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Oft und gerne gehört, selten untersucht – in diesem Buch geht es um Musikvorlieben, die einem selbst peinlich sind: Kitsch, Camp, Trash. Jenseits des guten Geschmacks tun sich Abgründe auf, in die dieser Sammelband gerne hineinblickt. Ziel ist es, bisher in der...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-06-28
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This book argues that multiculturalism remains a relevant and vital framework through which to understand and construct inclusive forms of citizenship. Responding to contemporary ethnic and religious diversity in European states and the position of religious minorities,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-28
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This book provides a fine-grained ethnographic examination of the everyday negotiations and conflicts taking place in greenhouses and packinghouses in an agricultural district in south-eastern Italy (Sicily). In a highly competitive global scenario, driven by...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2021-06-28
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This book focuses on American political discourse connected to war, dissent, and empathy. Through interdisciplinary methods of history, politics and media studies, the book examines ways in which American self-identity alters as a consequence of media portrayal of human...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-06-28
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This book analyses the representation of North-East England in film and television. It is a response to the way a number of important British films and programmes—for example, Get Carter (1971), Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads (1973-74), Our Friends in the North...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-28
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Digital networking platforms like Facebook and Twitter have revolutionized everyday human interaction by facilitating the search for, and access to, information, entertainment, and social connection. But with the rise of digital surveillance and data extraction for...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-06-28
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Right from the origins of cinema, countless films and television dramas have offered sensational and seductive representations of young people's lives. Youth is typically associated with energy, idealism and physical beauty, but it is often represented as both troubled...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-06-28
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This book presents the state-of-the art in the analysis of animal movements in the past and its implications for human societies. It also addresses the importance of animal activity and mobility for understanding past human societies and past human-animal relationships...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-06-28
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Witches, fairies, unicorns, giants, dwarves, gnomes, and talking animals. Folk tales feature many magical creatures and larger or smaller than life entities and are great for pastime activities. What if such enchanted beings are replaced by familiar figures of kings,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-06-28
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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
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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...
Editeur :
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...
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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...
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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...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-06-22
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