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Global South Powers In Transition - A Comparative Analysis Of Mexico And South Africa

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 Employing a novel collaborative transnational methodology, this ground-breaking book presents the first comprehensive and systematic comparison of Mexico and South Africa. Although geographically, historically and diplomatically far apart, Mexico and South Africa are ambitious and influential powers in the Global South and also experience wide-ranging domestic transitions. A binational team of 26 researchers from the two countries, all specialists in their respective disciplines, probe the transitions that Mexico and South Africa are undergoing in areas such as socio-cultural diversity, domestic politics, economic development, labour dynamics, social and territorial inequality, food security, crime and violence, and foreign relations. The detailed country studies allow the authors to identify striking similarities but also profound differences between the two societies. In so doing, the book helps to explain Mexico and South Africa to each other but also to the world at large.
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Pass Or Fail? - Assessing The Quality Of Democracy In South Africa

by Victoria Graham

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 In recent years, growing concerns over the strength of South Africas democracy appear to indicate a population increasingly disillusioned and dissatisfied with the quality of its implementation. This book assesses the quality of democracy in South Africa after 20 years of democracy in order to ascertain whether or not this growing perception is valid. Since the inception of democracy in 1994 there have been countless procedural and substantive improvements in addressing historically entrenched political, social and economic problems; however, there are serious issues that have emerged relating to the quality of democratic implementation in South Africa. Two existing analytical frameworks of democracy assessment, International IDEAs State of Democracy framework and Leonardo Morlinos tool for empirical research on democratic qualities, TODEM, are utilised to assess the quality of South Africas rule of law and institutional capacity; representative and accountable government; civil society and popular participation; and freedom and equality after 20 years of democracy. The book concludes cautiously that while South Africa faces many serious and threatening potholes in the road to a fully successful democracy, there is nevertheless much to applaud.
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Globalization, Violence And Security - Local Impacts Of Regional Integration

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 This collection is a great contribution to the field of violence and security studies. It presents six comparative, cross-regional analyses of violence and security, with both theoretical contributions and empirical researches conducted in Mexico, Morocco, Colombia, South Africa and Brazil. The book looks at violence and security within the broader contexts of globalization and regionalization as forces that shape the way discourses are understood with very concrete real-life consequences. Articles in the collection also discuss identity politics, indigenous cultures, race and ethnicity, and mass media in relation to violence and security. The book is uniquely tri-lingual with articles written in English, Spanish and French, and it also includes a preface by RISC president Harlan Koff.
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Aménagement Rural Et Qualification Territoriale - Les Indications Géographiques En France Et En Europe

by Marc Dedeire

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 Lobjectif de cet ouvrage est triple : il pose dabord la question du rôle de la qualité, comme concept et outil, et des ressources territoriales dans le développement local et laménagement rural. Il permet ensuite, à travers les questions de lenjeu de lalimentation, de la gestion des espaces ruraux et du foncier, dinterroger les instruments de la qualification territoriale à partir de lexemple des Appellations dOrigines Protégées (AOP) et les Indications Géographiques Protégées (IGP). Ces instruments offrent des opportunités de dynamisation des territoires et interrogent les nouveaux enjeux de laménagement du territoire rural en France et en Europe. Enfin, il met en débat un cadre théorique sur la qualification territoriale par croisement des diverses politiques rurales de la qualité. Ce livre aborde successivement les questions des trajectoires de la qualification et des ressources territoriales à partir de terrains français « englobés » pour partie dans des logiques métropolitaines. Plus largement, laction publique locale montre que la qualité est aujourdhui attendue et réclamée par la société et conditionne souvent la mise en ½uvre de solutions spécifiques daménagement des espaces. Tout en mobilisant une approche interdisciplinaire, cette étude contribue à élargir le champ de laménagement de lespace en incluant les questions de la connaissance, mais aussi de la cognition spatiale à travers différents statuts de lespace rural, dans des contextes économiques et géographiques variées.
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Stratégies Et Politiques De Reconnaissance Et Didentité - Les Indiens Wayuu Et Le Projet Minier Du Cerrejón En Colombie

