Die vorliegende Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit der Förderung der italienischen Kultur durch italienische Banken in der Schweiz. Aufbauend auf der aktuellen Literatur sowie dreizehn Interviews mit Akteuren des sozialen Feldes, darunter drei CEOs, ein ehemaliger CEO und jetziger...

Acknowledgements -- Introduction: cultural work and justice -- Justice for cultural objects -- Practices, ethics and cultural work -- Talent, merit and arts education -- The long day closes : access and opportunity in cultural work -- The wages of art : "basic economics" or basic inequality? --...

Introduction : capitalism, music, and social theory -- A brief history of music and capitalism before the rise of neoliberalism -- Neoliberal capitalism and the cultural industries -- Globalization -- Digitalization -- Singing in the shadows of neoliberal capitalism -- Conclusions : capitalism...

"This book analyzes the social, cultural, religious, and political implications of the Islamic economy at the global level by highlighting the foundations upon which Islamic ideology is formed and how it impacts socio-cultural and economic systems both within and outside of primarily Islamic...

Introduction: Culture and Contemporary Chinese Cinema in the Second Coming of Capitalism -- Homo Economicus: Individual Liberty and Market Dependency. Primitive Accumulation and the Emergence of the Liberal Subject in the People's Republic: Zhang Yimou's Red Sorghum and Zhou Xiaowen's Ermo --...

Linguistic Theory, Linguistic Diversity and Whorfian Economics / Nigel Fabb -- Dynamic Models of Language Evolution : The Linguistic Perspective / Andrew D.M. Smith -- Dynamic Models of Language Evolution : The Economic Perspective / Andrew John -- What Do We Learn from Neurolinguistics? / Mark...

"Behind China's growing economic and political power is a vast underworld of marginalized social groups. In this powerful and timely book, Wanning Sun focuses on the country's hundreds of millions of rural migrant workers, who embody China's most intractable problems of inequality. Drawing on...

"In remote Indigenous Australia the typical mainstream youth transition from school to employment does not match the reality of community life, where traditional cultural schemas underpin the practice of everyday life and the construction of social identity. Although the developmental trajectory...