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  • 1
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    Women and the Material Culture of Death (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9781351536806
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (407 pages)
    Parallel Title: Print version Tobin, BethFowkes Women and the Material Culture of Death
    DDC: 306.9082
    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Connecting Women and Death: An Introduction -- PART I: MOURNING PRACTICES -- 1 Widows and Courtesans, "Pizzocchere" and Nuns: Women in Mourning in the Venetian Republic, 1400-1800 -- 2 Fashioning Death/Gendering Sentiment: Mourning Jewelry in Britain in the Eighteenth Century -- The Changing Practices of Mourning -- From Memento Mori to Memento Moveri -- The Female Mourner: The Gendering of Mourning and the Sentimental Body -- 3 Emotions and Rituals: Responses to Death among the Nobility in Modern France -- 4 Stitching (in) Death: Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century American and English Mourning Samplers -- Death and Postmortem Practices -- Plain-Stitch Mourning Samplers -- Fancywork Mourning Samplers -- Conclusion -- 5 "The Thing They Knew": Social Exclusion at Southern Wakes in Eudora Welty's "The Wanderers" and The Optimist's Daughter -- 6 "Confessional" Poetry and the Material Culture of Death -- Everyday Objects and Women's Grief -- Male "Confessional" Poets and Memorial -- The Body as Object -- The Poem as Object -- PART II: MEMORIALIZING -- 7 Columbia Mourns: The Distaff Side of Washington's Long Farewell -- Symbols of Birth and Death Chambers in Transition -- Feminine Symbols Exchanged During Mourning -- Women Segregated in Mourning Washington -- First Ladies Respond to the Civic Reinvention of George Washington -- A Feminine Consciousness of Inheritance -- 8 More than "A Heap of Dust": The Material Memorialization of Three Nineteenth-Century Women's Graves -- The Cemetery as Heterotopia -- Hannah Adams -- Louisa Wells -- Ona Judge Staines -- Implications of Cemeteries as Space/Place -- 9 Domesticating Death in the Sentimental Republic: Commemoration and Mourning in U.S. Civil War Nurses' Memoirs
    Abstract: 10 "Une fleur que ses yeux éteints ne peuvent plus contempler": Women's Sculpture for the Dead -- Lifelike but Lifeless Wax Effigies and Animals -- Portraits and Pleurants for Cemeteries and Churches -- War Memorials with Mourning Women -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- 11 Spectacle, Maintenance and Materiality: Women and Death in Modern Brittany -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- 12 A Conversation with Aunt Carol: The Fluid Functionality of Funeral Programs in African-American Culture -- From Death to Birth: The Creation of the Program -- Communal Protest as a Grief Coping Mechanism -- Black Matriarchs as Record Keepers -- Potential for Future Study -- 13 From Private Places to Public Spaces: Mourning and Death in the Art of Four Twenty-First-Century Women -- Acknowledgements -- PART III: BODILY PRACTICES -- 14 Reading Material Culture: British Women's Position and the Death Trade in the Long Eighteenth Century -- The Death Trade -- Women Writers and the Artifacts of Death -- 15 Hadley Chests: A Reflection on the Chaos and Sacrifice of Childbirth -- The Hadley Chests -- Domestic Order and Feminine Identity -- A Closer Look -- Conclusion -- 16 "Feel How Soft Her Hair Is": Amish Women's Practices on the Female Body -- 17 Representing Corporeal "Truth" in the Work of Anna Morandi Manzolini and Madame Tussaud -- Coda -- 18 Women, Decorative Arts, and Taxidermy -- 19 Hic est locus ubi mors gaudet succurrere vitae: Maude Abbott and the Malformed Heart -- Bibliography -- Index
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  • 2
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    Children's Right to Freedom Care and Enlightenment (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9780815321316
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (386 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Children's Right to Freedom Care and Enlightenment
    DDC: 305.23
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    Description / Table of Contents: ""Cover""; ""CHILDREN'S RIGHTS TO FREEDOM, CARE AND ENLIGHTENMENT""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction: Reasons for Considering Children's Rights""; ""PART I: Toward a Justification of Adults' and Children's Rights""; ""Chapter One: Between Protectionism and Liberationism�The Functions and Limits of Children's Rights""; ""Chapter Two: The Functions, Limits, and Circumstances of Children's Rights""; ""Chapter Three: The Relation Between Rights and Claims""; ""Chapter Four: Definitions, Conditions, Criticisms, and Defenses""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Part II: The Development of Children's Rights""""Chapter Five: Limits to Arguments Against Children's Rights""; ""Chapter Six: The Sorting and Grading of Children's Rights""; ""Chapter Seven: The Development of Children's Moral and Intellectual Rights""; ""Part III: The Rights Children Have""; ""Chapter Eight: Children's Rights in the Family, School, and Society""; ""Chapter Nine: Children's Rights to Think and to Know""; ""Chapter Ten: Children's Rights to Inquire and to Infer""; ""Chapter Eleven: Children's Rights to Believe and to Doubt� The Formation of Beliefs""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Chapter Twelve: Children's Rights to Believe and to Doubt� The Justification of Beliefs""""Chapter Thirteen: Limits to the Right to Do Wrong""; ""Conclusion: Children's Rights and the Difference Between Right and Wrong""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
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  • 3
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    Just Methods : An Interdisciplinary Feminist Reader (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9781612053035
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (553 p)
    Edition: 2nd ed
    Parallel Title: Print version Just Methods : An Interdisciplinary Feminist Reader
    DDC: 305.42072
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    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Project of Feminist Methodology; PART I. FEMINIST CRITIQUES OF METHODOLOGY; 1 The Humanities; "The Social Relation of the Sexes: Methodological Implications of Women's History"; "A Paradigm of Philosophy: The Adversary Method"; "Kochinnenako in Academe: Three Approaches to Interpreting a Keres Indian Tale"; 2 The Social Sciences; "Women's Perspective as a Radical Critique of Sociology"; "Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in the Social Sciences: Current Feminist Issues and Practical Strategies"
    Description / Table of Contents: "Research through Imperial Eyes"3 Economics; "Not a Free Market: The Rhetoric of Disciplinary Authority in Economics"; "Paid and Unpaid Labor: Meanings and Debates"; "Counting for Something! Recognizing Women's Contribution to the Global Economy through Alternative Accounting Systems"; 4 Human Biology; "Lesbians under the Medical Gaze: Scientists Search for Remarkable Differences"; "Critique of The Bell Curve"; "Bias in the Science of Evolution"; 5 The Health Sciences; "Metaphors of Menopause: The Metalanguage of Menopause Research"
    Description / Table of Contents: "Don't Use a Wrench to Peel Potatoes: Biological Science Constructed on Male Model Systems Is a Risk to Women Workers' Health""Evidence-Based Medicine and Justice: A Framework for Looking at the Impact of EBM upon Vulnerable or Disadvantaged Groups"; 6 Feminist Studies; "The Costs of Exclusionary Practices in Women's Studies"; "How Inclusive Is Feminist Political Theory? Questions for Lesbians"; "Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism'"; PART II. FEMINISTS RETHINKING METHODOLOGY; 7 Feminist Naturalism: Do Women Have Distinctive Ways of Knowing?
    Description / Table of Contents: "Procedural Knowledge: Separate and Connected Knowing""Black Feminist Epistemology"; "Revaluing Science: Starting from the Practices of Women"; 8 Feminist Empiricism: Experience and Interpretation; "'Experience'"; "Talking about Sex and HIV: Conceptualizing a New Sociology of Experience"; "Incredulity, Experientialism, and the Politics of Knowledge"; 9 Feminist Standpoint Theory: Social Location and Epistemic Privilege; "Learning from the Outsider Within: The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought"; "The Need for a New Vision: The Subsistence Perspective"
    Description / Table of Contents: "Borderlands Epistemologies"10 Feminist Postmodernism: Knowledges as Partial, Contingent, and Politically Informed; "Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective"; "Social Criticism without Philosophy: An Encounter between Feminism and Postmodernism"; "Qualitative Research, Appropriation of the 'Other' and Empowerment"; 11 Objectivity and Validation; "Love and Knowledge: Emotion in Feminist Epistemology"; "Values and Objectivity"; "Epistemology Resuscitated: Objectivity as Trustworthiness"; 12 Democratizing Research
    Description / Table of Contents: "Feminist Participatory Research"
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    Inclusion matters : the foundation for shared prosperity (2013)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiii, 273 pages) , illustrations , 23 cm
    Edition: Online edition s.l.
    Series Statement: New Frontiers of Social Policy
    Series Statement: World Bank eLibrary
    DDC: 302
    Keywords: Marginality, Social ; Social integration
    Note: Includes bibliographical references
    DOI: 10.1596/978-1-4648-0010-8
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  • 5
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    Thinking Critically about Media and Politics (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9781612052731
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (168 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Thinking Critically about Media and Politics
    DDC: 302.230973
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    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction: An Appeal to Students; Chapter 2 Thinking Critically about Political Rhetoric; Chapter 3 Thinking Critically about Mass Media; Chapter 4 Special Interests and Propaganda; Chapter 5 Advertising and Hype; Chapter 6 Analyzing Economic Arguments and Statistical Trickery; Appendix Glossary of Logical and Rhetorical Fallacies Directory of Political Media; Bibliography; Index
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    Transnational Agency and Migration : Actors, Movements, and Social Support (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9780415899079
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (283 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Research in Transnationalism
    Parallel Title: Print version Transnational Agency and Migration : Actors, Movements, and Social Support
    DDC: 304.8
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    Description / Table of Contents: ""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Preface and Acknowledgments""; ""1 Transnational Agency: Migrants, Movements, and Social Support Crossing Borders""; ""PART I Transnational Migration""; ""2 Between Empowerment and Exploitation: Migrant Women's Transnational Practices on the Northern Mexican Border""; ""3 Integration and Agency: African Refugee Women and a Playgroup in Melbourne, Australia""; ""4 Return Migration as an Engine of Social Change?: Reverse Diasporas' Capital Investments at Home""; ""PART II Transnational Movements""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""5 The Translation of Knowledge Across the Atlantic: Constructions of the 'Immigration Problem' in the Settlement Movement""""6 Reconstructing the Narrative of Transnational Feminist Agency: The Women's Caucus for Gender Justice in the International Criminal Court""; ""7 People Living with HIV and AIDS in Thailand as Transnational Social Actors""; ""8 Asian New Religious Movements as Transnational Cultural Systems: Implications for Agency""; ""PART III Transnational Education and Social Support""; ""9 Transnational Transformations of Schooling in Toronto, Canada""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""10 Relaunching Citizenship within an Agency-Oriented Perspective: Transnational Lessons for Social Work and Educational Studies""""11 Transnational Social Work Communities: NGOs Organizing Social Support in International Development Cooperation""; ""12 Social Security in Transnational Legal Space: Limitations and Opportunities""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""
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  • 7
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    A World Full of Women (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9780205872800
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (281 p)
    Edition: 6th ed
    Parallel Title: Print version A World Full of Women
    DDC: 305.4
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    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; A World Full of Women; Old Words and New Realities; Where We're Coming From; Where to Begin and What Follows; Gender, "Nature," and Culture; Cultural Code Switching; Talking Troubles and Carrying Conversations; Loss and Lamentation; What Do You Think?; Some Books That Changed Our Lives; Chapter 1 "What's for Dinner Honey?": Work and Gender; Work: The First Fact of Life; "What's for Dinner?": Gender and Practical Economics; Hunting, Gathering, and Being Human; The Pot-Luck Principle
    Description / Table of Contents: Honey, Meat, and BabiesTools with a Feminine Twist; Planting and Harvesting: The Next Revolution; Digging Sticks; Plows; Distaffs; Peasants; Box: A Folktale; Off to Work We Go; Work and a Revolution; First, Second, and Third Shifts; Value, Valued, and Valuable; What Do You Think?; A Few of the Many Books You May Want to Read; Chapter 2 Love and the Work of Culture: Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead; More Than Personal Lives; The Personal Is Professional; Husbands, Lovers, and Fieldwork; More Love, Husbands, and Fieldwork; Sex and Temperament; The Arapesh; The Mundugumor; The Tchambuli
    Description / Table of Contents: Situations on the SepikDaughters of Sex and Temperament; Beyond the Sepik; Intimacy and the World Stage; Conclusion: Their Last Great Work; What Do You Think?; So Many Books: Where Can I Start?; Chapter 3 Blood and Milk: Biocultural Markers in the Lives of Women; Moonstruck Maidenhood: Taboo and Meaning; Menstrual Regulations; Desire and Control; Techniques and Methods; Pilgrims for Pregnancy; Women Sharing Wombs; Abortion; Motherhood and Fetal Subjects; Infanticide and Social Birth; Comparative Childbirth; Midwife and Mother; Box: A Midwife in Mali; More Facts of Life-Giving
    Description / Table of Contents: From Blood to MilkPrime Time or Dirty Old Ladies; Becoming Older in Bengal; Social Women in Biological Bodies: Some Conclusions; What Do You Think?; Some Very Important Books to Read; Chapter 4 Patterns of Partnering: From Romance to Resistance; Varieties of Arrangements; The Five Fires of the Longhouse; "Mother-Centered" Models in the Caribbean; Duties and Obediences in China; A Circle of Wives: African Experiences; Love, Marriage, and Lavish Weddings; Romance for the Modern Age; Nuclear Family Meltdown; Same Sex, Different Bank Accounts; Managing Single Motherhood; What Do You Think?
    Description / Table of Contents: Reading from Romance to ResistanceChapter 5 Everyday Power: Women's Agency, Authority, and Influence; Rethinking Women's Power; Minangkabau Matriarchs; West African Market Queens; From Respet to Co-op: Shifting Sources of Power among the Zapotec; Migrants, Immigrants, and Refugees: Crossing the Boundaries of Domestic Power; New Levels of Domestic Authority: Japanese Homes Abroad; "Dirty" Nurses and Domestic Patriarchs: The Saga of the Keralite Immigrants; Palestinian Women Create Powerful Spaces; Conclusions from One End of the Power Spectrum to the Other; What Do You Think?
