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Chalo Jahaji: On a journey through indenture in Fiji
“It is a milestone in subaltern studies, a biographical journey penned by a living relic of the indentured experience and a scholar whose thoroughly interdisciplinary approach is a good example for the anthropologist, the sociologist or the economist who wish to see the proper integration of their disciplines in a major historical work.” Brinsley Samaroo, University of the West Indies, St A…
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Challenging Women's Agency and Activism in Early Modernity
Examining women's agency in the past has taken on new urgency in the current moment of resurgent patriarchy, Women's Marches, and the global #MeToo movement. The essays in this collection consider women's agency in the Renaissance and early modern period, an era that also saw both increasing patriarchal constraints and new forms of women's actions and activism. They address a capacious set of q…
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Challenging the Status Quo to Shape Food Systems Transformation from a Nutrit…
The present reprint aimed to present original research articles and reviews concerning the following:Access: affordability, allocation, and preference of food;Availability: the production, distribution, and exchange of food;Circularity in food systems at local, regional, or global levels;The development, impact, and ethics of novel and data-driven technologies in food systems;Food security and …
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- 978-3-0365-7618-3
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The Reorientation of Higher Education: Challenging the East-West Dichotomy
This book presents accounts of the repositioning of higher education institutions across a range of contexts in the East and the West. It argues that global governance, institutional organisation and academic practice are complementary elements within the process of institutional repositioning. While systems, institutions and individuals in the different contexts are subjected to similar global…
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Challenging the Dichotomy: The Licit and the Illicit in Archaeological and He…
Challenging the Dichotomy explores how dichotomies regarding heritage dominate the discussions of ethics, practices, and institutions. Contributing authors underscore the challenge to the old paradigms from multiple forces. The case studies and discourses, both ethnographic and archaeological, arise from a wide variety of regional contexts and cultures.
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Governing the Automated Exchange and Processing of Business Information
What is digital business reporting? Why do we need it? And how can we improve it? This book aims to address these questions by illustrating the rise of system-to-system information exchange and the opportunities for improving transparency and accountability. Governments around the world are looking for ways to strengthen transparency and accountability without introducing more red tape, which i…
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Challenging Multiculturalism: European Models of Diversity
In recent years, European political leaders from Angela Merkel to David Cameron have discarded the term multiculturalism and now express scepticism, critique and even hostility towards multicultural ways of organising their societies. Yet they are unprepared to reverse the diversity existing in their states. These contradictory choices have different political consequences in the 11 European co…
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Challenging Cosmopolitanism: Coercion, Mobility and Displacement in Islamic A…
Challenging Cosmopolitanism: Coercion, Mobility and Displacement in Islamic Asia, (Hardcover)
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Challenging Assumptions Around Dementia: User-led Research and Untold Stories
Ce livre en libre accès explore les attentes entourant la démence, à quoi elle ressemble et comment les gens ont été traités par les autres. Il vise à sensibiliser aux différents types de démence et à leur impact sur le cerveau, le corps et l'expérience vécue, y compris l'expérience de la maladie d'Alzheimer, de la démence vasculaire, de l'atrophie corticale postérieure, de la d…
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Challenging Academia: A Critical Space for Controversial Social Issues
Some social issues and practices have become dangerous areas for academics to research and write about. ‘Academic freedom’ is increasingly constrained, not just by long established ‘normal’ factors (territoriality, power differentials, competition, protectionism), but also by the increased significance of social media and the rise of identity politics (and activists who treat work which…
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