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Challenging the standard paradigm of terrorism research through the use of Norbert Elias’s figurational sociology, Michael Dunning explores the development of terrorism in Britain over the past two centuries, focusing on long-term processes and shifting power dynamics....
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2021-06-22
Collection :
Palgrave Studies on Norbert Elias
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Eine Inter*-Diagnose stellt für die meisten Eltern eine Zäsur im Leben dar. Die gesellschaftliche und körperliche Bedeutung ist nicht in ihrem Erfahrungswissen verankert. Dieses Buch geht dem Erleben der Eltern von intergeschlechtlichen Kindern nach und zeichnet deren...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-06-22
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This book discusses preventive actions that have led to reduction in the prevalence of child labor across the world over the 21st century. It identifies exemplary programs in the area of community prevention that have had exceptional results; for example, the...
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Springer
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2021-06-22
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This essential presents the state of urban research on gentrification in a condensed form.This term, which has been used in the scientific community since the 1960s, has now also become established in the public debate. It describes how rising rents in the cities and...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-06-22
Collection :
essentials
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Domestic violence, interpersonal violence, intimate partner violence, or gender-based violence continues to be a social problem that is rarely understood or discussed in many parts of society, worldwide. The same holds true in the Anglophone Caribbean. Most Caribbean...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-22
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This handbook brings together the knowledge on juvenile imprisonment to develop a global, synthesized view of the impact of imprisonment on children and young people. There are a growing number of scholars around the world who have conducted in-depth,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-21
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How can we make sense of the current age of global political disruption when populism leaves norms overturned and the future form of democracy unpredictable?Political representatives are no longer elected for their experience and expertise but out of a desire for an...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-21
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Drawing on the culture’s history before and after the birth of rap music, this book argues that the values attributed to Hip Hop by ‘postmodern’ scholars stand in stark contrast with those that not only implicitly guided its aesthetic elements, but are explicitly voiced...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-21
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Mit welchen Vorstellungen sozialer Ordnung legitimieren Jugendämter ihr Handeln? Patrik Müller-Behme untersucht den Einweisungsdiskurs, auf dessen Grundlage Kinder und Jugendliche in den 1950er bis 1970er Jahren in Erziehungsheimen in Westdeutschland untergebracht...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-06-21
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This book explores gender inequity and the gender gap from a range of perspectives including historical, motherhood, professional life and diversity. Using a narrative approach, the book shares diverse experiences and perspectives of the gender gap and the pervasive...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-06-20
Collection :
Sustainable Development Goals Series
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This volume introduces readers to the achievements made in the context of China’s reform and opening up. It tells China’s story with regard to twelve aspects: the reform path, opening up, macro-economy, regional development, the “three rural” policy, poverty...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-06-19
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Narratives of Forced Mobility and Displacement in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Border Violence focuses on the evidence of the effects of displacement as seen in narratives—cinematic, photographic, and literary—produced by, with, or about refugees and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-19
Collection :
Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture
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Mediated Terrorism in the 21st Century offers new interpretations of figures emerging from representations of terrorism and counterterrorism: the male hero, female agent, religious leader, victim/perpetrator, and survivor. This collection of essays by a broad array of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-19
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This book explores the ways in which socio-technical settings in medical contexts find varying articulations in a specific locale. Focusing on Japan, it consists of nine case studies on topics concerning: experiences with radiation in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Fukushima;...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-19
Collection :
Health, Technology and Society
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Das Buch wirft eine organisationssoziologische Perspektive auf die systematisch durchgeführten Massenmorde im Rahmen der nationalsozialistischen Euthanasie in Hadamar. Anhand zahlreicher theoretisch ausgearbeiteter sowie empirisch belegter Organisationsmechanismen wird...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-06-19
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This book collects a selected list of peer-reviewed papers presented at EAAC 2017, International Conference on East Asian Architectural Culture, the leading conference on architectural history and built heritage conservation in the East Asia region. While centered...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-06-18
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Hysteria is alive and well in our present time and is apparently spreading contagiously: especially the second decade of the twenty-first century has displayed an ever-increasing interest in the term. A quick Google search opens the gates to sheer endless swathes of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-18
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Renegades: Digital Dance Cultures from Dubsmash to TikTok explores how hip hop culture -- principally music and dance -- is used to construct and perform identity and maintain a growing urban youth subculture. This community finds its home on Dubsmash, a social media...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-06-18
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This book explores the significance of professional writers and their role in developing British storytelling in the 1920s and 1930s, and their influence on the poetics of today’s transmedia storytelling. Modern techniques can be traced back to the early twentieth...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-18
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The meaning of ‘forgiveness’ and its role within restorative justice are highly contested. This book offers analysis from practical and academic perspectives within Christian theology, against a rich canvas of related concepts, including victimhood, sin, love, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-17
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