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  • 1
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    The Development of a Latino Gay Identity (2014)
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    ISBN: 1317733274 , 9781317733270
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (137 pages)
    Series Statement: Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Garcia, Bernardo C Development of a Latino Gay Identity
    DDC: 305.38/868073
    Keywords: Hispanic American gays Psychology ; Hispanic American gays Ethnic identity ; Gays Identity ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Gays ; Identity ; Hispanic American gays ; Psychology ; United States
    Abstract: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Review of the Literature; Self-Identity Development; Gay Identity Development; Problems with Gay Identity Development Models; Ethnic Identity Development; Ethnic Identity and Internalized Oppression; EthnicIdentity-Developmental Stages; The Latino Family; Language and Religion; Summary-EthnicIdentity Development Models; Identity Development of Latino Gay Men; Summary; Chapter 3: Research Methods; Chapter 4: Results; Part 1: Latino Gay Men Identity Development Themes.
    Abstract: First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
    Abstract: Part 2: Relational Space Map NarrativesChapter 5: Discussion; LatinoFamily-Significance of the Mother; Dealing with Differences; Comparison to Ethnic Identity Development Theories; Comparison to Gay Identity Development Theories; Conclusion-Multicultural-Concentric Identities; Future Research Implications; Appendix A: Research Recruitment Letter; Appendix B: Informed Consent; References; Index.
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    Hausa Superstitions and Customs : an Introduction to the Folk-Lore and the Folk (2014)
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    ISBN: 113696973X , 9781136969737
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (601 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Tremearne, Major A.J.N Hausa Superstitions and Customs : An Introduction to the Folk-Lore and the Folk
    DDC: 398.091749691
    Keywords: Hausa (African people) ; Hausa (African people) Folklore ; Tales ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Folklore & Mythology ; Hausa (African people) ; Tales ; Folklore ; West Africa
    Abstract: 16. the rich malam, the thieving spider and the hyæna17. little fool, or the biter bit; 18. how the spider ate the hyæna-cubs' food; 19. the slave who was wiser than the king; 20. the cock by his wit saves his skin; 21. the hen seeks a charm from the wild-cat; 22. the battle between the beasts and the birds; 23. the goat frightens the hyæna; 24. the spider, the guinea-fowl, and the francolin; 25. how the cunning jerbon killed the strong lion; 26. the camel and the rude monkey; 27. the boy who was lucky in trading; 28. one cannot help an unlucky man; 29. the wonderful ring.
    Abstract: 3. the render-hearted maiden and the fish4. the spider, the old woman, and the wonderful bull; 5. the false friend; 6. a lie can give more pain than a spear; 7. the king who fulfilled his promise to the leper; 8. the friendly lion, and the youth and his wife; 9. however poor you are therd is some-one even worse off; 10. the boy, the girl, and dodo; 11. falsehood is more profitable than truth; 12. virtue pays better than greed; 13. the victim does note always see the joke; 14. dodo, the robber, and the magic door; 15. the deceitful spider, the half-man, and the rubber-girl.
    Abstract: 30. the greedy girl and her cure31. the gluttons; 32. how dodo frightened the greedy man; 33. bortorimi and the spider; 34. the hyæna and the spider visit the king of a far city; 35. the hyæna confesses her guilt; 36. the greedy spider and the birds; 37. the hare outwits the hyæna; 38. everything comes to him who waits; 39. the lazy frong, and his punishment; 40. the snake and the scorpion; 41. the spider which bought a dog as a slave; 42. the wooing of the bashful maiden; 43. the girls and the unknown youth; 44. the son of the king of agaddez; 45. the boy who became his rival's ruler.
    Abstract: 46. the wild cat and the hen47. the dishonest father; 48. the contest for dodo's wife; 49. the man and his lazy wives; 50. the two wives, the hyæna, and the dove; 51. the man and his wives, and dodo; 52. the wife who would not work alone; 53. the thoughtful and the thoughtless husbands; 54. solomon and the birds; 55. the king who coveted his son's wife; 56. the girl who married dodo's son; 57. the man who married a monkey; 58. the monkey-woman; 59. the despised wife's triumph; 60. the good kishia and the lucky boy; 61. the determined girl and the wicked parents.
    Abstract: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; INTRODUCTIORY NOTE TO THE NEW EDITION; Foreword; Abbreviations and References; Table of Contents; Illustrations; PART I.-FOLK-LORE AND FOLK-LAW; CHAP. I-INTRODUCTION; CHAP. II-SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF THE TALES; CHAP. III-ANIMALS IN THE TALES; CHAP. IV-PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS AND VIRTUES; CHAP. V-THE LORE OF THE FOLK; CHAP. VI-CUSTOMS AND SUPERSTITIONS; CHAP. VII-CUSTOMS AND SUPERSTITIONS (continued); PART II.-HAUSA TALES, PARABLES AND VARIANTS; 1. THERE IS NO KING BUT GOD; 2. THE PUNISHMENT OF THE SABBATH BREAKERS.
    Abstract: First Published in 1970. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
    Note: 62. the wicked girl, and her punishment
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  • 3
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    The Persistence of History : Cinema, Television and the Modern Event (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780415910835
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (276 p)
    Series Statement: AFI Film Readers
    Parallel Title: Print version The Persistence of History : Cinema, Television and the Modern Event
    DDC: 302.23/4
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    Abstract: 〈STRONG〉〈/STRONG〉〈STRONG〉〈EM〉The Persistence of History〈/EM〉〈/STRONG〉 examines how the moving image has completely altered traditional modes of historical thought and representation. Exploring a range of film and video texts, from 〈EM〉The Ten Commandments〈/EM〉 to the Rodney King video, from the projected work of documentarian Errol Morris to Oliver Stone's 〈EM〉JFK〈/EM〉 and Spielberg's 〈EM〉Schindler's List〈/EM〉, the volume questions the appropriate forms of media for making the incoherence and fragmentation of contemporary history intelligible
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: history happens; Part one: the historical event; 1. The modernist event; 2. Cinematic shots: the narration of violence; 3. Historical consciousness and the viewer: who killed vincent chin?; 4. ""I'll see it when i believe it"": rodney king and the prison-house of video; Part two: historical representation and national identity; 5. Antimodernism as historical representation in a consumer culture: cecil b. demille's the ten commandments, 1923, 1956, 1993
    Description / Table of Contents: 6. Modernism and the narrative of nation in jfk7. Andrei rublev: the medieval epic as post-utopian history; 8. Subject positions, speaking positions: from holocaust, our hitler, and heimat to shoah and schindler's list; Part three: the end(s) of history; 9. Historical ennui, feminist boredom; 10. The future of the past: film and the beginnings of postmodern history; 11. Interrotroning history: errol morris and the documentary of the future; 12. The professors of history; Contributors; Index
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  • 4
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    Feminism Without Women : Culture and Criticism in a Postfeminist Age (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780415904179
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (201 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Feminism Without Women : Culture and Criticism in a ""Postfeminist"" Age
    DDC: 302.23/082
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    Abstract: In a series of essays scrutinizing feminist and post-structuralists positions, Tania Modleski examines ""the myth of postfeminism"" and its operation in popular culture, especially popular film and cultural studies. In a (First published in 1991.)
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I: Theory and Methodology; Chapter One: Postmortem on Postfeminism; Chapter Two: Femininity as Mas(s)querade; Chapter Three: Some Functions of Feminist Criticism; or, The Scandal of the Mute Body; Part II: Masculinity and Male Feminism; Chapter Four: A Father is being Beaten: Male Feminism and the War Film; Chapter Five: Three Men and Baby M; Chapter Six: The Incredible Shrinking He(r)man: Male Regression, the Male Body, and Film; Part III: Race, Gender, and Sexuality
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter Seven: Cinema and the Dark Continent: Race and Gender in Popular FilmChapter Eight: Lethal Bodies: Thoughts on Sex, Gender, and Representation from the Mainstream to the Margins; Notes; Index of Films; Index
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    Social Networks and Music Worlds (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780415718882
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (277 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Advances in Sociology
    Parallel Title: Print version Social Networks and Music Worlds
    DDC: 306.4/842
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    Abstract: Social networks are critical for the creation and consumption of music. This edited collection, Social Networks and Music Worlds, introduces students and scholars of music in society to the core concepts and tools of social network analysis. The collection showcases the use of these tools by sociologists, historians and musicologists, examining a variety of distinct ''music worlds'', including post-punk, jazz, rap, folk, classical music, Ladyfest and the world of ''open mic'' performances, on a number of different scales (local, national and international). In addition to their overarching Int
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 What is social network analysis? An introduction for music scholars; 3 Totally wired: the network of structure of the post-punk worlds of Liverpool, Manchester and Sheffield 1976-80; 4 Symbolic versus commercial success among British female composers; 5 Music consumption: networks and omnivorism; 6 Between social worlds and local scenes: patterns of collaboration in francophone rap music
    Description / Table of Contents: 7 Embracing difference in feminist music worlds: a Ladyfest case study8 The enabling qualities of Manchester's open mic network; 9 Exploring music careers: music graduates and early career trajectories in the UK; 10 Tastes, ties and social space: exploring Sheffield's folk singing world; 11 On jazz worlds; Index
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  • 6
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    In Garageland : Rock, Youth and Modernity (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780415085014
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (298 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Communication and Society
    Parallel Title: Print version In Garageland : Rock, Youth and Modernity
    DDC: 306.4/84
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    Abstract: Seeking to understand youth culture through its visual and musical expression, 〈EM〉In Garageland〈/EM〉 presents a pioneering ethnographic study of rock bands and their fans.〈BR〉 Topics include class as well as sexual conflicts; mainstream and deviant subcultures, and the complex social, psychological and ethical relationships which exist within youth culture.〈BR〉 〈EM〉In Garageland〈/EM〉 develops the notion of youth culture research as a way of mirroring our grown-up identities and of staking out the limits of late modern culture in general
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; LIST OF FIGURES; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; The Authors; The Project; The Theoretical Fields; Qualitative Methods; To the Reader; THREE BANDS - THREE CULTURES; OH - IN BETWEEN; Facts about OH; Introduction; History; The OH Culture; Being yourself; Power and powerlessness; Us and them; Order and chaos; Style; Appearance; Interaction; Music; Musical taste; OH's own music; FROM THE SUBURBS - LAM GAM; Facts about Lam Gam; An early meeting; Bergslunden; The situation of youth in Bergslunden; The Ark; The Ark culture; A concert at the Ark
    Description / Table of Contents: The history of Lam GamA rehearsal with Lam Gam; Dissolution; Lam Gam's music; DETACHED - CHANS; Facts about Chans; Commuting to the cottage; Villaholmen; History; The Chans culture; Cultural tastes; Chans' own music; OBJECTIVE LIFE CONDITIONS; LIVING IN THE LATE MODERN PERIOD; Prehistory; The children of the boom; The Late Modern crises; THREE SPHERES; The family; The school; Leisure; Spaces for identity work; SUBJECTIVE DRIVING FORCES; KURRE; THREE THEMES; Authority; Work; Sexuality and living together; THE GROUPS AND THEIR ROCK MUSIC; THE BAND AS A GROUP 201
    Description / Table of Contents: SEARCHING THROUGH SYMBOLIC PRAXISSearching; Rock as symbolic praxis; Objective sources; Socio-cultural sources; Subjective sources; Excursus: Adolescence as a second birth; LEARNING PROCESSES IN MAKING ROCK MUSIC; Learning types; Learning in the external world; Learning in the shared world; Learning in the inner world; The complexity of learning; Excursus: communication; Modern possibilities; Resistance and alternative public spheres; CONCLUSION; Why rock?; Collective autonomy; Alternative ideals; Narcissistic enjoyment; The youth debate; Serious play; Active searching
    Description / Table of Contents: Necessary norm experimentsYouth work; The complexities of learning; Communications between different spheres; Learning to resist; Youth research; Polydimensional content; Theoretical openness; Strategic self-reflection; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
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    Religion in Public and Private Life (Routledge Revivals) (2014)
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    ISBN: 9781138791077
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (241 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Routledge Revivals
    Parallel Title: Print version Religion in Public and Private Life (Routledge Revivals)
    DDC: 306.6/0973
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    Abstract: Religious crosses the spheres of both the private life and the public institution. In a liberal democracy, public and private interests and goals prove to be inseparable. Clarke Cochran's interdisciplinary study brings political theory and the sociology of religion together in a fresh interpretation of liberal culture. First published in 1990, this analysis begins with a reassessment of the nature of the ""public"" and the ""private"" in relation to the political. The controversy over religion and politics is examined in light of such contested issues of political life as sexuality, abortion
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; 1 Religion in Tension: Paradoxes of Public and Private Life; 2 Private Life; 3 Public Life; 4 The Border of Public and Private Life; 5 Argument on the Border: Political and Religious Language; 6 Character, Virtue, and Religion; 7 Narratives and Institutions; 8 The Distinctiveness of Religion; 9 Passion and Civility: Religion in Politics and Policy; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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    Politics, Geography and Social Stratification (Routledge Library Editions (2014)
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    ISBN: 9781138800380
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (293 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Library Editions: Political Geography
    Parallel Title: Print version Politics, Geography and Social Stratification (Routledge Library Editions: Political Geography)
    DDC: 305.50941
    Keywords: Social classes -- Great Britain ; Social structure -- Great Britain ; Political sociology ; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1945- ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: 〈P〉The major themes explored in this book, originally published in 1986, are the political resonances of social stratification and change; the growing distance between the working class and the providers of social services; and the role of locality in social reproduction. 〈/P〉〈P〉The relationship between society and space is the subject of a major debate in developed countries. The key questions are about just how far spatial patterns and local conditions affect social relations and stratification and how far they shape collective action, electoral responses and class. 〈/P〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Class, Space and Disorganised Capitalism; 3. Space, Class and Voting in Britain; 4. A Conceptual Enquiry Into Urban Politics and Gender; 5. Little Games and Big Stories: Accounting for the Practice of Personality and Politics in the 1945 General Elections; 6 . State Sponsored Control-Managers, Poverty Professionals and the Inner City Working Class; 7. Class Relations and Local Economic Planning
    Description / Table of Contents: 8 . Social Space and the Provision of Public Services: Segregation in the Ile de France Region9. The Role of Labour and Housing Markets in the Production of Geographical Variations in Social Stratification; 10. Social Relations, Residential Segregation and the Home; List of Contributors; Index
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    The Ubiquitous Internet : User and Industry Perspectives (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780415725743
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (191 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture
    Parallel Title: Print version The Ubiquitous Internet : User and Industry Perspectives
    DDC: 303.48/33
    Keywords: Information technology -- Social aspects ; Internet -- Social aspects ; Internet industry ; Ubiquitous computing -- Social aspects ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: 〈P〉This book presents state of the art theoretical and empirical research on the ubiquitous internet: its everyday users and its economic stakeholders. The book offers a 360-degree media analysis of the contemporary terrain of the internet by examining both user and industry perspectives and their relation to one another. Contributors consider user practices in terms of internet at your fingertips-the abundance, free flow, and interconnectivity of data. They then consider industry's use of user data and standards in commodification and value-creation.〈/P〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Ubiquitous Internet: Introduction and Conceptualization; PART I Users and Usage Patterns; 1 Next Generation Users: Changing Access to the Internet; 2 The Internet in My Pocket; 3 Managing the Interoperable Self; 4 The Dynamics of Real-Time Contentious Politics: How Ubiquitous Internet Shapes and Transforms Popular Protest in China; PART II Commercialization, Standards, and Politics; 5 Histories of Ubiquitous Web Standardization; 6 Mobile Internet: The Politics of Code and Networks
    Description / Table of Contents: 7 Predictive Algorithms and Personalization Services on Social Network Sites: Implications for Users and Society8 The Digital Transformation of Physical Retailing: Sellers, Customers, and the Ubiquitous Internet; Conclusion; Contributors; Index
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  • 10
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    Indonesia-Malaysia Relations : Cultural Heritage, Politics and Labour Migration (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780415687522
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (254 p)
    Series Statement: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series
    Parallel Title: Print version Indonesia-Malaysia Relations : Cultural Heritage, Politics and Labour Migration
    DDC: 303.48/25950598
    Keywords: Indonesia -- Relations -- Malaysia ; Malaysia -- Relations -- Indonesia ; Malay Archipelago -- Civilization ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Drawing on social media, cinema, cultural heritage and public opinion polls, this book examines Indonesia and Malaysia from a comparative postcolonial perspective. The Indonesia-Malaysia relationship is one of the most important bilateral relationships in Southeast Asia, especially because Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous country and third largest democracy, is the most populous and powerful nation in the region. Both states are committed to the relationship, especially at the highest levels of government, and much has been made of their 'sibling' identity. The relationship is built
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Uneasy neighbours; 2 Language and mythology; 3 Cultural contestations; 4 Museums; 5 Islam; 6 Ethnicity; 7 Citizenship; 8 Regionalism; 9 Democracy; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
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    Microphone Fiends : Youth Music and Youth Culture (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780415909075
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (287 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Microphone Fiends : Youth Music and Youth Culture
    DDC: 306.4/84
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    Abstract: 〈EM〉Microphone Fiends〈/EM〉, a collection of original essays and interviews, brings together some of the best known scholars, critics, journalists and performers to focus on the contemporary scene. It includes theoretical discussions of musical history along with social commentaries about genres like disco, metal and rap music, and case histories of specific movements like the Riot Grrls, funk clubbing in Rio de Janeiro, and the British rave scene
