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Networked Refugees : Palestinian Reciprocity and Remittances in the Digital Age
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Almost 68.5 million refugees in the world today live in a protection gap, the chasm between protections stipulated in the Geneva Convention and the abrogation of those responsibilities by states and aid agencies. With dwindling humanitarian aid, how do refugee communities solve collective dilemmas, like rai…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9780520383241
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- 127p.
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- 332.04246089927405692 NAD n
Deals and development : the political dynamics of growth episodes
"International financial crises have plagued the world in recent decades, including the Latin American debt crisis of the 1980s, the East Asian crisis of the late twentieth century, and the global financial crisis of 2007-09. One of the basic problems faced during these crises is the lack of adequate preventive mechanisms, as well as insufficient instruments to finance countries in crisis and t…
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- 9780198801641
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- xxv, 335 p. : bnw, ill.
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- 338.90091724 WER d
Learning from the history of british interventions in the middle east
Interrogates whether the British government has learned anything from its interventions in the Middle East, from the 1950s to 2016 Learning from history helps states to create foreign and security policy that builds upon successes and avoids past mistakes. Drawing on a wealth of previously unseen documents, sourced by Freedom of Information requests, together with interviews with government and…
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- 9781474437974
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- vii, 279 p. : bnw, ill.
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- 327.41056 KET l
Engaged fatherhood for men, families and gender equality : healthcare, social…
This aim of this open access book is to launch an international, cross-disciplinary conversation on fatherhood engagement. By integrating perspective from three sectors—Health, Social Policy, and Work in Organizations—the book offers a novel perspective on the benefits of engaged fatherhood for men, for families, and for gender equality. The chapters are crafted to engaged broad audiences, …
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- 9783030756451
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- x, 325 p. : ill
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- Contributions to Management Science
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- 306.8742 GRA e
Development in turbulent times : the many faces of inequality within Europe
This open access book explores the most recent trends in the EU in terms of development, progress, and performance. Ten years after the 2008 economic crisis, and amidst a digital revolution that is intensifying the development race, the European Union, and especially Central and Eastern Europe, are ardently searching for their development priorities. Against this background, by relying on a cro…
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- 9783030113612
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- 197p. ; ill.
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- 330.94 PAU d
Domestic politics and norm diffusion in international relations : ideas do no…
This book collects Thomas Risse's most important articles together in a single volume. Covering a wide range of issues – the end of the Cold War, transatlantic relations, the "democratic peace," human rights, governance in areas of limited statehood, Europeanization, European identity and public spheres, most recently comparative regionalism – it is testament to the breadth and excellence o…
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- 17
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- 9781315623665
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- x, 328 p. : ill.
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- 327 RIS d
Museum activism
Only a decade ago, the notion that museums, galleries and heritage organisations might engage in activist practice, with explicit intent to act upon inequalities, injustices and environmental crises, was met with scepticism and often derision. Seeking to purposefully bring about social change was viewed by many within and beyond the museum community as inappropriately political and antithetical…
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- 13
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- 9781351251044
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- xxix, 406 p. : ill.
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- 069 JAN m
Opposing democracy in the digital age : the Yellow Shirts in Thailand
Opposing Democracy in the Digital Age is about why ordinary people in a democratizing state oppose democracy and how they leverage both traditional and social media to do so. Aim Sinpeng focuses on the people behind popular, large-scale antidemocratic movements that helped bring down democracy in 2006 and 2014 in Thailand. The yellow shirts (PAD—People’s Alliance for Democracy) that are the…
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- 13
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- 9780472128563
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- xiii, 270 p.
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- 322.4209593 SIN o
Capital at the brink : overcoming the destructive legacies of neoliberalism
Capital at the Brink reveals the pervasiveness, destructiveness, and dominance of neoliberalism within American society and culture. The contributors to this collection also offer points of resistance to an ideology wherein, to borrow Henry Giroux’s comment, “everything either is for sale or is plundered for profit.” The first step in fighting neoliberalism is to make it visible. By discu…
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- 9781607853060
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- 277p. ; ill.
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- 320.51 JEF c
Unintended lessons of revolution : student teachers and political radicalism …
Tanalís Padilla traces the history of the normales rurales—rural schools in Mexico that trained campesino teachers—and outlines how despite being intended to foster a modern, patriotic citizenry, they became sites of radical politics.
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- 4
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- 9781478022084
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- ix, 371 p. : ill.
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- -
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- 370.91734 PAD u
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