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Local Agri-food Systems in a Global World
Market, Social and Environmental Challenges
This collection of essays analyzes the market, social, and environmental challenges of local agri-food systems in a global world. Using an interdisciplinary approach, it explores the links between local and global strategies, governance, and rural development.
This collection of essays analyzes the market, social, and environmental challenges of local agri-food systems in a global world. Using an interdisciplinary approach, it explores the links between local and global strategies, governance, and rural development.
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Civilisation and Fear
Anxiety and the Writing of the Subject
Civilisation promises to shelter us from fear, but has only created new anxieties. This volume explores the many relations between fear and society, culture, and civilisation, investigating the objects, causes, and various shades of fear itself.
Civilisation promises to shelter us from fear, but has only created new anxieties. This volume explores the many relations between fear and society, culture, and civilisation, investigating the objects, causes, and various shades of fear itself.
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The Fictional North
Ten Discussions of Stereotypes and Icons Above the 53rd Parallel
The North is not one place but an imaginative frontier defined by storytelling. The Fictional North examines stereotypes and iconic images of “Northerness,” offering interdisciplinary insights into the circumpolar world’s past and present.
The North is not one place but an imaginative frontier defined by storytelling. The Fictional North examines stereotypes and iconic images of “Northerness,” offering interdisciplinary insights into the circumpolar world’s past and present.
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500 years after the first colonial borders were drawn, new boundaries are still being created in Latin America. This volume examines how the concept of the border has expanded beyond political lines to include those constructed by art, gender, and social policy.
500 years after the first colonial borders were drawn, new boundaries are still being created in Latin America. This volume examines how the concept of the border has expanded beyond political lines to include those constructed by art, gender, and social policy.
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Portraying the Other in International Relations
Cases of Othering, Their Dynamics and the Potential for Transformation
International scholars analyze how "othering" shapes global politics, legitimating behaviour in interstate relations and counterterrorism. This volume explores the dynamics of self-other constructions and presents ways they may be transformed for peace.
International scholars analyze how “othering” shapes global politics, legitimating behaviour in interstate relations and counterterrorism. This volume explores the dynamics of self-other constructions and presents ways they may be transformed for peace.
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Partnership for Development
Alternative Approaches to Poverty Alleviation in Bangladesh
This book examines how Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) can alleviate poverty in Bangladesh. Using case studies, it evaluates the performance and effects of novel PPP arrangements, identifying opportunities and constraints for their success.
This book examines how Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) can alleviate poverty in Bangladesh. Using case studies, it evaluates the performance and effects of novel PPP arrangements, identifying opportunities and constraints for their success.
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Creating Cultural Synergies
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Interculturality and Interreligiosity
This book brings together international researchers from diverse fields to explore how intercultural competence can work in today’s society. The contributors elucidate the challenges and potentials of interculturality and interreligiosity.
This book brings together international researchers from diverse fields to explore how intercultural competence can work in today’s society. The contributors elucidate the challenges and potentials of interculturality and interreligiosity.
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The End of Meaning
Studies in Catastrophe
Our long romance with catastrophe is a search for elusive truth. From classical Greece to contemporary America, The End of Meaning demonstrates that catastrophe has always been generic. This book asks: what if meaning itself is a catastrophe?
Our long romance with catastrophe is a search for elusive truth. From classical Greece to contemporary America, The End of Meaning demonstrates that catastrophe has always been generic. This book asks: what if meaning itself is a catastrophe?
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Niger Delta
Constraints and Pathways to Development
Since the 1970s, Nigeria's Niger Delta has been engulfed by oil-related conflicts. This book explores the complex constraints and pathways to development in the region, bringing to the fore the challenges and options for a sustainable future.
Since the 1970s, Nigeria’s Niger Delta has been engulfed by oil-related conflicts. This book explores the complex constraints and pathways to development in the region, bringing to the fore the challenges and options for a sustainable future.
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From the national border to the individual home, questions of who can be where are at the heart of politics. This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of how power structures inequality through space, and explores the forms of resistance that emerge.
From the national border to the individual home, questions of who can be where are at the heart of politics. This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of how power structures inequality through space, and explores the forms of resistance that emerge.
