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This book centers the life histories of three women engaged in sex work in Kolkata, India to show how they make sense of their lived experiences and reveals deep insights into the risks women face in the current social environment of India. Much of the risk discourse...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-02-28
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The Palgrave Handbook of Ubuntu, Inequality and Sustainable Development interrogates the multiple inequalities that subsist in the world and explores how Ubuntu, emerging from Africa but being potentially applicable elsewhere, holds promise for mitigation and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-02-28
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This volume takes a global perspective on intersectionality embodied by Muslim women. It addresses questions such as balancing multiple identities, lived experiences and complex realities, and the role of faith in social roles. The chapters debunk the idea of Islam or...
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Springer
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2025-02-28
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This edited volume identifies and analyses the Eco-Weird as an interdisciplinary theoretical tool for engaging in fictional, philosophical, filmic, and ludic texts. It is the first volume to engage in the study of the Eco-Weird, which is a developing field at the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-02-28
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This book retraces the intellectual career of committed sociologist and maverick, Charles Wright Mills (1916-1962), whose work is considered "classic" in the USA. Unlike some existing works that focus primarily on Mills’ theoretical contributions or political...
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Springer
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2025-02-28
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Scholarly attention to the concept of the posthuman has increased recently in response to pressing problems about what it means to be human and what distinguishes the human from the nonhuman. The ongoing ecological catastrophes, recent technological breakthroughs, and...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2025-02-27
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„Wohnen“ hat in den letzten Jahren wieder Konjunktur; manche bezeichnen es schon als neue soziale Frage. Die rasante Steigerung der Angebotsmieten führt dazu, dass für viele das Wohnen insbesondere in einigen Groß- und Schwarmstädten unerschwinglich wird und sie in die...
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Springer VS
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2025-02-27
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This book is an Open Access Publication. The Guidelines for Trustworthy AI developed by the European Commission High-Level Expert Group on AI is a framework that has been developed to promote and achieve the trustworthiness of AI systems. It provides seven ethical...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-27
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This is an open access book.
Welcome esteemed colleagues, scholars, and practitioners to the 1st International Conference on Social Environment Diversity (ICOSEND). In today’s rapidly evolving world, the intricate interplay between social environments and...
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Atlantis Press
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2025-02-27
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Nach öffentlichkeitswirksam gewordenen Straftaten, die durch Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund oder mit ausländischer Staatsangehörigkeit begangen worden sind, wird von politischen Meinungsführenden nahezu aller parteilichen Couleur regelmäßig die Dringlichkeit der...
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Springer VS
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2025-02-27
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Gegenstand des Buches sind die sich wandelnden Funktions- und Deutungsweisen des Begriffs ›Solidarität‹ im Kontext des gesellschaftlichen Wandels seit dem frühen 19. Jahrhundert. Ausgangspunkt ist die Frage, warum der Begriff zu dieser Zeit aufkam und welche...
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Springer VS
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2025-02-27
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In diesem Buch werden die geografischen Unterschiede in der Unterstützung der Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) 2017-2018 untersucht. Ziel ist es, diese Unterschiede zu erklären und die zugrunde liegenden Mechanismen zu verstehen. Der Fokus liegt dabei auf dem Einfluss...
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Springer VS
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2025-02-27
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In The Ethics of Research with Human Subjects, David B. Resnik, PhD/JD, develops and defends an approach to thinking about ethical and policy dilemmas in research with human subjects based on the notion of trust. The book explains why trust is important not only between...
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Springer
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2025-02-27
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Based on extensive fieldwork and longitudinal studies, this book posits that the household registration (hukou) system is a fundamental institutional arrangement in contemporary China. It employs the theoretical framework of local citizenship to analyze the rights and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-27
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Wie konnte sich die Graffiti-Szene in Deutschland von einem kleinen, vorwiegend rechtswidrig und improvisierend agierenden Netzwerk zu einer der ältesten und stabilsten Szenen des Landes entwickeln?
Die Untersuchung beleuchtet diese Entwicklung und zeichnet den...
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Springer VS
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2025-02-27
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Trillions of dollars are lost annually due to corporate fraud, a growing global problem. For savvy professional investors, however, this crisis presents an opportunity. This book is the first to comprehensively explore a systematic and updated approach to identify,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-02-27
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Funny Moves: Dance Humor Politics explores the intersection of dance and humor and the political stakes that bodies incur when they dare to be both aestheticized and funny. The editors posit that funny moves are dance's Other--the missteps or oversteps that don't fit a...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-02-26
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