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ID:   075420


Ailing Southeast Asia: a reckoning looms / Crossette, Barbara   Journal Article
Crossette, Barbara Journal Article
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Publication 2006.
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Alienation and obligation: religion and social change in Samoa / Thornton, Alec; Kerslake, Maria T; Binns, Tony   Journal Article
Thornton, Alec Journal Article
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Publication 2010.
Summary/Abstract This paper will explore social change in contemporary Samoan society with respect to the traditional expectations of the church and kinship conflicting with the modern needs of an urbanising population. In the Samoan way of life - the fa'aSamoa - religion, matai (chiefly system) and reciprocal 'gift-giving' kinship arrangements among the aiga (extended family) are fundamental and closely related elements. However, pressures from continued integration into the global economy, the importance of remittance income and related migration of well-educated and highly skilled Samoans overseas are presenting several challenges to the strongly held traditions of kinship and church obligations. Among these challenges, low-income households are increasingly placing the material well-being of the immediate household first, thus 'opting out' of the culturally defined primary obligation to the church and risk alienation from beneficial familial ties. As a result, settlement patterns are shifting towards leaseholds in urbanising Apia, with consequences, we will speculate, that may have deeper cultural implications. Our research revealed that the church has been slow to accept that, increasingly, Samoans are seeking relief from hardships that spirituality alone cannot address. However, given its influence, strengths and resources, the church is well positioned to take a lead role in facilitating opportunities for 'bottom-up', alternative development in Samoa, as well as providing lessons for church-led participatory approaches in the Pacific Island Region.
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Assessment for social security pilot in Jilin and Hei Longjiang of China / Zheng, Bingwen   Journal Article
Zheng, Bingwen Journal Article
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Publication 2006.
Summary/Abstract The present paper reviews the social security pilot in Jilin and Hei Longjiang that was carried out between 2004 and 2005. The pilot in the two provinces has basically achieved its main objectives, but there are still some unsolved problems, the most severe being lack of effective investment of the funds accumulated by individual accounts. During periods of high economic growth and high growth in average wages, this problem might undermine the partially-funded security system. To this end, the paper makes some suggestions, one of which is to introduce the notional defined contribution system.
Key Words Social Change  China  Social Security Reform 
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ID:   074845


Authoritarian/constitutional-patronage regimes in Central Asia / Efegil, Ertan   Journal Article
Efegil, Ertan Journal Article
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Publication 2006.
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Barbary pirates / Murphy, Martin N   Journal Article
Murphy, Martin N Journal Article
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Publication 2013.
Summary/Abstract This essay describes the piracy that took place in the Mediterranean from the time of ancient Greece to Barbary. It explains the corso, the sea war between nonstate but state-endorsed Christian and Muslim parties, with reference to the Knights of Malta and, more extensively, the Barbary corsairs. Although the essay focuses primarily on history, it also draws some conclusions about piracy and the international system today. The essay notes a prevailing assumption that contemporary piracy off Somalia and that perpetrated by the Barbary pirates is similar, but it further notes that any similarities are slight and superficial. At the same time, similarities rooted in economic, social, and political change do exist between all outbreaks of depredation at sea and the responses to them.
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Being elite, 1931–2011: three generations of social change / Chen, Minglu   Journal Article
Chen, Minglu Journal Article
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Publication 2012.
Summary/Abstract Current interpretations of the People's Republic of China emphasize the discontinuities of 1949, and even 1978 to some extent. An examination of the experience of a Chinese family from 1931 to 2011 through three generations suggests that processes of elite formation are more complex and their interpretation might be more nuanced. In the process it highlights how one elite family managed to establish and maintain its elite status against a background of dramatic social change, and raises questions of the relationship between elite formation and the existence of a ruling class.
Key Words Social Change  People's Republic of China  PRC 
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Beyond the ethno-national divide: intersecting identity transformations during conflict / Hoewer, Melanie   Journal Article
Hoewer, Melanie Journal Article
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Publication 2014.
Summary/Abstract This article examines intersecting processes of boundary formation and change during periods of conflict in Chiapas and Northern Ireland in a comparative fashion. It provides new approaches to the studies of boundaries, of intersectionality and of identity change. Looking at female activists' collective identity narratives reveals the interrelation of different processes of identity change and solidarity formation during ethno-national conflict. Those processes are determined by differences in female activists' perceptions of and positioning towards different levels of society and by spaces for bridging those boundaries. In order to enhance our understanding of ethno-national conflicts, we need to examine intersecting identity categories in relation to social change and highlight underlying and interacting processes at different levels of society that obscure and deny the existence of the gender category.
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Blair, Brown and the Gleneagles agenda: making poverty history, or confronting the global politics of unequal development? / Payne, Anthony   Journal Article
Payne, Anthony Journal Article
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Publication 2006.
Summary/Abstract In a series of speeches, statements and interviews in early 2005 Tony Blair and Gordon Brown set out an ambitious agenda of global development change for the UK's Presidency of the G8. The Gleneagles summit, held in July of that year, did make a number of significant policy commitments in the areas of trade, finance and the environment. But, with the passage of time and as the details were worked out, many of these turned out to be much less far-reaching than the claims initially made by the two politicians. The Gleneagles agenda could never, in fact, have worked to 'make poverty history', because such an achievement was simply not within the compass of the G8 to deliver. The global politics of development is not animated by what the 'North' is or is not willing to do for the 'South'. It is instead worked out within the context of a global politics of unequal development that neither Blair nor Brown appear to comprehend.
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ID:   163469


BRICS in international development / Jing, Gu (ed.); Shankland, Alex (ed.); Chenoy, Anuradha (ed.) 2016  Book
Jing, Gu Book
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Publication London, Springer Nature, 2016.
Description xxi, 248p.: figures, tableshbk
Series International Political Economy Series
Standard Number 9781137556455
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ID:   043069


