LIBROS DEL AUTOR: cynthia schoch

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  • Disasterland
    Sandrine Revet / Cynthia Schoch / Katharine Throssell
    This book analyses the making of the international world of ’natural’ disasters by its professionals. Through a long-term ethnographic study of this arena, the author unveils the various elements that are necessary for the construction of an international world: a collective narrative, a shared language, and standardized practices. The book analyses the two main framings that t...
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    68,52 €

  • Disasterland
    Sandrine Revet / Cynthia Schoch / Katharine Throssell
    This book analyses the making of the international world of ’natural’ disasters by its professionals. Through a long-term ethnographic study of this arena, the author unveils the various elements that are necessary for the construction of an international world: a collective narrative, a shared language, and standardized practices. The book analyses the two main framings that t...
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    66,88 €

  • Egypt’s Revolutions
    Cynthia Schoch / John Angell
    Where is Egypt headed? Did the people ’bring down the government’? Has the country become the first front in a regional counter-revolution backed by the Gulf monarchies? These are only some of the questions that this volume - the first to describe the ongoing dynamics in Egypt since the outbreak of revolution - explores. ...
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    66,29 €

  • Israel’s Asymmetric Wars
    S. Cohen / Cynthia Schoch
    This book is devoted to Israel’s asymmetric wars, those conducted against irregular armed groups that have attacked it. It seeks to understand the Israeli strategy in the fight against terrorists acting under the guise of civilians or using the population as human shields. The army has implemented a loosely devised, if not simplistic, doctrine of 'disproportionate response' sin...
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    66,66 €

  • Norms over Force
    Z. Laïdi / Cynthia Schoch
    Can Europe defend its social model in a globalized world when the US, China, India and Russia are enhancing their national sovereignties and playing power politics? This original and informative book addresses such questions and considers if Europe, although it is not a ’super state’, would be able to impose norms over force. ...
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    66,91 €

  • Israel’s Asymmetric Wars
    Samy Cohen / Cynthia Schoch
    This book explores the social origins of the Western preoccupation with health and environmental hazards. It looks at the rise of the dichotomy between the vulnerable 'in' and the threatening 'out' by examining the pathologies associated with weather, domestic space, ventilation, clothing, and travel in Britain at the turn of the 19th century. ...
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    65,32 €

  • Norms Over Force
    Zaki Laidi / Cynthia Schoch
    Does Europe have the means to defend its own social model in a globalized world at a time when the United States, China, India and Russia are concerned by enhancing their national sovereignties and playing power politics? Would Europe, who would never be a 'super state', be able to impose norms over force? That is the main question this book addresses in a very original way. ...
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    65,56 €

  • Tropical Forests, International Jungle
    M. Smouts / Cynthia Schoch
    Marie-Claude Smouts looks at the issue of rain forest depletion and global environmental policies. Beginning with how the issue entered the world stage in the 1980s despite alarms over the issue in the 1950s, Tropical Forests, International Jungle explores the complexities of what are tropical forests, what role they play not only in environmentalism but in trade, health care, ...
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    134,14 €

  • Tropical Forests International Jungle
    Marie-Claude Smouts / Cynthia Schoch
    This book explores the complexities of what are tropical forests, what role they play not only in environmentalism but in trade, health care, and almost every facet of natural and social life for those living there and beyond. Although for most in the developed world tropical forests have gained a status of part of our world heritage, these forests are not really part of the gl...
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    132,61 €