| |
Das Berliner Osteuropa-Institut wurde in den Jahren des Kalten Krieges gegründet. Beginnend mit den Gründerjahren zeichnet die Autorin entscheidende Phasen der Organisationsbiografie bis in die 1970er-Jahre nach. Als innovativ erweist sich die Verknüpfung des...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-03-26
PDF, ePub
|
Following the transformation of the Soviet-controlled Eastern European system, there has been a renewal of discourses on civil society. The collection of essays discusses this complicated and controversial concept and explores the possibility of new approaches for the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-03-26
PDF, ePub
|
Is it possible for football matches or players to help forge a collective European identity? Pyta and Haverman seek to answer this question through a detailed analysis of how football is remembered across the continent. European Football and Collective Memory is the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-03-25
PDF
|
Based on extensive analysis of surveys from recent decades, this book provides a detailed study of the attitudes of religious groups in Britain. It looks at continuity and change in relation to party support, ideology, abortion, homosexuality and gay rights, foreign...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-03-24
PDF
|
This book investigates an African diaspora Christian community in Calgary, Alberta, and explores the ways in which the church's beliefs and practices impact the lives of its migrant congregation. In particular, it reveals the church's pronounced concern with the utility...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2015-03-24
PDF
|
Radical Environmentalism: Nature, Identity and More-than-human Agency provides a unique account of environmentalism - one that highlights the voices of activists and the nature they defend. It will be of interest to both students and academics in green criminology,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-03-24
PDF
|
This volume contains essays that examine contemporary urban and regional planning and development in China. Through in-depth theoretical and empirical analysis, it provides insights into the urban policies and operational mechanisms of this colossal transitional economy...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-03-24
ePub
|
Eleonore Kofman and Parvati Raghuram argue for the benefits of social reproduction as a lens through which to understand gendered transformations in global migration. They highlight the range of sites, sectors, and skills in which migrants are employed and how migration...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-03-24
PDF
|
This compact reference makes the case for a middle ground between clinical and actuarial methods in predicting future violence, domestic violence, and sexual offending. It critiques widely used measures such as the PCL-R, VRAG, SORAG, and Static-99 in terms of clarity...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-03-24
ePub
|
Origination: The Geographies of Brands and Branding offers innovative theoretical and conceptual frameworks relating to the ways that actors create meaning and value in commodity brands and branding through processes of geographical association. Provides innovative...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-03-24
Collection :
RGS-IBG Book Series
PDF, ePub
|
Assembling Export Markets explores the new ‘frontier regions’ of the global fresh produce market that has emerged in Ghana over the past decade. Represents a major and empirically rich contribution to the emerging field of the social studies of economization and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-03-24
Collection :
RGS-IBG Book Series
PDF, ePub
|
Origination: The Geographies of Brands and Branding offers innovative theoretical and conceptual frameworks relating to the ways that actors create meaning and value in commodity brands and branding through processes of geographical association. Provides innovative...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-03-24
Collection :
RGS-IBG Book Series
PDF, ePub
|
Many Europeans think that town twinning has greatly contributed to integration in Europe after the Second World War. This book, based on observations and interviews with twinning practitioners in small towns, reveals the social and cultural processes that inform...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-03-23
PDF
|
This book is essential for anyone interested in knowing how science works nationally and internationally in the contemporary world. It offers a comprehensive analysis of scientific collaboration and its relation to development and the productivity of scientists, with...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-03-23
PDF
|
Drawing on participatory action research conducted in Sierra Leone, Kosovo and the Philippines, Human Rights in Prisons analyses encounters between rights-based non-governmental organisations and prisons. It explores the previously under-researched perspectives of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-03-23
PDF
|
Race and Racism in Russia identifies the striking changes in racial ideas, practices, exclusions and violence in Russia since the 1990s, revealing how 'Russianness' has become a synonym for racial whiteness. This ground-breaking book provides new theories and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-03-23
PDF
|
There has been a widespread fascination with age-dissimilar couples in recent years. This book examines how the romantic relationships of these couples are understood. Based on qualitative research, McKenzie investigates notions of autonomy, relatedness, contradiction,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-03-23
PDF
|
This book reviews a series of new urban ideas or themes designed to help make cities more liveable, sustainable, safe and inclusive. Featuring examples drawn from cities all over the world, the various chapters provide critical assessments of each of the various...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-03-23
ePub
|
Diversities Old and New provides comparative analyses of new urban patterns that arise under conditions of rapid, migration-driven diversification, including transformations of social categories, social relations and public spaces. Ethnographic findings in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-03-23
PDF
|
The 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child has inspired advocates and policy makers across the globe, injecting children's rights terminology into various public and private arenas. Children's right to participate in decision-making processes affecting their...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-03-20
PDF, ePub
|