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City University of Hong Kong Press
City University of Hong Kong Press was founded in 1996 as the publishing arm of the City University of Hong Kong. Overseen by the University Press Committee, the continuing mission of the Press is, by way of publishing high quality titles, to promote scholarship; to enhance knowledge transfer; and to disseminate knowledge and creative works to society at large.The Press publishes mainly three types of publication: academic works, professional books and books of general interest and social concern. These cover a wide range of fields including business, history, cultural studies, education, law, political science, social sciences, sciences and engineering, with a focus on China studies, Hong Kong studies, Asian studies, politics and public policy. The Press endeavours to produce works of social impact, regional and international significance, and lasting value.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2023Devolution in Greater Manchester and Liverpool City Region
by Georgina Blakeley, Brendan Evans
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017The empire in one city?
Liverpool's inconvenient imperial past
by Sheryllynne Haggerty, Andrew Thompson, Anthony Webster, John M. MacKenzie, Nicholas J. White
From the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century, Liverpool was frequently referred to as the 'second city of the empire'. Yet, the role of Liverpool within the British imperial system and the impact on the city of its colonial connections remain underplayed in recent writing on both Liverpool and the empire. However, 'inconvenient' this may prove, this specially-commissioned collection of essays demonstrates that the imperial dimension deserves more prevalence in both academic and popular representations of Liverpool's past. Indeed, if Liverpool does represent the 'World in One City' - the slogan for Liverpool's status as European Capital of Culture in 2008 - it could be argued that this is largely down to Merseyside's long-term interactions with the colonial world, and the legacies of that imperial history. In the context of Capital of Culture year and growing interest in the relationship between British provincial cities and the British empire, this book will find a wide audience amongst academics, students and history enthusiasts generally.
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2024Brave new city
Smart Cities - a survaillance-nightmare?
by Peter Schaar
The dream of the ideal city is as old as the city itself. Since real cities often develop chaotically, the idea of perfecting them, even tearing them down if necessary, and rebuilding them according to the prevailing patterns of thought is an obvious one. The latest manifestation of this utopia is the smart city - the intelligent city, packed with the latest technology and extensively digitised. But will air taxis and hyperloops, ubiquitous sensors, access control systems and data-driven management really make the city of the future a better place to live? Are they the answer to the enormous challenges facing today's fast-growing metropolises? Or will the supposed administrative paradise ultimately mutate into a digital juggernaut?
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Demonstrations & protest movementsJuly 2014Worker protests in post-communist Romania and Ukraine
Striking with tied hands
by Mihai Varga
Worker protests in post-communist Romania and Ukraine is a book about strategies of trade unions confronting employers in difficult conditions. The book's main idea is to study why and how successful forms of workers' interest representation could emerge in a hostile context. The post-communist context makes it difficult for workers and trade unions to mobilise, pose threats to employers, and break out of their political isolation, but even under such harsh conditions strategy matters for defending workers' rights and living standards. The cases studied in this book are 18 conflict episodes at 10 privatised plants in the Romanian steel industry and Ukraine's civil machine-building sector in the 2000s. This book should be relevant for anyone taking interest in how and to what extent workers can reassert their influence over the conditions of production in regions and economic sectors characterised by disinvestment (of which outsourcing and 'lean' methods of production are instances).
