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Amsterdam University Press 9789463720014

Shmidt, The Politics of Disability in Interwar and Socialist Czechoslovakia

9789462988804

Lev-er, Still-Life as Portrait in Early Modern Italy

9789463720304

Landsberger, Beijing Garbage

9789462986855

Mutsvairo/Ragnedda, Mapping Digital Divide in Africa

Arc Humanities Press 9781641890977

MĂ¤gi, The Viking Eastern Baltic

9781641890168

Neville, Byzantine Gender

9781641890267

Eastern Europe in Icelandic Sagas

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AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PRESS HERITAGE AND MEMORY STUDIES

Edited by Victoria Shmidt

The Politics of Disability in Interwar and Socialist Czechoslovakia Segregating in the Name of the Nation Answering the question concerning what driving forces had led public health, welfare policy and education to operate as agents and structures of segregation is one of the core prerequisites for sustainable desegregation and historical justice. This book reexamines the politics of disability in interwar and socialist Czechoslovakia as embedded into nation building, recruited to legitimize diverse forms of structural violence against people with disabilities and ethnic minorities. The authors trace the intersectionality of ethnicity and disability, which proliferated across diverse realms of public life, positioning the continuities and ruptures of interrogating propaganda and racial science during the interwar and post-war periods as establishing and reinforcing the border between a healthy Czech majority and a disabled Roma minority. Writing from their experience, the authors critically revise this border that remains observable but unapproachable until it operates as a part of constructing the authenticity of a nation.

Victoria Shmidt (Master of Social Sciences in social work, Ph.D in social policy) puts together the issue of institutional violence, segregation against various disenfranchised groups (e.g. the Roma, disabled and children), and the legacy of socialist policies. She led several international projects in Russia, Belarus, Central Asian and Visegrad counties. Heritage and Memory Studies May 2019 264 pages, 18 b/w illustrations Hardback 156 x 234 mm ISBN 978 94 6372 001 4 e-ISBN 978 90 4854 405 9 €99.00 / £89.00 / $120.00 €89.99 / £88.99 / $119.99

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Acknowledgements List of archives and used abbreviations List of illustrations Introduction: The Politics of Disability: Structure and Agency in nation building in Czechoslovakia (Victoria Shmidt) Part 1 Building the Czechoslovak nation and sacralizing peoples' health: The vicissitudes of disability discourse during the interwar period Chapter 1 Establishing national public health in interwar Czechoslovakia: Contexts and contests (Karel Pancocha and Victoria Shmidt) Chapter 2 The discourse of disability: A Noah's ark for the new Nation? (Karel Pancocha and Victoria Shmidt) Chapter 3 Politics concerning the Roma during the interwar period: therapeutic punishment vs. benevolent paternalism (Victoria Shmidt) Part 2 Post-war institutionalization of care for the disabled: Towards a universalized discourse of "defective Gypsies" Chapter 4 Special education in Czechoslovakia between 1939 and 1989: Towards multilevel hierarchy of defectivity (Frank Henchel and Victoria Shmidt) Chapter 5 The Intersectionality of Disability and Race in Public and Professional Discourses about the Roma in socialist czechoslovakia: between Propaganda and race Science (Victoria Shmidt) Chapter 6 The forced sterilization of Roma women between the 1970's and 1980's: Ultimately eugenic socialism (Victoria Shmidt) Conclusions: On the way from the knowledge about the violent past to its acknowledgement (Karel Pancocha and Victoria Shmidt) Bibliography Index

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AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PRESS VISUAL AND MATERIAL CULTURE, 1300-1700

