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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Spatial Social Thought – Local Knowledge in
Book SynopsisGlobal, local, glocal reflecting on the area of world social science seems to be above all a matter of space. In these spatial dichotomies the global has no location and locations seem beyond this world. Discourses about world social science thought not only distinguish social thought along spaces where they are created. Space has become an attribute of thinking when social scientists reflect on the world of social thought: Southern, Western and Northern knowledge, the location in which thoughts are created, is not only a hint about the address of a thinker, but about the theoretical perspective through which social science thinkers look at social reality. Social thoughts are imagined as imprisoned in the spatial context in which they are created, and social science thinkers are imagined as representatives of spaces, whether these are defined politically, culturally, or in any other context in which their thoughts must be rooted as if the product of human minds was nothing but a voicing of the nature of spaces. And should we imagine the world social science arena, the encounter of all these spatially bound thoughts, as the encounter of many parochial knowledges that never manage to arrive at shared thoughts unless they already share the same spatial context? Why should we then at all meet each other? This book discusses examples of spatially constructed knowledges and the struggles these knowledges encounter as they seek to meet one another and escape from the mind prison of their spatial contexts. Or does the world social science arena after all only prove that the 'Western' dogma of contextualising social thought is a dead end road for social thought -- everywhere?Table of ContentsForeword Section I: Global Social Thought 1. Concepts that Hinder the Progress of Sociological Research: Identity as an Epistemological Obstacle, by Youssef Salameh 2. Isn't Anthropology Already a Multiversalist Discipline? Assessing the Status of Anthropology in Asia, by Nestor Castro 3. Indigenised while Internationalised? Tensions and Dilemmas in China's Modern Transformation of Social Sciences in an Age of Globalisation, by Rui Yang 4. 'Academic Dependence': The World Social Science Arena-a Battlefield among Parochial Thought?, by Michael Kuhn Section II: Spatialized Thought and Local Knowledge Production 5. Michel Foucault and the Postcolonial African Theory: A Critical Essay, by Leon-Marie Nkolo Ndjodo 6. Knowledge Production: A Perspective from the Periphery, by Carmen Bueno 7. Civilizational Encounter, Cultural Translation, and Social Reflexivity: A Note on the History of Sociology in Japan, by Shujiro Yazawa 8. The community of sociologists in Morocco facing the internationalization of knowledge, by Kamal Mellakh 9. Internationalization of Research in Lebanon: The case of the American University of Beirut, by Sari Hanafi, Rigas Avanitis, Justine Baer Section III: Culture in Global Knowledge Encounters 10. Culture as a Dimension in International Social Science Encounters, by Doris Weidemann 11. The Manifestation of Scientific Cultures: A Sociophilosophical Study of Islamic Scientific Tradition, by Alparslan Acikgenc 12. The Study of Culture within Alternative Vision, by Mahmoud Dhaouadi Section IV: Globalizing Local Social Thought 13. The Transformation Processes in Global Social Knowledge, by Hebe Vessuri 14. Can Peripheries Talk Back? Alternative Intellectual Trends in Tamil Nadu and their Possible Lessons for Knowledge-Making Practices outside Intellectual Power Centers, by Kumaran Rajagopal 15. How to Overcome "Oriental" Sociology?, by Ebrahim Towfigh, Shirin Ahmadnia Authors
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Theories about and Strategies against Hegemonic
Book SynopsisThis innovative book provides new perspectives on the globalization of knowledge and the notion of hegemonic sciences. Tying together contributions of authors from all across the world, it challenges existing theories of hegemonic sciences and sheds new light on how they have been and are being constructed. Examining more closely the notions of 'human rights' and 'individualization', this much-needed volume offers new and alternative ideas on how to transform the universalization of the Western model of science and can serve as an eye-opener for all those interested in non-hegemonic scientific discourse. This book is published within the Series 'Beyond the Social Sciences'.Trade Review"An invaluable step forward for every social scientist."-Tomiyuki Uesugi, Director of the Center for Global Studies (CGS), Seijo University, Tokyo
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Migrant Friendships in a Super-Diverse City:
Book SynopsisThis timely book offers an integrative and critical approach to the conceptualization of diversity of social ties in contemporary urban migrant populations. It explores the informal relationships of migrants in London and how the construction and the dynamics of their social ties function as a part of urban sociality within the super-diversity of London. Based on the results of a qualitative study of Russian-speaking migrants, it targets the four main themes of transnationalism, ethnicity, cosmopolitanization, and friendship. Acknowledging the complexity of the ways in which contemporary migrants rely on social relationships, the author argues that this complexity cannot be fully grasped by theories of transnationalism or explanations of ethnic communities alone. Instead, one can gather a closer understanding of migrant sociality when adding the analysis of informal relationships in different locations and with different subjects. This book suggests that friendship should be seen as an important concept for all research on migrant social connections.Trade Review"Drawing on a range of innovative research methods, Migrant Sociality in a Super Diverse City presents an original and empirically compelling picture of the Russian-speaking diaspora in London. This book is a must for European migration scholars."