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Video Game Chronotopes and Social Justice examines how the chronotope, which literally means “timespace,” is an effective interpretive lens through which to understand the cultural and ideological significance of video games. Using ‘slow readings’ attuned to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-25
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This book examines the ways in which law can be used to structure the return of indigenous sacred cultural heritage to indigenous communities, referred to as repatriation in this volume. In particular, it aims at developing legal...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-01-25
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This book investigates one of the major issues that runs through the history of Italian Judaism in the aftermath of emancipation: the correlation between integration, seen as the acquisition of citizenship and culture without renouncing Jewish identity, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-24
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This book highlights new and innovative approaches to archaeological research using computational modeling while focusing on the Neolithic transition around the world.The transformative effect of the spread and adoption of agriculture in prehistory cannot be...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-01-24
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This edited collection interrogates how social and cultural representations of individuals with intersex variations impact how they are understood and treated from legal and medical perspectives across the world. Contributors consider how novelists, filmmakers, artists,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-24
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Smart societies pose new challenges for police organizations. Demands for more efficiency and effectiveness test police organizations which are often resistant to change. This book uses the concept of the abstract police to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-23
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This book explores how First World War commemoration events are presented, reported and mediated on the websites of mainstream daily newspapers from seven European countries. The book is the result of a research group – DIREPA-EUROPE (Discours, représentations,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-22
Collection :
Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse
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While the 21st century insulin crisis provokes protest and political dialogue, public conception of diabetes remain firmly unchanged. Popular media representations portray diabetes as a condition couched in lifestyle choices. In the groundbreaking volume (Un)doing...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-21
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture
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Politische Berichte und menschenrechtliche Debatten prägen das Islambild in Deutschland mit. Die vorliegende Forschungsarbeit setzt sich exemplarisch mit der Menschenrechtsberichterstattung der politischen Fraktionen im Deutschen Bundestag über muslimisch geprägte...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2022-01-21
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People all over the world are confronted daily by issues such as poverty, a lack of access to quality education, unaffordable and or inadequate housing, and a lack of needed health and mental services. These issues are dynamic and varied, and social workers need to have...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-01-21
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Spreading Hate examines the evolution of the white power movement around the world, explaining its appeal and the threat it poses as well as many failures.
The modern white power movement is now a global, transnational phenomenon. In this sweeping, authoritative...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-01-21
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The essays collected in Tattooed Bodies draw on a range of theoretical paradigms and empirical knowledge to investigate tattoos, tattooing, and our complex relations with marks on skin. Engaging with diverse disciplinary perspectives in art history, continental...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-20
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This edited collection explores forms of multi-religious cohabitation as well as the spatial arrangements that underpin and shape them through sixteen chapters that range across disciplines, historical periods, and global geographies. Focusing on interactions between...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-19
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For most of the US, disco died in 1979. Triggered by the infamous "Disco Demolition" night at Comiskey Park in Chicago on July 12, 1979, a backlash made the word "disco" an overnight punchline. Major labels dropped disco artists and producers, and those mainstream...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-01-18
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A searing examination of the long history of police misconduct and political corruption in Chicago that produced the city's current racial reckoning
Chicago faces a racial reckoning. For over 50 years, Chicago Mayors Richard J. and Richard M. Daley were at the helm...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-01-18
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For more than half a century, Saudi Arabia--through both official and non-governmental channels--has poured billions of dollars into funding and sponsoring religious activities and Islamic causes around the world. The effect has been to propagate Wahhabism, the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-01-18
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Serving Equality: Feminism, Media, and Women’s Sports offers a much-needed methodological innovation to sports media research by expanding the focus beyond traditional sports media outlets to examine the diversity of media outlets writing about sports. In doing so,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-01-18
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This book brings together theoretical knowledge from diverse fields as anthropology, biology, neurology, peace studies, political science, psychology, and sociology to address key challenges that transcend borders. It demonstrates how differences are created...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-18
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This book serves as a solid ground for seeking strategies to build the compact city that situated in a specific local area, based on the systematic examination of the effects of spatial planning system on urbanization control. Furthermore, the critical problems in the...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-01-18
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