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Exploring the relationship between space, place, and gendered violence as depicted in a range of South African writing, Gunne examines the social and political conditions of exceptionality during and after apartheid. Writers covered include: Hilda Bernstein, J.M....
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-12-17
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How have animation fans in Japan, South Korea, the United States, and Canada formed communities and dealt with conflicts across cultural and geographic distance? This book traces animation fandom from its roots in early cinema audiences, through mid-century children's...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-12-17
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Women's football is the fastest growing participation sport in the UK. This book critically explores women's elite football from a sociological perspective, analysing the growth, governance and impact of the FAWomen's Super League from its inception onwards....
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Palgrave Pivot
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2014-12-17
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This book examines the role religion played in the dismantling of Yugoslavia; addressing practical concerns of inter-ethnic fighting, religiously-motivated warfare, and the role religion played within the dissolution of the nation.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-12-17
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This project is an attempt to bring together the many fragments of history concerning the Yoruba religious community and their rise to prominence in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, from the mid-nineteenth to the late-twentieth centuries.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-12-17
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Interweaving phenomenological, hermeneutical, and sociopolitical analyses, this book considers the ways in which feminists conceptualize and produce the temporalities of feminism, including the time of the trace, narrative time, calendar time, and generational time.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-12-17
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Euro-commuters' have emerged as a new group of migrants since the onset of the economic crisis in the EU. These people work in one country but live in another. This book analyses the characteristics of these migrants, their motivations and how commuting influences their...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2014-12-17
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A scholar of race and a leader in the Afro-Asian solidarity movement, Cedric Dover embodied the 20th-century cosmopolitan redefinition of racial identity. Tracing Dover's evolution through his relationships with W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, and Paul Robeson, this...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-12-16
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Addressing the specific contexts of communal leadership, educational policy, inter-communal relations, legal reform, media production, public discourse, public opinion, and responses to government policy, this volume examines Western-Muslim relations and makes proposals...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-12-16
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This book explores the historiography, ports, and peoples of the Persian Gulf over the past two centuries, offering a more inclusive history of the region than previously available. Restoring the history of minority communities which until now have been silenced, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-12-16
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The Arts of Citizenship in African Cities pushes the frontiers of how we understand cities and citizenship and offers new perspectives on African urbanism. Nuanced ethnographic analyses of life in an array of African cities illuminate the emergent infrastructures and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-12-16
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(Ab)use of religion as a political means to an end: the achievement of nationalist political goals, analyzing 'how' through which mechanisms this phenomenon has been and still is practiced in South-Eastern Europe.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-12-16
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A transformative model for community social work rooted in basic social and economic rights is the basis of this timely Brief. With specific chapters spotlighting the rights to health care, nutritious food, and adequate and affordable housing, the book describes in...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-12-16
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Chechens: Culture and Society is an ethnography that elaborates the lived experiences of Chechens, focusing primarily on relationships and socio-cultural norms within the context of the current conflict in the Chechen Republic.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-12-16
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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
Parution :
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...
Editeur :
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...
Editeur :
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...
Editeur :
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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