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This book offers a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to place attachment from a European perspective. Starting from a dynamic, relational, and participatory concept of place attachment, the book discusses place making and place attachment processes...
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Springer
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2022-10-10
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This Palgrave Pivot examines refugee camps in the EU, Australia, and their border zones. The approach is interdisciplinary, comprising perspectives of history, ethics, political science, literature, and health. The book argues that current practice of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-08
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This open access book provides insights into the everyday lives of long-term prisoners in Switzerland who are labelled as ‘dangerous’ and are preventatively held in indefinite, probably lifelong, incarceration. It explores prisoners’ manifold ways...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-07
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A sweeping history of how India has used its poor and elite emigrants to further Indian development and how Indian emigrants have reacted, resisted, and re-shaped India's development in response.
How can states and migrants themselves explain the causes and effects of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-10-07
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This book adds to the scant academic literature investigating how comics transmit knowledge of the past and how this refraction of the past shapes our understanding of society and politics in sometimes damaging ways. The volume comes at these questions from a...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2022-10-06
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'This is a book for the future: it gives us exactly the tools we need to dismantle racial injustice in our society' Baroness Doreen Lawrence 'A powerful, salient and gracefully written study of the corrosive dynamics of race in Britain from a trusted voice on the...
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Penguin
Parution :
2022-10-06
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Fossil-Fuel Faulkner is the first book-length study of a single writer in the emerging field of the energy humanities. As we try to imagine our way beyond a deeply problematic fossil energy regime that depletes and degrades the planet and sharpens the gap between Global...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-10-06
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It is commonly thought that, thanks to globalization, nation-state borders are becoming increasingly porous. Steffen Mau shows that this view is misleading: borders are not getting more permeable today, but rather are being turned into powerful sorting machines....
Editeur :
Polity
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2022-10-06
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This book presents a series of perspectives showing the current knowledge about human evolution. On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Darwin's book, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, in which he explicitly addresses the natural origin of the...
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Springer
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2022-10-06
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This book explores the role of alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Hermetic philosophy in one of Shakespeare’s last plays, The Winter’s Tale. A perusal of the vast literary and iconographic repertory of Renaissance alchemy reveals that this late play is imbued with several...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-05
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This book examines the ethical responsibilities of engineers and scientists in light of new advances in science with a distinct reflection on quantum mechanics.This thorough coverage of these new advances will assist the reader in rethinking our place in the universe...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-10-05
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Pop-Stars sind uns nahe. In ihren Songs, ihren Bildern, ihren Stories auf Instagram. Gesucht ist ein authentischer Eindruck. Echte Gefühle auf echten Gesichtern. Aber was passiert, wenn sie ihr Gesicht mit einer Maske verdecken? Und zwar dauerhaft, als zweites...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-10-05
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This book acknowledges and discusses the now politically infamous aspects of an American Muslim woman’s life such as Islamophobia and hijab, but it more importantly examines how women actually deal with these obstacles, intentionally shifting the lens to capture a more...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-10-04
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Sociological analysis is replete with debates about “micro” and “macro,” individual and society, but all too often these miss the point: interacting groups are the hinge that connects the two. To understand how structures matter and how individuals navigate them, we...
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Polity
Parution :
2022-10-04
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This book explores various aspects of transnationalism and comics art in six East Asian and seven Southeast Asian countries/territories. The 14 richly illustrated chapters embrace comics, cartoons, and animation relative to offshore production, transnational ownership,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-03
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There is an emerging consensus that what is projected as democratic governance and justice in Africa requires a re-calibration, in particular, in relation to the constitutive demos, human rights, the realisation of commitments at various governance levels and the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-03
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This book examines the organisational culture of the Irish police service, speaking in particular to those interested in policing organisations and organisational culture. It is set against a backdrop of considerations such as community policing, police...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-03
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This book examines how COVID-19 has often enhanced social and economic marginalisation in different places and societies around the world. It explores the reality that selective deglobalisation is occurring and over and above the human tragedy which has been...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-10-03
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This open access book offers a cross-disciplinary view of challenging mobility issues for migrants and refugees in Europe and particularly Greece during the last decade when the economic and refugee crises coincided. It offers new analyses and data on a diverse range of...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-10-03
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This book proposes a new approach to the study of discourse in documentary film. It considers discourse as a basic factor of translation (as well as contexts, agents, and practices) and draws on the parallels between the disciplines of translating and documentary making...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-03
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