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Tibetan Printing: Comparison, Continuities, and Change
In Tibetan Printing: Comparisons, Continuities and Change the editors publish the results of the workshop “Printing as an Agent of Change in Tibet and beyond” held at Pembroke College, Cambridge, in November 2013. This is the first study of the social and cultural history of Tibetan book technology that takes materials, living traditions and cross-cultural comparisons into consideration. Br…
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- 9789004316256
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- 610 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Brill's Tibetan Studies Library, Volume: 39
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Through the Prism of Gender and Work = Women’s Labour Struggles in Central …
This book examines women’s activism in and beyond Central and Eastern Europe and transnationally within and across different historical periods, political regimes, and scales of activism. The authors explore the wide range of activist agendas, repertoires, and forums in which women sought to advocate for their gender and labour interests. Women were engaged in trade unions, women-only orga…
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- 9789004682481
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- 616 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Studies in Global Social History, Volume: 51
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Sustainable Aging: Cases and Cooperation in China and Germany
This open access book discusses three areas in which Germany has long-standing experience and solutions that are valuable for other countries—care education, care insurance and standards for age-friendly city neighborhoods. It introduces the development background, application and shortcomings in the German and Chinese context, providing examples for from around the globe and showcasing the r…
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- 978-3-662-69139-7
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- XXI, 303
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Achieving Zero Hunger in India Challenges and Policies
This open access volume discloses rich set of findings and policy recommendations for India towards achieving the SDG 2.1 target of zero hunger by 2030. Through its fourteen chapters, it takes an integrated approach by examining diverse aspects of food and nutrition security through multidisciplinary lens of Agricultural Economics, Nutrition, Crop Sciences, Anthropology and Law, while being roo…
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- 978-981-99-4412-5
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- IX, 344
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Sozialpädagogische Subjekt- und Adressierungspraktiken: Ein Ansatz zur Kontu…
In diesem Open-Access-Buch entwickelt Julian Sehmer einen Ansatz, mit dem sich die (Re)Produktion von sozialen Normen und ethisch-normativen Ordnungen und deren Bedeutung in sozialpädagogischen Praxen rekonstruieren lassen. Die Analysen verbinden dabei reflexive Limitierungsanalysen der Forschungspraxis mit einer ethnographischen Untersuchung einer sozialpädagogischen Handlungspraxis im Kinde…
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- 978-3-658-46699-2
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- XVII, 586
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Framing Solidarities in Times of Multiple Crises: Social Movements across Eur…
This open access book explores how polycrises not only generate new forms of inequality and social exclusion but also inspire new political activism, solidarity, and citizenship. It examines how social movement organizations frame their responses to exclusionary policies and regimes, and sheds light on their strategies for mobilization. By focusing on contemporary movements and their framing of…
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- 978-3-031-82563-7
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- XI, 190
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Bearing Witness
This open access book is the biography of one of Britain’s foremost animal welfare campaigners and of the world of activism, science, and politics she inhabited. In 1964, Ruth Harrison’s bestseller Animal Machines triggered a gear change in modern animal protection by popularising the term ‘factory farming’ alongside a new way of thinking about animal welfare. Here, historian Claas …
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- 978-3-030-62792-8
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements
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Transnational Solidarity in Times of Crises
This open access collection is devoted to an in-depth, qualitative analysis of practices of cross-national solidarity in response to the current political and social crises, from citizens’ initiatives to networks of cooperation among civil society actors. The book analyses existing informal groups at the grassroots, furthering transnational solidarity in three thematic areas: disability, une…
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- 978-3-030-49659-3
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
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Social Accountability Initiatives in Morocco, Tunisia, and Lebanon
The Middle East and North Africa region has been absent form stocktaking exercises on social accountability initiatives (SAI), an umbrella term to designate citizen-led tools aimed at socio-political change. We argue that this sidelining is unwarranted, given the proliferation of participatory governance initiatives, civic associations and popular mobilisation in Arab societies after 2…
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- 9783031513220
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- XIII, 210
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Expert Consensus in Science
This Open Access book shows how expert consensus pervades all areas of science. It explores, in particular, the role of consensus in establishing scientific truth, in guiding professional practice and policy and agreeing on what are acceptable scientific methodologies. For some scientific issues, a consensus forms spontaneously among scientists working on a topic, while for others, where the is…
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- 9789819792221
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- XVII, 231 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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