The rapid digitalization of society over the past decades has fundamentally changed how people socialize, work, and play. Subsequently, children and adolescents’ use of digital technologies has increased rapidly, facilitated ...

This thesis analyses how social and political conflicts among different social actors shape the implementation of slum-upgrading programmes. The research focuses on the first two years (2008-2010) of the implementation of ...

After almost a decade of declining wages in Cambodia’s garment and footwear industry, worker incomes have steadily improved since 2013. Minimum wages increased from 80USD a month to 170USD a month in just 4 years, an average ...

From 2003 onwards, faced with burgeoning insurgencies and widespread violence in Iraq and Afghanistan, US military policy underwent a cultural turn . This shift in policy emphasised the need for the collection of knowledge ...

Science, technology and innovation (STI) is once again high on the international development agenda (Chataway et al, 2005; Leach and Scoones, 2006). Some authors have highlighted the role of new networked forms of organisation ...

A number of events, such as the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, the opening up of Eastern Europe, the Yugoslavian crisis in the 1990s and the Austrian membership of the European Union since 1995 have contributed to an ...

In recent years, Western countries have received Pakistanis as religious fanatics and detrimental to national as well as international safety and politics. Pakistani communities in diaspora have, in turn, received negative ...

The international organisation Codex Alimentarius was established by the WHO and the FAO in 1963, with the intention of creating scientifically-based international food safety standards in order to protect consumer health ...

This dissertation offers an exploration into the multidimensional processes of globalisation in conjunction with the ecumenical movement. It investigates how combinations of ecumenical events and practices reveal various ...