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Book SynopsisValues are a hot topic in Europe, both in the public and political debate as well as in the social sciences. Is Europe a community of values? What are the cultural borders of the European Union? How united are Europeans with respect to their fundamental values? How does globalization affect European values? Do national values vanish? There is also a clear moral overtone in the debate: basic values are believed to erode, community values are waning, values become fragmented, and civic engagement is rapidly declining while hedonism and consumerism are prevailing. But are these far-reaching assumptions true? Answers are provided in this book. The three core issues that guide the various chapters in this book are the following: do basic values in European countries converge or diverge? Do we observe a marked decline in traditional values in European societies? Is it the youngest generation in Europe that embraces new values?

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Book SynopsisThis volume focuses on the interface between Mongolian and Tibetan cultures and aims to create a platform to encourage the development of new forms of scholarship across geographical and disciplinary boundaries. This forum lets new materials emerge and brings to the fore a variety of different approaches to studying Mongolian and Tibetan cultures and societies. The papers in this volume deal not only with the substantial Mongolian contribution to and engagement with Tibetan Buddhism, but also with multiple readings of shared history and religion, reconstruction of traditions, shifting ethnic boundaries and the broader political context of the Mongolian-Tibetan relationship.

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Book SynopsisIn 1981, the European and World Values surveys started the empirical investigations of value orientations on a global scale. This volume builds on these surveys, which now cover a time period of a quarter of a century. Two chapters discuss basic theoretical and methodological issues of value research, while four chapters focus on contemporary processes of value change: cultural globalization, individualization, secularization and democratization. These analyses of the data from the value surveys give new life to social science classics such as Tocqueville, Durkheim, Marx and Weber. The analyses are also of interest to the practitioners of economic and social development as well as educational and cultural policies. Contributors include: Chris Cochran, Yilmaz Esmer, Ronald Inglehart, Neil Nevitte, Shalom Schwartz, Thorleif Pettersson and Christian Welzel. This book was originally published as Volume 5 no. 2-3 (2006) of Brill's journal ‘Comparative Sociology'.Table of Contents1. Introduction Esmer, Yilmaz; Pettersson, Thorleif 2. Mapping Global Values Inglehart, Ronald 3. A Theory of Cultural Value Orientations: Expectations and Applications Schwartz, Shalon H. 4. Globalization, "McDonaldization" and Values: Quo Vadis? Esmer, Yilmaz 5. Individualization in Europe and America: Connecting Religious and Moral Values Nevitte, Neil; Cochrane, Christopher 6. Religion in Contemporary Society: Eroded by Human Well-being, Supported by Cultural Diversity Pettersson, Thorleif 7. Democratization in the Human Development Perspective Welzel, Christian Index

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Book SynopsisTheoretical Discussions of Biography: Approaches from History, Microhistory, and Life Writing offers comprehensive overviews by 14 academic scholars of the actual state of the field of Biography Studies. In the volume, edited by biography scholars Hans Renders and Binne de Haan, specifically the connections between biography and the fields of microhistory, journalism, and Life Writing illuminate key challenges and problems in studying individual lives. Different perspectives are provided on the ways in which biography contributes to scholarship in the humanities in general and academic historiography in particular. The contributing authors are academic experts in these fields and include Richard D. Brown, Carlo Ginzburg, Nigel Hamilton, Marlene Kadar, Giovanni Levi, Sabina Loriga, Matti Peltonen, and James Walter.Trade Review"Ils entendent explicitement contribuer à l’émergence des études biographiques comme nouvelle discipline à part entière [...] En conclusion, il convient de saluer les grands mérites de cet ouvrage fort bien fait" ("They explicitly intend to contribute to the emergence of Biography Studies as a new discipline in its own right [...] In conclusion, we should acknowledge the great merits of this well-made, strong book." Joanny Moulin, Aix-Marseille Université “Theoretical Discussions of Biography is a welcome addition for university courses on the history and theory of history and surveys of historiography. [...] According to Renders and De Haan, a biography preferably studies a specific figure to test generally recognized truths on a society and culture. Renders elaborates this thesis in his article ‘The limits of representativeness. Biography, Life Writing and Microhistory’ and by doing this also brings together some themes from other contributions. This article provides a practical research agenda for the future.” Christoph De Spiegeleer, Free University of Brussels, in: Tijdschrift voor Sociale Geschiedenis 10(2013)3, p. 115-116. “In its range and compass Theoretical Discussions of Biography illustrates the new compass and depth which Biographical Studies can offer to teachers, students and practitioners.” Nigel Hamilton, Senior Fellow John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston and first President of Biographers International Organization (BIO) “To take issue with Renders, however, is not to discount his perceptive and wide-ranging contributions to an understanding of biography and biographical method. Only a scholar with formidable learning could have assembled an anthology that is so challenging on so many aspects of biography.” Carl Rollyson, Baruch College New York, in: Biography 36(2013)2, p. 392-395.Table of ContentsTable of Contents List of Illustrations Foreword Nigel Hamilton Note on the Revised and Augmented Edition Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements 1 Introduction: The Challenges of Biography Studies Hans Renders & Binne de Haan Section I: Historiography of Biography Studies 2 Towards Traditions and Nations Binne de Haan & Hans Renders 3 Roots of Biography: From Journalism to Pulp to Scholarly Based Non-Fiction Hans Renders 4 The Solace of Doubt? Biographical Methodology after the Short Twentieth Century James Walter Section II: Biography and History 5 The Uses of Biography Giovanni Levi 6 The Role of the Individual in History. Biographical and Historical Writing in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Sabina Loriga 7 Contemporary Values of Life. Biographical Dictionaries in the Nineteenth Century Hans Renders Section III: Biography and Microhistory 8 What Is Micro in Microhistory? Matti Peltonen 9 Microhistory and the Post-Modern Challenge Richard D. Brown 10 The Limits of Representativeness. Biography, Life Writing and Microhistory Hans Renders 11 Microhistory: Two or Three Things That I Know about It Carlo Ginzburg Section IV: Biography and Life Writing 12 Biography in Academia and the Critical Frontier in Life Writing: Where Biography Shifts into Life Writing Hans Renders 13 The Eclipse of Biography in Life Writing Binne de Haan 14 Coming to Terms: Life Writing – from Genre to Critical Practice Marlene Kadar Appendices 15 Biography Anonymous 16 Sex in Biography Ernest Boyd 17 The Personal in the Political Biography Hans Renders 18 The Biographical Method Hans Renders 19 Why Genealogy and Biography Are Not Kin Hans Renders 20 A Nobel Prize for Biography Nigel Hamilton Bibliography

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Book SynopsisConsumption in Russia and the former USSR has been lately studied as regards the pre-revolutionary and early Soviet period. The history of Soviet consumption and the Soviet variety of consumerism in the 1950s-1990s has hardly been studied at all. This book concentrates on the late Soviet period but it also considers pre-WWII and even pre-revolutionary times.The book consists of articles, which survey the longue durée of Russian and Soviet consumer attitudes, Soviet ideology of consumption as indicated in texts concerning fashion, the world of Soviet fashion planning and the survival strategies of the Soviet consumer complaining against sub-standard goods and services in a command economy. There's also a case study concerning the uses of concepts with anti-consumerist content. Contributors include: Lena Bogdanova, Olga Gurova, Timo Vihavainen and Larissa Zakharova.