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Andrew Ross Introduction; Histories and Futures; George Lipsitz We Know What Time It Is: Race, Class and Youth Culture in the Nineties; Susan McClary Same as it Ever Was: Youth Culture and Music; Lawrence Grossberg Is Anybody Listening? Does Anybody Care?: On Talking about 'The State of Rock'; Greg Tate Excerpt from Altered Spade: Readings in Race-Mutation Theory; Locating Hip Hop; Tricia Rose A Style Nobody Can Deal With: Politics, Style and the Postindustrial City in Hip Hop
    Description / Table of Contents: Juan Flores Puerto Rican and Proud, Boyee!: Rap Roots and AmnesiaJeffrey Louis Decker The State of Rap: Time and Place in Hip Hop Nationalism; Tricia Rose Contracting Rap: An Interview with Carmen Ashhurst-Watson; The Dance Continuum; Walter Hughes In the Empire of the Beat: Discipline and Disco; Lady Kier Kirby Hello; Willi Ninja Not A Mutant Turtle; Tricia Rose Nobody Wants a Part-Time Mother: An Interview with Willi Ninja; Sarah Thornton Moral Panic, The Media and British Rave Culture; George Yúdice The Funkification of Rio; Rock. Rituals and Rights
    Description / Table of Contents: Robert Christgau Rah, Rah, Sis-Boom-Bah: The Secret Relationship Between College Rock and the Communist PartyDonna Gaines Border Crossing in the U.S.A.; Robert Walser Highbrow, Lowbrow, Voodoo Aesthetics; Joanne Gottlieb and Gayle Wald Smells Like Teen Spirit: Riot Grrrls, Revolution and Women in Independent Rock; Contributor Notes
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    From Max Weber (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780415175036
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (503 p)
    Series Statement: International Library of Sociology
    Parallel Title: Print version From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology
    DDC: 301
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    Abstract: First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; PREFACE; Contents; INTRODUCTION: THE MAN AND HIS WORK; I. A Biographical View; II. Political Concerns; III. Intellectual Orientations; 1. Marx and Weber; 2. Bureaucracy and Charisma: a Philosophy of History; 3. Methods of Social Science; 4. The Sociology of Ideas and Interests; 5. Social Structures and Types of Capitalism; 6. Conditions of Freedom and the Image of Man; PART I: SCIENCE AND POLITICS; IV. Politics as a Vocation; V. Science as a Vocation; PART II: POWER; VI. Structures of Power; 1. The Prestige and Power of the 'Great Powers'
    Description / Table of Contents: 2. The Economic Foundations of 'Imperialism'3. The Nation; VII. Class, Status, Party; 1. Economically Determined Power and the Social Order; 2. Determination of Class-Situation by Market-Situation; 3. Communal Action Flowing from Class Interest; 4. Types of 'Class Struggle'; 5. Status Honor; 6. Guarantees of Status Stratification; 7. 'Ethnic Segregation and 'Caste'; 8. Status Privileges; 9. Economic Conditions and Effects of Status Stratification; 10. Parties; VIII. Bureaucracy; 1. Characteristics of Bureaucracy; 2. The Position of the Official
    Description / Table of Contents: 3. The Presuppositions and Causes of Bureaucracy4. The Quantitative Development of Administrative Tasks; 5. Qualitative Changes of Administrative Tasks; 6. Technical Advantages of Bureaucratic Organization; 7. Bureaucracy and Law; 8. The Concentration of the Means of Administration; 9. The Leveling of Social Differences; 10. The Permanent Character of the Bureaucratic Machine; 11. Economic and Social Consequences of Bureaucracy; 12. The Power Position of Bureaucracy; 13. Stages in the Development of Bureaucracy; 14. The 'Rationalization' of Education and Training
    Description / Table of Contents: IX. The Sociology of Charismatic Authority1. The General Character of Charisma; 2. Foundations and Instability of Charismatic Authority; 3. Charismatic Kingship; X. The Meaning of Discipline; 1. The Origins of Discipline in War; 2. The Discipline of Large-Scale Economic Organizations; 3. Discipline and Charisma; PART III: RELIGION; XI. The Social Psychology of the World Religions; XII. The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Capitalism; XIII. Religious Rejections of the World and Their Directions; 1. Motives for the Rejection of the World: the Meaning of Their Rational Construction
    Description / Table of Contents: 2. Typology of Asceticism and of Mysticism3. Directions of the Abnegation of the World; 4. The Economic Sphere; 5. The Political Sphere; 6. The Esthetic Sphere; 7. The Erotic Sphere; 8. The Intellectual Sphere; 9. The Three Forms of Theodicy; PART IV: SOCIAL STRUCTURES; XIV. Capitalism and Rural Society in Germany; XV. National Character and the Junkers; XVI. India: The Brahman and the Castes; 1. Caste and Tribe; 2. Caste and Guild; 3. Caste and Status Group; 4. The Social Rank Order of the Castes in General; 5. Castes and Traditionalism; XVII. The Chinese Literati; 1. Confucius
    Description / Table of Contents: 2. The Development of the Examination System
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    Sport, Leisure and Social Relations (RLE Sports Studies) (2014)
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    ISBN: 9781138777552
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (262 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Routledge Library Editions Sports Studies
    Parallel Title: Print version Sport, Leisure and Social Relations (RLE Sports Studies)
    DDC: 306.480941
    Keywords: Leisure -- Social aspects -- Great Britain ; Sports -- Social aspects -- Great Britain ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: 〈P〉When this book was first published the study of sport had been largely neglected by sociologists. The contributions to this volume bring the sports field, the leisure centre and everyday leisure activities to a more central position within the sociological enterprise. Whether amateur or professional, sport contributes to wider relations of power, privilege and domination and this debate represents an important phase in the sociology of sport and leisure. 〈/P〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction: The sociological analysis of sport and leisure; The changing work/leisure balance in Britain: 1961-1984; Men and women at play: gender, life cycle and leisure; The Figurational Sociology ofSport and Leisure of Elias andDunning: an exposition and acritique; Leisure, symbolic power andthe life course; The body, sport and powerrelations; 'Boys muscle in where angels fear to tread' - girls' sub-cultures and physical activities
    Description / Table of Contents: The exploitation of disadvantage:the occupational sub-culture ofthe boxerThe politics of women's leisure; Leisure, the state and collectiveconsumption
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    Cosmopolitanism and the Legacies of Dissent (2014)
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    ISBN: 9781138783423
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (304 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
    Parallel Title: Print version Cosmopolitanism and the Legacies of Dissent
    DDC: 306
    Keywords: Cosmopolitanism ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The core idea shared by all cosmopolitan views is that all human beings belong to a single community and the ultimate units of moral concern are individual human beings, not states or particular forms of human associations. Nevertheless, the attempts to ground a political theory on overarching universal principles is in contradiction with the plurality of social, cultural, political, religious interpretative standpoints in the contemporary world. Is dissent cosmopolitan? Is there a legacy of dissent for a theory of cosmopolitanism? This book is a comparative, historical analysis of dissident t
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Cosmopolitanism of Dissent; PART I Cosmopolitanism and the Legacy of Dissidence; 1 Havel's Agonistic Realism: What Can Cosmopolitan Thinkers Learn from the Eastern European Dissent?; 2 Remembering Dissidents: Cosmopolitan Challenges in Post-Socialist Slovenia; 3 Is Liu Xiaobo a Rooted Cosmopolitan? A Critical Examination of His Dissent from a Historical Perspective; 4 Aung San Suu Kyi and Cosmopolitanism as the 'Revolution of the Spirit'; PART II Cosmopolitanism and the Legacy of Civil Disobedience
    Description / Table of Contents: 5 The Universalist Aspirations of Nationalist Dissent: Lessons from the Debates between Gandhi and Tagore6 Contestatory Cosmopolitan Citizenship: The Legacy of Martin Luther King; 7 Nelson Mandela and His Cosmopolitan Legacies; 8 Civil Disobedience in Cosmopolitan Perspective: National Responsibility, Citizenship, Representation; PART III Cosmopolitanism and the Promise of Global Resistance; 9 Dissent, 'Counter-Knowledge' and Cosmopolitanism in the NO TAV Movement
    Description / Table of Contents: 10 Global Citizenship versus Cosmopolitanism: Lessons Learned from Chinese Dissidents, Global Indigenous Peoples Movement and the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities11 Channeling Dissent: Multicultural Encounters with Cosmopolitan Normativity; 12 The Logistics of Dissent: Prefigurative Politicsin Occupy Wall Street; Conclusions; Selected Bibliography; Contributors; Index
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    Political Leadership, Nascent Statehood and Democracy : A comparative study (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780415710961
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (213 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Democratization Studies
    Parallel Title: Print version Political Leadership, Nascent Statehood and Democracy
    DDC: 303.3/4
    Keywords: POLITICAL SCIENCE / General ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Do political leaders determine whether a polity will receive a democratic future or not? Research and advocates of democracy agree on the significance of political elites for democratization, yet there is a need for a more specific understanding of their role.This book develops a theory of political leadership at the point of nascent statehood to explain the emergence of resilient democracies. It employs four diverse case studies to examine the role of leadership and democratic consolidation. In doing so, the book identifies certain capacities of political leaders at the critical moment of nas
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Part I Political leadership matters; 1 The success and failure of democratic state building; The importance of political leadership; Nation building and state building: different logics to their success; 2 Situating the study; The case studies: design and methods; Addressing alternative explanations; Part II Case studies; 3 Introduction to the cases; India: from spiritual freedom fights to secular democracy; Pakistan: from constructed religious unity to unstable theocracy
    Description / Table of Contents: Israel: from Jewish nation to Israeli democracyPalestine: from national unity to fragmented state building; 4 India; Symbolic leadership during national mobilisation; Symbolic leadership at nascent statehood; Strategic leadership during national mobilisation; Defending the Indian National Army; Strategic leadership at nascent statehood; Relational leadership during national mobilisation; Relational leadership at nascent statehood; 5 Pakistan; State building at nascent statehood: Pakistan; Symbolic leadership during national mobilisation; Symbolic leadership at nascent statehood
    Description / Table of Contents: Strategic leadership during national mobilisationStrategic leadership at nascent statehood; Relational leadership during national mobilisation; Relational leadership at nascent statehood; 6 Israel; Symbolic leadership during national mobilisation; Symbolic leadership at nascent statehood; Strategic leadership during national mobilisation; Strategic leadership at nascent statehood; Relational leadership during national mobilisation; Relational leadership at nascent statehood; 7 Palestine; Symbolic leadership during national mobilisation; Symbolic leadership at nascent statehood
    Description / Table of Contents: Strategic leadership during national mobilisationStrategic leadership at nascent statehood; Relational leadership during national mobilisation; Relational leadership at nascent statehood; Part III Implications of political leadership for democratic state building; 8 Summary of results and case comparison; 9 Implications for the future democratic state project; Glossary; References; Index
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    Seeing and Believing : The Influence of Television (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780415036214
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (253 p)
    Series Statement: Communication and Society
    Parallel Title: Print version Seeing and Believing : The Influence of Television
    DDC: 302.23/45
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Television has a powerful impact on our beliefs and is open to use as a political and propaganda tool. Greg Philo has taken a new approach to examining these issues by inviting groups of television viewers to write their own news programmes, based on news pictures from the 1984-5 British miners' strike
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Making the news; 2 Practical experience and knowledge; 3 Occupational groups; 4 Special interest groups; 5 Residential groups; 6 Conclusions: news content and audience belief; 7 Issues in news content, effects, and 'bias'; Appendix 1 Types of 'news' produced by the groups; Appendix 2 Table of results from questions 1, 4, 6, 7, and 8; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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    The Children's Television Community (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780805849967
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (519 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Communication Series
    Parallel Title: Print version The Children's Television Community
    DDC: 302.2345
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: The Children's Television Community presents a cutting-edge analysis of the children's television community-the organizations, major players, and approaches to programming-and gives an overview of the history, current state, and future of children's programming. Leading children's television professionals and distinguished academicians come together in this volume to take a distinctive behind-the-scenes look at how children's television is created, programmed, and sold. This thought-provoking work emphasizes the various actors whose creative, financial, political, and critical input go into ch
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Part I: Understanding the Children's Television Community; 1. The Television Tug-of-War: A Brief History of Children's Television Programming in the United States; Part I: Examination of the Timeline; The 1920s and 1930s; The 1940s and 1950s; The 1960s and 1970s; The 1980s and 1990s; 2000 to 2005 and Beyond; Case Study: Focus on Violence; Conclusion; References; 2. Understanding the Children's Television Community From an Organizational Network Perspective; The Network, Evolutionary Perspective
    Description / Table of Contents: The Children's Television CommunityStudying the Children's Television Community; Data Collection; Data Coding; What the Network Data Tells us; Emergence; Changing Nature of the Community Ties in Relation to Environmental Events; Transformation; Conclusion; References; 3. The Economics of Children's Television; Meeting Demand: Analyzing Trends in Programming and Exposure for Children; Analyzing the Industry Structure; Economic Infrastructure: Industry Firms; Economic Patterns of Program Development, Distribution, and Promotion; Program Development and Production; Patterns of Distribution
    Description / Table of Contents: Nonprogram Content: Promotions and Public ServiceIdentifying Financial Patterns; Conclusion; References; Part II: Producing Children's Television; 4. Producing Children's Television; The Creative and Production Process; Special Concerns and Issues in Children's Programming; References; 5. Peeking Behind the Screen: Varied Approaches to the Production of Educational Television; Integrating Educational Content into Production; The Role of Research; Choosing a Model of Production; Culture of the Production Company; Available Resources; Perceptions of Educational Content
    Description / Table of Contents: Broadcaster or Funder ExpectationsConclusion; References; 6. The Role of Academic Advisors in Creating Children's Television Programs: The NBC Experience; The Origins of NBC's "Social Science Advisory" Process; Children's Programming; Regulation; Use of consultants; The Evolution of the "Panel" Process; The Consultants and Their Role; The Panel Process; Challenges; Issues in Children's Programs; Lessons from NBC's Social Science Advisory Process; References; Part III: Programming & Selling Children's Television; 7. Programming Children's Television: The PBS Model
    Description / Table of Contents: A History of Children's Programming on Public TelevisionPBS in the 1990s; Major Changes for Children's Programming at PBS; Ready to Learn; The Current Situation at PBS; The PBS Kids Process; Developing New Shows; Broadcasting on PBS; Some Considerations; References; 8. Programming Children's Television: The Cable Model; A Little History; Nickelodeon; The Disney Channel; Turner Networks; Where the Cable Marketplace is Now; Syndication; Branding; Cable versus Broadcast-Programming Strategies; Franchises; Seasonality; The Economics of Cable; Proof of Performance-Ratings; Fragmentation
    Description / Table of Contents: Conclusion
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    The Politics of Interweaving Performance Cultures : Beyond Postcolonialism (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780415722681
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (614 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    Parallel Title: Print version The Politics of Interweaving Performance Cultures : Beyond Postcolonialism
    DDC: 306.4/84
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    Abstract: This book provides a timely intervention in the fields of performance studies and theatre history, and to larger issues of global cultural exchange. The authors offer a provocative argument for rethinking the scholarly assessment of how diverse performative cultures interact, how they are interwoven, and how they are dependent upon each other.While the term 'intercultural theatre' as a concept points back to postcolonialism and its contradictions, The Politics of Interweaving Performance Cultures explores global developments in the performing arts that cannot adequately be explained and unders
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Interweaving Performance Cultures-Rethinking 'Intercultural Theatre': Toward an Experience and Theory of Performance beyond Postcolonialism; Notes; Bibliography; Part I: Strategies and Dynamics; 1. Postcolonial Modernity: Theatre in Morocco and the Interweaving Loop; The Postcolonial Turn and Double Resistance; The Interweaving Loop; Retrieving Tradition and Internal Interweaving; Rewriting the Canon and Transcultural Weaving; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography
    Description / Table of Contents: 2. Cultural Interweaving in Mexican Political CabaretA Brief Outline of Mexican Cabaret; Beyond Marginality and Mainstream Dichotomy; Albur, Gender, and Humor; Cabaret: An Open Genre; Albur and Cross-Dressing in Cabaret; Mexican Cabaret and Commedia Dell'Arte; Interweaving History within Cabaret; By Way of Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; 3. Farewell and Welcome Back, My Concubine: Female Impersonation on the Chinese Stage; No Torchbearer of Chinese Culture; Subservience to the Patriarchal Order; Hyperbolic Encomiums; Interweaving Perspectives; The Politics of Apolitical Readings
    Description / Table of Contents: The Exemplum as the Theorem: Conspicuous OversightsRevivals of Aesthetic Forms; Notes; Bibliography; 4. Performing Orientalist, Intercultural, and Globalized Modernities: The Case of Les Naufragés du Fol Espoir by the Théâtre Du Soleil; Orientalism; Interculturalism; Globalization; New Paradigms: Interweaving Les Naufragés Du Fol Espoir; Notes; Bibliography; Part II: Rituals and Festivals; 5. Oceanic Imagination, Intercultural Performance, Pacific Historiography; History, Geography, Race; Oceanic Imagination; The Culture Machines; The Joy Zone; Weaving; Returning a Thread; Conclusion; Notes
    Description / Table of Contents: Bibliography6. Dancing for the Dead; The Living and the Dead; Making Memory; Making Place; Hospitality; Notes; Bibliography; 7. Un/Familiar Landscapes: Tragedy and Festivals; Introduction; Tragedy and Crisis; Europe and Crisis; Europe and Tragedy; Tradition and Festive Time; The Ambiguity of Tragedy; Un/Familiar Landscapes: A Proposition; Notes; Bibliography; 8. 'Let the Games Begin': Pageants, Protests, Indigeneity (1968-2010); Introduction; Olympic Performances, (Post)Colonial Modernities; Visibility, Voice, Multiculturalism; Reconciliation and Renewal; Conclusion/Coda; Notes; Bibliography
    Description / Table of Contents: Part III: Failures and Resistances9. Hauntings of the Intercultural: Enigmas and Lessons on the Borders of Failure; Positive Failure; Returning/Remembering/Rethinking; Limits of Metaphorical Thinking; Weaving/Stitching/Sewing; Retrieving the Aesthetics of the Postcolonial; a. Story 1: The enigma of 'slowing down'; b. Story 2: The ethics of belonging and ownership; Transformative Knowledge; Lessons on the Borders of Failure; Notes; Bibliography; 10. Strategic Unweaving: Itō Michio and the Diasporic Dancing Body; Introduction; The Traveling Body: Itō and his Contact Zones
    Description / Table of Contents: Overview of Itō Michio's Career
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    Digital Russia : The Language, Culture and Politics of New Media Communication (2014)
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    ISBN: 9781306481618
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (313 S.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series 53
    Parallel Title: Print version Digital Russia
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Digital Russia
    DDC: 302.23/1
    RVK:
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    Keywords: Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Russisch ; Internet ; Kommunikation ; Wortschatz ; Internetliteratur
