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Religion posits one characteristic as an absolute: faith. Compared to faith, all other social distinctions and sources of conflict are insignificant. The New Testament says: 'We are all equal in the sight of God'. To be sure, this equality applies only to those who...
Editeur :
Polity
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2014-11-05
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Protest and political violence are concerns of global importance in the twenty-first century. This dictionary brings together in one comprehensive volume a number of key issues relating to the conduct of protest and political violence and the response of the state and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-04
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Based on research with frontline professionals and domestic abuse and homicide victims, this book argues for a re-conceptualisation of the female victim to enhance safety management and encourage a deeper understanding of the emotional dynamics and social structures...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-04
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The book brings together many recent trends in writing history under a common framework: thinking history globally. By thinking history globally, the book explains, applies, and exemplifies the four basic strategies of analysis, the big C's: comparing, connecting,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-04
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This study presents a unique overview of the cultural, social and practical aspects of interviewing rape victims. Exploring a range of issues that affect rape cases including discourse, gender, attitudes and victim's rights, Rich reveals the complexities of sexual...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-11-04
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In this book, the authors examine manifestations of transmedia storytelling in different historical periods and countries, spanning the UK, the US and Argentina. It takes us into the worlds of Conan the Barbarian, Superman and El Eternauta, introduces us to the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-11-04
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The European Union clearly matters for Civil Society Organizations (CSOs). EU officials and European political entrepreneurs has been crucial in the promotion of funding and access opportunities, but they have been proven to have little capacity to use CSOs for their...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-04
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This collection brings together an interdisciplinary pool of scholars to explore the relationship between children and borders with richly-documented ethnographic studies from around the world. The book provides a penetrating account of how borders affect children's...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-04
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The purpose of this volume is to identify and analyze the mechanisms and processes through which concepts and institutions of transcultural phenomena gain and are given momentum. Applied to a range of cases, including examples drawn from ancient Greece and modern India,...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-11-04
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?Das Phänomen der Selbstmordattentäter ist historisch belegt und nicht auf bestimmte Religionen und Kulturen begrenzt. Trotzdem liegt der Fokus häufig auf Taten, die in einem islamischen Kontext verübt werden. Die zentralen Beweggründe für Selbstmordattentäter sind...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2014-11-04
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Was Salman Rushdie right to have written The Satanic Verses ? Were the protestors right to have done so? What about the Danish cartoons? This book examines the moral questions raised by cultural controversies, and how intercultural dialogue might be generated within...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-03
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This collection explores the productive potential of uncertainty for people living in Africa as well as for scholars of Africa. Eight ethnographic case studies from across the continent examine how uncertainty is used to negotiate insecurity, create and conduct...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-03
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This book argues that power struggles between internal and diasporic elites play a central role in the development of political agendas that have the potential to shift national borders. The author uses Albania as the primary case study, examining how the understanding...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-11-03
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Die sogenannte ungarndeutsche Literatur ist ein schwer zu handhabendes Phänomen, da ihre Bedeutung – wie oft bei deutschsprachiger Literatur außerhalb des deutschen Sprachraums – weit über ihre rein literarische hinausgeht. Der Band wirft einen zeitgenössischen Blick...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-11-03
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The book explains managerial performance through self-identity aspects. It proposes identity instruments for the evaluation, prognosis and growth of managerial performance. A qualitative study was performed on Romanian managers to discover the identity conditionings of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-11-03
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Drawing on in-depth ethnographic fieldwork, Wessendorf explores life in a super-diverse urban neighbourhood. The book presents a vivid account of the daily doings and social relations among the residents and how they pragmatically negotiate difference in their everyday...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-03
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It is widely acknowledged that all archaeological research is embedded within cultural, political and economic contexts, and that all archaeological research falls under the heading ‘heritage’. Most archaeologists now work in museums and other cultural institutions,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-11-01
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This volume offers a critical rethinking of the construct of youth wellbeing, stepping back from taken-for-granted and psychologically inflected understandings. Wellbeing has become a catchphrase in educational, health and social care policies internationally, informing...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-11-01
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This is the first monograph providing a comprehensive legal analysis of the criminalisation of migration in Europe. The book puts forward a definition of the criminalisation of migration as the three-fold process whereby migration management takes place via the adoption...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-10-31
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Die Science & Technology Studies sind ein interdisziplinäres und vor allem internationales Forschungsfeld, das sich mit den Wechselverhältnissen von Wissenschaft, Technik und Gesellschaft beschäftigt. In Theorie und Empirie erforschen sie die zunehmende...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2014-10-31
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