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    Migration and Islamic Ethics : Issues of Residence, Naturalization and Citizenship (2019)
    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Brill | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
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    ISBN: 9789004417342
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (240 p.)
    RVK:
    BE 8660
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    BE 8632
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    LB 56000
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    BE 8620
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    RB 10594
    Keywords: Islamische Theologie ; Islam ; Ethik ; Fikh ; Migration ; Middle Eastern history ; Middle Eastern history ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Migration and Islamic Ethics, Issues of Residence, Naturalization and Citizenship contains various cases of migration movements in the Muslim world from ethical and legal perspectives to argue that Muslim migration experiences can offer a new paradigm of how the religious and the moral can play a significant role in addressing forced migration and displacement Readership: All interested in migration movements including residence, naturalization, and citizenship; Islamic Ethics and Islamic legal debates on movements in and out of the Muslim world, including asylum seekers and refugees.
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    Urban Sustainability and Justice (2019)
    London : Bloomsbury Academic | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
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    ISBN: 9781350223776 , 9781786994943 , 9781786994950 , 9781786998965 , 9781786999009 , 9781786998996 , 9781786998989 , 9781780325330 , 9781780325323 , 9781780325316 , 9781780325309 , 9781780325347 , 9781780325798 , 9781780325804 , 9781780325767 , 9781780325781 , 9781780325774 , 9781786994127 , 9781786994097 , 9781786994110 , 9781780324111 , 9781780324074 , 9781780324104 , 9781780324081 , 9781780324098 , 9781783603442 , 9781783603473 , 9781783603480 , 9781783603466 , 9781783603459 , 9781786994967 , 9781786994929
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (208 p.)
    Series Statement: Just Sustainabilities
    DDC: 307.116
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    RB 10918
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    AR 14300
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    LB 73000
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    MS 8950
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    MS 5400
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    Keywords: Umweltpolitik ; Globalisierung ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Solidarische Ökonomie ; Kollektives Handeln ; Soziale Verantwortung ; Sustainability ; Development studies ; Environmental policy & protocols ; Urban & municipal planning ; An Urban Politics of Climate Change ; Habitat III ; Making cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable ; new urban agenda ; Participatory Planning for Climate Compatible Development ; sustainability ; Sustainable Development Goal 11 ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Urban Sustainability and Justice presents an innovative yet practical approach to incorporate equity and social justice into sustainable development in urban areas, in line with the commitments of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda. This open access work proposes a feminist reading of just sustainabilities' principles to reclaim sustainability as a progressive discourse which informs action on the ground. This work will help the committed activist (whether they are on the ground, working in a community, in a non-governmental organization (NGO), in a business, at a university, in any sphere in government) to connect their work to international efforts to deliver environmental justice in cities around the world. Drawing on a comparative, international analysis of sustainability initiatives in over 200 cities, Castán Broto and Westman find limited evidence of the implementation of just sustainabilities principles in practice, but they argue that there is considerable potential to develop a justice-oriented sustainability agenda. Highlighting current successes while also assessing prospects for the future, the authors show that just sustainabilities is not merely an aspirational discourse, but a frame of reference to support radical action on the ground. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The University of Sheffield.
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    Taxing Africa (2018)
    London : Bloomsbury Academic | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
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    ISBN: 9781350222861 , 9781783604562 , 9781783604555 , 9781783601332 , 9781783601325 , 9781783601349 , 9781783601356 , 9781783601363 , 9781848139695 , 9781848139688 , 9781848139671 , 9781848139664 , 9781780324746 , 9781780329970 , 9781783600014 , 9781783600007 , 9781780329994 , 9781780329987 , 9781783601158 , 9781783601127 , 9781783601134 , 9781783601141 , 9781783601165 , 9781780321462 , 9781848134607 , 9781848134584 , 9781848134591 , 9781780321479 , 9781848136090 , 9781780326542 , 9781848134942 , 9781780326191 , 9781848134980 , 9781780326214 , 9781780323091 , 9781848135406 , 9781780320793 , 9781780325828 , 9781848134614 , 9781848136281 , 9781780326115 , 9781848138360 , 9781848138377 , 9781848138391 , 9781848138384 , 9781780324180 , 9781783602469 , 9781783602438 , 9781783602476 , 9781783602445 , 9781783602452 , 9781783603695 , 9781783603718 , 9781783603732 , 9781783603701 , 9781783603725 , 9781848136397 , 9781780322445 , 9781842776391 , 9781842776384 , 9781848131309 , 9781780327792 , 9781848136564 , 9781780321059 , 9781780321042 , 9781780323862 , 9781848137240 , 9781780326993 , 9781780323831 , 9781780323824 , 9781780323848 , 9781780323855 , 9781848137868 , 9781780327266 , 9781783604579 , 9781783604548 , 9781783604531 , 9781780323466 , 9781780323459 , 9781780323480 , 9781780323497 , 9781780323473 , 9781780323114 , 9781780323138 , 9781780323107 , 9781780323121 , 9781780324203 , 9781780327310 , 9781848137981 , 9781848137936 , 9781780327297 , 9781848135017 , 9781780326245
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (288 p.)
