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In China, heritage projects are sprouting across the countryside carrying the promise of Xi Jinping’s “Chinese dream” as a call for the great revival and rejuvenation of the nation. This book unravels the workings behind these promises through the story of remaking...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-26
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This volume explores several aspects of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum’s framework for thinking about individual well-being. Called the functioning and capability approach (FCA), this framework radically departs from the conventional approach...
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Springer
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2024-08-26
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It is now beyond question that Arctic Region is experiencing an unprecedented andradical transformation. Due to the impacts of global warming, physical, climatic,and environmental conditions of the Arctic Region are rapidly changing. This rapidtransformation of the icy...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-08-26
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This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the different ways in which the past remains present in Western popular culture in the twenty-first century. It combines theoretical analyses with case study-based chapters focusing on examples from Britain,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-24
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This book contends that Afrocentricity and other ideas birthed by major contemporary Black thinkers in the Diaspora are wellsprings for helping to build a new Africa.This book examines these ideas, which have given rise to the Africanist Perspective on the Motherland to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-24
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This book argues that just as the ideas of Pan-Africanism birthed by Henry Sylvester-Williams and others in the late 1800s and Negritude ushered by Aimé Césaire and others in the early 1900s emboldened many major Black thinkers to push for independence across Africa, so...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-24
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This open access book discusses cooperation strategies for safeguarding cultural heritage in nations facing diverse forms of fragility. Through case studies and a critical analysis, it explores preserving cultural heritage to spur regional socioeconomic development and...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-08-23
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This volume offers new perspectives on the ways in which migrants use storytelling practices and kinship formations in order to navigate and modify spaces of sovereignty, and thus to re-write narratives portraying them as helpless and passive...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-22
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It's time to create a future where feminine power and leadership is celebrated. It’s time for a radical awakening and a revolution. It’s time for women to rise. In Women Rising, you'll discover how to recognise and resist the very real forces of power that limit how you...
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Wiley
Parution :
2024-08-22
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In Burkina Faso stellt Migration den gesellschaftlichen Normalfall dar. Auch Kinder migrieren im Rahmen ihrer Anvertrauung, einer sozialen Praxis, bei der Kinder bei anderen als ihren leiblichen Eltern aufwachsen.In diesem Buch wird untersucht, warum und auf welche...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2024-08-21
Collection :
Migrationsgesellschaften
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What is death? How can we respond to death? Why must we die? Where do we go from here? Do we go anywhere? Understanding Death offers a thorough introduction to the views and practices of various religions regarding death and life after death. Drawing on examples from...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2024-08-21
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Der Band „Die Praxis soziologischer Theoriebildung“ fragt nach den (Produktions-)Bedingungen soziologischer Theoriebildung. Im Zentrum stehen die konkreten, empirischen Bedingungen der Herstellung von soziologischen Theorien sowie die Reflexion und methodische...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2024-08-20
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«This volume is colossal in all senses: most obviously – at over 500 pages – in its sheer physical heft, but most importantly in its ambition, scope and achievement. It brings an unparalleled range of approaches to bear on Carroll’s neglected sequel and in doing so...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-08-20
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Everyday mobility is neither favorable nor unfavorable to health. While it can facilitate social interactions, increase access to remote services, or encourage physical activity, it can also generate pollution, promote the spread of epidemics or cause traffic accidents....
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2024-08-20
Collection :
ISTE Consignment
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A Kirkus Best Book of 2024 An "impeccably researched book" (Michelle Bowdler) about intimate abuse, campus politics, and the narratives we choose to believe "gives a fresh perspective on what it means to be a survivor." (Kirkus starred...
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PublicAffairs
Parution :
2024-08-20
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This book talks about “Human Spirit and its Manifestations: A ‘Civilizational’ Perspective”, “Image and Expectations: China from the Perspective of the ‘Other’ Lecture Series”, “Civilization Communication and Mutual Enrichment”, and “Civilizational Problems: A Cavalier...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-17
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This book provides new empirical evidence about the ways in which social inequalities, especially those of class, shape and delimit forms of cultural reception and creative opportunity. How does it come about that, in George Orwell’s words, ‘the divorce between poetry...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-17
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This book explores the complexity, multiplicity, intersectionality, and dynamism of cultures in connection with critical and emancipatory peacebuilding. It includes diverse voices to emphasize local and everyday peacebuilding within a narrative that links the personal...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-17
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The long-awaited follow-up to Garland-Thomson's field-defining book Freakery, Freak Inheritance illuminates the convergence of the freak show era with the eugenics era, explicating the cultural work of the freak show as a compelling range of performances of cultural and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-08-16
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Die medienethnographische Forschungsarbeit ermöglicht einen Einblick in die Lebenswelt von Menschen ohne Lautsprache und deren Nutzung von Mitteln der Unterstützten Kommunikation, ins besonders von Sprachcomputern. Es wird gezeigt, wie Technik und Medien den Alltag mit...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-08-14
Collection :
Beiträge zur Praxeologie / Contributions to Praxeology
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