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Social Change in the Gulf Region = Multidisciplinary Perspectives
This open access book, comprising thirty-nine chapters divided into social, cultural, economic, and political spheres, offers a unique opportunity to dive into the complex, dynamic, and sometimes contradictory transformation of Gulf societies in the last few decades. Whilst the Gulf region has at times been seen as impervious to this natural phenomenon of transformation—timeless, never changi…
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- 1
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- 9789811977961
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- XVI, 659 ill; lamp
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- 8
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Architecture and Asceticism: Cultural interaction between Syria and Georgia i…
In Architecture and Asceticism Loosley Leeming presents the first interdisciplinary exploration of Late Antique Syrian-Georgian relations available in English. The author takes an inter-disciplinary approach and examines the question from archaeological, art historical, historical, literary and theological viewpoints to try and explore the relationship as thoroughly as possible. Taking the Geor…
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- Volume: 13
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- 978-90-04-37531-4
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Building the Inclusive City : Governance, Access, and the Urban Transformatio…
This Open Access book is an anthropological urban study of the Emirate of Dubai, its institutions, and their evolution. It provides a contemporary history of disability in city planning from a non-Western perspective and explores the cultural context for its positioning. Three insights inform the author’s approach. First, disability research, much like other urban or social issues, must be si…
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- 1
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- 9783030329884
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- XVII, 169 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Energy Transition and Energy Democracy in East Asia
Today, wind powers and solar powers have become the main stream of energies. Everyone, from major electric power utilities to mega capital investors, has entered the renewable energy sector, increasingly and rapidly expanding the mass capital investment projects in the world. It is not rare to find cases of such mega projects developing confrontations with local communities. Since 1990s, th…
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- 9789811902802
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- IX, 117
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Banishment in the Late Medieval Eastern Netherlands
This chapter discusses the aims and objectives of the study, a short historiography, a justifcation of the study’s delimitations and the book’s structure.
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- 9783030888671
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- XII, 140
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Re-Configurations : Contextualising Transformation Processes and Lasting Cris…
This edited volume is an open access title and assembles both the historical consciousness and transformation of the MENA region in various disciplinary and topical facets. At the same time, it aims to go beyond the MENA region, contributing to critical debates on area studies while pointing out transregional and cultural references in a broad and comparative manner.
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- 978-3-658-31160-5
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- XIII, 287
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- Politik und Gesellschaft des Nahen Ostens (PGNO)
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Socio-Environmental Dynamics along the Historical Silk Road
This open access book discusses socio-environmental interactions in the middle to late Holocene, covering specific areas along the ancient Silk Road regions. Over twenty chapters provide insight into this topic from various disciplinary angles and perspectives, ranging from archaeology, paleoclimatology, antiquity, historical geography, agriculture, carving art and literacy. The Silk Road is a …
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- 1
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- 9783030007287
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- XXVI, 525 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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When Can Oil Economies Be Deemed Sustainable?
This open access book questions the stereotype depicting all Gulf (GCC) economies as not sustainable, and starts a critical discussion of what these economies and polities should do to guarantee themselves a relatively stable future. Volatile international oil markets and the acceleration of the energy transition has challenged the notion that oil revenues are sufficient to sustain oil eco…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-981-15-5728-6
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- The Political Economy of the Middle East
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- 324
Neo-Ottomanism and the Politics of Emotions in Turkey
This open access book explores the politics of emotions under the ruling Justice and Development Party in Turkey and the leadership of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. It examines how emotional politics and, particularly, the use of a Neo-Ottomanist narrative created a new national mood and contributed to the durability of Erdoğan’s rule. The author analyses the interactions between national…
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- 1
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- 978-3-031-48723-1
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- Palgrave Studies in Political Psychology
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- XIX, 184
Risiko und Unsicherheit in der modernen islamischen Praxis
Das Prinzip der Versicherungen als kalkulierbare Übernahme von Risiken entstand in Europa bereits im späten Mittelalter. Trotz ihrer hohen wirtschaftlichen Relevanz wurden sie jedoch erst im 19. Jahrhundert vollständig rechtlich institutionalisiert. In der islamischen Welt hingegen waren Versicherungen bis zur Zeit des Kolonialismus nahezu unbekannt. Als westlicher Kulturimport wurden sie da…
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- 1
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- 978-3-7329-8844-0
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- 448
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- Leipzig Middle East Studies
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