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Female social entrepreneurship : challenging boundaries and reframing gender …
Das Zusammenspiel von Unternehmertum, Gender, Nachhaltigkeit und insbesondere der sozialen Dimension ist komplex und unterschätzt. Diese Studie analysiert Social Entrepreneurship durch eine Gender-Linse und stellt deutsche Sozialunternehmerinnen und ihre politischen, sozialen und ökonomischen Kontexte dar. Im Rahmen eines deskriptiven qualitativen Forschungsdesigns wurden eine Sekundäranalys…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783847425304
- Collation
- 292p
- Series Title
- L'AGENda, 10
- Call Number
- 658.408 GER
Political Life Writing in the Pacific : Reflections on Practice
This book aims to reflect on the experiential side of writing political lives in the Pacific region. The collection touches on aspects of the life writing art that are particularly pertinent to political figures: public perception and ideology; identifying important political successes and policy initiatives; grappling with issues like corruption and age-old political science questions about le…
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- 20
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781925022612
- Collation
- 180
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 324.2092.COR
The Public Value of the Social Sciences : An Interpretive Essay
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. What is the purpose of social science? How can social science make itself relevant to the intractable problems facing humanity in the twenty-first century? The social sciences are under threat from two main sources. One is external, reflected in a global universi…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781780931784
- Collation
- 240p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 300.941 BRE
Transcending Modernity with Relational Thinking
This book explores the ways in which social relations are profoundly changing modern society, arguing that, constituting a reality of their own, social relations will ultimately lead to a new form of society: an aftermodern or relational society. Drawing on the thought of Simmel, it extends the idea that society consists essentially of social relations, in order to make sense of the operation o…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781000382679
- Collation
- 262p
- Series Title
- Routledge Advances in Sociology
- Call Number
- 302 DON
Exploring 'Unseen' Social Capital in Community Participation : Everyday Lives…
This book argues that using social capital to eradicate poverty is less likely to succeed because the mainstream neoinstitutional approach mistakenly assumes that social capital necessarily benefits poor people. This inadequacy calls for a re-assessment of human motivations, institutional dynamics and structural complexity in social capital building. Using ethnographic and participatory methods…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789053560341
- Collation
- 220p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 306.095125 WON
Citizen activities in energy transition : user innovation, new communities, a…
This book addresses the rapidly changing citizen roles in innovation, technology adoption, intermediation, market creation, and legitimacy building for low-carbon solutions. It links research in innovation studies, sustainability transitions, and science and technology studies, and builds a new approach for the study of user contributions to innovation and sociotechnical change. Citizen Activit…
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- 8
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780367680251
- Collation
- xii, 190 p
- Series Title
- Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology,
- Call Number
- 333.794 HYY c
From technology transfer to intercultural development : understanding technol…
The central theme of this book is the intercultural development of technology in a globalising world. Migration, tourism, information and communication technology and international trade stimulate tfhe encounter between cultures, leading to a totally new social configuration on a worldwide scale.
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- 3
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781920382049
- Collation
- i, 171 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 303.483 VAN f
Science & Technology Studies Elsewhere : A Postcolonial Programme
In April 2017, scientists took to the streets in a historically unprecedented Global March for Science. The event was seen as symbolic of a crisis in the relationship of science and society. This book considers the Global March for Science from a postcolonial perspective to inquire into the toolkit that the academic field of Science & Technology Studies (STS) has to offer. It argues that new co…
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- 6
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783757400347
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 900 HOF s
Understanding racism in a post-racial world : visible invisibilities
This book addresses the question: how can we talk about race in a world that is considered post-racial, a world where race doesn’t exist? Kamaloni engages with the tradition of everyday racism and traces the process of racialisation through the interaction of bodies in space. Exploring the embodied experience exposes the idea of post-racialism as a response to continued cultural anxieties abo…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030109851
- Collation
- X, 221p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 305.8 SUN u
Smart Cities and Construction Technologies
This book includes nine chapters presenting the outcome of research projects relevant to building, cities, and construction. A description of a smart city and the journey from conventional to smart cities is discussed at the beginning of the book. Innovative case studies of underground cities and floating city bridges are presented in this book. BIM and GIS applications on different projects, a…
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- 6
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781838801991
- Collation
- xiii, 157 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 307.760285 ZHA s
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