    Description / Table of Contents: Powerful Books to Read
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  • 8
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    Latinos Facing Racism : Discrimination, Resistance, and Endurance (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9781612055534
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (198 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Latinos Facing Racism : Discrimination, Resistance, and Endurance
    DDC: 305.868073
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    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page ; Dedication; Table of Contents ; Preface; Chapter 1 Racializing Latinos; Chapter 2 Spanish Language: Denigration and Racialization; Chapter 3 The Racialization of Place and Space: Latinos in Public Spaces; Chapter 4 Operating Out of the White Frame: Latino Adaptation and Conformity; Chapter 5 Affirmative Action Programs: Latino Opposition and Support; Chapter 6 Melting Pot, or Not: Latinos and Whiteness; Chapter 7 The Great Demographic Shift and the US Future; References; Further Readings; Index; About the Authors
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    Slavery and Colonial Rule in Africa (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9780714648842
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (309 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Slavery and Colonial Rule in Africa
    DDC: 306.3/62/096
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    Abstract: This book brings together a series of new case studies, some by young scholars, others by widely published authors. All are based on original research and designed to enhance our understanding of the process of the abolition of slavery in Africa at the grass-roots level. Part of the studies are on new areas of interest such as the German colonies and the Algerian Sahara. Others throw new light on questions already debated, such as emancipation of the Gold Coast. Some focus on the impact of abolition on particular groups of slaves, such as the royal slaves in Nigeria and concubines in Morocc
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""List of Maps""; ""Introduction""; ""THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT""; ""Slavery and the Slave Trade as International Issues, 1890-1939""; ""FRENCH AFRICA""; ""No Liberty, Not Much Equality, and Very Little Fraternity: The Mirage of Manumission in the Algerian Sahara in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century""; ""Slavery and Muslim Jurisprudence in Morocco""; ""Slavery and French Rule in the Sahara""; ""'The Ties that Bind': Servility and Dependency among the Fulbe of Bundu (Senegambia), c.1930s to 1980s""; ""GERMAN AFRICA""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""The 'Freeing' of the Slaves in German East Africa: The Statistical Record, 1890-1914""""Slavery in Colonial Cameroon, 1880s to 1930s""; ""BRITISH AFRICA""; ""The Administration of the Abolition Laws, African Responses and Post-Proclamation Slavery in the Gold Coast, 1874-1940""; ""'Amana' and 'Asiri': Royal Slave Culture and the Colonial Regime in Kano, 1903-26""; ""'When the Slaves Left, Owners Wept': Entrepreneurs and Emancipation among the lgbo People""; ""'Do Dady nor Lef me Make dem Carry me': Slave Resistance and Emancipation in Sierra Leone, 1894-1928""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""The End of Slavery among the Yoruba""""Festina Lente: Slavery Policy and Practice in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
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  • 10
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    Je, Tu, Nous : Toward a Culture of Difference (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9780415905824
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (137 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Je, Tu, Nous : Toward a Culture of Difference
    DDC: 305.42
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    Description / Table of Contents: ""je, tu, nous: Toward a Culture of Difference ""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""A Personal Note: Equal or Different?""; ""One: The Neglect of Female Genealogies ""; ""Two: Religious and Civil Myths ""; ""Three: Women�s Discourse and Men�s Discourse ""; ""Four: On the Maternal Order ""; ""Five: The Culture of Difference ""; ""Six: Writing As a Woman ""; ""Seven: “I Won�t Get AIDS'' ""; ""Eight: Linguistic Sexes and Genders ""; ""Nine: The Right to Life ""; ""Ten: Why Define Sexed Rights? ""; ""Eleven: “More Women Than Men'' ""; ""Twelve: Your Health: What, or Who, Is It? ""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Thirteen: How Can We Create Our Beauty? """"Fourteen: How Old Are You? ""; ""Fifteen: The Cost of Words ""; ""Sixteen: So When Are We to Become Women? ""
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    Changing Food Habits (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9789057025648
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (297 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Changing Food Habits
    DDC: 641.3
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    Description / Table of Contents: ""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction to the Series""; ""Introduction: Changing Food Habits: An Introduction""; ""1 In Praise of the Simple Meal: African and European Food Culture Compared""; ""2 Cassava, ""The Lazy Man's Food""? Indigenous Agricultural Innovation and Dietary Change in Northwestern Zambia (ca. 1650-1970)""; ""3 The Cook, His Wife, the Madam and Their Dinner: Cooking, Gender and Class in Zambia""; ""4 Changing Patterns of Food Consumption in Central Kordofan, Sudan""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""5 Food Aid in Peru: Refusal and Acceptance in a Peasant Community of the Central Andes""""6 Tasty Meals and Bitter Gifts: Consumption and Production in the Ecuadorian Andes""; ""7 Alcohol Consumption between Community Ritual and Political Economy: Case Studies from Ecuador and Ghana""; ""8 The Porridge Debate: Grain, Nutrition, and Forgotten Food Preparation Techniques""; ""9 The Rationing System, Food Policy, and Nutritional Science During the Second World War: A Comparative View of Switzerland""; ""10 Plurality of Taste: Food and Consumptionin West Germany During the 1950s""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""11 Me Kebap: Doner Kebap and the Social Positioning Struggle of German Turks""""Index ""
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    Justice, Politics, and the Family (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9781612051499
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (283 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Justice, Politics, and the Family
    DDC: 306.85
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    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Justice and the Family in Western Political Thought; Suggested Further Readings; Part I What Is the "Family"?; Introduction; 1 Postmodern Families; 2 The Family and Civic Life; 3 Families as Relationships of Intimacy and Care; Suggested Further Readings; Part II Justice, Gender, and the Family; Introduction; 4 Justice, Gender, and the Family; 5 After the Family Wage; Suggested Further Readings; Part III Parents and Children; Introduction; 6 Is the Family to Be Abolished Then?
    Description / Table of Contents: 7 The Place of Parenting within a Liberal Theory of Justice8 The Child's Right to an Open Future; Suggested Further Readings; Part IV Families and the State; Introduction; 9 The Myth of State Intervention in the Family; 10 Just Marriage; 11 The Liberal Case for Disestablishing Marriage; Suggested Further Readings; Part V Multiculturalism, the Family, and Dilemmas of Justice; Introduction; 12 Cultural Diversity and Child Protection; 13 Polygamy in America; Suggested Further Readings; Part VI Globalization and the Family; Introduction; 14 Global Care Chains and Emotional Surplus Value
    Description / Table of Contents: 15 Deportation and the Parent-Child RelationshipSuggested Further Readings; About the Contributors; Credits
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    Sport and the Social Significance of Pleasure (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9780415885102
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (254 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    Parallel Title: Print version Sport and the Social Significance of Pleasure
    DDC: 306.483
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    Description / Table of Contents: ""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1 Proem: Sport and the Social Significance of Pleasure""; ""2 Pleasures Small and Large""; ""3 A Short History of Pleasure""; ""4 Theorizing Sporting Pleasures across the Disciplines""; ""5 Studying Sport, Feminism and Pleasure""; ""6 Aging Bod(ies) and Pleasure: Poetic Orientations""; ""7 Running for Pleasures""; ""8 When the Pleasurable Is Political: An Affective Analysis of Viewing the Olympics""; ""9 'I Just Love Watching Football'""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""10 Aesthetic Pleasure and Sport: The Case of Love + Guts: Skateboarding Killed the Art Show""""11 Anhedonia and Alternative Sports""; ""12 Be Happy, Play Sport?: Governing Happiness via the Promotion of Sport""; ""Authors""; ""References""; ""Author Index""; ""Subject Index""
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    Popular Culture, Political Economy and the Death of Feminism : Why women are in refrigerators and other stories (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9780415522267
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (267 p)
    Series Statement: Popular Culture and World Politics
    Parallel Title: Print version Popular Culture, Political Economy and the Death of Feminism : Why women are in refrigerators and other stories
    DDC: 305.42
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    Description / Table of Contents: ""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Table of Contents""; ""List of illustrations""; ""Preface""; ""Series editor's preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""List of abbreviations""; ""1 Introductions""; ""Background""; ""Strategy(ies) of research""; ""Notes""; ""2 Analysing popular culture""; ""Popular culture and the importance of visual language in studying global politics""; ""'Culture', popular culture and (erroneous) high/low binaries""; ""Popular culture and political economy""; ""Commercial viability and (cultural) popularity""; ""Notes""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""3 Popular culture, produced, represented and consumed""""Production""; ""Representation""; ""Consumption""; ""Notes""; ""4 Feminism(s), feminists and the (enduring) 'popularity gap'""; ""Feminist 'successes': How feminists have changed things""; ""The (premature) burial of feminism""; ""Australia and 'men in blue ties'""; ""The sexualization of popular culture and the recentralization of feminist concerns""; ""Notes""; ""5 In popular form (feminism and antifeminism in popular culture)""; ""Overt antifeminism (1): Why the development of decent female movie characters is not encouraged""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Overt antifeminism (2): Why women are in refrigerators""""Overt antifeminism (3): Why games with female characters don't sell""; ""Overt antifeminism (4): Why men are entitled to sex but (independent) female sexuality is unacceptable""; ""Overt antifeminism (5): Why stupid girls are more profitable""; ""Overt antifeminism (6): Why feminists can only be characterized negatively in popular culture""; ""Tacit antifeminism (1): Why 'strong female characters' have become boring""; ""Tacit antifeminism (2): Why Hollywood is not good at 'girl power'""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Tacit antifeminism (3): Why women shouldn't read The Economist""""Tacit antifeminism (4): Why men's lifestyle magazines reflect sexual paranoia""; ""Tacit antifeminism (5): Why the media promotes 'enlightened sexism'""; ""Overt feminism (1): Young women are interested in and actually practice feminism""; ""Overt feminism (2): The enduring strength(s) of liberal feminism(s)""; ""Overt feminism (3): The (increasing) popularity of celebrity feminism""; ""Overt feminism (4): 'Riot grrrl', sextremism and guerilla feminisms""; ""Tacit feminism: Supportive but not self-professed""; ""Notes""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""6 Conclusions""""The trouble with IPE""; ""Feminism, gender tropes and popular culture""; ""Is antifeminism more commercially viable than feminism?""; ""Note""; ""Appendix A: Survey questions""; ""Appendix B: Dolce and Gabbana""; ""Glossary""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
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    Death, Dying and Bereavement in a Changing World (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9780205790760
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (432 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Death, Dying and Bereavement in a Changing World
    DDC: 306.9
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    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; About the Author; Part I Introduction and Context; Chapter 1 Lifting the Pall: The Quest to Uncover Wisdom about Life Through the Study of Death; BOX 1.1: The Object Exercise; About Self-Care; Lifting the Pall; Interchangeable Parts; Death Education; Growth of Contemporary Death Studies; A Multidisciplinary, Multidimensional Emphasis in the Field; Theory, Research, and Practice; The Theory-Research Cycle; Diverse Research Methods; What about the Denial of Death?; Empirical Evidence and Key Elements; Implications
    Description / Table of Contents: BOX 1.2: Focus on Practice: Helping People Cope with the Reality of their FinitudeChapter Summary; Key Terms; Suggested Activities; Suggested Reading and Viewing; Links and Internet Resources; Review Guide; Chapter 2 Death and Dying in a Rapidly Changing World; Advances in Medicine; Western Experience; Modern Trends; BOX 2.1: The Baal Shem Tov and the Doctor; A Changing World; Industrial Revolution and Modernity; Quantum Change; Changing Attitudes; Professional Attitudes; Professional Socialization; Technology Dependence; The Research Imperative
    Description / Table of Contents: The Human Imperative: Competence in End-of-Life CareChapter Summary; Key Terms; Suggested Activities; Suggested Reading; Links and Internet Resources; Review Guide; Chapter 3 For Everything There Is a Season: The Developmental Context; Children's Deaths; Newborns; Toddlers; The Death of Eli Creekmore; Middle Childhood; Learning about Death; Cognitive Development; Children's Understanding of Death; A World of Seriously Ill Children; Helping Children Cope; BOX 3.1: Focus on Practice: Using Creative Therapies; Death among Youth; The Shot Went Straight to the Heart; Death in Adulthood
    Description / Table of Contents: Social DevelopmentLife's Final Stage; Chapter Summary ; Key Terms; Suggested Activities; Suggested Reading; Links and Internet Resources; Review Guide; Chapter 4 Coureurs de Bois: Cross-Cultural and Interfaith Dimensions; Conceptual Tools; BOX 4.1: From Your Place in the Circle; Culture, Spirit, and Death; Culture and Spirit; Spirit and Death; Key Religious Perspectives; Abrahamic Tradition; Hinduism and Buddhism; The Hero's Quest; Chautauqua; The Call of the Owl; The Dalai Lama Speaks about Life and Death; Los Dias de Muertos; Mejo Ma and the Dilemma of Maya; Near the Burning Ghat
    Description / Table of Contents: Reunion with AllahChapter Summary; Key Terms; Suggested Activities; Suggested Reading; Links and Internet Resources; Review Guide; Part II Death; Chapter 5 The Grim Reaper through Time: A Historical and Cross-Cultural Look at Undertaking; Historical Undertaking; Ancient Egyptian Funerary Customs; Civil War Roots of Modern Undertaking; Modern Embalming; Trends in Burial and Cremation; Simple and Cheap; Cremation; State of the Art; BOX 5.1: Focus on Practice: Dealing with Death; Commemorative Customs; Jewish Custom; Christian Tradition; Islamic Tradition; Hindu Tradition; Buddhist Customs
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    Sociology : A Systematic Introduction (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9780415175180
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (709 p)
    Series Statement: International Library of Sociology
    Parallel Title: Print version Sociology : A Systematic Introduction
    DDC: 301
