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Im Zusammenhang mit der Internationalisierung von Unternehmen werden heute zahlreiche Fach- und Führungskräfte für längere Zeiträume an Auslandsstandorte versetzt. Insbesondere für Neuentsandte ist in diesem Kontext der kommunikative Austausch mit erfahreneren Kollegen wertvoll. Einige Unternehmen nutzen die Erfahrungsweitergabe unter Auslandsentsandten gezielt im Rahmen ihrer interkulturellen Personalentwicklung. Julia Hormuth untersucht, wie erfahrenere Auslandsentsandte ihre kulturellen Erfahrungen im Gespräch an Neuentsandte weitergeben und welche typischen Herausforderungen sich dabei ergeben. Der Fokus liegt auf den kommunikativen Prozessen der Erfahrungsweitergabe. Auf der Basis einer Analyse von Gesprächen zwischen Mitarbeitern eines deutschen Industriekonzerns wird ein Beschreibungsmodell für die Weitergabe kultureller Erfahrungen unter Auslandsentsandten entwickelt. Das Buch richtet sich an Dozierende und Studierende der Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaften und der interkulturelle Kommunikation sowie an Fach- und Führungskräfte aus Personalentwicklung und Wissensmanagement, die sich für Instrumente der Erfahrungsweitergabe interessieren.

Communication. --- Sociology. --- Culture. --- Culture—Study and teaching. --- Media Research. --- Communication Studies. --- Sociology of Culture. --- Regional and Cultural Studies.

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Etude sur les liens entre les sciences de l'information et de la communication (SIC) et les cultural studies (CS), ce courant anglo-saxon mis à distance par les SIC. Les auteurs cherchent les lieux de convergence et de divergence théoriques voire méthodologiques entre les deux traditions.

Information science --- Communication and culture --- Culture --- Sciences de l'information --- Communication et culture --- Research --- Methodology --- Study and teaching --- Recherche --- Méthodologie --- Etude et enseignement --- Social aspects --- Culture - Study and teaching --- Information science - Social aspects

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Childbirth Across Cultures explores the childbirth process through globally diverse perspectives to offer a broader context with which to think about birth. It addresses multiple rituals and management models surrounding the labor and birth process from communities across the globe. Labor and birth are biocultural events that are managed in countless ways. We are particularly interested in the notion of power. Who controls the pregnancy and the birth? Is it the hospital, the doctor, or the in-laws, and in which cultures does the mother have the control? These decisions, regarding place of birth, position, who receives the baby and even how the mother may or may not behave during the actual delivery are all part of the different ways that birth is handled. The cultures included range from the Solomon Islands to Africa, Asia and the Americas. Other chapters cover Midwives and other Birth Attendants, Evolution of Birth, Women’s Birth Narratives, and Child Spacing and Breastfeeding. This book will bring together global research conducted by professional anthropologists, midwives and doctors who work closely with the individuals from the cultures they are writing about, offering a unique perspective direct from the cultural group.

Birth customs -- Cross-cultural studies. --- Childbirth -- Cross-cultural studies. --- Cross-Cultural Comparison. --- Parturition -- ethnology. --- Pregnancy -- ethnology. --- Childbirth --- Birth customs --- Parturition --- Pregnancy --- Ethnology --- Cross-Cultural Comparison --- Postpartum Period --- Reproduction --- Culture --- Reproductive Physiological Phenomena --- Anthropology, Cultural --- Reproductive and Urinary Physiological Phenomena --- Reproductive Physiological Processes --- Sociology --- Anthropology --- Phenomena and Processes --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Social Change --- Gynecology & Obstetrics --- Social & Cultural Anthropology --- Sociology & Social History --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Obstetrics. --- Maternal-fetal medicine --- Social sciences. --- Gynecology. --- Anthropology. --- Social Sciences. --- Regional and Cultural Studies. --- Study and teaching. --- Culture-Study and teaching. --- Human beings --- Gynaecology --- Generative organs, Female --- Diseases --- Culture—Study and teaching. --- Gynecology . --- Primitive societies --- Social sciences

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The new middle classes of developing countries are held responsible for boosting extremely resource-intensive lifestyles beyond the OECD-world thus thwarting ongoing efforts to attain a more sustainable future. But how homogeneous are their consumption patterns and why should not globalization include the extension of environmental concern, too? "The New Middle Classes" challenges a narrow understanding of lifestyles and consumption by analyzing the issue not only in terms of attitudes and preferences but of socio-economic features and governmental policies, too. Original contributions from internationally renowned researchers bring fresh multidisciplinary insights in both theoretical and empirical respect. "The New Middle Classes" will be of interest mainly to sociologists, political scientists, human geographers, and anthropologists.

