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Disability, health and human development
This open access book introduces the human development model to define disability and map its links with health and wellbeing, based on Sen’s capability approach. The author uses panel survey data with internationally comparable questions on disability for Ethiopia, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda. It presents evidence on the prevalence of disability and its strong and consistent association with…
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- 9781137536389
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- xxi, 177p. : ill.
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- 362.4091724 MIT d
Housing estates in Europe : poverty, ethnic segregation and policy challenges
This open access book explores the formation and socio-spatial trajectories of large housing estates in Europe. Are these estates clustered or scattered? Which social groups originally had access to residential space in housing estates? What is the size, scale and geography of housing estates, their architectural and built environment composition, services and neighbourhood amenities, and metro…
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- 9783319928135
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- xiv, 424p. : ill.
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- 307.768 HOU h
Emerging states at crossroads
This volume analyzes the economic, social, and political challenges that emerging states confront today. Notwithstanding the growing importance of the ‘emerging states’ in global affairs and governance, many problems requiring immediate solutions have emerged at home largely as a consequence of the rapid economic development and associated sociopolitical changes. The middle-income trap is a…
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- 9789811328596
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- xiii, 293p. : ill.
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- 338.95 EME e
Crossroads of Colonial Cultures : Caribbean Literatures in the Age of Revolution
The examination of literary and cultural transfer processes in the colonial Caribbean allows completely new insights into the early processes of cultural globalisation. Racist discourses, established models of white abolitionists, politics of remembrance and the hitherto neglected role of the Haitian Revolution combine to an amalgam that questions our established concept of a genuine western mo…
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- 9783110495416
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- VIII, 359 p.
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- 840.99729 MUL c
Social innovation : comparative perspectives
Social Innovation: Comparative Perspectives investigates socio-economic impact. Since it is hard to establish causality and to measure social properties when investigating impact, especially at the level of society, the book narrows down impact to one priority aspect: social innovation – understood as organizations’ capacity to generate novel ideas, ways and means of doing things, of addres…
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- 9781315158020
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- xix, 297p. : ill.
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- 306.3094 SOC s
Enter culture, exit arts? : the transformation of cultural hierarchies in Eur…
Key debates of contemporary cultural sociology – the rise of the ‘cultural omnivore’, the fate of classical ‘highbrow’ culture, the popularization, commercialization and globalization of culture – deal with temporal changes. Yet, systematic research about these processes is scarce due to the lack of suitable longitudinal data. This book explores these questions through the lens of a…
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- 9781138740556
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- xvi, 255p. : ill.
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- 306.094 ENT e
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