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This book provides a solid basis to understand two centuries of bodily measurement practices and their scientific and political scope throughout the Western world. By exploring various cases, it proposes a new approach of measurement from an epistemological point of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-12-05
Collection :
Health, Technology and Society
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This book provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary exploration of civility and political culture in the Muslim world.The contributions consider the changing interface between religion and politics throughout Islamic history, and into the present. Extending beyond...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-12-04
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This book examines the role, history and function of public libraries in contemporary societies as motors that drive development. It analyses through case studies, how contemporary libraries have been redesigned to offer a new kind of public space while also reshaping...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-12-04
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Dieser Band zum Begriff „Europa“ beruht auf einer Tagung, die im Winter 2018 in der Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung in München stattfand. Europa in seiner Vielschichtigkeit, in seinem Umbruchcharakter und seiner Faszinationskraft ist von ungebrochener Aktualität....
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-12-04
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This volume presents both a historical exploration of ethnography and a thematic discussion of major trends that, over different periods, have oriented and re-oriented research practice. As it overviews ethnography from different geographic and thematic perspectives, it...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-12-04
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The history of migration is deeply entangled with colonialism. To this day, colonial logics continue to shape the dynamics of migration as well as the responses of states to those arriving at their borders. And yet migration studies has been surprisingly slow to engage...
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Polity
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2020-12-03
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The pursuit of wealth has captivated people’s attention for centuries. Yet, as a topic of social research, the way in which wealth is accumulated and unequally distributed has largely been neglected, remaining hidden beneath data on income inequality. Wealth aims to...
Editeur :
Polity
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2020-12-03
Collection :
Economy and Society
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Even as the specter of populism haunts contemporary societies, scholars have not been able to agree about what it is. Except for one thing: a deviation from democracy, the source, it seems, of the precarious position in which so many societies find themselves today....
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-12-03
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Diese Festschrift zu Ehren Steffen M. Kühnels versammelt eine Vielzahl von Beiträgen zu verschiedenen Themengebieten, mit denen sich der renommierte Soziologe in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten beschäftigt hat. In rund 35 Artikeln diskutieren deutsche und...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-12-02
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This book explores the potential of social media as a space for teaching and bringing about sustainable peace. Using cutting-edge research, the editors and authors analyze the fundamental transformations taking place in the digital and interactive public sphere, most...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-12-02
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Educational Media
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The field of Domestic Violence research has expanded considerably in the past decade and now includes work conducted by researchers in many different disciplines, notably political science, public health, law, psychology, sociology, criminology, anthropology, family...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2020-12-02
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We are in an age of big data where all of our everyday interactions and transactions generate data. Much of this data is spatial – it is collected some-where – and identifying analytical insight from trends and patterns in these increasing rich digital footprints...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2020-12-02
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This book presents the perspectives of some of the main players, both academics and professionals, in communication for sustainable development and social change so as to provide valuable lessons for future generations of change agents. It places emphasis on both the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-12-01
Collection :
Communication, Culture and Change in Asia
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There is widespread acknowledgement among anthropologists, archaeologists, ethnobotanists, as well as researchers in related disciplines that specific foods and cuisines are linked very strongly to the formation and maintenance of cultural identity and ethnicity. ...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-12-01
Collection :
The Latin American Studies Book Series
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Headless relative clauses have received little attention in the linguistic literature, despite the many morpho-syntactic and semantic puzzles they raise. These clauses have been even more neglected in the study of Mesoamerican languages.
Headless Relative Clauses in...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-12-01
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Die Grundlage der Pilotstudie bilden 21 Interviews mit 11- bis 13- jährigen Schüler*innen aus vier soziodemographisch verschiedenen Wiener Schulen der Sek I. Ausgehend von kurzen Quellentexten für den Unterricht in Geschichte und Politischer Bildung werden Themen wie...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-12-01
Collection :
Citizenship. Studien zur Politischen Bildung
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Dipping in to the North explores how changing mobility and migration is affecting the social, economic, cultural, and environmental characteristics of sparsely populated areas of northern Sweden (and places like it). It examines who lives in, works in, and visits the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-12-01
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This open access book examines everyday practices in an asylum administration. Asylum decisions are often criticised as being ‘subjective’ or ‘arbitrary’. Asylum Matters turns this claim on its head. Through the ethnographic study of asylum decision-making in the Swiss...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-30
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This book explores the tension between analogue and digital as part of an evolving research programme and focuses on the sequencing of methods within it. The book will be an invaluable reference for scholars who routinely engage in critical sociological analysis of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-30
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This book contributes to current debates about “queer outsides” and “queer outsiders” that emerge from tensions in legal reforms aimed at improving the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer people in the United Kingdom. LGBTIQ people in the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-30
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