Search Results - "Africanization"

World weavers globalization, science fiction, and the cybernetic revolution /

Table of Contents: “…Dick's The man in the high castle / Jake Jakaitis -- Godzilla's travels: the evolution of a globalized gargantuan / Gary Westfahl -- Black secret technology: African technological subjects / Gerald Gaylard -- The teeth of the new cockatoo: mutation and trauma in Greg Egan's Teranesia / Chris Palmer -- When cyberfeminism meets Chinese philosophy: computer, weaving and women / Amy Kit-sze Chan -- Hollywood enters the dragon / V�eronique Flambard-Weisbart -- Romeo must die: action and agency in Hollywood and Hong Kong action films / Susanne Rieser and Susanne Lummerding.…”
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The paradox of professionalism lawyers and the possibility of justice /

Table of Contents: “…Cause lawyers and other signs of progress: three Thai narratives Frank Munger; 13. African youth mobilize against garbage: economic and social rights advocacy and the practice of democracy Lucie White; 14. …”
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Digital economies at global margins /

Table of Contents: “…: information and communication technologies in commercial small-scale farming in East Africa / Madlen Krone and Peter Dannenberg -- Digital inclusion, female entrepreneurship and the production of neoliberal subjects' views from Chile and Zambia / Hannah McCarrick and Dorothea Kleine -- "Let the private sector take care of this" : the philanthro-capitalism of digital humanitarianism / Ryan Burns -- The digitalization of anti-poverty programs : aadhaar and the reform of social protection in India / Silvia Masiero -- The myth of market price information : mobile phones and the application of economic knowledge in ICTD / Jenna Burrell and Elisa Oreglia -- Digital production at global margins -- Hope and hype in Africa's digital economy : the rise of innovation hubs / Nicolas Friederici -- The limits of hackathons in making the internet matter / Lilly Irani -- Meeting social objectives with offshore service work : evaluating impact sourcing in the Philippines / Jorien Oprins and Niels Beerepoot -- Digital labor and development : impacts of global digital labor platforms and the gig economy on worker livelihoods / Mark Graham, Isis Hjorth, and Vili Lehdonvirta -- Geographical discrimination in the gig economy / Hernan Galperin and Catrihel Greppi -- Margins at the center : alternative digital economies in Shenzhen, China / Jack Qiu and Julie Yujie Chen -- African economies : simply connect? problematizing the discourse on connectivity in logistics and communication / Stefan Ouma, Julian Stenmanns, and Julia Verne -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”

Digital economies at global margins /

Table of Contents: “…: information and communication technologies in commercial small-scale farming in East Africa / Madlen Krone and Peter Dannenberg -- Digital inclusion, female entrepreneurship and the production of neoliberal subjects' views from Chile and Zambia / Hannah McCarrick and Dorothea Kleine -- "Let the private sector take care of this" : the philanthro-capitalism of digital humanitarianism / Ryan Burns -- The digitalization of anti-poverty programs : aadhaar and the reform of social protection in India / Silvia Masiero -- The myth of market price information : mobile phones and the application of economic knowledge in ICTD / Jenna Burrell and Elisa Oreglia -- Digital production at global margins -- Hope and hype in Africa's digital economy : the rise of innovation hubs / Nicolas Friederici -- The limits of hackathons in making the internet matter / Lilly Irani -- Meeting social objectives with offshore service work : evaluating impact sourcing in the Philippines / Jorien Oprins and Niels Beerepoot -- Digital labor and development : impacts of global digital labor platforms and the gig economy on worker livelihoods / Mark Graham, Isis Hjorth, and Vili Lehdonvirta -- Geographical discrimination in the gig economy / Hernan Galperin and Catrihel Greppi -- Margins at the center : alternative digital economies in Shenzhen, China / Jack Qiu and Julie Yujie Chen -- African economies : simply connect? problematizing the discourse on connectivity in logistics and communication / Stefan Ouma, Julian Stenmanns, and Julia Verne -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”

In search of a round table : gender, theology & church leadership /

Table of Contents: “…/ Elisabeth Parmentier -- Women in the Lutheran communion / Musimbi R.A. Kanyoro -- African women and Lutheran tradition / Anna E. Mghwira -- Cultural elements and women's ordination / Datuk Thu En-Yu -- Women pastors in Indonesia / Basa Hutabarat -- The ordination of women in Africa / Musimbi R.A. …”

Animating Film Theory /

Table of Contents: “…Johnston -- Animating copies : Japanese graphic design, the Xerox machine, and Walter Benjamin / Yuriko Furuhata -- Framing the postmodern : the rhetoric of animated form in experimental identity-politics documentary video in the 1980s and 1990s / Tess Takahashi -- Cartoon film theory : Imamura Taihei on animation, documentary, and photography / Thomas LaMarre -- African American representation through the combination of live action and animation / Christopher P. …”
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Places of Engagement : Reflections on Higher Education in 2040 - A Global Approach /

Table of Contents: “…Academia moving eastwards / Bertil Andersson -- In search of the South African university -- pages from a Stellenbosch diary / Peter Vale -- The labyrinth of EU research, innovation, and education policy / Kurt Deketelaere -- Academic enterprise as a new institutional logic for public higher education / Michael Crow, Derrick Anderson, and Kyle Whitman -- Don't be scared; be prepared / Barbara Baarsma -- The idea of the university : national asset or ivory tower? …”
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Agricultural investment and productivity : building sustainability in East Africa /

