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  • Palestinian Music and Song

    Expression and Resistance since 1900

    Series series Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    "[A] monumental contribution to Palestinian studies . . . an indispensable resource for those interested in Middle Eastern folklore, music, history, and politics." — Journal of Folklore ResearchDrawing from a long history of indigenous traditions and incorporating diverse influences of surrounding cultures, music in Palestine and among the millions of Palestinians in diaspora offers a unique ... Leer más

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  • Festival Activism

    Series series Activist Encounters in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    For decades, festivals have been important sites of inquiry for folklorists and ethnomusicologists alike as celebrations of culture. Moving beyond traditional discussions of staged culture and multiculturalism, however, this edited volume explores how festivals may be mobilized as strategic forms of direct action.Festival Activism is a diverse collection of case studies from scholars, performers, ... Leer más

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  • Music Making Community

    Making music offers enormous possibilities--and faces significant limitations--in its power to generate belonging and advance social justice. Tony Perman and Stefan Fiol edit essays focused on the forms of interplay between music-making and community-making as mutually creative processes. Contributors in the first section look at cases where music arrived in settings with little or no sense of ... Leer más

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  • Public Banks, Public Water

    Exploring the Links in Europe

    Edición de Thomas Marois, David A. McDonald ...
    Series series Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance
    This book explores the potential for public banks to help finance the expansion, democratization, and sustainability of public water services in Europe, with implications for public water financing elsewhere in the world.Financing the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 6 for water and sanitation will be enormously expensive and will also depend largely on public water operators. Where will this ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD

  • At the Crossroads of Music and Social Justice

    Series series Activist Encounters in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    Music is powerful and transformational, but can it spur actual social change?A strong collection of essays, At the Crossroads of Music and Social Justice studies the meaning of music within a community to investigate the intersections of sound and race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, and differing abilities. Ethnographic work from a range of theoretical frameworks uncovers and ... Leer más

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  • Music in Arabia

    Perspectives on Heritage, Mobility, and Nation

    Music in Arabia extends and challenges existing narratives of the region's distinctive but understudied music to reveal diverse and dynamic music cultures rooted in centuries-old heritage.Contributors to Music in Arabia bring a critical eye and ear to the contemporary soundscape, musical life, and expressive culture in the Gulf region. Including work by leading scholars and local authorities, this ... Leer más

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  • Borders and Border Politics in a Globalizing World

    Series series The World Beat Series
    Borders represent an intriguing paradox as globalization continues to leap barriers at a vigorous pace, merging economies and cultures through world trade, economic integration, the mass media, the Internet, and increasingly mobile populations. At the same time, the political boundaries separating peoples remain pervasive and problematic. Borders and Border Politics in a Globalizing World offers a ... Leer más

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  • Making Public in a Privatized World

    The Struggle for Essential Services

    Edición de David A. McDonald ...
    How do we provide effective public services in a deeply neoliberal world? In the wake of the widespread failure of privatisation efforts, societies in the global south are increasingly seeking progressive ways of recreating the public sector. With contributors ranging from cutting-edge scholars to activists working in health, water, and energy provision, and with case studies covering a broad ... Leer más

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  • Rethinking Corporatization and Public Services in the Global South

    Edición de David A. McDonald ...
    After three decades of privatization and anti-state rhetoric, government ownership and public management are back in vogue. This book explores this rapidly growing trend towards 'corporatization' - public enterprises owned and operated by the state, with varying degrees of autonomy. If sometimes driven by neoliberal agendas, there exist examples of corporatization that could herald a brighter ... Leer más

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  • My Voice Is My Weapon

    Music, Nationalism, and the Poetics of Palestinian Resistance

    In My Voice Is My Weapon, David A. McDonald rethinks the conventional history of the Palestinian crisis through an ethnographic analysis of music and musicians, protest songs, and popular culture. Charting a historical narrative that stretches from the late-Ottoman period through the end of the second Palestinian intifada, McDonald examines the shifting politics of music in its capacity to both ... Leer más

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  • World City Syndrome

    Neoliberalism and Inequality in Cape Town

    Series series Routledge Studies in Human Geography
    The literature on ‘world cities’ has had an enormous influence on urban theory and planning alike. From Manila to London, academics and policy makers have attempted to understand, and to some extent strive for, world city status. This book is a study of Cape Town’s standing in this network of urban centres, and an investigation of the conceptual appropriateness of this world city hypothesis. ... Leer más

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  • Alternatives to Privatization

    Public Options for Essential Services in the Global South

    Edición de David A. McDonald, Greg Ruiters ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development and Society
    There is a vast literature for and against privatizing public services. Those who are against privatization are often confronted with the objection that they present no alternative. This book takes up that challenge by establishing theoretical models for what does (and does not) constitute an alternative to privatization, and what might make them ‘successful’, backed up by a comprehensive set of ... Leer más

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