-Dr. Alan Latham, Senior Lecturer, University College London"This book offers fascinating insights into the experiences of a neglected migrant group in London while also providing careful analysis of the multicultural dynamics of a super-diverse city. Darya Malyutina has opened up a new strand of migration studies"-Dr. Claire Dwyer, Reader in Human Geography, Co-Director of the Migration Research Unit, University College London"The book challenges those perspectives which claim that common origins and immigrantstatus are a sufficient basis for building relationships in a super-diverse city. Russian-speaking migrants constantly evaluate and negotiate the main threads of their social life and Malyutinas book captures the intricacies of these processes. The reader may feel that there is still room for methodological clarifications; perhaps a sub-section focused on these aspects could be useful. The author succeeds in carrying out the overall purpose of the book and her appealing study adds valuable knowledge about a highly heterogeneous social life in a super-diverse context." Alin Croitoru, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Europe-Asia Studies, 69:7
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon How the Social Sciences Think About the World's
Book SynopsisAt the beginning of the new millennium, the social sciences discover an epochal turn making it necessary to revolutionise their theory-building: As a response to what they call the globalisation of the social, they find the need to globalise their theorising as well. It is odd to discover after two centuries of colonialism and imperialism, after two world wars and several economic world crises that there is a world beyond the national socials; it is even more strange that the social sciences globalise their theorising by comparing theories about nationally confined socials and by creating all sorts of, preferably, local theories, just as if any national social was a secluded social biotope. Discussing how to globalise the social sciences, they argue that globalising social science theorising means finding a way of theorising that must, above all, be liberated from scientism in order to allow a provincialisation of thinking. Not surprisingly, the globalising social sciences also rediscover mythological and moral thinking as a means for a true scientific universalism. Michael Kuhns book presents many thought-provoking arguments on the oddities of the globalising social sciences and on how these oddities are not accidents, but a consequence of the nature of how the social sciences theorise about the social.
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Towards a New Russian Work Culture: Can Western
Book SynopsisThis innovative book offers a fresh perspective on the national work culture of Russia and the substantial role foreign institutional and cultural impact has had in shaping it. Russia's contemporary work culture is understood as a national system supplemented by new values and attitudes that have been adopted through the mediation of foreign individuals and corporations or in response to the challenges of Western competition. It is argued that the foreign factor triggers change in the landscape of Russia's work culture, the scope of which depends on the type of influence. However, there is a certain core of the work culture that remains resistant to any external impact.Trade ReviewThis volume is by no means just an exposition of yet another point of view on the phenomenon of Russian work culture and its role in Russias modernization breakthroughs. It presents an unexpected and original approach, an absolutely new perspective of this seemingly old topic. On the one hand, the authors consider Russias national work culture in the context of foreign influence and test it for resistance to external pressures. On the other hand, they reveal the foreign trace in its fabric ― the features that were introduced and internalized in the course of direct and indirect contacts with foreign cultures. For the authors, Russian national work culture is not a finished, static entity, but a dynamic system that is in permanent interaction with (predominantly) Western culture and has largely developed in direct competition with it. It is this approach that makes this book exceptionally appealing. -- Vladimir N. Leksin, Institute of System Analysis of the Russian Academy of SciencesTHE PUBLICATION OF THIS BOOK IN ENGLISH MARKS THE NEXT TURN IN the ever-important and ever-uneasy relationship between Russia and the West, both in its pragmatic and ideological dimensions Judith Pallot, University of Oxford, Europe-Asia Studies, November 2018
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Informal Healthcare in Contemporary Russia:
Book SynopsisThis volume deals with one of the most understudied aspects of everyday life in Russian society. Its main heroes are the providers of goods and services to whom people turn for healthcare instead of official medical institutions. A wide range of agents is describedfrom network marketing companies to 'folk' journals on health as well as healers, complementary medicine specialists, and religious organizations. Krasheninnikovas book is based on rich empirical observations and avoids both positive and critical assessment of the analyzed phenomena. Her investigation pays particular attention to the legal, social, and economic status of informal healthcare providers. She demonstrates that these agents tend to flourish in bigger towns rather than in small settlements, where public healthcare is lacking. The study reveals the important role of institutions that are generally not related to alternative medicine, such as pharmacies, libraries, and church shops. The result is a vivid and thorough introduction to the world of self-medication and alternative healing in contemporary Russia. A special emphasis was made on the flexibility of boundaries between formal and informal healthcare due to the evolution of rules and regulations.Table of ContentsForeword; Goals & Tools of Informal Healthcare Sociography; Agents in the Markets For Health Products; Health From the Garden, Forest, & Market: Procuring & Selling Gifts of Nature; Shadow & Respectable Alternative Medicine: From Healers to "Complementary" Specialists; Religious Institutions: Health Concerns & Commerce on Health Problems; The "Informal Healthcare" Framework: Information Markets; Afterword.
