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The Micro-Economics of Peasant Economy China 1920-1940

The Micro-Economics of Peasant Economy China 1920-1940

The objectives of this study first published in 1982 are to elaborate a micro-economic model which adequately explains the interrelationships among economic forces determining the distribution of income in a peasant economy in the early stages of transition to industrialization. It also examines the development of the ‘dual economy’ an economy composed of a large peasant agricultural sector with its ancillary handicraft sector both traditional in techniques and institutions and a small but growing modern industrial sector. | The Micro-Economics of Peasant Economy China 1920-1940

GBP 31.99
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Micro-Approaches to Demographic Research

Micro-Approaches to Demographic Research

Originally published in 1988 this collection of essays was the first attempt by population scientists to incorporate some of the methods and materials of anthropologists into their work. The essays bridge the gap in the conceptualisation and organisation of field research by 2 sets of social scientists – demographers and social anthropologists – who share an interest in the explanation of particular patterns of population composition and change. | Micro-Approaches to Demographic Research

GBP 80.00
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Micro-geographies of the Western City c.1750–1900

Micro-geographies of the Western City c.1750–1900

This book examines the overlapping spaces in modern Western cities to explore the small-scale processes that shaped these cities between c. 1750 and 1900. It highlights the ways in which time and space matter framing individual actions and practices and their impact on larger urban processes. It draws on the original and detailed studies of cities in Europe and North America through a micro-geographical approach to unravel urban practices experiences and representations at three different scales: the dwelling the street and the neighbourhood. Part I explores the changing spatiality of housing examining the complex and contingent relationship between public and private and commercial and domestic as well as the relationship between representations and lived experiences. Part II delves into the street as a thoroughfare connecting the city but also as a site of contestation over the control and character of urban spaces. Part III draws attention to the neighbourhood as a residential grouping and as a series of spaces connecting flows of people integrating the urban space. Drawing on a range of methodologies from space syntax and axial analysis to detailed descriptions of individual buildings this book blends spatial theory and ideas of place with micro-history. With its fresh perspectives on the Western city created through the built environment and the everyday actions of city dwellers the book will interest historical geographers urban historians and architects involved in planning of cities across Europe and North America. | Micro-geographies of the Western City c. 1750–1900

GBP 38.99
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Migration Micro-Business and Tourism in Thailand Highlanders in the City

Migration Micro-Business and Tourism in Thailand Highlanders in the City

Visitors to Thailand’s urban and beach-sided tourist hotspots notice the presence of colourful and predominantly female vendors offering self-made and mass-manufactured products. A high percentage of these vendors are members of the highland ethnic minority group of Akha who have become micro-entrepreneurs or self-employed street vendors. The work and everyday life experiences of these ethnic minority migrants are situated at the intersections of tourism migration and the informal sector. This book investigates the social economic and political embeddedness of street vendors in urban tourist contexts in Thailand. Based on extensive field research it presents a detailed analysis of urban-directed mobility patterns and revealing strategies and dilemmas in the urban souvenir business. Focusing on the development of urban ethnic minority souvenir stalls run mostly by people belonging to the highland group of Akha the author explains the spatial expansion of ethnic businesses and assesses the economic and political obstacles micro-entrepreneurs are confronted with. The book offers an understanding of the everyday practices and social relations of and between unequally powerful actors related to ethnic minority tourism in urban contexts and systematically integrates individual and collective action into socio-economic and politico-institutional contexts. A significant contribution to migration and ethnic minority studies in the Thai and Asian urban tourism context the book will be of interest to researchers in the fields of Southeast Asian studies tourism migration and ethnic minority studies. | Migration Micro-Business and Tourism in Thailand Highlanders in the City

GBP 42.99
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Screenwriting for Micro-Budget Films Tips Tricks and Hacks for Reverse Engineering Your Screenplay

Screenwriting for Micro-Budget Films Tips Tricks and Hacks for Reverse Engineering Your Screenplay

