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UFOs sind zentrales und virulentes Thema der Gegenwartsästhetik: Als über Medien vermittelte Objekte sind sie zugleich Prüfsteine für die Mechanismen medialer Realitätsvermittlung selbst. Dies gilt sowohl für die Möglichkeit, überhaupt einen Diskurs überUFOs zu führen,...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-03-19
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There is a clear and pressing need for collective action to develop alternative approaches to the way we organize our activities. This necessity implies the development of a robust theory that outlines a potential, attainable, and desirable future, which is embedded in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-03-13
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This book was the winner of the 2022 Peter Lang Emerging Scholars Competition in Media & Communication.
Thailand, the "land of smiles," is often seen as a "gay paradise." But how does Thai culture understand sexuality?This book moves beyond Western frameworks to explore...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-03-13
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This book retraces the intellectual career of committed sociologist and maverick, Charles Wright Mills (1916-1962), whose work is considered "classic" in the USA. Unlike some existing works that focus primarily on Mills’ theoretical contributions or political...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-02-28
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This book presents the intersectionality between ethnicity and disability in the peripheral region of Northeast India. It familiarises the readers with micro issues, local cultural imagination, and social navigation of disability. It explores the region's social...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-02-26
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This book contributes to current discussions about the meaning, history, and theorisation of maps. The monograph focuses on William Blake (1757-1827), whose astute critical angle on cartography invites us to think in a new light about mapping in the eighteenth century,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-24
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Das Buch bietet die erste systematische Einführung in das Werk des kürzlich verstorbenen, postkolonialen Autors Munasu Duala-M'bedy, ausgehend von der Analyse seines Hauptwerkes Xenologie. Die Wissenschaft vom Fremden und die Verdrängung der Humanität in der...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2025-02-15
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Die Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Symbolforschung hat in diesem Band die Ergebnisse der vier Tagungen 2018 bis 2021, deren Themenbereiche einander bestens ergänzen, zusammengestellt. „Reisen und Verweilen“ (2018) führte Referenten aus den Gebieten der Arabistik,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-02-13
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This book provides a critical perspective on technology, answering the questions of why technologies often disappoint. It takes a sociotechnical and historical perspective on technology, as developed by an engineer–anthropologist and a design anthropologist, to answer...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-02-11
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This book is a detailed and comprehensive examination of the physical, symbolic and cultural uses of bamboo in China, where it has long had a ubiquitous presence in all aspects of the lives of the Chinese people: how and what they eat, what they wear, where they live,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-02-11
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This book analyzes the representations of movement that reflect time. The author scrutinizes movement critically assuming that (1) movement is composed of change, (2) a change may be a crack, (3) the crack demonstrates a disturbance in the experienced movement, and (4)...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-02-05
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This book critiques the victim paradigm that occupies a central place in today’s world. As being a victim, or a self-proclaimed defender of victims, is a source of power today, one which grants privilege, an audience, and freedom to act beyond criticism, a critique of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-04
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This edited volume uses ethnographic cases to examine social, political, and economic inequality in diverse urban settings.This book is couched in the idea that ethnographically-based analysis helps to bring out the nature and interconnections between different...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-25
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This book delves into the development trajectories of rural Europe, with a specific focus on Italy. The book addresses the key challenges rural communities face and explores the potential for grassroots development. The concept of affective economy is central to the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-17
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This book initiates fresh pedagogic thinking on the nature of intelligence and human potentiality in the midst of a rising panic over so-called artificial intelligence. At the rate of current advancement, entire social and cultural landscapes including education and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-13
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May ’68 has inspired cultural, social and political movements across the world but has been used also to criticise them. This book interrogates the consideration of the revolts in France as the pinnacle or even paradigm of a particular avatar in a revolutionary lineage...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-01-07
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This edited volume proposes to revisit the development of recreational and professional sporting activities in the French capital between 1854 and 2024. It comprises fifteen chapters surveying the rich and multifaceted history of athletic practices in Paris, and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-01-07
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