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Oscillations in opium poppy production in Afghanistan have long been associated with how the state was perceived, such as after the Taliban imposed a cultivation ban in 2000-1.
The international community's subsequent attempts to regulate opium poppy became intimately...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-05-01
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The New Black History anthology presents cutting-edge scholarship on key issues that define African American politics, life, and culture, especially during the Civil Rights and Black Power eras.The volume includes articles by both established scholars and a rising...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-30
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This book evaluates the extent to which post-conflict reconstruction has addressed problems of horizontal inequalities through country case studies on Burundi, Rwanda, Nepal, Peru, Guatemala, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Afghanistan, and four thematic studies on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-04-30
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This anthology hopes to contribute, in particular, to the analysis of the mutually constitutive interaction of the use of cyberspace and Asian cultures, with particular attention to ethical, feminist, and religious perspectives especially within Catholic Christianity.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-30
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Content and Context in Theological Ethics
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Despite various decades of research and claim-making by feminist scholars and movements, gender remains an overlooked area in development studies. Looking at key issues in development studies through the prisms of gender and feminism, the authors demonstrate that gender...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-04-30
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This is the first comprehensive text on social psychological approaches to communication, providing an excellent introduction to theoretical perspectives, special topics, and applied areas and practice in communication. Bringing together scholars of international...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-30
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The representation of the Muslims as threatening to India's body politic is central to the Hindu nationalist project of organizing a political movement and normalizing anti-minority violence. Adopting a critical ethnographic approach, this book identifies the poetics...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-30
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The authors probe the reasons and circumstances surrounding the death and torture of African American female victims, relying on such methodological approaches as comparative historical work, content and media analysis, as well as literary criticism.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-30
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Drawing on both theoretical and practical case studies, this collection moves from developing attempts at local media to case studies and on to cyber-examples. The contributors, all distinguished international communications scholars, present a range of perspectives on...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-30
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Through explorations of six cases taken from various Latino ethnic groups, this book advances our understanding about meanings of Latino manhood and masculinities. The studies range from theatre and literature to men's activism and sports, showing how masculinities are...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-30
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British Romanticism and the Jews explores the mutual influences exerted by the British-Christian and British-Jewish communities on each other during the period between the Enlightenment and Victorianism. The essays in the volume demonstrate how the texts produced by the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-30
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Billet examines the debate between the uniform application of universal human rights and cultural relativism.Billet outlines the foundations and evolution of both schools of thought. The book also examines case studies that involve either women or children and are...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-30
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We live in an age of crises that are global in scale and potentially apocalyptic in severity, affecting the lives of millions billions of people. Peter Lee examines the struggle for truth at the heart of these crises to show how political leaders attempt to shape...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-30
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In this collection, leading international scholars examine riots and protest in a range of countries and contexts, exploring the major social transformations of rioting and the changing dynamics, interpretation and potency of unrest in a globalised era.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-30
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Although Al Jazeera English has yet to receive to receive the attention accorded to its Arabic-language elder sibling, it is in many ways the more interesting of the two. It seeks to redefine global news coverage by focusing on areas that are traditionally neglected by...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-30
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Drawing on theories of sublimity, trauma, and ecocriticism, this book examines how the often sharp division between European American and African American experiences of the natural world developed in American culture and history, and how those natural experiences, in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-30
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Researchers, activists, and educators draw inspiration from the radical thought of Lorenzo Milani to invite readers to explore the intricacies, logistics, ethics and pedagogy of conflict and peace as played out in a number of domains, including religion, education,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-30
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Examining the interplay between distrust, trust and corruption, this book maps out the social mechanisms that make actors and organizations in the public sphere perform their activities in a civilized manner.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-30
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This book questions the sociocultural dimensions of remembering. It offers an overview of the history and theory of memory studies through the lens of sociology, political science, anthropology, psychology, literature, art and media studies; documenting current...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-30
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Combining media effects with aesthetic approaches this book offers the first substantial, systematic and coherent account of fun and its importance. But what exactly is fun and what purposes does it serve? Fun is a vital element of entertainment, and entertainment is...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2016-04-30
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