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In Intimacies of Violence, Nadine Shaanta Murshid demonstrates how transnational middle-class Bangladeshi women personally embody structural violence to shed light on the ways in which violence is produced, perpetuated, and resisted. Transnational Bangladeshi women are...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-10-25
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This book will make the case for the introduction of a universal basic income (UBI). The structural logic of the digital economy as presently constituted widens inequality and, through its use of automation for increasingly complex, as well as mundane, tasks, threatens...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-25
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This book systematically examines historical perspectives, meticulously unveiling the nuanced narratives embedded within cityscapes across epochs, providing a comprehensive chronicle of architectural evolution. It conducts a thorough exploration of cultural heritage and...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-10-25
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The history and nature of artificial stone for use in architecture is a subject still shrouded in myth and misconception. This book aims to lay bare those misconceptions and present a scientific and architectural account of these materials, and especially Coade Stone,...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-10-25
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Dieses Buch beschäftigt sich auf unterschiedliche Weise mit der Politik des Todes, mit Kunst und Politik sowie mit der Politik von Zuflucht und Asyl. Der Schnitt über diese Bereiche bringt die fließende Qualität des gesellschaftlichen Lebens im Spätkapitalismus in den...
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Springer
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2024-10-25
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Die vergangenen Jahre waren für Musikkultur und Musikwirtschaft durch tiefe Krisen gekennzeichnet.Die Maßnahmen gegen die Covid-19 Pandemie griffen nicht nur tief in den Alltag der Menschen ein, sondern mit der zeitweisen Absage jeglicher Clubveranstaltungen,...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2024-10-25
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The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Punishment is the most comprehensive collective work that has yet been published on the philosophical aspects of punishment. It is divided into ten sections covering all the main philosophical challenges arising from the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-10-25
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On Social Closure reinvigorates the idea of social closure as a basic sociological concept for understanding the strategies powerful groups use to improve their life chances at the expense of the less powerful. Jürgen Mackert provides sociological tools for analysing...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-10-25
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Variously translated as “estrangement,” “enstrangement” or “defamiliarization,” Viktor Shklovsky’s concept of ostranenie is more relevant than ever. This collection offers new insights into the theories and practices of ostranenie across various languages and cultures,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-24
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This book explores how studies of language and aging can be applied to build an aging-friendly society, drawing on the socio-pragmatic turn in language and aging to examine the perspectives of older adults experiencing aging through a linguistic lens. Research on the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-24
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This book approaches cultural conceptualizations of our modern world from cultural, linguistic and cognitive perspectives. It explores broader topics such as contemporary society, media and entertainment, migration and identity, political discourse, educational contexts...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-10-24
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The articles collected in this anthology address highly relevant issues of energy transition from both French and German perspectives.The question of energy production beyond fossil fuels entails lines of investigation ranging from attitudes to nuclear energy, through...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2024-10-23
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This volume presents a global study of the economic and cultural global systems in which smoking materials, practices and ideas circulate, intertwine, and transform.This book compiles original work authored by researchers from the Americas, Africa, and Europe to elicit...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-10-23
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The Hebrides has long been seen as an area that, when considered over time, was slow to absorb change. Indeed, from the nineteenth century onwards, it attracted the attention of scholars for being seen as having not just the oldest rocks in Europe but also, some of its...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-10-23
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Dieses Buch bietet einen umfassenden, interdisziplinären Blick auf mediale Erscheinungsformen im Kontext der Corona-Krise und fokussiert in diesem Zusammenhang insbesondere medien- und kommunikationswissenschaftliche, linguistische und philosophische Perspektiven auf...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2024-10-23
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The long-lasting political instability in Afghanistan since the Soviet Union invasion in 1979 has displaced millions of Afghans, both internally and internationally. Despite their growing numbers, the challenges that Afghan refugees encounter in public institutions and...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2024-10-23
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Lange Zeit galt Homosexualität als Paradebeispiel für eine Abweichung von der Norm. In einer Gesellschaft, die Gleichheit als Grundprinzip betrachtet, stellt sich heute die Frage, ob homosexuelle Männlichkeit noch immer als abweichend von der Norm...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2024-10-23
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BestMasters
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Im Zuge eines anscheinend ununterbrochenen und unaufhaltsamen technischen Fortschritts scheint die Entwicklung einer künstlichen Superintelligenz auf Basis von bereits heute realisierten Künstlichen Intelligenzen nur eine Frage der Zeit zu sein. Diese Arbeit nimmt Nick...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2024-10-23
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This edited volume proffers a sociological outlook on the challenges contemporary societies face when states attempt to govern religious and cultural diversity and still protect freedoms of and from religion claimed by individuals, communities, and institutions. The...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-10-22
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This book will highlight the role of CE in the sustainability field as it is expressed in the various fields and disciplines and its contribution to building a sustainable society by providing a better understanding of the relevant social and cultural structures and the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-10-22
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