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Contemporary Art and Community Altruism in Oaxaca

Hybrid Agency

By: Neil Pyatt

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Contemporary Art and Community Altruism in Oaxaca

Hybrid Agency

By: Neil Pyatt

This book relates the longitudinal participant observation and analysis of the behaviour of the Oaxacan art community, focusing on the cultural production, interaction and collective action of its members as an integrated sector of civil society. It presents a theoretical framework that succinctly defines and discusses postmodernism as a globalising force in the development and use of creative expression, the media and communications technology in a postcolonial context. The theoretical investigation is supported by ethnography that ascertains how hybrid political thought and community altruism characterise the behaviour and the aesthetic expression practised by a new generation of Oaxacan artists. Their collective action towards a pacifistic solution to the Oaxaca Conflict of 2006, a six-month socio-political uprising caused by actual and historic conditions in the national, regional and universal Left-Right political duel, is detailed. The transdisciplinary approach makes the work very relevant for researchers, educators and students of social anthropology, visual communication and media studies, in addition to those interested in Oaxacan, Mexican and Latin American art and culture.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527527174

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9781527527171

Disaster Education, Communication and Engagement

By: Neil Dufty

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Disaster Education, Communication and Engagement

By: Neil Dufty

A detailed guide to the design and evaluation of effective disaster learning programs Disaster Education, Communication and Engagement provides a much-needed evidence-based guide for designing effective disaster learning plans and programs that are tailored to local communities and their particular hazard risks. Drawing on the most recent research from disaster psychology, disaster sociology, and education psychology, as well as evaluations of disaster learning programs, the book contains practical guidance for putting in place a proven design framework. The book outlines the steps to take in order to tailor a disaster education, communication and engagement program and highlights illustrative examples of effective programs and activities from around the world. The author includes information on how to identify potential community learners and presents a methodology for understanding the at-risk community, its hazard risks, disaster risk reduction, and emergency management arrangements. Disaster Education, Communication and Engagement describes both country-wide campaigns and local disaster programs that involve community participation. This important resource: Presents a detailed framework to guide the design and evaluation of tailored disaster learning programs Includes information that links disaster resilience with sustainability and climate change learning Describes the ‘disaster cycle’ and reviews learning content and methods related to the cycle Explains effective ways to combine disaster education, disaster communications, and disaster-related engagement Contains material on using new technologies such as gamification, virtual reality, and social media Written for emergency managers, students of emergency management, and humanitarian courses, Disaster Education, Communication and Engagement is a hands-on guide filled with ideas and templates for designing and evaluating targeted disaster learning programs.

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John Wiley & Sons

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111956977X

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9781119569770

Surveying Climate-Relevant Behavior

Measurements, Obstacles, and Implications

By: Markus Hadler,Beate Klösch,Stephan Schwarzinger,Markus Schweighart,Rebecca Wardana,David Neil Bird

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Surveying Climate-Relevant Behavior

Measurements, Obstacles, and Implications

By: Markus Hadler,Beate Klösch,Stephan Schwarzinger,Markus Schweighart,Rebecca Wardana,David Neil Bird

This open access book discusses the contribution of sociology and survey research to climate research. The authors address the questions of which behaviors are of climate relevance, who is engaging in these behaviors, in which contexts do these behaviors occur, and which individual perceptions and values are related to them. Utilizing survey research, the book focuses on the measurement of climate-relevant behaviors with population surveys and develops an instrument that allows a valid estimate of an individual’s GHG emissions with a few core items. While the development of these instruments was based on surveys and qualitative interviews conducted in Austria, the instruments were subsequently tested in a set of 31 European countries, revealing the international relevance of such research. The book also concludes with a brief consideration of the effects of the COVID-19 crisis on environmental attitudes, situating the project globally.

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165

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Springer Nature

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3030857964

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9783030857967

Bad Beliefs

Why They Happen to Good People

By: Neil Levy

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Bad Beliefs

Why They Happen to Good People

By: Neil Levy

Why do people come to reject climate science or the safety and efficacy of vaccines, in defiance of the scientific consensus? A popular view explains bad beliefs like these as resulting from a range of biases that together ensure that human beings fall short of being genuinely rational animals. This book presents an alternative account. It argues that bad beliefs arise from genuinely rational processes. We've missed the rationality of bad beliefs because we've failed to recognize the ubiquity of the higher-order evidence that shapes beliefs, and the rationality of being guided by this evidence. The book argues that attention to higher-order evidence should lead us to rethink both how minds are best changed and the ethics of changing them: we should come to see that nudging - at least usually - changes belief (and behavior) by presenting rational agents with genuine evidence, and is therefore fully respectful of intellectual agency. We needn't rethink Enlightenment ideals of intellectual autonomy and rationality, but we should reshape them to take account of our deeply social epistemic agency"--

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211

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Oxford University Press

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019289532X

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9780192895325

Economic Policy Analysis

A Rights-based Approach

By: Henry Neuburger,Neil Fraser

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Economic Policy Analysis

A Rights-based Approach

By: Henry Neuburger,Neil Fraser

Develops a technique which aims to reflect the modern ambitions of democratic government. This text combines elements of financial and cost-benefit analysis and cost-effective techniques. It generates a way of measuring resources in terms of policy objectives and measures of their distribution.

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Ashgate Publishing

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1856285057

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9781856285056

Contemporary Art and Community Altruism in Oaxaca

Hybrid Agency

By: Neil Pyatt

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By: Neil Pyatt

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Contemporary Art and Community Altruism in Oaxaca

Contemporary Art and Community Altruism in Oaxaca

Disaster Education, Communication and Engagement

Disaster Education, Communication and Engagement

Surveying Climate-Relevant Behavior

Surveying Climate-Relevant Behavior

Bad Beliefs

Bad Beliefs

Economic Policy Analysis

Economic Policy Analysis

Contemporary Art and Community Altruism in Oaxaca

Contemporary Art and Community Altruism in Oaxaca

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