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IGU Commission on the Dynamics of Economic Spaces, ed. Local food systems in old industrial regions: Concepts, spatial context and local practices. Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate, 2012.
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Haan, Henk de. Landscape, leisure and tourism: Socio-spatial studies in experiences, practices and policies. Edited by Duim René van der. Delft: Eburon, 2008.
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Monika, Böck, and Rao Aparna, eds. Culture, creation, and procreation: Concepts of kinship in South Asian practice. New York: Berghahn Books, 2000.
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Mareis, Claudia, Moritz Greiner-Petter, and Michael Renner, eds. Critical by Design? Bielefeld, Germany: transcript Verlag, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/9783839461044.
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In its constructive and speculative nature, design has the critical potential to reshape prevalent socio-material realities. At the same time, design is inevitably normative, if not often violent, as it stabilises the past, normalises the present, and precludes just and sustainable futures. The contributions rethink concepts of critique that influence the field of design, question inherent blind spots of the discipline, and expand understandings of what critical design practices could be. With contributions from design theory, practice and education, art theory, philosophy, and informatics, »Critical by Design?« aims to question and unpack the ambivalent tensions between design and critique.
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Tunström, Moa. Socioekologisk stadsutveckling: Begrepp och lokal praktik = Socio-ecological urban development : concepts and local practice. Stockholm: Arkitektur Förlag, 2015.
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Nevskiy, Sergey, Aleksandr Hudokormov, Mihail Pokidchenko, Irina Chaplygina, Al'fred Shyuller, Zigena Gol'dshmidt, and Yoahim Cvaynert. The history of the concept of social market economy in Germany. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1703180.
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The monograph traces the history of the development of German neoliberal economic thought from the origins of the Freiburg School in the 1930s to the first results of the practical implementation of the concept of a social market economy in West Germany in the late 1940s-early 1960s. The author demonstrates the broad historical context of the development of German ideas about the theory and practice of the policy of order (Ordnungstheorie und Ordnungspolitik), shows the features of the formation and spread of the scientific and intellectual economic tradition in Germany, as well as beyond its borders, starting with the birth of the German historical school and the perception of its heritage by Russian socio-economic thought in the second half of the XIX — early XX century and ending with the practical implementation of the concept of order of the Freiburg school and the correlation of its ideological and spiritual and moral foundations with the social teaching of Catholicism and liberalism of Friedrich von Hayek. Special attention is paid to some controversial issues of the formation of the theory of ordoliberalism during the period of national socialism and the problems of the social market economy in modern Germany.
The book is intended to fill the shortage of specialized scientific literature on relevant issues and to acquaint the Russian reader, primarily students, teachers and researchers, with the variety of ideological and scientific-theoretical foundations of the socio-economic system of the post-war Germany.
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Dibazar, Pedram, and Judith Naeff, eds. Visualizing the Street. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462984356.
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From user-generated images of streets to professional architectural renderings, and from digital maps and drone footages to representations of invisible digital ecologies, this collection of essays analyses the emergent practices of visualizing the street. Today, advancements in digital technologies of the image have given rise to the production and dissemination of imagery of streets and urban realities in multiple forms. The ubiquitous presence of digital visualizations has in turn created new forms of urban practice and modes of spatial encounter. Everyone who carries a smartphone not only plays an increasingly significant role in the production, editing and circulation of images of the street, but also relies on those images to experience urban worlds and to navigate in them. Such entangled forms of image-making and image-sharing have constructed new imaginaries of the street and have had a significant impact on the ways in which contemporary and future streets are understood, imagined, documented, navigated, mediated and visualized. Visualizing the Street investigates the social and cultural significance of these new developments at the intersection of visual culture and urban space. The interdisciplinary essays provide new concepts, theories and research methods that combine close analyses of street images and imaginaries with the study of the practices of their production and circulation. The book covers a wide range of visible and invisible geographies — From Hong Kong’s streets to Rio’s favelas, from Sydney’s suburbs to London’s street markets, and from Damascus’ war-torn streets to Istanbul’s sidewalks — and engages with multiple ways in which visualizations of the street function to document street protests and urban change, to build imaginaries of urban communities and alternate worlds, and to help navigate streetscapes.
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Voskobitova, Lidiya, and Vladimir Przhilenskiy. Criminal proceedings: transformation of theoretical concepts and regulation in the conditions of digitalization. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1893198.
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The monograph was prepared by a team of authors based on the results of a study conducted in 2019-2022 on the topic "Transformation of the foundations of criminal proceedings in the context of the development of digital technologies: concepts of social technology, evidence and ensuring the rights of participants in the process" within the framework of the RFBR grant on the basis of the contract dated 04.10.2018 No. 18-29-16041.MK. The research is based on modern philosophical approaches to the development of science, the theory of cognition and epistemology, the understanding of social technologies that affect the development of criminal procedure science. An innovative analysis of a number of theoretical provisions, norms of law and practice of modern Russian criminal proceedings from the standpoint of social technology, compatibility of procedural and legal regulation and technological approach with the process of digitalization of procedural activity is carried out. The institutional-legal and socio-technological determinants of the transformation of ideas about the foundations of criminal proceedings, its modern goals and values, the subjects of the process and their role in the conditions of digitalization, about the types of procedural activities subject to digitalization, about certain aspects and possibilities of digitalization of evidence, record keeping, international cooperation in criminal proceedings are considered.
For researchers and practicing lawyers.
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Kondrat'ev, Sergey. Theory and practice of personalized learning. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1098272.
