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This book critically examines how polycrisis is recontextualised and (ab)used in contemporary discourse from across Europe. The book brings together established and emerging researchers in the field of discourse studies from around the world to explore the accelerating...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-12
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This book presents selected papers from the International Geographical Union (IGU) Thematic Conference 2022, which was held at the Central University of Haryana, Mahendragarh, India, November 24–25, 2022. The theme of the conference was Sustainability, Future Earth, and...
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Springer
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2025-02-12
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This open access book critically revisits 30 years of debate surrounding the evolution of crime trends, aiming to reconcile various hypotheses and controversies. It scrutinizes the concept of the "crime drop," highlighting the methodological pitfalls in understanding...
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Springer
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2025-02-12
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SpringerBriefs in Criminology
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Die Vorstellung von sozialer Gerechtigkeit hat sich als normative Grundlage in Gesellschaften westlicher Moderne verbreitet. Damit einher geht die Erwartung, dass der Staat sozialen Ungleichheiten – somit auch Geschlechterungleichheiten – politisch entgegengewirkt....
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Springer VS
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2025-02-12
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Introduces students to the study of the social forces that shape mental health and empowers the next generation to make an impact on mental health management As the prevalence of mental health issues worldwide continues to grow, an active area of sociology is...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2025-02-12
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER • NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH BY TIME MAGAZINE, AMAZON, AND KOBO • NAMED MOST ANTICIPATED BY LIT HUB, PUREWOW, AND W MAGAZINE “Gossip is the only cultural tradition I care about, and...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2025-02-11
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This book explores young women’s negotiations of female beauty and beauty practices in contemporary China, based on 20 semi-structured interviews, 10 beauty diaries, and 10 follow-up interviews with women aged 18–25. The research takes an interdisciplinary feminist...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-11
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This book offers an exploration of collective action by bringing together the themes of sovereignty and solidarity in post-colonial societies in Africa and beyond. It does so against a common tradition of writing about collective action that assumes an opposition...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-02-11
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The Palgrave Handbook on the Pedagogy of International Relations Theory is a collection that explores how best to teach the systems of thought that organize the study of international relations and global politics. All chapters document and advance intradisciplinary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-11
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Waste as a Critique reveals how waste in its manifold variety provides an innovative starting point for interrogating 21st century society. Drawing on growing interdisciplinary concerns for discards, it contextualizes waste in cultural, symbolic, historical, spatial,...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-11
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This book exposes the ongoing tug of war between the communist party's authoritarian state power and the new networked society in the cyber space, which has been a critical centerpiece in the Chinese authorities' struggle to stay in power. The book examines the history,...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-02-11
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This book provides a critical perspective on technology, answering the questions of why technologies often disappoint. It takes a sociotechnical and historical perspective on technology, as developed by an engineer–anthropologist and a design anthropologist, to answer...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-02-11
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This book is a detailed and comprehensive examination of the physical, symbolic and cultural uses of bamboo in China, where it has long had a ubiquitous presence in all aspects of the lives of the Chinese people: how and what they eat, what they wear, where they live,...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-02-11
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In many countries, abortion is a contentious public opinion issue.In nations like the United States, advocates on both sides of the debate have actively worked to amplify their voices and change legislation.In other parts of the world, such as China, abortion is not a...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-02-10
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This volume delves into how cutting-edge geospatial tools are revolutionizing social physics—the quantitative study of human behavior and spatial dynamics. Through real-world case studies, the book demonstrates how geospatial analysis is applied to pressing social and...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-02-08
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This edited volume uses ethnographic cases to examine social, political, and economic inequality in diverse urban settings.This book is couched in the idea that ethnographically based analysis helps to bring out the nature and interconnections between different...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-07
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Albert Salomon (1891-1966), deutsch-jüdischer Soziologie und Herausgeber der Zeitschrift "Die Gesellschaft", war nach seiner Emigration 1935 Professor an der New School for Social Research in New York, wo er in alteuropäischer Tradition eine humanistische Soziologie...
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Springer VS
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2025-02-07
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Der Sammelband thematisiert Masken und Maskierungen. Im Vergleich der Künste untersucht er die funktionale Verwendung dieses Theaterrequisits, das eine Technik impliziert, und die Ausgestaltungen von Persona in den Künsten, Maskenverwendungen, -gestaltungen und...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-02-06
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