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This book aims to assemble a variety of perspectives that have shaped the development of multicultural studies over the last years, and which today attempt at comprising the main contending lines of approach to both teaching and research within this rapidly expanding...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-08-20
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This book is a literary and cultural investigation of the different levels of identity as revealed in German films on and about Africa. Taking sexual, spatial, linguistic and body identities as its core concern, the book elucidates how the contemporary German film...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-08-20
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In der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts erlebte Bremen eine beispiellose seewirtschaftliche Blüte. Die Studie geht den kulturellen Folgen dieser Entwicklung nach und verbindet ethnologische Methoden mit historischer Recherche. Der Autor schildert die wirtschaftliche...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-08-20
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In Each Child Is My Only One: Lotte Carlebach-Preuss, the Portrait of a Mother and Rabbi’s Wife, Miriam Gillis-Carlebach, the daughter of Rabbi Dr. Joseph Zvi Carlebach (1883–1942), last Chief Rabbi of Hamburg and its surroundings, describes her childhood in the lively...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2014-08-20
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The immigration of Muslims to Europe and the integration of later generations presents many challenges to European societies. Unwanted builds on five years of ethnographic research with a group of fifty-five second-generation Muslim immigrant drug dealers in Frankfurt,...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-08-20
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Culture is seen as a source for the development of society. Task of cultural policy is therefore to create and support structures that promote mobilization of creativity of the people and thus ensure welfare, innovation and pluralism. Such relationships have been...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-08-20
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This book reviews the remarkable growth, diversity and challenges of child sponsorship. It features the latest progress in child sponsorship practice and necessary tensions experienced by some organisations as they seek to maximise impact.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-08-19
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Arising from a scientific conference marking the 100th anniversary of her birth, this book honors the life and work of the social scientist and diplomat Ester Boserup, who blazed new trails in her interdisciplinary approach to development and sustainability.
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Springer
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2014-08-19
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Community Intervention: Clinical Sociology Perspectives showcases important efforts to improve the quality of life in communities around the world. The book, a project of the clinical sociology division of the International Sociological Association, describes the...
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Springer
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2014-08-19
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This study reassesses the criminal body from sentencing to execution and afterlife, using the nineteenth-century Red Barn murder as a case study. Positioned within the burgeoning field of medical humanities, it places culture and power at the centre of debates...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2014-08-18
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This volume provides the first comprehensive overview of social psychological research on inequality for a graduate student and professional audience. Drawing on all of the major theoretical traditions in sociological social psychology, its chapters demonstrate the...
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Springer
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2014-08-18
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Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions Volume II presents all new chapters in the ever developing area of the sociology of emotions. The volume is divided into two sections: Theoretical Perspectives and Social Arenas of Emotions. It reviews major sociological theories on...
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Springer
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2014-08-18
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The essays collected in this volume look at the way that Mozambican and Angolan literary works seek to narrate, re-create and make sense of the postcolonial nation. Some of the studies focus on individual works; others are comparative analyses of Angolan and Mozambican...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-08-18
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The Church and wider society in Northeast India have witnessed a number of shifts in ethnic identity and the resultant inter-ethnic conflicts since the 1980s are threatening the peaceful co-existence of various ethnic groups. Caught up in the throes of such ethnic...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-08-18
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This volume brings together interviews on the topic of the postcolonial nation and its narrations with prominent writers from Angola and Mozambique. The interviewees offer personal insights into the history of post-independence Angola and Mozambique and into the role of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-08-18
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Analysing the historical circumstances and theoretical sources that have generated ideas about citizen and community participation in crime control, this book examines the various ideals, outcomes and effects that citizen participation has been held to stimulate and how...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-08-15
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This essay places the emerging brain-Internet interface within a broad historical context: that the Internet represents merely the next stage in a very long history of human cognition whereby the brain couples with symbolic technologies. Understanding this 'deep...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2014-08-15
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Young people and their activities always have been a part of history – yet such narratives have remained mostly untold and often lost in the sands of time. This unprecedented and international collection sheds light on youth’s hidden histories from the nineteenth...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2014-08-15
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Why Cultural Studies? is a rallying call for a reinvigoration of the project of cultural studies that provides a critical analysis of its meteoric rise to the academic fore and makes a convincing argument for the pressing need for a renewed investment in, and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2014-08-14
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This timely and important work takes a critical look at the shifting role of police, who are becoming increasingly responsible for handling terrorism threats on top of their regular responsibilities. With an unprecedented empirical study, the authors of this book...
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Springer
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2014-08-14
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