    Abstract: 〈P〉〈EM〉Digital Russia〈/EM〉 provides a comprehensive analysis of the ways in which new media technologies have shaped language and communication in contemporary Russia. It traces the development of the Russian-language internet, explores the evolution of web-based communication practices, showing how they have both shaped and been shaped by social, political, linguistic and literary realities, and examines online features and trends that are characteristic of, and in some cases specific to, the Russian-language internet.〈/P〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; A note on transliteration and translation; Introduction; Part I Contexts; 1 The (im)personal connection: computational systems and (post-)Soviet cultural history; 2 From the utopia of autonomy to a political battlefield: towards a history of the "Russian internet"; Part II New media spaces; 3 Divided by a common web: some characteristics of the Russian blogosphere; 4 Social network sites on the Runet: exploring social communication
    Description / Table of Contents: 5 Testing and contesting Russian TwitterPart III Language and diversity; 6 The written turn: how CMC actuates linguistic change in Russian; 7 Slangs go online, or the rise and fall of the Olbanian language; 8 Language on display: on the performative character of computer-mediated metalanguage; 9 Translit: computer-mediated digraphia on the Runet; Part IV Literature and new technology; 10 Russian literature on the internet: from hypertext to fairy tale; 11 Occasional political poetry and the culture of the Russian internet; 12 Digitizing everything? Online libraries on the Runet
    Description / Table of Contents: Part V The political realm13 Politicians online: prospects and perils of "direct internet democracy"; 14 Languages of memory; 15 Is there a Russian cyber empire?; Index
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    Sport, Time and Society (RLE Sports Studies) : The British at Play (2014)
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    ISBN: 9781138774759
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (207 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Routledge Library Editions Sports Studies
    Parallel Title: Print version Sport, Time and Society (RLE Sports Studies) : The British at Play
    DDC: 306.4830941
    Keywords: Sports -- Social aspects -- Great Britain ; Play -- Great Britain -- History ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: 〈P〉This volume traces the rise and transformation of organized sport and its impact on social patterns and gender roles. Stressing the essential continuity of the sporting experience, the author shows the changing tempo of sport through the ages and explores the broader effects of the time element on the nature and style of sporting activities. The book covers current issues such as soccer hooliganism , government intervention in sport, and the influence of television on sport. 〈/P〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of plates; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Echoes from a lost world; 2 Making much of time; 3 The governing of play; 4 Money matters; 5 Sports out of time; 6 The pace of play; 7 The sporting weekend; 8 The coming of the leisure age; 9 Instant sport and open season; Notes; Index
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    Intimate Economies of Development : Mobility, Sexuality and Health in Asia (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780415817738
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (229 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Development, Mobilities and Migration
    Parallel Title: Print version Intimate Economies of Development : Mobility, Sexuality and Health in Asia
    DDC: 306.309597/8
    Keywords: Sex -- Mekong River Region ; Public health -- Mekong River Region ; Economic development -- Social aspects -- Mekong River Region ; Mekong River Region -- Social conditions ; Mekong River Region -- Economic conditions ; Mekong River Region -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Aspirations, desires, opportunism and exploitation are seldom considered as fundamental elements of donor-driven development as it impacts on the lives of people in poor countries. Yet, alongside structural interventions, emotional or affective engagements are central to processes of social change and the making of selves for those caught up in development's slipstream. Intimate Economies of Development lays bare the ways that culture, sexuality and health are inevitably and inseparably linked to material economies within trajectories of modernization in the Greater Mekong Sub-region. As migra
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures and tables; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Ethnicity, capital and the architecture of mobile hopes and dreams; 2 Frontiers and embodied ambitions; 3 Special zones - anomalous spaces; 4 Intimate safeguards and affective politics of the precariat; 5 Poiesis of the intimate encounter: dormitory exchanges and bed-sit affairs; 6 First do no harm; References; Index
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    Cinema of John Marshall (2014)
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    ISBN: 9783718605576
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (291 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Visual Anthropology
    Parallel Title: Print version Cinema of John Marshall
    DDC: 305.8
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction to the Series; Filming and Learning:; Introduction - Death by Myth; Going to Nyae Nyae; Learning to Film; Water, History and What to Shoot; Change and Slots; Learning from Film; Put Down the Camera and Pick Up the Shovel: An Interview with John Marshall; Photographic Essay of the Early Expeditions (1951-1958) to Study the Ju/'hoansi of Nyae Nyae; An Argument about Film; Death by Myth: Ethnographic Film and the Development Struggle; The Future of the Bushmen's Past: Developing People and Pictures
    Description / Table of Contents: Hot Footage/Cold Storage: The Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman ArchiveFilmography of the Works of John Marshall from 1951 to 1991; About the Authors; Index
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    Cultural Production in and Beyond the Recording Studio (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780415856065
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (233 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Human Geography
    Parallel Title: Print version Cultural Production in and Beyond the Recording Studio
    DDC: 306.4/842
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    Abstract: Recording studios are the most insulated, intimate and privileged sites of music production and creativity. Yet in a world of intensified globalisation, they are also sites which are highly connected into wider networks of music production that are increasingly spanning the globe. This book is the first comprehensive account of the new spatialties of cultural production in the recording studio sector of the musical economy, spatialities that illuminate the complexities of global cultural production.This unique text adopts a social-geographical perspective to capture the multiple spatial scales
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I Inside the Studio; 1 Studio Technologies: Changing Concepts and Practices; 2 Technology, Collaboration and Creativity; 3 Emotional Labour and Musical Performance; 4 The Studio Sound-Space; PART II Beyond the Studio; 5 Recording Studios in Urban Music Scenes; 6 Recording Studios in Project Networks (1): The Networked Studio; 7 Recording Studios in Project Networks (2): A Global Urban Geography of Music Production; 8 MP3s and Home Recording: The Problems of Software
    Description / Table of Contents: PART III Working and Networking in the Recording Studio Sector9 Changing Employment Relations and Experiences of Work; 10 Networking, Reputation Building and Getting Work; Conclusion; Glossary; References; Index
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    Serialization in Popular Culture (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780415704267
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (223 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    Parallel Title: Print version Serialization in Popular Culture
    DDC: 302.23
    Keywords: Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Massenkultur ; Serie
    Abstract: From prime-time television shows and graphic novels to the development of computer game expansion packs, the recent explosion of popular serials has provoked renewed interest in the history and economics of serialization, as well as the impact of this cultural form on readers, viewers, and gamers. In this volume, contributors-literary scholars, media theorists, and specialists in comics, graphic novels, and digital culture-examine the economic, narratological, and social effects of serials from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century and offer some predictions of where the form will go from
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; PART I Victorian Serials; 1 The Unruliness of Serials in the Nineteenth Century (and in the Digital Age); 2 ""Pause You Who Read This"": Disruption and the Victorian Serial Novel; 3 ""Split [. . .] Peas"": Mrs Beeton and Domestic Time, Decomposed; PART II Serialization on Screen; 4 The Logic of the Line Segment: Continuity and Discontinuity in the Serial-Queen Melodrama; 5 ""Is It True Blondes Have More Fun?"": Mad Men and the Mechanics of Serialization; 6 The Walking Dead: Quality Television, Transmedia Serialization and Zombies
    Description / Table of Contents: 7 Ingmar Bergman, ShowrunnerPART III Serialization in Comic Books and Graphic Novels; 8 Serialization and Displacement in Graphic Narrative; 9 The Issues Issue: A Series of Thoughts on Seriality in Daniel Clowes' Eightball; PART IV Digital Serialization; 10 The Sense of an Ending: The Computer Game Fallout 3 as a Serial Fiction; 11 Circling the Infinite Loop, One Edit at a Time: Seriality in Wikipedia and the Encyclopedic Urge; 12 The Serialization Game: Computer Hardware and the Serial Production of Video Games; List of Contributors; Index
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    Crossings : language & ethnicity among adolescents (2014)
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    ISBN: 9781900650779
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (384 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Crossings
    DDC: 306.44/6/0941
    Keywords: Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Volume 5This is a new and enlarged edition of Ben Rampton's ground-breaking study of sociolinguistic processes in urban youth culture. It focuses on language crossing - the use of Panjabi by adolescents of African-Caribbean and Anglo descent, the use of Creole by adolescents with Panjabi and Anglo backgrounds, and the use of stylized Indian English. Its central question is: how far and in what ways do these intricate processes of language sharing and exchange help to overcome race stratification and contribute to a new sense of mixed youth, class and neighbourhood community?Ben Rampton produce
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Transcription Symbols and Conventions; Dedication; Preface to the Second Edition; Part I: Introductory; 1. Introduction Language, Ethnicity and Youth in late industrial Britain; 1.1 Starting points in sociolinguistics and sociology; 1.2 Competing grounds for political solidarity; 1.3 Distinctive concerns in the present study; 1.4 Descriptive and theoretical concepts; 1.5 Siting within sociolinguistics; 1.6 Fieldwork, methods and data-base; 1.7 The town, neighbourhood and networks; 1.8 The chapters that follow; Notes
    Description / Table of Contents: 2. Local Reports of Language Crossing2.1 Reports of interracial Creole; 2.2 Interracial Panjabi; 2.3 Comparison of crossing in Panjabi and Creole; 2.4 Stylized Asian English; 2.5 Comparison of SAE, Panjabi and Creole; 2.6 Summary and overview: a local and historical setting for language crossing; Notes; Part II: Interaction with Adults: Contesting Stratification; 3. Stylized Asian English (i) Interactional Ritual, Symbol and Politics; 3.1 Linguistic features marking speech as SAE; 3.2 Interview reports; 3.3 Incidents observed; 3.4 Ritual, symbol and politics in interaction
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.5 Interaction and social movementsNotes; 4. Panjabi (i) Interactional and Institutional Participation Frameworks; 4.1 Panjabi in conflictual interaction with adults; 4.2 Panjabi crossing in non-conflictual adult-adolescent interaction; 4.3 Adult-adolescent participation frameworks in Panjabi and SAE; 4.4 Bystanding as a contingent relationship; 4.5 The institutional embedding of interactional relations; Notes; 5. Creole (i) Links to the Local Vernacular; 5.1 Interview reports; 5.2 Evidence from interaction; 5.3 The correspondence between interactional and institutional organisation
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.4 Interactional evidence of Creole's incorporation with oppositional vernacular discourse5.5 Creole and the local multiracial vernacular; 5.6 Correction by adults; 5.7 Summary; 5.8 Conclusion to Part II: crossing, youth subcultures, and the development of political sensibilities; Notes; Part III: Interaction with Peers: Negotiating Solidarity; 6. Stylized Asian English (ii) Rituals of Differentiation and Consensus; 6.1 SAE in criticism; 6.2 Critical SAE to adolescents with lower peer group status; 6.3 Critical SAE between friends and acquaintances; 6.4 SAE in structured games
    Description / Table of Contents: 6.5 Summary: SAE to adults, to adolescents and in games6.6 Rituals of disorder, differentiation and consensus; 6.7 Games; Notes; 7. Panjabi (ii) Playground Agonism, 'Language Learning' and the Liminal; 7.1 Panjabi in the multiracial playground repertoire; 7.2 Playground Panjabi in games; 7.3 Jocular abuse; 7.4 Not-so-jocular abuse; 7.5 Self-directed playground Panjabi; 7.6 Mellowing over time; 7.7 Girls and playground Panjabi: cross- and same-sex interactions; 7.8 Overview: opportunities, risks and the enunciation of 'tensed unity'; 7.9 Language crossing and the 'liminal'; Notes
    Description / Table of Contents: 8. Creole (ii) Degrees of Ritualization in Ashmead and South London
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    Jewish Mothers Tell Their Stories : Acts of Love and Courage (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780789010995
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (449 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Jewish Mothers Tell Their Stories : Acts of Love and Courage
    DDC: 306.874/3/089924
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    Abstract: Winner of the Women in Psychology Jewish Caucus Award for 2000!Jewish Mothers Tell Their Stories: Acts of Love and Courage contains touching and personal essays written by contemporary Jewish mothers from different parts of the globe. Their stories reveal the choices that Jewish mothers make in our post-Holocaust, non-Jewish world--the many ways of being Jewish, the acts of loving, of preserving and celebrating Jewish traditions and spirituality, and of transmitting them to their children and families. The firsthand stories in this compelling book raises questions and provides you with insight
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; About the Editors; Contributors; Introduction; The Beginning; The Stereotype: Vilified and Idealized; Beyond the Stereotypes; Issues and Themes; In Conclusion; References; Section I: Traditions; Chapter 1. From Generation to Generation; The Best Part of the Day; Begging to Differ; Chapter 2. How I Learned to Be a Jewish Mother; Chapter 3. Traditions; Letter to a Daughter; After the Ice Age; Chapter 4. My Mother Is Greek; Chapter 5. Mandelbrot, Rugelach, and a Family Quilt; Section II: Unbinding Love
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 6. Unbinding LoveReference; Chapter 7. How a Paper Clip Changed Our Lives; Epilogue; Chapter 8. On Mourning for Soldier-Sons in Israel; Past Representations of Mourning Mothers; A New Trend of Coping and Protest; References; Chapter 9. On My Son's Induction into the Israeli Armed Forces: A Feminist Mother's Prayer; Notes; Chapter 10. Jewish Mother and Son: The Feminist Version; References; Chapter 11. If I Can't Tear the Toilet Paper, Why Can I Flush the Toilet?; Section III: Jewish Values; Chapter 12. On the Other Hand; Chapter 13. Old Clothes and Food from Afar; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 14. My Journey Toward Jewish IdentificationUnexamined Identification; Identification Based on Fear of Anti-Semitism; Separatist Identification; Toward a Positive Identification as a Jewish Mother; Identification as a Jewish Family; Reference; Chapter 15. Am I a Jewish Mother?; Chapter 16. Conversion: The Mother of Invention; Chapter 17. A Wandering Mother; Section IV: Jewish Identity-Discovered and Rediscovered; Chapter 18. Jewish Mother "from Scratch"; Chapter 19. How Modern-Day Austria Made Me a Modern Jewish Mother; Postscript; References; Chapter 20. Learning to Speak German
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 21. Washing Down the ChalkChapter 22. While My Sixteen-Year-Old Daughter Visits Auschwitz; Chapter 23. A Long, Circular Journey; Section V: Spirituality and Religion; Chapter 24. A Life in Code; Notes; References; Chapter 25. You Will Teach Your Children Diligently; Chapter 26. Beresheet, in the Beginning; Chapter 27. On Carving a Life; Chapter 28. Integrating Feminism, Judaism, and Spirituality; A Passover Liberation; Weaving in the Spiritual and Feminist Threads; An Intergenerational Conversation; Otherness; A Spiritual Path of Attachment; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 29. Seeking Serenity As a Single Jewish MotherChapter 30. Oranges and Cinnamon; Section VI: The Real World; Chapter 31. Dealing with the Real World: Our Children, Ourselves; References; Chapter 32. No More Family Secrets; Chapter 33. If I'd Known How to Be a Jewish Mother, I Would Have Been One; Chapter 34. Chopped Liver and Sour Grapes: Jewish but Not a Mother; References; Chapter 35. My Two Lives; References; Glossary
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    Sociolinguistics and Social Theory (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780582327832
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (803 p)
    Series Statement: Language In Social Life
    Parallel Title: Print version Sociolinguistics and Social Theory
    DDC: 306.44
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    Abstract: The empirical and descriptive strengths of sociolinguistics, developed over more than 40 years of research, have not been matched by an active engagement with theory. Yet, over this time, social theorising has taken important new turns, linked in many ways to linguistic and discursive concerns. Sociolinguistics and Social Theory is the first book to explore the interface between sociolinguistic analysis and modern social theory. The book sets out to reunite sociolinguistics with the concepts and perspectives of several of the most influential modern theorists of society and social action, incl
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of contributors; Editors' Preface and Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Sociolinguistics and 'theory'; 3 Sociolinguistic theory as social theory; 4 Type 1 social theory - socio-structural realism; 5 Type 2 social theory - social action perspectives; 6 Sociolinguistic agnosticism?; 7 Type 3 social theory - integrationism; 7.1 Sociolinguistics and the limits of contextualisation; 7.2 Sociolinguistics and globalising modernity; 7.3 Language, social groups and social identities; 7.4 The theory-application link
    Description / Table of Contents: 8 The structure of the volumeNotes; References; Introduction: Sociolinguistic theory and social theory; Part I. Language, theory and the social; 1. A comparative perspective on social theoretical accounts of the language-action interrelationship; 1 Introduction; 2 The social/discursive turn in linguistics; 3 Interface of social structure and action from the social-theoretical perspective; 4 The language dimension in/of social theory: Habermas, Foucault and Bourdieu; 4.1 Habermas: language as communicative action; 4.2 Foucault: the 'being of language'
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.3 Bourdieu: the economics of linguistic exchange5 Conclusion; Notes; References; 2. Dynamics of differentiation: On social psychology and cases of language variation; 1 Introduction; 2 Motivating language variation; 2.1 Accentuate the positive - A: Accruing social capital; 2.2 Eliminate the negative - B: Avoiding or minimising risk; 2.3 The Balancing Act - C: Maximising fit; D: Maintaining individual distinctiveness; 2.4 It's a jungle out there - E: Test your hypotheses about others; 3 An analysis of variables; 3.1 Literal and metaphorical inclusiveness; 3.2 Socialising sorrow
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.3 Spelling out referents: phonetically null subjects3.4 An analysis of variable types; 4 Conclusion: Sociolinguistics and social psychological theory; Notes; References; 3. Sociolinguistics, cognitivism and discursive psychology; 1 Introduction; 2 Sociolinguistics and cognition; 2.1 Racist discourse; 2.2 Courtroom reality construction; 2.3 Scientific reality construction; 2.4 Sexism; 3 Sociolinguistics, cognitivism and discursive psychology; References; Part II: Language and discourse as social practice
    Description / Table of Contents: 4. Dynamics of discourse or stability of structure: Sociolinguistics and the legacy from linguistics1 Introduction: Language and discourse; 2 Languaging as action, and languages as sets of forms; 3 Dealing with language: From practical activities to decontextualised theory-building; 4 Written language systems and spoken language activities; 5 The written language bias in linguistics; 1. Regarding language in general:; 2. In phonetics and phonology:; 3. In grammar:; 4. In lexicology:; 5. In semantics and pragmatics:; 6 The language makers; 7 Sociolinguistics and its linguistic legacy
    Description / Table of Contents: 8 Can we capture dynamics?
