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“lyn schumaker”

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  • Africanizing Anthropology

    Fieldwork, Networks, and the Making of Cultural Knowledge in Central Africa

    by Lyn Schumaker ...
    Africanizing Anthropology tells the story of the anthropological fieldwork centered at the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) during the mid-twentieth century. Focusing on collaborative processes rather than on the activity of individual researchers, Lyn Schumaker gives the assistants and informants of anthropologists a central role in the making of anthropological ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Méthod(e)s

    African Review of Social Science Methodology. Revue africaine de méthodologie des sciences sociales

    by Jean-Bernard Ouédraogo, Lyn Schumaker, Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Vuyisile Msila, Theobald Frank Theodory, Olajide Oloyede, Bert van Pinxteren, Virginie Tallio, Njabulo Chipangura, Francis Fogue Kuate, Joao Marcelo Maia, Alberto Guerreiro Ramos, Stéphane Dufoix, Syed Farid Alatas, Aldon Morris, Armelle Lefebvre, Ananta Kumar Giri ...
    The bilingual, French–English journal Méthod(e)s, founded in 2015, is an African initiative with the objective to enlarge the methodological debates on the Global South. The desire for a strong understanding of methodology is to situate it above academic trends, thereby placing it in line with a universal history of the sciences. Just as calling dominant paradigms into question leaves room for ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • Federalism and the Constitution of Canada

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  • International Law and International Relations

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    In this fully updated and revised edition, the authors explore the evolution, nature and function of international law in world politics and situate international law in its historical and political context. They propose three interdisciplinary 'lenses' (realist, liberal and constructivist) through which to view the role of international law in world politics and suggest that the concept of an ... Read more

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  • Power Shift

    From Party Elites to Informed Citizens

    by Vaughan Lyon ...
    The Message of POWER SHIFT:Fed up with politics-as-usual? Most Canadians are. They (83%) want their MP to represent them and not a party in the House of Commons. Political parties, however, do not consider reforms that would shift significant power from them to citizens. Professor Lyon, breaking the party silence, speaks strongly in support of the interests of his fellow citizens.Drawing on years ... Read more

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  • Visionaries, Crusaders, and Firebrands

    The Idealistic Canadians Who Built the NDP

    by Lynn Gidluck ...
    As an idealist and a visionary, Jack Layton connected with millions of Canadians who saw that he was a different kind of political leader. So did Tommy Douglas, chosen as the greatest Canadian ever by CBC's television audience.The New Democratic Party and its predecessor, the CCF, have often chosen leaders who resonated with the Canadian public. In fact, the vision and the ideals of the leaders of ... Read more

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  • Dynasties and Interludes

    Past and Present in Canadian Electoral Politics

    by Lawrence LeDuc, Jon H. Pammett, Judith I. McKenzie, André Turcotte ...
    Dynasties and Interludes provides a comprehensive and unique overview of elections and voting in Canada from Confederation to the recent spate of minority governments. Its principal argument is that the Canadian political landscape has consisted of long periods of hegemony of a single party and/or leader (dynasties), punctuated by short, sharp disruptions brought about by the sudden rise of new ... Read more

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  • The People's House of Commons

    Theories of Democracy in Contention

    by David E. Smith ...
    Canada's House of Commons has come under considerable attack in recent years. Many critics have contended that the House has been unresponsive to public opinion, and that its party leaders have too much control, while leaving individual MPs essentially powerless. The House has also faced challenges by the courts since the introduction of the Charter, a powerful bureaucracy equipped with ... Read more

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  • Development, Security and Unending War

    Governing the World of Peoples

    by Mark Duffield ...
    According to politicians, we now live in a radically interconnected world. Unless there is international stability – even in the most distant places – the West's way of life is threatened. In meeting this global danger, reducing poverty and developing the unstable regions of the world are now imperative. In what has become a truism of the post-Cold War period, security without development is ... Read more

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  • Waiting for the Wave: The Reform Party and the Conservative Movement

    by Tom Flanagan ...
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  • Across the Aisle

    Opposition in Canadian Politics

    by David E. Smith ...
    How do parties with official opposition status influence Canadian politics? Across the Aisle is an innovative examination of the theory and practice of opposition in Canada, both in Parliament and in provincial legislatures. Extending from the pre-Confederation era to the present day, it focuses on whether Canada has developed a coherent tradition of parliamentary opposition.David E. Smith argues ... Read more

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