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Through a glass darkly the social sciences look at the Neoliberal University
This collection of essays arose from a workshop held in Canberra in 2013 under the auspices of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia to consider the impact of the encroachment of the market on public universities. While the UK tripled fees in 2013 and determined that the teaching of the social sciences and the humanities would no longer be publicly funded, it was feared that Australia wou…
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- 9781925022148
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- 358 p
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- 378.94 THO t
Through a Glass Darkly : The Social Sciences Look at the Neoliberal University
This collection of essays arose from a workshop held in Canberra in 2013 under the auspices of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia to consider the impact of the encroachment of the market on public universities. While the UK tripled fees in 2013 and determined that the teaching of the social sciences and the humanities would no longer be publicly funded, it was feared that Australia wou…
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- 17
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- 9781925022148
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- 358
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- 378.94.THO
New Directions for Law in Australia : Essays in Contemporary Law Reform
For reasons of effectiveness, efficiency and equity, Australian law reform should be planned carefully. Academics can and should take the lead in this process. This book collects over 50 discrete law reform recommendations, encapsulated in short, digestible essays written by leading Australian scholars. It emerges from a major conference held at The Australian National University in 2016, which…
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- 9781760461423
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- 349.94.LEV
Vulnerability in Scandinavian Art and Culture
In this open access book, seventeen scholars discuss how contemporary Scandinavian art and media have become important arenas to articulate and stage various forms of vulnerability in the Scandinavian welfare states. How do discourses of privilege and vulnerability coexist and interact in Scandinavia? How do the Scandinavian countries respond to vulnerability given increased migration? How is v…
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- 9783030373825
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- xvii, 324p. : ill.
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- 709.48 VUL v
Anthropologies of Global Maternal and Reproductive Health: From Policy Spaces…
This open access edited book brings together new research on the mechanisms by which maternal and reproductive health policies are formed and implemented in diverse locales around the world, from global policy spaces to sites of practice. The authors – both internationally respected anthropologists and new voices – demonstrate the value of ethnography and the utility of reproduction as a l…
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- 9783030845148
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- XV, 225p; ill
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- 362.1 WAL a
WORKING THROUGH COLONIAL COLLECTIONS : an ethnography of the ethnological mus…
Reckoning with colonial legacies in Western museum collections What are the possibilities and limits of engaging with colonialism in ethnological museums? This book addresses this question from within the Africa department of the Ethnological Museum in Berlin. It captures the Museum at a moment of substantial transformation, as it prepared the move of its exhibition to the Humboldt Forum, a new…
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- 1
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- 9789462703100
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- 321p.; ill.
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- 301 WOR v
Space, place, and children's reading development : mapping the connections
This open access book is a unique study of the impact of lived experience on literate life, exploring how children’s reading development is affected by their home setting, and how this sense of place influences textual interpretation of the books they read. Based on qualitative research and structured around interviews with twelve participants, Space, Place and Children's Reading Development …
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- 5
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- 9781350275973
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- xiv, 256p.; ill.
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- 372.4 SPA m
LAND TENURE SECURITY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
This open access book presents a nuanced and accessible synthesis of the relationship between land tenure security and sustainable development. Contributing authors have collectively worked for decades on land tenure as connected with conservation and development across all major regions of the globe. The first section of this volume is intended as a standalone primer on land tenure security an…
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- 1
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- 9783030818807
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- xxxvii, 329p.; ill.
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- 333.3 LAN h
An Economic History Of Cambodia In The Twentieth Century
While colonization, protracted war and violent revolution are commonly blamed for Cambodia's failure to modernize its economy in the twentieth century, Margaret Slocomb's Economic History of Cambodia in the Twentieth Century questions whether these circumstances changed the underlying structures and relations of production. She also asks whether economic factors in some way instigated war and r…
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- 9789971697198
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Education to build back better : what can we learn from education reform for …
This open access book examines the implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic for education systems and argues that major education reforms will be necessary, particularly in the Global South, to address the learning loss caused by the pandemic. To inform those reforms, knowledge about the implementation reforms in the Global South is necessary, and such knowledge is seriously lacking as the existin…
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- 9783030939519
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- vi, 204p. : ill,
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- 379 FER e
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