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With fascinating examples from around the world, this inspiring "manifesto" shows how to account for cultural diversity in reshaping economic and political development.
Around the world, the realities of underdevelopment are harsh and galling, and current strategies...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-12-15
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This book describes and analyzes the impact of COVID-19 on the relationship between the United States and China in its human, social and political dimensions. It does so through the experience of faculty and students at Duke University and Duke Kunshan University, a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-12-14
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Die Studie verbindet aktuelle raumsoziologische Ansätze mit dem politiktheoretischen Konzept des Politischen, um Prozesse der Konstitution der Sammelunterkünfte für Geflüchtete im Alltag zu analysieren. Von besonderem Interesse sind dabei Fragen der alltäglichen...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2020-12-14
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This open access book brings together a unique set of comparative data from Western and Central Europe on how contemporary families live, and discusses the similarities and differences in family lifestyles in this region. The empirical data comes from the authors‘...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-12-14
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Sociology
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This book explores how religious groups work to create sustainable relationships between people, places and environments.This interdisciplinary volume deepens our understanding of this relationship, revealing that the geographical imagination—our sense of place—is a key...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-12-14
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This book draws on participatory ethnographic research to understand how rural Colombian women work to dismantle the coloniality of power. It critically examines the ways in which colonial feminisms have homogenized the "category of woman,” ignoring the intersecting...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-12-14
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Der Band fasst aktuelle Theorieperspektiven und Forschungsbefunde zur Bedeutung von Körpern, Objekten und Räumen in der interdisziplinären Kindheitsforschung zusammen. Es wird gezeigt, in welchem Maße diese Materialitäten daran mitwirken, dass sich bestimmte...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2020-12-14
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This open access handbook provides a multilevel view on family policies, combining insights on family policy outcomes at different levels of policymaking: supra-national organizations, national states, sub-national or regional levels, and finally smaller...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-12-14
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This edited volume is about the rekindled investment in the figure of the first president Julius K. Nyerere in contemporary Tanzania. It explores how Nyerere is remembered by Tanzanians from different levels of society, in what ways and for what purposes. Looking into...
Editeur :
Africae
Parution :
2020-12-14
Collection :
Africae Studies
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Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania have minorities from the Indian sub-continent amongst their population. The East African Indians mostly reside in the main cities, particularly Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar, Mombasa, Kampala; they can also be found in smaller urban centres...
Editeur :
Africae
Parution :
2020-12-14
Collection :
Africae Studies
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This edited volume brings to light how much the development of the mountains of East Africa relates to their surrounding fast-growing towns and cities. The contributors, most of them geographers from both East Africa and France, explore three cases: Mount Kenya (Kenya),...
Editeur :
Africae
Parution :
2020-12-14
Collection :
Africae Studies
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Der Sammelband fasst wichtige Themen und Entwicklungen der Mobilitäts- und Verkehrsforschung der letzten Jahre zusammen. Die Beiträge gehen auf das Instrumentarium empirischer Forschung ein und erläutern deren Einsatzbereiche anhand konkreter Anwendungsfälle. Genauso...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-12-14
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This book explores how a society accepts and utilizes a system of archives to improve the quality of people’s lives at each level of community, organization, and government.This is the first book that examines the political, economic, and social background that has...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-12-12
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This book examines the changing role of statistics in institutional reform in Turkey, and the unanticipated ways in which such changes transform livelihoods as well. Turkish agriculture is undergoing its most profound transformation since the establishment of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-12-12
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This book gathers reflections from 15 US based feminist social scientists about gender – as orienting framework, as one aspect of an intersectional approach, as a feature of intellectual identity, and as a problematic construct. Gender as an analytic, dynamic...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-12-12
Collection :
Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences
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This book investigates various experiences of teaching sexual and reproductive health to adolescents with disabilities. Following the adoption of the UNCRPD, adolescents with disabilities still commonly suffer from widespread violation of their rights particularly...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-12-12
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This pivot includes a series of inside ethnographic accounts and stories about managerial practices and processes, providing a critical account of managerial and HR practices. It seeks to advance thinking in the theoretical areas of strategy-as-practice (SasP),...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2020-12-12
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?Dieses Buch konturiert das Forschungsfeld „Transkulturelle Geschlechterforschung“. Die spezifische Verbindung von Transkulturalität und Geschlechterforschung ermöglicht, sich aus einer globalen, vernetzenden Perspektive mit der Strukturkategorie Geschlecht und ihren...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-12-11
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This Handbook provides the knowledge and tools needed to understand how displacement is lived, governed, and mediated as an unfolding and grounded process bound up in spatial inequities of power and injustice. The handbook ensures, first, that internal displacements and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-12-11
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This edited volume highlights the geographies of six European Mediterranean countries: France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Turkey and Greece. The book provides a balanced overview on what the geographers of these six countries have investigated and reflected in recent...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-12-11
Collection :
Springer Geography
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