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This book explores some of the challenges presented to church and mission from the contemporary culture of globalization and how this affects Christian spirituality in various ways. The attention is primarily focused on contemporary East Asian urban life, but from the...
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How do young people with migration backgrounds take part in and shape urban leisure socialities in European cities? Presenting results of a long-term ethnographic research project carried out in ethnic club scenes in Paris, London and Berlin, this book challenges...
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"The political and academic worlds are fractured by two competing discourses: the universalism of human rights and cultural relativism. This fracture is represented by the deep separation of cultural analysis and theories of international politics. Derek Robbins in a...
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"Genuinely transnational in content, as sensitive to the importance of production as consumption, covering the full range of approaches from political economy to textual analysis, and written by a star-studded cast of contributors" - Emeritus Professor Graeme Turner,...
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In der stationären kardiologischen Rehabilitation steht kein geeignetes diagnostisches Instrument zur Verfügung, um individuelle und psychosoziale Probleme und Ressourcen der Rehabilitand_innen einzuschätzen. Dadurch werden bestehende individuelle, soziale, geschlechts-...
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Die Autorin geht in dieser Arbeit der Fragestellung nach, wie aus Uwe Böhnhardt, einem der Kernmitglieder des Nationalsozialistischen Untergrunds (NSU), ein rechtsextremistischer Gewalttäter wurde. Sie interpretiert seine objektiven Lebensdaten unter Anwendung der...
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Polish Solidarity was a phenomenon combining a trade union, a social movement and general ideas of freedom and solidarity. Led by Lech Walesa it contributed greatly to the evolution of the old system and to its final collapse in 1989, followed then by the end of the...
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This volume of essays examines the relationship between eating and crisis. The United States’ long-lasting economic and cultural hegemony raises a number of questions: Has America been – literally and metaphorically – eating, appropriating, exploiting, and molding the...
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This book is about online subcultures thriving in the border zones between pop cultural and political engagement. Combining classic theories of space, power and resistance with current case studies of digital piracy, online activism and remix culture, the book develops...
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Krzysztof Warlikowski’s work stands among the most remarkable phenomena in post-1989 European theater. This book joins Warlikowski’s theater with the dynamic changes in Polish society following 1989, using strategies borrowed from psychoanalysis, theater anthropology,...
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Despite representing significant portions of the advertising, marketing, and public relations work force, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) community has largely been ignored by scholarly research in strategic communications. With the exception of...
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Despite its inherent negative implications as a purveyor of essentialism, the concept of hybridity holds a great deal of critical purchase in the postcolonial world. Hybridity allows identities and cultures to be conceptualized as different and manifold, allowing for...
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Labouring Lives unravels the huge changes which have so fundamentally altered the life courses of ordinary women over the past one hundred and fifty years, namely the changes in marriage and fertility patterns. Using dynamic data from Dutch population registers and...
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From brutal Nazi killers to Hanukkah heroes in the ’hood, tough Jews refute images of doomed Holocaust victims, wandering Jews of exile before them, and the post-war ‘nice Jewish boys’ who followed. They foster belligerent responses to polemics of fear and self-hatred,...
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This is the first book-length study of the groundbreaking work of Rey Chow, whose work has transformed the fields of postcolonialism, cultural studies, film, ethnicity and gender. It describes and explains the features and the breadth of Chow's interventions and...
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Die empirische Wahlforschung beobachtet seit längerem die Abnahme von Parteibindungen in der Wählerschaft. Damit einher geht eine Zunahme elektoraler Volatilität sowie eine immer spätere Wahlentscheidung. Lässt sich vor diesem Hintergrund ein stärkeres...
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Der Sammelband zur internationalen Tagung «Fremd unter den Menschen» in Weimar 2010 vereinigt Beiträge zur Poetik und Textologie der Dichterin Gertrud Kolmar, die im Jahr 1943 ihr Leben in Auschwitz verlor. Die Aufsätze führen die Diskussion um eine außerständige...
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Den Nachbar verstehen. Seine Mentalität. Seine Andersartigkeit. Die eigenen Vorurteile überwinden. All das ist nicht nur eine Aufgabe im zwischenmenschlichen Bereich. Sie gilt auch für die Nachbarschaft unterschiedlicher Nationen. Völkerverständigung bedarf einer...
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This book examines both the obvious and less obvious ways in which Germans struggle with their Nazi past. It embraces only a small part of a complex problem, which is impossible for an individual author to grasp in its entirety and character. The main intention, which...
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Esta obra contiene las actas del seminario doctoral «Las Relaciones exteriores y políticas de la Unión Europea y la cooperación en el Mediterráneo», organizado por la Fundación Academia Europea de Yuste con la colaboración de la Red SEGEI en el Real Monasterio de Yuste...
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