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Professions and Proficiency
This open access book takes an original view on the social production of knowledge in and across space. It explores how people build and transfer proficiency within and beyond the bounds of social groups. Social groups, such as professions, epistemic communities, or academic disciplines, collectively organize to help individuals gain understanding of and knowledge about specific subjects of exp…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-031-24910-5
- Collation
- X, 270
- Series Title
- Knowledge and Space (KNAS, volume 18)
- Call Number
- 334 PRO
The Nation Form in the Global Age
This open access book argues that contrary to dominant approaches that view nationalism as unaffected by globalization or globalization undermining the nation-state, the contemporary world is actually marked by globalization of the nation form. Based on fieldwork in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East and drawing, among others, on Peter van der Veer’s comparative work on religion and nat…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-030-85580-2
- Collation
- oer.unej.ac.id
- Series Title
- Global Diversities
- Call Number
- 306
Internal Diversity
This book explores the interrelation between diversity in migrants’ internal relations and their experience of inequality in local and global contexts. Taking the case of Hamburg-based Iranians, it traces evaluation processes in ties between professionals – artists and entrepreneurs – since the 1930s, examining migrants’ potential to act upon hierarchical structures. Building on long-te…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-030-27790-1
- Collation
- oer.unej.ac.id
- Series Title
- Global Diversities
- Call Number
- 306
Anxiety as Vibration
This open access book draws on the work of Deleuze and Guattari alongside Lacan and Freud to offer a radical psychosocial survey of the status of anxiety. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, the book examines key issues in contemporary diagnosis and points towards possibilities for forging a more creative clinic. Departing from a feminist, non-Oedipal positioning towards psychoanalytic texts, …
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-031-62856-6
- Collation
- oer.unej.ac.id
- Series Title
- Studies in the Psychosocial
- Call Number
- 155
Knowledge and Digital Technology
This open access book explores the multifaceted interplay of technology, knowledge, and place. While digital technology is increasingly influencing our way of knowing, conversely it is itself the consequence of human creativity and local social interaction. Part I analyzes how digital technologies transform markets through artificial intelligence and decentralized blockchain models. Its contrib…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-031-39101-9
- Collation
- X, 289
- Series Title
- Knowledge and Space (KNAS, volume 19)
- Call Number
- 334 KNO
Space, Place and Educational Settings
This open access book explores the nexus between knowledge and space with a particular emphasis on the role of educational settings that are, both, shaping and being reshaped by socio-economic and political processes. It gives insight into the complex interplay of educational inequalities and practices of educational governance in the neighborhood and at larger geographical scales. The book ado…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-030-78597-0
- Collation
- X, 227
- Series Title
- Knowledge and Space (KNAS, volume 16)
- Call Number
- 334 SPA
Knowledge 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
- 978-3-030-71147-4
- Collation
- X, 316
- Series Title
- Knowledge and Space (KNAS, volume 17)
- Call Number
- 306 KNO
Geographies of Schooling
This open access book explores the complex relationship between schooling as a set of practices embedded in educational institutions and their specific spatial dimensions from different disciplinary perspectives. It presents innovative empirical and conceptual research by international scholars from the fields of social geography, pedagogy, educational and social sciences in Germany, the United…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-030-18799-6
- Collation
- XII, 359
- Series Title
- Knowledge and Space (KNAS, volume 14)
- Call Number
- 334 GEO
Knowledge for Governance
This open access book focuses on theoretical and empirical intersections between governance, knowledge and space from an interdisciplinary perspective. The contributions elucidate how knowledge is a prerequisite as well as a driver of governance efficacy, and conversely, how governance affects the creation and use of knowledge and innovation in geographical context. Scholars from the fields of …
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-030-47150-7
- Collation
- XIII, 469
- Series Title
- Knowledge and Space (KNAS, volume 15)
- Call Number
- 334 KNO
Geographies of the University
This open access volume raises awareness of the histories, geographies, and practices of universities and analyzes their role as key actors in today’s global knowledge economy. Universities are centers of research, teaching, and expertise with significant economic, social, and cultural impacts at different geographical scales. Scholars from a variety of disciplines and countries offer origina…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-75593-9
- Collation
- XIV, 676
- Series Title
- Knowledge and Space (KNAS, volume 12)
- Call Number
- 900 GEO
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