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Responding to the west: essays on colonial domination and Asian agency
The nine essays of this volume, spanning from the eighteenth to mid-twentieth century, highlight the workings of, and reactions to, colonial domination in Asian contexts. The scholars, which include Victoria Haskins of the University of Newscastle, use a range of social science history methods to explore new paths to colonial history. How were individuals, groups, and social categories able to …
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- 9789048508204
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- 181 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
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- ICAS publication series. 5
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- 325.3095 RES r
The sociology of rural life
From fox-hunting to farming, the vigour with which rural activities and living are defended overturns received notions of a sleepy and complacent countryside. Alongside these developments, the rise of the organic food movement has helped to revitalize an already politicized rural population. Over the years 'rural life' has been defined, redefined and eventually fallen out of fashion as a sociol…
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- 9781845201388
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- xii, 188 p. ; 24 cm.
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- 307.720941 HIL s
Mythic discourses
"Mythic discourses in the present day show how vernacular heritage continues to function and be valuable through emergent interpretations and revaluations. At the same time, continuities in mythic images, motifs, myths and genres reveal the longue durée of mythologies and their transformations. The eighteen articles of Mythic Discourses address the many facets of myth in Uralic cultures, from …
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- 9789522227638
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- 320 p.; 22 cm.
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- Studia Fennica Folkloristica
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- 301 MYT m
Historicizing the uses of the past
This book presents new developments in Scandinavian memory cultures related to World War II and the Holocaust by combining this focus with the perspective of history didactics. The theoretical framework of historical consciousness offers an approach linking individual and collective uses and re-uses of the past to the question how history can and should be taught. It also offers some examples o…
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- 9783837613254
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- 948.062 HIS h
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
The Public value of anthropology: engaging critical social Issues through eth…
Accessible to non-specialists and researchers interested in ethnography, this volume offers an introduction into the uses of anthropology for engaging contemporary social issues. The editors’ essay surveys the development of anthropological research from its early exotic, non-Western focus to today’s debate over increasingly engaged approaches within a globalized society. The case studies u…
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- 9788860460769
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- 174 p.; 22 cm.
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- 306 PUB p
A city in blue and green : the Singapore story
This open access book highlights Singapore’s development into a city in which water and greenery, along with associated environmental, technical, social and political aspects have been harnessed and cultivated into a liveable sustainable way of life. It is also a story about a unique and thoroughgoing approach to large-scale and potentially transferable water sustainability, within largely ur…
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- 978811395970
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- iii, 152p. : ill.
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- 363.70095957 ROW c
Hot property : the housing market in major cities
This open access book discusses booming housing markets in cities around the globe, and the resulting challenges for policymakers and central banks. Cities are booming everywhere, leading to a growing demand for urban housing. In many cities this demand is out-pacing supply, which causes house prices to soar and increases the pressure on rental markets. These developments are posing major chall…
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- 9783030116743
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- xvi, 221p. : ill.
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- 330.91732 HOT h
Food anxiety in globalising Vietnam
This open access book approaches the anxieties inherent in food consumption and production in Vietnam. The country’s rapid and recent economic integration into global agro-food systems and consumer markets spurred a new quality of food safety concerns, health issues and distrust in food distribution networks that have become increasingly obscured. This edited volume further puts the eating bo…
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- 9789811307430
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- xix, 320p. : ill.
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- 307.76 FOO f
Innovation capacity and the city : the enabling role of design
This open access book represents one of the key milestones of DESIGNSCAPES, an H2020 CSA (Coordination and Support Action) research project funded by the European Commission under the Call “User-driven innovation: value creation through design-enabled innovation”. The book demonstrates that adopting design allows us to embed innovation within the city so as to arrive at feasible answers to …
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- 9783030001230
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- ix, 101p. : ill.
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- 307.1216 INN i
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