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This book explores the significance of reggae and hip hop in Southern Italy from the beginning of the 1980s to the present. Focusing on groups and solo artists located predominantly in the Southern Italian regions of Apulia and Sardinia, it examines the production and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-10-10
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This book investigates economic, political, and cultural conditions that have led to transnational flows of culture in Asia. Coverage also looks at the consequences of an increasingly interconnected Asian regional culture as well as policy makers and cultural...
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Springer
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2018-10-10
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This book tells the story of local-level controls on liquor licensing (‘local option’) that emerged during the anti-alcohol temperance movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It offers a new perspective on these often-overlooked smaller prohibitions, arguing...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2018-10-10
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Far from heralding their demise, digital technologies have lead to a dramatic transformation of the public library. Around the world, libraries have reinvented themselves as networked hubs, community centres, innovation labs, and makerspaces. Coupling striking...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2018-10-10
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Die Aufgabe von Kulturmanagern besteht darin, proaktiv mit systemischen Beziehungen umzugehen, anstatt sich ihnen auszuliefern. Dies gilt sowohl für die Rahmenbedingungen der Kulturbetriebe als auch für die sie umgebenden konkreten anderen Systeme. Erwin Hoffmann...
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Springer VS
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2018-10-10
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This book explores the aesthetic and ethical ways in which history and daily life are filmically represented and witnessed in Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien’s movies. From the era of the Japanese Occupation to the White Horror and then to the lifting of martial law,...
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Springer
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2018-10-10
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An ethnography of urban citizenship, global belonging, and queerness in a rapidly growing provincial city in the Global South, Queerly Cosmopolitan explores how people develop a sense of belonging in a city understood by many to be “unimportant” and “in the middle of...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2018-10-10
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Die Beiträge dieses Sammelbandes befassen sich mit Theorien und Modellen sowie Ansätzen für die Praxis der Schuldenprävention und Armutsbekämpfung.Die Beitragsautorinnen und -autoren untersuchen, wie benachteiligte Personengruppen erreicht werden können, sie beleuchten...
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Springer VS
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2018-10-09
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Over recent decades, the historico-geographical approach to urban morphology has been prominent in the debate on the physical form of our cities and on the agents and processes shaping that form over time. With origins in the work of the geographer M.R.G. Conzen, this...
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Springer
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2018-10-09
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Wie digitale Vernetzung unsere Gesellschaft verändert, gehört zu den drängendsten Fragen der Gegenwart.Wie jedoch dieser Prozess die zeitgenössische Literatur prägt, erfährt seit der enthusiastischen Erforschung von Hypertexten um die Jahrtausendwende wenig...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-10-09
Collection :
Kontemporär. Schriften zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur
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When there are too many choices, there is no choice. The choices are entangled in a maze of rather confused possibilities. They go through many nebulous paths. Doubt, hesitation, indecision, become the only resolutions possible. Choosing is the anxiety of being wrong!...
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Wiley-ISTE
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2018-10-09
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A well-known name in contemporary sociology, Dipankar Gupta’s wide range of scholarship and popular columns have justly earned him the reputation of being one of India’s leading public intellectuals. Talking Sociology provides a complete panorama of Gupta’s life and...
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OUP India
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2018-10-09
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Since the 1990’s, a number of studies have documented a remarkable high and stable amount of popular engagement in civic organizations in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Often these countries have been considered deviant cases against the proliferating decline of social...
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Springer
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2018-10-09
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This book draws together established and emerging scholars from sociology, law, history, political science and education to examine the global and local issues in the pursuit of gender justice in post-conflict settings.This examination is especially important given the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-08
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This volume aims to critically engage with constructs and experiences of disabled sexualities through Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. In doing so, it is hoped that the questions raised, relfections, analyses and arguments will provide readers with a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-08
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The technical progress illustrated by the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data technologies, the Internet of Things (IoT), online platforms, NBICs, autonomous expert systems, and the Blockchain let appear the possibility of a new world and the emergence...
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Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2018-10-08
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This book critically explores the intersections between male rape, masculinities, and sexualities. It examines the ways in which male rape is policed, responded to, and addressed by state and voluntary agencies in Britain. The book uncovers how notions of gender,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-08
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This book explores the textures of women’s narratives of patriarchal oppression of female sexuality. Postcolonial feminist scholars in Africa highlight the importance of moving beyond Westernised lenses of ‘African’ women’s powerlessness, towards a focus on women’s...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-10-06
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This volume addresses the persistent and frequently toxic associations between masculinity and games. It explores many of the critical issues in contemporary studies of masculinity—including issues of fatherhood, homoeroticism, eSports, fan cultures, and militarism—and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-06
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?This book discusses the elite capture taking place in the development programmes implemented through Grama Panchayats (GPs), the lowest tier in the rural local self-government structure in India. Inclusive growth being the cherished goal of all the developing...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-10-05
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