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What does it mean to be white in a society that proclaims race meaningless, yet is deeply divided by race? In the face of pervasive racial inequality and segregation, most white people cannot answer that question. In the second edition of this seminal text, Robin...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2023-05-16
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Updated with both a new introduction and a series of interviews, the second edition of Education and the Crisis of Public Values examines American society’s shift away from democratic public values, the ensuing move toward a market-driven mode of education, and the last...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-05-16
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In the second edition of Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism, Henry A. Giroux uses the metaphor of the zombie to highlight how America has embraced a machinery of social and civil death that chills any vestige of a robust democracy. He charts the...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-05-16
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Was richten öffentliche Eingriffe gegen das Geschäft mit Boden und Immobilien aus? Diese Frage ist der Anlass für eine Bestandsaufnahme aus der Perspektive der Stadterneuerung – deren Umgang mit privaten Verwertungsinteressen, baulich-räumlicher Aufwertung und sozialer...
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Springer VS
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2023-05-16
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Fashion and Feeling: The Affective Politics of Dress explores the complex nexus of fashion and the feeling body from a variety of critical perspectives across fashion studies, anthropology, sociology, design practice, and media studies. It asks such questions...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-05-16
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This open access short reader provides an introduction to the theoretical debates regarding irregular migration and aims to bridge these theoretical debates to current empirical developments. It defines irregular migrants and irregular migration by discussing the wide...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-05-15
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This unprecedented ethnographic study introduces a unique photography-based storytelling method that brings together everyday Palestinians and Israelis to begin connecting rather than comparing their distinct yet organically connected histories of suffering and exile...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-05-15
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«Dr. Hammer’s account of lives of registered prostitutes illustrates the complexity of discourses on medical supervision and police control of sexuality in early twentieth-century Berlin. This English edition provides historians of sexuality with insight into medical...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-05-15
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The book's primary purpose is to understand the economic, social, and political impact of financial crimes and earning management on the Indian national economy.The book is divided into four parts that focus on different sectors which lead to financial crimes in a...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-05-15
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This book examines how those with disabilities, and in particular, the Deaf and hard-of-hearing, are impacted by the influence language and culture in policing, criminal law, and corrections. Frequently left out of policy making and research, almost no resources exist...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-05-15
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The stories of migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe have made the headlines in the news over the last twenty years. How have these human itineraries been represented in contemporary culture? This book considers the migrant’s story as portrayed in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-05-15
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This book began as a year-long ethnography of a school in Taiwan in 1991 then evolved more into a historical sociology of national formation and its cultural mindset. Cultural nationalism is a widely debated but poorly understood process. Contrary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-05-15
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This open access book introduces research on migration and religion with the focus on migration to western European countries from the 1950s and onwards. The book is an in-depth presentation of the main research trends as to methods, theories and empirical zones on...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-05-15
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This book presents an intellectual history and theoretical exploration of black humanism since the civil rights era. Humanism is a human-centered approach to life that considers human beings to be responsible for the world and its course of history. Both the heavily...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-05-13
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This book is a study of the return migration of overseas Chinese students. By 2018, over 3.5 million Chinese students had returned from overseas universities to China, with the megacities of Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen representing by far their main destinations. In...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-05-13
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This book unveils the nexus between disaster, governance and development with a particular focus on Bangladesh and examines the legislative and institutional aspects in mainstreaming disaster risk reduction into development planning. With the help of rich content...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-05-12
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At a time when political mobilisation is a symptom of social dissatisfaction, young people’s participation in political decision-making, practice and ideological change, make foregrounding and investigating their political practices a necessity. The title of this...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-05-12
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Der Band zum 3. Science MashUp "Green Games" dokumentiert zehn wissenschaftliche Beiträge des Symposiums anlässlich der 16. "Langen Nacht der Computerspiele" an der Hochschule für Technik, Wirtschaft und Kultur Leipzig. Das Thema „Green Games“ fokussiert sich nicht nur...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2023-05-11
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In this edited volume, scholars from Mumbai, Bengaluru, Jakarta, Cape Town, Sao Paulo and other cities of the global South explore the complex relationship between platformization and informality through a different lens. Drawing on extensive theoretical, quantitative...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-05-11
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In a surveillance culture, the ubiquity of audio-visual recording devices has enabled the unprecedented documentation of private indiscretions, scandalous conversations, and obscene behaviors performed by both ordinary and high-profile people. From former President...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2023-05-11
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