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Chapter 48: Migrant homemaking in Sub-Saharan Africa: from self-help housing …
Massive displacements, forced labor migration, and large-scale resettlements ordered by colonial states, but also internal and transnational migration, have stimulated specific forms of homemaking in urban and rural regions throughout sub-Saharan Africa. The chapter first briefly scrutinizes earlier forms of housebuilding and migration in colonial African contexts that let to various forms of s…
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AiREAS: Sustainocracy for a Healthy City: Phase 3: Civilian Participation - I…
Development Economics, Atmospheric Protection / Air Quality Control / Air Pollution, Urban Studies/Sociology, Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice, Group Theory and Generalizations, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
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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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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
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Sustainable Development in India: Groundwater Irrigation, Energy Use, and Foo…
This book explores and interrogates the food–water–energy nexus, arguably the most crucial factor in sustaining India’s economic development. The book sheds light on different experiences faced in states across India, including the consequences of electricity tariff reforms and related policies on irrigated agriculture. Part 1 focuses on the historical development of agriculture and socia…
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Kinds come first :age, gender, class, and ethnicity give meaning to measures
An argument that the meaning of a psychological or biological measure depends on the age, gender class, and ethnicity of the human subject.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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West Indian intellectuals in Britain
Caribbean migration to Britain brought many new things - new musics, new foods, new styles. It brought new ways of thinking too. This lively, innovative book explores the intellectual ideas which the West Indians brought with them to Britain. It shows that for more than a century West Indians living in Britain developed a dazzling intellectual critique of the codes of Imperial Britain. This is …
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Creating the Intellectual Chinese Communism and the Rise of a Classification
This book offers a new analysis of the intellectual and the Chinese socialist revolution. Under the Chinese Communist Party, the intellectual was never simply an outspoken scholar, a browbeaten artist, a supportive official, or any kind of person facing an increasingly powerful political regime. The intellectual was first and foremost a widening classification of people based on Marxist thought…
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Contesting Austerity Social Movements and the Left in Portugal and Spain (20…
Despite the historical and political similarities between Portugal and Spain, the contentious responses to austerity diverged in terms of number, rhythm and players. This book compares the contentious responses to austerity in Portugal and Spain during the Eurozone crisis and the Great Recession between 2008 and 2015. While in Spain a sustained wave of mobilisation lasted for three years, invol…
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Social Movements and Solidarity Structures in Crisis-Ridden Greece
Social Movements and Solidarity Structures in Crisis-Ridden Greece explores the rich grassroots experience of social movements in Greece between 2008 and 2016. The harsh conditions of austerity triggered the rise of vibrant mobilizations that went hand-in-hand with the emergence of numerous solidarity structures, providing unofficial welfare services to the suffering population. Based on qualit…
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UKrainian Migration To The European Union: Lessons From Migration Studies
Migration; Population Economics; Political Science
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