    Series Statement: African Arguments
    DDC: 330.96
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    MI 10910
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    QF 070
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    QG 700
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    RS 10663
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1990-2012 ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Drogenhandel ; Protestbewegung ; Politischer Wandel ; Erdölproduktion ; Erdölwirtschaft ; Politischer Konflikt ; Außenwirtschaftspolitik ; Internationale Finanzpolitik ; Debt Management ; Soziale Situation ; Kakaobaum ; Exportgut ; Cashcrops ; Fairer Handel ; Politische Reform ; Elite ; Armut ; Soziale Wahrnehmung ; Soziale Ungleichheit ; Landnahme ; Agrobusiness ; Lebensmittelindustrie ; Development economics & emerging economies ; Development studies ; Taxation ; Afrika ; Subsaharisches Afrika ; China ; Westafrika ; Demokratische Republik Kongo ; Entwicklungsländer ; Adair Turner ; Africa:Why Economists Get It Wrong ; african arguments ; Andrew Brooks ; Between Debt and the Devil ; Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism? ; corruption ; Doughnut Economics ; Ebenezer Obadare ; Ebola ; extraction industry ; good governance ; international development ; Kate Raworth ; Mariana Mazzucato ; Morten Jerven ; Pablo Yanguas ; Paul Richards ; Pentecostal Republic ; policy reform ; Robert Kuttner ; social justice ; tax evasion ; taxation ; The End of Development ; The Looting Machine ; The Value of Everything ; Tom Burgis ; Why We Lie About Aid ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Taxation has been seen as the domain of charisma-free accountants, lawyers and number crunchers – an unlikely place to encounter big societal questions about democracy, equity or good governance. Yet it is exactly these issues that pervade conversations about taxation among policymakers, tax collectors, civil society activists, journalists and foreign aid donors in Africa today. Tax has become viewed as central to African development. Written by leading international experts, Taxing Africa offers a cutting-edge analysis on all aspects of the continent’s tax regime, displaying the crucial role such arrangements have on attempts to create social justice and push economic advancement. From tax evasion by multinational corporations and African elites to how ordinary people navigate complex webs of ‘informal’ local taxation, the book examines the potential for reform, and how space might be created for enabling locally-led strategies. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.
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    Sustainable Practices : Social Theory and Climate Change (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781135094034
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (411 pages)
    Series Statement: Routledge Advances in Sociology
    DDC: 304.25
    RVK:
    MS 9000
    RVK:
    AR 14300
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    RB 10438
    Keywords: Umweltschutz ; Soziologie ; Klimaänderung ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Climate change is widely agreed to be one the greatest challenges facing society today. Mitigating and adapting to it is certain to require new ways of living. Thus far efforts to promote less resource-intensive habits and routines have centred on typically limited understandings of individual agency, choice and change. This book shows how much more the social sciences have to offer.The contributors to Sustainable Practices: Social Theory and Climate Change come from different disciplines - sociology, geography, economics and philosophy - but are alike in taking social theories of practice as a common point of reference. This volume explores questions which arise from this distinctive and fresh approach:how do practices and material elements circulate and intersect? how do complex infrastructures and systems form and break apart? how does the reproduction of social practice sustain related patterns of inequality and injustice? This collection shows how social theories of practice can help us understand what societal transitions towards sustainability might involve, and how they might be achieved. It will be of interest to students and researchers in sociology, environmental studies, geography, philosophy and economics, and to policy makers and advisors working in this field.
