Common Roots and Present Inequality

Common Roots and Present Inequality PDF Author: Claes Corlin
Publisher: NIAS Press
ISBN: 9788787062527
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Common Roots and Present Inequality

Common Roots and Present Inequality PDF Author: Claes Corlin
Publisher: NIAS Press
ISBN: 9788787062527
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Communities in Action

Communities in Action PDF Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309452961
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 583

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In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.

Institutions, Livelihoods and the Environment

Institutions, Livelihoods and the Environment PDF Author: Per Ronnås
Publisher: NIAS Press
ISBN: 9788787062985
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 434

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Despite the recent economic crisis, mainland Southeast Asia continues to experience increasing economic integration of previously isolated rural hinterlands, especially in the upland areas of Lao PDR, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Yunnan in China, where demographic pressures together with the development of infrastructure and increased market-orientation of production combine to bring about significant economic and social change in rural areas. These changes have also led to significant environmental degradation such as deforestation, disturbance of water flows, and depletion of biodiversity resources. These and other related issues are addressed in this volume.

Social Dynamics in the Highlands of Southeast Asia

Social Dynamics in the Highlands of Southeast Asia PDF Author: François Robinne
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047420624
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 370

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Drawing on long term fieldwork and research in communities from Assam through to Laos, this book offers a unique level of reappraisal of the work of Edmund Leach and is a significant contribution to the development of a new regional anthropology of Southeast Asia.

The Quest for Balance in a Changing Laos

The Quest for Balance in a Changing Laos PDF Author: Søren Ivarsson
Publisher: NIAS Press
ISBN: 9788787062428
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 86

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Civility and Savagery

Civility and Savagery PDF Author: Andrew Turton
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0700711732
Category : Asia, Southeastern
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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The text examines the changing historical discourses of social differentiation and distinction in one of the most ethnically and politically complex regions of the world, issues covered include cultural pluralism, nationalism and ethnic dispersal

Redesigning the Cosmos

Redesigning the Cosmos PDF Author: Ruth Thomas McVey
Publisher: NIAS Press
ISBN: 9788787062510
Category : Indonesia
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia PDF Author: Christoph Antweiler
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 9789812302724
Category : CD-ROMs
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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From Here to Diversity

From Here to Diversity PDF Author: Clara Sarmento
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 144382464X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 405

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From Here to Diversity: Globalization and Intercultural Dialogues sees interculturalism as movement, transit, travel, and the dynamics between cultures. Contemporary intercultural travel is a global journey, a circumnavigation at the speed of light that underwrites all the comings and goings, the departures and arrivals, the transmissions and receptions that are implicit in this title. Hence, From Here to Diversity examines the motivations, characteristics and implications of cultural interactions in their perpetual movement, devoid of spatial or temporal borders, in a dangerous but stimulating indefinition of limits. In the contemporary intercultural dialogue, new voices are making themselves heard, as valuable sources of study: the voices of women; non-occidentals; the non-powerful; forgotten narratives of a past that was as intercultural as the present (after all, what is colonialism other than a perverse form of interculturality?); global entertainment; tourism; oral literature; diaries; mythical narratives; the cinema; ethnography; and new teachings, among so many others. Because this project is also intercultural at its source and subject, From Here to Diversity: Globalization and Intercultural Dialogues adds to the coherence of the project by including contributions from the most wide-ranging backgrounds and nationalities, without fear of the alterity that, after all, we propose to study.

Islam, Human Rights and Child Labour in Pakistan

Islam, Human Rights and Child Labour in Pakistan PDF Author: Alain Lefebvre
Publisher: NIAS Press
ISBN: 9788787062466
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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What this study argues, using the example of child labour in Pakistan, is that a distinction has to be made between the notions of human rights as they are expressed within Islam, and the objective socio-economic and political conditions of each specificMuslim country.