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Will Rollason

In Motorbike People: Power and Politics on Rwandan Streets, Will Rollason examines the relationship between power and culture. Rollason looks at what social scientists gain—and lose—by abandoning the assumption that power is a universal feature of human social life. Through an ethnographic account of the lives and livelihoods of motorcycle taxi drivers in Kigali, Rwanda, Rollason depicts how forms of personhood can sit uneasily with conventional accounts of power relationships. From the mo...

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Routledge Worlds

This wide-ranging volume captures the diverse range of societies and experiences that form what has come to be known as Melanesia. It covers prehistoric, historic and contemporary issues, and includes work by art historians, political scientists, geographers and anthropologists. The chapters range from studies of subsistence, ritual and ceremonial exchange to accounts of state violence, new media and climate change. The ‘Melanesian world’ assembled here raises questions that cut to the hea...

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Lifeworlds: Knowledges, Politics, Histories

Exploring compliance from an anthropological perspective, this book offers a varied and international selection of chapters covering taxation, corporate governance, medicine, development, carbon offsetting, irregular migration and the building trade. Compliance emerges as more than the opposite of resistance: instead, it appears as a valuable heuristic approach for understanding collective life, as a means by which actors strive to accommodate themselves to others. This perspective transce...

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Dennis A. Ahlburg, Dakota Camacho, Tammy Hailiʻōpua Baker, Glenn Banks, John Barker, Simon Batterbury, Aletta Biersack, Hans Juergen Boehmer, Gilianne Brodie, Bruce Burns, Professor John Connell, Ron Crocombe, Ojeya Cruz Banks, George Curry, Tim Denham, Brian Diettrich, Ron Duncan, Tony Falkland, Colin Filer, Navi Fong, Gerard J. Fryer, Patricia Fryer, Stephen Galvin, Philomena Gangaiya, David Welchman Gegeo, Paul Geraghty, Lorenz Gonschor, Tiaki Kerei, Nicholas Halter, Matthew Hayward, Anna-Karina Hermkens, Jara Hulkenberg, Thomas Ibanez, Uwe Kaufmann, David M. Kennedy, Gunnar Keppel, Gina Koczberski, Matthias Kowasch, Roselyn Kumar, Lamont Lindstrom, Maebh Long, Rick Lumpkin, Harley I. Manner, Hamish A. McGowan, Jean-Yves Hiro Meyer, Bradley Moore, Clare Morrison, R. John Morrison, Apisalome Movono, Dieter Mueller-Dombois, Stephen G. Nelson, Patrick D. Nunn, Kalei Nu‘uhiwa, Patrick Pikacha, Emma Ngakuravaru Powell, Kirstie Petrou, Tia Reihana-Morunga, Will Rollason, Richard Scaglion, Andrew P. Sturman, Henryk Szadziewski, Lynne D. Talley, John Taylor, Randolph R. Thaman, Frank R. Thomas, Nunia Thomas-Moko, Jaap Timmer, Alexander Trupp, Caroline Vercoe, Camellia Webb-Gannon, Eberhard Weber, Terence Wesley-Smith, Vehia Wheeler, Ian White, Nālani Wilson-Hokowhitu

The exploration and settlement of the Pacific Island world is one of the most remarkable achievements of humanity. Early seafarers, skilled in navigation, discovered diverse habitats and biotas extending across a third of the globe. In this “sea of islands,” they established thriving communities where they lived for thousands of years. Today, although island ecosystems and cultures are facing great change, Pacific Island peoples remain resilient.This new edition of a popular text r...

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Prof Mark Bevir

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Very Short Introductions

The word 'governance' is ubiquitous. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund make loans conditional on 'good governance'. Climate change and avian flu appear as issues of 'global governance'. The European Union issues a White Paper on 'Governance'. The U.S. Forest Service calls for 'collaborative governance'. What accounts for the pervasive use of the term 'governance' and to what does it refer? It has a bewildering set of answers. The word 'governance' is used in a variety of c...

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Social Sciences (R0)

This open access book explores the agenda of education policies in the 21st century. In the first part of the book, education is handled from a historical and political framework, and the effects of the change of states and policies on education are examined. In the second part, the effects of changes in the economy on education policies and economies’ demands from educational institutions are examined. In the last section, current policies in the international education sector, which is g...

The original Handbook of Public Administration was a landmark publication, the first to provide a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the discipline. The eagerly-awaited new edition of this seminal international handbook continues to provide a complete review and guide to past and present knowledge in this essential field of inquiry.Assembling an outstanding team of scholars from around the world, the second edition explores the current state-of-the-art in academic thinking a...

This new edition of The SAGE Handbook of International Corporate and Public Affairs builds on the success of the first edition (2005) by comprehensively updating and enhancing the material and structure, setting a new standard for the practitioner and student of the global public affairs discipline. The new edition includes increased international coverage of the field, and a strong focus on emerging trends, as well as providing a comprehensive overview of the foundations ...

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Political Science and International Studies (R0)

This open access handbook analyses the role of development cooperation in achieving the 2030 Agenda in a global context of ‘contested cooperation’. Development actors, including governments providing aid or South-South Cooperation, developing countries, and non-governmental actors (civil society, philanthropy, and businesses) constantly challenge underlying narratives and norms of development. The book explores how reconciling these differences fosters achievement of the Sustainable Develo...

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Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)

This open access book opens up the black box of mediation in collective conflicts through the analyses and comparisons of various systems. Mediation and related third party interventions such as conciliation and facilitation are discussed as effective prevention and regulation tools for different types of collective labor conflicts. These interventions fit in a new developed five-phase model of collective conflicts in organizations, going from capacity building in latent conflicts, through...

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Routledge International Handbooks

Cultural policy intersects with political, economic, and socio-cultural dynamics at all levels of society, placing high and often contradictory expectations on the capabilities and capacities of the media, the fine, performing, and folk arts, and cultural heritage. These expectations are articulated, mobilised and contested at – and across – a global scale. As a result, the study of cultural policy has firmly established itself as a field that cuts across a range of academic disciplines, i...

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Laurie Mook, Jack Quarter, Sherida Ryan

Market-based social economy firms such as social enterprises, social purpose businesses, co-operatives, credit unions, and community economic development corporations aim to meet distinct social needs while making money. Do these types of businesses have the potential for growth in the modern economy? Are they destined to function only in areas where conventional firms cannot achieve a sufficient rate of return? Or will the role of social economy organizations change as businesses begin pl...