| |
News media strongly influence how we picture public affairs across the world, playing a significant and sometimes controversial role in determining which topics are at the centre of public attention and action. Setting the Agenda, first published in 2004, has become the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-11-18
ePub
|
In der vorliegenden Publikation versucht der Autor, die Bedeutung des Fremdsprachenlernens (im Hinblick auf das Erlernen des Deutschen und Bamanan im Ausland) zu beschreiben, damit die interkulturelle
Kommunikation zwischen den jeweiligen Ländern im Norden und im Süden...
Editeur :
Editions L'Harmattan
Parution :
2020-11-18
Collection :
Harmattan Mali
PDF, ePub
|
This volume presents a collection of essays that explore the relationship between sporting clothing and gender. Drawing on uniform and sports apparel as a means of exploring the socio-sexual politics of contemporary US society, the contributions analyse the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-17
Collection :
New Femininities in Digital, Physical and Sporting Cultures
PDF, ePub
|
A major new history of the fight for racial equality in America, arguing that fear of black sexuality has undergirded white supremacy from the start.In White Fright, historian Jane Dailey brilliantly reframes our understanding of the long struggle for African American...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2020-11-17
ePub
|
Der vorliegende Band vereint aktuelle, interdisziplinäre Forschungen, welche sich im Kern mit dem Handeln der Polizei als soziales Phänomen beschäftigen. In diesem Zusammenhang greifen die Autoren/innen auch Fragen nach den rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen polizeilichen...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-11-17
PDF, ePub
|
In Israel, where the Orthodox rabbinate wields historically sanctioned influence over the legal definitions of marriage and parenthood, same-sex parenthood raises important questions such as what constitutes belonging to the national collective, who has the authority to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-17
Collection :
Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
PDF, ePub
|
This is an edited collection of essays drawn from collaborative events organized jointly by The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. The book focuses on how literary and cultural perspectives from different humanities academic...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-11-17
PDF, ePub
|
The unifying theme of contributions gathered in this book is identity, which is an especially topical issue in contemporary society, culture, and art.The monograph presents many of the diverse ways of reflecting on identity, along with the broad interdisciplinary impact...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-11-17
PDF, ePub
|
What makes a woman’s body beautiful? Plastic surgery, cosmetic surgery and non-surgical interventions such as Botox are changing women’s bodies physically and affecting cultural notions and expectations of what it means to be a woman. Yet where does the law stand? Is...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-17
PDF, ePub
|
Eager to present their cultural assets, most nations in Eastern Europe, while ruled by foreign empires, were setting up museums from the 19th century on. With many of them attaining national sovereignty in the 20th century only, the museum expansion in this region has...
Editeur :
Harmattan Hongrie
Parution :
2020-11-17
PDF, ePub
|
Der Band betrachtet am Beispiel des Lebensmittelmarkts die drei Teilkontexte Produktion, Marktentnahme und Konsum in ihren wechselseitigen Handlungsbezügen sowie die Rolle von Macht und Wissen für die Koordination von Warenketten. Die Autorinnen und Autoren aus...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-11-16
PDF, ePub
|
This book provides the readers with an interdisciplinary perspective on communication in the diffuse boundaries that also demonstrates the diversity and inclusion for presenting wide range and rapid changes in contents, and the authors use “smart” as the guiding...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-11-16
PDF, ePub
|
This book explores the development of the discipline of Criminology on the island of Ireland, through conversations with leading criminologists. Adding depth and breadth to the understandings of this growing discipline, leading scholars discuss their personal journey to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-16
PDF, ePub
|
This book explores how an audience of men serving sentences in an English prison responded to viewing five contemporary British prison films. It examines how media representations of prison vary in style and content, how film can influence public attitudes, and how this...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2020-11-16
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture
PDF, ePub
|
Unpacking assumptions about corseting, Rebecca Gibson supplements narratives of corseted women from the 18th and 19th centuries with her seminal work on corset-related skeletal deformation. An undergarment that provided support and shape for centuries, the corset...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-16
PDF, ePub
|
This book breaks new theoretical ground by constructing a framework of ‘relational vulnerability’ through which it analyses the disadvantaged position of those who undertake unpaid caregiving, or ‘dependency-work’, in the context of the private family. Expanding on...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-15
PDF, ePub
|
Ce numéro spécial lance un cycle de réflexion qui aspire à colmater une brèche liée à l'enseignement et la recherche en sciences humaines, à savoir l'aspect pratique, lié au principe de recherche action et de recherche intervention. Ainsi les articles de ce numéro...
Editeur :
Editions L'Harmattan
Parution :
2020-11-15
PDF
|
This open access volume identifies the common and specific aspects of social mechanisms that generate inequalities, through comparative analyses of different dimensions in which inequalities are expressed. It includes studies on social inequalities in 5 European and 5...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-11-13
PDF, ePub
|
The Midwest experienced an upheaval over labor rights beginning in the winter of 2011. For most commentators, the fallout in the Midwest and unions' weak showing in the 2016 presidential election a few years later was just more evidence of labor's emaciated state.
In...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-11-13
PDF, ePub
|
The book provides a contemporary ‘snapshot’ of critical debate centred around cybercrime and related issues, to advance theoretical development and inform social and educational policy. It covers theoretical explanations for cybercrime, typologies of online grooming,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-13
PDF, ePub
|