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Women in Kararau : gendered lives, works, and knowledge in a middle Sepik vil…
The book offers a glimpse back in time to a Middle Sepik society, the Iatmul, first investigated by the anthropologist Gregory Bateson in the late 1920s while the feminist anthropologist Margaret Mead worked on sex roles among the neighbouring Tchambuli (Chambri) people. The author lived in the Iatmul village of Kararau in 1972/3 where she studied women’s lives, works, and knowledge in detail…
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- 9783863954222
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- 392 p.
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- 305 HAU w
Capability as a yardstick for flexicurity: using the Senian paradigm to evalu…
Flexicurity is a European policy agenda seeking to increase both flexibility and security in the labour-market. This book argues that it needs a revision: Although flexicurity is set out to change the way Europeans work and live, and even though it is being justified by workers’ needs, flexicurity lacks of a clear and democratically justified vision of society. Flexicurity is confronted here …
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- 9783863951634
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- vi, 296 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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- 300 LEH c
Democracy and power: the Delhi lectures
"Noam Chomsky visited India in 1996 and 2001 and spoke on a wide range of subjects, from democracy and corporate propaganda to the nature of the world order and the role of intellectuals in society. He captivated audiences with his lucid challenge of dominant political analyses, the engaging style of his talks, and his commitment to social equality as well as individual freedom. Chomsky’s ear…
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- 9781783740949
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 171 pages)
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- 327.1 CHO d
Happiness is the wrong metric : a liberal communitarian response to populism
This timely book addresses the conflict between globalism and nationalism. It provides a liberal communitarian response to the rise of populism occurring in many democracies. The book highlights the role of communities next to that of the state and the market. It spells out the policy implications of liberal communitarianism for privacy, freedom of the press, and much else. In a persuasive arg…
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- 9783319696232
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- xxi, 304p. : ill.
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- 320.01 ETZ h
A demographic perspective on gender, family and health in Europe
This open access book examines the triangle between family, gender, and health in Europe from a demographic perspective. It helps to understand patterns and trends in each of the three components separately, as well as their interdependencies. It overcomes the widely observable specialization in demographic research, which usually involves researchers studying either family or fertility process…
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- 9783319723563
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- viii, 303p. : ill.
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- 304.6 DEM d
Understanding Society and Natural Resources: Forging New Strands of Integrati…
In this edited volume leading scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds wrestle with social science integration opportunities and challenges. This book explores the growing concern of how best to achieve effective integration of the social science disciplines as a means for furthering natural resource social science and environmental problem solving. The chapters provide an overview of t…
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- 9789401789592
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- 300 UND u
Social media and journalism: trends, connections, implications
Nowadays, social media are amongst the most frequently used entertainment and information sources, offering the most recent news. National, international and global issues of social media journalism involve a wide spectrum of complex questions related to the production, distribution and reception of media contents, as well as a plethora of social, cultural, economic, legal and ethical aspects t…
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- 9781789842593
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- 144 p.; 22 cm.
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- 070 SOC s
Between mobility and migration : the multi-level governance of intra-European…
This open access book offers a critical perspective on intra-European mobility and migration by using new empirical data and theoretical discussions. It develops a theoretical and empirical analysis of the consequences of intra-European movement for sending and receiving urban regions in The Netherlands, Sweden, Austria, Turkey, Poland and Czech Republic. The book conceptualizes Central and …
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- 9783319779911
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- VI, 270p. : ill.
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- 304.8 BET b
Visualizing mortality dynamics in the lexis diagram
This book visualizes mortality dynamics in the Lexis diagram. While the standard approach of plotting death rates is also covered, the focus in this book is on the depiction of rates of mortality improvement over age and time. This rather novel approach offers a more intuitive understanding of the underlying dynamics, enabling readers to better understand whether period- or cohort-effects were …
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- 9783319648200
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- 304.6 VIS v
mHealth innovation in Asia : grassroots challenges and practical interventions
This book offers a detailed account of a range of mHealth initiatives across South, Southeast and East Asia. It provides readers with deep insights into the challenges such initiatives face on the ground, and a view of the diverse cultural contexts shaping strategies for overcoming these challenges. The book brings together various discussions on the broader mHealth literature, and demonstrates…
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- 9789402412512
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- x, 131p. : ill.
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- 302.23 MHE m
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