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Multiculturalism and conflict reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific : migration,…
This book is open access under a CC BY license. This edited collection focuses on theories, language and migration in relation to multiculturalism in Japan and the Asia-Pacific. Each chapter aims to provide alternative understandings to current conflicts that have arisen due to immigration and policies related to education, politics, language, work, citizenship and identity.
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- 9781137403605
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- xiv, 237p. : ill.
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- 305.80095 MUL m
State and Society in Papua New Guinea: the first twenty-five year
Politics and government; Social conditions; Papua new guinea
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- 192094205X
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- 320.993 MAY s
Citizenship and democratization in Southeast Asia
By providing various fascinating first-hand accounts of how citizens negotiate their rights in the context of weak state institutions, Citizenship and Democratization in Southeast Asia offers a unique bottom-up perspective on the evolving character of public life in democratizing Southeast Asia. Readership: All interested in politics and governance in Southeast Asia, as well as
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- 9789004329669
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- 332 p.; 22 cm.
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- Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia, 115
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- 323.60959 CIT c
Islam and politics in Indonesia : the Masyumi Party between democracy and int…
The Masyumi Party, which was active in Indonesia from 1945 to 1960, constitutes the boldest attempt to date at reconciling Islam and democracy. Masyumi proposed a vision of society and government which was not bound by a literalist application of Islamic doctrine but rather inspired by the values of Islam. It set out moderate policies which were tolerant towards other religious communities in I…
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- 9789814722568
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- 324.2598 MAD i
The dynamics of opportunity in America : evidence and perspectives
Across the country, our children are beginning life from very different starting points. Some have aspirations and believe they can be achieved. For too many others, aspirations are tempered, if not dashed, by the sobering realities of everyday life. These different starting points place children on distinctly different trajectories of growth and development, ultimately leading to vastly differ…
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- 9783319259918
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- 379 DYN d
Disruption in the arts : textual, visual, and perfomative strategies for anal…
The volume examines from a comparative perspective the phenomenon of aesthetic disruption within the various arts in contemporary culture. It assumes that the political potential of contemporary art is not solely derived from presenting its audiences with openly political content, but rather from creating a space of perception and interaction using formal means: a space that makes hegemonic str…
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- 9783110580082
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- XVI, 382 p.
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- Culture & Conflict, 11
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- 700.103 DIS d
Public Policy: Why ethics matters
Ethics is a vigorously contested field. There are many competing moral frameworks, and different views about how normative considerations should inform the art and craft of governmental policy making. What is not in dispute, however, is that ethics matters. The ethical framework adopted by policy analysts and decision makers not only shapes how policy problems are defined, framed and analysed, …
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- 9781921666759
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- 170 BOS p
Behind the scenes: the politics of planning Adelaide
Behind the Scenes examines planning in the City of Adelaide from 1972 until 1993 within the historical framework of City/State relations from 1836 when the Province of South Australia was founded. During this 21-year period, the City had its own planning and development control legislation separate from the rest of the State. Dr Llewellyn-Smith examines why this situation came about, why it con…
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- 9781922064417
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- 711.40994231 LLE b
Decolonising the University
In 2015, students at the University of Cape Town demanded the removal of a statue of Cecil Rhodes, the imperialist, racist business magnate, from their campus. The battle cry '#RhodesMustFall' sparked an international movement calling for the decolonization of the world's universities. Today, as this movement grows, how will it radically transform the terms upon which universities exist? In thi…
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- 9781786803153
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- vi, 259p.: ill.
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- 378 DEC d
Secularism, assimilation and the crisis of multiculturalism
Jansen’s book shows how even the most sophisticated academic views defending secularism and assimilation remain rooted in unexamined ‘modernist dichotomies’ inherited from French (and to some extent, European) modernism. Rainer Bauboeck, European University Institute|"For anyone who seeks to understand the roots of the "deepening crisis of multiculturalism" in Europe, Yolande Jansen's b…
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- 9789089645968
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- 344 p.; 22 cm.
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- 305.8 JAN s
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