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The story of China–Africa relations is one of the most important geopolitical and geoeconomic developments of the past two decades. This book uses the interaction between China and African countries in football to critically examine how engagement through football...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-12-03
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This book offers a novel approach to studying war and peace by foregrounding motherhood in times of conflict and peace processes from a sociological perspective. Through qualitative research resting on individual and focus group interviews with 55 mothers who had lived...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-01
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Compromise after Conflict
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Historische Verletzungen zwischen Angehörigen von Großgruppen verblassen nicht einfach über die Zeit hinweg. Am empirischen Fallbeispiel der alevitisch-sunnitischen Verletzungsbeziehungen zeigt sich, dass postmigrantische Gesellschaften durch vielfältige, oftmals...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2024-12-01
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This open access handbook combines multiple theoretical and practical approaches for enabling a nuanced understanding of the phenomenon of marriage in the Arab world. Adopting a holistic, interdisciplinary approach, it provides a framework for the contextual and macro...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-11-30
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Marie Rosenkranz‘ Monografie ist in das expandierende Feld sozial- und kulturwissenschaftlicher Analysen der Kunst einzuordnen, die u¨ber eine immanent kunstwissenschaftliche Untersuchung von ku¨nstlerischen Werken hinausgehen.
Das Kunstfeld ist in der Spätmoderne...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2024-11-27
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We understand urban regeneration as all efforts managed, funded or at least guided to some extent by public authorities that aim at improving, stabilizing or revitalizing existing neighborhoods. This comprises area-based strategies, improvements of public infrastructure...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2024-11-25
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This book proposes a broad synthesis of the state of the art regarding the debate on the phenomenon of Emergence. Discussing from a theoretical and a theological perspective, it aims to propose a new interpretation, according to the theological and metaphysical...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-11-23
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Grandchildhood in Multigenerational Living: Practices, Meanings, Relations is the first book to sociologically analyse grandchild-grandparent relationships from the perspective of grandchildren. Expanding the knowledge about hitherto under-researched grandchildren, this...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-22
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Öffentlichkeitsbeteiligung wurde viele Jahre als Allheilmittel für eine erfolgreiche Umsetzung von Stadtplanungs- und -entwicklungsprozessen angesehen. Immer deutlicher jedoch wird, dass die alltäglichen Erfahrungen auf kommunaler Ebene häufig stark von den normativen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2024-11-21
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This new book by Luc Boltanski and Arnaud Esquerre is a highly original analysis of the two key processes that shape the contemporary public sphere. On the one hand, there are the processes of news provision which select out a range of facts and events and bring them to...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2024-11-18
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65,00€
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This book tells the story of what happens when the “adventure” of living in Spain turns complicated due to the emergence of care needs derived from loss of autonomy. It investigates the care strategies of retirement migrants that must navigate a foreign welfare system...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-18
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This edited volume serves as an overview and introduction to the conceptual apparatus of Norbert Elias for newcomers, while also outlining current research within the Eliasian school of sociology. An Eliasian or figurational approach foregrounds process, is sensitive to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-15
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This volume takes a deep dive into the lasting legacy of stigma from the COVID-19 Pandemic. Self isolation, quarantine, face masks, hand washing, and travel restrictions are all ancient methods of pandemic management that extend past antiquity. Yet...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-11-14
Collection :
Global Perspectives on Health Geography
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This book investigates everyday life within Lebanese Australian homes, documenting how these homes integrate Lebanese Australian culture into suburban Australian life. It explores how the homemaking practices of Lebanese Australian families both influence...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-12
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In diesem Buch wird die soziologische Differenzierungstheorie dazu genutzt, Öffentlichkeiten in unterschiedlichen sozialen Einheiten zu untersuchen und damit die Grundlage für eine allgemeine Theorie der Öffentlichkeit zu entwickeln.In jedem differenzierten...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2024-11-11
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Public life is dominated from time to time by media storms around integrity. The behaviour of elected political leaders has led many to decry the deterioration in standards and the lack of integrity in public life. But what is integrity, and where does our concern with...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2024-11-11
ePub
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-21%
24,00€
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This book is about the urgent need to have time for health. It's about why people don’t exercise, rest or eat healthy food even when they know they need to. Time has become the prescription needed to halt chronic diseases, 30 minutes of physical activity every day is a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-11
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Dieses Open-Access-Buch knüpft an aktuelle Themen zur Transformation der Alltagsmobilität an. Es leistet einen Beitrag zur Frage, wie und wann Menschen ihre Mobilität multimodal gestalten, also verschiedene Verkehrsmittel nutzen, die unter Umständen eine...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2024-11-11
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Social theory is a crucial resource for the social sciences. It provides rich insights into how human beings think and act and how contemporary social life is constructed. But often the key ideas of social theorists are expressed in highly technical and difficult...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2024-11-05
ePub
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-9%
22,99€
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Kanonische Studien im Professionalisierungsdiskurs der Sozialen Arbeit legen den Schluss nahe, dass nicht vorausgesetzt werden kann, dass Hochschulabsolvent*innen einschlägiger Fachstudiengänge der Sozialen Arbeit die Entwicklung von Professionalität per se als...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2024-10-31
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