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The monograph presents the psychological theory and organization of personalized learning in general education schools. The concept of integrative subjectivity of a person as a form of reflexive and areflexive self-existence is considered as the psychological basis of personalized learning. The author characterizes the personality and the social individual in the light of the humanitarian Christian paradigm: reveals the phenomenology of integrative subjectivity, its structural organization, levels and forms of development of the individual and the social individual. From the standpoint of the Christian psychology of education, the general psychological and socio-psychological aspects of personalized learning are revealed, the psychological typification of students and teachers is justified, the extraordinary pedagogical interaction as a psychological mechanism of personalized learning is presented, the experimental construction of psychological types of primary school students based on the perception of educational material, as well as the typological features of teachers. Technologies of personalized learning are presented. The monograph reflects the results of many years of theoretical and experimental research of the author. It is of interest to seminarians, students, postgraduates of Orthodox educational institutions, students of Higher theological courses, faculties of advanced training and retraining, as well as philosophers, psychologists, teachers, social workers, and specialists in the field of education.
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Muhaev, Rashid. Geopolitics. In 2 vols . ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1938063.
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What does the world expect as a result of the geopolitical transformation associated with the transition from a unipolar to a multipolar world order? Will this result in a just and secure world order in which there will be no hegemon, the chosen and the outcasts? What will the geostructure of the first half of the XXI century represent? The answers to these questions can be found in volume 1 of this textbook.
Geopolitics is considered as a science and a set of practices of global positioning of states in the context of the totality of factors determining their strategic potential in the modern world. A systematic presentation of geopolitics as a scientific discipline is presented, the evolution of geopolitical ideas and concepts is traced, and the current state of geopolitics is revealed. The practices and technology of the formation of geopolitical spatial models underlying the world political order at different stages of the historical development of mankind are considered. Special attention is paid to the analysis of the current phase of the geopolitical development of the world system associated with the formation of a multipolar world order, possible geostrategies of the leading countries of the world and regions in the context of the confrontation between the global North led by the United States and the global South led by Russia and China are identified.
For students and postgraduates studying in the fields of 41.03.04 "Political Science", 41.03.05 "International Relations", 38.03.04 "State and Municipal Administration", 41.03.02 "Regional Studies".
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Damen, Mario, and Kim Overlaet, eds. Constructing and Representing Territory in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463726139.
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In recent political and constitutional history, scholars seldom specify how and why they use the concept of territory. In research on state formation processes and nation building, for instance, the term mostly designates an enclosed geographical area ruled by a central government. Inspired by ideas from political geographers, this book explores the layered and constantly changing meanings of territory in late medieval and early modern Europe before cartography and state formation turned boundaries and territories into more fixed (but still changeable) geographical entities. Its central thesis is that analysing the notion of territory in a premodern setting involves analysing territorial practices: practices that relate people and power to space(s). The book not only examines the construction and spatial structure of premodern territories but also explores their perception and representation through the use of a broad range of sources: from administrative texts to maps, from stained glass windows to chronicles.
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Liang, Zhang. Nan Hai Hui cun: Sanya Hui zu de shi kong guan nian yu she hui shi jian = A Hui's community in Hainan Island : Sanya Hui's spatial-temporal concepts and social practice. Beijing: She hui ke xue wen xian chu ban she, 2016.
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Merrill, Elizabeth, ed. Creating Place in Early Modern European Architecture. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463728027.
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The importance of place—as a unique spatial identity—has been recognized since antiquity. Ancient references to the ‘genius loci’, or spirit of place, evoked not only the location of a distinct atmosphere or environment, but also the protection of this location, and implicitly, its making and construction. This volume examines the concept of place as it relates to architectural production and building knowledge in early modern Europe (1400-1800). The places explored in the book’s ten essays take various forms, from an individual dwelling to a cohesive urban development to an extensive political territory. Within the scope of each study, the authors draw on primary source documents and original research to demonstrate the distinctive features of a given architectural place, and how these are related to a geographic location, social circumstances, and the contributions of individual practitioners. The essays underscore the distinct techniques, practices and organizational structures by which physical places were made in the early modern period.
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Zhuravlev, D., I. Reverchuk, A. Damadaeva, and M. Glavatskih. FORMATION OF ASSERTIVE BEHAVIOR SKILLS: DIAGNOSIS AND CORRECTION OF EMOTIONAL STATES. Methodological materials for psychological practice. ru: Publishing Center RIOR, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.29039/978-5-906429-45-2.
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The first section of this training manual discusses the theoretical foundations and approaches to the study of assertiveness and regulation of emotional state through positive thinking skills. In this section, psychological approaches to the regulation of the emotional sphere are united by the principle of the formation of personal development through the open expression and constructive realization of emotions. It contains practical recommendations, techniques and exercises related to the regulation of emotions aimed at overcoming unwanted emotional experiences, as well as emotional training that allows you to realize the emotions of anger, fear, sadness, etc. and cope with them.
In the second block of the first section, assertiveness is considered as a socio-psychological phenomenon in relation to the concept of constructive behavior. It is presented as a characteristic of a personality that is formed in the process of relationships between people and manifested in them. The third section of the manual presents a set of methods for diagnosing assertiveness, emotional sphere, constructive behavior and the necessary information about the scales of techniques, as well as methods of processing and psychological interpretation. The collected methods are designed to diagnose the general emotional state and determine the targets of work when teaching skills of assertive behavior.
