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Muslims constitute Britain's second largest religious grouping, and writing about their experiences has found a new audience in recent years-though not always through a positive lens. But a proper historical treatment of their arrival, settlement and establishment had...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-08-01
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Human trafficking has come to be seen as a growing threat, and transnational advocacy networks opposed to human trafficking have succeeded in establishing trafficking as a pressing political problem. The meaning of human trafficking, however, remains an object of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-31
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This collection of essays engages with a wide range of disciplines including art, performance, film and literature, to examine the myriad effects of contemporary surveillance on our cultural psyche. The volume expertly articulates the manner in which cultural...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-31
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This edited collection explores the lives, consequences and motivations of female researchers in Africa, giving unprecedented insights into how their gender—and sometimes their ethnicity and age—impacted on their research experiences, and how doing research in Africa...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-31
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Human sociality is shaped and realized most notably in embodied practices of interpersonal interaction. At the same time, the social nature of human beings is open for cultural influences. This book inspects the foundations of human sociality theoretically drawing on...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-07-30
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Neue digitale Technologien erleichtern es zunehmend, persönliche gesundheitsbezogene Daten zu generieren, zu analysieren und zu kommunizieren. Immer mehr Menschen nutzen entsprechende Instrumente und Angebote, um Wissen über ihre eigene Gesundheit, ihren Körper und ihr...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2018-07-30
Collection :
Öffentliche Wissenschaft und gesellschaftlicher Wandel
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Welche Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede bestehen bei der Aufteilung von bezahlter und unbezahlter Arbeit von Eltern in Österreich und Schweden und welche Ursachen lassen sich seit den 1990er Jahren feststellen? Sonja Dörfler untersucht das Verhalten von Müttern und...
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Springer VS
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2018-07-30
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Dieses Buch rekonstruiert konkrete ethnografische Daten-Karrieren von der Beobachtung im Feld bis zur Publikation wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse über das Feld. Die beobachteten ethnografischen Arbeiten an den einzelnen Karriereschritten machen methodologische Probleme...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-07-30
Collection :
Beiträge zur Praxeologie / Contributions to Praxeology
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Mark Jakob untersucht auf Grundlage von Archivquellen und zeitgenössischen Veröffentlichungen das Verhältnis von gesellschaftlichem Wandel, wertegeleiteter Familienpolitik und wissenschaftlicher Forschung. Von den 50er zu den 80er Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts wandelte...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2018-07-30
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The second edition of Mildred Blaxter's successful and highly respected book offers a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the key debates surrounding the concept of health today. It discusses how health is defined, constructed, experienced and acted out in...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-07-30
Collection :
Key Concepts
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This collection explores the discursive production and treatment of mental distress as it is mediated by gender and race in different institutional contexts. Featuring analyses of the prison, the psychiatric hospital, immigration detention, and other locales, this book...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-28
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When is the "right" time? How can I meet the demands of a professorship whilst caring for a young family? Choosing to become a mother has a profound effect on the career path of women holding academic positions, especially in the physical sciences. Yet many women...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-07-28
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This book explores how public policy advocacy can be used to approach policy issue identification, resolution or, at the least, support the management of wicked policy issues. By describing how this type of advocacy draws on participatory action research, including...
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Springer
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2018-07-28
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This book surveys the historical development, current problems and likely prospects for Eastern Mediterranean port cities, providing contributions from scholars from various disciplines, such as archaeologists, historians, economists, urban planners and architects. By...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-07-28
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This book examines how young people in Europe construct their political identities. Based on small discussion groups with 2000 young people across 29 European states, Alistair Ross explores how 13 to 20 year olds build identities in contemporary society,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-28
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This book examines how the shifts in the early 19th century in New York City affected children in particular. Indeed, one could argue that within this context, that “children” and “childhood” came into being. In order to explore this, the skeletal remains of the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-07-28
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This edited collection explores the representations of identity in comedy and interrogates the ways in which “humorous” constructions of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, class and disability raise serious issues about privilege, agency and oppression in popular...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-27
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Technology, Activism, and Social Justice in a Digital Age offers a close look at both the present nature and future prospects for social change. In particular, the text explores the cutting edge of technology and social change, while discussing developments in social...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-07-27
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In this book Krzysztof Nawratek explores the possibility of a post-capitalist city, and in so doing, reclaims and develops the idea of total mobilisation as originally formulated by Ernst Ju¨nger. Nawratek formulates the idea of ‘accumulation of agency’ the ability...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-07-27
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'This book is brilliant. Utterly, utterly brilliant. Apart from the epilogue, which is idiotic' Jeremy Clarkson'F*cking brilliant' Sarah KnightAN EXHILARATING JOURNEY THROUGH THE MOST CREATIVE AND CATASTROPHIC F*CK-UPS OF HUMAN HISTORYIn the seventy thousand years that...
Editeur :
Wildfire
Parution :
2018-07-26
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