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  • CONTESTING MORALITIES
    NANNEKKE REDCLIFT
    Questions of public and private morality, values and choices have become important areas of collective discussion. A key feature of this book is that it takes an ethnographic rather than a philosophical or speculative approach to moral debates. This study examines the contemporary explosion of ethical discourse in the public domain and the growing importance of moral rhetoric a...

    $1,620.00

  • DEFAMATION
    ANDREW KENYON
    Defamation: Comparative Law and Practice offers a timely and original investigation into defamation law and litigation practice in England, Australia and the United States, combining close legal analysis and extensive empirical research to examine central aspects of defamation law. This groundbreaking contribution to legal knowledge will be useful to researchers, academics, stu...

    $2,540.00

  • URBAN LIFE IN POST-SOVIET ASIA
    ALEXANDER, CATHARINE / BUCHLI, VICTOR / HUMPHREY, CAROLINE
    Capturing a unique historical moment, this book examines the changes in urban life since the collapse of the Soviet Union from an ethnographic perspective, thus addressing significant gaps in the literature on cities, Central Asia and post-socialism. It encompasses Tashkent, Almaty, Astana and Ulan-Ude: four cities with quite different responses to the fall of the Soviet Union....

    $1,320.00

  • SECURITY, RECONSTRUCTION, AND RECONCILIATION
    AUTHOR
    This key text brings together a team of leading contributors to address the complex issues of security reconciliation and reconstruction in post conflict societies. Security, Reconstruction and Reconciliation is organized into four main sections: the social, political, and economic dimensions of conflict the impact of conflict on women and children reconstruction and past human...

    $960.00

  • PLANNING POWER
    AMBE NJOH
    With a multidisciplinary perspective, Planning Power examines British and French colonial town and country planning efforts in Africa. Drawing out similarities in the colonial administrative and economic strategies of the two powers, rather than emphasizing the differences, the book offers an unusually nuanced view of African planning systems in a time of upheaval and political...

    $1,280.00

  • THE MEANING OF THE LOCAL
    By zooming in on urban localities in India and by unpacking the 'meaning of the local' for those who live in them, the ten papers in this volume redress a recurrent asymmetry in contemporary debates about globalisation. In much literature, the global is associated with transnationalism, dynamism and activity, and the local with static identities and history. Focusing on a range...

    $860.00