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People and place: The West Coast of New Zealand's South Island in history and…
"This book traces the enduring relationship between history, people and place that has shaped the character of a single region in a manner perhaps unique within the New Zealand experience. It explores the evolution of a distinctive regional literature that both shaped and was shaped by the physical and historical environment that inspired it. Looking westwards towards Australia and long shut of…
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- 9781760463458
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- ix, 205p.: ill.
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- 993 RIC p
Emerging bodies: the performance of worldmaking in dance and choreography
The concept of 'worldmaking' is based on the idea that 'the world' is not given, but rather produced through language, actions, ideas and perception. This collection of essays takes a closer look at various hybrid and disparate worlds related to dance and choreography. Coming from a broad range of different backgrounds and disciplines, the authors inquire into the ways of producing 'dance world…
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- 9783839415962
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- 264p.: ill.
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- 792.62 EME e
Performing citizenship: bodies, agencies, limitations
This open access book discusses how citizenship is performed today, mostly through the optic of the arts, in particular the performing arts, but also from the perspective of a wide range of academic disciplines such as urbanism and media studies, cultural education and postcolonial theory. It is a compendium that includes insights from artistic and activist experimentation. Each chapter investi…
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- 9783319975023
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- xii, 318p.: ill
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- 306.484 HIL p
Estonian approaches to culture theory
The fourth volume in the Approaches to Culture Theory series is a contemporary Estonian anthology in culture theory. Most of the authors are members of the research groups of the Centre of Excellence in Cultural Theory: archaeology, cultural communication studies, contemporary cultural studies, ethnology, folkloristics, religious studies, landscape studies, and semiotics. These scholars have re…
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- 9789949326136
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- 335 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 22 cm.
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- Approaches to culture theory series, volume 4
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- 306.01 LAN e
New direction in strategic thinking 2.0
"The Australian National University’s Strategic & Defence Studies Centre (SDSC) is Australia’s premier university-based strategic studies think tank. Fifty years after the Centre was founded in 1966, SDSC celebrated its continued research, publications, teaching and government advisory role with a two-day conference entitled ‘New Directions in Strategic Thinking 2.0’. The event saw the …
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- 9781760462222
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- xxv, 237p.: ill.
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- 355.343 NEW n
Migration, gender and social Justice: perspectives on human insecurity
This book is the product of a collaborative effort involving partners from Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America who were funded by the International Development Research Centre Programme on Women and Migration (2006-2011). The International Institute of Social Studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam spearheaded a project intended to distill and refine the research findings, connecting them to…
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- 9783642280115
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- 305.48412 TRU m
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture Theory
The central theme of the volume is interdisciplinary experimentation. The volume includes collaborative and interdisciplinary studies on a variety of topics, from territorialisation of theory, relations between culture theory and research methodology, culture-dependent meaning formation, power relations in discourses on religion, communal heritage management, celebration practices of (national)…
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- 9789949033041
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- 930.1 INT i
Forbidden memories: women's experiences of 1965 in eastern Indonesia
This is the first book to consider the experiences of women survivors of the 1965 anti-communist violence in the majority Christian region of Eastern Indonesia. So far, most studies of the 1965 violence have focused on the Muslim majority population of Java and the Hindu majority population of Bali. Forbidden Memories presents stories from across the regions of Sumba, Sabu, Alor, Kupang and oth…
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- 9781925523843
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- xxiv, 353p.: ill.
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- 305.4 KOL f
Risk Communication for the Future : Towards Smart Risk Governance and Safety …
The conventional approach to risk communication, based on a centralized and controlled model, has led to blatant failures in the management of recent safety related events. In parallel, several cases have proved that actors not thought of as risk governance or safety management contributors may play a positive role regarding safety. Building on these two observations and bridging the gap betwee…
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- 9783319740980
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- 363.1 BOU t
Transforming research methods in the social sciences: case studies from South…
editors, Sumaya Laher, Angelo Fynn and Sherianne Kramer.
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- 9781776143559
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- xiv, 442 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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- 300.721 LAH t
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