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A critical and cutting-edge examination of modern prison labor
The United States is home to the most expansive prison system on Earth. In addition to holding nearly a quarter of the world's legal captives, this nation puts them to work. Close to two-thirds of those...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-12-02
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This is the first book to examine the contemporary seasonal migration of Pacific islanders to Australia through the Seasonal Worker Programme (SWP). It reflects on this new age of guestwork from a broad social, economic, political and cultural perspective in both source...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-12-01
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This book summarizes work being undertaken within the School Activates Resources—stitching the lost heritage of the suburbs (ScAR) project, which addressed cultural heritage in a broad sense, as a system of values identified by the populations and in constant evolution....
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-12-01
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Examining the theory behind the headlines and engaging with current debates, this new edition provides thoughtful, impartial, and unbiased coverage of sentencing and punishment in the UK. Collectively, Susan Easton and Christine Piper are highly experienced teachers and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-12-01
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The public space of democracies is constructed in a context that is marked by the digital transformation of the economy and society. This construction is carried out primarily through deliberation. Deliberation informs and guides both individual and collective action....
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2022-12-01
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Bringing the study of international inequality back into the core of sociological theory, this book offers a user-friendly introduction to development and underdevelopment. In doing so, it places various approaches to the definition, measurement, and understanding of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2022-12-01
Collection :
Economy and Society
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Emerging infectious disease outbreaks have transformed the very nature of urban life worldwide, even as the extent and experience of pandemics are shaped by the planetary urban condition. Pandemic Urbanism critically investigates these relationships in a world faced...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2022-12-01
Collection :
Urban Futures
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In October 2016, thirty intellectuals and artists from Africa, its diasporas, and beyond gathered together in Dakar and Saint-Louis, Senegal, to reflect on the present and future of Africa in the midst of transformations that are sweeping through the contemporary world....
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2022-12-01
Collection :
Critical South
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Das Buch entwickelt einen affekttheoretisch informierten Begriff prekärer Intimität auf Grundlage ethnografischer Feldforschung. Intimität und intime Arbeit führen zu einer spezifischen Form der Prekarisierung, deren Konzeptualisierung auch über das untersuchte Feld...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2022-11-30
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This book provides a comprehensive overview of the latest theory and practice for volunteer involvement. It represents a milestone for knowledge of how and why volunteers become involved and will be essential reading for practitioners, policy makers and funders....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-30
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This book provides a comprehensive insight into the contemporary naturecultural world by exploring infrastructures through the dwelling approach. The notion of naturecultures has been utilized in environmental humanities and social sciences to emphasize the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-30
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This book examines the use of Chinese by school-aged Chinese Australians from a dual-track culturalisation perspective. Drawing upon interviews, participant observations and documentary analysis, the author discusses why and how these children learn and use Chinese in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-30
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Life imprisonment is the punishment most often imposed worldwide for what societies regard as the most serious offences. Yet, in Asia the phenomenon has never been studied systematically.Life Imprisonment in Asia fills this major gap. It brings together thirteen new...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-30
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This book takes an ethnographic approach to discuss the policy practices within China’s broadcasting industry. Exploring the gap between the contemporary policy regime and its implementation in national broadcasters and streaming services, taking into account the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-30
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The book offers a critical map to navigate the field of media governance. A thread of cosmopolitan critique connects the fourteen chapters to enhance media governance literature beyond the West and regional foci.The first part addresses the epistemological and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-30
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„Die Erlebnisgesellschaft“ Gerhard Schulzes - eine furiose Zeitdiagnose der Neunzigerjahre über eine von Einschränkungen durch Knappheit befreite Bevölkerung, die in der Suche nach Sinn ihr Handeln verstärkt an einem Erlebnisanspruch ausrichtet - ist heute weitestgehend...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2022-11-30
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Die vorliegende Arbeit hat das Ziel, die Bedeutung von Nachhaltigkeit in einem strategischen Kontext zu erörtern und einen Bezugsrahmen zu schaffen, der es ermöglicht, Nachhaltigkeit für Strategiearbeit zu erschließen. Zu diesem Zweck wird zunächst eine Problemdiagnose...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2022-11-30
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As we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century, the world is undergoing a major historical shift: Africa, and the Global South more generally, is increasingly becoming a principal theatre in which the future of the planet plays itself out. But not only this:...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2022-11-30
Collection :
Critical South
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Dieses Buch bietet einen Überblick über praxisrelevante rechtliche Fragen im Zusammenhang mit Compliance-Verstößen. Von Routinekontrollen bis zum Ernstfall der Ermittlungen gegen Unternehmensangehörige wird dargestellt, wie Unternehmen das Verhalten Ihrer Mitarbeiter...
Editeur :
Springer Gabler
Parution :
2022-11-30
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With its unique geography and its historical significance as an important town along the Ancient Tea Horse Road, Benzilan Town has come to represent the fusion and transformation of ethnic cultures in the border of the Han and Tibetan cultures in northwestern Yunnan...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-11-30
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