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  • The Sustainability Imperative in Media Development

    A Critical Analysis of a Self-Serving Myth

    by Michel Leroy ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book critically examines how the media assistance and broader 'development' sector have appropriated the catch-all concept of sustainability, originally rooted in economic and environmental fields, to suit their agendas.Analysing 289 project evaluations conducted globally between 1999 and 2019, it scrutinizes the tacit discourses underpinning what Bourdieu termed “the imperialism of the ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD

  • Developments in Language Theory

    21st International Conference, DLT 2017, Liège, Belgium, August 7-11, 2017, Proceedings

    Edited by Émilie Charlier, Julien Leroy, Michel Rigo ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Developments in Language Theory, DLT 2017, held in Liège, Belgium, in August 2017.The 24 full papers and 6 (abstract of) invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. The papers cover the following topics and areas: combinatorial and algebraic properties of words and languages; grammars ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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    Series series Routledge Masters in Public Management
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  • Handbook of Public Policy Analysis

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    Series series Public Administration and Public Policy
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  • Health Promotion and the Policy Process

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance

    Edited by Stephen Boucher, Carina Antonia Hallin, Lex Paulson ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance explores the concepts, methodologies, and implications of collective intelligence for democratic governance, in the first comprehensive survey of this field.Illustrated by a collection of inspiring case studies and edited by three pioneers in collective intelligence, this handbook serves as a unique primer on the science ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Cooperative Economics and Management

    Edited by Jerome Nikolai Warren, Lucio Biggiero, Jamin Hübner, Kemi Ogunyemi ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
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  • Taming the Big Green Elephant

    Setting in Motion the Transformation Towards Sustainability

    by Ariel Macaspac Hernández ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    In this open access publication it is shown, that sustainable low carbon development is a transformative process that constitutes the shifting from the initially chosen or taken pathway to another pathway as goals have been re-visited and revised to enable the system to adapt to changes. However, shifting entails transition costs that are accrued through the effects of lock-ins that have framed ... Read more

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  • Shifting Categories of Work

    Unsettling the Ways We Think about Jobs, Labor, and Activities

    Edited by Lisa Herzog, Bénédicte Zimmermann ...
    What do human beings do when they work, how is work organized, and what are its multidimensional – economic, social, political, biographical, ecological – effects? We cannot answer these questions without drawing on the numerous categories that we use to describe work, such as "skilled" or "unskilled" work, "domestic work" or "wage labor," "gig work" or "platform work." Such categories are not ... Read more

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  • Cross-Cultural Management

    Culture and Management across the World

    Edited by Jean-François Chanlat, Eduardo Davel, Jean-Pierre Dupuis ...
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  • Arguing about justice

    Essays for Philippe Van Parijs

    Edited by Axel Gosseries, Philippe Vanderborght ...
    Series series Hors collections
    This book brings together fifty of today’s finest thinkers. They were asked to let their imaginations run free to advance new ideas on a wide range of social and political issues. They did so as friends, on the occasion of Philippe Van Parijs’s sixtieth birthday. Rather than restricting themselves to comments on his numerous writings, the authors engage with the topics on which he has focused his ... Read more

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  • Real Governance and Practical Norms in Sub-Saharan Africa

    The game of the rules

    Edited by Tom De Herdt, Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in African Politics and International Relations
    Although international development discourse considers the state as a crucial development actor, there remains a significant discrepancy between the official norms of the state and public services and the actual practices of political elites and civil servants.This text interrogates the variety of ways in which state policies and legal norms have been translated into the set of practical norms ... Read more

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