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Participatory Activist Research in the Globalised World

Social Change Through the Cultural Professions

By: lisahunter,Elke Emerald,Gregory Martin

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Participatory Activist Research in the Globalised World

Social Change Through the Cultural Professions

By: lisahunter,Elke Emerald,Gregory Martin

Action research was conceived as a method of collaborative, self-reflective problem-solving in a community context. Yet many believe it has evolved too far away from its original, directly activist roots. As a direct response to calls for a rejuvenation of the social agenda of ‘action research’, this volume provides an all-inclusive road map to generating and implementing politically active grass-roots research activities. It is a priceless practical guide for the newly minted researcher wanting to make a tangible difference in their profession and in the world. Where some action research models have been criticized for losing focus on the participatory and social justice roots of this type of research, this book puts social justice activism squarely center stage, guiding the researcher through the theoretical, methodological and practical considerations and constraints of developing, implementing and sustaining research in the cultural professions. Lcating and contextualizing the history and theory of action research, critical theory and other related methodologies and concepts, this volume takes the reader on a journey that begins with the formation of a question, puzzle or research idea right through to the publication of a report on your finished project. Including discrete sections on every stage in the process, from generating a social justice activism agenda, through forming a team and empowering participants, to ensuring the implementation of your agenda and publishing and disseminating your work. Engaging their readers with a fresh acronym, PAtR—Participatory Activist Research—the authors give fresh impetus to those looking for a systematic way to understand and shape practice in their daily work, their profession and their world. This is an outstanding book that represents a critical research process sorely needed in the academy today. Any researcher interested in making an intervention into the egregious social conditions wrought by neoliberal capitalism would do well to read this book. An important contribution to the literature on research methodology. Peter McLaren, Professor, School of Critical Studies in Education, University of Auckland This is an outstanding book that represents a critical research process sorely needed in the academy today. Any researcher interested in making an intervention into the egregious social conditions wrought by neoliberal capitalism would do well to read this book. An important contribution to the literature on research methodology. Peter McLaren, Professor, School of Critical Studies in Education, University of Auckland

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9400744269

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Eagles Cove

A Finders Mystery

By: Elke Sinclair

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Eagles Cove

A Finders Mystery

By: Elke Sinclair

Two women have gone missing within a year of each other after staying at Eagles Cove Resort in Central Minnesota’s lake region. An anxious public and a persistent press are demanding answers from the local sheriff, who has grown weary of having none. The two cases go unsolved—until five senior citizens who call themselves the Finders set out to unravel the mystery. With confidence in the ongoing support of solid backup, the Finders send their two most accomplished on-the-ground investigators, Marley Phillips and Nan Abbott, up north to rent the same cabin the two women stayed in. Who would suspect two unpretentious elderly ladies of being on a mission to provide clarity where uncertainty shrouded the truth? No matter the setting, their skill at putting people at ease allows others to speak freely about what might have happened to the two victims. But the answers they get may put them both at risk.

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1665564482

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The Emergence of Institutions

An Aesthetic-Affective Perspective

By: Elke Weik

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The Emergence of Institutions

An Aesthetic-Affective Perspective

By: Elke Weik

This book presents an experiential, aesthetic-affective approach to the study of institutions. Drawing on institutional sociology, hermeneutics, phenomenology and process philosophy, it conceptualises institutions as collective experiences with their own self-promoting and self-propelling powers. Instead of seeing institutional emergence, change and decline as the result of actors’ interests and manipulations, this book re-establishes the importance of factors beyond human design and intervention. Drawing on process theory, it shows how ideas, norms and values can form self-stabilising configurations that affect people without conscious realisation. It complements current thinking about institutions by showing how institutions constitute people long before people constitute them. With the help of authors as diverse as Antonio Damasio, A.N. Whitehead, J.W. von Goethe and Max Weber, Elke Weik crafts a perspective that allows us to understand institutions as aesthetic and affective powers in their own right. This book is for researchers interested in process theory, institutional and organisational studies, hermeneutics, and aesthetics.

