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Globalization Dimensions & Impacts
The concept of globalisation is essentially about the increasing economic, political, cultural and technological intergradation with increasing speed, depth and breadth. Globalisation has become a buzz word in many academic debates, espe- cially, amongst those who use the concept to describe the spread of global capi- talism, market, the declining role of the state, and globalisation of civil society. (Harvey, 2005; Harmon, 2009; Chomsky 1999; Saad-Filho and Johnston 2004). In short, Harvey defines neoliberalism as: . . . a theory of political, economic practices that proposes that human well-be- ing can best be advanced by liberating individual entrepreneurial freedoms and skills within an ...
Current Debates in Social Sciences Vol. 30
Social sciences are not a field of science that can be defined or restricted to one or two disciplines. They have subbranches such as anthropology, psychology, sociology, literature, education and philosophy, each of which has different purposes, functions and objectives. Definitions, boundaries, and assumptions about social sciences disciplines stand on scientific approaches. No criterion makes one field of social science superior to another. This book, titled Current Debates in Social Studies, has been prepared with an understanding that regards every social science as essential and valuable. The book contains seventeen studies, each of which is prepared by expert researchers, each belonging to different fields of social sciences. These studies on current issues and problems will also be the source of future studies in related fields.
Critique and Power
The book juxtaposes key texts from Foucault and Habermas; it then adds a set of reactions and commentaries by theorists who have taken up the two alternative approaches to power and critique. The result is a guide for those seeking to understand and build on an unfinished debate between two of the 20th century's most important philosophers. Which paradigm of critique—Foucault's or Habermas's—is philosophically and practically superior, especially with regard to the nature and role of power in contemporary society? In shaping this collection, Michael Kelly has sought to address this question in relation to the ethical, political, and social theory of the past two decades. Michel Foucault ...
Trust
Today there is much talk of a 'crisis of trust'; a crisis which is almost certainly genuine, but usually misunderstood. Trust: A History offers a new perspective on the ways in which trust and distrust have functioned in past society, providing an empirical and historical basis against which the present crisis can be examined, and suggesting ways in which the concept of trust can be used as a tool to understand our own and other societies. Geoffrey Hosking argues that social trust is mediated through symbolic systems, such as religion and money, and the institutions associated with them, churches and banks. Historically, these institutions have nourished trust, but the resulting trust networ...
Metropolitan Regions, Planning and Governance
The aim of this book is to investigate contemporary processes of metropolitan change and approaches to planning and governing metropolitan regions. To do so, it focuses on four central tenets of metropolitan change in terms of planning and governance: institutional approaches, policy mobilities, spatial imaginaries, and planning styles. The book’s main contribution lies in providing readers with a new conceptual and analytical framework for researching contemporary dynamics in metropolitan regions. It will chiefly benefit researchers and students in planning, urban studies, policy and governance studies, especially those interested in metropolitan regions. The relentless pace of urban chan...
Muhammad
Acclaimed worldwide as the definitive biography of the Prophet Muhammad in the English language, Martin Lings' Muhammad: His Life Based to the Earliest Sources is unlike any other. Based on Arabic sources of the eighth and ninth centuries, of which some important passages are translated here for the first time, it owes the freshness and directness of its approach to the words of men and women who heard Muhammad speak and witnessed the events of his life. Martin Lings has an unusual gift for narrative. He has adopted a style which is at once extremely readable and reflects both the simplicity and grandeur of the story. The result is a book which will be read with equal enjoyment by those already familiar with Muhammad's life and those coming to it for the first time. Muhammad: His Life Based to the Earliest Sources was given an award by the government of Pakistan, and selected as the best biography of the Prophet in English at the National Seerat Conference in Islamabad in 1983.
“Logic” of Our Age
This book consists of the selected papers presented at the International Conference of Political Economy, the fiſth in a series of political economy conferences. As the previous four, the fiſth conference was held in Kocaeli, on October 23-24, 2013 and organized by Kocaeli University in collaboration with the University of Westminster, UK, Silesian University in Opava, Czech Republic, Institute for Economic & Social Research of Piedmont (IRES), Italy, Ostrava Technical University, Czech Republic, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Lima/Peru. The conference has been supported by Turkish Social Sciences Association, The Journal of Industrial Relations and Human Resources, Work & Society...
Trust and Conflict
Trust and Conflict offers a fresh perspective on the problems that arise from treating trust, distrust and conflict as simplified indicators.
Treatment Wetlands
Contents: Overview of Treatment Wetlands; Fundamentals of Treatment Wetlands; Horizontal Flow Wetlands; Vertical Flow Wetlands; French Vertical Flow Wetlands; Intensified and Modified Wetlands; Free Water Surface Wetlands; Other Applications; Additional Aspects.