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    Locating Right to the City in the Global South (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781136201868
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (329 pages)
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Human Geography
    DDC: 307.76
    RVK:
    LB 45000
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    LB 73000
    RVK:
    MS 1780
    RVK:
    RB 10918
    RVK:
    RY 10909
    Keywords: Stadtentwicklung ; Bürgerbeteiligung ; Slum ; Soziale Gerechtigkeit ; Südliche Hemisphäre ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Despite the fact that virtually all urban growth is occurring, and will continue to occur, in the cities of the Global South, the conceptual tools used to study cities are distilled disproportionately from research on the highly developed cities of the Global North. With urban inequality widely recognized as central to many of the most pressing challenges facing the world, there is a need for a deeper understanding of cities of the South on their own terms.Locating Right to the City in the Global South marks an innovative and far reaching effort to document and make sense of urban transformations across a range of cities, as well as the conflicts and struggles for social justice these are generating. The volume contains empirically rich, theoretically informed case studies focused on the social, spatial, and political dimensions of urban inequality in the Global South. Drawing from scholars with extensive fieldwork experience, this volume covers sixteen cities in fourteen countries across a belt stretching from Latin America, to Africa and the Middle East, and into Asia. Central to what binds these cities are deeply rooted, complex, and dynamic processes of social and spatial division that are being actively reproduced. These cities are not so much fracturing as they are being divided by governance practices informed by local histories and political contestation, and refracted through or infused by market based approaches to urban development. Through a close examination of these practices and resistance to them, this volume provides perspectives on neoliberalism and right to the city that advance our understanding of urbanism in the Global South. In mapping the relationships between space, politics and populations, the volume draws attention to variations shaped by local circumstances, while simultaneously elaborating a distinctive transnational...
    Abstract: Southern urbanism. It provides indepth research on a range of practical and policy oriented issues, from housing and slum redevelopment to building democratic cities that include participation by lower income and other marginal groups. It will be of interest to students and practitioners alike studying Urban Studies, Globalization, and Development.
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    Rethinking Feminist Interventions into the Urban (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781136743443
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (460 pages)
    DDC: 305.42091732
    RVK:
    MS 1870
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    MS 3150
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    RB 10627
    Keywords: Feminismus ; Stadtleben ; Stadtsoziologie ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: In Rethinking Feminist Interventions into the Urban, Linda Peake and Martina Rieker embark on an ambitious project to explore the extent to which a feminist re-imagining of the twenty-first century city can form the core of a new emerging analytic of women and the neoliberal urban. In a world in which the majority of the population now live in urban centres, they take as their starting point the need to examine the production of knowledge about the city through the problematic divide of the global north and south, asking what might a feminist intervention, a position itself fraught with possibilities and problems, into this dominant geographical imaginary look like. Providing a meaningful discussion of the ways in which feminism, gender and women have been understood in relation to the city and urban studies, they ask probing and insightful questions that indicate new directions for theory and research, illustrating the necessity of a re-formulation of the north-south divide as a critical and urgent project for feminist urban studies. Working through platforms as diverse as policy formulations and telling stories, the contributors to the book come from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and geographic locations ranging through the Caribbean, North America, Western Europe, South, East and South East Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. They identify a range of issues (such as care, work, violence, the household, mobility, intimacy and poverty) that they analytically address to make sense of and reanimate resistance to the contemporary urban through articulations of new grammars of gendered geographies of justice.
