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Africa's information revolution : technical regimes and production networks in South Africa and Tanzania / / James T. Murphy and Pádraig Carmody
| Africa's information revolution : technical regimes and production networks in South Africa and Tanzania / / James T. Murphy and Pádraig Carmody |
| Autore | Murphy James T. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, [England] : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (282 p.) |
| Disciplina | 303.48330968 |
| Collana | RGS-IBG Book Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Information technology - Economic aspects - South Africa
Information technology - Economic aspects - Tanzania |
| ISBN |
1-118-75128-0
1-118-75132-9 1-118-75130-2 1-118-75131-0 |
| Classificazione | SOC042000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter One ICT4D: The Making of a Neoliberalized Meta-discourse (with Bjoern Surborg); ICT4D; Electronic and Mobile E-/M-Business; The Making and Materialization of a Meta-discourse; Governance and ICT4D; ICTs as objects of ideology; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter Two ICTs and Economic Development in Africa: Theorizing Channels, Assessing Impacts; ICTs and (Imminent) Economic Development; ICTs, Poverty, and Immanent Development; The Prospects for Information(alized) Economies in Africa
Plugging In, to What Ends? New ICTs and the Challenge of Global Market IntegrationConclusion; Notes; Chapter Three ICTs, Industrial Change, and Globalization in Africa: A Conceptual Framework; The Limitations on Existing ICT4D Conceptual Frameworks; Conceptualizing the Contribution of ICTs to Imminent Development; Conceptualizing ICTs and Immanent Development: Sociotechnical Regimes and GPNs; Industries as Sociotechnical Regimes; Global Production Networks (GPNs) and Couplings to Industrial Regimes; Integrating the Conceptual Approaches: A Multi-scalar Framework Conceptualizing the Development Implications of ICTs: Thin and Thick IntegrationConclusion; Notes; Chapter Four ICTs in Action: SMMEs and Industrial Change in South Africa and Tanzania; Situating the Analysis: South Africa and Tanzania's Tourism and Wood Products Sectors; Methodological Approach; ICTs and Imminent Development in South Africa and Tanzania's Wood Products Sectors; ICTs and Imminent Development in South Africa and Tanzania's Tourism Sectors; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter Five ICT Integration, Sociotechnical Regimes, and Global Production Networks Contextualizing ICT Integration and its Implications for Regimes and GPN CouplingsThick Integration in Wood Products and Tourism Regimes; Thin or Thick Integration in Tanzania and South Africa?; Thintegration and its Supply-Side Drivers; Thintegration and its Demand-Side Drivers; ICT Integration in Wood Products Regimes and GPN Couplings; ICT Integration in Tourism Regimes and GPN Couplings; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter Six Downgrading and Differentiation in African SMMEs; Downgrading of African Industries: General Trends; Downgrading in Dar es Salaam Inward GPNs and Downgrading in Dar es SalaamDifferentiation in Durban; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter Seven Emerging Regime and GPN Configurations: Neo-intermediation and ICT-enabled Extraversion (with Bjoern Surborg); Neo-intermediation and Reconfigured GPNs in the Tourism Industry; Neo-intermediation and the Reconfiguration of Zanzibar's GPN Couplings; TripAdvisor: Center of Calculation and Site of Place Fetishization; Conclusion: Neo-intermediation and ICT-enabled Extraversion; Notes; Chapter Eight Conclusion; Major Trends: Deepening Dependence in an Informationalized Global Economy Is Africa "Rising" Through Informationalization? |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910208958003321 |
Murphy James T.
