Driving Modernity

Driving Modernity

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  • Author: Massimo Moraglio
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books
  • ISBN: 1785334492
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 208

On March 26th, 1923, in a formal ceremony, construction of the Milan–Alpine Lakes autostrada officially began, the preliminary step toward what would become the first European motorway. That Benito Mussolini himself participated in the festivities indicates just how important the project was to Italian Fascism. Driving Modernity recounts the twisting fortunes of the autostrada, which—alongside railways, aviation, and other forms of mobility—Italian authorities hoped would spread an ideology of technological nationalism. It explains how Italy ultimately failed to realize its mammoth infrastructural vision, addressing the political and social conditions that made a coherent plan of development impossible.


Driving toward Modernity

Driving toward Modernity

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  • Author: Jun Zhang
  • Publisher: Cornell University Press
  • ISBN: 1501738410
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 237

In Driving toward Modernity, Jun Zhang ethnographically explores the entanglement between the rise of the automotive regime and emergence of the middle class in South China. Focusing on the Pearl River Delta, one of the nation's wealthiest regions, Zhang shows how private cars have shaped everyday middle-class sociality, solidarity, and subjectivity, and how the automotive regime has helped make the new middle classes of the PRC. By carefully analyzing how physical and social mobility intertwines, Driving toward Modernity paints a nuanced picture of modern Chinese life, comprising the continuity and rupture as well as the structure and agency of China's great transformation.


The Third World

The Third World

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  • Author: Alireza Salehi-Nejad
  • Publisher: Titan Inc.
  • ISBN: 1312693967
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 220

Mao Zedong had developed the Three Worlds Theory; however, after the dissolution of Soviet Union, Third World has been used interchangeably with least developed countries and somehow conveys poverty. Nevertheless, the term Third World has also been used to describe some rich countries with very high Gross Domestic Product or even high Human Development Index; therefore, poverty is not always economical, and roots within society. The nature of society is rooted in culture, which is set of ideas, norms, and values; and structure, which is the fundamental organization of society into its institutions, groups, statuses, and roles. While evaluating the difference between “real culture” and “ideal culture”, lead us to understand that cultural values are not always consistent, even within the same society. Global poverty dates back to centuries of plunder and confiscation of land and riches from the indigenous people under the flag of colonialism and exploitation. Over years, exploitation has led the current economic system being funded by the poor through theft of land and natural resources, unfair debt settlement, and unjust taxes on labor and consumption. Social inequality – in sense of distribution of material possessions, money, power, prestige, relationship – whether within societies or among them is a topic at the heart of sociology. The theory of a “Culture of Poverty” describes the combination of factors that perpetuate patterns of inequality and poverty in society. This theory states that living in conditions of prevalent poverty leads to the development of a culture or subculture adapted to those conditions, and characterized by prevalent feelings of vulnerability, dependency, marginality, and feebleness. The myth of the Culture of Poverty, intensifying Cultural Poverty, Cycle of poverty or development trap, insufficiency of materialist information society, necessity of knowledge society, and other key factors in crafting the third world are discussed in this book. “The Third World; Country or People” takes a systematic approach to the analysis of human lives and interactions and evaluates various fields including anthropology, economics, political science, ethnic studies, area studies, gender studies, cultural studies.


Paris, Capital of Modernity

Paris, Capital of Modernity

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  • Author: David Harvey
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1135945861
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 385

Collecting David Harvey's finest work on Paris during the second empire, Paris, Capital of Modernity offers brilliant insights ranging from the birth of consumerist spectacle on the Parisian boulevards, the creative visions of Balzac, Baudelaire and Zola, and the reactionary cultural politics of the bombastic Sacre Couer. The book is heavily illustrated and includes a number drawings, portraits and cartoons by Daumier, one of the greatest political caricaturists of the nineteenth century.