Screenwriting for micro-budget films can present its own challenges and this book takes the reader through all the considerations that need to be made to write an effective screenplay for a low-budget film. Drawing on his own experience case studies from films such as Primer Coherence and Reservoir Dogs as well as the perspectives of working screenwriters such as Joe Swanberg and Alex Ross-Perry Greenberg explores common pitfalls screenwriters face and suggests practical solutions. This book lays the groundworks of the realities of low-budget filmmaking and also talks through the practical aspects such as story structure and genre considerations. Greenberg makes the process of writing a screenplay for a low-budget film accessible and creative allowing student and independent filmmakers to tailor their writing for their films. This book is ideal for aspiring screenwriters independent filmmakers and students of screenwriting. | Screenwriting for Micro-Budget Films Tips Tricks and Hacks for Reverse Engineering Your Screenplay

GBP 28.99
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The Micro-politics of Microcredit Gender and Neoliberal Development in Bangladesh

The Micro-politics of Microcredit Gender and Neoliberal Development in Bangladesh

Microcredit has been seen in recent decades as having great potential for aiding development in poor developing countries with Bangladesh being one of the countries which has pioneered microcredit and implemented it most widely. This book based on extensive original research explores how microcredit works in practice and assesses its effectiveness. It discusses how microcredit usually channelled through women is often passed to the men of the family a practice disapproved of by some but regarded as acceptable by borrowers who have a communal approach to debt rather than viewing debt as something held by single individuals. The book demonstrates how the rules around microcredit are often seem as irksome by the borrowers how lenders often charge high rates of interest and work primarily to preserve their institutions thereby going against the spirit of the microcredit movement and how borrowers often end up on a downward spiral deeper and deeper in debt. Overall the book argues that although microcredit does much good it also has many drawbacks. | The Micro-politics of Microcredit Gender and Neoliberal Development in Bangladesh

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Ritual Emotion Violence Studies on the Micro-Sociology of Randall Collins

Ritual Emotion Violence Studies on the Micro-Sociology of Randall Collins

Microsociologists seek to capture social life as it is experienced and in recent decades no one has championed the microsociological approach more fiercely than Randall Collins. The pieces in this exciting volume offer fresh and original insights into key aspects of Collins’ thought and of microsociology more generally. The introductory essay by Elliot B. Weininger and Omar Lizardo provides a lucid overview of the key premises this perspective. Ethnographic papers by Randol Contreras using data from New York and Philippe Bourgois and Laurie Kain Hart using data from Philadelphia examine the social logic of violence in street-level narcotics markets. Both draw on heavily on Collins’ microsociological account of the features of social situations that tend to engender violence. In the second section of the book a study by Paul DiMaggio Clark Bernier Charles Heckscher and David Mimno tackles the question of whether electronically mediated interaction exhibits the ritualization which according to Collins is a common feature of face-to-face encounters. Their results suggest that at least under certain circumstances digitally mediated interaction may foster social solidarity in a manner similar to face-to-face interaction. A chapter by Simone Polillo picks up from Collins’ work in the sociology of knowledge examining multiple ways in which social network structures can engender intellectual creativity. The third section of the book contains papers that critically but sympathetically assess key tenets of microsociology. Jonathan H. Turner argues that the radically microsociological perspective developed by Collins will better serve the social scientific project if it is embedded in a more comprehensive paradigm one that acknowledges the macro- and meso-levels of social and cultural life. A chapter by David Gibson presents empirical analyses of decisions by state leaders concerning whether or not to use force to deal with internal or external foes suggesting that Collins’ model of interaction ritual can only partially illuminate the dynamics of these highly consequential political moments. Work by Erika Summers-Effler and Justin Van Ness seeks to systematize and broaden the scope of Collins’ theory of interaction by including in it encounters that depart from the ritual model in important ways. In a final reflective chapter Randall Collins himself highlights the promise and future of microsociology. Clearly written these pieces offer cutting-edge thinking on some of the crucial theoretical and empirical issues in sociology today. | Ritual Emotion Violence Studies on the Micro-Sociology of Randall Collins