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| Chichester, [England] : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Africa's information revolution : technical regimes and production networks in South Africa and Tanzania / / James T. Murphy and Pádraig Carmody
| Africa's information revolution : technical regimes and production networks in South Africa and Tanzania / / James T. Murphy and Pádraig Carmody |
| Autore | Murphy James T. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, [England] : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (282 p.) |
| Disciplina | 303.48330968 |
| Collana | RGS-IBG Book Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Information technology - Economic aspects - South Africa
Information technology - Economic aspects - Tanzania |
| ISBN |
1-118-75128-0
1-118-75132-9 1-118-75130-2 1-118-75131-0 |
| Classificazione | SOC042000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter One ICT4D: The Making of a Neoliberalized Meta-discourse (with Bjoern Surborg); ICT4D; Electronic and Mobile E-/M-Business; The Making and Materialization of a Meta-discourse; Governance and ICT4D; ICTs as objects of ideology; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter Two ICTs and Economic Development in Africa: Theorizing Channels, Assessing Impacts; ICTs and (Imminent) Economic Development; ICTs, Poverty, and Immanent Development; The Prospects for Information(alized) Economies in Africa
Plugging In, to What Ends? New ICTs and the Challenge of Global Market IntegrationConclusion; Notes; Chapter Three ICTs, Industrial Change, and Globalization in Africa: A Conceptual Framework; The Limitations on Existing ICT4D Conceptual Frameworks; Conceptualizing the Contribution of ICTs to Imminent Development; Conceptualizing ICTs and Immanent Development: Sociotechnical Regimes and GPNs; Industries as Sociotechnical Regimes; Global Production Networks (GPNs) and Couplings to Industrial Regimes; Integrating the Conceptual Approaches: A Multi-scalar Framework Conceptualizing the Development Implications of ICTs: Thin and Thick IntegrationConclusion; Notes; Chapter Four ICTs in Action: SMMEs and Industrial Change in South Africa and Tanzania; Situating the Analysis: South Africa and Tanzania's Tourism and Wood Products Sectors; Methodological Approach; ICTs and Imminent Development in South Africa and Tanzania's Wood Products Sectors; ICTs and Imminent Development in South Africa and Tanzania's Tourism Sectors; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter Five ICT Integration, Sociotechnical Regimes, and Global Production Networks Contextualizing ICT Integration and its Implications for Regimes and GPN CouplingsThick Integration in Wood Products and Tourism Regimes; Thin or Thick Integration in Tanzania and South Africa?; Thintegration and its Supply-Side Drivers; Thintegration and its Demand-Side Drivers; ICT Integration in Wood Products Regimes and GPN Couplings; ICT Integration in Tourism Regimes and GPN Couplings; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter Six Downgrading and Differentiation in African SMMEs; Downgrading of African Industries: General Trends; Downgrading in Dar es Salaam Inward GPNs and Downgrading in Dar es SalaamDifferentiation in Durban; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter Seven Emerging Regime and GPN Configurations: Neo-intermediation and ICT-enabled Extraversion (with Bjoern Surborg); Neo-intermediation and Reconfigured GPNs in the Tourism Industry; Neo-intermediation and the Reconfiguration of Zanzibar's GPN Couplings; TripAdvisor: Center of Calculation and Site of Place Fetishization; Conclusion: Neo-intermediation and ICT-enabled Extraversion; Notes; Chapter Eight Conclusion; Major Trends: Deepening Dependence in an Informationalized Global Economy Is Africa "Rising" Through Informationalization? |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820469103321 |
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Murphy James T.
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| Chichester, [England] : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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African environmental crisis : a history of science for development / / Gufu Oba
| African environmental crisis : a history of science for development / / Gufu Oba |
| Autore | Oba Gufu |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | 2020 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiv, 243 pages) |
| Disciplina | 333.72096 |
| Collana | Routledge studies in African development |
| Soggetto topico | Economic development - Environmental aspects - Africa |
| ISBN |
9781003002161
1003002161 9781000055894 1000055892 |
| Classificazione | SOC042000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | African environmental crisis : Is it a myth : an introduction -- European exploration of East Africa : textual analysis of travel narratives, 1831- -- Imperial scientific infrastructure : science for development, 1848-1960s -- African environmental crisis narratives : schemes, technology and development, 1904- -- Experimental science and development : a re-evaluation of the environmental crisis hypothesis, 1939- -- Social science research : behavioral responses to development, 1919- -- Administrative science for development dialogue : three Kenyan case studies, 1943- -- Tsetse fly control in East Africa : environmental and social impacts, 1880- -- Locust invasion and control in East Africa : economic and environmental impacts, 1890-1960s -- A synthesis : Conclusions and epilogue. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910737282403321 |
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Oba Gufu
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| 2020 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Civil Society Responses to Changing Civic Spaces / / edited by Kees Biekart, Tiina Kontinen, Marianne Millstein
| Civil Society Responses to Changing Civic Spaces / / edited by Kees Biekart, Tiina Kontinen, Marianne Millstein |
| Autore | Biekart Kees <1958-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2023.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (300 pages) |
