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Landlock : paralysing dispute over minerals on Adivasi land in India
Landlock: Paralysing Dispute over Minerals on Adivasi Land in India explores the ways in which political controversy over a bauxite mining and refining project on constitutionally protected tribal lands in Andhra Pradesh descended into a state of paralysis where no productive outcome was possible. Long-running support for Adivasi (or tribal) land rights motivated a wide range of actors to block…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781760462512
- Collation
- xiv + 226 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 333.10954 PAT l
Making in the making : Performing new forms and spatialities of production
During the last two decades, we have witnessed the spreading of shared spaces of work and production in different urban contexts, attracting attention from both policymakers and scholars in economic geography and urban studies. In particular, Fablabs are considered open workshops for grassroots innovation, which is enabled by the availability of shared digital fabrication machines and by the po…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9788835131618
- Collation
- 270p
- Series Title
- Nuove Geografie. Strumenti di lavoro
- Call Number
- 306 CEN
Globalization and capitalist geopolitics : sovereignty and state power in a m…
In a period of increasing geopolitical insecurity and economic instability this title provides an authoritative yet accessible commentary on debates on capitalism and globalization in the wake of the financial crisis.
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- -
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- 9781315798165
- Collation
- xvi, 267
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- -
- Call Number
- 327.1
Social media in Southeast Italy : crafting ideals
Why is social media in southeast Italy so predictable when it is used by such a range of different people? This book describes the impact of social media on the population of a town in the southern region of Puglia, Italy. Razvan Nicolescu spent 15 months living among the town’s residents, exploring what it means to be an individual on social media. Why do people from this region conform on p…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781910634721
- Collation
- 224p
- Series Title
- Why We Post
- Call Number
- 302.231 NIC
Islam, humanity and the Indonesian Identity
"Islam exists in global history with its richly variegated cultural and social realities. When these specific cultural contexts are marginalized, Islam is reduced to an ahistorical religion without the ability to contribute to humanity. This limited understanding of Islam has been a contributing factor in many of the violent conflicts in the present day. Reflecting on Islam in Indonesia, the wo…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789400603097
- Collation
- 289p
- Series Title
- Debates on Islam and Society
- Call Number
- 950 MAA
China's race to global technology leadership
Last December the Chief Financial Officer of the leading Chinese telecommunication company Huawei was travelling from Hong Kong to Mexico when she was arrested while changing flights at Vancouver Airport by the Canadian authorities acting on an extradition request from the United States. Meng’s arrest and detention are a significant development in China-US relations, marking a dramatic ch…
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- 8
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9788867059928
- Collation
- ii, 199 p
- Series Title
- Pubblicazioni ISPI,
- Call Number
- 338.926
Securing Village Life : Development in Late Colonial Papua New Guinea
Securing Village Life: Development in Late Colonial Papua New Guinea examines the significance for post-World War II Australian colonial policy of the modern idea of development. Australian officials emphasised the importance of bringing development for both the colony of Papua and the United Nations Trust Territory of New Guinea. The principal form that development took involved securing small…
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- 13
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781922144850
- Collation
- 318
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 338.9009953.MAC
Australia’s Fertility Transition : A study of 19th-century Tasmania
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, most countries in Europe and English-speaking countries outside Europe experienced a fertility transition, where fertility fell from high levels to relatively low levels. England and the other English-speaking countries experienced this from the 1870s, while fertility in Australia began to fall in the 1880s. This book investigates the fertility tran…
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- 13
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781760463373
- Collation
- 318
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 304.6309946.MOY
Dissonant heritages and memories in contemporary Europe
This open access book discusses political, economic, social, and humanitarian challenges that influence both how people deal with their past and how they build their identities in contemporary Europe. Ongoing debates on migration, on local, national, inter- and transnational levels, prove that it is a divisive issue with regards to understanding European integration and identity. At the same ti…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030114640
- Collation
- xv, 294p.; ill.
- Series Title
- Palgrave studies in cultural heritage and conflict
- Call Number
- 363.69 DIS v
SDGs, transformation, and quality growth : insights from international cooper…
This is an Open Access book. The primary objective of this book is to seek out insights into the concept of high-quality growth (HQG). It explores the essential attributes of HQG, such as inclusiveness, sustainability, and resilience, as well as its relationship with transformation, by drawing principally on illustrative cases and instances of international cooperation. The United Nations docum…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789811697487
- Collation
- xv, 164.; ill.
- Series Title
- Sustainable development goals series
- Call Number
- 338.927 SDG h
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