Outline of a Theory of Practice.
About: This article is published in Contemporary Sociology.The article was published on 1980-03-01. It has received 14683 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Practice theory.
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01 Jan 2001
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TL;DR: In this paper, a reconsideration of theoretical frameworks for international peacekeeping, conflict resolution and peacebuilding is presented, with a focus on the role of non-state actors in the process.
Abstract: (2000). Peacekeeping, conflict resolution and peacebuilding: A reconsideration of theoretical frameworks. International Peacekeeping: Vol. 7, Peacekeeping and Conflict Resolution, pp. 190-218.
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TL;DR: In this article, three levels of urban system changes are discussed: changes in the intra-urban structure of cities after the collapse of the communist regimes, changes in national or state urban systems, i.e. inter-urban systems; and changes in international system of capital cities in central Europe.
Abstract: This paper is concerned with three levels of urban system changes; changes in the intra-urban structure of cities after the collapse of the communist regimes; changes in the national or state urban systems, i.e. inter-urban systems; and changes in the international system of capital cities in central Europe. The restoration of the land market and the removal of rent controls will lead to socially polarised neighbourhoods and new retail patterns. The reintroduction of market economies will convert the socialist policy of even development into one of increased concentration on growth centres within deindustrialisation in which national capitals will play a greater role. Lastly, at the international level national capitals will hierarchicise as in pre-1914 years and new dynamic frontier zones may arise.
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TL;DR: In this article, the potential contribution of social anthropology to understand poverty as both social relation and category of international development practice has been considered, but despite its association with research in communities and countries now considered poor anthropology has remained disengaged from the current poverty agenda.
Abstract: This article considers the potential contribution of social anthropology to understanding poverty as both social relation and category of international development practice. Despite its association with research in communities and countries now considered poor anthropology has remained disengaged from the current poverty agenda. This disengagement is partly explained by the disciplinary starting point of anthropology which explores the processes though which categories come to have salience. It is accentuated by the relationship of anthropology as a discipline to the development policy and the research commissioned to support it. An anthropological perspective on poverty and inequality can shed light on the ways in which particular social categories come to be situated as poor. It can also reveal the social processes through which poverty as policy objective becomes institutionalised in development practice and in the social institutions established to monitor, assess and address it.
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TL;DR: When Saints, Scholars and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland was published some 20 years ago, it was promptly made a classic of psychological and medical anthropology by academics in Ireland.
Abstract: When Saints, Scholars and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland was published some 20 years ago, it was promptly made a classic of psychological and medical anthropology by academics in t...
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