| |
In this book David Block draws on analytical techniques from Critical Discourse Studies to critically investigate truth, truths, the propagation of ignorance and post-truth. Focusing on corrupt discourses and agnotology, he explores the role of anti-intellectualism,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-09-26
PDF, ePub
|
This book provides a nuanced, complex, comparative analysis of adolescent girls’ migration and mobility in the Global South. The stories and the narratives of migrant girls collected in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Sudan guide the readers in drawing the contours of their...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-26
PDF, ePub
|
This handbook on social movements, revolution, and social transformation analyzes people’s struggles to bring about social change in the age of globalization. It examines the origins, nature, dynamics, and challenges of such movements as they aim to change dominant...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-26
PDF, ePub
|
This comparative study examines the processes of development and the configurations of export industries in northern Morocco and on the northern border of Mexico. As the contributors explore the similar characteristics of these two borders, they also examine how the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-26
PDF, ePub
|
This book analyses the circular migration of care workers in Central Europe using the example of Slovak carers in 24-hour care provision for the elderly in Austria. Challenging analyses that focus primarily on care drain and care regimes, Bahna and Sekulová supplement...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-25
PDF, ePub
|
This book analyzes the ways in which China’s soft power growth faces dilemmas in East Asia through both online and offline platforms. One dilemma for China’s transnational soft power-field expansion lies in the intersection of its source and receiving countries. The...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-25
PDF, ePub
|
The bestselling author, political analyst, and civil rights expert delivers a forceful critique of the Trump administration's ignorant and unprecedented rollback of the civil rights movement. In this powerful and timely book, civil rights historian and political analyst...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2018-09-25
ePub
|
The recent rise of cities in global environmental politics has stimulated remarkable debates about sustainable urban development and the geopolitics of a changing world order no longer defined by tightly bordered national regimes. This book explores this major...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-25
Collection :
Cities and the Global Politics of the Environment
PDF, ePub
|
This book presents an innovative institutional transpositional ethnography that examines the textual trajectory of “the life of a calling script” from production by corporate management and clients to recontextualization by middle management and finally to application...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-24
PDF, ePub
|
This edited volume focuses on the impact of education among different social groups in different geographical areas of South Asia. The chapters illustrate the effects of formal education on castes ranging from Dalits to Brahmins, Buddhists, and Christians, even as they...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-24
Collection :
Anthropological Studies of Education
PDF, ePub
|
Aesthetics and the Revolutionary City engages in alternative ways of reading foreign visual representations of Havana through analysis of advertising images, documentary films, and photographic texts. It explores key narratives relating to the projection of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-22
PDF, ePub
|
This book describes the application of a high-level technology to solve problems in distributed systems that have networked structures with millions to billions of nodes. The main difference from other works is that the approach is based on holistically and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-09-22
PDF, ePub
|
Der Band sammelt die Ergebnisse der BMBF-Förderlinie „Sexuelle Gewalt in pädagogischen Kontexten“ und diskutiert diese im Hinblick auf weitergehende Forschungsdesiderate. Die bekannt gewordenen Fälle von Verletzungen der sexuellen Integrität von Kindern und Jugendlichen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2018-09-22
Collection :
Sexuelle Gewalt und Pädagogik
PDF
|
Archaeological heritage legislation aims to ensure the best possible protection for the archaeological heritage, yet it remains the case that legislation can remain ineffective through other practical considerations. Some consideration may be legal or procedural,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-09-22
PDF, ePub
|
This is the first book to examine whether France’s ongoing defence of the cultural exception as a means to maintain cultural policies and defend cultural diversity is justifiable in the digital age. It questions whether the arrival of new players such as Apple and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-22
PDF, ePub
|
Das Buch befasst sich mit der Rolle von Medien in einem politischen Ausnahmezustand. Bettina Haasen hat in Burundi Journalistinnen und Journalisten zu ihrem beruflichen Rollenselbstverständnis befragt und diese Aussagen unter Berücksichtigung ihrer sozialen Herkunft und...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2018-09-21
Collection :
Studies in International, Transnational and Global Communications
PDF
|
This volume addresses the current challenges for and future prospects of women’s entrepreneurship research, bringing together a wealth of diverse insights with implications for research, education and practice alike.Presenting theoretical and empirical research papers...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-09-21
Collection :
FGF Studies in Small Business and Entrepreneurship
PDF, ePub
|
This book addresses the challenges threatening the quality of life and well-being of people living in the MENA region. It focuses on both internal / local and external / global drivers impacting their well-being particularly in the domains of economy, health, and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-09-21
Collection :
Human Well-Being Research and Policy Making
PDF, ePub
|
Based on a study among higher-educated adult children of lower-class Turkish and Moroccan immigrants in the Netherlands, this open access book explores processes of identification among social climbers with ethnic minority backgrounds. Using both survey data and open...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-09-21
Collection :
IMISCOE Research Series
PDF, ePub
|
This book addresses a central dilemma of the urban age: how to make the vast suburban landscapes that ring the globe safe and sustainable in the face of planetary ecological crisis. The authors argue that degrowth, a planned contraction of economic overshoot, is...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-21
PDF, ePub
|