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Agroecological transitions : from theory to practice in local participatory d…
There is wide agreement on the need to change the prevalent agricultural models, given their negative impacts and their incompatibility with current societal issues. Agroecological transition has been promoted as a potential solution to the ecological, social and economic problems generated by these models. It however involves a systemic, multi-scale and transdisciplinary process. Due to thi…
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- 9783030019532
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- xvi, 335p. : ill.
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- 577.55 AGR a
Plug & play places : lifeworlds of multilocal creative knowledge workers
In post-industrial societies more and more people earn an income in creative knowledge work, a highly flexible labour market segment that demands a geographically mobile workforce. Creative knowledge work is based on an understanding of language, culture and symbolic meanings. This can best be obtained through local and national embeddedness. Yet, this necessity for embeddedness stands in contr…
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- 9783110401745
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- XI, 424 p.
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- 331.12791 NAT p
Why do we quote?: the culture and history of quotation
Quoting is all around us. But do we really know what it means? How do people actually quote today, and how did our present systems come about? This book brings together a down-to-earth account of contemporary quoting with an examination of the comparative and historical background that lies behind it and the characteristic way that quoting links past and present, the far and the near. Drawing f…
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- 9781906924355 (pdf)
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 327 pages)
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- 808 FIN w
Adaptive strategies for water heritage : past, present and future
This Open Access book, building on research initiated by scholars from the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Global Heritage and Development (CHGD) and ICOMOS Netherlands, presents multidisciplinary research that connects water to heritage. Through twenty-one chapters it explores landscapes, cities, engineering structures and buildings from around the world. It describes how people have actively …
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- 9783030002688
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- xix, 435p. : ill.
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- 363.61 ADA a
White gold : the commercialisation of rice farming in the Lower Mekong Basin
This open access book is about understanding the processes involved in the transformation of smallholder rice farming in the Lower Mekong Basin from a low-yielding subsistence activity to one producing the surpluses needed for national self-sufficiency and a high-value export industry. For centuries, farmers in the Basin have regarded rice as “white gold”, reflecting its centrality to their…
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- 9789811509988
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- xxviii, 456p. : ill.
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- 633.18 WHI w
Equality and diversity: value incommensurability and the politics of recognition
This important book explores the values of equality and diversity as promoted across liberal societies, drawing on various traditions of political and social philosophy, and applying them to policy and practice debates.
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- 9781847426086
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- xii, 192 p. ; 25 cm.
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- 320.011 SMI e
Emerging bodies: the performance of worldmaking in dance and choreography
The concept of 'worldmaking' is based on the idea that 'the world' is not given, but rather produced through language, actions, ideas and perception. This collection of essays takes a closer look at various hybrid and disparate worlds related to dance and choreography. Coming from a broad range of different backgrounds and disciplines, the authors inquire into the ways of producing 'dance world…
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- 9783839415962
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- 264p.: ill.
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- 792.62 EME e
Estonian approaches to culture theory
The fourth volume in the Approaches to Culture Theory series is a contemporary Estonian anthology in culture theory. Most of the authors are members of the research groups of the Centre of Excellence in Cultural Theory: archaeology, cultural communication studies, contemporary cultural studies, ethnology, folkloristics, religious studies, landscape studies, and semiotics. These scholars have re…
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- 9789949326136
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- 335 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 22 cm.
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- Approaches to culture theory series, volume 4
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- 306.01 LAN e
Cultures in Collision and Conversation : Essays in the Intellectual History o…
In Cultures in Collision and Conversation, David Berger addresses three broad themes in Jewish intellectual history: Jewish approaches to cultures external to Judaism and the controversies triggered by this issue in medieval and modern times; the impact of Christian challenges and differing philosophical orientations on Jewish interpretation of the Bible; and Messianic visions, movements, and d…
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- 9781618117915
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- XIII, 367 p.
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- Judaism and Jewish Life
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- 296.39 BER c
Circulating cultures : exchanges of Australian Indigenous music, dance and media
Circulating Cultures is an edited book about the transformation of cultural materials through the Australian landscape.
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- 9781925022193
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- 268 p.
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- 306.4840994 HAR c
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