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When most people hear the word 'witch', they immediately think of crones conspiring over a cauldron, a force of dark and vindictive power. But to hundreds of thousands across the world, being a witch is a living, everyday reality, much more varied than the fairytale...
Editeur :
Polity
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2025-09-04
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We live in an era of existential risk, facing multiple threats to the survival of our species.We also face an epidemic of existential anxiety, struggling to find meaning and purpose in a complex and dehumanizing world. In such times, hope can be hard to find. Yet, we...
Editeur :
Polity
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2025-09-03
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In an era dominated by technological advancement and standardization, phenomenology offers crucial insights into teacher and learner experiences. This book explores how phenomenological perspectives can transform educational understanding, particularly in African...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-09-02
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This open access book mainly focuses on Northeast China, which historically included Heilongjiang Province, Jilin Province, Liaoning Province, and the eastern part of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.This area borders Mongolia to the west, the ocean to the south, the...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-09-01
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This book advances the understanding and process of community participation in cultural heritage management within the Chinese context of rapidly urbanising development. Results show that Chinese community participation in cultural heritage management has yet to find a...
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Springer
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2025-09-01
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This book explores the role museums play in shaping the cultural and historical identities of Central Asia. Through an analysis of around 50 museums, this book offers insights into how these "memory machines" contribute to contemporary identity formation in Central...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-01
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This book delves into how everyday bordering—rules and practices used by states for migration governance—impacts migrants’ access to social rights and shapes their post-migration life. It focuses on the interactions between institutional bodies,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-01
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This open access book delves into Japan's humanitarian aid efforts in Myanmar following the military coup of February 2021. As Myanmar faces political upheaval and growing humanitarian challenges, Japan's response has been notable, yet intricate, maneuvering through...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-09-01
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This Open Access book explores how teens use social media, how they produce, consume, and share sexual images, and how they understand and respond to harmful digital sexual content and interactions. Capturing the views of nearly 500 young people across the UK our book...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-01
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This book examines the pervasive phenomenon of trauma and its narrative representation in social media platforms. The book specifically explores how, despite its pedagogical gains, the circulation and consumption of information on social media platforms may exacerbate...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-01
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In order for defendants facing legal charges in the United States to be able to move forward with the legal process, they must be competent to proceed with their cases. Defendants are presumed to be competent to make legal decisions, until someone calls their competency...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-09-01
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“Evolution is by choice”. This is not a passive truth, but a conscious commitment, one that lies at the heart of what I call the Advanced City. Coined and thoroughly introduced here in the book, this new concept is based on people-centric and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-09-01
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This book examines the status of public health care services to marginalised and disadvantaged populations in India, sociological perspectives on illness and health, and manifest perceptions of illness and health. It emphasizes the need to address the longstanding issue...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-08-31
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This book investigates societal shifts induced by internet technologies. Alexei Anisin applies Anthony Giddens' structuration theory to analyze interactions between digital structures and human agency. He argues against deterministic narratives about technological...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-31
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This book provides a description of what a good human service organization is, and what it does. The author relies on a broad framework to define “good” and offers a fictional account as a methodology, using his considerable consulting and research...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-31
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This third edition of the highly successful handbook is presented for the first time in two volumes, covering the field of social psychology more comprehensively than earlier, including applying social psychology to different areas in sociology. It showcases the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-08-31
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This open access book discusses the market logic of recruitment agencies who deploy migrant domestic workers in Southeast Asia. Agencies are involved in all stages of worker migration trajectory – from their selection, to their training, and their management at...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-08-31
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This book offers a groundbreaking exploration of the complex relationships between aesthetics, politics, and environmental concerns within far-right movements. Drawing on critical theory and insights from Walter Benjamin, Jacques Rancière, and others, it examines...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-31
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This book explores the complex aftermath and socio-demographic effects of COVID-19 on indigenous people in Indonesia. As a vulnerable group facing multiple problems relating to marginalization, poverty, and lack of access to public facilities, Indigenous communities...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-08-31
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This open-access book presents a socio-legal analysis of immediate responses to large-scale refugee displacement in Europe after the 1951 Refugee Convention came into force, focusing on the countries to which refugees initially fled or through which they passed (namely...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-08-30
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