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This collection examines the current stage of multicultural challenges and their influence on democracy in 12 countries of Europe and East Asia. Contributors draw out the differences between European and East Asian approaches to universalizing locality and localizing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-10-29
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Most people have, at some point, experienced powerful, often strange and disconcerting, responses to films and television programmes of which they cannot always make sense. Drawing on insights from psychoanalysis, this book argues that the seemingly mundane and everyday...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-10-29
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This book brings together ten original empirical works focusing on the influence of various types of spatial mobility – be it international or national– on partnership, family and work life. The contributions cover a range of important topics which focus on...
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Springer
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2014-10-29
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This study of nineteenth-century clove plantations on Zanzibar provides an important contribution to debates in global historical archaeology. Broadening plantation archaeology beyond the Atlantic World, this work addresses plantations run by Omani Arab colonial rulers...
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Springer
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2014-10-29
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This brief studies the phenomenon of street children in two cities in Peru. It looks at some of the conceptual issues and, after analysing why children are in the street and what behaviour and which aspirations they exhibit, deals with the policy issues and lessons to...
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Springer
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2014-10-28
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Schulbücher filtern – wie andere Massenmedien auch – Informationen über Gesellschaft und Politik. Sie erreichen über die Schule und den Unterricht Kinder und Jugendliche in großer Zahl und beeinflussen das Bewusstsein vieler Menschen. Insofern kann eine Analyse der...
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Springer VS
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2014-10-28
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Based on an extensive interview study with lesbian, transgender and queer BDSM practitioners, this book sheds new light on sexuality and current theoretical debates in gender and queer studies. It critically discusses practices of establishing consent, pushing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-10-28
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Mashup hat sich als Begriff eingebürgert für auditiv, visuell, audiovisuell „vermischte“ Neuarrangements, Collagen, Bricolagen in der Musik, in Videos, in Computerspielen, in der (aktuellen Medien-)Kunst, in der Architektur. Es handelt sich um eine Verbindung...
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Springer VS
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2014-10-28
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Winner of the Christine M. Alder Book Prize in 2015 from the Australian and New Zealand Society of CriminologyHistorical abuse of children is a worldwide phenomenon. This book assesses the enablers of abuse and the reasons it took so long for officials to respond....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-27
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This volume offers a comprehensible account of the development and evolution of moral systems. It seeks to answer the following questions: If morals are eternal and unchanging, why have the world’s dominant religious moral systems been around for no more than a mere...
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Springer
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2014-10-27
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Wilhelm Christian Weitling zählte zu den bedeutendsten deutschen Frühsozialisten und Organisatoren der frühproletarischen Bewegung. Diese politische Biographie befasst sich mit dem Leben Weitlings von der Kindheit über die Ausbildung bis zum revolutionären Demokraten...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-10-27
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The book investigates the European debate on culture and identity by pointing to those uses of language that shape the image and perception of migrants in host societies.The term ‘foreigner’ is highly sensitive to changes experienced by communities. Its meanings...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-10-27
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This book describes Martin Bucer (1491-1551) as a teacher of theology, focusing on his time as Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge between 1549 and 1551. The book is centered on his 1550 Cambridge lectures on Ephesians, and investigates them in...
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Springer
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2014-10-27
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This book explores how prisoners turn themselves into active opponents of the prison regime, and thus reclaim their freedom and manhood. Using extensive ethnographic fieldwork from Norway's largest prison, Ugelvik provides a compelling analysis of the relationship...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-24
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?Selbstbestimmung und Gerechtigkeit sind zwar allgemeine Wertvorstellungen, die jedoch in Konflikt zueinander geraten können. Auch das Ziel einer geschlechtergerechten Gesellschaft berührt dieses Spannungsfeld, da die Strategie gescheitert ist, Geschlechtergerechtigkeit...
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Springer VS
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2014-10-24
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Can 'theory' teach us anything about Peru?Can 'Peru' teach us anything about theory? The chapters in this volume explore these questions by establishing a productive dialogue between Peru and theory. Focusing on institutional weakness and economic, social, gendered,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-23
Collection :
Studies of the Americas
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Analyzing women labeled as terrorists in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Gender and the Political examines Western cultural constructions of the female terrorist. The chapters argue that the development of the discourse on terrorism evolves in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-10-23
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In diesem Band wird die in der wissenschaftlichen Debatte bislang wenig beachtete Wechselbeziehung zwischen Interaktions- und Koordinationsarbeit am Beispiel sozialer Dienstleistungen beleuchtet: Koordinationsarbeit bildet beispielsweise eine wesentliche Voraussetzung...
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Springer VS
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2014-10-23
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Global Health involves, among many things the intensified travelling of people, resources, technologies, knowledge, standards, and ideas. This book describes what happens when innovations are transferred to new settings: What work is needed to make them work, but also...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-23
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The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present: Operation Urgent Memory is the first scholarly book from the humanities on the subject of the Grenada Revolution and the US intervention. It is simultaneously a critique, tribute, and memorial. It argues that in both its...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-23
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