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July 2018Das kleine Sabotage-Handbuch von 1944
Die besten Tricks des amerikanischen Geheimdienstes im Kampf gegen Hitler
by US Office of Strategic Services
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2021Disciplined agency
Neoliberal precarity, generational dispossession and call centre labour in Portugal
by Patrícia Alves de Matos
Since the mid-2000s, the harsh reality of call centre employment for a generation of young workers in Portugal has been impossible to ignore. With its endless rows of small cubicles, where human agents endure repetitive telephone conversations with abusive clients under invasive modes of technological surveillance, discipline and control, call centre work remains a striking symbol of labour precarity, a condition particularly associated with the neoliberal generational disenchantment that 'each generation does better than its predecessor'. This book describes the emergence of a regime of disciplined agency in the Portuguese call centre sector. Examining the ascendancy of call centres as icons of precarity in contemporary Portugal, this book argues that call centre labour constitutes a new form of commodification of the labouring subject. De Matos argues that call centres represent an advanced system of non-manual labour power exploitation, due to the underestimation of human creativity that lies at the centre of the regimented structures of call centre labour. Call centres can only guarantee profit maintenance, de Matos argues, through the commodification of the human agency arising from the operators' moral, relational and social embedded agentive linguistic interventions of creative improvisation, decision-making, problem-solving and ethical evaluation.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2022The anthropology of power, agency and morality
by Victor de Munck, Elisa J. Sobo
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2012The agency phenomenon in the European Union
Emergence, institutionalisation and everyday decision-making
by Madalina Busuioc, Dimitris Papadimitriou, Martijn Groenleer, Simon Bulmer, Jarle Trondal, Andrew Geddes, Peter Humphreys
This volume offers a comprehensive analysis of the agency phenomenon in the European Union. It takes stock of the emergence and development of EU agencies, providing insight into the characteristics as well as the consequences of the ongoing EU agencification process. The volume traces the varied roots of and routes to agency emergence and institutionalisation. It also analyses everyday decision-making processes within EU-level agencies, notably the management of such agencies, their role in the creation of network structures in European executive governance and in the implementation of EU legislation at the member state level, and the varied sources of agency accountability. The ambition of this volume is to offer an even-handed assessment and explanation of agency creation, design, and evolution at the EU level. The volume is targeted to academics, post-graduate students and practitioners. Chapter authors include Deirdre Curtin, Renaud Dehousse, Morten Egeberg and Thomas Gehring. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017New frontiers
Imperialism's new communities in East Asia, 1842–1953
by Robert Bickers, Christian Henriot
In the new world order mapped out by Japanese and Western imperialism in East Asia after the mid-nineteenth century opium wars, communities of merchants and settlers took root in China and Korea. New identities were constructed, new modes of collaboration formed and new boundaries between the indigenous and foreign communities were literally and figuratively established. Newly available in paperback, this pioneering and comparative study of Western and Japanese imperialism examines European, American and Japanese communities in China and Korea, and challenges received notions of agency and collaboration by also looking at the roles in China of British and Japanese colonial subjects from Korea, Taiwan and India, and at Chinese Christians and White Russian refugees. This volume will be of interest to students and scholars of the history and anthropology of imperialism, colonialism's culture and East Asian history, as well as contemporary Asian affairs.
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2020Representation, recognition and respect in world politics
by Constance Duncombe
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2025The politics of Unbelonging
Understanding and challenging racialisation of Roma in Europe and beyond
by Andreja Zevnik, Andrew Russell
This book offers a comprehensive study of racialisation of Romani communities in Europe (and beyond). Drawing on the idea of unbelonging it demonstrates how Romani communities are placed in a position of visceral visibility by local, national and international institutions as well as public media discourses. It shows how such positionality impacts the ability of Roma to self-represent politically and build capacity for change. From the position of unbelonging the book offers an account of Romani agency which both challenges the mainstream representations of Roma but also develops an alternative none-nation-state sense of belonging. In doing so the book outlines an account of Romani alternative expressions in order to take control of their relationship with their own history, future, knowledge, and identity, and the rest of the society.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2016Women, dowries and agency
by Pamela Sharpe, Dana Wessell Lightfoot, Penny Summerfield, Lynn Abrams, Cordelia Beattie
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2023
Statelessness, governance, and the problem of citizenship
by Tendayi Bloom, Lindsey N. Kingston
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2023Intelligence and espionage in the English Republic c. 1600–60
by Alan Marshall
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Political structure & processesAugust 2014The agency phenomenon in the European Union
by Edited by Madalina Busuioc, Martijn Groenleer and Jarle Trondal
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2025
Local government and democracy in Britain
by Neil Barnett, J. Chandler
