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This book investigates the production of public space in contemporary urban contexts as conditioned by the suffusion of urban life with digital technologies. A “social production of technology” approach is taken to frame the digitally-mediated city as a communal social...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-03-18
Collection :
The Urban Book Series
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This book provides a comprehensive account of asymmetric linkage in the trilogy of environment, development and sustainability and its impact on society. It examines varied perspectives and issues of development related to environmental destruction and sustainability...
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Springer
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2021-03-18
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When organizations are committed to gender equality, what gets in the way of their achieving it? How and why do well-intentioned people end up reinforcing sexism? Katie Lauve-Moon examines these questions by focusing on religious congregations that separated from their...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-03-18
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Die Haushaltarbeit, Kinderbetreuung und Altenpflege in den Industrieländern werden zunehmend von billigen und unsichtbaren Arbeitskräften aus dem Ausland entrichtet. Eugenie Wirz geht der Frage nach, wie transnational mobile Care-Arbeiterinnen und ihre Familien die...
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Springer VS
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2021-03-18
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Krisenphänomene von psychischer Depression und Burnout über Arbeitslosigkeit, Schuldenberge und Börsencrashs bis zu Massenflucht und Umweltzerstörung alarmieren unsere Gegenwartsgesellschaft – die gleichzeitig Höchstleistungen auf vielen Gebieten feiert und ihren...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-03-18
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This book combines various theoretical approaches to explore how Finland and its people responded to the European Union (EU) refugee crisis. Combining interviews with Finns, voluntary migrants to Finland and refugees in Finland, the text presents differing perspectives...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-03-17
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Voters need to be informed to make political decisions, but what if their media diet not only prevents them from getting the information they need, but actively shapes inaccurate perceptions of the world?
Drawing on examples and evidence from around the world, this...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2021-03-17
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This book links cattle to the construction of cursus monument sites. It suggests that these monuments commenced life as a form of cattle management prior to their possible ritual importance. As such it is an original and important contribution to the cursus monument...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-03-17
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This book presents chapters that have been brought together to consider the multitude of ways that post-2000 popular music impacts on our cultures and experiences. The focus is on misogyny, toxic masculinity, and heteronormativity. The authors of the chapters consider...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-03-16
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This book is an ethnographic study of migrants, refugees and ‘temporary’ people in Malaysia, incorporating narratives, personal stories, and observations of everyday life in Kuala Lumpur and Georgetown, Penang. Rather than focusing on specific migrant communities...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-03-16
Collection :
Palgrave Macmillan Studies on Human Rights in Asia
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This book provides a global overview of the challenges and opportunities faced by Public Service Media (PSM) organizations, including the increasing power of digital platforms, changing consumption habits, and reforms on funding models. In order to survive in the new,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-03-16
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This book analyzes recent advances, trends, challenges and potentials of the role of media in disaster risk reduction. Collaboration, co-design and co-delivery with other stakeholders in science technology, private sectors, and civil society are found to be effective in...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-03-16
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In this "vital book for these times" (Kirkus Reviews), Don Lemon brings his vast audience and experience as a reporter and a Black man to today's most urgent question: How can we end racism in America in our lifetimes? The host of CNN Tonight with...
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Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2021-03-16
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Over a million copies sold worldwideThe indispensable guide to understanding the world we make and the lives we lead. This thoroughly revised and updated ninth edition remains unrivalled in its vibrant, engaging and authoritative introduction to sociology. The authors...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-03-16
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This book concerns building an idealized image of the society in which the Holocaust occurred. It inspects the category of the bystander (in Polish culture closely related to the witness), since the war recognized as the axis of self-presentation and majority politics...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-03-16
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This book provides insight into the topic of place and territorial identity, which involves both the dimension of collective belonging and the politics of territorial planning and enhancement. It considers the social, economic and political effects of territorial...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-03-16
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Within the general framework of Cultural Psychology, this book provides different perspectives on the relationship between border and identity by experts from several disciplines (i.e. history, psychology, geography etc.). The book offers an “in- depth” comprehension of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-03-15
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Psychology
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We are witnessing an unprecedented global outbreak of COVID-19, which has been devastating in its consequences. Beyond the acute health hazard, the pandemic has carried with it other threats for mankind associated with the human economy, society, culture, psychology and...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-03-15
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Social welfare is riddled with ingrained problems that have already defeated all standard approaches, and reform calls for counterintuitive action. DigitalSocial Innovation (DSI) is primarily about promoting grassroots initiatives to address localized societal problems,...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2021-03-15
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Die Frage nach der Bestimmung von Professionalität zählt zu den Dauerthemen der Sozialen Arbeit. Viele Veröffentlichungen weisen einerseits darauf hin, dass an dieser Fragestellung gearbeitet wird, andererseits sind sie ein Indiz dafür, dass kein einheitliches...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2021-03-15
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