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    Description / Table of Contents: ""Cover""; ""SOCIOLOGY: A SYSTEMATIC INTRODUCTION""; ""Copyright""; ""Foreword""; ""Authors Preface""; ""Contents""; ""part one THE FRAME OF REFERENCE""; ""1. Sociology: The Study of Groups""; ""A Definition of Sociology""; ""Groups and Subgroups""; ""Characteristics of Societies""; ""2. Institutionalization""; ""Social Positions""; ""Institutionalization""; ""INSTITUTIONALIZATION, CONFORMITY, AND SOCIAL CONTROL""; ""Conformity and Specificity of the Norm""; ""Role Conflict and Deviation""; ""Relations Between Groups""; ""ROLE CONFLICT""; ""REINFORCEMENT OF ROLES""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""INTERACTION BETWEEN GROUPS""""REFERENCE GROUPS""; ""RECOMMENDED READING""; ""3. Structure and Function""; ""Structural Aspects of Social Systems""; ""Functional Problems of Social Systew.8""; ""PATTERN MAINTENANCE AND TENSION MANAGEMENT""; ""ADAPTATION""; ""GOAL ATTAINMENT""; ""INTEGRATION""; ""Levels of Social Structure""; ""FUNCTIONAL SUBSYSTEMS""; ""STRUCTURAL SUBSYSTEMS""; ""Quasi-structural Aspects of Social Systems""; ""Social Functions and Dysfunctions""; ""Manifest and Latent Functions and Dysfunctions""; ""Equivalent and Alternative Mechanisms""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Functional Analysis and Social Change""""Functional Analysis and Causal Analysis""; ""Attributing Functions and Dysfunctions""; ""MENTAL EXPERIMENT""; ""COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS""; ""ANALYSIS OF DEVIATION""; ""Functional Assessment and Evaluation""; ""RECOMMENDED READING""; ""part two CULTURE AND SOCIALIZATION""; ""4. Culture""; ""Elements in Culture""; ""COGNITIVE ELEMENTS""; ""BELIEFS""; ""VALUES AND NORMS""; ""SIGNS""; ""NON-NORMATIVE WAYS OF BEHAVING""; ""Cultural Systems and Subsystems""; ""Culture and Race""; ""Culture and Environment""; ""Cultural Progress""; ""Ethnocentrism""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""5. Socialization""""Preliminary Observations""; ""BIOLOGICAL POTENTIALITIES""; ""PLASTICITY OF THE INFANT""; ""TIMING""; ""SOCIAL PATTERNING OF SOCIALIZATION""; ""Internalized Objects""; ""THE SELF""; ""ROLES""; ""Conditions of Learning""; ""DISCRIMINATION""; ""REWARD AND PUNISHMENT""; ""CONTROL OF THE EFFECTS OF FRUSTRATION""; ""Stages of Socialization""; ""THE FIRST STAGE""; ""THE SECOND STAGE""; ""THE THIRD STAGE""; ""THE FOURTH STAGE""; ""A More Detailed Analysis of Process""; ""Internalized Roles as Prototypes""; ""DIFFUSENESS-SPECIFICITY""; ""AFFECTIVITY-NEUTRALITY""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""UNIVERSALISM-PARTICULARISM""""QUALITY-PERFORMANCE""; ""Socialization of Adults""; ""part three KINSHIP GROUPS AND SYSTEMS""; ""6. Marriage and the Family""; ""A Definition of Marriage""; ""Forms of Marriage""; ""Rules of Residence""; ""Types of Family""; ""Marriage as a Form of Exchange""; ""OPEN SYSTEMS OF MARRIAGE""; ""Divorce""; ""CAUSES OF HIGH DIVORCE RATES""; ""CIDLDREN OF THE DIVORCED""; ""7. Consanguineal Kin Groups and Clans""; ""Rules of Descent""; ""UNILINEAR CONSANGUINEAL KIN GROUPS""; ""BILATERAL CONSANGUINEAL KIN GROUPS""; ""Clans""; ""CLAN-BARRIOS AND CLAN-COMMUNITIES""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""CLAN SOLIDARITY AND CONFLICT""
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    Women, Work and Family (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9780415902625
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (283 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Women, Work and Family
    DDC: 305.4300942
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    Description / Table of Contents: ""WOMEN, WORK, AND FAMILY""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction to the New Edition""; ""Part I. The Family Economy in Pre-Industrial England and France""; ""1. Economy and Demography""; ""2. Single Women in the Family Economy""; ""3. Married Women in the Family Economy""; ""Part II. Industrialization and the Family Wage Economy""; ""4. Industrialization""; ""5. Demographic Change""; ""6. Women in the Family Wage Economy""; ""Part III. Toward the Family Consumer Economy""; ""7. Occupational and Demographic Change""; ""8. Women in the Family Consumer Economy""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""9. Changes in Women's Work Since World War II""""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
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    American Indians and the American Imaginary : Cultural Representation Across the Centuries (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9781612050478
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (246 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version American Indians and the American Imaginary : Cultural Representation Across the Centuries
    DDC: 305.897073
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    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; PART ONE INTRODUCTION; 1 The Ethnography of Representational Practices; PART TWO REPRESENTING HISTORY AND IDENTITY; 2 Tribe and Nation; 3 Five Hundred Years; 4 Indian Blood; PART THREE CAPTIVITY, ADOPTION, AND THE AMERICAN IMAGINARY; 5 Captivity in White and Red; 6 The Contemporary Captivity Narrative; 7 On Captivity as Digital Spectacle; PART FOUR PLAYING INDIAN; 8 Crafting American Selves; 9 Animated Indians; 10 The Mascot Slot; PART FIVE INDIGENOUS IMAGINARIES
    Description / Table of Contents: 11 Sovereignty, Indigeneity, and Ethnographic Representation12 A Native Space on the National Mall; Epilogue; References; Print Publications and Manuscripts (Including Online Texts); Multimedia Sources (Films, Videos, Scores, CD-ROMs, Podcasts); Legislation and Court Cases; Sources and Credits; Index; About the Author
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    Cultural Exchange in Seventeenth-Century France and England (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9781351946971
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (306 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Stedman, Gesa Cultural Exchange in Seventeenth-Century France and England
    DDC: 303.48241044
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    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- A Note on Dates -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Theories of Cultural Exchange -- 2 A wise and happy mediator? Queen Henrietta Maria as Cultural Ambassador -- 3 So much æmulacion, poverty, and the vices of swearing, drinking, and whoring: Charles II and Anglo-French Culture at the Restoration -- 4 Vanquishing with our pens as our ancestors have with their swords: Textual and Visual Representations of Cultural Exchange -- 5 Summary and Outlook -- Bibliography -- Index
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    The Child Savage, 1890-2010 : From Comics to Games (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9781351893039
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (272 p)
    Series Statement: Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
    Parallel Title: Print version Wesseling, Elisabeth The Child Savage, 1890-2010 : From Comics to Games
    DDC: 305.23
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    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I THE CHILD-SAVAGE IN (NEO-)COLONIAL DISCOURSE -- 1 Technologies of Power: School Discourse in Late Nineteenth-century Ireland -- 2 Kipling's Just So Stories: The Recapitulative Child and Evolutionary Progress -- 3 Of Savages and Wild Children: Contrasting Representations of Foreign Cultures and Disobedient White Children During the Belle Epoque -- 4 Getting to Know the Other: Dutch Children's Magazines and Alterity (1895-1900)
    Abstract: 5 Africa in Ritual Practice and Mythic Consciousness in the Kulturfilm of the German Weimar Republic (1918-33) -- 6 Childhood and the Discourse about Primitivism: The Impact of the Negritude Movement on Avant-garde Children's Literature -- PART II DOMESTIC SAVAGES -- 7 Animals, Angels and Americans: Remediating Dickensian Melodrama in the Comic Strip Little Orphan Annie (1924-45) -- 8 The Teenaged Savage Goes to Hollywood: The Incorporation of Colonialist Discourse within American Exploitation Cinema, 1930-45 -- 9 Listening with Mother: The Cultivation of Children's Radio
    Abstract: 10 Wild Children and Wicked Journalists: The Remediation of Constructions of Childhood in the Popular Press in Children's Literature -- PART III POSTCOLONIAL PLAYGROUNDS -- 11 Representing Violence, Playing Control: Warring Constructions of Masculinity in Action Man Toys -- 12 "Back to That Special Time": Nostalgia and the Remediation of Children's Media in the Adult World -- 13 Unworldly Children: The Critical Potential of Japanese and Nigerian Images of "Wild" Children in the Age of Globalization -- Index -- General Index -- Name Index
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    Queer Families, Common Agendas : Gay People, Lesbians, and Family Values (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9781560231295
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (132 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Queer Families, Common Agendas : Gay People, Lesbians, and Family Values
    DDC: 306.87
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    Abstract: Vital information on family services, custody, and access rights for gay parents!Queer Families, Common Agendas: Gay People, Lesbians, and Family Values examines the real life experience of those affected by current laws and policies regarding homosexual families. The book will help policy makers, lawyers, social workers, and the general public better understand these families. Here you will be able to compare the progress of policy in the U.S. and Canada for gay and lesbian parents and their children and explore relevant legal approaches in the two countries. In Queer Families, Common Agendas
    Description / Table of Contents: ""CONTENTS""; ""Foreword ""; ""Preface""; ""Out in This World: The Social and Legal Context of Gay and Lesbian Families ""; ""Lesbian Families: Achieving Motherhood ""; ""Policy Alternatives for a Diverse Community: Lesbians and Family Law ""; ""Raising Our Sons: Gay Men as Fathers ""; ""Familism and the Adoption Option for Gay and Lesbian Parents ""; ""It's All a Matter of Attitude: Creating and Maintaining Receptive Services for Sexual Minority Families ""; ""Index ""
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    LGBT Studies and Queer Theory : New Conflicts, Collaborations, and Contested Terrain (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9781560233169
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (373 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version LGBT Studies and Queer Theory : New Conflicts, Collaborations, and Contested Terrain
    DDC: 306.76/601
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    Abstract: Find out how the tension between LGBT studies and queer theory exists in the classroom, politics, communities, and relationshipsLGBT Studies and Queer Theory: New Conflicts, Collaborations, and Contested Terrain examines the similarities and differences between LGBT studies and queer theory and the uneasy relationship between the two in the academic world. This unique book meets the challenge that queer theory presents to the study and politics of gay and lesbian studies with a collection of essays from leading academics who represent a variety of disciplines. These original pieces place queer
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Cover""; ""LGBT Studies and Queer Theory: New Conflicts, Collaborations, and Contested Terrain""; ""Copyright""; ""CONTENTS""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""Shifting Ground(s): Surveying the Contested Terrain of LGBT Studies and Queer Theory""; ""THEORETICAL DEBATES AND INTERVENTIONS""; ""Queer Theory, Late Capitalism, and Internalized Homophobia""; ""Anti-Homosexual Prejudice ... as Opposed to What? Queer Theory and the Social Psychology of Anti-Homosexual Attitudes""; ""Outlaws or In-Laws? Queer Theory, LGBT Studies, and Religious Studies""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""A Queer Anxiety: Assimilation Politics and Cinematic Hedonics in Relax ... It's Just Sex""""INTERSECTIONS""; ""Historicizing (Bi)Sexuality: A Rejoinder for Gay/Lesbian Studies, Feminism, and Queer Theory""; ""Troubling the Canon: Bisexuality and Queer Theory""; ""Cape Queer? A Case Study of Provincetown, Massachusetts""; ""Jewish Disappearing Acts and the Construction of Gender""; ""Desiring Mates""; ""CONTEXTS""; ""Teaching Queer Theory at a Normal School""; ""Containing Uncertainty: Sexual Values and Citizenship""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Ferment in LGBT Studies and Queer Theory: Personal Ruminations on Contested Terrain""""Index""
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    Introduction to GLBT Family Studies (2013)
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    ISBN: 9780789024961
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (329 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Introduction to GLBT Family Studies
    DDC: 306.85086/64
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    Abstract: Gain a better understanding of the special therapeutic issues and needs of GLBT familiesIn terms of research, GLBT families constitute a neglected segment of society. Gender and sexual orientation can make the issues in family studies even more difficult to work through. An Introduction to GLBT Family Studies tackles a challenging research topic by presenting noted experts examining the latest information on the newest type of family studiesGLBT families. This groundbreaking text explores a wide range of unique problems faced by nontraditional families, as well as issues common to traditional
    Description / Table of Contents: ""An Introduction to GLBT Family Studies""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Contents""; ""About the Editor""; ""Contributors""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I: Glbt Family Issues""; ""Chapter 1. A Process of Change: The Intersection of the GLBT Individual and His or Her Family of Origin""; ""Societal and Familial Constraints""; ""GLBT Awareness and Discovery""; ""The Question of Disclosure""; ""The Process of Change""; ""Conclusion""; ""Chapter 2. Life-Course Social Science Perspectives on the GLBT Family""; ""Life-Course Perspectives and the GLBT Family""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""From Life-Cycle to Life-Course Family Study""""Life-Course Perspectives on Sexual-Minority Families""; ""Conclusion""; ""Chapter 3. Translove: Transgender Persons and Their Families""; ""General Issues""; ""Family-of-Origin Issues""; ""Case Study: A Transwoman (MTF)""; ""Couples� Issues""; ""Case Study: A Transman (FTM)""; ""Issues Affecting Children""; ""Conclusion""; ""Introductory Transgender Resources""; ""Chapter 4. A Family Matter: When a Spouse Comes Out As Gay, Lesbian, or Bisexual""; ""Where We Are""; ""Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Spouses""; ""Heterosexual Spouses""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Mixed-Orientation Couples""""Children of Mixed-Orientation Couples""; ""The Future and How We Might Get There""; ""Chapter 5. Genograms Redrawn: Lesbian Couples Define Their Families""; ""Lesbian Family Relationships""; ""Family Life-Cycle Theory and Genograms""; ""Method""; ""Results""; ""Discussion""; ""Chapter 6. Siblings and Sexual Orientation: Products of Alternative Families or the Ones Who Got Away?""; ""Siblings As a Comparison Group for GLBs: The Studies""; ""Education and Moving Away from the Family of Origin""; ""Relationships, Children, and Division of Labor""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Religion and Politics""""Which Siblings Become Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, or Heterosexual?""; ""Chapter 7. Stress and Adaptation Among Families of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth: Research Challenges""; ""Stress and the Discovery of GLB Youths� Sexual and Gender Identities""; ""Recent Findings Concerning GLB Youth and Their Families""; ""Problems with Research on Familial Reactions to Disclosure of GLB Youths� Sexual Orientation""; ""A Human Development Model of GLB Youth Development in the Family Context""; ""Directions for Future Research""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Part II: Special Issues in GLBT Family Studies""""Chapter 8. Polyamory and Gay Men: A Family Systems Approach""; ""Models of Polyamory""; ""Making it Work: Essential Skills""; ""Benefits of Polyamorous Relationships""; ""Understanding Families""; ""Understanding a Polyamorous Gay Male Family""; ""Areas for Future Research""; ""Conclusion""; ""Chapter 9. Coming Out As “We 3�: Using Personal Ethnography and the Case Study to Assess Relational Identity and Parental Support of Gay Male, Three-Partner Relationships""; ""Background""; ""The Academic Letter""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Chapter 10. Same-Sex Marriage and Legalized Relationships: I Do, or Do I?""
