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Offering a new way of understanding the high self-harm and suicide rates among sexual and gender minority youth, this book prioritises the perspectives and experiences of queer young people, including those who have experience of self-harming and/or feeling suicidal....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-08
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Music, magic and myth are elements essential to the identities of New Orleans musicians. The city's singular contributions to popular music around the world have been unrivaled; performing this music authentically requires collective improvisation, taking performers on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-08
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Conventional wisdom views globalization as a process that heralds the diminishing role or even 'death' of the state and the rise of transnational media and transnational consumption. Global Media and National Policies questions those assumptions and shows not only that...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-08
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In the decade between 1998-2008, Spain became the main destination for Ecuadorian migrants, and Madrid, Spain's capital, became the city with the largest Ecuadorian population outside of Ecuador. Through a combination of ethnographic research and cultural analysis, this...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-08
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The author studies ethnic stereotypes in the history of English from the perspective of Cognitive Linguistics. He views an ethnic stereotype as an idealised cognitive model (ICM) which consists of a cluster of metonymic submodels (such as BODY, CUISINE, NAME, etc.)....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-08
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This collection of essays on popular culture and politics in the Americas presents the study of ethnographic and historical data from different countries: Canada, United States, Mexico, Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina. Each chapter brings to light a distinct focus on the...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-04-08
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Protecting children from abuse and neglect is a serious and complex area of social work practice and understanding the critical skills of communicating with and listening to children's voices, and those of their advocates and survivors, is essential. In this new edition...
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Learning Matters
Parution :
2016-04-07
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Political power is often viewed as the sole embodiment of 'social power', even while we recognize that social power manifests itself in different forms and institutional spheres. This new book by Gianfranco Poggi suggests that the three principal forms of social power -...
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Polity
Parution :
2016-04-07
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A new edition of Barbara Taylor's classic book, with a new introduction.In the early nineteenth century, radicals all over Europe and America began to conceive of a 'New Moral World', and struggled to create their own utopias, with collective family life, communal...
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Virago
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2016-04-07
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The Baby Boomer generation is facing a time of heightened uncertainty. Blessed with unprecedented levels of education, health, and life expectancy, many hope to contribute to society after their retirement. Yet they must also navigate ambiguous career exits and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-04-06
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In entlegenen, ländlichen Räumen ergeben sich komplexe Problemlagen, die eine interdisziplinäre Erforschung notwendig machen. Der vorliegende Band beleuchtet mit Hilfe unterschiedlichster Fachdisziplinen neue Ansätze für die Daseinsvorsorge und das Gemeinwesen....
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Springer VS
Parution :
2016-04-06
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Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, this book examines how contemporary secularism in France is positioned as a guarantor of women’s rights. Selby argues that the complex “fetishization” of headscarves in public, governmental, and feminist French discourse...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-06
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What can queer feminist writing strategies such as parody and irony do to outsmart the sexism of smart objects, environments and materials and open out the new dialecticism of structure and scale, critique and creativity? Drawing on science and technology studies and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2016-04-05
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Schwangerschaftsabbruch ist ein Thema mit dem sich viele Menschen unserer Gesellschaft auf die ein oder andere Art und Weise konfrontiert sehen – als Betroffene, Familienangehörige, Freunde, Berater oder Ausführende. Ein Thema, welches viele betrifft aber selten in...
Editeur :
Centaurus Verlag & Media
Parution :
2016-04-05
Collection :
Soziologische Studien
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A Companion to the Anthropology of Environmental Health presents a collection of readings that utilize a medical anthropological approach to explore the interface of humans and the environment in the shaping of health and illness around the world. Features the latest...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-04-05
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
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This insightful volume examines the politics and contestations around urban space in India’s national capital, Delhi. Moving beyond spectacular megaprojects and sites of consumption, this book engages with ordinary space and everyday life. Sites and communities analysed...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-04-04
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In 2009, Chicago spent millions of dollars to create programs to prevent gang violence in some of its most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Yet in spite of the programs, violence has grown worse in some of the very neighborhoods that the violence prevention programs were...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-04-01
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This book is a philosophical exploration of disorientation and its significance for action. Disorientations are human experiences of losing one's bearings, such that life is disrupted and it is not clear how to go on. In the face of life experiences like trauma, grief,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-04-01
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History and Education is a text that engages the history of the global class war, from the United States to the former Soviet Union, from the People’s Republic of China to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, in order to contribute to the development of communist...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-04-01
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Der Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkrieges wurde von der überwiegenden Zahl der deutschen Intellektuellen und Schriftsteller emphatisch begrüßt – auch von den deutschen Juden, die im Kampf fürs Vaterland eine Möglichkeit sahen, ihren Patriotismus und ihre gelungene...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-01
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