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Doris Bachmann-Medick

This volume establishes key concepts for a trans/national expansion in the study of culture. Using translation as an analytical category, it explores what is translatable between nation-specific approaches such as British/American Cultural Studies, German Kulturwissenschaften and French Sciences Humaines. Theoretical reflections and case studies contribute to a new trans/national view of the study of culture within an entangled world society. -- Provided by publisher.

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Jesús M. Usunáriz, Edwin Williamson (eds

"Este libro examina las opiniones -críticas feroces y grotescas o alabanzas cortesanas- sobre la figura de los validos y favoritos; se analiza el profundo impacto que suscitaron las tesis de Maquiavelo en las obras de poetas y tratadistas. Calderón, Cervantes, Quevedo, Alemán, Lope de Vega, Guevara, Gracián, Ribadeneyra y un gran número de autores (teólogos, historiadores, arbitristas...) aparecen en estas páginas como hombres que conocían y participaban de los retos políticos y sociales de su época."--P. [4] of cover.

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Ibrahim Seaga Shaw

Drawing on case studies of the reporting of distant humanitarian interventions, especially in Eastern Europe and Africa by the mainstream Western media, €Ibrahim Shaw illuminates how journalists can create a more informed and empowered public sphere. He argues that journalists do not only hold the power to inform the public, but have the moral responsibility as duty bearers to educate and increase awareness of their rights and monitor, investigate and report all human rights violations. It is the first book to exclusively and critically explore the role of the media in the promotion and protection of human rights. Drawing on Kant's cosmopolitan principle of global justice, Shaw puts forward the case for human rights journalism as a more proactive approach in prioritising the deconstruction of indirect structural and cultural violence, and as the best way of preventing or minimising direct political violence.

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Peter Robson and Asbjørn Kjønstad

"This collection of essays focuses attention on the global impact of legal policies on levels of poverty. They illustrate the distinct dimensions of poverty in a range of different political and cultural settings and also show how poverty is exacerbated by quite discrete local cultural factors in some instances. There is,nonetheless a universal element which runs through all the contributions. The fate of those who are disadvantaged in society depends crucially on their access to goods through the world of work. Thus gender, ethnic background or disability can result in individuals having a much higher chance of experiencing poverty than those outwith these groups and the success of these groups in achieving a measure of prosperity is bound up with a multiplicity of geographical and political factors. This book is part of the Oñati International Series in Law and Society."--Bloomsbury Publishing.