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A bite-sized guide to making change happen and the story behind the No More Page 3 campaign, written by its founder. Change doesn’t just happen. It starts with the idea that something could be different, could be better. It starts with a person who is brave enough to...
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Transworld Digital
Parution :
2015-03-19
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This volume fills the gap in books dedicated to the ideas of ground-breaking theorist Juliet Mitchell. Essays from internationally renowned scholars address themes that cross-cut her oeuvre: equality, violence, collective movements, subjectivity, sexuality and power....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-03-18
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Violent Neoliberalism explores the complex unfolding relationship between neoliberalism and violence. Employing a series of theoretical dialogues on development, discourse and dispossession Cambodia, this study sheds significant empirical light on the vicious...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-03-18
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This volume explores how children's rights has influenced research with children and how research can in turn shape policies and practices to enhance children's rights. The book examines the impact children's rights and Childhood Studies has had on how children are...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-03-18
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This unique volume unpacks the concept and practice of naming and shaming by examining how governments, NGOs and international organisations attempt to change the behaviour of targeted actors through public exposure of violations of normative standards and legal...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-03-18
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This book seeks to communicate to both a global and local audience, the key attributes of pre-industrial African metallurgy such as technological variation across space and time, methods of mining and extractive metallurgy and the fabrication of metal objects. These...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-03-18
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Hate crime is a particularly pernicious form of criminal behaviour that has significant impacts upon victims, their families and wider communities. In this substantially revised and updated edition the book examines the nature, extent and harms of hate crime, and the...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2015-03-18
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What is the place of pluralism in the context of a dominant religion? How does the perception of religion as “tradition” and “culture” affect pluralism? Why do minorities’ demands for recognition often transform into exclusion? Through her ethnography of a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-03-18
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Exploring the transition of celebrities into institutional-electoral politics, the book argues that many insights developed by genre theorists could be highly instrumental to understand the celebrity politics phenomenon. It analyzes the historical and cultural...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-03-17
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Globalization and technological advances have had a dramatic impact on the relationship between media and politics. How can we understand the connection between the two in the present day? Alexa Robertson argues that we cannot understand the power of the one without...
Editeur :
Polity
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2015-03-17
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Friedrich Kittler was one of the world’s most influential, provocative and misunderstood media theorists. His work spans analyses of historical ‘discourse networks’ inspired by French poststructuralism, influential theorizations of new media, through to musings on music...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2015-03-17
Collection :
Theory Now
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Transcultural Teens provides readers with a window onto the cultural and linguistic creativity of the housing projects, or cité, that ring Paris, showing how young people of Algerian Arab origins play with language in fascinating ways that subvert commonly held notions...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-03-17
Collection :
New Directions in Ethnography
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Von der Frage geleitet, wie die Gegenwartskulturforschung aus der Berücksichtigung klanglicher Phänomene Erkenntnisgewinne ziehen kann, verknüpft die Studie Überlegungen aus Popkultur- und Soundscape-Forschung, Empirischer Kulturwissenschaft, Musikethnologie,...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2015-03-16
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Das Buch behandelt die Zuwanderung und Integration von Ausländern in Deutschland und Russland. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Auseinandersetzung mit den drei wichtigsten und aktuellsten Problematiken der Ausländerintegration: Zugang zu (Aus-)Bildung, Zugang zum Arbeitsmarkt...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-03-16
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Der Weg in ein nachhaltiges Ressourcenmanagement ist die Herausforderung des 21. Jahrhunderts. Diesen trotz gesellschaftlicher Unterschiede, wirtschaftlichen Anspruchs und persönlicher Interessen gangbar zu machen, erfordert eine Begründungsstrategie, die hinter...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-03-16
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Religion and Community in the New Urban America examines the interrelated transformations of cities and urban congregations. The authors ask how the new metropolis affects local religious communities and what role those communities play in creating the new metropolis....
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-03-16
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As newer medical problems surface and existing ones appear to resist modern solutions, Africans are increasingly reaching for traditional healing practices and customary protective medicines. Using historical and phenomenological approaches, Traditional Medicine Making...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-03-16
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Dispelling widespread views that female same-sex desire is virtually absent from Italian literature and cultural production in the modern era, this groundbreaking study demonstrates that narratives of lesbianism are significantly more numerous than has been previously...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-03-16
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Hybrid Politics examines the combinations and competitions between older and newer media technologies, practices, actors, contents and logics, by exploring their potential and practical implications in terms of political participation. In this Swift, Laura Iannelli...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2015-03-15
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This book analyses gaming magazines published in Britain in the 1980s to provide the first serious history of the bedroom coding culture that produced some of the most important video games ever played.
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2015-03-13
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