Constructing Science
by Deena Skolnick Weisberg;David M. Sobel;
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0262044684 | 387 pages | True PDF EPUB | 27.58 MB

Abdelkader Fassi Fehri, "Constructing Feminine to Mean: Gender, Number, Numeral, and Quantifier Extensions in Arabic"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1498574556 | PDF | pages: 249 | 3.4 mb
Linguistic gender is a complex and amazing category that has puzzled and still puzzles theoretical linguists, typologists, philosophers, cognitive scientists, didacticians, as well as scholars of anthropology, culture, and even mystical (divine) sufism. In Standard and colloquial Arabic varieties, feminine morphology (unlike "common sense") is not dedicated to mark beings of the female sex (or "natural gender"). When you name the female of a "lion" (ʔasad) or a "donkey" (ḥimaar), you use different words (labuʔat or ʔataan), as if the male and female of the same species are linguistically conceived as completely unrelated entities. When you "feminize" words like "bee" (naḥl) or "pigeon" (ḥamaam), the outcome is not a noun for the animal with a different sex, but a singular of the collective "bees," "one bee" (naḥl-at), or an individual pigeon (ḥamaam-at). In the opposite direction, when a singular noun "carpenter" (najjar) is feminized, the (unexpected) result is a special plural, or rather a group, "carpenters as a professional group" (najjar-at). Since some of these words (contrastively) possess "normal" masculine plurals, or masculine singulars, I propose to distinguish atomicities (which are broadly "masculine") from unities (which are "feminine"). The diversity of feminine senses is also manifested when you feminize an inherently masculine noun like "father" (ʔab), "uncle" (ʕamm), etc. The outcome (in the appropriate performative context) is that you are endearing your father or uncle, rather than "womanizing" him. More "unorthodox" senses are evaluative, pejorative, diminutive, augmentative, etc. It is striking that gender not only plays a central role in shaping individuation, or perspectizing plurality, but it is also used to distinguish what we count, or what we quantifier over. In Arabic, when you count numbers in sequence (three, four, five, six, etc.), you use the feminine, but when you count objects, you have to "negotiate" for gender, due to the "gender polarity" constraint. Your quantifier senses, which are also subtly built in the grammar, equally negotiate for gender. Wide cross-linguistic comparison extends the inventories of features, mechanisms, and typological notions used, to languages like Hebrew, Berber, Celtic, Germanic, Romance, Amazonian, etc. On the whole, gender is far from being parasitic in the grammar of Arabic or any language (including "classifier" languages). It is central as it has never been.

Thibaut Raboin, "Discourses on LGBT asylum in the UK: Constructing a queer haven"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 0719099633 | PDF | pages: 177 | 2.8 mb
This book analyses fifteen years of debate, media narrative, policy documents and artistic production to uncover the way sexual citizenship is reshaped by LGBT asylum.

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Nanlai Cao, "Constructing China's Jerusalem: Christians, Power, and Place in Contemporary Wenzhou"
English | 2010 | pages: 231 | ISBN: 0804773602, 0804770808 | PDF | 1,7 mb
Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth life history interviews, this illuminating book provides an intimate portrait of contemporary Chinese Christianity in the context of a modern, commercialized economy. In vivid detail, anthropologist Nanlai Cao explores the massive resurgence of Protestant Christianity in the southeastern coastal city of Wenzhou―popularly referred to by its residents as "China's Jerusalem"―a nationwide model for economic development and the largest urban Christian center in China.

Marlene Laruelle, Sergey Abashin, Peter Finke, "Constructing the Uzbek State: Narratives of Post-Soviet Years"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1498538363 | EPUB | pages: 384 | 0.5 mb
Over the past three decades, Uzbekistan has attracted the attention of the academic and policy communities because of its geostrategic importance, its critical role in shaping or unshaping Central Asia as a region, its economic and trade potential, and its demographic weight: every other Central Asian being Uzbek, Uzbekistan's political, social, and cultural evolutions largely exemplify the transformations of the region as a whole. And yet, more than 25 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, evaluating Uzbekistan's post-Soviet transformation remains complicated. Practitioners and scholars have seen access to sources, data, and fieldwork progressively restricted since the early 2000s.

Myriam Renaud, "Constructing Moral Concepts of God in a Global Age"
English | ISBN: 1032247541 | 2022 | 204 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Constructing Moral Concepts of God in a Global Age focuses on what people say and think about God, rather than on arguments about God's existence. It advances a theological method, or step-by-step approach to explore and reframe personal convictions about God and the worldviews shaped by those convictions. Since a moral God is more likely to foster a moral life, this method integrates an ethical check to ensure that understandings of God and their associated worldviews are validly moral.

James E. Fleming, "Constructing Basic Liberties: A Defense of Substantive Due Process"
English | ISBN: 0226821404 | 2022 | 284 pages | PDF | 2 MB
A strong and lively defense of substantive due process.

Ahmed W. Waheed, "Constructing 'Pakistan' through Knowledge Production in International Relations and Area Studies"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 9811507414, 9811507449 | PDF | pages: 242 | 2.3 mb
This book analyses the discourse on Pakistan by exploring the knowledge production processes through which the International Relations community, Asian and South Asian area study centres, and think-tanks construct Pakistan's identity. This book does not attempt to trace how Pakistan has been historically defined, explained, or understood by the International Relations interpretive communities or to supplant these understandings with the author's version of what Pakistan is. Instead, this study focuses on investigating how the identity of Pakistan is fixed or stabilized via practices of the interpretive communities. In other words, this book attempts to address the following questions: How is the knowledge on Pakistan produced discursively? How is this knowledge represented in the writings on Pakistan? What are the conditions under which it is possible to make authoritative claims about Pakistan?

Daisaku Higashi, "Challenges of Constructing Legitimacy in Peacebuilding: Afghanistan, Iraq, Sierra Leone, and East Timor"
English | 2015 | pages: 231 | ISBN: 1138850403, 1138239852 | PDF | 11,0 mb
Peacebuilding is a critical issue in world politics. Surprisingly, however, there has not been a full examination of concrete policies and implementation strategies to generate legitimacy in "host states" by either international relations (IR) theorists or practitioners.