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This book is the first edited collection to offer an intersectional account of gender in mountaineering adventure sports and leisure. It provides original theoretical, methodological, and empirical insights into mountain spaces as sites of socio-cultural production and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-12
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Research on the relationship between health and the environment in a postgenomic context is increasingly aimed at understanding the various exposures as a whole, simultaneously taking into account data pertaining to the biology of organisms and the physical and social...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-12
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This open-access book surveys how digital technology can contribute effectively to improving our understanding of the past, through a sensory engagement based on the evidence of material culture. In particular, it encourages specialists to consider senses and human...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-06-12
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Fashion, and the growth of fashion, are presented as the manifestation of a process of civilization, within a capitalist culture (capital understood as material possessions) that has become global and imperialist, of which - in an economic sense - the industry (or the...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-06-10
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The book focuses on volatile processes at the South African-Zimbabwean border that arise from practices of migration and income generating activities.The processes are influenced by neoliberal developments and controversial discourses on migration, commercial sexual...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2023-06-09
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This book proposes a new and original analysis of tourism employment in order to understand the multiple dimensions (economic, cultural, temporal, geographical, etc.) of this cross-cutting sector. It offers an overview of French knowledge, mainly in sociology,...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-06-09
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This book will provide a space for new and emergent research in environmental migration, particularly in the context of a world beginning to emerge from the grip of a debilitating public health crisis that kept many firmly rooted in place while displacing others...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-09
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How can we use information rather than be subjected to it? Does life have a digital logic? Is the internal structure of the universe made up of information? Is the Internet generating a collective brain?
Ever since Homo sapiens, armed with his electronic machines,...
Editeur :
Max Milo Éditions
Parution :
2023-06-09
Collection :
L’inconnu
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Focusing on the epistemic value of African names, this edited collection is based on the premise that personal names constitute valuable sources of historical and ethnographic information and help to unveil endogenous forms of knowledge. The chapters assembled...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-08
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This book offers an innovative approach to migration by exploring Somali youths’ tahriib, their ‘journey into the unknown’. When young Somali men and women refer to the ‘unknown’, they recognize the uncertainty of their journeys.This uncertainty is partly due to the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-08
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If you've always wanted to know how societies function - and why sometimes they don't - this beginner's guide to sociology has got the essential theories and thinkers coveredSociology has almost limitless scope. From the smallest everyday interaction to the impact of...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2023-06-08
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This book analyses social movements, digital activism and protest actions in Africa using a de-colonial approach, with selected case studies of #BringBackOurGirls, #OurMumuDonDo, #FeesMustFall, and #OccupyGhana from Nigeria, South Africa and Ghana.This book examines the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-08
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Zygmunt Bauman was one of the great social thinkers of our time: inventor of the idea of liquid modernity, he transformed our way of thinking about the social conditions shaping our lives today. His own life was shaped by the great social forces that scarred the second...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-06-08
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This book analyzes the different policy challenges that Pakistani women face and makes regionally relevant policy recommendations across different areas of private and public life, drawing on secondary data from nationally representative surveys and primary data from...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-07
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While a large number of studies exist on political-economic institutional explanations for the prevalence of precarious work, few have delved into the elusive yet critical domain of culture. This is highly pertinent to China and Japan whose shared tradition of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-06-07
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Der demografische Wandel stellt Staat, Politik und Wirtschaft vor neue, vor allem finanzielle Herausforderungen (Ebene der Macht- und Herrschaftsverhältnisse). Alter(n) (doing age) ist als soziales Konstrukt aufzufassen, das vor allem für diejenigen, die durch höhere...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2023-06-07
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Diese Open-Access-Publikation handelt von Digitalisierungsprojekten in kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen. Es werden Forschungsergebnisse und Praxisbeobachtungen in Beiträgen, Interviews und Handouts von Wissenschaftlern und Praktikern präsentiert.
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2023-06-07
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This open access book focuses on migrant and minority cemetery needs through the conceptual lens of the mobilities of the living and the dead. In doing so, the book brings migration and mobility studies into much-needed dialogue with death studies to explore the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-06-06
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From the Sivens forest in France to the Hambach forest in Germany, from the Broadback forest in Canada to the rainforests of Borneo, something has shifted in these wild spaces over the last decade or two. People have begun to inhabit the forests, oppose the loggers and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-06-06
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The Chinese in the Philippines constitute one of the many Chinese communities globally. Although many Chinese have maintained their cultural traditions, most of them are Filipina/o citizens and have always considered the Philippines home. Embodying "Tsina/o" (Chinese)...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-06-06
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