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Patriotic Education in Contemporary Russia:
Book SynopsisThis book is a comprehensive study of the social roots of citizen raising in contemporary Russia. It traces the development of governmental patriotic programs in recent decades, discusses how the Soviet past and political traditions influence todays system of patriotism formation, and presents numerous examples illustrating real-life processes in current patriotic education. While the topics of patriotism and patriotic education are highly politicised, this study approaches them from a sociological perspective. It identifies the basic model of patriotic education as a fairly stable structure born of the values and attitudes of different agents: teachers, school administrators, and civil servants. Patriotic education in Russia is shown as a particular example of how a political idea can lead to the formation of social structures, and how, in time, those social structures can lead to the restoration of the original political idea.
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Ukraine's Post-Communist Mass Media: Between
Book SynopsisNatalya Ryabinska calls into question the commonly held opinion that the problems with media reform and press freedom in former Soviet states merely stem from the cultural heritage of their communist (and pre-communist) past. Focusing on Ukraine, she argues that, in the period after the fall of communism, peculiar new obstacles to media independence have arisen. They include the telltale structure of media ownership, with news reporting being concentrated in the hands of politically engaged business tycoons, the fuzzy and contradictory legislation of the media realm, and the informal institutions of political interference in mass media. The book analyzes interrelationships between politics, the economy, and media in Ukraine, especially their shadowy sides guided by private interests and informal institutions. Being embedded in comparative politics and post-communist media studies, it helps to understand the nature and workings of the Ukrainian media system situated in-between democracy and authoritarianism. It offers insights into the inner logic of Ukraines political system and institutional arrangement in the post-Soviet period. Based on empirical data of 19942013, this study also highlights many of the barriers to democratic reforms that have been persisting in Ukraine since the Revolution of Dignity of 20132014.Trade ReviewThis book serves as a guide for understanding both the current predicament of the Ukrainian media as well as its historical precedents and development over time. Mark Teramae, University of Helsinki, Europe-Asia Studies (70:10) 2018Table of ContentsForeword; Introduction; Media & Politics in the Gray Zone Between Democracy & Authoritarianism: An Interdisciplinary Approach; Media Capture in Post-Communist Ukraine; The Media Market & Ownership, & Economic Dimension of Media Capture in Ukraine; Conclusion: New Obstacles to Media Reform in Postcommunist Ukraine; Bibliography.
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon The Instrumentalisation of Mass Media in
Book SynopsisFocusing on the case of Russia during Putins first two presidential terms, this book examines media manipulation strategies in electoral authoritarian regimes. Which instruments and approaches do incumbent elites employ to skew media coverage in favour of their preferred candidate in a presidential election? What effects do these strategies have on news content? Based on two case studies of the presidential election campaigns in Russia in 2000 and in 2008, this investigation identifies the critical internal mechanisms according to which these regimes work. Looking at the same country, while it transformed from a competitive into a hegemonic authoritarian regime, allows one to make a diachronic comparison of these two regime types based on the Most-Similar Systems Design. The book explicates the subtle differences between competitive and hegemonic regimes, different types of media manipulation strategies, the diverging extent of media instrumentalisation, various interactions among state actors, large business owners, the media, and journalists, the respective effects that all these factors and interactions have on media content, and the peculiar types of bias prevalent in each type of regime. This deep exploration of post-Soviet politics is based on extensive review of documents, interviews with media professionals, and quantitative as well as qualitative content analyses of news media during two Russian presidential election campaigns.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Hybrid Regimes: Types & Measurements; Electoral Manipulations; Instrumentalisation of the Media; Strategies of Media Manipulation: The Case of Russia; Analysis of News Content: Presidential Election Campaigns 2000 & 2008; Conclusions.
