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black magic --- Satanism --- devil worship --- Crowley --- Aeon of Horus --- thelemic morality --- demons --- sexism --- elitism --- liberalism --- violence --- terrorism --- New Age

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Art --- History of civilization --- art [discipline] --- Marxism --- elitism --- influence --- Abstract [modern European style] --- cities --- museums [institutions] --- philosophy of art --- artists [visual artists] --- Australia

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Malawi is among the few countries in sub-Saharan Africa that has witnessed significant improvements in relation to meeting the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets. It exhibits some of the main challenges facing African democracies while they attempt to consolidate the benefits of democratisation. Political Transition and Inclusive Development in Malawi critically analyses opportunities and constraints related to the impact of democracy on development in one of the world’s poorest countries. The book explores how, and to what extent, processes related to democratic and economic governance can be strengthened in order to make political and administrative authorities more responsive to development needs. It also considers characteristics of successful implementation of public policy and the effective and timely delivery of basic services in local contexts; increased citizen participation and dialogue with local government authorities; factors that enable civil society organisations to hold political and administrative officials to account; and better utilisation of academic research for improved evidence-based policy formulation and implementation. This volume will be of great interest to scholars in development studies, African studies, politics, law and anthropology, as well as policymakers and those interested in democracy, governance, human rights and the implementation of anti-poverty programmes, development administration and decentralisation.

Democracy --- Economic development --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Malawi --- Politics and government --- Economic conditions. --- Africa --- China --- India --- MDGs --- anti-poverty --- democratisation --- elitism --- foreign investors --- human rights --- investment --- legislative --- media --- oligarchies --- public policy

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In the 1970's, one of the most torrid and forbidding regions in the world burst on to the international stage. The discovery and subsequent exploitation of oil allowed tribal rulers of the U.A.E, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait to dream big. How could fishermen, pearl divers and pastoral nomads catch up with the rest of the modernized world? Even today, society is skeptical about the clash between the modern and the archaic in the Gulf. But could tribal and modern be intertwined rather than mutually exclusive? Exploring everything from fantasy architecture to neo-tribal sports and from Emirati dress codes to neo-Bedouin poetry contests, Tribal Modern explodes the idea that the tribal is primitive and argues instead that it is an elite, exclusive, racist, and modern instrument for branding new nations and shaping Gulf citizenship and identity-an image used for projecting prestige at home and power abroad.

Ethnology --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Persian Gulf States --- Social life and customs. --- 20th century history. --- 20th century world history. --- anthropology. --- arab gulf. --- bahrain. --- discovery of oil. --- elitism. --- emirati dress codes. --- gender and race. --- gender studies. --- gender. --- gulf citizenship. --- gulf identity. --- heritage. --- historical. --- history. --- international relations. --- kuwait. --- middle east. --- middle eastern history. --- modernized world. --- national identity. --- natural resources. --- neo bedouin poetry. --- neo tribal sports. --- oil. --- political. --- power. --- qatar. --- racism. --- racist. --- society. --- tribal rulers. --- uae. --- united arab emirates. --- wealth and power.

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"This book describes the social life of five material things found in the streets and public spaces of New York City and its suburbs. In urban environments, objects-designed and built by other humans-surround us at all times and typically occupy our field of vision. These objects, Mike Owen Benediktsson writes, have ideas about us-for example, the chair in which you sit has assumptions about your height and weight, the length of your legs, and the width of your torso, as well as ideas about how you should sit. In this book, each of the five artifacts explored - a lawn, a wall, a chair, a door, and a kiosk - has a story to tell about the social and economic changes sweeping through New York City and its environs. Each of these stories illustrates an important but widely unappreciated fact of urban life - that the ordinary objects and spaces of the city are a primary point of contact with the broader social and political currents that swirl around us. A newly built lawn on the Brooklyn waterfront reflects an increasingly common trade-off between public goods and market forces. A low cement wall on a divided highway in New Jersey speaks of escalating suburban poverty and the demise of the post-war American dream. A metal folding chair on a patch of asphalt in Queens illustrates the political obstacles that face attempts to make the city more liveable and environmentally sustainable. Drawing from these and other examples, Benediktsson argues that our social lives occurs "in the midst of things" in two respects: we are, quite literally, surrounded by objects that constrain and shape our experience; and, through this experience, we come into direct contact with a much larger set of "things" - ideas, laws, markets, policies, etc. - that together constitute the broader ongoing narrative of urban change"--

Sociology, Urban --- Sociology, Urban. --- Accessibility. --- Actuator. --- Adaptation. --- Affordance. --- Agency (philosophy). --- Aisle. --- Amplitude. --- Anecdote. --- Ask price. --- Behavior modification. --- Behavior. --- Bottle. --- Clothing. --- Commodity. --- Consciousness. --- Consideration. --- Costumed character. --- Counterweight. --- Customer. --- Design. --- Designer. --- Desire. --- Door. --- Effectiveness. --- Elitism. --- Emerging technologies. --- Emotion. --- Entitlement. --- Entryway. --- Etiquette. --- Exchange of information. --- Explanation. --- Functional requirement. --- Funding. --- Gathering place. --- Government agency. --- Human Action. --- Human behavior. --- Human body. --- Hurrying. --- Iconography. --- Illustration. --- Inference. --- Infrastructure. --- Ingredient. --- Institution. --- Interaction. --- Interconnection. --- Interpersonal relationship. --- Irony. --- Jargon. --- Leeway. --- Lobbying. --- Make A Difference. --- Marketing. --- Metropolitan area. --- Morality. --- Motor vehicle. --- Negotiation. --- Obstacle. --- Of Human Action. --- Organization. --- Outreach. --- Ownership. --- Parameter. --- Pedestrian. --- Personalization. --- Planning. --- Point of sale. --- Project. --- Public infrastructure. --- Public space. --- Quantity. --- Recreation. --- Regimen. --- Reinforcement. --- Result. --- Saleh. --- Schematic. --- Self-image. --- Shortage. --- Sightline. --- Signage. --- Simulacrum. --- Social cognition. --- Social space. --- Social structure. --- Society. --- Supply chain. --- Supporter. --- Target audience. --- Technology. --- Telecommunication. --- Theory. --- Trade-off. --- Transaction cost. --- Trapping. --- Travel. --- Use value. --- Vendor.