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Transcendent Individual
A book review on an individual as a work of art that gave birth to itself My Review’s Abstract Using the imagery of writing and movement, Rapport advocates for a paradigm shift from functional structuralism to “social-scientific writing which makes the world personal.” Table of Contents Original Abstract (1997) “Transcendent Individual” argues for a reappraisal…
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Nomads of South Persia
A book review on freedom and movement of the Basseri My Review’s Abstract Based upon seven-months long fieldwork and the optic of structural-functionalism, the book offers the synthesis of economic, social and political dimensions of “Basseri’s cultural adaptation to the environmental circumstances.” Table of Contents Original Abstract (1961) In this thorough analysis, Barth explores the…
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Deep Economy
A book review on the need to change our economies My Review’s Abstract Have you ever wondered how far your everyday activities could reach out? When the emptiness of your fridge is just unbearable, there is nothing fascinating about a late evening stroll to the closest supermarket. Or maybe everything. Your consumer choice may push…
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Urban Planners into Vision Builders
A key-note paper for a landscape-stimulated vision-making in Central Europe 2013, Landscape Transformations of the Post-communist Countries “Urban planning needs to immediately respond to the intertwined economic, ecologic and demographic challenges. I chart the collaborative way forward.” Publication Context I was invited to present a Keynote at the international interdisciplinary student conference “Landscape Transformations of…
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Why the World Needs Anthropologists
A collection of essays on social value and practical application of Social Anthropology 2020, Routledge “This book tells stories of the prominent ‘applied anthropologists’ and shows how to involve your local social scientist. Go and get it.” Why the World Needs Anthropologists Why does the world need anthropology and anthropologists – now perhaps more than…
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On Social Innovations
A handbook of support the mainstreaming of social innovation methodology in the Czech Republic 2015, Czech Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs “How to drive positive change? I poured some social theory into this hands-on guidebook for future revolutionaries.” Social Innovations for the Curious, Courageous and Creative Everyone can start to write a better story.…
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Potential of Alternative Energy Resources in Peru
In a visually driven world of the sense of smell is given little attention. How complex and important is the nose, drops to only when they no longer properly or not working. It must be re-created awareness of their complexity. Most times, ideacide happens without us even realizing it. A possible off-the-wall idea or solution…
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Beyond the Breakdown
It’s one thing to reject the ideas of others… But when we reject, deny, stifle, squelch, strike, silence and otherwise put ideas of our own to death, sometimes even before they’re born. Most times, ideacide happens without us even realizing it. A possible off-the-wall idea or solution appears like a blip and disappears without us…