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This book provides new critical and methodological approaches to digital humanities, intended to guide technical development as well as critical analysis. Informed by the history of technology and culture and new perspectives on modernity, Smithies grounds his claims in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-08-28
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This book offers the first comprehensive and in-depth exploration of the way Chinese humor fits into broader discourses on Chinese identity and modernity in an increasingly globalized world throughout the period of modern China. It brings together the expertise of...
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Springer
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2017-08-28
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This book presents an incisive and engaging account of love, intimacy and personal life in contemporary Western society. The authors draw on rich qualitative and large-scale survey data to explore how couples communicate with each other, negotiate the pressures and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-26
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This book identifies and analyzes the ways in which RuPaul’s Drag Race has reshaped the visibility of drag culture in the US and internationally, as well as how the program has changed understandings of reality TV.This edited volume illustrates how drag has become...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-25
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This edited volume examines policies aimed at increasing the representation of women in governing institutions in six South Asian countries. Divided into three parts, it addresses the implications of uniformity and diversity for the substantive representation of women...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-08-24
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This book uses the experiences and conversations of Black British women as a lens to examine the impact of discourses surrounding Black beauty shame. Black beauty shame exists within racialized societies which situate white beauty as iconic, and as a result produce...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2017-08-24
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This book provides a critical analysis of the Rohingya refugees’ identity building processes and how this is closely linked to the state-building process of Myanmar as well as issues of marginalization, statelessness, forced migration, exile life, and resistance of an...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-24
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This is the third of five ambitious volumes theorizing the structure of governance above and below the central state.This book is written for those interested in the character, causes, and consequences of governance within the state.
This book sets out a measure of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-08-24
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Die Soziologie der Mitgliedschaft behandelt Grundlagenfragen der soziologischen Theorie der Gegenwartsgesellschaft umfassend und tiefgreifend. Sie kommt in ihren Rekonstruktionen und der Begründung des Forschungsprogramms der mitgliedschaftstheoretischen Gesellschafts-,...
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Springer VS
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2017-08-24
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This book explores the planning knowledge that can be gleaned from the experiences of the urban poor, a group frequently affected by floods. Further, it examines the relationship between lifeworld analysis and adaptation planning through the sociology of knowledge,...
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Springer
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2017-08-23
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This book is a contribution towards a better understanding of the nature of the international crime of human trafficking. It is an impulse towards finding a new way at the international levels, and encouraging cooperation among nations in the fight against human...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-08-23
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Lara Jüssen takes the case of Latin American household and construction workers in Madrid to show how ir/regular labour migrants make citizenship available for themselves through emplacements, embodiments and enactments of citizenship. After describing the...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2017-08-22
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This edited collection explores the historical dimensions, cultural practices, socio-economic mechanisms and political agendas that shape the notion of a national cuisine inside and outside of Japan. Japanese food is often perceived as pure, natural, healthy and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-22
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Hate Speech ist ein bisher in der Medienwissenschaft vernachlässigter Forschungsgegenstand, dem sowohl eine ausreichende Abgrenzung als auch eine kohärente theoretische Fundierung fehlt. Das Buch schließt diese Lücke und analysiert anhand der Kontroversen um Oriana...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2017-08-22
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This book explores the video game Metal Gear Solid V’s exploration of trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) through a careful analysis of its thematic elements and characters. It also considers the game’s complex take on post-9/11 history. Metal Gear...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-22
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In a world of ubiquitous surveillance, watching and being watched are the salient features of the lives depicted in many of our cultural productions. This collection examines surveillance as it is portrayed in art, literature, film and popular culture, and makes the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-22
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Paul-Hermann Gruner untersucht drei prominente, erfolgreiche Frauenzeitschriften (Brigitte, Für Sie, Freundin) auf die in ihnen vermittelten Konzepte von Weiblichkeit vor dem Hintergrund von fünf Jahrzehnten erfolgreicher Existenzgeschichte der „Neuen Frauenbewegung“....
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Springer VS
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2017-08-22
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In social sciences, education, and public health research, researchers often conduct small pilot studies (or may have planned for a larger sample but lost too many cases due to attrition or missingness), leaving them with a smaller sample than they expected and thus...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-08-22
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This book uses original research and interviews to consider the views of contemporary members of the Orange Order in Canada, including their sense of political and societal purpose, awareness of the decline of influence, views on their present circumstances, and hopes...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-22
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By analyzing the interactions between China’s central government and its local governments and enterprises, this book constructs an analytical framework of government-enterprise collusion, analyzing the impact of collusion within the China model on Chinese society....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-22
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