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This book contends that Afrocentricity and other ideas birthed by major contemporary Black thinkers in the Diaspora are wellsprings for helping to build a new Africa.This book examines these ideas, which have given rise to the Africanist Perspective on the Motherland to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-24
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This book argues that just as the ideas of Pan-Africanism birthed by Henry Sylvester-Williams and others in the late 1800s and Negritude ushered by Aimé Césaire and others in the early 1900s emboldened many major Black thinkers to push for independence across Africa, so...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-24
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This open access book discusses cooperation strategies for safeguarding cultural heritage in nations facing diverse forms of fragility. Through case studies and a critical analysis, it explores preserving cultural heritage to spur regional socioeconomic development and...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-08-23
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Explore the philosophical wisdom of Taylor Swift and her music Taylor Swift is a “Mastermind” when it comes to relationships, songwriting, and performing sold-out stadium tours. But did you know that Taylor is also a philosophical mastermind? Taylor Swift and Philosophy...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2024-08-23
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The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
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This volume offers new perspectives on the ways in which migrants use storytelling practices and kinship formations in order to navigate and modify spaces of sovereignty, and thus to re-write narratives portraying them as helpless and passive...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-22
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It's time to create a future where feminine power and leadership is celebrated. It’s time for a radical awakening and a revolution. It’s time for women to rise. In Women Rising, you'll discover how to recognise and resist the very real forces of power that limit how you...
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Wiley
Parution :
2024-08-22
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In Burkina Faso stellt Migration den gesellschaftlichen Normalfall dar. Auch Kinder migrieren im Rahmen ihrer Anvertrauung, einer sozialen Praxis, bei der Kinder bei anderen als ihren leiblichen Eltern aufwachsen.In diesem Buch wird untersucht, warum und auf welche...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2024-08-21
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What is death? How can we respond to death? Why must we die? Where do we go from here? Do we go anywhere? Understanding Death offers a thorough introduction to the views and practices of various religions regarding death and life after death. Drawing on examples from...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2024-08-21
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Der Band „Die Praxis soziologischer Theoriebildung“ fragt nach den (Produktions-)Bedingungen soziologischer Theoriebildung. Im Zentrum stehen die konkreten, empirischen Bedingungen der Herstellung von soziologischen Theorien sowie die Reflexion und methodische...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2024-08-20
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«This volume is colossal in all senses: most obviously – at over 500 pages – in its sheer physical heft, but most importantly in its ambition, scope and achievement. It brings an unparalleled range of approaches to bear on Carroll’s neglected sequel and in doing so...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-08-20
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A Kirkus Best Book of 2024 An "impeccably researched book" (Michelle Bowdler) about intimate abuse, campus politics, and the narratives we choose to believe "gives a fresh perspective on what it means to be a survivor." (Kirkus starred...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2024-08-20
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This book talks about “Human Spirit and its Manifestations: A ‘Civilizational’ Perspective”, “Image and Expectations: China from the Perspective of the ‘Other’ Lecture Series”, “Civilization Communication and Mutual Enrichment”, and “Civilizational Problems: A Cavalier...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-17
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This book provides new empirical evidence about the ways in which social inequalities, especially those of class, shape and delimit forms of cultural reception and creative opportunity. How does it come about that, in George Orwell’s words, ‘the divorce between poetry...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-17
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This book explores the complexity, multiplicity, intersectionality, and dynamism of cultures in connection with critical and emancipatory peacebuilding. It includes diverse voices to emphasize local and everyday peacebuilding within a narrative that links the personal...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-17
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The long-awaited follow-up to Garland-Thomson's field-defining book Freakery, Freak Inheritance illuminates the convergence of the freak show era with the eugenics era, explicating the cultural work of the freak show as a compelling range of performances of cultural and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-08-16
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Die medienethnographische Forschungsarbeit ermöglicht einen Einblick in die Lebenswelt von Menschen ohne Lautsprache und deren Nutzung von Mitteln der Unterstützten Kommunikation, ins besonders von Sprachcomputern. Es wird gezeigt, wie Technik und Medien den Alltag mit...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-08-14
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Focusing on the work of Hartmut Rosa, this book provides an in-depth account of the extent to which we, as humans, are obliged to face up to the uncontrollability of the world. Rosa is widely regarded as one of the most original contemporary European social theorists....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-14
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'Powerfully entertaining. A true thriller of resilience and defiance' JANELLE MONÁE'Tanya Smith's story is unbelievably bold, captivating, and moving. Never Saw Me Coming is a wild ride from start to finish. She is my hero' ISSA RAEThe true story of how a middle-class...
Editeur :
Quercus
Parution :
2024-08-13
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This book is the first of its kind to explore how women challenge the powerful sociocultural and gendered phenomenon of diet culture across the broad anti-diet movement and beyond. Showcasing the voices of over 150 everyday women, activists, and health professionals...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-13
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From three-inch fang blennies to thirty-foot prehistoric crocodiles, from gaboon vipers to Neanderthals, Bite is a fascinating journey through the natural, scientific, and cultural history of something right in front of—or in—our faces: teeth. In Bite,...
Editeur :
Algonquin Books
Parution :
2024-08-13
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