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This edited book examines key challenges in the digital era and their implications for journalism practice and public debate in emerging media markets. It specifically focuses on evidence from selected Southern and Eastern European countries as they represent cases...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-05
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This book introduces important reflections on understanding the meaning of cultural-religious heritage in an international context and their relationship with issues of sustainability at the local community level. Through a holistic approach, the book charts new courses...
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Springer
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2022-09-03
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The Space Value of Money introduces a fresh and innovative perspective on sustainability and finance. It expands our financial value framework, heretofore built around risk and time, by factoring in space, as an analytical dimension and our physical context.The proposed...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-03
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This book proposes an interdisciplinary look at the culture of shame in Central Asia and evaluates its role in the regulation of social and political interactions in the region. Contributors demonstrate how 'uyat' relies on patriarchal and hierarchical gender norms that...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-02
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Although many local authorities underline the important role of citizens in climate adaptation, many experience difficulties with organizing citizen participation in a way that is meaningful to both citizens and policymakers. Climate change is for many simply not a top...
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Springer
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2022-09-02
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The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods spans the entire research process, from data collection to analysis and interpretation. This second edition has been comprehensively updated and expanded, from 39 to 49 chapters. In addition to a new section of chapters...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2022-09-02
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This volume on the term “Europe” is based on a conference that took place in the winter of 2018 at the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation in Munich. Europe in its complexity, in its character of radical change and its power of fascination is of unbroken...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-01
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This book is an unprecedented effort to compare representations and practices of social distinction worldwide and over the centuries. It is based on years of observation in many countries and on the consultation of more than 2 500 multi-disciplinary publications...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-01
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'Richardson writes beautifully about his return to the land, about listening to the soil and about understanding the ancient world.' - The SpectatorEach new field is hope, each old one reality.There are things below the surface that pull people together in a shared love...
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Cassell
Parution :
2022-09-01
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Unashamedly a book for the bookish, yet accessible and frequently entertaining, this is the first book devoted to how libraries are depicted in imaginative writing. Covering fiction, poetry, and drama from the late Middle Ages to the present, it runs the gamut of...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-09-01
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This book is concerned with the historical fact of overseas Chinese and ethnic Chinese living in Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and Laos before 1949.
Against the social background of acute class and ethnic conflicts in Yunnan in modern times, many Chinese people had...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-09-01
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?This book offers an exploration of the postcolonial hybrid experience in anglophone Caribbean plays and performance from a feminist perspective.In a hitherto unattempted consideration of Caribbean theatre and performance, this study of gendered identities chronicles...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-08-31
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Wie erreicht man Menschen, denen aus Sicht der Gesellschaft unbedingt geholfen werden sollte, die aber selbst keine Hilfe anfordern? Dieser Frage geht Marlen S. Löffler in ihrer ethnomethodologischen Ethnographie in niederschwelligen Anlauf- und Beratungsstellen für...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2022-08-31
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When U.S. war resisters turned to Canada as refuge during the Vietnam War and the Afghanistan/Iraq Wars, they not only hoped to forestall deployment to a combat zone but also to build new lives and make a new home abroad. In her empirical study, Sarah J. Grünendahl...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2022-08-31
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This book presents an original empirical study on the linguistic repertoires of post-2008 Italian migrants living in London. The author interrogates how migrants’ trajectories and their relation with their homeland’s migration history are displayed through the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-08-31
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This book is the first comprehensive ethnographic study of the diversity of living and ageing experiences of three groups of older migrants – return, lifestyle and ageing-in-place labour migrants – from a comparative perspective. It explores the motivations, ageing...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-08-31
Collection :
Global Diversities
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This edited book empirically discusses stratification in contemporary Japanese society. It is unique for its examination of social inequality in relation to declining fertility and an aging population. Japan is the most aged society in the world: according to the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-08-31
Collection :
Economy and Social Inclusion
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This book provides a comparative and contemporary account of social stratification in the Central European states of Czechia, Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia (the Visegrad Four – V4 group), and also by contrast with Austria. It looks at the shared history of these...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-08-31
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Der vorliegende Sammelband leistet einen Beitrag zur Konturierung des Konzepts sozialer Innovationen. Das große Interesse, das sozialen Innovationen schon seit einigen Jahren entgegengebracht wird, hat bislang nicht zu einem einheitlichen Begriffsverständnis geführt....
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Springer VS
Parution :
2022-08-31
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This training book is designed to help professionals enhance their knowledge of community quality-of-life indicators, and to develop viable community projects. Chapter 1 describes the theoretical concepts that guide the formulation of community indicator projects....
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-08-30
Collection :
Community Quality-of-Life and Well-Being
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