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Performance-Based Funding in Higher Education examines the aims of higher education policies over the past thirty years. This book addresses how job creation and increased graduation rates has distracted educators, students, and surrounding communities from an educator's traditional and valued role as the promoter of democracy and critical citizenship.

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Why was Egypt's Spring revolution so compelling and so effective This brilliant essay uncovers the narrative of the revolution - as a theatrical performance enacted on Tahrir Square, with a moral purpose but also a communicative logic in demonstrating what a civil, egalitarian society might look like.

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The jali - a member of a hereditary group of Mandinka professional performers - is a charismatic but contradictory figure. This book shows how the jali's talents at performance make him a genius at representation - the ideal figure to tell us about the "Africa" that the world imagines, which is always a thing of illusion, magic, and contradiction.

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Looks in detail at the growth in popularity and profile of the English folk arts in the first decade of the twenty-first century -- .

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As a woman whose brand of feminism is suspect, Lesa Lockford places herself in the most shameful, the most abject circumstances: an image obsessed weight-watcher, an exotic dancer, and a theatrical performer. This experimental autoethnography provides a model to the ethnographer and rewards the student of gender studies with a rare perspective.

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Geir Henning Presterudstuen provides an ethnographic account of how men in the multicultural urban centres of Fiji perceive, construct and perform masculinities in the context of rapid social change.

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This book examines how radio announcers construct, prepare, and perform their on-air personalities during a time when the radio industry is fighting to stay relevant amid expanding media options.

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Collectively written with indigenous artists and activists, this book engages with subversive representations of the (post)colonial city. At the intersection of ethnography, art, performance, and the urban space, the book elaborates on the epistemological and creative possibilities arising from collaborative and decolonial methodologies.

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The volatile Middle East is a site of vast resources, profound passions, frequent crises, and long-standing conflicts, as well as a major source of international tensions and a key site of direct US intervention. This book brings an understanding of the internal dynamics of the Middle East and of the role of the United States.

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Periods in Pop Culture: Menstruation in Film and Television, by Lauren Rosewarne, investigates the portrayals of menstruation in film and television, spotlighting a paradox of a common bodily occurrence still causing controversy, fear, and offense. This is the first book to focus exclusively on media representations of menstruation and to undertake a comprehensive analysis of its depictions.

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Presents an analysis of transatlantic security relations from the preparation of the North Atlantic Treaty to the Obama administration. This book discusses the global trends that are changing the environment for transatlantic relations, such as European integration, global security, emerging powers, and the role of the United States as a leader.

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Makes an important argument on the need to find improved methods of addressing the challenges facing contemporary democracies.

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Makes an important argument on the need to find improved methods of addressing the challenges facing contemporary democracies.

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Permissible Computing in Education defines and investigates the relationship between computer applications and current values and assumptions regarding computers. He examines present assumptions in educational computing and describes the evaluation of educational and computer needs.

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This volume introduces the concept of Perpetration-Induced Traumatic Stress (PITS), a form of PTSD symptoms caused not by traditionally expected roles, such as being a victim or rescuer in trauma, but by being an active participant in causing trauma.

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A critical look at the United States' criminal justice system, raising an obvious question: If crime rates aren't going up, why is the prison population

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The main point of this book is that biased perceptions of international relations are anchored in a nation's collectively held patriotic self-image, and that these biased international perceptions serve to bolster and perpetuate the patriotic beliefs upon which they are based.

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Unlike many of her female contemporaries during the 1930s and 1940s, Frieda B. Hennock pursued her own political goals. This work highlights key events in Hennock's career, including her dissenting position in the "colour TV hearings" and her blindness to the deficiencies of the UHF system.

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The editors observe that in key texts written to teach international relations less mention is made of personal data collection risks in countries around the globe.