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Undocumented migrants and healthcare : eight stories from Switzerland
What do undocumented migrants experience when they try to access healthcare? How do they navigate the (often contradictory) challenges presented by bureaucratic systems, financial pressures, attitudes to migrants, and their own healthcare needs? This urgent study uses a grounded theory approach to explore the ways in which undocumented migrants are included in or excluded from healthcare in …
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- 23
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781783744824
- Collation
- 118 p,
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- -
- Call Number
- 362.11094943 MAR U
The political economy of local cinema : a critical introduction
The globalization and digitalization of cultural markets presents formidable challenges for local cinema and storytelling. The essays in this collection address some of these challenges from the perspective of a critical political economy of local cinema. Inspiring these contributions is the effort of supporting local cinema as a form of valuable storytelling that is at risk of market-driven ex…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783631813300
- Collation
- 257p. : ill.
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- -
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- 302.2343 RAJ t
Acoustemologies in contact : sounding subjects and modes of listening in earl…
In this fascinating collection of essays, an international group of scholars explores the sonic consequences of transcultural contact in the early modern period. They examine how cultural configurations of sound impacted communication, comprehension, and the categorisation of people. Addressing questions of identity, difference, sound, and subjectivity in global early modernity, these authors s…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781800640375
- Collation
- 348p.: col.,ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 534 WIL a
The nordic economic, social and political model : challenges in the 21st Century
The Nordic Model is the 20th-century Scandinavian recipe for combining stable democracies, individual freedom, economic growth and comprehensive systems for social security. But what happens when Sweden and Finland – two countries topping global indexes for competitiveness, productivity, growth, quality of life, prosperity, and equality – start doubting themselves and their future? Is the N…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780429026690
- Collation
- vii, 257 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 306.0948 KOI t
Self-directed learning research and its impact to educational practice
This scholarly book is the third volume in an NWU book series on self-directed learning and is devoted to self-directed learning research and its impact on educational practice. The importance of self-directed learning for learners in the 21st century to equip themselves with the necessary skills to take responsibility for their own learning for life cannot be over emphasised. The target audien…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781928523451
- Collation
- xxxix, 464 p. ; ill
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- -
- Call Number
- 374.0019 MEN s
The heterogeneity of cancer metabolism
This open access volume will introduce recent discoveries in the field of cancer metabolism since the publication of the first edition in 2018, providing readers with an up-to-date understanding of developments in the field. Genetic alterations in cancer, in addition to being the fundamental drivers of tumorigenesis, can give rise to a variety of metabolic adaptations that allow cancer cells…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030657680
- Collation
- xxiii, 271p. : ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 616.99407 HET h
Cultural sovereignty beyond the modern state : space, objects, and media
In the past 25 years or more, political observers have diagnosed a crisis of the sovereign nation state and the erosion of state sovereignty through supranational institutions and the global mobility of capital, goods, information and labour. This edition of the European History Yearbook seeks to use "cultural sovereignty" as a heuristic concept to provide new views on these developments since …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783110679151
- Collation
- II, 181 p.
- Series Title
- Jahrbuch für Europäische Geschichte / European History Yearbook, Band 21
- Call Number
- 320.15 CUL c
Knowledge for Governance
This open access book focuses on theoretical and empirical intersections between governance, knowledge and space from an interdisciplinary perspective. The contributions elucidate how knowledge is a prerequisite as well as a driver of governance efficacy, and conversely, how governance affects the creation and use of knowledge and innovation in geographical context. Scholars from the fields of …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030471507
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- -
- Series Title
- -
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- 320 KNO k
Outdoor learning and play : pedagogical practices and children's cultural for…
This Open Access book examines children’s participation in dialectical reciprocity with place-based institutional practices by presenting empirical research from Australia, Brazil, China, Poland, Norway and Wales. Underpinned by cultural-historical theory, the analysis reveals how outdoors and nature form unique conditions for children's play, formal and informal learning and cultural formati…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030725952
- Collation
- xv, 201p. : ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 372.1384 OUT o
Re/assembling the pregnant and parenting teenager : narratives from the field(s)
Drawing in contributions from the United States, the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland and Aotearoa New Zealand, this book seeks to foreground shifting experiences of teenage pregnancy and parenting in time and space. In the process, the work cuts across enduring ‘stigma’ contests and dominant discourses which seek to capture, understand and render fixable the ‘problem’ of teenage …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781787075139
- Collation
- XIV, 309 p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 618.200835 RE r
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