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Book SynopsisThe third volume on theoretical driven methodology in the social sciences, again edited by Håkon Leiulfsrud and Peter Sohlberg, explains how to identify sociological research objects, and the art of living theory. Theoretical concepts such as social structure, the Global South, social bonds, organisations and management are explore and developed by a broad range of authors. The methodological chapters, including critical notes on sociology and uses of statistics, the value of thought experiments in sociology, researching subjects in time and space, and an academic 'star war' between Pierre Bourdieu and Dorothy E. Smith are indispensible for researchers and students interested in theoretical construction work in the social sciences. Contributors are: Göran Ahrne, Michela Betta, Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen, Michael Burawoy, Raju Das, David Fasenfest, Raimund Hasse, Johs Hjellbrekke, Håkon Leiulfsrud, Emil A. Røyrvik, John Scott, Peter Sohlberg, Karin Widerberg and Richard Swedberg.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction   Håkon Leiulfsrud and Peter Sohlberg 2 How Do You Establish the Research Object in Sociology?   Richard Swedberg 3 Historical Epistemology, Sociology, and Statistics   Johs Hjellbrekke 4 Constructing Social Structure   John Scott 5 Constructing the Conceptual Tools for the Global South   David Fasenfest and Raju J. Das 6 The Significance of Social Bonds   Göran Ahrne 7 Organisations as a Sociological Research Object  How Schools Reproduce Inequality   Raimund Hasse 8 Broken Promises and Lost Qualities  Constructing Management as a Research Object in Sociology and Anthropology   Emil André Røyrvik 9 On Thought Experiments in Sociology and the Power of Thinking   Michela Betta and Richard Swedberg 10 Constructing and Researching the Object in Time and Space   Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen 11 Academic Star Wars  Pierre Bourdieu and Dorothy E. Smith on Academic Work   Karin Widerberg 12 Living Theory  Reflections on Four Decades of Teaching Social Theory   Michael Burawoy 13 Postscript   Peter Sohlberg and Håkon Leiulfsrud Index

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Book SynopsisIn Research Concepts for the Practitioner of Educational Leadership, the author acquaints the reader with principles of educational research that are most applicable to today’s educational leaders. Educational leaders are facing increasing demands to analyze data and use research to make instructional decisions. School-based educational leaders are facing these demands as well as those in educational leadership at other levels such as school districts and foundations. Instructional leaders are finding it increasingly difficult to lead without having a firm grasp of using data to make informed instructional decisions. This book helps to bridge the gap between the complex world of data analysis with the ever-changing dynamics of education leadership.Table of Contents1 Introduction 2 Overview of Research  1 How Do We Know What We Know?  2 What Are the Categories of Research?  3 Overview of the Research Process 3 Beginning the Research Project Topic, Problem Statement, Purpose Statement, and Research Questions  1 Developing the Topic  2 The Problem Statement  3 The Purpose Statement  4 Research Questions  5 Def?inition of Terms 4 Finding and Reviewing Literature for Credible Research 5 Populations and Samples  1 Identifying the Population  2 Obtaining the Population  3 Types of Random Samples  4 Non-Random Sampling  5 Sample Size 6 Measurement of Variables 7 Internal and External Validity and Threats to Validity  1 Threats to Internal Validity 8 Research Designs and Their Limitations  1 Experimental Research Designs  2 Correlational Research  3 Causal-Comparative Research  4 Survey Research  5 Action Research  6 Single Subject Designs 9 Qualitative Research  1 Types of Purposive Sampling  2 Validity in Analyzing Data  3 Combining Methods and Mixed-Methods Research Designs 10 Analysis of Data  1 Categories of Data  2 Types of Data Analysis 11 Research Results Conclusions, Decisions, and Actions  1 Sections of a Research Report  2 Writing the Research Report  3 Presenting Results of a Research Study  4 Key Factors in Presenting Research References Index

