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Capitalism appears to be endlessly in crisis but without ever loosening its hold on our lives. New modes of racism and exclusion emerge, but the old ones never go away. We continue to struggle to live and survive in its wake but are unable, still now, to build...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-10-23
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This book presents the results of a joint survey conducted as of the tenth anniversary of the 2011 East Japan Earthquake, by an international research collaboration consisting of researchers representing the major universities affected by recent mega-disasters in Asia,...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-10-23
Collection :
Kobe University Monograph Series in Social Science Research
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This open access Regional Reader describes population movement circulating within the Mediterranean area, for any reason or from any region, be them European, African, Asian or originating from any of the Mediterranean shores. It showcases a plurality of approaches to...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-10-21
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This book delves into the values, attitudes, and behaviours of Koreans over the course of the past twenty years. Compiled by leading Korean scholars, the book uses the Korean General Social Survey (KGSS), the most comprehensive source of information detailing recent...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-10-20
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This book discusses how aspects of connectedness, resilience and empowerment are intertwined in community development processes. It explicitly brings together these elements in the context of community development and well-being, helping foster an understanding of how...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-10-19
Collection :
Community Quality-of-Life and Well-Being
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In this autobiographical reflection, the distinguished anthropologist Philippe Descola looks back on his intellectual career and examines both the central themes of his work and the key questions that have shaped anthropological debates over the past forty years. A...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-10-19
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An “essential and engaging ” (Richard Florida) exploration of social decline in America: its true causes and the practical steps each of us can take to combat it, starting with the places we call home. The neighborhoods we live in impact our lives in so many...
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Little, Brown Spark
Parution :
2023-10-17
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From a trans rights activist and athlete, an urgent guide that changes the conversation about gender identity. Anti-transgender legislation is being introduced in state governments around the United States in record-breaking numbers. Trans people are under attack in...
Editeur :
Balance
Parution :
2023-10-17
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Die Naturwissenschaft beschäftigt sich mit denselben großen Fragen wie Religion und Philosophie. Dabei verlässt sie sich jedoch nicht auf menschliche Vorlieben, Eingebung oder Logik, sondern erforscht unvoreingenommen die Natur. Ihr ewiges Hinterfragen, Testen und...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-10-16
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Dieses Handbuch integriert und erörtert eine wachsende Evidenzbasis zur individuellen Entwicklung im mittleren und späten Erwachsenenalter. Das Buch enthält eine umfassende Analyse dessen, was Wachstum in der Lebensmitte und im höheren Alter bedeutet, und zeigt auf, wie...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-10-16
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Human civilization is founded on ethical principles, norms of behaviour that have accumulated over time. Perhaps the oldest of ethical principles is the rejection of violence, which includes the respect for life and for the physical and psychological integrity of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-10-16
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This book focuses on the influence of socio-economic and land-use policies on the commuting problems and quality of life of the poor in Singapore and Hong Kong. It considers the influence of self-organisation: how the mobility of an individual is constituted by...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-10-16
Collection :
Quality of Life in Asia
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This open access book explores some of the struggles and challenges that researchers and practitioners face when conducting research in the Central Asian research setting. Written for scholars still in the planning stages of their research, it addresses key questions,...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-10-13
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This book provides an updated comparative overview of women’s movements in Latin America and the Caribbean, filling some of the gaps left by the existing literature. It brings together case studies of nine countries – Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Dominican...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-10-11
Collection :
Latin American Societies
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A timely feminist intervention on gender, communication, and women’s human rights The Handbook on Gender, Communication, and Women's Human Rights engages contemporary debates on women’s rights, democracy, and neoliberalism through the lens of feminist communication...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2023-10-09
Collection :
Global Handbooks in Media and Communication Research
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Cosmopolitanism is commonly associated today with the idea that the forces of globalization could be tempered by new forms of cosmopolitan governance, an idea that was popular among some political theorists in the late twentieth century but seems increasingly...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-10-09
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In a series of televised interviews broadcast in spring 2022, Bruno Latour explained, in clear and straightforward terms, how humans have changed the planet and why environmental disasters are an intrinsic part of modern life. We have now come to realize that all life...
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Polity
Parution :
2023-10-09
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School shootings, police misconduct, and sexual assault where people are injured and die dominate the news. What are the connections between such incidents of violence and extreme harm? In this new book, world-renowned sociologist Patricia Hill Collins explores how...
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Polity
Parution :
2023-10-09
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Increasingly, many people in democracies are turning to a strongarm politics for reassurance against globalization, uncertainty and precarity. In countries ranging from the US and the UK to Brazil, India and Turkey, support has grown for a nativist politics attacking...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-10-09
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This brief discusses the significant contribution of police search and rescue to the successful location and resolution of missing persons cases.
Across seven chapters, this volume offers a detailed examination of the routine practices of police search and rescue...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-10-06
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Criminology
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