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Although episodes of resistance and contention in authoritarian and authoritarian-like regimes constitute the majority of mass political movements worldwide, the theories and models of popular contention have been developed on liberal-democratic assumptions. Prompted by...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-07-11
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Exploring how people negotiate and reconcile, construct and re-construct their distinctive gender and ethnic identities in a cross-cultural context, Hu examines what happens when two distinct cultures meet at the intimate interface of marriage and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-11
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This book analyses post-migration social networks via the notion of superdiversity. Approaching diversity as relational and complexly configured through multiple migration-related differentiations, it challenges us to rethink how we talk about and classify migrant...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2016-07-08
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This original book studies a wide variety of mediating institutions, both organizational and non-organizational, in workplaces, residential areas, and in wider society. Focusing upon institutions in the Thames Gateway and with case studies across south-east London,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-06
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This book challenges
the prevailing view that local authorities are irrelevant in immigration
policy-making. Presenting an in-depth ethnographic study of the recent
implementation of local ‘diversity policies’ in the Netherlands, Belgium and
United Kingdom, it...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-05
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This book demonstrates that classical sociology is essential to cutting-edge debates in the contemporary social sciences. It has become fashionable to play down the importance of the classic text in sociology and critique the ideas of Weber, Marx and Durkheim as...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-30
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Europe and the European Union are unavoidable, if ambiguous, political references in the post-Yugoslav space. This volume interrogates the forms and implications of the increasingly potent symbolic nexus that has developed between non-heterosexual sexualities,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-30
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This book examines how gay place-making challenged the juggernaut of neoliberal urbanization in the Malate district of Manila. In this ethnography, Collins explores the creation of place, characterized by neighborhood renewal, gay community and entrepreneurialism, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-30
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This book demonstrates that the symbol of maternal sacrifice is the notion that 'proper' women put the welfare of children, whether born, in utero or not conceived, over and above any choices and desires of their own. The idea of maternal sacrifice acts as powerful...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-29
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The edited volume explains why sport mega events can be discussed from the viewpoint of politics and power, and what this discussion can add to the existing scholarship on political regimes, international norms, national identities, and cultural narratives.The book...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-29
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In this book, the author draws on Karl Marx’s writings on alienation and Erich Fromm’s conception of necrophilia in order to understand these aspects of contemporary culture as expressions of the domination of the living by the dead under capitalism. Necroculture is the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-24
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Das Buch beabsichtigt die Forschungsmethodik einer systematischen Metaphernanalyse als Methode der qualitativen Forschung in ihrer Logik zu rekonstruieren. Die linguistische Metapherntheorie nach Lakoff und Johnson zielt auf alltägliche Denkmuster ab und hat darum...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2016-06-23
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For more than a decade the 'Muslim question' on integration and alleged extremism has vexed Europe, revealing cracks in long-held certainties about the role of religion in public life. Secular assumptions are being tested not only by the growing presence of Muslims but...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-06-23
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This Handbook provides the hidden common threads that tie sociological inquiry together and featuring eminent scholars, it separates itself from its predecessors in substance and organization. Rather than rehashing old debates or longingly gazing at the past, this book...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-06-22
Collection :
Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
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Refugees from the violence of wars and the brutality of famished lives have knocked on other people's doors since the beginning of time. For the people behind the doors, these uninvited guests were always strangers, and strangers tend to generate fear and anxiety...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-06-20
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This book contextualizes how having a doula, or labor-support woman, present during childbirth results in lower rates of medical interventions. American women are inundated with views that childbirth is inherently risky, their bodies deficient, and therefore...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-20
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Die Autoren stellen in diesem essential fest, dass Selbständigkeit und
Unternehmertum Ausdruck von sozialem und ökonomischem Wandel sind. Sie
geben Antworten auf die Fragen, welche Strukturen selbstständiger
Erwerbstätigkeit sich warum herausgebildet haben. Es wird...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2016-06-17
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For more than a decade the 'Muslim question' on integration and alleged extremism has vexed Europe, revealing cracks in long-held certainties about the role of religion in public life. Secular assumptions are being tested not only by the growing presence of Muslims but...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-06-16
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In diesem Sammelband werden Probleme in der Evaluation von Studium und Lehre aufgezeigt und ein möglicher Umgang mit ihnen erörtert. Obgleich Evaluationen in Form von Befragungen Studierender zur Lehr- und Studiensituation flächendeckend verbreitet sind, weisen die...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2016-06-15
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Political Science has traditionally employed empirical research and analytical resources to understand, explain and predict political phenomena. One of the long-standing criticisms against empirical modeling targets the static perspective provided by the model-invariant...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2016-06-13
Collection :
Wiley Series in Computational and Quantitative Social Science
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