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This book offers an insightful and nuanced contemporary evaluation of the progress and challenges that indigenous peoples have faced in securing the implementation of UNDRIP, as well as its normative impact, at both the national and international levels

Among urban designers and municipal officials, the term encroachment is defined as a deviation from the official master plan. But in cities today, such informal modifications to the urban fabric are deeply enmeshed with formal planning procedures. Master Plans and Encroachments examines informality in the high-modernist city of Islamabad as a strategic conformity to official schemes and regulations rather than as a deviation from them.For the new administrative capital of Pakistan designed in 1959 by Greek architect and planner Constantinos A. Doxiadis, Islamabad s master plan offers a clear template of formal urban design within which informal spaces and processes have been articulated. Drawing on deep archival research, wide-ranging interviews, and an array of visual material, including photographs, maps, and architectural drawings, Faiza Moatasim shows how Islamabad s master plan is not simply a blueprint that guides future urban development or makes its violations apparent; it is used by both city officials and citizens to develop informal spaces that accommodate unfulfilled needs and desires of those living and working in the city.Master Plans and Encroachments is the first book that examines the informal practices of both the privileged and the underprivileged. The book highlights how low-, middle-, and upper-income people do not randomly build informal spaces; they strategically use architectural techniques to support their informal claims to space, which are often met with the government s tacit approval. By focusing on those spaces in Islamabad s urban fabric that are not part of its official master plan, the book demonstrates how planning actually works in complex ways

Beginning in the twelfth century, taxation increasingly became an essential component of medieval society in most parts of Europe. The state-building process and relations between princes and their subject cities or between citizens and their rulers were deeply shaped by fiscal practices. Although medieval taxation has produced many publications over the past decades there remains no synthesis of this important subject. This volume provides a comprehensive overview on a European scale and suggests new paths of inquiry. It examines the fiscal systems and practices of medieval Europe, including essential themes such as medieval fiscal theory and the power to tax; royal and urban taxation; and Church taxation. It goes on to survey the entire European continent, as well as including comparative chapters on the non-European medieval world, exploring questions on how taxation developed and functioned; what kinds of problems authorities encountered assessing their fiscal power; and the circulation of fiscal cultures and practices across cities and kingdoms. The book also provides a glossary of the most important types of medieval taxes, giving an essential definition of key terms cited in the chapters. The Routledge Handbook of Public Taxation in Medieval Europe will appeal to a large audience, from seasoned scholars who need a comprehensive synthesis, to students and younger scholars in search of an overview of this critical subject

Part I: School organisation and leadership -- An introduction to the school -- The many facets of power -- Part II: Socio-cultural and economic context of the children -- Children of labourers, working children, and vicissitudes of the market -- Part III: Children, children's groups, and teachers' perceptions -- Different groups of children -- Religious education -- Maintenance of boundaries -- Part IV: School functioning and changes -- The school gender committee and its many paradoxes -- Disciplining the children -- The ordinary school calendar begets significant changes.

Die Broschüre ist ein Ergebnis des Forschungsprojektes "Die Umsetzung der Sustainable Development Goals als Chance und Herausforderung für das bürgerschaftliche Engagement". Im Projekt wurden zivilgesellschaftliche Kooperationen zwischen unterschiedlichen engagement-politischen Akteuren zur konkreten Ausgestaltung von bürgerschaftlichem Engagement im Kontext der SDG erprobt. Die Broschüre macht die Vielfalt des bestehenden Engagements und ihren Beitrag für einen sozial-ökologischen Wandel sichtbar und soll hier insbesondere zivilgesellschaftlichen Akteuren als Anregung und Unterstützung dienen, die SDG mit der alltäglichen Praxis bürgerschaftlichen Engagements zu verbinden. Sie liefert zudem Handlungsempfehlungen für Engagierte, aber auch für wissenschaftliche und staatliche Akteure, um Engagement bei der Ausgestaltung von Kooperationen im Sinne der SDG zu stärken und zu fördern.

This book is about dance and movement involving visually impaired and sighted participants, about social and cultural exclusion facilitated by touch based methods. Case studies and vignettes provide thick descriptions of the practice Contact Improvisation and reveal how lives change, how sociocultural inclusion is imperative. 35 b/w illus.