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    Small Talk (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780582414266
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (570 p)
    Series Statement: Language In Social Life
    Parallel Title: Print version Small Talk
    DDC: 302.3/46
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    Abstract: This study presents a new perspective on small talk and its crucial role in everyday communication. The new approach presented here is supported by analyses of interactional data in specific settings - private and public, face-to-face and telephone talk. They vary from gossip at the family dinner table and intimate 'keeping in touch' phone conversations, to interpersonally-focused talk in institutional settings, such as the government office and the university research seminar. Drawing on a range of methodological approaches, including Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics, Interpersonal Communica
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; Publisher's Acknowledgements; General Editor's Preface; Introduction: sociolinguistic perspectives on small talk; Part I Locating small talk theoretically; 1 Doing collegiality and keeping control at work: small talk in government departments; 2 Institutional identity-work: a better lens; 3 Mutually captive audiences: small talk and the genre of close-contact service encounters; 4 Silence and small talk; Part II Procedural aspects: participants' orientations to and organisation of small talk
    Description / Table of Contents: 5 Calling just to keep in touch: regular and habitualised telephone calls as an environment for small talk6 Talk about the weather: small talk, leisure talk and the travel industry; 7 Social rituals, formulaic speech and small talk at the supermarket checkout; Part III Small talk, sociability and social cohesion; 8 Gossipy events at family dinners: negotiating sociability, presence and the moral order; 9 Small talk and subversion: female speakers backstage; Part IV Professional and commercial applications; 10 Sociable talk in women's health care contexts: two forms of non-medical talk
    Description / Table of Contents: 11 Small talk in service dialogues: the conversational aspects of transactional telephone talkIndex
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    Mediated Discourse as Social Interaction : A Study of News Discourse (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780582327252
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (523 p)
    Series Statement: Language In Social Life
    Parallel Title: Print version Mediated Discourse as Social Interaction : A Study of News Discourse
    DDC: 302.23
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    Abstract: Mediated Discourse as Social Interaction makes an explicit link between media studies and social interactionalist discursive research where previously the two fields of study have been treated as separate disciplines. This text presents an integrated theory illustrated by ample concrete examples, bringing together the latest research in these two fields. It offers a critique to the sender-receiver model implicit in media studies, and argues for an analysis of media discourse as social interaction, on the one hand among journalists and newsmakers as a community of practice, and among readers an
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Author's Preface; Publisher's Acknowledgements; List of Notations Used; Part I: The Primacy of Social Interaction in Discourse; 1. Mediated action as social practice; Part II: Sites of Engagement; 2. Maxims of Stance: social practices in the interactive construction of business telephone calls; 3. Acts of reading and watching: observation as social interaction; 4. News-stands, handbills, photographs and living rooms as stages for the construction of person; Interlude: Mediated Transactions
    Description / Table of Contents: Part III: The Discursive Construction of the Person in the News Media5. Television journalists; 6. Newspaper journalists; 7. Newsmakers in newspaper and television; Part IV: Media Studies and Social Interaction; 8. Interdiscursivity and identity; 9. A social-interactional perspective on ethnographic studies of media; Bibliography; Index
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    Knowledge & Discourse : Towards an Ecology of Language (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780582328808
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (366 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Language In Social Life
    Parallel Title: Print version Knowledge & Discourse : Towards an Ecology of Language
    DDC: 306.44
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    Abstract: Knowledge and Discourse presents an ecological approach to the study of discourse in social, academic and professional practices. It brings together distinguished scholars from diverse cultures - India, China, Australia, Canada among others - and disciplines - linguistics, anthropology, sociology, philosophy. The chapters collectively illustrate the ecological approach by exploring how language makes connections between subjective experiences as people construct meaning and action.This book offers the reader a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to the study of language as discourse, question
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Contributors; Publisher's Acknowledgements; Introduction: Knowledge and discourse: towards an ecology of language; 1 Prologue: Language and linguistics/Discourse and disciplinarity; Part I Reflexive Practices; Introduction to Part I: The discourse of selfhood; 2 Stranded between the 'posts': Sensory experience and immigrant female subjectivity; 3 Feminist consciousness and the ruling relations; 4 Telling true stories, writing fictions, doing ethnography at century's end: Stories of subjectivity and care from urban China
    Description / Table of Contents: 5 Producing new Asian masculinitiesPart II Social Practices; Introduction to Part II: The dialectic of authentic and inauthentic discourses; 6 Chinese officialdom (Guan) at work in discourse; 7 Discourse of silence: Intermeshing networks of old and new colonialists; 8 Interactions between Thai male sex workers and their customers; 9 Media mythologies: Legends, 'local facts' and triad discourse; Part III Professional and Academic Practices; Introduction to Part III: The inspiration of inequalities; 10 The linguistic construction of gender and ideology in judicial discourse
    Description / Table of Contents: 11 The domestication of rhetoric - Translating Western economic ideology to Hong Kong12 The role of language and culture within the accountancy workplace; 13 Social and interpersonal perspectives on scientific discourse; 14 Becoming a psychologist: Student voices on academic writing in psychology; 15 Fixed and flexible framing: Literacy events across cultures; 16 Teaching and learning in Cantonese and English: Multilingual classroom practices and equity in education; Coda; 17 Intercultural communication and ethnography: Why? and why not?; References; Index (word and phrase)
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    Politics & Society (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780745012155
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (447 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Politics & Society
    DDC: 306.2
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    Abstract: First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Part I: Introduction; 1. What is Political Sociology?; Sociology and political science; The origins and development of political sociology; The remit of political sociology; Part II: The State, Power and Authority; Introduction; 2. The State and Society; Introduction; The origins of the state; The development of the modern state; The Marxist concept of the state; Conclusion; 3. Power, Authority and Legitimacy; Defining and analysing power; Authority and legitimacy
    Description / Table of Contents: Legitimacy and compliance4. The Distribution of Power; Introduction; Elite theory; Pluralism; Totalitarianism; Democracy; The distribution of power: an overview; Part III: Political Behaviour and Society; Introduction; 5. Political Socialisation; Introduction; A theory of political socialisation; A critique of political socialisation theory; 6. Political Participation; Introduction; Forms of political participation; The extent of political participation; Explaining political participation; Conclusion; 7. Political Recruitment; Introduction; A model of political recruitment
    Description / Table of Contents: Problems of political recruitment theoryPart IV: Political Communication, Public Opinion and Ideology; Introduction; 8. Political Communication; Introduction; Theories of communication; The characteristics of political communication; The factors influencing political communication; Conclusion; 9. Public Opinion and Society; Defining public opinion; The characteristics of public opinion; The formation of public opinion; Political communication and public opinion; 10. Ideology and Society; What is ideology?; The characteristics and functions of ideology; The Marxist view of ideology
    Description / Table of Contents: Ideology, political culture and the end of the ideology thesisIdeology, values and attitudes; Ideology and society; Part V: Revolution, Development and Modernisation; Introduction; 11. Revolution; Introduction; The Marxist view of revolution; A non-Marxist view of revolution; The causes of revolution; Revolution and societal change; 12. Development and Modernisation Theory; Introduction; The political-development school; The nation-building school; The modernisation school; Underdevelopment and dependency theory; Modernisation and development as industrialisation
    Description / Table of Contents: Changing society: an overviewPart VI: Conclusion; 13. Whither Political Sociology?; Introduction; The achievements of political sociology; What remains to be done; Bibliography; Index
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    Critical Language Awareness (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780582064676
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (356 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Real Language Series
    Parallel Title: Print version Critical Language Awareness
    DDC: 306.4/4
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    Abstract: The proliferation of language awareness has now led to a need for a reassessment of the nature and functions of language awareness. This accessible collection of essays addresses that need in developing a more rigorous and critical theoretical underpinning for what language awareness is and should do. In particular, it argues that there needs to be a greater awareness of the social and political issues, and the context within which language awareness work is set
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Part I Language Awareness: Critical and Non-critical Approaches; 2 The appropriacy of 'appropriateness'; Part II Critical Language Awareness in Diverse Educational Contexts; 3 Critical literacy awareness in the EFL classroom; 4 Making it work - communicaton skills training at a black housing association; 5 Principles and practice of CLA in the classroom; 6 Who's who in academic writing?; 7 The construction of gender in a teenage magazine
    Description / Table of Contents: Part III Critical Language Awareness in Schools8 English teaching, information technology and critical language awareness; 9 'What I've always known but never been told': euphemisms, school discourse and empowerment; 10 Initial steps towards critical practice in primary schools; 11 Critical approaches to language, learning and pedagogy: a case study; 12 Whose resource? Minority languages, bilingual learners and language awareness; Part IV Critical Language Awareness: Perspectives for Emancipation; 13 Critical language awareness and emancipatory discourse; Index
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    Love and Instinct (Routledge Revivals) (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780415723312
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (221 p)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Revivals
    Parallel Title: Print version Love and Instinct (Routledge Revivals)
    DDC: 304.5
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    Abstract: 〈P〉First published in 1981, this title takes a 'sociobiological' approach to the exploration of sexual habits, looking at the fundamental biological nature of humans. The book covers the spectrum of human sexuality, considering love and marriage, variant sexuality and social influences. This is a valuable reissue for any student of sexual psychology or cultural and evolutionary anthropology with an interest in the fundamental influences on human sexuality.〈/P〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Dedication; 1 Introduction; 2 Male and Female; 3 The Double Standard; 4 Attraction and Arousal; 5 Love and Marriage; 6 Sexual Responsiveness; 7 Variant Sexuality; 8 Social Influences; References
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    Asian American Sexualities : Dimensions of the Gay and Lesbian Experience (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780415914369
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (263 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Asian American Sexualities : Dimensions of the Gay and Lesbian Experience
    DDC: 305.9/0664
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    Abstract: Asian American Sexualities works to dispel the stereotype of oriental sexual decadence, as well as the ""model minority"" heterosexual Asian sterotype in the US. Writing from an impressive array of interdisciplinary perspectives, the contributors discuss a variety of topics, including sexuality and identity politics; community activism and gay activism; transnational aspects of love between women in Thailand; queer South Asian culture in the US; gay and lesbian filmmakers; same-sex sexuality in Pacific literature; and Asian American male homosexuality and AIDS. The relationship of the gay and
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Home Bodies and the Body Politic; Part I Home Bodies; 1 Maiden Voyage: Excursion into Sexuality and Identity Politics in Asian America; 2 Stories from the Homefront: Perspectives of Asian American Parents with Lesbian Daughters and Gay Sons; 3 Searching for Community: Filipino Gay Men in New York City; 4 Breaking through the Chrysalis: Hanh Thi Pham; 5 Preserving the Paradox: Stories from a Gay-Loh; Part II The Body Politic
    Description / Table of Contents: 6 Living in Asian America: An Asian American Lesbian's Address before the Washington Monument (1979)7 Strategies for Queer Asian and Pacific Islander Spaces; 8 In Our Own Way: A Roundtable Discussion; 9 From the 1970s to the 1990s: Perspective of a Gay Filipino American Activist; 10 Same-Sex Sexuality in Pacific Literature; 11 Funny Boys and Girls: Notes on a Queer South Asian Planet; Part III Figuring Desire; 12 In the Shadows of a Diva: Committing Homosexuality in David Henry Hwang's; 13 Notes on Queer 'N' Asian Virtual Sex
    Description / Table of Contents: 14 Toward a Struggle against Invisibility: Love between Women in Thailand15 Gregg Araki and the Queer New Wave; 16 Looking for My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn; Part IV Bloodlines; 17 Communion: A Collaboration on AIDS; Part V A Tongue in Your Ear; 18 My Grandmother's Third Eye; 19 Bak Sze, White Snake; 20 Tita Aida (for Jorge F. Casaclang); 21 River Deep: & All Those Pretty Women; 22 Grandma's Tales; 23 Queer Pilipino Rebolusiyon: with ms. nikki giovanni to thank for; 24 Fascination, Gravity, and a Deeply Done Kiss; 25 Aloes: from The Country of Dreams and Dust; Contributors
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    Adults and Children in the Roman Empire (Routledge Revivals) (2014)
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (246 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Revivals
    Parallel Title: Print version Adults and Children in the Roman Empire (Routledge Revivals)
    DDC: 305.23/0937
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    Abstract: There is little evidence to enable us to reconstruct what it felt like to be a child in the Roman world. We do, however, have ample evidence about the feelings and expectations that adults had for children over the centuries between the end of the Roman republic and late antiquity.Thomas Wiedemann draws on this evidence to describe a range of attitudes towards children in the classical period, identifying three areas where greater individuality was assigned to children: through political office-holding; through education; and, for Christians, through membership of the Church in baptism. These
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1 THE CHILD IN THE CLASSICAL CITY; 2 IMPERIAL CHILDREN IN BIOGRAPHY AND PANEGYRIC; 3 THE EVIDENCE OF PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN LETTERS; 4 CITIZENSHIP AND OFFICE HOLDING; 5 LEARNING FOR ADULT LIFE; 6 EQUAL IN THE SIGHT OF GOD; Bibliography; Index
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    Growing Up Gay in the South : Race, Gender, and Journeys of the Spirit (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780866569118
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (550 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Growing Up Gay in the South : Race, Gender, and Journeys of the Spirit
    DDC: 305.90664
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    Abstract: This groundbreaking new book weaves personal portraits of lesbian and gay Southerners with interdisciplinary commentary about the impact of culture, race, and gender on the development of sexual identity. Growing Up Gay in the South is an important book that focuses on the distinct features of Southern life. It will enrich your understanding of the unique pressures faced by gay men and lesbians in this region--the pervasiveness of fundamental religious beliefs; the acceptance of racial, gender, and class community boundaries; the importance of family name and family honor; the unbending view o
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: Peering Through Prisms of Sexual Rebels; VANTAGE POINT ONE Homosexuality and the Religious South; Chapter 2: White Churches: The Southern Baptists and the Fundamentalists; Vince and the True Tones; Chapter 3: Black Churches and Sects: The African Methodists and the Jehovah's Witnesses; Malcolm and the Young Pioneers; VANTAGE POINT TWO Homosexuality and Southern Communities; Chapter 4: "White Trash" and Female in a Southern Community
    Description / Table of Contents: Norma Jean, ROTC, and the Live Oak TreeChapter 5: A Gentle-man in a Southern Community; Royce and the Rockview Country Club; Chapter 6: Black or Gay in a Southern Community; Jacob and the Bus Boycott; VANTAGE POINT THREE Homosexuality and Southern Families; Chapter 7: Questioning Authority in a Southern Black Family; Obie and the Breaking of Ties; Chapter 8: Honoring and Carrying on the Family Name; Terry and the Two Tux Prom; VANTAGE POINT FOUR Gender and Sexuality: Being and Behaving Queer in the South; Chapter 9: The Kids; Cory and the Little Redneck Hell-Raisers; Chapter 10: The Outcasts
    Description / Table of Contents: Alston and the Rocky Horror Picture ShowChapter 11: The Tomboys; Everetta and the "Cinderella Complex"; VANTAGE POINT FIVE Sexuality and Adolescence: Peers, Queers, and Tears; Chapter 12: Relationships; Olivia and the Silenced Relationships; Chapter 13: Peers; Phillip, Edith, and the Three Musketeers; Chapter 14: Educators; Brett and the Baseball Bat; Chapter 15: On Homosexual Communities, Identities, and Culture: Journeys of the Spirit; APPENDIX Research Methods, Methodological Issues, and Participant Data; References; Subject Index; Name Index
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    Family Fictions and Family Facts : Harriet Martineau, Adolphe Quetelet and the Population Question in England 1798-1859 (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780415150583
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (309 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
    Parallel Title: Print version Family Fictions and Family Facts : Harriet Martineau, Adolphe Quetelet and the Population Question in England 1798-1859
    DDC: 306.850942
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    Abstract: Classical political economy rests on the assumption that the market and the family are overlapping and mutually dependent realms, dominated in turn by economic men and domestic women. Here, Brian Cooper explores the role of economic theory in 'normalizing' the family in the first half of the nineteenth century. Drawing on a wide range of sources - novels, books on etiquette and statistical sources, as well as works of economics - the book examines the impacts of these different forms on contemporary debate and will be of interest to historians of economic thought, feminist economics and those