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Book SynopsisLooking Back and Living Forward: Indigenous Research Rising Up brings together research from a diverse group of scholars from a variety of disciplines. The work shared in this book is done by and with Indigenous peoples, from across Canada and around the world. Together, the collaborators’ voices resonate with urgency and insights towards resistance and resurgence. The various chapters address historical legacies, environmental concerns, community needs, wisdom teachings, legal issues, personal journeys, educational implications, and more. In these offerings, the contributors share the findings from their literature surveys, document analyses, community-based projects, self-studies, and work with knowledge keepers and elders. The scholarship draws on the teachings of the past, experiences of the present, and will undoubtedly inform research to come.Trade Review"[Looking Back and Living Forward] is like a collection of short stories told in straightforward prose that can be dipped into to find something of interest, perhaps in a discipline or topic that is entirely new to the reader. It will certainly open the reader’s eyes to the diversity and depth of research being carried out in Indigenous studies and can be recommended to anyone wishing to expand their understanding and knowledge." -- Jim Reynolds, LSE Review of BooksTable of ContentsForeword xiii Dwayne Donald Acknowledgements xv Introduction xvii Jennifer Markides Part 1: Defending the Sacred: Land and Relationships 1. The Cold War, the Nuclear Arctic, and Inuit Resistance 3 Warren Bernauer 2. Working Together: Recommendations for Indigenous and Archaeological Custodianship of Past in Canada 13 April Chabot 3. Indigenous Knowledge on Nguni Cattle Uses: Breed of the Past for the Future 25 Saymore Petros Ndou and Michael Chimonyo 4. Early Indigenous North American Cartography as Performance Texts 35 Waylon Lenk 5. The Gradual Rise of Manitoba’s Northern Hydro-Electrical Generation Project 45 Victoria Grima 6. First Nations, Municipalities, and Urban Reserves: Shifting Intergovernmental Power Balance in Urban Settings? 55 Charlotte Bezamat-Mantes 7. Indigenous Food Sovereignty Is a Public Health Priority 63 Carly Welham Part 2: Sharing Intergenerational Teachings: Language and Stories 8. Using Language Nests to Promote the Intergenerational Transmission of Taltan 73 Kasha Julie A. Morris (Tahltan Nation) 9. Bibooniiwininii: Miigaazoo-Dibaajimowin – Winter Spirit: Fight Story 81 Isaac Murdoch (Narrator) and Jason Bone (Editor) 10. In Defense of the Oral Tradition: The Embodiment of Indigenous Literature and the Storytelling Styles of Dovie Thomason and Louis Bird 91 Michelle Lietz 11. An Elaborate Educational Endeavour: The Writing of Basil H. Johnston 97 Paul M. R. Murphy 12. Korean Indigenous Epistemologies with Notes on the Corresponding Epistemologies of Indigenous Scholarship 105 Jusung Kim 13. Channelling Indigenous Knowledge through Digital Transmission: The Opportunities and Limitations of Indigenous Computer Games 115 Melanie Belmore and Melanie Braith 14. Knowledge and Practices in Conflict: Indigenous Voice and Oral Traditions in the Legal System 123 Monica Morales-Good Part 3: Re-Dressing Colonial Legacies: Counter-Narratives of Resistance 15. Self-Determination Undermined: Education and Self-government 135 Laura Forsythe 16. Daniels v. Canada: The Supreme Court’s Racialized Understanding of the Métis and Section 91(24) 145 Karine Martel 17. Canadian Cyber Stories on Indigenous Topics and White Fragility: Why Is the Online Comment Section So Volatile and Divisive? 155 Belinda Nicholson 18. How Imperial Images Demonize Indigenous Spiritualities 163 Timothy Maton 19. An ‘Indian’ Industry: Tourism and the Exploitation of Indigenous Cultures in the Canadian West 177 Miriam Martens 20. Celebrating Canada 150 by Exploiting Coast Salish Culture 187 Irwin Oostindie 21. Reclaiming Indigenous Schooling Process against Colonization 197 Eduardo Vergolino 22. Surveying Undergraduate Students’ Perceptions on the Indigenous Course Requirement 205 Amanda Appasamy, Cassandra Szabo, and Jordan Tabobondung Part 4: Communities of Healing and Strength: Redirection to Resurgence 23. Moccasin Making for Community Development: In York Factory First Nation 219 Charlene Moore 24. Elders and Indigenous Healing in the Correctional Service of Canada: A Story of Relational Dissonance, Sacred Doughnuts, and Drive-Thru Expectations 231 Robin Quantick 25. Indigenous Voices for Well-Being in Northern Manitoba: An Exploratory Study 245 Miriam Perry 26. Scaling Deep: Arts Based Research Practices 255 Kara Passey 27. Drawing Back the Curtain: Community Engagement Prior to Basic Science Research Improves Research Questions and Assists in Framing Study Outcomes 263 Monika M. Kowatsch, Courtney Bell, Margaret Ormond, and Keith R. Fowke 28. Research Ethics Review, Research Participants, and the Researcher in-between: When REB Directives Clash with Participant Socio-Relational Cosmologies 273 Marion J. Kiprop 29. An Act of Anishinaabe Resistance 283 Patricia Siniikwe Pajunen 30. Reconciling an Ethical Framework for Living Well in the World of Research 291 Jennifer Markides

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Book SynopsisLooking Back and Living Forward: Indigenous Research Rising Up brings together research from a diverse group of scholars from a variety of disciplines. The work shared in this book is done by and with Indigenous peoples, from across Canada and around the world. Together, the collaborators’ voices resonate with urgency and insights towards resistance and resurgence. The various chapters address historical legacies, environmental concerns, community needs, wisdom teachings, legal issues, personal journeys, educational implications, and more. In these offerings, the contributors share the findings from their literature surveys, document analyses, community-based projects, self-studies, and work with knowledge keepers and elders. The scholarship draws on the teachings of the past, experiences of the present, and will undoubtedly inform research to come.Table of ContentsForeword xiii Dwayne Donald Acknowledgements xv Introduction xvii Jennifer Markides Part 1: Defending the Sacred: Land and Relationships 1. The Cold War, the Nuclear Arctic, and Inuit Resistance 3 Warren Bernauer 2. Working Together: Recommendations for Indigenous and Archaeological Custodianship of Past in Canada 13 April Chabot 3. Indigenous Knowledge on Nguni Cattle Uses: Breed of the Past for the Future 25 Saymore Petros Ndou and Michael Chimonyo 4. Early Indigenous North American Cartography as Performance Texts 35 Waylon Lenk 5. The Gradual Rise of Manitoba’s Northern Hydro-Electrical Generation Project 45 Victoria Grima 6. First Nations, Municipalities, and Urban Reserves: Shifting Intergovernmental Power Balance in Urban Settings? 55 Charlotte Bezamat-Mantes 7. Indigenous Food Sovereignty Is a Public Health Priority 63 Carly Welham Part 2: Sharing Intergenerational Teachings: Language and Stories 8. Using Language Nests to Promote the Intergenerational Transmission of Taltan 73 Kasha Julie A. Morris (Tahltan Nation) 9. Bibooniiwininii: Miigaazoo-Dibaajimowin – Winter Spirit: Fight Story 81 Isaac Murdoch (Narrator) and Jason Bone (Editor) 10. In Defense of the Oral Tradition: The Embodiment of Indigenous Literature and the Storytelling Styles of Dovie Thomason and Louis Bird 91 Michelle Lietz 11. An Elaborate Educational Endeavour: The Writing of Basil H. Johnston 97 Paul M. R. Murphy 12. Korean Indigenous Epistemologies with Notes on the Corresponding Epistemologies of Indigenous Scholarship 105 Jusung Kim 13. Channelling Indigenous Knowledge through Digital Transmission: The Opportunities and Limitations of Indigenous Computer Games 115 Melanie Belmore and Melanie Braith 14. Knowledge and Practices in Conflict: Indigenous Voice and Oral Traditions in the Legal System 123 Monica Morales-Good Part 3: Re-Dressing Colonial Legacies: Counter-Narratives of Resistance 15. Self-Determination Undermined: Education and Self-government 135 Laura Forsythe 16. Daniels v. Canada: The Supreme Court’s Racialized Understanding of the Métis and Section 91(24) 145 Karine Martel 17. Canadian Cyber Stories on Indigenous Topics and White Fragility: Why Is the Online Comment Section So Volatile and Divisive? 155 Belinda Nicholson 18. How Imperial Images Demonize Indigenous Spiritualities 163 Timothy Maton 19. An ‘Indian’ Industry: Tourism and the Exploitation of Indigenous Cultures in the Canadian West 177 Miriam Martens 20. Celebrating Canada 150 by Exploiting Coast Salish Culture 187 Irwin Oostindie 21. Reclaiming Indigenous Schooling Process against Colonization 197 Eduardo Vergolino 22. Surveying Undergraduate Students’ Perceptions on the Indigenous Course Requirement 205 Amanda Appasamy, Cassandra Szabo, and Jordan Tabobondung Part 4: Communities of Healing and Strength: Redirection to Resurgence 23. Moccasin Making for Community Development: In York Factory First Nation 219 Charlene Moore 24. Elders and Indigenous Healing in the Correctional Service of Canada: A Story of Relational Dissonance, Sacred Doughnuts, and Drive-Thru Expectations 231 Robin Quantick 25. Indigenous Voices for Well-Being in Northern Manitoba: An Exploratory Study 245 Miriam Perry 26. Scaling Deep: Arts Based Research Practices 255 Kara Passey 27. Drawing Back the Curtain: Community Engagement Prior to Basic Science Research Improves Research Questions and Assists in Framing Study Outcomes 263 Monika M. Kowatsch, Courtney Bell, Margaret Ormond, and Keith R. Fowke 28. Research Ethics Review, Research Participants, and the Researcher in-between: When REB Directives Clash with Participant Socio-Relational Cosmologies 273 Marion J. Kiprop 29. An Act of Anishinaabe Resistance 283 Patricia Siniikwe Pajunen 30. Reconciling an Ethical Framework for Living Well in the World of Research 291 Jennifer Markides

