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Tolkien, Race, and Racism in Middle-earth is the first systematic examination of how Tolkien understood racial issues, how race manifests in his oeuvre, and how race in Middle-earth, his imaginary realm, has been understood, criticized, and appropriated by others....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-04-15
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A cutting-edge appraisal of revolution and its future.
On Revolutions, co-authored by six prominent scholars of revolutions, reinvigorates revolutionary studies for the twenty-first century. Integrating insights from diverse fields--including civil resistance studies,...
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Oxford University Press
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2022-04-15
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This book mediates between postcolonial positions that criticize Marxist approaches (and Marx’s writings) for their Eurocentrism and defenders of Marx, who claim that this accusation is a myth. In different contributions to this volume, Kolja Lindner pleads for a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-04-13
Collection :
Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
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Realität(streue) ist ein markantes Thema in der Medienkultur des 21. Jahrhunderts, das sich auf widersprüchliche Weise entfaltet: Realness scheint derzeit sowohl eine Krise als auch eine Konjunktur zu erleben. Der vorliegende Band beleuchtet dieses Thema im...
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Springer VS
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2022-04-13
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Over its long history, the concept of ideology has acquired a vast and at times incommensurable roster of meanings: positive and negative, analytic and critical, philosophical, psychological and scientific. But how precisely should we understand and study ideology...
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Polity
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2022-04-13
Collection :
Key Concepts
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Winner of the 24th Korean Sociological Association Book AwardMost theories of modernity are based, explicitly or implicitly, on the development of Western societies since the late medieval period, but these theories are of limited value for understanding the development...
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Polity
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2022-04-13
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Far from its origins in US legal studies in the 1980s, critical race theory has grown to become a leading approach to the analysis of racial inequality around the world. It has courted much controversy along the way, often misunderstood and poorly defined. So what...
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Polity
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2022-04-13
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This book examines how Russian and American media narratives inform the ways individuals in both countries consume and construct collective memories of one another in an age of media distrust. Using research on collective memory, media, and the individual mind, this...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-04-12
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René König verfasste sein Buch über Machiavelli in einer Lebensphase, die ihm selbst als persönliche und epochale Zeitenwende erschien. Erstmals 1941 in der schweizerischen Emigration veröffentlicht, bietet das Werk in historischem Gewand eine Auseinandersetzung mit...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2022-04-12
Collection :
René König Schriften. Ausgabe letzter Hand
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Through a transdisciplinary perspective, this book examines the complex urban dimension, in front of increasing density, soil consumption, abandoned places, and the recent pandemic which proved megacities particularly inadequate to provide healthy psychophysical...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-04-12
Collection :
Springer Series in Design and Innovation
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THE COMMODIFICATION GAP ‘In an elegant and careful theoretical analysis, this book demonstrates how gentrification is always entwined with institutions and distinctive contextual processes. Matthias Bernt develops a new concept, the “commodification gap”, which is...
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Wiley
Parution :
2022-04-12
Collection :
IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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This volume is an annotated edition of Frida Peemüller’s memoirs of her time in German Samoa from 1910 to 1920. In her memoirs Frida Peemüller gives us a unique insight into what was happening in Samoa under the last years of the German administration, under New Zealand...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-04-12
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The inspiring true story of an enslaved woman who liberated an infamous slave jail and transformed it into one of the nation’s first HBCUs In The Devil’s Half...
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Seal Press
Parution :
2022-04-12
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Das Thema Kinderschutz wird in diesem Band multiperspektivisch auf Ebene der Prävention, des Kinderschutzes per se und der Kinderrechte betrachtet und diskutiert. Hierbei spielen institutionelle und professionsbezogene Zugänge und Entwicklungen eine wesentliche Rolle....
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Springer VS
Parution :
2022-04-11
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This book presents an empirical examination of consent-seeking among Pashtun Muslims in the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), to determine whether cultural norms and beliefs have largely come to diverge from the principles of consent in Islamic law and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-04-11
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Northern Ireland presents a fundamental challenge for the sociology of religion – how do religious beliefs, attitudes and identities relate to practices, violence and conflict? In other words, what does religion do?These interrogations are at the core of this book. It...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-04-11
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This book provides recent research on soft computing and fuzzy methodologies in innovation management and sustainability. The uncertainty in the business world is increasing. Significant changes are generated unexpectedly, so using fuzzy logic and soft computing methods...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-04-11
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This book focuses on the displacement and convergence of transnational crimes in North Africa and in the area of the Mediterranean Sea, providing empirical analysis of human smuggling and of drug trafficking. It discusses the displacement of crime due to the...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-04-11
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A sweeping historical and political analysis with detailed ethnographic fieldwork of the politics of everyday life in postcolonial Africa.
In post-apartheid South Africa, nearly a fifth of the urban population lives in shacks. Unable to wait any longer for government...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-04-08
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Indigenous People and Nature: Insights for Social, Ecological, and Technological Sustainability examines today’s environmental challenges in light of traditional knowledge, linking insights from geography, population, and environment from a wide range of regions around...
Editeur :
Elsevier Science
Parution :
2022-04-08
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