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 Classification comes home to the family; 2 Family and the domestication of passions; 3 Family, the manners of the people, and political economy; 4 Harriet Martineau's "embodied principles" of political economy: Whose bodies, what principles?; 5 There is no place for such a family; 6 What is to be deemed a family?; 7 However you define family; Notes; References; Index
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    Doing Events Research : From Theory to Practice (2014)
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (264 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Doing Events Research : From Theory to Practice
    DDC: 394.2072
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    Abstract: Events Management is a rapidly expanding discipline with growing student numbers however currently there are no specifically focused Research Methods texts available to serve this growing cohort.  Fulfilling the need for a relevant book which reflects the unique characteristics of research in the field this title provides students with innovative ideas and inspiration to undertake their own research work and informs them of the wide diversity of research strategies and contexts that are available.Content is written from a researcher's point of view and provides a step by step guide to accompli
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Part I The context of research; 1 Introduction: 'beginning at the end'; Introduction; Identifying the output and outcome of the research; The role of research in events management; The structure of the book; Scenario; Summary; Further reading; 2 The initial planning of a research project; Introduction; Generating ideas for topics; Different types of research; Research aims and objectives; Research questions and hypotheses; Research philosophies; Scenario; Summary; Further reading
    Description / Table of Contents: 3 The scope of the researchIntroduction; Theoretical considerations; The focus or context; The research chronology; The geographic scope or location; Political, economic, environmental contexts; Health and safety; Ethical issues; Scenario; Summary; Further reading; 4 The resources and e-methods available; Introduction; The researchers; Other resources; Equipment; Data analysis software; Scenario; Summary; Further reading; 5 Research designs for studying events; Introduction; Approaches to the nature of knowledge; Specific approaches to research; Scenario; Summary; Further reading
    Description / Table of Contents: 6 Using existing knowledge in a research projectIntroduction; Personal experience; Primary and secondary literature sources; Searching the literature; The research proposal; The literature review; Referencing and plagiarism; Conceptual framework; Scenario; Summary; Further reading; Part II Data collection; 7 The research population; Introduction; Types of sampling; Size of the sample; Response rates; The researcher as subject; Researching with children; 'At risk' groups including vulnerable adults; Scenario; Summary; Further reading; 8 Obtaining research material (1); Introduction
    Description / Table of Contents: Primary research using secondary data sourcesQualitative methods; Observation and participant observation; Interviews; Designing the questions to ask; Using images as data; Scenario; Summary; Further reading; 9 Obtaining research material (2); Introduction; Quantitative methods; Questionnaire design; Measurement scales: an introduction; Scenario; Summary; Further reading; Part III Data collection and analysis; 10 Data collection and preparation for analysis; Introduction; Undertaking the data collection; Piloting the data collection; Data preparation; Scenario; Summary; Further reading
    Description / Table of Contents: 11 Analysing text and imagesIntroduction; Analysing text; Analytic tools; Types of analysis; Analysing images; Scenario; Summary; Further reading; 12 Analysing numbers; Introduction; Exploring data; Normal vs. non-normal distribution; Types of test; Scenario; Summary; Further reading; 13 'Ending at the beginning'; Introduction; Reliability, validity and trustworthiness; The macrostructure; The microstructure; The five stages of research writing; The individual sections of a dissertation; Other outputs; Scenario; Summary; Further reading; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
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    Japan, Sport and Society : Tradition and Change in a Globalizing World (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780714653587
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (185 p)
    Series Statement: Sport in the Global Society
    Parallel Title: Print version Japan, Sport and Society : Tradition and Change in a Globalizing World
    DDC: 306.4/82/0952
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    Abstract: Evolving for centuries in relative isolation, sport in Japan developed a unique character reflective of Japanese culture and society. In recent decades, Japan's drive towards cultural and economic modernization has consciously incorporated a modernization of its sports cultures. Japan, Sport and Society provides insights into this process, revealing the tensions between continuity and change, tradition and modernity, the local and the global in a culture facing the new economic and political realities of our modern world. The book explores three broad areas of interest:sport and modern society
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Half-Title; Series-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Series editors' foreword; Introduction; Part I Making of sport and modern Japanese society; Part II Social reconstruction, reproduction and sport; Part III Modernization, globalization and sport; Index
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    Handbook of Research on New Literacies (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780805856514
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1386 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Handbook of Research on New Literacies
    DDC: 302.2244
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Situated at the intersection of two of the most important areas in educational research today - literacy and technology - this handbook draws on the potential of each while carving out important new territory. It provides leadership for this newly emerging field, directing scholars to the major issues, theoretical perspectives, and interdisciplinary research pertaining to new literacies. Reviews of research are organized into six sections:MethodologiesKnowledge and InquiryCommunicationPopular Culture, Community, and Citizenship: Everyday LiteraciesInstructional Practices and AssessmentMultiple
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Central Issues in New Literacies and New Literacies Research; PART I Methodologies; Chapter 2 Toward a Connective Ethnography of Online/Offline Literacy Networks; Chapter 3 Large-Scale Quantitative Research on New Technology in Teaching and Learning; Chapter 4 Converging Traditions of Research on Media and Information Literacies: Disciplinary, Critical, and Methodological issues; Chapter 5 The Conduct of Qualitative Interviews: Research Questions, Methodological issues, and researching online
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 6 The Case of Rebellion: Researching Multimodal TextsChapter 7 Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Approaches to the Study of New Literacies; PART II Knowledge and Inquiry; Chapter 8 Learning, Change, and Power: Competing Frames of Technology and literacy; Chapter 9 The Web as a Source of Information for Students in K-12 Education; Chapter 10 Where Do We Go Now?: understanding research on navigation in Complex Digital environments; Chapter 11 The Changing Landscape of Text and Comprehension in the Age of New Literacies
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 12 Exploring Culture in the Design of New Technologies of LiteracyChapter 13 Multimedia Literacy; Chapter 14 Multiliteracies and Metalanguage: Describing image/Text relations as a resource for negotiating Multimodal Texts; PART III Communication; Chapter 15 Mediating Technologies and Second Language Learning; Chapter 16 Of a Divided Mind: Weblog literacy; Chapter 17 People, Purposes, and Practices: insights from Cross-Disciplinary research into instant Messaging; Chapter 18 Gender in Online Communication; PART IV Popular Culture, Community, and Citizenship: Everyday Literacies
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 19 Intersections of Popular Culture, Identities, and New Literacies ResearchChapter 20 College Students and New Literacy Practices; Chapter 21 Just Don't Call Them Cartoons: The new literacy spaces of anime, Manga, and Fanfiction; Chapter 22 Cognition and Literacy in Massively Multiplayer Online Games; Chapter 23 Video-Game Literacy: a literacy of expertise; Chapter 24 Community, Culture, and Citizenship in Cyberspace; Chapter 25 New Literacies and Community Inquiry; PART V Instructional Practices and Assessment; Chapter 26 Digital Writing in the Early Years
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 27 Teaching Popular-Culture Texts in the ClassroomChapter 28 Using New Media in the Secondary English Classroom; Chapter 29 The Price of Information: Critical literacy, education, and Today's internet; Chapter 30 Multimodal Instructional Practices; Chapter 31 Multimodal Reading and Comprehension in Online Environments; Chapter 32 Assessing New Literacies in Science and Mathematics; Chapter 33 Learning Management Systems and Virtual Learning Environments: a higher-education Focus; PART VI Multiple Perspectives on New Literacies Research; Chapter 34 Savannah: Mobile Gaming and learning?
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    How Groups Matter : Challenges of Toleration in Pluralistic Societies (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780415659505
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (252 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
    Parallel Title: Print version How Groups Matter : Challenges of Toleration in Pluralistic Societies
    DDC: 305
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    Abstract: When groups feature in political philosophy, it is usually in one of three contexts: the redressing of past or current injustices suffered by ethnic or cultural minorities; the nature and scope of group rights; and questions around how institutions are supposed to treat a certain specific identity/cultural/ethnic group. What is missing from these debates is a comprehensive analysis of groups as both agents and objects of social policies. While this has been subject to much scrutiny by sociologists and social psychologists, it has received less attention from a normative and philosophical point
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; How Groups Matter; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Situating Groups, Evaluating Group Rights; 1 Representing Groups; 2 Toleration, Groups, and Multiculturalism; 3 Collective Rights, Public Goods, and Participatory Goods; 4 States' Rights as Group Rights: An Analytical Perspective; 5 Resolving the Dilemma of Group Membership; 6 Groups and Affirmative Action; Part II Groups in Practice: Constructed Identities, Specific Treatments and Legal Recognition; 7 Toleration and Purpose-Built Mosques: Contestations in Contemporary Europe
    Description / Table of Contents: 8 Toleration, Respect, and the Cultural Defense9 Political, Not Ethno-Cultural: A Normative Assessment of Roma Identity in Europe; 10 The Emergence and Regulation of Minority Religious Groups in Europe; 11 Beyond Groups? Types of Sharing and Normative Treatment; Bibliography; Contributors; Index
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    Teenagers' Citizenship : Experiences and Education (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780415404631
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (205 p)
    Series Statement: Relationships and Resources
    Parallel Title: Print version Teenagers' Citizenship : Experiences and Education
    DDC: 305.235
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    Abstract: The introduction of compulsory citizenship education into the national curriculum has generated a plethora of new interests in the politics of childhood and youth. Citizenship for Teenagers explores teenagers' acts of and engagement with citizenship in their local communities and examines the role of citizenship education in creating future responsible citizens. The first half of the book provides the context for teenagers' experiences of citizenship, discussing issues around the ideas of childhood and citizenship, as well as the curriculum. The second half goes on to explore teenagers' experi
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and acronyms; Chapter 1 Introduction: On being a teenager; Chapter 2 Young teenagers' relationship with citizenship; Chapter 3 Actively learning citizenship; Chapter 4 Practising citizenship in school; Chapter 5 Practising citizenship in the wider community; Chapter 6 Teenagers' exclusion from participation; Chapter 7 Alternative understandings of teenagers' citizenship; Notes; References; Index
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    Consuming Habits : Drugs in History and Anthropology (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780415425810
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (305 p)
    Edition: 2nd ed
    Parallel Title: Print version Consuming Habits : Drugs in History and Anthropology
    DDC: 394.1/4
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    Abstract: Covering a wide range of substances, including opium, cocaine, coffee, tobacco, kola, and betelnut, from prehistory to the present day, this new edition has been extensively updated, with an updated bibliography and two new chapters on cannabis and khat. Consuming Habits is the perfect companion for all those interested in how different cultures have defined drugs across the ages.Psychoactive substances have been central to the formation of civilizations, the definition of cultural identities, and the growth of the world economy. The labelling of these substances as 'legal' or 'illegal' has di
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures and tables; Notes on contributors; Preface; Introduction: peculiar substances; 1 Alcohol and its alternatives: symbol and substance in pre-industrial cultures; 2 Coca, beer, cigars and yagé: meals and anti-meals in an Amerindinian community; 3 Nicotian dreams: the prehistory and early history of tobacco in eastern North America; 4 Betelnut 'bisnis' and cosmology: a view from Papua New Guinea; 5 Kola nuts: the 'coffee' of the central Sudan; 6 Excitantia: or, how enlightenment Europe took to soft drugs
    Description / Table of Contents: 7 From coffeehouse to parlour: the consumption of coffee, tea and sugar in north-western Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries8 Tobacco use and tobacco taxation: a battle of interests in early modern Europe; 9 Globalizing ganja: the British Empire and international cannabis traffic c.1834 to c.1939; 10 Japan and the world narcotics traffic; 11 The rise and fall and rise of cocaine in the United States; 12 Building castles of spit: the role of khat in work, ritual and leisure; Afterword; Selected bibliography; Index
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    Civil Societies and Social Movements : Potentials and Problems (2014)
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (248 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge / ECPR Studies in European Political Science
    Parallel Title: Print version Civil Societies and Social Movements : Potentials and Problems
    DDC: 303.48/4
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    Abstract: This volume examines and contributes to debates surrounding social capital, social movements and the role of civil society in emerging forms of governance. The authors adopt a broad range of research approaches, from testing hypotheses drawn from rationale choice theory against available statistics on associations, to ethnographic study of emerging attempts at participant / deliberative democracy. Divided into three clear sections, focusing on the following core aspects of civil society: the position of civic organizations between state and society in emerging forms of governance the geograph
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Dimensions of civil society; Part I Civic organizations between state and society in emerging forms of governance; 2 Civic organizations and the state in Putin's Russia: Co-operation, co-optation, confrontation; 3 What happened after the 'end of history'?: Foreign aid and civic organizations in Ukraine; 4 Civic organisations and local governance: Learning from the experience of community networks; Part II Civic societies and social movements from local to global: Arenas for mobilization and action
    Description / Table of Contents: 5 Social movement scenes: Infrastructures of opposition in civil society6 Between horizontal bridging and vertical governance: Pro-beneficiary movements in New Labour Britain; 7 Networks of protest on global issues in Greece 2002-2003; 8 Protest and protesters in advanced industrial democracies: The case of the 15 February global anti-war demonstrations; Part III Social capital and trust within different democratic systems; 9 On the externalities of social capital: Between myth and reality
    Description / Table of Contents: 10 Creating social capital and civic virtue: Historical legacy and individualistic values - what civil society in Spain?11 Social capital and political trust in new democracies in Asia: Ingredients of deliberative communication and democratic governance; 12 Creating social capital through deliberative participation: The experience of the Argentine popular assemblies; 13 Conclusion: Civil society, governance, social movements and social capital; Index
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    Science and the Indian Tradition : When Einstein Met Tagore (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780415402095
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (201 p)
    Series Statement: India in the Modern World
    Parallel Title: Print version Science and the Indian Tradition : When Einstein Met Tagore
    DDC: 303.48/3095409041
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    Abstract: This new text is a detailed study of an important process in modern Indian history. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, India experienced an intellectual renaissance, which owed as much to the influx of new ideas from the West as to traditional religious and cultural insights. Gosling examines the effects of the introduction of Western science into India, and the relationship between Indian traditions of thought and secular Western scientific doctrine. He charts the early development of science in India, its role in the secularization of Indian society, and the subsequent r
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Science in India's intellectual renaissance; 3 Tradition redefined; 4 Worldviews in encounter; 5 Relativity and beyond; 6 Indian science comes of age; 7 An investigation into the beliefs of Indian scientists; 8 How clear is reason's stream?; 9 Looking to the future; Appendix A The nature of reality; Appendix B Investigation questionnaire (Chapter 7); Select glossary of terms; Notes; Select bibliography; Index
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    Introduction to Gender : Social Science Perspectives (2014)
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    ISBN: 9781317752936 , 1317752937
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (455 pages)
    Edition: 2nd ed.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    DDC: 305.3
    Keywords: Sex role ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Thoroughly updated in this second edition, Introduction to Gender offers an interdisciplinary approach to the main themes and debates in gender studies. This comprehensive and contemporary text explores the idea of gender from the perspectives of history, sociology, social policy, anthropology, psychology, politics, pedagogy and geography and considers issues such as health and illness, work, family, crime and violence, and culture and media. Throughout the text, studies on masculinity are highlighted alongside essential feminist work, producing an integrated investigation of the fie
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    Routledge Handbook of Gender in South Asia (2014)
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    ISBN: 0415523532 , 9780415523530 , 9781317907060 , 9781317907077
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 360 S.
