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Peacebuilding in the Balkans

The View from the Ground Floor

By: Paula M. Pickering

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Peacebuilding in the Balkans

The View from the Ground Floor

By: Paula M. Pickering

After suffering years of war, Bosnia is now the target of international efforts to reconstruct and democratize a culturally divided society. The global community's strategy has focused on reforming political institutions, influencing the behavior of elite populations, and cultivating nongovernmental organizations. But expensive efforts to promote a stable peace and a multiethnic democracy can be successful only if they resonate among ordinary people. Otherwise, such projects will produce fragile institutions and alienated citizens who will be susceptible to extremists eager to send them back into war. Paula M. Pickering challenges the conventional wisdom that common people are merely passive recipients of peacebuilding projects. Instead, in Peacebuilding in the Balkans, she shows how ordinary people, particularly minorities in Bosnia, understand elite rhetoric and actively shape reconstruction. Pickering's years of fieldwork—direct observation, interviews, and analysis of many surveys—has yielded a precise understanding of how ordinary citizens react to and influence peacebuilding programs in their neighborhoods, workplaces, municipal agencies, and other real-life social settings. The evidence suggests that international efforts to rebuild an inclusive Bosnia will be futile unless they pay sufficient attention to citizens' varying ties to ethnic groups, indigenous forms of civic activity, and the development of nondiscriminatory employment and responsive political institutions. Pickering's insights from reconstruction in the Balkans have important implications for peacebuilding elsewhere in Eurasia.

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Cornell University Press

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ISBN 10

0801463467

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9780801463464

The Mnemonic Imagination

Remembering as Creative Practice

By: E. Keightley,M. Pickering

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The Mnemonic Imagination

Remembering as Creative Practice

By: E. Keightley,M. Pickering

An exploration of some of the key theoretical challenges and conceptual issues facing the emergent field of memory studies, from the relationship between experience and memory to the commercial exploitation of nostalgia, using the key concept of the mnemonic imagination.

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239

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Palgrave Macmillan

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1349318299

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9781349318292

The Georgia Kaolins

Geology and Utilization

By: Jessica Elzea Kogel,Sam M Pickering, Jr.,Evgenya Shelobolina

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The Georgia Kaolins

Geology and Utilization

By: Jessica Elzea Kogel,Sam M Pickering, Jr.,Evgenya Shelobolina

The book provides a look at the many different disciplines involved in kaolin production, including geology, mining, mineralogy, geochemistry, and microbiology. It gives industry practitioners a better understanding of this versatile material in order to improve exploration, processing, and product quality. The text presents an excellent overview of the types and grades of kaolin; their mineralogy, and how these qualities relate to various commercial applications; and processing techniques employed to remove impurities and improve kaolin quality.

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Society for Mining Metallurgy & Exploration

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0873353102

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9780873353106

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Peacebuilding in the Balkans

Peacebuilding in the Balkans

The Mnemonic Imagination

The Mnemonic Imagination

The Georgia Kaolins

The Georgia Kaolins

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