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This book focuses on Doris Lessing’s social and political reappraisal of the family. It looks at how her fiction both critiques traditional patriarchal family structures and explores alternative and non-normative configurations of family. The continuation of traditional...
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Racialism and Media: Black Jesus, Black Twitter and the First Black American President is an exploration of how the nature of racial ideology has changed in our society. Yes, there are still ugly racists who push uglier racism, but there are also popular constructions...
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Affect, Ecofeminism, and Intersectional Struggles in Latin America: A Tribute to Berta Cáceres examines the power of affect in structuring decolonizing modes of resistance performed by social movements such as COPINH (Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous...
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This book offers an interdisciplinary conversation on utopia clustered around cultural and communication practises in terms of political and ethical projects. It sheds light on cultural and discursive aspects characterising the polysemous concept of utopia conceived as...
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Im Sommer 2015 erinnerten sich Deutsche daran, dass Deutsche nach 1933 in neue Heimaten aufbrechen mussten. Auch trat zutage, dass ältere Deutsche kollektive Erinnerungen noch einmal erlebten: die Erinnerung daran, am Ende des Krieges mit 12 Millionen weiteren selbst...
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The book addresses the relationship between the literary representations of North Greenland and the Inughuit people in Knud Rasmussen’s expedition accountsThe New People and My Travel Diary and the historical process of Danish colonization of North Greenland.The aim of...
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Ausgehend vom kulturwissenschaftlichen spatial turn, mit dessen Hilfe landesgeschichtliche Raumkonzepte neue Aktualität gewinnen, untersuchen die Autorinnen und Autoren dieses Bandes anhand konkreter Beispiele die Konstruktion und Wahrnehmung höchst unterschiedlicher...
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Regional differences matter. Even in an increasingly globalized world, rhetorical attention to regionalism yields very different understandings of geographic areas and the people who inhabit them.Regional identities often become most apparent in the differences (real...
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This two-volume Handbook provides a major thematic overview of global sexualities, spanning each of the continents, and its study, which is both reflective and prospective, and includes traditional approaches and emerging themes. The Handbook offers a robust theoretical...
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This is your student guide to research in the field of coaching. It answers your questions about doing research and explores the challenges and opportunities presented by different ways of doing research specifically in coaching. An ideal introduction for trainees and...
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Black Men's Studies offers an approach to understanding the lives and the self determination of men of African descent in the U.S. context. It not only frames their experiences, it also explores the multidimensional approaches to advancing the lives ofBlack men....
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In unserem Dasein sind Medien heute omnipräsent. Uns umgeben ständig mediatisierte Welten mit je eigenen Kulturen, wo Bedeutungen mittels spezifischer technischer Möglichkeiten hervorgebracht und geprägt werden. Die jüngere Entwicklung ist durch Vernetzung und...
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The first edition of What’s Race Got to Do With It (2015) addressed a moment when those working on the ground—activists, educators, young people, and families—were trying to understand and fight back against neoliberal education reforms (e.g., high stakes testing,...
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This very practical book helps professionals and students to engage critically with their practice by addressing mental capacity and adult safeguarding. Its accessible and easy to navigate format include key topics surrounding assisted decision making, deprivation of...
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The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies navigates our understanding of the historical, political, social and cultural dimensions of childhood. Transdisciplinary and transnational in content and scope, the Encyclopedia both reflects and enables the wide...
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Spaces of New Colonialism is an edited volume of 16 essays and interviews by prominent and emerging scholars who examine how the restructuring of capitalist globalization is articulated to key sites and institutions that now cut an ecumenical swath across human...
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Barriers to Rebuilding the African American Community explores the major threats and roots affecting both America’s most racially polarized periods as well as the major issues plaguing the African American community. The author provides intelligent insight into the...
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There has been growing concern about the gradual segregation of Muslims living within the United Kingdom. Since the 2001 riots in the north of England, several government reports identified the lack of social integration as a critical factor. This book explores how and...
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Today, we live in a post-truth era. Creating alternative realities, and making people believe fake realities become easier. Digital platforms tend to promote dramatic, sensational and emotional content that harms democracy. This book examines different aspects of the...
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Die Studie beschäftigt sich mit der Entwicklung des Jazz in der DDR und beleuchtet den Zeitraum vom Mauerbau (1961) bis zur Ausweisung des Liedermachers Wolf Biermann (1976). Katharina Weißenbacher stützt ihre Recherchen auf Interviews mit Jazzmusikern, Literatur,...
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