Contested Categories

Contested Categories
Author: Ayo Wahlberg
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2016-05-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 131716041X

Drawing on social science perspectives, Contested Categories presents a series of empirical studies that engage with the often shifting and day-to-day realities of life sciences categories. In doing so, it shows how such categories remain contested and dynamic, and that the boundaries they create are subject to negotiation as well as re-configuration and re-stabilization processes. Organized around the themes of biological substances and objects, personhood and the genomic body and the creation and dispersion of knowledge, each of the volume’s chapters reveals the elusive nature of fixity with regard to life science categories. With contributions from an international team of scholars, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the social, legal, policy and ethical implications of science and technology and the life sciences.

Contested Categories

Contested Categories
Author: Ayo Wahlberg
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2012-12-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1409492036

Drawing on social science perspectives, Contested Categories presents a series of empirical studies that engage with the often shifting and day-to-day realities of life sciences categories. In doing so, it shows how such categories remain contested and dynamic, and that the boundaries they create are subject to negotiation as well as re-configuration and re-stabilization processes. Organized around the themes of biological substances and objects, personhood and the genomic body and the creation and dispersion of knowledge, each of the volume’s chapters reveals the elusive nature of fixity with regard to life science categories. With contributions from an international team of scholars, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the social, legal, policy and ethical implications of science and technology and the life sciences.

Contested Capital: Rural Middle Classes in India

Contested Capital: Rural Middle Classes in India
Author: Maryam Aslany
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2020-12-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 110883633X

It explores the formation of India's rural middle class, which rests on a complex, and often contradictory, set of processes that began unfolding with growing industrialisation in rural areas. It examines its composition, characteristics and social identification from the perspectives of three major class theorists: Marx, Weber and Bourdieu.

Ten Lectures on Figurative Meaning-Making: The Role of Body and Context

Ten Lectures on Figurative Meaning-Making: The Role of Body and Context
Author: Zóltan Kövecses
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 141
Release: 2019-09-16
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004364900

The present book contains a transcribed version of the lectures given by Professor Zoltán Kövecses in November 2010 as one of the three forum speakers for the 8th China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics. The topics presented in this book deal with the language and conceptualization of emotions, cross-cultural variation in metaphor, metaphor and metonymy in discourse, and the issue of the relationship between language, mind, and culture from a cognitive linguistic perspective.

Privacy Act Issuances ... Compilation

Privacy Act Issuances ... Compilation
Author: United States. Office of the Federal Register
Publisher:
Total Pages: 716
Release: 1991
Genre: Privacy, Right of
ISBN:

Contains systems of records maintained on individuals by Federal agencies which were published in the Federal Register and rules of each agency concerning the procedures the agency will use in helping individuals who request information about their records.

Bankruptcy Issues in Review

Bankruptcy Issues in Review
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts
Publisher:
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1998
Genre: Law
ISBN:

Religious Diversity in Asia

Religious Diversity in Asia
Author: Jørn Borup
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2019-10-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004415815

The religious landscape in Asia has long been diverse, with various forms of syncretic traditions and pragmatic practices continuously having been challenged by centrifugal forces of differentiation. This anthology explores representations and managements of religious diversity in Japan, China, South Korea, Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and diaspora religions originating in these countries, seen through the lenses of history, identity, state, ritual and geography. In addition to presenting empirical cases, the chapters also address theoretical and methodological reflections using Asia as a laboratory for further comparative research of the relevance and use of 'religious diversity'. Contributors are: Donald Baker, Ugo Dessi, Chung Van Hoang, Ayelet Harel-Shalev, Noa Levy, Gideon Elazar, Santosh K. Singh, Yu Tao, Ed Griffith, Satoko Fujiwara, Uwe Skoda, Tudor Silva, Martin Tsang, Marianne Q. Fibiger, Jørn Borup, and Lene Kühle. Religious Diversity in Asia was made possible by a framework grant from the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation allowing the grant holder (Jørn Borup) and two colleagues (Marianne Q. Fibiger and Lene Kühle) to host a workshop at Aarhus University and to co-arrange workshops in Delhi and Nagoya. We would like to thank professors Arshad Alam and Michiaki Okuyama for hosting these latter workshops at Jawaharlal Nehru University and Nanzan University, and we would like to thank Professor Chong-Suh Kim for the invitation for Jørn Borup to visit Seoul National University. We would also like to extend our gratitude to all the scholars who participated in the workshops and to all the authors we subsequently invited to contribute to our endeavor to create this academically relevant volume.

A Nation of Laws

A Nation of Laws
Author: Peter Charles Hoffer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN:

An introduction to and meditation on the key concepts, history, evolution, complexities, and importance of law in our nation's 233-year existence.