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Art and the Challenge of Markets Volumes 1 & 2 examine the politics of art and culture in light of the profound changes that have taken place in the world order since the 1980s and 1990s. The contributors explore how in these two decades, the neoliberal or...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-01-16
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Art and the Challenge of Markets Volumes 1 & 2 examine the politics of art and culture in light of the profound changes that have taken place in the world order since the 1980s and 1990s. The contributors explore how in these two decades, the neoliberal or...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-01-16
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This book considers a burgeoning social phenomenon, compensated dating in Hong Kong, that facilitates direct commercial sex exchange between consenting females from their mid-teens through the late 20s and males from their early 20s to mid-adulthood. Informed by the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-01-16
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The field of anthropology took a long time to discover the significance of media in modern culture. In this important new book, Anna Pertierra tells the story of how a field - once firmly associated with the study of esoteric cultures - became a central part of the...
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Polity
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2018-01-16
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This volume features bioarchaeological research that interrogates the human skeleton in concert with material culture, ethnographic data and archival research.This approach provides examples of how these intersections of inquiry can be used to consider the larger social...
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Springer
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2018-01-16
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Life for too many African American men is a battle with extreme disadvantage, a fight for survival, and a struggle for dignity in a society which labels them a "problem." For more than 30 years, most of the effort put toward addressing the crisis of Black men has...
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Polity
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2018-01-16
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Debating Race
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Petra Rixgens untersucht in einer mikrosoziologischen Studie theoretisch und empirisch die Frage, ob die sozialen Führungsstile von Pflegekräften und Ärzten in Krankenhäusern der Allgemeinversorgung nachweisbare Effekte auf die Leistungseffektivität solcher...
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Springer Gabler
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2018-01-16
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Angela Pohlmann analyses the social embeddedness of renewable energy production. The author challenges tendencies in the existing literature to homogenize community energy projects. Energy production instead is analyzed as an outcome of complex situations within which...
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Springer VS
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2018-01-16
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Energiepolitik und Klimaschutz. Energy Policy and Climate Protection
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How is it possible to feel an affinity with a place? What is happening when someone feels almost literally transported to another time by a smell or a texture or a song? Why do striking family resemblances sometimes feel uncanny? In each of these cases a potent...
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Polity
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2018-01-16
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In recent years, there has been substantial progress on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights in the United States. We are now, though, in a time of incredible political uncertainty for queer people. LGBTQ Social Movements provides an...
Editeur :
Polity
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2018-01-16
Collection :
Social Movements
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Nadine Ochmann untersucht das Gesundheitsverständnis und -verhalten inhaftierter Frauen sowie die gesundheitsförderlichen Bedingungen in Gefängnissen. Dazu wurden Insassinnen sowohl nach ihren subjektiven Einstellungen und individuellen Bedürfnissen befragt als auch...
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Springer VS
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2018-01-15
Collection :
Sozialwissenschaftliche Gesundheitsforschung
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Family Group Conferences are seen as a progressive and influential form of practice in child welfare across the globe. This book examines and identifies variations in independent advocacy provision offered to young people and their families in relation to undertaking a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-01-13
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Der Band enthält grundlegende Texte Werner Sombarts zur spezifisch soziologischen und historischen Fundierung der Entwicklungsgeschichte des kapitalistischen Systems. Die Texte werden von Klaus Lichtblau eingeleitet und für die aktuellen Diskussionen anschlussfähig...
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Springer VS
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2018-01-13
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This book approaches Australo-German relations from comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives. It maps new pathways into the rich landscape of the Australo-German transnational encounter, which is characterized by dense and interwoven cultural, historical and...
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Springer
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2018-01-12
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The first comprehensive collection of its kind, this handbook addresses the problem of knowledge production in criminology, redressing the global imbalance with an original focus on the Global South. Issues of vital criminological research and policy significance abound...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-01-12
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The criminalization of migration is heavily patterned by race. By placing race at the centre of its analysis, this volume examines, questions, and explains the growing intersection between criminal justice and migration control. Through the lens of race, we see how...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-01-12
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Im Rahmen einer qualitativen Studie entwickelt Elena Höpfner nach offenen Interviews mit geflüchteten Menschen eine gegenstandsbezogene Theorie im doppelten Sinne. Sie untersucht, welche Dinge Menschen mit auf die Flucht nehmen und welche Rolle diese Dinge für die...
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Springer VS
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2018-01-11
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This book explores two major social problems facing Chinese society today: increased strain in the lives of young people and heightened rates of crime and delinquency, ultimately examining the links between them. More broadly, it draws on Bronfenbrenner's ecological...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-01-11
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This book focuses on various concepts of space and their historical evolution. In particular, it examines the variations that have modified the notions of place, orientation, distance, vacuum, limit, bound and boundary, form and figure, continuity and contingence, in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-01-11
Collection :
Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics
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Sandra Küchler widmet sich der Frage, welche Techniken und Praktiken die von ihr befragten Sozialarbeiterinnen und Sozialarbeiter einsetzen, um selbst zu partizipieren. Aus dem empirischen Material hat sie ein Instrumentarium entwickelt, dass das „Minoritär Werden“, den...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2018-01-11
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