by Claudia Puerta Silva

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 Le Cerrejón est une opération dexploitation à grande échelle de charbon minéral à ciel ouvert dans la péninsule Guajira. Ce projet minier, dont les installations se composent dune mine, dune voie ferrée et dun port maritime, date de la fin des années 1970, fruit dune association entre lÉtat colombien et une filiale dExxon, multinationale états-unienne. Linstallation de la mine, transformant le territoire, léconomie ainsi que lordre social et politique, fut un événement fondamental dans lhistoire des Wayuu ou Goajiros, habitants ancestraux de la péninsule, qui virent leurs conditions de vie bouleversées. Cette étude propose une analyse du processus darticulation des Indiens au projet minier. Les questions se centrent sur les relations entre les Wayuu, la multinationale et lÉtat, sur une période de près de trente ans (1976-2004). Lanalyse aborde deux processus en interrelation. Le premier est lactivation de stratégies par les Wayuu, pour faire face et sadapter à ce projet géo-politico-économique. Le second est celui des mécanismes mis en ½uvre par lÉtat et la multinationale pour installer la mine et assurer sa viabilité et sa sécurité. Les Wayuu nont pas résisté au « développement ». Ils en ont réinterprété les perspectives afin denvisager leurs projections de vie, à laune de leurs nouvelles conditions dexistence. Le développement sest progressivement constitué dans une dimension politique renvoyant à une théorie de gestion du futur garantissant les axes de la reproduction socioethnique wayuu. Cest à travers la production dune politique de revendication identitaire que les Wayuu se sont finalement articulés au projet minier, promis à durer trente ans de plus, sans pour autant se soumettre à son « inévitabilité ».
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Action Locale Et Développement Rural En Europe - Le Modèle Européen Leader 20072013

by Pascal Chevalier

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 Cet ouvrage a un triple objectif. Il permet dabord de revenir sur lémergence de nouveaux espaces et scènes de laction publique locale et sur la diversification des ressources mobilisées par les acteurs qui contribuent à la construction pluraliste des politiques daménagement rural. Il permet aussi dinterroger les différentes caractéristiques des transformations de laction publique dans un contexte de nouvelles formes de coordination entre acteurs publics et acteurs privés. Dans une perspective résolument géographique, cet ouvrage permet enfin dappréhender le territoire comme lieu de gestion et de projets de développement rural. Partant de ces trois entrées, ce livre questionne laction publique en prenant comme exemple la politique européenne de développement rural. Au-delà de son contenu intrinsèque et de son mode délaboration, cest sa mise en ½uvre dans les territoires ruraux qui retient ici lattention. Tout en faisant preuve « dinterdiscipline » cest-à-dire sans évacuer les emprunts très nombreux et les apports variés disciplinaires et a-disciplinaires le sens de ce livre est alors de contribuer, via lanalyse de la mise en ½uvre des politiques de développement rural en Europe, à cette géographie de laction publique à définir entre acteurs et territoires ruraux.
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Perspectivas Comparativas Del Liderazgo / Comparative Perspectives On Leadership - Risc 2008

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Intercultural Communication

by David Pinto

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Trends In Dutch Teacher Education

by Stekenborg Willems

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I Am Waldviertel

by Carla Kogelman

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Theorizing Borders Through Analyses Of Power Relationships

