Social Policy category: 9249 books
Politics in Malaysia
The Malay Dimension
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2007
Examining some of the most critical issues in Malaysian politics today, including human rights, law and democracy, gender and Islam, this book explores the contours of the contemporary landscape of Malaysian politics, focusing especially on politics among the majority ethnic Malay community.
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by Syed Husin Ali
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
With Malaysia in the throes of sweeping political change, academic turned political activist and presently, Senator from Selangor state to the Parliament, Dr Syed Husin Ali traces how ethnicity has been manipulated, since Independence, by Malaysian politicians for their own gain to the detriment of...
The Politics of Knowledge in Central Asia
Science between Marx and the Market
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
Through careful historical and ethnographic research and extensive use of local scholarly works, this book provides a persuasive and careful analysis of the production of knowledge in Central Asia. The author demonstrates that classical theories of science and society are inadequate for understanding...
by P. Taylor-Gooby
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
This book analyses the immediate challenges from headlong cuts, root-and-branch restructuring and the longer-term pressures from population ageing. It demonstrates that a more humane and generous welfare state that will build social inclusiveness is possible and shows how it can be achieved.
Handling Societal Complexity
A Study of the Theory of the Methodology of Societal Complexity and the COMPRAM Methodology
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
This handbook for the Methodology of Societal Complexity describes the theoretical development of the field and lays the foundation for the application of the Compram Methodology in the context of addressing complex societal problems. As such, it offers a valuable resource for scientists, practitioners,...
Women, Families, and Feminist Politics
A Global Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Women and their roles within families must be understood within the context of ethnic traditions, religion, and culture. Women, Families, and Feminist Politics: A Global Exploration combines all of these aspects to evaluate the similarities and differences of women around the world. Readers will learn...
by Rohana Ulluwishewa
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Looking beyond the materialistic boundary of the conventional development paradigm, this book identifies our spiritual underdevelopment which is being reflected as self-centeredness and greed, as the root cause of conventional development's failure to alleviate poverty and inequality, achieve sustainability and deliver happiness to humanity.
Breathing Life into the Stone Fort Treaty
An Anishnabe Understanding of Treaty One
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
In order to interpret and implement a treaty between the Crown and Canada’s First Nations, we must look to its spirit and intent, and consider what was contemplated by the parties at the time the treaty was negotiated, argues Aimée Craft. Using a detailed analysis of Treaty One – today covering...
Reinventing Work in Europe
Value, Generations and Labour
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
This book looks at the history of work and the meanings that are attached to it over time. Taking as its basis a number of international surveys and interviews conducted in Europe, the authors consider the significance of work for Europeans today.
Over the years the meaning of work has changed....
European Women's Movements and Body Politics
The Struggle for Autonomy
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
This book examines how feminist movements have contested the dominant discourses and state politics that have impeded women's autonomy over their bodies since the late 1960s. It deals with two important facets of this struggle, prostitution and the right to abortion, as they relate to the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Portugal and Sweden.
Digital Mosaic
Media, Power, and Identity in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Digital Media has transformed the way Canadians socialize and interact, conduct business, experience culture, fight political battles, and acquire knowledge. Traditional media, including newspapers and conventional TV networks, remain the primary link to Canada's political sphere but are under concerted...
Ex-Gay Research
Analyzing the Spitzer Study and Its Relation to Science, Religion, Politics, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Defenders and critics of the controversial Spitzer study analyze its methodologies and findings
In 2001, Robert L. Spitzer, MD, presented his study on sexual conversion therapy with its controversial findings that some homosexuals can change their sexual orientation. The resulting media sensation...
Arming and Disarming
A History of Gun Control in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
From the École Polytechnique shootings of 1989 to the political controversy surrounding the elimination of the federal long-gun registry, the issue of gun control has been a subject of fierce debate in Canada. But in fact, firearm regulation has been a sharply contested issue in the country since...
IDRC
40 Years of Ideas, Innovation, and Impact
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
The book focuses on the International Development Research Centre as a unique institution that has funded research in the developing South—research proposed and undertaken by Southern researchers—and how, as a result, it has had tremendous impact despite a relatively small budget. The IDRC is...