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This book examines the reasons behind the declining fortunes of public access channels. Public access, which provided perhaps the boldest experiment in popular media democracy, is in steep decline. While some have argued it is technologically outmoded, Caterino argues...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-04-28
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The volume addresses the matter of participatory media practices as playful appropriations within current digital media culture and artistic research.The aim is to explore and trace the shifting boundaries between media production and media use, and to develop concepts...
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Springer VS
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2020-04-28
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The first edition of What’s Race Got to Do With It (2015) addressed a moment when those working on the ground—activists, educators, young people, and families—were trying to understand and fight back against neoliberal education reforms (e.g., high stakes testing,...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-04-28
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This encyclopedia provides a comprehensive overview of the traditions, cultures, kinship norms, and other significant cultural aspects of the tribes, or otherwise named ethnic groups, of Indonesia, by an Indonesian anthropologist. The entries are supported by...
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Springer
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2020-04-28
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This volume includes eleven original essays that explore and expand on the work of Don Ihde, bookended by two chapters by Ihde himself. Ihde, the recipient of the first Society for Philosophy and Technology's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017, is best...
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Springer
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2020-04-27
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Digital communication as it is practiced in Africa today is at a crossroad. This edited collection takes that crossroad as its starting point, as it both examines the complicated present and looks to the uncertain future of African communication systems. Contributing...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2020-04-27
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This book examines how human behavior is shaped by our aspirations, emotions, thoughts and sensations, and conversely, how the experiences that result from our behavior impact ourselves, others and the planet. Based on an analysis of the constant interplay between...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2020-04-27
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This book intends to present the development of socio-spatial practices in the metropolitan coast of the Northeast of Brazil, highlighting the main urban, spa and tourist agglomerations: Salvador-BA, Recife-PE, Fortaleza-CE, and Natal-RN. The objective is to study the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-04-25
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Latin American Studies
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This book reports on a public archaeology project carried out at the ancient site of Tilmen Höyük in south-eastern Turkey. The project developed and applied new methodologies and advanced technologies for the planning, design, conservation and management of an...
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Springer
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2020-04-25
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This volume engages with the contested concept of ‘active citizenship’. It analyses the use and understanding of active citizenship in youth civic and political initiatives in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Italy, Portugal and the UK....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-04-25
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This book explores how social groups in the urban fringe of Abuja, Nigeria, engaged with a series of development projects spanning 15 years (2003 to 2018) which focused on the enhancement of food security for farming households. The groups were at the heart of these...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-04-25
Collection :
GeoJournal Library
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This book provides the first sustained empirical evidence on the relationships between marriage migration and processes of integration, focusing on two of the largest British ethnic minority groups involved in these kinds of transnational marriages – Pakistani Muslims...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-04-24
Collection :
Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
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Ralf Dahrendorf (1929 to 2009) has worked in sociology, political practice and political philosophy, and is associated with significant impulses in role theory and conflict theory. This book presents the first synthesis of his extensive oeuvre in English.
Dahrendorf's...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-04-24
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The concept of resilience, which originally emerged in psychology, has spread to numerous disciplines and was further developed particularly in social ecology. Resilience experiences an ongoing growing reception in the humanities and historical and social sciences as...
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Springer VS
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2020-04-24
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This volume showcases selected conference papers addressing the sustainable future of ASEAN from the perspectives of science and technology disciplines. In addressing the 17 Sustainable Developments Goals (SDGs) envisioned by the United Nations in the domains of...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-04-23
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The purpose of this volume is to broaden scholars' analytical perspective by placing the creative industries in frameworks that compare and contrast them with other kinds of entities, organizations, and social forms that mix creativity and production. In other words,...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-04-23
Collection :
Creative Economy
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This book deals with literary representations of the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda. The focus is a transnational, polyphonic writing project entitled ‘Rwanda: écrire par devoir de mémoire’ (Rwanda: Writing by Duty of Memory), undertaken in 1998 by a group of nine...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-04-23
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
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This open access book features various studies on democratization, transformation, political and economic development, and security issues in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) geographical region and beyond. Written by experts and...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-04-23
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This very practical book helps professionals and students to engage critically with their practice by addressing mental capacity and adult safeguarding. Its accessible and easy to navigate format include key topics surrounding assisted decision making, deprivation of...
Editeur :
Learning Matters
Parution :
2020-04-23
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The central theme of this book is the nexus between the self, the social, and the sacred in conversion and recovery.The contributions explore the complex interactions that occur between the person, the sacred, and various recovery situations, which can include prisons,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-04-23
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