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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “lars engberg pedersen”
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  • Norms and Violence Against Women in Ethiopia

    We Were Never Global

    Edited by Adam Moe Fejerskov, Lars Engberg-Pedersen, Meron Zeleke, Dereje Feyissa ...
    This book examines the complex subject of violence against women (VAW), moving beyond ways of thinking that privilege Western positions and subordinate local perspectives. Chapters analyse the profound clashes between different perspectives on VAW, demonstrating how actors engage with such norms in diverse places from Ethiopian villages, to government offices in Addis Ababa, to meeting rooms in ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Rethinking Gender Equality in Global Governance

    The Delusion of Norm Diffusion

    Edited by Lars Engberg-Pedersen, Adam Fejerskov, Signe Marie Cold-Ravnkilde ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    “A very valuable and much needed book on a central element in the processes of social change: the construction and reconstruction of social norms as they move between global and local levels.”—Naila Kabeer, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK“This book explores how gender equality norms are ever-evolving and argues convincingly that we cannot take their effectiveness, nor their ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

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  • Higher Education and Capacity Building in Africa

    The geography and power of knowledge under changing conditions

    Edited by Hanne Kirstine Adriansen, Stig Jensen, Lene Madsen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in African Development
    Higher education has recently been recognized as a key driver for societal growth in the Global South and capacity building of African universities is now widely included in donor policies. The question is; how do capacity building projects affect African universities, researchers and students? Universities and their scientific knowledges are often seen to have universal qualities; therefore, ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Childhood in a Global Perspective

    by Karen Wells ...
    This popular book provides a compelling introduction to thinking about childhood in rigorous and critical ways. Karen Wells offers a unique global perspective on children’s lives, showing how the notion of childhood varies widely and is continuously being radically re-shaped.Taking children seriously as active participants in society, the book explores key social issues such as how children are ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Governance

    Edited by David Levi-Faur ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Governance presents an authoritative and accessible state-of-the-art analysis of the social science literature on governance. The volume presents the core concepts and knowledge that have evolved in the study of governance in different levels and arenas of politics and policymaking. In doing so it establishes itself as the essential point of reference for all those studying ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Development, Security and Unending War

    Governing the World of Peoples

    by Mark Duffield ...
    According to politicians, we now live in a radically interconnected world. Unless there is international stability – even in the most distant places – the West's way of life is threatened. In meeting this global danger, reducing poverty and developing the unstable regions of the world are now imperative. In what has become a truism of the post-Cold War period, security without development is ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Participation

    From Tyranny to Transformation: Exploring New Approaches to Participation in Development

    Edited by Samuel Hickey, Giles Mohan ...
    Participation has established itself as a significant approach to project implementation, policy-making and governance in developing and developed countries alike. Recently, however, it has become fashionable to dismiss participation as more rhetoric than substance, and subject to manipulation by agencies and social change agents intent simply on pursuing their own agendas under cover of community ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • The Dispersion of Power

    A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy

    by Samuel Ely Bagg ...
    The Dispersion of Power is an urgent call to rethink centuries of conventional wisdom about what democracy is, why it matters, and how to make it better. Drawing from history, social science, psychology, and critical theory, it explains why elections do not and cannot realize the classic ideal of popular rule, and why prevailing strategies of democratic reform often make things worse. Instead, ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Curriculum Reform in Ontario

    'Common-Sense' Policy Processes and Democratic Possibilities

    by Laura Elizabeth Pinto ...
    This first full account of curriculum policy formulation in 1990s Ontario helps readers understand the real-life experiences of policymakers both within the province and internationally.Having worked as a policy analyst for the Government of Ontario, a public school teacher, and a university professor, author Laura Elizabeth Pinto is uniquely positioned to tackle the key issues of policy ... Read more

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  • Migration in Southern Africa

    IMISCOE Regional Reader

    Edited by Pragna Rugunanan, Nomkhosi Xulu-Gama ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access Regional Reader proposes new ways of theorizing migration in Southern Africa by arguing that traditional western forms of theorizing do not adequately fit the South-South migration context. It explores the existing definitions of a ‘migrant’ with a view to conceptualise a definition which will speak to the complexities, envisioning a more inclusive Southern African region. The ... Read more

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  • Key Concepts in Governance

    by Mark Bevir ...
    Series series SAGE Key Concepts series
    ′A comprehensive, multidisciplinary examination of the concepts embodied in governance and their wide-ranging applications and implications. An important read and reference for students and academics in the social sciences, particularly those engaged in public policy studies′ - Professor Carolyn J. Heinrich, University of Wisconsin-Madison′An authoritative short survey for which students and ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Human Rights Education

    Theory, Research, Praxis

    by Nancy Flowers ...
    Series series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
    Over the past seven decades, human rights education has blossomed into a global movement. A field of scholarship that utilizes teaching and learning processes, human rights education addresses basic rights and broadens the respect for the dignity and freedom of all peoples. Since the founding of the United Nations and the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, human rights ... Read more

    $58.49 USD