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Tumin, Valeriy, Elena Zenkina, Ol'ga Ivanova, Petr Kostromin, and Aleksandra Minchenkova. Management of sustainable development of organizations and territories. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/2147031.
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The monograph presents general theoretical and practical issues of managing the sustainable development of organizations and territories. The understanding and evolution of the concept of sustainable development management in Russia and the world, mechanisms and tools for its implementation are considered. The views of the authors of the monograph on the role and place of the state, society, business entities and each person in solving this global global problem are presented. Considerable attention is paid to the tools of innovative and investment development of territories, the use of strategic and project approaches in managing sustainable development, ensuring competitiveness of organizations and territories in domestic and international business against the background of sustainable development requirements. It is intended for specialists working in the fields of sectoral and regional socio-ecological and economic issues both within the framework of scientific research and practical management (from federal to municipal and corporate levels). The problems under consideration are also of interest to managers and employees of business structures, design and consulting companies, teachers, students and postgraduates of universities of economics and management, environmental and engineering fields and specialties, students of business schools and retraining.
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Semenova, Vera. Gender psychology. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1059426.
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The textbook reveals the main range of issues of a new branch of psychological science — gender psychology. It is based on the author's lecture course, which has been read to psychology students for many years.
The textbook is structured in such a way that students can master the most important concepts and provisions of the gender approach, which forms the theoretical and methodological basis of gender psychology, its subject, as well as the skills of gender analysis of social reality and the psyche of a modern person. The article presents the problems reflecting the structure of gender psychology, supplemented by the presentation of some socio-psychological aspects of human sexuality.
The theoretical material is illustrated by various examples. At the end of each chapter, there are questions and tasks that allow you to better understand the content.
Meets the requirements of the federal state educational standards of higher education of the latest generation.
It is aimed at bachelor students studying in the field of training 37.03.01 "Psychology" of all profiles, teachers of psychological faculties, as well as specialists in the field of academic and practical psychology.
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Lomakina, Tat'yana, and Nina Vasil'chenko. Modern technology of teaching a foreign language: design and experience. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1111366.
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The monograph deals with the theoretical and practical issues of pedagogical design of the technology of teaching a foreign language in the system of secondary vocational education. Presents an analysis of key concepts "instructional design" and "technology of education" that is meaningful and reveals the basic principles of the system, activity-based and student-centered approaches to the design of learning technologies to address new opportunities and the status of the str system in the modern socio-economic conditions. The author has developed a method of selection of the content of learning English language, based on the modular structure of the course, taking into account international experience in building the content of language education for professional purposes, the requirements of the educational-methodical complex of teaching business English and core competencies stipulated by the Council of Europe, as well as the requirements of the labour market and the needs of employers standardisert, intensificarea language training specialist of middle management by reflection of the status and trends of professional activities in various fields. For use in the system of professional development of teachers of secondary vocational education, additional education and the system of corporate training.
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Durakova, Irina, Aleksandra Mitrofanova, Tat'yana Rahmanova, Ekaterina Mayer, Marina Holyavka, Ol'ga Gerr, Asya Vavilova, et al. Personnel management in Russia: from the ego to the ecosystem. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1567065.
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The monograph contains the results of research concerning, firstly, the ecosystem as a response to the challenges of the XXI century. Secondly, the problems of labor longevity and success in organizations that form an ecosystem approach to working with personnel, including through the use in practice of biomedical factors, socio-economic conditions, nagging as a "soft power" to push older workers to productive work. Thirdly, the realities and problems of combining work and private life, studied from several positions. Among them: the formation of corporate policy, corporate interest, professional orientation; the actual balance of "work — private life", as well as the optimization of labor behavior through the formation of a sense of self-esteem in the workplace, the management of employees ' experience. Fourth, systematization of the results of the health management study, taking into account the experience gained during the coronavirus pandemic — occupational safety management, health promotion in the organization, including the situation of self-isolation. Fifth, the concept of compliance in the personnel management system.
For students, undergraduates, postgraduates, doctoral students, researchers studying or conducting research in the field of personnel management, as well as the teaching staff of universities and employers.
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Sapogova, Elena. Developmental psychology and age psychology. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/997107.
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The textbook contains systematized information about psychological, socio-cultural, historical-ethnographic, psychobiological and other aspects of the development of a person changing over time. The first section is devoted to general theoretical problems of developmental psychology, the second to the analysis of different ages.
The comprehensive nature of the manual makes it possible to solve the problems of formation in the professional consciousness of a stable complex of scientific categories and concepts, with the help of which the factual diversity of manifestations of the mental life of a developing person is described in psychology; familiarization with classical and modern interpretations of human development, with different variants of psychological interpretation of its essence, nature, mechanisms, driving forces and contradictions; disclosure of dialectics and phenomenology of the formation of a person as a cultural and historical subject; formation of ideas about the complexity and ambiguity of the evolution of a child as a human being; understanding the basic laws of the formation of personality and individuality of a person at each stage of its development.
Meets the requirements of the federal state educational standards of higher education of the latest generation.
It is intended for the study of the discipline "Developmental psychology, age psychology" during the professional training of psychologists in universities and is aimed at students of bachelor's and master's degrees in psychology faculties of classical and pedagogical universities, humanities and medical universities, as well as graduate students, psychology teachers and practical psychologists who are improving their qualifications in the field of age psychology.
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Strüver, Anke, and Sybille Bauriedl, eds. Platformization of Urban Life. Bielefeld, Germany: transcript Verlag, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/9783839459645.
