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This book analyses the ways of conceptualising and interpreting the interaction between physical and metaphysical worlds in Polish folklore. A linguistic and anthropological analysis offered in this study focuses primarily on myth, ritual and symbol as reflected in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-11-25
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This book undertakes an exploratory exercise in decolonizing criminology through engaging postcolonial and postdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies. Through its historical and political analysis and place-based case studies, it challenges criminological inquiry...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-23
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This book investigates ways in which global media coverage of conflicts affects the worldviews of the social and cultural values of nationals from the war regions. It identifies the cultural patterns in remote communities that have been ‘diluted’ by IT and the extent to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-23
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This book provides a quantitative, cross-nationally comparative, longitudinal, and multilevel study of the drivers and spoilers of national governments’ anti-trafficking measures. Both macro-level determinants of anti-trafficking enforcement and micro-level foundations...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-23
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Neoliberalism in Context adopts a processual, relational and contextual framework, bringing together contributions from diverse national and disciplinary contexts, and bridging theoretical and methodological approaches to critiquing neoliberalism. The book presents...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-23
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This book addresses issues concerning five major categories of disadvantaged children, namely street children, children involved in trafficking, child labor, slum children, and children in institutional care, which apply to a large number of children around the world,...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-11-23
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?This book examines gender attitudes in Reddit’s popular video gaming community subreddit, r/gaming. Video gaming has long been understood as a masculinised social space and, while increasing numbers of girls and women now engage in the pastime, boys and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-23
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This book offers unparalleled insight into the ways in which hate crime affects individuals and communities across the world. Drawing from the testimonies of more than 2,000 victims of hate crime, the book identifies the physical, emotional and community-level harms...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-23
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This book tells the remarkable story of the friendship between Liria Hernández, a Roma woman from Madrid, and Paloma Gay y Blasco, a non-Roma anthropologist. In this unique reciprocal experiment, the former informant returns the gaze to write about the anthropologist,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-23
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This book explores one of the most exciting new developments in the literary field to emerge over recent decades: the growing body of work known as ‘electronic literature’, comprising literary works that take advantage of the capabilities of digital technologies in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-22
Collection :
New Directions in Latino American Cultures
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This book examines the circulation and viewership of Bollywood films and filmi modernity in Bangladesh. The writer poses a number of fundamental questions: what it means to be a Bangladeshi in South Asia, what it means to be a Bangladeshi fan of Hindi film, and how...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-22
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This book explores the complexities of the recreational summer camp experience and its reliance on the expertise and emotion work of young people. Drawing on post-structural theory, Baker illustrates the discourses, power relations and emotional demands that shape camp...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-22
Collection :
Leisure Studies in a Global Era
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Der Band bietet eine Zusammenschau theoretischer und praktischer Perspektiven, die sich rund um das Thema Videospiel, die Erhaltung von Information und die Beharrung auf traditionellen Designparadigmen ergeben. Die Beiträge gehen über ihre jeweiligen Disziplinen von der...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-11-22
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In 1974, the release of Dungeons & Dragons forever changed the way that we experience imagined worlds. No longer limited to simply reading books or watching movies, gamers came together to collaboratively and interactively build and explore new realms. Based on four...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-22
Collection :
Palgrave Games in Context
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Veiled women in the West appear menacing. Their visible invisibility is a cause of obsession. What is beneath the veil more than a woman? This book investigates the preoccupation with the veiled body through the imaging and imagining of Muslim women. It examines the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-21
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Based on Catholic and Confucian social ethics, this book develops an ethic of solidarity and reciprocity with the migrants in Asia who are marginalized. Mary Mee-Yin Yuen draws off her own pastoral experiences in the Church, the situation of the wider Christian...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-21
Collection :
Religion and Global Migrations
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Anna-Lena Berscheid beschäftigt sich damit, wie inter- und transdisziplinäre Forschung, die oftmals als vielversprechende Strategie zur Lösung sogenannter Großer Gesellschaftlicher Herausforderungen gehandelt wird, in der wissenschaftlichen Praxis von...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-11-21
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On Popular Music and Its Unruly Entanglements comprises eleven essays that explore the myriad ways in which popular music is entwined within social, cultural, musical, historical, and media networks. The authors discuss genres as diverse as mainstream pop, hip hop,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-21
Collection :
Pop Music, Culture and Identity
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This open access monograph argues established democratic norms for freedom of expression should be implemented on the internet. Moderating policies of tech companies as Facebook, Twitter and Google have resulted in posts being removed on an...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-11-21
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