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Recent years have made apparent we are living in a world of chronic crises: prolonged disasters that continue to impact people's lives long after their onset. Climate change, famine, and the COVID-19 pandemic represent a few of these disasters--instead of a return to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-05-19
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Textiles have been a highly valued part of many Indigenous societies across the world and over millennia. This pathbreaking book examines the large woven ceremonial cloths known as pua kumbu, long associated with the Iban people of the interior of Sarawak, Malaysia. In...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-05-18
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The Participatory Role of Indigenous Women in Environmental Conservation in the Himalayan Region offers a comprehensive exploration of how Indigenous women leverage their Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) to safeguard fragile ecosystems, uphold cultural heritage,...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-05-18
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This book offers an innovative perspective on cultural heritage, blending theory, practice, and management through a comprehensive, interdisciplinary lens. It proposes a systemic approach to understanding heritage as a dynamic and evolving entity, emphasizing its...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-05-18
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This authored volume rethinks how injustice is understood in political theory. Rather than seeing it as a departure from justice, the book argues that injustice is structural, constitutive, and foundational to modern liberal orders. Drawing on liberal political thought,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-05-18
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This book critically examines the foundational assumptions of vaccine systems, challenging the dominant linear narrative of vaccine creation and production, regulation, and distribution. Rather than treating these components as isolated and sequential, the project...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-05-18
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This open access volume provides an absorbing analysis of the multifaceted mission that gave rise to the Turkish Protestant movement. James Bultema identifies and investigates four central factors that have contributed to the movement’s development: religious...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-05-18
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This book offers a pioneering exploration of disability through Indigenous epistemologies and decolonial theory in Latin America. It challenges dominant Western biomedical and rights-based models by foregrounding relational ontologies, community-based care, and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-05-17
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This volume delves into intersections of identities in complex societies, which reproduce and cross symbolic boundaries and form as well as challenge power relations. The volume offers both descriptive and analytical contributions with evidence-based suggestions of the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-05-17
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Orientierungslosigkeit von Heranwachsenden ist in der postmodernen westlichen Welt, zwischen unendlichen Möglichkeiten, individualistischen Ansprüchen und fehlenden strukturierenden Rahmenbedingungen, ein häufiges Problem. Orientierungslose Jugendlichen...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-05-17
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Mittels biografieanalytischer Fallstudien wurden lebensgeschichtlich bedingte Positionierungen zum Umgang mit Erwerbsarbeit rekonstruiert. Aufgrund der stetigen Zunahme von Prekarisierung, Flexibilisierung, Entgrenzung und Subjektivierung und der engen Verwobenheit von...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2026-05-17
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This book presents the relationships and conflicts between the so-called two cultures, which separated the social and human sciences from the hard theoretical and applied sciences. Today more than ever, engineering, and especially young engineers, need to build...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-05-17
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Modern life is speeding up, constantly. While the art of saving time reaches unprecedented heights through the introduction of ever-new technologies of communication and production, it nevertheless feels as though we are running out of time. In all Western societies,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2026-05-15
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Social life is in a constant process of change, and sociology can never stand still. As a result, contemporary sociology is a theoretically diverse enterprise, covering a huge range of subjects and drawing on a broad array of research methods. Central to this endeavour...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2026-05-15
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From its obscure mid-twentieth-century origins in clinical assessments of intersex individuals, "gender identity" – understood as an inner sense of self that may or may not align with one's natal sex – has become central to the public and private culture of selfhood...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2026-05-15
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This book explores the potentiality and criticality of integrating Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE) technologies and slow mobility. The book broadly considers the so-called e-velomobility and deals with practices, systems, and technologies of e-cycling. The...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-05-14
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This book explores environmental victims’ movements and how they have shaped the history of East Asia. The book focuses on the impact of these movements and whether the ideas of environmental justice in this region align with Western concepts or whether they take...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-05-14
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This book offers a rich, cross-disciplinary examination of military, modern, and industrial heritage through fresh perspectives on interpretation, reuse, and technological integration. Structured into five focused sections, it explores strategies for reimagining...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-05-14
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This book examines how Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are designed and used to produce, organise, and circulate information, and why this matters for information integrity in contemporary digital societies. Written for scholars, designers, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-05-13
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This book provides a concise-yet-comprehensive overview and critique of leading theories of family violence. It addresses various forms of violence, including elder abuse, sibling abuse, child abuse, and intimate partner violence. The book provides several frameworks to...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-05-13
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