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Publication Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white)
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This open access book offers unique insight into how and where ideas and instruments of quantification have been adopted, and how they have come to matter. Rather than asking what quantification is, New Politics of Numbers explores what quantification does, its manifold consequences in multiple domains. It scrutinizes the power of numbers in terms of the changing relations between numbers and democracy, the politics of evidence, and dreams and schemes...
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Publication Date
2003
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1 online resource (216 pages) : illustrations, map
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China's fifty-five ethnic minorities form about 9% of the Chinese population, with over 100 million people, and occupy over 60% of China's territory. This book examines the current state of China's ethnic minorities.
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Publication Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xvi, 346 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Michael Eric Dyson delivers a provocative exploration of the politics of race and the Obama presidency. Barack Obama's presidency unfolded against the national traumas of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, and Walter Scott. The nation's first African American president was careful to give few major race speeches, yet he faced criticism from all sides, including from African Americans. How has Obama's race affected his presidency and the...
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Publication Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xii, 221 p.)
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This book offers an analysis on contemporary Israeli democracy, examining in particular society and politics from the perspectives of the different ethnic groups outside of the Ashkenazi mainstream. The book explores the political expressions of the secondary groups in Israel (Mizrahim, Religious, Russians and Palestinian-Arab) and how these groups where treated by the Ashkinazim as a threat to its hegemony over the state. Looking at the instability...
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Publication Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 electronic resource (193 pages ).
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Mit seinen drei Verwaltungssprachen und seiner kosmopolitischen Bevölkerung ist Luxemburg ein gern benutztes Fallbeispiel für soziolinguistische und sprachenpolitische Studien. Dieser Band diskutiert bislang offen gebliebene Fragen: Wer spricht welche Sprachen zu Hause, in der Schule und am Arbeitsplatz? Wie groß sind die jeweiligen Sprachgemeinschaften und welche Sprachen dominieren in welchen Berufen und in welchen Regionen?
Author
Publication Date
2018
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 PDF (iv, 89 pages))
Description
In this collection of essays the author discusses questions of definition and explores the complex issues of national integration, identity, language, belonging, and national unity. Professor Kashoki argues that 'One Zambia One Nation' is much more than a political slogan.
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This sequel to The Prize provides a narrative of global energy, the principal engine of geopolitical and economic change. The author, an energy authority continues the riveting story begun in the book, The Prize, in this account of the quest for the energy the world needs, and the power and riches that come with it. He proves that energy is truly the engine of global political and economic change, as well as central to the battle over climate change....
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Publication Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 online resource (324 p.) : ill.
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National minorities and their behaviour have become a central topic in comparative politics in the last few decades. Using the relationship between the state of Israel and the Arab national minority as a case study, this book provides a thorough examination of minority nationalism and state-minority relations in Israel.
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Publication Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xiv, 226 pages) : illustrations
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Written in a lively and engaging style, this book offers a new theoretical perspective on the study of language and politics, and provides an essential introduction to political discourse analysis.