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Region-Making and Cross-Border Cooperation New Evidence from Four Continents

Region-Making and Cross-Border Cooperation New Evidence from Four Continents

This book explores the nature of regions and how they function particularly at the local and micro-level. Whilst recent years have seen a resurgence in debates around the roles which regions can play in development the focus has tended to be on 'macro' regional institutions such as the EU ASEAN ECOWAS or MERCOSUR. In contrast this book offers a nuanced analysis of the important field of sub-regionalism and sub-national cross-border cooperation. Region-Making and Cross-Border Cooperation takes a fresh look at both theoretical and empirical approaches to ‘region-making’ through cooperation activities at the micro-level across national borders in Europe Southeast Asia Latin America Africa and the Middle East. The book aims to explore the role that institutional dynamics play at the micro-level in shaping local and global ties investigate what the formal and informal integration factors are that bolster regionalism and regionalization processes and to clarify to what extent and under what conditions cooperation at the micro-level can be instrumental to solving common problems. Scholars and students within politics sociology geography and economics would find this book an important guide to regionalism at a micro-local level perspective. | Region-Making and Cross-Border Cooperation New Evidence from Four Continents

GBP 38.99
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Intangible Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development Inside a UNESCO Convention

Intangible Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development Inside a UNESCO Convention

Drawing on debates about intangible cultural heritage (ICH) safeguarding at the local and international levels Intangible Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development: Inside a UNESCO Convention explores the theoretical and practical implications of the intertwinement between these policy fields. Considering how sustainable development (SD) priorities are influencing representations of ICH the volume questions how they are expanding the frontiers of the heritage realm and unsettling accepted understandings of the social uses of heritage. The contributing authors who hail from a variety of different contexts and disciplinary backgrounds explore these issues from a unique vantage point as both scholars and actors of the processes they analyze. Playing different roles in the implementation of the Convention their positioning as insiders allows for a unique analytical perspective that is based on first-hand engagement with the practices of the Convention. Intangible Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development: Inside a UNESCO Convention sheds light on the complexity potential and consequences of combining ICH and SD at the policy-making level and in heritage practices on the ground. It will be of interest to academics and students working in heritage studies development studies anthropology archaeology international law political science international relations and sociology. | Intangible Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development Inside a UNESCO Convention

GBP 35.99
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The Competitive Strength Of European Japanese And U.s. Suppliers On Asean Markets

The Competitive Strength Of European Japanese And U.s. Suppliers On Asean Markets

Originally published in 1987. This study evaluates micro- and macroeconomic determinants for the export performance of European suppliers to the markets of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). By comparing marketing strategies and the respective economic environment of suppliers from ElHope Japan and the U S - the major exporter | The Competitive Strength Of European Japanese And U. s. Suppliers On Asean Markets

GBP 125.00
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Entrepreneurial Ethics and Trust Cultural Foundations and Networks in the Nigerian Plastic Industry

Entrepreneurial Ethics and Trust Cultural Foundations and Networks in the Nigerian Plastic Industry

Published in 1999. This book provides an analytical framework of the way culture influences entrepreneurial ethics and trust in a semi-industrial society. Culture provides rules and norms that govern societal behaviour. Yet it differs greatly in the way it influences economic performance across societies. The book which embodies both general and micro-institutional perspective on economic behaviour addresses the core question how does culture influence entrepreneurial ethics and trust in a developing society? | Entrepreneurial Ethics and Trust Cultural Foundations and Networks in the Nigerian Plastic Industry

GBP 21.99
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The Ceremonial Order of the Clinic Parents Doctors and Medical Bureaucracies

