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New Wars, New Militaries, New Soldiers?
Conflicts, the Armed Forces and the Soldierly Subject
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
This volume explores three recent challenges the military faces: changing missions, changing socio-economic and demographic conditions, and end of conscription. The military will have to change its view of the world, the nature of conflicts and its profession considerably.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
We live in a world which continues to experience dramatic suffering and loss of life due to natural hazard. The disaster paradigm has accelerated efforts towards resilience building, particularly since the adoption of the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA), a ten year plan to build the resilience of...
Celebrating the James Partridge Award
Essays Toward the Development of a More Diverse, Inclusive, and Equitable Field of Library and Information Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Celebrating the James A. Partridge Outstanding African American Information Professional Award the authors examine issues of race, inclusion, diversity, and justice in the field of library and information science. The award recognizes information professionals who exemplify the highest ideals of the...
Occupy the Earth
Global Environmental Movements
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
The onset of global concerns about environmental risks, climate change and threats to the planet from industry have focused the minds of a generation. Throughout the world, new movements are emerging in an attempt to challenge those who would put profits before the planet. This volume brings together...
by Russell W. Belk
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
This volume presents selected papers from the 7th Annual Consumer Culture Theory Conference held at Oxford University in August, 2012. The 18 papers in the volume together capture the latest research within this qualitative paradigm of consumer studies. Topics addressed cover a wide gamut including...
Organizing Disaster
The Construction of Humanitarianism
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
This book challenges the taken-for-granted status of organizations such as the Red Cross and Medecins Sans Frontieres by problematizing humanitarianism. In the experience of the Author working with such organizations, they are selective of the type of suffering that receives attention. Empirical studies...
Different Paths to Curbing Corruption
Lessons from Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Corruption is a serious problem in many countries around the world, according to Transparency International's 2012 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) and the World Bank's 2011 Control of Corruption governance indicator. However, some countries like New Zealand, Denmark, Finland, Singapore and Hong...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology is an annual research series which presents materials in two fields, both broadly considered: the history of economic thought and the methodology of economics. The annual A-volume contains peer-reviewed articles comparable to other academic...
Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology
A Research Annual
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
The collection includes both refereed articles and review essays of recently published books in the history of economic thought and methodology. The articles highlight the work of Warren J. Samuels (founding editor of the research annual), American economists' role in the creation of federal trade...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
In different ways, social theory and social history represent discourses that implicitly or explicitly highlight the need to apply perspectives on modern social realities that are conducive to discerning and scrutinizing the centrality of large-scale processes that have been influencing and shaping...
by Nicole Doerr, Alice Mattoni, Simon Teune
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
This special issue is a key text in the current study of social movements. It introduces new analytical concepts for understanding visuals in social movements and examines case studies from across the globe; such as analysis of the symbols used in the Egyptian uprising, and contested images from anti-surveillance protests in Europe.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Social theory and research has long faced the limitations of its conventional Eurocentric focus. The essays in this volume offer new thoughts and empirical studies for transcending those limitations. A continuation of PPST's previous volume on "Postcolonial Sociology," this volume, "Decentering...
Mergers and Alliances
The Wider View
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Volume 36 provides a broad review of the factors that lead to mergers and other alliances, the methods used to ensure effective and successful collaborations, and descriptions of the factors which contributed to less successful efforts at consolidation. The chapters include original research, case studies, literature reviews and conceptual papers.
Perverse Politics?
Feminism, Anti-Imperialism, Multiplicity
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
In this special issue, we address what we refer to as 'perversity of the political' or 'perverse politics': namely, the assumptions political theory and movements, and in our specific case feminism, often make on behalf of their subjects, and how their subjects, in return, perform individual and collective...