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Africa Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Exploring the Multi-dimensional Discourses on ‘Development’
Authored by emerging African scholars, this book challenges Western notions of ‘progress’ and the view of Africa as a basket case. It rethinks predominant ideas on development, examining the challenges and possibilities of Africa’s sustainable future.
Authored by emerging African scholars, this book challenges Western notions of ‘progress’ and the view of Africa as a basket case. It rethinks predominant ideas on development, examining the challenges and possibilities of Africa’s sustainable future.
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Applied Social Sciences
Communication Studies
This collection of essays on Verbal and Non-verbal Communication explores its role in diverse fields from mass-media and marketing to management and IT. Ideal for professionals, researchers, and students seeking to develop personally and professionally.
This collection of essays on Verbal and Non-verbal Communication explores its role in diverse fields from mass-media and marketing to management and IT. Ideal for professionals, researchers, and students seeking to develop personally and professionally.
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A Just World
Multi-disciplinary Perspectives on Social Justice
Scholars from diverse disciplines offer a multi-disciplinary analysis of social justice. Addressing today's most pressing problems, this volume reveals deep-seated causes and provides practical, sustainable solutions toward a more just world.
Scholars from diverse disciplines offer a multi-disciplinary analysis of social justice. Addressing today’s most pressing problems, this volume reveals deep-seated causes and provides practical, sustainable solutions toward a more just world.
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Under the Microscope
The Secrets of the Tripitaka Koreana Woodblocks
A wood anatomist’s study of the Tripitaka Koreana looks to physical evidence—the woodblocks themselves—for answers. The findings challenge so-called facts and offer insights into the creation, material, and miraculous conservation of this 13th-century artifact.
A wood anatomist’s study of the Tripitaka Koreana looks to physical evidence—the woodblocks themselves—for answers. The findings challenge so-called facts and offer insights into the creation, material, and miraculous conservation of this 13th-century artifact.
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This collection explores the politics of identities and social space, seeking debate in a public sphere transformed by mass media. In an era of pre-packaged identities and mediatized lives, what does it mean to imagine new possibilities and perform them into being?
This collection explores the politics of identities and social space, seeking debate in a public sphere transformed by mass media. In an era of pre-packaged identities and mediatized lives, what does it mean to imagine new possibilities and perform them into being?
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Under Occupation
Resistance and Struggle in a Militarised Asia-Pacific
Probing the militarisation of East Asia and the Pacific, this volume explores how communities navigate occupation, how identities are shaped and erased, and the struggle for self-determination against centralised power.
Probing the militarisation of East Asia and the Pacific, this volume explores how communities navigate occupation, how identities are shaped and erased, and the struggle for self-determination against centralised power.
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Media/Democracy
A Comparative Study
The mass media have a crucial role in democracy, but is their influence constructive? This collection explores media's impact on democratic structures worldwide, from the press in Britain to social media in the Arab Region, and asks if we can become active citizens.
The mass media have a crucial role in democracy, but is their influence constructive? This collection explores media’s impact on democratic structures worldwide, from the press in Britain to social media in the Arab Region, and asks if we can become active citizens.
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Building on original research, this collection examines the EU's Internal Security Strategy. Experts from law, politics, and other fields analyze its approach to terrorism, cybercrime, and cross-border crime, and its implications for democracy and human rights.
Building on original research, this collection examines the EU’s Internal Security Strategy. Experts from law, politics, and other fields analyze its approach to terrorism, cybercrime, and cross-border crime, and its implications for democracy and human rights.
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Horizons North
Contact, Culture and Education in Canada
In Canada’s North, competing cultural paradigms collide. This collection of academic and personal essays investigates Aboriginal justice, challenges of pedagogy, and problems of identity created by Canada’s colonial past, offering insights on social transition.
In Canada’s North, competing cultural paradigms collide. This collection of academic and personal essays investigates Aboriginal justice, challenges of pedagogy, and problems of identity created by Canada’s colonial past, offering insights on social transition.
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This volume is a collection of studies from the World Kurdish Congress, focusing on improving the quality of life, science, and culture for progress in Kurdistan. Topics cover health, education, politics, and industry, concluding with recommendations to the government.
This volume is a collection of studies from the World Kurdish Congress, focusing on improving the quality of life, science, and culture for progress in Kurdistan. Topics cover health, education, politics, and industry, concluding with recommendations to the government.
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