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St. Louis: Disappearing Black Communities (Black America Series)
by John A. Wright Sr.Since the founding of St. Louis, African Americans have lived in communities throughout the area. Although St. Louis' 1916 "Segregation of the Negro Ordinance" was ruled unconstitutional, African Americans were restricted to certain areas through real estate practices such as steering and red lining. Through legal efforts in the court cases of Shelley v. Kraemer in 1948, Jones v. Mayer in 1978, and others, more housing options became available and the population dispersed. Many of the communities began to decline, disappear, or experience urban renewal.
St. Marks is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street
by Ada CalhounSt. Marks Place in New York City has spawned countless artistic and political movements. Here Frank O'Hara caroused, Emma Goldman plotted, and the Velvet Underground wailed. But every generation of miscreant denizens believes that their era, and no other, marked the street's apex. This idiosyncratic work of reportage tells the many layered history of the street--from its beginnings as Colonial Dutch Director-General Peter Stuyvesant's pear orchard to today's hipster playground--organized around those pivotal moments when critics declared "St. Marks is dead. " In a narrative enriched by hundreds of interviews and dozens of rare images, St. Marks native Ada Calhoun profiles iconic characters from W. H. Auden to Abbie Hoffman, from Keith Haring to the Beastie Boys, among many others. She argues that St. Marks has variously been an elite address, an immigrants' haven, a mafia warzone, a hippie paradise, and a backdrop to the film Kids--but it has always been a place that outsiders call home.
St. Patrick's Day Shamrocks
by Mary BerendesShort book describes the tiny green plants known as shamrocks, the customs and origins of St. Patrick's Day, and how the shamrock became the national symbol of Ireland. This is an ideal early science book or a good source of basic information about plants and St. Patrick's Day. Includes glossary and index and pictures are described. Ages 5-8
St. Patrick: The First Missionary
by Thomas CahillA selection from How The Irish Saved Civilization, everything you need to know about the historical St. Patrick, the extraordinary Iron Age man who became Ireland's patron saint. The real St. Patrick neither dressed in green nor chased the snakes from Ireland; instead, he was a kind and courageous former slave who had been stolen from Britain during childhood and brought to Ireland. Though he escaped from slavery, he later returned in triumph to the island of his captivity. From the first volume of his widely acclaimed "Hinges of History" series, Thomas Cahill brings St. Patrick to life, and sheds light on the chaotic but starkly beautiful ancient Ireland. An eBook short.
St. Petersburg's Historic African American Neighborhoods: Community, Culture, and Connection (American Heritage)
by Jon Wilson Rosalie PeckPepper Town, Methodist Town, the Gas Plant district and the 22nd Street South community--these once segregated neighborhoods were built by African Americans in the face of injustice. The resilient people who lived in these neighbourhoods established strong businesses, raised churches, created vibrant entertainment spots and forged bonds among family and friends for mutual well-being. <p><p> After integration, the neighbourhoods eventually gave way to decay and urban renewal, and tales of unquenchable spirit in the face of adversity began to fade. In this companion volume to St. Petersburg's Historic 22nd Street South, Rosalie Peck and Jon Wilson share stories of people who built these thriving communities, and offer a rich narrative of hardships overcome, leaders who emerged and the perseverance of pioneers who kept the faith that a better day would arrive.
Staatliche Entwicklungszusammenarbeit in Deutschland: Eine Bestandsaufnahme des BMZ 1961-2021 ((Re-)konstruktionen - Internationale und Globale Studien)
by Wolfgang Gieler Meik NowakSeit der Gründung des Bundesministeriums für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) am 14. November 1961 wurde es von 13 Minister*innen geleitet. Die deutsche staatliche Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (EZ) der vergangenen 60 Jahre wurde von diesen Persönlichkeiten unterschiedlicher biographischer Herkunft und parteipolitischer Zugehörigkeit aufgebaut, weiterentwickelt und mitunter entscheidend geprägt. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes bieten einen fundierten Überblick über die Biographie aller Minister*innen, stellen ihre spezifischen entwicklungspolitischen Konzeptionen dar und analysieren deren Verwirklichung und Bewährung. In einer abschließenden Würdigung wird jeweils der Versuch unternommen, den individuellen Einfluss auf die nationale und internationale Entwicklungspolitik zu bestimmen. Ergänzt werden die ministeriellen Porträts um die institutionelle Rolle des BMZ – von der Entwicklungshilfe über Entwicklungspolitik bis zur Entwicklungszusammenarbeit in zeithistorischer Perspektive. Abgerundet wird dieses Grundlagenwerk mit umfangreichen Daten und Fakten zur staatlichen deutschen EZ.