| Disciplina | 306.2 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
KontinenTiina
MillsteinMarianne |
| Collana | EADI Global Development Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Economic development
Development Studies |
| ISBN |
9783031233050
3031233050 |
| Classificazione | SOC042000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Part I: Conceptualizing civil society and civic space -- 1. Introduction: Civil society responses to changing civic spaces -- 2. Interrogating civic space: Applying a civic-driven change perspective -- 3. Repertoires of the possible: Citizen action in challenging settings -- Part II: Contextual dynamics of civic space -- 4. Philanthropy during Covid-19 emergency: Towards a postcolonial perspective? -- 5. Sandwiched? Sri Lankan civic space amidst a repressive regime and a pandemic -- 6. Negotiating CSO-legitimacy in Tanzanian civic space -- 7. Spaces for peace in Mitrovica, Kosovo: Women’s voices for change -- 8. The Algerian Hirak: Civil society and the role of artists in a civic space under pressure -- 9. Constrained humanitarian space in Rohingya response: Views from Bangladeshi NGOs -- Part III: Global connections and local civic space -- 10. Advocacy in constrained settings. Rethinking contextuality -- 11. The changing Amazonian civic space: Where soy meets resistance -- 12. Local civilsociety initiatives for peacebuilding in North-East Congo -- 13. Conclusions: Spaces of hope and despair?. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910725928103321 |
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Biekart Kees <1958->
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| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Learning the city [[electronic resource] ] : knowledge and translocal assemblage / / Colin McFarlane
| Learning the city [[electronic resource] ] : knowledge and translocal assemblage / / Colin McFarlane |
| Autore | McFarlane Colin <1979-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xi, 218 p.) : ill |
| Disciplina | 303.32 |
| Collana | RGS-IBG book series |
| Soggetto topico |
Urbanization - Social aspects
Social learning Social epistemology |
| ISBN |
9781444343434 (e-book)
9781405192828 (hbk.) 1-283-17825-7 9786613178251 1-4443-4343-2 1-4443-4340-8 |
| Classificazione | SOC042000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- 1 Learning Assemblages; Introduction; Translation: Distribution, Practice and Comparison; Coordinating Learning; Dwelling and Perception; Assemblage Space; Conclusion -- 2 Assembling the Everyday: Incremental Urbanism and Tactical Learning; Introduction; Incremental Urbanism; Learning the Unknown City: Street Children in Mumbai; Learning, Rhythm, Space; Tactical Learning; Conclusion -- 3 Learning Social Movements: Tactics, Urbanism and Politics; Introduction; Knowing Social Movements; Global Slumming; The Housing Assemblage: Materializing Learning; Learning and Representation: Counting the Poor; Entrepreneurial Learning; Conclusion -- 4 Urban Learning Forums; Introduction; Uncertain Forums; Dialogic Urban Forums; Translocalism and Translation; Conclusion -- 5 Travelling Policies, Ideological Assemblages; Introduction; Translating Policy; Comparative Learning: Translation and Colonial Urbanism; Ideology and Postwar Urban Planning; Neoliberal Urban Learning Assemblages; Ideology and Explanation: Beyond Diffusionist Story-Making; Conclusion -- 6 A Critical Geography of Urban Learning; Introduction; The Actual and the Possible; Agency and Critical Learning; Assemblage and the Critical Learning Imaginary; Postcolonial Urban Learning?; Conclusion -- Conclusion -- References -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910139623003321 |
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McFarlane Colin <1979->
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| Chichester, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Learning the city : knowledge and translocal assemblage / / Colin McFarlane
| Learning the city : knowledge and translocal assemblage / / Colin McFarlane |
| Autore | McFarlane Colin <1979-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xi, 218 p.) : ill |
| Disciplina | 303.32 |
| Collana | RGS-IBG book series |
| Soggetto topico |
Urbanization - Social aspects
Social learning Social epistemology |
| ISBN |
9781444343434 (ebook)
9781405192828 (hbk.) 9786613178251 9781283178259 1283178257 9781444343434 1444343432 9781444343403 1444343408 |
| Classificazione | SOC042000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- 1 Learning Assemblages; Introduction; Translation: Distribution, Practice and Comparison; Coordinating Learning; Dwelling and Perception; Assemblage Space; Conclusion -- 2 Assembling the Everyday: Incremental Urbanism and Tactical Learning; Introduction; Incremental Urbanism; Learning the Unknown City: Street Children in Mumbai; Learning, Rhythm, Space; Tactical Learning; Conclusion -- 3 Learning Social Movements: Tactics, Urbanism and Politics; Introduction; Knowing Social Movements; Global Slumming; The Housing Assemblage: Materializing Learning; Learning and Representation: Counting the Poor; Entrepreneurial Learning; Conclusion -- 4 Urban Learning Forums; Introduction; Uncertain Forums; Dialogic Urban Forums; Translocalism and Translation; Conclusion -- 5 Travelling Policies, Ideological Assemblages; Introduction; Translating Policy; Comparative Learning: Translation and Colonial Urbanism; Ideology and Postwar Urban Planning; Neoliberal Urban Learning Assemblages; Ideology and Explanation: Beyond Diffusionist Story-Making; Conclusion -- 6 A Critical Geography of Urban Learning; Introduction; The Actual and the Possible; Agency and Critical Learning; Assemblage and the Critical Learning Imaginary; Postcolonial Urban Learning?; Conclusion -- Conclusion -- References -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811955503321 |
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McFarlane Colin <1979->
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| Chichester, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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