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Mobilities, boundaries, and travelling ideas: rethinking translocality beyond…
his collection brings together a variety of anthropological, historical and sociological case studies from Central Asia and the Caucasus to examine the concept of translocality. The chapters scrutinize the capacity of translocality to describe, in new ways, the multiple mobilities, exchange practices and globalizing processes that link places, people and institutions in Central Asia and the Cau…
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- 9781783743360
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- 380 p.; 21 cm.
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- 306.449 MOB m
Building the inclusive city: governance, access, and the urban transformation…
This Open Access book is an anthropological urban study of the Emirate of Dubai, its institutions, and their evolution. It provides a contemporary history of disability in city planning from a non-Western perspective and explores the cultural context for its positioning. Three insights inform the author’s approach. First, disability research, much like other urban or social issues, must be si…
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- 9783030329884
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- 169p.: ill.
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- 307.1216095357 PIN b
The Cultural production of intellectual property rights
This book looks at questions of intellectual property rights (IPR) -- historically, culturally, and politically -- and their relationship to law and the state. Arguing that the idea that intellectual property is another kind of property right (that is, that IP is a thing to be owned) exists in parallel with the idea that intellectual property is the consequence of a cultural process, Andrews di…
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- 9781439914298
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- 301 JOH c
Contemporary Indonesian film; spirits of reform and ghosts from the past
This highly informative book explores the world of Post-Soeharto Indonesian audio-visual media in the exiting era of Reform. From a multidisciplinary approach it considers a wide variety of issues such as mainstream and alternative film practices, ceremonial and independent film festivals, film piracy, history and horror, documentary, television soaps, and Islamic films, as well as censorship f…
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- 9789067183819
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- 239 p.; 22 cm
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
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- 301 HEE e
Employment, well-being and gender
This book examines welfare effects of gender-related inequalities in Korean households and labor markets. It uses subjective well-being data to show that reductions of excessive levels of working hours did improve family well-being in the past decade. Moreover, benefits from major life events like marriage can differ greatly by sex if traditional gender roles dominate and women contribute much …
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- 9783631623022
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- 158 p.; 22 cm
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- Goettinger Studien zur Entwicklungsoekonomik / Goettingen Studies in Development Economics
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- 306.3 RUD e
Eating disorders and obesity: the challenge for our times
Eating Disorders have traditionally been considered apart from public health concerns about increasing obesity. It is evident that these problems are, however, related in important ways. Comorbid obesity and eating disorder is increasing at a faster rate than either obesity or eating disorders alone and one in five people with obesity also presents with an Eating Disorder, commonly but not limi…
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- 9783038979982
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- 264 p.; 22 cm.
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- 306.44 EAT e
Science as social existence: heidegger and the sociology of scientific knowledge
n this bold and original study, Jeff Kochan constructively combines the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) with Martin Heidegger’s early existential conception of science. Kochan shows convincingly that these apparently quite different approaches to science are, in fact, largely compatible, even mutually reinforcing. By combining Heidegger with SSK, Kochan argues, we can explicate, elab…
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- 978-1783744114
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- 444 p.
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