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    Sexuality and Eroticism Among Males in Moslem Societies (2013)
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    ISBN: 9781560240471
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (219 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Sexuality and Eroticism Among Males in Moslem Societies
    DDC: 306.76/62/0917671
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    Description / Table of Contents: ""Cover""; ""Sexuality and Eroticism Among Males in Moslem Societies""; ""Copyright""; ""ABOUT THE EDITORS""; ""CONTENTS""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Different Approaches to Male-Male Sexuality/Eroticism from Morocco to UsbekistÄ?n""; ""An Italian in Morocco""; ""Moroccan Boys and Sex""; ""Among Syrian Men""; ""Intimate Look of the Iranian Male""; ""The Persian Boy Today""; ""Tehran: Dangerous Love""; ""Turkey on the Brink of Modernity: A Guide for Scandinavian Gays""; ""The Dawn of a Gay Movement in Turkey""; ""Transvestites and Transsexuals in Turkey""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Not-So-Gay Life in Karachi: A View of a Pakistani Living in Toronto""""Testimonies from the Holy Land: Israeli and Palestinian Men Talk About Their Sexual Encounters""; ""Arab Men in Paris""; ""Sexual Meetings of East and West: Western Tourism and Muslim Immigrant Communities""; ""Sodomy in the Law of Muslim States""; ""LiwÄ?t""; ""A Critique of John Boswell's Writings on Muslim Gays""; ""Islam""; ""Man of Ashes: A Film Review""; ""Bibliography""; ""About the Contributors""; ""Index""
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    Transcultural Encounters between Germany and India : Kindred Spirits in the 19th and 20th Centuries (2013)
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    ISBN: 9780415844697
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (257 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    Parallel Title: Print version Transcultural Encounters between Germany and India : Kindred Spirits in the 19th and 20th Centuries
    DDC: 303.48243054
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    Description / Table of Contents: ""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Notes on contributors""; ""Preface and acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""PART I Pre-colonialGermany and India""; ""1 Fostering aesthetic tolerance through literary translation: Georg Forsterâ€?s ÅšakuntalÄ?""; ""2 India and Hegelâ€?s “scientificâ€? method in the Phenomenology of Spirit""; ""3 Claims and disclaimers: Schopenhauer and the cross-cultural comparative enterprise""; ""PART II Imperial Germany and India""; ""4 Rudolf Steiner and the theosophy of greed""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""5 The redemption of the Brahman: Garbe and German interpreters of the BhagavadgÄ«tÄ?""""6 German travelers to India at the fin-de-siÃ?cle and their ambivalent views of the Raj""; ""PART III Germany and India during interwar years""; ""7 Germans in India between Kaiserreich and the end of World War II""; ""8 Cross-culturaltransfer and Indophilia in Count Hermann Keyserling""; ""9 Asian anti-imperialismand leftist antagonism in Weimar Germany""; ""PART IV Nazi Germany and India""; ""10 Indian political activities in Germany, 1914â€?1945""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""11 The orientalist roots of National Socialism? Nazism, occultism, and South Asian spirituality, 1919�1945""""12 The melancholy of the thinking racist: India and the ambiguities of race in the work of Hans F. K. G�nther""; ""PART V Germany and India since 1945""; ""13 West Germany�s India policy 1949 to 1972""; ""14 East meets East: Fritz Bennewitz�s theatrical journeys from the GDR to India""; ""15 The passion of Paul Hacker: Indology, orientalism, and evangelism""; ""Index""
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    Feminists Theorize the Political (2013)
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    ISBN: 9780415902731
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (504 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Feminists Theorize the Political
    DDC: 305.42/01
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    Description / Table of Contents: ""FEMINISTS THEORIZE THE POLITICAL""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""I. Contesting Grounds ""; ""1. Contingent Foundations: Feminism and the Question of ""Postmodernism"" ""; ""2. ""Experience"" ""; ""3. Feminism and George Sand: Lettres à Marcie ""; ""4. French Feminism Revisited: Ethics and Politics ""; ""5. Ecce Homo, Ain't (Ar'n't) I a Woman, and Inappropriate/d Others: The Human in a Post-Humanist Landscape ""; ""6. Postmodern Automatons""; ""II. Signifying Identity ""; ""7. A Short History of Some Preoccupations ""; ""8. Dealing with Differences""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""9. Speaking in Tongues: Dialogics, Dialectics, and the Black Woman Writer's Literary Tradition """"10. The Real Miss Beauchamp: Gender and the Subject of Imitation ""; ""11. Toward an Agonistic Feminism: Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Identity""; ""III. Subjects Before the Law""; ""12. The Abortion Question and the Death of Man""; ""13. ""Shahbano""""; ""14. Gender, Sex, and Equivalent Rights""; ""15. Women ""Before"" the Law: Judicial Stories about Women, Work, and Sex Segregation on the Job ""; ""IV. Critical Practices""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""16. The Issue of Foundations: Scientized Politics, Politicized Science, and Feminist Critical Practice """"17. Feminism, Citizenship, and Radical Democratic Politics""; ""18. Fighting Bodies, Fighting Words: A Theory and Politics of Rape Prevention""; ""19. Gender, Power, and Historical Memory: Discourses of Serrano Resistance ""; ""20. A Pedagogy for Postcolonial Feminists""; ""V. Postmodern Post-Script""; ""21. The End of Innocence""; ""22. Feminism and Postmodernism""; ""Index""; ""Notes on Contributors""
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    In Your Face : Stories from the Lives of Queer Youth (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9781560238874
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (179 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version In Your Face : Stories from the Lives of Queer Youth
    DDC: 305.235
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Cover""; ""In Your Face: Stories from the Lives of Queer Youth""; ""Copyright""; ""CONTENTS""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Why Do We Need Books Like This?""; ""Chapter 1 Background: Profiles of the People You Will Meet in This Book""; ""Anthony Gomez""; ""Adam Hardy""; ""Alan Wiley""; ""Eileene Coscolluela""; ""Dawn McCausland""; ""Eriq Chang""; ""Emie Hsiung""; ""Kyallee Santanders""; ""Lisa Campbell""; ""Mathis""; ""Michael Talis""; ""Mary Toth""; ""Paige""; ""Todd Fay-Long""; ""Jim""; ""Chapter 2 One of These Kids Is Not Like the Others""; ""Anthony Gomez""; ""Adam Hardy""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Alan Wiley""""Eileene Coscolluela""; ""Dawn McCausland""; ""Eriq Chang""; ""Ernie Hsiung""; ""Kyallee Santanders""; ""Lisa Campbell""; ""Mathis""; ""Michael Talis""; ""Mary Toth""; ""Paige""; ""Todd Fay-Long""; ""Jim""; ""Chapter 3 You're WHAT? Coming Out to the Family""; ""Anthony Gomez""; ""Adam Hardy""; ""Alan Wiley""; ""Eileene Coscolluela""; ""Dawn McCausland""; ""Eriq Chang""; ""Ernie Hsiung""; ""Kyallee Santanders""; ""Lisa Campbell""; ""Mathis""; ""Michael Talis""; ""Mary Toth""; ""Paige""; ""Todd Fay-Long""; ""Jim""; ""Chapter 4 Do You Have to Let the WHOLE World Know?""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Adam Hardy""""Alan Wiley""; ""Eileene Coscolluela""; ""Dawn McCausland""; ""Eriq Chang""; ""Ernie Hsiung""; ""Kyallee Santanders""; ""Lisa Campbell""; ""Mathis""; ""Michael Talis""; ""Paige""; ""Todd Fay-Long""; ""Jim""; ""Chapter 5 Condemned or Redeemed? What Does Your God Think of All This?""; ""Anthony Gomez""; ""Adam Hardy""; ""Alan Wiley""; ""Ernie Hsiung""; ""Kyallee Santanders""; ""Lisa Campbell""; ""Mathis""; ""Michael Talis""; ""Chapter 6 Kids in the Hall: What Is It Like at School?""; ""Anthony Gomez""; ""Adam Hardy""; ""Alan Wiley""; ""Dawn McCausland""; ""Eriq Chang""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Ernie Hsiung""""Kyallee Santanders""; ""Lisa Campbell""; ""Mathis""; ""Michael Talis""; ""Mary Toth""; ""Paige""; ""Todd Fay-Long""; ""Jim""; ""Chapter 7 CyberQueer: Finding Community on the Internet""; ""Adam Hardy""; ""Alan Wiley""; ""Emie Hsiung""; ""Michael Talis""; ""Paige""; ""Chapter 8 Community Views: The Lesbian/Bi/Gay World and Beyond""; ""Anthony Gomez""; ""Adam Hardy""; ""Eileene Coscolluela""; ""Dawn McCausland""; ""Eriq Chang""; ""Lisa Campbell""; ""Mathis""; ""Michael Talis""; ""Mary Toth""; ""Paige""; ""Todd Fay-Long""; ""Jim""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Chapter 9 Getting Involved: Extracurriculars in the Community""""Anthony Gomez""; ""Alan Wiley""; ""Eileene Coscolluela""; ""Dawn McCausland""; ""Eriq Chang""; ""Ernie Hsiung""; ""Kyallee Santanders""; ""Lisa Campbell""; ""Mathis""; ""Michael Talis""; ""Mary Toth""; ""Paige""; ""Todd Fay-Long""; ""Jim""; ""Chapter 10 Is This Your First Time? First Kisses, Relationships, and Other Such Things""; ""Adam Hardy""; ""Alan Wiley""; ""Eileene Coscolluela""; ""Dawn McCausland""; ""Eriq Chang""; ""Kyallee Santanders""; ""Lisa Campbell""; ""Mathis""; ""Mary Toth""; ""Paige""; ""Todd Fay-Long""
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    Intimacy and Alienation : Forms of Estrangement in Female/Male Relationships (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9780815333340
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (219 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Intimacy and Alienation : Forms of Estrangement in Female/Male Relationships
    DDC: 306.7
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Cover""; ""INTIMACY AND ALIENATION""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Series Editor's Preface""; ""Preface""; ""PART I Introduction and Orientation""; ""CHAPTER 1 Union of Strangers""; ""Sexual Anomie""; ""Gender Borders""; ""Forms of Estrangement""; ""CHAPTER 2 Intimate Attachments""; ""Impression Management""; ""Self-Disclosure""; ""Shared Symbolism""; ""Becoming a Couple""; ""CHAPTER 3 Sex and Violence""; ""Rape""; ""Rape Trauma ""; ""Spouse Abuse""; ""PART II Forms of Estrangement""; ""CHAPTER 4 Crisis of Meaning""; ""The Communication Gap""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Lack of Coherence""""Shattered Assumptions""; ""CHAPTER 5 Social Isolation""; ""Intimacy and Selfishness""; ""Loneliness of the Wife-and-Mother Role""; ""Paid Work and House Work""; ""The Mediation Hypothesis""; ""CHAPTER 6 Normlessness""; ""Sexual Harassment""; ""Betrayal of Trust""; ""The Extramarital Affair""; ""CHAPTER 7 Fragmentation""; ""The Commitment""; ""Reality Shocks""; ""Deteriorating Relationships""; ""Breaking Up""; ""After the Divorce""; ""CHAPTER 8 Entrapment""; ""Continuing Unhappy Relationships""; ""Power Dependency""; ""Behind Closed Doors""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Staying in an Abusive Relationship""""Coping Mechanisms""; ""PART III Epilogue""; ""CHAPTER 9 Inventing the Future""; ""Psychological Modernity""; ""Cultural Wars""; ""Freedom and Rational Choice""; ""Author Index""; ""Subject Index""
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    When Sex Became Gender (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9780203819494
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (290 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed
    Series Statement: Perspectives on Gender
    Parallel Title: Print version Tarrant, Shira When Sex Became Gender
    DDC: 305.3
    Keywords: Feminism -- History -- 20th century ; Feminist theory -- History ; Sex role -- Philosophy
    Abstract: When Sex Became Gender is a study of post-World War II feminist theory from the viewpoint of intellectual history. The key theme is that ideas about the social construction of gender have its origins in the feminist theorists of the postwar period, and that these early ideas about gender became a key foundational paradigm for both second and third wave feminist thought. These conceptual foundations were created by a cohort of extraordinarily imaginative and bold academic women. While discussing the famous feminist scholars-Simone de Beauvoir, Margaret Mead-the book also hinges on the work of scholars who are lesser known to American audiences-Mirra Komarovsky, Viola Klein, and Ruth Herschberger, The postwar years have been an overlooked period in the development of feminist theory and philosophy and Tarrant makes a compelling case for this era being the turning point in the study of gender
    Abstract: Cover -- when sex became gender -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: TENDING THE EMBERS -- CHAPTER 1 CONFRONTING THE BONDS OF IDEOLOGY: FEMINIST THEORY IN THE COLD WAR YEARS -- CHAPTER 2 THE SETTING: POSTWAR POLITICS IN BRITAIN, FRANCE, AND THE UNITED STATES -- CHAPTER 3 ON THE PATH TO GENDER: MARGARET MEAD, SOCIALIZATION, AND SEX ROLE IDEOLOGY -- CHAPTER 4 MIRRA KOMAROVSKY: FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS AND THE POIGNANT SIGNS OF DISCONTENT -- CHAPTER 5 VIOLA KLEIN: SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE AND THE SO-CALLED FEMININE CHARACTER -- CHAPTER 6 SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR AND THE SECOND SEX -- CHAPTER 7 NO WOMAN IS AN ISLAND: RUTH HERSCHBERGER AND POSTWAR POLLINATION -- CHAPTER 8 WHEN SEX BECAME GENDER -- ENDNOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
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    Community, Competition and Citizen Science : Voluntary Distributed Computing in a Globalized World (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9781351950121
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (146 p)
    Series Statement: Global Connections
    Series Statement: Global Connections Ser.
    Parallel Title: Print version Holohan, Anne Community, Competition and Citizen Science : Voluntary Distributed Computing in a Globalized World
    DDC: 302.231
    Keywords: Volunteer workers in science ; Volunteer workers in science ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Projects -- 3 Breaking Down the Walls: Voluntary Distributed Computing and Citizen Science -- 4 Communities in Voluntary Distributed Computing -- 5 Competition and Co-opetition: The Race to Discover and to Win -- 6 Moderators, Super-Moderators, Beta Testers and Translators -- 7 Principal Investigators and the Scientific Team -- 8 Volunteers -- 9 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
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    Music Sociology : Examining the Role of Music in Social Life (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9781612053127
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (333 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Music Sociology : Examining the Role of Music in Social Life
    DDC: 306.4842
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface for the Instructor; Preface for the Student; Introduction; I. Journey into American Music; 1 A Universal Body of Folk Music-A Technical Argument; 2 Five Important Moments in America's Musical History- The Rest of the Story; 3 American Popular Song; 4 The Industrialization of Popular Music-Part I; 5 What Is Sociological about Music?; II. Experience of Music: Ritual and Authenticity; 6 Music as Ritual: A Hotline to the Collective Conscious
    Description / Table of Contents: 7 Moving Past Violence and Vulgarity: Structural Ritualization and Constructed Meaning in the Heavy Metal Subculture8 Authenticity in Latino Music: Scenes of Place; 9 The Jazz Solo as Ritual: Conforming to the Conventions of Innovation; III. Experience of Music: Stratification and Identity; 10 Race; 11 (Re)Presentin' the Tragic Mulatto: An Analysis of Multiracial Identity in Rap Music; 12 Skinhead Identity Contested: Ska Music, Racism, and Youth Culture; 13 Lowbrow Entertainment to Highbrow Art Form: The Case of Jazz and Heavy Metal; IV. Experience of Music: Subcultures and Musical Enclaves
    Description / Table of Contents: 14 Sect and Prophets15 Hardcore: An Ethnographic Study of an Evolving Music Subculture; 16 Not Fade Away: Ritual Solidarity and Persistence in the Jamband Community; 17 Taqwacore: An Introduction to Muslim American Punk Rock; V. Music as Social Change and Commentary; 18 Hitler, the Holocaust, and Heavy Metal Music: Holocaust Memory and Representation in the Heavy Metal Subculture, 1980-Present; 19 Painful Listening: The Musical Noise and Cultural Transcendence of Southern Italian Tarantism; 20 An International Comparison of the Politics of Straight-Edge
    Description / Table of Contents: 21 Sing Out! Collective Singing Rituals of Folk Protest Music in US Social MovementsVI. Commodification of Music; 22 The Industrialization of Popular Music-Part II; 23 Authenticity and Independence in Rap Music and Other Genre Communities; 24 ""A Piece of Art Is Not a Loaf of Bread"": Indie Rock's Challenge to Commodification; 25 Operating Outside of the Music Industry: Strategies of Production in a Scene-Based Music Genre; 26 Why Pay for Music? How College Students Rationalize Illegal Downloading; References; Index; About the Editors
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    Inclusion matters (2013)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    ISBN: 9781464800108
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , Illustrations
    Series Statement: New Frontiers of Social Policy
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    DDC: 302
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    DOI: 10.1596/978-1-4648-0010-8
    URL: http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/978-1-4648-0010-8
    URL: Inhaltsbeschreibung der Sammlung und Zugangshinweise
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    Situating Salsa : Global Markets and Local Meanings in Latin Popular Music (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9780815340195 , 9781135725341 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 350 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781135725341
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 781.64
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    LS 48700
    Abstract: 〈EM〉Situating Salsa〈/EM〉 offers the first comprehensive consideration of salsa music and its social impact, in its multiple transnational contexts.
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    Sexuality, Intimacy, Power (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781134908745
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (337 pages)
    Series Statement: Relational Perspectives Book Series
    DDC: 305.8
    Abstract: Can contemporary psychoanalysis tell us anything about sexuality that is new and clinically meaningful?  It most certainly can, answers Muriel Dimen in Sexuality, Intimacy, Power, a compelling attempt to revivify Freud's core interest, in "sexual impulses in the ordinary sense of the term." But there is nothing ordinary about Dimen's project.  Drawing on contemporary relational theory, feminism, and postmodernism, she takes a sustained, sometimes irreverent, look at assumptions about psychosexuality.  For Dimen, the shift from dualism to multiplicity that has reshaped a range of disciplines can also be brought to bear on our thinking about sexuality.  She urges us to return to the open-mindedness hiding between the lines and buried in the footnotes of Freud's writings, and to replace the determinism into which his thought has hardened with more fluid notions of contingency, paradox, and thirdness. By unveiling the colloquy among psychoanalysis, social theory, and feminism, Dimen challenges clinicians and academicians alike to rethink ideas about gender, eroticism, and perversion. She explores, among other topics, the relations between Lust and libido; the limitations of Darwinian thought in theorizing homosexuality; the body as projective test; and the intimate tangle of love and hate between women. Generous clinical examples illustrate the ways in which a radical re-visioning of psychosexuality benefits therapists and patients alike. Mixing medium and message, Dimen draws on a variety of disciplines and styles to delineate the ambiguities, contradictions, and paradoxes that subtend sexuality in all its personal and clinical complexity.  A brilliant example of contemporary psychoanalytic theory at its destabilizing best, Sexuality, Intimacy, Power is equally a historical document that will intrigue and enlighten students of women's, gender, and...
