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This open access wide-ranging collation of papers examines a host of issues in studying second-generation immigrants, their life courses, and their relations with older generations. Tightly focused on methodological aspects, both quantitative and qualitative, the volume...
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Springer
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2017-10-25
Collection :
Life Course Research and Social Policies
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This book offers a comprehensive investigation of the ways in which social media has affected change to the constitution of mainstream journalism. The volume does this in a unique way – by tracing the links between the different changes social media has brought to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-25
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Many of the beings in this book – Cheiron, Pan, Acheloos, the Sirens and others – will be familiar from the narratives of Greek mythology, in which fabulous anatomies abound. However, they have never previously been studied together from a religious perspective, as...
Editeur :
Presses universitaires de Liège
Parution :
2017-10-25
Collection :
Kernos suppléments
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The motif of the ‘identity quest’ features strongly in much contemporary French women’s writing, but nowhere more so than in the work of Nina Bouraoui. Author of numerous books since 1991 and winner of the 2005 Prix Renaudot, Bouraoui persistently explores the question...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-10-25
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This book, based on an empirical form of narration, outlines a short-medium term analysis of the social impact of austerity politics on urban life.. Set in Exarchia, a radical and anti-authoritarian neighbourhood located within the city centre of Athens, Greece, this is...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-25
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This book analyses the language practices of young adults in Mongolia and Bangladesh in online and offline environments. Focusing on the diverse linguistic and cultural resources these young people draw on in their interactions, the authors draw attention to the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-25
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This cutting edge book explores the role of the media in the highly disputed area of China-Africa relations, notably how various aspects of the issue have been portrayed, negotiated and contested in media and academic discourses. As Africa’s biggest trading partner and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-24
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Welche Bilder machen sich Gesellschaften von Migration?Welche Bedeutung haben die daraus entstehenden Bilderwelten für die Aushandlung von Identität und Zugehörigkeit unter der Bedingung zunehmender Diversität? Der vorliegende Band versammelt Beiträge eines weiten...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-10-24
Collection :
Migrationsgesellschaften
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This book challenges the hegemonic view that economic calculation represents the ultimate rationality. The West legitimises its global dominance by the claim to be a rational, democratic, science-based and progressive civilisation. Yet, over the past decades, the dogma...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-24
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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book examines the concept of care and care practices in healthcare from the interdisciplinary perspectives of continental philosophy, care ethics, the social sciences, and anthropology. Areas addressed include...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-24
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This book provides comprehensive information on the materials excavated at Pech de l’Azé IV, both by the original excavator François Bordes in the 1970s, and more recently by the authors and their scientific team. Applying a range of new excavation and analytical...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-10-24
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Der Band stellt mit Kawakita Nagamasa den Gründer der weltweit agierenden TowaFilmproduktion vor. Als Kosmopolit und Cinéphiler, Nazi-Kollaborateur und Personifizierung der Filmachse Berlin/Tokyo gilt er als eine der schillerndsten und zugleich unbekanntesten Figuren...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-10-24
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This book comprehensively explores the changes in the Chinese spiritual world from the perspective of transition and transformation. Chinese feeling, a brand-new concept corresponding to Chinese experience, refers to the vicissitudes that 1.3 billion Chinese people have...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-10-24
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This book examines the causes and consequences of suicide from the perspective of economics. The approach here differs from those in medical, psychiatric, epidemiological, and sociological studies of suicide and is thus novel in a way that highlights the importance of...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-10-24
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This book provides a sociological analysis of the controversy surrounding GM crops in Telangana, India. There is much debate as to whether GM technology holds the key to improving the welfare of poor farmers globally or serves primarily to increase the profits of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-24
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This book explores responses to authoritarianism in Turkish society through popular culture by examining feature films and television serials produced between 1980 and 2010 about the 1980 coup. Envisioned as an interdisciplinary study in cultural studies rather than a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-24
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This book offers an empirically informed understanding of how cultural, autobiographical and absent memories of orphanhood interact and interconnect or come into being in the re-telling of a life story and construction of an identity. The volume investigates how care...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-24
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Das Handbuch stellt den „State of the Art“ zu den Themen Armut und soziale Ausgrenzung dar. Beides nimmt in unserer Gesellschaft, in Europa und weltweit zu. Dies betrifft nicht nur die materielle Versorgung und Verteilung, sondern bezieht weitere soziale, ökonomische...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-10-24
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This book presents a new approach to understanding contemporary personal life, taking account of how people build their lives through a bricolage of ‘tradition’ and ‘modern’. The authors examine how tradition is used and adapted, invented and re-invented; how meaning...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-24
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Die Beiträge des Bandes stellen biografieanalytische Projekte und Perspektiven vor, welche die systematische Kombination von Methoden, Daten oder Theorien nutzen. Diese Anwendungen von Triangulation werden als gegenstandsangemessene Zugänge zu konkreten Forschungsfragen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-10-24
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