Staatsbildung und Legitimation im Himalaya: Eine Verflechtungsgeschichte des Gorkhā-Staates im überlangen 19. Jahrhundert
by Stefan LüderMit diesem Open-Access-Buch zeigt Stefan Lüder auf, dass die Geschichte der Himalaya-Region mit der übrigen Welt weitaus verflochtener ist als bisher angenommen wird.Die historische Legitimationsforschung ist bisher durch europa- und amerikazentrische Perspektiven geprägt. Auch wenn in den letzten Jahren vereinzelt auch die Zentren Asiens, insbesondere China und Indien, zunehmend in den Fokus genommen werden, bleibt die Himalaya-Region, trotz ihrer steigenden Bedeutung für Geopolitik und Klimawandel, in dieser Hinsicht bisher gänzlich unerforscht und wird in Medien, Politik und Wissenschaft weiterhin als unzugängliche Grenzregion wahrgenommen. Dies ist ein Open-Access-Buch.
Staatsbürgerschaft im Spannungsfeld von Inklusion und Exklusion: Internationale Perspektiven (Studien zur Migrations- und Integrationspolitik)
by Sarah J. Grünendahl Andreas Kewes Emmanuel Ndahayo Jasmin Mouissi Carolin NieswandtStaatsbürgerschaft gilt in soziologischer Theorie und politischer Praxis als Ausdruck gesellschaftlicher Zugehörigkeit und politischer Teilhabe. Der Band lädt dazu ein, sich dem Konzept der Staatsbürgerschaft als einem wandelbaren und spannungsreichen Konzept zu nähern. Einerseits zeigen die Beiträge, wie die Ergänzung und praktische Inanspruchnahme von (Staats-)Bürgerschaft auf lokaler Ebene und in zivilgesellschaftlichen Kontexten geschieht. Andererseits gerät auch die exklusive Wirkung von Staatsbürgerschaft in gesellschaftlichen Aushandlungen, rechtlicher Praxis und (Bildungs-) Politiken in den Blick.
Staatsbürgerschaftserwerb in Österreich: Eine qualitative Untersuchung der Gründe für die Annahme der Staatsbürgerschaft (BestMasters)
by Sarah EbnerDieses Buch beinhaltet eine qualitative Studie mit dem Ziel herauszufinden, weshalb Migrant*innen die österreichische Staatsbürgerschaft annehmen oder ablehnen. Untersucht wurden die drei größten Migrant*innengruppen in Österreich (Deutschland, Türkei, Ex-Jugoslawien). Dabei konnten zahlreiche Motive extrahiert werden, welche zum Teil sehr nationenspezifisch sind. Das Buch beinhaltet nicht nur eine umfangreiche Auseinandersetzung mit der Staatsbürgerschaftsthematik im Allgemeinen, sondern verweist ebenso auf nationale Staatsbürgerschaftsregime. Aufgrund dessen setzt die Autorin sich auch mit der Frage auseinander, welche politischen Folgen sich für das Individuum ergeben, wenn diese nicht die Staatsbürgerschaft des Landes besitzen, in welchem sie leben. Auch Themen wie Identität, Diskriminierung und deren Zusammenhang mit fehlender Staatsbürgerschaft werden thematisiert.
