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  • Inequality, Socio-cultural Differentiation and Social Structures in Africa

    Beyond Class

    by Dieter Neubert ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book contends that conventional class concepts are not able to adequately capture social inequality and socio-cultural differentiation in Africa. Earlier empirical findings concerning ethnicity, neo-traditional authorities, patron-client relations, lifestyles, gender, social networks, informal social security, and even the older debate on class in Africa, have provided evidence that class ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Local Self-Governance and Varieties of Statehood

    Tensions and Cooperation

    Edited by Dieter Neubert, Hans-Joachim Lauth, Christoph Mohamad-Klotzbach ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The debate on governance originates in the OECD world. At the latest since the postcolonial debate, we know that we need to “test” our assumptions under radically different conditions. This book offers an extended perspective of local self-governance by examining cases from South Asia, Africa, and Latin America, together with a study of militias in the USA. The chapters present a wide variety of ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

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    by Yoichi Mine ...
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  • Diaspora, Development, and Democracy

    The Domestic Impact of International Migration from India

    by Devesh Kapur ...
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  • Negotiating Statehood

    Dynamics of Power and Domination in Africa

    Edited by Tobias Hagmann, Didier Péclard ...
    Negotiating Statehood: Dynamics of Power and Domination in Africa provides a conceptual framework for analysing dynamic processes of state-making in Africa.Features a conceptual framework which provides a method for analysing the everyday making, contestation, and negotiation of statehood in contemporary AfricaConceptualizes who negotiates statehood (the actors, resources and repertoires), where ... Read more

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  • Refugee Protection and the Role of Law

    Conflicting Identities

    Edited by Susan Kneebone, Dallal Stevens, Loretta Baldassar ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Asylum, Migration and Refugee Law
    Sixty years on from the signing of the Refugee Convention, forced migration and refugee movements continue to raise global concerns for hosting states and regions, for countries of origin, for humanitarian organisations on the ground, and, of course, for the refugee. This edited volume is framed around two themes which go to the core of contemporary ‘refugeehood’: protection and identity. It ... Read more

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  • The Persistent Power of Human Rights

    From Commitment to Compliance

    Edited by Thomas Risse, Stephen C. Ropp, Kathryn Sikkink ...
    Series Book 126 - Cambridge Studies in International Relations
    The Power of Human Rights (published in 1999) was an innovative and influential contribution to the study of international human rights. At its center was a 'spiral model' of human rights change which described the various socialization processes through which international norms were internalized into the domestic practices of various authoritarian states during the Cold War years. The Persistent ... Read more

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  • Comparative Planning Cultures

    Edited by Sanyal Bishwapriya ...
    Bringing together leading planning and urban scholars, and including fascinating international case studies, this unique book investigates urban planning across the world and in different cultures. ... Read more

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  • Women's Human Rights

    CEDAW in International, Regional and National Law

    Edited by Anne Hellum, Henriette Sinding Aasen ...
    Series Book 3 - Studies on Human Rights Conventions
    As an instrument which addresses the circumstances which affect women's lives and enjoyment of rights in a diverse world, the CEDAW is slowly but surely making its mark on the development of international and national law. Using national case studies from South Asia, Southern Africa, Australia, Canada and Northern Europe, Women's Human Rights examines the potential and actual added value of the ... Read more

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  • Human Rights

    Current Issues and Controversies

    Edited by Gordon DiGiacomo ...
    Written largely by Canadian scholars for Canadian readers, this overview of contemporary human rights concerns introduces the human rights instruments—provincial, national, and international—which protect Canadians. The volume begins with an outline of the history of human rights before moving on to discuss such important topics as the relationship between political institutions and rights ... Read more

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  • Disaster, Conflict and Society in Crises

    Everyday Politics of Crisis Response

    Edited by Dorothea Hilhorst ...
    Series series Routledge Humanitarian Studies
    Humanitarian crises - resulting from conflict, natural disaster or political collapse – are usually perceived as a complete break from normality, spurring special emergency policies and interventions. In reality, there are many continuities and discontinuities between crisis and normality. What does this mean for our understanding of politics, aid, and local institutions during crises? This book ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Governance and Limited Statehood

    Edited by Thomas Risse, Anke Draude, Tanja A. Börzel ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Unpacking the major debates, this Oxford Handbook brings together leading authors of the field to provide a state-of-the-art guide to governance in areas of limited statehood where state authorities lack the capacity to implement and enforce central decision and/or to uphold the monopoly over the means of violence. While areas of limited statehood can be found everywhere - not just in the global ... Read more

    $136.79 USD