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Revolution & War in Contemporary Ukraine: The
Book SynopsisWhat are the reasons behind, and trajectories of, the rapid cultural changes in Ukraine since 2013? This volume highlights: the role of the Revolution of Dignity and the Russian-Ukrainian war in the formation of Ukrainian civil society; the forms of warfare waged by Moscow against Kyiv, including information and religious wars; Ukrainian and Russian identities and cultural realignment; sources of destabilisation in Ukraine and beyond; memory politics and Russian foreign policies; the Kremlins geopolitical goals in its 'near abroad'; and factors determining Ukraines future and survival in a state of war. The studies included in this collection illuminate the growing gap between the political and social systems of Ukraine and Russia. The anthology illustrates how the Ukrainian revolution of 20132014, Russias annexation of the Crimean peninsula, and its invasion of eastern Ukraine have altered the post-Cold War political landscape and, with it, the regional and global power and security dynamics.Trade Review"This book explores the Ukrainian crisis using a different approach, not often seen in other works. The authors have attempted to view the Ukrainian crisis not at the level of competition between superpowers and the issue of East and West, but from a social and identity perspective. In this they have been successful. As a result, the reader gains a more thorough understanding of events and better perceives the complexities of the tensions between Ukraine and Russia and, hence, between Russia and the West...."Ghasem Torabi (2018) Revolution and War in Contemporary Ukraine. The Challenge of Change, Europe-Asia Studies, 70:2, 303-304, DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2018.1430225Table of ContentsIntroduction; The Ukrainian Revolution of 2013-2014 & the Sources of Russia's Response; Ukraine is the Epicenter of the 'World Hurricane"; Ukraine & Russia: Entangled Histories, Contested Identities, & a War of Narratives; Living with Ambiguities: Meanings of Nationalism in the Russian-Ukrainian War; Ideologies of Language in Wartime; Ukrainian Euromaidan as Social & Cultural Performance; The Annexation of Crimea: Russia's Response to Ukraine's Revolution; Russian Hegemony in the Black Sea Basin: The "Third Rome" in Contemporary Geopolitics; The Invisible Front: Russia, Trolls, & the Information War Against Ukraine; The Impact of Russia's Intervention in Ukraine on Muslim, Jewish & Baptist Communities; The Perpetual Cycle of Political Corruption in Ukraine & Post-Revolutionary Attempts to Break Through It; Police Reform: Challenges & Prospects; Epilogue; Index.
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Creative Industries in Syria – Changes and
Book SynopsisSyria is undergoing a stage of transformation, including political and social changes. This unique book focuses on the transformations in creative industries and presents a collection of research papers describing and analyzing this pivotal period, in which their role evolved from producing tangible cultural products to becoming an active player in the maintenance of knowledge and a source of support and revenue.Trade Review"Impressive and promising research at an excellent scientific level by three young Syrian women." Dr Sarab Atassi, Associate Researcher, Ifpo (Institut Francais du Proche-Orient)
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon border and bordering – Politics, Poetics,
Book SynopsisBorder and Bordering: Politics, Poetics, Precariousness focuses on the idea of border and its various geopolitical, sociocultural, and cognitive incarnations. In recent times, border has emerged as a common trope in contemporary language with phenomena such as bordering, borderless, building borders, breaking borders, crossing borders, porous borders, and shifting borders. Whether concrete or shadow, borders are omnipresent. The volume contains sixteen essays on various aspects of thinking border as well as border-thinking in literature, philosophy, historiography, strategic studies, films, and TV series. Such a collection is symptomatic of the very interdisciplinarity of border and the varied experiences of bordering as manifested in different modes of expression. This study of the multiplicity of experiences is intrinsic to our understanding of border, so much so that borders can only be read through an interdisciplinary approach. This interdisciplinarity is immanent to the concept of border and imminent (to come) to the phenomenon of bordering. Also, the volume quite explicitly deals with themetaphorsof border(s): as border(s) may not necessarily be always visible and tangible but also cognitive and metaphysical. This volume intends to attract not only academics but all readers, and that is precisely the reason why it has been designed in such a way.This book, therefore, is not yet-another volume on critical border studies and area studies. In doing border, the book enables us to go beyond the boundaries of border studies and area studiesas its authors believe that studies of border studies and area studies have become as regimented as the borders of the nation-state.Trade ReviewNever before in human history did the issues of border and border crossing figure so prominently as they do at the present time. Large-scale migrations, forced or voluntary, in the age of transnationalism have foregrounded debates about the relevance of national borders. Recent surveys conducted by social scientists demonstrate how economic and social transactions continue across borders despite stringent surveillance of border areas. At the same time, citizenship and statelessness have become a raging issue. In the context of such a situation the publication of the edited volume entitled Border and Bordering: Politics, Poetics, Precariousness which includes articles on actual and metaphorical dimensions of border studies is very timely. Himadri Lahiri, NSOU, Author of Diaspora Theory and Transnationalism (Literary/Cultural Theory)Table of ContentsForeword by Bill Ashcroft; Preface by Jayjit Sarkar and Auritra Munshi; Introduction; Contemporary Fiction as a Cultural Map of Migration; Statelessness and the Tensions between Open Borders and the Claims of Community; Rejection, Reconstruction and Erosion of Borders: The Identity Path of Grisélidis Réal; A Place Not Our Own: Gulf Emigration and Bordered Lives in Benyamins Jasmine Days; Challenges and Resistance to the Partition of Bengal: Impact of Baul and Marafati Oral Tradition; Bordering the Screen: Separation Themes in Popular Film and Television; Representation of Incarcerated Women in Orange is the New Black: An Intersectional Feminist Approach; Tracks and Borders: Railways in Rays Apu Trilogy; Oceanic Borders: Climate Refugees, Borders and Extinction in the Necrocene; Fuzzy (B)ordering: More than Human Agencies and the Ethics of (Dis)avowal; I alone . . . was on both sides: The Hyphenated Self in Hélène Cixouss Reveries of the Wild Woman; Borders in South Asia: Language, Culture and Religion from Colonialism to Globalization; Missing Links or the Diasporic Journey of a Rebel: A Study of H P Malets Lost Links in Indian Mutiny (1867); Un-blinding Doctrine and Exiting Molar Lines in Arnolds The Scholar Gipsy; Reorganising (B)orders: Reading the Womens Writing in Colonial Bengal; Erasing the Borders: Tagores Engagement with the Subalterns in Sahaj Path; Contributors; Index.