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October 2022Himmel über Charkiw
Nachrichten vom Überleben im Krieg | Eine Chronik der laufenden Ereignisse aus der Ukraine
by Serhij Zhadan, Sabine Stöhr, Juri Durkot, Claudia Dathe
Für ein Tagebuch fehlt ihm die Zeit. Serhij Zhadan ist Tag und Nacht im beschossenen Charkiw (Ost-Ukraine) unterwegs – er evakuiert Kinder und alte Leute aus den Vororten, verteilt Lebensmittel, koordiniert Lieferungen an das Militär und gibt Konzerte. Die Posts in den sozialen Netzwerken dokumentieren seine Wege durch die Stadt und sprechen den Charkiwern Mut zu, unermüdlich, Tag für Tag. Die Stadt leert sich. Freunde kommen um. Der Tod ist allgegenwärtig, der Hass wächst. Als die Bilder von Butscha um die Welt gehen, versagt auch Zhadan die Stimme. »Es gibt keine Worte. Einfach keine. Haltet durch, Freunde. Jetzt gibt es nur noch Widerstand, Kampf und gegenseitige Unterstützung.« Nachrichten vom Überleben im Krieg: Das Buch ist eine Chronik der laufenden Ereignisse aus der Ukraine, das Zeugnis eines Menschen in der Ukraine, der während des Schreibens in eine neue Realität eintritt und sich der Vernichtung von allem entgegenstemmt. Kein einsamer Beobachter, sondern ein aktiver Zivilist in einer Gesellschaft, die in den letzten acht Jahren gelernt hat, was es bedeutet, gemeinsam stark zu sein. 2022 wird Serhij Zhadan zum Träger des Friedenspreises des Deutschen Buchhandels gewählt. In der Begründung heißt es: »Wir ehren den ukrainischen Schriftsteller und Musiker für sein herausragendes künstlerisches Werk sowie für seine humanitäre Haltung, mit der er sich den Menschen im Krieg zuwendet und ihnen unter Einsatz seines Lebens hilft. In seinen Romanen, Essays, Gedichten und Songtexten führt uns Serhij Zhadan in eine Welt, die große Umbrüche erfahren hat und zugleich von der Tradition lebt. Seine Texte erzählen, wie Krieg und Zerstörung in diese Welt einziehen und die Menschen erschüttern. Dabei findet der Schriftsteller eine eigene Sprache, die uns eindringlich und differenziert vor Augen führt, was viele lange nicht sehen wollten. Nachdenklich und zuhörend, in poetischem und radikalem Ton erkundet Serhij Zhadan, wie die Menschen in der Ukraine trotz aller Gewalt versuchen, ein unabhängiges, von Frieden und Freiheit bestimmtes Leben zu führen.«
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July 2022Die Ukrainerin
Njetotschka Iljaschenko erzählt ihre Geschichte
by Josef Winkler, Bernard Banoun, Josef Winkler
Nach einem längeren Aufenthalt in Wien zog sich Josef Winkler im Jahre 1981 auf einen Bauernhof in Kärnten zurück, um seinen Roman Muttersprache zu beenden. Dort fand er Quartier bei der Familie der Bergbäuerin Njetotschka Wassiljewna Iljaschenko, einer im März 1943 von Hitlers Schergen verschleppten Ukrainerin ‒ die ihm über ein Jahr lang ihre Lebensgeschichte erzählte. Die Bäuerin berichtet dem Autor vom Leben ihrer verzweifelt um die Existenz der Familie ringenden Mutter am Ufer des Dnjepr und von ihrer eigenen Kindheit während der Zeit der Kollektivierung und Hungersnot (Holodomor) im Dorf Dobenka, das später vom Stausee von Krementschug überflutet wurde. Sie erzählt von ihrer gewaltsamen Verschleppung aus der Ukraine zur Zwangsarbeit nach Kärnten, und sie berichtet von ihrem ersten Jahr auf dem Kärntner Bergbauernhof. Der Band erscheint mit einem Nachwort von Josef Winklers französischem Übersetzer Bernard Banoun sowie erstmals mit Briefen, die Hapka Davidowna Iljaschenko aus der Ukraine an ihre Tochter Njetotschka in Kärnten schrieb.
