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This book examines urbanization and migration processes in South Asia. By analyzing the socio-economic impacts and infrastructural, environmental and institutional aspects of different conurbations, it highlights conflicts over agricultural land as well as the effects...
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Springer
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2019-11-09
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This work provides an innovative new look at police ethics, including results from an updated version of the classic Police Integrity Questionnaire, including new social and technological advances. It aims to push the study of police research further, expanding on and...
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Springer
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2019-11-09
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This book comprehensively examines post-1989 changes to the symbolic landscape of Berlin – specifically, street names, architecture, urban planning and monuments – and links these changes to concepts of contested cultural memory and national identity in Berlin and...
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Springer
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2019-11-09
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The Urban Book Series
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This book provides comprehensive information on enlargement of methodological and empirical choices in a multidisciplinary perspective by breaking down the monopoly of possessing tribal studies in the confinement of conventional disciplinary boundaries. Focusing on...
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Springer
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2019-11-09
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Loneliness affects quality of life, life satisfaction, and well-being, and it is associated with various health problems, both somatic and mental. This book takes an international and interdisciplinary approach to the study of loneliness, identifying and bridging...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-08
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This edited volume introduces the latest research in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), which provides a sophisticated social semiotic architecture for exploring meaning in linguistic and multimodal texts in the context of Southeast Asia. The book explores the...
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Springer
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2019-11-08
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In the second half of the twentieth century, new sounds began to reverberate across the United States. The voices of African-Americans as well as of women, Latinx, queer, and trans people broke through in social movements, street protests, and in media stories of...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-08
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Women Writing War focuses on the life-writing of the moudjahidate, the women veterans of the Algerian war of independence (1954–1962). The author offers close readings of memoir, testimonial, poetry and drama by Jacqueline Guerroudj, Louisette Ighilahriz, Anna Gréki,...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-11-08
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In this book, Reinhold Kramer explores a variety of important social changes, including the resistance to objective measures of truth, the rise of “How-I-Feel” ethics, the ascendancy of individualism, the immersion in cyber-simulations, the push toward globalization and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-08
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Wall Street and Silicon Valley – the two worlds this book examines – promote the illusion that scarcity can and should be eliminated in the age of seamless “flow.” Instead, Appadurai and Alexander propose a theory of habitual and strategic failure by exploring debt,...
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Polity
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2019-11-08
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Claudio Magris is one of Italy’s – and Europe’s – most renowned thinkers and writers. He is considered an authority on central European literature and culture and is frequently interviewed about his hometown Trieste, the region called Mitteleuropa and the European...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-11-08
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*THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY NAYEF AL-RODHAN PRIZE 2020*The riveting story of the pioneers who redefined conceptions of 'normality' in the early twentieth century.Under the guiding eye of cultural anthropologist Franz Boas, these...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2019-11-07
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Im Begriff Fluchtort Stadt ist die der Studie zugrunde liegende These ausgedrückt, dass fluchtfolgebedingte Prozesse als ein integraler Bestandteil von Stadtentwicklung betrachtet werden müssen. Bezüge zum Thema Flucht/Geflüchtete und (flucht-)spezifische...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2019-11-07
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This book explores how comics function to make meanings in the manner of a language. It outlines a framework for describing the resources and practices of comics creation and readership, using an approach that is compatible with similar descriptions of linguistic and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-07
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This book examines the role of hook-up apps in the lives of gay, bi, trans, and queer immigrants and refugees, and how the online culture of these platforms promotes belonging or exclusion. Within the context of the so-called European refugee crisis, this research...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-07
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This open access book marks the first historical overview of the autism rights branch of the neurodiversity movement, describing the activities and rationales of key leaders in their own words since it organized into a unique community in 1992. Sandwiched by editorial...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-07
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'In terms of a non-fiction account of how historical and contemporary language has been shaped by women, I really recommend lexicographer Jonathon Green's Sounds and Furies'ELEY WILIAMS, author of The Liar's Dictionary'When it comes to distaff dirtiness, mainstream...
Editeur :
Robinson
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2019-11-07
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This book provides an account of current work on letters to the editor from a range of different national, cultural, conceptual and methodological perspectives. Letters to the editor provide a window on the reflexive relationship between editorial and readership...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-07
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Starting from the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu, Schäfer composes a methodical approach to habitus of social actors and the logic of their praxis: Building upon the generative terms of praxeology, he focuses on identity and strategy in processes of internalization, their...
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Springer VS
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2019-11-07
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Kernfragen in Bezug auf Kontextualisierung, Repräsentation, Verantwortung und Beziehung zu Geflüchteten sowohl in Forschungs- als auch in Arbeitsfeldern sind in Flucht-Migrationsforschungen bisher wenig thematisiert. Die Autorinnen und Autoren widmen sich diesen...
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Springer VS
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2019-11-07
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