Cedric Robinson

The Japan expert and business consultant Rita Menge knows Japan for more than 20 years. In her fourth book about the land of the rising sun, she devotes herself now to numerous hard to understand curiosities and invites you to join in the discussion. Japan fascinates many people. Sushi, Manga and Karaoke are well known and have many fans worldwide. The number of tourists is growing rapidly, but the Japanese still manage to preserve many of their peculiarities. So it comes to the fact that even experienced friends of Japan often discover mysterious things, which are surprising, astonishing and often fascinating: What is the meaning of the numbers in the title of this book? Why are blue mats in the temple garden? Why are roads being watered? Why are big orchid decorations placed before shops in the street? What are the red balls at some supermarket cash desks? Why are the benches on railroad station platforms placed transversely to the walking direction? Guess and get to know new and exciting ideas from Japanese everyday life.

In Japan gibt es noch immer so viel R?tselhaftes zu entdecken, dass sich die Japanexpertin und Unternehmensberaterin Rita Menge wieder auf die Fotopirsch begeben hat, um f?r weitere Aufkl?rung zu sorgen. Wie bereits im ersten Band l?dt auch dieses Buch dazu ein, alleine oder mit Familie und Freunden zu raten, was es wohl mit dem jeweiligen Foto auf sich hat. Japan ist weiterhin f?r viele Menschen ein Sehnsuchtsziel, auch wenn es w?hrend der Coronapandemie v?llig unerreichbar war. In dieser Zeit waren die Japaner und ihre ausl?ndischen Mitb?rger unter sich, neue Ideen haben sich entwickelt und alte Traditionen sind gepflegt worden. So l?sst sich auch immer noch viel Unbekanntes entdecken, das ?berrascht, verbl?fft, fasziniert und dem Betrachter oft auch ein L?cheln ins Gesicht zaubert: Was ist ein Schildkr?tentaxi? Zu welcher Tageszeit essen Japaner Salat am liebsten? Warum steht an Neujahr eine gro?e Abfallbox vor den Schreinen und Tempeln? Warum ist der Tokio Tower an manchen Tagen nur halb beleuchtet? Welche ausgefallenen Kleidungsst?cke sch?tzen Japaner vor der Sommerhitze? Warum mieten Japaner ein Auto, ohne damit zu fahren? Raten Sie mit und lernen Sie dadurch Neues und Aufregendes aus dem japanischen Alltag kennen.

This popular book provides a compelling introduction to thinking about childhood in rigorous and critical ways. Karen Wells offers a unique global perspective on children’s lives, showing how the notion of childhood varies widely and is continuously being radically re-shaped.

Taking children seriously as active participants in society, the book explores key social issues such as how children are constituted as raced, classed and gendered subjects; how school and work operate as sites for the governing of childhood; and how children both shape and are shaped by politics, culture and the economy. Taking an engaging historical and comparative approach, the book discusses wide-ranging topics including children’s rights, the family, play, labour, migration and trafficking. In addition to updated literature throughout, this revised third edition includes extensive new material on children’s activism, politics and war, and a whole new chapter on juvenile justice.

The book will continue to be of great value to students and scholars in the fields of sociology, geography, social policy and development studies. It will also be a valuable companion to practitioners whose work involves or impacts children, as well as to anyone interested in childhood in the contemporary world.

W.E.B. Du Bois spent many decades fighting to ensure that African Americans could claim their place as full citizens and thereby fulfill the deeply compromised ideals of American democracy. Yet he died in Africa, having apparently given up on the United States.

In this tour-de-force, Elvira Basevich examines this paradox by tracing the development of his life and thought and the relevance of his legacy to our troubled age. She adroitly analyses the main concepts that inform Du Bois’s critique of American democracy, such as the color line and double consciousness, before examining how these concepts might inform our understanding of contemporary struggles, from Black Lives Matter to the campaign for reparations for slavery. She stresses the continuity in Du Bois’s thought, from his early writings to his later embrace of self-segregation and Pan-Africanism, while not shying away from assessing the challenging implications of his later work.

This wonderful book vindicates the power of Du Bois’s thought to help transform a stubbornly unjust world. It is essential reading for racial justice activists as well as students of African American philosophy and political thought.