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The 20th century was one of voracity, the 21st century will be one of hunger. Elsewhere, of course, in Africa, but also in the West, right here.
Depletion of fossil fuels and minerals, climate change, loss of arable land, soil degradation, freshwater scarcity, ocean...
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Max Milo Éditions
Parution :
2024-12-29
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The purpose of this volume is to revisit the core principle that growth is a function of communication, encapsulated in the term, negentropy, in the light of noteworthy initiatives that applied this construct in the pursuit of development goals.The book explores...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-12-29
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This open access book advances a modest defence of technological utopias. While technological utopianism is not devoid of risks and elitism, their benefits should not be discounted in an overall assessment. Rather than rejecting them based on a too narrow definition of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-28
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The book project strives to establish and interpret the experiences and realities of African migration using African epistemology and philosophy.The significance of this book is triggered by an observation that seeks to propound the Eurocentric paradigm as not being the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-28
Collection :
Africa's Global Engagement: Perspectives from Emerging Countries
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Anders als der herkömmliche Migrationsdiskurs strebt das postmigrantische Paradigma eine gegenhegemoniale Wissensproduktion an mit dem Fokus, Migration neu zu erzählen und statisch-binäre Kategorien der (Nicht-)Zugehörigkeit zugunsten migrationsgesellschaftlicher...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-12-28
Collection :
Literatur und Postmigration
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Dieses Buch bietet eine einzigartige Perspektive auf zeitgenössische deutsch-chinesische kulturelle Begegnungen. Statt den Austausch zwischen den beiden Ländern im Hinblick auf koloniale Verbindungen, religiöse Einflüsse und philosophische Auswirkungen hervorzuheben,...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2024-12-27
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This is an open access book.The 2024 International Conference on Diversified Education and Social Development [DESD2024] will be held on November 8th-10th, 2024 in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. DESD2024 will provide an excellent international Academic forum for sharing...
Editeur :
Atlantis Press
Parution :
2024-12-27
Collection :
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
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Seit dem Zeitalter des Postindustrialismus wird im Rahmen der Erwerbsarbeit verstärkt auf Subjektivität eingegangen. Doch wie beeinflusst Arbeit unser Selbstverständnis genau? Im Zeichen der Arbeitsforschung widmet sich dieses Werk der Aufgabe, verschiedene Facetten der...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2024-12-27
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This book explores bell hooks' trajectory of work and cohesiveness of thought about the meaning and meaningfulness of black womanhood in terms of a Black Marxist feminism, which uniquely confronts the dimensions of feminism and womanism; the relations between the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-27
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) represents a key technology for social change in the 21st century. Numerous technological applications are now in use that are based on machine learning and the associated possibilities for data collection, use and exploitation. By making...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-12-27
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This book provides a wide-ranging, global exploration of policies and practices which have sought to undermine dissent during recent and less recent social, political, economic and health ‘crises’. Examining various cases of activism and opposition from...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-26
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This book contains recent geographic work examining the changing geography of protected areas in the U.S. and Europe. These places can be national parks, forests, or other places that are being protected for their significant aesthetic, historical, or environmental...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-26
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This edited book provides a toolbox for researchers and students working with sensitive images in criminological research on and offline. Across three sections on collecting, analysing and mediating sensitive visual data, the chapters cover a wide array of current...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-26
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture
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In Muslim-majority countries, safeguarding minority rights and advancing gender equality are vital components of the broader human rights discussion. Minority rights encompass various groups, including ethnic, religious, and linguistic minorities, who often face...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-26
Collection :
Political Economy of Islam
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Körper und Körperlichkeit werden auf vielfältige Art und Weise in Kinder- und Jugendmedien narrativiert, inszeniert und (re-)präsentiert: Das Spektrum reicht von sexualmoralischen (Selbst-)Beschränkungen der Kinderliteratur über die Vielfalt der Körperentdeckung in...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-12-26
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Rural Americans comprise an estimated 18 per cent of the US population and represent roughly 59 million people. Counter to many popularly held beliefs, rural communities can be less than ideal places to live. While these areas may have great natural beauty, they tend to...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-12-26
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This Open Access book undertakes a comprehensive analysis of the water, energy, and food (WEF) security nexus with a regional focus on East and Southeast Asia. Individual chapters of this book provide interesting nexus dimensions of the region and explore socioeconomic...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-12-24
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This book offers a new investigation of the Needham Question. Why did modern science emerge in Europe, but not in any of the advanced non-European civilizations? Eurocentric accounts attribute it to certain ‘qualities’ said to be ‘unique’ to Europe. Opposed to the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-24
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This ground-breaking book highlights and extends on the increasing number of research and practice collaborations between the disciplines of drama and nursing across the globe. Uniquely, it presents how drama-based interactive education can enable nursing students to...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-12-24
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Predictive Policing wird meist auf die zugrundeliegenden Datenverarbeitungstechnologien reduziert und auf Grundlage der diesen Technologien zugeschriebenen Eigenschaften wie Effizienz, Wirksamkeit, Neutralität, Geschwindigkeit usw. legitimiert. In Wirklichkeit ist...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2024-12-24
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