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This open access book bridges the disciplinary boundaries within the social sciences to explore the role of social institutions in shaping geographical contexts, and in creating new knowledge. It includes theorizations as well as original empirical case studies on the...
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Springer
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2018-06-07
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Knowledge and Space
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The idea of the “mamma italiana” is one of the most widespread and recognizable stereotypes in perceptions of Italian national character both within and beyond Italy. This figure makes frequent appearances in jokes and other forms of popular culture, but it has also...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-06-07
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One of the main goals in fisheries governance is to promote viability and sustainability in small-scale fishing communities. This is not an easy task given external and internal pressure, including environmental change and competition with other economic sectors...
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Springer
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2018-06-07
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MARE Publication Series
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Oliver Lieber untersucht den Konflikt zwischen der Hafenwirtschaft und der Stadtentwicklung in Hamburg. Er zeigt detailliert, dass Schwierigkeiten einer urbanen Nutzung an der Schnittstelle von Hafen und Stadt in der öffentlichen Debatte unterschätzt werden und dass der...
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Springer VS
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2018-06-07
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Stadt, Raum und Gesellschaft
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This book narrates the integration of consumer culture into transnational human rights advocacy and explores its political impact. By examining tactics that include benefit concerts, graphic imagery of suffering, and branded outreach campaigns, the book details the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-06
Collection :
Human Rights Interventions
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Das Buch gibt einen Überblick über die bisherigen Entwicklungen und den gegenwärtigen Stand zentraler Themenbereiche der Arbeitssoziologie.Das Handbuch vermittelt grundlegendes Wissen und gibt wichtige Forschungsbereiche und Diskurse der Arbeitssoziologie wieder....
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Springer VS
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2018-06-05
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This book develops a case for feminist gender training as a catalyst for disjuncture, rupture and change. Chapter 1 traces the historical development and current contours of the field of gender training. In Chapter 2, the key critiques of gender training are...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2018-06-05
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This handbook provides a comprehensive view of the field of the sociology of gender. It presents the most important theories about gender and methods used to study gender, as well as extensive coverage of the latest research on gender in the most important areas of...
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Springer
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2018-06-05
Collection :
Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
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How are “grey market” imports changing media industries? What is the role of piracy in developing new markets for movies and TV shows?How do jailbroken iPhones drive innovation? The Informal Media Economy provides a vivid, original, and genuinely transnational account...
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Polity
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2018-06-05
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We live in a world in which Google's search algorithms determine how we access information, Facebook's News Feed algorithms shape how we socialize, and Netflix collaborative filtering algorithms choose the media products we consume. As such, we live algorithmic lives....
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Oxford University Press
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2018-06-05
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The Neolithic in Britain was a period of fundamental change: human communities were transformed, collectively owning domesticated plants and animals, and inhabiting a richer world of material things: timber houses and halls, pottery vessels, polished flint and stone...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-06-05
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Carole Pateman is one of the foremost political theorists writing in English today. In this outstanding new work, she presents a major reinterpretation of modern political theory. She shows how standard discussions of social contract theory tell only half the story. The...
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Polity
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2018-06-05
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In December 1572 the Mughal emperor Akbar arrived in the port city of Khambayat. Having been raised in distant Kabul, Akbar, in his thirty years, had never been to the ocean. Presumably anxious with the news about the Mughal military campaign in Gujarat, several...
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OUP India
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2018-06-05
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Das Buch gibt einen Überblick über die bisherigen Entwicklungen und den gegenwärtigen Stand zentraler Themenbereiche der Arbeitssoziologie.Das Handbuch vermittelt grundlegendes Wissen und gibt wichtige Forschungsbereiche und Diskurse der Arbeitssoziologie wieder....
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Springer VS
Parution :
2018-06-04
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This book analyses how multiple and hybrid ‘modernities’ have been shaped in colonial and postcolonial India from the lens of sociology and anthropology, literature, media and cultural studies, law and political economy. It discusses the ideas that shaped these...
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Springer
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2018-06-04
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Die Autoren untersuchen in diesem Sammelband die Alltagsarrangements einer Berufsgruppe, bei der der Umgang mit Mobilität seit jeher gängige Praxis ist. Am Beispiel von Offizieren wird gezeigt, mit welchen Strategien diese das Spannungsfeld zwischen beruflicher...
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Springer VS
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2018-06-04
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A unique contribution to discussions of social theory, this book counters the argument that no social theory was ever produced in Britain before the late twentieth century. Reviewing a period of 300 years from the seventeenth century to the mid-twentieth century, it...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2018-06-04
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The SAGE Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory expounds the development of critical theory from its founding thinkers to its contemporary formulations in an interdisciplinary setting. It maps the terrain of a critical social theory, expounding its distinctive...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2018-06-04
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Archeological rescue excavations uncovered three burial grounds in Nadlac, dating from the 6th to the 8th centuries. The burial customs and material culture provide important archaelogical data io the mobile lifestyle (nomadism) and possible micro-regional patterns of...
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Editions L'Harmattan
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2018-06-04
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This book explores various aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) regimes with regard to plant-variety protection and farmers’ rights; traditional knowledge; geographical indications, genetically modified crops; and access to genetic resources within the broad...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-06-02
Collection :
South Asia Economic and Policy Studies
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