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The concept of sustainability is already applied in all industrial sectors. The fight against climate change therefore forces us to look for alternatives in the way we move. Different alternative fuels are discussed in this book: from liquid and gaseous biofuels to electricity. Moreover, waste to fuel processes are another option to produce a significant amount of fuels. In the spirit of this book, there is not only collecting different alternatives, but creativity is also promoted in the readers of this book, so that they take an active part of the solution necessary to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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The concept of sustainability is already applied in all industrial sectors. The fight against climate change therefore forces us to look for alternatives in the way we move. Different alternative fuels are discussed in this book: from liquid and gaseous biofuels to electricity. Moreover, waste to fuel processes are another option to produce a significant amount of fuels. In the spirit of this book, there is not only collecting different alternatives, but creativity is also promoted in the readers of this book, so that they take an active part of the solution necessary to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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Lead-authored by the UK's first Professor of Social Mobility and based on new emerging research, the authors together provide background to social mobility and its different facets before proposing radical reform and ways to systemically tackle the growing lack of social mobility in UK society. It is a key topic in the news and public debate as demonstrated by these recent examples of BBC TV and radio from August and September of last year: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001y8x; https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07hy0gq. They are the best possible authors on the topic: LEM has a very strong profile, he holds an OBE and is media active with 5445 Twitter followers following a background in education journalism and having written for The Guardian and The Times. https://twitter.com/LEM_Exeter. Together with Steve Machin (https://twitter.com/s_machin_) at the LSE where a lot of this research is undertaken (LEM is Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE), they have already written a popular Penguin/Pelican title about social mobility (see below). The two published Social Mobility: And its Enemies with Penguin in September last year. It is a similar format to WDWK (book is 8.99 pounds and 272pp) but differs as: • more of a historical text; • doesn't include the arguments for radical reform that will be made in the SAGE title; • based on research which the authors have since built upon (so the SAGE book will include new research).
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The concept of sustainability is already applied in all industrial sectors. The fight against climate change therefore forces us to look for alternatives in the way we move. Different alternative fuels are discussed in this book: from liquid and gaseous biofuels to electricity. Moreover, waste to fuel processes are another option to produce a significant amount of fuels. In the spirit of this book, there is not only collecting different alternatives, but creativity is also promoted in the readers of this book, so that they take an active part of the solution necessary to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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La possibilité d'une mobilité sociale ascendante était l'une des promesses phares de l'Allemagne d'après-guerre ― une promesse tenue pendant un temps : la Coccinelle a laissé place à l'Audi, les enfants d'artisans sont devenus ingénieurs, de nombreux citoyens ont pu accéder au rêve d'une maison avec jardin. Mais aujourd'hui, l'ascenseur social semble enrayé : un diplôme universitaire n'est plus une garantie de statut ni de sécurité, les contrats de travail sont de plus en plus précaires, les employés participent de moins en moins aux bénéfices de leur travail. Certains ne se retrouvent plus dans cette société libérale vers les marges de laquelle ils se sentent repoussés. Le fossé entre les riches et les pauvres se creuse ― un constat que la grande majorité des Européens font depuis quelque temps déjà et qui prend une ampleur croissante à l'heure actuelle. Oliver Nachtwey explore les causes profondes de cette rupture et s'intéresse au potentiel de conflit qu'elle génère. Une nouvelle conscience de classe binaire se manifeste dans le "contraste entre une élite et la majorité de la population". Dans la société du délassement, cela ouvre la voie à un courant autoritaire "qui se débarrasse des fondements libéraux de notre société". Il convient alors de reconsidérer la responsabilité de la politique pour inverser la tendance
Social change. --- Social mobility. --- Social conflict. --- Capitalism. --- Social change --- Social mobility --- Social conflict --- Capitalism
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Le concept de mobilité irrigue la vision occidentale d'un monde globalisé. Il infuse ainsi dans différentes disciplines de sciences sociales et se retrouve employé de différentes manières. Avec leur regard de sociolinguistes, les auteurs retracent l'histoire de cette notion tant dans le domaine académique que dans la parole publique contemporaine, avec des contrepoints transdisciplinaires. ©Electre 2020
Mobilité sociale --- Mobilité spatiale --- Sociolinguistique --- linguistique --- linguistique historique --- mobilité sociale --- Social mobility --- Sociolinguistics. --- Terminology.