By Ornat Lev-er

Still-Life as Portrait in Early Modern Italy Baschenis, Bettera and the Painting of Cultural Identity This book centers on the still-life compositions created by Evaristo Baschenis and Bartolomeo Bettera, two 17thcentury painters living and working in the Italian city of Bergamo. This highly original study explores how these paintings form a dynamic network in which artworks, musical instruments, books, and scientific apparatuses constitute links to a dazzling range of figures and sources of knowledge. Putting into circulation a wealth of cultural information and ideas and mapping a complex web of social and intellectual relations, these works paint a portrait of both their creators and their patrons, while enacting a lively debate among humanist thinkers, aristocrats, politicians, and artists. Engaging with literary blockbusters and banned books, theatrical artifice and music, and staging a war among the arts, Baschenis and Bettera capture the latest social intrigues, political rivalries, intellectual challenges, and scientific innovations of their time. In doing so, they structure an unstable economy of social, aesthetic, and political values that questions the notion of absolute truth, while probing the distinctions between life and artifice, meaningless marks and meaningful signs.

Dr. Ornat Lev-er earned her PhD in art history from Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses at Ben Gurion University and the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya. Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700 May 2019 384 pages, 138 colour, 10 b/w illustrations Hardback 170 x 240 mm ISBN 978 94 6298 880 4 e-ISBN 978 90 4854 113 3 €119.00 / £99.00 / $145.00 €118.99 / £89.99 / $144.99

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Table of Figures Chapter I: Introduction Chapter II: Still-Life as Culture 1.

The Biographies of Evaristo Baschenis and Bartolomeo Bettera

Still-life painting in Seventeenth-Century Lombardy

Still-Life (with Musical Instruments) Is Not Just Vanitas

Still-Life Painting - The State of Research

Baschenis's and Bettera's Still-Life Paintings - The State of Research

Bergamo - Portrait of an Ebullient Cultural Hub

Chapter III: Keeping Score: Painting Music 1.

The Conception of Music in Italy of the Early Modern Period: Sounds, Words, and Colour

Music in Bergamo

The "Music Paintings" - Variations Composed by Baschenis and Bettera with their Paintbrush

Chapter IV: Banned Books and Blockbusters 1.

Books and Libraries in seventeenth-Century Bergamo

Books in Baschenis` paintings

Books in Bettera's Paintings

Chapter V: A Double Act: Still-Life and Theatre 1.

A Gaze at the Theatre

The Background and the Stage

Curtains

Table Coverings and Carpets

Stage Props

Seven Modes of Painting-Theatre

Chapter VI: Paragone: May the Best Art Win 1.

The Paragone

Painting and Music

Painting and Poetry

Painting and Sculpture

All of the Arts - Music, Painting, Sculpture, Literature, and Science

Music and Science

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Painting, Music and Literature

Painting and Music in the Absence of a Paragone

Chapter VII: Conclusion Bibliography

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AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PRESS

Edited by Bruce Mutsvairo and Massimo Ragnedda

Mapping Digital Divide in Africa A Mediated Analysis Despite issues associated with the digital divide, mobile telephony is growing on the continent and the rise of smartphones has given citizens easy access to social networking sites. But the digital divide, which mostly reflects on one's race, gender, socioeconomic status or geographical location, stands in the way of digital progress. What opportunities are available to tame digital disparities? How are different societies in Africa handling digital problems? What innovative methods are being used to provide citizens with access to critical information that can help improve their lives? Experiences from various locations in several sub-Saharan African countries have been carefully selected in this collection with the aim of providing an updated account on the digital divide and its impact in Africa. "You need to take a different perspective of both the digital divide and Africa to understand the complexity of social and digital inequality in Africa. The digital divide is different in every part of the world. Reading this book you will grasp the complexity of social, cultural and political affairs of Africa keeping up the digital divide. Surprisingly, while mobile telephony is booming here ICTs are in fact only reinforcing existing social inequality." Bruce Mutsvairo is an Associate Professor in Journalism Innovation at University of Technology Sydney.

Jan A.G.M. van Dijk, Professor, Department of Communication, University of Twente, Netherlands

"For many years "the digital divide" has been a catchphrase, often with little analytical content. This book provides studies of how the concept can be understood within an African context. The different contributions address problems related to digital opportunities as well as inhibitions to growth; thus, it has implications for how to comprehend technological, political, economic, social, and cultural development in a wider world. Of particular importance is that the book provides a theoretical understanding as well as an account of the impact of different technologies such as mobile phones."

