Catálogo de libros: Estudios interdisciplinarios

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  • Value Chain Development and the Poor
    This collection explores how VCD is implemented in the field, options for innovation in design, and the potential for VCD to achieve impact at scale. The book provides a timely critique of current approaches, pointing at options for more reflexive learning, new collaborative frameworks, and faster innovation of VCD. ...
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    56,35 €

  • Resurrection Peacemaking
    Clifford Kindy
    The author draws the reader through the drama and mediocrity of his personal experience. The hard work of peacemaking is clearly strengthened through team efforts. Space is provided for the reader to step into the shallows of peacemaking and then on into the depths. This book is intended to be acted into being! ...
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    18,58 €

  • Resurrection Peacemaking
    Clifford Kindy
    The author draws the reader through the drama and mediocrity of his personal experience. The hard work of peacemaking is clearly strengthened through team efforts. Space is provided for the reader to step into the shallows of peacemaking and then on into the depths. This book is intended to be acted into being! ...
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    31,06 €

  • Migration, Mobility, and Sojourning in Cross-cultural Films
    Ishani Mukherjee / Maggie Griffith Williams / Maggie Griffith Williams
    This book uses an intercultural communication lens to analyze six cross-cultural films and their depictions of migration, mobility, and the resulting intercultural communications. It argues that the results of these complex and stressful moments of conflict include personal growth, oppression, familial or social separation, and loss of identity. ...
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    129,40 €

  • The World Needs Dialogue! Two--Setting the Bearings
    Cliff Penwell
    The Academy continues its steady progress with this volume of working papers that were considered at the second international conference in 2019. The proceeds of the previous year’s inaugural annual conference were subtitled Gathering the Field. The current volume, Setting the Bearings, demonstrates the Academy’s intention to provide ongoing developmental learning and professio...
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    67,96 €

  • International Perspectives on Democratization and Peace
    Narayanan Ganesan
    This book examines the concept of peace and the relevance of historical and contextual factors that contribute to peaceful coexistence of people, and dives into a deep examination of how democracy furthers peace especially in conflict prone countries. Seven case studies illustrate the impact of democratization on transformation and prevention. ...
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    152,55 €

  • Innovation Management and Growth in Emerging Economies
    Despite its economic impact, understanding what shaped emerging economies’ success seems to be a mystery. These complexities are compounded by fast moving technologies, such as the increased usage of artificial intelligence (AI) and the internet of things (IoT). These new technologies have a social impact, but it is how these impacts are developed and managed by people and comp...
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    281,91 €

  • The Network Society
    Jan Van Dijk
    The Network Society; the essential guide to the past, current consequences and future of digital communication, remaining an accessible, comprehensive, must-read introduction to how new media function in contemporary society. ...
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    75,48 €

  • The Network Society
    Jan Van Dijk
    The Network Society; the essential guide to the past, current consequences and future of digital communication, remaining an accessible, comprehensive, must-read introduction to how new media function in contemporary society. ...
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    204,39 €

  • The Future of Africa
    John W. Forje / John WForje
    This provocative book on The Future of Africa addresses fundamental genealogical developmental challenges of vital concern to Africa's transformation is premised on the orientation that the continent's future is up to Africans, cognizant of the fact that Africans cohabit the same diversified and inter-connected planet with others. The issues addressed include: political...
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    77,38 €

  • Developing Countries and Technology Inclusion in the 21st Century Information Society
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    203,13 €

  • Natural Healing as Conflict Resolution
    Rebecca Nicholson
    Traditional methods for addressing conflict and healing have been largely replaced in elite settings by modern approaches. Rather than old and new complementing one another, bias is present. New is widely perceived as better among elite institutions, even when research indicates otherwise. Within the realm of international development, the need for cost-effective, sustainable, ...
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    282,00 €

  • Postcolonial Turn and Geopolitical Uncertainty
    This book introduces the concept of transnational critical communication pedagogy by interweaving critical communication pedagogy and critical intercultural communication methods. Contributors emphasize the importance of the role of geopolitics and postcolonial and global turns in power, articulation, voice, and oppression. ...
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    129,24 €

  • Islam and International Development
    Islam and International Development centres around analysis of successful projects that have respected and incorporated Islamic teachings into their design and delivery, so that development professionals and Muslim communities can work together to effect meaningful and sustainable change. ...
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    106,81 €

  • No Laughing Matter
    Luiz Valério P. Trindade / Luiz Valério PTrindade
    ‘No Laughing Matter: Race Joking and Resistance in Brazilian Social Media’ examines the social phenomenon of construction and dissemination of colonial-like racist discourses fostered against upwardly-mobile black women through disparagement humour on social media platforms, adopting a fresh and innovative perspective. In this book, Luiz Valério P. Trindade explores the idea t...
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    69,06 €

  • The Rhetoric of the American Political Party Conventions, 1948-2016
    Theodore F. Sheckels / Theodore FSheckels
    This book analyzes the thiry-six political party conventions since 1948 as rhetorical entities with goals often epideictic, constitutive, and even deliberative. Crucial in meeting (and sometimes not) these goals are speeches, demonstrations, and off-camera discussions at each convention. ...
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    142,96 €

