Search Results - "West Africa"

Troubled regions and failing states the clustering and contagion of armed conflicts /

Table of Contents: “…Andrew Grant -- Natural resources, international regimes and state-building: diamonds in West Africa / J. Andrew Grant -- Re-examining the 'colour revolutions': the turn of the tide from Belgrade to Ulan Bator / Pavel K. …”
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Patrimonial capitalism and empire

Table of Contents: “…Squattocracy, democracy and land rights in Australia / Pavla Miller -- Colonialism, neopatrimonialism and hybrid state formation / Daniel Goh -- Patrimonialism, bureaucratization, and fiscal systems of British Bengal, 1765-1819 / Malik Martin -- Innovations in trust : patrimonial and bureaucratic authority in the Asante Empire of West Africa / Nicolette Manglos-Weber -- Locating the family-state : the forgotten legacy of Javanese Theories of the public domain (17th -20th c.) / Romain Bertrand -- Sovereignty and sociology : from state theory to theories of empire / Julia Adams, George Steinmetz.…”
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Sociological studies of children and youth.

Table of Contents: “…. -- Child labor and household survival strategies in West Africa / L. Bass -- Just play? A framework for analyzing children's time use / T. …”
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Death Across Cultures Death and Dying in Non-Western Cultures /

Table of Contents: “…Secularism and Politics of Death Space in Hong Kong -- Death and Dying: Belief, Fear and Ritual in Vietnamese Culture -- Negotiating Traditions and Modernity: Chinese Death Rituals in Singapore -- The Bureaucratic Professionalization of Funeral Rites in Tehran's Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery -- Death and Burial Practices in Contemporary Zulu Culture, South Africa -- Death in Botswana: Life Among the Ashes -- Ancestors and Death: From West Africa to Southwest Europe -- Living Coffins and Death Among the Ga of Ghana -- The Yoruba of Nigeria and the Ontology of Death and Burial -- Transformation of Funeral Rituals in Togo -- Rituals Around Life and Death in Mexico; The Day of the Dead -- Continuity and Ruptures in Brazilian Funeral Rites -- The Right to a Dignified Death in Argentina -- Superstar-Saints and Wandering Souls: The Cemetery as a Cultural Hotspot in Latin American Cities -- He taonga tuku iho: Indigenous End of Life and Death Care Customs of New Zealand Māori -- Communicating with the Dead in an Australian Aboriginal Culture: The Tiwi from Melville and Bathurst Islands -- Death and Dying in American Indian Cultures -- The Beauty of the Afterlife Among the Inuit of Nunavut -- Eternity Calling: Modernity and the Revival of Death and the Afterlife.…”
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Shifting Forms of Continental Colonialism Unfinished Struggles and Tensions /

Table of Contents: “…The Ambiguities of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society's Central Asian Expeditions -- Manchu-Han Relations in Qing China: Reconsidering the Concept of Continental Colonialism in Chinese History -- The Slovak 'Gypsy Fringe' as a Semi-Colonial Entity -- Colonialism Within and Without: The Old Oyo Empire in West Africa -- Part III Co-opted Elites, Local Brokers, and Go-betweens in Nation-Building -- India: The Context of Its Current Internal Colonialism -- Patterns of Domination and State Expansion in Early Colonial and Revolutionary Mexico -- Part IV Post-colonial Dependencies: Internal Legacies of External Colonialism -- Greater Mexico: Homeland, Colonialism, and Genetics -- The Second Conquest: Continental and Internal Colonialism in Nineteenth-Century Latin America -- Legacies of Colonial Agency in Africa: Reflections of an 'Ethnicized' Space in Kenya and Rwanda -- Living under the Soviet Shadow: Postcolonial critique of Soviet politics in Mongolia -- Part V Modes of Resistance and Decolonization -- The Treaty Relationship and Settler Colonialism in Canada -- The Imperial Emancipations: Ending Non-Russian Serfdoms in Nineteenth-Century Russia -- From the Birth of Nations to the European Union: Colonial and Decolonial Developments in the Baltic Region.…”
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Risk Communication for the Future Towards Smart Risk Governance and Safety Management /

Table of Contents: “…, by Caroline Kamaté -- Chapter 3 Organizing Risk Communication for Effective Preparedness: Using Plans as a Catalyst for Risk Communication, by Amandine Berger-Sabbatel and Benoit Journé -- Chapter 4 Nuclear Crisis Preparedness: Lessons Learned from Fukushima Daiichi, by Geneviève Baumont -- Chapter 5 Risk Communication between Companies and Local Stakeholders for Improving Accident Prevention and Emergency Response, by Michael Baram and Preben Lindoe -- Part II When Reality Strikes Back: Tough Lessons to be Learned from Crises -- Chapter 6 How Risk Communication Can Contribute to Sharing Accurate Health Information for Individual Decision-Making: An Empirical Study from Fukushima During a Post-EmergencyPeriod, by Mariko Nishizawa -- Chapter 7 Crisis Communication During the Ebola Outbreak in West Africa: The Paradoxes of Decontextualized Contextualization, by Loïs Bastide -- Part III The Collapse of Absolute Trust in Absolute Truth.- Chapter 8 Transparency in Healthcare: Disclosing Adverse Events to the Public, by Siri Wiig, Karina Aase, Olav Røise and Mathilde Bourrier -- Chapter 9 How Safety Communication Can Support Safety Management: The Case of Commercial Aviation, by Michel Guérard -- Chapter 10 Risk Communication from an Audit Team to its Client, by Petra Haferkorn -- Conclusion: Chapter 11 Societal Risk Communication - Towards Smart Risk Governance and Safety Management, by Corinne Bieder.   .…”
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Women Researching in Africa The Impact of Gender /

Table of Contents: “…Women and anthropologists in West Africa: comparing two research experiences; Ester Botta Somparé and Mara Vitale -- 9. …”
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Delivering victory : the history of U.S. military transportation / by Killblane, Richard E.

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Gender and practice : knowledge, policy, organizations /

Table of Contents: “…Gender norms and their implications for banana production and recovery in West Africa / Lilian Nkengla-Asi, Deborah O. Olaosebikan, Che Vincent Simo, Sergine Ngatat, Martine Zandjanakou-Tachin, Rachid Hanna, & P. …”
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Annual review of comparative and international education 2014

Table of Contents: “…Baker -- Reforming teacher education through localization-internationalization : analyzing the imperatives in Singapore / Rita Zamzamah Nazeer-Ikeda -- Teacher education in Anglophone West Africa : does policy match practice? / Kabba E. …”
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