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The increasing platformization of urban life needs critical perspectives to examine changing everyday practices and power shifts brought about by the expansion of digital platforms mediating care-services, housing, and mobility. This book addresses new modes of producing urban spaces and societies. It brings both platform researchers and activists from various fields related to critical urban studies and labour activism into dialogue. The contributors engage with the socio-spatial and normative implications of platform-mediated urban everyday life and urban futures, going beyond a rigid techno-dystopian stance in order to include an understanding of platforms as sites of social creativity and exchange.
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Reid, Neil, Jay D. Gatrell, and Paula S. Ross. Local Food Systems in Old Industrial Regions: Concepts, Spatial Context, and Local Practices. Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
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Reid, Neil, Jay D. Gatrell, and Paula S. Ross. Local Food Systems in Old Industrial Regions: Concepts, Spatial Context, and Local Practices. Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
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Reid, Neil, Jay D. Gatrell, and Paula S. Ross. Local Food Systems in Old Industrial Regions: Concepts, Spatial Context, and Local Practices. Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
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Whitworth, Adam, ed. Towards a Spatial Social Policy. Policy Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447337904.001.0001.
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The motivation of this edited collection is to shine a light on the fertile, multi-faceted yet largely unexplored links between the concepts, perspectives, knowledges and methodological approaches of human geography and their contributions for what remains a largely aspatial social policy discipline and set of applied policy practices. With contributions from leading experts across the geography-policy divide this edited collection offer a range of original cutting-edge perspectives on the neglected and misunderstood spatialities of social policy thinking and their implications for both its scholarship and applied practice.
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Krieg, C. Parker, and Reetta Toivanen, eds. Situating Sustainability: A Handbook of Contexts and Concepts. Helsinki University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.33134/hup-14.
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Situating Sustainability reframes our understanding of sustainability through related concepts, practices, and case studies. The point of departure is the continual need to be conscious of how environmental knowledge and sustainability are issues constituted by long-standing inequalities. This book addresses the necessity in sustainability science to recognize how diverse cultural histories define environmental politics today. The differing geographic scope of this volume is joined by the disciplinary diversity of the contributors and their wide-ranging areas of specialization, bringing together researchers from cultural studies, anthropology, literature, law, behavioral science, urban studies, design, and development. As a truly transdisciplinary work, Situating Sustainability calls for research guided by the humanities and social sciences in collaboration with local actors informed by histories of place. The authors of this volume believe that situating sustainability cannot limit itself to the geographic borders of nations, epistemic standpoints, or to unmasking perspectives that falsely present themselves as objective or universal. The approach includes not only material practices like extraction or disaster recovery, but extends into the domains of human rights, education, and academic interdisciplinarity. Researchers are joined by artists whose work provides a platform to conduct research at the edges of performance, knowledge production, and critical commentary on socio-ecological infrastructures. All this will enable readers to better understand what sustainability means (or might yet mean) in their own locations, and how work in one place might support the efforts of others in other places. Designed for students, scholars, and interested readers, Situating Sustainability introduces the conceptual practices that inform the leading edge of engaged research in sustainability.
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Wulf, Volker, Volkmar Pipek, David Randall, Markus Rohde, Kjeld Schmidt, and Gunnar Stevens, eds. Socio-Informatics. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198733249.001.0001.
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The last 25 years have seen a small revolution in our approach to the understanding of new technology and information systems. It has become a founding assumption of computer-supported cooperative work and human–computer interaction that in the future, if not already, most computer applications will be socially embedded in the sense that they will become infrastructures (in some sense) for the development of the social practices which they are designed to support. Assuming that IT artifacts have to be understood in this sociotechnical way, traditional criteria for good design in computer science, such as performance, reliability, stability or usability, arguably need to be supplemented by methods and perspectives which illuminate the way in which technology and social practice are mutually elaborating. This book concerns the philosophy, conceptual apparatus, and methodological concerns which will inform the development of a systematic and long-term human-centered approach to the IT-product life cycle, addressing issues concerned with appropriation and infrastructuring. This entails an orientation to “practice-based computing.” The book contains a number of chapters which examine both the conceptual foundations of such an approach, and a number of empirical case studies that exemplify it.
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Fikfak, Alenka, Saja Kosanović, Miha Konjar, and Enrico Anguillari, eds. SUSTAINABILITY AND RESILIENCE: socio-spatial perspective. TU Delft Bouwkunde, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.47982/bookrxiv.23.
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Sustainability and resilience have become indispensable parts of the contemporary debate over the built environment. Although recognised as imperatives, the complexity and the variety of interpretations of sustainability and resilience have raised the necessity to again rethink their notion in the context of the built environment and to reframe the state-of-the-art body of knowledge. The book Sustainability and Resilience: Socio-Spatial Perspective so begins with the exploration of the broadest conceptual frame-of-reference of issues related to sustainability, and the re-establishment of the connection between the built environment and the conditions that are vital to its functioning, primarily in relation to energy, land use, climate, and economy. Subsequent discussion on resilience as a term, approach, and philosophy aims to conceptualise an interpretation of key resilience concepts, explain relationships and links among them, and propose the classification of resilience as applicable to the context of urban studies. By studying the processes of transition of the built environment, the book then reveals a coherent formula of ‘thinking sustainability + resilience’ aimed at improving the ability to respond to disruptions and hazards while enhancing human and environmental welfare. The necessity to integrate the two approaches is further accented as a result of a deliberative discourse on the notions of ‘social sustainability’, ‘sustainable community’, and ‘socio-cultural resilience’. The potential of measuring sustainable development and urban sustainability on the basis of defined social, human, and, additionally, natural and economic values is presented though an overview of different wellknown indicators and the identification of a currently relevant tangible framework of sustainable development. Correspondingly, the role of policies and governance is demonstrated on the case of climate-proof cities. In this way, the consideration of approaches to sustainability and resilience of the urban environment is rounded, and the focus of the book is shifted towards an urban/rural dichotomy and the sustainability prospects of identified forms-in-between, and, subsequently, towards the exploration of values, challenges, and the socio-cultural role in achieving sustainability for rural areas. In the final chapters, the book offers several peculiarised socio-spatial perspectives, from defining the path towards more resilient communities and sustainable spaces based on a shared wellbeing, to proposing the approach to define community resilience as an intentional action that aims to respond to, and influence, the course of social and economic change, to deliberating the notion of a ’healthy place’ and questioning its optimal scale in the built environment. The study of sustainability and resilience in this book is concluded by drawing a parallel between environmental, economic, and social determinants of the built environment and the determinants that are relevant to human health and well-being.
