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Acceptance Analysis of New Technology for Sustainable Water Management and Sanitation: A Case Study of Operating Farm Households in the Mekong Delta, Viet Nam
(2005)Recent development in agricultural und industrial production leads to increasing pollution of the water sources in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam. According to the "Vietnam Environment Monitor 2003 - Water", no safe drinking ... -
Accountability in the parliament of Malaysia: A study on interruptions by the Chairperson in the Dewan Rakyat
(2021-09-03)The election of the chairman of the House of Representatives, a chamber of the Malaysian parliament, has always been determined by the ruling party. The centralization of executive power has also absorbed the function of ... -
Actors, Alliances and Power in Negotiations: Unequal Distribution of Mining Benefits in Tarkwa's Gold Mining Area of Western Ghana
(2010-04-27)The gold mining sub-sector is an important segment of the Ghanaian economy and continues to play a significant role in the country’s socio-economic development (Akaabza, 2008:1). At the moment, Ghana is Africa’s second ... -
Actors’, Ideas and Ideational Realm in Irrigation Management: The Case of Decentralization in Madhya Pradesh, India
(2014-10-24)Decentralization has been considered a panacea for good governance worldwide and pursued with great fervour by international organizations and national government alike. Though experiences worldwide reveal that it is not ... -
Adapting to an American world: the asymmetrical coupling of American and Chinese education
(2021-10)The extensive study-abroad consulting industry that prepares Chinese students for American schools exemplifies, and is conditioned by, the asymmetry in Sino-American educational connectivity. Mobility from China to the ... -
Advance Equitable Livelihoods: A paper on Action Track 4
(2021-03)Food systems transformation provides the opportunity to shift current trends in all forms of malnutrition, prioritizing nutritious food availability and affordability for all – from shifting priorities in agricultural ... -
Agency, opportunity structure and empowerment in everyday refugee life: Enduring and overcoming challenges of daily living in Cologne refugee shelters
(2021-11-22)To what extent are refugees empowered in their daily lives to overcome legal, material and sociocultural challenges that governmental institutional structures create? In Germany, where over 1 million individuals have ... -
The Agricultural mechanization in Africa: micro-level analysis of state drivers and effects
(2019-04)This paper examines the state, drivers and, consequently, the impacts of agricultural mechanization in eleven countries in Africa. Using representative multistage stratified household survey data and robust analytical ... -
AI and the form of capital: Preliminary notes on the media culture of artificial intelligence
(2018-04)Recently there is much talk about the coming possibilities of “Artificial Intelligence” or “Robotics”. But these technological developments are embedded in a media culture. The recent data surge is at once the precondition ... -
Amefricanizar el feminismo: La construcción de la identidad negra como herramienta de resistencia en América Latina y el Caribe
(2022)El presente artículo explora los afrofeminismos inspirados en torno al concepto de ‘amefricanidad’ en Brasil, Cuba y Colombia en los últimos diez años (2011-2021). La ‘amefricanidad’ es un término para referirse a los ... -
“El amor al arte necesita fondos para que funcione”: Dinámica Artístico-Económica entre los Productores de Eventos en la Escena Musical Electrónica de Posadas, Misiones, Argentina
(2023)Based on an empirical investigation of the “electronic music scene” of the capital city of a peripheral province in Argentina, I try to contribute to an anthropological definition of the “event producer” as an economic ... -
Another epistemic culture: Reconstructing knowledge diffusion for rural development in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta
(2014-07-01)In the age of “post-industrial society” and “knowledge economy,” how do agrarian communities in developing countries talk, think, and apply knowledge for their everyday life and production? Does a farmer become a “knowledge ... -
Antwortqualitäten: Zur Vergleichbarkeit von Einstellungsmessungen in standardisierten Befragungen
(2018-12-17)Die Dissertation befasst sich mit der Frage, inwiefern in standardisierten sozialwissenschaftlichen Befragungen erhobene Einstellungen über Zeit und verschiedene Gruppen hinweg vergleichbar sind. Während ein standardisierter ... -
Applying Disaster Risk Governance in Dynamic Environments: Case study Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil
(2021-05-17)Between 1980 and 2015, around 1.6 billion people were killed in meteorological, geophysical, hydrological or climatological disasters. Future annual losses are estimated to reach US4 billion in the built environment alone. ... -
Arbeitsmigration und gesellschaftliche Entwicklung in Japan unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Integrationsperspektiven von brasilianischen nikkeijin-Arbeitnehmern in der Kleinstadt Mitsukaidô
(2004)Eine Ausprägung von internationaler Migration ist die Arbeitsmigration. Spätestens seit den 80er Jahren existiert diese aufgrund eines raschen Wirtschaftswachstums verbunden mit starker Arbeitskräftenachfrage und hohen ... -
Assessing People´s Early Warning Response Capability to Inform Urban Planning Interventions to Reduce Vulnerability to Tsunamis: Case Study of Padang City, Indonesia
(2014-03-10)In the last decade, more emphasis is given on the human aspect of early warning or the attribute of “people-centered” early warning systems. This study seeks to better understand the specific conditions that shape people´s ... -
Avocado-Toast and Drug Cartels: Superfood Production and its consumption in Germany
(2023)In recent years many Latin-American foods have become popular globally as “superfoods”. This article analyses the popular discourse in Germany (ca. 2015-2019) and its ambiguities around one of them: Avocado. On the one ... -
Bangladeshi Diaspora in Peninsular Malaysia: Organizational Structure, Survival Strategies and Networks
(2008)Like other diasporas, international labour migration as well as the adoption of transnational activities is very common for Bangladeshi migrants at this present age of globalization. Regarding their causes for migration ... -
Beyond adoption: welfare effects of farmer innovation behavior in Ghana
(2016-05)With numerous challenges hindering smallholders’ adoption of externally developed technologies, it is often argued that farmer innovation can play an essential role in rural livelihoods. Yet a rigorous assessment of the ... -
Beyond the history of ethnographic collections: A complex approach to the Cora objects gathered by Konrad Theodor Preuss in view of a restitution process
(2022)Nowadays, anthropology museums debate between keeping or restituting objects. Through the study of the Cora ethnographic collection obtained by Konrad Theodor Preuss in Mexico (1906), today preserved in the Ethnologisches ...