PART I Theoretical Perspectives 1. Taking A Measure of Attraction-Based Influence (Part I Overview)Naren J Chitty2. An Experiential Theory of Attraction-Based Influence (Unintended and Intended) Naren J Chitty3. The Gift of Grace: Soft Power, Charisma, and Transatlantic RelationsHendrik W Ohnesorge4. Taking A Soft Power Approach to Cultural Heritage Protection: Toward An Empirical MethodologyJ P Singh, Neslihan Kaptanoğlu and Meng-Hao Li5. Tools for Measuring Soft Power: A Review of Recent Quantitative AnalysesIrene S Wu6. Measuring Soft PowerLi Ji7. Challenges of Big Data Approaches in Mapping Soft PowerRichard Davis and Li Ji8. Hybridity, Soft Power and Statecraft: Ontological MappingPaweł Surowiec-Capell and Philip Long9. The Use of The Soft Power Concept in Empirical StudiesDouglas Henrique Novelli and Alexsandro Eugenio Pereira10. The Soft Power of International Education: A Theoretical FrameworkMei Li11. Science Communication as Soft PowerAdalberto Fernandes12. Production and Consumption of Academic Knowledge: The Rising and Expansion of The 'Soft Power' Concept (1989-2020)Manuel Hernández-Pérez and María-José Baños-Moreno13. A Study of Soft Power Rankings: Concepts, Method(ology), and EvaluationChenjun WangPART II Contemporary Issues14. Soft Power and Contemporary Issues (Part II Overview)Li Ji15. Pandemic Soft Power: A Civic Virtue in The Context Of COVID-19Seow Ting Lee16. Assaying Experience of Soft Power: CALD Community Narratives in New South Wales in COVID-19 Pandemic TimesNaren J Chitty and Chenjun Wang17. The Jury Is In? The Impact of Domestic and Global Responses to The COVID Health Crisis On Soft Power of The United States, China, and Germany (2020-2021)Katarzyna Pisarska18. States Vs. Tech Giants: Who Is Wielding Soft Power? Soft Power in The Age Of Online Platforms Alessandra Massa and Giuseppe Anzera19. On The Soft Power of Values: The 'Scotland Is Now' CampaignAlastair Mackie and Katerina Strani20. Large-Scale Events and Soft Power: Reconfiguration and Continuity in Light Of The COVID-19 PandemicLukasz Swiatek and Luigi Di MartinoPART III Cases from across the Globe21. Cases from Around The World (Part III Overview)Gary Rawnsley22. It's A MAD World: How Diplomats' Online Framing of Crises Results In Mutually Assured DelegitimizationIlan Manor23. An Analysis Of South Korea's Civic Virtue Soft PowerHwaJung Kim24. Soft power of First Ladies: Case studies of France and PolandKarina Paulina Marczuk25. Private Cultural Foundations as Actors of Soft Power in Times of AusterityOlga Kolokytha26. The Role of Film Auteurism Within The Mechanisms of Soft Power In Spain -- Carlos Saura As A Representative Of Spanish Culture AbroadGabriel Doménech González27. Does Soft Power Make Authoritarian Regimes Import Universities? Framing Analysis Of Discourses Around Transnational Higher Education Institutions In KazakhstanEriks Varpahovskis and Anna Kuteleva28. Explaining China's Soft Power In TürkiyeSelim Öterbülbül29. Soft Power In Dark Collective Memory: The Case Of Japanese War MuseumsMomoyo Shibuya30. Understanding Chinese Philosemitism: Judaism And Israel As Soft Power In Contemporary ChinaMary J. Ainslie

The British Constitution and constitutional reform -- The UK within Europe and developments in the land of Brexit -- The allocation of sovereignty authority between Parliament, the executive and the 'people' in constitutional decision-making processes -- The constitutional integrity of the United Kingdom and the devolution of power -- The UK's model for the protection of human rights -- A codified Constitution? : The UK's constitutional model post-Brexit.

A History of Germany, 1800 to the Present is a commanding survey of modern German history that guides you from the turn of the 19th century right the way through to Germany's continuing world-power status today. Covering the revolutions of 1848-49, Bismarck, the World Wars, the Cold War and the progress of a reunified Germany, the 5th edition of this classic textbook provides an authoritative exploration of the country across the whole period like no other. Rich with insights into the key historiographical debates, this book offers a thorough introduction to Germany's complex modern history.