Capital and power: political economy and social transformation / Girling, John 1987  Book
Girling, John Book
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Publication London, Croom Helm, 1987.
Description 226p.
Standard Number 0709938500
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ID:   111016


Catalysts for change: will the passage of a spate of gender-specific laws change the lives of women in Pakistan? / Mustafa, Zubeida   Journal Article
Mustafa, Zubeida Journal Article
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Publication 2012.
Key Words Social Change  Women  NCSW  Pakistan - 1967-1977 
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ID:   029031


Celebration of awareness: a call for institutional revolution / Illich, Ivan D 1970  Book
Illich, Ivan D Book
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Publication London, Caldar & Boyars, 1970.
Description 189p.
Standard Number 0174508381
Key Words Social Change  Ethnic Relations  Popular Culture  Progress 
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ID:   187121


Changing birth practices in India: oils, oxytocin and obstetrics / Chattopadhyay, Sreeparna; Jacob, Suraj   Journal Article
Jacob, Suraj Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract Institutional births increased in India from 39% to 79% between 2005 and 2015. Drawing from 17 months of fieldwork, this article traces the shift from home to hospital births across three generations in a hamlet in Assam in Northeast India. Here, too, one finds that most births have shifted from home to hospital in less than a decade, aided by multiple factors. These include ‘free’ birthing facilities and financial incentives offered by government schemes, idiosyncratic changes within the hamlet, such as the introduction of biomedical practices through home births where oxytocin was used, and changes in cultural belief systems among local people. The exploration reveals significant transitions between (and fluidities of) categories such as local/global, tradition/modernity, past/present and nature/technology, creating a complex and ambivalent narrative of change, in which the voices of mothers should not be ignored.
Key Words State  Social Change  Assam  Maternal Health  Birth Practices 
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ID:   193192


Changing Households Social Dynamics and Agriculture Crisis in Shamva District, Zimbabwe / Chiba, Moffat; Thebe, Vusilizwe   Journal Article
Thebe, Vusilizwe Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract This article explores household-level social dynamics of change and their causal effects on future agricultural practices and food security. It does this by employing a place-specific qualitative research methodology in two rural settlements in Shamva District, Mashonaland Central Province. It reveals how these changes have impacted negatively on farm households’ command of assets, including draft power, labour and social networks. Households that had a long history of agricultural excellence started to experience declines in their agriculture, while new households encountered new vulnerabilities. The article concludes by cautioning against any policy that ignores the household as a production unit in Zimbabwe’s agriculture.
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ID:   074940


China's leadership gap / Thornton, John L   Journal Article
Thornton, John L Journal Article
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Publication 2006.
Summary/Abstract After 28 years of reform, China now faces accelerating challenges of an unprecedented scale. Of these, none is more critical -- or more daunting -- than nurturing a new generation of leaders who are skilled, honest, committed to public service, and accountable. Without them, Beijing's public promises of a prosperous, democratic future will go unfulfilled.
Key Words Social Change  Leadership  China  Political Development 
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ID:   126902


Civil Society: from advocacy to social change / Khoury, Hind   Journal Article
Khoury, Hind Journal Article
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Publication 2012.
Summary/Abstract If we contrast the era of the Arab Spring with the continuation of the prolonged Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories and a futile peace process, now more than ever, we need a civil society that is able to mobilize the political, social, economic, cultural and human potential of our societies for social change. For it is only through a truly democratic, informed and mobilized public that we can finally overcome a culture of war, human suffering and the tenacious lack among some of the main actors of a true political will for real, just and sustainable peace.
Key Words Peace  Civil Society  Social Change  Israel  Israeli-Palestinian Conflict  Advocacy 
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Climate-Induced Migration: : impacts on social structures and justice in bangladesh / Ahsan, Reazul   Journal Article
Ahsan, Reazul Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract In the wider context of several primary climate change impacts affecting low-lying coastal areas of Bangladesh, this article examines how the phenomenon of ‘climate change migration’ creates national and local secondary complications for internal population displacement as well as increasingly visible tertiary impacts. These are manifested in rapid urbanisation and precarious socio-economic and environmental changes in urban contexts. Highlighting the growing interconnection of climate change, migration and urbanisation in Bangladesh, the article calls for effective local policy changes to address the urgent need to safeguard sustainable livelihoods and security of fundamental rights for climate change migrants.
Key Words Migration  Social Change  Water  Bangladesh  Climate Change  Urbanisation 
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ID:   065047


Collapse: how societies choose to fail or survive / Diamond, Jared 2005  Book
Diamond, Jared Book
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Publication London, Allaen Lane, 2005.
Description ix, 575p.
Standard Number 0713992867
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Community Development and Social Change / R. Dwarkinath 1972  Book
Dwarkinath R. Book
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Publication New Delhi, Department of Personnel, 1972.
Description 21p.
Series Training Abstracts
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Competing visions of identity and space: Bangladeshi Muslims in Britain / Eade, John; Garbin, David   Journal Article
Eade, John Journal Article
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Publication 2006.
Summary/Abstract This article explores the role of politics in public debates about what it means to be a Bangladeshi Muslim in contemporary Britain. It examines the history of Bangladeshi community activism, tensions at work in the political arena, and the part played by Islamist leaders and organisations. It grounds this analysis not only in Tower Hamlets, the ‘heartland’ of the community, but also in Oldham and Birmingham where there are substantial, if scantily researched, concentrations of British Bangladeshis. Through a study of the competing visions of identity and space, this article explores the ways in which secular and religious leaders seek to represent their community in the public sphere. It also discusses the ways in which local political dynamics are shaped by (mainly ideological and social) transnational networks.
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