    Edition: Online-Ressource [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 305.420954
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    The politics of gender culture under state socialism : an expropriated voice (2014)
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    ISBN: 9781315819174
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 264 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Routledge research in gender and politics 2
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.30943
    Keywords: Women Social conditions ; Sex role History 20th century ; Women Social conditions ; Sex role History 20th century ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Though there has been much research on the incomplete emancipation project of state socialism in East and Central Europe, very little has been published on how the state and its institutions conceived of gender as a concept. This book seeks to understand if and how this conceptualization developed in the second half of the twentieth century, and what impact it had on everyday life and on culture. This study moves beyond the dichotomous gender perspectives and towards a nuanced understanding of the diverse discursive negotiations, agendas, actors and agency involved in state-socialist gender pr
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Expropriated voice: transformations of gender culture under state socialism; Czech society, 1948-89; PART I Gender as a social category; 2 The three stages of gender in law; 3 Women's organizations in the Czech lands, 1948-89: an historical perspective; 4 State approaches to homosexuality and non-heterosexual lives in Czechoslovakia during state socialism
    Description / Table of Contents: 5 Between femininity and feminism: negotiating the identity of a 'Czech socialist woman' in women's accounts of state socialismPART II Gender as a symbolic category; 6 The body of the nation: the Czechoslovak Spartakiades from a gender perspective; 7 Dispositives of silence: gender, feminism and Czech literature between 1948 and 1989; 8 The Beauty and the Loser: cultural representations of gender in late state socialism; 9 The feminist style in Czechoslovak cinema: the feminine imprint in the films of Věra Chytilová and Ester Krumbachová
    Description / Table of Contents: 10 The AIDSed perestroika: discourses of gender in negotiations of ideological consensus in late-socialist CzechoslovakiaIndex
    DOI: 10.4324/9781315819174
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    Right-to-work? : assessing India's employment guarantee scheme in Bihar (2014)
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    ISBN: 9781464801303
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Edition: 2014 World Bank eLibrary
    Series Statement: Equity and development
    DDC: 331.01/10954123
    Keywords: Guaranteed annual income ; Manpower policy, Rural ; Right to labor ; Unemployment ; Guaranteed annual income ; Manpower policy, Rural ; Right to labor ; Unemployment ; Guaranteed annual income ; Manpower policy, Rural ; Right to labor ; Unemployment
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    DOI: 10.1596/978-1-4648-0130-3
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    Accelerating Health Reforms through Collective Action : Experiences from East Africa (2014)
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (140 p)
    Edition: 2014 World Bank eLibrary
    Series Statement: World Bank Studies
    Abstract: This publication briefly describes the processes and methodologies for building and sustaining multistakeholder coalition to drive reforms in the health sector. It is based on the experiences of three East African countries -- Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya. It outlines, by chapter, each country's experience in identifying, mobilizing, and coalescing key stakeholders to address governance bottlenecks in pharmaceutical procurement and supply chain management. It highlights challenges, successes as well as lessons learned to guide other countries
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    Global Monitoring Report 2014/2015 : Ending Poverty and Sharing Prosperity (2014)
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    ISBN: 9781464803376
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (240 p)
    Edition: 2014 World Bank eLibrary
    Series Statement: Global Monitoring Report
    Abstract: The Global Monitoring Report 2014/2015: Ending Poverty and Sharing Prosperity was written jointly by the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund, with substantive inputs from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. This year's report details, for the first time, progress toward the WBG's twin goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and promoting shared prosperity and assesses the state of policies and institutions that are important for achieving them. The report continues to monitor progress on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Also for the first time, the report includes information about high-income countries. It finds that while gaps in living standards have been closing in many countries, the well-being of households in the bottom 40 percent, as measured by the non-income MDGs such as access to education and health services, remains below that of households in the top 60 percent. The focus of this year's report is on three elements needed to make growth more inclusive and sustainable: investment in human capital that favors the poor, the best use of safety nets, and steps to ensure the environmental sustainability of economic growth. These three elements are imperative to all countries' development strategies, and are also fundamental to global efforts to achieve the twin goals, the MDGs, and the Sustainable Development Goals that will succeed the MDGs. Global Monitoring Report 2014/2015 was prepared in collaboration with regional development banks and other multilateral partners
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    Health Financing in the Republic of Gabon (2014)
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (152 p)
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    Abstract: Gabon is an upper middle income country, with reasonable spending on health, however, its health outcomes resemble that of a country that is low / low-middle income. Where has Gabon gone wrong, and what are the challenges that Gabon is facing in improving health outcomes? Gabon is an emerging economy, while it has achieved high economic development it still has not achieved living standards and health outcomes seen in upper middle income countries. Gabon faces low life expectancy (63 years), levels as seen in other low income countries. It is in an early stage of an epidemiological transition. Fertility rates remain high, and mortality rates are starting to decline. It has a high burden from communicable diseases. While HIV incidence and tuberculosis incidence has started to show positive results, Malaria incidence continues to remain high. There are cost-effective interventions available to prevent many of the communicable diseases the country faces. These interventions require multi-sector approaches, behavioral change programs, outreach services, community development, and a primary health care focus
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    Corporate governance of state-owned enterprises : a guide for practitioners (2014)
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    ISBN: 9781464802225
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Edition: 2014 World Bank eLibrary
    DDC: 352.2/66
    Keywords: Corporate governance ; Government business enterprises ; Government ownership ; Corporate governance ; Government business enterprises ; Government ownership ; Corporate governance ; Government business enterprises ; Government ownership
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    DOI: 10.1596/978-1-4648-0222-5
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    Tapering Talk : The Impact of Expectations of Reduced Federal Reserve Security Purchases on Emerging Markets (2014)
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (27 p)
    Edition: 2014 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Eichengreen, Barry Tapering Talk
    Abstract: In May 2013, Federal Reserve officials first began to talk of the possibility of tapering their security purchases. This tapering talk had a sharp negative impact on emerging markets. Different countries, however, were affected very differently. This paper uses data on exchange rates, foreign reserves and equity prices between April and August 2013 to analyze who was hit and why. It finds that emerging markets that allowed the real exchange rate to appreciate and the current account deficit to widen during the prior period of quantitative easing saw the sharpest impact. Better fundamentals (the budget deficit, the public debt, the level of reserves, or the rate of economic growth) did not provide insulation. A more important determinant of the differential impact was the size of the country's financial market: countries with larger markets experienced more pressure on the exchange rate, foreign reserves, and equity prices. This is interpreted as showing that investors are better able to rebalance their portfolios when the target country has a relatively large and liquid financial market
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    Measuring the Impact of Debt-Financed Public Investment (2014)
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    Parallel Title: Cavalcanti, Carlos B Measuring the Impact of Debt-Financed Public Investment
    Abstract: While debt-financed productive public investment raises a country's debt ratios in the short run, it can also generate higher growth, revenues, and exports, leading over time to lower debt ratios. This paper develops a framework to assess whether countries meet the conditions for realizing the net benefits over the costs of public investment debt financing. While it is possible to achieve debt sustainability with an appropriate mix of concessional and non-concessional financing, this is a necessary but not sufficient condition. It is also important to ensure the operational viability of public investment projects by having in place adequate project management: (i) project screening and appraisal, (ii) a clear connection between capital and recurrent expenditures once the projects are launched, and (iii) safeguards for appropriate project implementation and facilities operations. To illustrate the strength of these results, the paper carries out three measurement exercises: (a) a simulation of the degree to which the ratio of optimal public investment responds to changes in key parameters related to project management in a general equilibrium model; (b) application of the public investment management (PIMa) index to benchmark a country's public investment management capacity; and (c) presentation of the results of the Investment, Savings, and Macroeconomic Vulnerabilities tool aimed at tracking country choices in public finance and the impact of public projects on private investments
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6766
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    International Interventions to Build Social Capital : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Sudan (2014)
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    Parallel Title: Avdeenko, Alexandra International Interventions to Build Social Capital
    Abstract: Over the past decade the international community, especially the World Bank, has conducted programs to increase local public service delivery in developing countries by improving local governing institutions and creating social capital. This paper evaluates one such program in Sudan to answer the question: Can the international community change the grassroots civic culture of developing countries to increase social capital? The paper offers three contributions. First, it uses lab-in-the-field measures to focus on the effects of the program on pro-social preferences without the confounding influence of any program- induced changes on local governing institutions. Second, it tests whether the program led to denser social networks in recipient communities. Based on these two measures, the effect of the program was a precisely estimated zero. However, in a retrospective survey, respondents from program communities characterized their behavior as being more pro-social and their communities more socially cohesive. This leads to a third contribution of the paper: it provides evidence for the hypothesis, stated by several scholars in the literature, that retrospective survey measures of social capital over biased evidence of a positive effect of these programs. Regardless of one's faith in retrospective self-reported survey measures, the results clearly point to zero impact of the program on pro-social preferences and social network density. Therefore, if the increase in self-reported behaviors is accurate, it must be because of social sanctions that enforce compliance with pro-social norms through mechanisms other than the social networks that were measured
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6772
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    Sovereign Wealth Funds and Long-Term Development Finance : Risks and Opportunities (2014)
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    Parallel Title: Gelb, Alan Sovereign Wealth Funds and Long-Term Development Finance
    Abstract: Sovereign wealth funds represent a large and growing pool of savings. An increasing number of these funds are owned by natural resource-exporting countries and have a variety of objectives, including intergenerational equity and macroeconomic stabilization. Traditionally, these funds have invested in external assets, especially securities traded in major markets. But the persistent infrastructure financing gap in developing countries has motivated some governments to encourage their sovereign wealth funds to invest domestically. This paper proposes some basic elements of a conceptual framework to create a system of checks and balances to help ensure that the sovereign wealth funds do not undermine macroeconomic management or become a vehicle for politically driven "investments." First, the risks and opportunities of domestic investment by sovereign wealth funds are analyzed. Central issues are the relationship of sovereign wealth fund financing to the budget process and to the procurement systems of sector ministries, as well as the establishment of appropriate benchmarks and safeguards to ensure the integrity of investment decisions. The paper argues that a well-governed sovereign wealth fund, with a sound mandate and professional management and staffing, can possibly improve the quality of the public investment program. But its mandate should not duplicate that of other government institutions with investment mandates, such as the budget, the national development bank, the investment authority, and state-owned enterprises. Establishing rules on the type of investment (for example, commercial and/or quasi-commercial) and its modalities (for example, no controlling stakes, leveraging private investment) is one way to ensure separation between the activities of the sovereign wealth fund and those of other institutions. The critical issue remains that of limiting the sovereign wealth fund's investment scope to that appropriate for a wealth fund. If investments that generate quasi-market returns are permitted, the size of the home bias should be clearly stipulated and these investments should be reported separately
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6776
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    Credit Constraints, Agricultural Productivity, and Rural Nonfarm Participation : Evidence from Rwanda (2014)
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    Parallel Title: Ali, Daniel Ayalew Credit Constraints, Agricultural Productivity, and Rural Nonfarm Participation
    Abstract: Although the potentially negative impacts of credit constraints on economic development have long been discussed conceptually, empirical evidence for Africa remains limited. This study uses a direct elicitation approach for a national sample of Rwandan rural households to assess empirically the extent and nature of credit rationing in the semi-formal sector and its impact using an endogenous sample separation between credit-constrained and unconstrained households. Being credit constrained reduces the likelihood of participating in off-farm self-employment activities by about 6.3 percent while making participation in low-return farm wage labor more likely. Even within agriculture, elimination of all types of credit constraints in the semi-formal sector could increase output by some 17 percent. Two suggestions for policy emerge from the findings. First, the estimates suggest that access to information (education, listening to the radio, and membership in a farm cooperative) has a major impact on reducing the incidence of credit constraints in the semi-formal credit sector. Expanding access to information in rural areas thus seems to be one of the most promising strategies to improve credit access in the short term. Second, making it easy to identify land owners and transfer land could also significantly reduce transaction costs associated with credit access
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6769
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    Does Migration Foster Exports? : Evidence from Africa (2014)
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    Parallel Title: Ehrhart, Hélène Does Migration Foster Exports?
    Abstract: This paper aims at assessing the impact of migration on export performance and more particularly the effect of African migrants on African trade. Relying on a new data set on international bilateral migration recently released by the World Bank spanning from 1980 to 2010, the authors estimate a gravity model that deals satisfactorily with endogeneity. The results first indicate that the pro-trade effect of migration is higher for African countries, a finding that can be partly explained by the substitution between migrants and institutions (the existence of migrant networks compensating for weak contract enforcement, for instance). This positive association is particularly important for the exports of differentiated products, suggesting that migrants also play an important role in reducing information costs. Moreover, focusing on intra-African trade, the pro-trade effect of African migrants is larger when migrants are established in a more geographically and ethnically distant country. All these findings highlight the ability of African migrants to help overcome some of the main barriers to African trade: the weakness of institutions, information costs, cultural differences, and lack of trust
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    Impact of Export Destinations on Firm Performance (2014)
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (29 p)
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    Parallel Title: Cebeci, Tolga Impact of Export Destinations on Firm Performance
    Abstract: This paper evaluates the role of export destinations on productivity, employment, and wages of Turkish firms by comparing the performance of firms that export to low-income destinations and high-income destinations with firms that do not export. A combination of propensity score matching and difference-in-differences methods are employed on a rich set of firm observables, including sector, region, employment, total factor productivity (TFP), capital intensity, wages, support from government, ownership, and the research and development intensity of firms. Four sets of findings emerge from the analysis: i) Export entry has a positive causal effect on firm TFP and employment and this effect is strengthened as a firm continues to export. ii) In contrast, export entry has a moderate wage effect that emerges only with a lag. iii) Unlike exporting to high-income destinations, exporting to low-income destinations does not result in significantly higher firm TFP and wages. iv) The employment effect of exporting to low-income destinations is comparable to that of exporting to high-income destinations
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    Sanitation and Externalities : Evidence from Early Childhood Health in Rural India (2014)
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    Parallel Title: Andres, Luis A Sanitation and Externalities
    Abstract: This paper estimates two sources of benefits related to sanitation infrastructure access on early childhood health: a direct benefit a household receives when moving from open to fixed-point defecation or from unimproved sanitation to improved sanitation, and an external benefit (externality) produced by the neighborhood's access to sanitation infrastructure. The paper uses a sample of children under 48 months in rural areas of India from the Third Round of District Level Household Survey 2007-08 and finds evidence of positive and significant direct benefits and concave positive external effects for both improved sanitation and fixed-point defecation. There is a 47 percent reduction in diarrhea prevalence between children living in a household without access to improved sanitation in a village without coverage of improved sanitation and children living in a household with access to improved sanitation in a village with complete coverage. One-fourth of this benefit is due to the direct benefit leaving the rest to external gains. Finally, all the benefits from eliminating open defecation come from improved sanitation and not other sanitation solutions
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    What Explains Rwanda's Drop in Fertility between 2005 and 2010? (2014)
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    Parallel Title: Bundervoet, Tom What Explains Rwanda's Drop in Fertility between 2005 and 2010?
    Abstract: Following a decade-and-a-half stall, fertility in Rwanda dropped sharply between 2005 and 2010. Using a hierarchical age-period-cohort model, this paper finds that the drop in fertility is largely driven by cohort effects, with younger cohorts having substantially fewer children than older cohorts observed at the same age. An Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition is applied on two successive rounds of the Demographic and Health Survey. The findings show that improved female education levels account for the largest part of the fertility decline, with improving household living standards and the progressive move toward non-agricultural employment being important secondary drivers. The drop in fertility has been particularly salient for the younger cohorts, for whom the fertility decline can be fully explained by changes in underlying determinants, most notably the large increase in educational attainment between 2005 and 2010
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    Can You Help Someone Become Financially Capable? : A Meta-Analysis of the Literature (2014)
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    Parallel Title: Miller, Margaret Can You Help Someone Become Financially Capable?
    Abstract: This paper presents a systematic and comprehensive meta-analysis of the literature on financial education interventions. The analysis focuses on financial education studies designed to strengthen the financial knowledge and behaviors of consumers. The analysis identifies 188 papers and articles that present impact results of interventions designed to increase consumers' financial knowledge (financial literacy) or skills, attitudes, and behaviors (financial capability). These papers are diverse across a number of dimensions, including objectives of the program intervention, expected outcomes, intensity and duration of the intervention, delivery channel used, and type of population targeted. However, there are a few key outcome indicators where a subset of papers are comparable, including those that address savings behavior, defaults on loans, and financial skills, such as record keeping. The results from the meta analysis indicate that financial literacy and capability interventions can have a positive impact in some areas (increasing savings and promoting financial skills such as record keeping) but not in others (credit default)
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    Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas (2014)
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    Parallel Title: Maloney, William F Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas
    Keywords: Innovation ; Ingenieure ; Innovationsdiffusion ; Humankapital ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Entwicklung ; Wirtschaftsgeschichte ; Vergleich ; Lateinamerika ; Nordamerika
    Abstract: Using newly collected national and sub-national data, and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in particular, the poor performance of Latin America relative to North America. This remains the case after controlling for literacy, other higher order human capital, such as lawyers, as well as demand side elements that might be confounded with engineering. The analysis then finds that agglomeration, certain geographical fundamentals, and extractive institutions such as slavery affect innovative capacity. However, a large effect associated with being a Spanish colony remains suggesting important inherited factors
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    Growing through Cities in Developing Countries (2014)
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    Parallel Title: Duranton, Gilles Growing through Cities in Developing Countries
    Abstract: This paper examines the effects of urbanization on development and growth. It begins with a labor market perspective and emphasizes the importance of agglomeration economies, both static and dynamic. It then argues that more productive jobs in cities do not exist in a void and underscores the importance of job and firm dynamics. In turn, these dynamics are shaped by the broader characteristics of urban systems. A number of conclusions are drawn. First, agglomeration effects are quantitatively important and pervasive. Second, the productive advantage of large cities is constantly eroded and must be sustained by new job creation and innovation. Third, this process of creative destruction in cities, which is fundamental for aggregate growth, is determined in part by the characteristics of urban systems and broader institutional features. The paper highlights important differences between developing countries and more advanced economies. A major challenge for developing countries is to reinforce the role of their urban systems as drivers of economic growth
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    Urbanization and the Geography of Development (2014)
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    Parallel Title: Henderson, J. Vernon Urbanization and the Geography of Development
    Abstract: This paper focuses on three interrelated questions on urbanization and the geography of development. First, although we herald cities with their industrial bases as “engines of growth,” does industrialization in fact drive urbanization? While such relationships appear in the data, the process is not straightforward. Among developing countries, changes in income or industrialization correlate only weakly with changes in urbanization. This suggests that policy and institutional factors may also influence the urbanization process. In fact, the relationship between industrialization and urbanization is absent in Sub-Saharan Africa. Second, do development policies have a big-city bias and, if so, what does this imply for growth and inequality? Intelligent public infrastructure investment inevitably involves picking winners. One hopes that such choices are based on market indicators, such as where industry is starting to agglomerate and where there are clear needs. Yet governments seem to favor the biggest cities which in turn draw firms and migrants to these cities. To try to avoid excessive in-migration and oversized, congested cities, favored cities might adopt policies that make living conditions for migrants more unpleasant. This can result in increased inequality and social tension. Finally, the paper examines city sizes and city-size distributions. Factors determining both aspects are complex and poorly understood. It is hard to be proscriptive about either individual city sizes or overall city-size distributions. The best policies strengthen institutions in the relevant markets so that market forces can move the economy toward better outcomes
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    Cash Transfers and Child Labor (2014)
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    Parallel Title: de Hoop, Jacobus Cash Transfers and Child Labor
    Abstract: Cash transfer programs are widely used in settings where child labor is prevalent. Although many of these programs are explicitly implemented to improve children's welfare, in theory their impact on child labor is undetermined. This paper systematically reviews the empirical evidence on the impact of cash transfers, conditional and unconditional, on child labor. The authors find no evidence that cash transfer interventions increase child labor in practice. On the contrary, there is broad evidence that conditional and unconditional cash transfers lower both children's participation in child labor and hours worked and cushion the effect of economic shocks that may lead households to use child labor as a coping strategy. Boys experience particularly strong decreases in economic activities, girls in household chores. The findings underline the usefulness of cash transfers as a relatively safe policy instrument to improve child welfare, but also point to knowledge gaps, for instance regarding the interplay between cash transfers and other interventions, that should be addressed in future evaluations to provide detailed policy advice
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    Informal Economy and the World Bank (2014)
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    Parallel Title: Benjamin, Nancy Informal Economy and the World Bank
    Abstract: Many countries have expressed an interest in the size, performance and motivation of the informal sector, especially where the informal sector provides the livelihood and employment for a critical segment of the population. This essay reviews recent literature, methodologies, and relevant Bank studies as a way to share information with country teams interested in expanding their knowledge of the informal sector and related policy debates. Research in a number of regions points to four main areas where development policy can be improved by taking the informal sector into account. First, improvements should be made along a continuum; the heterogeneity among informal firms points to different policy approaches for different types of firms. Second, there should be public-private collaboration on mutual reforms. Many efforts to improve firm performance focus on elements of the production function (labor skills, credit) while treating government mainly as a cost (taxes, cost of compliance with regulations). Yet research reveals that many characteristics of the public regime strongly influence the decisions of firms regarding informality. Third, research indicates a strong relation between basic skills and labor outcomes, particularly in the informal sector, despite the sector's lower average returns. Research also indicates the benefits of targeted training programs. Business services programs have a decidedly mixed record, yet ongoing research is refining results on what works best. Fourth, informal trade is pervasive in developing countries and the networks developed in informal trade-wholesalers, credit suppliers and money-changers, transporters-are a strong presence in the informal sector. Yet these kinds of complex and nontransparent trading systems can be discouraging to foreign investors and can otherwise undermine trade policy and the international competitiveness of developing countries. The paper concludes with recommendations
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    Surges and Stops in FDI Flows to Developing Countries : Does the Mode of Entry Make a Difference? (2014)
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    Parallel Title: Burger, Martijn J Surges and Stops in FDI Flows to Developing Countries
    Abstract: This paper investigates the factors associated with foreign direct investment "surges" and "stops," defined as sharp increases and decreases, respectively, of gross foreign direct investment inflows to the developing world and differentiated based on whether these events are led by waves in greenfield investments or mergers and acquisitions. Greenfield-led surges and stops occur more frequently than mergers and acquisitions-led ones and different factors are associated with the onset of the two types of events. Global liquidity is the only factor significantly associated with a surge, regardless of its kind, while decline in global economic growth and a surge in the preceding year are the only predictors of a stop. Greenfield-led surges and stops are more likely in low-income and resource-rich countries than elsewhere. Global growth, financial openness, and domestic economic and financial instability enable mergers and acquisitions-led surges. These results differ from those in the literature on surges and stops and are particularly relevant in countries where foreign direct investments dominate capital flows
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    Learning from Financial Crises (2014)
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    Parallel Title: Lim, Jamus Jerome Learning from Financial Crises
    Abstract: This paper considers the question of whether international banks learn from their previous crisis experiences and reduce their lending to developing countries in the event of a financial crisis. The analysis combines a bank-level dataset of bank activity and ownership with country-level data on the stock of historical crisis events between 1800 and 2005. To circumvent selection and endogeneity concerns, the paper exploits temporal variations in the relative recency of crises as instruments for crisis experience. The results indicate that foreign banks with greater crisis experience reduced their lending significantly more relative to other foreign banks, which can be interpreted as evidence in favor of a learning effect. The findings survive robustness checks that include alternative measures of crisis experience, additional controls, and decompositions into different types of crises. The question of learning is also examined from the perspective of other measures of bank performance
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    Immigrant versus Natives? : Displacement and Job Creation (2014)
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    Parallel Title: Özden, Çaglar Immigrant versus Natives?
