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The book focuses on the modus operandi of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD Committee), the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) monitoring body, and its main tasks, namely monitoring functions and interpreting the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-10-26
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This open access book presents a series of speculative, experimental modes of inquiry in the present times of environmental damage that have come to be known as the age of the Anthropocene. Throughout the book authors develop more nuanced ways of engaging with the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-26
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This handbook articulates how sociology can re-engage its roots as the scientific study of human moral systems, actions, and interpretation.This second volume builds on the successful original volume published in 2010, which contributed to the initiation of a new...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-10-25
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Since the very beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, with mass media and social media playing a key role, anti-vax protests have received sustained attention. The first comments often pointed at the heterogeneity of the events, whose participants seemed to belong to...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-10-25
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This book discusses legal services clinics and various other access-to-justice initiatives that are established to protect and represent the rights and interests of children and youth in several countries across the globe. These could include legal services or...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-10-24
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The Exorcist Effect is a fascinating historical study of the ongoing relationship between horror movies and Western religious culture, with a focus on the period from 1968 to the modern day. Taking its name from the 1973 filmThe Exorcist, which was widely understood to...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2023-10-24
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This is an edited book that fills a gap in knowledge by providing a comprehensive view of esports practice from the Asia and Pacific region. The volume looks at the development of esports through the interconnections between institutions, industries, players, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-24
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This book, a revised version of Lundgren’s PhD thesis, offers a deepened understanding of the changes in the governance of religious diversity and the complex relationship between state and religion. Linnea Lundgren explores how the narrative of risk and resource came...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-10-24
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How does society form and transform individuals? Sociology has been asking this question since its inception and “socialization” has been analyzed from different vantage points by various prominent thinkers. Socialization offers an overview of some of these perspectives...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-10-23
Collection :
Key Concepts
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Capitalism appears to be endlessly in crisis but without ever loosening its hold on our lives. New modes of racism and exclusion emerge, but the old ones never go away. We continue to struggle to live and survive in its wake but are unable, still now, to build...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-10-23
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This book presents the results of a joint survey conducted as of the tenth anniversary of the 2011 East Japan Earthquake, by an international research collaboration consisting of researchers representing the major universities affected by recent mega-disasters in Asia,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-10-23
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This book explores how questions about home and belonging have been framed in the discourses on race, migration, and social relationships. It does this with the aim of envisioning alternative modes of living and reimagining our political communities in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-22
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This open access Regional Reader describes population movement circulating within the Mediterranean area, for any reason or from any region, be them European, African, Asian or originating from any of the Mediterranean shores. It showcases a plurality of approaches to...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-10-21
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Unter dem Motto „Pro-Ana“ treffen sich seit den späten 1990er Jahren vorwiegend junge Frauen im Internet, um gemeinsam magersüchtig zu werden. Wissenschaftlich wurde das Phänomen bisher vor allem hinsichtlich seiner potentiellen Gefahren untersucht. Im Dunkeln blieb...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2023-10-21
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This book delves into the values, attitudes, and behaviours of Koreans over the course of the past twenty years. Compiled by leading Korean scholars, the book uses the Korean General Social Survey (KGSS), the most comprehensive source of information detailing recent...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-10-20
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This book discusses how aspects of connectedness, resilience and empowerment are intertwined in community development processes. It explicitly brings together these elements in the context of community development and well-being, helping foster an understanding of how...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-10-19
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This book is about the relationship between art and work in the cultural economy. It is an exploration of the experiences of people working in cultural and creative industries, and of the importance of place, identity, and culture in postindustrial society. Drawing on...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-19
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Mahlzeiten kommt eine relevante soziale Bedeutung zu, da das Essen in der Gemeinschaft dem Zusammenkommen und dem Austausch der Mitglieder dient. Als Schnittpunkt zwischen Individuum und Gesellschaft stellt die Kleinfamilie ein Brennglas dar, das den Blick auf das...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2023-10-19
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In diesem Buch wird die These vertreten, dass die fortschreitende Beziehung zwischen der als vielfältiges Phänomen verstandenen Sexualität und den Grund- und Menschenrechten die wichtigste strukturelle Bedingung war, die die Schwächung von traditionellen Strukturen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2023-10-19
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This book analyses the relationship between assimilation and fertility intentions for migrants and minorities in Europe. Building upon assimilation theory, it is argued that both migrants and minorities assimilate in the process of intercultural encounters. Given that...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2023-10-19
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