Human geography. --- Middle class. --- Sustainable development. --- Sociology. --- Social theory --- Bourgeoisie --- Commons (Social order) --- Middle class --- Middle classes --- Social conditions --- Social sciences. --- Culture --- Geography. --- Social Sciences. --- Social Sciences, general. --- Sociology, general. --- Sustainable Development. --- Human Geography. --- Regional and Cultural Studies. --- Geography, general. --- Study and teaching. --- Social sciences --- Social classes --- Culture-Study and teaching. --- Cosmography --- Earth sciences --- World history --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Anthropology --- Geography --- Human ecology --- Development, Sustainable --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development, Sustainable --- Economic sustainability --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Smart growth --- Sustainable development --- Sustainable economic development --- Economic development --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Environmental aspects --- Culture—Study and teaching.

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Departing from a survey on the post-modern landscapes of tourism, this book explores the transformations the city has undergone and the way it has become a simulacrum offered to tourists, spectacularised with the aim of increasing its capacity for attraction. The experiences dealt with in the papers of authors belonging to different disciplinary fields, emphasise the city’s tendencies to create "stage-set contexts" of the private type, be it historic quarters, theme parks or hypermarkets. Issues like aestheticisation, thematisation and genericity are dealt with, conceptual categories that highlight the weak resistance cities put up against the rules of the leisure industry and, more generally speaking, the consumer economy. The book inquires into the capacity of the urban and territorial project to construct a perspective for a public dimension of space. This is linked with ethical action of the project involving an active relationship with places and a capacity to understand the dynamics of different urban populations. In this sense capacity for innovation and creativity can contribute to transforming "islands" of leisure into places of the city and consumers into citizens. Giovanni MACIOCCO obtained a degree in Engineering at the University of Pisa and in Architecture at the University of Florence. He is Full Professor of Town and Regional Planning, Director of the Department of Architecture and Planning and Dean of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Sassari. His works include: Les lieux de l'eau et de la terre, (Lybra Immagine, 1998); Wastelands (Dedalo, 2000); Il progetto ambientale nelle aree di bordo, with Pittaluga P. (FrancoAngeli, 2006), Fundamental Trends in City Development (Springer, 2008), Urban Landscape Perspectives (Ed.) (Springer, 2008), The Territorial Future of the City (Ed.) (Springer, 2008), People and Space. New Forms of Interaction in City Project (Springer, 2009); Il potenziale urbano dei territori esterni with Sanna G. and Serreli S. (Eds.) (FrancoAngeli, 2009). Silvia SERRELI is a Researcher in Town and Regional Planning at the Faculty of Architecture University of Sassari. She has a Ph.D. in "Urban Planning Methodology" from "La Sapienza" University of Rome and a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Cagliari. Her works include: Le dimensioni plurali della città ambientale. Prospettive di integrazione ambientale nel progetto del territorio (FrancoAngeli, 2004), Urban Landscape and an ecology of creativity, in Maciocco G. (Ed.) Urban Landscape Perspectives (Springer, 2008), Derelict places as "alternative" territories of the city, in Maciocco G. (Ed.) The Territorial Future of the City (Springer, 2008), Il potenziale urbano dei territori esterni with Maciocco G. and Sanna G. (Eds.) (FrancoAngeli, 2009).

Cities and towns. --- Tourism. --- Anthropogeography & Human Ecology --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Heritage tourism. --- Holiday industry --- Operators, Tour (Industry) --- Tour operators (Industry) --- Tourism --- Tourism industry --- Tourism operators (Industry) --- Tourist industry --- Tourist trade --- Tourist traffic --- Travel industry --- Visitor industry --- Cultural tourism --- Economic aspects --- Social sciences. --- Culture --- Regional planning. --- Urban planning. --- Human geography. --- Social Sciences. --- Human Geography. --- Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning. --- Regional and Cultural Studies. --- Study and teaching. --- Service industries --- National tourism organizations --- Travel --- Culture-Study and teaching. --- Regional development --- Regional planning --- State planning --- Human settlements --- Land use --- Planning --- City planning --- Landscape protection --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Geography --- Human ecology --- Cultural studies --- Government policy --- Culture—Study and teaching. --- Cities and towns --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Management