Massimo Ragnedda is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Northumbria. May 2019 252 pages, 7 colour, 1 b/w illustrations Hardback 156 x 234 mm ISBN 978 94 6298 685 5 e-ISBN 978 90 4853 822 5 €89.00 / £79.00 / $110.00 €88.99 / £78.99 / $109.99

Helge Rønning, Professor. Department of Media and Communications, University of Oslo, Norway

"This is a timely and much-needed collection that fills an important gap in the literature. It offers excellent conceptual tools and a selection of case studies that provide a useful map of the digital divide across the African continent and between Africa and the rest of the world. I especially appreciate the authors' efforts to address African issues on their own terms and to problematize interpretive paradigms from the global north. It is a text that I look forward to using and that I will recommend to my students." Pier Paolo Frassinelli Professor, School of Communication, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Section I: Foundations and Theory 1.

Comprehending the digital disparities in Africa - Bruce Mutsvairo & Massimo Ragnedda

Conceptualizing the digital divide - Massimo Ragnedda

From Global to Local, Metropolitan to the village. A Case for definitional and context-oriented approach to examining the 'digital divide' - Tenford Chitanana

Technology and the democratic space in Africa: A re-examination of the notion of 'digital divide' Muhammed Musa

Section II: Social Inclusion and Digital Exclusion 5.

The partially digital: Internet and South African youth - Toks Oyedemi

Online football fandom as a microcosm of the digital participation divide in Zimbabwe Lyton Ncube

The discourse of digital inclusion of women in Rwanda's media: A thematic analysis of Imvaho Nshya and The New Times newspapers - Margaret Jjuuko and Joseph Njuguna

Section III Cultural, Social and Economic Paradigms 8.

The digital divide and film - Beschara Karam

Digital divide or information divide: Interrogating Telecommunication Penetration measurements in communal African Societies - Chika Anyanwu

10.

Exploring how mobile phones mediate bonding, bridging and linking social capital in a South African rural area - Lorenzo Dalvit and Mbalenhle Buthelezi

11.

Bridging the Digital Gap in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Critical Analysis of Illiteracy and Language Divide - Steven Sam

12.

Kenya's 'mobile agriculture' discourse: unpacking notions of technology, modernisation and development - Sara Brouwer

Index

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AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PRESS CONSUMPTION AND SUSTAINABILITY IN ASIA

By Stefan Landsberger

Beijing Garbage A City Besieged by Waste Why do central and local government initiatives aiming to curb the proliferation of garbage in Beijing and its disposal continue to be unsuccessful? Is the Uberization of waste picking through online-to-offline (O2O) garbage retrieval companies able to decrease waste and improve the lives of waste pickers? Most citizens of Beijing are well aware of the fact that their city is besieged by waste. Yet instead of taking individual action, they sit and wait for the governments at various levels to tell them what to do. And even if/when they adopt a proactive position, this does not last. Official education drives targeting the consumers are organized regularly and with modest success, but real solutions are not forthcoming. Various environmental non-governmental organizations are at work to raise the level of consciousness of the population, to change individual attitudes towards wasteful behavior, but seemingly with little overall effects. Stefan Landsberger is Olfert Dapper Chair of Contemporary Chinese Culture (Emeritus) at the University of Amsterdam and Associate Professor of Contemporary Chinese History and Social Developments at the Leiden University Institute of Area Studies. Consumption and Sustainability in Asia May 2019 232 pages, 20 b/w illustrations Hardback 156 x 234 mm ISBN 978 94 6372 030 4 e-ISBN 978 90 4854 287 1 â&#x201A;Ź99.00 / ÂŁ89.00 / $120.00 This book will be available in Open Access

