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Building Europe : The cultural politics of European integration
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ISBN: 9780415180153 9780415180146 0415180155 0415180147 9781315008462 9781136283529 9781136283598 9781136283666 Year: 2000 Publisher: London ; New York, NY : Routledge,

Anthropology of policy : critical perspectives on governance and power
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ISBN: 9780415132213 9780415132206 0415132215 0415132207 9780203451038 9781134826971 9781134827015 9781134827022 Year: 1997 Publisher: London Routledge

Elite cultures : anthropological perspectives
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ISBN: 1134471211 1280068809 0203426193 9780203426197 0415277949 9780415277945 0415277957 9780415277952 9781280068805 9786610068807 6610068801 9781134471218 9781134471164 1134471165 9781134471201 1134471203 Year: 2002 Publisher: London : Routledge,

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What makes an elite? This authoritative new volume examines elite groups in power across Europe, North America, Mexico, Peru, Indonesia and Africa to answer this question fully at a time of their increasing dominance.


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Up close and personal : on peripheral perspectives and the production of anthropological knowledge
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ISBN: 0857458477 Year: 2013 Volume: v. 25 Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books,

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Combining rich personal accounts from twelve veteran anthropologists with reflexive analyses of the state of anthropology today, this book is a treatise on theory and method offering fresh insights into the production of anthropological knowledge, from the creation of key concepts to major paradigm shifts. Particular focus is given to how 'peripheral perspectives' can help re-shape the discipline and the ways that anthropologists think about contemporary culture and society. From urban Maori communities in Aotearoa/New Zealand to the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, from Arnhem Land in Australi


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Death of the public university? : uncertain futures for higher education in the knowledge economy
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ISBN: 178533543X Year: 2017 Publisher: New York ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn Books,

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"Universities have been subjected to continuous government reforms since the 1980s, to make them 'entrepreneurial', 'efficient' and aligned to the predicted needs and challenges of a global knowledge economy. Under increasing pressure to pursue 'excellence' and 'innovation', many universities are struggling to maintain their traditional mission to be inclusive, improve social mobility and equality and act as the 'critic and conscience' of society. Drawing on a multi-disciplinary research project, University Reform, Globalisation and Europeanisation (URGE), this collection analyses the new landscapes of public universities emerging across Europe and the Asia-Pacific, and the different ways that academics are engaging with them" --


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Audit Culture : How Indicators and Rankings Are Reshaping the World
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ISBN: 9780745349305 0745349307 0745349315 Year: 2024 Publisher: London : Pluto Press,

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All aspects of our work and private lives are increasingly measured and managed. But how has this 'audit culture' arisen and what kind of a world is it producing?Cris Shore and Susan Wright provide a timely account of the rise of the new industries of accounting, enumeration and ranking from an anthropological perspective, drawing on political economy, ethnographic observation and genealogical excavation. Audit Culture is the first book to systematically document and analyse these phenomena and their implications for democracy. The book explores how audit culture operates across a wide range of fields, including health, higher education, NGOs, finance, the automobile industry and the military. The authors build a powerful critique of contemporary public sector management in an age of neoliberal market-making, privatisation and outsourcing. They conclude by offering a raft of suggested actions to reverse its damaging effects on communities, reclaim professional autonomy, and restore the democratic accountability that audit culture is systematically undermining.


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The shapeshifting crown : locating the state in postcolonial New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the UK
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ISBN: 1108756174 1108677738 1108496466 1108755321 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The Crown stands at the heart of the New Zealand, British, Australian and Canadian constitutions as the ultimate source of legal authority and embodiment of state power. A familiar icon of the Westminster model of government, it is also an enigma. Even constitutional experts struggle to define its attributes and boundaries: who or what is the Crown and how is it embodied? Is it the Queen, the state, the government, a corporation sole or aggregate, a relic of feudal England, a metaphor, or a mask for the operation of executive power? How are its powers exercised? How have the Crowns of different Commonwealth countries developed? The Shapeshifting Crown combines legal and anthropological perspectives to provide novel insights into the Crown's changing nature and its multiple, ambiguous and contradictory meanings. It sheds new light onto the development of the state in postcolonial societies and constitutional monarchy as a cultural system.

