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Wicked Problems in Public Policy : Understanding and Responding to Complex Ch…
his book offers the first overview of the ‘wicked problems’ literature, often seen as complex, open-ended, and intractable, with both the nature of the ‘problem’ and the preferred ‘solution’ being strongly contested. It contextualises the debate using a wide range of relevant policy examples, explaining why these issues attract so much attention. There is an increasing interest i…
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- -
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- 9783030945800
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- vii, 176 p.
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- -
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- 320.6 WIC B
Magazines, Tourism, and Nation-Building in Mexico
This open access book discusses the relationship between periodicals, tourism, and nation-building in Mexico. It enquires into how magazines, a staple form of the promotional apparatus of tourism since its inception, articulated an imaginative geography of Mexico at a time when that industry became a critical means of economic recovery and political stability after the Revolution. Notwithstandi…
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- 9783030010027
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- xi, 139 p.
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- -
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- 320.4 MAG C
The Kobane Generation : Kurdish Diaspora Mobilising in France
A small Kurdish city located in northern Syria, Kobane, became symbolically significant when ISIS laid siege to the city between September 2014 and January 2015. This pivotal moment in the fight against ISIS threw the international spotlight on the Kurds. The Kobane Generation analyses how Kurdish diaspora communities mobilised in France after the breakout of the Syrian civil war and political …
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- 3
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- 9789523690431
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- ix, 294p.
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- -
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- 305.89159704 KOB t
African identities and international politics
Using the lenses of realism, liberalism, the English School and constructivism, this book explains how the divisions and differences in African identities affect African international politics. This book explores the African condition in the twenty-first century. It analyses how geographical, racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious and power differences shape continental and intercontinental rela…
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- 5
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781003176732
- Collation
- xvi; 176p;
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- -
- Call Number
- 327.6 AFR F
Physical disability and sexuality : stories from South Africa
This open access edited volume explores physical disability and sexuality in South Africa, drawing on past studies, new research conducted by the editors, and first-person narratives from people with physical disabilities in the country. Sexuality has long been a site of oppression and discrimination for people with disabilities based on myths and misconceptions, and this book explores how thes…
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- 9783030555672
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- xxvii, 154 p. ill;
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- 306.70870968 PHY
Capitalis'm Crises Class struggles in South Africa and the world
"The contributors to this volume draw on a non-dogmatic Marxist approach to explain the systemic and conjunctural dynamics of crisis inherent in global capitalism. Their analysis asks what is historically specific to capitalism's crises while avoiding catastrophic or defeatist claims. At the same time the volume situates left agency within actual patterns of resistance and class struggle to cla…
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- 9781868149261
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- xii, 312 p. ;
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- 330.122 CAP b
Mobilizing global knowledge : refugee research in an age of displacement
An examination of, and guide to, the challenges and responsibilities of doing research with displaced peoples while respecting their complex needs. In 2018, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees documented a record high 71.4 million displaced people around the world. As states struggle with the costs of providing protection to so many people and popular conceptions of refugees have be…
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- 9
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781773850870
- Collation
- vii, 336p.; ill.
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- -
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- 305.906914072 MOB m
Women and the UN : a new history of women's international human rights
This book provides a critical history of influential women in the United Nations and seeks to inspire empowerment with role models from bygone eras. The women whose voices this book presents helped shape UN conventions, declarations, and policies with relevance to the international human rights of women throughout the world today. From the founding of the UN and the Latin American feminist move…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781003036708
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- xviii, 200 p.
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- -
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- 323.34 WOM R
Vital subjects : race and biopolitics in Italy, 1860-1920
Drawing on a range of canonical and non-canonical literary, cinematic and social scientific texts produced in post-Unification Italy, Vital Subjects: Race and Biopolitics in Italy is an interdisciplinary study of how racial and colonial discourses shaped the "making" of Italians as modern political subjects in the years between its administrative unification (1861–1870) and the end of the Fir…
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- edision 14
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- 9781781382868
- Collation
- ix. :304 p. ;ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 900. VIT r
Revolution and disenchantment : arab marxism and the binds of emancipation
The Arab Revolutions that began in 2011 reignited interest in the question of theory and practice, imbuing it with a burning political urgency. In Revolution and Disenchantment Fadi A. Bardawil redescribes for our present how an earlier generation of revolutionaries, the 1960s Arab New Left, addressed this question. Bardawil excavates the long-lost archive of the Marxist organization Socialist …
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- edision 14
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781478007586
- Collation
- xi. :281 p.
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- -
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- 320.5315095692. REV f
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