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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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Everyday Welfare in Modern British History : Experience, Expertise and Activism
This open access book offers a new approach to understandings of welfare in modern Britain. Foregrounding the agency individuals and groups claimed through experiential expertise, it traces deep connections between personal experience, welfare, and activism across diverse settings in modern Britain. The experiential experts studied in this collection include women, students, children, women who…
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- 9783031649875
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- XV, 381 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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Epistemic Justice in Mental Healthcare = Recognising Agency and Promoting Vir…
This open access book explores epistemic justice in mental healthcare, bringing together perspectives from psychologists, psychiatrists, philosophers, activists, and lived experience researchers. Through eight chapters, authors identify threats to the agency of people who hear voices, experience depression, have psychotic symptoms, live with dementia, are diagnosed with personality disorders, a…
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- 9783031688812
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- XVII, 160 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Doing Qualitative Data Analysis with NVivo
This open access textbook provides an introduction to the software program NVivo, the most widely used qualitative analysis program. It is a versatile program with an extensive range of accessible analysis tools, flexibly deployable in the diversity of qualitative analysis approaches. Qualitative analysis is almost standard practice today with the help of a software program. Yet there are ma…
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- 978-3-031-66014-6
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- XVI, 282
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Digitale Werkstätten: Technografische Perspektiven auf die Verwicklung von C…
Dieses Open-Access-Buch widmet sich der Frage, wie sich heterogene Gruppen von Fachkräften in Werkstätten für behinderte Menschen mittels einer komplexen digitalen Informationstechnologie koordinieren, orchestrieren und Informationen mobilisieren. In der Sozialen Arbeit kommen zunehmend solche verschachtelten und kooperativen Informationstechnologien, sogenannte Cyberinfrastrukturen, zum Ein…
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- 978-3-658-47994-7
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- XVI, 466
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Die „guten Gründe“ politischer Partizipation im Internet: Ein Anreizmode…
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird das Zusammenspiel von Demokratie, Digitalisierung und Partizipation untersucht und hinterfragt, wie das Internet als Plattform zur politischen Mobilisierung dienen kann. Die Digitalisierung hat neue Wege eröffnet, politische Entscheidungen zu beeinflussen und die Bürger:innenbeteiligung zu fördern. Durch die Entwicklung eines Anreizmodells wird analysiert, wel…
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- 978-3-658-47441-6
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- XIV, 246
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The Making of Middle Indonesia = Middle Classes in Kupang town, 1930s-1980s
What holds Indonesia together? 'A strong leader' is the answer most often given. This book looks instead at a middle level of society. Middle classes in provincial towns around the vast archipelago mediate between the state and society and help to constitute state power. 'Middle Indonesia' is a social zone connecting extremes. The Making of Middle Indonesia examines the rise of an indigenous mi…
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- 9789004265424
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- 318 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
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Martial Culture and Historical Martial Arts in Europe and Asia = A Multi-pers…
This open access book is the first publication to provide a comparative framework for the study of martial culture and historical martial arts in Europe and Asia, in particular in Italy and China. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of martial studies, contributors to this volume include historians, archeologists, art historians, scholars of fencing literature, metallurgists, as well as contemp…
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- 9789811920370
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- XXII, 381 ill; hlm
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- 2
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Moral Reasoning at Work = Rethinking Ethics in Organizations
This book is open access under a CC-BY license. Moral dilemmas are a pervasive feature of working life. Moral Reasoning at Work offers a fresh perspective on how to live with them using ethics and moral psychology research. It argues that decision-makers must go beyond compliance and traditional approaches to ethics to prepare for moral dilemmas. The second edition has been updated with a rang…
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- 9783030151911
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- VIII, 145 ill; hlm
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