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Kastom, property and ideology : Land transformations in Melanesia
The relationship between customary land tenure and ‘modern’ forms of landed property has been a major political issue in the ‘Spearhead’ states of Melanesia since the late colonial period, and is even more pressing today, as the region is subject to its own version of what is described in the international literature as a new ‘land rush’ or ‘land grab’ in developing countries. T…
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- 11
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781760461065
- Collation
- 434
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 333.73130995.MCD
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
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
Arab Americans in the United States
Shaikha H. Al-Kuwari is an assistant professor of Anthropology at Qatar University. She earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology from University of Florida, USA, in 2018. Her research focuses in studying the relation between culture and health. She is interested in building cultural models of illnesses using the latest methodological advances in social science. Her goal is to create culturally based pr…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789819974177
- Collation
- XI, 107
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- Call Number
- 305.8927
Cultural Crowdfunding: Platform Capitalism, Labour and Globalization
"This new book analyses the strategies, usages and wider implications of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding platforms in the culture and communication industries that are reshaping economic, organizational and social logics. Platforms are the object of considerable hype with a growing global presence. Relying on individual contributions coordinated by social media to finance cultural production (an…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781912656387
- Collation
- 128 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 658.15224 ROU c
The informal economy revisited : examining the past, envisioning the future
Contributor(s) Chen, Martha (editor) Carré, Françoise (editor) Language English Perlihat publikasi penuh This landmark volume brings together leading scholars in the field to investigate recent conceptual shifts, research findings and policy debates on the informal economy. Researchers, practitioners and policy makers will find this book an invaluable guide to the significance of the in…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780367191511
- Collation
- ix, 326 p
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- -
- Call Number
- 330 CHE
Cyber security politics : socio-technological transformations and political f…
This book examines new and challenging political aspects of cyber security and presents it as an issue defined by socio-technological uncertainty and political fragmentation. Structured along two broad themes and providing empirical examples for how socio-technical changes and political responses interact, the first part of the book looks at the current use of cyber space in conflictual setting…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781003110224
- Collation
- xiv + 272 p
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- -
- Call Number
- 005.8 DUN c
Gender and Sexuality Diversity in a Culture of Limitation : Student and Teach…
Gender and Sexuality Diversity in a Culture of Limitation provides an outstanding and insightful critique of the ways that contemporary education is impacted by a range of political, social and cultural influences that inform the approaches that schools take in relation to gender and sexuality diversity. By applying feminist poststructural and Foucauldian frameworks, the book examines the ongoi…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781138062313
- Collation
- xi, 174 p
- Series Title
- Routledge Critical Studies in Gender and Sexuality in Education,
- Call Number
- 370.81 FER
Agriculture and Food Security in China What Effect WTO Accession and Regiona…
China’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) has had profound consequences for the structure of its economy, and there will many more before the full benefits of an open trading regime will be realised. Agriculture and Food Security in China explains the background to China’s WTO accession and links accession to reforms beginning as far back as 1979. The book highlights Chinaâ…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781921313646
- Collation
- 440 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 338.1851 CHU a
The Absent Presence of the State in Large-Scale Resource Extraction Projects
Standing on the broken ground of resource extraction settings, the state is sometimes like a chimera: its appearance and intentions are misleading and, for some actors, it is unknowable and incomprehensible. It may be easily mistaken for someone or something else, like a mining company, for example. With rich ethnographic material, this volume tackles critical questions about the nature of c…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781760464493
- Collation
- xix,380 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 338.20994 TON T
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