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This book makes the case for an urgent praxis of critical spatial literacy for African women. It provides a critical analysis of how Asante women negotiate and understand the politics of contemporary space in Accra and beyond and the effect it has on their lives,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-02-06
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Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora
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This book explores the many varied ways in which family and intimate lives are realized through mobility: from leaving home, courtship, relationship breakdown, moving house, commuting, family holidays through to children's mobilities, documenting how mobility creates,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-02-05
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The field of Urban Dynamics itself is based on the systems engineering concept that all complex systems (and cities and urban areas are no exception) are comprised of independent and often smaller, more understandable sub-components with relationships to one another....
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2013-02-04
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Geographical Information and Urban Transport Systems Urban transport systems need to be analyzed from various perspectives: the offer on one hand, the demand on the other hand, but also their negative externalities (risks of transport systems). These three dimensions...
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Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2013-02-04
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Psychology has focused more on personalities in poverty -- pathologizing -- than on contexts for poverty reduction (Pick & Sirkin, 2010). As a result, the discipline has inadvertently sequestered and isolated itself, and its potential contribution, from poverty...
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Springer
Parution :
2013-02-01
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The figure of the stranger is in serious need of revision, as is our understanding of the society against which the stranger is projected. Under conditions of globalization, inside/outside markers have been eroded and conventional indicators of 'we-ness' are no longer...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-01-21
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Dieses Buch schlägt mit Weltorganisationen ein Konzept für die Beschreibung und Untersuchung internationaler Organisationen vor und diskutiert dessen Mehrwert in begrifflich-konzeptioneller, theoretischer und empirischer Hinsicht. Im Vordergrund steht die Frage, was das...
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VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
Parution :
2013-01-19
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The phrase "I'm spiritual but not religious" has become a cliché. It's easy to find God amid the convenience of self-styled spirituality -- but is it possible (and more worthwhile) to search for God through religion? Minister and celebrated author Lillian Daniel gives a...
Editeur :
Jericho Books
Parution :
2013-01-15
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Peripheries emerge as a result of shifts in economic and political decision-making at various scales. Therefore peripheral spaces are not a “natural” phenomenon but an outcome of the intrinsic logic of uneven geographical development in capitalist societies. Discussing...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2013-01-12
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'Hugh Mackay is one of this country’s most perceptive social commentators' - Sydney Morning HeraldInsightful and engaging, What Makes Us Tick? helps to explain what drives us, concerns us and is important to each of us – from Australia's leading social researcher, Hugh...
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Hachette Australia
Parution :
2013-01-08
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It is hard to find another two concepts which would be more significant in the European integration discourse than «democracy» and «solidarity» and at the same time more ambiguous in the political practice of integration. Currently European integration discourse is...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-12-17
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Social exclusion is one of the most significant problems facing individuals with mental illness in contemporary Ireland. In the era of the growing secular medical-industrial complex and its alienating effects, it is important to strengthen confidence in mental health...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-12-17
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Gute Ärzte stehen im Fokus zahlreicher Interessengruppen mit je verschiedenen Ansprüchen an dieses „gut“. Swantje Reimann versteht die Frage nach dem guten Arzt jedoch nicht normativ, sondern sie fokussiert die Sicht der Medizinstudierenden bezüglich ihrer...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2012-12-15
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Drawing on the writings of Foucault, this book explores the politics and power-dynamics of family life, examining how everyday obligations such as attending school, going to work and staying healthy are organized through the family. The book includes an essay by...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-12-14
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Asia, the location of the world’s fastest-growing economies, is also home to some of the fastest rates of urbanization humanity has ever seen, a process whose speed renders long-term outcomes highly unpredictable. This volume contrasts with much published work on the...
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Springer
Parution :
2012-12-11
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This volume explores the connection between two phenomena usually thought to be utterly incongruous, even antithetical: ‘utopia’ and ‘everyday life’. It presents a series of essays, written over the last twenty years, which rethink the nature and prospects of utopianism...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-12-07
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Seit der Einführung wettbewerblicher Rahmenbedingungen wird in der Wohlfahrtspflege über deren Auswirkungen kontrovers debattiert. Einerseits scheint die Wertorientierung Sozialer Institutionen im Spannungsfeld zwischen Ökonomie und Ethik immer mehr in den Hintergrund...
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VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
Parution :
2012-12-06
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Die gewerbsmäßige Überlassung von Arbeitnehmern ist eine volkswirtschaftlich bedeutende Branche, die in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten stetig gewachsen und sehr heterogen ist.Die Qualität dieser Dienstleistung zu messen und sicherzustellen, dass eine gewünschte Qualität...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-12-05
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Sind Geben und Schenken immer reziproke Handlungen oder gibt es das «Ideal» der Gabe und worin liegt es? Die Arbeit zeigt anhand einer Literaturstudie den klassischen wie aktuellen Diskurs um das Geben und Schenken unter Einbezug der historischen, soziologischen,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-12-05
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Auf ihrem 35. Kongress feierte die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS) ihr hundertjähriges Bestehen. Es galt, einen kritischen Rückblick auf die wechselvolle und auch problematische Geschichte der DGS zu verbinden mit aktuellen soziologischen Forschungen, neuen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2012-12-03
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