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Arab Americans in the United States
Shaikha H. Al-Kuwari is an assistant professor of Anthropology at Qatar University. She earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology from University of Florida, USA, in 2018. Her research focuses in studying the relation between culture and health. She is interested in building cultural models of illnesses using the latest methodological advances in social science. Her goal is to create culturally based pr…
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- 9789819974177
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- XI, 107
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- 305.8927
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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- 978981916045
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- XIV, 292p
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- 379 EDU a
The Routledge companion to actor-network theory
This companion explores ANT as an intellectual practice, tracking its movements and engagements with a wide range of other academic and activist projects. Showcasing the work of a diverse set of ‘second generation’ ANT scholars from around the world, it highlights the exciting depth and breadth of contemporary ANT and its future possibilities. The companion has 38 chapters, each answering a…
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- 9781138084728
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- xx, 458 p
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- 303.01 AND
Inhuman Nature
Gathering into lively conversation scholars in medieval, early modern and object studies, Inhuman Nature explores the activity of the things, forces, and relations that enable, sustain and operate indifferently to us. Enamored by fictions of environmental sovereignty, we too often imagine “human” to be a solitary category of being. This collection of essays maps the heterogeneous and asymme…
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- 9780692299302
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- i, 166 p
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- 304.2 COH
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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- 9781950192236
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- 382 hlm
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- 305.8
Understanding Cultural Non-Participation in an Egalitarian Context
This book uses a rich data set, from individuals whose background profiles statistically predict strong cultural non-participation, to explore the most salient lifestyles and symbolic boundaries drawn in these potentially disengaged groups.The book departs from a theoretical framework in which cultural practices and cultural participation in their most visible and tangible form are seen as mani…
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- 9783031188657
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- viii, 163 p
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- Palgrave Studies in Cultural Participation
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- 363.494 HEI
Re-Visioning Arts and Cultural Policy : Current Impasses and Future Directions
In this monograph, Jennifer Craik undertakes a critical and historical analysis of the main imperatives of arts and cultural policy in Australia. With forensic skill she examines the financial and policy instruments commonly relied upon in this much contested and diverse area of public policy. Craik uses her analysis of past and current policy responses as a platform for articulating future opt…
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- 9781921313394
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- 306.47.JEN
Honiara : Village-City of Solomon Islands
Nahona`ara—means ‘facing the `ara’, the place where the southeast winds meet the land just west of Point Cruz. Nahona`ara became Honiara, the capital city of Solomon Islands with a population of 160,000, the only significant urban centre in a nation of 721,000 people. Honiara: Village-City of Solomon Islands views Honiara in several ways: first as Tandai traditional land; then as cocon…
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- 9781760465070
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- 995.93.MOO
The Federated States of Micronesia’s Engagement with the Outside World Cont…
This study addresses the neglected history of the people of the Federated States of Micronesia’s (FSM) engagement with the outside world. Situated in the northwest Pacific, FSM’s strategic location has led to four colonial rulers. Histories of FSM to date have been largely written by sympathetic outsiders. Indigenous perspectives of FSM history have been largely absent from the main corpus …
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- 9781760464653
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- 996.5.PUA
Xinjiang Year Zero
Since 2017, the Chinese authorities have detained hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other Muslim minorities in ‘reeducation camps’ in China’s northwestern Xinjiang autonomous region. While the official reason for this mass detention was to prevent terrorism, the campaign has since become a wholesale attempt to remould the ways of life of these peoples—an experiment in social…
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- 9781760464950
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- 338 p
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- 951.6 INI X
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