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Making Futures : Marginal Notes on Innovation, Design, and Democracy
Experiments in innovation, design, and democracy that search not for a killer app but for a collaboratively created sustainable future. Innovation and design need not be about the search for a killer app. Innovation and design can start in people's everyday activities. They can encompass local services, cultural production, arenas for public discourse, or technological platforms. The approach i…
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Appalachia and the Politics of Culture: Volume Seven
This volume of the Journal of the Appalachian Studies Association includes fifteen essays that represent the interdisciplinary nature of Appalachian Studies and the broad range of interests within the Appalachian Studies Association. They also represent a maturing of the field that is engaging itself in a critique not only of the political forces affecting the region, but of its own role as pol…
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- 9781469636955
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- 808.84 FIN a
Internet Research Ethics
This anthology addresses ethical challenges that arise within the field of Internet research. Among the issues discussed in the book are the following: When is voluntary informed consent from research subjects required in using the Internet as a data source? How may researchers secure the privacy of research subjects in a landscape where the traditional public/private distinction is blurred and…
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- 9788202489519
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- 302.231 LUD i
Sex, Power, and Slavery
Sexual exploitation was and is a critical feature of enslavement. Across many different societies, slaves were considered to own neither their bodies nor their children, even if many struggled to resist. At the same time, paradoxes abound: for example, in some societies to bear the children of a master was a potential route to manumission for some women. Sex, Power, and Slavery is the first his…
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- 9780821420966
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Construire Les Carpates; L’institutionnalisation D’Une Éco-Region
This book promotes a new understanding of the regional monograph. It investigates its research topic – the Carpathian Mountains – through the prism of institutions and organizations that have objectified it and have interacted in its governance over the past ten years.
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- 9783034320368
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Collecting Lives: Critical Data Narrative as Modernist Aesthetic in Early Twe…
On a near-daily basis, data is being used to narrate our lives.
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Contested Heritage : Jewish Cultural Property after 1945
In the wake of the Nazi regime’s policies, European Jewish cultural property was dispersed, dislocated, and destroyed. Books, manuscripts, and artworks were either taken by their fleeing owners and were transferred to different places worldwide, or they fell prey to systematic looting and destruction under German occupation. Until today, a significant amount of items can be found in private a…
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- 3666310834
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Selling Transracial Adoption: Families, Markets, and the Color Line
"Chosen Children" examines the role of the adoption marketplace in shaping how transracial adoptive families are sorted and matched, and analyzes what these practices suggest about race in the United States. In contrast to previous work on race and adoption markets that focus on the experiences of adoptive parents, Raleigh's project focuses on adoption workers--social workers, attorneys, and co…
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- 9781439914786
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Skilled Labor Mobility and Migration : Challenges and Opportunities for the A…
One of the primary objectives of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), established in 2015, was to boost skilled labor mobility within the region. This insightful book takes stock of the existing trends and patterns of skilled labor migration in the ASEAN. It endeavors to identify the likely winners and losers from the free movement of natural persons within the region through counterfactual poli…
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- 9781788116176
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Participatory Politics: Next-Generation Tactics to Remake Public Spheres
An examination of the mix of face-to-face and digital methods that young people use in their experiments with civic engagement. Although they may disavow politics as such, civic-minded young people use every means and media at their disposal to carry out the basic tasks of citizenship. Through a mix of face-to-face and digital methods, they deliberate on important issues and debate with peers a…
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