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White gold : the commercialisation of rice farming in the lower mekong basin
This open access book is about understanding the processes involved in the transformation of smallholder rice farming in the Lower Mekong Basin from a low-yielding subsistence activity to one producing the surpluses needed for national self-sufficiency and a high-value export industry. For centuries, farmers in the Basin have regarded rice as “white gold”, reflecting its centrality to their…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789811509988
- Collation
- XXVIII, 456 p. ; ill.
- Series Title
- White Gold: The Commercialisation of Rice Farming in the Lower Mekong Basin
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- 633.18 CRA w
The Routledge companion to actor-network theory
This companion explores ANT as an intellectual practice, tracking its movements and engagements with a wide range of other academic and activist projects. Showcasing the work of a diverse set of ‘second generation’ ANT scholars from around the world, it highlights the exciting depth and breadth of contemporary ANT and its future possibilities. The companion has 38 chapters, each answering a…
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- -
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- 9781138084728
- Collation
- xx, 458 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 303.01 AND
A city cannot be a work of art learning economics and social theory from jane…
This open access book connects Jane Jacobs's celebrated urban analysis to her ideas on economics and social theory. While Jacobs is a legend in the field of urbanism and famous for challenging and profoundly influencing urban planning and design, her theoretical contributions – although central to her criticisms of and proposals for public policy – are frequently overlooked even by her most…
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- -
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- 9789819953622
- Collation
- XXV, 400 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 720.94 IKE a
Governing the sustainable development goals : quantification in global public…
This open access book conceptualises the Sustainable Development Goals as epistemic infrastructures that connect numbers, networks and governing paradigms.The book approaches quantification not merely as a tool for governing, but rather as a broader epistemic system through which global public policy is produced. This book focuses on the role of international organisations in shaping and implem…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783031039386
- Collation
- XVII, 165 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 338.927 JUS g
Understanding energy innovation : learning from smart grid experiments
This open access book uses smart grids to explore and better understand energy innovation, from a social science perspective. Understanding Energy Innovation has four core themes—networks, nodes, narratives and nostalgia—and each chapter tackles a theme, using case studies from Australia and Europe. Energy innovation is currently occurring at a rapid pace, in response to a host of problems …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789811662539
- Collation
- XI, 101 p
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- -
- Call Number
- 621.31 HEA u
Self-governance and sami communities : Transitions in Early Modern Natural Re…
This open access book uses an interdisciplinary approach that not only focuses on social organization but also analyzes how societies and ecological settings were interwoven. How did early modern indigenous Sami inhabitants in interior northwest Fennoscandia build institutions for governance of natural resources? The book answers this question by exploring how they made decisions regarding natu…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030874988
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- xvi; 247 PG; ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 333.70899457 SEL s
Knlowledge and Civil Society
This open access book focuses on the role of civil society in the creation, dissemination, and interpretation of knowledge in geographical contexts. It offers original, interdisciplinary and counterintuitive perspectives on civil society. The book includes reflections on civil and uncivil society, the role of civil society as a change agent, and on civil society perspectives of undone science. …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030711474
- Collation
- 317p. : ill
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- -
- Call Number
- 320.05 KNL k
Virtual reality methods: a guide for researchers in the social sciences and h…
Since the mid-2010s, virtual reality (VR) technology has advanced rapidly. This book explores the many opportunities that VR can offer for humanities and social sciences researchers. The book provides a user-friendly, non-technical methods guide to using ready-made VR content and 360° video as well as creating custom materials. It examines the advantages and disadvantages of different approach…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781447360773
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- vii, 159p : ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 001.30721 PHI v
Cartographic memory : social movement activism and the production of space
Juan Herrera maps 1960s Chicano Movement activism in the Latinx neighborhood of Fruitvale in Oakland, California, showing how activists there constructed a politics forged through productions of space.
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- 2
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781478007494
- Collation
- ix, 265.; ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 305.86872079466 CAR h
Smart Cities in Asia: regulations, problems, and development
This open access book examines different aspects of smart cities, including technology, urban development, sustainable development, finance, and privacy and data protection. It also covers a wide range of jurisdictions in Asia-Pacific: Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. The book consists of two main parts. The first part includes general chapters that conceptualiz…
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- 3
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789811917011
- Collation
- ix; 124p; ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 307.12160951 SMA T
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