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 The cumulative body of research on borderlands is impressive for its diversity, its interdisciplinarity and its broad scope. One of the richest characteristics of this field is the tendency for scholars to treat borderlands as puzzles which need to be (re)composed. This tendency, however, may impede more ambitious efforts at «theorizing borders», as scholars put forward theories based on empirical cases located in a variety of institutional, economic, cultural and environmental contexts. This volume, which includes both theoretical and empirical contributions from leading scholars in diverse fields related to borderlands studies, takes a different approach to theorization and borders. It contends that the theorizing of borders must include the notion of complexity. Instead of proposing a monolithic theory, it adopts strategy that pluralizes theory-building around a core theme which affects different spheres of borderlands studies. Specifically, it examines how power relationships affect border integration in the fields of political cooperation (with a particular focus on local government), spatial planning, environmental management and language policies and practices. While integration processes differ in each of these fields, they are always affected by local power dynamics. Instead of studying the differences that exist between different integration arenas, the contributors to this volume explore the idea of power as a federating theme. The books innovative aim is to identify a common thread around which «border theory» can be constructed, while respecting geographic and thematic differences in border integration processes.
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Regional Integration And Social Cohesion - Perspectives From The Developing World

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 This book examines key challenges to the cultivation of social cohesion at the regional and national levels. It asks the question whether regional integration as currently practised presents a hospitable site for the cultivation and delivery of social goods in Africa and elsewhere in the developing world.
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Social Cohesion In Europe And The Americas / Cohesion Social En Europa Y Las Americas - Power, Time And Space / Poder, Tiempo Y Espacio

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Theorizing Borders Through Analyses Of Power Relationships

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Reinforcing Governance - Perspectives On Development, Poverty And Global Crises Â€“ Risc 2010

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 Examines poverty and development within the framework of recent global crises and governance, with contributions from keynote panels at the 2010 Conference of the Consortium for Regional Integration and Social Cohesion, which focused in particular on concepts of fragility, development, vulnerability and democracy.
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Pass Or Fail? - Assessing The Quality Of Democracy In South Africa

by Victoria Graham

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 The overall purpose of this book assesses the quality of democracy in South Africa after 20 years of democracy and in so doing, to ascertain whether or not this growing perception is valid.
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Regional Integration And Social Cohesion - Perspectives From The Developing World

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 This book examines key challenges to the cultivation of social cohesion at the regional and national levels. It asks the question whether regional integration as currently practised presents a hospitable site for the cultivation and delivery of social goods in Africa and elsewhere in the developing world.
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Strategic Natural Resource Governance / La Gouvernance Des Ressources Naturelles Stratégiques - Contemporary Environmental Perspectives / Perspectives Contemporaines Dans Le Domaine De Lenvironnement

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 Natural resources are exploited on a daily basis to provide basic services but they are managed for different purposes. Strategic environmental governance has been one of the most successful notions in the political arena and in the academic literature in recent times. This book presents different approaches to environmental governance, aiming to understand the roles of different stakeholders at different levels, which is a key issue in the field of environment and natural resources. The book is essential reading for researchers, students and decision-makers involved in the management of natural resources at local, regional, national and international levels. Les ressources naturelles sont exploitées quotidiennement pour fournir des besoins élémentaires, mais elles sont également gérées pour différentes finalités. La notion de gouvernance environnementale stratégique a sans doute été lune des notions ayant rencontré le plus de succès au niveau politique comme dans les milieux académiques, ces vingt dernières années, et un bilan savère aujourdhui nécessaire. Cet ouvrage présente différentes approches de la gouvernance environnementale, visant notamment à comprendre le rôle des acteurs à différentes échelles, ce qui constitue un enjeu essentiel dans le domaine de lenvironnement et des ressources naturelles. Cet ouvrage est destiné à un large lectorat composé de scientifiques, détudiants, mais aussi de gestionnaires de lenvironnement opérant à toutes les échelles, du local à linternational.
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Reinforcing Governance - Perspectives On Development, Poverty And Global Crises Risc 2010

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 Examines poverty and development within the framework of recent global crises and governance, with contributions from keynote panels at the 2010 Conference of the Consortium for Regional Integration and Social Cohesion, which focused in particular on concepts of fragility, development, vulnerability and democracy.

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