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon It’s All Been There Before: What We Can Learn
Book SynopsisSince the beginning of the Coronavirus crisis, ourlives have completely changed: Shutdowns, working in home offices, contact restrictions, daily bulletins from virologists, protest movements, and conspiracy fantasies seem to have become part of our new everyday life. Could we have been prepared for this? Totally. It's all been there before: in the movies. Science fiction films and series have always dealt with the future and its possible course, social changes, and conflicts in a speculative way. Denis Newiak searches through the scenes of pandemic movies and series to bring out ideas for how to cope with the social, political, and economic challenges of the crisis. Can the scenarios developed in film help us to pass this test-and to emerge from it with greater strength?
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ibidem The Faraway Sky of Kyiv
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V&R unipress GmbH School Transformation and Social Change
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V&R Unipress Polish Students and Alcohol: Conditions and
Book SynopsisWhat factors influence problematic alcohol consumption among university students and what are the short and long-term consequences?
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V&R Unipress Japanese and Polish Managers: Economy, Management
Book SynopsisThe latest comparative study of managers: Japan and Poland in the face of contemporary economic and social challenges
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V&R unipress GmbH The Meaning of Kindness
Book SynopsisConceptualization of the phenomenon of kindness
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Transcript Verlag Local Knowledge and Gender in Ghana
Book SynopsisThe emergence of global knowledge societies is recently questioning the meaning and relevance of local knowledge in the context of Southern countries. Women have proved to be the central actors in the multiple channels of local-global networking, using these new social ties for the negotiation of old and new elements of knowledge, scientific knowledge and development discourses. The inherent politicisation of knowledge and the direct objective of transforming societal institutions are not only signs of resistance against global hegemony, but serve for a new definition and for a defence of local culture and of local knowledge.
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V&R unipress GmbH Changing Histories: Japanese and South African
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Springer, India, Private Ltd Subaltern Urbanisation in India: An Introduction
Book SynopsisThis volume decentres the view of urbanisation in India from large agglomerations towards smaller urban settlements. It presents the outcomes of original research conducted over three years on subaltern processes of urbanization. The volume is organised in four sections. A first one deals with urbanisation dynamics and systems of cities with chapters on the new census towns, demographic and economic trajectories of cities and employment transformation. The interrelations of land transformation, social and cultural changes form the topic of the “land, society, belonging” section based on ethnographic work in various parts of India (Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh and Tamil Nadu). A third section focuses on public policies, governance and urban services with a set of macro-analysis based papers and specific case studies. Understanding the nature of production and innovation in non-metropolitan contexts closes this volume. Finally, though focused on India, this research raises larger questions with regard to the study of urbanisation and development worldwide.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: Reclaiming small towns Marie-Hélène Zérah & Eric Denis.- Part I Placing Small Towns: Dynamics of Urbanisation and Systems of cities.- Chapter 2. Unacknowledged Urbanisation: The New Census Towns in India Kanhu C. Pradhan.- Chapter 3. The substantial share of small towns in India's system of cities Elfie Swerts.- Chapter 4. The Income Ranking of Indian States and their Pattern of Urbanisation Basudeb Chaudhuri, Boishompayan Chatterjee, Mainak Mazumdar, Safayet Karim.- Chapter 5. Urbanisation in a decade of near jobless growth S. Chandrasekhar.- Chapter 6. Comparison of Peripheral Metropolitisation in Haryana and Rajasthan, India Milap Punia, Rajnish Kumar, Laxman Singh and Sandeep Kaushik.- Chapter 7. On global and Multiple Linkages in the making of an Ordinary place: Parangipettai-Porto Novo Eric Denis and Zarin Ahmed.- Part II Land, Society, Belonging.- Chapter 8. The multilayered urbanisation of the South Canara territory Solomon Benjamin.- Chapter 9. Practices of Territory in Small and Medium Cities of South India Bhuvaneswari Raman.- Chapter 10. Territorial legends: Politics of indigeneity, migration and urban citizenship in Pasighat Mythri Prasad-Aleyamma.- Chapter 11. Wealth, Mobility, Accretive Citizenship and Belonging: Why Everyone Comes to Kullu, and How they Remain Diya Mehra.- Chapter 12. Hindu temples and development of localities in Tamil Nadu (South India) Pierre-Yves Trouillet.- Part III. Small towns between rural and urban administration: Public Policies, Governance and Urban Services.- Chapter 13. The Other Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission: what does it mean for small town India? Sama Khan.- Chapter 14. Shedding light on social and economic changes in small towns through the prism of local governance: A case study of Haryana Marie-Hélène Zérah.- Chapter 15. Purdah and Politics: Women’s Participation in Local Governance Aditi Surie and Marie-Hélène Zérah.- Chapter 16. New Urban Territories in West Bengal: Transition, Transformation and Governance Gopa Samanta.- Chapter 17. Does administrative status matter for small towns in India? Partha Mukhopadhyay.- Part IV Producing and Innovating in non-metropolitan contexts.- Chapter 18. Development on the urban fringe: the prosperity of Kartarpur, a small town-cluster in Punjab Rémi de Bercegol and Shankare Gowda.- Chapter 19. From Ox-Carts to Borewell rigs: Maintenance, Manufacture and Innovation in Tiruchengode Yann Philippe Tastevin.- Chapter 20. Globalisation, Productive Spaces and Small Town Transformation: The case of Machlipatnam and Pedana in Coastal Andra Pradesh N. Sridharan.- Chapter 21. Mapping small towns’ productive and employment configurations Elfie Swerts and Eric Denis.- Chapter 22. Commuting Workers and the Integration of the Rural-Urban Economy Ajay Sharma.- Chapter 23. Non-Timber Forest Products and Small Town Economies Manoj Nadkarni.
