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China and Latin America in Transition
Policy Dynamics, Economic Commitments, and Social Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2016
This volume explores the policy dynamics, economic commitments and social impacts of the fast evolving Sino-LAC relations. China’s engagement with Latin America and the Caribbean has entered into an era of strategic transition. While China is committed to strengthening its economic and political...
Mexico and the Post-2015 Development Agenda
Contributions and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
This interdisciplinary edited collection presents original analysis on Mexico's transition from the Millennium to the Sustainable Development Goals, departing from three main perspectives. In what areas did Mexico gain leverage and actually contribute to the debate around the proposed SDGs? What are...
Border Governance and the "Unruly" South
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Though 9/11 tightened borders against hard threats, why were soft threats able to create havoc in the cracks? The studies explored by the contributors of this volume lead to the conclusion that the state is not, and should not be, the only viable actor in successful border governance.
The Race for the White House from Reagan to Clinton
Reforming Old Systems, Building New Coalitions
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
The Race for the White House from Reagan to Clinton provides a foundation for how the presidential nomination process and the presidential election process have changed over the past three decades by addressing a number of important questions about the nomination and electoral processes.
Action Research Methods
Plain and Simple
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
In Action Research Methods, the authors acknowledge that the methodology component is where most of the struggle and confusion lies with students in research methods courses. The overall aim is to assist master's level education students with practical and theoretically grounded approaches to the action research process.
Beyond Religious Right and Secular Left Rhetoric
The Road to Compromise
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
This book covers arguments made by various sides of the political-religious divide from the past 30 years, showing what the actual differences are between these groups. By stressing the typically ignored similarities, the book better informs partisans and the public to move debate forward.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
This book examines the competing regimes of law and religion an offers a multidisciplinary approach to demonstrate the global scope of their influence. It argues that the tension between these two institutions results from their disagreements about the kinds of rule that should govern human life and society, and from where they should be derived.
Indigenous Education through Dance and Ceremony
A Mexica Palimpsest
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
In the first book on Aztec dance in the United States, Ernesto Colín combines cultural anthropology, educational theory, and postcolonial theory to create an innovative, interdisciplinary, long-term ethnography of an Aztec dance circle and makes a case for the use of the metaphor of palimpsest as an ethnographic research tool.
by Candice C. Carter
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
This book documents recent and historical events in the theoretically-based practice of peace development. Its diverse collection of essays describes different aspects of applied philosophy in peace action, commonly involving the contributors' continual engagement in the field, while offering support and optimal responses to conflict and violence.
Curriculum Studies in Brazil
Intellectual Histories, Present Circumstances
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
This collection, comprised of chapters focused on the intellectual histories and present circumstances of curriculum studies in Brazil, is Pinar's summary of exchanges (occurring over a two-year period) between the authors and members of an International Panel (scholars working in Finland, South Africa, the United States).
Assessing Dynamics of Democratisation
Transformative Politics, New Institutions, and the Case of Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
The book summarises the critique of these approaches, suggests a comprehensive alternative framework, and shows how the alternative works in reality through a case study of the largest of the new democracies, Indonesia.
Woman and Goddess in Hinduism
Reinterpretations and Re-envisionings
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
Offering multilayered explorations of Hindu understandings of the Feminine, both human and divine, this book emphasizes theological and activist methods and aims over historical, anthropological, and literary ones.
by Nanette R. Spina
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
This book investigates women’s ritual authority and the common boundaries between religion and notions of gender, ethnicity, and identity. Nanette R. Spina situates her study within the transnational Melmaruvathur Adhiparasakthi movement established by the Tamil Indian guru, Bangaru Adigalar. One...
The Precarious Diasporas of Sikh and Ahmadiyya Generations
Violence, Memory, and Agency
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
This book examines the long-term effects of violence on the everyday cultural and religious practices of a younger generation of Ahmadis and Sikhs in Frankfurt, Germany and Toronto, Canada. Comparative in scope and the first to discuss contemporary articulations of Sikh and Ahmadiyya identities...