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This book traces how the American freak show has re-emerged in new visual forms in the 21st century. It explores the ways in which moving image media transmits and contextualizes, reinterprets and appropriates, the freak show model into a “new American freak show.” It...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-04
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One day in 2005, Rob Hopkins, an ordinary British citizen, started knocking on his neighbors’ doors in the small town of Totnes, where he had just settled. He was proposing that they come together to organize nothing less than a new, locally based economy. A new model,...
Editeur :
Éditions Actes Sud
Parution :
2017-10-04
Collection :
Domaine du possible
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The current crisis clearly demonstrates that our model of society has reached its limits.The time has come to recognize that our affluent societies have more than enough to meet their essential material needs—provided it is done fairly.The time has also come to question...
Editeur :
Éditions Actes Sud
Parution :
2017-10-04
Collection :
Domaine du possible
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This book is a series of interviews between Lionel Astruc and Vandana Shiva, worldwide icon of ecological revolution and winner of the “alternative Nobel prize”. Worthy successor to Gandhi, Vandana Shiva tells about her life and fight as a leader of the...
Editeur :
Éditions Actes Sud
Parution :
2017-10-04
Collection :
Domaine du possible
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As a practising mortician, Caitlin Doughty has long been fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies. In From Here to Eternity she sets out in search of cultures unburdened by such fears. With curiosity and morbid humour, Doughty introduces us to inspiring...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2017-10-03
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Real Sex Films explores one of the most controversial movements in international cinema through an innovative interdisciplinary combination of theories of globalization and embodiment. Risk sociology, feminist film theory, and critical feminist mapping theory are...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-10-03
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This book argues that cultural fascination with the “madperson” stems from the contemporaneous increase of chronically mentally ill persons in public life due to deinstitutionalization—the mental health reform movement leading to the closure of many asylums in favor of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-03
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Starting from a history of new media, this book presents the development of network technology and media applications in China, while also examining the relationship between new media and politics, economy, culture, lifestyle, traditional media, law, knowledge, etc. As...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-10-03
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A leading investment professional explains the world of impact investing -- investing in businesses and projects with a social and financial return--and shows what it takes to make sustainable, transformative change. Impact investment -- the support of social and...
Editeur :
Bold Type Books
Parution :
2017-10-03
ePub
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As scholars have by now long contended, global neoliberalism and the violence associated with state restructuring provide key frameworks for understanding flows of people across national boundaries and, eventually, into the treacherous terrains of the United States...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-10-03
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This timely treatise introduces an innovative prevention/preparedness model for cities to address and counter terrorist threats and events. It offers theoretical background, mixed-method research, and tools for creating a resilience-based response to terrorism, as...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-10-02
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This book explores how the rise of widely available digital technology impacts the way music is produced, distributed, promoted, and consumed, with a specific focus on the changing relationship between artists and audiences. Through in-depth interviewing, focus group...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-02
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‘Systematically exposes the neoliberal myths in unequal societies’ - Niels Rosendal Jensen
'A call to arms to challenge inequality and social exclusion.' - Lel Meleyal
‘An impassioned dissection of the highly coded lexicon of so-called welfare reform…get reading, get...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2017-10-02
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At a United Nations conference in 1995, 189 governments adopted the Beijing Platform for Action, an international agenda for women's equality and a statement of women's rights as human rights. Since that time, violations of women's human rights have become a...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-10-02
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What are the challenges facing social welfare in America? Theories of stakeholders, the policy process, electoral politics, the precariat, child welfare, online education, the devolution of the welfare state, and its sequel, the investment state, illuminate critical...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-10-02
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This Brief reviews the history of foot patrol and the recent, research-driven resurgence of foot patrol in places such as Philadelphia. It summarizes and critiques existing literature on the subject, examining the efficacy of foot patrol. At the time the Philadelphia...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-10-02
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This book provides an empirical and philosophical investigation of self-tracking practices. In recent years, there has been an explosion of apps and devices that enable the data capturing and monitoring of everyday activities, behaviours and habits. Encouraged by...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-01
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What should we make of the outsized role organized crime plays in conflict and crisis, from drug wars in Mexico to human smuggling in North Africa, from the struggle in Crimea to scandals in Kabul? How can we deal with the convergence of politics and crime in so-called...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-10-01
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This book examines the structural dynamics of HIV among populations at heightened vulnerability to infection as the result of stigma, discrimination and marginalization. It first examines how the socio-structural context shapes HIV risk and how affected populations and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-09-30
Collection :
Social Aspects of HIV
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This book is about social phenomena that directly acknowledge the structures and ideologies emerging after September 11, 2001. It considers how these structures and ideologies manage, control, and contain specific bodies with respect to race/ethnicity, gender,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-30
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