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Schooling the nation: education and everyday politics in Egypt
Telling the story of the Egyptian uprising through the lens of education, Hania Sobhy explores the everyday realities of citizens in the years before and after the so-called 'Arab Spring'. With vivid narratives from students and staff from Egyptian schools, Sobhy offers novel insights on the years that led to and followed the unrest of 2011. Drawing a holistic portrait of education in Egypt, sh…
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- 9781108956031
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- xii, 270 pages; illustration
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- 370.962 RAM s
Judicial law-making in European constitutional courts
This book analyses the specificity of the law-making activity of European constitutional courts. The main hypothesis is that currently constitutional courts are positive legislators whose position in the system of State organs needs to be redefined. The book covers the analysis of the law-making activity of four constitutional courts in Western countries: Germany, Italy, Spain, and France; an…
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- 9781003022442
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- viii + 269 p
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- 347.40352 JUD j
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
The law and practice of the Ireland-Northern Ireland protocol
The Ireland-Northern Ireland Protocol, part of the Withdrawal Agreement concluded between the European Union and the United Kingdom, is intended to address the difficult and complex impact of Brexit on the island of Ireland, North and South, and between Ireland and Great Britain. It has become an exceptionally important, if controversial, part of the new architecture that governs the relationsh…
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- 6
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- 9781009109840
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- 204p
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- 341.37094 LAW C
Migrants' rights, populism, and legal resilience in Europe
Bringing together scholars of migration and constitutional law, this volume analyses the problematic relationship between the rise of populism, restrictions of migrants' rights and democratic decay in Europe. By offering both constructive and critical accounts, it creates a nuanced debate on the possibilities for and limitations of legal resilience against populist erosion of migrants' rights. …
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- 4
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- 9781009040396
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- xiv; 394p, ill.
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- 342.4082 MIG V
Knowing Women : Same-Sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana
Knowing Women is a study of same-sex desire in West Africa, which explores the lives and friendships of working-class women in southern Ghana who are intimately involved with each other. Based on in-depth research of the life histories of women in the region, Serena O. Dankwa highlights the vibrancy of everyday same-sex intimacies that have not been captured in a globally pervasive language of …
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- 9781108863575
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- ix, 332 p ; ill
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- 306.766309667 KNO S
What is Europe?
This authoritative yet accessible introduction to understanding Europe today moves beyond accounts of European integration to provide a wide-ranging and nuanced study of contemporary Europe and its historical development. This fully updated edition adds material on recent developments, such as Brexit and the migrant and Eurozone crises. The concept of Europe is instilled with a plethora of s…
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- 9781003278375
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- 278 p.
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- 940.56 WHA A
The Politics of Comprehensive School Reforms : Cleavages and Coalitions
Why are school systems structured differently across countries? The Politics of Comprehensive School Reform examines this question through an in-depth analysis of school politics in Germany and Norway during the post-war period of educational expansion. Using a Rokkanian theoretical framework, the book argues that school politics can only be understood in light of the cleavages, or political di…
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- 9781009235211
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- xi, 332 p ; ill
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- 370.9481 POL
Tracing the atom : nuclear legacies in Russia and Central Asia
This book brings together scholarship in history of Eastern Europe with inter-disciplinary inquiries drawing on social anthropology, science and technology studies (STS), and studies of literary and artistic productions. Conceptualizing this multidisciplinary volume, we foregrounded different modes and scales of tracing: from the analysis of nuclear imaginaries and memorializations to …
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- 9781003246893
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- x, 230 p. ill;
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- 333.79240947 TRA S
Negotiating Mughal law : a family of landlords across three Indian empires
Based on a completely reconstructed archive of Persian, Hindi and Marathi documents, Nandini Chatterjee provides a unique micro-history of a family of landlords in Malwa, central India, who flourished in the region from at least the sixteenth until the twentieth century. By exploring their daily interactions with imperial elites as well as villagers and marauders, Chatterjee offers a new histor…
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- 9781108623391
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- xii, 233p. ; ill.
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- 349.5430903
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