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This unique book breaks original ground in management and organization studies by drawing on over 2½ years of ethnographic study in a major UK international airport group. Much has been written about the ‘McDonaldisation’ or ‘Disneyization’ of society, but few have been...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-27
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This collection presents stories from the field that were gathered from researchers using a breadth of visual methods. Visual methods refer to the use of still or moving images either as forms of data, to explore research topics and explorations of artistic practice. In...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-27
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Mit dieser interdisziplinären Studie an der Schnittstelle zwischen psychoanalytischer Erziehungswissenschaft und systematischer Sprachwissenschaft erforscht die Autorin die Einflüsse familiärer Strukturen und früher Beziehungserfahrungen auf die Entwicklung...
Editeur :
Centaurus Verlag & Media
Parution :
2016-12-27
Collection :
Reihe Pädagogik
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'Business-as-usual' has been transformed across the music industries in the post-CD age. Against widespread hype about the purported decline of the major music labels, this book provides a critique of the ways these companies have successfully adapted to digital...
Editeur :
Polity
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2016-12-27
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Wie wir alle wissen, sollte man zwei Themen unbedingt vermeiden, wenn man ein harmonisches Beisammensein unter Freunden genießen will: Politik und Religion.In gewissem Sinne verstößt das vorliegende Werk gegen diesen weisen Rat, weil es nämlich genau davon handelt, von...
Editeur :
Centaurus Verlag & Media
Parution :
2016-12-27
Collection :
Beiträge zur Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart
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Global Urban Politics: Informalization of the State In what ways has global urbanization affected the political process? This book offers a reflection on the transformations of urban politics worldwide in the past four decades, from interpersonal street-level politics...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-12-27
Collection :
Urban Futures
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Through historical and comparative research on the immigrant rights movements of the United States, France and the Netherlands, Cities and Social Movements examines how small resistances against restrictive immigration policies do – or don’t – develop into large and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-12-27
Collection :
IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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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...
Editeur :
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...
Editeur :
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...
Editeur :
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...
Editeur :
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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