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Indus Publishing Company Costumes and Ornaments of Chamba
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Deep & Deep Publications Backward Class Reservation and Concept of Creamy
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Deep & Deep Publications Rural Leadership: Emerging Trends
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Deep & Deep Publications Legal Protection of Scheduled Castes and Tribes
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PeePee Publishers and Distributors Pvt Short Essays on Sex: Volume 1
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Cappelen Damm Akademisk Det blåøyde riket: Norske tillitspatologier
Book SynopsisSocial trust is the key to, indeed the very success formula for, well-functioning and harmonious societies like the Norwegian one, both researchers and politicians claim. But can there be too much trust in a society? Can trust make us dull and naive? Does Norwegians'' great, almost boundless trust in authorities and state institutions leave the way open for corruption, abuse of power and national security threats - and for us Norwegians to a large extent tolerating incompetence? Yes, claim Nina Witoszek and Eva Joly, who in this book deal with what they call Norwegian trust pathologies. The authors show how the Norwegian trust has backfired on us, and has been abused by, among others, Norwegian peace brokers, tax lawyers, business leaders, politicians and the state oil company Equinor. They recognize that trust is an important social good. But it must be accompanied by common sense.
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University Press of Southern Denmark Social and Economic Development in the
Book SynopsisThe Arab Gulf states (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and UAE) have over the past decades moved from near obscurity to prominence among actors in the global economy. This rise of the Gulf was facilitated by plentiful income from oil and gas and by the gradual process by which the economic centre of the world is shifting eastward. But first and foremost it has been a result of conscious policies conceived and implemented by the Gulf states to catch up with the developed world and not least to place their countries on a developmental trajectory which will secure the populations a sustainable livelihood in the future. This book recognises the significant developmental results achieved in the Gulf states over the past half of a century but focuses on the detrimental and disrupting effects created by the economic anomaly of sudden and massive influx of oil revenues. Effects such as the growth of rentier mentality, the crowding out of productive activities, the resulting lack of economic diversification. The oil-based development model worked well when the populations were small and the income from oil plentiful. With rapidly increasing populations and rising popular demands on the governments, this model can no longer adequately support these societies. The book investigates various elements of how the governments in the Gulf region tackle the difficult and often painful transition toward an ordinary type of economy, where wealth in society is a created by the skills and hard work of its population. Issues such as economic diversification, societal planning, institutional change, social reforms, educational achievements, demographic growth, job creation and the significant reliance on migrant labour are investigated.
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Museum Tusculanum Press Ethnologia Europaea 45:2: Journal of European
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Museum Tusculanum Press Statecrafting on the Fringes: Studies of Welfare
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Aarhus University Press Public Sociology: Proceedings of the Anniversary
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University Press of Southern Denmark Religion & Identity in Europe: The Makings of
Book SynopsisExamining the clash between Roman religion and Christianity in Antiquity, and juxtaposing this with some of the cultural and religious conflicts currently unfolding in Europe, the author draws attention to interesting parallels linking religion, identity, and the construction of religious enemy images -- and running across the fabric of time. Here she explores a number of issues in multicultural Europe, past and present. These include cultural encounters and the concepts of religio and superstitio; infighting and propagandising amongst emperors, philosophers, and church fathers; miracle rivalry and martyrdom; ancient Romanisation and modern globalisation; religious pluralism and universal values; freedom of religion and liberal democracies; and secularism and the European fear factor.