Table of Contents: “…: empirical evidence from the Ethiopian highlands / Menale Kassie -- Soil conservation and small scale food production in highland Ethiopia : a stochastic metafrontier approach / Haileselassie Medhin and Gunnar Köhlin -- Public policies and sustainable land management investments -- Policy instruments to reduce downstream externalities of soil erosion and surface run-off / Anders Ekbom -- Incentives for sustainable land management in East African countries / Berhanu Gebremedhin -- Conclusions and key lessons / Randall A. …”

Faith and Law how religious traditions from Calvinism to Islam view American law /

Table of Contents: “…: law through the eyes of the African-American religious tradition / Anthony V. …”
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Hong Kong connections transnational imagination in action cinema /

Table of Contents: “…Srinivas -- Hong Kong, Hollywood, Bombay : on the function of 'martial art' in the Hindi action cinema / Valentina Vitali -- Let's miscegenate : Jackie Chan and his African-American connection / Laleen Jayamanne -- The secrets of movement : the influence of Hong Kong action cinema upon the contemporary French avant-garde / Nicole Brenez -- At the edge of the cut : an encounter with the Hong Kong style in contemporary action cinema / Adrian Martin -- Wuxia redux : Crouching tiger, hidden dragon as a model of late transnational production / Stephen Teo -- Hong Kong film and the new cinephilia / David Desser -- Action cinema, labour power, and the video market / Paul Willemen -- Spectral critiques: tracking "uncanny" filmic paths towards a bio-poetics of trans-Pacific globalization / Rob Wilson -- Technoscience culture, embodiment, and wuda pian / Wong Kin-yuen.…”
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World weavers globalization, science fiction, and the cybernetic revolution /

Table of Contents: “…Dick's The man in the high castle / Jake Jakaitis -- Godzilla's travels: the evolution of a globalized gargantuan / Gary Westfahl -- Black secret technology: African technological subjects / Gerald Gaylard -- The teeth of the new cockatoo: mutation and trauma in Greg Egan's Teranesia / Chris Palmer -- When cyberfeminism meets Chinese philosophy: computer, weaving and women / Amy Kit-sze Chan -- Hollywood enters the dragon / V�eronique Flambard-Weisbart -- Romeo must die: action and agency in Hollywood and Hong Kong action films / Susanne Rieser and Susanne Lummerding.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

The paradox of professionalism lawyers and the possibility of justice /

Table of Contents: “…Cause lawyers and other signs of progress: three Thai narratives Frank Munger; 13. African youth mobilize against garbage: economic and social rights advocacy and the practice of democracy Lucie White; 14. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Animating Film Theory /

Table of Contents: “…Johnston -- Animating copies : Japanese graphic design, the Xerox machine, and Walter Benjamin / Yuriko Furuhata -- Framing the postmodern : the rhetoric of animated form in experimental identity-politics documentary video in the 1980s and 1990s / Tess Takahashi -- Cartoon film theory : Imamura Taihei on animation, documentary, and photography / Thomas LaMarre -- African American representation through the combination of live action and animation / Christopher P. …”
Full text available:

Places of Engagement : Reflections on Higher Education in 2040 - A Global Approach /

Table of Contents: “…Academia moving eastwards / Bertil Andersson -- In search of the South African university -- pages from a Stellenbosch diary / Peter Vale -- The labyrinth of EU research, innovation, and education policy / Kurt Deketelaere -- Academic enterprise as a new institutional logic for public higher education / Michael Crow, Derrick Anderson, and Kyle Whitman -- Don't be scared; be prepared / Barbara Baarsma -- The idea of the university : national asset or ivory tower? …”
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Where are poor people to live? transforming public housing communities /

Table of Contents: “…Gautreaux and Chicago's public housing crisis: the conflict between achieving integration and providing decent housing for very low-income African Americans / William P. Wilen and Wendy L. …”
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The black-white test score gap

Table of Contents: “…Cook and Jens Ludwig -- Stereotype threat and the test performance of academically successful African Americans / Claude M. Steele and Joshua Aronson -- Do test scores matter? …”
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Economic evolution and revolution in historical time

Table of Contents: “…The Stanford tradition in economic history / Gavin Wright -- Natural resources and economic outcomes / Karen Clay -- The institutionalization of science in Europe, 1650-1850 / George Grantham -- The fundamental impact of the slave trade on African economies / Warren C. Whatley and Rob Gillezeau -- Similar societies, different solutions : U.S. …”
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Out of many, one people the historical archaeology of colonial Jamaica /

Table of Contents: “…The archaeology of the plantation system -- Reflections on Seville : rediscovering the African Jamaican settlements at Seville Plantation, St. …”
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International service learning conceptual frameworks and research /

Table of Contents: “…Williams -- Qualitative research methodology and international service learning: concepts, characteristics, methods, approaches, and best practices / Richard Kiely and Eric Hartman -- Ethical issues in research on international service learning / Carole Wells, Judith Warchal, Ana Ruiz, and Andrea Chapdelaine -- An international perspective on north american international service learning: reflections based on south african service learning experiences / Mabel Erasmus.…”
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Veterans' policies, veterans' politics new perspectives on veterans in the modern United States /

Table of Contents: “…The long journey home: African American World War I veterans and veteran policies / Jennifer Keene -- Part IV: Bonuses and G.I. bills. 7. …”
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