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List of Illustrations Introduction Theorizing waste and consumer culture Waste in China This Study Data Collection and Constraints Structure of the study Acknowledgements Chapter One. Setting the scene - Form Imperial to Present-Day Beijing The Imperial City and the early Republic Nationalist Beiping People's Beijing Campaigns Recycling propaganda Beijing under Reform Enter the waste pickers China's waste - attempting to assess amounts Chapter Two. The circular economy in China Implementation of laws and regulations and its constraints Performance Evaluation Compliance with laws and regulations and its constraints Internet Plus The sharing economy Internet Plus Recycle Case study of Beijing Incom Resources Recovery Recycling Effectiveness of the O2O model Chapter Three. The human factor - garbage producers Residential communities Singles' Day Municipal classification and separation pilots Gender and garbage Age and garbage One false move The 'guy downstairs' Available outside North America through NBN International | www.distribution.nbni.co.uk Available in North America through Baker & Taylor Publisher Services | www.btpubservices.com Amsterdam University Press Nieuwe Prinsengracht 89 1018 VR Amsterdam

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Case study of Red Nest Community Resource Centres Using O2O apps and services Ultra-suzhi Waste and O2O services Chapter Four. The human factor - garbage pickers Migrant labourers Waste picking Native-place ties The structure of the waste stream The Suzhi of waste pickers Urban villages Hongfu Yuan Junk villages, lajicun Closing down the waste villages Types of O2O employments Taoqibao Zai Shenghuo Incom The appeal of working for an O2O company Informal versus O2O waste picking Chapter Five. Educating the people Suzhi Knowledge and education - the central government Knowledge and education - the municipal government Green Frog Knowledge and education - urban drives Knowledge and education - online resources In the community Turning information into concrete behaviour What do the people say for themselves? Turning behaviour into positive credits

Chapter Six. NGOs and other voluntary environmental groups Registration GONGOs Embeddedness versus consultative authoritarianism Available outside North America through NBN International | www.distribution.nbni.co.uk Available in North America through Baker & Taylor Publisher Services | www.btpubservices.com Amsterdam University Press Nieuwe Prinsengracht 89 1018 VR Amsterdam

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ENGOs in Beijing ENGOs, waste and O2O-companies Green Beagle Huan You Science and Technology Friends of Nature (FoN) Hong Chao ENGOs and Beijing incinerators Green Beagle Huan You Science and Technology Friends of Nature (FoN) Hong Chao In support of popular actions Chapter Seven. The Politics of Incineration Landfills Biological treatment Incineration 'Wet' MSW Liulitun and other incineration sites in Beijing Trust The Tianjin Explosion of 2015 Lack of Faith Building trust Gao'antun garbage culture day trip Popular opposition to incineration Chapter Eight. Breaking the Waste Siege Laws and regulations Trust issues Front-end solutions Rewards and penalties Traditional practices, new approaches The informal sector Education and ENGOs Avenues for future research Bibliography Appendix Index Available outside North America through NBN International | www.distribution.nbni.co.uk Available in North America through Baker & Taylor Publisher Services | www.btpubservices.com Amsterdam University Press Nieuwe Prinsengracht 89 1018 VR Amsterdam

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AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PRESS ARC HUMANITIES PRESS

By Marika Mägi

The Viking Eastern Baltic This book demonstrates how communication networks over the Baltic Sea and further east were established and how they took different forms in the northern and the southern halves of the Eastern Baltic. Changes in archaeological evidence along relevant trade routes suggest that the inhabitants of present-day Finland and the Baltic States were more engaged in Viking eastern movement than is generally believed.

