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This multidisciplinary book discusses and scientifically analyzes issues related to population, land use/cover (LULC) and environmental transformations in the seven most populated cities in India: Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad. To...
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Springer
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2020-04-30
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SpringerBriefs in Geography
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This book provides a unique description of the identity strategies of stateless ethnic minorities in Poland. It describes and analyses the identity politics carried out by these groups, aimed at obtaining recognition of a separate status from the Polish state (a...
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Springer
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2020-04-29
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Migration, Minorities and Modernity
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This book explores the foundations and potential of a theory of need-based distributive justice, supported by experimental evidence. The core idea is that need-based distributive justice may have some legitimatory advantages over other important principles of...
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Springer
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2020-04-29
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Exploring the relationship between place and identity, this book gathers 30 papers that highlight experiences from throughout the Asia-Pacific region. The countries profiled include China, India, Japan, Indonesia, and Thailand. Readers will gain a better understanding...
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Springer
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2020-04-29
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Sustainable Development Goals Series
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This book provides a critical analysis of irregular migration to Europe from a neo-Gramscian perspective. It demonstrates how the contemporary EU migration management regime came about within the context of a neoliberal hegemonic project, which in turn was advanced...
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Springer
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2020-04-29
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IMISCOE Research Series
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This book offers an important addition to the growing literature on education in emergencies. In war situations or in the wake of natural disasters, children’s education is often significantly disrupted.This book demonstrates how the authors used radio and mobile...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-04-28
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This book explores what it means to exist in virtual worlds. Chiefly drawing on the philosophical traditions of existentialism, it articulates the idea that — by means of our technical equipment and coordinated practices — human beings disclose...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2020-04-28
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ON RAGE is Germaine Greer's timeless essay about Aboriginal dispossession. With characteristic acuity and passion, Greer looks to the causes of rage and its consequences in Indigenous Australians.Originally published six months after Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's Apology...
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Hachette Australia
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2020-04-28
Collection :
On Series
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In a neo-liberal era concerned with discourses of responsible individualism and the ‘selfie’, there is an increased interest in personal lives and experiences.In contemporary life, the personal is understood to be political and these ideas cut across both the social...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-04-28
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This book examines the reasons behind the declining fortunes of public access channels. Public access, which provided perhaps the boldest experiment in popular media democracy, is in steep decline. While some have argued it is technologically outmoded, Caterino argues...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-04-28
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The volume addresses the matter of participatory media practices as playful appropriations within current digital media culture and artistic research.The aim is to explore and trace the shifting boundaries between media production and media use, and to develop concepts...
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Springer VS
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2020-04-28
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The first edition of What’s Race Got to Do With It (2015) addressed a moment when those working on the ground—activists, educators, young people, and families—were trying to understand and fight back against neoliberal education reforms (e.g., high stakes testing,...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2020-04-28
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This encyclopedia provides a comprehensive overview of the traditions, cultures, kinship norms, and other significant cultural aspects of the tribes, or otherwise named ethnic groups, of Indonesia, by an Indonesian anthropologist. The entries are supported by...
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Springer
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2020-04-28
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'A poetic, erudite exploration of history and myth' Financial TimesAn unforgettable journey through centuries and across cultures to the pivotal moment in evolution - when humans did something that no species had yet tried - when we became the hunter and no longer the...
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Penguin
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2020-04-28
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This volume includes eleven original essays that explore and expand on the work of Don Ihde, bookended by two chapters by Ihde himself. Ihde, the recipient of the first Society for Philosophy and Technology's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017, is best...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-04-27
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Digital communication as it is practiced in Africa today is at a crossroad. This edited collection takes that crossroad as its starting point, as it both examines the complicated present and looks to the uncertain future of African communication systems. Contributing...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2020-04-27
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This book examines how human behavior is shaped by our aspirations, emotions, thoughts and sensations, and conversely, how the experiences that result from our behavior impact ourselves, others and the planet. Based on an analysis of the constant interplay between...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2020-04-27
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This book intends to present the development of socio-spatial practices in the metropolitan coast of the Northeast of Brazil, highlighting the main urban, spa and tourist agglomerations: Salvador-BA, Recife-PE, Fortaleza-CE, and Natal-RN. The objective is to study the...
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Springer
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2020-04-25
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Latin American Studies
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This book reports on a public archaeology project carried out at the ancient site of Tilmen Höyük in south-eastern Turkey. The project developed and applied new methodologies and advanced technologies for the planning, design, conservation and management of an...
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Springer
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2020-04-25
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This volume engages with the contested concept of ‘active citizenship’. It analyses the use and understanding of active citizenship in youth civic and political initiatives in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Italy, Portugal and the UK....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-04-25
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