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Springer Nature

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3030898954

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For the Love of Jazz

By: Elke Feuer

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For the Love of Jazz

By: Elke Feuer

Restoration architect Josie Fagan takes on a project with lawyer and senator’s son, Patrick Pullman. It’s the perfect match. She needs his endorsement to save her business and he wants to restore his ancestral Chicago home. Love wasn’t part of her plan. Neither was being asked to stay at his home, haunted by ghosts, or discovering she has a claim to his home - which she adores. When she finds out his family may be responsible for her aunt’s disappearance fifty years ago, it’s a race to unearth the truth before she loses not only her business and her heart, but also her life. Patrick can’t deny his attraction to Josie and is willing to take a chance on love since his broken engagement a year earlier. Things become complicated when he learns of their family connection and her claim to the home he loves. He doesn’t believe in ghosts, or that his family is involved in her aunt’s disappearance, so insists they work together. But, when he starts seeing his uncle’s ghost, and threats are made on her life, he’s forced to confront the possibility his family could be responsible. Sensuality Level: Behind Closed Doors

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Simon and Schuster

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1440561443

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The Politics of Necessity

Community Organizing and Democracy in South Africa

By: Elke Zuern

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The Politics of Necessity

Community Organizing and Democracy in South Africa

By: Elke Zuern

The end of apartheid in South Africa broke down political barriers, extending to all races the formal rights of citizenship, including the right to participate in free elections and parliamentary democracy. But South Africa remains one of the most economically polarized nations in the world. In The Politics of Necessity Elke Zuern forcefully argues that working toward greater socio-economic equality—access to food, housing, land, jobs—is crucial to achieving a successful and sustainable democracy. Drawing on interviews with local residents and activists in South Africa’s impoverished townships during more than a decade of dramatic political change, Zuern tracks the development of community organizing and reveals the shifting challenges faced by poor citizens. Under apartheid, township residents began organizing to press the government to address the basic material necessities of the poor and expanded their demands to include full civil and political rights. While the movement succeeded in gaining formal political rights, democratization led to a new government that instituted neo-liberal economic reforms and sought to minimize protest. In discouraging dissent and failing to reduce economic inequality, South Africa’s new democracy has continued to disempower the poor. By comparing movements in South Africa to those in other African and Latin American states, this book identifies profound challenges to democratization. Zuern asserts the fundamental indivisibility of all human rights, showing how protest movements that call attention to socio-economic demands, though often labeled a threat to democracy, offer significant opportunities for modern democracies to evolve into systems of rule that empower all citizens.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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029925013X

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9780299250133

Co-Production of Public Services and Outcomes

By: Elke Loeffler

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Co-Production of Public Services and Outcomes

By: Elke Loeffler

This book examines user and community co-production of public services and outcomes, currently one of the most discussed topics in the field of public management and policy. It considers co-production in a wide range of public services, with particular emphasis on health, social care and community safety, illustrated through international case studies in many of the chapters. This book draws on both quantitative and qualitative empirical research studies on co-production, and on the Governance International database of more than 70 international co-production case studies, most of which have been republished by the OECD. Academically rigorous and systematically evidence-based, the book incorporates many insights which have arisen from the extensive range of research projects and executive training programmes in co-production undertaken by the author. Written in a style which is easy and enjoyable to read, the book gives readers, both academics and practitioners, the opportunity to develop a creative understanding of the essence and implications of co-production.

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3030555097

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9783030555092

From Loose to Tight Management

Seeking Evidence of Archetype Change in Dutch and English Higher Education

By: Elke Weyer

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From Loose to Tight Management

Seeking Evidence of Archetype Change in Dutch and English Higher Education

By: Elke Weyer

Elke Weyer sheds light on the question why, after more than three decades of higher education reforms in some countries, it is still not clear whether the reforms have achieved their stated goals, i.e., to create autonomous universities that meet political expectations. By back-casting real-life decision-making processes, the author reconstructs how different types of actors influenced the academic governance of higher education institutions in the context of these reforms. This approach highlights how numerous changes in governance and organisation affect the relationships between actors and how they promote their interests.