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University Press of Southern Denmark Impact of Changes in Life-Stage on Time
Book SynopsisThis paper investigates the relation between women and men''s life stages and their time allocation: paid work, household work, childcare and leisure time, and, in particular, how this allocation changes when moving from one stage to another stage. We use a new Danish panel dataset merged with Danish administrative register data, which allows for analysing the impact of individual, endogenous characteristics of the respondents such as preferences for doing specific activities. We find that the labour supply of fathers to pre-school children is not different from that of young men without children, while there is a negative correlation between mothers to pre-school children and young women''s labour supply. Comparing fathers and mothers to school children with those to pre-school children, we find a positive correlation in both sexes labour supply. However, fixed effects estimations do not result in a reduction in mothers, nor in fathers, to pre-school children''s labour supply indicating that there are some inborn characteristics for the other life-stage changes which are not revealed by doing ordinary cross-sectional analyses.
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KIT Publishers Elmina: Building on the Past to Create a Better
Book SynopsisOld Dutch slave fortresses in Elmina were restored and alongside the restoration some sustainable developments took place: the set up of a tourist office in Elmina in one of the buildings, plus an employment project in order to keep the buildings well maintained. This meant an increase in tourism, a revival of traditional culture and skills, an increasing demand for local products and thus improved living conditions. Highly illustrated with beautiful pictures by Nana Kofi Acqua. Published in co-operation with Urban Solutions, Rotterdam with support by the European Commission.
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VU University Press Honour Killings, Moral Panic and the Emergence of
Book SynopsisAt the beginning of the new millennium, honour-related violence was at the very forefront of public attention in the Netherlands. The emergence of the issue was facilitated by evolving discourses on multiculturalism and was driven by four events, the shootings of Kezban, Hassan, Zarife and Gül. This combination of processes contributed to a reconceptualization of domestic violence against migrant women into honour-related violence. Moreover, the extensive media coverage of these shootings contributed to a moral panic about this issue: honour killings were perceived as a sign of the failing integration of migrants. Together these processes provide an explanation for the widespread public attention for this issue and the emergence of an honour-related violence field. This case study illustrates that the emergence of an issue-based organizational field is a multi-layered process in which various actors, actions and processes come together and influence each other.
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Readworthy Publications Pvt Ltd Socio-Economic Status and Livelihood Security of
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SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd Rights of the Girl Child in India: Struggle for
Book SynopsisChildren were practically considered the private property of parents, and their status never seen fit for public discussion, till the middle of the twentieth century. As children are defenseless and easy to target, they suffer the most in any crisis, be it war, natural disaster or any other type of crime or calamity. Among children, however, the girl child suffers even more, as she faces double discrimination because of her tender age and her gender. In the mid-1990s, instances of reported abuse of girls in the form of foeticide, infanticide, prostitution and sexual exploitation, especially in zones of war and ethnic cleansing such as the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, became rampant. This led to the girl child receiving separate identification as a group for the first time in the Beijing Declaration of the 4th UN World Conference on Women in 1995. In India, the status and treatment of girls in society ranges between inadequate and deplorable, with the girl child being victimized in several ways. This book focuses on both the development (through enhancement of the nutritional, educational and health status) and welfare (through freedom from physical and psychosocial stress due to deprivation, exploitation and the resultant feelings of inferiority and low self-esteem) aspects of the girl child’s existence. It covers in detail all facets of the well-being of the girl child that are of concern to governments as well as international organizations. It explains in detail the challenges faced by government and non-governmental organizations in implementing any welfare and development initiatives for girls, including the discriminatory social norms impacting programme and policy implementation. It closely explores the differences between the theory and practice aspects of prevalent governmental programmes and policies. In the concluding parts, the book makes several policy recommendations and also seeks to lay out a future roadmap for the well-being of girls in India. Table of ContentsIntroduction Defining Childhood: Debate over Age and Rights The Status of the Girl Child as an International Concern The Girl Child as a Vulnerable Segment in India: Causes and Consequences Law and Legal Discourses: Welfare and Protection of the Girl Child Cultural Relativism and Violation of Human Rights of Girls and Women Conclusion References Index
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SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd Nation, Nationalism and the Public Sphere:
