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Focusing on the epistemic value of African names, this edited collection is based on the premise that personal names constitute valuable sources of historical and ethnographic information and help to unveil endogenous forms of knowledge. The chapters assembled...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-08
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This book offers an innovative approach to migration by exploring Somali youths’ tahriib, their ‘journey into the unknown’. When young Somali men and women refer to the ‘unknown’, they recognize the uncertainty of their journeys.This uncertainty is partly due to the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-08
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If you've always wanted to know how societies function - and why sometimes they don't - this beginner's guide to sociology has got the essential theories and thinkers coveredSociology has almost limitless scope. From the smallest everyday interaction to the impact of...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2023-06-08
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This book analyses social movements, digital activism and protest actions in Africa using a de-colonial approach, with selected case studies of #BringBackOurGirls, #OurMumuDonDo, #FeesMustFall, and #OccupyGhana from Nigeria, South Africa and Ghana.This book examines the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-08
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Zygmunt Bauman was one of the great social thinkers of our time: inventor of the idea of liquid modernity, he transformed our way of thinking about the social conditions shaping our lives today. His own life was shaped by the great social forces that scarred the second...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-06-08
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24,90€
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This book analyzes the different policy challenges that Pakistani women face and makes regionally relevant policy recommendations across different areas of private and public life, drawing on secondary data from nationally representative surveys and primary data from...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-07
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Der demografische Wandel stellt Staat, Politik und Wirtschaft vor neue, vor allem finanzielle Herausforderungen (Ebene der Macht- und Herrschaftsverhältnisse). Alter(n) (doing age) ist als soziales Konstrukt aufzufassen, das vor allem für diejenigen, die durch höhere...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2023-06-07
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Diese Open-Access-Publikation handelt von Digitalisierungsprojekten in kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen. Es werden Forschungsergebnisse und Praxisbeobachtungen in Beiträgen, Interviews und Handouts von Wissenschaftlern und Praktikern präsentiert.
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2023-06-07
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While a large number of studies exist on political-economic institutional explanations for the prevalence of precarious work, few have delved into the elusive yet critical domain of culture. This is highly pertinent to China and Japan whose shared tradition of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-06-07
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This open access book focuses on migrant and minority cemetery needs through the conceptual lens of the mobilities of the living and the dead. In doing so, the book brings migration and mobility studies into much-needed dialogue with death studies to explore the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-06-06
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From the Sivens forest in France to the Hambach forest in Germany, from the Broadback forest in Canada to the rainforests of Borneo, something has shifted in these wild spaces over the last decade or two. People have begun to inhabit the forests, oppose the loggers and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-06-06
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The Chinese in the Philippines constitute one of the many Chinese communities globally. Although many Chinese have maintained their cultural traditions, most of them are Filipina/o citizens and have always considered the Philippines home. Embodying "Tsina/o" (Chinese)...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-06-06
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Amazon's Best Nonfiction Book of the Month for June 2023Nylon's "June 2023's Must-Read Book Releases"Pure Wow’s “11 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in June”The Skimm’s “17 of Our Favorite Books Coming Out...
Editeur :
Legacy Lit
Parution :
2023-06-06
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From journalist and author of An Ordinary Age, an examination, dismantling, and reconstruction of ambition, where burnout is the symptom of our holiest sin: the lonely way we strive. Ambition—the want, the hunger, the need to achieve—is woven into...
Editeur :
Balance
Parution :
2023-06-06
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We are experiencing an anthropological revolution. We see it in the #MeToo movement, in the denunciation of femicide and in an increasingly vociferous critique of patriarchal domination. Why this sudden rise of an antagonistic conception of the relationship between men...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-06-06
ePub
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This book describes and analyzes the lived experience of elder abuse from the queer community. It discusses the experiences by transwomen, gay men and lesbians of financial abuse, physical and sexual abuse, homophobic abuse, and neglect within partner relationships,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-06-05
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As the world emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, this book explores current migration and integration challenges. Against the background of long-term migration trends, it asks whether the pandemic has changed the patterns observed, transformed the circumstances...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-05
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Seit April 2019 forscht der Verbund Testimony, gefördert vom Bundesministeriumfür Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), zu sexualisierter Gewalt und traumatischen Erfahrungenin DDR-Heimen aus Sicht der Betroffenen und medizinischen Akteure.Die Kooperation besteht aus der...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2023-06-05
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This book focuses on current trends in cultural heritage conservation and their influence on heritage practice. Seen through the lenses of World Heritage, historic urban landscapes, heritage tourism, climate change or the nature/culture nexus, these challenges call for...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-06-03
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This cutting-edge book examines the unique issues that transgender identities face globally in the criminal processing system through empirical and theoretical contributions. The contributing authors range from established transgender scholars, transgender...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-02
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