Stabile UnGleichheiten: Eine praxeologische Sozialstrukturanalyse
by Christoph WeischerDas Buch befasst sich mit Praktiken und Strukturen, die soziale Ungleichheiten hervorbringen und reproduzieren. Es wird ein theoretisches Konzept entwickelt, das verschiedene Ansätze (Sozialstrukturanalyse, intersektionale Forschung, Lebensverlaufsforschung, Migrationsforschung, Sozialgeschichte) zusammenführt und zeigt, wie positions- und lagespezifische Ungleichheiten mit Prozessen des Othering verwoben sind. Auf dieser Basis wird zum einen die längerfristige Genese sozialer Ungleichheiten seit dem 19. Jahrhundert analysiert; zum anderen wird ein Bild der Ungleichheiten in der transformierten Industriegesellschaft der letzten Jahrzehnte gezeichnet.
Stabilität auf schwankendem Boden - Reifer Umgang mit den Unsicherheiten unserer Zeit
by Christoph Seidenfus Ute Hagehülsmann Rolf BallingDie gegenwärtigen Krisen, Bedrohungen und Unsicherheiten verursachen einen Dauerstress, der die menschliche Lebensqualität, Gesundheit und personale Problemlösungs-Kompetenz immer mehr reduziert. In diesem Buch geht es darum zu diskutieren und aufzuzeigen, welche Sichtweisen/Ansätze hilfreich sein können, um Resilienz zu entwickeln, die erwachsene Problemlösungskompetenz zu erhöhen, (z.B. im Verständnis der Transaktionsanalyse) und gleichzeitig eine hohe Lebensqualität zu gewinnen - und dies auf den Ebenen von Person, Beziehung/Gruppe und Gesellschaft.
Stabilizing Authoritarianism: The Political Echo in Pan-Arab Satellite TV News Media
by Hussein AlAhmadThe book explores the close relationship between media institutions and power elites in Arab societies. This relationship exists within an unprecedented state of competition among global powers for influence and control over necessary resources and consumer markets in the Middle East. These conflicts still ravage these societies, including Palestinian society, designated as a region characterized by "organized chaos," dominated by multiple forms of increasing political instability and complex sources of internal turmoil. Taking the specificity of the Palestinian internal conflict as a case study, the book explores the interrelationships between power elites at the three levels of international, regional, and domestic politics, via the news message of satellite TV news media outlets. This book will interest scholars of the Middle East, of media and authoritarianism, and of the sociology of the Arab world.
Stable Views: Stories and Voices from the Thoroughbred Racetrack (Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World Series)
by Ellen E. McHaleStable Views offers an inside look at the thoroughbred racing industry through the words and perspectives of those who labor within its stables. In more than fourteen years of field research, Ellen E. McHale has traveled throughout the Eastern Seaboard, Kentucky, and Louisiana to gather oral narratives from those most intimately involved with racing: the stable workers, exercise riders, and horse trainers who form the backbone of the industry. She interviewed workers at Saratoga, Belmont, Tampa Bay Downs, Keeneland, the Evangeline Training Center in Louisiana, and the Palm Meadows Training Center in Florida.Workers within all sectors of the thoroughbred world have long histories of involvement in the racing industry, with many individuals shifting occupational roles throughout their lifetimes. The thoroughbred racetrack operates as a multicultural workplace that relies upon apprenticeship and mentoring. Many workers speak to the history, the joys, the hardships, and the miracles of horse racing along with the changes that they have experienced through their long careers. Included in the book are discussions about luck, the occupational language of the racetrack, race and gender, and recent changes in the industry, all in the words and voices of the stable workers.
Stacked Decks: Building Inspectors and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality
by Robin BartramA startling look at the power and perspectives of city building inspectors as they navigate unequal housing landscapes. Though we rarely see them at work, building inspectors have the power to significantly shape our lives through their discretionary decisions. The building inspectors of Chicago are at the heart of sociologist Robin Bartram’s analysis of how individuals impact—or attempt to impact—housing inequality. In Stacked Decks, she reveals surprising patterns in the judgment calls inspectors make when deciding whom to cite for building code violations. These predominantly white, male inspectors largely recognize that they work within an unequal housing landscape that systematically disadvantages poor people and people of color through redlining, property taxes, and city spending that favor wealthy neighborhoods. Stacked Decks illustrates the uphill battle inspectors face when trying to change a housing system that works against those with the fewest resources.