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Jordan, Randolph. Acoustical Properties. Edited by Yael Kaduri. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199841547.013.44.
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One of the defining thematic preoccupations in the fiction filmmaking of Philippe Grandrieux, one of the leading figures in French Art Cinema, is that of the politics of property. InSombre, La Vie Nouvelle, andUn Lac, the relationship dynamics between a woman and a variety of agents competing to claim her are mapped out in the overlap between different registers of space. This overlap opens up complex dynamics between differing spatial practices that are evident within Grandrieux’s narratives and the stylistics with which he shapes them, breaking down conventional understanding of the distance between screen and audience. This chapter argues that one cannot account for the richness of spatial practice in these films without attention to the representation of acoustic space. Drawing on recent concepts in sound studies and critical geography, and expanding upon the literature on Grandrieux’s work, the author focuses on instances of spatial delineation that defines elements of owned property in each of these films.
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Marine spatial planning: Concepts, current practice and linkages to other management approaches. [Ghent, Belgium]: Ghent University, 2010.
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McLaughlin, John, and Richard Groot. Geospatial Data Infrastructure : Concepts, Cases, and Good Practice (Spatial Information Systems (Cloth)). Oxford University Press, USA, 2000.
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Stern, Eric. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Crisis Analysis. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acref/9780190610623.001.0001.
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85 long form essays Contemporary societies are increasingly crisis-prone, and crises have profound implications for the rapidly changing political, economic, and social landscape. Crises pose major challenges to governments, communities, leaders, and organizations. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Crisis Analysis provides a comprehensive overview of the rapidly emerging and evolving field of crisis studies and explores its connection to several relevant neighboring fields of knowledge. Crises are complex, unfold in diverse political and socio-technical contexts, and must be studied and understood from multiple angles and disciplinary perspectives. This Encyclopedia brings together contributions by experts from political science, public administration, management, international relations, public health, sociology, economics, media and mass communications, the law, and many other fields to explore important theoretical, methodological, empirical, and practical issues related to crisis and crisis management. Articles focus on concepts (crisis as well as closely related concepts such as emergency, disaster, resilience, security etc.), contingencies (natural hazards, major accidents, pandemics, terrorism, social and political conflict among many others), historical and contemporary cases, classic and cutting edge research methods, different “phases” of the crisis/emergency management cycle, as well as documenting a wide range of pitfalls and good practices that can help to forewarn and forearm current and future crisis managers. The 85 essays in this Encyclopedia fall into six main categories: Theory, Concepts, Metatheory and Methodology, Crisis Governance and Regional Perspectives, Bridging Gaps, and Cases & the Evolving Socio-Technical Context. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Crisis Analysis is a key reference for anyone involved in the study, research, or practice of crisis and emergency analysis and management.
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Bogdanović, Jelena. The Micro-Architectural Framing of Sacred Space. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190465186.003.0005.
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A critical feature of canopies is their micro-architectural quality, which highlights the essence of design practices in Byzantine religious architecture. This chapter examines various canopies as columnar and vaulted installations and relates them to the meaning and form of the canopy as a basic spatial unit of the Byzantine church. Specific architectural solutions reveal the various spatial relations and meanings between different canopied installations. The analysis shows how altar canopies, for example, resulted from the complex circumstances of diverse liturgical needs, devotional practices, and movement-directing channels within a given church and may have originated from concepts related to funerary (funerary altars and tomb canopies), civic (tetrapyla and imperial canopies), and sacred architecture (shrines and sacrificial altars). Case studies include the shrines of Old St. Peter’s in Rome and early Christian churches in the Mediterranean, of St. Euphemia in Constantinople, St. Demetrios in Thessaloniki, and Blessed Loukas in Boeotia.
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Goycoolea-Prado, Roberto, Laura Susana Zamudio-Vega, Ainhoa Amaro-García, Ana María Sosa-González, Leonardo Barci-Castriota, Luis Fernando González-Escobar, Carlos Zeballos-Velarde, et al. Identidad territorial, globalización y patrimonio. Edited by Carlos Mario Yory. Editorial Universidad Católica de Colombia, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14718/9789585133761.2021.
