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This book is the first interdisciplinary study of the rule of law in an environment of complementary culture. It argues that the rule of law should not be defined solely through the development of institutions, but also through the mobilization of existing culture...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-01-01
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Policing in the US and many western nations is in an era of crisis, facing extensive calls for reformation and change. This edited book outlines the major challenges and changes needed to achieve a more stable future for the policing profession and police...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
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The authors collected here address youth street cultures in different cities from the Ibero-American world, bringing together contributions on Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Portugal, Spain, and beyond. This overseas approach bridging the European and American...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
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This book explores different emergent spaces where diverse urbanites spontaneously negotiate, make and remake urban spaces, create opportunities, produce social change, challenge urban life, culture, and politics, or simply ask for their right to the city. The focus of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology
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wiefern lassen sich soziale Tatbestände in Gesellschaften von Wildbeutern und tribal organisierten Bauern/Viehzüchtern mit Hilfe von Spieltheorie, Institutionen- und Organisationsökonomik, "Public choice"- Theorie und der Evolutionsökonomik besser...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2022-01-01
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This two-volume set highlights the importance of Iberian shipbuilding in the centuries of the so-called first globalization (15th to 18th), in confluence with an unprecedented extension of ocean navigation and seafaring and a greater demand for natural resources...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-01-01
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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
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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...
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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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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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