Stadt. Raum. Institution
by Daniela Hunold Eva Brauer Tamara DangelmaierAn der Strukturierung der Stadt nach neoliberalen und auf Standortvorteile abzielende Marktmechanismen sind viele verschiedene Akteur:innen, Behörden, Institutionen und „beschwerdemächtige“ Interessengruppen beteiligt. Auf der Grundlage von Theorien zu sozialen bzw. relationalen Räumen, die der bloßen Vorstellung von Raum als feste Größe, als Container, in dem sozialen Prozesse lediglich verortet werden, den Rücken kehren, soll in den Beiträgen des Bandes nach den räumlichen Praxen, den Wissensbeständen und Diskursen über Räume und damit nach den Konstitutionen von Raum gefragt werden, die in der Stadt wirksam werden und städtische Inklusions- sowie Exklusionsmechanismen produzieren.
Stadtgeographie: Aktuelle Themen und Ansätze
by Anke Strüver Yvonne FranzStädte sind Gamechanger globaler wie lokaler Veränderungsprozesse geworden. Ob Klimakrise, Mobilitäts- und Energiewende, Digitalisierung oder demographischer Wandel – Städte sind nicht nur Orte, an denen diese Themen stattfinden, sie versprechen oftmals auch die notwendigen Hebelwirkungen, um Wandel, Wende und Transformation zu verorten und umzusetzen. Das im Jahr 2007 eingeläutete „urbane Zeitalter“ benennt einen zentralen globalen Wendepunkt: Weltweit leben mehr Einwohner*innen in Städten als in ländlich-peripheren Räumen.Dieser Band zeigt die Stadt als Ermöglichungsraum für gesellschaftliche Veränderung auf. Das Lehrbuch ist explizit mit interdisziplinärer Betrachtungsweise raumrelevanter Gesellschaftsprozesse konzipiert. Es erweitert die Stadtgeographie und versteht sich als Plädoyer für ein gleichermaßen komplexes wie relationales und prozessuales Denken in der stadtgeographischen Lehre und Forschung.Folgende aktuelle Themen und Ansätze der Stadtgeographie werden anhand vielschichtiger und kritischer Fragen behandelt:Welche gesellschaftlichen Alltagspraktiken prägen aktuell städtisches Zusammenleben, welche werden dominant, welche bleiben unsichtbar?Wie und wodurch findet Aneignung im urbanen Raum statt – und wer ist davon ausgeschlossen?Wie gelingt Teilhabe in der Stadt und welche Rolle spielen Infrastrukturen wie Wohnraum, Frei- und Grünräume, Verkehr und Digitalisierung?Dieses Lehrbuch unterstützt Studierende der Geographie und der sozialwissenschaftlichen Nachbardisziplinen auf Einsteiger*innen- als auch Fortgeschrittenenniveau in der Auseinandersetzung mit stadtrelevanten Themen.
Stadtregionales Flächenmanagement
by Thomas Zimmermann Sebastian Henn Björn 'Bjarne' BraunschweigDas vorliegende Handbuch bietet erstmals eine umfassende, interdisziplinäre Auseinandersetzung mit den Handlungsfeldern des stadtregionalen Flächenmanagements. WissenschaftlerInnen und PraktikerInnen aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen wie der Raum- und Stadtplanung, Geographie, Soziologie und den Wirtschaftswissenschaften diskutieren Konzepte und Vorgehensweisen und reflektieren darüber hinaus Praxiserfahrungen des Flächenmanagements in unterschiedlichen Stadtregionen Deutschlands und dem Ausland. Das problembasierte und lösungsorientierte Handbuch wird durch eine eigens von den Herausgebern entwickelte Systematisierung für Instrumente des Flächenmanagements gegliedert. Diese greift die unterschiedlichen Treiber für die Zersiedelung auf: Regulative Instrumente wie Regionalpläne bilden den rechtlich bindenden Rahmen für sämtliche Akteure in Stadtregionen. Anreizbasierte Instrumente wie Flächenzertifikatehandel setzen stärker an den tatsächlichen Ursachen für Zersiedelung an, indem sie erwünschtes Handeln belohnen und unerwünschtes bestrafen. Informatorische Instrumente wie Monitoringsysteme erlauben es wiederum, datenbasierte Entscheidungen zu treffen. Kooperative Instrumente in Form von Austausch- und Partizipationsformaten können indes zum Flächenmanagement beitragen, indem sie in einem prozessorientierten Vorgehen das Handeln der Akteure auf gemeinsame Ziele ausrichten. Organisationale Instrumente haben schlussendlich zum Ziel, stadtregionale Organisationen zu etablieren, um die anderen Instrumententypen langfristig über administrative Grenzen hinweg steuern zu können. Das Buch richtet sich gleichermaßen an StudentInnen, WissenschaftlerInnen und PraktikerInnen aus der Stadt-, Regional- und Landesplanung.
