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The purpose of this book is to address older adults’ musical group activities and their relation to quality of life in Japan, situated on a crossroad between deep Eastern cultural traditions and broad contemporary innovations and Western influences. This is the...
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Springer
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2026-01-01
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This book examines the sociopolitical lives of gender nonconforming people (GNCP) in India in the context of the transformations wrought by HIV and LGBTQ activism over the past three decades. It explores how GNCP assert their agency within a cis-heteronormative society...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book delves into the intricate relationship between environmental challenges and communication strategies in Africa. It delves into the history of environmental communication, the factors that led to its emergency, the role of traditional and social media in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-01-01
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This book brings together some of the most distinguished and influential scholars in philosophy and sociology to explore the continued relevance of Herbert Marcuse’s critical theory in the twenty-first century. As one of the most influential thinkers of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-01-01
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This edited book provides a comprehensive study of punitive practices in modern-day Lithuania, highlighting its significance as a democratic European state navigating the continuing consequences of its Soviet-era criminal justice system. Punitive attitudes and practices...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-01-01
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This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the multifaceted factors that contributed to Lithuania's hostile stance towards immigrants, as exemplified by the country's response to the 2021 border crisis with Belarus. By examining the complex interplay of political,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-01-01
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This volume critically interrogates the dominant understanding of ‘addiction’ and ‘addicts’. It examines the proliferation of the addiction concept by psychiatry and other psy-professions, exploring the processes and underlying drivers of this...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-01-01
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This book explores the relationship between climate change, reproductive justice, and the prosperity of families, communities, and economies. Bringing together critical analyses of historical white feminism, classical economics, and corporate success models, it argues...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-01-01
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This edited collection illuminates what the concept of a specifically epistemic type of injustice has to offer socio-legal analysts. The epistemic aspects of injustice comprise more than knowledges, meaning and understanding, to include the supporting material and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-01-01
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This book uses gender and the history of migration between Zimbabwe and South Africa to highlight a marginal area of research in the Global South. It investigates the rich everyday experiences of Zimbabwean immigrant women classified by South African law as illegal. It...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-01-01
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What if humanity’s past isn’t really past? Bernhard Giesen, during his lifetime one of the most prominent voices of German cultural sociology, believed that social and cultural forms that originated in earlier societies have not simply vanished but continue...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-01-01
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Anticipatory Biographies is a collection of future scenarios written in the form of individual biographies that span the breadth of human experience: from the privileged to the marginalized and across diverse cultures. Grounded in design fiction, futures research,...
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Springer
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2026-01-01
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This book explores the interplay between a people, their physical environment, the means of mobility that connect the two, and how these elements combine in the creation of cognitive and cultural landscapes. Specifically, it examines how Indigenous Warrau people in the...
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Springer
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2026-01-01
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This book examines the critical intersection of demographic ageing and climate change in Bangladesh, including comparison with other Asia countries. Located in the dynamic delta system of Southeast Asia, Bangladesh is constantly exposed to extreme weather events, the...
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Springer
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2026-01-01
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This book offers a novel approach to social change by challenging conventional views of the emancipatory nature of political movements. Focusing on the 2019 Chilean revolt, it empirically demonstrates the contradictory ways in which socially desirable experiences are...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-01-01
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Dieses praktisch ausgelegte Buch bringt aktuelle Kindheitsforschung und zeitgenössische ethische Theorie zusammen. Es zeigt, wie sehr Kinder für ihre geistige und körperliche Entwicklung auf einen Handlungsspielraum für riskantes Spiel angewiesen...
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Springer VS
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2026-01-01
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This book explores how transitional justice mechanisms can address sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) and femicide in South Africa. The central argument is that SGBV and femicide in South Africa are deeply rooted in historical injustices, the legacy of apartheid,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book explores ‘exiting’ programs for sex workers, which are behavioural change interventions that support people to stop selling sex.This book examines questions about how we should conceptualise and respond to ‘exiting’ and, by centring sex...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-01-01
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This book challenges the image-centred orthodoxy in photography studies, shifting attention to the tactile, sonic and material interactions that unfold in darkrooms, commercial labs and manufacturing sites through which photographs emerge. Through a combination of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-01-01
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The book underscores the importance of integrating a gender perspective into judicial systems worldwide, revealing how gender sensitivity enhances the legitimacy, equity, and efficacy of the judicial process.
The judiciary serves as a cornerstone of democratic...
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Springer
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2026-01-01
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