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The Social Psychology of Intractable Conflicts Celebrating the Legacy of Dan…
This volume works explores a transferable theory of a specific social-psychological infrastructure, based on the work of Dr. Daniel Bar-Tal, that develops from cultures immersed in intractable conflicts. The book's approach to this issue is different from approaches that are predominant in social psychology. This is because an important inspiration of many scholars that contributed to the book …
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- 978-3-319-17861-5
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Wandering the Wards: An Ethnography of Hospital Care and its Consequences for…
Wandering the Wards provides a detailed and unflinching ethnographic examination of life within the contemporary hospital. It reveals the institutional and ward cultures that inform the organisation and delivery of everyday care for one of the largest populations within them: people living with dementia who require urgent unscheduled hospital care. Drawing on five years of research embedded in …
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- 9781000185416
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- 301 FEA e
Emerging Economies Food and Energy Security, and Technology and Innovation
This volume brings together research on development in three major areas of contemporary global relevance: agriculture and food security, energy, and the institutions of national innovation. Covering six of the largest emerging and developing economies (EDEs) in the world, three Asian (China, India and Malaysia), two Latin American (Brazil and Mexico), and one African (South Africa), the book …
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- 978-81-322-2101-2
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- 99 b/w illustrations
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Micro Irrigation Systems in India
This book takes stock of micro irrigation systems (MIS), the technological intervention in India’s agricultural and water management sectors, over the past couple of decades. Based on empirical research from the major agriculturally dynamic states, viz., Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, the book provides a nuanced understanding and objective assessmen…
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- 978-981-10-0346-2
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- XIV, 178
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- India Studies in Business and Economics
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Methodologies in Peace Psychology
This volume looks at research methods through the lens of peace studies and peace values. Apart from reviewing established methods from peace psychology, it presents some innovative ideas for conducting research in the area of peace psychology. Many of these methods are drawn from the field, from activities used by active peace practitioners. A critical component of this volume is its core ar…
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- 978-3-319-18394-7
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- XXV, 454
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Flows and Frictions in Trans-Himalayan Spaces Histories of Networking and Bo…
Flows and Frictions in Trans-Himalayan Spaces traces movements and connections in a region known for its formidable obstacles to mobility. Eight original essays and a conceptual introduction engage with questions of networks and interconnection between people across a bordered landscape. Mobility among the extremely varied ecologies of south-western China, Myanmar and north-eastern India, with …
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Waiting and the Temporalities of Irregular Migration
This edited volume approaches waiting both as a social phenomenon that proliferates in irregularised forms of migration and as an analytical perspective on migration processes and practices. Waiting as an analytical perspective offers new insights into the complex and shifting nature of processes of bordering, belonging, state power, exclusion and inclusion, and social relations in irregular…
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The Time of Anthropology: Studies of Contemporary Chronopolitics
The Time of Anthropology provides a series of compelling anthropological case studies that explore the different temporalities at play in the scientific discourses, governmental techniques and policy practices through which modern life is shaped. Together they constitute a novel analysis of contemporary chronopolitics. The contributions focus on state power, citizenship, and ecologies of time t…
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Digital Media Practices in Households Kinship through Data
How are intergenerational relationships playing out in the digital rhythms of the household? Through extensive fieldwork in Tokyo, Shanghai and Melbourne, this book ethnographically explores how households are being understood, articulated and defined by digital media practices. It explores the rise of self-tracking, quantified self and informal practices of care at distance as part of contempo…
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Leitbilder der Alterssicherung : Deutschland und Niederlande im Vergleich
Der gegenwärtige Diskurs um den Umbau des Sozialstaates wird von Finanzierungs- und Leistungsaspekten dominiert. Fragen der Prinzipien, nach denen die Sicherungssysteme gestaltet sind oder gestaltet werden sollen, treten demgegenüber meist in den Hintergrund. Die vorliegende Studie versucht hier eine Lücke zu schließen: An historischem Material - von der Konstitution bis zur großen Reform …
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