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Das Buch zeichnet ein differenziertes Bild vom aktuellen Linksextremismus in Deutschland. Die Autoren werfen einen kritischen Blick auf den Forschungsstand, beschreiben die Geschichte des Linksextremismus und entwickeln auf Basis der Selbstdarstellungen typischer...
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Tackling infectious disease, understanding radicalisation, improving productivity, siting new airport capacity, getting people to save for retirement – nearly all the issues facing the UK now and in the near future demand the urgent attention of those trained to study...
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Das Weimarer Dreieck zwischen Frankreich, Deutschland und Polen stellt eine neue Kooperationsform in Europa dar, die ihre Vorläufer in den ersten Jahren nach dem Fall des «Eisernen Vorhangs» hat. In der Rückschau wechselten sich in dieser Zusammenarbeit Erfolge und...
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Ukraine’s protest movement of 2013–14, known as the Euromaidan, and its culmination, the people’s uprising in late 2013–early 2014 became one of the most dramatic world events in recent years. The accession of Crimea to the Russian Federation and military conflict in...
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This book is proposed as a contribution to postcolonial critiques of the colonial and postcolonial exotic. It investigates the exotic as a representation of colonial cultural difference in colonial discourse, culture and history, and its oppositional rewritings in...
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Four years after the 3.11 disaster in Japan, this acclaimed collection of ethnographies in English on the Japanese communities affected by the giant Tohoku earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters continues to be the only one of its kind. With a new preface offering an...
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Das Urteil des EGMR vom 3.12.2009 sowie die hierauf folgende Entscheidung des BVerfG vom 21.7.2010 zwangen den deutschen Gesetzgeber zur erneuten Aktivität im Bereich der elterlichen Sorge für nichteheliche Kinder. Ausgehend von der Notwendigkeit einer gesetzlichen...
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A familiar, beloved, and yet misunderstood character in the Japanese folktale tradition is the animal-woman, an earthly animal that assumes the form of a female human. In order to articulate the characteristics that make Japanese Animal-Wife tales unique, this...
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Exploring the Utopian Impulse presents a series of essays by an international and trans-disciplinary group of contributors that explores the nature and extent of the utopian impulse. Working across a range of historical periods and cultures, the essays investigate key...
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Scientific advances in genetics, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence signal the end of our traditional concept of the human being. The most vigorous movements dealing with this ongoing crisis of humanism are posthumanism and transhumanism. While posthumanism...
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Strangers by Choice explores voluntary otherness as a philosophy of life. This philosophy is asocial in the sense that its followers tend to privilege separateness over belonging, and yet it does not lead to alienation or isolation from society. Building on Simmel’s...
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Im Fokus dieser Studie stehen zwei Schritte: Erstens soll das Ereignis Katyn in der polnischen Erinnerungskultur verortet und sein Stellenwert für die polnische Gesellschaft erfasst werden, zweitens soll dargestellt werden, welche Auswirkungen diese Aufarbeitung auf die...
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The urgent need for the study of exclusive identities in conflict is ever more apparent in a globalizing world in which societies are becoming multicultural and complex and in which inter-cultural contact and the co-existence of languages and cultures comes increasingly...
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The guiding theme of the book is a traditional institution of Tajik culture: mahalla – neighborhood. For centuries it has sustained the existence of Tajik culture, and in times of the greatest religious persecution in the USSR it has helped Islam to survive. In this...
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This is an engaging interdisciplinary guide to the unique role of language within ethnography. The book provides a philosophical overview of the field alongside practical support for designing and developing your own ethnographic research. It demonstrates how to...
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Raymond Williams: A Short Counter-Revolution amply demonstrates the continuing relevance of Williams’s analysis, from the early 1980s, to our current situation. After thirty years of neoliberalism his insights still read as freshly and as incisively as they first did....
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The crisis of democracy in Europe and the inability of the political parties and élites to adequately meet the challenges of globalisation exposes the increasingly fragmented middle classes to the temptations of Euroscepticism, and, in some cases, xenophobia. This...
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Das Buch befasst sich mit dem Phänomen des Rechtstransfers, vor allem mit dem gezielten, aber oft mit Problemen verbundenen Gebrauch fremder Rechtsmuster. Auch die theoretisch-methodische Explikation rechtlicher Transferprozesse ist ein Feld voller offener Fragen und...
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This book analyzes policy translation and its ends, how the concept of translation explains the emergence and (ex-)changes of policy ideas in different places and/or across borders in general, as well as the effectiveness of this concept in analyzing cases of actual...
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China has one-fifth of the world’s total elderly population. This rapidly aging population presents serious challenges to the state to develop a social service system. To satisfy increasing demands for diversified and continuous care, a policy known as «Socializing...
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