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Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The purpose of this concluding chapter is two-fold. On the one hand, we want to tease out and summarize the key fi ndings of the diff erent chapters. What do these studies tell us, collectively? On the other hand, we want to extrapolate from these fi ndings and the current literature to off er concrete stakeholder advice to politicians, journalists, and citizens who are all confronted with the challenge of populist politics and populist messages....
Publisher
SpringerOpen
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This open access book deals with contestations “from below” of legal policies and implementation practices in asylum and deportation. Consequently, it covers three types of mobilization: solidarity protests against the deportation of refused asylum seekers, refugee activism campaigning for residence rights and inclusion, and restrictive protests against the reception of asylum seekers. By applying both a longitudinal analysis of protest events...
Author
Publisher
IntechOpen
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The chapter discusses how adopting a holistic methodology that acknowledges sociological factors, including community participation, public involvement, social perception, attitudes, gender roles and public acceptance, would lead to improvements in wastewater management practice. It highlights the social dimension as a tool, a lens through which wastewater management and reuse can take on new dimensions. In this way, this chapter aims to shift the...
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
While portrayals of immigrants and their descendants in France and throughout Europe often center on burning cars and radical Islam, Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France paints a different picture. Through fieldwork and interviews in Paris and its banlieues, Jean Beaman examines middle-class and upwardly mobile children of maghrébin, or North African immigrants. By showing how these individuals are denied cultural citizenship...
Author
Publisher
SpringerOpen
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This open-access monograph provides sociological insight into governmental action on the administration of asylum in the European context. It offers an in-depth understanding of how decision-making officials encounter and respond to structural contradictions in the asylum procedure produced by diverging legal, political, and administrative objectives. The study focuses on structural aspects on the one hand, such as legal and organisational elements,
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Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Questions concerning mobility and migration as well as subsistence strategies of past societies have always been of major importance in archaeological research. The West Eurasian steppes in the Eneolithic, the Early Bronze and the Iron Age were largely inhabited by cultural communities believed to show an elevated level of spatial mobility, often linked to their subsistence economy. In this volume, questions concerning the mobility and potential
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Publisher
Pluto Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Think of Latin America and what do you see? Escape? Adventure? Chaos? Oblivion? Lost Worlds explores how these stereotypes came into being and what they tells us about ourselves. Examining a range of texts, from Southey's epics to Naipaul's essays, from Conan Doyle's gentlemen adventurers to Kerouac's restless hipsters, this book reveals the role that Latin America has played in British, US and Australian endeavours in the nineteenth and twentieth...
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
While concepts of Earth have a rich tradition, more recent examples show a distinct quality: Though ideas of wholeness might still be related to mythical, religious, or utopian visions of the past, ''Earth'' itself has become available as a whole. This raises several questions: How are the notions of one Earth or our Planet imagined and distributed? What is the role of cultural imagination and practices of signification in the imagination of ''the...
Author
Publisher
Transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
How do people live together in cities shaped by inequality? This comparative ethnography of two African cities, Maputo and Johannesburg, presents a new narrative about social life in cities often described as sharply divided.
Based on the ethnography of entangled lives unfolding in a township and in a suburb in Johannesburg, in a bairro and in an elite neighborhood in Maputo, the book includes case studies of relations between domestic workers
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Publisher
Countryside and Community Research Institute
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
The idea for this book came slowly following a gradual collection of blog posts on the CCRI website in recent years. The posts centred around the general theme of how we manage shared assets and what alternative approaches there might be, informed by research and practice in the governance of commons resources. The whole area of commons and management of common pool resources has become more topical over the last 6 years following the award of the...
13) Development and Challenges of Japan DMORT (Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team) Association
Author
Publisher
Morressier
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Author
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
This book sheds light on the integration processes and identity patterns of Angolan, Brazilian and Eastern European communities in Portugal. It examines the privileged position that immigrant organisations hold as interlocutors between the communities they represent and various social service mechanisms operating at national and local levels. Through the collection of ethnographic data and the realisation of 110 interviews with community insiders...
Author
Publisher
IntechOpen
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The purpose of this study was to analyze the socioeconomic factors that influence the beekeeping process and describe the current situation in beekeeping technology development in the south and southeast regions of Jalisco. The study was conducted by reviewing secondary sources of documentary information and the primary information was obtained by means of a survey, analyzing demographic, social, technological, and economic variables. From January...
Publisher
Springer Open
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This text presents information about museums and museology in present-day Asia, focusing on Japan, Mongolia, Myanmar, and Thailand. Asian countries today have developed or are developing their own museology and museums, which are not simple copies of European or North American models. This book provides readers with carefully chosen examples of museum activities - for example, exhibition and sharing information, database construction, access to and...
Author
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Indigenous Invisibility in the City contextualises the significant social change in Indigenous life circumstances and resurgence that came out of social movements in cities. It is about Indigenous resurgence and community development by First Nations people for First Nations people in cities.Seventy-five years ago, First Nations peoples began a significant post-war period of relocation to cities in the United States, Canada, Australia, and Aotearoa...
Author
Publisher
Morressier
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
INTRODUCTION Antidiscrimination programs are a key part of mental health prevention. Slovenian medical students of the project u201cV odsevuu201d (eng. In reflection) conduct workshops for adolescents (age 15 - 18) to inform them about mental disorders, raising awareness and de-stigmatizing. OBJECTIVES Comparing opinions of the conductors and participants on the anti-discriminatory workshops by exploring the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and...
Author
Publisher
InTech
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This chapter examines the level of public awareness, attitude and willingness to participate in value-added waste disposal for environmental sustainability in developing countries, using Port Harcourt city, Nigeria as a case study. Possible factors contributing to lack of willingness to participate in value-added waste disposal are also discussed. This is Chapter 9 in the book "Municipal and Industrial Waste Disposal", edited by Xiao-Ying Yu.
Publisher
Frontiers Media
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
In this eBook, Conceptual Categories and the Structure of Reality, the title very well describes the book's content. Within the book's pages a selection of academics from a variety of human behaviour, human/social science and humanities disciplines write about their research all of which can be typified by their consideration of how categories are used to structure understanding of phenomena. These authors have considered how reality may be understood...
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