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    Reading, Writing, and Talking Gender in Literacy Learning (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781135854140
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (177 pages)
    Series Statement: IRA's Literacy Studies Series
    DDC: 177
    Abstract: Until now, there has been no systematic analysis or review of the research on gender and literacy. With all the media attention and research surveys surrounding gender bias and the inequities that continue to flourish in education, a synthesis of the research studies was needed to raise awareness of gender issues in learning and literacy, to provide successful interventions and recommendations to educators, and to point out the direction for future inquiries by examining the unanswered questions of the existing research. For the convenience of readers, the studies are organized by genre: gender and discussion, reading, writing, electronic text, and literacy autobiography. Published by International Reading Association.
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    Sex in Consumer Culture : The Erotic Content of Media and Marketing (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781136684050
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (394 pages)
    Series Statement: Routledge Communication Series
    DDC: 306.7
    Abstract: Sex in Consumer Culture: The Erotic Content of Media and Marketing considers the use of sex to promote brands, magazines, video games, TV programming, music, and movies. Offering both quantitative and qualitative perspectives from leading scholars in a variety of disciplines, this volume addresses a range of integral issues such as media promotion, racial representations, appeals to gay and lesbian communities, content analyses, and case studies. Chapters represent diverse perspectives, addressing such questions as:*What happens when sexual content created for adults reaches children?*What meaning do sexual words and images have within the contexts of sporting events, trade shows, video games, personal ads, or consumer Web sites?*What effects might sex-tinged images have on audiences, and where should the focus be for new effects research?*Where are the current boundaries between pornography and mainstream sexual depictions?Exploring sexual information as it is used in mass media to sell products and programs, Sex in Consumer Culture is an important collection, and it will be of great interest for scholars and students in advertising, marketing, media promotion, persuasion, mass communication & society, and gender studies.
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    Multicultural Issues and Literacy Achievement (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9780805844009 , 9781135464387 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 230 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781135464387
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    Series Statement: Literacy Teaching Series
    DDC: 302.2/244
    Abstract: This book is a sequel to the author's earlier volume entitled, 〈i〉Literacy Instruction in Multicultural Settings.〈/i〉 In addition to extensive updating of earlier material, this book extends the content coverage to include issues of power, attitudes, and systemic change through the application of discourse theory and critical theory. In doing so, however, the author has tried to maintain the brevity, stylistic clarity, and classroom focus of the earlier volume.〈br〉〈br〉Key features of this important new book include:〈br〉〈br〉*〈b〉Teaching Flexibility.〈/b〉 Although written with the classroom needs...
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    Kingdom of Bhutan Human Development Public Expenditure Review (2013)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Public Expenditure Review
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Abstract: Bhutan is situated between the Tibetan Plateau in the North and Indian plains in the south. The development philosophy in Bhutan is embedded in the concept of Gross National Happiness (GNH) that, as a public policy strategy, seeks to address a more meaningful purpose of development that goes beyond the fulfillment of material satisfaction. The concept is grounded in the four pillars of development; socio-economic, environment, culture, and good governance. Bhutan s record on growth and development has made it a top performer in the South Asian region. The average annual growth rate of GDP over 1980-2010 in country was more than 7.6 percent, one of the highest in the South Asian sub-continent (SAS). Bhutan, with a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita of about US
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    Developing a Housing Microfinance Product : The First Microfinance Bank's Experience in Afghanistan (2013)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Other Urban Study
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    Abstract: The objective of this case study is to document an example of the successful design and implementation of housing micronance (HMF) products by analyzing the approach taken by the First Micronance Bank of Afghanistan (FMFB-A) from 2009 to 2013. This report aims to encourage other lenders to follow suit and offer housing-related loans to low-income earners. It is part of IFC's MENA Micronance Knowledge Management project, which aims to raise awareness among micronanceinstitutions (MFIs) about the importance of risk management, product development, and transformation. FMFB-A was established in 2003 with the mission to reduce poverty and promote nancial inclusion by providing its clients with access to nancial services. Shareholders of FMFB-A are the Aga Khan Agency for Micronance (AKAM), Aga Khan Foundation USA, the German Development Bank (KfW), and the International Finance Corporation (IFC). FMFB-A has a nation-widepresence in Afghanistan and serves over 53,000 clients with an outstanding portfolio of 64.5 million dollars. Housing nance accounts for about 17 percent of its total portfolio. FMFB-Ais currently the only MFI in Afghanistan that offers a housing micronance product. FMFB-A implemented a rigorous, albeit exible, approach to the roll-out of its HMF products in Afghanistan. The idea to develop an HMF product at FMFB-A started in 2007 as a response to client demand. Its aim has been to increase access to housing micronance for Afghanistan's low-income households in urban and rural areas. It also sought to improve the quality of housing for this segment by offering construction technical assistance (CTA) services
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    Azerbaijan Economic Report, October 2013 : Modest Economic Growth (2013)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Economic Updates and Modeling
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    Abstract: This economic report records the economic activities of Azerbaijan for the year 2013. Economic growth picked up in the first half of 2013 on the back of higher public investment and moderation in the decline in oil production. The continued decline in oil production, even though at a slower pace than in 2012, lowered the fiscal and current account surplus. Fiscal performance was however better than what was budgeted due to higher oil prices and pick-up in growth. A fall in oil exports lowered the current account surplus and net capital outflows from Azerbaijan continued for the sixth year in a row. Diversification remains high on the policy agenda but the country has a long way to go. Limited progress has been made on most of the components of human capital and institutions, and a lot more needs to be done. In the absence of alternate sources of growth, the hydrocarbon sector will continue to determine the economic performance of Azerbaijan over the medium-term. The decline in oil production is expected to be partially offset by an increase in natural gas production. With a fall in oil related fiscal revenues, public expenditures are expected to be scaled back thereby reducing non-oil growth. Hence, economic expansion is estimated at 4.5 percent per year over the medium-term
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    Policy Brief : Opportunities and Challenges for Climate-Smart Agriculture in Africa (2013)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Policy Notes
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    Abstract: Agriculture is the economic foundation of many Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries, employing about 60 percent of the workforce and contributing an average of 30 percent of gross domestic product. Yet agricultural growth rates for SSA declined in the 2000 and food insecurity remains a concern, with malnourishment only dropping from 34 to 30 percent in two decades. Various projections suggest that food production must increase by 70-100 percent by 2050 to meet the demands of a world with 9 billion people and changing diets. In SSA this will require considerable investments in agricultural development-research, institutional support and infrastructural development. Ensuring food security under a changing climate is one of the major challenges of our era. African agriculture is highly vulnerable to climate change. Climate-smart agriculture seeks to increase productivity in an environmentally and socially sustainable way, strengthen farmers' resilience to climate change, and reduce agriculture's contribution to climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and increasing carbon storage on farmland. Climate-smart agriculture includes proven practical techniques-such as mulching, intercropping, conservation agriculture, crop rotation, integrated crop-livestock management, agroforestry, improved grazing, and improved water management-but also innovative practices such as better weather forecasting, early warning systems and risk insurance. Climate-smart agriculture fully incorporates attention to climate risk management. Climate-smart agriculture offers some unique opportunities to tackle food security, adaptation and mitigation objectives. African countries will particularly benefit from climate-smart agriculture given the central role of agriculture as a means to poverty alleviation and the major negative impacts that climate change is likely to have on the African continent
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    South Africa Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes : Accounting and Auditing (2013)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Accounting and Auditing Assessment
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    Abstract: The main purpose of the South Africa Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes, Accounting and Auditing (ROSC A&A) is to determine reforms that will continue to improve the quality of financial reporting in South Africa. The review, requested by the Minister of Finance, was conducted to assess the status of implementation of policy recommendations in the prior 2003 ROSC A&A report, assess the institutional framework underpinning accounting and auditing practices in comparison with international standards and good practices in order to identify any emerging issues that require strengthening, share good practices adopted in the country, and propose policy recommendations addressing areas that require improvements. Implementation of the policy recommendations will further enhance the quality of financial reporting in the country, a key pillar that contributes to enhancing the business environment and advancement of governance and financial accountability in both the private and public sector entities. The review focuses on private sector. Financial reporting in public sector is assessed under public expenditure and financial accountability framework
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    Russia's New Capacity-based Renewable Energy Support Scheme : An Analysis of Decree No. 449 (2013)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Abstract: On 28 May, 2013, the Government of the Russian Federation adopted decree no. 449 on the mechanism for the promotion of renewable energy (RE) on the wholesale electricity and capacity market. Decree no. 449 integrates support for renewable energy sources for electricity (RES-E) into the capacity market. This is a very different approach to that applied in most of the existing support mechanisms in other countries, where RES-E is promoted on the basis of the electricity output (MWh) rather than the installed capacity (MW or MW per month) of RE installations. Promoting RES-E through the capacity market is a way for the Russian authorities to overcome some of the legal and technical challenges faced by previous support initiatives and, importantly, to control the costs of RE. This approach fits well with the specific regulatory architecture of the Russian wholesale electricity market, which comprises both an energy and capacity segment. This report introduces Russia's new capacity-based scheme and examines how the Russian authorities have integrated the variability of RE sources into the regulation of capacity supply. This analysis will highlight the risk of legal uncertainty affecting the business case for RE investors under the capacity-based scheme. For more publications on IFC Sustainability please visit www.ifc.org/sustainabilitypublications
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    LAC Informe Semestral, Octubre 2013 : La desaceleracion en America Latina y el tipo de cambio como amortiguador (2013)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: Spanish
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (83 p)
    Series Statement: LAC Semiannual Report
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Abstract: Este informe semestral, producido por la Oficina del Economista Jefe para America Latina y el Caribe del Banco Mundial, examina los retos a los que America Latina y el Caribe (LAC por sus siglas en ingles, Latin America and the Caribbean) se enfrentan en el corto y medio plazo conforme pierden fuerza los factores externos que resultaron decisivos para el desempeno reciente. En concreto, el informe analiza el papel del tipo de cambio como herramienta contra-ciclica para amortiguar los choques externos negativos. Como es costumbre en esta serie, el Capitulo 1 repasa el estado de la economia mundial y sus implicaciones para las perspectivas de corto y medio plazo de LAC. Ademas, examina las vulnerabilidades de la region en un periodo en que los vientos favorables estan amainando. El Capitulo 2 describe el nuevo papel del tipo de cambio en LAC como amortiguador de choques en el marco de las transformaciones importantes que la region ha realizado en el frente macrofinanciero durante la ultima decada. Finalmente, el Capitulo 3 analiza pormenorizadamente las politicas de intervencion para suavizar el tipo de cambio
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    World Bank East Asia and Pacific Economic Update, April 2013 : A Fine Balance (2013)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (24 p)
    Series Statement: World Bank East Asia and Pacific Economic Update
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Abstract: The World Bank East Asia and Pacific Economic Update is a comprehensive, twice-yearly review of the region's economies prepared by the East Asia and Pacific region of the World Bank. In this edition, the report notes that in China, growth slowed to 7.8 percent in 2012 due to rebalancing efforts. Risks emanating from the Eurozone and the U.S. have declined since the middle of last year. While still fragile, there are signs of a turnaround in real activity in high income economies, thus external demand for the East Asia and Pacific region’s exports will stabilize this year. Movements in high-income country currencies, such as the yen, are likely to affect trade and investment flows in the region in the short term, but a return to sustained growth in Japan would benefit the region as a whole. An emerging issue is the risk of overheating in some of the larger economies. Policymakers need to continue to be vigilant to react to shocks in the world economy, but be prepared to withdraw stimulus as the world economy recovers. For countries that show some signs of inflationary pressures, it would be a good time to rebuild policy buffers
    DOI: 10.1596/978-1-4648-0077-1
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    World Bank East Asia and Pacific Economic Update 2011, Volume 1 : Securing the Present, Shaping the Future (2013)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (131 p)
    Series Statement: World Bank East Asia and Pacific Economic Update
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    Abstract: The World Bank East Asia and Pacific Economic Update is a comprehensive, twice-yearly review of the region's economies prepared by the East Asia and Pacific region of the World Bank. In this edition, the report notes that real GDP growth in East Asia has been moderating after a sharp rebound from the global crisis. Inflation has become the key short-run challenge for the authorities in the region, complicated by a surge in portfolio capital inflows and rapidly increasing food and commodity prices that hit low-income households disproportionately. Over the medium-term, East Asia has the potential to sustain rapid increases in living standards even as the global economy enters a more challenging phase
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    El camino hacia la excelencia academica : La constitucion de Universidades de Investigacion de Rango Mundial (2013)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (p)
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    Abstract: La importancia de la educacion terciaria en crecimiento economico y en la competitividad esta siendo cada vez mas reconocida como un factor critico, no solo en paises de economias medias y avanzadas, sino tambien en paises de economias en desarrollo. El acceso a un curriculum solido, de rango mundial, contribuye a configurar unos recursos humanos expertos, productivos y flexibles, que pueden influir positivamente en las actividades productivas, creando, aplicando y divulgando los nuevos conocimientos y sus tecnologias. Las Universidades de Investigacion surgen como instituciones claves en las economias del conocimiento del siglo XXI. El camino hacia la excelencia academica: la constitucion de Universidades de Investigacion de Rango Mundial amplia el analisis del estudio publicado en El desafio de crear Universidades de Rango Mundial (Salmi 2009), exponiendo los resultados extraidos del analisis de las recientes experiencias ensayadas en 11 universidades, ubicadas en 9 paises, universidades que se han confrontado con el reto de constituir, en circunstancias muy dificiles, instituciones de investigacion de exito. Este informe generara gran interes en directivos de instituciones de educacion terciaria y en dirigentes politicos que esten considerando posibles reformas e innovaciones dirigidas a mejorar la situacion actual de su pais en el contexto global
    DOI: 10.1596/978-8-4155-0631-7
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    Dynamiques de deforestation dans le basin du Congo : Reconcilier la croissance economique et la protection de la foret (2013)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: French
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (198 p)
    Series Statement: Directions in Development - Environment and Sustainable Development
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    Abstract: Les forets du bassin du C ...
