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Seeds are at the heart of a transformation process that affects more than two billion people worldwide. This study on smallholder farmers in Tanzania examines how local seed systems are anchored in the socio-cultural structures of smallholder life worlds. Using the...
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Springer VS
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2023-05-31
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Mumbai is generally recognized as an environment of extraordinary religious diversity. The city is known at one and the same time for a habitual cosmopolitanism and a series of violent religion-related conflicts and clashes. While there is much academic scholarship on...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-05-31
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This book examines the essence of a particular personal experience within a New York City public space. The principal approach, both theoretical and methodological, is the phenomenological perspective, an in-depth study of such a surprising experience in the real world...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2023-05-31
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Der Band nimmt aus unterschiedlichen religionswissenschaftlichen und sozialwissenschaftlichen Perspektiven aktuelle Themen der Religionswissenschaft in den Blick. Sie gehen explizit oder implizit von der zentralen religionswissenschaftlichen sowie -politischen These...
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Springer VS
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2023-05-30
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This volume provides an updated analysis of the most significant constitutive aspects for the political sociology of the EU. It examines in detail how civic and political activism regarding the inclusion and integration of gender and sexual minorities, as well as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2023-05-30
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Die hier vorgelegte Studie über Rating-Agenturen fasst jene als die relevanten Akteure auf Finanzmärkten, die eine kulturelle Praxis des Bewertens im Sinne eines organisationalen Zahlengebrauchs historisch vermittels kalkulativer Praktiken sowie ein globales Netzwerk...
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Springer VS
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2023-05-30
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China’s Social Credit System has fundamentally re-shaped global notions of surveillance, making it into European Union legislation and hundreds of media headlines. Drawing on a rich body of empirical evidence, this book offers one of the first comprehensive...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2023-05-30
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Kein Zweifel: Die Vorbilder sind zurück. Kinder, Jugendliche und auch Erwachsene bekennen sich heute wieder freimütig und manchmal sogar stolz zu ihrer Bewunderung. Die Grundüberzeugung lautet: Vorbilder geben dem Leben Orientierung, Sinn und Bedeutung. Doch wem folgen?...
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J.B. Metzler
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2023-05-30
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Zu Beginn der 2000er-Jahre wurde für die sSchweizerische Gassenarbeit eine Phase der Neuorientierung diagnostiziert, die aber bislang kaum analytisch reflektiert wurde. War Gassenarbeit früher stark an einer parteilichen Ausrichtung und der Lebenswelt ihrer Zielgruppen...
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Springer VS
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2023-05-30
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This book is a compilation of the best papers presented at the 2022 edition of the Singapore Conference of Applied Psychology (SCAP), led by East Asia Research in Singapore in collaboration with the University of Derby in the UK and the Singapore University of...
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Springer
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2023-05-29
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Remittances of Thai female married migrants have been one of the recognized conflicts among Thai-German spouses for a long time. However, the issue of remittance has only been partially debated and clarified as the economic support of Thai wives towards their natal...
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Springer VS
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2023-05-29
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Spätestens mit den Debatten zu einer zunehmenden Polarisierung der deutschen und anderer europäischer Gesellschaften rückt die Frage nach Prozessen der Radikalisierung in den Blick. Neben individuellen Radikalisierungen sind es vor allem gesellschaftliche...
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Springer VS
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2023-05-29
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This book provides an historical account of the emergence and spread of the climate change counter movement across the globe. Drawing on an extensive database developed by the author, the book recounts the development of an international network, taking the reader...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-05-29
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This second edition book advances knowledge about criminal careers throughout life. It presents new results from the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development (CSDD), which is a unique longitudinal study of the development of offending from age 10 to age 61. Previous...
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Springer
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2023-05-29
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This book addresses increasingly relevant social problems enabled by social media through the lens of system science research and modeling. Instead of evaluating existing patterns from existing social media data, the book focuses on exploring the possibility of various...
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Springer
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2023-05-29
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This book discusses the cultural importance of spirits, what spirits want, and how humans interact with them, using examples from around the world and through time. Examples range from the vengeful spirits of the Zulu that cast lightning bolts from clear skies to punish...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-05-28
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Africa is commonly regarded as a "continent on the move" in scholarly observation and mass media reportage. Movement is seen primarily in the direction of Europe. Yet the public debate is characterized by two misconceptions. The first is that high population growth in...
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Springer VS
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2023-05-27
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This compact book is constructed using psychological theory and research to empower university faculty to facilitate student engagement and address student resistance to diversity and social justice education more effectively. University faculty teaching diversity...
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Springer
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2023-05-27
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This volume presents psychobiographical research in non-WEIRD—Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic—contexts and samples, focusing on culture, transcultural and transdisciplinary work. It creates a platform for researchers, scholars and scientists from...
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Springer
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2023-05-27
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This is an open access book.According to Castells, power now rests in networks: “the logic of the network is more powerful than the powers of the network” (quoted in Weber, 2002, p. 104) – it is whether nation states or local communities are deeply affected, especially...
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Atlantis Press
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2023-05-27
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