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One of the major characteristics of our contemporary culture is a positive, almost banal, view of the transgression and disruption of cultural boundaries. Strangers, migrants and nomads are celebrated in our postmodern world of hybrids and cyborgs. But we pay a price...
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Polity
Parution :
2015-04-14
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This book focuses on China’s urban development. In China, the process of allowing more rural migrants to become registered city residents in urban areas remains stagnant despite its importance to the Chinese government and the existence of a national consensus about it....
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Springer
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2015-04-14
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This book provides original insight into the way we now engage and remember national history. Drawing on fieldwork and analysis of international case studies on state commemoration, memorialization, recreational and tourism and times of disaster and crisis, the author...
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Springer
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2015-04-13
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Between 2010 and 2013 the European Science Foundation project «Cuius Regio» undertook a study of the reasons for cohesion of some European regions, including the analysis of the ways for cohesion of two peripherical Iberian entities: Portugal and Catalonia. A scientific...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-04-13
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In den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten wurde in der (Deutsch)Schweizer Öffentlichkeit viel über Zuwanderinnen und Zuwanderer aus dem postjugoslawischen Raum – im speziellen aus Serbien – diskutiert. So war in den Medien, der Politik und an den Stammtischen die Rede von...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-04-13
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The way sociology frames the relation between formality and informality is not only complex and multifaceted, but has also evolved over time. This volume offers contributions by international authors that illustrate distinct types of theoretical framings and present...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-04-13
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With the latest insights from the world of communication studies into the nature of corporate reputation, this new addition to Wiley-Blackwell’s series of handbooks on communication and media reflects the growing visibility of large businesses’ ethical profiles, and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-04-10
Collection :
Handbooks in Communication and Media
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Legal Highs are without doubt the biggest drug scourge to blight the world since recreational drugs first hit the streets more than 100 years ago. Their growing menace opens up a new front in the drug war, shifting the battle line from the Colombian jungles, Moroccan...
Editeur :
Quercus
Parution :
2015-04-09
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Examines the social, cultural and ethical dimensions of heritage research and practice, and the underlying international politics of protecting cultural and natural resources around the globe. Focuses on ethnographic and embedded perspectives, as well as a commitment...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-04-08
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In Interpreting Ancient Egyptian Narratives, Martin Pehal applies structural analysis to four New Kingdom narrative compositions. The study explains the strong configurational character of ancient Egyptian (mythological) thought which has the ability to connect various...
Editeur :
EME Editions
Parution :
2015-04-08
Collection :
Nouvelles Études Orientales
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Silvia Lucchini lavora presso il Centre de recherche en didactique deslangues et littératures romanes (CEDILL) dell'Università cattolica di Lovanio. Da molto tempo collabora con le istituzioni italiane (COASCIT e COMITES) che si occupano del problema dell'inserimento...
Editeur :
EME Editions
Parution :
2015-04-08
Collection :
I.R.I.S.
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Das Buch befasst sich mit den regionalen Integrationsbestrebungen im südlichen und östlichen Afrika. Der Autor beleuchtet intensiv Geschichte und Aufbau zweier Integrationsregime, der Southern African Development Community (SADC) und der East African Community (EAC),...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-04-07
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Janika Suck greift ein aktuelles Thema auf: Trotz eines funktionierenden medizinischen Versorgungssystems können sozial benachteiligte Familien die Gesundheitsförderung ihrer Kinder häufig nur unzureichend realisieren. Eine Vielzahl von Studien weist auf einen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-04-07
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In the chaotic final days of the Vietnam War in April 1975, as Americans fled and their Vietnamese allies and employees prepared for the worst, John Riordan, a young banker, the assistant manager of Citibank's Saigon branch succeeded in rescuing 106 Vietnamese. They...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2015-04-07
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This book explores how the current sustained economic slow-down in North America and Europe has increased immigrant vulnerability in the labor market and in their daily lives. It details the ways this global recession has affected the immigrants themselves, their...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-03-31
Collection :
International Perspectives on Migration
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This book examines ways to ensure that the rights, interests and concerns of young people are properly represented in Western democracies. One new proposal is the introduction of youth quotas in political institutions in order to counter the possible marginalization of...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-03-31
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In the midst of racial strife, one young man showed courage and empathy. It took forty years for the others to join him Being a student at Americus High School was the worst experience of Greg Wittkamper's life. Greg came from a nearby Christian commune, Koinonia, whose...
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PublicAffairs
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2015-03-31
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This edited collection focuses on the negotiation of national, geographic and cultural identities during the Second World War among the constituent countries of the United Kingdom. Adopting a four nations approach, it contributes to our understanding of how pluralistic...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-03-31
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This major new book offers a much-needed introduction to the work of Siegfried Kracauer, one of the main intellectual figures in the orbit of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. It is part of a timely revival and reappraisal of his unique contribution to our...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2015-03-31
Collection :
Key Contemporary Thinkers
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This volume explores Armenian migration around the world, including the interrelation between domestic communities in Armenia and Armenian communities elsewhere. It takes a close look at the motivation to migrate and the specifics of Armenian communities in different EU...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-03-31
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