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Karoline Eickhoff provides an in-depth analysis of the role that national ownership as a key policy principle of international development and peacebuilding plays in shaping the discourses and practices of external interventions in the context of the peace process in...
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Springer VS
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2020-01-22
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At the start of the twentieth century, the pre-eminent black sociologist, W.E.B. DuBois, identified the color line as America's great problem. While the color line is increasingly variegated beyond black and white, and more openly discussed than ever before as more...
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Polity
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2020-01-22
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This is a book on how home is made when care enters the lives of people as they grow old at home or in ‘homely’ institutions. Throughout the book, contributors show how home is a verb: it is something people do. Home is thus always in the making, temporal, contested,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-01-21
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This book challenges the framing of comedic acts as apolitical and it adopts a multimodal critical discourse approach to interrogate the performance of comedy as a form of power. It proposes using Bakhtin’s carnivalesque as the analytic tool to distil for readers key...
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Springer
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2020-01-21
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Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education
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*** A NEW YORK TIMES "100 Notable Books of 2020" ***A stunning, complex narrative about the fractured legacy of a decades-old double murder in rural West Virginia—and the writer determined to put the pieces back together. In the early evening of...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2020-01-21
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Public trust in the institutions that mediate civic life-from governing bodies to newsrooms-is low. In facing this challenge, many organizations assume that ensuring greater efficiency will build trust. As a result, these organizations are quick to adopt new...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-01-21
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Putting the anthropological imagination under the spotlight, this book represents the experience of three generations of researchers, each of whom have long collaborated with the same Indigenous community over the course of their careers. In the context of a remote...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-01-21
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This book presents a powerful and thorough investigation into police deviance and sexual misconduct in the US. Drawing on news reports, official government press releases and academic research sources, Barker examines a wide array of cases including sexual...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-01-20
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Das Buch beinhaltet eine ganzheitliche Untersuchung von Musikclubs als Akteure der kulturellen Produktion. Die Einbettung von Clubs und ihre Reaktion auf Veränderungen in ihren sozialräumlichen Bezugsfeldern lokaler Musikszenen, des Stadtraums und der Music Industries...
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Springer VS
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2020-01-20
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Since the 1930s, the Walt Disney Company has produced characters, images, and stories that have captivated audiences around the world. How can we understand the appeal of Disney products? What is it about the Disney phenomenon that attracts so many children, as well as...
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Polity
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2020-01-20
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Namrata Goswami’s research on the Naga armed ethnic movement offers a compelling narrative on how conflict has affected the daily lives of the Nagas. This volume is an account of the Naga ethnic movement going on in India since 1918, covering both historical and...
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OUP India
Parution :
2020-01-17
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Every day we are inundated by propaganda that claims life will be better once we are connected to digital technology. Poverty, famine, and injustice will end, and the economy will be “green.” All anyone needs is the latest smartphone. In this succinct and lively book,...
Editeur :
Polity
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2020-01-17
Collection :
Digital Futures
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This book outlines the theory of convenience for white-collar crime to explain what motivates and enables offenders, providing a unique focus on white-collar crime in the business context. The theory of convenience suggests that the extent to which elite members commit...
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Springer
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2020-01-17
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'Blistering' Sunday Times'Indispensable' Observer'Fascinating' The Times'Brilliant' Peter Frankopan'Revelatory' Lindsey HilsumA timely and unprecedented examination of how the modern Middle East unravelled, and why it started with the pivotal year of 1979. Shortlisted...
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Wildfire
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2020-01-17
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Theorizing gender is more urgent and highly political than ever before. These are times, in many countries, of increased visibility of women in public life and high-profile campaigns against sexual violence and harassment. Challenges to fixed, traditional gender norms...
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Polity
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2020-01-17
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Through the examination of different themes and subjects the book provides an in depth analysis of the concept of deterrence and its utility in dealing effectively with current threats. Although the concept of deterrence precedes the Cold War, in modern times and...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-01-16
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Boasting trillion-dollar companies, the digital economy profits from our emotions, our relationships with each other, and the ways we interact with the world. In this timely book, Tim Jordan deftly explores the workings of the digital economy. He discusses the hype and...
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Polity
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2020-01-16
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Grain Brain and his physician son explore how modern culture threatens to rewire our brains and damage our health, offering a practical plan for healing.Contemporary life provides us with infinite opportunities, along with...
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Yellow Kite
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2020-01-16
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Kerstin Discher nimmt auf Basis einer narrativen Analyse die Sichtweise junger Erwachsener auf den sozialstaatlichen Aktivierungsdiskurs in den Blick. Anhand biografischer Fallgeschichten verdeutlicht sie, wie junge Erwachsene im beruflichen Übergang auf die Anforderung...
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Springer VS
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2020-01-16
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Culture, cultural difference, and cultural conflict always surround us. Cultural sociologists aim to understand their role across all aspects of social life by examining processes of meaning-making. In this crisp and accessible book, Lyn Spillman demonstrates many of...
Editeur :
Polity
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2020-01-16
Collection :
What is Sociology?
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