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In Israel, where the Orthodox rabbinate wields historically sanctioned influence over the legal definitions of marriage and parenthood, same-sex parenthood raises important questions such as what constitutes belonging to the national collective, who has the authority to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-11-17
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This is an edited collection of essays drawn from collaborative events organized jointly by The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. The book focuses on how literary and cultural perspectives from different humanities academic...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-11-17
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The unifying theme of contributions gathered in this book is identity, which is an especially topical issue in contemporary society, culture, and art.The monograph presents many of the diverse ways of reflecting on identity, along with the broad interdisciplinary impact...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-11-17
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Unpacking assumptions about corseting, Rebecca Gibson supplements narratives of corseted women from the 18th and 19th centuries with her seminal work on corset-related skeletal deformation. An undergarment that provided support and shape for centuries, the corset...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-11-16
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In this timely analysis of the economics of access that surround contemporary female celebrity, Hannah Yelin reveals a culture that requires women to be constantly ‘baring all’ in physical exposure and psychic confessions. As famous women tell their story, in their ‘own...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-10
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Providing a fresh look at some of the pressing issues of our world today, this collection focuses on experiential and ritualized coping practices in response to a multitude of environmental challenges—cyclones, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, earthquakes, warfare and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-09
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Foucaults Werk hat nicht nur die Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften entscheidend beeinflusst. Das Handbuch gibt einen systematischen Überblick überFoucaults Leben und Werk. Es stellt die Kontexte dar, aus denen heraus seine Werke entstanden sind und erklärt Grundbegriffe...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-11-06
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This book focuses on the subjectivities of stock market investors to explore tensions within the Chinese state’s engagement in contemporary financial capitalism. It adopts a genealogical method to investigate how the production of foreign-trained financial experts...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-05
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Das Phänomen ‚Behinderung‘ erfährt spätestens seit der 2006 verabschiedeten UN-Behindertenrechtskonvention verstärkt internationale Aufmerksamkeit. Weltweit wird anhand des Schlagwortes ‚Inklusion‘ über den Umgang mit stigmatisierter Normabweichung diskutiert....
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-10-28
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An anthropological theorization of the unity and diversity of Christianity, this book focuses on Christian communities in Nanping, a small city in China. It applies methodological insights from Actor-Network Theory to investigate how the Christian God is made part of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-24
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This book presents a multidisciplinary overview of a little known interethnic conflict in the southernmost part of the Americas: the tensions between the Mapuche indigenous people and the settlers of European descent in the Araucania region, in southern Chile....
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Springer
Parution :
2020-10-21
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We inhabit a world of more than humans. For life to flourish, we must listen to the calls this world makes on us, and respond with care, sensitivity and judgement. That is what it means to correspond, to join our lives with those of the beings, matters and elements with...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-10-20
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This book traces “water” back to the most primitive animistic notions that are still lingering on in the shape of such rituals as qanat marriage or rain-making. Water, in the Iranian philosophy, is used in an attempt to find an explanation for the genesis of the...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-09-23
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The book seeks to answer questions that emerge when human sexuality leaves the medical/sexological context and gets into the focus of social sciences. It provides an insight into a geopolitical region (Slovakia) where, for ideological reasons, research on sexuality was...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-09-23
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Wohl kein anderer Schriftsteller ist im internationalen Bewusstsein so eng mit der Stadt St. Petersburg verbunden wie Fjodor M. Dostojewskij. Der Sohn eines Moskauer Armenarztes hat das Bild der Stadt an der Newa, ihr „Image" in der Welt und ihren Mythos bestimmt und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-09-18
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Im Buch wird das Verhältnis zwischen dem Raum und der Kultur reflektiert. Die räumlichen Prägungen (Schlesien, Kärnten, Mähren, Ostpreußen) zeigen jene kulturellen Überschneidungen, die nicht eine Identität, sondern eine existentielle Wohnhaftigkeit des Raumes...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-09-14
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This book presents oral histories, collective dialogues, and analyses of rural and indigenous livelihoods facing global socio-environmental regime change in Latin America (LA). Since the late twentieth century, rural and indigenous producers in LA, including...
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Springer
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2020-09-13
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Die zukünftig geplante Etablierung von sozialen Robotern in den Alltag bringt die Frage mit sich, wie diese von den Nutzern wahrgenommen werden.Die eingeschränkte Performanz der Maschinen macht diese als physikalisch-mechanistische oder gar reaktive Objekte geltend.Die...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-09-08
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Migration across Europe's external and internal borders has introduced unprecedented sociocultural diversity, and with it, new questions about belonging, identity, and the incorporation of others into extant and emergent groups and communities. Bringing together leading...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-09-05
Collection :
Global Diversities
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A FINANCIAL TIMES, I PAPER AND STYLIST BOOK OF THE YEAR'In his absorbing book about the lost and the gone, Peter Ross takes us from Flanders Fields to Milltown to Kensal Green, to melancholy islands and surprisingly lively ossuaries . . . a considered and moving book...
Editeur :
Headline
Parution :
2020-09-03
Collection :
Planet Omar
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