Staff Training and Special Educational Needs (Routledge Library Editions: Special Educational Needs #56)
by Graham UptonFirst published in 1991. This work is about training and special education needs in the international arena. The book was commissioned as a result of the 1990 International Special Education Conference in Cardiff. The contributors, from the USA, Canada, Africa and the United Kingdom, have focused on innovative approaches to staff training. The identification of a contribution as innovatory has been done on the basis of either the description of an alternative method of planning or delivery, a focus of a frequently ignored client group or in relation to the existence of specific problems which affect the provision of training.
Staff and Student Supervision: A Task-Centred Approach (National Institute Social Services Library)
by Dorothy E. PettesOriginally published in 1979, this successor volume to Dorothy Pettes’ earlier Supervision in Social Work volume aimed to provide supervisors and team leaders with the information they needed to function more effectively as either staff or student supervisors in both individual and group supervision. It covers the role and function of supervision in modern day social service organisations and compares and contrasts supervision in casework, group work, community organisation and residential work. A final section reports developments in the preparation and teaching of prospective supervisors. Staff and Student Supervision was the most up-to-date and comprehensive book on supervision to be published at the time. It provides detailed analysis of the tasks undertaken and the problems faced by both staff and student supervisors, while at the same time moving into new and experimental areas. The task-centred approach, as presented by Miss Pettes, closely links in with new developments in social work practice and provides the supervisor with a firm base from which to maintain professional accountability and responsible involvement. It also suggests ways of involving workers in a flexible two-way partnership with the supervisor. This approach would have appealed to those preparing to become supervisors for the first time as well as to experienced supervisors ready to develop their skills further; to tutors and to training officers who would find much of value in the book; and to practitioners generally who would welcome Miss Pettes’ concise account of the supervisor’s role in relation to social work practice and administration.
Stage Designers in Early Twentieth-Century America: Artists, Activists, Cultural Critics (Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History)
by E. EssinBy casting designers as authors, cultural critics, activists, entrepreneurs, and global cartographers, Essin tells a story about scenic images on the page, stage, and beyond that helped American audiences see the everyday landscapes and exotic destinations from a modern perspective.
Staged Seduction: Selling Dreams in a Tokyo Host Club
by Akiko TakeyamaIn the host clubs of Tokyo's Kabuki-cho red-light district, ambitious young men seek their fortunes by selling love, romance, companionship, and sometimes sex to female consumers for exorbitant sums of money. Staged Seduction reveals a world where all intimacies and feigned feelings are fair game for the hosts who employ feathered bangs, polished nails, fine European suits, and the sensitivity of the finest salesmen to create a fantasy for wealthy women seeking an escape from the everyday. Akiko Takeyama's investigation of this beguiling underground "love business" provides an intimate window into Japanese host clubs and the lives of hosts, clients, club owners, and managers. The club is a place where fantasies are pursued and the art of seduction isn't merely about romance; a complex set of transactions emerges. Like a casino of love, the host club is a site of desperation, aspiration, and hope, in which both hosts and clients are eager to roll the dice. Takeyama reveals the aspirational mode not only of the host club, but also of a Japanese society built on the commercialization of aspiration, seducing its citizens out of the present and into a future where hopes and dreams are imaginable--and billions of dollars can be made.
