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This book analyses social work through the concept of 'xenoracism' to challenge the outdated concepts of racism that still pervade social work. It illustrates how, through their discursive practices, social workers are able to counteract the dominant anti asylum seeking...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2015-05-05
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The news media and the state are locked in a battle of wills in the world's emerging democratic states. It is a struggle that will determine whether or not democracy flourishes or withers in the 21st century. Using a number of case studies, including South Africa, this...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-05
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Laws Relating to Sex, Pregnancy, and Infancy examines case law and legislation in regards to reproduction, pregnancy, and infancy. Cusack explores the winding pathways of legal precedence and action on the social conditions of pregnancy and childbirth, and draws from...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-05
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This study explores the 'imaginary of disaster' that appears in popular fictions about the apocalyptic breakdown of society. Focusing on representations of crime, law, violence, vengeance and justice, it argues that an exploration post-apocalyptic story-telling offer us...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2015-05-05
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In The Long Defeat, Akiko Hashimoto explores the stakes of war memory in Japan after its catastrophic defeat in World War II, showing how and why defeat has become an indelible part of national collective life, especially in recent decades. Divisive war memories lie at...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-05-05
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Romantic Terrorism offers an innovative methodology in exploring the ways in which domestic violence offenders terrorise their victims. Its focus on the insidious use of tactics of coercive control by abusers opens up much-needed discussion on the damage caused to...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2015-05-05
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This collection provides a comprehensive insight into disabled children and youth in Nordic countries. It seeks to understand the experiences of children from their own perspectives and takes a multidisciplinary approach grounded in the new social studies of childhood...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-05
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A period of great change for Europe, the thirteenth-century was a time of both animosity and intimacy for Jewish and Christian communities. In this wide-ranging collection, scholars discuss the changing paradigms in the research and history of Jews and Christians in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-05
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The New Middle Ages
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Dieses Kompendium dient als praxisgerechte Orientierungshilfe für die Verantwortlichen in Unternehmen, die sich mit den Auswirkungen des demografischen Wandels beschäftigen. Das Kompendium gibt einerseits einen Überblick über die Auswirkungen des demografischen Wandels...
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Springer Vieweg
Parution :
2015-05-04
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This book aims to decipher the complex web of structural, institutional and cultural contradictions which shape the inclusion-exclusion dialectic and the multifaceted grid within which the 'us' becomes the 'other' and the 'other' becomes the 'us'. It looks at how...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-04
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Das Buch beschäftigt sich mit bislang wenig erforschten gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungen der Frühen Neuzeit in Gibraltar, der letzten Kolonie auf dem europäischen Kontinent. Seit der Eroberung im Spanischen Erbfolgekrieg 1704 entwickelte sich dort im Schatten der...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-05-04
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Judaism’s Promise, Meeting The Challenge Of Modernity follows Seymour W. Itzkoff’s well-received three-book series, Who Are the Jews?Judaism’s Promise, confronts the many revolutions that have reshaped Judaism over the centuries allowing it and its people a path of...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2015-05-04
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Thema des Buches ist der Zusammenhang von Krieg und Frieden, zwei Schlüsselbegriffen der Politikwissenschaft. In ihrer reflexiven Bezugnahme sind sie kaum voneinander zu trennen, da die Präsenz des einen die Abwesenheit des anderen bedingt. Was wird in unterschiedlichen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-05-04
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Since the early 1990s, the southern Caucasus and its larger neighbourhood, the Black Sea region, have experienced deep and sometimes painful transformations, including bloody conflicts. They have also become an arena of geopolitical and geoeconomic competition between...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-05-04
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A Companion to the Anthropology of the Middle East presents a comprehensive overview of current trends and future directions in anthropological research and activism in the modern Middle East. Named as one of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles of 2016 Offers...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-05-04
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
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Galizien ist eine historische Landschaft zwischen Polen und der Ukraine, die stark von der österreichischen Teilungszeit geprägt ist. Obwohl sie als administratives Gebiet nur bis 1918 Bestand hatte, wirktGalizien in vielfältiger Weise bis heute nach. Dieses Buch setzt...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-05-04
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Wilhelm Kuehs entwirft mithilfe des Formalismus, Strukturalismus und der postmodernen Textsemiotik eine Theorie menschlichen Handelns und Seins, die es ermöglicht, jede Erzählung und jede Handlung auf den ihnen zugrundeliegenden Mythos zurückzuverfolgen. Dadurch...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2015-04-30
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This book discusses issues regarding conceptualization, governance and implementation of responsible innovation. It treats different approaches to making responsible innovation a reality and it contains new case studies that illustrate challenges and solutions. Research...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-04-30
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This volume is motivated by the desire to explain why Neanderthals were replaced by modern humans, in terms of cultural differences between the two (sub-) species. It provides up-to-date coverage on the theory of cultural evolution as is being used by anthropologists,...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-04-30
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This book is a lively, passionate defence of contemporary work in the humanities, and, beyond that, of the university system that makes such work possible. The book's stark accounts of academic labour, and its proposals for reform of the tenure system, are novel,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-04-30
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