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Neoliberalism, Media and the Political examines the condition of media and journalism in neoliberal cultures. Emphasizing neoliberalism's status as a political ideology that is simultaneously hostile to politics, the book presents a critical theoretical argument...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-20
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This book explores the processes of migration and integration within the West African sub-region and unearths subsisting promises and failures of the ECOWAS' intent of transmuting the sub-region into a single socio-economic (and political) entity.
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-11-20
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The book explains how social outcomes result from the influence of economic ideas which are themselves strongly impacted by the distribution of power in society.The book examines policies and programs of contending interests, emphasizing the importance of socio-economic...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-11-20
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Authors from a variety of disciplines dealing with diverse historical cases engage with the spatial deployment of violence and the possibilities for memory and resistance in contexts of state sponsored violence, enforced disappearances and regimes of exception....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-20
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This timely book provides a theoretical and empirical engagement with contemporary understandings of the governance of crime, safety and security. Using a Bourdieuian framework, Bowden explores concepts such as capital, habitus and symbolic power to present an analytic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-20
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This book, in its 114th year, provides insight into major trends in the North American Jewish communities, examining the recently completed Pew Report (A Portrait of Jewish American), gender in American Jewish life, national and Jewish communal affairs and the US and...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-11-19
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In The Hyper(in)visible Fat Woman Gailey investigates the interface between fat women's perceptions of their bodies and of the social expectations and judgments placed on them. The book explores the phenomenon of 'hyper(in)visibility', the seemingly paradoxical social...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-19
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This volume focuses on challenges to the effective and proper use of human rights and tries to identify, through a series of case studies, strategies and contexts in which human rights advocacy can work in favor of human rights, as well as situations in which such...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-19
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Catholic or Protestant, recusant or godly rebel, early modern women reinvented their spiritual and gendered spaces during the reformations in religion in England during the sixteenth century and beyond. These essays explore the ways in which some Englishwomen struggled...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-19
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The book presents interpretations of culture, health, politics, and religion in Sweden today, Sweden transforms from the well-functioning but existentially bland economic wonder to a more fragmented and gloomy society. Contributors include scholars from film studies,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-19
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Der Band thematisiert die Bedeutung der Freiwilligendienste hinsichtlich ihrer Potenziale und Wirkungen für die Zivilgesellschaft, ihre Handlungsfelder und Rahmenbedingungen und nimmt die beteiligten Akteure in den Blick. Dabei geht es um Entwicklungslinien,...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2014-11-19
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Bürgergesellschaft und Demokratie
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Offering a dialogue between anthropology and literature, culture, and media, this book presents fine-grained ethnographic vignettes of monsters dwelling in the contemporary world. These monsters hail from Aboriginal Australia, the Pacific, Asia, and Europe, and their...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-19
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Based on the author's fieldwork and readings of media, government reports, and historical and contemporary records, this book explores how Muslim migrants in Europe contribute to a changing European landscape, focusing on Muslim Moroccan migrants.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-19
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Mit diesem Buch soll u.a. beantwortet werden, in welcher Art und Weise und für welche Zwecke Web 2.0 Anwendungen im politischen System bereits eingesetzt werden und welche Potenziale noch nicht ausgeschöpft wurden. Neben den Webauftritten und den Social Media Strategien...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2014-11-18
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The author re-examines the concept of equality in international society, past and present.The view that equality necessarily flows from sovereignty is considered a contingent rather than a necessary contention. A new framework for equality in international society is...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-18
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The concentrations camps that existed in the colonised world at the turn of the 20th Century are a vivid reminder of the atrocities committed by imperial powers on indigenous populations. This study explores British, American and Spanish camp cultures, analysing debates...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-18
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This Handbook brings together scholars from around the world in addressing the global significance of, controversies over and alternatives to intellectual property (IP) today. It brings together over fifty of the leading authors in this field across the spectrum of...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2014-11-18
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This book conceptualises the lived experience of intimacy in a world in which the terms and conditions of love and friendship are increasingly unclear. It shows that the analysis of the 'small world' of dyads can give important clues about society and its gendered...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-18
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The book explores police legitimacy and crime control, with a focus on the European region. Using comparative case studies, the contributions to this timely volume examine the effects of a transition to democracy on policing, public attitudes towards police legitimacy,...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-11-18
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This book explores the challenges population decline presents for Europe’s urban and rural areas. It features recent demographic data and trends not only for Europe as a whole, but also for selected countries, and compares growth and shrinkage from a historical as well...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-11-18
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