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The book provides empirically-rich case studies of the lives and livelihoods of marginalised ethnic minorities in colonial and post-colonial Zimbabwe, with a specific focus on diverse rural areas. It demonstrates the dynamic and complex relationships existing between...
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Springer
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2022-04-21
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Springer Geography
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This book critically examines transitional justice in Mexico. It explores how the Mexican democratic regime dealt with the grave human rights violations perpetrated by security forces during the authoritarian era (1929-2000) through a Special Prosecutor’s Office. It...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-04-21
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Compromise after Conflict
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This book offers an historical and contemporary analysis of policing and police-citizen relations in Nigeria, to understand why people co-operate (or don’t) with the police. It examines police legitimacy and the validity of procedural justice...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2022-04-21
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This book explores the petition(??), a political system with Chinese characteristics. It is an important form of political participation for people at the bottom and an effective means of supervising officials at the grassroots level for the higher-level government....
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2022-04-21
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IPP Studies in the Frontiers of China’s Public Policy
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This OA book provides a comparative study of housing contention in Budapest and Bucharest in 2008-2021. The financialization of housing and the resulting inequalities, expulsions and social contention are a central characteristic of today’s capitalist crisis. These...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-04-21
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This book provides the reader with the latest archaeological discoveries of Liangzhu culture for its sophisticated jade artifacts. The structure and contents systematically present that large-scale ritual vessels such as jade cong and bi were originally regarded as the...
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Springer
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2022-04-21
Collection :
Liangzhu Civilization
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The Quarantine Atlas is a poignant and deeply human collection of more than 65 homemade maps created by people around the globe that reveal how the coronavirus pandemic has transformed our physical and emotional worlds, in ways both universal and unique. Along with...
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Black Dog & Leventhal
Parution :
2022-04-19
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The field of gender and politics has continuously grown, becoming more interdisciplinary and engaging with issues, context and people from all around the world. Because of this, new emerging approaches and studies challenge embedded notions, ideas and preconceptions of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-04-19
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This book comprises the proceedings of the TEQIP III Sponsored 2nd International Conference on “Gender Equity: Challenges and Opportunities” (2nd ICOGECAO 2020 -Virtual Mode), held at Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, Gujarat, India, from 25 to...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-04-19
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Spending the final chapter of your life in a nursing home is considered, by many, a fate worse than death. Others, however, have found that through enlightened, imaginative care even the frailest of lives can flourish. The key to such a transformation is to replace the...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-04-19
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This book provides an insight into girls’ cultural identities and young femininities through an understanding of tween girls’ dressing in Singapore. The book adopts a girl-centred approach to shed light on the narratives and experiences of young Singaporean girls that...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-04-19
Collection :
Perspectives on Children and Young People
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Welfare states around the globe are changing, challenged by the development of knowledge economies. In many countries, policy-makers' main response has been to modernize welfare states by focusing on future-oriented social investment policies that focus on creating,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-04-19
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Der Einfluss von Norbert Elias als soziologischer Klassiker ist unbestritten. Dieser Status verdankt sich in erster Linie seiner Theorie vom Zivilisationsprozess. In dessen Geist steht auch Elias‘ 1982 erschienenes und in mehrere Sprachen übersetztes Buch Über die...
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Springer VS
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2022-04-19
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Die Aktualität von Freuds Massenpsychologie, von der das Projekt der analytischen Sozialpsychologie ausgegangen ist, zeigt sich an Phänomenen wie dem Rechtspopulismus und den Querdenker:innen, die auch durch die sozialen Medien massenwirksam werden.Die Beiträge dieses...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2022-04-19
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This book brings together interdisciplinary perspectives from across the Asia Pacific region, covering four main sections: 1) Governance, 2) Education and Capacity, 3) Science, Technology, Risk Assessment and Communities, and 4) Recovery. The chapters address different...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-04-19
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Eugenics, Genetics, and Disability in Historical and Contemporary Perspective focuses on the conceptual relationship between the American eugenic movement of the early 1900s and contemporary genetic research, policy and practices, and their relevance for social work and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-04-18
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This book develops a discursive ‘equalitarian’ theoretical framework for studying African mining ecosystem issues and policy interventions. The theory of ‘equalitarianism’ is developed as an alternative to the reductionist approach that has dominated post-colonial...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-04-17
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Tolkien, Race, and Racism in Middle-earth is the first systematic examination of how Tolkien understood racial issues, how race manifests in his oeuvre, and how race in Middle-earth, his imaginary realm, has been understood, criticized, and appropriated by others....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-04-15
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A cutting-edge appraisal of revolution and its future.
On Revolutions, co-authored by six prominent scholars of revolutions, reinvigorates revolutionary studies for the twenty-first century. Integrating insights from diverse fields--including civil resistance studies,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-04-15
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This book mediates between postcolonial positions that criticize Marxist approaches (and Marx’s writings) for their Eurocentrism and defenders of Marx, who claim that this accusation is a myth. In different contributions to this volume, Kolja Lindner pleads for a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-04-13
Collection :
Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
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