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In a world where not everyone believes in God, 'blasphemy' is surely a concept that has passed its use-by-date. And yet blasphemy (like God and religion) seems to be on the rise.In this Very Short Introduction Yvonne Sherwood asks why this should be the case, looking at...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-08-26
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This book shares graduate student experiences, lessons, and life learnings from research with Inuit communities in the Canadian Arctic. The results of graduate student research are often disseminated in a thesis or dissertation, but their personal experiences building...
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Springer
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2021-08-26
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This book provides a critical approach to research on the social acceptance of renewable energy infrastructures and on energy transitions in general by questioning prevalent principles and proposing specific research pathways and lines of inquiry that look beyond...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-25
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Visions of the Buddha offers a ground-breaking approach to the nature of the early discourses of the Buddha, the most foundational scriptures of Buddhist religion. Although the early discourses are commonly considered to be attempts to preserve the Buddha's teachings,...
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Oxford University Press
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2021-08-25
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Most of us are intuitively familiar with small social systems, such as families and soccer teams. Surprisingly, though, most of us are unaware of how complex these systems are or of the fact that they have a unique character distinguishing them from both populations and...
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Springer
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2021-08-24
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Ritual Studies have achieved prominence since the 1980s, when interest in ritual as an object of inquiry was established, bridging over a number of humanities and social science disciplines. Both connected with religious studies and independent of it; overlapping with...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-24
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Im „Jahrbuch geschlechterbezogene Hochschulforschung“ werden regelmäßig Forschungsergebnisse zur Geschlechter(un)gleichheit an nordrheinwestfälischen Hochschulen veröffentlicht. Diese basieren auf detaillierten Analysen hochschulstatistischer bundes- und landesweiter...
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Springer VS
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2021-08-23
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This book synthesizes Jacques Derrida’s hauntology and spectrality with affect theory, in order to create a rhetorical framework analyzing the felt absences and hauntings of written and oral texts. The book opens with a history of hauntology, spectrality, and affect...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-23
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Launched in 2007, tumblr became a safe haven for LGBT youth, social justice movements, and a counseling station for mental health issues. For a decade, this micro-blogging platform had more users than either Twitter or Snapchat, but it remained an obscure subculture for...
Editeur :
Polity
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2021-08-23
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Digital Media and Society
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The digital revolution has not only transformed multiple aspects of social life – it also shakes sociological theory, transforming the most basic assumptions that have underlain it. In this timely book, Ori Schwarz explores the main challenges digitalization poses to...
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Polity
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2021-08-23
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How does gender influence social movements?How do social movements deal with gender? In Gender and Social Movements, Jo Reger takes a comprehensive look at the ways in which people organize around gender issues and how gender shapes social movements. Here gender is more...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-08-23
Collection :
Social Movements
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This book inquires into the global wave of student mobilizations that have arisen in the aftermath of the economic crisis of 2008, accounting for their historical and sociological significance. More specifically, its eleven chapters explore the role of students as...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-22
Collection :
Social Movements and Transformation
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This book engages the reader in exploring the relationships between digital social innovation initiatives and the city. It delivers a fresh, accessible and case-based discussion on the emergence of digitally-enabled social innovation practices in Europe that are...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-21
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This book reframes commemoration through distinctly geographical lenses, locating it within experiential and digital worlds. It interrogates the role of power in representations of memory and shows how experiences of commemoration sit within, alongside and in contrast...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2021-08-20
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This book examines how the Calais Jungle posed and addressed the European Question. The issue of who and what counts as European was articulated through this makeshift camp. The book argues that the Jungle acquired meaning as a localised struggle to define territory,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2021-08-20
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This edited book examines names and naming policies, trends and practices in a variety of multicultural contexts across America, Europe, Africa and Asia. In the first part of the book, the authors take theoretical and practical approaches to the study of names and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-19
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Das vorliegende Frankreich Jahrbuch gibt einen Überblick über soziale und territoriale Unterschiede in Deutschland und Frankreich. Diese betreffen die Lebensrealität einzelner Bevölkerungsgruppen ebenso wie den Zugang zu Dienstleistungen des täglichen Lebens und der...
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Springer VS
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2021-08-19
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In diesem Open-Access-Buch zeigt Jakob Kelsch, wie sich in der US-amerikanischen TV-Serie der 1950er und 1960er Jahre der Mythos der patriarchal-strukturierten Kernfamilie als Ideal des familiären Zusammenlebens herausbildete. Trotz Phasen der Dekonstruktion und der...
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Springer VS
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2021-08-19
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This interdisciplinary volume critically explores how the ever-increasing use of automated systems is changing policing, criminal justice systems, and military operations at the national and international level. The book examines the ways in which automated systems are...
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Springer
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2021-08-19
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This book examines how fifty police officers in South Australia keep well and “bounce back” from duty-related traumatic experience in the absence of practical, accessible and timely organisational support. It investigates mechanisms police officers presently use to...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-08-18
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