    DOI: 10.1596/978-0-8213-9827-2
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    Growing Africa : Unlocking the Potential of Agribusiness (2013)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Series Statement: Other Agricultural Study
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    Abstract: This report highlights the great potential of the agribusiness sector in Africa by drawing on experience in Africa as well as other regions. The evidence demonstrates that good policies, a conducive business environment, and strategic support from governments can help agribusiness reach its potential. Africa is now at a crossroads, from which it can take concrete steps to realize its potential or continue to lose competitiveness, missing a major opportunity for increased growth, employment, and food security. The report pursues several lines of analysis. First, it synthesizes the large body of work on agriculture and agribusiness in Africa. Second, it builds on a diagnosis of specific value chains. As part of this effort, the value chain for Africa's largest and fastest-growing food import, rice, is benchmarked in Senegal and Ghana against Thailand's rice value chain. Third, 170 agribusiness investments by the Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC) in Africa and Southeast Asia are analyzed to gain perspective on the elements of success and failure. Fourth, the report synthesizes perspectives from the private sector through interviews with 23 leading agribusiness investors and a number of other key informants. In conclusion, the report offers practical policy advice based on the experience of countries from within and outside Africa. The huge diversity of Africa's agro-ecological, market, and business environments, however, necessarily means that each country (and indeed regions within countries) will need to adapt the broad guidance provided here to the local context. Annex 1, concerning the rice value chain, was authored by John Orchard, Tim Chancellor, Roy Denton, Amadou Abdoulaye Fall, and Peter Jaeger. Annex 2, containing interviews with 23 leading agribusiness players in Africa, was authored by Peter White
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    Informe Anual 2013 del Banco Mundial (2013)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: Spanish
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (40 p)
    Series Statement: World Bank Annual Report
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    Abstract: El Grupo del Banco Mundial ha establecido objetivos ambiciosos pero alcanzables en torno a los cuales centrara la labor que desarrolla para superar estos desafios historicos. Especificamente, la institucion procurara poner fin a la pobreza extrema en todo el mundo para 2030 y promover la prosperidad compartida en los paises en desarrollo, lo que supondra fomentar el aumento de los ingresos del 40% mas pobre de la poblacion. Se procurara lograr estos objetivos de un modo sostenible en lo ambiental, social y economico, de modo de garantizar que los avances en el desarrollo no afecten el bienestar de las generaciones actuales y futuras. El presente informe anual se centra en las operaciones del Banco Internacional de Reconstruccion y Fomento (BIRF) y la Asociacion Internacional de Fomento (AIF), denominados colectivamente Banco Mundial. Lo invitamos a leer este informe para conocer mas sobre la labor del Banco Mundial, las actividades que desarrolla y los resultados que obtiene en las seis regiones donde trabaja, asi como sus logros en la superacion de la pobreza y la creacion de oportunidades para los habitantes de los paises en desarrollo. The Annual Report is prepared by the Executive Directors of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA)-collectively known as the World Bank-in accordance with the by-laws of the two institutions. The President of the IBRD and IDA and the Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors submits the Report, together with the accompanying administrative budgets and audited financial statements, to the Board of Governors
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    World Bank East Asia and Pacific Economic Update 2012, Volume 2 : Remaining Resilient (2013)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (135 p)
    Series Statement: World Bank East Asia and Pacific Economic Update
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    Abstract: The World Bank East Asia and Pacific Economic Update is a comprehensive, twice-yearly review of the region's economies prepared by the East Asia and Pacific region of the World Bank. In this edition, the report notes that the region is expected to contribute almost 40 percent of global growth in 2012, and a similar share in 2013.China’s economic slowdown affected the region’s economic performance. China’s growth is projected to reach 7.9 percent this year, 1.4 percentage points lower than last year’s 9.3 percent and the lowest growth rate since 1999. For 2014, we expect most countries in the region to benefit from a mild recovery in advanced countries as well as continued strong domestic demand. For economies in the region that face difficulties in budget execution, particularly of the capital budget, fiscal interventions could focus on increasing private domestic demand, such as targeted social assistance or investment tax credits
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    Turn Down the Heat : Climate Extremes, Regional Impacts, and the Case for Resilience (2013)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    ISBN: 9781464800566
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (250 p)
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    Abstract: A Report for the World Ba ...
    DOI: 10.1596/978-1-4648-0055-9
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    Middle East and North Africa Economic Developments and Prospects, September 2011 : Investing for Growth and Jobs (2013)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (68 p)
    Series Statement: Middle East and North Africa Economic Monitor
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    Abstract: The report highlights the important links between good governance on a level legal and regulatory playing field, and the ability of investment to stimulate growth. Investment in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has been strong over the last two decades in comparison with Latin America and Eastern Europe. However, in the oil exporting countries, it has been primarily supported by large and expanding public investments. Oil importers, in contrast, have shown more strength in private investment, which has increased in recent years. A concern with reliance on public investment is that in economies with weak governance there is no evidence that public investment stimulates growth. In contrast, in countries with an adequate level of protection of property rights and legal institutions, public investment is strongly linked to growth. The report also makes a strong case for private investment in services and manufacturing as engines of job creation and income growth in the region
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    Climate-Induced Spatio-Temporal Shifts in Natural and Agro-ecosystems in the Middle East and North Africa Region : A Synthesis Report (2013)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Series Statement: Other Environmental Study
    Abstract: Recent assessments by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) indicate that many regions of the world will experience biome-level changes, suggesting that areas that presently feature deserts, rainforest, or tundra may no longer have the same type of vegetation by the end of this century. As biomes shift, so will the spatial distribution of natural-ecosystems and agro-ecological zones. Likewise, the distribution patterns of plants, diseases and pests, fish populations and ocean circulation will change, causing potentially significant impacts on food production and livelihoods. This study focuses on MENA, due to current high levels of water stress and a long history of autonomous adaptation knowledge and practices linked to changing patterns of temperature and rainfall. The study sites selected in cooperation with national counterparts reflect important rainfed areas in the main agro-ecological zones defined by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The key findings for all the four countries are presented in this report
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    Symbolic Construction of Community (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203131688
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (129 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
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    DDC: 307
    Abstract: Anthony Cohen makes a distinct break with earlier approaches to the study of community, which treated the subject in largely structural terms. His view is interpretive and experiential, seeing the community as a cultural field with a complex of symbols whose meanings vary among its members. He delineates a concept applicable to local and ethnic communities through which people see themselves as belonging to society. The emphasis on boundary is sensitive to the circumstances in which people become aware of the implications of belonging to a community, and describes how they symbolise and utilise these boundaries to give substance to their values and identities.
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    India in South Asia : Domestic Identity Politics and Foreign Policy from Nehru to the BJP (2013)
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    ISBN: 9780203552223
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (176 pages)
    Series Statement: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
    DDC: 305.800954
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    Rational Choice Theory : Resisting Colonisation (2013)
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    ISBN: 9780203133897
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (270 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 301.01
    Abstract: Rational Choice Theory is flourishing in sociology and is increasingly influential in other disciplines. Contributors to this volume are convinced that it provides an inadequate conceptualization of all aspects of decision making: of the individuals who make the decisions, of the process by which decisions get made and of the context within which decisions get made. The ciritique focuses on the four assumptions which are the bedrock of rational choice: rationality: the theory's definition of rationality is incomplete, and cannot satisfactorily incorporate norms and emotions individualism: rational choice is based upon atomistic, individual decision makers and cannot account for decisions made by ;couples', 'groups' or other forms of collective action process: the assumption of fixed, well-ordered preferences and 'perfect information' makes the theory inadequate for situations of change and uncertainty aggregation: as methodological individualists, rational choice theorists can only view structure and culture as aggregates and cannot incorporate structural or cultural influences as emergent properties which have an effect upon decision making. The critique is grounded in discussion of a wide range of social issues, including race, marriage, health and education.
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    Fathers and Daughters (2013)
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    ISBN: 9780203187586
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (191 pages)
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    Series Statement: Male Orders
    DDC: 306.874/2
    Abstract: Fathers and Daughters explores the complex nature of this subject using the voices and experiences of both fathers and daughters. Sue Sharpe provides an examination of the important processes operating within the relationship such as those affecting gender roles, achievement, teenage sexuality, women's relationships with men and ageing. It is an original and captivating treatment of a strangely neglected subject. Sue Sharpe is a free-lance writer and researcher based in London.
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    The Study of Groups (2013)
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    ISBN: 9780203000915
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (211 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: International Library of Sociology
    DDC: 305
    Abstract: In attempting to understand the psychological aspects of the developmental process and socialisation, the distinct disciplines of sociology and psychology were brought together for the first time. Titles in the Sociology of Behaviour and Psychology set of the International Library of Sociology analyse how behaviour is formed and learned.
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    Midlife and Older LGBT Adults : Knowledge and Affirmative Practice for the Social Services (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781135421540
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (258 pages)
    DDC: 306.7660844
    Abstract: Gain insight into the various practice issues that arise when working with midlife and older LGBT persons! Take a unique look at the lives of midlife and older LGBT persons in Midlife and Older LGBT Adults. This book reviews various life arenas in which midlife and older LGBT persons exist and the problems with which they cope. It addresses the lives of this group-from their sexual identities to their family and work situations. The book includes research-based knowledge on issues such as coming out, disclosure, education, work, family, general positives and negatives, and more. Not only does this book discuss the lifestyles of individuals in this group, but it also includes how social services professionals can respond to their needs in an affirmative way. The book provides an overview of practice issues with midlife and older LGBT persons to help social workers and other human services workers treat individuals in this group more effectively. It also identifies changes in diagnostics, treatments, and human services. The book presents numerous studies involving midlife and older LGBT persons and an extensive reference list for further information. In Midlife and Older LGBT Adults you'll learn how to help individuals in this group deal with: coming out-the positives and the negatives disclosure to different audiences benefits of community involvement and participation family lives including friends and significant others transitions and downturns HIV/AIDS victimization, loneliness, loss and much more!This book will appeal to any social services professional interested in or working with individuals in this population. It serves as a useful resource for human services workers and administrators by outlining practice issues. It is also suitable as a textbook for students in courses on adult development and aging. Midlife and older LGBT persons will...
    Abstract: find this book to be an engaging look at the lives of their peers. Make this one-of-a-kind book part of your collection!.
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    Representing the Body of the Slave (2013)
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    ISBN: 9781317791720
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (206 pages)
    DDC: 305
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Sklaverei ; Sklave ; Körper ; Kunst
    Abstract: From the ancient world through to modern times the bodies of slaves have been represented in literature, documentary and personal narrative writing, and in art. This volume presents evidence of the past sins of mankind in both art and literature.
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    Risk and Technological Culture : Towards a Sociology of Virulence (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203466384
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (247 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: International Library of Sociology
    DDC: 302/.12
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    Keywords: Risiko ; Soziologie ; Theorie ; Technologie ; Gesellschaft
    Abstract: The question as to whether we are now entering a risk society has become a key debate in contemporary social theory. Risk and Technological Culture presents a critical discussion of the main theories of risk from Ulrich Becks foundational work to that of his contemporaries such as Anthony Giddens and Scott Lash and assesses the extent to which risk has impacted on modern societies. In this discussion van Loon demonstrates how new technologies are transforming the character of risk and examines the relationship between technological culture and society through substantive chapters on topics such as waste, emerging viruses, communication technologies and urban disorders. In so doing this innovative new book extends the debate to encompass theorists such as Bruno Latour, Donna Haraway, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari and Jean-François Lyotard.
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    The History Of Torture (2013)
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    ISBN: 9781136191602
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (409 pages)
    DDC: 399
    Abstract: First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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    Judging Nonviolence : The Dispute Between Realists and Idealists (2013)
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    Parallel Title: Print version Judging Nonviolence : The Dispute Between Realists and Idealists
    DDC: 303.6/1
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    Keywords: Nonviolence - Philosophy ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- JUDGING NONVIOLENCE: The Dispute Between Realists and Idealists -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- LIST OF BOXES -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION: Nonviolence on Trial -- PART I The Expert Witnesses for the Prosecution -- CHAPTER TWO NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI: Renaissance War Realism -- CHAPTER THREE MAX WEBER: Modern Realism -- CHAPTER FOUR REINHOLD NIEBUHR: Christian Realism -- PART II The Expert Witnesses for the Defense -- CHAPTER FIVE MAHATMA GANDHI: Militant Idealism -- CHAPTER SIX MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: Christian Idealism -- CHAPTER SEVEN THE MOTHERS OF THE PLAZA DE MAYO: Anarchist Idealism -- PART III Considering Further Evidence -- CHAPTER EIGHT MODERN NONVIOLENCE MOVEMENTS -- CHAPTER NINE SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE ON HUMAN VIOLENCE: Nature or Nurture? -- INDEX.
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Cover""; ""JUDGING NONVIOLENCE: The Dispute Between Realists and Idealists""; ""Copyright""; ""CONTENTS""; ""LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS""; ""LIST OF BOXES""; ""PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION: Nonviolence on Trial""; ""PART I The Expert Witnesses for the Prosecution""; ""CHAPTER TWO NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI: Renaissance War Realism""; ""CHAPTER THREE MAX WEBER: Modern Realism""; ""CHAPTER FOUR REINHOLD NIEBUHR: Christian Realism""; ""PART II The Expert Witnesses for the Defense""; ""CHAPTER FIVE MAHATMA GANDHI: Militant Idealism""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""CHAPTER SIX MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: Christian Idealism""""CHAPTER SEVEN THE MOTHERS OF THE PLAZA DE MAYO: Anarchist Idealism""; ""PART III Considering Further Evidence""; ""CHAPTER EIGHT MODERN NONVIOLENCE MOVEMENTS""; ""CHAPTER NINE SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE ON HUMAN VIOLENCE: Nature or Nurture?""; ""INDEX""
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    Language Contact and Language Conflict in Arabic (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781136122187
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (381 pages)
    Series Statement: Routledge Arabic Linguistics Series
    DDC: 306.44089927
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    Keywords: Arabisch ; Sprachkontakt
    Abstract: This book contains 17 studies by leading international scholars working on a wide range of topics in Arabic socio-linguistics, divided into four parts. The studies in Part 1 address questions of national language planning in a diglossic situation, with a particular focus on North Africa. Part 2 explores the relationship of identity and language choice in different Arabic-speaking communities living both within and outside the Arab World. Part 3 examines language choice in such diverse contexts as popular preaching, humour and Arab women's writing. Part 4 contains 5 papers in which variation, code-switching and generational language shift in the Arabic-language diaspora in Europe and the USA are the focus. The collection as a whole provides wide-ranging introduction to key areas of current research, which will be of interest to the general sociolinguist as well as the Arabic language specialist.
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    Communication and Aging (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781410606075
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (390 pages)
    Edition: 2nd ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Communication Series
    DDC: 305.26
    Abstract: This text employs a communication perspective to examine the aging process and the ability of individuals to adapt successfully to aging. It continues the groundbreaking work of the first edition, emphasizing a life-span approach toward understanding the social interaction that occurs during later life. The edition provides a comprehensive update on the existing and emerging research within communication and aging studies and considers such topics as notions of successful aging, positive and negative stereotypes toward older adults, and health communication issues. It raises awareness of the barriers facing elderly people in conversation and the importance such conversations have in elderly people's lives. The impact of nonrelational processes, such as hearing loss, are considered as they impact relationships with others and affect the ability to age successfully. The book is organized into 14 chapters. Each chapter is written so that the reader is presented with an exhaustive review of the pertinent and recent literature from the social sciences. As in the first edition, when the literature is empirically based, the communicative ramifications are then discussed. Readers of this volume will gain greater understanding of the importance of their communicative relationships and how significant they remain across the life span. Developed for students in communication, psychology, nursing, social gerontology, sociology, and related areas, Communication and Aging provides important insights on communication to all who are affected by the aging process.
