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This open access book explores the strategic importance and advantages of adopting multidisciplinary and multiscalar approaches of inquiry and intervention with respect to the built environment, based on principles of sustainability and circular economy strategies. A...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-12-30
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In global politics, women's bodies are policed, objectified, surveilled, and feared, with particular attention paid to both their met or unmet procreative potential. While the significance of motherhood varies across cultures, it is, as this book argues, connected not...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-12-30
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The Theosophical Society (est. 1875 in New York by H. P. Blavatsky, H. S. Olcott and others) is increasingly becoming recognized for its influential role in shaping the alternative new religious and cultural landscape of the late nineteenth and the twentieth century,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-12-30
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This book asks how we should make sense of sentencing when, despite huge efforts world-wide to analyse, critique and reform it, it remains an enigma.Sentencing: A Social Process reveals how both research and policy-thinking about sentencing are confined by a paradigm...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-12-28
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This book presents the formerly-unpublished manuscript by Wheeler and Cline detailing the landmark, comparative prisons study they conducted in the 1960s which examined fifteen Scandinavian prisons and nearly 2000 inmates across four Nordic...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-28
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
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Since the 1970 and 1980s, fanzines have constituted a zone of freedom of thought, of do-it-yourself creativity and of alternatives to conventional media. Along with bands, records and concerts, they became a vital part of the construction of punk 'scenes’, actively...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-27
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This book brings to life the experiences of children affected by maternal imprisonment, and provides unique, in-depth analysis of judicial thinking on this issue. It explores the experiences of children whose mothers are sentenced to imprisonment in England and Wales...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-24
Collection :
Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies
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The social sciences have seen a substantial increase in comparative and multi-sited ethnographic projects over the last three decades. Yet, at present, researchers seeking to design comparative field projects have few scholarly works detailing how comparison is...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-12-23
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Seit das «Ende des Kommunismus» auf 1990 festgeschrieben und der «Unrechtsstaat DDR» der Justiz übergeben wurde, inszenieren neue Institutionen, Stiftungen und Behörden auf Bundesebene den ökonomischen, kulturellen und moralischen Erfolg des Rechtsstaates. Dabei wird...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-12-23
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Applying a cultural sociology of performance, this book interrogates how the meaning of sport intersects with gender. Trygve B. Broch points out uncertainties in the causal arguments made by key figures in the cultural studies tradition, instead advancing a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-21
Collection :
Cultural Sociology
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This book tests critical reassessments of US radical writing of the 1930s against recent developments in theories of modernism and the avant-garde. Multidisciplinary in approach, it considers poetry, fiction, classical music, commercial art, jazz, and popular contests...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-20
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In The Struggle for a Multilingual Future, Christina Davis examines the tension between ethnic conflict and multilingual education policy in the linguistic and social practices of Sri Lankan minority youth. Facing a legacy of post-independence language and education...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-12-20
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Digitalization is a long and constant sociohistoric process in which all areas of society?s activities are reconfigured. Digitalization of Society and Socio-political Issues 1 examines the transformations linked to the development of digital platforms and social media,...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2019-12-19
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An der Gruppe türkeistämmiger hochqualifizierter Frauen, die ein transnationales Leben zwischen Deutschland und der Türkei führen, wird nachgezeichnet, wie sie vor ihrem Bildungshintergrund mit Befremdungserfahrungen umgehen und wie sie Beheimatungsstrategien entwerfen....
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-12-19
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As people use self-tracking devices and other digital technologies, they generate increasing quantities of personal information online. These data have many benefits, but they can also be accessed and exploited by third parties. Using rich examples from popular culture...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-12-18
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This book adopts a critical youth studies approach and theorizes the digital as a key feature of the everyday to analyse how ideas about youth and cyber-safety, digital inclusion and citizenship are mobilized. Despite a growing interest in the benefits and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-18
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Several nations in the Global North have turned to austerity policies in an effort to resolve recent financial ills. What many failed to recognize is the longer history and varied pattern of such policies in the Global South over preceding decades – policies which had...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-12-18
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This fifth edition of An Introduction to Sociology provides an accessible and engaging introduction to sociology, without oversimplifying or passing over the important and exciting insights sociology has to offer. Building on the book's existing achievements, Ken...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-12-18
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Asian Americans and the Media provides a concise, thoughtful, critical and cultural studies analysis of U.S. media representations ofAsian Americans. The book also explores waysAsian Americans have resisted, responded to, and conceptualized the terrain of challenge and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-12-18
Collection :
Media and Minorities
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This volume addresses the impact of the September 11th terror attacks on funded programs in policing. Comparing New York City's policing, community policing, and homeland security programs, this brief examines twenty-four years of federal grants to identify shifts in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-12-17
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Criminology
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