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This book examines the issue of irregular transit migration to the EU by presenting the case of the Afghans. Focusing on the Afghans that arrive in and seek to move through Greece, it highlights the unique problems facing this distinctive migratory movement. Recognising...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-13
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This book examines the experiences of 49 second-generation exiles from South Africa. Using “generation” as an analytical concept, it investigates the relational, temporal and embodied nature of their childhoods in terms of kinship relations, life cycle, cohort...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-13
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This new dictionary provides clear and accessible definitions of a range of terms from within the fast-developing field of gender studies. It covers terms which have emerged out of gender studies, such as cyber feminism, double burden, and male gaze, and gender-focused...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-07-13
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This collection revisits classical anthropological treatments of the gift by documenting how people may be valued both through the requests they make and through what they give. Many humanitarian practitioners, the authors propose, regard giving to those in need as the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-13
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Autumnal Faces is a timely study within the ever-growing research on the ways older people and ageing itself have been conceptualized and represented in the popular imagination and, more specifically, in drama and on stage. Tracing this theme from the Renaissance to the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-07-13
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Baseball stadia are places of memory, identity, athletic and architectural accomplishment. They are sites capable of arousing passion, sentimentality and a sense of community. The baseball stadium provides a unique lens through which to understand, explore and expand an...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-07-13
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This book treats William Faulkner's major fiction--from Flags in the Dust through to Absalom, Absalom!--to a searching reappraisal under the spotlight of a media-historical inquiry. It proposes that Faulkner's inveterate attraction to the paradigms of romance was...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-07-13
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This edited collection presents the concept of lived citizenship as a fruitful avenue for exploring the role played by social work practices in the lives of people in vulnerable positions. The book centres on the everyday experiences through which people practice,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-12
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This volume counters one-sided dominant discursive representations of gender in human rights and transitional justice, and women’s place in the transformations of neoliberal human rights, and contributes a more balanced examination of how transitional justice and human...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-12
Collection :
Crossing Boundaries of Gender and Politics in the Global South
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This book modifies the concept of performativity with media theory in order to build a rigorous method for analyzing videogame performances. Beginning with an interdisciplinary exploration of performative motifs in Western art and literary history, the book shows the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-12
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This book explores the meanings and experiences of home among a group of lesbians who over the past five decades have sought to create alternative intimate and public living spaces. The protagonists who enact the ethnographic narrative are a small group of older...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-12
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This Handbook fills a large gap in current scholarly literature on animal abuse studies. It moves considerably beyond the debate that has traditionally dominated the discourse of animal abuse – the link between one-on-one interpersonal violence and animal abuse – and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-12
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This book provides comparative, multi-disciplinary research on the surplus food distribution in Europe and its relation to food poverty, with a focus on the interaction of for-profit and non-profit organisations. It offers an informed and rich discussion in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-11
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This anthology explores the recurring trope of the dead or absent mother in Western cultural productions. Across historical periods and genres, this dialogue has been employed to articulate and debate questions of politics and religion, social and cultural change as...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-11
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This wide-ranging collection analyzes the status and advancement of women both in a national context and collectively on a global scale, as a powerful social force in a rapidly evolving world. The countries studied—China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Egypt, Cameroon, South...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-07-11
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This new book illustrates how Taiwanese lesbians negotiate their lives outside patriarchal families, while seeking varying ways to maintain working relationships with their families of origin, as their notion of family distinguishes them from same sex couples in other...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-11
Collection :
Gender, Sexualities and Culture in Asia
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The book deals with precarity within the digital age and focuses on media change and social insecurity. Change arising from digital developments takes place on micro-, meso- and meta-levels and have always social implications. Concepts such as Social Media, eHealth...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-07-11
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This book explores the extent to which our lives become an important underlying context for data production. Drawing on insights from Gestalt psychology, feminism and post-structuralism, it discusses how to situate yourself in the different phases of research.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-10
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This book delves deeply into modern surrogacy arrangements, responding to both practical and ethical critiques by offering a radically new model for surrogate motherhood. Current practice distinguishes between two models of surrogacy – the altruistic (unpaid) model and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-10
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This book analyses Muslim integration into English society from the 1960s to the 1990s. The author argues that, contrary to common narratives built around a sudden transformation during the Rushdie affair, religious identity was of great importance to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-10
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