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    Music, Culture and Identity in the Muslim World : Performance, Politics and Piety (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781315867236
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (320 pages)
    Series Statement: Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies
    DDC: 297.2/67
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    BE 8621
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    Rethinking Security in the Age of Migration : Trust and Emancipation in Europe (2013)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203558973
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (222 pages)
    DDC: 304.8/4067
    Keywords: Sicherheitspolitik ; Internationale Migration ; Europa ; Subsaharisches Afrika
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    Afghanistan in transition : looking beyond 2014 (2013)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    ISBN: 9780821398616
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Edition: 2014 World Bank eLibrary
    DDC: 330.9581
    Keywords: Economic development ; Postwar reconstruction ; Economic development ; Postwar reconstruction ; Economic development ; Postwar reconstruction ; Afghanistan ; Afghanistan ; Afghanistan ; Afghanistan ; Afghanistan Economic conditions 21st century ; Afghanistan Economic policy ; Afghanistan History 2001- ; Afghanistan Politics and government 2001- ; Afghanistan Economic conditions 21st century ; Afghanistan Economic policy ; Afghanistan History 2001- ; Afghanistan Politics and government 2001-
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    DOI: 10.1596/978-0-8213-9861-6
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    Results and Performance of the World Bank Group 2012 (2013)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    ISBN: 9780821398562
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (83 p)
    Edition: 2015 World Bank eLibrary
    Series Statement: Independent Evaluation Group Studies
    Abstract: The World Bank Group has made important contributions to poverty reduction in developing countries. But to stay relevant under the uncertain conditions that characterize today’s global development context, the Bank Group needs to enhance its capacity to help clients cope with weak economic growth, address persistent disparities in development progress, and manage the increasingly global and cross-cutting nature of development solutions. The messages in this report from the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) seek to help the Bank Group improve its programs and development outcomes. Thus the primary audience is Bank Group management. Additional audiences include other development organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and civil society organizations that are involved in development issues, as they also seek better development outcomes. This report addresses IEG’s work over the last year, summarizing findings from its evaluations and discussing the trends that are revealed. In particular, as a consequence of the Bank Group’s rapid, large-scale response to the 2008–09 crisis, the Bank’s remaining capital headroom precludes a comparable expansion should another crisis occur. In addition, the extent to which country programs meet their objectives has yet to reach the performance target set in the Bank’s Corporate Scorecard. Development outcome ratings of Bank-funded investment projects, as well as the outcome ratings for International Finance Corporation (IFC) investments, have recently declined. IEG’s findings suggest that enhancing the quality of projects at their outset as well as their supervision would help reverse the decline in Bank project ratings; along the same line, improving IFC’s work quality would strengthen the results of its investments. Evaluation evidence also underscores the importance of sustained dialogue with stakeholders and of high-quality analytical work to sharpen the understanding of client circumstances, which is essential for successful outcomes. Effective development solutions require intensified efforts by the Bank Group to work across conventional boundaries
    DOI: 10.1596/978-0-8213-9853-1
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    The World Bank Annual Report 2013 (2013)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    ISBN: 9780821399477
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (57 p)
    Edition: 2013 World Bank eLibrary
    Series Statement: World Bank Annual Report
    Abstract: The Annual Report is prepared by the Executive Directors of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA)—collectively known as the World Bank—in accordance with the by-laws of the two institutions. The President of the IBRD and IDA and the Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors submits the Report, together with the accompanying administrative budgets and audited financial statements, to the Board of Governors
    DOI: 10.1596/978-0-8213-9937-8
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    Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2011 : Development Challenges in a Post-crisis World (2013)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    ISBN: 9780821387306
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (397 p)
    Edition: 2014 World Bank eLibrary
    Series Statement: Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics (Global)
    Abstract: The Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2011: Development Challenges in a Post-crisis World (ABCDE) presents papers from a global gathering of the world?s leading development scholars and practitioners held May 31 - June 2, 2010. Paper themes include: Environmental Commons and the Green Economy, Post-crisis Development Strategy, the Political Economy of Fragile States, Measuring Welfare, and Social Programs and Transfers. Keynote addresses: Elinor Ostrom: Overcoming the Samaritan's Dlimemma in Development Aid -- Torsten Persson: Weak States, Strong States, and Development -- Joseph Stiglitz: Learning, Growth, and Development -- Partha Dasgupta: Poverty Traps --
    DOI: 10.1596/978-0-8213-8522-7
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    The Little Data Book on Africa 2012/2013 (2013)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    ISBN: 9780821397848
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (127 p)
    Edition: World Bank eLibrary
    Series Statement: Africa Development Indicators
    Keywords: Afrika ; Wirtschaft
    Abstract: The Little Data Book on Africa 2012/2013 is a pocket edition of Africa Development Indicators 2012/2013. It contains some 115 key indicators on economics, human development, governance, and partnership and is intended as a quick reference for users of the Africa Development Indicators 2010 book and African Development Indicators Online. The country tables present the latest available data for World Bank member countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, covering about 1,700 indicators from 1961 to 2011. Key themes are : • Basic indicators • Drivers of growth • Participating in growth • Capable states • Partnerships. Designed to provide all those interested in Africa with quick reference and a reliable set of data to monitor development programs and aid flows in the region, this is an invaluable pocket edition reference tool for analysts and policy makers who want a better understanding of the economic and social developments occurring in Africa. For free access to Africa Development Indicators online, please visit http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog
    DOI: 10.1596/978-0-8213-9783-1
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    Private Chinese Investment in Africa : Myths and Realities (2013)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Edition: 2013 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Shen, Xiaofang Private Chinese Investment in Africa
    Abstract: Private Chinese outbound investment, not as well-known as government-led investment, offers special opportunities and challenges for Africa today. The significance of Chinese private-sector investment is already visible in the burgeoning manufacturing sector in some parts of Africa, and the trend will continue to grow in the near future. The underlying force behind this trend is the increased pressure of industrial restructuring in coastal China, a force that drives some labor-intensive firms to relocate to other parts of the developing world, including Africa. African host country governments can respond to this phenomenon with proactive development policies and strategies to maximize private Chinese investment for the benefit of their own economies
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    Macroeconomic Shocks and Banking Sector Developments in Egypt (2013)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Parallel Title: Herrera, Santiago Macroeconomic Shocks and Banking Sector Developments in Egypt
    Abstract: From 2008 to 2011, Egypt was hit by significant shocks, both global and country-specific. This paper assesses the impact of the resulting macroeconomic instability on the banking sector, and examines its role as a shock absorber. The Central Bank of Egypt accommodated the shocks by supplying liquidity to the market. The paper verifies a change in the fiscal regime from one in which the primary fiscal balance was used an instrument to stabilize the public debt ratio to one in which the policy instrument stopped playing that role and affected investors' assessment of the risk of holding public debt. This pattern suggests that fiscal conditions influenced exchange rate and price expectations originating a fiscal dominance situation in which the Central Bank could not control inflation. Hence, the Central Bank lacked functional independence in spite of its de jure independence, which underscores the importance of strengthening institutions that facilitate policy coordination and allow policy to be more predictable. The government also funds itself through non-market mechanisms, in a typical financial repression scheme. The paper estimates the revenue from financial repression at about 2.5 percent of gross domestic product in 2011, which together with the revenues from seignoriage add up to close to 50 percent of the budgeted tax revenues, indicating the need for an in-depth review of the governance of the public banks and the funding of public sector activities. Finally, the paper estimates the impact of shocks to macroeconomic variables on loan portfolio quality and bank capital
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    Water Nationalization and Service Quality (2013)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Edition: 2013 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Borraz, Fernando Water Nationalization and Service Quality
    Abstract: The objective of this paper is to explore the impact of Uruguay's privatization and subsequent nationalization of water services on network access and water quality. The results suggest that although the early privatization of water services had little impact on access to the sanitation network, the subsequent nationalization led to an increase in network access at the bottom of the income distribution as well as an improvement in water quality
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    Trade Policy Flexibilities and Turkey : Tariffs, Antidumping, Safeguards, and WTO Dispute Settlement (2013)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Edition: 2013 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Bown, Chad P Trade Policy Flexibilities and Turkey
    Abstract: Trade policy commitments to lower import tariffs and to maintain tariffs at low levels entail short and long-run political-economic costs and benefits. Empirical work examining the relationship between such commitments and the exercise of trade policy flexibilities is still relatively nascent, especially for emerging economies. This paper provides a rich, empirically-based assessment of ways that Turkey exercised trade policy flexibilities during the global economic crisis of 2008-11. First, and despite multilateral and customs union commitments that might limit changes to applied tariffs, Turkey made changes to both its applied Most Favored Nation and preferential tariffs that cumulatively affect nearly 9 percent of manufacturing imports and 10 percent of import product lines. Second, Turkey's cumulative application of temporary trade barrier (TTB) policies-antidumping, safeguards and countervailing duties-are estimated to impact by 2011 an additional 4 percent of imports and 6 percent of product lines. Other surprising results on Turkey's use of flexibilities include: extending the duration of previously imposed antidumping and safeguards beyond expected removal dates, removing one TTB policy over a set of products and immediately reapplying a different TTB policy, covering lengthy upstream and downstream segments of important industries, and deepening discriminatory preference margins already inherent in existing preferential trade agreements
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    The Impact of Health Insurance Schemes for the Informal Sector in Low- and Middle-Income Countries : A Systematic Review (2013)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (46 p)
    Edition: 2013 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Acharya, Arnab The Impact of Health Insurance Schemes for the Informal Sector in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
    Abstract: This paper summarizes the literature on the impact of state subsidized or social health insurance schemes that have been offered, mostly on a voluntary basis, to the informal sector in low- and middle-income countries. A substantial number of papers provide estimations of average treatment on the treated effect for insured persons. The authors summarize papers that correct for the problem of self-selection into insurance and papers that estimate the average intention to treat effect. Summarizing the literature was difficult because of the lack of (1) uniformity in the use of meaningful definitions of outcomes that indicate welfare improvements and (2) clarity in the consideration of selection issues. They find the uptake of insurance schemes, in many cases, to be less than expected. In general, we find no strong evidence of an impact on utilization, protection from financial risk, and health status. However, a few insurance schemes afford significant protection from high levels of out-of-pocket expenditures. In these cases, however, the impact on the poor is weaker. More information is needed to understand the reasons for low enrollment and to explain the limited impact of health insurance among the insured
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    Feeding Five Billion Asians : A Socioeconomic Perspective (2013)
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    Parallel Title: Cuesta, Jose Feeding Five Billion Asians
    Abstract: This paper reviews the prospects for long-term food security in Asia, where a significant number of malnourished individuals still live after decades of mixed progress. Evidence shows that poverty reduction on its own will not do the job of eradicating hunger, nor will only increased food production. The region's contribution to high and volatile international food prices is well known, but Asia's potential contributions toward future decreased price uncertainty are much less cited. The changing composition of future food demand in the region will depend on the extent to which poverty reduction effectively leads to middle class expansion, which remains unclear
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    Trends in Developing Country Trade 1980-2010 (2013)
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    Parallel Title: Michalopoulos, Constantine Trends in Developing Country Trade 1980-2010
    Abstract: This paper reviews trends and patterns in developing countries' trade from 1980 to 2010. During the 30-year span, world trade expanded rapidly, especially in developing countries in the last decade. A similar picture emerges in trade in services. These overall trends, however, mask different trade patterns during some of the time periods and among different developing countries and groups. For example, except for Asia, the 1980s were pretty much a "lost" decade for many developing countries and groups. But that changed in the 1990s and 2000s, with trade by all major developing countries growing faster than developed countries. From 1980 to 2000, trade by Least Developed Countries grew much more slowly than that of developing countries as a whole. But those countries saw the fastest growth in trade in the following decade. This strong overall trade performance-with some exceptions (for example Sub-Sahara Africa in the manufacturing trade)-raises questions about sustainability, trade policy and the architecture of the trading system
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    Political Reforms and Public Policy : Evidence from Agricultural and Food Policies (2013)
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    Parallel Title: Olper, Alessandro Political Reforms and Public Policy
    Abstract: This paper studies the effect of political regime transitions on public policy using a new data set on global agricultural and food policies over a 50-year period (including data from 74 developing and developed countries over the 1955-2005 period). The authors find evidence that democratization leads to a reduction of agricultural taxation, an increase in agricultural subsidization, or both. The empirical findings are consistent with the predictions of the median voter model because political transitions occurred primarily in countries with a majority of farmers. The results are robust to different specifications, estimation approaches, and variable definitions
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    Intrahousehold Bargaining and Resource Allocation in Developing Countries (2013)
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    Parallel Title: Doss, Cheryl Intrahousehold Bargaining and Resource Allocation in Developing Countries
    Abstract: Many key development outcomes depend on women's ability to negotiate favorable intrahousehold allocations of resources. Yet it has been difficult to clearly identify which policies can increase women's bargaining power and result in better outcomes. This paper reviews both the analytical frameworks and the empirical evidence on the importance of women's bargaining power. It argues that there is sufficient evidence from rigorous studies to conclude that women's bargaining power does affect outcomes. But in many specific instances, the quantitative evidence cannot rigorously identify causality. In these cases, a combination of quantitative and qualitative evidence may suggest policy levers. Taken together, there are sufficient data in place to support a greatly expanded focus on intrahousehold outcomes and bargaining power. Additional data at the individual level will allow for further and more detailed research. A growing literature supports the current conventional wisdom-namely, that the patterns of evidence suggest that women's education, incomes, and assets all are important aspects of women's bargaining power
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    Buying Votes vs. Supplying Public Services : Political Incentives to Under-Invest in Pro-Poor Policies (2013)
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    Parallel Title: Khemani, Stuti Buying Votes vs. Supplying Public Services
    Abstract: This paper uses unique survey data to provide, for the first time in the literature, direct evidence that vote buying in poor economies is associated with lower provision of public services that disproportionately benefit the poor. Various features of the data and the institutional context allow the interpretation of this correlation as the equilibrium policy consequence of clientelist politics, ruling out alternate explanations (such as, for example, poverty driving both vote buying and health outcomes). The data come from the Philippines, a country context that allows for measuring vote buying during elections and services delivered by the administrative unit controlled by winners of those elections. The data reveal a significant, robust negative correlation between vote buying and the delivery of primary health services. In places where households report more vote buying, government records show that municipalities invest less in basic health services for mothers and children; and, quite strikingly, as a summary measure of weak service delivery performance, a higher percentage of children are severely under-weight
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    Determinants of Export Growth at the Extensive and Intensive Margins : Evidence from Product and Firm-Level Data for Pakistan (2013)
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    Parallel Title: Reis, José Guilherme Determinants of Export Growth at the Extensive and Intensive Margins
    Abstract: As globalization progresses and investment is mobile, it is ever more important for policy makers to understand drivers of growth and exports at the micro-level: Which products are being produced and exported? Which firms populate the domestic economy? Are they successful in exporting? How are firms affected by exogenous shocks and policy intervention? Through the use of descriptive statistics and econometric analysis, this paper assesses the trade competitiveness of Pakistan using micro-data. The case of Pakistan is interesting since the country's recent trade policy has reverted to a protectionist path since the mid-2000s and trade performance is stagnating, as indicated by a decrease in its trade-to-gross domestic product ratio over the past decade and low levels of sophistication of exports. The main findings of the paper are the following. Like many other countries, Pakistan posts a high concentration of exports in the hands of a limited number of large exporters. The dominance of few exporters has increased over time and it seems associated with the changes in trade policy. Low rates of product innovation and experimentation and a low ability of the Pakistani export sector to enter into new higher growth sectors are other features emerging from the data. All in all, the mediocre performance seems to be associated with internal problems with trade-related incentives, business environment, and governance, in addition to the well-known external constraints
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    Integrating Gravity : The Role of Scale Invariance in Gravity Models of Spatial Interactions and Trade (2013)
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    Parallel Title: Arvis, Jean-François Integrating Gravity
    Abstract: This paper revisits the ubiquitous bi-proportional gravity model and investigates the reasons why different theoretical frameworks may lead to the same empirical formula. The generic gravity equation possesses scale invariance symmetries that constrain possible theoretical explanations based on optimal allocation principles, such as neoclassical or probabilistic frameworks. These constraints imply that a representative consumer's utilities must be separable, and that an entropy model is the only consistent maximum likelihood allocation of a matrix of flows between origin and destination. The paper explores the feasibility of wider classes of non-scale invariant gravity equations, where gravity is no longer bi-proportional by including nonlinear interactions between trade costs and fundamental country factors such as economic size. It shows that such extensions are feasible but that they do not result in a significant improvement in the explanatory power of the empirical analysis
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    Service Sector Reform and Manufacturing Productivity : Evidence from Indonesia (2013)
