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This book explores how stereotypes of “oppressed Muslim women” feed into the self-representations of women with a Muslim background. The focus is on women active in, and speaking on behalf of, a wide variety of minority self-organisations in the Netherlands and Norway...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-26
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This collection reflects the need for suitable methods to answer emerging questions that result from the ever-changing media environment. As media technologies and infrastructures become inseparably interwoven with social constellations, scholars from varying...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-26
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This book considers the largely under-recognised contribution that young writers have made to life writing genres such as memoir, letter writing and diaries, as well as their innovative use of independent and social media. The authors argue that these contributions have...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-26
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This book focuses on the interconnections of religion and migration in the Black Sea region through case studies that explore shifting identities, community, and national boundaries, as well as social practices and networks. During the past few decades the Black...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-26
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Saisonales Gemüse aus dem Bioladen, Carsharing und Ökostrom: Konsumierende, die bewusst dem Leitbild der Nachhaltigkeit Genüge leisten wollen, verfolgen mit ihren Kauf- und Lebensstilentscheidungen ökologische und soziale Prinzipien.
Die Autorin setzt sich in ihrer...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-12-26
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This book examines the local, regional and transnational contexts of video games through a focused analysis on gaming communities, the ways game design regulates gender and class relations, and the impacts of colonization on game design. The critical interest in games...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-24
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This book presents an analysis of the current Lebanese media system. From a theoretical angle, it discusses the extent to which this system can be analyzed using the ideal types put forth by Hallin and Mancini in their seminal work Comparing Media Systems. Sarah...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-24
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This ground-breaking book weaves together insights from the children and youth studies literature and critical development studies. Debunking the idea of childhood and youth as self-evident social categories, the author unravels how these generational constructs are...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-24
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This volume presents a conceptual, historical, anthropological, and sociological review of how culture affects our experience and expression of romantic love. What is romantic love and how is it different from and similar to other kinds of love? How is romantic love...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-12-24
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This book focuses on linguistic practices of identity construction in a popular culture media context, the Eurovision Song Contest. Subscribing to a normativity-based approach to critical discourse analysis, it studies Europeanisation as it surfaces at the discursive...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-23
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This edited volume examines malaise with democracy within three middle-income Latin American countries - Chile, Argentina and Uruguay. In particular, the book focuses on the gap within public opinion on democratic system within the context of crisis of representation...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-23
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This book considers the ways in which Muslims view the way they are being viewed, not viewed, or incorrectly viewed, by the West. The book underscores a certain “will-to-visibility” whereby Muslims/ Arabs wish just to be “seen” and to be marked as fellow human...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-22
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This book examines patterns of political engagement of long-term unemployed youth. The authors show how unemployment affects the personal, social, and political life of young people. Focusing on the case of Geneva in Switzerland, the study shows the importance of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2016-12-22
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This book utilizes personal narratives and survey data from over 1,100 respondents to explore the diversity of experiences across Latinx LGBT communities within the United States, including Puerto Rico. The authors document and celebrate many of the everyday strengths...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2016-12-22
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This book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the correlates and consequences of residential relocation. Drawing on multiple nationally representative data sets, the book explores historic patterns and current trends in household mobility; individuals’...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-22
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This book brings the emergent interest in social class and inequality to the field of television studies. It reveals how the new visibility of class matters in serial television functions aesthetically and examines the cultural class politics articulated in these...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-21
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Das Buch basiert auf autobiografischen narrativen Interviews mit 20 hochaltrigen Menschen. Die Interviews geben einen Einblick in das Leben im sehr hohen Alter. Wenn alte Menschen über ihr Leben erzählen, dann ordnen, bewerten und bilanzieren sie ihr Leben. Sie...
Editeur :
Centaurus Verlag & Media
Parution :
2016-12-21
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This volume explores methods used by social scientists and human biologists to understand fundamental aspects of human experience. It is organized by stages of the human lifespan: beginnings, adulthood, and aging. Explored are particular kinds of experiences - including...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-12-21
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This book utilizes personal narratives and survey data from over 2,100 respondents to explore the diversity of experiences across Black LGBT communities within the United States. The authors document and celebrate many of the everyday strengths and strategies employed...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2016-12-21
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Die Beiträge dieses Sammelbandes behandeln ausgewählte Facetten der gemeinsamen Geschichte Deutschlands und Koreas in Geschichte und Politik, Lebensumständen und Migration sowie Kultur und Lebenswelten. Beide Länder verstehen sich jeweils als das Herzstück Europas und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-12-21
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