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Rising levels of global inequality and migrant flows are both critical global challenges. Set within the Southeast Asian nation of Cambodia, 'Going Nowhere Fast' sets out to answer a question of global importance: how does inequality persist in our increasingly mobile world? 0Inequality is often referred to as the greatest threat to democracy, society, and economy, and yet opportunity has apparently never been more accessible. Long and short distance transport - from motorbikes to aeroplanes - are available to more people than ever before and telecommunications have transformed our lives, ushering in an era of translocality in which the behaviour of people and communities is influenced from hundreds or even thousands of miles apart. Yet amidst these complex flows of people, ideas, and capital, persistent inequality cuts a jarringly static figure. Going Nowhere Fast brings together a decade of research to examine this uneven development in Cambodia, making a case for inequality as a 'total social fact' rather than an economic phenomenon, in which stories, stigma, obligation and assets combine to lock social structures in place.0'Going Nowhere Fast: Inequality in the Age of Translocality' speaks from an in-depth perspective to an issue of global relevance: how inequality persists in our hypermobile world. Focusing on pressing issues in Cambodia that resonate beyond, it investigates how human movement within and across the nation's borders are intertwined with societal threats and challenges, including of precarious labour and agricultural livelihoods; climate and environmental change; the phenomenon of land grabbing; and the rise of popular nationalism.
Emigration and immigration --- Equality --- Social mobility --- Social aspects. --- Cambodia --- Social conditions --- Emigration and immigration - Social aspects
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The smartphone has become one of the main tenets of contemporary spatial as well as digital migration routes that are increasingly determined by technologies, platforms and networks. Such routes have become increasingly dangerous and uncertain, which testifies of structural criminalisation and control of people on the move, but also raises important questions about autonomy and agency of individuals as a response to restrictive migration and border policies. The monograph explores such transformations by focussing on the movement of refugees across the borders of nation-states through a rethinking of the notion of vulnerability (especially of women and children), the examination of perceptions of refugees and migrants by the public and a reflection of the notions of climate change and climate refugees that all challenge the main classificatory mechanisms constructing more or less “legitimate” groups of migrants. In this vein, the authors argue for more solidarity throughout the movement of individuals through the “gates” and “violent borders” of contemporary nation-states. Pametni telefon je postal eden od glavnih označevalcev prostorskih kot tudi digitalnih migracijskih poti, ki jih vedno bolj določajo tudi tehnologije, platforme in omrežja. Tovrstne poti postajajo vedno bolj nevarne in negotove in pričajo o strukturni kriminalizaciji in nadzoru oseb na poti, a hkrati odpirajo pomembna vprašanja o avtonomiji in delovalnosti posameznikov in posameznic kot odzivu na vedno bolj omejevalne migracijske in mejne politike. Monografija s poudarkom na gibanju beguncev in begunk čez meje nacionalnih držav analizira tovrstne transformacije. Gre zlasti za premislek o konceptu ranljivosti (predvsem žensk in otrok), za analizo percepcij migrantov in beguncev s strani javnosti in za refleksije podnebnih sprememb in ideje podnebnih beguncev, ki postavljajo pod vprašaj temeljne klasifikacijske mehanizme konstruiranja bolj ali manj ‘legitimnih’ skupin migrantov in migrantk. V tem oziru se avtorici zavzemata za več solidarnosti pri gibanju posameznikov skozi ‘pregrade’ in ‘nasilne meje’ sodobnih nacionalnih držav.;The smartphone has become one of the main tenets of contemporary spatial as well as digital migration routes that are increasingly determined by technologies, platforms and networks. Such routes have become increasingly dangerous and uncertain, which testifies of structural criminalisation and control of people on the move, but also raises important questions about autonomy and agency of individuals as a response to restrictive migration and border policies. The monograph explores such transformations by focussing on the movement of refugees across the borders of nation-states through a rethinking of the notion of vulnerability (especially of women and children), the examination of perceptions of refugees and migrants by the public and a reflection of the notions of climate change and climate refugees that all challenge the main classificatory mechanisms constructing more or less “legitimate” groups of migrants. In this vein, the authors argue for more solidarity throughout the movement of individuals through the “gates” and “violent borders” of contemporary nation-states. Pametni telefon je postal eden od glavnih označevalcev prostorskih kot tudi digitalnih migracijskih poti, ki jih vedno bolj določajo tudi tehnologije, platforme in omrežja. Tovrstne poti postajajo vedno bolj nevarne in negotove in pričajo o strukturni kriminalizaciji in nadzoru oseb na poti, a hkrati odpirajo pomembna vprašanja o avtonomiji in delovalnosti posameznikov in posameznic kot odzivu na vedno bolj omejevalne migracijske in mejne politike. Monografija s poudarkom na gibanju beguncev in begunk čez meje nacionalnih držav analizira tovrstne transformacije. Gre zlasti za premislek o konceptu ranljivosti (predvsem žensk in otrok), za analizo percepcij migrantov in beguncev s strani javnosti in za refleksije podnebnih sprememb in ideje podnebnih beguncev, ki postavljajo pod vprašaj temeljne klasifikacijske mehanizme konstruiranja bolj ali manj ‘legitimnih’ skupin migrantov in migrantk. V tem oziru se avtorici zavzemata za več solidarnosti pri gibanju posameznikov skozi ‘pregrade’ in ‘nasilne meje’ sodobnih nacionalnih držav.
Social mobility --- Migration, immigration & emigration --- international migrations --- refugees --- sociology --- begunci --- mednarodne migracije --- sociologija
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