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    Parallel Title: Duggan, Victor Service Sector Reform and Manufacturing Productivity
    Keywords: 1997-2009 ; Dienstleistungssektor ; Auslandsinvestition ; Produktivität ; Indonesien
    Abstract: This paper examines the extent to which policy restrictions on foreign direct investment in the Indonesian service sector affected the performance of manufacturers over the period 1997-2009. It uses firm-level data on manufacturers' total factor productivity and the OECD's foreign direct investment Regulatory Restrictiveness Index, combined with data from Indonesia's input-output tables regarding the intensity with which manufacturing sectors use services inputs. Controlling for firm-level fixed effects and other relevant policy indicators, it finds, first, that relaxing policies toward foreign direct investment in the service sector was associated with improvements in perceived performance of the service sector. Second, it finds that this relaxation in service sector foreign direct investment policies accounted for 8 percent of the observed increase in manufacturers' total factor productivity over the period. The total factor productivity gains accrue disproportionately to those firms that are relatively more productive, and that gains are related to the relaxation of restrictions in both the transport and electricity, gas, and water sectors. Total factor productivity gains are associated, in particular, with the relaxation of foreign equity limits, screening, and prior approval requirements, but less so with discriminatory regulations that prevent multinationals from hiring key personnel abroad
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6349
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    Vietnam's Evolving Poverty Map : Patterns and Implications for Policy (2013)
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (50 p)
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    Parallel Title: Lanjouw, Peter Vietnam's Evolving Poverty Map
    Abstract: This paper uses small area estimation techniques to update Vietnam's province and district-level poverty map to 2009. It finds that poverty rates continue to be highest in the northern and central mountainous regions, where ethnic minorities make up a large fraction of the population. Poverty has fallen in most provinces and districts over this decade, but the pace of poverty reduction has been least pronounced in those localities with high initial poverty or inequality levels. As a result, poverty rates have become more spatially concentrated over time, which is consistent with widely observed growth processes linked to agglomeration. The authors hypothesize that this makes geographic targeting of the poor more relevant as a means to re-balance growing welfare disparities between geographic areas. Simulations indicate that in both 1999 and 2009, geographic targeting for poverty alleviation improves upon a uniform lump-sum transfer and this becomes more evident the more spatially disaggregated the target populations. The analysis further indicates that the gains from geographic targeting have become more pronounced over time in Vietnam. Although poverty reduction in Vietnam has been impressive, further progress may thus warrant increased attention to geographic targeting
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6355
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    Equilibrium Credit : The Reference Point for Macroprudential Supervisors (2013)
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (52 p)
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    Parallel Title: Buncic, Daniel Equilibrium Credit
    Abstract: Equilibrium credit is an important concept because it helps identify excessive credit provision. This paper proposes a two-stage approach to determine equilibrium credit. It uses two stages to study changes in the demand for credit due to varying levels of economic, financial and institutional development of a country. Using a panel of high and middle-income countries over the period 1980-2010, this paper provides empirical evidence that the credit-to-GDP ratio is inappropriate to measure equilibrium credit. The reason for this is that such an approach ignores heterogeneity in the parameters that determine equilibrium credit across countries due to different stages of economic development. The main drivers of this heterogeneity are financial depth, access to financial services, use of capital markets, efficiency and funding of domestic banks, central bank independence, the degree of supervisory integration, and experience of a financial crisis. Countries in Europe and Central Asia show a slower adjustment of credit to its long-run equilibrium compared with other regions of the world
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6358
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    Impact Evaluation of a Large-Scale Rural Sanitation Project in Indonesia (2013)
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (59 p)
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    Parallel Title: Cameron, Lisa Impact Evaluation of a Large-Scale Rural Sanitation Project in Indonesia
    Abstract: Lack of sanitation and poor hygiene behavior cause a tremendous disease burden among the poor. This paper evaluates the impact of the Total Sanitation and Sanitation Marketing project in Indonesia, where about 11 percent of children have diarrhea in any two-week period and more than 33,000 children die each year from diarrhea. The evaluation utilizes a randomized controlled trial but is unusual in that the program was evaluated when implemented at scale across the province of rural East Java in a way that was designed to strengthen the enabling environment and so be sustainable. One hundred and sixty communities across eight rural districts participated, and approximately 2,100 households were interviewed before and after the intervention. The authors found that the project increased toilet construction by approximately 3 percentage points (a 31 percent increase in the rate of toilet construction). The changes were primarily among non-poor households that did not have access to sanitation at baseline. Open defecation among these households decreased by 6 percentage points (or 17 percent). Diarrhea prevalence was 30 percent lower in treatment communities than in control communities at endline (3.3 versus 4.6 percent). The analysis cannot rule out that the differences in drinking water and handwashing behavior drove the decline in diarrhea. Reductions in parasitic infestations and improvements in height and weight were found for the non-poor sample with no sanitation at baseline
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6360
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    Credit Rating Agencies in Emerging Democracies : Guardians of Fiscal Discipline? (2013)
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (13 p)
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    Parallel Title: Hanusch, Marek Credit Rating Agencies in Emerging Democracies
    Abstract: Credit rating agencies have drawn criticism for failing to anticipate and deter root causes of the 2008-2009 financial crisis in the United States. However, this paper presents evidence that credit rating agencies regularly anticipate and deter governments in emerging democracies from opportunistic borrowing and potential financial crises related to elections and the political budget cycle behavior they encourage. The paper considers a sample of 18 such countries holding 32 presidential elections from 1989 to 2004. The analysis shows that credit rating agencies induced greater fiscal discipline during election periods when governments had incentives to borrow opportunistically for short-term electoral gain. Countries with higher credit rating agency sovereign ratings borrowed less than lower-rated countries in election periods, but borrowed more in non-election periods. Credit rating agencies promoted fiscal discipline during increasingly frequent election periods in emerging democracies
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6379
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    SME Registration Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Bangladesh (2013)
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (14 p)
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    Parallel Title: De Giorgi, Giacomo SME Registration Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Bangladesh
    Abstract: Informality is pervasive in developing countries. In Bangladesh, the majority of firms are informal and as such they might not have access to prime markets, while lowering the tax base. The authors implemented an information campaign on registration, including both the step-by-step procedures and the potential benefits from registration. They find that the treatment made firms more aware of the procedures, but had no impact on actual registration. The results point toward potentially low benefits and high indirect costs of registration as the main barriers to formality (e.g. access to markets, taxation, labor and product regulations)
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6382
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    Impact Evaluation of Free-of-Charge CFL Bulb Distribution in Ethiopia (2013)
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (24 p)
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    Parallel Title: Costolanski, Peter Impact Evaluation of Free-of-Charge CFL Bulb Distribution in Ethiopia
    Abstract: Electricity infrastructure is one of the most important development challenges in Africa. While more resources are clearly needed to invest in new capacities, it is also important to promote energy efficiency and manage the increasing demand for power. This paper evaluates one of the recent energy-efficiency programs in Ethiopia, which distributed 350,000 compact fluorescent lamp bulbs free of charge. The impact related to this first phase is estimated at about 45 to 50 kilowatt hours per customer per month, or about 13.3 megawatts of energy savings in total. The overall impact of the compact fluorescent lamp bulb programs, thanks to which more than 5 million bulbs were distributed, could be significantly larger. The paper also finds that the majority of the program beneficiaries were low-volume customers-mostly from among the poor-although the program was not targeted. In addition, the analysis determines the distributional effect of the program: the energy savings relative to the underlying energy consumption were larger for the poor. The evidence also supports a rebound effect. About 20 percent of the initial energy savings disappeared within 18 months of the program's completion
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6383
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    The Effect of Capital Flows Composition on Output Volatility (2013)
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (47 p)
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    Parallel Title: Federico, Pablo The Effect of Capital Flows Composition on Output Volatility
    Abstract: A large literature has argued that different types of capital flows have different consequences for macroeconomic stability. By distinguishing between foreign direct investment and portfolio and other investments, this paper studies the effects of the composition of capital inflows on output volatility. The paper develops a simple empirical model which, under certain conditions that hold in the data, yields three key testable implications. First, output volatility should depend positively on the volatilities of both foreign direct investment and portfolio and other inflows. Second, output volatility should be an increasing function of the correlation between both kinds of inflows. Third, output volatility should be a decreasing function of the share of foreign direct investment in total capital inflows, for low values of that share. The data provide strong support for all three implications, even after controlling for other factors that may influence output volatility, and after dealing with potential endogeneity problems. These findings call attention to the importance of taking into account the synchronization and composition of capital flows for output stabilization purposes, as opposed to just focusing on the volatility of each component of capital flows
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6386
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    European Bank Deleveraging and Global Credit Conditions : Implications of a Multi-Year Process on Long-Term Finance and Beyond (2013)
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (28 p)
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    Parallel Title: Feyen, Erik European Bank Deleveraging and Global Credit Conditions
    Abstract: This paper assesses European bank deleveraging and its impact on global credit conditions. Before the onset of the global financial crisis, European banks had rapidly expanded their foreign lending activities. However, European banks have since been tightening credit conditions in Europe more for longer-term lending, a trend that banks expect to continue. European financial stress has been transmitted to emerging markets that have experienced a sustained deterioration of credit standards and funding conditions. As a result, European lending in emerging markets has been lagging behind lending of other international banks although European banks remain a dominant source of funding. "Good" bank deleveraging is still necessary from a prudential perspective. Although acute "bad" deleveraging pressures due to financial stress, which can trigger a credit crunch, have subsided recently on account of decisive policy measures, tail risks remain. Curtailing lending will probably be a core component of this multi-year deleveraging process. Taken together, European bank deleveraging warrants close attention
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6388
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    Demand versus Returns? : Pro-Poor Targeting of Business Grants and Vocational Skills Training (2013)
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (33 p)
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    Parallel Title: Macours, Karen Demand versus Returns?
    Abstract: Interventions aimed at increasing the income generating capacity of the poor, such as vocational training, micro-finance or business grants, are widespread in the developing world. How to target such interventions is an open question. Many programs are self-targeted, but if perceived returns differ from actual returns, those self-selecting to participate may not be those for whom the program is the most effective. The authors analyze an unusual experiment with very high take-up of business grants and vocational skills training, randomly assigned among nearly all households in selected poor rural communities in Nicaragua. On average, the interventions resulted in increased participation in non-agricultural employment and higher income from related activities. The paper investigates whether targeting could have resulted in higher returns by analyzing heterogeneity in impacts by stated baseline demand, prior participation in non-agricultural activities, and a wide range of complementary asset endowments. The results reveal little heterogeneity along observed baseline characteristics. However, the poorest households are more likely to enter and have higher profits in non-agricultural self-employment, while less poor households assigned to the training have higher non-agricultural wages. This heterogeneity appears related to unobserved characteristics that are not revealed by stated baseline demand, and more difficult to target. In this context, self-targeting may reduce the poverty-reduction potential of income generating interventions, possibly because low aspirations limit the poor's ex-ante demand for productive interventions while the interventions have the potential to increase those aspirations. Overall, targeting productive interventions to poor households would not have come at the cost of reducing their effectiveness. By contrast, self-targeting would have limited poverty reduction by excluding the poorest
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6389
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    Food Price Volatility and Domestic Stabilization Policies in Developing Countries (2013)
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (51 p)
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    Parallel Title: Gouel, Christophe Food Price Volatility and Domestic Stabilization Policies in Developing Countries
    Abstract: When food prices spike in countries with large numbers of poor people, public intervention is essential to alleviate hunger and malnutrition. For governments, this is also a case of political survival. Government actions often take the form of direct interventions in the market to stabilize food prices, which goes against most international advice to rely on safety nets and world trade. Despite the limitations of food price stabilization policies, they are widespread in developing countries. This paper attempts to untangle the elements of this policy conundrum. Price stabilization policies arise as a result of international and domestic coordination problems. At the individual country level, it is in the national interest of many countries to adjust trade policies to take ad-vantage of the world market in order to achieve domestic price stability. When countercyclical trade policies become widespread, the result is a thinner and less reliable world market, which further decreases the appeal of laissez-faire. A similar vicious circle operates in the domestic market: without effective policies to protect the poor, such as safety nets, food market liberalization lacks credibility and makes private actors reluctant to intervene, which in turn forces government to step in. The current policy challenge lies in designing policies that will build trust in world markets and increase trust between pub-lic and private agents
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6393
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    Chinese Firms' Entry to Export Markets : The Role of Foreign Export Spillovers (2013)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (39 p)
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    Parallel Title: Mayneris, Florian Chinese Firms' Entry to Export Markets
    Abstract: In this paper, the effect of proximity to multinational exporters on the creation of new export linkages (the extensive margin of trade) is debated. Using panel data from Chinese customs for 1997-2007, the capacity for Chinese domestic firms to begin exporting new varieties to new markets is shown to respond positively to the export activity of neighboring foreign firms. These spillovers are shown to be product and country specific. This conclusion is robust to fixed effects and instrumental variable specifications that control for both supply and demand shocks that could bias the estimations. The impact is sizable. The marginal impact of product-country-specific foreign export spillovers is five times as large as the effect of a 10 percent increase in the demand for the product in the destination country. Foreign export spillovers are also shown to be primarily limited to ordinary trade activities. Overall, our findings suggest that even for a country with an important cost-advantage such as China, there is room for initiatives from policy-makers that will diffuse best practices regarding export experience among exporters
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6398
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    Measuring the Effect of a Community-Level Program on Women's Empowerment Outcomes : Evidence from India (2013)
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (43 p)
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    Parallel Title: Kandpal, Eeshani Measuring the Effect of a Community-Level Program on Women's Empowerment Outcomes
    Abstract: This paper uses primary data from rural north India to show that participation in a community-level female empowerment program significantly increases access to employment, physical mobility, and political participation. The program provides support groups, literacy camps, adult education classes, and vocational training for rural women in several states of India; the data are from Uttarakhand. The paper uses instrumental variables and truncation-corrected matching on primary data to disentangle the program's mechanisms, separately considering its effect on women who work, and those who do not work but whose reservation wage is increased by participation. The analysis also finds significant spillover effects on non-participants relative to women in untreated districts. It finds consistent estimates for average treatment and intent to treat effects
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6399
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    The Financing and Growth of Firms in China and India : Evidence from Capital Markets (2013)
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (63 p)
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    Parallel Title: Didier, Tatiana The Financing and Growth of Firms in China and India
    Keywords: Unternehmensfinanzierung ; Finanzmarkt ; Unternehmenswachstum ; China ; Indien
    Abstract: This paper studies the extent to which firms in China and India use capital markets to obtain financing and grow. Using a unique data set on domestic and international capital raising activity and firm performance, it finds that the expansion of financial market activity since the 1990s has been more limited than what the aggregate figures suggest. Relatively few firms raise capital. Even fewer firms capture the bulk of the financing. Moreover, firms that issue equity or bonds are different and behave differently from other publicly listed firms. Among other things, they are typically larger and grow faster. The differences between users and non-users exist before the capital raising activity, are associated with the probability of raising capital, and become more accentuated afterward. The distribution of issuing firms shifts more over time than the distribution of those that do not issue, suggesting little convergence in firm size among listed firms
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6401
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    Joining, Upgrading and Being Competitive in Global Value Chains : A Strategic Framework (2013)
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (52 p)
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    Parallel Title: Cattaneo, O Joining, Upgrading and Being Competitive in Global Value Chains
    Abstract: In recent years, global value chains have played an increasing role in business strategies, profoundly affecting international trade and development paradigms. Global value chains now represent a major source of socio-upgrading opportunities and a new path for development. Trade, competitiveness and development policies should be reshaped accordingly to seize these opportunities and avoid the risks associated with greater participation in global value chains. This paper provides a framework and analytical tools for measuring and improving a country's performance with respect to participation in global value chains. With a clear operational focus, it provides guidance for countries willing to join, maintain participation, and/or move up global value chains. With the ultimate objective to increase the value (the development content) for trade, it also offers strategies to maximize the benefits and minimize the risks of developing countries' participation in global value chains
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