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Cultural Organizations, Networks and Mediators in Contemporary Ibero-America
This book proposes an innovative conceptual framework to explore cultural organizations at a multilateral level and cultural mediators as key figures in cultural and institutionalization processes. Specifically, it analyzes the role of Ibero-American mediators in the institutionalization of Hispanic and Lusophone cultures in the first half of the 20th century by means of two institutional netwo…
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- 9781000769036
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- 338.7 CUL
Consumption Corridors : Living a Good Life within Sustainable Limits
Consumption Corridors: Living a Good Life within Sustainable Limits explores how to enhance peoples’ chances to live a good life in a world of ecological and social limits. Rejecting familiar recitations of problems of ecological decline and planetary boundaries, this compact book instead offers a spirited explication of what everyone desires: a good life. Fundamental concepts of the good …
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- 978-0-367-74874-6
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- Routledge focus on environment & sustainability
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- 339.4 FUC t
Ethics or the Right Thing? Corruption and Care in the Age of Good Governance
A sympathetic examination of the failure of anti-corruption efforts in contemporary Indonesia. Combining ethnographic fieldwork in the city of Kupang with an acute historical sensibility, Sylvia Tidey shows how good governance initiatives paradoxically perpetuate civil service corruption while also facilitating the emergence of new forms of it. Importing critical insights from the anthropology …
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- 9781912808656
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Coming of Age : Constructing and Controlling Youth in Munich, 1942-1973
In the lean and anxious years following World War II, Munich society became obsessed with the moral condition of its youth. Initially born of the economic and social disruption of the war years, a preoccupation with juvenile delinquency progressed into a full-blown panic over the hypothetical threat that young men and women posed to postwar stability. As Martin Kalb shows in this fascinating st…
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- 364.360 943 KAL c
Dark Conceit: The Making of Allegory
Dark Conceit is the first book in English to treat allegory seriously in terms of literary creation and criticism. The study explores the methods and ideas that go into the making of allegory, discusses the misconceptions that have obscured the subject, and surveys the changing concept of allegory. The greater part of the book concerns the typical features of allegorical fiction, focusing on a …
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- 9780810139503
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- 302.2
Culture^2: Theorizing Theory for the Twenty-First Century, Vol. 1
How to do cultural studies in the twenty-first century? This essay collection is not a handbook, encyclopedia, or a »state of the field« compendium. Instead, it is a reflexive exercise in cultural studies, featuring fifteen accessible essays on a selection of critical key works published since 2000. The contributors aim to provide readers with a fresh and engaging look at recent criticism, ex…
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- 9783839457870
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Chalo Jahaji : On a journey through indenture in Fiji
“It is a milestone in subaltern studies, a biographical journey penned by a living relic of the indentured experience and a scholar whose thoroughly interdisciplinary approach is a good example for the anthropologist, the sociologist or the economist who wish to see the proper integration of their disciplines in a major historical work.” Brinsley Samaroo, University of the West Indies, St A…
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- 9781922144614
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- 306.363 092 LAL c
Bridging Australia and Japan Volume 1 : The writings of David Sissons, histor…
This book represents volume one of the writings of David Sissons, who for most of his career pioneered research on the history of relations between Australia and Japan. Much of what he wrote remained unpublished at the time of his death in 2006, and so the editors have included a selection of his hitherto unpublished work along with some of his published writings. Breaking Japanese Diplomatic C…
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- 9781760460877
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- Asian studies series 8
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- 304.82 BRI
Blood Libel : The Ritual Murder Accusation at the Limit of Jewish History
The ritual murder accusation is one of a series of myths that fall under the label blood libel, and describes the medieval legend that Jews require Christian blood for obscure religious purposes and are capable of committing murder to obtain it. This malicious myth continues to have an explosive afterlife in the public sphere, where Sarah Palin's 2011 gaffe is only the latest reminder of its po…
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- 305.892 400 9 JOH b
Protecting The Rights of People With Autism in The Fields of Education and Em…
European Law; Human Rights; International and Comparative Education; Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law; Law and Psychology
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