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Der Begriff der Erschütterung hat Hochkonjunktur, wenn es gilt, eine Reaktion auf Ereignisse wie (Terror-)Anschläge, Gewaltakte, Krisen und (Natur-)Katastrophen zu artikulieren. Die Reaktion auf derartige Ereignisse ist jedoch keine unmittelbare. Es sind nicht die...
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Springer VS
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2022-02-07
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This handbook presents a timely and comprehensive overview of theory, data, methods and research findings that connect human population dynamics and environmental context. It presents regional summaries of empirical findings on migration and environmental connections...
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Springer
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2022-02-07
Collection :
International Handbooks of Population
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This Palgrave Pivot provides an overview of rural labour relations in different regions of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, in southern Brazil. Based on rich ethnographic research, through interviews with a long list of rural workers and union members, among others,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-02-06
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This book deals with foodscapes, which are still a relatively young field of research in the social sciences and were first addressed in the context of questions of spatial inequality in the mid-1990s. In addition to an introduction to various landscape concepts as well...
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Springer VS
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2022-02-05
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This book sheds light on religiously motivated extremism and violence in South Asia, a phenomenon which ostensibly poses critical and unique challenges to the peace, security and governance not only of the region, but also of the world at large. The book is distinctive...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-02-04
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Whither the seminal thinking and practice of Paulo Freire in contemporary times? If Covid 19 is the most seismic health crisis in living memory, it is also just as much an unprecedented crisis for education and society. While Paulo Freire’s work so often calls attention...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2022-02-04
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How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years?Why does eugenics still loom large in the 21st century, despite its genocidal past?Did eugenics work? Could it work? Or was it always a pseudoscientific fantasy? Throughout...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2022-02-03
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*A mesmeric, harrowing and ultimately uplifting childhood memoir about identity, family and mental health that has touched so many readers around the world*'So raw and full of so many emotions. I didn't want the book to end' @ftsworld'It's hard to put into words how...
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Quercus
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2022-02-03
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This is the first book on spatial entropy in the scientific literature. It links spatial entropy with landscape analysis, landscape diversity and geo-information. It gives all the essential tools that a researcher needs in order to study the spatial entropy of physical...
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Springer VS
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2022-02-03
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Transnational movements are more intricate than diasporic conflicts of ‘home and away’. They operate not only as international connections but also transect and disturb national formations. What are the spaces (both physical and temporal) in and around which...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-02-02
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Both theoretically informed and empirically rich, Defensible Space makes an important conceptual contribution to policy mobilities thinking, to policy and practice, and also to practitioners handling of complex spatial concepts. Critically examines the geographical...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2022-02-02
Collection :
RGS-IBG Book Series
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In this interdisciplinary book, experts from philosophy, medicine, law, psychology, economics, and social sciences address questions and develop solutions for a well-designed society of long life. Young as well as old people have to actively shape more and more of their...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-02-01
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On what basis can we challenge Artificial Intelligence (AI) - its infusion, investment, and implementation across the globe? This book answers this question by drawing on a range of critical approaches from the social sciences and humanities, including...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-02-01
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Comparative research has gained enormous popularity in communication and media studies in the last two decades and is increasingly conducted in international research teams. Collaboration with scholars from different countries brings many advantages, but it is also...
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Springer VS
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2022-02-01
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This book examines the ways in which knowledge that is inordinate, excessive, and overwhelming comes to mark everyday life in low-income, poor neighborhoods in Delhi with crumbling infrastructures and pervasive violence. Based on long-term ethnography in these spaces,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2022-02-01
Collection :
After the Postcolonial
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'This book should be mandatory reading for all young people' - Pragya Agarwal'I wish this book had been around when I was a kid. . . If every child read it, the world would be transformed. This book will make the world a much better place for all of us' - Mikaela...
Editeur :
Quercus
Parution :
2022-02-01
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This book presents an essential contribution to approaches in the studies of film, literature, performance, translation, and other art forms within the Chinese cultural tradition, examining East-West cultural exchange and providing related intertextual dialogue. The...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-01-31
Collection :
Chinese Culture
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Die Diagnose der „Wissens- und Informationsgesellschaft“ prägt seit den 1960er Jahren die wissenschaftliche Diskussion um die Beschreibung der Gesellschaft in einem internationalen Debattenkontext. Bis heute spielen die „Wissens-“, die „Informations-“ respektive die...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2022-01-31
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In wenigen schriftstellerischen Œuvres steht die Reflexion zeitgenössischer Medienpraxis sowie die Medialität des eigenen Schreibens so im Zentrum wie im Werk Werner Koflers. Die Beiträge zu Kofler intermedial untersuchen die verschiedenen Aspekte des Medienwechsels und...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-01-31
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