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Lange Zeit fristete der kulturelle Nationalismus ein Schattendasein in der Forschung. Zu Unrecht, denn der kulturelle Nationalismus spielt eine entscheidende Rolle in der Ausbildung einer nationalen Identität. Indem er die Menschen mit ihrer eigenen Vergangenheit und...
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ALDA – The Association of Local Democracy Agencies – is an organisation dedicated to the promotion of good governance and citizen participation at the local level. It is made up of over 160 members comprising local authorities and civil society organisations in the...
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Vor rund 100 Jahren prägte Max Weber den heute noch unverzichtbaren Begriff des Monopols der legitimen physischen Gewaltsamkeit. Doch wie sieht das Gewaltmonopol des frühen 21. Jahrhunderts aus? Diese Arbeit widmet sich einer in Recht und Politik nur wenig beleuchteten...
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This book explores changes in the social, economic and political processes underpinning the mechanisms for the management of human mobility and cohabitation in the Mediterranean region, while suggesting comparisons with the situation in the Americas. It considers the...
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This book is the result of ethnographic research carried out in the Academic College of Judea & Samaria (ACJS), located in the West Bank of Israel/Palestine. The book deals with Israeli citizenship and identity, and examines the ways in which it is being understood and...
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Kultur ist ein komplexer Begriff, der in diesem Band aus unterschiedlichen fachlichen Perspektiven in Verbindung mit Bildung und Identität beleuchtet wird. Kulturbewusstsein bedeutet weitaus mehr, als nur ein größeres Wissen über Kultur(en) zu haben. Es wird durch...
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This data-oriented study aims at providing an onomasiological account of the historical synonyms of the term fallen woman from Old English up to Early Modern English. It focuses on linguistic mechanisms which are at work in the formation of euphemisms and dysphemisms...
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This book dissiminates a selected collection of research texts from the Congress Hybrid Identities, held in 2011 in the Institute for Research into Identities and Society (University of Lleida, Catalonia, Spain). Outstanding researchers from Social and Humanities fields...
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Rather than turning backward and remembering 9/11, this book sets out to reflect on how the events of September 11, 2001, have shifted our perspectives on a whole series of political, economic, social, and cultural processes. Beyond 9/11 raises the question how the...
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The book examines the evolving governance of pharmaceutical biotechnology in South Korea in order to derive conclusions about the dynamics of a latecomer system transition. Based on an analysis of innovation activities in the biomedical sector, which is complemented by...
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Warum sind Witze aus einer anderen Sprache nicht immer lustig? In diesem Werk geht es um eine kontrastive Studie zu deutschen und chinesischen ethnischen und Familienwitzen. Ca. 1200 Beispiele werden anhand der Generellen Theorie des Verbalen Humors (Attardo 1994)...
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The essays collected in this book provide profound insights into the wide-ranging topic of the fashionable queen: the manifold implications and effects that the combination of body, power and gender can have are examined by using different approaches and a variety of...
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Schneidende und stechende Werkzeuge, vom Messer bis zur Schere, Beil und Axt, und Hieb- und Stichwaffen wie Schwert, Säbel und Dolch sind in populären Volkserzählungen, insbesondere in Sage, Märchen und Schwank, unentbehrlich und als Reflex der in ihnen gespiegelten...
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Die in diesem Buch versammelten Beiträge deuten auf die Vielschichtigkeit der Märchenproblematik hin und verweisen schnittpunktartig auf Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede in dem aus dem polnischen und dem deutschsprachigen Kulturkreis stammenden Forschungsmaterial. Im...
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What forms of knowledge can social science claim to produce? Does it employ causal analysis, and if so what does this entail?What role should values play in the work of social scientists?
These are the questions addressed in this book. They are closely interrelated,...
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Do you feel under increasing pressure to produce high quality publications, or struggle to translate your great ideas into inspirational – and engaging – writing? Gillie Bolton introduces her three ‘key phases’ method (Write for Myself, Redraft for my Reader, Edit for...
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Post-crisis perspectives refer to scenarios after a crisis, possible options of dealing with them, and the importance for defining these scenarios. This anthology seeks to identify paths and perspectives that go beyond the contemporary economic crisis. In searching for...
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Wie werden Tiere in der Literatur dargestellt? Welche spezifischen Funktionen übernehmen sie in verschiedenen kulturellen Traditionen?Wie differieren ihre Darstellungen in unterschiedlichen Medien? Am Beispiel prominenter Tierfiguren sowie an bis dato eher...
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Female Images of God in Christian Worship: In the Spirituality of TongSungGiDo of the Korean Church examines problems that arise from the use of exclusively patriarchal images in modern Christian worship. The author asserts that female images in the Bible could help...
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Based on archival research, this volume is concerned with the treatment of «fallen women» and prostitutes at the London Lock Hospital and Asylum throughout the nineteenth century. As venereally-diseased women, they were treated in the hospital for their physical...
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