The Touch of the Present SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General

The Touch of the Present SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / GeneralExplores the importance of the body and the senses in educational encounters, drawing out the aesthetic and political dimensions of educational practices. How are educational encounters understood, experienced, and lived? How are they conceptualized? How do they shape our being in and of the world? In this time of apparent distance and disconnect, this volume emphasizes the role of contact and connectedness in education, above all by understanding

religion and music have been regarded as "universals

a classical operatic performer who was selected and castrated before puberty

postcolonial studies and social psychology

portraying injustice

and contextualises them in the history of 1960–1970s Italian society

boredom and hunger

Orphaned after the death of her foster mother

Death herself and ruler of the underworld

Most ethnographers don’t achieve what Kevin Brown did while conducting their research: in his two years spent at a karaoke bar near Denver

author Antoine Faivre provides an overview of Western esoteric currents since late antiquity

Unmanned agricultural ground vehicles (UAGVs) represent substantial potential with their ability to optimize crop yields and increase sustainability

It argues convincingly that zero tolerance is a catchword