The Ceremonial Order of the Clinic Parents Doctors and Medical Bureaucracies

This title was first published in 2001. A classic ethnographic study of the interactions between paediatricians and parents of children thought to be neurologically handicapped. Strong used this work to systematize the often chaotic ideas of Erving Goffman to explore the connections between micro and macro analysis in sociology and to reflect on the nature of medical practice in modern liberal societies. The book stands as a testament to Strong’s pursuit of methodological rigour in qualitative sociology. | The Ceremonial Order of the Clinic Parents Doctors and Medical Bureaucracies

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The Transformation of Rural Africa

The Transformation of Rural Africa

Contemporary discussions of Africa’s recent growth have largely interpreted such growth in terms of structural transformation based mainly on national- and sectoral-level data. However the micro-level processes driving this transformation are still unclear and remain the subject of debate. This collection provides a micro economic foundation for understanding the particular growth processes at work within the region’s rural areas and in so doing provides important insights for policy action. The book provides valuable household- and farm-level evidence about the drivers of rural labour productivity improvements in access to markets investment in food value chains and indeed the role of rural economic growth in Africa’s ongoing rural transformation processes. Some of the features of Africa’s ongoing rural transformation are similar to those of agricultural transformation as experienced in Asia and elsewhere. However other features of Africa’s rural transformation are unique and pose important challenges for development policy and planning. Together the studies compiled in this volume provide an updated evidence-based and policy-relevant understanding of where African countries are in their developmental trajectories and the region’s prospects for achieving inclusive forms of development over the next several decades. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies. | The Transformation of Rural Africa

GBP 38.99
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Confronting Educational Policy in Neoliberal Times International Perspectives

Confronting Educational Policy in Neoliberal Times International Perspectives

This volume explores how educational policy is changing as a result of neoliberal restructuring and how these issues affect educators’ practice. Evidence-based chapters present a sharp analysis of neoliberal education policy while also offering suggestions and recommendations for future action to bring about change consistent with more robust understandings of democracy. Covering issues relating to historical context philosophical assumptions policy implementation accountability teacher professionalism and standardization Confronting Educational Policy in Neoliberal Times critically engages the ways micro- and macro- neoliberal politics shapes the purposes and implementation of schooling. | Confronting Educational Policy in Neoliberal Times International Perspectives

GBP 42.99
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Children and Families in the Social Environment Modern Applications of Social Work

Children and Families in the Social Environment Modern Applications of Social Work

The first edition of this volume successfully applied Bronfenbrenner's micro-systems taxonomy to childrearing and family life. Emphasizing how forces in the environment influence children's behavior Garbarino has staked out an intermediate position between the psychoanalytic and the systems approach to human development. Taking cognizance of new research and of changes in American society Garbarino has once again carefully analyzed the importance of children's social relationships. For this wholly revised second edition he has incorporated a greater emphasis on ethnic cultural and racial issues. | Children and Families in the Social Environment Modern Applications of Social Work

GBP 145.00
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The Firm and Territory An Organizational Perspective

The Firm and Territory An Organizational Perspective

This book investigates the relationship between the firm and the territory emphasizing the micro-organizational dimension and the interactions between actors at territorial levels. First the book examines the particular features of the firm considering three key factors - structural design power configuration and organizational culture – and the characteristics of the surrounding territory as a specific spatial ecosystem with its own institutions agents history and objectives. Second it analyses organizational tenets at the micro- and meso levels with a view to explaining various relational models and their implications at the level of the firm and the territory. Although previous studies have focused on the territory as a geographical space in which firms procure resources and promote development this book presents an innovative approach and makes a key contribution to the literature by dealing with the firm and the territory from an organizational perspective. The relationship is analysed as bidirectional: a key question concerns how the territory can impact the organizational dimension of the firm and how the firm can characterize the territory. This will be considered in connection with various effects. The positive effects of the relationship with the territory are investigated in terms of territorial identity territorial resilience and territorial sustainability. The negative effects include the role of criminal networks rooted in the territory with firms acting as key agents. | The Firm and Territory An Organizational Perspective