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the conceptualization and practice of Indigenous research methodologies especially in Sámi and North European academic contexts. It examines the meaning of Sámi research and research methodologies, practical levels of doing Indigenous research today in different contexts, as well as global debates in Indigenous research. The contributors present place-specific and relational Sámi research approaches as well as reciprocal methodological choices in Indigenous research in North-South relationships. This edited volume is a result of a research collaboration in four countries where Sámi people live. By taking the readers to diverse local discussions, the collection emphasizes communal responsibility and care as a key in doing Indigenous research. Contributors are: Rauni Äärelä-Vihriälä, Hanna Guttorm, Lea Kantonen, Pigga Keskitalo, Ilona Kivinen, Britt Kramvig, Petter Morottaja, Eljas Niskanen, Torjer Olsen, Marja-Liisa Olthuis, Hanna Outakoski, Attila Paksi, Jelena Porsanger, Aili Pyhälä, Rauna Rahko-Ravantti, Torkel Rasmussen, Erika Katjaana Sarivaara, Irja Seurujärvi-Kari, Trond Trosterud and Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen.Table of ContentsFigures and Tables List of Contributors Introduction  Pigga Keskitalo, Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen and Torjer Olsen 1 Contemporary Indigenous Research within Sámi and Global Indigenous Studies Contexts  Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen, Torjer Olsen and Pigga Keskitalo 2 Sámi dutkama máttut: The Forerunners of Sámi Methodological Thinking  Jelena Porsanger and Irja Seurujärvi-Kari 3 Káfestallamin Cáfe Talks of the Indigenous Research Paradigm in Sámi Research  Pigga Keskitalo, Torkel Rasmussen, Rauna Rahko-Ravantti and Rauni Äärelä-Vihriälä 4 Developing Literacy Research in Sápmi  Hanna Outakoski 5 Decolonized Research-Storying: Bringing Indigenous Ontologies and Care into the Practices of Research Writing  Hanna Guttorm, Lea Kantonen, Britt Kramvig and Aili Pyhälä 6 ‘Shared Remembering’ as a Relational Indigenous Method in Conceptualization of Sámi Women’s Leadership  Jelena Porsanger, Irja Seurujärvi-Kari and Ragnhild Lydia Nystad 7 Methodological Implications of the Project Čyeti čälled anarâškielân, ‘One Hundred Writers for Aanaar Saami’: Strengthening the Literacy of an Indigenous Language Community  Marja-Liisa Olthuis, Trond Trosterud, Erika Katjaana Sarivaara, Petter Morottaja and Eljas Niskanen 8 Reflections on Power Relations and Reciprocity in the Field While Conducting Research with Indigenous Peoples  Attila Paksi and Ilona Kivinen 9 Kimapury Reflections: Values and Research Agendas in Amazonian Indigenous Research Relations  Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen Epilogue  Torjer Olsen, Pigga Keskitalo and Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen Index

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the conceptualization and practice of Indigenous research methodologies especially in Sámi and North European academic contexts. It examines the meaning of Sámi research and research methodologies, practical levels of doing Indigenous research today in different contexts, as well as global debates in Indigenous research. The contributors present place-specific and relational Sámi research approaches as well as reciprocal methodological choices in Indigenous research in North-South relationships. This edited volume is a result of a research collaboration in four countries where Sámi people live. By taking the readers to diverse local discussions, the collection emphasizes communal responsibility and care as a key in doing Indigenous research. Contributors are: Rauni Äärelä-Vihriälä, Hanna Guttorm, Lea Kantonen, Pigga Keskitalo, Ilona Kivinen, Britt Kramvig, Petter Morottaja, Eljas Niskanen, Torjer Olsen, Marja-Liisa Olthuis, Hanna Outakoski, Attila Paksi, Jelena Porsanger, Aili Pyhälä, Rauna Rahko-Ravantti, Torkel Rasmussen, Erika Katjaana Sarivaara, Irja Seurujärvi-Kari, Trond Trosterud and Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen.Table of ContentsFigures and Tables List of Contributors Introduction  Pigga Keskitalo, Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen and Torjer Olsen 1 Contemporary Indigenous Research within Sámi and Global Indigenous Studies Contexts  Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen, Torjer Olsen and Pigga Keskitalo 2 Sámi dutkama máttut: The Forerunners of Sámi Methodological Thinking  Jelena Porsanger and Irja Seurujärvi-Kari 3 Káfestallamin Cáfe Talks of the Indigenous Research Paradigm in Sámi Research  Pigga Keskitalo, Torkel Rasmussen, Rauna Rahko-Ravantti and Rauni Äärelä-Vihriälä 4 Developing Literacy Research in Sápmi  Hanna Outakoski 5 Decolonized Research-Storying: Bringing Indigenous Ontologies and Care into the Practices of Research Writing  Hanna Guttorm, Lea Kantonen, Britt Kramvig and Aili Pyhälä 6 ‘Shared Remembering’ as a Relational Indigenous Method in Conceptualization of Sámi Women’s Leadership  Jelena Porsanger, Irja Seurujärvi-Kari and Ragnhild Lydia Nystad 7 Methodological Implications of the Project Čyeti čälled anarâškielân, ‘One Hundred Writers for Aanaar Saami’: Strengthening the Literacy of an Indigenous Language Community  Marja-Liisa Olthuis, Trond Trosterud, Erika Katjaana Sarivaara, Petter Morottaja and Eljas Niskanen 8 Reflections on Power Relations and Reciprocity in the Field While Conducting Research with Indigenous Peoples  Attila Paksi and Ilona Kivinen 9 Kimapury Reflections: Values and Research Agendas in Amazonian Indigenous Research Relations  Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen Epilogue  Torjer Olsen, Pigga Keskitalo and Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen Index