Marika Mägi is a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Medieval Studies at Tallinn University specialising in Viking Age societies and communication in Northern Europe. Past Imperfect May 2019 120 pages, 13 b/w, 7 line art illustrations Paperback 118 x 111 mm ISBN 978 16 4189 097 7 e-PDF ISBN 978 16 4189 098 4 e-PUB ISBN 978 16 4189 099 1 €14.95 / £11.95 / $14.95

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction Chapter One: Different cultures, different communication modes Chapter Two: Eastbound routes gain momentum Chapter Three: Baltic Sea warriors Chapter Four: The boom of Scandinavian eastward activity Chapter Five: End of the Viking Age Conclusion

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AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PRESS ARC HUMANITIES PRESS

By Leonora Neville

Byzantine Gender Why were virtuous Byzantine women described as manly? Why were boys' bodies thought to be closer in constitution to those of women than adult men? Did Byzantines think eunuchs were men? This lively and personal book explains some key aspects of how people of the Medieval Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire) conceived of men and women, masculinity and femininity, and proper behaviour for men and women. By laying bare fundamental ideas about how gender was defined and performed, Byzantine Gender enables readers to understand Byzantine society more fully. And by providing background information about Byzantine gender, it makes it easier to approach and appreciate the fascinating otherness of Byzantine culture.

Leonora Neville studies Byzantine culture and society, and is the John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Professor of Byzantine History at the University of Wisconsin Madison. Her work focuses on medieval history writing, authority, gender, and the importance of the classical past for Byzantine culture. Past Imperfect May 2019 118 pages, 4 b/w illustrations Paperback 118 x 111 mm ISBN 978 16 4189 016 8 e-PDF ISBN 978 16 4189 017 5 e-PUB ISBN 978 16 4189 018 2 â&#x201A;Ź14.95 / ÂŁ11.95 / $14.95

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction 1 “Byzantine” People: Powerful Women & Wimpy Men 2 Medieval Roman Anthropology 3 Gender & Virtue 4 How did medieval Roman Women get so much done? 5 Masculinity & Military Strength 6 Change Over Time Conclusion Further Reading

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AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PRESS ARC HUMANITIES PRESS

By Tatjana N. Jackson

Eastern Europe in Icelandic Sagas Based on the material of the Old Norse Icelandic sources written down in the twelfth to fourteenth centuries, this book demonstrates how medieval Scandinavians imagined Eastern Europe. It reconstructs the system of medieval Scandinavian perception of space in general, and the eastern part of the oecumene in particular. It also examines the unique Old Norse sources, of which the Russian chronicles were unaware: namely, the saga and skaldic poetry data concerning the visits of the four Norwegian kings to Old Rus in the late-tenth and mideleventh centuries, and the matrimonial connections of the Russian ruling dynasty (the Rjurikid family) with the Scandinavian ruling houses in the eleventh to thirteenth centuries.

Tatjana N. Jackson is the leading Russian Scandinavianist and author of more than ten books and three hundred papers on RussianScandinavian relations of the Middle Ages. ARC - Beyond Medieval Europe May 2019 228 pages, 12 b/w illustrations Hardback 156 x 234 mm ISBN 978 16 4189 026 7 e-ISBN 978 16 4189 027 4 €99.00 / £89.00 / $115.00 €98.99 / £88.99 / $114.99

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction: Sources, Aims, Conventions Part 1: Eastern Europe in the Old Norse Weltbild Chapter 1: Austrhálfa on the “mental map” of medieval Scandinavians Chapter 2: Austrvegr and Other aust-place-names Chapter 3: Austmarr, “the Eastern Sea”, the Baltic Sea Chapter 4: Traversing Eastern Europe Chapter 5: East European rivers Chapter 6: Garðar/Garðaríki as a designation of Old Rus’ Chapter 7: Hólmgarðr (Novgorod), and Kænugarðr (Kiev) Chapter 8: Aldeigja/Aldeigjuborg, “Old Ladoga” Chapter 9: “Hǫfuð garðar” in Hauksbók, and Some Other Old Russian Towns Chapter 10: Bjarmaland Part 2: Four Norwegian kings in Old Rus’ Chapter 1: Óláfr Tryggvason Chapter 2: Óláfr Haraldsson Chapter 3: Magnús Óláfsson Chapter 4: Haraldr Sigurðarson Bibliography Index

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