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Good Governance and Civil Society
Selected Issues on the Relations between State, Economy and Society
Governance provides an answer to the challenges of globalization by combining cooperative forms of governing with the private sector and social partners. This book offers interdisciplinary research and case studies to analyse the many facets of this concept.
Governance provides an answer to the challenges of globalization by combining cooperative forms of governing with the private sector and social partners. This book offers interdisciplinary research and case studies to analyse the many facets of this concept.
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Remembering Home in a Time of Mobility
Memory, Nostalgia and Melancholy
In an age of displacement, this volume explores how we use memory, nostalgia, and melancholy to cope with the loss of home. It examines the politics of these strategies and their intersection with identity positions such as gender, class, and sexuality.
In an age of displacement, this volume explores how we use memory, nostalgia, and melancholy to cope with the loss of home. It examines the politics of these strategies and their intersection with identity positions such as gender, class, and sexuality.
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This volume explores the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Cultural Heritage. It presents multidisciplinary new ideas where technology can integrate tourism and culture with business, covering topics like digital archives, augmented reality, and robotics.
This volume explores the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Cultural Heritage. It presents multidisciplinary new ideas where technology can integrate tourism and culture with business, covering topics like digital archives, augmented reality, and robotics.
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Customary Laws and Social Order in Arab Society
Socio-Anthropological Field Studies in Egypt
Mahgoub investigates a number of urgent issues in contemporary Egyptian society, brought to light through over fifty years of fieldwork. The subjects covered include folk traditions and customs of the lifecycle; pregnancy and childbirth; and the socialization of boys and girls.
Mahgoub investigates a number of urgent issues in contemporary Egyptian society, brought to light through over fifty years of fieldwork. The subjects covered include folk traditions and customs of the lifecycle; pregnancy and childbirth; and the socialization of boys and girls.
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Globalisation and technological change are transforming young people's lives. This collection explores the social construction of the life-course, the contours of belonging through migration and poverty, and the potential of virtual worlds.
Globalisation and technological change are transforming young people’s lives. This collection explores the social construction of the life-course, the contours of belonging through migration and poverty, and the potential of virtual worlds.
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A step-by-step guide for professionals on designing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating developmental interventions. This volume introduces key concepts and procedures, using real project examples to help readers understand and adopt these practices in their own work.
A step-by-step guide for professionals on designing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating developmental interventions. This volume introduces key concepts and procedures, using real project examples to help readers understand and adopt these practices in their own work.
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Feminist Insiders-Outsiders
Muslim Women in Nigeria and the Contemporary Feminist Movement
This book examines the Islamic feminism of Nigerian Muslim women. It argues that their struggles are rooted in Islamic texts from the Prophetic era, contrary to stereotypes of patriarchal domination, and shows how they use organizations for feminist changes.
This book examines the Islamic feminism of Nigerian Muslim women. It argues that their struggles are rooted in Islamic texts from the Prophetic era, contrary to stereotypes of patriarchal domination, and shows how they use organizations for feminist changes.
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Prenatal screening offers parental choice, but the anomalies it finds are often unfixable. When termination is the only intervention, complex ethical questions arise about which traits are desirable. This book explores these choices and their impact on autonomy.
Prenatal screening offers parental choice, but the anomalies it finds are often unfixable. When termination is the only intervention, complex ethical questions arise about which traits are desirable. This book explores these choices and their impact on autonomy.
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As societies face complex challenges like climate change, the role of academics as public intellectuals is vital. This book explores how they make specialized knowledge relevant, discussing historical and contemporary cases from Europe, the US, and beyond.
As societies face complex challenges like climate change, the role of academics as public intellectuals is vital. This book explores how they make specialized knowledge relevant, discussing historical and contemporary cases from Europe, the US, and beyond.
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Seeing Whole
Toward an Ethics and Ecology of Sight
This anthology explores the ways in which seeing as an embodied process is always a multivalent, ambiguous, and holistic undertaking, and represents an innovative addition to the field of visual culture studies.
This anthology explores the ways in which seeing as an embodied process is always a multivalent, ambiguous, and holistic undertaking, and represents an innovative addition to the field of visual culture studies.
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Binaries in Battle
Representations of Division and Conflict
Binary opposition – Us vs. Them, good vs. evil – is fundamental to human thinking in peace and war. This wide-ranging anthology explores conflicts from history to the near future, deconstructing black-and-white imageries to reveal softer shades of grey.
