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This book develops a feminist and queer linguistic account of the construction of sex, sexuality, and desire through a linguistic and discursive analysis of naturally occurring sex talk from an online community. Critical discourse analysis is used to analyse a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-09
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Language, Gender and Sexuality
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This book illustrates an alternative approach to ‘state of sustainability’ reporting by presenting cross-sectoral and multi-disciplinary discussions on sustainability issues in the context of a developing country, Botswana. The book volume illustrates how academic...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-10-08
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This book explores how resurgent nationalism across the globe demands re-examination of many of the theories and practices in applied linguistics and language teaching as political forces seek to limit the movement of people, goods, and services across national...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-08
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Where did the Coronavirus outbreak originate and was the pandemic predicted? Did aliens help to build the Sphinx and the Great Pyramid of Giza, and what were they trying to tell us? Is the food industry colluding to make us addicted to sugar? Prepare yourself for some...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2020-10-08
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In Calculating Race, Benjamin Wiggins analyzes the historical relationship between statistical risk assessment and race in the United States. He illustrates how, through a reliance on the variable of race, actuarial science transformed the nature of racism and helped...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-10-08
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Since its introduction in the late 1980s, DNA analysis has revolutionized the forensic sciences: it has helped to convict the guilty, exonerate the wrongfully convicted, identify victims of mass atrocities, and reunite families whose members have been separated by war...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-10-08
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This book critically interrogates the role of religious faith in the experiences and practices of migrant entrepreneurs against the backdrop of neoliberal Britain. Focussing on Pentecostalism, a popular Christian denomination amongst migrant groups in the UK, the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2020-10-07
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A “powerful, persuasive, and devastatingly haunting” examination of America’s racist, centuries-long oppression of Black love (Carol Anderson, bestselling author of White Rage) According to the 2010 US census, more than seventy percent of Black...
Editeur :
Seal Press
Parution :
2020-10-06
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The driving cultural force of that form of life we call ‘modern’ is the desire to make the world controllable. Yet it is only in encountering the uncontrollable that we really experience the world – only then do we feel touched, moved and alive. A world that is fully...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-10-06
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Born from the fields of Islamic art and architectural history, the archaeological study of the Islamic societies is a relatively young discipline. With its roots in the colonial periods of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, its rapid development since the 1980s...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-10-06
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How do people think about their identities?How do they express themselves individually and as part of collective groups, social movements, organizations, neighborhoods, or nations? Identity has important consequences for how we organize our lives, wield social power,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-10-06
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Stellen Sie sich selbst einmal die folgende Frage: Wie hoch ist der Anteil der Bevölkerung in Ihrem Land, der 65 Jahre oder älter ist? In den 14 Ländern, in denen die Umfrage durchgeführt wurde, war die durchschnittliche Schätzung um 20 Prozent höher als der reale...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-10-05
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This book expands on the idea of transformation after trauma through the concept of Resonance and provides practical guidance for accessing it. Resonance is presented as the key to posttraumatic growth and transformation and is defined as a moment of awakening, through...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-10-05
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This book develops Gregory Bateson’s ideas regarding “communication about relationship” in animals and human beings, and even nations. It bases itself on Bateson’s theory of relational communication, as he described it in the zoosemiotics of octopus, mammals,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-10-03
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This book outlines the principal motivations, opportunities and barriers to Muslim women’s political participation in France and francophone Belgium. Easat-Daas draws on in-depth comparative contextual analysis along with semi-structured interview material with...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-03
Collection :
New Directions in Islam
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This book provides a feminist psychological analysis of contemporary resistance to sexual harassment in and around #MeToo. It explores how women’s assumed empowerment in postfeminist and neoliberal feminist discourses has shaped understandings of sexual harassment and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-03
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Recent work in the mobilities literature has highlighted the importance of thinking about mobility and immobility as a continuum, where movement intersects with processes that might entail episodes of transition, waiting, emptiness, and fixity. This focus on stillness,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-02
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Over the past two decades, the fields of linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics have complicated traditional understandings of the relationship between language and identity. But while research traditions that explore the linguistic complexities of gender and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-10-02
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Dieses Buch widmet sich einer Forschungslücke im Bereich der Generationenforschung. Anhand eines rekonstruktiven Zugangs legt Andreas Bergholz unterschiedliche Perspektiven von älteren Menschen auf Jüngere in ihrer Komplexität und Vielfalt jenseits von Stereotypen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-10-02
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This book aims to indicate several problems related to apparent ideology understandings that are accepted in communication studies. To this end, we endeavored to touch on produced meanings and power of ideology within media that has transformed in Turkey as from 2000....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-10-02
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