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Reframing Blackness and Black Solidarities through Anti-colonial and Decoloni…
This book grounds particular struggles at the curious interface of skin, body, psyche, hegemonies and politics. Specifically, it adds to current [re]theorizations of Blackness, anti-Blackness and Black solidarities, through anti-colonial and decolonial prisms. The discussion challenges the reductionism of contemporary polity of Blackness in regards to capitalism/globalization, particularly wh…
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- 9783319530796
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- xvi, 223p.
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- 305.8001 DEI r
The Asian 21st century
This open access book consists of essays written by Kishore Mahbubani to explore the challenges and dilemmas faced by the West and Asia in an increasingly interdependent world village and intensifying geopolitical competition. The contents cover four parts: Part One The End of the Era of Western Domination. The major strategic error that the West is now making is to refuse to accept this re…
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- 9789811668111
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- vii, 270p. : ill.
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- 320.95 MAH a
Navigating neutrality : early american governance in the turbulent atlantic
History of the Americas;Naval forces and warfare;General and world history;Central / national / federal government
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- 9780813946450
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- 224p. : ill
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- 327.42073 SAN n
Citizen participation in the information society
This open access book examines how digital technologies are used to promote citizen participation in democratic urban development. It assesses the emergence, use, applicability and functions of digital modes of citizen participation in multiple cities around the world, where political regimes invite ordinary citizens to partake in policy processes through information technologies. The book also…
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- 1
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- 9783030999407
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- xiii; 196 PG; ill.
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- 307.1216 CIT c
Changing south pacific
The texts collected in this volume take an anthropological approach to the variety of contemporary societal problems which confront the peoples of the contemporary South Pacific: religious revival, the sociology of relations between local groups, regions and nation-States, the problem of culture areas, the place of democracy in the transition of States founded on sacred chiefdoms, the role of c…
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- 9781921536151
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- 305.800995 CHA c
Vote Buying in Indonesia : The Mechanics of Electoral Bribery
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book investigates the impact of vote buying on the accountability of democratic institutions and policy representation in newly democratic countries, with a focus on Indonesia. In doing so, the book presents a wide-ranging study of the dynamics of vote buying in Indonesia’s young democracy, exploring the nature, extent, determinants, ta…
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- 11
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- 9789811367793
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- vi, 318 p , : ill
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- 364.1324 BUR v
How creativity is changing China
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. The question Professor Li Wuwei investigates is not 'whether' creativity is changing China - but 'how' creativity is changing China. The outcome will have a profound impact on how China develops and its economic role in the world. Creative industries maintain and…
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- 9781849666572
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- xxviii; 160 pg; ill.
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- 330.95106 WUW
Seeking the Best Master : State Ownership in the Varieties of Capitalism
The economic crisis of 2008–2009 signaled the end of the post-Washington consensus on restricting the role of the state in economic and development policy. Since then, state ownership and state intervention have increased worldwide. This volume offers a comparative analysis of the evolution of direct state intervention in the economy through state-owned companies in Austria, Brazil, France, G…
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- 9789633863213
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- 380p : ill
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- 338.62 SEE s
Globalisation and Governance in the Pacific Islands
In the autumn of 1950, a young man, the son of refugees from Nazi Germany, enrolled in the economics program at the University of Chicago. Chicago’s department of economics was an unusual place in those days. Ever since the publication of John Maynard Keynes’ General Theory in 1936, Keynesian economics — with its stress on the use of state intervention to manage economic development —…
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- 192094298X
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- vii, 472p. : ill
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- 320.995 GLO g
Island fantasia : imagining subjects on the military frontline between China …
The Matsu archipelago between China and Taiwan, for long an isolated outpost off southeast China, was suddenly transformed into a military frontline in 1949 by the Cold War and the Communist-Nationalist conflict. The army occupied the islands, commencing more than 40 long years of military rule. With the lifting of martial law in 1992, the people were confronted with the question of how to move…
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- 4
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- 9781009023481
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- xviii; 310p; ill.
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- 951.249 ISL W
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