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Marie Rosenkranz‘ Monografie ist in das expandierende Feld sozial- und kulturwissenschaftlicher Analysen der Kunst einzuordnen, die u¨ber eine immanent kunstwissenschaftliche Untersuchung von ku¨nstlerischen Werken hinausgehen.
Das Kunstfeld ist in der Spätmoderne...
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Springer VS
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2024-11-27
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Von Gestaltung jenseits ästhetischer Traditionslinien zu sprechen, heißt zwangsläufig das moderne Design in den Blick zu nehmen. Zwischen Alltagskultur und Design-Avantgarden bewegen sich vielfältige interdisziplinäre Strömungen, deren theoretische Modelle in...
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Springer VS
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2024-11-26
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This open access book explores the use of technologies for urban safety and security. Rather than focusing on the technologies themselves, it provides and in-depth analysis of the complex urban transformations linked to the increasing integration of technical...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-26
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This book examines the intersection between Indian cinema (across geographic regions, languages and formats) and human rights. It analyzes Indian cinema from multiple human rights perspectives, such as freedom of expression and censorship, socio-economic rights, caste...
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Springer
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2024-11-26
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This book examines the myriad of systemic challenges that are baked into the fabric of US society, perpetuating and permeating antiblackness across some of its most trusted institutions. The book begins by introducing the concept of antiblackness and the many ways we...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-11-26
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Der schwerste islamistische Anschlag in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik – der Anschlag auf den Berliner Breitscheidplatz – hat eine Besonderheit: verschiedene Polizeien ermittelten über Monate gegen den späteren Täter, stellten ihre Ermittlungen dann aber Monate vor...
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Springer
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2024-11-26
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This edited book explores how requests and complaints by prisoners are being dealt with by prison governors/administrations or independent bodies (such as complaint commissions), in different parts of Europe. It asks who complains and why? How are complaints from...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-25
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This short book provides a European-wide survey of mental health and probation. Drawing on a significant study, it explores the knowledge and attitudes to mental illness based on a sample of probation staff from 27 countries. It sets out the significance of mental...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-25
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Risk, Crime and Society
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We understand urban regeneration as all efforts managed, funded or at least guided to some extent by public authorities that aim at improving, stabilizing or revitalizing existing neighborhoods. This comprises area-based strategies, improvements of public infrastructure...
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Springer VS
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2024-11-25
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In this book, anthropologist and geologist Christoph Antweiler shows that geology is a special, namely historical, natural science and is therefore relevant for a historically informed anthropology. He argues that we do not only need a geologically informed cultural...
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Springer
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2024-11-25
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«Jenkins’ meticulously researched essay will change how you think about UFOs. The interesting question is not whether flying saucers are real or fake, but rather, in what sociotechnical world were such sightings plausible? A fascinating exploration of military...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-11-25
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‘I bought an El Al Israel airline ticket.
Destination: Ben Gurion airport, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Sixty years ago, my mother was born a few dozen kilometres away, in Haifa, Palestine.’
So begins the story of the ‘return’ of Ziyad Clot, grandson of Palestinian exiles. In...
Editeur :
Max Milo Éditions
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2024-11-25
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The most prosperous company in Mexico is not in the top 10 Aztec companies and is not even listed in the legal commercial register. It is a consortium of drug cartels that floods the world market with illicit products, from cocaine to heroin and synthetic drugs, and...
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Max Milo Éditions
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2024-11-25
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Diese Arbeit analysiert Entstehungspunkte des ökonomischen Modellierens in kolonialen Kontexten zwischen dem frühen 18. und 19. Jahrhundert. In drei Fallstudien rekonstruiert Lukas Helbich die offenkundigen und weniger offensichtlichen Spuren des Kolonialismus in den...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2024-11-23
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This book proposes a broad synthesis of the state of the art regarding the debate on the phenomenon of Emergence. Discussing from a theoretical and a theological perspective, it aims to propose a new interpretation, according to the theological and metaphysical...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-11-23
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This book provides an analysis of the evolving BDSM scene in Central Europe, with an emphasis on selected post-communist countries. It explores how the region’s communist past delayed the development of BDSM communities and public discourse compared to Western...
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Springer
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2024-11-23
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Die seit rund zwanzig Jahren in ganz Lateinamerika gegründeten „Interkulturellen Universitäten“ erheben gegenüber den Hochschulen euroamerikanischer Tradition den Anspruch einer „alternativen“ Forschung und Lehre. Die Arbeit analysiert, wie solche Universitäten...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2024-11-22
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This book reviews photographic portrayals of contemporary Italian migrants living in the area between Lausanne and Geneva in Switzerland (Arc Lémanique). Drawing from the archives of Swiss-French illustrated magazines (L’Illustré and L’Hebdo) and other online...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-22
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This book draws on an in-depth ethnographic study to explore the meanings and consequences of race and ethnicity in daily life within two Finnish male prisons. Set within the context of Finnish immigration, it provides an excellent backdrop for studying social processes...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-22
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Grandchildhood in Multigenerational Living: Practices, Meanings, Relations is the first book to sociologically analyse grandchild-grandparent relationships from the perspective of grandchildren. Expanding the knowledge about hitherto under-researched grandchildren, this...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-22
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