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UNINA9910780417403321 |
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Malloy Jonathan <1970-> |
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Between colliding worlds : the ambiguous existence of government agencies for Aboriginal and women's policy / / Jonathan Malloy |
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2003 |
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©2003 |
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1-282-02321-7 |
9786612023217 |
1-4426-7131-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (228 p.) |
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Collana |
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IPAC Series in Public Management and Governance |
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Soggetti |
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Indian women - Government policy - Canada |
Indians of North America - Canada - Government rleations |
Administrative agencies - Canada |
Electronic books. |
Canada Social policy |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Special Policy Agencies -- 3 The Colliding Worlds -- 4 Political Change and the Ontario Women's Directorate -- 5 Aboriginal Policy Agencies in Ontario and British Columbia -- 6 Special Policy Agencies under New Public Management -- 7 The Permanent Ambiguity of Special Policy Agencies -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z |
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Relying heavily on interviews with public servants and external activists, Malloy argues convincingly that special policy agencies, despite - or because of - their ambiguous relationship to different communities, make critical contributions to governance. |
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UNINA9910973949103321 |
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Autore |
Melegh Attila |
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On the east-west slope : globalization, nationalism, racism and discourses on Eastern Europe / / by Attila Melegh |
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New York, : Central European University Press, c2006 |
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1-003-72110-9 |
615-5053-77-4 |
1-281-37687-6 |
9786611376871 |
1-4237-6962-7 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xi, 220 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Europe, Eastern Politics and government 1989- |
Europe Foreign relations Europe, Eastern |
Europe, Eastern Foreign relations Europe |
Europe Economic integration |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-213) and index. |
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Liberal humanitarian utopia and Eastern and Central Europe -- Exclusions "east" and "west" : population discourses and the civilizational slope -- Floating east : Eastern and Central Europe on the map of global institutional actors -- I am suspicious of myself : east-west narratives at the turn of the millenium -- Conclusion. |
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Melegh's work offers a powerful analysis of the sociological and symbolic meanings of East-West in Europe after the end of the Cold War. Melegh exposes the underbelly of liberal characterizations of East-West, highlighting the polarizing effect of extreme nationalism and ethnic racism. The theoretical underpinnings of this work involve the ideas of preeminent theorists such as Karl Mannheim, Michel Foucault and more recently Maria Todorova and Iver Neumann. The importance of this work lies in its ability to cast into fine relief how the "East-West Slope" oriented negatively from West to East has emerged from liberal characterizations of this project. In addition this is one of the first attempts to link post-colonial analysis to developments in |
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