Interdisciplinary studies

Making Transparency Possible

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"Each year local and national economies throughout the world lose billions of dollars through so-called illicit financial flows. Conservative estimates indicate that over a billion dollars are diverted illegitimately out of countries in the Southern Hemisphere every year. This d…

Management consulting today and tomorrow: perspectives and advice from leading experts

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This new edition gathers more than 22 experts to outline the theory behind consulting, providing insight into change processes and management issues in the field. The business of consulting has grown faster than most other businesses, due not only to increased demand by clients,…

Facets of Urbanisation: Views from Anthropology

by Chaudhuri, Sumita

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This book is the result of an international conference organized by the Commission on Urban Anthropology, the Commission on Human Rights of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) and the Department of Anthropology of West Bengal State Univer…

Rethinking the French Classroom: New Approaches to Teaching Contemporary French an…

by Meyer, E. Nicole, Johnston, Joyce

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This volume investigates how teaching practices can address the changing status of literature in the French classroom. Focusing on how women writing in French are changing the face of French Studies, opening the canon to not only new approaches to gender but to genre, expanding …

Chapter 3 "Rights a di Plan": Sistren and sexual solidarities in Jamaica

by Batra, Kanika

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Chapter 3, “'Rights a di Plan': Sistren and Sexual Solidarities in Jamaica,” focuses on the newsletter Sistren published by the Sistren Theatre Collectives in the Jamaica from the 1970s to the 1990s. The contents of the magazine reveal that while the women's movement advocated l…

Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities: Publics, Counterpublics, Human Rights

by Batra, Kanika

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Global, sexuality, postcolonial, Jamaica, India, South Africa, LGBTQ, South-South interactions.

Knowledge in the Age of Digital Capitalism: An Introduction to Cognitive Materialism

by Zukerfeld, Mariano

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Knowledge in the Age of Digital Capitalism proposes a new critical theory concerning the functioning of capitalism and how we consider knowledge and information. This ambitious book systematically and lucidly introduces contemporary phenomena into the framework of cognitive mate…

Knowledge in the Age of Digital Capitalism: An Introduction to Cognitive Materialism

by Zukerfeld, Mariano

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Knowledge in the Age of Digital Capitalism proposes a new critical theory concerning the functioning of capitalism and how we consider knowledge and information. This ambitious book systematically and lucidly introduces contemporary phenomena into the framework of cognitive mate…

Interdisciplinary research: process and theory

by Repko, Allen F., Szostak, Rick

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The Third Edition of Interdisciplinary Research: Process and Theory offers a comprehensive and systematic presentation of the interdisciplinary research process and the theory that informs it. Authors Allen F. Repko and Rick Szostak illustrate each step of the decision-making pr…

General and Specific Mental Abilities

by Dennis J. McFarland

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The history of testing mental abilities has seen the dominance of two contrasting approaches, psychometrics and neuropsychology. These two traditions have different theories and methodologies, but overlap considerably in the tests they use. Historically, psychometrics has emphas…

Data journeys in the sciences

by Leonelli, Sabina, Tempini, Niccolò

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This groundbreaking, open access volume analyses and compares data practices across several fields through the analysis of specific cases of data journeys. It brings together leading scholars in the philosophy, history and social studies of science to achieve two goals: tracking…

Deleuze, Guattari, and the problem of transdisciplinarity

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"Deleuze and Guattari's work has today become ubiquitous in the humanities and social sciences, being regularly drawn on by a vast array of subjects. Throughout their careers, Deleuze and Guattari also engaged with a myriad of disciplines; yet they declared themselves that"Philo…

Eurasian business perspectives: Proceedings of the 26th and 27th Eurasia Business…

by Eurasia Business and Economics Society., Conference, Prague, Czech Republic), Eurasia Business and Economics Society., Conference, Bali, Indonesia)

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This book presents selected theoretical and empirical papers from the 26th and 27th Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conferences, held in Prague, Czech Republic, and Bali, Indonesia. Covering diverse areas of business and management in various geographic regions, it…

Megatrends defining the future of tourism: a journey within the journey in 12 universal trut…

by Boschetto Doorly, Valentina

fromAnticipation science

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This book identifies and describes five megatrends that will define the landscape of the Travel, Tourism & Hospitality industry, with a particular focus on the European context. Humans began travelling on the same day that Homo Sapiens first realized he could walk upright. No bo…

Archive, Photography and the Language of Administration

by Birkin, Jane

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This alternative study of archive and photography sits firmly against the backdrop of the traditional archive. Although many types of image assemblages feature-public and private, formal and informal, physical and digital-they are all considered in relation to the highly regulat…

Producing shared understanding for digital and social innovation: bridging divides with transdisciplinary informati…

by Miller, Faye

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In the Anthropocene age there is a need for unifying the relationships between people, planet and technology, their interactions, experiences and impacts across ecosystems. In response to this need, this book introduces unifying bridging concepts informational waves and transdis…

Producing shared understanding for digital and social innovation: bridging divides with transdisciplinary informati…

by Miller, Faye

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"In the Anthropocene age there is a need for unifying the relationships between people, planet and technology, their interactions, experiences and impacts across ecosystems. In response to this need, this book introduces unifying bridging concepts informational waves and transdi…