Stages of Reckoning: Antiracist and Decolonial Actor Training (Routledge Series in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Theatre and Performance)
by Amy Mihyang GintherStages of Reckoning is a crucial conversation about how racialized bodies and power intersect within actor training spaces. This book provokes embodied and intellectual discomfort for the reader to take risks with their ideologies, identities, and practices and to make new pedagogical choices for students with racialized identities. Centering the voices of actor trainers of color to acknowledge their personal experience and professional pedagogy as theory, this volume illuminates actionable ideas for text work, casting, voice, consent practices, and movement while offering decolonial approaches to current Eurocentric methods. These offerings invite the reader to create spaces where students can bring more of themselves, their communities, and their stories into their training and as fodder for performance making that will lead to a more just world. This book is for people in high/secondary schools, higher education, and private training studios who wish to teach and direct actors of color in ways that more fully honor their multiple identities.
Staging Age
by Valerie Barnes Lipscomb Leni MarshallThis text explores how performers offer conscious-and unconscious-portrayals of the spectrum of age to their audiences. It considers a variety of media, including theatre, film, dance, advertising, and television, and offers critical foundations for research and course design, sound pedagogical approaches, and analyses.
Staging Christ's Passion in Eighteenth-Century Nahua Mexico (IMS Monograph Series)
by Louise M. BurkhartStaging Christ’s Passion in Eighteenth-Century Nahua Mexico explores the Passion plays performed in Nahuatl (Aztec) by Indigenous Mexicans living under Spanish colonial occupation. Though sourced from European writings and devotional practices that emphasized the suffering of Christ and his mother, this Nahuatl theatrical tradition grounded the Passion story in the Indigenous corporate community. Passion plays had courted controversy in Europe since their twelfth-century origin, but in New Spain they faced Catholic authorities who questioned the spiritual and intellectual capacity of Indigenous people and, in the eighteenth century, sought to suppress these performances. Six surviving eighteenth-century scripts, variants of an original play possibly composed early in the seventeenth century, reveal how Nahuas passed along this model text while modifying it with new dialogue, characters, and stage techniques. Louise M. Burkhart explores the way Nahuas merged the Passion story with their language, cultural constructs, social norms, and religious practices while also responding to surveillance by Catholic churchmen. Analytical chapters trace significant themes through the six plays and key these to a composite play in English included in the volume. A cast with over fifty distinct roles acted out events extending from Palm Sunday to Christ’s death on the cross. One actor became a localized embodiment of Jesus through a process of investiture and mimesis that carried aspects of pre-Columbian materialized divinity into the later colonial period. The play told afar richer version of the Passion story than what later colonial Nahuas typically learned from their priests or catechists. And by assimilating Jesus to an Indigenous, or macehualli, identity, the players enacted a protest against colonial rule. The situation in eighteenth-century New Spain presents both a unique confrontation between Indigenous communities and Enlightenment era religious reformers and a new chapter in an age-old power game between popular practice and religious orthodoxy. By focusing on how Nahuas localized the universalizing narrative of Christ’s Passion, Staging Christ’s Passion in Eighteenth-Century Nahua Mexico offers an unusually in-depth view of religious life under colonial rule. Burkhart’s accompanying website also makes available transcriptions and translations of the six Nahuatl-language plays, four Spanish-language plays composed in response to the suppression of the Nahuatl practice, and related documentation, providing a valuable resource for anyone interested in consulting the original material. Comments restricted to single page plays composed in response to the suppression of the Nahuatl practice, and related documentation, providing a valuable resource for anyone interested in consulting the original material
Staging Citizenship: Roma, Performance and Belonging in EU Romania (Dance and Performance Studies #11)
by Ioana SzemanBased 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 settlement in Transylvania as they navigate precarious circumstances in a postsocialist state. Through accounts of music and dance performances, media representations, activism, and interactions with both non-governmental organizations and state agencies, author Ioana Szeman grounds broad themes of political economy, citizenship, resistance, and neoliberalism in her subjects’ remarkably varied lives and experiences.