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From sending imams abroad to financing mosques and Islamic associations, home states play a key role in governing Islam in Western Europe. Drawing on over one hundred interviews and years of fieldwork, this book employs a comparative perspective that analyzes the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-25
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As research continues to accumulate on the connections between media and crime, #Crime explores the impact of social media on the criminal legal system. It examines how media influences our perceptions of crime, the perpetration of crime, and the implementation of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-24
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With well over one-hundred episodes, the podcast Welcome to Night Vale has spawned several international live tours, two novels set in the Night Vale universe, and an extensive volume of fan fiction and commentary. However, despite its immense popularity, Welcome to...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-08-24
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Recent decades have seen the rise of a global beauty boom, with profound effects on perceptions of bodies worldwide. Against this background, Beauty and the Norm assembles ethnographic and conceptual approaches from a variety of disciplines and across the globe to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-08-24
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Die Beiträge des Bandes befassen sich mit dem sozialen Gedächtnis der Migration. Im Mittelpunkt stehen Analysen zum kulturell verankerten Fremdheits- und Vertrautheitswissen sowie zur Frage, inwieweit gesellschaftliche Vergangenheitsbezüge Fremdheit und Befremden...
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Springer VS
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2018-08-23
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Soziales Gedächtnis, Erinnern und Vergessen – Memory Studies
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This edited collection focuses on the ethics, politics and practices of responsiveness in the context of racism, inequality, difference and controversy. The politics of difference has long been concerned with speech, voice and representation. By focusing on the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-08-22
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This book explores collective consciousness and how it is applied to the pursuit of gender justice in international law. It discusses how the collective mode of behaviour and identity can lead to unconscious role-playing based on the social norms, expectations or...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-22
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This book explores the strong links between sustainability and the humanities, which go beyond the inclusion of social sciences in discussions on sustainability, and offers a holistic discussion on the intellectual and moral aspects of sustainable development. The...
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Springer
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2018-08-22
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This book examines the ways in which the histories of racial violence, from slavery onwards, are manifest in representations of the body in twenty-first-century culture set in the US South. Christopher Lloyd focuses on corporeality in literature and film to detail the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-22
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This book explores three worlds shared by the humans in their collective experiences. It identifies and explores the world of commonsense, the world of religion, and the world of science as three essential dimensions of human experience. The book helps understand that...
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Springer
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2018-08-22
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Aktuelle gesellschaftliche Dynamiken führen zu vielfältigen Veränderungen in den Lebensbedingungen und Wertorientierungen in Österreich. Neben kontinuierlichen Entwicklungen zeigen sich bei den Wertorientierungen auch neue Tendenzen im Spannungsfeld zwischen Tradition...
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Springer VS
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2018-08-22
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The book embarks on the tasks to systematically analyze the macro background of the spatial patterns of China’s urban development, the theoretical foundations and framework, and its changing trajectory. From a quantitative perspective, we attempt to evaluate the...
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Springer
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2018-08-21
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Examining the fascinating history of female genital cosmetic surgery, Camille Nurka traces the origins of contemporary ideas of genital normality. Over the past twenty years, Western women have become increasingly worried about the aesthetic appearance of their labia...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-08-21
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This interdisciplinary book explores the affective dimensions of becoming a parent, traversing the life-cycle journey of pregnancy, childbirth, and early parenting. Bringing together researchers from sociology, history, feminist studies, cultural studies, general...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-21
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Len Ole Schäfer sorgt für Klarheit über die Effekte des sogenannten Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) und des Research Excellence Framework (REF) auf die wissenschaftliche Praxis, die als Instrumente zur Steigerung der Forschungsleistung in Großbritannien eingesetzt...
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Springer VS
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2018-08-21
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Das Buch vermittelt sowohl die gesetzlichen und rechtsdogmatischen Grundlagen des Flüchtlingsrechts als auch die Geschichte des Asylrechts, ferner stellt es Ansätze für eine philosophische Reflexion des Migrations- und Flüchtlingsrechts unter menschenrechtlichen...
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Springer
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2018-08-21
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Situating Maori Ecological Knowledge (MEK) within traditional environmental knowledge (TEK) frameworks, this book recognizes that indigenous ecological knowledge contributes to our understanding of how we live in our world (our world views), and in turn, the ways in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-08-21
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The Smartphone Paradox is a critical examination of our everyday mobile technologies and the effects that they have on our thoughts and behaviors. Alan J. Reid presents a comprehensive view of smartphones: the research behind the uses and gratifications of smartphones,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-21
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Fabian Lieschke untersucht die im deutschen Mediendiskurs verwendete Sprache zur Europäischen Wirtschafts- und Währungsunion (EWWU). Seine Analyse beschäftigt sich mit kognitiven Angeboten, sogenannten Identitätsangeboten, die seit den 1970er Jahren in Ausschnitten des...
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Springer VS
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2018-08-21
Collection :
Theorie und Praxis der Diskursforschung
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This book examines human rights as political battlefields, spaces that are undergoing constant changes in which political conflicts are expressed by a translation process within networks of interactions.This translation, in turn, contributes to modifying the scope and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-20
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