Social Science
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Clockwork Enemy: Intolerance in the Era of Neo-nationalism [Paperback]
Alfredo Alietti(Editor); Dario Padovan(Editor)
$27.99ISBN: 9788869772696
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Politics
The relationship among neo-nationalisms, populisms and racisms has long existed in the political landscape of western societies and, today, it is a key issue to understand current affairs and the popularity of racist, anti-Semite and Islamophobic ... .... Learn More -
Foragers in the middle Limpopo Valley: Trade, Place-making, and Social Complexity [Paperback]
Tim Forssman(Author)
$49.00ISBN: 9781789696851
Published by : Archaeopress Access Archaeology
Series: Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology
Volume: 100
Between the last centuries BC and the early second millennium AD, central southern Africa witnessed massive social change. Several landscapes hosted a variety of socio-political developments that led to the establishment of state-level society at ... .... Learn More -
Society and the City: The Dark Sides of Social Innovation [Paperback]
Guido Borelli(Editor); Maurizio Busacca(Editor)
$24.99ISBN: 9788869772580
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Sociology
Is there a connection between the increasingly widespread concept of Social Innovation (SI) and the success of today’s model of capitalist regulation? According to most studies focusing on SI, the existing relation is restorative in nature: ... .... Learn More -
The Tenth Circle: Notes for a disability history [Paperback]
Massimo Fioranelli(Author)
$13.99ISBN: 9788869772979
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: History
Accompanied by Virgil, Dante visited all nine circles, where the irredeemable wicked are punished for eternity; but in the belly of that appalling place he found no trace of the disabled. And yet, at that time, they were considered bearers of the ... .... Learn More -
Resounding Spaces: Approaching Musical Atmospheres [Paperback]
Federica Scassillo(Editor)
$22.99ISBN: 9788869773020
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Atmospheric Spaces
This book is the result of an international conference that took place in Rome on September 13th-14th 2019, entitled “Resounding Spaces: Music and Atmospheres”. The main topic was the relationship between music(s) and concepts like res... .... Learn More -
Interregnum: Between Biopolitics and Posthegemony [Paperback]
Giacomo Marramao(Editor)
$24.99ISBN: 9788869772610
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Politics
How does the future of the concept of the "Political" appear in a world marked by two apparently opposite trends: the tendency towards globalization and that of reconstituting new forms of sovereignty? The book represents the first theor... .... Learn More -
Women and Peace: A new training model for a culture of inclusion [Paperback]
Angelo Romeo(Editor); Maria Caterina Federici(Editor)
$18.00ISBN: 9788869773013
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Sociology
This book reports not only a didactic experience but also research, offering a training model on peace mediation. The female protagonists of this research experience the role of trainers of other compatriots through a new didactic model. Compared ... .... Learn More -
Wholesome Dwellings: Housing Need in Oxford and the Municipal Response, 1800-1939 [Paperback]
Malcolm Graham(Author)
$42.00ISBN: 9781789697353
Published by : Archaeopress Archaeology
A shortage of affordable new housing, builders choosing to build larger, more profitable houses, and a diminishing stock of cheap houses for rent. All this sounds very familiar today, but at the end of the Great War, scarcely any houses had been b... .... Learn More -
Imperialism and Development: The East African Groundnut Scheme and its Legacy [Hardback]
Nicholas Westcott(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781847012593
Published by : James Currey
Series: Eastern Africa Series
As colonial development took off after the Second World War, in the context of national food shortages, Britain's Labour Government initiated the Groundnut Scheme, an extraordinarily ambitious project to convert 3 million acres of bush in Tanganyi... .... Learn More -
Ci, Gender and Social Change among the Asmat of Papua, Indonesia [Paperback]
Dr. Onesius O. Daeli(Author)
$45.00ISBN: 9789088909290
Published by : Sidestone Press
Ci is the Asmat word for dugout canoe. The ci is an integral part of the everyday life of the Asmat – an ethnic group residing in eastern Indonesia in Papua province (formerly Irian Jaya) – who live in the middle of a huge tidal swampy... .... Learn More