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    The Migration Industry and the Commercialization of International Migration (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781136180897
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (305 pages)
    Series Statement: Global Institutions
    DDC: 304.82
    RVK:
    MK 8000
    RVK:
    LB 44450
    RVK:
    LB 45450
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    LB 56000
    RVK:
    MS 3600
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    RB 10594
    Keywords: Migration ; Fluchthelfer ; Internationale Migration ; Illegale Einwanderung ; Fluchthilfe ; Kommerzialisierung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Migration has become business, big business. Over the last few decades a host of new business opportunities have emerged that capitalize both on the migrants' desires to migrate and the struggle by governments to manage migration. From the rapid growth of specialized transportation and labour immigration companies, to multinational companies managing detention centres or establishing border security, to the organized criminal networks profiting from human smuggling and trafficking, we are currently witnessing a growing commercialization of international migration.This volume claims that today it is almost impossible to speak of migration without also speaking of the migration industry. Yet, acknowledging the role the migration industry plays prompts a number of questions that have so far received only limited attention among scholars and policy makers. The book offers new concepts and theory for the study of international migration by bringing together cross-disciplinary theoretical explorations and original case studies. It also provides a global coverage of the phenomena under study, covering migrant destinations in Europe, the United States and Asia, and migrant sending regions in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
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    Asian Popular Culture in Transition (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781136300981
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (201 pages)
    Series Statement: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
    DDC: 306.095
    RVK:
    LB 24330
    RVK:
    MS 1170
    RVK:
    RR 10053
    Keywords: Massenkultur ; Kulturwandel ; Sozialer Wandel ; Asien ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Asian Popular Culture in Transition examines contemporary consumption practices in South Korea, China, India, and Japan, and both updates and extends popular culture studies of the region. Through an interdisciplinary lens, this collection of essays explores how recent advances and shifts in information technologies and globalization have impacted cultural markets, fashion, the digital generation, mobile culture, femininity, matrimonial advertising, and a film actress' image and performance. Drawing upon a diverse range of sources and methods including historical research, content analysis, anthropological observation, textual analyses, and interviews, Asian Popular Culture in Transition makes a significant contribution to this growing area of research. Given its broad range of countries, theories, and approaches, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Asian studies, cultural studies, media and communication studies, and gender studies.
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    Alternative Economies and Spaces : New Perspectives for a Sustainable Economy (2013)
    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : transcript Verlag | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
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    ISBN: 9783837624984 , 9783839424988
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 Online-Ressource ( p.)
    RVK:
    LB 85000
    RVK:
    MS 8950
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    RB 10660
    Keywords: Wirtschaft ; Regionale Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Alternative Wirtschaft ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The volume entails a collection of contributions by leading scholars (Raymond Bryant, Michael K. Goodman, Benjamin Huybrechts, Andrew E. G. Jonas, Roger Lee, Peter North, and Katinka Weber) concerned with alternative modes of economic and social exchange. The cases addressed in these contributions – including credit unions, alternative currencies, sustainable consumption, and social enterprises – deliver valuable insights into how such alternatives are performed at various scales and spaces in relation to and beyond the economic mainstream. In sum, the collection provides vital grounds for both a transition of the economic system towards a more sustainable one, and a reconceptualisation of the economic itself in our scholarly thinking and everyday lives...
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    Soundscapes of the Urban Past : Staged Sound as Mediated Cultural Heritage (2013)
    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : transcript Verlag | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
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    ISBN: 9783837621792 , 9783839421796
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 Online-Ressource ( p.)
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    LR 57720
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    LB 73000
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    LC 87000
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    RB 10909
    Keywords: Geschichte 1920-2010 ; Urbanität ; Darstellung ; Geräusch ; Museum ; Audiovisuelle Medien ; Berlin ; London ; Amsterdam ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: We cannot simply listen to our urban past. Yet we encounter a rich cultural heritage of city sounds presented in text, radio and film. How can such 'staged sounds' express the changing identities of cities? This volume presents a collection of studies on the staging of Amsterdam, Berlin and London soundscapes in historical documents, radio plays and films, and offers insights into themes such as film sound theory and museum audio guides. In doing so, this book puts contemporary controversies on urban sound in historical perspective, and contextualises iconic presentations of cities. It addresses academics, students, and museum workers alike. With contributions by Jasper Aalbers, Karin Bijsterveld, Carolyn Birdsall, Ross Brown, Andrew Crisell, Andreas Fickers, Annelies Jacobs, Evi Karathanasopoulou, Patricia Pisters, Holger Schulze, Mark M. Smith and Jonathan Sterne...
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    Borders and Border Regions in Europe : Changes, Challenges and Chances (2013)
    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : transcript Verlag | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
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    ISBN: 9783837624427 , 9783839424421
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 Online-Ressource ( Seiten)
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    LB 74005
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    MG 11990
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    MG 15990
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Grenze ; Grenzüberschreitende Kooperation ; Political institutions and public administration (General) ; Europa ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Focussing European borders: The book provides insight into a variety of changes in the nature of borders in Europe and its neighborhood from various disciplinary perspectives. Special attention is paid to the history and contemporary dynamics at Polish and German borders. Of particular interest are the creation of Euroregions, mutual perceptions of Poles and Germans at the border, EU Regional Policy, media debates on the extension of the Schengen area. Analysis of cross-border mobility between Abkhazia and Georgia or the impact of Israel's 'Security Fence' to Palestine on society complement the focus on Europe with a wider view...