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3658197498

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Systemic Functional Grammar & Natural Language Generation

By: Elke Teich

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Systemic Functional Grammar & Natural Language Generation

By: Elke Teich

This volume deals with the computational application of systemic functional grammar (SFG) for natural language generation. In particular, it describes the implementation of a fragment of the grammar of German in the computational framework of KOMET-PENMAN for multilingual generation. The text also presents a specification of explicit well-formedness constraints on syntagmatic structure which are defined in the form of typed feature structures. It thus achieves a model of systemic functional grammar that unites both the strengths of systemics, such as stratification, functional diversification and the orientation to context, and the kind of syntactic generalizations that are typically found in modern, syntagmatically-focused computational grammars.

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A&C Black

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1847140726

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Sri Lanka

By: Elke Frey,Gerhard Lemmer,Jayanthi Namasivayam

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Sri Lanka

By: Elke Frey,Gerhard Lemmer,Jayanthi Namasivayam

Five fully updated editions offering the supremely high standards you expect from Nelles. Lavish color photos, maps and detailed travel information fill the pages of these highly regarded travel guides. Restaurants, hotels, sights, attractions, local festivals, shopping, nightlife and more!

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Hunter Publishing, Inc

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3886182290

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9783886182299

Bali

By: Elke Homburg,Thomas Staender,Jane Michael

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Bali

By: Elke Homburg,Thomas Staender,Jane Michael

Handy reference books, modestly priced, packing comprehensive coverage into a small space. The text, photographs and maps are all clearly cross-referenced, and star attractions are highlighted, making the books ideal for consulting on-the-spot.

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9812347038

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Participatory Activist Research in the Globalised World

Social Change Through the Cultural Professions

By: lisahunter,Elke Emerald,Gregory Martin

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Social Change Through the Cultural Professions

By: lisahunter,Elke Emerald,Gregory Martin

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Stories from the Margin

Mothering a Child with ADHD Or ASD

By: Lorelei Rita Carpenter,Elke Emerald

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Stories from the Margin

Mothering a Child with ADHD Or ASD

By: Lorelei Rita Carpenter,Elke Emerald

Carpenter and emerald have enabled readers a rare glimpse into experiences that are erased or perhaps never represented as they cause discomfort for those who can more easily live within the boundaries of the normal. When these mothers' stories become visible, they interrupt the smooth plotlines of the dominant stories of good mothering and cause unease. As they explore the contexts in which mothers of children with ADHD and ASD try to compose their lives, they highlight both the contradictory and complex intersection of diagnoses and treatment with ontological questions around disability and difference.... As Carpenter and emerald point out 'the problem is when different is taken to be deficit, especially when the deficit is located in the individual'. This book is an essential resource for professionals working with mothers who have children with ADD or ASD The narrative of these mothers is powerful and provides insight into the challenges of mothering children who are 'different'. These women's stories tell of isolation, marginalisation and attempts to silence their reality; they speak of resilience, self-sufficiency and courage.

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1921214430

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For the Love of Jazz

By: Elke Feuer

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For the Love of Jazz

By: Elke Feuer

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Book's by Elke Emerald

Participatory Activist Research in the Globalised World

Participatory Activist Research in the Globalised World

Eagles Cove

Eagles Cove

The Emergence of Institutions

The Emergence of Institutions

For the Love of Jazz

For the Love of Jazz

The Politics of Necessity

The Politics of Necessity

Co-Production of Public Services and Outcomes

Co-Production of Public Services and Outcomes

From Loose to Tight Management

From Loose to Tight Management

Systemic Functional Grammar & Natural Language Generation

Systemic Functional Grammar & Natural Language Generation

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

Bali

Bali

Participatory Activist Research in the Globalised World

Participatory Activist Research in the Globalised World

Stories from the Margin

Stories from the Margin

For the Love of Jazz

For the Love of Jazz

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