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What about Asia? : revisiting Asian studies
What about Asia? Revisiting Asian Studies brings together scholars from Asia, Europe and America to test the strength of a field of study which, considering the rise of Asia, should be gaining momentum. But is it? This is one of the many questions that the contributors to this volume ask themselves. In the past decade the use and legitimacy of area studies, and in particular Asian studies, have…
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- 1
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- 9053569596
- Collation
- 108p
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- -
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- 950.0711 WHA v
De sociale betekenis van de buurt : Een onderzoek naar de relatie tussen het …
In The Social Significance of the Neighbourhood the negative image of the social quality of poor urban districts is critically examined based on research in two districts of The Hague. This investigation focuses on the extent to which living in a certain quarter could constitute as an obstacle to social mobility and what role social relations play between local residents therein. Based on inter…
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- -
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- 9789089640567
- Collation
- 88p
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- -
- Call Number
- 301 PIN
No truck with the chilean junta!
When lorry drivers in Northampton slapped stickers on their cabs declaring ‘No truck with the Chilean Junta!’ they were doing more than threatening to boycott. They were asserting their own identity as proud unionists and proud internationalists. But what did trade unionists really know of what was happening in Chile? And how could someone else’s oppression become a means to solidify your…
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- 9781925021547
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- xiii + 304 p
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- -
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- 322.2 JON n
The realities and futures of work
What do we know about the current realities of work and its likely futures? What choices must we make and how will they affect those futures? Many books about the future of work start by talking about the latest technology, and focus on how technology is going to change the way we work. And there is no doubt that technology will have huge impacts. However, to really understand the direction in …
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- -
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- 9781760463113
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- xvi + 406 p
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- 331 PEE r
Co-production and co-creation : engaging citizens in public services
Co-production and co-creation occur when citizens participate actively in delivering and designing the services they receive. It has come increasingly onto the agenda of policymakers, as interest in citizen participation has more generally soared. Expectations are high and it is regarded as a possible solution to the public sector’s decreased legitimacy and dwindling resources, by accessing m…
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- 9781315204956
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- xiv + 308 p
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- 352.65 COP c
The new politics of numbers : utopia, evidence and democracy
This open access book offers unique insight into how and where ideas and instruments of quantification have been adopted, and how they have come to matter. Rather than asking what quantification is, New Politics of Numbers explores what quantification does, its manifold consequences in multiple domains. It scrutinizes the power of numbers in terms of the changing relations between numbers and d…
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- -
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- 9783030782016
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- XXVII, 497 p
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- -
- Call Number
- 320.0723 AND t
Towards Resilient Organizations and Societies : A Cross-Sectoral and Multi-Di…
This open access book brings together scholars in the fields of management, public policy, regional studies, and organization theory around the concept of resilience. The aim is to provide a more holistic understanding of the complex phenomenon of resilience from a multi-sectorial, cross-national, and multidisciplinary perspective. The book facilitates a conversation across diverse disciplinary…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9783030820725
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- XXIX, 336
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- -
- Call Number
- 658.4012 Tow
Basic income : a transformative policy for India
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Would it be possible to provide people with a basic income as a right? The idea has a long history. This book draws on two pilot schemes conducted in the Indian State of Madhya Pradesh, in which thousands of men, women and children were provided with an unconditi…
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- -
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- 9781472583130
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- xii, 240p ; ill.
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- -
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- 339.354 DAV b
Towards Resilient Organizations and Societies : A Cross-Sectoral and Multi-Di…
This open access book brings together scholars in the fields of management, public policy, regional studies, and organization theory around the concept of resilience. The aim is to provide a more holistic understanding of the complex phenomenon of resilience from a multi-sectorial, cross-national, and multidisciplinary perspective. The book facilitates a conversation across diverse disciplinary…
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- 15
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030820725
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- xxix; 336p; ill
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- -
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- 658.4012 TOW R
States and statistics in the nineteenth century : Europe by numbers
This book is a history of an illusion. It is also a history of the dream that preceded the illusion. The book discusses statistics as the field of tension between the scientific claims of neutrality and universality on the one hand and the political and economic reality of the conflicting interests of nation-states on the other. The various paths of state- and nation-building that European coun…
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- 15
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781526147530
- Collation
- 208p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 314.09034 STA r
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