African Markets and the Utu-buntu Business Model : a perspective on economic informality in Nairobi / / Mary Njeri Kinyanjui

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910476794903321
• Autore: Kinyanjui Mary Njeri
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cape Town, South Africa : , : African Minds, , 2019
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 185 pages)
• Disciplina: 330
• Soggetti: Informal sector (Economics)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Traders and artisans in global economic thinking -- Urban planning and economic informality in Nairobi -- Urban theory and the 'African metropolis' -- The indigenisation of Nairobi -- The 'African metropolis' in Nairobi -- The utu-ubuntu business model -- Utu-ubuntu nests, bonds and associations -- Towards the formation of autonomous communities -- Cultural villages.
• Sommario/riassunto: The persistence of indigenous African markets in the context of a hostile or neglectful business and policy environment makes them worthy of analysis. An investigation of Afrocentric business ethics is long overdue. Attempting to understand the actions and efforts of informal traders and artisans from their own points of view, and analysing how they organise and get by, allows for viable approaches to be identified to integrate them into global urban models and cultures. Using the utu-ubuntu model to understand the activities of traders and artisans in Nairobi's markets, this book explores how, despite being consistently excluded and disadvantaged, they shape urban spaces in and around the city, and contribute to its development as a whole. With immense resilience, and without discarding their own socio-cultural or economic values, informal traders and artisans have created a territorial complex that can be described as the African metropolis. African Markets and the Utu-buntu Business Model sheds light on the ethics and values that underpin the work of traders and artisans in Nairobi, as well as their resilience and positive impact on urbanisation. This book makes an important contribution to the discourse on urban economics ; and planning in African cities.

Investigation of thermal interface materials using phase-sensitive transient thermoreflectance technique : preprint / / Xuhui Feng [and four others]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910702797803321
• Autore: Feng Xuhui
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [Golden, Colo.] : , : National Renewable Energy Laboratory, , 2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (12 pages) : color illustrations
• Collana: NREL/CP ; ; 5400-61106
• Soggetti: Thermal interface materials - Research - United States; Conference papers and proceedings.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from title screen (viewed Dec. 10, 2014).; "Presented at ITherm 2014, Orlando, Florida May 27-30, 2014."; "August 2014."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 11-12).

Nacional'noe i internacional'noe v mongol'skoj literature / Lodongijn Tudev

• Record Nr.: UNIORUON00012317
• Autore: TUDEV, Lodongijn
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Moskva, : Izd. "Nauka", 1982 252 p. ; 20 cm
• Classificazione: MON VI A
• Soggetti: LETTERATURA MONGOLA
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Russo
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Participatory Governance and Cultural Development : An Empirical Analysis of European Capitals of Culture / / by Desirée Campagna

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910552714503321
• Autore: Campagna Desirée
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022
• ISBN: 9783030816483; 9783030816476
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2022.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (269 pages)
• Disciplina: 306.0944912; 306.2
• Soggetti: Political science; Political planning; Governance and Government; Policy Evaluation
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction -- 2. The Impacts of Participatory Governance through ; the Perspective of the Democratic Theory -- 3. Participatory Governance and Cultural Development: A Framework of Causal Mechanisms -- 4. Participatory Governance in Marseille-Provence and Košice 2013 -- 5. Participation in the presence of fully-fledged trust: Explaining Cultural Development in the Project PARCeque and in the Exchanger Obrody -- 6. Participation in the absence of fully-fledged trust: Contestation in the Project Jardins Possibles and Lack of Social Cohesion in the Exchanger Važecká -- 7. Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book analyses the impact of participatory governance on cultural development, explaining why cultural participatory practices can lead either to positive sustainable effects or to unexpected and controversial ones. It focuses on four projects realized in the two European Capitals of Culture of 2013 - Marseille-Provence (France) and Košice (Slovakia) - within the Programme 'Quartiers Créatifs' and the SPOTs Programme. By combining different strands of the Democratic Theory and applying the process tracing methodology, the book argues that participation produces cultural developmental processes only when a certain intensity of trust is reached among the various stakeholders. In the presence of fully-fledged trust, participation activates a reinforcing chain of capacity-building and social capital that nurture long-term cultural networks. On the contrary, in the absence of fully-fledged trust, participation can generate contestation movements or isolated cultural production. Uniquely, the book challenges the 'optimistic aura' of participatory governance of culture, showing its conflicting but always productive nature. Desirée Campagna is a researcher in policy analysis and evaluation, focusing on the cultural and social sectors. She specializes in cultural rights, intercultural and educational policies, participatory governance, and impact evaluation methodologies.