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We live in a time of great uncertainty about the future. Those heady days of the late twentieth century, when the end of the Cold War seemed to be ushering in a new and more optimistic age, now seem like a distant memory. During the last couple of decades, we’ve been...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-06-28
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This book is an in-depth account of people’s cultural and religious life in the Jammu region of Jammu and Kashmir, India. It brings out the significance of Sufi and deity shrines as alternative places of worship that give meaning and purpose to people’s lives. It...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-06-26
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In dem vorliegenden Buch wird erstmalig im Rahmen einer qualitativen Untersuchung im deutschsprachigen Raum anhand problemzentrierter Interviews untersucht, welche Erfahrungen Akteur*innen des Kinderschutzes mit Disclosureprozessen betroffener Kinder mit...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-06-26
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This book discusses and theorizes Achille Mbembe’s necropolitics, the politics of death, in the specific context of North America. It works to characterize and analyze the particularities and relational differences of American and Canadian necropowers vis-à-vis...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-25
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In Europa schrumpft die Mittelschicht, was für eine Reihe von EU-Mitgliedsländern bislang kaum untersucht wurde. Dies trifft auch auf Österreich zu, welches sich durch Umbau der Sozialpolitik, Flexibilisierung des Arbeitsmarktes, Zuwanderung und einem...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-06-24
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'I came away from this book enraged, enlightened and with a sense of urgency to do something' Annie Mac'Lays down a transformative path to peace' David Lammy MP'Compelling' The Sunday Times; 'Assured' Observer; 'Brilliantly written' Nikesh...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2021-06-24
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This book examines the nature of the marketization of corporate boards following the introduction of the split share reform, corporate board and shareholder relations, corporate performance, and risk-taking conduct in China. The chapters cover topics such as...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-06-24
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This book maps various national legal responses to gender mobility, including sex and name registration, access to gender modification interventions, and anti-discrimination protection (or lack thereof) and regulations. The importance of the underlying legislation and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-06-23
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McLuhan in Reverse proposes two new and startling theses about Marshall McLuhan’s body of work. The first argues that despite McLuhan’s claim that he did not work from a theory, his body of work in fact constitutes a theory that Robert K. Logan calls his General Theory...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-06-23
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Challenging the standard paradigm of terrorism research through the use of Norbert Elias’s figurational sociology, Michael Dunning explores the development of terrorism in Britain over the past two centuries, focusing on long-term processes and shifting power dynamics....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-22
Collection :
Palgrave Studies on Norbert Elias
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Eine Inter*-Diagnose stellt für die meisten Eltern eine Zäsur im Leben dar. Die gesellschaftliche und körperliche Bedeutung ist nicht in ihrem Erfahrungswissen verankert. Dieses Buch geht dem Erleben der Eltern von intergeschlechtlichen Kindern nach und zeichnet deren...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2021-06-22
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This book discusses preventive actions that have led to reduction in the prevalence of child labor across the world over the 21st century. It identifies exemplary programs in the area of community prevention that have had exceptional results; for example, the...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-06-22
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Domestic violence, interpersonal violence, intimate partner violence, or gender-based violence continues to be a social problem that is rarely understood or discussed in many parts of society, worldwide. The same holds true in the Anglophone Caribbean. Most Caribbean...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-22
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This essential presents the state of urban research on gentrification in a condensed form.This term, which has been used in the scientific community since the 1960s, has now also become established in the public debate. It describes how rising rents in the cities and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-06-22
Collection :
essentials
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This handbook brings together the knowledge on juvenile imprisonment to develop a global, synthesized view of the impact of imprisonment on children and young people. There are a growing number of scholars around the world who have conducted in-depth,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-21
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How can we make sense of the current age of global political disruption when populism leaves norms overturned and the future form of democracy unpredictable?Political representatives are no longer elected for their experience and expertise but out of a desire for an...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-21
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Drawing on the culture’s history before and after the birth of rap music, this book argues that the values attributed to Hip Hop by ‘postmodern’ scholars stand in stark contrast with those that not only implicitly guided its aesthetic elements, but are explicitly voiced...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-21
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Mit welchen Vorstellungen sozialer Ordnung legitimieren Jugendämter ihr Handeln? Patrik Müller-Behme untersucht den Einweisungsdiskurs, auf dessen Grundlage Kinder und Jugendliche in den 1950er bis 1970er Jahren in Erziehungsheimen in Westdeutschland untergebracht...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2021-06-21
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This book explores gender inequity and the gender gap from a range of perspectives including historical, motherhood, professional life and diversity. Using a narrative approach, the book shares diverse experiences and perspectives of the gender gap and the pervasive...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-06-20
Collection :
Sustainable Development Goals Series
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This volume introduces readers to the achievements made in the context of China’s reform and opening up. It tells China’s story with regard to twelve aspects: the reform path, opening up, macro-economy, regional development, the “three rural” policy, poverty...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-06-19
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