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Resettlement is a global phenomenon once again at the forefront of political debate in Newfoundland and Labrador. This collection, edited by political scientist Isabelle Cté and geographer Yolande Pottie-Sherman, presents an assembly of interdisciplinary voices situating Newfoundland and Labrador resettlement (past, present, and future) in conversation with relocation debates in other places such Quebec and Northern Canada, Greenland, and Ireland....
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How do people deal with diversity in deprived and mixed urban neighbourhoods? This edited collection provides a comparative international perspective on superdiversity in cities, with explicit attention given to social inequality and social exclusion on a neighbourhood level. Although public discourses on urban diversity are often negative, this book focuses on how residents actively and creatively come and live together through micro-level interactions....
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Esta obra reúne una serie de ensayos sobre el contexto de la paz negociada entre las FARC-EP y el Estado de Colombia, a partir de la labor realizada por la Comisión para el Esclarecimiento de la Verdad, la Convivencia y la No repetición, entre los años 2016-2021. En la investigación desarrollamos, siguiendo a Antonio Gramsci, una propuesta de acercamiento a la "historia integral" de los subalternos. Por ello, este es un ejercicio novedoso, inter...
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Brings relational sociology to bear on educational research.
Relational sociology was conceived by theorists frustrated by what they viewed as an incomplete accounting of social reality. Torn between notions of structural rigidity, on the one hand, and rational choice individualism, on the other, relational sociologists have sought new units of analysis. Social reality, they have argued, is manufactured through relationships. People are who they...
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Cities, by their very nature, are a mass of contradictions. They can be at once visually stunning, culturally rich, exploitative and unforgiving. In The Lure of the City Austin Williams and Alastair Donald explore the potential of cities to meet the economic, social and political challenges of the current age.
This book seeks to examine the dynamics of urban life, showing that new opportunities can be maximised and social advances realised in...
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Although asserting one's ethnic identity is not morally wrong, the manner in which one ethnic group construes or relates to the ethnic other(s) can obliterate the bond of togetherness and create the insecurity of life. Ethiopia, which is home to anthropologically diverse ethno-linguistic groups, exhibits a proclivity to ethnic-based hostilities and conflicts. As a result of such hostilities, Ethiopia had suffered recurrent small- and large-scale deaths,...
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A provocative survey of interdisciplinary challenges to the concept of reductionism.
During the last few decades, the fundamental premises of the modern view of knowledge have been increasingly called into question. Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge II: Reductionism provides an in-depth look at the debates surrounding the status of "reductionism" in the sciences, social sciences, and the humanities in detailed and wide-ranging...
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Con motivo de la celebración de las elecciones europeas de 2014, la Universitat de València organizó las jornadas? La encrucijada de Europa?, que contaron con la participación de profesionales de las Facultades de Derecho, Economía y Geografía e Historia. Las reflexiones presentadas en aquellas jornadas, se recogen en esta publicación. Desde un enfoque multidisciplinario tratan de esclarecer algunas de las cuestiones generales e institucionales...
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A comprehensive exploration of racial inequality in New York City since 1965.
In the past, the study of racial inequality in New York City has usually had a narrow focus, examining particular social problems affecting ethnic-racial groups. In contrast, this book provides a comprehensive overview of racial inequality in the city's economy, housing, and education sectors over the last half-century. A collection of original essays by some of New York's...
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Through time people have lived with darkness. Archaeology shows us that over the whole human journey people have sought out dark places, for burials, for votive deposition and sometimes for retreat or religious ritual away from the wider community. Thirteen papers explore Palaeolithic use of deep caves in Europe and the orientation of mortuary monuments in the Neolithic and Bronze Age. It examines how the senses are affected in caves and monuments...
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A pioneering approach to social theory that rectifies overreliance on Western historical experience of development and modernization.
In this pioneering volume, leading international scholars argue for the development of a new approach to social theory that draws on regional studies for the conduct of comparative analysis in the global age. Social Theory and Regional Studies in the Global Age moves beyond facile generalizations based on the historical...
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El interés por los Fueros, su historia y su época nunca ha desaparecido del todo. Una muestra de ello es este libro, donde un grupo de profesores de la Universitat de València reúnen un conjunto de reflexiones sobre aspectos muy diversos del legado foral. Por una parte, se estudia el origen y la aplicación del derecho en la época de vigencia de la legislación valenciana y, por otra, se analiza la realidad de ese derecho tras su abolición,...
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Hablar de diversidad sexual en educación supone romper varias barreras que actualmente siguen imperando. Sin embargo, las experiencias didácticas reunidas en este libro muestran que es posible superar estas limitaciones desde la perspectiva de la educación artística. A partir del trabajo en diversos niveles de enseñanza y en países diferentes, los museos, las revistas, las exposiciones e incluso las series de televisión, se convierten en espacios...
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Reveals how the expanding world-system entangled the non-western world in global economies, yet did so in ways that were locally articulated, varied, and, often, non-European in their expression.
This interdisciplinary volume brings together a richly substantive collection of case studies that examine European-indigene interactions, economic relations, and their materialities in the formation of the modern world. Research has demonstrated the extent...
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A provocative survey of interdisciplinary challenges to the concept of dualism.
During the last few decades, the fundamental premises of the modern view of knowledge have been increasingly called into question. Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge III: Dualism provides an in-depth look at the debates surrounding the status of "dualism" in the sciences, social sciences, and the humanities in detailed and wide-ranging discussions...
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Una contribución esencial al debate sobre el futuro de la Unión Europea, tras el fracaso del proyecto de Constitución y las sucesivas ampliaciones. Aun así en la nueva geografía del siglo XX, marcada por el ascenso económico asiático y las indecisiones norteamericanas, la Unión Europea deberá replantear objetivos y funcionamiento.
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A provocative survey of interdisciplinary challenges to the concept of determinism.
During the last few decades, the fundamental premises of the modern view of knowledge have been increasingly called into question. Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge I: Determinism provides an in-depth look at the debates surrounding the status of "determinism" in the sciences, social sciences, and the humanities in detailed and wide-ranging...
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¿Pueden las películas transformar la realidad en ficción y la ficción en realidad? ¿Es el cine una fuente para aprender derecho y para tener mejores abogados? ¿Las películas pueden educar? El cine entretiene, cuestiona, divierte, pregunta. También puede servir como propaganda política o en general influir en la formación de las ideas, pero además promueve la reflexión sobre el rol que cumple el derecho en la historia. Este libro se refiere...
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How do children construct, negotiate and organize space? The study of social space in any human group is fraught with limitations, and to these we must add the further limits involved in the study of childhood. Here specialists from archaeology, history, literature, architecture, didactics, museology and anthropology build a body of theoretical and methodological approaches about how space is articulated and organized around children and how this...
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