    Abstract: The impact of immigration on native workers is driven by two countervailing forces: the degree of substitutability between natives and immigrants, and the increased demand for native workers as immigrants reduce the cost of production and output expands. The literature so far has focused on the former substitution effect, while ignoring the latter scale effect. This paper estimates both of these effects using labor force survey data from Malaysia (1990-2010), a country uniquely suited for understanding the impact of low-skilled immigration. The instrumental variable estimates imply that the elasticity of labor demand (3.4) is greater than the elasticity of substitution between natives and immigrants (2.5). On average the scale effect outweighs the substitution effect. For every ten additional immigrants, employment of native workers increases by 4.1 in a local labor market. These large reallocation effects are accompanied by negligible relative wage changes. At the national level, a 10 percent increase in immigrants, equivalent to 1 percent increase in labor force, has a small positive effect on native wages (0.14 percent). The impact of immigration is highly heterogeneous for natives with different levels of education, resulting in substantial changes in skill premiums and hence inequality. Immigrants on net displace natives with at most primary education; while primarily benefiting those with a little more education, lower secondary or completed secondary education
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    Child Labor and Learning (2014)
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    Parallel Title: Emerson, Patrick M Child Labor and Learning
    Keywords: Schüler ; Kinderarbeit ; Mikrodaten ; Lernen ; Panel ; Brasilien
    Abstract: This paper uses a unique micro panel dataset of Brazilian students to investigate the impact of working while in school on learning outcomes. The potential endogeneity is addressed through the use of difference-in-difference and instrumental variable estimators. A negative effect of working on learning outcomes in math and Portuguese is found. The effects of child work range from 3 to 8 percent of a standard deviation decline in test score, which represents a loss of about a quarter to a half of a year of learning on average
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    The Price of Empowerment : Experimental Evidence on Land Titling in Tanzania (2014)
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    Parallel Title: Ali, Daniel Ayalew The Price of Empowerment
    Keywords: Bodenreform ; Bodenrecht ; Geschlecht ; Feldforschung ; Tansania
    Abstract: This paper reports on a randomized field experiment that uses price incentives to address economic and gender inequality in land tenure formalization. During the 1990s and 2000s, nearly two dozen African countries proposed de jure land reforms extending access to formal, freehold land tenure to millions of poor households. Many of these reforms stalled. Titled land remains the de facto preserve of wealthy households and, within households, men. Beginning in 2010, the study tested whether price instruments alone can generate greater inclusion by offering formal titles to residents of a low-income, unplanned settlement in Dar es Salaam at a range of subsidized prices, as well as additional price incentives to include women as owners or co-owners of household land. Estimated price elasticities of demand confirm that prices-rather than other implementation failures or features of the titling regime-are a key obstacle to broader inclusion in the land registry, and that some degree of pro-poor price discrimination is justified even from a narrow budgetary perspective. In terms of gender inequality, the study finds that even small price incentives for female co-titling achieve almost complete gender parity in land ownership with no reduction in demand
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6908
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    Technical Measures to Trade in Central America : Incidence, Price Effects, and Consumer Welfare (2014)
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    Parallel Title: Kelleher, Sinéad Technical Measures to Trade in Central America
    Abstract: Despite the widespread tariff reductions sparked by the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement, borders in the region remain thick, with many hurdles standing in the way of regional trade. Although anecdotal evidence suggests that nontariff measures raise trade costs and inhibit trade in the region, little is known about the magnitude of these economic effects. This paper uses a newly collected data set to quantify the incidence of sanitary and phytosanitary measures and technical barriers to trade in the region and benchmarks it with other parts of the world. The results indicate that the Central American region has the lowest prevalence of technical nontariff measures in the world. However, there is significant heterogeneity of trade-related regulations in Central America; for instance, 48 percent of Salvadoran imports are subject to at least one nontariff measure, compared with just 16 percent of Honduran imports. The paper estimates the impact of these technical measures on border prices and finds that the price impact of sanitary and phytosanitary measures is equivalent to an ad-valorem tariff of 11.6 percent. This price-rising effect is further investigated by looking in detail at the impact of sanitary and phytosanitary measures on the prices of beef, chicken meat, bread, and dairy products in Guatemala. The impact is estimated to be equivalent to an ad-valorem tariff of 68.4 percent, 51.4 percent, 22.0 percent, and 5.0 percent, respectively. The paper shows that efforts to streamline key sanitary and phytosanitary measures affecting these products by, for example, reducing the cost and time required to obtain sanitary registries, would likely reduce the Guatemalan urban extreme poverty rate from 5.07 percent to 4.91 percent
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6857
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    Climate Change, Conflict, and Cooperation : Global Analysis of the Resilience of International River Treaties to Increased Water Variability (2014)
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    Parallel Title: Dinar, Shlomi Climate Change, Conflict, and Cooperation
    Abstract: Although water variability has already been observed across river basins, climate change is predicted to increase variability. Such environmental changes may aggravate political tensions, especially in regions that are not equipped with an appropriate institutional apparatus. Increased variability is also likely to challenge regions with existing institutional capacity. This paper argues that the best attempts to assess the ability of states to deal with variability in the future rest with considering how agreements have fared in the past. The paper investigates to what extent particular mechanisms and institutional designs help mitigate inter-country tensions over shared water. The analysis specifically focuses on identifying which water allocation mechanisms and institutional features provide better opportunities for mitigating conflict given that water allocation issues tend to be most salient among riparians. Water-related events from the Basins at Risk events database are used as the dependent variable to test hypotheses regarding the viability, or resilience, of treaties over time. Climatic, geographic, political, and economic variables are used as controls. The analysis is conducted for the years 1948-2001 with the country dyad as the level of observation. Findings pertaining to the primary explanatory variables suggest that country dyads governed by treaties with water allocation mechanisms exhibiting both flexibility and specificity evince more cooperative behavior. Country dyads governed by treaties with a larger sum of institutional mechanisms likewise evince a higher level of cooperation, although certain institutional mechanisms are more important than others
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6916
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    Informal Firms and Financial Inclusion : Status and Determinants (2014)
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    Parallel Title: Farazi, Subika Informal Firms and Financial Inclusion
    Abstract: Many firms in the developing world-including a majority of micro, small, and medium enterprises-operate in the informal economy. The informal firms face a variety of constraints, making it harder for them to do business and grow. Lack of access to finance is often cited as the biggest operational constraint these firms face. This paper documents the use of finance and financing patterns of informal firms, highlights differences between use of finance by formal and informal firms, and identifies the most significant characteristics of informal firms that are associated with higher use of financial services. The analysis shows that use of loans and bank accounts for business by informal firms is very low and a vast majority finances their day-to-day operations and investments through sources other than financial institutions (internal funds, moneylenders, family, and friends). A majority of informal firm owners would like their firms to become formal but do not do so as it would require them to pay taxes. Registered firms are 54 percent more likely to have a bank account and 32 percent more likely to have loans. Results also show that firm size, the level of education of the owner, and whether the owner has a job in the formal sector are significantly associated with financial inclusion of informal firms
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6778
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    50 Years of Urbanization in Africa : Examining the Role of Climate Change (2014)
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (44 p)
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    Parallel Title: Henderson, J. Vernon 50 Years of Urbanization in Africa
    Abstract: This paper documents a significant impact of climate variation on urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa, primarily in more arid countries. By lowering farm incomes, reduced moisture availability encourages migration to nearby cities, while wetter conditions slow migration. The paper also provides evidence for rural-urban income links. In countries with a larger industrial base, reduced moisture shrinks the agricultural sector and raises total incomes in nearby cities. However, if local cities are entirely dependent on servicing agriculture so their fortunes move with those of agriculture, reduced moisture tends to reduce local urban incomes. Finally, the paper shows that climate induces employment changes within the rural sector itself. Drier conditions induce a shift out of farm activities, especially for women, into non-farm activities, and especially out of the workforce. Overall, these findings imply a strong link between climate and urbanization in Africa
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6925
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    Assessing Energy Price Induced Improvements in Efficiency of Capital in OECD Manufacturing Industries (2014)
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    Parallel Title: Steinbuks, Jevgenijs Assessing Energy Price Induced Improvements in Efficiency of Capital in OECD Manufacturing Industries
    Abstract: To assess how capital stocks adapt to energy price changes, it is necessary to account for the impacts on different vintages of capital and to account separately for price-induced and autonomous improvements in the energy efficiency of capital stock. The results of econometric analysis for five manufacturing industries in 19 OECD countries between 1990 and 2005 indicate that higher energy prices resulted in smaller energy use due to both improved energy efficiency of capital stock and reduced demand for the energy input. The investment response to energy prices varied considerably across manufacturing industries, being more significant in energy-intensive sectors. The results of policy simulations indicate that a carbon tax can deliver significant reductions in energy consumption in the medium run with modest declines in energy-using capital stock
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6929
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    Population Pressures, Migration, and the Returns to Human Capital and Land : Insights from Indonesia (2014)
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    Parallel Title: Liu, Yanyan Population Pressures, Migration, and the Returns to Human Capital and Land
    Abstract: Rapid population growth in many developing countries has raised concerns regarding food security and household welfare. To understand the consequences of population growth in a general equilibrium setting, this paper examines the dynamics of population density and its impacts on household outcomes. The analysis uses panel data from Indonesia combined with district-level demographic data. Historically, Indonesia has adapted to land constraints through a mix of agricultural intensification, expansion of the land frontier, and nonfarm diversification, with public policies playing a role in catalyzing all of these responses. In contemporary Indonesia, the paper finds that human capital determines the effect of increased population density on per capita household consumption expenditure. On the one hand, the effect of population density is positive if the average educational attainment is high (above junior high school), while it is negative otherwise. On the other hand, farmers with larger holdings maintain their advantage in farming regardless of population density. The paper concludes with some potential lessons for African countries from Indonesia's more successful rural development experiences
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6790
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    The Impact of Early Childhood Education on Early Achievement Gaps : Evidence from the Indonesia Early Childhood Education and Development (ECED) Project (2014)
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    Parallel Title: Jung, Haeil The Impact of Early Childhood Education on Early Achievement Gaps
    Abstract: This paper assesses whether the Indonesia Early Childhood Education and Development project had an impact on early achievement gaps as measured by an array of child development outcomes and enrollment. The analysis is based on longitudinal data collected in 2009 and 2010 on approximately 3,000 four-year-old children residing in 310 villages located in nine districts across Indonesia. The study begins by documenting the intent-to-treat impact of the project. It then compares the achievement gaps between richer and poorer children living in project villages with those of richer and poorer children living in non-project villages. There is clear evidence that in project villages, the achievement gap between richer and poorer children decreased on many dimensions. By contrast, in non-project villages, this gap either increased or stayed constant. Given Indonesia's interest in increasing access to early childhood services for all children, and the need to ensure more efficient spending on education, the paper discusses how three existing policies and programs could be leveraged to ensure that Indonesia's vision for holistic, integrated early childhood services becomes a reality. The lessons from Indonesia's experience apply more broadly to countries seeking to reduce early achievement gaps and expand access to pre-primary education
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6794
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    Culture, Politics, and Development (2014)
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    Parallel Title: Woolcock, Michael Culture, Politics, and Development
    Abstract: Whether in the domains of scholarship or practice, important advances have been made in recent years in our understanding of how culture, politics, and development interact. Today's leading theorists of culture and development represent a fourth distinctive perspective vis-à-vis their predecessors, one that seeks to provide an empirically grounded, mechanisms-based account of how symbols, frames, identities, and narratives are deployed as part of a broader repertoire of cultural "tools" connecting structure and agency. A central virtue of this approach is less the broad policy prescriptions to which it gives rise-indeed, to offer such prescriptions would be something of a contradiction in terms-than the emphasis it places on making intensive and extensive commitments to engaging with the idiosyncrasies of local contexts. Deep knowledge of contextual realities can contribute constructively to development policy by enabling careful intra-country comparisons to be made of the conditions under which variable responses to otherwise similar problems emerge. Such knowledge is also important for discerning the generalizability (or "external validity") of claims regarding the efficacy of development interventions, especially those overtly engaging with social, legal, and political issues
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    Does Institutional Finance Matter for Agriculture? : Evidence Using Panel Data from Uganda (2014)
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    Parallel Title: Khandker, Shahidur R Does Institutional Finance Matter for Agriculture?
