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“marius buning”

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  • Ownership of Knowledge

    Beyond Intellectual Property

    Edited by Dagmar Schafer, Annapurna Mamidipudi, Marius Buning ...
    A framework for knowledge ownership that challenges the mechanisms of inequality in modern society.Scholars of science, technology, medicine, and law have all tended to emphasize knowledge as the sum of human understanding, and its ownership as possession by law. Breaking with traditional discourse on knowledge property as something that concerns mainly words and intellectual history, or science ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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  • Identity

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Florian Coulmas ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Identity has become one of the most widely used terms today, appearing in many different contexts. Anything and everything has an identity, and identity crises have become almost equally pervasive. Yet 'identity' is extremely versatile, meaning different things to different people and in different scientific disciplines. To many its meaning seems self-evident, since its various uses share common ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • A Billion Voices

    China's Search for a Common Language: Penguin Specials

    by David Moser ...
    Series series Penguin China | Penguin Specials
    Mandarin, Guoyu or Putonghua? 'Chinese' is a language known by many names, and China is a country home to many languages. Since the turn of the twentieth century linguists and politicians have been on a mission to create a common language for China. From the radical intellectuals of the May Fourth Movement, to leaders such as Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong, all fought linguistic wars to push the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • From the Soil

    The Foundations of Chinese Society

    by Xiaotong Fei ...
    This classic text by Fei Xiaotong, China's finest social scientist, was first published in 1947 and is Fei's chief theoretical statement about the distinctive characteristics of Chinese society. Written in Chinese from a Chinese point of view for a Chinese audience, From the Soil describes the contrasting organizational principles of Chinese and Western societies, thereby conveying the essential ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Controversy Mapping

    A Field Guide

    by Tommaso Venturini, Anders Kristian Munk ...
    As disputes concerning the environment, the economy, and pandemics occupy public debate, we need to learn to navigate matters of public concern when facts are in doubt and expertise is contested.Controversy Mapping is the first book to introduce readers to the observation and representation of contested issues on digital media. Drawing on actor-network theory and digital methods, Venturini and ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Understanding the Chinese City

    by Li Shiqiao ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    This bookteaches us to read the contemporary Chinese city. Li Shiqiao deftly crafts a new theory of the Chinese city and the dynamics of urbanization by:exploring the rise of stories of labour, finance and their hierarchiesexamining how the Chinese city has been shaped by the figuration of the writing systemanalyzing the continuing importance of the family and its barriers of protection against ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Big and Little Histories

    Sizing Up Ethics in Historiography

    by Marnie Hughes-Warrington, Anne Martin ...
    This book introduces students to ethics in historiography through an exploration of how historians in different times and places have explained how history ought to be written and how those views relate to different understandings of ethics.No two histories are the same. The book argues that this is a good thing because the differences between histories are largely a matter of ethics. Looking to ... Read more

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  • Oral Literature in the Digital Age

    Archiving Orality and Connecting with Communities

    by Mark Turin (editor), Claire Wheeler (editor), Eleanor Wilkinson (editor) ...
    Series Book 2 - World Oral Literature Series
    Thanks to ever-greater digital connectivity, interest in oral traditions has grown beyond that of researcher and research subject to include a widening pool of global users. When new publics consume, manipulate and connect with field recordings and digital cultural archives, their involvement raises important practical and ethical questions. This volume explores the political repercussions of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • UNESCO on the Ground

    Local Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage

    Edited by Michael Dylan Foster, Lisa Gilman ...
    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    For nearly 70 years, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has played a crucial role in developing policies and recommendations for dealing with intangible cultural heritage. What has been the effect of such sweeping global policies on those actually affected by them? How connected is UNESCO with what is happening every day, on the ground, in local ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Philosophy of Chinese Architecture

    Past, Present, Future

    by David Wang ...
    A Philosophy of Chinese Architecture: Past, Present, Future examines the impact of Chinese philosophy on China’s historic structures, as well as on modern Chinese urban aesthetics and architectural forms. For architecture in China moving forward, author David Wang posits a theory, the New Virtualism, which links current trends in computational design with long-standing Chinese philosophical themes ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • China, the New Paper Tiger

    by John Tierney ...
    China has been China for four thousand years; concealment may be a reaction to a past redolent of autocracy, but it seems prevelent in all aspects of Chinese life. Confucious' idea of keeping the masses ignorant in order to make them easier to govern remains in force. We in America have had, or had until just recently, an underlying assumption that things are going to get better and better. This ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Technology, Gender and History in Imperial China

    Great Transformations Reconsidered

    by Francesca Bray ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship
    What can the history of technology contribute to our understanding of late imperial China? Most stories about technology in pre-modern China follow a well-worn plot: in about 1400 after an early ferment of creativity that made it the most technologically sophisticated civilisation in the world, China entered an era of technical lethargy and decline. But how are we to reconcile this tale, which ... Read more

    $73.99 USD