Translation and race

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Empowering civil society in the industrial revolution 4.0 : proceedings of th…

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Periodization in the Art Historiographies of Central and Eastern Europe

This volume critically investigates how art historians writing about Central and Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries engaged with periodization. At the heart of much of their writing lay the ideological project of nation-building. Hence discourses around periodization – such as the mythicizing of certain periods, the invention of historical continuity and the a…

Occupant-centric simulation-aided building design : theory, application, and …

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Labour, Mobility and Informal Practices in Russia, Central Asia and Eastern E…

This book explores the daily survival strategies of people within the context of failed states, flourishing informal economies, legal uncertainty, increased mobility, and globalization, where many people, who are forced by the circumstances to be innovative and transnational, have found their niches outside formal processes and structures. The book provides a thorough theoretical introduction t…

Translations of security : a framework for the study of unwanted futures

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Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Africa : Constraints a…

ABSTRACT This book explores recent developments, constraints and opportunities relating to the advancement of sexual and reproductive health and rights in Africa. Despite many positive developments in relation to sexual and reproductive health in recent years, many Africans still encounter challenges, for instance in poor maternity services, living with HIV, and discrimination on the basis …

Drylands Facing Change : Interventions, Investments and Identities

This edited volume examines the changes that arise from the entanglement of global interests and narratives with the local struggles that have always existed in the drylands of Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia/Inner Asia. Changes in drylands are happening in an overwhelming manner. Climate change, growing political instability, and increasing enclosures of large expanses of often co…

Pricing Carbon Emissions : Economic Reality and Utopia

ABSTRACT Pricing Carbon Emissions provides an economic critique on the utopian idea of a uniform carbon price for addressing rising carbon emissions, exposing the flaws in the economic propositions with a key focus on the EU’s Emissions Trading System (ETS). After an Executive Summary of the contents, the chapters build up understanding of orthodox economics’ role in protecting the neol…

Social Protection and Informal Workers in Sub-Saharan Africa : Lived Realitie…

ABSTRACT The promotion of social protection in Sub-Saharan Africa happens in a context where informal labour markets constitute the norm, and where most workers live uncertain livelihoods with very limited access to official social protection. The dominant social protection agenda and the associated literature come with an almost exclusive focus on donor and state programmes even if their cove…