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This book explores how social groups in the urban fringe of Abuja, Nigeria, engaged with a series of development projects spanning 15 years (2003 to 2018) which focused on the enhancement of food security for farming households. The groups were at the heart of these...
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Springer
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2020-04-25
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This book provides the first sustained empirical evidence on the relationships between marriage migration and processes of integration, focusing on two of the largest British ethnic minority groups involved in these kinds of transnational marriages – Pakistani Muslims...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-04-24
Collection :
Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
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Ralf Dahrendorf (1929 to 2009) has worked in sociology, political practice and political philosophy, and is associated with significant impulses in role theory and conflict theory. This book presents the first synthesis of his extensive oeuvre in English.
Dahrendorf's...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-04-24
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The concept of resilience, which originally emerged in psychology, has spread to numerous disciplines and was further developed particularly in social ecology. Resilience experiences an ongoing growing reception in the humanities and historical and social sciences as...
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Springer VS
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2020-04-24
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This volume showcases selected conference papers addressing the sustainable future of ASEAN from the perspectives of science and technology disciplines. In addressing the 17 Sustainable Developments Goals (SDGs) envisioned by the United Nations in the domains of...
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Springer
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2020-04-23
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The purpose of this volume is to broaden scholars' analytical perspective by placing the creative industries in frameworks that compare and contrast them with other kinds of entities, organizations, and social forms that mix creativity and production. In other words,...
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Springer
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2020-04-23
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This book deals with literary representations of the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda. The focus is a transnational, polyphonic writing project entitled ‘Rwanda: écrire par devoir de mémoire’ (Rwanda: Writing by Duty of Memory), undertaken in 1998 by a group of nine...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-04-23
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
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This open access book features various studies on democratization, transformation, political and economic development, and security issues in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) geographical region and beyond. Written by experts and...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-04-23
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This very practical book helps professionals and students to engage critically with their practice by addressing mental capacity and adult safeguarding. Its accessible and easy to navigate format include key topics surrounding assisted decision making, deprivation of...
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Learning Matters
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2020-04-23
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The central theme of this book is the nexus between the self, the social, and the sacred in conversion and recovery.The contributions explore the complex interactions that occur between the person, the sacred, and various recovery situations, which can include prisons,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-04-23
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Bringing together scholarly but readable essays on the process of gentrification, this two-volume collection addresses the broad question: In what ways does gentrification affect cities, neighborhoods, and the everyday experiences of ordinary people? In this first...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-04-23
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Nicht zuletzt durch die Diskussion im Kontext international vergleichender Schulleistungsuntersuchungen hat, wenn heute über Schulbildung gesprochen wird, die Bedeutung bisher kaum institutionalisierter, nur selten curricularisier ter und häufig nicht-standardisierter...
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VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
Parution :
2020-04-22
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This book offers a major new account of modern capitalism and of the ways in which value and wealth are created today. Boltanski and Esquerre argue that capitalism in the West has recently undergone a fundamental transformation characterized by de-industrialization, on...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-04-22
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Assembling Archaeology provides a radical rethinking of the relationships between teaching, researching, digging, and practicing as an archaeologist in the 21st century. The issues addressed here are global and applicable wherever archaeology is taught, practiced, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-04-22
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What is -- or makes a place -- a 'historic battlefield'?
From one perspective the answer is simple -- it is a place where large numbers of people came together in an organised manner to fight one another at some point in the past. Yet from another perspective it is...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-04-22
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What is -- or makes a place -- a 'historic battlefield'?
From one perspective the answer is simple -- it is a place where large numbers of people came together in an organised manner to fight one another at some point in the past. Yet from another perspective it is...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-04-22
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This volume provides an overview of cyber economic crime in India, analyzing fifteen years of data and specific case studies from Mumbai to add to the limited research in cyber economic crime detection. Centering around an integrated victim-centered approach to...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-04-22
Collection :
Springer Series on Asian Criminology and Criminal Justice Research
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'Why are you making this about race?' This question is repeated daily in public and in the media. Calling someone racist in these times of mounting white supremacy seems to be a worse insult than racism itself. In our supposedly post-racial society, surely it’s time to...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-04-22
ePub
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This book explores the hybridity of urban identities in multiple dimensions and at multiple scales, how they form as catalysts and mechanisms for urban transitions, and how they develop as city branding strategies and urban regeneration methods. Due to rapid...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-04-21
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Der Science-Slam ist eine weitverbreitete Form der populären Wissenschaftskommunikation in Deutschland. Science-Slam-Veranstaltungen erfreuen sich großer Beliebtheit beim Publikum, stehen aber mitunter auch in der Kritik, da die Verbindung von Unterhaltung und...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2020-04-21
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