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The texts presented in this book trace the rise of culture as a major concern for development, international diplomacy, sustainability and national politics over the past two decades. As a major participant in anthropological field research, advocate for cultural...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-12-27
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This book offers a brand-new perspective on human trafficking as an illegal business. It also proposes a new form of networked action: combining the perspectives of academic researchers with those of highly skilled professionals involved in policymaking in this area,...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-12-26
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More than 50 years ago, President Kennedy gave an address to Congress that launched the community mental health movement in the U.S. This movement involved a vast and complex effort to replace the wholesale institutionalization of people with serious mental illnesses...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-12-26
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Migration has become, since the nineties, the subject of growing international discussion and cooperation. By critically analyzing the reports produced by international organisations on migration, this book sheds light on the way these actors frame migration and develop...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-12-23
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Die Überschuldung privater Haushalte stellt eine zunehmende gesellschaftliche Herausforderung dar. Datenbestände wissenschaftsbasierter Sozialberichtserstattung weisen auf einen Anstieg der strukturellen Überschuldung hin.Die Mehrzahl der Betroffenen gehört einer...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2014-12-23
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Long the arena of philosophers, legal scholars, and political scientists, the interdisciplinary study of human rights has recently seen an influx of sociologists. Why is this so, and how do sociologists contribute to our understanding of human rights in the contemporary...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-12-23
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Die erziehungshistorische Forschung richtet ihre Analysen meist auf den Nationalstaat des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts. Wird ihr Narrativ näher beleuchtet, zeigt sich eine Gründungserzählung, die den eigenen Forschungsbereich als Teil Europas und des Westens konstruiert....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-12-23
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In an attempt to counteract the doom and gloom of the economic crisis and the politicians’ overused dictum that ‘there is no alternative’, this interdisciplinary collection presents a number of alternative worlds that were conceived over the course of the last century....
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-12-22
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Welche Konstellationen, Probleme und Entwicklungen können Professionalität in der Sozialen Arbeit einschränken oder bedrohen? Unter dieser Fragestellung greifen die Beiträge des Bandes einen bisher nur selten fokussierten Aspekt der Professionsforschung auf. Aus der...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2014-12-19
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Edition Professions- und Professionalisierungsforschung
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This book uniquely applies securitization theory to the mass sexual violence atrocities committed during the Bosnia war and the Rwandan genocide. Examining the inherent links between rape, war and global security, Hirschauer analyses the complexities of conflict related...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-12-18
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This book is written to assist those planning a fund-raising event, especially for those new to fund-raising, to share hints and ideas to help lead them around some of the pitfalls. Although tackling a fundraising event seems a daunting task to many, Molly Russell’s...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2014-12-18
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Considers the misappropriation of African American popular culture through various genres, largely Hip Hop, to argue that while such cultural creations have the potential to be healing agents, they are still exploited -often with the complicity of African Americans- for...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-12-17
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Inverting the traditional focus of ethnic studies on blackness as the object of scrutiny, this book explores dominant forms of white masculinity as seen by African American authors placed alongside certain white writers. Author analyzes texts by Herman Melville, Ernest...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-12-17
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Exploring the relationship between space, place, and gendered violence as depicted in a range of South African writing, Gunne examines the social and political conditions of exceptionality during and after apartheid. Writers covered include: Hilda Bernstein, J.M....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-12-17
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How have animation fans in Japan, South Korea, the United States, and Canada formed communities and dealt with conflicts across cultural and geographic distance? This book traces animation fandom from its roots in early cinema audiences, through mid-century children's...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-12-17
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Women's football is the fastest growing participation sport in the UK. This book critically explores women's elite football from a sociological perspective, analysing the growth, governance and impact of the FAWomen's Super League from its inception onwards....
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-12-17
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This book examines the role religion played in the dismantling of Yugoslavia; addressing practical concerns of inter-ethnic fighting, religiously-motivated warfare, and the role religion played within the dissolution of the nation.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-12-17
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This project is an attempt to bring together the many fragments of history concerning the Yoruba religious community and their rise to prominence in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, from the mid-nineteenth to the late-twentieth centuries.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-12-17
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Interweaving phenomenological, hermeneutical, and sociopolitical analyses, this book considers the ways in which feminists conceptualize and produce the temporalities of feminism, including the time of the trace, narrative time, calendar time, and generational time.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-12-17
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Euro-commuters' have emerged as a new group of migrants since the onset of the economic crisis in the EU. These people work in one country but live in another. This book analyses the characteristics of these migrants, their motivations and how commuting influences their...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-12-17
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