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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Jeffrey C. Alexander’s Civil Sphere Theory (CST). It reconstructs the development and key features of this theory and explains why it offers an original and compelling way of thinking about civil society. The book...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2026-02-04
ePub
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18,90€
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Technology has advanced significantly over the past 200 years, but have ideas about gender and technology also changed over time? Are modern technologies gendered? In this comprehensive text, Holly Kruse explores how notions of gender and technology have been socially...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2026-02-04
ePub
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-11%
18,99€
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The edited volume aims at presenting the various forms of stereotyping. As a matter of fact, such logical inclination is not only perpetrated through common sense and public discourse, but also through regulation and various ethical practices. Law and politics, indeed,...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-03
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This volume presents an original, community-based study of Greek heritage language education in Canada. Through empirical data and stakeholder narratives, it explores the pedagogical, sociolinguistic, and policy dimensions of sustaining minority languages in...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-03
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This volume explores the complex landscape of disinformation and its broader implications on trust within society. It tackles questions such as: What constitutes disinformation or fake news? What are the ramifications of its detrimental effects? Are we navigating...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-03
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What does it mean to be deemed promising in an unjust world? The award-winning poet and MIT Distinguished Chair of the Humanities interrogates this question—and offers a more expansive vision of giftedness—in this striking, original work. "Remind[s] us...
Editeur :
Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2026-02-03
ePub
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This book examines the rise of financial totalitarianism and its profound implications for criminal justice and criminological theory. It explores how the concentration of wealth and social exclusion, driven by corporate CEOs, has altered the role of politics in shaping...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-03
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This book provides a groundbreaking exploration of gender and migration in the Arabian Gulf, challenging dominant narratives that reduce women's migration to domestic labor and caregiving. It presents a nuanced, interdisciplinary analysis of how women navigate...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-02-02
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This book explores the ‘gender pain gap’—the systemic disparities in how women’s chronic pain and illness are perceived, believed, and treated. Focusing especially on conditions without visible markers, Eilidh Galbraith examines why women’s...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-02
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This edited book brings together novel studies that address the real-world challenges young vocational students and teachers face as they navigate the complexities of education and work. The chapters highlight the importance of evidence-based practice in vocational...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-02
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We live our entire lives in an information society, but too frequently feel like we are rushing to catch up with the latest technological changes. Despite the overwhelming influence of information networks and their potential as tools for social change, many find it...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2026-02-02
ePub
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Combines anthropology’s four subfields to explore what it means to be human Introduction to Holistic Anthropology invites students to rediscover anthropology as Franz Boas once envisioned it — a unified discipline that integrates biological, historical, linguistic, and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2026-02-02
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-8%
37,95€
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Die empörten Welten praktizierten Protests gewinnen gegenwärtig an Gewicht und avancieren geradezu zu einer Form der ‚Normalpolitik’. Dieser Band sondiert in einem ersten Teil theoretisch, wie Empörten Welten als gegenwärtiges Phänomen politischer Vergesellschaftung und...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2026-02-02
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The book makes an original contribution to a corporeal-phenomenological and sociological approach to architectural research. The author draws on theoretical frameworks such as the work of Helmuth Plessner and New Phenomenology by Hermann Schmitz, both of which are...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-02-02
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Starting from the paradox that undocumented migrants—known as sans-papiers inFrench—often have pockets, backpacks, and drawers full of papers, this book explores the role of documentation in how migration is governed and experienced. Drawing on...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-01
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This book is the second of a series of five volumes that analyze and denounce the gender-based inequalities and violence faced by Latin American female social scientists in academic settings.This volume is dedicated to Argentina and offers a rigorous feminist...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-01-31
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This book considers the lessons that can be gleaned from the Occupy movement, some 14 years after its inception. The Occupy movement brought with it many things, including a renewed interest in class and class struggle. Using the work of Nicos Poulantzas as its...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-31
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This open access book responds to the need for rapid and transformative societal change towards a sustainable future. The editorial introduction and conclusion bookend 27 case chapters about urban sites of experimentation and contestation, spaces of conviviality and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-31
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This edited collection is an essential resource for understanding contemporary Indigenous-settler relations across three major settler colonial contexts, bringing together First Nations and settler scholars, practitioners, artists and community organisations from...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-01-31
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Von und über Popmusik wird zwar erzählt, seit es sie gibt. Eine umfassende Kulturgeschichte dieser Kunstform, die in den mittleren 1950er Jahren ‚erfunden‘ wird, viel mehr als ‚nur‘ Musik ist und die unser Selbstverständnis...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2026-01-31
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