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Mobilität und Migration rücken Interkulturalität in den Fokus öffentlicher und wissenschaftlicher Aufmerksamkeit. Der Band geht der Frage nach, inwiefern das Land Luxemburg aufgrund seiner kulturellen, sozialen und sprachlichen Besonderheiten ein Labor für...
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Die beiden mitteldeutschen Epen «Graf Rudolf» und «Herzog Ernst» spielen zwar in den neuesten Darstellungen der Geschichte der deutschen Regionalliteratur eine Rolle, aber ihre Einordnung in Gattungen lässt Fragen offen. Zur Diskussion stehen ihre Verbindung zur...
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Critical pedagogy, political economics, and aesthetic theory combine with dialectical and materialist understandings of science, society, and revolutionary politics to develop the most radical goals of society and education. In Philosophy andCritical Pedagogy:...
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Partnerships among a variety of institutions – for profit, not-for-profit, and non-profit – are a relatively recent organizational development. Such partnerships link businesses, government, and social agencies. The primary reason for these relationships is to achieve...
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Cultural sociology - or the sociology of culture - has grown from a minority interest in the 1970s to become one of the largest and most vibrant areas within sociology globally. In The SAGE Handbook ofCultural Sociology, a global range of experts explore the theory,...
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Das Buch thematisiert die neuen Anforderungen, denen die wechselseitige Interaktion von Wohlfahrtsverbandswesen, Sozialverwaltung und Sozialpolitik(-ern) ausgesetzt ist. Infolge gesellschaftlicher und politischer Veränderungen zeigt sich seit Mitte der 1990er Jahre ein...
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Seit Jahrhunderten dienen die Körper der Frauen als Schlachtfelder. Doch erst vor 20 Jahren kam das Thema sexuelle Gewalt in bewaffneten Konflikten auf internationaler Ebene auf. Die Autorin untersucht den Beitrag der Vereinten Nationen zur Vorbeugung und Repression von...
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Migration involves change of geographical place, social relations and cultural habits. This volume brings together contributions from an international group of scholars including studies of ritual change and social transformation in Singapore, Germany and the US. In...
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The Doppelgänger – the double, twin, mirror image or alter ego of someone else – is an ancient and universal theme that can be traced at least as far back as Greek and Roman mythology, but is particularly associated with two areas of study: psychology, and German...
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"With great rigour, yet an enviable lightness of touch, Susan Pickard has written an engaging and accessible book that students will love." - Rosaline Gill, City University London "A scholarly tour de force that brings into focus the various disciplines, histories,...
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The book deals with the question of resistance to Soviet hegemony in Central Europe after 1968, when Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia.The political and cultural situation in the context of Central Europe is presented through the life and work of the Slovak...
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Human behavior causes environmental problems which, in turn, affect people and whole societies. The author elaborates the role of the public in the discourse about environmental protection. As the public consists of socio-economic, legal and political actors, the...
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The book deals with the analysis of key political actors in the ‘new democracies’ from Central and Eastern Europe. It is focused on character of elites, particularly political ones, and their role in the process of societal change.The author argues that elite...
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This textbook offers a brief overview of the main philosophical schools of the two most significant cultures in ancient Asia, from where these thoughts have spread widely – it concerns ancient India and China. Most important philosophical concepts of that region like...
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This textbook offers a brief overview of the basic approaches to the scientific scrutiny of religion. To remain uninterested in examining religion is more difficult than examining any other object of research. In relation to issues of religion, we cannot stand as...
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Im Jahre 1896 erwarb die Nationalgalerie in Berlin als erstes Museum einer europäischen Metropole – noch vor Paris – Werke der französischen Impressionisten. Ihr Direktor Hugo von Tschudi setzte sich damit bis zu seiner Demission 1909 über die wilhelminische...
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This textbook discusses and systemises several selected topics of philosophical anthropology. The problem of man cannot be grasped through only one main principle or aspect (as the principle of his or her «humanity»). The chapters of this book rather outline several...
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This book deals with the relationship between the catholicity of the Church and ethnicity. Churches confess their «catholicity» – which means that they declare that their members belong to one community; but at the same time, the churches are often internally divided...
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This multidisciplinary collection of nine previously unpublished essays presents new research in three interlocking domains: tribal history with a special emphasis on Native women in the Southeast, language revitalization efforts and the narrative knowledge inherent in...
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The serial killer has become an obsession ever since Jack the Ripper became a media sensation, embedding a new and horrifying type of murderer into our cultural consciousness – one who kills darkly and in the dark. All popular media – print, radio, television, and so on...
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