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Handbook Of Essential Keywords For Understanding Rural China

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 Based on sociolinguistic analysis methods, theoretical analysis or empirical research was conducted on 39 keywords related to rural reform, peasant behaviour and peasant politics in China since the founding of the People''s Republic of China. The research content covers the period from 1949 to the first decade of the twenty-first century. The research content includes changes in the rural policies of the People''s Republic of China, changes in rural systems, organisations and behaviour in the era of collectivisation, and peasants'' reactions and behaviour in the face of national policies.This book focuses on four aspects: the meaning of words themselves in Chinese, their meaning in contemporary Chinese political life, how peasants understand and practice the elements and connotations contained in words, and how words themselves change, transform or even disappear.This book will appeal to scholars of peasant politics, Chinese affairs, and contemporary Chinese history; undergraduate and postgraduate students of history, sociology, and political science; and the general reader interested in Chinese rural areas and Chinese politics. Chinese political societies in English-speaking countries, Chinese or East Asian research centres, universities or libraries may also be interested in this book.
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Qualitative Methods For Digital Social Research - Studies From The Global South

~~264,34€~~ 237,91€ 10% OFF

 The first section focuses on Dissecting Research Fractures â€" which disrupts the established research ideologies and practices, user behaviors, theoretical perspectives, and field methods in the study of digital social research .
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Resilient Recovery From Disasters - The Long-Term Outcomes Of Post-Disaster Housing Reconstruction In India, Thailand And Japan

by Elizabeth Maly, Mittul Vahanvati e Titaya Sararit

~~52,99€~~ 47,69€ 10% OFF

 This book is a call to action for housing recovery policymakers and practitioners to leverage foresight and planning capacities to achieve long-term resilience.
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Analysis Of The Traditional Chinese Garden

by Yigang Peng

~~171,59€~~ 154,43€ 10% OFF

 Analysis of the Traditional Chinese Garden is a seminal resource for the spatial principles and techniques that shape traditional Chinese gardens.
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Theoretical Study Of Ethnogeography

by Yanbo Guan

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 This book conducts a systematic research on the basic theoretical system of ethnogeography, area differentiation and spatial changes of ethnic community, national ecological outlook on human-land relations, geographical distribution of various nationalities in the world, and historical geographical background of regional ethnic composition.
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Polygamous Marriages In Peninsular Malaysia - Family, Gender And Religion At The Crossroads

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 This book is relevant to academics and graduate students seeking a deeper understanding of the issues related to Muslim polygamous marriage and to researchers within the broader fields of gender studies, family studies, Islamic studies, and Islamic legal studies.
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Flora & Fauna - Domestic Nature And Private Collecting In Reform Era Beijing

by I-Yi Hsieh

~~145,09€~~ 130,58€ 10% OFF

 This book is about the intimacy and shared changes of life in domestic nature cultivation in Beijing. It asks a simple question: how do people express themselves when the state control on communication is severely tightened and the public space is increasingly replaced by the marketplace? By bringing to the fore an ethnography of the rise of Flora and Fauna—the aesthetic practice of cultivating nature at home—this book tends to the transformation of the classic Chinese practice of collecting, shoucang, and tells how, against a retreating horizon of free speech, a symbolism of nature arises as anchor for affective commentaries on history, the self, and politics. With the poetics of nature becoming forms of expressive culture, this book charts the domestic as politically charged space wherein aesthetic sovereignty is negotiated. Flora and Fauna urges us to reconsider the aesthetics of nature and politics of domestication, amid the tremendous social transformation annotated by market crises in China today.
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Introduction To Public Health And Research - Essential Concepts

