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This open access book provides a unique way of documenting traditional Sámi knowledge that has survived almost 300 years followed by today’s analysis of the modern state of Sámi reindeer husbandry. Reindeer herders’ knowledge, their language...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-08-04
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For decades, activists have drawn attention to gender violence across the Pacific Islands and successfully argued for improved state responses. While reforms have been institutionalised in law and government policy, ongoing violence shows that these have limited...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-08-01
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This open access book provides recent trends of urbanization and inequality in Africa and Asia. It addresses the inequality challenges of urbanization and large-scale rural-to-urban migration. It answers questions around socio-economic and spatial inequalities and how...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-08-01
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This book provides a comprehensive study of biography, to summarize the standard forms as well as a range of peripheral and expanded forms of auto/biography. Discussion and analyses to be done at three levels, namely ontology, typology, and writing. It is drawn from...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-08-01
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This open access book, the first of two volumes, offers novel insights into the resilience of migrants and refugees and challenges Eurocentric and colonial perspectives of urban solidarity, sanctuary, and hospitality. It is theoretically framed by critical perspectives...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-08-01
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This open access book offers the first comprehensive global overview of urban and local initiatives, policies, and practices towards including and protecting migrants in vulnerable situations and refugees. The chapters in this volume illustrate the various urban...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-08-01
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How did a modern terror group seize global attention and declare a Caliphate? The emergence of Daesh marks a significant and alarming chapter in modern terrorism. This book unravels the anatomy of the group, tracing its path from Syria and Iraq to Türkiye and Europe,...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2025-08-01
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This open access brief explores the profoundly accelerating impact of climate change on law enforcement globally. Drawing on the concept of climatisation, it examines how, on one hand, rising temperatures, extreme weather events, resource scarcity, and sustainability...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-07-31
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This monograph presents the migratory journey and personal experiences of immigrant professionals who live and work in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan – a remote region of the United States which heavily relies on a group of professional immigrants to provide...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-07-31
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This book focuses on an emerging group of low income South Asian migrants who are increasingly migrating to four Southern European countries: Greece, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. While homogenized under the overarching category of “South Asian,” the migrant...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-07-31
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This open access book explores the macro-social influences on loneliness in later life, emphasizing how societal structures, cultural contexts, and broader social transformations shape the experience of loneliness. Dedicated to the social construction of loneliness and...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-07-31
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This book uses the contrast between the theoretical positions of the two Max Webers - that is the Weber of the Protestant Ethic thesis and the Weber of the theory of action – as the basis for developing a theory of agency and an associated dynamic interpretive...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-07-31
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This book argues for, while critically engaging with, the proposition that leisure is a human right. The structure of the book sets this proposition within historical and international legal human rights contexts, particularly exploring the human rights/legal...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-07-31
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This book is open access.The idea that automation, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics might lead to a utopian future for humanity is a powerful one both in mainstream and radical discourse. The paradigm of ‘Industry 4.0’ where digital manufacturing...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-07-31
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Ziel des Bandes ist es, der im letzten Jahr veröffentlichten Skizze einer Theorie der Relation (2022) eine kompakte Nachschrift zur Seite zu stellen, die dem interessierten Publikum, insbesondere aber Sozialwissenschaftlern und Sozialwissenschaftlerinnen sowie...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2025-07-31
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This book investigates the unintended and deadly consequences of criminal justice reforms through observing the effects of prison depopulation sentencing reform on county jails.This mixed-methods case study explores how California’s sentencing reform efforts in...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-07-31
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Was passiert, wenn eine Medienfigur plötzlich anders handelt, als erwartet? Um der Frage nachzugehen, wie solche Erwartungsenttäuschungen entstehen und wie Rezipient*innen auf diese Erfahrungen reagieren, entwickelt Inga Korte im Rahmen dieser Arbeit ein...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2025-07-30
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Since the 1970s, sentencing in many countries has evolved from a system in which courts enjoyed wide discretion to one where courts must follow or at least consider guideline recommendations. This movement towards greater structure has also led to the creation of...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-07-30
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This Open Access book provides detailed practical guidance on how to do a Delphi study to establish a consensus across the broad range of social, psychological, health and environmental sciences. The book informs the design of Delphi studies by drawing on...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-07-29
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This book offers an invaluable study on class composition in Leipzig, the city renowned for its pivotal role in the downfall of state socialism. It describes how class changes with the city’s neoliberal restructuring, that has at its core the commodification...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-07-29
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