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Book SynopsisScholarship on adult education has fueled a high level of methodological creativity and innovation in order to tackle a diverse range of issues in a wide range of settings and locations in a critical and participatory manner. Adult education research is marked by the desire to do research differently and to conduct critical research with rather than about people which requires theoretical and methodological creativity. This entails a particular approach to how we seek to know the world in collaboration with people, to rupture hierarchical relations and to create new collaborative spaces of learning and research that encompass the diversity of people’s life experiences. Doing Critical and Creative Research in Adult Education brings together both leading and emerging scholars in adult education research in order to capture the vitality and complexity of contemporary adult education research. This includes contributions on biographical, narrative, embodied, arts and media-based and ethnographic methods alongside the critical use of quantitative and mixed methods. This distinctive and rich methodological contribution has a general relevance and usefulness for all researchers and students in the social science and humanities, which draws attention to the importance of critical and creative participatory learning processes in human life and learning.Table of ContentsThe European Society for Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA) Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1. Introduction: Doing Critical and Creative Research in Adult Education  Bernie Grummell and Fergal Finnegan Part 1: Biographical Methods and Oral History 2. Biographical Inquiry: A Collaborative and Egalitarian Approach to Adult Education Research  Barbara Merrill 3. Down to the River: People’s Memories and Adult Education  Emilio Lucio-Villegas 4. Transition to Adulthood: Learning from Young Adults through the Exploratory Use of Multiple Methods  Andrea Galimberti, Laura Formenti and Mirella Ferrari 5. Collaborative Story Telling: The Poetry of Everyday Life and the Challenge of Transcription  Siobhán Madden Part 2: The Auto/Ethnographic Imagination 6. Doing Ethnographic Research in Adult Education: Reflections on Studying Citizenship in a Study Circle  Annika Pastuhov and Ari Sivenius 7. Autoethnography in, and as, Adult Education: Eavesdropping on a Conversation  David McCormack, Jerry O’Neill, Mary B. Ryan and Tony Walsh Part 3: Arts Based Research and Creative Pedagogies 8. Finding Voice and Engaging Audiences: The Power of Arts-Based Community Engagement  Shauna Butterwick and Carole Roy 9. Education Will Set You Free: Research Poetry with Prisoners on Adult Education Programmes  Sarah Meaney 10. Seeing the Unseen through the Feminist Museum Hack  Darlene E. Clover Part 4: Critical Mixed Methods and Critical Quantitative Research 11. Towards Critical and Dialogical Mixed Methods Resarch: Reflections on Our Journey  Alison Taylor and Milosh Raykov 12. The Use of Bibliometrics in Adult Education Research  Erik Nylander, Lovisa Österlund and Andreas Fejes Part 5: Digital Research Methods 13. Investigating Adult Skills Assessment in ESOnline: A Digital Ethnography  Cormac O'Keeffe Part 6: Sound, Vision and Story-Telling 14. Pedagogy of Song and Restorying Hope: Stories and Songs as Social Movement Learning in Ada Songor Salt Movement  Jonathan Langdon, Melissa Jackson and Sophia Kitcher 15. Visual Research Methods and New Masculine Subjectivities  Ann Hegarty Part 7: Research on Embodied Knowledge and Movement 16. Research through, and on, Embodied Movement in Orienting One’s Self towards the Future  Silvia Luraschi 17. Planning with People: Reflections on Participation and Learning on Deliberative Walks  Peter Ehrström Part 8: Creative Dissemination 18. Creative, Critical and Democratic Research Dissemination: Learners’ Lives and Further Education  Vicky Duckworth and Rob Smith

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Book SynopsisScholarship on adult education has fueled a high level of methodological creativity and innovation in order to tackle a diverse range of issues in a wide range of settings and locations in a critical and participatory manner. Adult education research is marked by the desire to do research differently and to conduct critical research with rather than about people which requires theoretical and methodological creativity. This entails a particular approach to how we seek to know the world in collaboration with people, to rupture hierarchical relations and to create new collaborative spaces of learning and research that encompass the diversity of people’s life experiences. Doing Critical and Creative Research in Adult Education brings together both leading and emerging scholars in adult education research in order to capture the vitality and complexity of contemporary adult education research. This includes contributions on biographical, narrative, embodied, arts and media-based and ethnographic methods alongside the critical use of quantitative and mixed methods. This distinctive and rich methodological contribution has a general relevance and usefulness for all researchers and students in the social science and humanities, which draws attention to the importance of critical and creative participatory learning processes in human life and learning.Table of ContentsThe European Society for Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA) Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1. Introduction: Doing Critical and Creative Research in Adult Education  Bernie Grummell and Fergal Finnegan Part 1: Biographical Methods and Oral History 2. Biographical Inquiry: A Collaborative and Egalitarian Approach to Adult Education Research  Barbara Merrill 3. Down to the River: People’s Memories and Adult Education  Emilio Lucio-Villegas 4. Transition to Adulthood: Learning from Young Adults through the Exploratory Use of Multiple Methods  Andrea Galimberti, Laura Formenti and Mirella Ferrari 5. Collaborative Story Telling: The Poetry of Everyday Life and the Challenge of Transcription  Siobhán Madden Part 2: The Auto/Ethnographic Imagination 6. Doing Ethnographic Research in Adult Education: Reflections on Studying Citizenship in a Study Circle  Annika Pastuhov and Ari Sivenius 7. Autoethnography in, and as, Adult Education: Eavesdropping on a Conversation  David McCormack, Jerry O’Neill, Mary B. Ryan and Tony Walsh Part 3: Arts Based Research and Creative Pedagogies 8. Finding Voice and Engaging Audiences: The Power of Arts-Based Community Engagement  Shauna Butterwick and Carole Roy 9. Education Will Set You Free: Research Poetry with Prisoners on Adult Education Programmes  Sarah Meaney 10. Seeing the Unseen through the Feminist Museum Hack  Darlene E. Clover Part 4: Critical Mixed Methods and Critical Quantitative Research 11. Towards Critical and Dialogical Mixed Methods Resarch: Reflections on Our Journey  Alison Taylor and Milosh Raykov 12. The Use of Bibliometrics in Adult Education Research  Erik Nylander, Lovisa Österlund and Andreas Fejes Part 5: Digital Research Methods 13. Investigating Adult Skills Assessment in ESOnline: A Digital Ethnography  Cormac O'Keeffe Part 6: Sound, Vision and Story-Telling 14. Pedagogy of Song and Restorying Hope: Stories and Songs as Social Movement Learning in Ada Songor Salt Movement  Jonathan Langdon, Melissa Jackson and Sophia Kitcher 15. Visual Research Methods and New Masculine Subjectivities  Ann Hegarty Part 7: Research on Embodied Knowledge and Movement 16. Research through, and on, Embodied Movement in Orienting One’s Self towards the Future  Silvia Luraschi 17. Planning with People: Reflections on Participation and Learning on Deliberative Walks  Peter Ehrström Part 8: Creative Dissemination 18. Creative, Critical and Democratic Research Dissemination: Learners’ Lives and Further Education  Vicky Duckworth and Rob Smith

