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This book presents an incisive outline of the historical development and geography of cities. It focuses on three themes that constitute essential foundations for any understanding of urban form and function. These are: (a) the shifting patterns of urbanization...
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Springer
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2016-10-04
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SpringerBriefs in Global Understanding
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This book illustrates the benefits to be gained from digitally networked communication for health, education and transitioning economies in developing nations (Sierra Leone and Papua New Guinea) and developed nations. Growing powers of e-citizenship can help build...
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Springer
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2016-10-04
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SpringerBriefs in Global Understanding
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The first book of its kind, Sociology and the New Materialism explores the many and varied applications of "new materialism," a key emerging trend in 21st century thought, to the practice of doing sociology.
Offering a clear exposition of new materialist theory and...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2016-10-04
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The study is set against the backdrop of the urbanization trend in present-day China, and focuses on the relationship between farmers who have lost their land (“land-lost farmers”) and local government. Particularly, it applies the extended case method to answer the...
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Springer
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2016-10-04
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In this important new book Rein Raud develops an original theory of culture understood as a loose and internally contradictory system of texts and practices that are shared by intermittent groups of people and used by them to make sense of their life-worlds. This theory...
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Polity
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2016-09-30
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Online research methods are popular, dynamic and fast-changing. Following on from the great success of the first edition, published in 2008, The SAGE Handbook ofOnline Research Methods, Second Edition offers both updates of existing subject areas and new chapters...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2016-09-30
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This book examines the impact that decentralisation reforms, initiated in the early 1990s, have had on small towns in India. It specifically focuses on small towns in Uttar Pradesh, one of the most densely populated and poorest states in India. Although considered...
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Springer
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2016-09-29
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Exploring Urban Change in South Asia
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This book details how quantification can serve both as evidence and as an instrument of government, whether when dealing with statistics on employment, occupational health and economic governance, or when developing public management or target-driven policies. In the...
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Springer
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2016-09-29
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Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning
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Der gegenwärtigen Medienlandschaft wird häufig eine Tendenz zur Offenlegung und Offenheit zugeschrieben. Social Network Sites lassen die Grenzen zwischen Privatem und Öffentlichem verschwimmen, Plattformen wie WikiLeaks und OpenLeaks veröffentlichen geheimes Material,...
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innsbruck university press
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2016-09-29
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Interdisziplinäre Forschung
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After tactical media became less important, many media activist projects repositioned themselves: in the context of biopolitics they challenge the hegemony of biopower. This volume contains theoretical and empirical contributions to a conference on issues of media...
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innsbruck university press
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2016-09-29
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Interdisziplinäre Forschung
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Die Mehrdeutigkeit des Schlagwortes Raum zieht vielschichtige Interpretationen, Fragestellungen, Theorien und Analysemethoden für die Kategorie des Raumlichen nach sich. Diese Pluralitatder Deutungen und disziplinaren Zugange gilt in ahnlicher Weise für den...
Editeur :
innsbruck university press
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2016-09-29
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Interdisziplinäre Forschung
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Wie kann Michel Foucaults Konzept der Heterotopien, der Anderen Orte, auf mediale und im Speziellen auf virtuelle Räume übertragen werden und wie könnten virtuelle oder virtualisierte Heterotopien aussehen? In welchem Verhältnis stehen Heterotopien zur Tradition...
Editeur :
innsbruck university press
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2016-09-29
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Interdisziplinäre Forschung
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Dass das Teilen in der Gesellschaft der Gegenwart einmal eine so große Rolle spielen würde, hätte bis vor kurzem wohl kaum jemand vorausgesagt. Eine globale Protestbewegung brachte ein tiefes Bedürfnis zum Ausdruck, alternative Wege einzuschlagen, die auf anderen Werten...
Editeur :
innsbruck university press
Parution :
2016-09-29
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Interdisziplinäre Forschung
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The world today is far less a global village than a “global city”, as global network of multidimensional urban spaces of congestion prominently forming – and also formed by – globalization. But the relevance of cities is nothing but new. They were essential for culture...
Editeur :
innsbruck university press
Parution :
2016-09-29
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Interdisziplinäre Forschung
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The Kam language of China possesses fifteen tones – more than any other language. Yet it has long been neglected as an area of research, especially from the perspective of discourse analysis. This study initiates the exploration of the interface between grammar and...
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Springer
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2016-09-29
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Digital, Political, Radical is a siren call to the field of media and communications and the study of social and political movements. We must put the politics of transformation at the very heart of our analyses to meet the global challenges of gross inequality and...
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Polity
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2016-09-26
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Bach and Tuning is strictly concerned with the identification of a historically accurate tuning paradigm that applies to the great majority of Johann Sebastian Bach’s music. OnceBach has his personal tuning aesthetic acknowledged, a new dimension of meaning is invoked...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-09-26
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In the midst of the current ecological crisis, there is often lofty talk of the need for humanity to ‘overcome its divisions’ and work together to tackle the big challenges of our time. But as this new book by Razmig Keucheyan shows, the real picture is very different....
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Polity
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2016-09-26
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This book offers a philosophical analysis of what it is to be a human being in all her aspects. It analyses what is meant by the self and the I and how this feeling of a self or an I is connected to the brain. It studies specific cases of brain disorders, based on...
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Springer
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2016-09-26
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The idea that gender equality in education has been achieved is now a staple of public debate. As a result, educational policies and practices often do not deal explicitly with gender issues, such as sexual abuse, harassment or violence. Exaggeration of neoliberalism’s...
Editeur :
Polity
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2016-09-26
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