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Today, as cities undergo rapid and dynamic transformations, riddled with uncertainties about the future, the roles of urban planning and urban planners lie in one of these new crossroad moments. Climate change, urban migration, social inclusion, health emergencies and...
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Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2021-03-24
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This book brings together leading academics and practitioners working in the area of language, gender, sexuality and education, consolidating recent developments and moving the field forward in a contemporary context. This unique and timely volume captures...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-03-23
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Language, Gender and Sexuality
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W.E.B Du Bois is widely considered one of the most accomplished and controversial African American intellectuals in U.S. history. A pioneering historian, sociologist, political economist, and civil rights activist, his masterpiece The Souls of Black Folk remains one of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-03-23
Collection :
Key Contemporary Thinkers
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Both theoretically informed and empirically rich, Youth Urban Worlds explores how urban cultures affect political action amongst youth. Argues that urban cultures challenge the very meaning and contours of the political process Includes ethnographies, delving into the...
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Wiley
Parution :
2021-03-23
Collection :
IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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This book is a study of women’s involvement in occult practices in Weimar Germany. Women during the Weimar period experienced an unprecedented level of liberation.This included a greatly increased role in the work force as well as participation in other realms that were...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-03-23
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This book analyzes how the increase in migration from other Latin American countries to countries of the American Southern Cone such as Brazil, Argentina and Chile has generated a crisis fueled by the emergence of hate discourses towards migrant populations. While...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-03-22
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Through an intersectional feminist re-reading of the Habermasian theoretical framework, this book analyses how women's activism has developed and operated in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Chapters look at three key areas of women's activism in Iran: how women...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-03-21
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This book, which updates and expands the third edition published by Springer in 2015, explains, compares and evaluates the social and legal functions of adoption within a range of selected jurisdictions and on an international basis. From the standpoint of the...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-03-20
Collection :
Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice
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This book presents a comprehensive overview of Asian families residing in Canada and the United States by portraying and analyzing Asian Canadian and Asian American immigrant families in an integrated yet nuanced way. Chapters use an interdisciplinary approach to...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-03-20
Collection :
Advances in Immigrant Family Research
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This open access book examines the significance of gay neighborhoods (or ‘gayborhoods’) from critical periods of formation during the gay liberation and freedom movements of the 1960s and 1970s, to proven durability through the HIV/AIDS pandemic during the 1980s and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-03-19
Collection :
The Urban Book Series
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Dieses Open-Access-Buch blickt auf die Hintergründe der Politik der Freizügigkeit in Europa und diskutiert die Folgen. Die europäische Integration veränderte die Migrationsverhältnisse erheblich: Zwischen den EU-Mitgliedstaaten wurden unter dem Begriff der...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2021-03-19
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How is it that America's cities remain almost as segregated as they were fifty years ago? In Race Brokers, Elizabeth Korver-Glenn examines how housing market professionals--including housing developers, real estate agents, mortgage lenders, and appraisers--construct...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-03-19
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Im internationalen Vergleich verfügt Deutschland über einen bemerkenswerten Theatersektor im Hinblick auf Ensembles und Spielstätten. Die darstellenden Künste sind zudem der Kulturbereich mit der höchsten öffentlichen Förderung. Theater ist daher in besonderer Weise...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2021-03-19
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This book investigates the production of public space in contemporary urban contexts as conditioned by the suffusion of urban life with digital technologies. A “social production of technology” approach is taken to frame the digitally-mediated city as a communal social...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-03-18
Collection :
The Urban Book Series
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This book provides a comprehensive account of asymmetric linkage in the trilogy of environment, development and sustainability and its impact on society. It examines varied perspectives and issues of development related to environmental destruction and sustainability...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-03-18
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When organizations are committed to gender equality, what gets in the way of their achieving it? How and why do well-intentioned people end up reinforcing sexism? Katie Lauve-Moon examines these questions by focusing on religious congregations that separated from their...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-03-18
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Die Haushaltarbeit, Kinderbetreuung und Altenpflege in den Industrieländern werden zunehmend von billigen und unsichtbaren Arbeitskräften aus dem Ausland entrichtet. Eugenie Wirz geht der Frage nach, wie transnational mobile Care-Arbeiterinnen und ihre Familien die...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-03-18
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Krisenphänomene von psychischer Depression und Burnout über Arbeitslosigkeit, Schuldenberge und Börsencrashs bis zu Massenflucht und Umweltzerstörung alarmieren unsere Gegenwartsgesellschaft – die gleichzeitig Höchstleistungen auf vielen Gebieten feiert und ihren...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-03-18
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This book combines various theoretical approaches to explore how Finland and its people responded to the European Union (EU) refugee crisis. Combining interviews with Finns, voluntary migrants to Finland and refugees in Finland, the text presents differing perspectives...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-03-17
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Voters need to be informed to make political decisions, but what if their media diet not only prevents them from getting the information they need, but actively shapes inaccurate perceptions of the world?
Drawing on examples and evidence from around the world, this...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2021-03-17
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