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Book SynopsisThis volume aims to provide consolidated analyses of the 2019 European elections and explanations about the future of the European party system, in a context in which the EU has to face many challenges, including the erosion of electoral support for mainstream parties and the increasing success of populist parties. The structure of the book is designed to combine the overall view on the role of elections in shaping the future European project with relevant case studies. The reader is given a perspective not only on the results of the European Parliament elections as such, but also on how these results are related to national trends which pre-exist and what kind of collateral effects on the quality of democracy they could have. Contributors include: Jan Bíba, Sorin Bocancea, Dóra Bókay, Radu Carp, József Dúró, Tomáš Dvořák, Alexandra Alina Iancu, Ruxandra Ivan, Petra Jankovská, Małgorzata Madej, Cristina Matiuța, Sergiu Mișcoiu, Valentin Naumescu, Gianluca Piccolino, Leonardo Puleo, Alexandru Radu, Mihai Sebe, Sorina Soare, Tobias Spöri, Jeremias Stadlmair, Martin Štefek, Piotr Sula, and Jaroslav Ušiak.Table of Contents List of Figures, Tables and Maps  Notes on Contributors  Introduction  Radu Carp and Cristina Matiuța Part 1: Stability, Change and Challenges for the EU Party System  1Answers and Dilemmas Following the 2019 European Elections  Valentin Naumescu  2The Demise of the Spitzenkandidaten System: decline of EU Democratization or (Euro)party Process of Adaptation?  Alexandra Alina Iancu  3Electoral Engineering for a European Demos: building European Identity through Elections  Ruxandra Ivan  4Towards a More Democratic European Union: how to Use the Elections for the European Parliament to Create a True Pan-European Constituency? Old Debates, New Challenges  Mihai Sebe  5The Citizens’ Perceptions ahead of the 2019 European Parliament Vote – The Accuracy of the Eurobarometer Democracy and Elections  Radu Carp  6The Exploitation for Populist Purposes of Difficulties in the EU – An Important Problem of the EU  Sorin Bocancea Part 2: Case Studies  7Back on Track: the French Far Right’s (Narrow) Win in the 2019 European Elections  Sergiu Mișcoiu  8Europe Up for Grabs: an Italian Perspective  Gianluca Piccolino, Leonardo Puleo and Sorina Soare  9European Parliamentary Elections in Austria “Gone Ibiza”  Tobias Spöri and Jeremias Stadlmair  10A Dress Rehearsal: european Elections in Poland before the Parliamentary Race  Piotr Sula and Małgorzata Madej  11The 2019 European Parliament Elections in Hungary  József Dúró and Dóra Bókay  12Rise of Euroscepticism in Slovak Political Parties before Election to European Parliament: case of Rise of Extremism in Slovak Society  Jaroslav Ušiak and Petra Jankovská  13Ambiguity towards the EU as a Destiny of Czech Politics: the Case of the ANO Movement  Jan Bíba, Tomáš Dvořák and Martin Štefek  14The European Elections Campaign in Romania: between Contesting and Embracing the EU  Cristina Matiuța  15A Pattern of European Parliament Elections in Romania (2007–2019)  Alexandru Radu  Conclusions  Radu Carp and Cristina Matiuța  Index

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Book SynopsisThis book presents the trends in beliefs and values of people in 85 countries around the world from 1981 to 2004. Based on survey data collected in 1981-1984 and 1989-1993 by the European Values Study, the 1995-1997 World Values Surveys and the 1999-2004 European Values Study and World Values Surveys, it examines trends in human values concerning economics, politics, religion, family, gender roles, civic engagement and ethical concerns and important contemporary issues such as the environment, technology, identity, life satisfaction and human happiness. It is a valuable tool for understanding the cultural patterns of countries and how human values are changing. It will be useful to social scientists, journalists, business executives, politicians and policy-makers working in an increasingly globalized world.

