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Cultural competence and the higher education sector
This open access book explores cultural competence in the higher education sector from multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary perspectives. It addresses cultural competence in terms of leadership and the role of the higher education sector in cultural competence policy and practice. Drawing on lessons learned, current research and emerging evidence, the book examines various innovative appro…
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- 9789811553622
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- xvii; 363 pg; ill.
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- 303.482 CUL
Exploring islamic social work : between community and the common good
This open access book addresses, for the first time, Islamic social work as an emerging concept at the interface of Islamic thought and social sciences. Applying a multidisciplinary approach it explores, on the one hand, the discourse that provides religious legitimisation to social work activities and, on the other hand, case studies of practical fields of Islamic social work including educati…
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- 9783030958800
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- xii; 284 PG; ill.
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- 306.697 EXP e
The Public Value of the Social Sciences : An Interpretive Essay
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 university crisis that imposes the marketization of higher education on the ancient practice of scholarship. The other, internal threat is soc…
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- 9781780931784
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- xii, 240p : ill
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- 300.1 JHO p
Bioeconomy and global inequalities
This open access book focuses on the meanings, agendas, as well as the local and global implications of bioeconomy and bioenergy policies in and across South America, Asia and Europe. It explores how a transition away from a fossil and towards a bio-based economic order alters, reinforces and challenges socio-ecological inequalities. The volume presents a historically informed and empirically r…
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- 1
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- 9783030689445
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- xvi; 381 PG; ill.
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- 354.3 BIO b
Conviviality at the crossroads
Conviviality has lately become a catchword not only in academia but also among political activists. This open access book discusses conviviality in relation to the adjoining concepts cosmopolitanism and creolisation. The urgency of today’s global predicament is not only an argument for the revival of all three concepts, but also a reason to bring them into dialogue. Ivan Illich envisioned a p…
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- 1
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- 9783030289799
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- xi; 290 pg; ill.
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- The Poetics and Politics of Everyday Encounters
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- 306 CON c
Seeing the city digitally
This book explores what's happening to ways of seeing urban spaces in the contemporary moment, when so many of the technologies through which cities are visualised are digital. Cities have always been pictured, in many media and for many different purposes. This edited collection explores how that picturing is changing in an era of digital visual culture. Analogue visual technologies like film …
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- 9789048551927
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- 307.76 SEE
Encoding race, encoding class : Indian IT workers in Berlin
In Encoding Race, Encoding Class Sareeta Amrute explores the work and private lives of highly skilled Indian IT coders in Berlin to reveal the oft-obscured realities of the embodied, raced, and classed nature of cognitive labor. In addition to conducting fieldwork and interviews in IT offices as well as analyzing political cartoons, advertisements, and reports on white-collar work, Amrute spent…
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- 9780822361176
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- ix, 280p.; ill.
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- 331.6254043155 ENC a
The Beginnings of Polish Musicology
The book presents the history of the only strictly scientific Polish musicological periodical Kwartalnik Muzyczny. It shows how the editorial board of the periodi-cal met with true approval and harsh criticism. The subject allows the author to present the beginnings of Polish musicology and its evolution through three epochs: the late partitioning period, the interwar period of Poland’s indep…
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- 9783631823774
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Research Methodologies and Ethical Challenges in Digital Migration Studies
This OA book investigates the methodological and ethical dilemmas involved when working with digital technologies and large-scale datasets in relation to ethnographic studies of digital migration practices and trajectories. Digital technologies reshape not only every phase of the migration process itself (by providing new ways to access, to share and preserve relevant information) but also the …
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- 16
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- 9783030812263
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- xvi; 262p; ill.
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- 304.8 RES M
Uprooting Bias in the Academy : Lessons from the Field
This open access book analyzes barriers to inclusion in academia and details ways to create a more diverse, inclusive environment. It first describes what the barriers to inclusion are and how they function within the broader society, focusing on concept of implicit bias: what it is, how it develops, and the importance of training organizational members to recognize and challenge it. It then di…
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- 9783030856687
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- 255 p ; ill
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- 379.26 UPR L
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