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Making a Difference?
Social assessment for projects in China is an important emerging field. This collection of essays - from authors whose formative work has influenced the policies that shape practice in development-affected communities - locates recent Chinese experience of the development of social assessment practices (including in displacement and resettlement) in a historical and comparative perspective. Contributors - social scientists employed by international development banks, national government agencies, and sub-contracting groups - examine projects from a practitioner's perspective. Real-life experiences are presented as case-specific praxis, theoretically informed insight, and pragmatic lessons-learned, grounded in the history of this field of development practice. They reflect on work where economic determinism reigns supreme, yet project failure or success often hinges upon sociopolitical and cultural factors.
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Development-induced displacement in India and China
The world seems to have recently discovered India and China as major players in Asia, and political and economic connections between the two countries are rapidly growing.Beyond the fashionable phenomenon, the two countries have much in common and many shared experiences.
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Knowledge and Power in Collaborative Research
Collaborative research embraces a multiplicity of practices in which social actors are invited to participate in the research process as co-producers of knowledge. But what is actually meant by \"co-production\" in collaborative research? Knowledge and Power in Collaborative Research presents a range of critical, reflexive strategies for understanding and tackling the challenges emanating from the tensions that arise in the meeting between different participants, knowledge forms and knowledge interests. The chapters anchor discussion of ethical, epistemological and methodological questions in sustained empirical analyses of cases of collaborative knowledge production.
The book covers diverse theoretical approaches such as dialogic communication theory, actor network theory, poststructuralist writing as inquiry, institutional ethnography, dialogic action research, and pragmatic action research. The empirical cases span a broad spectrum of empirical fields of social practice: health services, organisational change, research, science communication, environmental communication in intermediary NGOs, participatory governance in relation to urban planning, and digital communication and virtual worlds.
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The case for books : past, present, and future
\"The era of the printed book is at a crossroad. E-readers are flooding the market, books are available to read on cell phones, and companies such as Google, Amazon, and Apple are competing to command near monopolistic positions as sellers and dispensers of digital information. Is the printed book resilient enough to survive the digital revolution, or will it become obsolete? In this lasting collection of essays, Robert Darnton--an intellectual pioneer in the field of this history of the book--lends unique authority to the life, role, and legacy of the book in society.\"--P. 4 of cover.
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A cross-cultural comparative study of Buddhist monumental art: the Borobudur Temple Complex (Indonesia) and the Dazu Rock Carvings (China)
This study presents a transnational comparative analysis of two UNESCO World Heritage complexes and their sculptural programmes: the Borobudur Temple Complex (Java, Indonesia; built c. 8th-9th centuries CE) and the Dazu Rock Carvings (Chongqing, China; major carving activity late 9th-13th centuries CE). Using qualitative methods that integrate stylistic, iconographic, and technical analyses based on visual and photographic surveys and published conservation studies, the paper examines how stone type, carving techniques, compositional strategies, and ritual frameworks shaped divergent sculptural languages. Results show that Borobudur's mandala-based architectural order and narrative bas-reliefs-carved in volcanic andesite and largely experienced frontally along a prescribed circumambulatory route-favour shallow, sequential narrative modelling that supports didactic pilgrimage. By contrast, Dazu's sandstone reliefs and near-full-round modelling enable deeper undercutting, more pronounced chiaroscuro, and a syncretic iconography that fuses Buddhist, Daoist and Confucian elements for localized devotional practice; traces of polychromy and gilding further differentiate its visual effect. The study demonstrates that material and technical constraints critically inform form, viewing geometry, and ritual use, and argues for context-sensitive conservation approaches. These findings advance comparative understandings of Mahayana sculptural practice and contribute to broader debates in global art history.
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The financialisation of the social project: Embedded liberalism, neoliberalism and home ownership
This paper argues that the relentless logic of commodification has served to undermine a key element of the social cement of contemporary capitalism: home ownership. In addressing this issue, the paper explores the development of the post war 'social project' of home ownership with particular reference to mature home ownership societies such as the USA, Japan, Britain and Australia. The paper then outlines the new fault lines and fractures which have emerged in post-crisis home ownership systems and the way in which a more vigorous, financialised private landlordism has emerged from the debris of the subprime meltdown. A key argument is that in a new and more intensified process of housing commodification, the social project promise of home ownership for a previous generation has shifted to a promise of private landlordism for current generations. In summary, the social project of Keynesian-embedded liberalism has been undermined by the economic project of neoliberalism.
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