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In Search of Lost Futures asks how imaginations might be activated through practices of autoethnography, multimodality, and deep interdisciplinarity—each of which has the power to break down methodological silos, cultivate novel research sensibilities, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-02-16
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This book is a political ethnography of norm diffusion and storytelling through international institutions in China. It is driven by intellectual puzzles and realpolitik questions: are we converging or diverging on values? Do emerging powers reinforce or reshape the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-02-15
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St Antony's Series
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This book explores the processes through which European solidarity is constructed. More specifically, it investigates how the media's framing of European identity can facilitate and/or impede the emergence of European solidarity on the individual level. Through an...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-02-15
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
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Das Thema Wohnen prägt aktuell die Debatten in Politik und Stadtplanung. Seine Bedeutung im alltäglichen Lebenszusammenhang bleibt dabei jedoch weitgehend undiskutiert und Soziale Arbeit als Profession erstaunlich unbeteiligt. Vermeintlich losgelöst davon erfahren...
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Springer VS
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2021-02-15
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THE WILEY BLACKWELL COMPANION TO Medical Sociology The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology is an authoritative overview of the most recent research, major theoretical approaches, and central issues and debates within the field. Bringing together contributions...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2021-02-15
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Sociology
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This book explores the experiences of new fathers struggling with mental health difficulties and focuses on the role of digital media as part of their approaches to coping. Hodkinson and Das show how the ways new fathers are positioned by society can make it hard for...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2021-02-13
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This book investigates how the state intervenes in the urban system in China in the post-reform period. To do so, it constructs a conceptual framework based on the perspective of political hierarchy, suggesting that the state power is hierarchically organized in China’s...
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Springer
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2021-02-13
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This edited volume breaks new ground and opens up new perspectives by capturing the role played by claims to authenticity in populist discourses in Brazil, India and Ukraine. By conceiving of both triumphant populism and increasing demands for authenticity as...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-02-12
Collection :
Global Political Sociology
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This book provides a sustained engagement with contemporary Indian feature films from outside the mainstream, including Aaranaya Kaandam, I.D., Kaul, Chauthi Koot, Cosmic Sex, and Gaali Beeja, to undercut the dominance of Bollywood focused film studies. Gopalan...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-02-12
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In this fifth volume of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Culture of Health series, Community Resilience: Equitable Practices for an Uncertain Future highlights the importance of resilience, or the set of assets that allow a person or place to recover when adversity...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-02-12
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The proliferation of new digital technologies has given rise to an entirely changed media landscape and revolutionized how we seek entertainment. Older entertainment media like novels, radio, and film have been joined by a host of digital media that smartphones allow us...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-02-12
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The story of how women's lives, loves, and dreams have been re-shaped since 1950, the year of Walt Disney's Cinderella and a time when teenage girls dreamed of marriage, Mr Right, and happy endings...
Cinderella stories captured the imagination of girls in the 1950s,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-02-11
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The story of how women's lives, loves, and dreams have been re-shaped since 1950, the year of Walt Disney's Cinderella and a time when teenage girls dreamed of marriage, Mr Right, and happy endings...
Cinderella stories captured the imagination of girls in the 1950s,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-02-11
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In her book, Juliane Kanitz not only examines the frequently asked question of why Muslim women wear a headscarf, but also concentrates on how it is worn. She is concerned with the cultural, aesthetic and fashionable preferences of women and not primarily with the...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2021-02-10
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With the increased digitisation of society comes an increased concern about who is left behind.
From societal causes to the impact of everyday actions, The Digital Disconnect explores the relationship between digital and social inequalities, and the lived consequences...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2021-02-10
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If health policy truly seeks to improve population health and reduce health disparities, addressing homelessness must be a priority
Homelessness is a public health problem. Nearly a decade after the great recession of 2008, homelessness rates are once again rising...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-02-10
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Killer Cities uses a combination of social theory, polemic and close attention to empirical detail to tell the story of how and why cities cause mass animal death and, in the process, hasten the destruction of the planet. This book is not just a lament, however. It is ...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2021-02-10
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This book explores how to help teachers become better advocates for sexual orientation equality in secondary schools. Examining this issue through the lens of qualitative emancipatory action research, a group of Australian teachers embarked on a journey of teacher...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-02-09
Collection :
Queer Studies and Education
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Beginning in 1990, thousands of Spanish speakers emigrated to Japan. A Cultural History of Spanish Speakers in Japan focuses on the intellectuals, literature, translations, festivals, cultural associations, music (bolero, tropical music, and pop, including...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-02-09
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Dieses essential handelt vom spektakulären Aufstieg des Gefühls Einsamkeit von einer unerwünschten persönlichen Erfahrung zu einem weithin anerkannten sozialen Problem. Der Autor beschreibt und analysiert diesen Prozess, der mit der wissenschaftlichen Entdeckung der...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2021-02-09
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