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The Politics of (Mis)recognition: Islamic Law Pedagogy in American Academia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
The combination of presence (of Islamic law) and absence (of legal transplant) in the course materials assigned by Islamic law instructors, the scholarship on law in the Islamic world by Islamic law scholars as well as by Comparatists, betrays an ...
Abu-Odeh, Lama
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A Framework for Understanding and Evaluating Localization: The Case of HelpAge International

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many transnational non‐governmental organizations (TNGOs) are reevaluating their organizational forms and norms as they pursue localization. Localization itself is a contested and multifaceted concept, however, complicating the design, implementation, and evaluation of localization efforts.
Hans Peter Schmitz, George E. Mitchell
wiley   +1 more source

Globalizing Comparative Public Administration With Integrative Contextualization: State Autonomy in the Developmental Path of Hong Kong and Singapore

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The lack of a common variable for comparison has been a major obstacle to the development of Comparative Public Administration (CPA). State autonomy enables an integrative contextualization approach, allowing both the analysis of contextual individual country experiences and the generation of generalized comparable knowledge.
Wilson Wong
wiley   +1 more source

Convening Publics: The parasitical spaces of public action [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
About the book: Political Geography is a core subdiscipline of Human Geography, the Handbook of Political Geography will provide a highly contextualised and systematic overview of the latest thinking and research.
Barnett, Clive
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Progressing diversity in HRD theory and practice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
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Crenshaw K.   +4 more
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Administrative Traditions of the Majority World: A Commentary and Future Research Agenda

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Decolonising public administration is an urgent and necessary endeavour. In this short article we argue that we cannot, however, settle for shallow decolonialisations. We argue that the specific iterations of bureaucracy evidenced in post‐colonial states across the majority world can be conceptualised through the lens of administrative ...
Ibrahim Bornoma   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

La pétanque à Pondichéry

open access: yesGéographie et Cultures, 2012
The pétanque is used here as a field to interrogate two aspects. Firstly, in a global context, how a cultural practice is modified. In Pondicherry, south of India, how this physical activity, which appeared after the French colonization, is integrated in
Sébastien Ruffié   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ben Okri’s Spirit Child: Abiku Migration and Postmodernity [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
The widespread notion of the abiku in Nigerian culture says volumes about the heartrending deaths of countless newborns throughout the region\u27s history. It also testifies to a belief in the permeability of the membrane separating the spirit world from
Hawley, John C.
core   +1 more source

‘Manure gets into your veins’: Navigating plural valuation among rural landowners upstream from a Tribe‐led restoration project

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Ecological restoration projects with diverse interest groups face the continual challenge of engaging values, goals and cultures that may vary greatly among partners. As part of an eco‐cultural, riparian restoration project led by the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation, our research examines the instrumental, relational and intrinsic ...
Sarah Woodbury   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Search for Identity in Michael Ondaatje's Post colonial Novel In the Skin of a Lion

open access: yesمجلة كلية التربية للبنات, 2019
In his post colonial novel, In the Skin of a lion, the Canadian/Sri Lankan writer, Michael Ondaatje is so interested in the term "Post colonialism" because he wants to show that the term doesn't only refer to a period of time that comes after colonialism.
ايناس صبحي عامر وئام صلاح غازي
doaj  

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