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Migrant workers in the West are at the frontline of the precarious condition that is coming to dominate social and economic life in neoliberal societies. Yet despite the highly insecure and exploitative working conditions they routinely face, labour mobilizations by...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2025-06-13
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Die Stadt Berlin wird seit Jahren von einer sich zuspitzenden Wohnungskrise getrieben. Nach der Wende etablierte sich eine lokale Immobilienverwertungskoalition zwischen der privaten Wohnungswirtschaft und der institutionellen Politik, die Privatisierungen und...
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Springer VS
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2025-06-13
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This edited volume explores the politics and semantics of heritage rehabilitation practices such as conservation, archaeological excavation, memorialization and rebuilding programs.
Recent conflicts in the Arab region and Ukraine have demonstrated how heritage is...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-06-12
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Dealing with a rapidly changing world is the purview of all professions. Nowhere is this truer than in those professions dealing with well-being, social change, justice, and equity. What is the future of social work as a profession, and how should social work prepare...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-06-12
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This book questions the mainstream interpretation of the current political shifts as a move to ultra-conservative and even fascist politics, changing the polities of the Western democracies that can be overcome by “reclaiming democracy”. Instead of following this path,...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2025-06-12
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This edited book presents many hitherto unaddressed aspects of post-genocide Rohingya lives in refugee camps in Bangladesh. Amid an everyday struggle for daily essentials, violent tensions within and outside the camps, growing anti-Rohingya sentiment in the host...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-06-11
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This book offers an extensive assessment of the nature and feasibility of the metaverse and is the first to critically examine its social and ethical implications. The metaverse is, in essence, an envisioned future merger of virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR) and...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-06-11
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This book is an in-depth study of the ageing problem in China from a multidisciplinary perspective. For the first time in Chinese history, it systematically summarizes the development process, achievements and challenges of China from the year 2000 to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-06-11
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The Oxford Handbook of Child-Centered Approaches to Migrant Children aims to bring child-centered approaches as applied to researching child migration to the forefront of academic and policy debates on this topic.The chapters included in this volume cover the key...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-06-09
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Reproductive justice (RJ) is a social justice orientation undergirded by the right to sexual, gender, and bodily autonomy. It consists of three core tenets: 1) the right to have a child, 2) the right to not have a child, and 3) the right to raise a child in safe and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-06-09
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This book examines the vocal presence of women in postrevolutionary Iranian cinema. The research explores the concept of the veiled voice, which conceals the bodily aspects of the voice and suppresses its discursive elements. Studying the "veiling" of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-06-09
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Journalism remains a vital, irreplaceable institution in the public sphere, even though technology, political and economic trends, and globalization continue to impact it in negative ways.An Introduction to Journalism is the new go-to textbook for journalism...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2025-06-09
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Eine heute mit Horkheimer ‚traditionell‘ zu nennende Kritische Theorie hatte einst betont, dass nur Theorie allein richtige Praxis in einer falschen Welt sein könne. Sie insistierte radikal auf der Autonomie des Denkens gegen jeden unvermittelten Aktivismus. Denn nur...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-06-09
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In recent decades, the forced displacement of populations has fueled nationalism and xenophobia across the world, arousing fear and hostility. Policies have been implemented to deter migrants, crack down on humanitarian workers and externalize border monitoring in...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2025-06-09
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The golden age of Jewish humour flourished in the second half of the twentieth century, enjoyed by Jews and non-Jews alike, but its twilight years are now in sight. Telling jokes has the potential to reaffirm community once religion, political loyalties and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2025-06-09
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This book is about the intimacy and shared changes of life in domestic nature cultivation in Beijing. It asks a simple question: how do people express themselves when the state control on communication is severely tightened and the public space is increasingly replaced...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-06-09
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This book critically examines community resilience within peace and conflict studies. By focusing on the complexities of resilience in the ayóm-ayómic political order in the Philippines, it shows how memories, experiences and intergenerational dialogue...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-06-06
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This book brings together leading scholars and practitioners in organizational behaviour and communication to explore the complex relationship between employees and their organisations and the associated workplace outcomes.This comprehensive volume provides insights,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-06-06
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This volume critically examines how the integration of evidence-based research within police governance reshapes accountability, decision-making, and policy development. Focusing on the transition of a well-established police research unit from the Metropolitan Police...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-06-06
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Warum wird die E-Gitarre trotz ihrer grundsätzlichen Zugänglichkeit für alle Geschlechter überwiegend mit Männlichkeit und vor allem auch männlichen Gitarrenhelden assoziiert? Ob als ikonisches Symbol der Rockmusik, als Phallus oder...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2025-06-06
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