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The edited volume explores the topic of experiential walks, which is the practice of multi- or mono-sensory and in-motion immersion into an urban or natural environment.The act of walking is hence intended as a process of (re-)discovering, reflecting and learning...
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Springer
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2021-08-05
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This book explores the role of social and epistemic diversity in science, technology, and medicine in the 21st century. It argues that most contemporary endeavours to democratize science are epistemically conservative. Using illustrative case studies, Dr Dana Mahr shows...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2021-08-04
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This book provides powerful insights into the dynamics, nature, and experiences of the terrors of counter-terrorism measures in the UK. Abbas links her analysis to wider concerns of nation construction and belonging; racial profiling and policing; the state of exception...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2021-08-04
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Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series
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Die Studie zeigt die Vielfältigkeit kinderloser Lebensentwürfe und -verläufe auf. Dabei wird insbesondere das Phänomen erworbene Kinderlosigkeit differenzierter als in vielen bisherigen Untersuchungen beleuchtet. Zudem wird der Prozesscharakter von Kinderlosigkeit...
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Springer VS
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2021-08-04
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This SAGE Handbook presents contemporary, cutting-edge approaches to participatory research and inquiry. It has been designed for the community of researchers, professionals and activists engaged in interventions and action for social transformation, and for readers...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2021-08-04
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Die Versorgung pflegebedürftiger Angehöriger ist eine der wichtigsten Aufgaben unserer Zeit. Unklar ist, ob damit Gesundheitsverschlechterungen für informell Pflegende verbunden sind. Diese Arbeit geht unter Zuhilfenahme europäischer Längsschnittdaten (Survey of Health,...
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Springer VS
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2021-08-03
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This book considers issues of social and ecological significance through a masculinities lens. Earth – our home for aeons – is reeling. The atmosphere is heating up, causing reefs to bleach, fisheries to collapse, regions to flood and dry, vast tracts to burn, the polar...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-03
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This Open Access edited collection seeks to improve collaboration between criminal justice and welfare services in order to help prepare offenders for life after serving a prison sentence. It examines the potential tensions between criminal justice...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2021-08-03
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This book provides a bi-national portrait of dementia in the rapidly aging Mexican-origin population in Mexico and the United States. It provides a comprehensive overview of critical conceptual and methodological issues in the study of cognitive aging and related mental...
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Springer
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2021-08-03
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This "provocative and personally searching"memoir follows one mother's story of enrolling her daughter in a local public school (San Francisco Chronicle), and the surprising, necessary lessons she learned with her neighbors. From the time Courtney E....
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Little, Brown and Company
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2021-08-03
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This book examines the experiences of migrant peasant workers in China who care for parents diagnosed with cancer and explores to what extent contextual changes after the economic reform initiated in 1978 affected practices and experiences of caring. In his own attempt...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-02
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This edited collection brings together texts that discuss current major issues in our troubled times through the lens of Norbert Elias’s sociology. It sheds light on both the contemporary world and some of Elias’s most controversial concepts. Through examination of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-02
Collection :
Palgrave Studies on Norbert Elias
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Der Lebensalltag von Frauen in der Prostitution ist gekennzeichnet durch gesellschaftliche Stigmatisierung und Ausgrenzung. Die vorliegende biografische und ethnografische Studie gibt Aufschluss über die Motivlagen für den Einstieg und den komplexen Verlauf der...
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Springer VS
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2021-08-02
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"This is an outstanding contribution to both libertarian political philosophy and communication theory. It is far and away the most comprehensive work on communication issues in libertarian theory ever published. The author has integrated successfully the libertarian...
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Springer
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2021-08-02
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This book is an ethnography of urban-to-urban migration and its role in middle-class formation in Ethiopia. Through an examination of the intersections and tensions between physical movement and social mobility, it considers how young Tigrayan people’s migration between...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-02
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Globalization, Urbanization and Development in Africa
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In Populations as Brands Aaro Tupasela extends the fields of critical data studies and nation branding into the realm of state controlled biobanking and healthcare data. Using examples from two Nordic countries - Denmark and Finland – he explores how these...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2021-07-31
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Performing Media Activism in the Digital Age breaks new ground by conceptualizing activism as a performance extending beyond public space and the moment of public gatherings to consider the more extended view of social or political movements as mediated social...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-07-31
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This book critically analyses the impact of digital media technologies on police scandal. Using an in-depth analysis of a viral bystander video of police excessive force filmed at the 2013 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade and uploaded to YouTube, the book...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-07-31
Collection :
Crime and Justice in Digital Society
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In diesem Open-Access-Sammelband geht es um das preisgekrönte Projekt UnVergessen, in dessen Verlauf Studierende sprachliche Unterstützung für pflegebedürftige Immigrant*innen in Form von regelmäßigen Besuchen leisten.Deutschland gilt als Einwanderungsland, durch den...
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Springer VS
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2021-07-30
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This book speaks to the meanings and values that inhere in close relations, focusing on ‘family’ and ‘kinship’ but also looking beyond these categories. Multifaceted, diverse and subject to constant debate, close relations are ubiquitous in human lives on embodied as...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-07-30
Collection :
Crossroads of Knowledge
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