Popular Modernity in America

Popular Modernity in America

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  • Author: Michael Thomas Carroll
  • Publisher: SUNY Press
  • ISBN: 9780791447130
  • Category : Technology & Engineering
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 260

Examines a wide variety of cultural and technological phenomena that have helped shape American popular culture over the last 150 years.


How To Become A Modernized Country: China Modernization Report Outlook (2001-2016)

How To Become A Modernized Country: China Modernization Report Outlook (2001-2016)

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  • Author: Chuanqi He
  • Publisher: World Scientific
  • ISBN: 9811206279
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 632

Modernization is a complex phenomenon in the world, and is termed as a development goal in some countries and regions. This book, the first of its kind, discusses how a country can become modernized. It takes a new approach to addressing core issues in the era of globalization from a Chinese perspective. It analyzes how to become a developed and modernized country, why are some countries developed while others are not, how many countries will rise and how many will fall, will China become a new modernized country in the 21st century, and so on. The author presents a summary of 15 annual reports of China Modernization Report from 2001 to 2016. The themes covered include: basic principles of modernization (modernization science, modernization theory and modernization evaluation), level-related modernization (world, international, national, regional and urban modernization), field-relative modernization (economical, social, cultural and ecological modernization) and sector-specified modernization (agricultural, industrial and service modernization) etc.The book further discusses the principles and methods of world modernization, as well as the trends in modernization in the world and the modernization strategy in China, based on theoretical studies and research by a Chinese team for more than 16 years. This research covered 131 countries and 96% of the world's population, with a time span of 300 years (from 1750 to 2050).


Theorizing Society in a Global Context

Theorizing Society in a Global Context

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  • Author: A. Krossa
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 1137003189
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 206

Using Europe as an example, this book readdresses and updates the concept of 'society', exploring society in the context of both globalization and conflict theory to develop a new theory of society for our times.


Bonhoeffer, Christ and Culture

Bonhoeffer, Christ and Culture

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  • Author: Keith L. Johnson
  • Publisher: InterVarsity Press
  • ISBN: 0830864571
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 216

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) was one of the most compelling theologians of the twentieth century. A complex mix of scholarship and passion, his life and writings continue to fascinate and challenge Christians worldwide. He was a pastor and profound teacher and writer on Christian theology and ethics, yet was also involved in the resistance against Hitler which plotted his assassination. Bonhoeffer graduated from the University of Berlin and earned his doctorate in theology at the age of twenty-one. While pursuing postgraduate work at New York's Union Theological Seminary his life and ministry was profoundly influenced by his unanticipated involvement with the African American Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem during that time. Protesting the unconstitutional interference by Hitler of the established national Protestant church and the persecution of the Jews, and rejecting the alignment of the German Christian movement with the Nazi regime, Bonhoeffer became head of an underground seminary for the resisting Confessing Church in Germany. At the 2012 Wheaton Theology Conference, Bonhoeffer's thought and ministry were explored in stimulating presentations. Bonhoeffer's views of Jesus Christ, the Christian community, and the church's engagement with culture enjoyed special focus. Throughout it is clear that in the twenty-first century, Bonhoeffer's legacy is as provocative and powerful as ever.


Cars

Cars

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  • Author: Brendan Cormier
  • Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
  • ISBN: 9781851779673
  • Category : Transportation
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

"Published to accompany the exhibition 'Cars: accelerating the modern world' at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, from 23 November 2019 to 19 April 2020"--Title page verso


Joining God in the Great Unraveling

Joining God in the Great Unraveling

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  • Author: Alan J. Roxburgh
  • Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • ISBN: 1725288508
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 168

The awareness that the churches shaped out of the European Reformations are in an advanced process of unraveling is becoming increasingly sensed by many. This book proposes a way of addressing this unraveling based on the experiences and knowledge of people who have always had to struggle with the unraveling of their own communities and worlds. It takes us outside the circular conversations of the Euro-tribal churches into dialogue with people who have been marginalized to see how they have learned to reenter their formative stories to discover ways of remaking themselves in the unraveling. The book then turns these discoveries into ways the churches can engage their own massive unraveling.