This book is a study of a Soviet cultural phenomenon of the 1950s through the 1980s known as guitar poetry--songs accompanied by guitar and considered poetry in much the same way as those of, for example, Bob Dylan. Platonov's is the most comprehensive book in English to date to…
Based on over a decade of fieldwork conducted with urban Roma, Staging Citizenship offers a powerful new perspective on one of the European Union's most marginal and disenfranchised communities. Focusing on "performance" broadly conceived, it follows members of a squatter's sett…
"This book highlights the discrimination of groups in the Caribbean, including women, children, refugees, indigenous peoples, deportees, and flood victims. The three authors in this book are experts in separate disciplines: policy making, social work, as well as gender and devel…
Remixing multilingualism" is conceptualised in this book as engaging in the linguistic act of using, combining and manipulating multilingual forms. It is about creating new ways of 'doing' multilingualism through cultural acts and identities and involving a process that invokes …
Remixing multilingualism" is conceptualised in this book as engaging in the linguistic act of using, combining and manipulating multilingual forms. It is about creating new ways of 'doing' multilingualism through cultural acts and identities and involving a process that invokes …
"Marginality assumes a variety of forms in current discussions of the Middle Ages. Modern scholars have considered a seemingly innumerable list of people to have been marginalized in the European Middle Ages: the poor, criminals, unorthodox religious, the disabled, the mentally …
Byron and marginality
Wie werden Körper gefährlich? Dieser Frage liegt die These zugrunde, dass soziale Prozesse der In- und Exklusion, der Normalisierung und Marginalisierung von Menschen und Gruppen immer auch eine körperliche Dimension haben. Das Buch verknüpft erstmals die für die Soziologie seit…