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 The book is a comprehensive text that will deal with the foundation and fundamental principles, including recent advancements, in the field of public health research.
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Data Science: Foundations And Hands-On Experience - Handling Economic, Spatial, And Multidimensional Data With R

by Fatwa Ramdani

~~86,11€~~ 77,50€ 10% OFF

 Spatial data analysis stands out as one of the most unique in this book because it focuses on spatial data, a topic rarely covered in data science references. Nowadays, most data includes location information, which can greatly enhance data science and decision-making.
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Decolonising Social Science Research In Southeast Asia - New Ways Of Knowing

by Pam Nilan e Yekti Maunati

~~118,59€~~ 106,73€ 10% OFF

 This book draws together some of the most innovative studies in contemporary Southeast Asian research by social science scholars in the region.
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Mixed-Use Megaprojects And The Competitive City

by Mike S. Harris

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 These projects have emerged worldwide in recent decades, driven by urban international competition, the mobility and expansion of knowledge economies, the shift of global investment from physical to human capital, and the prevalence of market-driven or entrepreneurial politics.
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Practical Wisdom And Resilience Overcoming Downside Risk - Grassroots Voices In Africa Under Covid-19

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 This book classifies and assesses the real and perceived risks associated with both the Covid-19 pandemic and government responses to it in seven African countries — DR Congo, Kenya, Ethiopia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe — based on large scale quantitative and qualitative surveys conducted in 2022-2024. It also elucidates the people’s resilience in overcoming the risks within their political, social, and cultural context.Although research on COVID-19 has been conducted in various fields, particularly in the medical field, the analytical perspective of this book is unique. COVID-19 prevention policies are considered to have seriously increased other risks, such as hunger, other infectious diseases, interruption of education, and various types of human rights violations, including increased conflict, violence against civilians, and political abuse. Therefore, this book argues that COVID-19 prevention policies, as well as the pandemic itself, should be regarded as the downside risk that triggers the deterioration of the other potential risks to vulnerable people.Depicted here is the account of how trust in government, community, and family, within the existing political, social, and cultural environment, created pandemic politics, as elections during the pandemic instrumentalized and politicized government prevention measures. Economic distress threatened people''s lives more than COVID-19 during lockdowns and severe behavioral restrictions, and the spread of misinformation discouraged people from being vaccinated. This book will be useful to policy makers and practitioners in international society who are preparing for the next pandemic based on the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Fragmentation And Solidity Of Islamic Parties In Indonesia - Looking Into The First Decade Of The Reformasi

by Firman Noor

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 This book delves into the background of fragmentation and solidity of Indonesia’s Islamic parties. By examining the National Awakening Party (PKB) and the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) as a research subject, this book exhibits the critical nature of a party’s internal institutionalization, both in fragmentation and solidity. In addition, this book challenges popular perceptions that individuals or actors are the primaries, if not the only, factors that impede or promote a party’s unity. In short, this book explores and scrutinizes the many aspects and reasons for the division and cohesion of Islamic political parties concerning the presence of a party institutionalization throughout the first decade of the Reform Era (1998-2008).The book gives the readers insights and understandings into the dynamics of Islamic parties in Indonesia’s contemporary politics and contains numerous interesting facts and studies. The first set of sections discuss the causes behind Islamic parties’ inability to maintain the integrity and internal cohesion and the impacts of consistency in upholding the party’s constitution and procedures that ensure a high degree of trust in the party. The second explores the effect of the presence of competent and institutionalized conflict mechanisms on the stirring of an internal sense of justice. The next set of chapters investigate the influence of systematic cadreization on the development of esprit de corps, in which accomplishments rather than likes or dislikes define a cadre’s position, and finally, the effect of commitment to the party’s shared values or agreed-upon ideology on putting the party’s interests first is examined. This is a must-read book for undergraduate students, lecturers, researchers of politics and religion, Islamic studies, political science, political sociology, and Asian studies.
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Ethical Assemblages Of Artificial Intelligence - Controversies, Uncertainties, And Networks

by Helena Machado e Susana Silva

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 This book critically examines the ethical challenges of Artificial Intelligence (AI), focusing on facial recognition and AI-assisted reproductive technologies.
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Future Design For Creating A World Worth Inheriting

by Tatsuyoshi Saijo

~~158,34€~~ 142,51€ 10% OFF

 This book, "Future Design for Creating a World Worth Inheriting," presents our vision and practical framework for redesigning society to activate our collective futurability. Join us in this crucial endeavor to create a world our descendants will thank us for - a world truly worth inheriting.
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Strengthening Health System Governance In The Kurdistan Region Of Iraq

by Austen Garwood-Gowers e Azhin Omer

~~52,99€~~ 47,69€ 10% OFF

 This book is a nuanced study of healthcare provision and health systems governance in the Kurdistan Region in Iraq (KRI).
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Reshaping Rohingya Futures - Coping Strategies And Emerging Agencies

