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This book examines the extent to which the insights of STS can be used to analyse the role of architecture in and for social life. The contributions examine the question of whether architecture and thus materiality as a whole has agency. The book also proposes a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-05-27
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Cities have always been defined by their centrality. But literature demonstrates that their diverse peripheries define them, too: from suburbs to slums, rubbish dumps to nightclubs and entire failed cities. The contributors to this collection explore literary urban...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-05-27
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This is the first study that examines online anti-Semitism in Turkey. Nefes surveys important historical events concerning Turkish-Jewry and analyses people's online expressions about Adolf Hitler in the most popular forum website in Turkey, Ek?i Sözlük.
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Palgrave Pivot
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2015-05-27
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At the turn of the millennium, a new phenomenon emerged: conservatives, who just decades before had rejected the expanding human rights culture, began to embrace human rights in order to advance their political goals.
In this book, Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-05-27
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Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs are increasingly seen as a threat to communities around the world. They are a visible threat as a recognizable symbol of deviance and violence. This book uses gang and organized crime theory to explain the groups and looks at policing and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2015-05-27
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Postdigital Aesthetics is a contribution to questions raised by our newly computational everyday lives and the aesthetics which reflect both the postdigital nature of this age, but also critical perspectives of a post-internet world.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-26
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Contemporary culture is packed with fantasy and science fiction storyworlds extending across multiple media platforms. This book explores the myriad ways in which imaginary worlds use media like films, novels, videogames, comic books, toys and increasingly...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-26
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At the turn of the twenty-first century, American media abound with images and narratives of bodily transformations.At the crossroads of American, cultural, literary, media, gender, queer, disability and governmentality studies, the book presents a timely intervention...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-26
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Cash Transfers and Basic Social Protection offers a ground-breaking analysis of the discourses that facilitated the rise of cash transfers as instruments of development policy since the 1990s. The author gives a detailed overview of the history of social protection and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-26
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Featuring interviews, conversations and observations from a multi-sited ethnography of Ecuadorean musicians and their families, this book offers an innovative response to previous analyses of globalization and indigenous languages, demonstrating how transcultural...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-26
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Family members are increasingly likely to provide caregiving for older adults as the US population ages. This book summarizes what we know about caregiving by spouses and other intimate partners, adult children, siblings, grandchildren, friends, and other relatives, as...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2015-05-26
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This book aims to present concepts, knowledge and institutional settings of arts management and cultural policy research. It offers a representation of arts management and cultural policy research as a field, or a complex assemblage of people, concepts, institutions,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-26
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Through an analysis of Chinese migration to Europe, this volume examines the most pressing migration and integration issues facing many societies today, from the political and policy-based challenges of managing increasingly diverse communities, to individual lived...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-05-26
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Die AutorInnen dieses Bandes gehen der Frage nach, wie eine komplexe, aufeinander abgestimmte öffentliche Erziehung der Heranwachsenden gestaltet werden kann und welche Reformschritte dafür notwendig sind. Es wird deutlich, dass der nachhaltige soziale Wandel auch die...
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Springer VS
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2015-05-25
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This book explores the historical and archaeological evidence of the relationships between a coastal community and the shipwrecks that have occurred along the southern Australian shoreline over the last 160 years. It moves beyond a focus on shipwrecks as events and...
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Springer
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2015-05-25
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Dominic Kudlacek liefert eine kritische Aufarbeitung der theoretischen und empirischen Literatur zum Thema Akzeptanz von Videoüberwachung in Deutschland. Ferner werden die Ergebnisse einer empirischen Untersuchung zum Thema Videoüberwachung vorgestellt und dabei auch...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2015-05-25
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As policy-makers look first (and easily) for existing policy solutions which could be adapted from elsewhere, policy transfer becomes increasingly central to policy development. This book explores whether policy transfer in 'everyday' policy-making may be...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-25
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Die Europäische Union sieht sich heute in der Krise mit Dilemmata und Paradoxien konfrontiert, die ihren Bestand bedrohen. Maurizio Bach beleuchtet in diesem Band die Kernprobleme der europäischen Integration aus soziologischer Perspektive. Deutlich wird, dass die...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2015-05-22
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Neue Bibliothek der Sozialwissenschaften
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While policymakers in the world reiterate the importance of protecting voice diversity, traditional media conglomerates and new social media giants make their task increasingly challenging. This book assesses the current state of policy-making on media plurality and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-21
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*Perfect for fans of the Guilty Feminist* Hot (adj.) : (Of a person) Attractive 'a hot chick'Fem-i-n-ist (n.) : A person who supports feminism, the movement that advocates equal rights for womenPolly Vernon, Grazia columnist, Times feature writer (hair-flicker,...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2015-05-21
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