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This book presents studies on the management of the Brazilian world heritage and its international counterparts, relating its preservationist practices to the risks and alerts that run its maintenance in the face of so many challenges in the contemporary world. The book...
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Springer
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2021-05-03
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The Latin American Studies Book Series
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From civil war to Japanese occupation and communist revolution to market transition, China has undergone and continues to experience enormous economic, political, and social change.
In Remaking Families in Contemporary China, Xiaoying Qi explores a number of emerging...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-05-03
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Focusing on the growing power of transnational media corporations in an increasingly globalized environment for distribution of television content, and on the effects of mergers and acquisitions involving local and independent television production companies, this book...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-05-03
Collection :
Palgrave Global Media Policy and Business
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Diese Studie sammelt Thesen für eine interdisziplinäre Forschung der Soziologie als Leitwissenschaft zur Erkundung der Steinzeit. Nach Ankunft des Homo sapiens von Afrika nach Westeuropa beginnt nach dessen biologischer Stabilisierung seine weitere Formung als sozialer,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-05-03
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This book examines place and place-making in London’s Borough Market. In particular, it uses topo/graphy (‘place-writing) to interrogate the ways in which Borough Market’s material, social-sensual and discursive relations assemble to reproduce Borough Market as a place,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2021-05-03
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This book extends a previously published model of social evolution by using macroeconomic measures to indicate both the current state of the society, and its evolutionary trajectory.This model considers society as a system of interacting elements evolving through stages...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-04-30
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This volume aims to address kinship in the context of global mobility, while studying the effects of technological developments throughout the 20th century on how individuals and communities engage in real or imagined relationships. Using literary representations as a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-04-30
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The Anthropocene has become a field of studies in which the influence of human activity on the Earth System and nature is both the main threat and the potential solution. Social Representations Theory has been evolving since the 1960s.It links knowledge and practice in...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-04-30
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In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden erstmals Biographieverläufe von ehemaligen Methamphetaminkonsumenten im deutschsprachigen Raum untersucht und wichtige Erkenntnisse im Bereich der qualitativen Drogen- und Suchtforschung zur Verfügung gestellt. Es werden...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-04-30
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'Hough's conversational prose reads like the voice of a blues singer, taking breaks between songs to narrate her heartbreak in verse, cajoling her audience to laugh to keep from crying' - The New York Times'Hough's writing will break your heart' - Roxane Gay, author of...
Editeur :
Coronet
Parution :
2021-04-29
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Nicht erst seit dem Jahr 2010 wird über das Thema der sexuellen Gewalt geforscht und gesprochen. Aber wie sprechen betroffene Menschen in biographischen Interviews über ihre Erfahrungen sexueller Gewalt in Kindheit und Jugend? Und wie gehen sie im Verlauf ihres Lebens...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2021-04-29
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Celebrated musician and entertainer Lizzo wowed audiences and left many “feeling good as hell.” Notwithstanding her collective—fat, Black female— identity she catapulted into mainstream success while redefining the social script for body size, race, and gender. This...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-04-29
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in (Re)Presenting Gender
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Based on the German case, this open access book highlights the increasing flows of migration and the internationalisation of individual life courses. It analyses the experiences of migration across four central domains - employment and income, partners and families,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-04-29
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Bringing together a unique collection of narrative accounts based on the lived experience of queer Chicano/Mexicano sons, this book explores fathers, fathering, and fatherhood. In many ways, the contributors reveal the significance of fathering and representations of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-04-29
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Im Rahmen dieser Studie wird rekonstruiert, wie Erwachsene, die infolge wiederholter Erlebnisse personaler Gewalt Traumata durch andere Menschen erfahren haben, ihre Lebensgeschichten biografisch bearbeiten. Zum zweiten wird untersucht, wie Handlungsmöglichkeiten und...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2021-04-29
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This open access book provides a comprehensive overview of the health inequities and human rights issues faced by sex workers globally across diverse contexts, and outlines evidence-based strategies and best practices.
Sex workers face severe health and social...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-04-28
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This book is an intervention into cultural studies' theoretical and methodological foundations. It addresses a crisis in conjunctural analysis: that there is no theorized method for conjunctural analysis as it pertains to recognizing a conjunctural shift or...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-04-28
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This edited volume aims to problematise and rethink the contemporary European migrant crisis in the Central Mediterranean through the lens of the Black Mediterranean. Bringing together scholars working in geography, political theory, sociology, and cultural studies,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-04-28
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In Digital Society: An Interactionist Perspective, William Housley explores the ways interactionist thinking contributes to our understanding of current trends and topics within digital sociology. Drawing on a range of aligned approaches, concepts and empirical...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2021-04-28
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In the race to discover real solutions for the conflicts that plague contemporary society, it is essential that we look to precedent. Many of today's conflicts involve ethno-religious tensions that modern wisdom alone is ill-equipped to resolve.In Third-Party...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-04-28
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