State of Slum: Precarity and Informal Governance at the Margins in Accra, Hardcover - Paul Stacey

DescriptionHome to eighty thousand people, Accra's Old Fadama neighborhood is the largest illegal slum in Ghana. Though almost all its inhabitants ...

Can Russia Modernise?: Sistema, Power Networks and Informal Governance - Alena V. Ledeneva

This book explores this phenomenon drawing on examples from the Middle East and Africa. It considers the different sorts of actors - state and non-...

Property rights are important for economic exchange, but many governments don't protect them. Private market organizations can fill this gap by pro...

Publisher: Berghahn BooksNumber of pages: 384Collection: Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and EconomyPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 151 x 228 ...

The book provides an in-depth discussion of democratic theory questions in relation to refugee law. It will be essential reading for academics and ...

Reducere. Just as a sculptor chips away each piece of stone to uncover a work of art, author Greg Harm has been chipping away at Lee Lawrie's catalog raisonn...

Placing much-needed emphasis on the re-emergence of religion, this timely and vital volume offers a new, critical approach to the study of the vola...

Residential motels have long been places of last resort for many vulnerable Americans--released prisoners, people with disabilities or mental illne...

Description"Somewhere in the tangle of the subject's burden and the subject's desire is your story."--Alex Tizon Every human being has an epic stor...

Provides an in-depth study of parts of Central Asia and Afghanistan that remain marginalized from the larger region. Suzanne Levi-Sanchez provides ...

Chronicles the lives of a group of fishermen from Ghana who took the long and dangerous journey to Southern Italy in search of work in a cutthroat ...

A provocative case that "failed states" along the periphery of today's international system are the intended result of nineteenth-century colonial ...

City State showcases the work of twenty-seven London writers between the ages of 16 and 36. From hyperlinked walks of Battersea bombsites and gueri...

Power and Authority in Internet Governance investigates the hotly contested role of the state in today's digital society. The book asks: is the sta...

Reducere. Francis Fukuyama famously predicted "the end of history" with the ascendancy of liberal democracy and global capitalism. The topic of his latest bo...

Let the CEO of Rework Work help you understand diversity, equity, and inclusion concepts to actively remove bias from the workplace Dismantling unh...

Reducere. How should Augustine, Aquinas, Bonhoeffer, Kant, Nietzsche, and Plato be read today, in light of postcolonial theory and twenty-first-century under...

An essential exploration of the DRC's hybrid forms of governance and the challenges posed in delivering vital public services.

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Reducere. In Policing Protest Paul A. Passavant explores how the policing of protest in the United States has become increasingly hostile since the late 1990...

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This book explores the transformation of Japan's state in response to the challenges of governance by focusing on the case studies of ICT regulatio...

Reducere. Shared Governance in Higher Education Set (Volumes 1, 2 and 3) Shared governance impacts every member of the campus community, including faculty, s...

Referencing Deleuzian philosophy, Azumi Tamura provides a different epistemological and ontological approach to the Social Movement Studies. She in...

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Rescaling the State provides a theoretically-informed and empirically-rich account of the process of devolution undertaken in the UK since 1997, fo...

Description"A vivid, unforgettable picture of the quality--or lack of it--of life in England among 'ordinary' people."--Peter Stansky.About the Aut...

What does it mean to be young, modern, and Muslim? Documenting everyday life in Lamu (Kenya), this book explores the mundane practices of behavior ...

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Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Nathan T. ArringtonIllustration(s): 138 b/w illus., 16 color illus. (8-page insert)Number of pages:...

DescriptionThere are many holy cities in India, but Mumbai is not usually considered one of them. More popular images of the city capture the world...