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This book analyzes the relationship between the three concepts that give shape to its name, with the particular purpose of examining the impacts that globalization has brought on the built heritage. It seeks to explore the possible paths that, for academic reflection, applied research or public policy, could be derived from the reflections that bring together the gaze of numerous researchers fromdifferent countries. In this regard, the work offers a conceptual framework from where it has been addressed the phenomenon, and from which issues such as the community thinking; the socio-spatial conflicts generated by tourism; the relationship between identity and historical memory, as well as between heritage and human rights; tensions and dilemmas about identity and heritage that globalization brings and, finally, the theme that is called at work,"situated thinking”, as a condition when studying and understanding what in front of the subject it happens in every context. Approach from which cases in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Mexico, Croatia and, among others, Turkey are analyzed. The latter country, where researchers carried out field work that, together with the explorations in other contexts, allowed to contrast theory with practice and extrapolate from this point their conclusions.
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Goldberg, Sanford C. Foundations and Applications of Social Epistemology. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198856443.001.0001.
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This book collects twelve recent papers by the author on social epistemology. Roughly half of them propose a research program for social epistemology—including an animating vision, foundational questions, and core concepts—and the other half are applications of this vision to particular topics. The author characterizes the research program itself as the exploration of the epistemic significance of other minds. Such a program will enumerate the various ways in which we depend epistemically on others, it will describe the proper way to evaluate beliefs according to the sort of dependence they exhibit, and it will provide the basis for identifying and characterizing various dysfunctions of our epistemic communities. The book suggests that several core concepts will be helpful as part of this exploration: epistemic dependence (direct and diffuse); entitlements (epistemic as well as those deriving from our social practices); the normative expectations we have of one another as epistemic subjects; and the socio-epistemic practices in which we participate. It goes on to put this program and these concepts into practice by exploring such topics as the epistemic agency exhibited in inquiry, the practices that constitute news coverage, the basis for allegations of what we or others should have known, how reliance on another’s testimony contrasts with reliance on an instrument, our reliance on others as consumers of testimony, and the epistemic upshot of non-epistemic social norms (whether these are moral, political, professional, or relationship-based).
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Shepherd, Laura J. The Concept and Practice of Peacebuilding at the UN and Beyond. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199982721.003.0002.
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This chapter outlines what the author thinks the United Nations thinks it thinks about peacebuilding, investigating the different ways in which peacebuilding is represented as both concept and practice in the corpus of data. The author argues that UN peacebuilding discourse functions to (re)produce a narrow construction of peacebuilding as statebuilding, which is bound by constrictive logics of both gender and space that ascribe to the (notionally sovereign) state a degree of power, authority, and legitimacy, but ultimately leave undisturbed the hierarchies operative in the international system that afford legitimacy to the “international,” as a spatial and conceptual domain.
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Hills, Mils. Why Cyber Security Is a Socio-Technical Challenge: New Concepts and Practical Measures to Enhance Detection. Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated, 2016.
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Hills, Mils. Why Cyber Security Is a Socio-Technical Challenge: New Concepts and Practical Measures to Enhance Detection. Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated, 2016.
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Jha, Sadan, Dev Nath Pathak, and Amiya Kumar Das, eds. Neighbourhoods in Urban India. BLOOMSBURY INDIA Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt. Ltd, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9789390252695.
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‘…a brilliant exploration of urbanism between the concept city and the lived city.… The volume focuses on urban life lived between home and the world, institutions and experiences, representations and affects…. Its fascinating range of empirically rich and analytically sophisticated excavations of neighbourhoods make the volume a must-have in the bookshelf on South Asian urban studies.’ –Gyan Prakash, Princeton University ‘A must-read for those who wish to study the micro aspects of contemporary urbanity.’ –Sujata Patel, Savitribai Phule Pune University ‘This book is a powerful addition to the study of Indian urbanism.’ –Ravi Sundaram, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) In the last couple of decades, the global South, in general, and India, in particular, have witnessed a massive growth of cities. In India, more than one-third of its population lives in cities. However, urban development, growth and expansion are not merely about infrastructures and enlargement of cityscapes. This edited volume focuses on neighbourhoods, their particularities and their role in shaping our understanding of the urban in India. It locates Indian experiences in the larger context of the global South and seeks to decentre the dominant Euro-American discourse of urban social life. Neighbourhoods in Urban India: In Between Home and the City offers an understanding of neighbourhoods as changing socio-spatial units in their specific regional settings by underlining the way value regimes (religiosity and subjectivities) give neighbourhoods their social meanings and stereotypes. It unpacks discourses and knowledge practices, such as planning, architecture and urban discourses of governance. It further discloses the linkages and disjunctures between the social practices of neighbourhoods and the language, logic and experiences of dwelling, housing, urban planning and governance, and focuses on the particularities and heterogeneities of neighbourhoods and neighbourliness.
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Harik, Ramy, and Joseph Elias Khoury. Manufacturing versus Corruption: Who Wins? SAE International, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4271/9781468603590.
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The objective of Manufacturing versus Corruption: Who Wins? is to use scientific methodologies and recommendations to motivate young people to participate in rendering the manufacturing ecosystem successful, by creating a socio-political stability amongst communities, counties, states, and nations in an unprecedented way. This book presents the reader with a practical approach and understanding of key scientific, industrial & managerial concepts that constitute a common policy narrative to be embraced, implemented, and executed across all governmental sectors. As a tool for policy makers, the authors demonstrate the need for a digital manufacturing economy grounded in complete transparency. With over 50 years of experience in engineering and manufacturing, Ramy Harik and Joseph Khoury are on a mission to bring together science, economics, technology, and policy making so all work in tandem for the greater good. Topics include digital manufacturing economies, manufacturing ring, importance of infrastructure and power for successful manufacturing, networks and internet, manufacturing policies, economic policies, education systems, water, importance of data in the manufacturing process, good manufacturing practices, and free-market manufacturing.
