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This book explores how rural children negotiate economic insecurity and difference. Based on long-term ethnographic research in rural Australia, it shows that children draw on class-based ideas of moral worth, anchored in racialised and gendered understandings, to...
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Springer
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2018-08-23
Collection :
Perspectives on Children and Young People
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This book examines the ways in which the welfare state impacts levels and distributions of political participation and democratic support in Western democracies. Going beyond the traditional contextual accounts of political behaviour, which primarily focus on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-20
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All known societies exclude one or more minority groups, frequently employing a rhetoric of disgust to justify stigmatization. For instance, in European anti-Semitism, Jews were considered hyper-physical and crafty; some upper-caste Hindus find the lower castes dirty...
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OUP India
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2018-08-16
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This book is a major contribution to the study of political economy. With chapters ranging from the origins of political economy to its most exciting research fields, this handbook provides a reassessment of political economy as it stands today, whilst boldly gesturing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-16
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This book is devoted to analyzing contemporary capitalism both in Japan and in the world economy by using the theoretical framework of the French régulation theory and by revisiting the theory of civil society in postwar Japan. The Japanese theory of civil society...
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Springer
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2018-08-15
Collection :
Evolutionary Economics and Social Complexity Science
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This edited volume provides a critical account of the theories and policies that have informed work in the field of early childhood and explores how they have operated in practice. Underpinning the theoretical debates are the familiar tensions between global norms and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-14
Collection :
Palgrave Studies on Children and Development
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The economic policies of reactive states such as Turkey and Greece, both of which have shown limited ability to implement institutional reforms in recent years, have paved the way for deep crises.The crises are devastating for both societies’ social fabric, but they...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-07
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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Swiss citizens approve of their government and the way democracy is practiced; they trust the authorities and are satisfied with the range of servicesSwiss governments provide. This is quite unusual when compared to other countries. This open access book provides...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-07
Collection :
Governance and Public Management
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This book clarifies the misconceptions and misinterpretations of the Chinese Path through historical and market logic. The author begins with a historical review of Chinese institutions from their cultural origins to their modern connotations: Chinese regard unity over...
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Springer
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2018-08-06
Collection :
China Insights
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Angebote Sozialer Arbeit werden selten auf Basis ihres institutionellen Kontextes reflektiert. Mittels einer räumlichen Perspektive eröffnen die Beiträge besondere Sichtweisen auf Bedarfe von Klient*innen, fachliches Arbeiten des Personals und vielschichtige soziale...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2018-08-06
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This book explores for the first time the punk phenomenon in contemporary China. As China has urbanised within the context of explosive economic growth and a closed political system, urban subcultures and phenomena of alienation and anomie have emerged, and yet, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-03
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This book brings together a series of theory and practice essays on risk management and adaptation in urban contexts within a resilient and multidimensional perspective. The book proposes a transversal approach with regard to the role of spatial planning in promoting...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-08-02
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This book figures out that network security and informatization have entered a development stage of greater permeation and deeper integration into all aspects of the economy and society. In particular since the 2008 financial crisis, the world’s major economies have...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-07-30
Collection :
Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path
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This book focuses on the 'functionings' and capabilities generated from land by their owners and the challenge in satisfactorily recreating these through the compensation paid in the case of compulsory acquisition of private land. These discussions initiate a new debate...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-07-24
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Shortlisted for the 2018 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award!Surely just giving people money couldn't work. Or could it?Imagine if every month the government deposited £1000 in your bank account, with no strings attached and nothing expected...
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Virgin Digital
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2018-07-12
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The book investigates the relationship between ecosystem services (ES) and spatial planning, and explores potential means of integrating the two concepts to support the decision-making process. In addition, it presents case studies demonstrating the outcomes,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-07-12
Collection :
Green Energy and Technology
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This book discusses the experiences of cooperative enterprises in India that have been operated by or influenced to a significant extent by trade unions. It describes the origins of these movements in India presenting a political-strategic view of their development and,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-09
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This book addresses the process of decentralization in Italy, examined from the perspective of political parties. In particular, it assesses whether and to what extent the dynamics of party competition are likely to shape policy agenda and affect policy change. The...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-05
Collection :
Comparative Territorial Politics
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Heritage practices often lead to social exclusion, as such practices can favor certain values over others. In some cases, exclusion from a society’s symbolic landscape can spark controversy, or rouse emotion so much so that they result in cultural contestation. Examples...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-04
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
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This volume is the first collection in the field of wellbeing studies that places politics centre stage. Through a combination of intellectual inquiry, empirically-grounded research, and investigation across different settings, this book aims to provide fresh insights...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-04
Collection :
Wellbeing in Politics and Policy
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