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    Oil and Insurgency in the Niger Delta (2011)
    Uppsala; London : The Nordic Africa Institute and Zed Books (Bloomsbury) | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
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    ISBN: 9781350221598 , 9781848138094 , 9781848138087 , 9781848138070 , 9781848138100
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (255 p.)
    Series Statement: Africa Now
    DDC: 303.6209669
    RVK:
    MI 31094
    RVK:
    MI 31096
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    RS 45705
    Keywords: Erdölgewinnung ; Politischer Konflikt ; Politics & government ; Nigeria ; Nigerdelta ; Energy resources ; Petroleum industry ; International trade ; Transnational corporations ; Geopolitics ; Responsibility ; Governance ; Corruption ; Political crisis ; Ethnic conflicts ; Dispute settlement ; Human rights violations ; Political violence ; Protest movements ; Conflict management ; Political conditions ; Nigeria ; Niger Delta ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The recent escalation in the violent conflict in the Niger Delta has brought the region to the forefront of international energy and security concerns. This book analyses the causes, dynamics and politics underpinning oil-related violence in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. It focuses on the drivers of the conflict, as well as the ways the crises spawned by the political economy of oil and contradictions within Nigeria's ethnic politics have contributed to the morphing of initially poorly coordinated, largely non-violent protests into a pan-Delta insurgency. Approaching the issue from a number of perspectives, the book offers the most up-to-date and comprehensive analysis available of the varied dimensions of the conflict. Combining empirically-based and analytic chapters, it attempts to explain the causes of the escalation in violence, the various actors, levels and dynamics involved, and the policy challenges faced with regard to conflict management/resolution and the options for peace. It also examines the role of oil as a commodity of global strategic significance, addressing the relationship between oil, energy security and development in the Niger Delta.
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    Global Political Ecology (2010)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203842249
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (459 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 304.2
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    AR 14300
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    QT 000
    RVK:
    AR 14120
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    AR 28100
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    MF 9150
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    RB 10844
    Keywords: Politische Ökologie ; Globalisierung ; Umweltkatastrophe ; Umweltpolitik ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The world is caught in the mesh of a series of environmental crises. So far attempts at resolving the deep basis of these have been superficial and disorganized. Global Political Ecology links the political economy of global capitalism with the political ecology of a series of environmental disasters and failed attempts at environmental policies. This critical volume draws together contributions from twenty-five leading intellectuals in the field. It begins with an introductory chapter that introduces the readers to political ecology and summarizes the books main findings. The following seven sections cover topics on the political ecology of war and the disaster state; fuelling capitalism: energy scarcity and abundance; global governance of health, bodies, and genomics; the contradictions of global food; capital's marginal product: effluents, waste, and garbage; water as a commodity, a human right, and power; the functions and dysfunctions of the global green economy; political ecology of the global climate, and carbon emissions. This book contains accounts of the main currents of thought in each area that bring the topics completely up-to-date. The individual chapters contain a theoretical introduction linking in with the main themes of political ecology, as well as empirical information and case material. Global Political Ecology serves as a valuable reference for students interested in political ecology, environmental justice, and geography.
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    Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Society (2010)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203876213
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (513 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge International Handbooks
    DDC: 304.2/5
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    RB 10438
    Keywords: Klimaänderung ; Gesellschaft ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: As the time-scales of natural change accelerate and converge with those of society, Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Society takes the reader into largely uncharted territory in its exploration of anthropogenic climate change. Current material is used to highlight the global impact of this issue, and the necessity for multidisciplinary and global social science research and teaching to address the problem. The book is multidisciplinary and worldwide in scope, with contributors spanning specialisms including agro-forestry, economics, environmentalism, ethics, human geography, international relations, law, politics, psychology, sociology and theology. Their global knowledge is reflected in the content of the text, which encompasses chapters on American, European and Chinese policies, case studies of responses to disasters and of the new technological and lifestyle alternatives that are being adopted, and the negotiations leading up to the Copenhagen conference alongside a preface assessing its outcomes. Starting with an initial analysis by a leading climatologist, key issues discussed in the text include recent findings of natural scientists, social causation and vulnerability, media and public recognition or scepticism, and the merits and difficulties of actions seeking to mitigate and adapt. This accessible volume utilizes a wealth of case studies, explains technical terms and minimises the use of acronyms associated with the subject, making it an essential text for advanced undergraduates, postgraduate students and researchers in the social sciences.