GBP 120.00
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Fusing with Europe? Sweden in the European Union

Fusing with Europe? Sweden in the European Union

Informed by his profound knowledge of contemporary political affairs and the current debate on European integration in Sweden Lee Miles investigates Sweden's experiences of being a full member of the European Union since 1995. Widely regarded as one of the leading authorities on Scandinavian relations with the European Union (EU) the author proposes a micro fusion perspective offering an insightful new conceptual framework through which to understand Swedish views on European integration and the influences on national EU policy. The volume also includes a Foreword by Wolfgang Wessels Jean Monnet Professor and the founder of the fusion theory. | Fusing with Europe? Sweden in the European Union

GBP 84.99
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Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern Europe

Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern Europe

This title was first published in 2003. Covering a diverse range of countries such as Bulgaria the Czech Republic Hungary Poland Slovakia Slovenia and Russia as well as referring to the characteristics of the region as a whole this book examines the inflow and outflow of foreign direct investment from both home and host company and country perspectives. By analyzing foreign direct investment in terms of process content and context the book provides a holist approach towards direct foreign investment in the transitional context of Central and Eastern Europe embracing both macro- and micro-economic perspectives of the process. | Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern Europe

GBP 21.99
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An Introduction to Quantitative Economics

An Introduction to Quantitative Economics

Originally published in 1978. This book is designed to enable students on main courses in economics to comprehend literature which employs econometric techniques as a method of analysis to use econometric techniques themselves to test hypotheses about economic relationships and to understand some of the difficulties involved in interpreting results. While the book is mainly aimed at second-year undergraduates undertaking courses in applied economics its scope is sufficiently wide to take in students at postgraduate level who have no background in econometrics - it integrates fully the mathematical and statistical techniques used in econometrics with micro- and macroeconomic case studies. | An Introduction to Quantitative Economics

GBP 32.99
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Disability Normalcy and the Everyday

Disability Normalcy and the Everyday

Many critical analyses of disability address important ‘macro’ concerns but are often far removed from an interactional and micro-level focus. Written by leading scholars in the field and containing a range of theoretical and empirical contributions from around the world this book focuses on the taken-for-granted mundane human activities at the heart of how social life is reproduced and how this impacts on the lives of those with a disability family members and other allies. It departs from earlier accounts by making sense of how disability is lived mobilised and enacted in everyday lives. Although broad in focus and navigating diverse social contexts chapters are united by a concern with foregrounding micro mundane moments for making sense of powerful discourses practices affects relations and world-making for disabled people and their allies. Using different examples – including learning disabilities cerebral palsy dementia polio and Parkinson’s disease – contributions move beyond a simplified narrow classification of disability which creates rigid categories of existence and denies bodily variation. Disability Normalcy and the Everyday should be considered essential reading for disability studies students and academics as well as professionals involved in health and social care. With contributions located within new and familiar debates around embodiment stigma gender identity inequality care ethics choice materiality youth and representation this book will be of interest to academics from different disciplinary backgrounds including sociology anthropology humanities public health allied health professions science and technology studies social work and social policy.

GBP 39.99
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Essays on the Transformation of India's Agrarian Economy

Essays on the Transformation of India's Agrarian Economy

The central problem to which this book first published in 1984 is addressed is the transformation of agrarian structure as it historically evolved in India. The term ‘structure’ however has multiple meanings. The sense in which the term is used refers to the system of production including the pattern of its composition in terms of micro-units of production and the social and economic relations by which they are integrated. This concrete analysis and examination of the evidence of Indian agriculture is undertaken from this perspective and contributes to the theory of agrarian change as well as an interpretation of the development of Indian agriculture. | Essays on the Transformation of India's Agrarian Economy

GBP 8.99
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