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This book explores mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion involved in practices of community building through an ethnographic study of a neighborhood restaurant in Amsterdam. It presents important insights into the advantages and empowering effects of professional, top...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-05-24
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Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies Series
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This book provides a theoretical framing to analyse and examine the interaction between origin and destination in the migrant integration process. Coverage offers a set of concrete conceptual tools, which can be operationalised when measuring integration. This...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-05-23
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This book examines the promises as well as the challenges the demographic dividend brings to sub-Saharan Africa as fertility rates in the region fall and the labor force grows. It offers a detailed analysis of what conditions must be met in order for the region to take...
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Springer
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2017-05-23
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In recent years child protection issues have dominated media and public discourse in the UK. This book offers a unique perspective by giving voice to those social workers working within a profession which has become increasingly embedded in a culture of blame. Exploring...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-05-23
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Schnippeldiskos, Kopfhörerpartys, BarCamps, Star Wars-Gottesdienste: Als Hybride Events bezeichnen wir solche inszenierten Ereignisse, die aus augenfälligen Kombinationen mindestens zweier Arten von Ereignissen bestehen, die als verschiedenen kulturellen Bereichen...
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Springer VS
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2017-05-23
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This volume addresses an urgent need across multiple disciplines to broaden our understanding and use of response processes evidence of test validity. It builds on the themes and findings of the volume Validity and Validation in Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences...
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Springer
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2017-05-23
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Social Indicators Research Series
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Liveness is a persistent and much-debated concept in media studies. Until recently, it was associated primarily with broadcast media, and television in particular. However, the emergence of social media has brought new forms of liveness into effect. These forms...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-05-23
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In this important new book Rein Raud develops an original theory of culture understood as a loose and internally contradictory system of texts and practices that are shared by intermittent groups of people and used by them to make sense of their life-worlds. This theory...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-05-23
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This book is about the rise of digital labor. Companies like Uber and Amazon Mechanical Turk promise autonomy, choice, and flexibility. One of network culture's toughest critics, Trebor Scholz chronicles the work of workers in the "sharing economy," and the free labor...
Editeur :
Polity
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2017-05-23
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Geomedia offers critical analysis of the new possibilities and power relations emerging in the public space of contemporary cities. As ubiquitous digital networks enable embedded and mobile devices to integrate place-specific data with real-time feedback circuits,...
Editeur :
Polity
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2017-05-23
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The Internet has united the world as never before. But is it in danger of breaking apart? Cybersecurity, geopolitical tensions, and calls for data sovereignty have made many believe that the Internet is fragmenting.In this incisive new book, Milton Mueller argues that...
Editeur :
Polity
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2017-05-23
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Digital Futures
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What Journalism Could Be asks readers to reimagine the news by embracing a conceptual prism long championed by one of journalism?s leading contemporary scholars. A former reporter, media critic and academic, Barbie Zelizer charts a singular journey through journalism?s...
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Polity
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2017-05-23
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Information overload, the shallows, weapons of mass distraction, the googlization of minds: countless commentators condemn the flood of images and information that dooms us to a pathological attention deficit. In this new book, cultural theorist Yves Citton goes...
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Polity
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2017-05-23
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This book addresses the recent marginalisation of class theory in youth sociology. The authors argue for the importance of reinstating class analysis as central to understanding young people’s lives in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. Their analysis...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-05-23
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In the midst of the current ecological crisis, there is often lofty talk of the need for humanity to ‘overcome its divisions’ and work together to tackle the big challenges of our time. But as this new book by Razmig Keucheyan shows, the real picture is very different....
Editeur :
Polity
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2017-05-23
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The prison is a recent invention, hardly more than two centuries old, yet it has become the universal system of punishment. How can we understand the place that the correctional system occupies in contemporary societies? What are the experiences of those who are...
Editeur :
Polity
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2017-05-23
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We have long since lost our faith in the idea that human beings could achieve human happiness in some future ideal state—a state that Thomas More, writing five centuries ago, tied to a topos, a fixed place, a land, an island, a sovereign state under a wise and...
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Polity
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2017-05-23
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Throughout the Western world, governments and financial elites responded to the financial crisis of 2008 by trying to restore the conditions of business as usual, but the economic, social and human damage inflicted by the crisis has given rise to a reconsideration of...
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Polity
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2017-05-23
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Boondock Kollage: Stories from the Hip Hop South is a collection of twelve short stories that addresses issues of race, place, and identity in the post–Civil Rights American South. Using historical, spectral, and hip hop infused fiction,Boondock Kollage critically...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-05-23
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Seeing like a city means recognizing that cities are living things made up of a tangle of networks, built up from the agency of countless actors. Cities must not be considered as expressions of larger paradigms or sites of human effort and organization alone. Within...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-05-23
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