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‘Fragile States’ in an Unequal World : The Role of the G7+ in International Diplomacy and Development Cooperation
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Abstract: This is a book about people. ‘Fragile States'in an Unequal World: The Role of the g7+ in International Diplomacy and Development Cooperation introduces the members of the g7+, a group formed by 20 conflict-affected states: why they came to believe in p...
Democracy and Power : The Delhi Lectures
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Abstract: Noam Chomsky visited India in 1996 and 2001 and spoke on a wide range of subjects, from democracy and corporate propaganda to the nature of the world order and the role of intellectuals in society. He captivated audiences with his lucid challenge of do...
The Politics of Language Contact in the Himalaya
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Abstract: This highly original and timely collection brings together case studies from salient areas of the Himalayan region to explore the politics of language contact. Promoting a linguistically and historically grounded perspective, The Politics of Language C...
Deliberation, Representation, Equity : Research Approaches, Tools and Algorithms for Participatory Processes
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Abstract: What can we learn about the development of public interaction in e-democracy from a drama delivered by mobile headphones to an audience standing around a shopping center in a Stockholm suburb? In democratic societies there is widespread acknowledgment ...
The Idea of Europe : Enlightenment Perspectives
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Abstract: In view of the challenges—many of which are political—that different European countries are currently facing, scholars who work on the eighteenth century have compiled this anthology which includes earlier recognitions of common values and past conside...
Democratising Participatory Research : Pathways to Social Justice From the South
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Abstract: In this book Carmen Martinez-Vargas explores how academic participatory research and the way it is carried out can contribute to more, or less, social justice. Adopting theoretical and empirical approaches, and addressing multiple complex, intersection...
Anthropology of Transformation : From Europe to Asia and Back
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Abstract: This collection of essays is the result of the joint efforts of colleagues and students of the leading social anthropology and post-socialism theorist, Professor Chris Hann. With the thirtieth anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 2019 as t...
Politics and the Environment in Eastern Europe
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Abstract: Europe remains divided between east and west, with differences caused and worsened by uneven economic and political development. Amid these divisions, the environment has become a key battleground. The condition and sustainability of environmental reso...
The Classical Parthenon : Recovering the Strangeness of the Ancient World
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Abstract: Complementing Who Saved the Parthenon? this companion volume sets aside more recent narratives surrounding the Athenian Acropolis, supposedly ‘the very symbol of democracy itself', instead asking if we can truly access an ancient past imputed with mode...
Living Earth Community : Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing
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Abstract: Living Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing is a celebration of the diversity of ways in which humans can relate to the world around them, and an invitation to its readers to partake in planetary coexistence. Innovative, informative, and...