Catálogo de libros: Estudios interdisciplinarios

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  • Affordability Issues Surrounding the Use of ICT for Development and Poverty Reduction
    As the world becomes digitalized, developing countries are starting to see an increase in technological advancements being integrated into their society. These advancements are creating opportunities to improve both the economy and the lives of people within these areas. Affordability Issues Surrounding the Use of ICT for Development and Poverty Reduction is a relevant scholarl...
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    256,01 €

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Peacebuilding in Africa
    This handbook offers a critical assessment of the African agenda for conflict prevention, peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding; the challenges and opportunities facing Africa’s regional organisations in their efforts towards building sustainable peace on the continent; and the role of external actors, including the United Nations, Britain, France, and South Asian troop-...
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    369,34 €

  • Understanding Quality Peace
    This book provides an analytical framework for understanding how the concept of quality peace can be used to evaluate post-conflict peacebuilding, using social science, statistics, and case studies. Including contributions from more than 20 researchers and practitioners, it argues that the quality of the peace in a post-conflict state relates to the extent to which peace accord...
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    68,88 €

  • Digital Materialism
    Athina Karatzogianni / Dr Baruch Gottlieb
    Digital materiality (digimat) proposes a set of basic principles for how we understand the world through digital processes. This short book sets out a methodical materialist understanding of digital technologies, where they come from, how they work, and what they do. ...
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    104,16 €

  • Multimodal Analysis in Academic Settings
    This volume presents innovative research on the multimodal dimension of discourse specific to academic settings, with a particular focus on the interaction between the verbal and non-verbal in constructing meaning. Contributions by experienced and emerging researchers provide in-depth analyses in both research and teaching contexts, and consider the ways in which multimodal str...
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    85,36 €

  • Constructing Narratives in Response to Trump’s Election
    In this book, narratives are constructed to help groups such as students, women, young Christians, evangelicals, internationally adopted children, and undocumented immigrants understand and articulate the meaning and possible consequences of Trump's 2016 election as it relates to their unique positions and experiences. ...
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    143,19 €

  • Toward a Theory of True Crime Narratives
    Ian Case Punnett
    This book establishes the line between mainstream journalism and the multimedia phenomena of true crime. The research codifies true crime texts of various types on multiple platforms-radio, television, print, digital, and film-to reveal the defining characteristics of the genre. ...
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    103,54 €

  • Peace Maintenance in Africa
    This book discusses the many legal aspects arising in relation to the maintenance of peace in Africa. Over the past twenty years, the majority of peace operations have been deployed on this continent, most of them established by the UN Security Council, sometimes in cooperation with the African Union and other African regional organizations, with contributions from the European...
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    194,48 €

  • Handbook of Climate Change Communication
    This comprehensive handbook provides a unique overview of the theory, methodologies and best practices in climate change communication from around the world. It fosters the exchange of information, ideas and experience gained in the execution of successful projects and initiatives, and discusses novel methodological approaches aimed at promoting a better understanding of climat...
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    270,55 €

  • Understanding Quality Peace
    This book aims to contribute to debates about the concept of ’quality peace’, and provides an analytical framework to show how this concept can be used to evaluate post-conflict peacebuilding through a number of case studies. ...
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    240,67 €

  • Resistance Advocacy as News
    Benjamin R LaPoe II / Benjamin Rex II LaPoe / Benjamin Rex LaPoe / Victoria L. LaPoe / Victoria LLaPoe
    This book examines the Black and mainstream press’s digital interpretations of the Tea Party during President Barack Obama’s first term. It addresses questions surrounding the idea of our society as one that is “postracial” and the ongoing struggle of Black people to have their voices heard in the mainstream press. ...
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    122,54 €

  • The Six-Party Talks on North Korea
    Mi-yeon Hur
    The book traces the past decade of dynamic interactions among the concerned states involved in the Six-Party Talks on North Korean nuclear programs. Unlike existing studies which usually dissect incidents of the talks, the book provides a comprehensive systemic analysis of the Six-Party Talks process from A to Z. These new insights into the nuclear drama in the Northeast Asian ...
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    217,61 €

  • The Interaction Between Local and International Peacebuilding Actors
    Sara Hellmüller
    This book helps to better understand how the interaction between local and international peacebuilding actors influences the outcomes of their programs. Based on the case study of Ituri in the Democratic Republic of Congo, it analyses the relationships between local and international peacebuilding actors over the long term and assesses ways to overcome the obstacles to more coo...
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    156,99 €

  • Activation Imperative
    Laurence Minsky / William Rosen
    In this actionable roadmap to improved marketing ROI, Rosen and Minsky show how businesses—from Fortune 500s to local entrepreneurs—can manage today’s complex and fragmented marketing landscape, respond to consumers’ new tech-enabled paths-to-purchase, and overcome behavioral barriers to more effectively and efficiently build brands and business. ...
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    33,66 €

  • Engaging Adversaries
    Mel Gurtov
    This groundbreaking book explores how adversaries in world politics can surmount their differences and disputes and start on the path to peaceful, productive relations. Gurtov draws lessons for diplomatic ways to engage, such as practicing mutual respect, paying attention to symbols, and using incentives rather than sanctions to find common ground. ...
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    107,18 €

