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Der Diskurs im aktuellen Jahrbuch analysiert anschaulich die Phänomene von Technikanalysen und Mensch-Maschine-Systemen bis hin zu den gesellschaftlichen Aspekten von Quantifizierung in Bildung und Arbeit.
Jedwede Vermessung des Menschen zählt zu den Problemfeldern der...
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Springer VS
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2024-06-13
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Interdisziplinäre Anthropologie
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During the Covid-19 pandemic, the term "vulnerable" was applied to "individuals" and to "populations", "groups" and "countries" in discussions, laws and regulations; now it applies to all objects in relation to all kinds of threats. However, rather than a label for...
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Wiley-ISTE
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2024-06-13
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The book provides a multi-stage assessment of the changing housing opportunities of migrant workers in the three stages of Beijing’s urban village development (emergence, erasure and preservation).The volume re-theorizes Henry Lefebvre’s notion of the “right to the...
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Springer
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2024-06-12
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This is an open access book.NDIEAS-2024: Discussions on environmental challenges frequently center around human dependence, susceptibility, and resilience. Yet, the subject matter of the present anthropological discussion regarding the ecological framework would mainly...
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Atlantis Press
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2024-06-12
Collection :
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
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This book is an exploration of one of the world’s largest man-made reservoirs, Lake Kariba, created along the Zambezi River in central Africa. Originally built for electricity generation, as the lake reached its full capacity in 1963 it attracted other socioeconomic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-11
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This book showcases nine possible scenarios for future cities, based on different aspects and characteristics of the term "proximity". Different points of view have been investigated on many themes related to the city of proximities: from bottom-up design actions to the...
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Springer
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2024-06-11
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Contemporary societies are aging – but what does that mean? Is this something bad? And can societies age as a whole? By bringing together psychological, gerontological, and sociological findings, this open access book opens up a hitherto unique, multifaceted, and...
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Springer
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2024-06-10
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Since its existence in the 1950s, consumer policy in Germany has been understood and pursued primarily as a bundle of actions and measures initiated and institutionalised by the state. In many cases, the state has also issued corresponding mandates and set up support...
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Springer
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2024-06-10
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This book discusses the role of whistleblowing in the detection of white-collar crime through examination of publicly available internal investigation reports and evaluation of allegations and suspicions of potential misconduct. The analysis focuses on offender...
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Springer
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2024-06-10
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This book offers a new reading of the work of Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa. It provides a formal and detailed analysis of his films to suggest that Costa’s formal procedures generate a contingency of meaning. The book proposes that Costa’s films suggest a critical...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2024-06-10
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How to respond to the challenge of climate change in Africa?Can the international climate court (ICC) make its contribution?This work raises the need to create an ICC (International Climate Court) in order to repair and reduce the environmental inequalities suffered by...
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NAS éditions
Parution :
2024-06-10
Collection :
Poing levé
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This book provides a fully-fledged exploration of science and technology studies (STS) perspective applied to algorithms developed to support care processes. By concentrating on algorithmic technologies for supporting processes of social and health care, the book...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-08
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In recent years, attacks on the rise of ‘gender ideology’ and ‘genderism’ as a political force, on gender studies as an academic field, and on feminist, queer and trans individuals seen to be their embodied representatives, have grown in scope and intensity. This edited...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-06-08
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The book covers a wide range of cinematic femininities: It starts with Marilyn Monroe’s cool phrase "We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle", which self-confidently marked her profession - with a wink, because she did not say "to sparkle".The (self-) staging...
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Springer
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2024-06-08
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Race is arguably the single most troublesome and volatile concept of the social sciences in the early 21st century. It is invoked to explain all manner of historical phenomena and current issues, from slavery to police brutality to acute poverty, and it is also used as...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2024-06-07
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Serielle Dystopien sind omnipräsent; sei es in der Literatur, im Spielfilm, der Fernseh- bzw. Streamingserie oder auch im Videogame. Das Buch verbindet ein wesentliches Erzählverfahren (die Serie) mit gerade kontrovers diskutierten Themen (u.a. Diversity, Covid 19) und...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2024-06-06
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Editeur :
Piatkus
Parution :
2024-06-06
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Essays on Music, Adolescence, and Identity: The Adolescentia Project explores music consumption, self-discovery, media culture, and memory through autoethnographic essays on albums we loved during adolescence covering three decades (1980-2010) as the music industry...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-06
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In this book, Péter Hartl offers a novel and comprehensive interpretation of David Hume’s philosophy of religion focusing on various notions of ‘true religion’ in Hume’s overall philosophy and how these ideas relate to various early modern positions on religion, society...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-05
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The brain is the basis for the development of every individual’s imagination.The only safe that is a priori inviolable for any individual.Neurological rights or neuro-rights are atypical rights. Their legal framework is experiencing increasing development...
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NAS éditions
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2024-06-05
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Poing levé
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