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This collection explores whether and how religious and secular worldviews and political ideologies held by scientists, citizens, decision-makers and politicians influence science as practiced and understood today. Contributors explore the social and scientific...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-07-23
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This book contests the idea that lesbian and gay categories are disappearing, and that sexuality is becoming fluid, by showing how young people use them in a world in which heterosexuality is privileged. Exploring identity making, the book shows how old modernist...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-07-23
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With studies of China, India, West Africa, South America and Europe, this book provides a global perspective on food consumption in the modern world. Combing ethnographic, historical and comparative analyses, the volume celebrates the contributions of Jack Goody to the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-07-23
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Consumption and Public Life
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Die Theaterwissenschaft beruft sich gern auf den gemeinsamen Ursprung von Theorie und Theater. Ein Grund zu fragen, auf welche Weise akademische Diskurse Eingang in zeitgenössische Performances, Tanz- und Theaterinszenierungen finden und was diese umgekehrt zur...
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Springer VS
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2014-07-22
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This book investigates how women's power and caste cleavages often continue to transcend and crosscut the boundaries of caste/tribe, gender, age, class and religion in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh It examines the gendered divisions of labor in rural communities and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-07-22
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The present book is a journey of many women across the world who have struggled to give women's studies visibility. Drawing upon the contributors' diverse experiences and concerns, it explores the metamorphosis of women's studies from the early days to date.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-07-22
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How can human capabilities be articulated and promoted in practice?How can the challenges encountered in its application be addressed? This volume answers these research questions through nine country case studies from the Global North and the Global South....
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-07-22
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British Women's Life Writing, 1760-1840 brings together for the first time a wide range of print and manuscript sources to demonstrate women's innovative approach to self-representation. It examines canonical writers, such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Robinson, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-07-22
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Battered and bruised by injuries (often self-inflicted) sustained in the first half of the twentieth century since 1950 sociology in Australia has fought its way back into the academic mainstream. This has not been easy; its fortunes seem forever mixed – good in some...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2014-07-22
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A comprehensive analysis of how European development policy was shaped, this book explores the role of former colonial officials in shaping the policy agenda and explores this example of 'recycled empire.' Dimier argues that this post-colonial agenda only changed as a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-07-22
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This book examines the experiences of those dedicated drinkers at the forefront of the new night-time leisure industries that revolutionized the way we think about our city centres. Smith uses the night-time leisure economy as a lens through which to view the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-07-22
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This book offers innovative insights on South–South human mobility. It features a collection of papers that highlight often overlooked mobility patterns among and within regions in the global South as well as address critical realities faced by South-South migrants....
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Springer
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2014-07-22
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This book locates, organizes and summarizes information about the use of child indicators in an advocacy context. It provides a conceptual framework that allows readers to see a wide variety of work as part of a unified field. It provides a description of key concepts...
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Springer
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2014-07-22
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This book examines in detail both historical and current legal concepts of ‘religious cultural heritage’ within the context of the European continent. The latter group is primarily based on the variety of sacred cultural elements emanating from the different religious...
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Springer
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2014-07-22
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When parents form families by reaching across social barriers to adopt children, where and how does race enter the adoption process? How do agencies, parents, and the adopted children themselves deal with issues of difference in adoption? This volume engages writers...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-07-22
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This book focuses on the issues of resilience and variability of desert pastoralists, explicitly challenging a set of traditional topics of the discourse around pastoralism in arid lands of the Old World. Based on a field research carried out on the Kel Tadrart Tuareg...
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Springer
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2014-07-19
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In der religionssoziologischen Forschung dominieren die Mikroebene der religiösen Individuen und die Makroebene der religiösen Felder bzw. Systeme. Demgegenüber kommt die Mesoebene der religiösen Sozialformen sowohl empirisch als auch konzeptionell oftmals zu kurz....
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Springer VS
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2014-07-18
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Leading sociologists outline the historical development of the discipline in Britain and document its continuing influence in this essential and comprehensive reference work. Spanning the Scottish enlightenment of the 18th century to the present day this...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-07-18
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Finnish Women Making Religion puts forth the complex intersections that Lutheranism, the most important religious tradition in Finland, has had with other religions as well as with the larger society and politics also internationally.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-07-17
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Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood examines the manifestations of blood and vampires in various texts and contexts. It seeks to connect, through blood, fictional to real-life vampires to trace similarities, differences and discontinuities. These movements will be seen...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-07-17
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