| |
Moving away from the common/traditional focus on studying organizations from a distance, this highly engaging book introduces the idea of studying them from the inside.
Inside Organizations: Exploring Organizational Experiences guides placement students, and any...
|
Der Islam soll den Muslim zu einem ethischen und prosozialen Leben führen. Entgegen dem heutigen Islambild ist festzuhalten, dass jede Art von Prosozialität, gegenüber allen Lebewesen und allem, was existiert, eine vom Islam nicht nur erwünschte, sondern bei jedem...
|
The bond between humans and horses is deep. For humans, horses provide freedom. Riding on horses and horse-drawn chariots or carts has allowed humans to go farther and faster than they could on their own. Horses (now high-horsepower cars) are our wings. As a result,...
|
This book argues for – and carries out – what the author terms Heightened Performative Autoethnography (HPA). The common theme throughout the volume involves resisting oppressive and hegemonic spaces within paradigms, and hence seeking epistemological liberation. The...
|
Playing for Change – performing for money and for social justice – introduces a critical pedagogy of arts-based community learning and development (A-CLD), a new discipline wherein artists learn to become educators, social workers, and community economic development...
|
The book investigates relations between the ‘East’ and ‘West’ which have been forming and evolving from the Enlightenment until the present times. On the basis of material covering a selection of American, British and Turkish literature, as well as examples of Western...
|
The book is about the evolution and transformation of knowledge and knowledge systems in the context of cultural contact.The articles take Korea as an example and deal with the configuration, dissemination and consolidation of knowledge in certain contexts of the past...
|
The book offers the very first critical biography on Norman Manea, a widely respected writer and multiple Nobel Prize Nominee. It follows two main objectives: an aesthetic interpretation of his literature and a contextualization of his ethical discourse. Manea's...
|
Korea, geographically situated at cultural crossroads, has a long history of creative engagement with knowledge from outside sources. This volume discusses processes of knowledge integration – of interpretive adaptation, dissection, selection and re-assemblage, of...
|
This volume examines representations and explorations of travel ideals in contemporary international cinema. It assembles work from a diverse range of academic fields including anthropology, sociology, ethnography, cinema, culture, tourism, communication and language...
|
Are we living in a post-colonial world? A colonial one? An anti-colonial one? Lifting the veil from language and politics, Anti-Colonial Theory and Decolonial Praxis uses case studies from around the world to explore and untangle these concepts as they relate to...
|
Der Autor zeigt den Verlauf der sozialen, politischen und wirtschaftlichen Prozesse in den Regionen Memelland, Kaliningrader Gebiet, Ermland und Masuren nach 1945 auf. Er vergleicht ihre jeweiligen Entwicklungen kritisch miteinander und rekurriert dabei auf die...
|
How are media and communications transforming armed conflicts?How are conflicts made visible in the media in different national and transnational settings?How does the media serve as a means by which various actors manage and communicate conflict?
These are some of the...
|
This book presents the legal institutions involved in cultural heritage protection from a Polish point of view. Its authors set out the legal framework of cultural management in the context of private and public law. They analyse the Anglo-Saxon concept of trusts,...
|
The SAGE Handbook of Global Policing examines and critically retraces the field of policing studies by posing and exploring a series of fundamental questions to do with the concept and institutions of policing and their relation to social and political life in today's...
|
Social work in the 21st century is facing great change and upheaval in a period of Government austerity measures. From worsening pay rates to limited resources, these are increasingly challenging times in which social workers practice. It is therefore important that...
|
Survey Methodology is becoming a more structured
field of research, deserving of more and more academic attention. The
SAGE Handbook ofSurvey Methodology explores both
the increasingly scientific endeavour of surveys and their growing complexity,
as different data...
|
Die Autorin stellt Herman Wirth (1885–1981) vor, der in den 1930er Jahren ein bekannter und umstrittener Gelehrter war. Der zirkumpolare Norden galt ihm als Quelle aller Kultur. Von dort trug die nordische Rasse die urmonotheistische Hochkultur in die Welt. Urschrift,...
|
Die Autoren analysieren Strukturen und Entwicklungslinien des aktuellen Linksextremismus. Durch die Auswertung einer repräsentativen Umfrage und durch Befragungen von Jugendlichen zu linksextremen Einstellungen gelangen sie zu einer Charakterisierung von...
|
Facing Heidegger’s critique of modern technology, the author analyses the question of technology and ethical responsibility and the call for reflexivity towards technology. He examines Heidegger‘s thoughts about how science and technology conceal the enigmatic and...
|