  • Natural Healing as Conflict Resolution, 1 volume
    Rebecca Nicholson
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    216,14 €

  • Languages and Language Planning in Zimbabwe
    Sinfree Makoni
    This fourth volume of Sinfree Makoni’s selected papers focuses on language planning and policy, language in education, linguistic ideologies, missionary linguistics in Zimbabwe and the relations among the national, indigenous and minority languages of Zimbabwe (especially English, Shona and Tonga). Includes papers written in collaboration with Janina Brutt-Griffler, Busi Makoni...
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    31,04 €

  • Perspectives on ICT4D and Socio-Economic Growth Opportunities in Developing Countries
    Technology has been hailed as one of the catalysts toward economic and human development. In the current economic era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, information acquisition, transformation, and dissemination processes are posed to be the key enablers of development. However, in the context of developing countries, there is a need for more evidence on the impact that ICT h...
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    282,69 €

  • Development, Sexual Cultural Practices and HIV/AIDS in Africa
    Samantha Page
    This open access book introduces the theoretical frameworks and academic debates concerning sexual cultural practices and HIV/AIDS in Africa. It shows how these frameworks have been applied in a practical sense in Africa to investigate sexual cultural practices and their link with HIV/AIDS. The author provides an overview of both the field of study and the methods used during f...
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    77,36 €

  • Transmedial Narration
    Lars Elleström
    This open access book is a methodical treatise on narration in different types of media. A theoretical rather than a historical study, Transmedial Narration is relevant for an understanding of narration in all times, including our own. By reconstructing the theoretical framework of transmedial narration, this book enables the inclusion of all kinds of communicative media forms ...
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    54,72 €

  • Transmedial Narration
    Lars Elleström
    This open access book is a methodical treatise on narration in different types of media. A theoretical rather than a historical study, Transmedial Narration is relevant for an understanding of narration in all times, including our own. By reconstructing the theoretical framework of transmedial narration, this book enables the inclusion of all kinds of communicative media forms ...
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    69,09 €

  • Development, Sexual Cultural Practices and HIV/AIDS in Africa
    Samantha Page
    This open access book introduces the theoretical frameworks and academic debates concerning sexual cultural practices and HIV/AIDS in Africa. It shows how these frameworks have been applied in a practical sense in Africa to investigate sexual cultural practices and their link with HIV/AIDS. The author provides an overview of both the field of study and the methods used during f...
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    62,99 €

  • Linking Mine Action and SSR Through Human Security
    Åsa Massleberg / Gianluca Maspoli / Pascal Rapillard
    Security sector reform (SSR) and mine action share a strong common conceptual basis, which draws from a shared understanding of security. They both reflect a conceptualization of security that is not limited to the level of the state, but takes into account security threats and needs at societal and individual levels. This common basis provides opportunities for synergies betwe...
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    34,55 €

  • Integrating SSR and SALW Programming
    Geoff Burt / Mark Sedra
    Security sector reform (SSR) and small arms and lights weapons (SALW) reduction and control programmes have become staples of peacebuilding policy and practice in fragile, failed and conflict-affected states (FFCAS). There is wide agreement in the peacebuilding field that the two areas are intricately interconnected and mutually reinforcing. However, this consensus has rarely t...
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    53,44 €

  • Linking Mine Action and SSR Through Human Security
    Åsa Massleberg / Gianluca Maspoli / Pascal Rapillard
    Security sector reform (SSR) and mine action share a strong common conceptual basis, which draws from a shared understanding of security. They both reflect a conceptualization of security that is not limited to the level of the state, but takes into account security threats and needs at societal and individual levels. This common basis provides opportunities for synergies betwe...
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    48,91 €

  • DDR and SSR in War-to-Peace Transition
    Christopher von Dyck
    While disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) and security sector reform (SSR) have become integral statebuilding tools in post-conflict states, the existing empirical literature examining their relationship has focused on supply-side considerations related to the programming of both processes. In practice, though, DDR and SSR are implemented in the wider context of...
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    49,21 €

  • The Paradox of Gendarmeries
    Derek Lutterbeck
    This paper describes and explains the evolution of gendarmerie-type forces, i.e. police forces with a military status, over the past three decades. It focuses on their institutional features and functions, including material and human resources, and uses case studies from Europe, the Middle East and North Africa to illustrate these characteristics in different contexts. The ove...
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    34,25 €

  • DDR and SSR in War-to-Peace Transition
    Christopher von Dyck
    While disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) and security sector reform (SSR) have become integral statebuilding tools in post-conflict states, the existing empirical literature examining their relationship has focused on supply-side considerations related to the programming of both processes. In practice, though, DDR and SSR are implemented in the wider context of...
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    34,85 €

  • Rising Powers and Peacebuilding
    Cedric de Coning / Charles T Call
    This edited volume examines the policies and practices of rising powers on peacebuilding. It analyzes how and why their approaches differ from those of traditional donors and multilateral institutions. The policies of the rising powers towards peacebuilding may significantly influence how the UN and others undertake peacebuilding in the future. This book is an invaluable resour...
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    53,98 €


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