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Book SynopsisDecentering Comparative Analysis in a Globalizing World aims to go beyond the traditional criticism in comparative analysis. It wants to shed new light on the question of comparing as a form of categorizing. In this perspective, three relevant dimensions to question the naturalized categories of comparison are mobilized: ethnocentrism, the nation, and academic disciplines. Based on original empirical work, the volume proposes to use comparative categories by mixing and shifting the analytical perspectives. It brings together contributions that come to terms with the historicity of the comparative method in the social sciences. It eventually deals with the key issue of comparability of various cases, in the enlarged context of a globalizing world. Contributors are: Anna Amelina, Camille Boullier, Catherine Cavalin, Serge Ebersold, Andreas Eckert, Mouhamedoune Abdoulaye Fall, Isabel Georges, Olivier Giraud, Aïssa Kadri, Wiebke Keim, Michel Lallement, Marie Mercat-Bruns, Luis Felipe Murillo, Kiran Klaus Patel, Léa Renard, Ferruccio Ricciardi, Paul-André Rosental, Pablo Salazar-Jaramillo, Stéphanie Tawa-Lama, Nikola Tietze, Tania Toffanin, Michel Vincent and Bénédicte Zimmermann.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Decentering comparative analysis and beyond Olivier Giraud, Lise CNRS-Cnam, Paris Michel Lallement, Lise CNRS-Cnam, Paris Part 1. Varying the analytical scale 2. Decentering comparison, questioning holism: The multi-sited ethnographic approach Luis Felipe Murillo, University of Virginia - Charlottesville 3. Close comparison in a global world: Categorizing the quality of work in a multinational company Bénédicte Zimmermann, EHESS, Paris, Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin Léa Renard, Freie Universität Berlin 4. Decentering comparative strategies in cross-border studies: Towards a comparative analysis of scale making within assemblages Anna Amelina, Universität Cottbus 5. Engaging in a dialogue - An experiment in comparative employment Law Marie Mercat-Bruns, Lise CNRS-Cnam, Paris 6. Which decentered methodological framework is best for comparing inclusive education policies? Serge Ebersold, Lise CNRS-Cnam, Paris 7. Spectral comparisons: universalization, generalization, and the resource curse Pablo Jaramillo, Universidad de los Andes – Bogota Part 2. Comparison: A historical phenomena and the social sciences 8. The rise of comparison and the rise of the New Deal order Kiran Klaus Patel, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich 9. Silicosis as a test case for the decentering of medical and labor history Paul-André Rosental, Science Po, CFR- EHESS, Paris Catherine Cavalin, Irisso-CNRS-Université Paris Dauphine Michel Vincent, Minapath Développement 10. Homo Africanus vs homo œconomicus: looking back and forth Mohamedoune Abdoulaye Fall, LASP-D, Saint-Louis du Sénégal 11. The rise and strength of authoritarian restoration – Constructing a comparative logic for research Wiebke Keim, Sage-CNRS, Strasbourg 12. Comparing the Social and Spatial Inscription of Women’s Work Tania Toffanin, Università degli Studi, Padova 13. Categoring difference: labor and the colonial experience Ferruccio Ricciardi, Lise CNRS-Cnam, Paris Part 3. Building commensurable universes for comparative analysis: Opportunities and constraints 14. Comparative Research Between France and India: A View from Within Stéphanie Tawa-Lama Rewal, EHESS, Paris 15. Comparability and conditions of comparability in education. Globalization of education: economist ethnocentrism versus culturalist singularism Aïssa Kadri, Université Paris 8 16. Comparing imagined transnational communities in France and Germany, or Playing national and European categories – religion, language, territory – at their own game Nikola Tietze, Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung, Hamburg 17. Communities, organization of work, and institutional mediation: comparing the United States and France Camille Boullier, Lise CNRS-Cnam, Paris Michel Lallement, Lise CNRS-Cnam, Paris 18. On the crossroads of territorialities and temporalities: the making of social politics in Brazil Isabel Georges, IRD-UMR 201 Développement et societies, Paris 19. Entangled politicizations. Democracy against the market in long-term care policies Olivier Giraud, Lise, CNRS-Cnam, Paris Concluding remarks Andreas Eckert, Humbold University Berlin

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Book SynopsisEuropean Perceptions of China and Perspectives on the Belt and Road Initiative is a collection of fourteen essays on the way China is perceived in Europe today. These perceptions – and they are multiple – are particularly important to the People’s Republic of China as the country grapples with its increasingly prominent role on the international stage, and equally important to Europe as it attempts to come to terms with the technological, social and economic advances of the Belt and Road Initiative. The authors are, on the whole, senior academics specializing in such topics as International Relations and Security, Public Diplomacy, Media and Cultural Studies, and Philosophy and Religion from more than a dozen different European countries and are involved in various international projects focussed on Europe-China relations.Table of ContentsList of Graphs, Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction   Stephen Rowley 1 ‘Stuck between a Rock and a Hard Place’  Europe, the EU and the New Chinese Century   David J Galbreath, Neville Chi Hang Li and Max Roger Taylor 2 Spain’s Views of China  The Economy Is The Key   Mario Esteban 3 Kyiv – Beijing Relations in the Context of the Ukrainian-Russian Conflict  Interests, Concerns and Images   Olexiy Haran 4 Sino-Polish Relations  From Socialist Brothers to the Post-Cold War Period’s Reconfigurations   Dominik Mierzejewski 5 German and Hungarian Views on The Belt and Road Initiative – A Power Game Balance in Central Europe?   Csaba Moldicz 6 Transnational Organized Crime and Foreign Direct Investment in Spain  What Could the Government-Supported Chinese FDI Learn from the Russian Precedent?   Rubén Ruiz Ramas 7 Know Better, Like Better  An Appraisal of the Effect of the Belt and Road Initiative on Chinese Brand Image in France   Youssef El Haoussine 8 China’s Image in the Czech Republic  Media Reflection of Elite Policies   Ivana Karásková 9 China’s Image in Belgian Media  Between Fascination and Fear   Erik Vlaeminck 10 Exploring Public Perceptions of, and Interactions with, the Chinese in Hungary   Irina Golubeva 11 China – A View from Romania Beyond Perceptions and Stereotypes   Mariana Nicolae 12 China’s Public Diplomacy Versus Mainstream Media’s Narrative  A Challenge in Image and Reputation Management   Greg Simons 13 The Spiritual Roots of Typical European (and Western) Evaluations of China   Kaspars Klavins 14 The Historical Foundation for a Speculative BRI as the Best Route to a Renewed Self   Jean-Paul Rosaye Index

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together works by specialists from various areas of the social sciences to reflect on the presence of China in Portugal and in Portuguese-speaking territories. From the first Chinese coolies that migrated to the former Portuguese colonies more than 100 years ago, to the current investments along the Belt and Road Initiative, we take the pulse of this historic, social, political and economic presence and flows, that continues to renew and reinvent itself in the face of the challenges of contemporaneity.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Abbreviations Notes on Contributors The Presence of China and the Chinese Diaspora in Portugal and ­Portuguese-Speaking Territories: An Introduction  Irene Rodrigues and Sofia Gaspar PART 1: Chinese Communities in Portugal: Mobilities, School, and Learning 1 The Silk Route of Student Mobility: Portuguese Universities’ Strategies for Attracting Chinese Students  Thais França 2 Academic Performance of Chinese Students in Portugal  Sofia Gaspar, Helena Carvalho and Teresa Seabra 3 Chinese Language Teaching in Portugal: Models, Motivations, and Challenges  Wang Jincheng and Sun Yue PART 2: Crossings between Chinese Entrepreneurship, Economy, and Ethnicity in Portugal and Macao 4 Chinese Entrepreneurship in Portugal: The interaction of Ethnic ­Resources and a Host Society’s Opportunity Structure  Catarina Reis Oliveira 5 Tourism Dynamics in Sino-Portuguese Bilateral Relations: The Case of the Chinese Outbound Market in Portugal  Jiawei Xing, Zélia Breda and Jorge Tavares da Silva 6 A Chinese Mission for Macao: To Build Bridges between China and the Portuguese-Speaking Countries  Cátia Miriam Costa PART 3: China’s Global Connections with Lusophone Countries: Emerging Geopolitical Interests 7 China’s Energy Security and Portugal in Belt and Road Initiative  Carla Fernandes 8 The Dragon and the Crocodile Revisited: The Chinese Influence in Timor-Leste  Nuno Canas Mendes 9 Connecting Connectivities: China and the Environmental Dimension of the Belt and Road Initiative in Portuguese-Speaking African Countries  Andrea Valente 10 The Impacts of Bolsonaro’s Presidency on the Brazilian-Chinese Relationship  Raquel de Caria Patrício Index

