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The Tale of a Feud = Domination, Resistance, and Agency in Highland Yemen
This book chronicles the life and times of tribal leader Mujāhid Ḥaydar, scion of a prominent local dynasty, and his agency in highland Yemen’s political conflicts from the 1970s to the early 2000s. When the political elites of the Ṣāliḥ regime murder his father and his elder brothers, he is forced to exact revenge and lead his tribe through dramatic vicissitudes that culminate in the…
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- 9789004546998
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- 344 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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The Religious Identity of Young Muslim Women in Berlin = An Ethnographic Study
The Religious Identity of Young Muslim Women in Berlin offers an in-depth ethnographic account of Muslim youth’s religious identity formation and their engagement with Islam in everyday life. Focusing on Muslim women in the organisation MJD in Germany, it provides a deeper understanding of processes related to immigration, transnationalism, the transformation of identifications and the recons…
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- 9789004251311
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- 342 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Muslim Minorities, Volume: 14
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The Paradox of Openness = Transparency and Participation in Nordic Cultures o…
The ‘open society’ has become a watchword of liberal democracy and the market system in the modern globalized world. Openness stands for individual opportunity and collective reason, as well as bottom-up empowerment and top-down transparency. It has become a cherished value, despite its vagueness and the connotation of vulnerability that surrounds it. Scandinavia has long considered itself …
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- 9789004281196
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- 286 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology, Volume: 126
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Citizenship and Democratization in Southeast Asia
By providing various fascinating first-hand accounts of how citizens negotiate their rights in the context of weak state institutions, Citizenship and Democratization in Southeast Asia offers a unique bottom-up perspective on the evolving character of public life in democratizing Southeast Asia.
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- Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia
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Images of Canadianness: Images of Canadianness
Author D'Haenens, Leen Language English Perlihat publikasi penuh Images of Canadianness offers backgrounds and explanations for a series of relevant--if relatively new--features of Canada, from political, cultural, and economic angles. Each of its four sections contains articles written by Canadian and European experts that offer original perspectives on a variety of issues: voting pattern…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9780776616124
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- 255
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- International Canadian Studies Series
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- 301 DHA i
Practising Citizenship and Heterogeneous Nationhood: Naturalisations in Swiss…
Switzerland likely has the most particular naturalization system in the world. Whereas in most countries citizenship attribution is regulated at the central level of the state, in Switzerland each municipality is accorded the right to decide who can become a Swiss citizen. This book aims at exploring naturalization processes from a comparative perspective and to explain why some municipalities …
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- 9789089640345
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- 214
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- IMISCoe Dissertations
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- 325.1 HEL p
Antisemitism and the left: On the return of the Jewish question
"Universalism has always shown two faces to the world: one emancipatory and inclusionary, the other repressive and exclusionary. Jewish experience of universalism has been correspondingly equivocal. Antisemitism and the left provides an original and stimulating study of modern antisemitism, tracing the intellectual and political struggles between these two opposed perspectives. At times, univer…
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- 9781526104960
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- 144
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- 301 SPE a
Tales of Times Now Past: Sixty-Two Stories from a Medieval Japanese Collection
Tales of Times Now Past is a translation of 62 outstanding tales freshly selected from Konjaku monogatari shu, a Japanese anthology dating from the early twelfth century. The original work, unique in world literature, contains more than one thousand systematically arranged tales from India, China, and Japan. It is the most important example of a genre of collections of brief tales which, becaus…
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Media Policy for the Digital Age
Traditionally, the Netherlands has enjoyed being a test market for many ideas in the media. But over the last decade, progress has been severely hampered by lengthy discussions on the future structure of just one sector of media, namely public broadcasting via radio and television. The narrow approach results in a lot of paper, speeches and theories, but little in the way of definitive policy m…
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- 9789053568262
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Children, Literacy and Ethnicity : Reading Identities in the Primary School
This book explores children's meaning making of the books they learn to read with, especially relating to the intersections of race, gender and class. Based on research using a participative, innovative design with young children, issues of identity, belonging and classroom hierarchies are explored in complex and poignant ways by the children.
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- 978-1-137-53737-9
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