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A Choice 2015 Outstanding Academic Title
Throughout history, Muslim men have been depicted as monsters. The portrayal of humans as monsters helps a society delineate who belongs and who, or what, is excluded. Even when symbolic, as in post-9/11 zombie films, Muslim...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-01-02
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Religious repression--the non-violent suppression of civil and political rights--is a growing and global phenomenon. Though most often practiced in authoritarian countries, levels of religious repression nevertheless vary across a range of non-democratic regimes,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-01-02
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Ends of Assimilation examines how Chicano literature imagines the conditions and costs of cultural change, arguing that its thematic preoccupation with assimilation illuminates the function of literature. John Alba Cutler shows how mid-century sociologists advanced a...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-01-02
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Food has, for most of our species history, been intensely political: who gets to eat what, how often, and through what means? The scale of polity in question has shifted over time, from very local institutions dividing up grain piles to an international community...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-12-31
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While Guinness is a global product, it still contains references to Ireland and it occupies a particular place in imaginings of Irishness. Brewing Identities is unique in that, while it focuses on the (re)production of a specific kind of ethno-national identity–...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-12-30
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The symbols, signs, and traces of copyright and related intellectual property laws that appear on everyday texts, objects, and artifacts have multiplied exponentially over the past 15 years. Digital spaces have revolutionized access to content and transformed the ways...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-12-30
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With today's availability of Social Security and Medicare, we typically think of the older years as a stage in life where people are supported financially. However, of the more than 40 million old adults currently living in the US, many are struggling financially living...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-12-29
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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...
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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 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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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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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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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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