of thousands of Italian civilians perished in the Allied bombing raids of World War II. More of them died after the Armistice of September 1943 than before when the air attacks were intended to induce Italy’s surrender. Allied Air Attacks and Civilian Harm in Italy 1940–1945 addresses this seeming paradox by examining the views of Allied political and military leaders Allied air crews and Italians on the ground. It tells the stories of a little-known diplomat (Myron Charles Taylor) military strategist (Solly Zuckerman) resistance fighter (Aldo Quaranta) and peace activist (Vera Brittain) – architects and opponents of the bombing strategies. It describes the fate of ordinary civilians drawing on a wealth of local and digital archival sources memoir accounts novels and films including Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 and John Huston’s The Battle of San Pietro. The book will be of interest to readers concerned about the ethical legal and human dimensions of bombing and its effects on civilians to students of military strategy and Italian history and to World War II buffs. They will benefit from a people-focused history that draws on a range of eclectic and rarely used sources in English and Italian. The Open Access version of this book available at www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license | Allied Air Attacks and Civilian Harm in Italy 1940–1945 Bombing among Friends

GBP 120.00
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Good Education in a Fragile World The Value of a Collaborative and Contextualised Approach to Sustainability in Higher Education

Good Education in a Fragile World The Value of a Collaborative and Contextualised Approach to Sustainability in Higher Education

This edited collection aims to provoke discussion around the most important question for contemporary higher education – what kind of education (in terms of purpose pedagogy and policy) is needed to restore the health and wellbeing of the planet and ourselves now and for generations to come? The book contains contributions from colleagues at a single UK University internationally recognised for its approach to sustainability education. Introducing a conceptual framework called the ‘Paradox Model’ the book explores the tensions that underpin the challenge of developing sustainability in higher education in the 21st century. It asks probing questions about the purpose of higher education in the 21st century given growing concerns in relation to planetary safety and justice and calls for a rethinking of educational purpose. It draws upon the theory and practice of education and explores how these can develop an understanding of sustainability pedagogies in practice. Finally it delivers thought-provoking discussion on what constitutes a ‘good’ higher education that meets the needs of a world in crisis. Drawing on a planetary health lens the book concludes with a ‘manifesto’ that brings together the key insights from the contributing authors. This will be an engaging volume for academics and educators from a wide range of disciplines in higher educational settings interested in translating sustainability theory into educational practice. | Good Education in a Fragile World The Value of a Collaborative and Contextualised Approach to Sustainability in Higher Education

GBP 130.00
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Sovereignty and the Limits of International Law Regulating Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction

Sovereignty and the Limits of International Law Regulating Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction

The inspiration for this book comes from negotiations that are taking place under the auspices of the United Nations by an intergovernmental conference for a new International Legally Binding Instrument (ILBI) under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (ABNJ). The proposed ILBI is attempting to fill existing gaps under international law over marine biodiversity and Marine Genetic Resources (MGR) in ABNJ. One way it is attempting to do this is by having an Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS) schema over these resources in ABNJ that the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and its Nagoya Protocol (NP) do not currently cover. These existing frameworks that regulate genetic resources are grounded in the notion of sovereignty. Effectively States have sovereign rights over their biological resources. The ILBI however is attempting to regulate marine biodiversity and MGR in ABNJ. Thus the notion that negotiators representing nation States under the auspices of the United Nations can regulate ABNJ is paradoxical – are these areas beyond nation States’ jurisdiction or not? Implicitly the negotiators are acting as though they have sovereignty over resources located in what has been historically a sovereign-free space. Thus the purpose of this book is to investigate this paradox. Essentially this book critiques the notion that ABNJ can actually be regulated under the auspices of the United Nations by nation-State negotiators. | Sovereignty and the Limits of International Law Regulating Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction

GBP 130.00
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Speech and Silence in Contemporary Children’s Literature

Speech and Silence in Contemporary Children’s Literature

Speech and Silence in Contemporary Children’s Literature brings a fresh perspective to a central literary question— Who speaks?— by examining a variety of represented silences. These include children who do not speak do not yet speak effectively or speak on behalf of others. A rich and unexamined literary archive explores the problematics of children who are literally silent or metaphorically so because they cannot communicate effectively with adults or peers. This project centers children’s literature in the question of voice by considering disability gender race and ecocriticism. Children’s literature rests on a paradox at the root of its own genre: it is produced by an adult author writing to a constructed idea of what children should be. By reading a range of contemporary children’s literature this book scrutinizes how such texts narrate the child’s journey from communicative alterity to a place of empowered adult speech. Sometimes the child’s verbal enclosure enables privacy and resistance. At other times silence is coerced or imposed or arises from bodily impairment. Children may act as intermediaries speaking on behalf of species that cannot. Recently we have seen children exercise their voices on the world stage and as authors. In all cases the texts analyzed here reveal speech as a minefield to be traversed. Children who talk too much too little or with insufficient expertise pose problems to themselves and others. Implicitly and sometimes explicitly they attempt to hold adults to account— inside and outside the text. Speech and Silence in Contemporary Children’s Literature addresses this underconceptualized subject in what will be an important text for scholars of children’s literature childhood studies English disability studies gender studies race studies ecopedagogy and education.

GBP 130.00
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The Anarchists

The Anarchists

In his new introduction to The Anarchists Horowitz points out that anarchism is an ideology in search of a movement and also a psychology in search of a polity. While this seems to be a paradox the fact is that anarchism has more than one hundred thousand entries on electronic search engines but one can search high and low for a society that embraces its essential anti-Statist vision. At the same time anarchism continues to attract people to its premises seemingly generation after generation. Despite similarities in values and goals anarchism seems especially attractive to those for whom individualism rather than collectivism provides a way of life. In this it stands at the opposite pole from Behemoth from the gods of political order. The Anarchists is a rich collection of theories and practices in the words of those who have rebelled against the restrictive institutions and oppressive conditions imposed by state power upon the individual. Idealists and self-seekers saints and assassins they have often served as the conscience of the world and have expressed with eloquence and convictions the deep-seated sense of anarchy that resides to a greater or lesser degree in most human beings. Anarchism is not simply a European import; it is deeply rooted in the American political experience. The volume gives strong representation to this side of the anarchist tradition. Thomas Paine wrote Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil. This was a sentiment echoed by Ralph Waldo Emerson who said the less government we have the better. The Anarchists offers the most thoughtful and comprehensive selection of writings by and about those who protest against all rule by man over man particularly that embodied in the State. As such this anthology presents the history and philosophy of anarchism in the words of thirty-five of its greatest students observers and proponents.

GBP 130.00
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