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    Remaking Reality : Nature at the Millenium (2005)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203983966
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (309 pages)
    DDC: 304.2
    RVK:
    CC 6300
    RVK:
    QT 000
    RVK:
    RB 10844
    RVK:
    AR 14300
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    AR 14900
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    Keywords: Mensch ; Natur ; Jahrtausendwende ; Anthropogener Einfluss ; Soziale Konstruktion ; Humanökologie ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book rejects apocalyptic pronouncements that the end of the millenium represents the 'end' of nature as well. Remaking Reality brings together contributors from across the human sciences who argue that a notion of 'social nature' provides great hope for the future. Applying a variety of theoretical approaches to social nature, and engaging with debates in politics, science, technology and social movements surrouding race, gender and class, the contributors explroe important and emerging sites where nature is now being remade with considerable social and ecological consequences. The essays are organised around two themes: 'capitalising and envisioning nature' and 'actors, networks and the politics of hybridity'. An afterword by Neil Smith reflects on the problems and possibilities of future names. For critics and activists alike, Remaking Reality provides essential theoretical and political tools to rethink environmentalism and progressive social natures for the twenty first century.
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    Transnational Spaces (2004)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203647219
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (202 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Research in Transnationalism
    DDC: 305.8
    RVK:
    MS 1560
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    MS 3600
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    RB 10594
    Keywords: Migration ; Globalisierung ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; Anthropogeografie ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Social relations in our globalising world are increasingly stretched out across the borders of two or more nation-states. Yet, despite the growing academic interest in transnational economic networks, political movements and cultural forms, too little attention has been paid to the transformations of space that these processes both reflect and reproduce. Transnational Spaces takes a innovative perspective, looking at transnationalism as a social space that can be occupied by a wide range of actors, not all of whom are themselves directly connected to transnational migrant communities.
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    Animal Spaces, Beastly Places : New Geographies of Human-Animal Relations (2004)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203004883
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (325 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Critical Geographies
    DDC: 304.2/7
    RVK:
    LC 55000
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    RB 10516
    Keywords: Mensch ; Tiere ; Geografie ; Raum ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Animal Spaces, Beastly Places examines how animals interact and relate with people in different ways. Using a comprehensive range of examples, which include feral cats and wild wolves, to domestic animals and intensively farmed cattle, the contributors explore the complex relations in which humans and non-human animals are mixed together. Our emotions involving animals range from those of love and compassion to untold cruelty, force, violence and power. As humans we have placed different animals into different categories, according to some notion of species, usefulness, domesticity or wildness. As a result of these varying and often contested orderings, animals are assigned to particular places and spaces. Animal Spaces, Beastly Places shows us that there are many exceptions and variations on the spatiality of human-animal spatial orderings, within and across cultures, and over time. It develops new ways of thinking about human animal interactions and encourages us to find better ways for humans and animals to live together.
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    Developments in Polynesian Ethnology (1989)
    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : University of Hawai'i Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
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    ISBN: 9780824881962 , 9780824811815
    Language: English
    DDC: 306.0996
    RVK:
    LB 24690
    RVK:
    RX 90564
    Keywords: Ethnologie ; Anthropology ; Polynesien ; Anthropology
    Abstract: Development in Polynesian Ethnology assesses the current state of anthropological research in Polynesia by examining the debates and issues that shape the discipline today. What have anthropologists achieved? What concerns now dominate discussion? Where is Polynesian anthropology headed? In a series of provocative and original essays, leading scholars examine prehistory, social organization, socialization and character development, mana and tapu, chieftainship, art and aesthetics, and early contact. Together these essays show how history, anthropology, and archaeology have combined to give a broad understanding of Polynesian societies developing over time--how they represent a blend of modernity and tradition, continuity and change. This book is both an introduction to Polynesia for interested students and a thought-provoking synthesis for scholars charting new directions and posing possibilities for future research. Scholars outside Polynesian studies will find the perspectives it offers important and its comprehensive bibliography an invaluable resource.
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