Book SynopsisFrom the shaping of identities and belongings through to current reconfigurations of nation, governance and state under a Hindu-Right dispensation, this book tracks the sentiments and structures that sustain the nation and nationalism in India. Nation, Nationalism and the Public Sphere: Religious Politics in India provides wide-ranging accounts of the growth and transformations of the nation, focusing especially on the intimate interplay of nation-state and nationalism with dominant religion. Drawing upon the perspectives of history, politics, anthropology, literature, film and media studies, this book explores key themes such as the appropriation and impact of western concepts of religion and the modern in postcolonial India and Pakistan, corporate bids to foster faith by erecting temples, formations of contemporary cosmopolitan religious imaginaries, the politics of cow protection, the rise of Narendra Modi as a national hero, and the fetish of the national in news channel debates. The book provides important insights into the success of the Hindu-Right, the discourse of religious–cultural nationalism, and their ramifications for democracy and citizenship.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Nation, Religion, Identity—Crisscrossing Concerns - Ishita Banerjee-Dube and Avishek Ray The Clash of Religious Politics in India - Mark Juergensmeyer Women’s Rights between Modernity and Tradition: ‘Modernizing’ Islam - Tabinda M. Khan Journeying in the Vernacular: Pilgrimage, Tourism and Nationalism in Hindi Travelogues - Shobna Nijhawan Race, Religion and the Politics of Counting: Historicizing Hindu Nationalism - Sayori Ghoshal Temple Construction and the Coming of a Nation: The Birla Mandir in Delhi - Anne Hartig Guru-led Faith Movements: The Case of the Art of Living Foundation - Himani Kapoor Rethinking Cow ‘Protection’: Gender, Caste and Labour at a Gaushala - Ridhima Sharma The Nation and the Hero, or the 56 Inch Paradox - Manjima Chatterjee The Question of Minority Citizenship: Shah Rukh Khan as the ′Global Indian′ - Sreya Mitra Screening Hindutva: Religion and Television in India - Maribel Elliet Alvarado Becerril Sacred Spaces and Gendered Sites: The Daikho of the Dimasa - Prithibi Gogoi Index
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HarperCollins India Being the Change: In the Footsteps of the Mahatma
Book SynopsisThis book tells the stories of social justice warriors who are quietly powering the country''s progress by being agents of real change. Words Mahatma Gandhi lived by-such as ''India lives in villages and to serve the poor we will have to serve in the villages'' or that ''truth may get troubled but it never gets defeated''-are their moral compass. They have shown by personal example how adopting Bapu''s ideology as a way of life can be personally enriching and socially beneficial. The people in this book mostly work away from the spotlight. Through entirely Gandhian ways, they have proved that his methods, such as satyagraha, still help effect real change and progress for the people most in need. Many have won awards and recognition, but largely their stirring stories have remained untold-a gap that Being the Change seeks to fill.
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Sterling Publishers Pvt.Ltd Public Policy: Formulation, Implementation and
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Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij Meet the Fokkens: At the Red Light District
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Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij A World without States
Book SynopsisHumanity is still living in the transitioning period from an animalistic to a humane existence. This is characterized by matters including war, violence and inhumanity. It is not surprising. Today the entire surface of the earth is divided into states, and communities that only care for their own interests. It is exactly this system of states that obstructs a fast and effective approach to large problems such as lasting peace, security and the habitability of the world. They are, after all, global problems. The system of states divides humanity into hostile units and has established a political barrier for a solution to the problem. There is only one solution for this problem and that is ending the sovereignty of the 193 states. Retain the right for private political policies, take away the ability to bully and threaten other countries, to own armed forces, to commit inhumane crimes. But who should govern us? A world government! A government that merely focuses on world problems. Because the solution to these problems is more important than local issues. Without a global authority humanity is left empty-handed. Dago Steenis (1925) wrote a remarkably positive book, something that is actually more than a book, it is a thought that can be passed on. Not like a pamphlet, but based on his speech. According to Steenis history cannot be a linear concept, not a static process, without progress. On the contrary. History precisely demonstrates that we have a reason to be optimistic, developments of mankind are evolutionary, and an increasing form of human growth and potency. Since the emergence of culture man gradually replaced natural evolution by cultural evolution.
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Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij Protection & Civilization: How Shocking Events
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Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press The Sociology of Religion
Book SynopsisText in Arabic. This book examines religion through the lens of society. The first part of this book begins with general references on religion and piety in the Arab and Western cultures, and then deals with the characteristics of religion and the foundations of religions. The second part deals with general introductions in sociology and its connection to the term civil society, and Western theories in the study of social sciences, issues beyond sociology, and the sociology of religion and modernity.
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Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press Shelter and housing reconstruction
Book SynopsisText in Arabic. This book raises the issue of reconstruction as an essential stage of recovery in countries that have suffered from violent conflicts and severe natural disasters, by focusing on the aspect of housing reconstruction in-particular, as the most necessity in ensuring a decent human life, and considering how important it actually is. The book is an important attempt to fill a clear gap in this field by relying on strong academic- scientific foundations and controls, and providing a theoretical framework of concepts to study the stage of housing reconstruction within the context of studying crises and recovering from them, and presenting a strategic-political vision to get out of it, reflected by a wide range of previous experiences; According to the tripartite approach: humanity, development, and peace. Finally, the book represents a valuable scientific contribution to Arabic literature and enriches researches in the field of post-crisis and disaster reconstruction. It contributes to the formation of a broad knowledge base fuelled by realistic models in understanding the possibilities, lessons, and challenges.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Reduction and Prevention of Youth Violence
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Advances in Sociology Research. Volume 39
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