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Cosmopolitanism and the Media explores the diverse implications of today's digital media environments in relation to people's worldviews and social practices. The book presents an empirically grounded account of the relationship between cosmopolitanized lifeworlds and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-05-19
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Social interaction is the engine which drives an individual's psychological development and it can create changes on all levels of society.Social Relations in Human and Societal Development includes essays by internationally renowned academics from a range of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-05-19
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The Occupy movement and the Arab Spring have brought global attention to the potential of social media for empowering otherwise marginalized groups. This book addresses questions like what happens after the moment of protest and global visibility and whether social...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-05-19
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This book offers a critical analysis of the effect of usage of locative social media on the perceptions and phenomenal experience of lived in spaces and places. Drawing on users accounts of location-based social networking, a digital post-phenomenology of place is...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-19
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Ted Schrecker and Clare Bambra argue that the obesity, insecurity, austerity and inequality that result from neoliberal (or 'market fundamentalist') policies are hazardous to our health, asserting that these neoliberal epidemics require a political cure.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-05-19
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This book is a social critique of the cultural taboo of the female virginity in the Middle East. It highlights the unobtainability of this cultural myth and its multilevel destructive influences on various aspects of social life.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-05-19
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New technologies may have transformed human societies, but not much has been written on how they are impacting people in Africa and other developing regions, in terms of how they use technology to enhance their socioeconomic conditions in everyday life. This book...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-05-19
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This book identifies and engages with an analysis of racism in the Caribbean region, providing an empirically-based theoretical re-framing of both the racialisation of the globe and evaluation of the prospects for anti-racism and the post-racial.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-19
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This book follows the transnational lives of children growing up as British Bangladeshi individuals in multicultural London. Exploring the array of international events, communities and forces which influence them, Zeitlyn examines the socialisation practices among...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-19
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Contemporary understanding of human subjectivity has come a long way since the Cartesian 'thinking thing' or Freud's view of the self struggling with its unconscious. We no longer think of ourselves as stable and indivisible units or combinations thereof - instead, we...
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Polity
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2015-05-19
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Working within a framework of environmental philosophy and environmental ethics, this book describes and postulates alternative understandings of nature in Indian traditions of thought, particularly philosophy. The interest in alternative conceptualizations of nature...
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Springer
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2015-05-19
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This book discusses the political and economic history and geography of Georgia, the problems it has faced, and how it has overcome and is still overcoming them. In most countries, at the end of the 20th century the successful resolution of social-economic, political,...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-05-18
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Udo Dengel untersucht das (migrations-)biographische und quasi-professionelle Erfahrungswissen älterer, herkunftsheterogen verorteter MigrantInnen in dem Tätigkeitsfeld des Migrations- und Integrationsengagements in Deutschland. Er geht auf der Basis...
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Springer VS
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2015-05-18
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This open access book draws on award-winning cross-generational research comparing the complex and life-changing processes of settlement among Albanian migrants and their adolescent children in three European cities: London (UK), Thessaloniki (Greece), and Florence...
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Springer
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2015-05-18
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This book discusses a new breed of racism, namely language racism, which is spreading both in the USA and in Europe, as well as other parts of the world. The book is a manifesto promoting a more positive view of linguistic and cultural diversity.
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Palgrave Pivot
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2015-05-15
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Using qualitative research data on Mexican/Mexican Americans and their historias de éxito that center on Mexican centric concepts such as buen trabajador, bien educado, and buena gente, Octavio Pimentel reveals that when social networks guide personal goals in these...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2015-05-15
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This book explains in fascinating detail how economic and social transformations in pre-1600 Japan led to an industrious revolution in the early modern period and how the fruits of the Industrious Revolution are what have supported Japan since the eighteenth century,...
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Springer
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2015-05-14
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American Education in Popular Media explores how popular media has represented schooling in the United States over the course of the twentieth century. Terzian and Ryan examine prevalent portrayals of students and professional educators while addressing contested...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-05-13
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This volume focuses on the gradual emergence of modern Indian philosophy through the cross-cultural encounter between indigenous Indian and Western traditions of philosophy, during the colonial period in India, specifically in the 19th and early 20th centuries.This...
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Springer
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2015-05-13
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The contributors respond to the absence of critical debate surrounding the ways in which spaces of the city do not merely contain, but also constitute, urban poverty.The volume explores how the spaces of the city actively produce and reproduce urban poverty....
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-05-12
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