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Gemeinhin gilt Afrika in der wissenschaftlichen Betrachtung und in den Reportagen der Massenmedien als „Kontinent in Bewegung" – Bewegung vor allem in Richtung Europa. Dabei ist die öffentliche Diskussion von zwei Fehlannahmen geprägt. Die erste davon besagt, dass ein...
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Springer VS
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2021-07-16
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Winner of the prestigious Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology 2024.
This book explores recreational uses of consumer drones from the lenses of media ecology, mobile communication, mobilities research, and science and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2021-07-16
Collection :
Geographies of Media
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This edited book set in the context of North East India explores issues concerning symbols, meanings, representations, and social implications of materiality and visuality, as well as the dynamics of power, social reproduction, ideological dominance and knowledge...
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Springer
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2021-07-16
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This is the first book in English to present a comprehensive analysis of the October 2019 social outbreak in Chile and its consequences for the country’s political system. For almost 30 years (1990-2019), Chile was recognized as a model of political and economic...
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Springer
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2021-07-16
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Frühjahr 2020: 35 Jahre nach dem Schengener Abkommen standen im Zuge der COVID-19-Pandemie plötzlich Kontrollen und Schließungen verschiedener Grenzübergänge – unter anderem zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich – wieder auf der Tagesordnung. Wie konnte es dazu kommen,...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-07-15
Collection :
Räume – Grenzen – Hybriditäten
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From two lawyers at the forefront of the reproductive rights movement, this fully updated book shares bold strategies meant to help restore and expand reproductive and sexual rights. Reproductive freedom has never been in more dire straits. Roe v. Wade protected...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2021-07-13
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This book draws together empirical contributions which focus on conceptualising the lived realities of time and temporality in migrant lives and journeys.This book uncovers the ways in which human existence is often overshadowed by legislative interpretations of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-07-13
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The rapid expansion of the halal industry and its markets has occurred not only in the heavily Islamic regions of Southeast Asia and the Middle East, but also in more unexpected countries such as Turkey, Japan, and South Korea, plus many others around the world. Yet...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-07-13
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Heracles is the quintessential ancient Greek hero. The rich and massive tradition associated with him encompasses myths of all kinds: quest myths, monster-fights, world-foundational myths, aetiological myths, philosophical myths, allegorical myths, and more. It informs...
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Oxford University Press
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2021-07-13
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?Histories of Sexology: Between Science and Politics takes an interdisciplinary and reflexive approach to the historiography of sexology. Drawing on an intellectual history perspective informed by recent developments in science and technology studies and political...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-07-12
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The purpose of this book is to understand the nature of social media and the impact they are having on almost all aspects of modern-day existence from family life and social interactions to education and commerce. Just as fish are unaware of the water they swim in and...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-07-12
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This book explores how small businesses respond to the law. By detailing the intricate ways in which businesses come to comply with or violate legal regulations, it shows a very different picture of compliance that completely changes the way we think about how...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-07-12
Collection :
Understanding China
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An obsessive genealogist and descendent of one of the most prominent Jewish families since the American Revolution, Blanche Moses firmly believed her maternal ancestors were Sephardic grandees. Yet she found herself at a dead end when it came to her grandmother's...
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Oxford University Press
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2021-07-12
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This book highlights the expansion of the influential Pentecostal Hillsong Church global megachurch network from Australia across global cities. Ethnographic research in Amsterdam and New York City shows that global cities harbor nodes in transnational religious...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-07-09
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This book takes a nonpathological approach to disability, viewing it as part of diversity rather than as deficit. The opening chapters introduce basic knowledge of teaching in disability communities, covering attitudes and behaviors that may be difficult for instructors...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-07-09
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Candice Brathwaite's much-anticipated second book about all the things she wishes she'd been told when she was young and needed guidance.I Am Not Your Baby Mother was a landmark publication in 2020. A thought-provoking, urgent and inspirational guide to life as a Black...
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Quercus
Parution :
2021-07-08
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This book on Latin American Diasporas in Public Diplomacy explains and illustrates, through case studies, the different strategic roles that diaspora groups play in modern public diplomacy efforts. These are categorized by being participatory, having a strong...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-07-08
Collection :
Palgrave Macmillan Series in Global Public Diplomacy
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Das Buch leistet eine genealogisch orientierte Rekonstruktion des Medienwandels und medienpädagogischer Positionen. Dabei wird neben Diskursformationen auch eine wirtschaftsanalytische Perspektive in die Rekonstruktion integrativ miteingebunden. Derart kann ein...
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Springer VS
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2021-07-08
Collection :
Diversität und Bildung im digitalen Zeitalter
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'You'll be moved by the brave women in Awakening' Malala Yousafzai'Awakening goes where no book has gone before. Inspiring, insightful, profoundly moving' Hillary Rodham ClintonAll over the world, #MeToo inspired generations of women to fight in new ways for their...
Editeur :
Virago
Parution :
2021-07-08
Collection :
Karen Pirie
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'Elegant and multi-focal. Glorious!' Simon Garfield'It will make you look at specs with fresh eyes' New Statesman'Lively, engaging and admirably wide-ranging' The Times'Fascinating' ObserverThe humble pair of glasses might just be one of the world's greatest inventions,...
Editeur :
Little, Brown Book Group
Parution :
2021-07-08
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