Recurrent clamours by students and academics for universities in Africa and elsewhere, to imbibe and exude a spirit of inclusion are a continual reminder that universities can and need to be much more convivial.
The first monograph on Islamic hospitals, this volume examines their origins, development, architecture, social roles, and connections to non-Islamic institutions.
Performing Institutions: Contested Sites and Structures of Care builds upon scholarly work rooted in the social and cultural histories of education, self-organization, activist practices, performance, design, and artistic research, (at)tending to the ways that institutions are necessarily political and performed.
Zwischen 1900 und 1936 formierte sich im damaligen Völkerkundemuseum Basel eine Sammlung europäischer Ethnologie: Dinge des Alltags, des Glaubens und Dinge der Festlichkeiten kamen zusammen – zuerst aus der Schweiz, dann immer mehr auch aus anderen Teilen Europas.
In the final decades of the nineteenth century modernizing interpretations of leisure became of interest to social policy makers and cultural critics, producing a discourse of leisure and voluntarism that flourished until the Second World War.
Being Poland offers a unique analysis of the cultural developments that took place in Poland after World War One, a period marked by Poland's return to independence.
Educational institutions, and in particular educational leaders, play critical roles in identifying and rectifying the many inequities that oppress, marginalize, and exclude individual students, educational actors, and some minoritized groups in Canadian education.
In this third edition of Capitalism and Classical Social Theory, John Bratton and David Denham build on the classical triumvirate-Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, and Max Weber-by extending the conversation to include early female theorists such as Mary Wollstonecraft and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, as well as the writings of W.
The Union of International Associations (UIA) was founded in 1910, aiming to coordinate the relations and interests of international organizations across the world.
Making Harvard Modern is a candid, richly detailed portrait of America's most prominent university from 1933 to the present: seven decades of dramatic change.
In divided societies, representation in the police that empowers previously-marginalized groups reduces crime, builds trust, and improves citizen-state relations.
In seinem Testament bestimmte Alfred Nobel, dass der Friedenspreis an jene Personen gehen sollte, die "die meiste oder beste Arbeit für die Verbrüderung von Nationen, für die Abschaffung oder Reduzierung stehender Armeen und für das Durchführen und Fördern von Friedenskongressen geleistet hat".
Educational institutions, and in particular educational leaders, play critical roles in identifying and rectifying the many inequities that oppress, marginalize, and exclude individual students, educational actors, and some minoritized groups in Canadian education.
