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Living on a Time Bomb : Local Negotiations of Oil Extraction in a Mexican Com…
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SCHONEICH, Svenja

Providing a holistic understanding of extensive oil extraction in rural Mexico, this book focuses on a campesino community, where oil extraction is deeply inscribed into the daily lives of the community members. The book shows how oil shapes the space where it is extracted in every aspect and produces multiple uncertainties. The community members express these uncertainties using the metaphor o…

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After Corporate Paternalism : Material Renovation and Social Change in the Ti…
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STRAUBE, Christian

In this ethnographic study of post-paternalist ruination and renovation, Christian Straube explores social change at the intersection of material decay and social disconnection in the former mine township Mpatamatu of Luanshya, one of the oldest mining towns on the Zambian Copperbelt. Touching on topics including industrial history, colonial town planning, social control and materiality, gender…

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Tracking Rural Change Community, Policy and Technology in Australia, New Zea…
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RAFTERY,DavidMERLAN,Francesca

A key, intensifying change affecting rural areas in the last few decades has been a decline in the proportion of national populations whose principal livelihood is farming. The corresponding re-distribution of population has typically resulted in a net population loss to rural areas, and diversification of rural activity. The corporatization and technological modification of food production has…

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9781921536533
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Knowledge Sovereignty Among African Cattle Herders
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FRE, Zeremarian

Beni-Amer cattle owners in the western part of the Horn of Africa are not only masters in cattle breeding, they are also knowledge sovereign, in terms of owning productive genes of cattle and the cognitive knowledge base crucial to sustainable development. The strong bonds between the Beni-Amer, their animals, and their environment constitute the basis of their ways of knowing, and much of thei…

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9781787353114
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After Corporate Paternalism: Material Renovation and Social Change in the Tim…
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STRAUBE, Christian

In this ethnographic study of post-paternalist ruination and renovation, Christian Straube explores social change at the intersection of material decay and social disconnection in the former mine township Mpatamatu of Luanshya, one of the oldest mining towns on the Zambian Copperbelt. Touching on topics including industrial history, colonial town planning, social control and materiality, gender…

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9781800731332
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301 STR a
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Harnessing the Bohemian: Artists as innovation partners in rural and remote c…
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SKIPPINGTON, Peter

Harnessing the Bohemian takes a fresh and interdisciplinary perspective on the intractable problem of shrinking populations and resources in remote/rural communities. It challenges the conventional wisdom of community development theories and practices and envisages more central roles for the creative disciplines in revitalising futures planning. It argues that the evolution of technolo…

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9781760460525
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