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Narratives of Forced Mobility and Displacement in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Border Violence focuses on the evidence of the effects of displacement as seen in narratives—cinematic, photographic, and literary—produced by, with, or about refugees and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2021-06-19
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Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture
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Mediated Terrorism in the 21st Century offers new interpretations of figures emerging from representations of terrorism and counterterrorism: the male hero, female agent, religious leader, victim/perpetrator, and survivor. This collection of essays by a broad array of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2021-06-19
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This book explores the ways in which socio-technical settings in medical contexts find varying articulations in a specific locale. Focusing on Japan, it consists of nine case studies on topics concerning: experiences with radiation in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Fukushima;...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-19
Collection :
Health, Technology and Society
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Das Buch wirft eine organisationssoziologische Perspektive auf die systematisch durchgeführten Massenmorde im Rahmen der nationalsozialistischen Euthanasie in Hadamar. Anhand zahlreicher theoretisch ausgearbeiteter sowie empirisch belegter Organisationsmechanismen wird...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-06-19
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This book collects a selected list of peer-reviewed papers presented at EAAC 2017, International Conference on East Asian Architectural Culture, the leading conference on architectural history and built heritage conservation in the East Asia region. While centered...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-06-18
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Hysteria is alive and well in our present time and is apparently spreading contagiously: especially the second decade of the twenty-first century has displayed an ever-increasing interest in the term. A quick Google search opens the gates to sheer endless swathes of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-18
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Renegades: Digital Dance Cultures from Dubsmash to TikTok explores how hip hop culture -- principally music and dance -- is used to construct and perform identity and maintain a growing urban youth subculture. This community finds its home on Dubsmash, a social media...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-06-18
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This book explores the significance of professional writers and their role in developing British storytelling in the 1920s and 1930s, and their influence on the poetics of today’s transmedia storytelling. Modern techniques can be traced back to the early twentieth...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-18
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The meaning of ‘forgiveness’ and its role within restorative justice are highly contested. This book offers analysis from practical and academic perspectives within Christian theology, against a rich canvas of related concepts, including victimhood, sin, love, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-17
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In nineteenth-century Europe, differences among human bodies were understood to be matters of scientific classification. At the height of scientific acceptance, it was unthinkable that race or sex or diagnosis or indigence were invention. Today, however, differences...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-06-17
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The Shikoku pilgrimage, a 1400 kilometre, eighty-eight temple circuit around Japan's fourth largest island, takes around forty days by foot, or one week by car. Historically, Buddhist ascetics walked it without ceasing, creating a tradition of unending pilgrimage that...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-06-17
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Written by 43 authors from Africa, Europe and Latin America, this book presents 19 topics addressing poverty in the context of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), leadership in implementing SDGs, and SDGs in service delivery and local government. As the world has gone...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-06-16
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Die Evolution von Gesellschaft führt zu unterschiedlichen Differenzierungsformen, die immer auch als Neu-Arrangierung des Verhältnisses gelesen werden kann, welches die Gesellschaft zum Individuum einrichtet. Diese These wird im vorliegenden Buch mittels zweier Studien...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-06-16
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This book examines homicide-suicides in a post-communist country in South-East Europe. It presents results regarding risk factors and particularities of homicide-suicides in Romania committed in the period 2002–2013.
The author analyses statistical data from legal...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-06-16
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Organisationen gelten in der heutigen Organisationssoziologie meist als menschheitsgeschichtlich späte Errungenschaften der Moderne. Als vermeintlicher Gewährsmann dieser These wird immer wieder Max Weber angeführt. Doch weder dessen Typus „bürokratischer Herrschaft“...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-06-16
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The Theory of Love: Ideals, Limits, Futures explores stories about love that recuperate a vision of intimate life as a resource for creating bonds beyond heterosexual coupledom. This book offers a variety of ethical frames through which to understand changing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-15
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This book describes the 1873 voyage of the British explorer Benjamin Leigh Smith, based on the diaries and photographs of Lieutenant Herbert C. Chermside, who joined the expedition of the seas around Svalbard. Chermside’s photographs, long believed lost, have recently...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-06-15
Collection :
Historical Geography and Geosciences
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?This cognitive ethnography examines how scientists create meaning about biological phenomena through experimental practices in the laboratory, offering a frontline perspective on how new insights come to life. An exercise in the anthropology of knowledge, this story...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-15
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Der Band versammelt die thematisch weit gestreuten und höchst vielgestaltigen Schriften von René König zu Fragen der Kriminalsoziologie, der sozialen Kontrolle und des abweichenden Verhaltens. Damit liegt erstmals eine Übersicht seines diesbezüglichen Werkes vor, das...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-06-15
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From café culture to home schooling, remote community networks, and smart cities, Wi-Fi is an invisible but fundamental element of contemporary life. Loosely regulated, low-cost, and largely overlooked by researchers, this technology has driven the rise of the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-06-15
Collection :
Digital Media and Society
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