    Abstract: Smallholder agriculture in many developing countries has remained largely self-financed. However, improved productivity for attaining greater food security requires better access to institutional credit. Past efforts to extend institutional credit to smaller farmers has failed for several reasons, including subsidized operation of government-aided credit schemes. Thus, recent efforts to expand credit for smallholder agriculture that rely on innovative credit delivery schemes at market prices have received much policy interest. However, thus far the impacts of these efforts are not fully understood. This study examines credit for smallholder agriculture in the context of Uganda, where agriculture is about 35 percent of gross domestic product, most farmers are smallholders, and the country has introduced policies since 2005 to extend credit access to the sector. The analysis uses newly available household panel data from Uganda for 2005-2006 and 2009-2010 to examine (a) whether credit effectively targets agriculture, by examining determinants of borrowing across different sources; (b) agricultural and nonagricultural determinants of supply and demand credit constraints among non-borrowers; and (c) the effects of borrowing and credit constraints on household income, consumption, and agricultural outcomes. The analysis finds that although not many households report borrowing specifically for agriculture, credit is fungible and agricultural outcomes do substantially improve with institutional borrowing, particularly microcredit. Among non-borrowers, supply and demand credit constraints have fallen considerably over the period, particularly in rural areas. Access to institutions and infrastructure play a strong role in alleviating the negative effect of credit constraints on welfare outcomes, as well as determining the source of lending among borrowing households
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6942
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    Institutional Arrangements for the Promotion of Regional Integration of Electricity Markets : International Experience (2014)
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    Parallel Title: Oseni, Musiliu O Institutional Arrangements for the Promotion of Regional Integration of Electricity Markets
    Abstract: This paper focuses on the institutional arrangements needed for facilitating regional electricity cooperation. The paper begins by discussing the theory of international trade cooperation in electricity, with a view to discussing what preconditions might be important in facilitating wide area trading across national borders. It then discusses two sets of case studies. The first set focuses on three regional developing country power pools-the Southern African Power Pool, the West African Power Pool, and the Central American Power Market. The second set focuses on three regional power pools in more developed countries-one in the United States, the Single Electricity Market in Ireland, and the South East Europe market. These cases highlight the potential and difficulty of having cross-jurisdictional power pools. In the light of the theory and evidence presented, key lessons are drawn in the areas of preconditions for trading, necessary institutional arrangements, practicalities of timetabling, reasons to be hopeful about future prospects, and suggestions for future research
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    Climate Change, Industrial Transformation, and "Development Traps" (2014)
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    Parallel Title: Golub, Alexander Climate Change, Industrial Transformation, and "Development Traps
    Abstract: This paper examines the possibility of environmental "development traps," or "brown poverty traps," caused by interactions between the impacts of climate change and increasing returns in the development of "clean-technology" sectors. A simple specification is used in which the economy can produce a single homogeneous consumption good with two different technologies. In the "old" sector, technology has global diminishing returns to scale and depends on the use of fossil energy that gives rise to long-lived, damaging climate change. In the "new" sector, the technology has convex-concave production and is not dependent on the polluting energy input. If the new sector does not grow fast enough to move through the phase of increasing returns, then the economy may linger at a low level of income indefinitely or it may achieve greater progress but then get driven back down to a lower level of income by environmental degradation. Stimulating growth in the new sector thus may be a key element for avoiding an environmental poverty trap and achieving higher, sustained income levels
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    Contracting for the Second Best in Dysfunctional Electricity Markets (2014)
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    Parallel Title: Nikandrova, Arina Contracting for the Second Best in Dysfunctional Electricity Markets
    Abstract: Power pools constitute a set of sometimes complex institutional arrangements for efficiency-enhancing coordination among power systems. Where such institutional arrangements do not exist, there still can be scope for voluntary electricity-sharing agreements among power systems. This paper uses a particular type of efficient risk-sharing model with limited commitment to demonstrate that second-best coordination improvements can be achieved with low to moderate risks of participants leaving the agreement. In the absence of an impartial market operator who can observe fluctuations in connected power systems, establishing quasi-markets for trading excess electricity through the kind of mechanism described here helps achieve sustainable cooperation in mutually beneficial electricity sharing
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    The Environmental Implications of Russia's Accession to the World Trade Organization (2014)
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    Parallel Title: Böhringer, Christoph The Environmental Implications of Russia's Accession to the World Trade Organization
    Abstract: This report investigates the environmental impacts of Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization. A 10-region, 30-sector model of the Russian economy is developed. The model is innovative and more accurate empirically in that it contains foreign direct investment, imperfectly competitive sectors, and endogenous productivity effects triggered by World Trade Organization accession along with environmental emissions data in Russia for seven pollutants that are tracked for all 30 sectors in each of the 10 regions. The decomposition analysis shows that despite the fact that World Trade Organization accession allows Russia to import better technologies and reduce pollution from the “technique effect,” on balance World Trade Organization accession alone will increase environmental pollution in Russia through a shift toward dirty industries (the “composition effect”) and the expansion of output with its associated increase in pollution (“scale effect”). The paper assesses the costs of three types of environmental regulations to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 20 percent. The paper simultaneously implements a central case scenario with each of the carbon dioxide emission reduction policy initiatives. The analysis finds that the welfare gains of World Trade Organization accession are large enough to pay for the costs of any of the three environmental abatement policies, while leaving a net welfare gain. But the political economy implications are that the non-market-based policies are more costly and the command and control policy, which is not well targeted, is very costly. Based on a constant returns to scale model, the estimated welfare gains are insufficient to finance the costs of environmental regulation
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    Women's Empowerment and Socio-Economic Outcomes : Impacts of the Andhra Pradesh Rural Poverty Reduction Program (2014)
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    Parallel Title: Prennushi, G Women's Empowerment and Socio-Economic Outcomes
    Abstract: The paper explores whether one of the largest programs in the world for women's empowerment and rural livelihoods, the Indira Kranti Patham in Andhra Pradesh, India, has had an impact on the economic and social wellbeing of households that participate in the program. The analysis usespanel data for 4,250 households from two rounds of a survey conducted in 2004 and 2008 in five districts. Propensity score matching was used to construct control groups and outcomes are compared with differences-in-differences. There are two major impacts. First, the Indira Kranti Patham program increased participants' access to loans, which allowed them to accumulate some assets (livestock and durables for the poorest and nonfarm assets for the poor), invest in education, and increase total expenditures (for the poorest and poor). Women who participated in the program had more freedom to go places and were less afraid to disagree with their husbands; the women participated more in village meetings and their children were slightly more likely to attend school. Consistent with the emphasis of the program on the poor, the impacts were stronger across the board for the poorest and poor participants and were more pronounced for long-term Scheduled Tribe participants. No significant differences are found between participants and nonparticipants in some maternal and child health indicators. Second, program participants were significantly more likely to benefit from various targeted government programs, most important the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, but also midday meals in schools, hostels, and housing programs. This was an important way in which the program contributed to the improved wellbeing of program participants. The effects captured by the analysis accrue to program participants over and above those that may accrue to all households in program villages
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    Co-Movement of Major Commodity Price Returns : Time-Series Assessment (2014)
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    Parallel Title: de Nicola, Francesca Co-Movement of Major Commodity Price Returns
    Abstract: This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the degree of co-movement among the nominal price returns of 11 major energy, agricultural and food commodities based on monthly data between 1970 and 2013. A uniform-spacings testing approach, a multivariate dynamic conditional correlation model and a rolling regression procedure are used to study the extent and the time-evolution of unconditional and conditional correlations. The results indicate that (i) the price returns of energy and agricultural commodities are highly correlated; (ii) the overall level of co-movement among commodities increased in recent years, especially between energy and agricultural commodities and in particular in the cases of maize and soybean oil, which are important inputs in the production of biofuels; and (iii) particularly after 2007, stock market volatility is positively associated with the co-movement of price returns across markets
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    Is Uruguay More Resilient This Time? : Distributional Impacts of a Crisis Similar to the 2001/02 Argentine Crisis (2014)
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    Parallel Title: Cabanillas, Oscar Barriga Is Uruguay More Resilient This Time?
    Abstract: The 2001/02 Argentine crisis had a profound impact on Uruguay's economy. Uruguay's gross domestic product shrank by 17.5 percent and the proportion of people living below the poverty line doubled in just two years. It took almost 10 years for the poverty rate to recover to its pre-crisis level. This paper uses a macro-micro simulation technique to simulate the impact of a similar crisis on the current Uruguayan economy. The simulation exercise suggests that Uruguay would now be in a better place to weather such a severe crisis. The impact on poverty would be considerably lower, inequality would not change significantly, and household incomes would be 8 percent lower than in the absence of a crisis (almost 9 percent lower for those households in the bottom 40 percent of the income distribution). Young individuals, female-headed households, those living in Montevideo, and those who do not have complete secondary education are more vulnerable to falling into poverty were the crisis to strike
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    Managing Quantity, Quality, and Timing in Indian Cane Sugar Production : Ex Post Marketing Permits or Ex Ante Production Contracts? (2014)
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    Parallel Title: Patlolla, Sandhyarani Managing Quantity, Quality, and Timing in Indian Cane Sugar Production
    Abstract: Private sugar processors in Andhra Pradesh, India use an unusual form of vertical coordination. They issue 'permits' to selected cane growers a few weeks before harvest. These permits specify the amount of cane to be delivered during a narrow time period. This article investigates why processors create uncertainty among farmers using ex post permits instead of ex ante production contracts. The theoretical model predicts that ex post permits are more profitable than ex ante contracts or the spot market under existing government regulations in the sugar sector, which include a binding price floor for cane and the designation of a reserve area for each processor wherein it has a legal monopsony for cane. The use of ex post permits creates competition among farmers to increase cane quality, which increases processor profits and farmer costs. Empirical analysis supports the hypothesis that farmers operating in private factory areas have higher unit production costs than do their counterparts who patronize cooperatives
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    Trade Flows and Trade Disputes (2014)
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    Parallel Title: Bown, Chad P Trade Flows and Trade Disputes
    Abstract: This paper introduces a new data set and establishes a set of basic facts and patterns regarding the trade that countries fight about under World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement. The paper characterizes the scope of products, as well as the levels of and changes to the trade values, market shares, volumes, and prices for those goods that eventually become subject to WTO litigation. The first result is striking heterogeneity in the level of market access at stake across disputes: for example, 14 percent of cases over disputed import products feature bilateral trade that is less than
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    Economic Development and Female Labor Participation in the Middle East and North Africa : A Test of the U-Shape Hypothesis (2014)
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    Parallel Title: Verme, Paolo Economic Development and Female Labor Participation in the Middle East and North Africa
    Abstract: The Middle East and North Africa region is known for having low female labor market participation rates as compared with its level of economic development. A possible explanation is that these countries find themselves at the turning point of the U-shape hypothesis when countries transition from declining to rising female participation rates. This paper tests the U-shape hypothesis in countries in the Middle East and North Africa. It finds that the region has outperformed other world regions in terms of the main drivers of the U-shape hypothesis, including gross domestic product per capita, economic transformation away from the agricultural sector, female education, and fertility rates. These facts are consistent with nonparametric evidence that shows countries in the region are distributed over a U-shaped curve. However, parametric tests of the hypothesis point in a different direction. The region shows an inverted U-shape overall and great heterogeneity across countries and age cohorts that defies any law on the relation between gross domestic product and female participation rate. The explanation behind these findings may be economic and cultural. Jobless growth and the lack of growth in employment sectors such as manufacturing and services, which proved critical for female employment in other countries, weaken labor demand and strengthen the role of institutions that may discourage female participation, such as marriage, legislation, and gender norms
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    Does Involvement of Local NGOs Enhance Public Service Delivery? : Cautionary Evidence from a Malaria-Prevention Evaluation in India (2014)
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    Parallel Title: Das, Ashis Does Involvement of Local NGOs Enhance Public Service Delivery?
    Abstract: Using data from an experimental supportive intervention to India's malaria control program, this paper studies the impact of leveraging local non-state capacity to promote mosquito net usage and recommended fever care-seeking patterns. The supportive activities were conducted simultaneously by three nongovernmental organizations in two endemic districts in the state of Orissa. The study finds that program impact varied significantly by location. Examining three potential sources of this variation (differential population characteristics, differential health worker characteristics, and differential implementer characteristics), the analysis provides evidence that both population and nongovernmental organization characteristics significantly affected the success of the program. The paper discusses these findings as they relate to the external validity of development policy evaluations and, specifically, for the ability of the health system to benefit from limited non-state capacity in under-resourced areas
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6931
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    Income Inequality and Violent Crime : Evidence from Mexico's Drug War (2014)
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (31 p)
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    Parallel Title: Enamorado, Ted Income Inequality and Violent Crime
    Abstract: The relationship between income inequality and crime has attracted the interest of many researchers, but little convincing evidence exists on the causal effect of inequality on crime in developing countries. This paper estimates this effect in a unique context: Mexico's Drug War. The analysis takes advantage of a unique data set containing inequality and crime statistics for more than 2,000 Mexican municipalities covering a period of 20 years. Using an instrumental variable for inequality that tackles problems of reverse causality and omitted variable bias, this paper finds that an increment of one point in the Gini coefficient translates into an increase of more than 10 drug-related homicides per 100,000 inhabitants between 2006 and 2010. There are no significant effects before 2005. The fact that the effect was found during Mexico's Drug War and not before is likely because the cost of crime decreased with the proliferation of gangs (facilitating access to knowledge and logistics, lowering the marginal cost of criminal behavior), which, combined with rising inequality, increased the expected net benefit from criminal acts after 2005
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6935
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    Aid is Good for the Poor (2014)
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    Parallel Title: Hirano, Yumeka Aid is Good for the Poor
    Abstract: Aid is good for the poor. This paper uses detailed aid data spanning 60 developing countries over the past two decades to show that social aid significantly and directly benefits the poorest in society, while economic aid increases the income of the poor through growth. This new and unequivocal finding distinguishes the current study from past studies that only utilized aggregate aid data and returned ambiguous results. The paper also confirms that none of the elements of globalization (trade, foreign direct investment, remittances), policies (government expenditure, inflation management), institutional quality, nor other plausibly pro-poor factors have systematic effects on the poor or any other income group, beyond their effects on average incomes. The paper finds that trade and foreign direct investment tend to benefit the richest segments of society more than other income groups. Therefore, the presented evidence suggests that aid can play a crucial role in enabling the poor to benefit more from globalization. These discoveries underscore the need to assist developing countries to find the mix of economic and social aid that jointly promotes the participation of the poor in the development process under globalization. In this manner, aid can make greater strides in spurring development
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6998
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    Transition to Clean Capital, Irreversible Investment and Stranded Assets (2014)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (29 p)
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    Parallel Title: Rozenberg, Julie Transition to Clean Capital, Irreversible Investment and Stranded Assets
    Abstract: This paper uses a Ramsey model with two types of capital to analyze the optimal transition to clean capital when polluting investment is irreversible. The cost of climate mitigation decomposes as a technical cost of using clean instead of polluting capital and a transition cost from the irreversibility of pre-existing polluting capital. With a carbon price, the transition cost can be limited by underutilizing polluting capital, at the expense of a loss in the value of polluting assets (stranded assets) and a drop in income. In contrast, policy instruments that focus on redirecting investments-such as feebates or environmental standards-prevent underutilization of existing capital, avoid stranded assets, and reduce short-term losses; but they reduce emissions more slowly and increase the intertemporal cost of the transition. The paper investigates inter- and intra-generational distributional impacts and the political acceptability of climate change mitigation policy instruments
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6859
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    New Coincident and Leading Indicators for the Lebanese Economy (2014)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (30 p)
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    Parallel Title: Matta, Samer New Coincident and Leading Indicators for the Lebanese Economy
    Abstract: Weak economic statistics in Lebanon impede economic analysis and decision making. This paper presents a new coincident indicator and a leading indicator for the Lebanese economy. A new methodology, based on the National Bureau of Economic Research-Conference Board approach, was used to construct these indicators. The indicators can be used as monthly proxies for the evolution of real gross domestic product with a relatively small time lag (four to five months). Notwithstanding the relatively small sample period, the results reveal promising statistical properties that should make these new indications valuable coincident and leading (one-year ahead) indicators for analyzing the dynamics of the Lebanese economy. However, given limitations on the length of the gross domestic product time series in Lebanon, the accuracy of these indicators in tracking the business cycle of the Lebanese economy is expected to improve over time as more data points become available
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    Cash Transfers and Temptation Goods : A Review of Global Evidence (2014)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (36 p)
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    Parallel Title: Evans, David K Cash Transfers and Temptation Goods
    Keywords: Entwicklungshilfe ; Öffentliche Sozialleistungen ; Wirkungsanalyse ; Privater Konsum ; Lateinamerika ; Afrika ; Asien
    Abstract: Cash transfers have been demonstrated to improve education and health outcomes and alleviate poverty in various contexts. However, policy makers and others often express concern that poor households will use transfers to buy alcohol, tobacco, or other "temptation goods." The income effect of transfers will increase expenditures if alcohol and tobacco are normal goods, but this may be offset by other effects, including the substitution effect, the effect of social messaging about the appropriate use of transfers, and the effect of shifting dynamics in intra-household bargaining. The net effect is ambiguous. This paper reviews 19 studies with quantitative evidence on the impact of cash transfers on temptation goods, as well as 11 studies that surveyed the number of respondents who reported they used transfers for temptation goods. Almost without exception, studies find either no significant impact or a significant negative impact of transfers on temptation goods. In the only (two, non-experimental) studies with positive significant impacts, the magnitude is small. This result is supported by data from Latin America, Africa, and Asia. A growing number of studies from a range of contexts therefore indicate that concerns about the use of cash transfers for alcohol and tobacco consumption are unfounded
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6886
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    Ecosystems - Burden or Bounty? (2014)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (31 p)
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    Parallel Title: Damania, Richard Ecosystems - Burden or Bounty?
    Abstract: This paper presents a somewhat novel approach to explore the economic contribution of ecosystems. It develops linked models to capture connections between resource stocks and flows and the resulting microeconomic and macroeconomic impacts. A bioeconomic model is developed that is imbedded into a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model. Incorporating imperfect regulation, the bioeconomic model characterizes optimal policies, while the CGE model explores the economy-wide consequences of possible changes to the ecosystem. The model is parameterized and calibrated to the case of the Serengeti ecosystem which is perhaps the most intensively researched biome with a relative abundance of data. This ecosystem is also undergoing rapid change from a host of factors related to developments within and around the protected area system. The analysis identifies the contribution of the ecosystem to the economy and finds that changes in tourism and bushmeat hunting have surprisingly diffuse economy-wide impacts, that are especially large in the rural sector. To guard against overstatement, ecosystem impacts are under-stated relative to other effects. The results suggest that linkages to the natural resource sector (backward and forward multipliers) are important and neglecting these may lead to biased estimates
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6890
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    Progress toward the Health MDGs : Are the Poor Being Left behind? (2014)
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (37 p)
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    Parallel Title: Wagstaff, Adam Progress toward the Health MDGs
    Abstract: This paper looks at differential progress on the health Millennium Development Goals between the poor and better-off within countries. The findings are based on original analysis of 235 Demographic and Health Surveys and Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys, spanning 64 developing countries over the period 1990-2011. Five health status indicators and seven intervention indicators are tracked for all the health Millennium Development Goals. In most countries, the poorest 40 percent have made faster progress than the richest 60 percent. On average, relative inequality in the Millennium Development Goal indicators has been falling. However, the opposite is true in a sizable minority of countries, especially on child health status indicators (40-50 percent in the cases of child malnutrition and mortality), and on some intervention indicators (almost 40 percent in the case of immunizations). Absolute inequality has been rising in a larger fraction of countries and in around one-quarter of countries, the poorest 40 percent have been slipping backward in absolute terms. Despite reductions in most countries, relative inequalities in the Millennium Development Goal health indicators are still appreciable, with the poor facing higher risks of malnutrition and death in childhood and lower odds of receiving key health interventions
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