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This book is about Shakespeare’s role in sustaining the antiblack paradigm of modernity.This work re-reads both Shakespearean texts and performances from the 16th century to the present to argue that American and English societies have deployed Shakespeare for...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-25
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Richtet Wissenschaft ihr theoretisches und empirisches Instrumentarium auf sich selbst, entstehen metatheoretische Reflexionen oder wissenschaftssoziologische Untersuchungen. Es wird die Funktion der Wissenschaft für die Gesellschaft untersucht, ihr Verhältnis zur...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-21
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In developing economies, due to rising population and increasing migration, cities are rapidly growing. By 2050, two-thirds of all humanity (6.5 billion people) will be living in cities. Sustainable development cannot be achieved without significantly transforming how...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2025-08-21
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ISTE Invoiced
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This book offers a comprehensive analysis of socio-natural disaster recovery projects, using the Bam and Wenchuan earthquakes as case studies to evaluate their success and failure. With escalating losses from socio-natural disasters and a high failure rate among...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-19
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While Bourdieu’s work on cultural production, the reproduction of inequality and the rise of the modern state is well known, his writings on the phenomena of internationalization and imperialism have received much less attention. Bourdieu’s analyses of the international...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2025-08-19
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This book foregrounds socioecological stewardship in urban spaces. It demonstrates how activities like gardening and participating in events that spark ecological learning foster a sense of place, social connections, and lively neighbourhoods. Offering case studies from...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-19
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When (re-)designing organizations, one must first be clear about what is meant by the structures of an organization and what can be done in order to change them. In this book, we present communication channels, programs and personnel as central structures. We also...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-18
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Science and technology produce a wide range of benefits in society but they also create harm, both of which are unequally distributed across social groups and geographic regions. This incisive book provides a set of analytical tools to understand how inequality relating...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2025-08-15
ePub
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18,99€
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Today, Critical Theory is no longer tied to a specific place in the world. Rather, genuine developments of Critical Theories can be observed in many academic contexts around the world. The contributions collected in this book show that the various projects of Critical...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2025-08-12
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Ziel des Bandes ist es, der im letzten Jahr veröffentlichten Skizze einer Theorie der Relation (2022) eine kompakte Nachschrift zur Seite zu stellen, die dem interessierten Publikum, insbesondere aber Sozialwissenschaftlern und Sozialwissenschaftlerinnen sowie...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2025-07-31
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Talking with God examines the neuroscience of belief and belief change related to prayer. It puts forward a model based on neuroscience and theology to understand how God speaks to us individually and inspires us through the human capacities for language and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-07-29
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This study explores the relationship between the sacred and the virtual, emphasizing the sacred as a divinely dependent, consecrated space activated through ritual, mediating between the profane and the holy. The central argument is that the virtual is fundamentally...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-29
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The demographic change presents new, primarily financial challenges for the state, politics, and the economy (level of power and domination relations). Aging (doing age) should be understood as a social construct that primarily offers self-empowerment opportunities for...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-28
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The war in Ukraine has captivated the world. Current coverage is emotional and largely limited to the military aspects of the war. Contributions from Peace and Conflict Studies have been under-represented in the current debate. They are even subject to anti-pacifist...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-07-27
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Indian democracy is in trouble. A still widely popular, democratically elected leader stands athwart it, dangerously authoritarian and disrespectful of civil liberties, the independence of the courts and the press, and disputatious vis-à-vis organized counter-powers....
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2025-07-23
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22,99€
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Provides the tools to understand the impact, challenges, and opportunities of the esports industry Esports has transformed from a niche hobby into a global industry, influencing entertainment, economics, and social structures. Yet it remains a topic of intense debate....
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2025-07-23
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Dieses Open-Access-Buch widmet sich einer historischen und theoretischen Forschungslücke: Zum einen wird die Entstehung der sozialwissenschaftlichen Religionsforschung in der Schweiz aufgearbeitet, welche in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts von den...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2025-07-23
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Sexualisierte Diskriminierung und Gewalt galten in Hochschulen lange als Tabu und wurden vor allem durch Geschlechterforscher*innen und Gleichstellungsbeauftragte thematisiert. Mit der weltweiten #MeToo-Bewegung erhielt die Debatte um sexualisierte Diskriminierung und...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2025-07-21
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Hervorgehend aus den internationalen und interdisziplinären Memory Studies sowie einer Sociology of Memory hat sich in Deutschland der Diskussionszusammenhang einer Gedächtnissoziologie etabliert. Ziel dieser in der Wissenssoziologie beheimateten Debatte ist...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2025-07-21
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While transgender lives are at the forefront of contemporary politics, what do we really understand about the complexity of trans experience? Trans people who go through various aspects of gender transition experience shifts not only in their gender, but also with...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2025-07-21
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