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This book investigates the social construction and reconstruction of Tokunbo meanings and how these impact on the second-hand economy in Nigeria. Qualitative data were collected at Abeokuta, Ibadan and Lagos in Nigeria and at Cotonou in Benin Republic. The research...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-12-17
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Dieses Buch befasst sich mit den Vorstellungen von Entwicklung, Menschenrechten und einem guten Leben aus der Sicht marginalisierter Gruppen. Im Fokus stehen indigene Völker in Lateinamerika (insbesondere die Mapuche in Chile) und Beduinen bzw. PalästinenserInnen. Der...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-09
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Many macro-sociologists have insufficient understanding of the roots of human motivation and this seriously hampers the effort to build theoretical models of society, social organisations and social change. The aim of this work is to remedy this deficiency. In this...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-10-23
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Mit diesem Buch legt der Autor die erste umfassende Untersuchung über Geschichte und aktuelle Formationen der Pashtunen beiderseits der Durand-Line vor. Die Arbeit zeigt auf, wie sich weite Teile der segmentären pashtunischen Gesellschaften im Verlauf einer...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-09-03
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Throughout the world, development policies have made great strides in addressing the structural inequalities that have traditionally characterized and divided world regions. Nonetheless, many development challenges remain, in part because effective governance strategies...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2012-08-21
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The volume contains papers presented at the fourth Workshop «American Ethnicity: Rethinking Old Issues, Asking New Questions» which took place in Krakow, Poland, on May 24th-25th, 2010.The event was organized by the Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora of...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-27
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Barely forty years ago, Abu Dhabi was a fishing village on the Arabian Gulf. Now the capital of the United Arab Emirates, its citizens are each worth $17 million, it holds major stakes in Western economies, and has money to burn. In this timely, revealing and evocative...
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Sceptre
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2012-07-05
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Emerging Perspectives on ‘African Development’: Speaking Differently discusses numerous areas of interest and issues about Africa, including contemporary challenges and possibilities of development. The book critically engages the many ways of presenting ‘development,’...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-07-01
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In Nepal wirken heute, in der vorerst konsolidierten politischen Lage nach dem Bürgerkrieg, wieder zahlreiche japanische Akteure der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit. Jahrzehntelang waren staatliche ODA-Hilfsleistungen ein singuläres Instrument japanischer Außenpolitik. Diese...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-06-06
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This book paints a picture of poor older people’s life-worlds in Beijing, China. Instead of viewing them as pitiful recipients of vulnerabilities and deprivations, this book sheds light on how poor older people exert their active agency to live through their life...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-04-25
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For thirty years Sudan has been a country in crisis, wracked by near-constant warfare between the north and the south. But on July 9, 2011, South Sudan became an independent nation. As Sudan once again finds itself the focus of international attention, former special...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-03-23
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The author focuses on how development-oriented non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and microfinance institutions (MFIs) are suited to the dual development process of improving the wellbeing and empowerment of the poor and other marginalized peoples (especially women)...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-02-20
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This book details the evolution of Bengali culture (in both Bangladesh and West Bengal) since antiquity and argues for its modernization. Originally peripheral to Hindu civilization based in North India, Bengali culture was subjected to various forms of Sanskritization....
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2011-11-14
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Despite being Ireland’s national and first official language, Irish is marginalised and threatened as a community language. The dominant discourse has long dismissed the Irish language as irrelevant or even an obstacle to Ireland’s progress. This book critiques that...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-03-03
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If the new cultural sociology is to gain firm grounds, it should rediscover the classic studies on cultural dynamics and cultural systems. This book contributes to a better understanding of Florian Znaniecki as an eminent culturologist and the lasting relevance of his...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2010-11-05
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Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting team, husband and wife Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, take us on a journey through Africa and Asia to meet an extraordinary array of exceptional women struggling against terrible circumstances. More girls have been killed in the...
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Virago
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2010-08-05
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Named one of the top religion books of 2002 by USA Today, Philip Jenkins's phenomenally successful The Next Christendom permanently changed the way people think about the future of Christianity. In that volume, Jenkins called the world's attention to the little noticed...
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Oxford University Press
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2006-09-01
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This book is a series of comprehensive interviews conducted by Ramin Jahanbegloo at Tehran and organized over six sessions. The interviewer questions Nundy within the context of his own 'Indian-ness' as also his affinity (and criticisms) for things Indian: whether it be...
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OUP India
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2006-04-10
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Examining the foundations of development, Shivakumar describes how societies can reconstitute themselves to improve their developmental well-being. He argues that the unitary state focus in theory and practice limits the creative potential of individuals to improve...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2005-10-13
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In the 1970s Shiva Naipaul travelled to Africa, visiting Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia for several months. Through his experiences, the places he visited and his various encounters, he aimed to discover what 'liberation', 'revolution' and 'socialism' meant to the ordinary...
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Penguin
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1996-09-26
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