Local government in the UK is in crisis. It is now neither local in terms of the geography and populations of its principle units, nor does it truly govern in these areas. As this book reveals, over the previous 200 years local government has moved from a system in which local interests held governance over localities to one in which central government and national and multi-national agencies such as corporate businesses hold governance over local and community decision-making. These changes seriously undermine the important role that local government can play in liberal democracy in the UK. The book explains the nature of local government today and asks if there is any possibility of change.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2013The Black Death
by Rosemary Horrox
This series provides texts central to medieval studies courses and focuses upon the diverse cultural, social and political conditions that affected the functioning of all levels of medieval society. Translations are accompanied by introductory and explanatory material and each volume includes a comprehensive guide to the sources' interpretation, including discussion of critical linguistic problems and an assessment of recent research on the topics covered. From 1348 to 1350 Europe was devastated by an epidemic that left between a third and one half of the population dead. This source book traces, through contemporary writings, the calamitous impact of the Black Death in Europe, with a particular emphasis on its spread across England from 1348 to 1349. Rosemary Horrox surveys contemporary attempts to explain the plague, which was universally regarded as an expression of divine vengeance for the sins of humankind. Moralists all had their particular targets for criticism. However, this emphasis on divine chastisement did not preclude attempts to explain the plague in medical or scientific terms. Also, there was a widespread belief that human agencies had been involved, and such scapegoats as foreigners, the poor and Jews were all accused of poisoning wells. The final section of the book charts the social and psychological impact of the plague, and its effect on the late-medieval economy.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2012Authorship and authority
The writings of James VI and I
by Jane Rickard
James VI of Scotland and I of England participated in the burgeoning literary culture of the Renaissance, not only as a monarch and patron, but as an author in his own right, publishing extensively in a number of different genres over four decades. As the first monograph devoted to James as an author, this book offers a fresh perspective on his reigns in Scotland and England, and also on the inter-relationship of authorship and authority, literature and politics in the Renaissance. Beginning with the poetry he wrote in Scotland in the 1580s, it moves through a wide range of his writings in other genres, including scriptural exegeses, political, social and theological treatises and printed speeches, concluding with his manuscript poetry of the early 1620s. The book combines extensive primary research into the preparation, material form and circulation of these varied writings, with theoretically informed consideration of the relationship between authors, texts and readers. The discussion thus explores James's responses to, and interventions in, a range of literary, political and religious debates, and reveals the development of his aims and concerns as an author. Rickard argues that, despite the King's best efforts to the contrary, his writings expose the tensions and contradictions between authorship and authority. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of the reign of James VI and I, the literary and political cultures of late sixteenth-century Scotland and early seventeenth-century England, the development of notions of authorship and the relationship between literature and politics. ;
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November 2011Im Bureau
Erzählungen
by Robert Walser
Das Gesetz des Büros prägt unser Leben von A bis Z. Als der junge Robert Walser um 1900 zu schreiben anfing, war das noch ganz anders gewesen. Als Auszubildender in einer Bank hatte er das Bureau als etwas irritierend Neues erfahren. Es erscheint als Inbegriff eines fremdbestimmten und sinnentleerten Lebens und bildet zugleich den Ort, an dem die Fantasien und Träume ansetzen, mit denen sich der Dichter die Wirklichkeit aneignet. Wie die Bürokratie-Satiren von Melville, Gogol oder Kafka werfen auch Robert Walsers hier erstmals versammelten Erzählungen über Angestellte ein ebenso erhellendes wie erheiterndes Licht auf das, was uns im Innersten zusammenhält: die Rationalisierung der Arbeitswelt.
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October 2011Im Bureau
Aus dem Leben der Angestellten
by Robert Walser, Reto Sorg, Lucas Marco Gisi
Das Gesetz des Büros prägt unser Leben von A bis Z. Als der junge Robert Walser um 1900 zu schreiben anfing, war das noch ganz anders gewesen. Als Auszubildender in einer Bank hatte er das ›Bureau‹ als etwas irritierend Neues erfahren. Es erscheint als Inbegriff eines fremdbestimmten und sinnentleerten Lebens und bildet zugleich den Ort, an dem die Fantasien und Träume ansetzen, mit denen sich der Dichter die Wirklichkeit aneignet. Wie die Bürokratie-Satiren von Melville, Gogol oder Kafka werfen auch Robert Walsers hier erstmals versammelten Erzählungen über Angestellte ein ebenso erhellendes wie erheiterndes Licht auf das, was uns im Innersten zusammenhält: die Rationalisierung der Arbeitswelt.
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November 2011Im Bureau
Erzählungen
by Robert Walser, Reto Sorg
Das Gesetz des Büros prägt unser Leben von A bis Z. Als der junge Robert Walser um 1900 zu schreiben anfing, war das noch ganz anders gewesen. Als Auszubildender in einer Bank hatte er das ›Bureau‹ als etwas irritierend Neues erfahren. Es erscheint als Inbegriff eines fremdbestimmten und sinnentleerten Lebens und bildet zugleich den Ort, an dem die Fantasien und Träume ansetzen, mit denen sich der Dichter die Wirklichkeit aneignet. Wie die Bürokratie-Satiren von Melville, Gogol oder Kafka werfen auch Robert Walsers hier erstmals versammelten Erzählungen über Angestellte ein ebenso erhellendes wie erheiterndes Licht auf das, was uns im Innersten zusammenhält: die Rationalisierung der Arbeitswelt.
