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This book is an exploration of the relationship between irregular migrants, many originating from southern Philippines and the sea, in their struggle against the realities of state power in Sabah. As their numbers grow exponentially into the 21st century, the only...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
Collection :
Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship
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Informed by ‘critical religion’ perspective in Religious Studies and postcolonial self-reflection in Sociology, this book interrogates the ideas of ‘religion’ and ‘the secular’ in social theory and Sociology. It argues that as long as social theory and sociological...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
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A powerful account of Jewish resistence in Nazi-occupied Europe and why such resistance was so remarkable.
Most popular accounts of the Holocaust typically cast Jewish victims as meek and ask, "Why didn't Jews resist?" But we know now that Jews did resist, staging...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-12-31
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The home has been on the forefront of rapid economic, political, social, and technological transformations for many individuals and families across the world. As a country reliant on the exportation of human labor to sustain its national economy, the Philippines...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-12-30
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Professionalisation of Journalism has been a subject under global scrutiny since the nineteenth century. Contemporary studies show how journalism profession grapples with the implementation of standard journalism education and practices across the globe. The author...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-12-30
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A fascinating exploration of modern podcasting as a tool for decolonization In The Podcaster's Dilemma: Decolonizing Podcasters in the Era of Surveillance Capitalism, Drs. Nolan Higdon and Nicholas Baham III connect contemporary podcasting to the broader history of the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2021-12-29
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The Journey Home is an engrossing anthology of twenty essays. Each one tells a different story about what it means to grow up in the shadow of the Holocaust and then to find a way of breaking free of the residual darkness of childhood by making a physical and emotional...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-12-29
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Why mass incarceration endures in the face of reforms, and how to truly change America's vast criminal justice system
Critics on both the left and the right increasingly use the term "mass incarceration" to call attention to the unprecedented scale and inequities of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-12-28
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An examination of the ways that digital technologies play an increasingly important role in the lives of precarious workers, far beyond the gig economy apps like Uber and Lyft.
Over the past three decades, digital technologies like smartphones and laptops have...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-12-28
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Tifo refers to the artistic renderings that supporters at football/soccer matches perform. This can involve large banners, coordinated mosaic displays, and pyrotechnics. Originating in Europe, the tradition has spread across the world and to other sports. Tifos vary in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-12-27
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International migration is one of the prominent facts in the contemporary world, which affects the political, socio-economic and cultural processes both in origin and destination countries. Historically, Western Europe has been one of the most attractive destinations...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2021-12-27
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An intimate, first-hand account of the emotional and physical experience of doing time in jail and the strategies for enduring it.
Jails are the principal people-processing machines of the criminal justice system. Mostly they hold persons awaiting trial who cannot...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-12-21
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Online dating has become a widespread feature of modern social life. In less than two decades, seeking partners through commercial intermediaries went from being a marginal and stigmatized practice to being a common activity. How can we explain this rapid change and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-12-21
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Stolen Cars is an innovative ethnography of urban inequalities and violence in São Paulo, Brazil. Organized around the journeys of five stolen cars, each chapter discusses a specific theme, such as the distinctions between violent robbery and the more commercial...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2021-12-20
Collection :
IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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22,60€
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To Know the Soul of a People is a history of religion and race in the agricultural South before the Civil Rights era. Jamil W. Drake chronicles a cadre of social scientists who studied the living conditions of black rural communities, revealing the abject poverty of the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-12-17
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Music and queerness interact in many different ways. The Oxford Handbook ofMusic and Queerness brings together many topics and scholarly disciplines, reflecting the diversity of current research and methodology. Each of the book's six sections exemplifies a particular...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-12-17
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What do struggles for women’s and LGBTI+ rights in Russia, Turkey and the Scandinavian countries have in common? And what can actors who struggle for rights and justice in these contexts learn from each other? Based on a multisited ethnography of feminist and LGBTI+...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-12-16
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Die Kategorie Race gewinnt aktuell wieder stärker an politischer Sichtbarkeit, bedingt vor allem durch die Black-Lives-Matter-Bewegung, Migration und Flucht, nicht zuletzt auch durch Theorieansätze wie Postcolonial Studies, Critical Race Theory,...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2021-12-16
Collection :
Neue Perspektiven der Medienästhetik
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We are living in a moment of environmental and existential crisis that demands a response. Why then study Classics now? From the European assimilation and destruction of the New World to our present environmental destruction of our shared world, Humans, among Other...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-16
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We are living in a moment of environmental and existential crisis that demands a response. Why then study Classics now? From the European assimilation and destruction of the New World to our present environmental destruction of our shared world, Humans, among Other...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-16
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