~~158,34€~~ 142,51€ 10% OFF

 This edited book presents many hitherto unaddressed aspects of post-genocide Rohingya lives in refugee camps in Bangladesh. Amid an everyday struggle for daily essentials, violent tensions within and outside the camps, growing anti-Rohingya sentiment in the host community as well as the decreasing international support during the repatriation process, Rohingya adolescents and youths show strategies of coping and agency to alter their present and reshape their future. An upsurge in digital literacy, mounting transnational connectivity, growing engagement with diaspora Rohingya activism and a cumulative presence in social media for sentiment mobilisation on a local and global scale has motivated them to bring about change for themselves and their community within the camps. This book accommodates such fresh and high-quality research on the Rohingya refugees living in the borderland of Bangladesh and Myanmar, conducted by acclaimed academics, professional researchers, and committed activists from across the world, for researchers and students of migration, sociology of race and ethnicity, anthropology, diaspora studies, peace and conflict studies and social work.
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Social Life Of Biogas - Biogas Users And Their Innovations In Indonesia

by Meredian Alam

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 Addressing a specific concern, the discussion considers the development of household biogas from an interdisciplinary sociological perspective and addresses the success factors for the implementation of biogas policy on the household level in Indonesia.
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Anthropocene, Ontopolitics, And International Relations

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 This book addresses the ongoing need to explore the implications of the â€˜Anthropoceneâ€™ rupture for the field of International Relations (IR).
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Twenty Years Of China'S Ageing Society: Achievements, Challenges, And Prospects

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 For the first time in Chinese history, it systematically summarizes the development process, achievements and challenges of China from the year 2000 to 2020, and illustrates the exploration process of the theory and practice to actively address population ageing with Chinese characteristics.
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Interrogating Development - The Mobilisation Of Science, Technologies, And Technical Assistance In Postwar Mexico

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 This volume explores the diverse meanings and ways of implementing development programs and technical assistance projects, through several case studies grounded in Mexico but transcending its geography. Despite - or perhaps because of - claims of "revolutionary nationalism", Mexico played a crucial international role during the decades following World War II, both by challenging and enacting developmentalist models, values, and projects that stressed national priorities, resonating beyond its borders and even outside Latin America. <span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: ''Times New Roman'',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: ''Times New Roman''; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Energy, irrigation, communication infrastructures, nuclear technologies, public health, and patents, are meaningful examples explored in this volume of the mobilisation of science and technologies understood in a broad sense, including not only the natural and social sciences, but also bureaucratic technologies that accompanied infrastructural and industrial projects. These case studies interrogate the specific agents and mechanisms of technical assistance put to work to meet local priorities, which in turn required and informed different international models and ideas of development.
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Palgrave Handbook On Decoloniality In Asia

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 This Handbook brings together a plethora of decolonial perspectives from and about Asian countries beyond Southeast Asia.
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New Faces Of Political Islam In The Middle East - A Survey Of 15 Countries After The Arab Spring

by Defbry Margiansyah, Dhurorudin Mashad, M. Fakhry Ghafur, M. Hamdan Basyar e Nostalgiawan Wahyudhi

~~158,34€~~ 142,51€ 10% OFF

 This book provides a survey of the political situation in 15 Arab countries in the Middle East and North Africa and provides overviews of associated post-Arab Spring politics, with an emphasis of political Islamist movements.
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Tourist Experience And Perception In The Pandemic And Post-Pandemic Era

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 This book is a collection of selected papers from the 11th international Conference on Tourism and Hospitality between China and Spain (www.china-spain.org). The COVID-19 pandemic was a global unprecedented event which was a huge crisis and challenge for the tourism and hospitality industry to confront.
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