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Interviewing: the basics
This text outlines the relative merits of qualitative interviewing to new and emerging scholars in an accessible way. This is achieved not by providing an exhaustive ‘how-to’ guide but in introducing researchers to the interview technique and using examples of ‘best practice’ from across the social sciences. To ensure the book is both accessible and inclusive, efforts have been made to…
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- 9781032274409
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- xii, 213 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
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- LEN 658.31124 HOL
Monospace and Multiverse : Exploring Space with Actor-Network-Theory
In contrast to buildings divided by walls, monospace buildings are determined far less by its shell than by a reciprocal relationship between space and practices, objects, materials, and human bodies. Using the example of such one-room-architectures, this book explores the potential of an actor-network-theory (ANT) approach to space in the field of architecture. Sabine Hansmann focuses on the S…
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- 9783839455029
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- 245 p.
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- 720 MON S
Vermin, Victims and Disease : British Debates over Bovine Tuberculosis and Ba…
This open access book provides the first critical history of the controversy over whether to cull wild badgers to control the spread of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in British cattle. This question has plagued several professional generations of politicians, policymakers, experts and campaigners since the early 1970s. Questions of what is known, who knows, who cares, who to trust and what to do ab…
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- 9783030191863
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- xiv, 366 p.
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- 636.208945420941 VER A
Imagining the Future City : London 2062
London is one of the world’s leading cities. It is home to an extraordinary concentration and diversity of people, industries, politics, religions and ideas, and plays an important role in our highly globalised and tightly networked modern world. What does the future hold for London? Investigating any aspect of the city’s future reveals a complex picture of interrelations and dependencies. …
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- 9781909188198
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- vi, 194 p.
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- 303.49421 IMA S
Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries : The Legacy of Central Planning in E…
This open access book focuses on the formation and later socio-spatial trajectories of large housing estates in the Baltic countries—Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. It also explores claims that a distinctly “westward-looking orientation” in their design produced housing estates that were superior in design to those produced elsewhere in the Soviet Union (between 1944 and 1991, Estonia was…
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- 9783030233921
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- xviii, 383 p.
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- 307.76809479 HOU D
Frontier Tibet : Patterns of Change in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands
Frontier Tibet addresses a historical sequence that sealed the future of the Sino-Tibetan borderlands. It considers how starting in the late nineteenth century imperial formations and emerging nation-states developed competing schemes of integration and debated about where the border between China and Tibet should be. It also ponders the ways in which this border is internalised today, creating…
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- 9789048544905
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- 555 p.
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- 951.5 FRO S
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