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 2002City of Revolution
Restructuring Manchester
by Jamie Peck, Kevin Ward, Martin Hargreaves
Provides a critical account of one of Europe's most celebrated examples of urban transformation, getting beneath the hype to ask what has really changed in the 'new' Manchester.. The first comprehensive account of contemporary political and economic change in Manchester.. Explores the costs and consequences of making the transition from an industrial to a post-industrial or 'entrepreneurial' city, with broad implications for other major cities. ;
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April 2021Ukraine's fateful years 2013–2019
Vol. 1: The Maidan uprising in 2013/2014 Vol. 2: The annexation of Crimea and the war in Donbass
by Winfried Schneider-Deters
— Comprehensive and detailled analysis of the Euromaidan and the ongoing war in Ukraine — Brussels versus Moscow, Russian aggression and geopolitical interests — China's role in a new East-West conflict The years between 2013 and 2019 were almost as significant for Ukraine as the attainment of independence in 1991, as this very independence was in danger of being lost again after the Euromaidan. The nationwide popular uprising against the regime of President Yanukovych had led to a change of power: the former parliamentary opposition formed a new government, resulting in a loss of influence for Russia. Russian agents therefore tried to bring about a "Crimea scenario", another secession in the eastern and southern parts of Ukraine. The resulting "Ukraine conflict", often called a civil war, is in fact a Russian war of attrition against Ukraine. President Putin intends to resolve it on his terms in the Minsk process: through a de facto "autonomous" part of the Donbass in the Ukrainian state, independent of Kiev, as a lever for Russian political influence. Winfried Schneider- Deters, a renowned expert on Ukraine, analyses narratively and in detail the events from 2013 to 2019 and places the Russian- Ukrainian conflict in the context of the dawning "Chinese century".
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May 2022In the Shadow of War
Diary notes from Ukraine
by Christoph Brumme
"What can you learn in war? Do you become numb, do you get used to it at some point? Does war make you "hard", uncaring, above pain? No. These are just clichés. Every day brings new horrors. At best, one learns for some time to suppress strong feelings, because to give in to them would weaken one's life instinct." In a very stirring and shocking, but sometimes humorous language, Christoph Brumme tells of the situation in Ukraine, the everyday life of his family and friends, of fears, longings and political assessments. The diary entries of the war and the resistance of the Ukrainians, starting from the first signs of the impending war in mid-January 2022 until the printing of this book, 1st May 2022, impressively bear witness to the brutality of these events.
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March 2022Love in the Big City
Roman
by Sang Young Park, Jan Henrik Dirks
Young flippert zwischen Bude, Hörsaal und den Betten seiner letzten Tinder-Matches hin und her. Er studiert in Seoul, zusammen mit Jaehee, seiner BFF und Mitbewohnerin, zieht er durch die glitzernden Bars und queeren Clubs der Stadt. Mit noch einem Glas Soju in der Hand und eisgekühlten Marlboro Reds zwischen den Lippen beschwören sie die Euphorie, jede Nacht. Gegen die Ängste, gegen die Liebe, gegen die Ansprüche der Familie und die Not mit dem Geld. Doch als auch Jaehee endlich ankommen will, bleibt Young allein zurück im Partymodus. Mit seiner altgewordenen Mutter, mit dutzenden Liebhabern, von denen kaum einer seinen Namen kennt, mit der Leidenschaft fürs Schreiben und einer Frage: Ist in diesem Land für einen wie mich überhaupt eine Zukunft vorgesehen? Kann ich sie erreichen? Love in the Big City ist eine Heldengeschichte von gewaltiger Zärtlichkeit und Lässigkeit. Sang Young Park erzählt von Chaos, Freude, Leichtigkeit des Jungseins, und seinen schmerzhaften Grenzen, in einer Gesellschaft, deren Vergangenheit trotz allem Blitzen, Blinken, Träumen seltsam mächtig bleibt … Das Kultbuch aus Südkorea, Porträt einer Generation, Psychogramm eines faszinierenden Landes.
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2024Where is Russia Heading?
by Jens Siegert
Vladimir Putin has been ruling Russia for 25 years. There is no end in sight to his dictatorship. He relies on repression at home and is waging a war of destruction against a neighbouring country. The conflict with the West has long become a systemic conflict between an illiberal-autocratic ideology and liberal-democratic principles. Nothing will change as long as Putin remains in power. Nevertheless, as far as can be ascertained under unfree conditions, the majority of the population seems to be supporting Putin. Does this mean that too many people in Russia do not want democracy or peace? Will everything remain the same after Putin? Or is there a chance that Russia will eventually take a different, more democratic path? Whatever the outcome of the war in Ukraine, Russia is not going to disappear. We will still have to deal with our big neighbour in the east. This makes it all the more important to focus on longer-term developments. As a recognised expert on Russian history and society, the author outlines what the post-Putin era might look like. His in-depth analysis makes it clear that Russia is partly Putin, but Putin is not everything about Russia.
