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This volume investigates the appropriate position of Islam and opposing perceptions of Muslims in Southeast Asia. The contributors examine how Southeast Asian Muslims respond to globalization in their particular regional, national and local settings, and suggest global...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-12-15
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Since the 1990s and the 2000s, Western social protection systems have experienced a turn towards activation. This turn consists of the multiplication of measures aimed at bringing those who are unemployed closer to participation in the labour market. These measures...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2014-12-15
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This book explores some of the challenges presented to church and mission from the contemporary culture of globalization and how this affects Christian spirituality in various ways. The attention is primarily focused on contemporary East Asian urban life, but from the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-12-15
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How do young people with migration backgrounds take part in and shape urban leisure socialities in European cities? Presenting results of a long-term ethnographic research project carried out in ethnic club scenes in Paris, London and Berlin, this book challenges...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-12-15
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Wohltätigkeit, Wohlfahrt und Fürsorge sind Begriffe, die im Judentum eine bedeutende und zentrale Rolle spiel(t)en, da sie das umschreiben, was sich als konstitutiv für die jüdische Gemeinschaft erwies: eine traditionell gewachsene Unterstützungspflicht von Menschen für...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-12-15
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Introducing the concept of observation to social work students can be a complex and challenging task. Assessing their observation skills and assignments can be even harder, especially if much of this work takes place implicitly, throughout their training and placements....
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Learning Matters
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2014-12-15
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The topics of bullying and hazing have sparked interest and discussion in recent years. Hazing is a crime in the United States, and Western nations have made efforts to stamp out bullying in schools, the workplace, and institutions. However, for the most part, bullying...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2014-12-15
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Current knowledge about effective internet addiction treatment is limited. This book explores how 20 international internet addiction therapy experts experience the presenting problem of internet addiction in psychotherapy.
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-12-12
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This groundbreaking Brief brings a rights-based perspective to social work as opposed to the charity- and needs-based formats traditional to the field. Core principles for effective practice are discussed in the context of global human rights advocacy, from addressing...
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Springer
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2014-12-12
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"The political and academic worlds are fractured by two competing discourses: the universalism of human rights and cultural relativism. This fracture is represented by the deep separation of cultural analysis and theories of international politics. Derek Robbins in a...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2014-12-11
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What are the implications of colonialism for a theory of global justice today?What does rectificatory justice mean in the light of colonialism?What does global rectificatory justice require in practice? The author seeks to answer these questions covering a significant...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-12-10
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The London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics were seen as a success and the hosts were praised for the promotion of equality, tolerance and unity as well as inspiring a legacy to continue these values. This volume contains a collection of sociological case studies which...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-12-10
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How does music shape the exercise of diplomacy, the pursuit of power, and the conduct of international relations? Drawing together international scholars with backgrounds in musicology, ethnomusicology, political science, cultural history, and communication, this volume...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-12-10
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Twenty years after the post-apartheid Government took office, this timely text interrogates the extent to which the attitudes, identities and everyday lives of British people have changed in accordance with the 'new' South Africa. New ethnographic research is drawn...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-12-10
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Tracing the historical trajectory of the pocho (Latinos who are influenced by Anglo culture) in pop culture, Medina shows how the trope of pocho/pocha/poch@, which traditionally signified the negative connotation of "cultural traitor" in Spanish, has been...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-12-10
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"Genuinely transnational in content, as sensitive to the importance of production as consumption, covering the full range of approaches from political economy to textual analysis, and written by a star-studded cast of contributors" - Emeritus Professor Graeme Turner,...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2014-12-09
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This volume of essays examines the relationship between eating and crisis. The United States’ long-lasting economic and cultural hegemony raises a number of questions: Has America been – literally and metaphorically – eating, appropriating, exploiting, and molding the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-12-09
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This book is about online subcultures thriving in the border zones between pop cultural and political engagement. Combining classic theories of space, power and resistance with current case studies of digital piracy, online activism and remix culture, the book develops...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-12-09
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Krzysztof Warlikowski’s work stands among the most remarkable phenomena in post-1989 European theater. This book joins Warlikowski’s theater with the dynamic changes in Polish society following 1989, using strategies borrowed from psychoanalysis, theater anthropology,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-12-09
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From brutal Nazi killers to Hanukkah heroes in the ’hood, tough Jews refute images of doomed Holocaust victims, wandering Jews of exile before them, and the post-war ‘nice Jewish boys’ who followed. They foster belligerent responses to polemics of fear and self-hatred,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-12-09
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