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This book explores the portrayal of refugee experiences in children’s picture books using insights from Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Chapter 1 considers this emerging genre of children’s literature within its social and educational...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-07-14
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This research contributes to scholarship on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/ Questioning, Intersex and Asexual (LGBTQIA+) rights at the international level and how LGBTQIA+ non-governmental organisations (NGOs) use international channels to advance the cause...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-07-14
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This book investigates the role of private land developers in the development of Ruwa Town in post-colonial Zimbabwe. Whereas other post-colonial established towns in the country emerged from direct public investment through the Growth Point policy, Ruwa emerged from a...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-07-14
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Das vorliegende Open-Access-Buch widmet sich der Frage, wie Anonymität im Kontext von körperlicher Interaktion und Menschenmengen charakterisiert werden kann. In Anlehnung an die phänomenologische Soziologie richtet die Untersuchung ihren Fokus auf das...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2025-07-14
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This book delves into the dynamic interplay of popular culture and political theology, examining three key areas of interaction: engagement with liturgy and scripture, film and television, and music. From depictions of Jesus in South Park and Family...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-07-14
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Fairies: A Companion provides a unique and unparalleled view of the ubiquity of fairies and fairy culture across the world, in its many expressions and manifestations. As well as providing historical perspectives on our belief in the fae, the companion also uniquely...
Editeur : Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2025-07-14
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Relatively recently it has been acknowledged that Black women too often experience extreme psychological distress such as depression, anxiety disorders, panic, phobias, fear, eating disorders, low self-esteem, loneliness from social isolation, PTSD/PTSS, emotional pain,...
Editeur : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2025-07-14
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An unquestioned assumption of contemporary politics is that the left owns minority groups, in the sense that the left, exclusively, champions the interests of minorities and is for that reason owed the allegiance of minorities. This, in turn, gives rise to the sense of...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-07-14
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Promoting a more inclusive society for the elderly, people with disabilities and, more broadly, all of those in vulnerable situations, implies profound changes in the healthcare system in many countries. This movement, known as “deinstitutionalization”, implies...
Editeur : Wiley-ISTE
Parution : 2025-07-14
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This book examines the history of sociology in India. It delves into the origin, growth, and development of Sociology. It traces its trajectory alongside the nation's social, cultural, and intellectual landscape. The chapters examine the diverse strands of sociological...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-07-12
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The focus of the volume is on ethnographically oriented research practice. It is reflected in the mirror of the currently controversial concepts of diversity and intersectionality in the cultural and social sciences. Special attention is paid to the question of how...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-07-11
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In many Asian societies, the process of modernization often took place in a rapid and highly compressed fashion – not over centuries, as had happened in most Western societies, but in several decades. This enabled Asian societies to achieve high levels of economic...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-07-11
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This open access book explores the role of textiles in death to investigate questions into how the body was prepared before the funeral, how the body was seen and perceived by its relatives and community, and the role of textiles in its metamorphosis into a deceased....
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-07-11
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This book presents a wide array of innovative and cutting-edge practice models, research-based conceptualisations and theorisations as well as policy contributions which will serve as resource material for social work professionals across the globe.This volume is a...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-07-11
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This book provides examples of how social workers have pushed back against neoliberalism, attempts to co-opt or silence social workers, and reproduce philosophical and ethical assumptions that divide humans from each other and from the natural world.
This is the second...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-07-11
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This open access book simultaneously addresses both the segmenting and the egalitarian function of individual labour law, in almost all countries of the world, in some chapters following up from its origin to the present. Its socio-legal approach fills gaps for...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-07-10
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This book explores the dark regions of Romantic imagination in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literature and art. It uncovers the palpable and pleasing anxiety about the human body in the works of Henry Fuseli, William Blake, and Mary Shelley, focusing on...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-07-10
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Dieses Buch nimmt uns mit auf eine Reise durch die Welt des Radfahrens aus dem Blickwinkel eines Soziologen. Es zeigt die Verwobenheit des Fahrrads mit unserem Alltag und dessen Einfluss auf unsere Lebensweise.
Radfahren ist nicht nur Fortbewegung, sondern auch...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-07-10
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Multilevel models have become very common in social research, however, there are aspects of these models that are explored only infrequently. Those that rarely make their way into courses and training materials are published articles that appear in academic journals....
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-07-09
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The Palgrave Handbook of Feminist, Queer and Trans* Narrative Studies provides a comprehensive overview of the intersection between narrative theory and feminist, queer and trans* theory. Bringing together eminent and emerging scholars from a range of disciplines, it...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-07-09
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