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This book tells the remarkable story of the friendship between Liria Hernández, a Roma woman from Madrid, and Paloma Gay y Blasco, a non-Roma anthropologist. In this unique reciprocal experiment, the former informant returns the gaze to write about the anthropologist,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-23
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This book explores one of the most exciting new developments in the literary field to emerge over recent decades: the growing body of work known as ‘electronic literature’, comprising literary works that take advantage of the capabilities of digital technologies in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-22
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This book examines the circulation and viewership of Bollywood films and filmi modernity in Bangladesh. The writer poses a number of fundamental questions: what it means to be a Bangladeshi in South Asia, what it means to be a Bangladeshi fan of Hindi film, and how...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-22
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This book explores the complexities of the recreational summer camp experience and its reliance on the expertise and emotion work of young people. Drawing on post-structural theory, Baker illustrates the discourses, power relations and emotional demands that shape camp...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-22
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Der Band bietet eine Zusammenschau theoretischer und praktischer Perspektiven, die sich rund um das Thema Videospiel, die Erhaltung von Information und die Beharrung auf traditionellen Designparadigmen ergeben. Die Beiträge gehen über ihre jeweiligen Disziplinen von der...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-11-22
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In 1974, the release of Dungeons & Dragons forever changed the way that we experience imagined worlds. No longer limited to simply reading books or watching movies, gamers came together to collaboratively and interactively build and explore new realms. Based on four...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-22
Collection :
Palgrave Games in Context
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Veiled women in the West appear menacing. Their visible invisibility is a cause of obsession. What is beneath the veil more than a woman? This book investigates the preoccupation with the veiled body through the imaging and imagining of Muslim women. It examines the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-21
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Based on Catholic and Confucian social ethics, this book develops an ethic of solidarity and reciprocity with the migrants in Asia who are marginalized. Mary Mee-Yin Yuen draws off her own pastoral experiences in the Church, the situation of the wider Christian...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-21
Collection :
Religion and Global Migrations
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Anna-Lena Berscheid beschäftigt sich damit, wie inter- und transdisziplinäre Forschung, die oftmals als vielversprechende Strategie zur Lösung sogenannter Großer Gesellschaftlicher Herausforderungen gehandelt wird, in der wissenschaftlichen Praxis von...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-11-21
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On Popular Music and Its Unruly Entanglements comprises eleven essays that explore the myriad ways in which popular music is entwined within social, cultural, musical, historical, and media networks. The authors discuss genres as diverse as mainstream pop, hip hop,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-21
Collection :
Pop Music, Culture and Identity
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This open access monograph argues established democratic norms for freedom of expression should be implemented on the internet. Moderating policies of tech companies as Facebook, Twitter and Google have resulted in posts being removed on an...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-11-21
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Alle, die sich mit fachsprachlichen Texten beschäftigen, beschäftigen sich automatisch auch mit Terminologie: Beim Lesen von Fachtexten nehmen sie die darin enthaltene Terminologie auf, beim Verfassen von Fachtexten verwenden oder produzieren sie Terminologie, beim...
Editeur :
Springer Vieweg
Parution :
2019-11-21
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This book describes the Islamisation process that has unfolded in Malaysia over the last fifty years and provides feedback from in-depth interviews with 100 individuals from Malaysia’s “educated classes”, or the “elite”, regarding their reactions to the changes that...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-21
Collection :
Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific
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This book offers a detailed account of the employment promises made to local East Londoners when the Summer Olympic Games 2012 were awarded to London, as well as an examination of how those promises had morphed into the Olympic Labor market jamboree from which local...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-21
Collection :
Mega Event Planning
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This book offers a systematic, sociological and penological exploration of the most up-to-date uses of electronic tagging (also known as electronic monitoring). With increasingly overcrowded prisons, electronic tagging has been proposed as an alternative form of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-21
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This book offers a collection of original contributions to the literature on sexual crime, religion and spirituality. Does religion help people desist from sexual crime? Can it form the basis of interventions to rehabilitate people? Or does it provide justification and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-20
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Feminist Media Studies is a cutting-edge introduction to the core and emerging theories, methods, and approaches in a field that has blossomed over the past twenty-five years. Adopting an intersectional approach – a framework concerning the interconnected character of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-11-20
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This edited volume examines the development and challenges of governance, democracy, and human rights in Africa. It analyzes the emerging challenges for strengthening good governance in the region and explores issues related to civil, political, economic, cultural, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-19
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This book reviews the research on Einstein’s brain from a sociological perspective and in the context of the social brain paradigm. Instead of “Einstein, the genius of geniuses” standing on the shoulders of giants, Restivo proposes a concept of Einstein the social...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-19
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Diese Studie von Jonathan Kufner-Eger nimmt aktuelle Konstitutionsprozesse von Kategorien wie Kriminalität, Risiko und Delinquenz in den Blick, um die realen Folgen von Integrations- wie Ausschlussmechanismen im Rahmen der sozialarbeiterischen Straffälligenhilfe...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-11-19
Collection :
Perspektiven kritischer Sozialer Arbeit
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