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This book examines the reciprocity that exists between the body and the urban built environment. It will draw on archival and ethnographic research as well as an interdisciplinary literature on cultural materialism, semiotics, and aesthetics to challenge...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-10
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This book is a guide to the law and practice of victims’ roles before the International Criminal Court, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia and the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. The various chapters focus on the provisions relevant to victim...
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T.M.C. Asser Press
Parution :
2017-07-08
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This book provides the latest research on and applications of advanced GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) and 3D spatial techniques in the fields of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Geophysics, Architecture, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage. It offers an...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-07-07
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This book presents a collection of critical, multi-disciplinary essays on urban research by established and early career researchers who participated in the 9th Annual AHRA (Architectural Humanities Research Association) Research Student Symposium. The symposium was...
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Springer
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2017-07-07
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This book argues that the dominant descriptions of the ‘caste system’ are rooted in the Western Christian experience of India. Thus, caste studies tell us more about the West than about India. It further demonstrates the imperative to move beyond this scholarship in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-07
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This book answers the question on how students and teachers talk about religion when the mandatory and nonconfessional school subject of Religious Education is on the schedule in the “world’s most secular country” To do this, it analyses discourses of religion as they...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-07-07
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This book addresses how identity, structures, and agency affect women’s everyday lives in post-revolutionary Egypt. The authors analyses the topic both on a macro- as well as on a micro-level. Through interviews and workshops, women around Egypt express their own...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-07-07
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Studies in this book have been gathered on the occasion of two academic events in the field of Transnational Families, focusing on the Eastern-European space, from a – diversified – qualitative social research perspective. The volume places a special emphasis on a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-07-07
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Dieses Buch stellt das Leben und Werk der österreichischen Dichterinnen jüdischer Herkunft Mimi Grossberg, Margarete Kollisch, Gertrude Urzidil und Maria Berl-Lee im New Yorker Exil zwischen 1938 und dem Anfang der 1980er Jahre vor. Dank ihrer Werke, ihrer literarischen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-07-07
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The book looks into the in situ organization of ethnic and racial categorization in interviews in English as a lingua franca. It proposes the combined ethnomethodological and conversation analytic approach.The author shows that the negotiation of ethnic identity...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-07-07
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**NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM**Stamped from the Beginning is a redefining history of anti-Black racist ideas that dramatically changes our understanding of the causes and extent of racist thinking itself.Its deeply researched and fast-moving narrative chronicles the...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2017-07-06
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In contrast to other studies on identity, this book takes its point of departure in the complexities that characterize and shape both individuals and societies – past and present. Its chapters challenge demarcated fields of study and conceptions of identity as gender,...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-07-06
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This book offers a unique analysis of how ideas about science and technology in the public and scientific imaginations (in particular about maths, logic, the gene, the brain, god, and robots) perpetuate the false reality that values and politics are separate from...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-06
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This book proposes a theory of the legitimation crisis of neoliberalism. Through analyses of the legitimation crisis of regulated capitalism and the characteristics and theories of neoliberalism, the author contends that neoliberalism is affected by crises of system and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-06
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This book contextualizes the rise of a neo-Islamic Turkish bourgeoisie class with a particular reference to the relationship between Islam and Capitalism, and makes the argument for their ultimate compatibility . Additionally, the claim is made that the formation of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-06
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This book addresses the core issues in prisoner reentry into society after incarceration. The chapters are written by academic scholars who have much experience researching and writing about prisoner reentry and by people who work in the field of prison...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-06
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Die Beiträge des Bandes befassen sich aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln mit der Frage, wie es den Gesellschaftswissenschaften gelingen kann, ihre Erkenntnisse in Öffentlichkeit zu vermitteln und so aktiv aktuelle Themen und Diskussionen mitzugestalten.
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-07-05
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This book examines the post-secular idea of ‘religion for non-believers’. The new form of unbelief which is dubbed as ‘tourist atheism’ is not based on absolute rejection of religion as a ‘dangerous illusion’ or ‘mere prejudice’. Tourist atheists instead consider...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-05
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Seit rund eineinhalb Jahrzehnten setzt sich in der deutschen Landschaftsforschung mit zunehmender Intensität die Erkenntnis durch, dass Landschaft aus sozialwissenschaftlicher Perspektive eher also gesellschaftliche und individuelle Konstruktion verstanden werden...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2017-07-05
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Annika Busch-Geertsema untersucht, inwiefern sich Mobilitätsverhalten und mobilitätsbezogene Einstellungen im Zuge eines Lebensereignisses ändern. Auf einer zwischen Psychologie und Geographie angesiedelten theoretischen Grundlage sowie mittels einer dreistufigen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-07-05
Collection :
Studien zur Mobilitäts- und Verkehrsforschung
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