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Indigenous Methodologies, Research and Practices for Sustainable Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 446

Indigenous Methodologies, Research and Practices for Sustainable Development

This book states that whilst academic research has long been grounded on the idea of western or scientific epistemologies, this often does not capture the uniqueness of Indigenous contexts, and particularly as it relates to the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs were announced in 2015, accompanied by 17 goals and 169 targets. These goals are the means through which Agenda 2030 for sustainable development is to be pursued and realised over the next 15 years, and the contributions of Indigenous peoples are essential to achieving these goals. Indigenous peoples can be found in practically every region of the world, living on ancestral homelands in m...

The Oxford Handbook of Political Participation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1009

The Oxford Handbook of Political Participation

The Oxford Handbook of Political Participation provides the first comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of political participation in all its varied forms, investigates a wide range of topics in the field from both a theoretical and methodological perspective, and covers the most recent developments in the area. It brings together research traditions from political science and sociology, bridging the gap in particular between political sociology and social movement studies; contributions also draw on crucial work in psychology, economics, anthropology, and geography. Following a detailed introduction from the editors, the volume is divided into nine parts that explore political participation across disciplines; core theoretical perspectives; methodological approaches; modes of participation; contexts; determinants; processes; outcomes; and current trends and future directions. The book will be a valuable reference work for anyone interested in understanding political participation and related themes.

Mother’s Children
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 178

Mother’s Children

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-01-08
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  • Publisher: AuthorHouse

Mother’s Children is about a respect-driven family who are from a Mafia background in today’s world. The children do not know and do not care about the world around them because they had no need to; they had everything provided for them. Ignorant to how their desires were catered to as long as they received what they wanted, they could not care less. Mummy gave it to them regardless. Their mother saw no wrong in her children, even though they wreaked havoc in their community. They were her life. No mountain’s too high for Mummy to climb, as long as her babies had everything they wanted.

Sandra
  • Language: en

Sandra

He watched me drive off as he waved me off after we had lunch. I felt pain in my heart, and tears ran down my face. I felt like I had lost a part of me but somehow, I knew that we had to part ways forever and get on with our lives. Situations present circumstances and people in your life. There are those you regret to have ever encountered and those you wish never ended - whether they caused you pain or joy, you either let them stay or you painfully let them go. Such had been the life of Sandra and Anthony. They were inseparable. They were the ones who were fated with the 'happy forever after'. As much as they wished, life had another plan for them.

Joan's Story
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 74

Joan's Story

Looking around at her family, Joan sighed happily. Yes, she was truly blessed. For everything she had ever hoped for was right here in this room. Her family and her daughters, all happy and content, all the grandchildren growing up fast and making their own way in the world and her precious Ed by her side. Life was truly good. Today would be a memory she would never forget. Roll on ten years and life for Joan has changed considerably. She has indeed lost all memory of that perfect day and many other happy memories. This story follows Joan through the heart-breaking suffering of dementia. Her family becomes more and more alarmed by her actions and tries to cope with the situation as sensitively as they can. However, dementia is a cruel and wicked disease which changes the whole dynamic of Joan's life. Just what does the future hold for them all? Will Joan ever remember some of the good times again?

Conservation Psychology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 265

Conservation Psychology

This textbook introduces the reader to the new and emerging field of Conservation Psychology, which explores connections between the study of human behavior and the achievement of conservation goals. People are often cast as villains in the story of environmental degradation, seen primarily as a threat to healthy ecosystems and an obstacle to conservation. But humans are inseparable from natural ecosystems. Understanding how people think about, experience, and interact with nature is crucial for promoting environmental sustainability as well as human well-being. The book first summarizes theory and research on human cognitive, emotional, and behavioral responses to nature and goes on to review research on people's experience of nature in wild, managed, and urban settings. Finally, it examines ways to encourage conservation-oriented behavior at both individual and societal levels. Throughout, the authors integrate a wide body of published literature to demonstrate how and why psychology is relevant to promoting a more sustainable relationship between humans and nature.

Teaching Democracy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 217

Teaching Democracy

In Teaching Democracy, Walter Parker makes a unique and thoughtful contribution to the hot debate between proponents of multicultural education and those who favor a cultural literacy approach. Parker conclusively demonstrates that educating for democratic citizenship in a multicultural society includes a fundamental respect for diversity. This scholarly yet accessible work: Bridges the widening gap between multicultural education and civic education.Provides powerful teaching strategies that educators can use to draw children creatively and productively into a way of life that protects and nurtures cultural pluralism and racial equity.Explains the unity–diversity confusion that is found i...

Ableism in Academia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 312

Ableism in Academia

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-10-05
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  • Publisher: UCL Press

Rather than embracing difference as a reflection of wider society, academic ecosystems seek to normalise and homogenise ways of working and of being a researcher. As a consequence, ableism in academia is endemic. However, to date no attempt has been made to theorise experiences of ableism in academia. Ableism in Academia provides an interdisciplinary outlook on ableism that is currently missing. Through reporting research data and exploring personal experiences, the contributors theorise and conceptualise what it means to be/work outside the stereotypical norm. The volume brings together a range of perspectives, including feminism, post-structuralism, such as Derridean and Foucauldian theory...

Traditional Ecological Knowledge
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 151

Traditional Ecological Knowledge

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1993
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  • Publisher: IDRC

Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Concepts and cases

Sustainable Policies and Practices in Energy, Environment and Health Research
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 627

Sustainable Policies and Practices in Energy, Environment and Health Research

This book aims to give a contribution to a more comprehensive and interdisciplinary understanding of the cross-cutting issues on energy, environment and health research topics in the current world scenario, where nations all over the world are struggling to accomplish the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and to ensure sustainable patterns for all. This interdisciplinary implies a commitment between all fields of science, working together to provide knowledge that could result in the promotion of quality of life. At the present, it is evident that not all people benefit from sustainable policies and practices and the communication between health, energy, environmental and social p...