  • Engaging Adversaries
    Mel Gurtov
    This groundbreaking book explores how adversaries in world politics can surmount their differences and disputes and start on the path to peaceful, productive relations. Gurtov draws lessons for diplomatic ways to engage, such as practicing mutual respect, paying attention to symbols, and using incentives rather than sanctions to find common ground. ...
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    47,66 €

  • Intelligence Sharing, Transnational Organized Crime and Multinational Peacekeeping
    Diane E. Chido / Diane EChido
    This book describes the problems of intelligence sharing among peacekeeping partners, mainly due to security concerns and a lack of policies and resources. The study posits that the current emphasis on violent extremism as a driver of conflict is misplaced, as TOC is a more pervasive cause, creating and exacerbating instability to increase its markets and capabilities and is an...
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    66,41 €

  • Violence, Law and the Impossibility of Transitional Justice
    Catherine Turner
    The field of transitional justice has expanded rapidly since the term first emerged in the late 1990s. Its intellectual development has, however, tended to follow practice rather than drive it. Addressing this gap, Violence, Law and the Impossibility of Transitional Justice pursues a comprehensive theoretical inquiry into the foundation and evolution of transitional justice. Pr...
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    85,62 €

  • India’s Family Planning Programme
    Leela Visaria / Rajani R. Ved
    This book closely examines the changes, challenges and shifts in India’s family planning programme since its inception in 1952. It discusses the dynamics of population growth, the demographic dividend, family planning and its impact on maternal and child health, and the pressures from various quarters to remove method-specific contraceptive targets from the programme. The volum...
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    82,92 €

  • Public Relations Capitalism
    Anne M. Cronin / Anne MCronin
    This book argues that we are witnessing the emergence of ’commercial democracy’ in which public relations, promotional culture and the media play a new, central role. As the conventional democratic promise of political representation loses traction with the public in many countries, commercial culture steps into this vacuum by offering mirror forms of democracy. Commercial demo...
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    65,36 €

  • Chocolate, Politics and Peace-Building
    Gwen Burnyeat
    This book tells the story of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, an emblematic grassroots social movement of peasant farmers, who unusually declared themselves ’neutral’ to Colombia’s internal armed conflict, in the north-west region of Urabá. It reveals two core narratives in the Community’s collective identity, which Burnyeat calls the ’radical’ and the ’organic’ nar...
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    101,48 €

  • Peace and Resistance in Youth Cultures
    Siobhan McEvoy-Levy
    This book offers a rationale for and ways of reading popular culture for peace. It argues that we can improve peacebuilding theory and practice through examining popular culture’s youth revolutionaries and their outcomes - from their digital and plastic renderings to their living embodiments in local struggles for justice. The study combines insights from post-structural, post-...
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    193,02 €

  • Handbook of Climate Change Communication
    This comprehensive handbook provides a unique overview of the theory, methodologies and best practices in climate change communication from around the world. It fosters the exchange of information, ideas and experience gained in the execution of successful projects and initiatives, and discusses novel methodological approaches aimed at promoting a better understanding of climat...
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    245,98 €

  • Intercultural Communicative Competence for Global Citizenship
    Fiona Lee / Marina Orsini-Jones
    This work builds on the assumption that language learning and teaching needs to be made more relevant to the ’glocalised’ digital world we live in. Its authors argue that staff in Higher Education (HE) must prepare students for effective online interaction and explores the digital, linguistic and critical intercultural components of ’global citizenship’. The book pivots around ...
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    71,39 €

  • Economic and Social Development of Bangladesh
    This book discusses Bangladesh’s economic and social development that may be called a 'miracle' since the country has achieved remarkable development progress under several unfavorable situations: weak governance and political instabilities, inequality, risks entailed in rapid urbanization, and exposure to severe disaster risks. The authors examine what led to this successful e...
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    220,94 €

  • Development Aid and Adaptation to Climate Change in Developing Countries
    Carola Betzold / Florian Weiler
    This book examines development aid for climate change adaptation. Increasing amounts of aid are used to help developing countries adapt to climate change. The authors seek to discover how this aid is distributed and what constitutes the patterns of adaptation-aid giving. Does it help vulnerable countries, as donors promise, or does it help donors achieve economic and political ...
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    169,36 €

  • Interrogating Illiberal Peace in Eurasia
    Draws together analyses of new approaches to peacebuilding and conflict resolution in a politically turbulent region and offers students and researchers an in-depth and theoretically guided empirical analyses of post-Western and decolonial approaches to peacebuilding in Eurasia. ...
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    163,36 €

  • Making Peace with Faith
    In this text, practitioners from different faiths relate and explore the many challenges they face in their peacebuilding work, which their secular partners may be unaware of. ...
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    106,90 €

  • Making Peace with Faith
    In this text, practitioners from different faiths relate and explore the many challenges they face in their peacebuilding work, which their secular partners may be unaware of. ...
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    54,31 €

  • Governance and Governed
    Building, largely, on insights from India, and case studies in Brazil, China, and South Africa, this book provides insights into the contested topic of ’governance and governed’ from a state-society inter-relationship perspective. It argues that the centrality of an understanding of state-governance today is rooted in concerns regarding diversities and contingencies of concrete...
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    205,44 €


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