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Der Band befasst sich mit dem Verhältnis von Stadt und Infrastruktur, von Urbanisierung und Infrastrukturentwicklung. Je nach Konstellation symbolisieren und reproduzieren Infrastrukturen gesellschaftliche Beziehungen, können diese aber auch mit hervorbringen und...
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Springer VS
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2016-12-13
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Leitfaden durch die Fülle kulturwissenschaftlicher Begriffe und Theorien. In über 150 Beiträgen informiert der Band über die wichtigsten Ansätze, wie z. B. Dekonstruktivismus, Gender Studies, Postkolonialismus und Kultursemiotik sowie die zentralen Begriffe wie etwa...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
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2016-12-12
Collection :
Sammlung Metzler
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This book probes the vitality, potentiality and ability of new communication and technological changes to drive online-based civil action across Africa. In a continent booming with mobile innovation and a plethora of social networking sites, the Internet is considered a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-12
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The author researches selected synonyms of ‘skinny’ and ‘fatty’ in the history of the English language from the perspective of cognitive linguistics.The method employed in grouping the analytical material has been dictated by the nature of the processes of semantic...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-12-12
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Categorical Statistics for CommunicationResearch presents scholars with a discipline-specific guide to categorical data analysis. The text blends necessary background information and formulas for statistical procedures with data analyses illustrating techniques such as...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2016-12-12
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This book aims to expand what scholars know and who is included in this discussion about black studies, which aids in the democratization of American higher education and the deconstruction of traditional disciplines of high education, to facilitate a sense of social...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-11
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This book investigates the transnational dimensions of European cultural memory and how it contributes to the construction of new non-, supra, and post-national, but also national, memory narratives. The volume considers how these narratives circulate not only within...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-10
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This book is an attempt to save “the sexual” from the oblivion to which certain strands in queer theory tend to condemn it, and at the same time to limit the risks of anti-politics and solipsism contained in what has been termed antisocial queer theory. It takes a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-10
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This edited volume explores the roles of socially-channeled play and performance in the developmental trajectories of young people who fall on the autism spectrum. The contributors offer possibilities for channels of activity through which youth on the autism spectrum...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-10
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The politics of claiming rights and strategies of mobilisation exhibited by marginalised social groups lie at the heart of this volume. Theoretically, the authors aims to foster a holistic and multi-faceted understanding of how social and economic justice is claimed,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-10
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This volume explores how Pagans negotiate local and global tensions as they craft their identities, both as members of local communities and as cosmopolitan “citizens of the world.” Based on cutting edge international case studies from Pagan communities in the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-10
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This book examines the nature and regulation of the informal economy by means of a collective case study in a highly regulated Western country. The book, situated at the intersection of criminology and sociology, investigates the relation between formal, informal and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-10
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In the light of mass migration, the rise of nationalism and the resurgence of global terrorism, this timely volume brings the debate on border protection, security and control to the centre stage of international relations research. Rather than analysing borders as mere...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-12-09
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This book analyzes the discourse generated by pundits, politicians, and artists to examine how poverty and the income gap is framed through specific modes of representation. Set against the dichotomy of the structural narrative of poverty and the opportunity...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-09
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This book facilitates a missing dialogue between the secular and the transsecular dimensions of human existence. It explores two kinds of limits of the secular: the inadequacies of its assumptions with respect to the total being of the human, and how it curbs the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-09
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This book offers an in-depth description and analysis of Chinese coin-like charms, which date back to the second century CE and which continued to be used until mid 20th century.This work is unique in that it provides an archaeological and analytical interpretation of...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-12-09
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This book addresses an issue currently making political headlines in the United States—immigration. Immigrants have long engendered debates about the boundaries of belonging, with some singing their praises and others warning of their dangers. In particular, the 11...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-09
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This book addresses the changes in education practices, especially basic education, necessitated by the global challenges of climate change and sustainable development and in a context characterized by increasing poverty and inequality, migration and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-12-08
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This book interrogates trends in training and employment of people with disabilities in the media through an analysis of people with disabilities’ self-representation in media employment. Improving disability representations in the media is vital to improving the social...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2016-12-08
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This open access book looks at the migration of Southern European EU citizens (from Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece) who move to Northern European Member States (Belgium, France, Germany, United Kingdom) in response to the global economic crisis.Its objective is twofold....
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-12-08
Collection :
IMISCOE Research Series
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