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Crosscurrents : Atlantic and Pacific migration in the making of a global America
\"This book provides an original perspective on American immigration that transcends the standard compartmentalization of American immigration into separate Atlantic-European and Pacific-Asian spheres and narratives that has blocked a fuller view of inter-regionalism and globalism. In contrast, this volume reveals modern migration to the U.S. as a bridge connecting the multiple peoples of the Atlantic and Pacific regions. It focuses on cross-cultural change and mutual adaptation between European and Asian immigrants, an innovative process that produced global diversity and multicultural convergence\"--Provided by publisher.
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The Fallout of War
The people of the Mashreq have seen more than their share of deaths, economic losses, and instability over the past decade.As the decade-long conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic created new challenges and worsened the existing ones, economic activity declined, labor markets deteriorated, and poverty increased.
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This Could Be the Start of Something Big
For nearly two decades, progressives have been dismayed by the steady rise of the right in U.S. politics. Often lost in the gloom and doom about American politics is a striking and sometimes underanalyzed phenomenon: the resurgence of progressive politics and movements at a local level. Across the country, urban coalitions, including labor, faith groups, and community-based organizations, have come together to support living wage laws and fight for transit policies that can move the needle on issues of working poverty. Just as striking as the rise of this progressive resurgence has been its reception among unlikely allies. In places as diverse as Chicago, Atlanta, and San Jose, the usual business resistance to pro-equity policies has changed, particularly when it comes to issues like affordable housing and more efficient transportation systems. To see this change and its possibilities requires that we recognize a new thread running through many local efforts: a perspective and politics that emphasizes \"regional equity.\"
Manuel Pastor Jr., Chris Benner, and Martha Matsuoka offer their analysis with an eye toward evaluating what has and has not worked in various campaigns to achieve regional equity. The authors show how momentum is building as new policies addressing regional infrastructure, housing, and workforce development bring together business and community groups who share a common desire to see their city and region succeed. Drawing on a wealth of case studies as well as their own experience in the field, Pastor, Benner, and Matsuoka point out the promise and pitfalls of this new approach, concluding that what they term social movement regionalism might offer an important contribution to the revitalization of progressive politics in America.
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Metaphors of Spain
The history of twentieth-century Spanish nationalism is a complex one, placing a set of famously distinctive regional identities against a backdrop of religious conflict, separatist tensions, and the autocratic rule of Francisco Franco. And despite the undeniably political character of that story, cultural history can also provide essential insights into the subject. Metaphors of Spain brings together leading historians to examine Spanish nationalism through its diverse and complementary cultural artifacts, from \"formal\" representations such as the flag to music, bullfighting, and other more diffuse examples. Together they describe not a Spanish national \"essence,\" but a nationalism that is constantly evolving and accommodates multiple interpretations.
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La construcción de un mundo de regiones
Contrary to the conventional literature studying regional phenomena and according to the avatars of the European experience, I adopt a global and historic reading to explain the crafting of regional configurations as structuring elements of the contemporary world’s space. The article first talk about how, from the middle of the 20th Century, the regional integration is manifested around the planet. Then I highlight the interdependent relationships of the regionalism boom within the 90’s with the socio-historic process of the free trade barriers elimination. Finally, the article argues that in the 21st Century there is a consolidation of the inter regionalism in parallel to the seeding of the transregionalism.
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The Re-invention of the European Radical Right
Combining an in-depth case study of the Italian Northern League with a comparative focus on other parties, Andrej Zaslove employs a socio-economic, institutional, and ideological analysis to argue that the new wave of right-wing parties in Western Europe converged into a radical right populist party family in the 1990s. He examines the transformation of the Northern League from its regionalist roots while focusing on the party’s nationalism, authoritarianism, support for a market economy, opposition to globalization, and scepticism regarding Italian integration into the European Union. He also scrutinizes the Northern League’s participation in political power between 2001 and 2006 and its influence on federalism, immigration, economic policy, and European integration. A thorough and thought-provoking work, The Re-invention of the European Radical Right offers remarkable insight into the ongoing effects of radical right populism on politics and public policy in Europe.
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The political potential of Upper Silesian ethnoregionalist movement : a study in ethnic identity and political behaviours of Upper Silesians
The book analyses the emergence of the Upper Silesian ethnoregionalist movement, the politicisation of Silesian ethnicity and the political behaviours of Upper Silesians. It also elaborates on the Upper Silesian region, its history of autonomy and culturally diversified society.
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Enacting Brittany
Brittany offers an excellent example of a French region that once attracted a certain cultivated elite of travel connoisseurs but in which more popular tourism developed relatively early in the twentieth century. It is therefore a strategic choice as a case study of some of the processes associated with the emergence of mass tourism, and the effects of this kind of tourism development on local populations. Efforts to package Breton cultural difference in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries marked a significant advance in heritage tourism, and a departure from what is commonly perceived to be a French intolerance of cultural diversity within its borders. This study explores the means by which key actors - middle class associations, businesses, governmental bodies, cultural intermediaries - pursued tourist development in the region and the effect this had on Breton cultural identification. Chapters are arranged thematically and consider the rise of rural tourism in France and the preservation, display, and enactment of Breton culture in its most visible locations: the natural landscape of Brittany, Breton dress, early heritage festivals and religious Pardons. The final chapter explores the staging of Breton culture at the Paris World's Fair of 1937 and the roots of state-sponsored mass tourism. Beyond those interested in the history of French tourism, this study will also be invaluable to historians and social scientists concerned with understanding the dynamics involved in the emergence of mass tourism, its causes and consequences in particular locales in the present as well as in the past.
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Global Middle East
Localities, countries, and regions develop through complex
interactions with others. This striking volume highlights global
interconnectedness seen through the prism of the Middle East, both
\"global-in\" and \"global-out.\" It delves into the region's
scientific, artistic, economic, political, religious, and
intellectual formations and traces how they have taken shape
through a dynamic set of encounters and exchanges. Written in short
and accessible essays by prominent experts on the region,
Global Middle East covers topics including God, Rumi,
food, film, fashion, music, sports, science, and the flow of
people, goods, and ideas. The text explores social and political
movements from human rights, Salafism, and cosmopolitanism to
radicalism and revolutions. Using the insights of global studies,
students will glean new perspectives about the region.
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