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Williams, Rebecca. Theme Park Fandom. Amsterdam University Press B.V., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9789048561551.
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Theme Park Fandom argues that serious study of theme parks and their adult fans has much to tell us about contemporary transmediality and convergence, themed and immersive spaces, and audience relationships with places of meaning. Considering the duopoly of Disney and Universal in Orlando, the book explores a range of theme park experiences including planning trips, meeting characters, eating and drinking, engaging in practices such as cosplay and re-enactment, and memorializing lost attractions. Highlighting key themes such as immersion, materiality, cultural distinctions, and self-identity, the book argues that theme parks are a crucial site for the exploration of transmediality and the development of paratexts. Proposing the key concepts of spatial transmedia and haptic fandom, the book offers analysis of the intersections between fandom, media texts, and merchandise, as well as fans’ own affective and physical responses to visiting the parks.
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Ramšak, Mojca, Pawel Łuków, Amir Muzur, and Florian Steger, eds. Social diversity and access to healthcare. Verlag Karl Alber, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783495999561.
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Social diversity may affect health outcomes in situations when access to health care is limited for certain social groups. Although non-discriminatory access to healthcare service is one of the basic principles of medical ethics and health law, there are still debates regarding the implementation of this concept in practice. Barriers such as inadequate legal entitlements, language, different concepts of health and disease, socio-economic factors or attitudes of healthcare professionals can hinder equity in access to healthcare. The authors of contributions gathered in this volume analyze challenges in access to healthcare for various minority groups and propose possible solutions. With contributions by Prof. Dr. Pawel Łuków, Prof. Dr. Amir Muzur, Prof. Dr. Mojca Ramšak and Prof. Dr. Florian Steger.
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Doty, Roxanne Lynn. The Global and the Local. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.332.
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The connections between the local and the global raise a range of issues that have been addressed in social and political theory in the past but continue to provoke important discussion. Many of the constructs that have traditionally been foundational to the academic discipline of international relations, including territory and sovereignty, are inherently intertwined with how we think of the local and the global. The local–global connections revolve around three broad and overlapping themes: the critical scrutiny of older concepts and the emergence of new ones as well as alternative vocabularies; an appreciation of the necessity of an interdisciplinary perspective; and attention to the significance of the relationship between theory and practice. Many of the more recent scholarly work on the local–global continue to tackle the effects of global capitalism in locations constructed as local as well as the role of these locations in facilitating global capitalist relations. Critical geographers and cultural studies scholars have made important contributions to our understandings of the global–local nexus by focusing on the formation of social movements and localized practices of resistance as well as transversal struggles that call into question conventional spatial logics. Another important area of research that has made both conceptual and empirical contributions has produced the “global cities” literature. Students of international studies need to continue to focus on what have been referred to as “everyday” or “local” practices that have often been considered unimportant when it comes to the “big” issues of international studies.
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Zitin, Abigail. Practical Form. Yale University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300244564.001.0001.
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In early eighteenth-century Britain, writers asked after the nature and causes of the pleasure we feel when we encounter beauty. It took a painter, however, to steer the nascent field of philosophical aesthetics toward questions of spatial form. Drawing inspiration from William Hogarth’s 1753 treatise on beauty, this book traces the development of form as a concept in and for aesthetics. Hogarth’s experience as a draftsman and printmaker guided his dissent from the developing consensus on aesthetic pleasure and standards of taste. The immediate cause of aesthetic pleasure, he argues, is beautiful form, which is detected through the activity of formal abstraction. The insight that formal abstraction has heuristic value in judging beauty emerges from the way practitioners think about skill across the domains of art and craft. Zitin’s account of the history of form in eighteenth-century thought substitutes women and artisans, as virtuosos of aesthetic judgment, for the proverbial man of taste, a substitution with the power to reshape our understanding of canonical statements on aesthetics from the writings of Shaftesbury to Kant’s Third Critique.
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Martinez-Alier, Joan. Global Environmental Justice and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Edited by Teena Gabrielson, Cheryl Hall, John M. Meyer, and David Schlosberg. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199685271.013.25.
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There are an increasing number of ecological distribution conflicts around the world ultimately caused from the increase in the metabolism of the economy in terms of flows of energy and materials. There are resource extraction conflicts, transport conflicts, and also waste disposal conflicts. Therefore, there are many local complaints. Since the 1980s and 1990s there has been a globalizing environmental justice movement that in its strategy meetings and practices has developed a set of concepts and slogans to describe and intervene in such conflicts. They include “environmental racism,” “popular epidemiology,” “the environmentalism of the poor and the indigenous,” “biopiracy,” “tree plantations are not forests,” “the ecological debt,” “climate justice,” “food sovereignty,” “water justice,” and so on . . . These notions have been born from socio-environmental activism but sometimes they have been taken up also by academic political ecologists and used in their analyses.
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Agyapong, Kwasi Atta. Witchcraft in Ghana: Belief, Practice and Consequences. Noyam Publishers, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.38159/npub.eb2021502.
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The book seeks to find ways to understand the Ghanaian belief in the activities of witchcraft and to quantify its impact on the socio-economic, religio-cultural and psychological development of Ghanaians. This book is based on research conducted by the Author to find out the effect of witchcraft belief on Ghanaian Society. The nine-chapter book would discuss the concept of witchcraft belief in Ghana, the acquisition of witchcraft and the living conditions of these accused witches in some selected witch camps in Ghana. The book also looks at the activities of witches and wizards from the Ghanaian perspective as well as the effects of their activities on the economy and social lives of the people. It finally discusses the biblical, anthropological and psychiatric perspectives of the belief and activities of witchcraft in Ghana.
