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This book explores the multifaceted obstacles to social change that India, Myanmar and Thailand face, and ways to overcome them. With a collection of essays that identify common challenges and salient features affecting diverse communities, this volume examines topics...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-03-02
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This book explores the past and present of information infrastructures in India. Grounded in infrastructure theory, it explores the historical continuities between information infrastructures in colonial and post-colonial India and the compulsions of information...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-02-28
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This book interrogates the international child protection regime, with a particular focus on its weaknesses and failures. It looks at the lack of accountability, the normativity, and the tendency to recreate patterns of power and exclusion that blight otherwise good...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-02-19
Collection :
Palgrave Studies on Children and Development
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This edited volume explores the link between natural resources and civil conflict, focusing especially on protest and violence in the context of mining and the extraction of minerals. The primary goal of the book is to analyze how the conflict-inducing effect of natural...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-27
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This book, exploring the theoretical and practical implications of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of leading researchers in the areas of philosophy of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-17
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Disability and International Development
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This book focuses on the concept of ‘home’ or ‘place of origin’ (expressed in Tamil as ‘Ur’) and its various dimensions, in turn related to issues of belonging, attachment, detachment, and commonality among the war-affected population in the post-war era of Sri Lanka....
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Springer
Parution :
2022-01-07
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While sharing some characteristics with other middle-income countries, South Africa is a country with a unique economic history and distinctive economic features. It is a regional economic powerhouse that plays a significant role, not only in southern Africa and in the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-18
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While sharing some characteristics with other middle-income countries, South Africa is a country with a unique economic history and distinctive economic features. It is a regional economic powerhouse that plays a significant role, not only in southern Africa and in the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-18
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The Palgrave Handbook of International Communication and Sustainable Development is a major resource for stakeholders interested in understanding the role of communication in achieving the UN’S Sustainable Development Goals. Bringing together theoretical...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-29
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This book examines the nature of the marketization of corporate boards following the introduction of the split share reform, corporate board and shareholder relations, corporate performance, and risk-taking conduct in China. The chapters cover topics such as...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-06-24
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Domestic violence, interpersonal violence, intimate partner violence, or gender-based violence continues to be a social problem that is rarely understood or discussed in many parts of society, worldwide. The same holds true in the Anglophone Caribbean. Most Caribbean...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-22
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This book analyzes the motivations of the Chinese authorities to pursue the international sporting events. It investigates the 21 oft-underappreciated sporting events governed by FIFA, FINA, FIBA, IAAF, and other international organizations, and linking them with...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-04-09
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Um EU-Politik innerhalb Deutschlands zu vermitteln, haben sich EU-Professionals in Think Tanks, Stiftungen, Vereinen und Agenturen herausgebildet. Wie sie professionelle Zuständigkeit und Deutungsmacht im politischen Kontext deklarieren und legitimieren, ist Gegenstand...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2021-03-29
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This book provides an in-depth and broad study on rural Latin America over a 60-year period. Using a case study approach of Mexico and Venezuela, peasants and lower rural classes are examined at the local, meso and national levels. Additionally, the study analyzes...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-27
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This book examines the various ways in which some fragile states in the Global South (or states with limited statehood) have adopted, and adapted to, processes of governance in their quests to address the socialized problems affecting their societies. It tells the story...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-06-09
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This book is based on the view that human existence results from the interplay of four dimensions: mind, heart, body and soul, which find their expression in thoughts, emotions, sensations and aspirations. By combining theory and praxis, including personal lessons...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2020-05-19
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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...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2020-04-27
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Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum have made major contributions to development studies and social philosophy, yet sustainability issues have largely remained outside their domain despite sustainability’s significance and complex relation to their central value of freedom....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-02-28
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This book gathers contributions from researchers and practitioners that foster user-centric, cross-modal and sustainable transport systems in Europe. It reports on cutting-edge approaches discussed within the project MOBILITY4EU, a Coordination and Support Action funded...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-02-05
Collection :
Lecture Notes in Mobility
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