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Monarchy --- Postcolonialism --- Sovereignty. --- Sovereignty --- State sovereignty (International relations) --- International law --- Political science --- Common heritage of mankind (International law) --- International relations --- Self-determination, National --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Decolonization --- British monarchy --- Monarchy, British --- Law and legislation --- Commonwealth countries --- Great Britain --- Australia --- Canada --- New Zealand --- British Commonwealth countries --- British Commonwealth nations --- British Dominions --- Commonwealth nations --- Commonwealth (Organization) countries --- Dominions, British --- Aotearoa --- N.Z. (New Zealand) --- Nea Zēlandia --- Neu-Seeland --- Neuseeland --- Nieu-Seeland --- Niu-hsi-lan --- Nouvelle-Zélande --- Nov-Zelando --- Nova Zelanda --- Nova Zelandii︠a︡ --- Novai︠a︡ Zelandii︠a︡ --- Novai︠a︡ Zelandyi︠a︡ --- Novi Zeland --- Nový Zéland --- Novzelando --- Nowa Zelandia --- Nu Ziland --- Nueva Zelanda --- Nueva Zelandia --- Nuova Zelanda --- Nya Zeeland --- Nýja-Sjáland --- Nýsæland --- Nyū Jīrando --- Nyu Ziland --- Nyūjīrando --- NZ --- Seland Newydd --- Uus-Meremaa --- Zeelanda Berria --- Νέα Ζηλανδία --- Нова Зеландия --- Новая Зеландыя --- ניו זילנד --- ニュージーランド --- Canada (Province) --- Canadae --- Ceanada --- Chanada --- Chanadey --- Dominio del Canadá --- Dominion of Canada --- Jianada --- Kʻaenada --- Kanada (Dominion) --- Ḳanadah --- Kanadaja --- Kanadas --- Ḳanade --- Kanado --- Kanakā --- Province of Canada --- Republica de Canadá --- Yn Chanadey --- Καναδάς --- Канада --- קאנאדע --- קנדה --- كندا --- کانادا --- カナダ --- 加拿大 --- 캐나다 --- Lower Canada --- Upper Canada --- Ahitereiria --- Aostralia --- Ástralía --- ʻAukekulelia --- Austraalia --- Austraalia Ühendus --- Australian Government --- Australie --- Australien --- Australiese Gemenebes --- Aŭstralii︠a︡ --- Australija --- Austrālijas Savienība --- Australijos Sandrauga --- Aŭstralio --- Australské společenství --- Ausztrál Államszövetség --- Ausztrália --- Avstralii︠a︡ --- Avstraliĭski sŭi︠u︡z --- Avstraliĭskiĭ Soi︠u︡z --- Avstraliĭskii︠a︡t sŭi︠u︡z --- Avstralija --- Awstralia --- Awstralja --- Awstralya --- Aystralia --- Commonwealth of Australia --- Cymanwlad Awstralia --- Državna zaednica Avstralija --- Government of Australia --- Ḳehiliyat Osṭralyah --- Koinopoliteia tēs Aystralias --- Komanwel Australia --- Komonveltot na Avstralija --- Komonwelt sa Awstralya --- Komunaĵo de Aŭstralio --- Komunejo de Aŭstralio --- Kūmunwālth al-Usturālī --- Mancomunidad de Australia --- Mancomunitat d'Austràlia --- Negara Persemakmuran Australia --- New Holland --- Nova Hollandia --- Osṭralyah --- Ōsutoraria --- Persemakmuran Australia --- Samveldið Ástralía --- Usṭralyah --- Usturāliyā --- Whakaminenga o Ahitereiria --- Κοινοπολιτεία της Αυστραλίας --- Αυστραλία --- Аўстралія --- Австралия --- Австралија --- Австралийски съюз --- Австралийският съюз --- Австралийский Союз --- Комонвелтот на Австралија --- Државна заедница Австралија --- אוסטרליה --- קהיליית אוסטרליה --- أستراليا --- كومنولث الأسترالي --- オーストラリア --- Politics and government. --- Relations --- Kaineḍā

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