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 2024
The machinic city
Media, performance and participation
by Marcos P. Dias
As human and machine agency become increasingly intermingled and digital media is overlaid onto the urban landscape, The machinic city argues that performance art can help us to understand contemporary urban living. Dias analyses interventions from performance artists such as Blast Theory, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Rimini Protokoll, which draw from a rich history of avant-garde art movements to create spaces for deliberation and reflection on urban life, and speculation on its future. While cities are increasingly controlled by autonomous processes mediated by technical machines, Dias analyses the performative potential of the aesthetic machine, as it assembles with media, capitalist, human and urban machines. The aesthetic machine of performance art in urban space is examined through its different components - design, city and technology actants. This unveils the unpredictable nature and emerging potential of performance art as it unfolds in the machinic city.
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Humanities & Social SciencesOctober 2020The European Union and its eastern neighbourhood
Europeanisation and its twenty-first-century contradictions
by Mike Mannin, Paul Flenley
This volume is timely in that it explores key issues which are currently at the forefront of the EU's relations with its eastern neighbours. It considers the impact of a more assertive Russia, the significance of Turkey, the limitations of the Eastern Partnership with Belarus and Moldova, the position of a Ukraine in crisis and pulled between Russia and the EU, security and democracy in the South Caucasus. It looks at the contested nature of European identity in areas such as the Balkans. In addition it looks at ways in which the EU's interests and values can be tested in sectors such as trade and migration. The interplay between values, identity and interests and their effect on the interpretation of europeanisation between the EU and its neighbours is a core theme of the volume.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2022Performing the jumbled city
by Olivia Casagrande, Faye Ginsburg, Andrew Irving, Sarah Pink, Paul Henley
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2022Jacopo da Varagine's Chronicle of the city of Genoa
by C. E. Beneš
This book offers the first English translation of the Chronicle of the city of Genoa by the thirteenth-century Dominican Jacopo da Varagine, an author best known for his monumental book of saints' lives, the Golden legend. Jacopo's Chronicle presents a coherent vision of Genoa's place in history, the cosmos and Creation as written by the city's own archbishop - mixing eyewitness accounts with scholarly research about the city's origins and didactic reflections on the proper conduct of public and private life. Accompanied by an extensive introduction, this complete translation provides a unique perspective on a dynamic medieval city-state from one of its most important officials, broadening the available literature in English on medieval Italian urban life.
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2019Jacopo da Varagine's Chronicle of the city of Genoa
by Carrie Beneš, Rosemary Horrox
This book offers the first English translation of the Chronicle of the city of Genoa by the thirteenth-century Dominican Jacopo da Varagine, an author best known for his monumental book of saints' lives, the Golden legend. Jacopo's Chronicle presents a coherent vision of Genoa's place in history, the cosmos and Creation as written by the city's own archbishop - mixing eyewitness accounts with scholarly research about the city's origins and didactic reflections on the proper conduct of public and private life. Accompanied by an extensive introduction, this complete translation provides a unique perspective on a dynamic medieval city-state from one of its most important officials, broadening the available literature in English on medieval Italian urban life.
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2019Jacopo da Varagine's Chronicle of the city of Genoa
by C. E. Beneš, Rosemary Horrox
This book offers the first English translation of the Chronicle of the city of Genoa by the thirteenth-century Dominican Jacopo da Varagine, an author best known for his monumental book of saints' lives, the Golden legend. Jacopo's Chronicle presents a coherent vision of Genoa's place in history, the cosmos and Creation as written by the city's own archbishop - mixing eyewitness accounts with scholarly research about the city's origins and didactic reflections on the proper conduct of public and private life. Accompanied by an extensive introduction, this complete translation provides a unique perspective on a dynamic medieval city-state from one of its most important officials, broadening the available literature in English on medieval Italian urban life.
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May 2023Jade City - Familie ist Pflicht
Roman
by Lee, Fonda
Aus dem amerikanischen Englisch von Charlotte Lungstrass-Kapfer
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