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The book provides a comprehensive and updated introduction to concept of territory in the study of democratic politics. Territory plays a rather marginal role in the traditional conceptions of democracy that in many ways still prevail today. Democratic politics is often...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-18
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This book explores the efforts of marginalized communities to address the health inequalities that characterize life in many deprived areas of post-industrialized cities in the UK. Spread over six chapters, the book maps the role of small-scale and community-based media...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-18
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In this autobiographical reflection, the distinguished anthropologist Philippe Descola looks back on his intellectual career and examines both the central themes of his work and the key questions that have shaped anthropological debates over the past forty years. A...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-10-18
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This Handbook explores the ways in which religion among the African people has been applied in situations of conflict and violence to contribute to sustainable peace and development. It analyzes how peacebuilding inspired and enabled by religion serves as the foundation...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-17
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This open access book presents contributions to decolonize development studies. It seeks to promote and sustain new forms of solidarity and conviviality that work towards achieving social justice.Recognising global poverty and inequalities as historic injustices, the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-17
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An “essential and engaging ” (Richard Florida) exploration of social decline in America: its true causes and the practical steps each of us can take to combat it, starting with the places we call home. The neighborhoods we live in impact our lives in so many...
Editeur :
Little, Brown Spark
Parution :
2023-10-17
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From a trans rights activist and athlete, an urgent guide that changes the conversation about gender identity. Anti-transgender legislation is being introduced in state governments around the United States in record-breaking numbers. Trans people are under attack in...
Editeur :
Balance
Parution :
2023-10-17
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Die Naturwissenschaft beschäftigt sich mit denselben großen Fragen wie Religion und Philosophie. Dabei verlässt sie sich jedoch nicht auf menschliche Vorlieben, Eingebung oder Logik, sondern erforscht unvoreingenommen die Natur. Ihr ewiges Hinterfragen, Testen und...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-10-16
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Dies ist ein Open-Access-Buch.Das Recht auf Gesundheit und Wohlergehen steht allen Menschen zu, unabhängig von Alter, Geschlecht, Beeinträchtigung oder anderen Vielfaltsmerkmalen. Auf die enge Verknüpfung von gesellschaftlicher Teilhabe und bestmöglicher Gesundheit...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2023-10-16
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Dieses Handbuch integriert und erörtert eine wachsende Evidenzbasis zur individuellen Entwicklung im mittleren und späten Erwachsenenalter. Das Buch enthält eine umfassende Analyse dessen, was Wachstum in der Lebensmitte und im höheren Alter bedeutet, und zeigt auf, wie...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-10-16
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Drawing across Games Studies, Childhood Studies, and Children’s Literature Studies, this book redirects critical conversations away from questions of whether videogames are ‘good’ or ‘bad’ for child-players and towards questions of how videogames produce childhood as a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-16
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Human civilization is founded on ethical principles, norms of behaviour that have accumulated over time. Perhaps the oldest of ethical principles is the rejection of violence, which includes the respect for life and for the physical and psychological integrity of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-10-16
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This book focuses on the influence of socio-economic and land-use policies on the commuting problems and quality of life of the poor in Singapore and Hong Kong. It considers the influence of self-organisation: how the mobility of an individual is constituted by...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-10-16
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Beginning with the 1990s, the subject of caste has seen a profound increase in interest among scholars. What was until then approached as a fossilized tradition of the ritual-obsessed Hindus refusing to see the progressive spirits of the emerging world and studied as a...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-10-16
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Through engaging media coverage of the public lives of Bollywood actresses, this book unveils understandings of idealized femininity and gender within this cultural context. Beyond its own borders, such a context is unique given the global relevance of content from and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-14
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This open access book explores some of the struggles and challenges that researchers and practitioners face when conducting research in the Central Asian research setting. Written for scholars still in the planning stages of their research, it addresses key questions,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-10-13
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In diesem Buch werden 199 Videoclips, in denen Gesundheitsbehörden aus 17 Ländern Corona-Präventionsmaßnahmen nahelegen auf persuasive und gestalterische Mittel hin untersucht. .In einer soziologischen, qualitativ orientierten Medienproduktanalyse kristallisieren sich...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2023-10-13
Collection :
BestMasters
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Dieses Buch leistet einen Beitrag zum Verständnis der Bedeutung von Filmgenre-, Gattungs-, Stil- und Formatbezeichnungen. Es verfolgt das Ziel, einen umfassenden Überblick über die vielfältigen, oft wild wuchernden Begrifflichkeiten zu geben, die im...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2023-10-12
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This book provides an updated comparative overview of women’s movements in Latin America and the Caribbean, filling some of the gaps left by the existing literature. It brings together case studies of nine countries – Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Dominican...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-10-11
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This book offers a critical analysis of global mobilities across China and Italy in history. In three periods in the twentieth century, new patterns of physical mobilities and cultural contact were established between the two countries which were either novel at the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-11
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