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Yakin, Ayang Utriza, Adis Duderija, and An Van Raemdonck, eds. Shame, Modesty, and Honor in Islam. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350386136.
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With a particular emphasis on definitions, continuities, and change, this edited volume examines the historical role and function of haya’ – or feelings of shame, modesty, and honor – in Islamic theology and law, and explores contemporary Muslims’ engagements with the concept. The book explores various conceptions of haya’ and the practices associated with the concept in both Muslim majority and minority contexts. The empirically rich contributions reveal how haya’ is socially constructed in varying social and cultural environments across the globe. From medieval Islam to the modern day, this book demonstrates the importance of haya’ and its temporal and spatial transformations.
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Karimov, Aybulat, Rinat Gataullin, Vitaly Pechatkin, Marsel Nizamutdinov, and Ivanov Pavel, eds. Innovative technologies of management of socio-economic Innovative technologies of management of socio-economic development of Russian regions: Proceedings of the XVI International Scientific and Practical Conference. Institute of Social and Economic Research Ufa Federal Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.31040/978-5-6051263-4-8.
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The conference is devoted to the topical problems of managing innovative development of multilevel territorial systems. Special attention is paid to the problems of improving the competitiveness of Russian regions in the new geopolitical realities (Section 1); modeling and management of innovative development of socio-economic systems in the new economic reality (Section 2); concepts and technologies of public finance management to ensure sustainable socio-economic development of Russian regions in modern conditions (Section 3); management of territorial development in the context of global transformations (Section 4); socio-demographic development of Russian regions in the context of the new geopolitical realities (Section 5). New opportunities and threats to the development of Russian regions are devoted to the round table of young scientists, held within the framework of the conference. The participants of the conference expressed their positions and discussed the results of research on these topics. The materials are published in the author's edition and reflect the views of scientists and practitioners on the problems of managing socio-economic development of Russian regions. The collection is of interest to researchers, university staff and students, as well as specialists in the field of economics, sociology and regional development management.
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Skivenes, Marit. Adoption from Care. Edited by Tarja Pösö and June Thoburn. Policy Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.47674/9781447351054.
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EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND. This book explores how children’s rights are practised and weighed against parents’ rights in a range of countries, and examines how governments and legal and welfare professionals balance those rights in the challenging circumstances following the decision that children cannot grow up in their parents’ care. Looking at adoption from care in Europe and the United States, it provides in-depth analysis of concepts of family, contact, the child’s best interest principle and human rights in adoption from care across these different socio-political and legal contexts. Taking an international comparative approach to these issues, this book provides best practice evidence on adoption processes and shares learning across country boundaries to help improve outcomes for all adopted children.
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Karimov, Aybulat, Rinat Gataullin, Ildar Zulkarnay, Vitaly Pechatkin, Marsel Nizamutdinov, and Pavel Ivanov, eds. Innovative technologies of management of socio-economic development of Russian regions: XVI International Scientific and Practical Conference, Ufa, 23-24 may 2024. Proceedings of the plenary meeting. Institute of Social and Economic Researches - Subdivision of the Ufa Federal Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Science, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.31040/978-5-6051263-5-5.
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The conference is devoted to the topical problems of managing innovative development of multilevel territorial systems. Special attention is paid to the problems of improving the competitiveness of Russian regions in the new geopolitical realities (Section 1); modelling and management of innovative development of socio-economic systems in the new economic reality (Section 2); concepts and technologies of public finance management to ensure sustainable socio-economic development of Russian regions in modern conditions (Section 3); management of territorial development in the context of global transformations (Section 4); socio-demographic development of Russian regions in the context of the new geopolitical realities (Section 3); socio-demographic development of Russian regions in the context of the new economic reality (Section 3). New opportunities and threats to the development of Russian regions are devoted to the round table of young scientists, held within the framework of the conference. The participants of the conference expressed their positions and discussed the results of research on these topics. The materials are published in the author's edition and reflect the views of scientists and practitioners on the problems of management of socio-economic development of Russian regions. The collection is of interest to researchers, university staff and students, as well as specialists in the field of economics, sociology and regional development management.
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Ajura, Alhaj Yusuf Salih. Islamic Thought in Africa. Translated by Zakyi Ibrahim. Yale University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300207118.001.0001.
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This is the first English translation of and commentary on the collected poems of Alhaj Yusuf Salih Ajura (1910–2004), a northern Ghanaian orthodox Islamic scholar, poet, and polemicist known as Afa Ajura, or “scholar from Ejura.” The poems, all handwritten in Arabic script, mainly in the Ghanaian language of Dagbani and also Arabic, explore the author's socio-religious beliefs. In the accompanying introduction, the translator examines the diverse themes of the poems and how they challenge Tijaniyyah Sufi clerics and traditional practices such as idol worship. The introduction provides a background on the translation and commentary. It describes Ajuraism, which is Afa Ajura's reform-oriented educational approach based on the concept of orthodoxy. Orthopraxy, according to Sunnah, that rejected the status quo of traditional Dagomba practices and the syncretism and innovations of Tijaniyyah Sufism. Afa Ajura's collection of handwritten poems address multiple intellectual issues and diverse socio-religious topics.