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Book SynopsisGender, age, class, ethnicity, religion, and political ideologies all matter in peacebuilding. Adopting a feminist approach, the 13th volume of International Development Policy analyses such intersecting differences in local contexts to develop a better understanding of how intersectionally gendered dynamics shape and are shaped by peacebuilding. In this volume, findings are presented from a six-year collaborative research project that, involving scholars from Indonesia, Nigeria, and Switzerland, investigated peacebuilding initiatives in Indonesia and Nigeria. The authors identify a number of logics that highlight how gender is deployed strategically or asserts itself inadvertently through gender stereotypes, gendered divisions of labour, or identity constructions. Contributors include: Mimidoo Achakpa, Ceren Bulduk, Rahel Kunz, Henri Myrttinen, Joy Onyesoh, Elisabeth Prügl, Arifah Rahmawati, Christelle Rigual and Wening Udasmoro.Trade Review“This is such an important book! Applying a feminist methodology, as is done throughout this analysis, shows the need to go deeper, to understand the importance of intersectionality; how western neo liberal approaches fail and why real peacebuilding comes from within; from households to communities, which must be supported—not dictated to. Increasing our knowledge of how we succeed or fail in building peace is a vital contribution to our possibilities for success, and this book does just that.” – Madeleine Rees, Secretary General of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom “This impressive collection of feminist research, rooted in detailed knowledge of peacebuilding practices in Nigeria and Indonesia, illuminates the multiple ways in which gender acts and is acted upon in the local dynamics that can either escalate or de-escalate conflicts. It is essential reading for peacebuilding practitioners, and offers academics valuable new material for understanding the diverse, rich and complex field of gender and peacebuilding.” – Claire Duncanson, School of Social and Political Science, University of EdinburghTable of ContentsForeword Preface List of Figures and Tables Acronyms and Abbreviations Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction Local Peacebuilding through a Gender Lens   Elisabeth Prügl, Rahel Kunz, Mimidoo Achakpa, Henri Myrttinen, Joy Onyesoh, Arifah Rahmawati, Christelle Rigual and Wening Udasmoro 2 Questioning the Mantra ‘All for One and One for All’ The Reintegration of Aceh’s Female Ex-combatants   Arifah Rahmawati 3 Exploring Gendered Understandings of Peace in Delta State   Ceren Bulduk, Joy Onyesoh and Mimidoo Achakpa 4 Art-for-Peace in Ambon An Intersectional Reading   Wening Udasmoro and Rahel Kunz Interlude 1: Doing Research Differently? Putting Feminist Research Principles into Practice   Henri Myrttinen Interlude 2: The Silencing of Gender-Based Violence   Christelle Rigual, Henri Myrttinen, Arifah Rahmawati and Mimidoo Achakpa 5 ‘No Matter What—I’ve Got Rights’ Women’s Land Grab Protests in Banyuwangi, East Java   Wening Udasmoro and Elisabeth Prügl 6 Umuada A Sociopolitical Institution for Peacebuilding and Conflict Management in Nigeria   Joy Onyesoh 7 Three Dimensions of Gender Mainstreaming in Economic Peacebuilding Insights from Indonesia and Nigeria   Christelle Rigual 8 Conclusion. Seeing Patterns, Finding Diversity Researching and Engaging with Gender and Peacebuilding in Indonesia and Nigeria   Henri Myrttinen Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume aims to provide consolidated analyses of the 2019 European elections and explanations about the future of the European party system, in a context in which the EU has to face many challenges, including the erosion of electoral support for mainstream parties and the increasing success of populist parties. The structure of the book is designed to combine the overall view on the role of elections in shaping the future European project with relevant case studies. The reader is given a perspective not only on the results of the European Parliament elections as such, but also on how these results are related to national trends which pre-exist and what kind of collateral effects on the quality of democracy they could have. Contributors include: Jan Bíba, Sorin Bocancea, Dóra Bókay, Radu Carp, József Dúró, Tomáš Dvořák, Alexandra Alina Iancu, Ruxandra Ivan, Petra Jankovská, Małgorzata Madej, Cristina Matiuța, Sergiu Mișcoiu, Valentin Naumescu, Gianluca Piccolino, Leonardo Puleo, Alexandru Radu, Mihai Sebe, Sorina Soare, Tobias Spöri, Jeremias Stadlmair, Martin Štefek, Piotr Sula, and Jaroslav Ušiak.Table of Contents List of Figures, Tables and Maps  Notes on Contributors  Introduction  Radu Carp and Cristina Matiuța Part 1: Stability, Change and Challenges for the EU Party System  1Answers and Dilemmas Following the 2019 European Elections  Valentin Naumescu  2The Demise of the Spitzenkandidaten System: decline of EU Democratization or (Euro)party Process of Adaptation?  Alexandra Alina Iancu  3Electoral Engineering for a European Demos: building European Identity through Elections  Ruxandra Ivan  4Towards a More Democratic European Union: how to Use the Elections for the European Parliament to Create a True Pan-European Constituency? Old Debates, New Challenges  Mihai Sebe  5The Citizens’ Perceptions ahead of the 2019 European Parliament Vote – The Accuracy of the Eurobarometer Democracy and Elections  Radu Carp  6The Exploitation for Populist Purposes of Difficulties in the EU – An Important Problem of the EU  Sorin Bocancea Part 2: Case Studies  7Back on Track: the French Far Right’s (Narrow) Win in the 2019 European Elections  Sergiu Mișcoiu  8Europe Up for Grabs: an Italian Perspective  Gianluca Piccolino, Leonardo Puleo and Sorina Soare  9European Parliamentary Elections in Austria “Gone Ibiza”  Tobias Spöri and Jeremias Stadlmair  10A Dress Rehearsal: european Elections in Poland before the Parliamentary Race  Piotr Sula and Małgorzata Madej  11The 2019 European Parliament Elections in Hungary  József Dúró and Dóra Bókay  12Rise of Euroscepticism in Slovak Political Parties before Election to European Parliament: case of Rise of Extremism in Slovak Society  Jaroslav Ušiak and Petra Jankovská  13Ambiguity towards the EU as a Destiny of Czech Politics: the Case of the ANO Movement  Jan Bíba, Tomáš Dvořák and Martin Štefek  14The European Elections Campaign in Romania: between Contesting and Embracing the EU  Cristina Matiuța  15A Pattern of European Parliament Elections in Romania (2007–2019)  Alexandru Radu  Conclusions  Radu Carp and Cristina Matiuța  Index

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