Tag: Theorizing

Free Download Joost Beuving, "Theorizing Entrepreneurship for the Future: Stories from Global Frontiers "
English | ISBN: 180539004X | 2023 | 232 pages | PDF | 1418 KB
Presenting a new interpretation of entrepreneurial behaviour, this book focuses on how entrepreneurs consider the future, looking at their social practices, language and rituals through which they neutralize or smoothen future unknowns. The study theorizes entrepreneurial behaviour as ‘future-work’: the social practices, language and rituals through which entrepreneurs neutralize or smoothen future unknowns. The study is grounded in ethnographic case material from global frontiers: second-hand car dealers in West Africa; exporters of fresh fish from Lake Victoria, East Africa; farmed fish entrepreneurs in Greece; and investment bankers in Financial America. It targets students and scholars from the social sciences and economics, and it has theoretical and practical implications.

Free Download Theorizing the Anthropology of Belief: Magic, Conspiracies, and Misinformation
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032420324 | 107 Pages | PDF (True) | 2 MB
The first part of the book examines different methods for generating valid anthropological knowledge and proposes a shift in current consensus. Drawing on Western scholars of antiquity and the medieval period and moving away from 20th-century theorists, it argues that we must first make ontological assumptions about the kinds of things that can exist (or not) before we can then develop epistemologies that study those kinds of things. The book goes on to apply the ontology-first theory to a set of case studies in modern day conspiracy theories, misinformation, and magical thinking. It asserts that we need to move away from unneeded metaphysical assumptions of conspiracy theories being misinformation and argues that reconstructing particular historical events can be a fruitful zone for application of quantitative methods to humanistic questions.

Free Download Theorizing Transboundary Waters in International Relations
by Kinga Szálkai and Máté Szalai
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031433750 | 257 Pages | True ePUB/pdf | 5.15 MB

Free Download Richard L. Lippke, "Theorizing Legal Punishment "
English | ISBN: 1032661674 | 2024 | 262 pages | EPUB, PDF | 982 KB + 33 MB

Free Download Vanessa Beck, "Menopause Transitions and the Workplace: Theorizing Transitions, Responsibilities and Interventions "
English | ISBN: 1529215706 | 2024 | 186 pages | PDF | 8 MB
The symptoms of menopause transitions have profound implications for work and are, in turn, affected by work. Despite this, the topic is rarely discussed in management and organization studies. Providing an overview of existing knowledge in the field of menopause in the workplace, this collection re-theorizes the management of human resources as it relates to the connections between gender, age and the body in the workplace environment with an intersectional analysis. Offering theoretical frameworks from experts as well as possible practical approaches that can be implemented in workplaces to support women transitioning through menopause, this is a go-to reference for academics and policy makers working in the field.

Free Download Miriam Piilonen, "Theorizing Music Evolution: Darwin, Spencer, and the Limits of the Human "
English | ISBN: 0197695280 | 2024 | 168 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 8 MB

Free Download Bo Wang, "Theorizing and Applying Systemic Functional Linguistics: Developments by Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen "
English | ISBN: 0367484897 | 2023 | 352 pages | EPUB, PDF | 6 MB + 60 MB
This collection reflects on developments in the field of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) as embodied in the work of Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen, highlighting his diverse contributions to the field from theoretical and applied perspectives.

Free Download Zhonghua Guo, "Theorizing Chinese Citizenship "
English | ISBN: 1498516696 | 2015 | 258 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This volume theorizes the concept of citizenship in contemporary China by probing into the formation of Chinese citizenship and synthesizing the practices of citizenship by different social groups. The first section, "Imagining Chinese Citizenship," analyses how Chinese citizenship was first imagined by means of translation and education at the beginning of the twentieth century. The Chinese citizenship was then compared with the concept of Western citizenship and that of other Asian countries. The second section, "Citizenship of Chinese Migrant Workers," explains the citizenship status of migrant workers by discussing the relationship between household registration (hukou) system and citizenship of the migrant workers, showing how migrant workers contest their citizenship rights and categorizing the resistance of migrant workers from the perspective of citizenship. Finally, the last section, "Chinese Citizenship Education," discusses the conditions and challenges of citizenship education in Chinese schools.

Free Download Denise Taliaferro Baszile, "Race, Gender, and Curriculum Theorizing: Working in Womanish Ways "
English | ISBN: 1498521134 | 2016 | 196 pages | EPUB | 958 KB
Race, Gender, and Curriculum Theorizing: Working in Womanish Ways recognizes and represents the significance of Black feminist and womanist theorizing within curriculum theorizing. In this collection, a vibrant group of women of color who do curriculum work reflect on a Black feminist/womanist scholar, text, and/or concept, speaking to how it has both influenced and enriched their work as scholar-activists. Black feminist and womanist theorizing plays a dynamic role in the development of women of color in academia, and gets folded into our thinking and doing as scholar-activists who teach, write, profess, express, organize, engage community, educate, do curriculum theory, heal, and love in the struggle for a more just world.

Free Download Charisse Burden-Stelly, "Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States"
English | ISBN: 0226830152 | 2023 | 323 pages | PDF | 1267 KB
A radical explication of the ways anti-Black racial oppression has infused the US government’s anti-communist repression.