This book presents the results of the Interdisciplinary Research Group "Society – Water – Technology" of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. It describes interdisciplinary evaluation criteria for major water engineering projects (MWEPs) and portrays an application to the Lower Jordan Valley (Middle East) and the Fergana Valley (Central Asia). Both areas are characteri…
Drawing on the ethnographic experience of the contributors, this volume explores the Cultural Models of Nature found in a range of food-producing communities located in climate-change affected areas. These Cultural Models represent specific organizations of the etic categories underlying the concept of Nature (i.e. plants, animals, the physical environment, the weather, humans, and the supernat…
Introduction: Start-up wolf of Shenzhen -- Contextualising transnational entrepreneurs in China -- Performative governance: the campaign of mass entrepreneurship and innovation -- To be entrepreneured: creating hierarchies among privileged biographies -- Entrepreneurship competitions: the state and market ideals of talents -- Striving talents: performing excellence for economic privilege -- Pre…