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The Distance to China: Twentieth-Century Italian Travel Narratives of Patriot…
«As Italy tends to be studied increasingly in transnational and transcultural perspective, there is an ever-greater need for studies that explore the country's relationship with other geographical areas and cultural configurations. Linetto Basilone's work is an important contribution to research of this kind. The work provides a panoramic view of how journalists and travel writers from the lat…
- Edition
- 42
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781789975116
- Collation
- 336p
- Series Title
- Italian Modernities
- Call Number
- 850.9 LIN
Education Policies in the 21st Century Comparative Perspectives
The nation-state has assumed its current form after having undergone significant transformations. In the developmental and transformational process of the nation-state, the definition and expected functions of education as well as the forms of educational intervention have also transformed. This transformation became much more saturated starting in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Thi…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978981916045
- Collation
- XIV, 292p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 379 EDU a
Kingdom of Nokia : how a nation served the needs of one company
Kingdom of Nokia tells a fascinating story of corporatism in Finland. How did the mobile phone giant Nokia make the Finnish elite willing to serve the interests of the company? Nokia became a global player in mobile communications in the 1990s, and helped establish Anglo-Saxon capitalism in Finland. Through its success and strong lobbying, the company managed to capture the attention of Finnish…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789523690318
- Collation
- x + 265 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 338.76213094897 CAR k
Antiracism Inc : why the way we talk about racial justice matters
"Antiracism Inc. traces the ways people along the political spectrum appropriate, incorporate, and neutralize antiracist discourses to perpetuate injustice. It also examines the ways organizers continue to struggle for racial justice in the context of such appropriations. Antiracism Inc. reveals how antiracist claims can be used to propagate racism, and what we can do about it. While related to…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781950192236
- Collation
- 382 hlm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 305.8
Cyber security politics : socio-technological transformations and political f…
This book examines new and challenging political aspects of cyber security and presents it as an issue defined by socio-technological uncertainty and political fragmentation. Structured along two broad themes and providing empirical examples for how socio-technical changes and political responses interact, the first part of the book looks at the current use of cyber space in conflictual setting…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781003110224
- Collation
- xiv + 272 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 005.8 DUN c
AI in the age of cyber-disorder : actors, trends, and prospects
The rise of Artificial Intelligence applications is accelerating the pace and magnitude of the political, securitarian, and ethical challenges we are now struggling to manage in cyberspace and beyond. So far, the relationship between Artificial Intelligence and cyberspace has been investigated mostly in terms of the effects that AI could have on the digital domain, and thus on our societies. Wh…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9788855263832
- Collation
- ix, 154 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 006 RUG
The Roots of Latino Urban Agency
The 2010 U.S. Census data showed that over the last decade the Latino population grew from 35.3 million to 50.5 million, accounting for more than half of the nation's population growth. This book collects essays that examine this phenomenal growth. In order to understand the Latino community in all its diversity, the analysis has to begin at the grassroots level. The political future of the Lat…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781574415421
- Collation
- vii, 149 p
- Series Title
- Al Filo, Mexican American Studies Series
- Call Number
- 320.50868073 ROS t
Decolonising Political Communication in Africa
This book uses decolonisation as a lens to interrogate political communication styles, performance, and practice in Africa and the diaspora. The book interrogates the theory and practice of political communication, using decolonial research methods to begin a process of self-reflexivity and the creation of a new approach to knowledge production about African political communication. In doing so…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781000411959
- Collation
- xxiii, 225 p
- Series Title
- Routledge Contemporary Africa
- Call Number
- 320.014096 KAR d
Warping Time
Warping Time shows how narratives of the past influence what people believe about the present and future state of the world. In Benjamin Ginsberg and Jennifer Bachner’s simple experiments, in which the authors measured the impact of different stories their subjects heard about the past, these “history lessons” moved contemporary policy preferences by an average of 16 percentage points; fo…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780472076000
- Collation
- xiii, 158 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Social democractic parties and the working class : new voting patterns
This open access book carefully explores the relationship between social democracy and its working-class electorate in Western Europe. Relying on different indicators, it demonstrates an important transformation in the class basis of social democracy. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the working-class vote is strongly fragmented and social democratic parties face competition on mul…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030462390
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 324.2174 REN s
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