Binary opposition – Us vs. Them, good vs. evil – is fundamental to human thinking in peace and war. This wide-ranging anthology explores conflicts from history to the near future, deconstructing black-and-white imageries to reveal softer shades of grey.
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While chiefly a site of popular pleasure and merriment, popular culture also functions as a site and source through which identities are inhabited, brokered and contested. This volume offers theoretical reflections on the significance of particular elements of popular culture.
While chiefly a site of popular pleasure and merriment, popular culture also functions as a site and source through which identities are inhabited, brokered and contested. This volume offers theoretical reflections on the significance of particular elements of popular culture.
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Max Weber on China
Modernity and Capitalism in a Global Perspective
Cotesta throws light on the problem-riddled Max Weber, a man lacerated by tragic contradictions, a great intellectual, nationalistic yet cosmopolitan. This investigation of his private life reveals a tender man, who, at a time of overwhelming conflict, sought true life in love.
Cotesta throws light on the problem-riddled Max Weber, a man lacerated by tragic contradictions, a great intellectual, nationalistic yet cosmopolitan. This investigation of his private life reveals a tender man, who, at a time of overwhelming conflict, sought true life in love.
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A Reflexive Inquiry into Gender Research
Towards a New Paradigm of Knowledge Production & Exploring New Frontiers of Gender Research in Southern Africa
Questions of gender and violence against women have been placed firmly on the agenda of research within the humanities in recent years. This book represents an important combination of scholarly insights and provides multiple reflections on gender research in the African context.
Questions of gender and violence against women have been placed firmly on the agenda of research within the humanities in recent years. This book represents an important combination of scholarly insights and provides multiple reflections on gender research in the African context.
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This book voices individual stories of Syrians who sought shelter in Turkey. Rather than a dry scholarly account, it details the emotional odyssey of two academics who lived alongside Syrians in the Turkey-Syria borderland, presenting them as individuals, not a category.
This book voices individual stories of Syrians who sought shelter in Turkey. Rather than a dry scholarly account, it details the emotional odyssey of two academics who lived alongside Syrians in the Turkey-Syria borderland, presenting them as individuals, not a category.
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This book explores the partnership between the French state and Disney to create Val d’Europe. It reveals why a welfarist state joined a capitalist giant and critically examines their ongoing efforts to build a massive urban tourism pole despite criticisms and challenges.
This book explores the partnership between the French state and Disney to create Val d’Europe. It reveals why a welfarist state joined a capitalist giant and critically examines their ongoing efforts to build a massive urban tourism pole despite criticisms and challenges.
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A riveting account of higher education advancements in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Burundi. While some nations enjoyed calm, others endured turbulent pasts of civil war and genocide. This book reviews the past, present, and future of their tertiary education.
A riveting account of higher education advancements in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Burundi. While some nations enjoyed calm, others endured turbulent pasts of civil war and genocide. This book reviews the past, present, and future of their tertiary education.
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New Ritual Society
Consumerism and Culture in the Contemporary Era
Consumerism has established itself as a dominant lifestyle, but the reasons for this are often unclear. This study revisits a large amount of research, arguing that consumerism is a powerful ritual “machine” that can make up for the modern lack of values with new symbols.
Consumerism has established itself as a dominant lifestyle, but the reasons for this are often unclear. This study revisits a large amount of research, arguing that consumerism is a powerful ritual “machine” that can make up for the modern lack of values with new symbols.
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Focusing on the work of three US Cuban writers, this book shows that such writers incorporate Caribbean and Latin American archival sources and interpretive frameworks in order to develop a critical and investigative approach to the politics of Cuban exile historiography.
Focusing on the work of three US Cuban writers, this book shows that such writers incorporate Caribbean and Latin American archival sources and interpretive frameworks in order to develop a critical and investigative approach to the politics of Cuban exile historiography.
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Agriculture in an Urbanizing Society Volume One
Proceedings of the Sixth AESOP Conference on Sustainable Food Planning
This conference proceedings represents the academic work of worldwide experts in food planning and urban agriculture. It is an overview of the latest research in the field, drawing from areas such as spatial planning and governance.
This conference proceedings represents the academic work of worldwide experts in food planning and urban agriculture. It is an overview of the latest research in the field, drawing from areas such as spatial planning and governance.
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