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This book investigates both early as well as recent accounts of journeys by women and families in African, Asian, East European, North and Latin American contexts. It discusses how places, place settings and transport routes, whether by land, sea, or air, were and...
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Springer
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2024-05-27
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This book characterizes a type of city, i.e. the metropolis, by using characteristics which have very little to do with its size. It distinguishes between metropolises and megacities and defines these different characteristics by bringing together elements related to...
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Springer
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2024-05-27
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This book investigates the integration of Syrian refugees in the United States, and it identifies the challenges that hinder their successful integration. After providing a comprehensive analysis of the U.S. legal instruments in national and international laws and...
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Springer
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2024-05-26
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This book explores the interwoven nature of place, Catholicism and violence in Caracas’ barrios. Using interdisciplinary perspectives to investigate themes of urban space, meaning as a psychosocial construct, criminal violence, and religiosity as culture, this book...
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Springer
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2024-05-26
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Plattformarbeit wird nicht zuletzt aufgrund der oft prekären Erwerbsbedingungen nur der Stellenwert eines (zeitweisen) Nebenerwerbs oder eines bezahlten Hobbys zugesprochen. Gleichzeitig zeichnen sich auf Seiten der Plattformarbeitenden vielfältige Interessenlagen und...
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Springer VS
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2024-05-26
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Diese Arbeit untersucht aus Sicht von Bewohner*innen in Tübingen, wie Geflüchtete wahrgenommen und in räumlichen Kontexten verortet werden. Zunächst erfolgt eine Verortung des Themas Fluchtmigration im Kontext der Globalisierung und sich daraus ergebenden Auswirkungen...
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Springer VS
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2024-05-26
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RaumFragen: Stadt – Region – Landschaft
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Written by experienced authors and teachers with examining experience, this book will support you through the A-level course and offers high-quality support you can trust.?Provides comprehensive coverage of all the key theory for A-level?Knowledge, understanding and...
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Illuminate Publishing
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2024-05-24
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This book is the first comprehensive study of Westermarckian sociology and social anthropology, which flourished in Finland for half a century, until the Second World War. Edward Westermarck (1862–1939) was not only the founder of Finnish sociology but also Britain’s...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-05-23
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This book brings together anthropological and historical studies that analyze burial rituals within the Caribbean through the theoretical lens of syncretism and the hybridization of post-colonial and contemporary time periods. Based on oral historiography, historical...
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Springer
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2024-05-23
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This edited volume focuses on the (un)equal access to the public space granted to the various groups that make up hybrid and multicultural societies: i.e. majority vs minority groups, immigrants vs non-immigrants, and so forth. With ‘access to public space’ the authors...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-05-23
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This volume offers a media-theoretically oriented perspective on the Space Race. It analyzes feature films, documentaries, live television coverage, magazines, stamps, posters, ticker-tape parades. They visualized the Space Race in a specific way and circulated it...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-05-23
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Gender in Modern India brings together pioneering research on a range of themes including social reforms, caste, and contestations; Adivasis, patriarchy, and colonialism; capitalism, political economy, and labour; masculinity and sexuality; health, medical care, and...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-05-23
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The book provides a comprehensive overview of research and concepts related to shame and ageing, in the context of social change, upheavals and paradigm shifts, from transdisciplinary, cultural and transcultural perspectives. Drawing upon the editors' previous works on...
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Springer
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2024-05-23
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This Student Book is designe to be used in conjunction with the AQA Media Studies for A-level Student Book, which focuses on the theoretical concepts you need to learn and apply. Each case study offers:?Links to relevant chapters of the Student Book, to connect the CSPs...
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Illuminate Publishing
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2024-05-23
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This book is moved by two main questions. Is Love a matter of beauty or mortality? In other words, is love an ethical ideal? Also, modernity understood as the age of mechanical reproduction, has shaped not simply our cities but our very same way of feeling. How has our...
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Springer
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2024-05-23
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This book describes the journey concept relating to cultural and social history of Western and non-Western worlds. By including time journeys negotiated by women, racial minorities, artists, and scholars from the humanities and social, natural and physical scientists,...
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Springer
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2024-05-23
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This book explores journeys in a time context with a focus on places, place meanings, and landscapes. Whether the journey relates to ancient or modern trails, roads, or railroads, or a historical or contemporary pilgrimage or a tourist venture in social contexts, the...
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Springer
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2024-05-23
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This book provides insight into the importance of place and place settings in personal journeys. It explores the worlds of time journeys in different contexts: daily work, community livelihoods, rural-urban migration, disease outbreaks and controls, cruise ship tours,...
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Springer
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2024-05-23
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This volume discusses the intersections of multiple human journeys and the importance of places and place settings, such as battlefield re-enactments, heritage fairs, pilgrimage sites and faith journeys. The chapters in this book describe among others racial history...
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Springer
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2024-05-23
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This work in two parts examines the relations between transnational societies and states. The second volume of this work contends that current policies meant to control or enhance transnational flows have led to the emergence of a transnational policy apparatus coined...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-05-23
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