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People, plans, and policies
The primary theme of this collection of essays is that the cities' basic problems are poverty and racism, and until these concerns are addressed by bringing about racial equality, creating jobs, and instituting other reforms, the generally low quality of urban life will persist.Gans argues that t...
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Towards shared research
Towards Shared Research portrays how scholars from different disciplinary and geographical origins and at various academic career stages strive for a more inclusive understanding of knowledge about African environments. Addressed to researchers, facilitators, and policy makers, it makes a case fo...
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Developing the "sociology of ageing"
The book collects the most contemporary issues related to the process of ageing of societies in Central and Eastern Europe. The multiplicity of topics presented with the variety of theoretical and methodological approaches means that although it is a publication by many authors, it is a consisten...
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Contributions to alternative concepts of knowledge
In the past, the European social sciences labelled and discredited knowledge that did not conform to their own definition of scientific knowledge as an alternative kind of knowledge, as 'indigenous' knowledge. Perception has changed with time: not only has indigenous knowledge become an entrance ...
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Robotic knitting
Pat Treusch provides a technofeminist intervention that not only shows how both the fields of technofeminism and robotics can engage in a practical exchange through knitting but also contributes a tangible example of coboting dynamics. Robotic Knitting re-crafts the nature of collaboration betwee...
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La chance
Providing an explorative experience to the reader, this study accounts for the elusiveness of la chance in the Bamako context and beyond.
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Prison notebooks
Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) is widely celebrated as the most original political thinker in Western Marxism and an all-around outstanding intellectual figure. Arrested and imprisoned by the Italian Fascist regime in 1926, Gramsci died before fully regaining his freedom. Nevertheless, in his prison...
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Social entrepreneurship in germany
Philipp Kenel traces the popular media representation of Social enrepreneurship in Germany over time (1999—2021), making an important empirical contribution to the sociological and political understanding of the phenomenon.
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Regulating transitions from school to work
How are activation programs for the young unemployed implemented? Stephan Dahmen explores the practical regulation of biographical transitions in activation programs for the young unemployed by focusing on the interactive accomplishment of activation work.
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Education and development in afghanistan
After years of military interventions, the current situation in Afghanistan is highly ambivalent and partially contradictory – especially regarding the interplay of development, peace, security, education, and economy. Despite numerous initiatives, Afghanistan is still confronted with a poor secu...
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The levittowners
Levittown became the site of one of urban sociology’s most famous community studies, Herbert J. Gans’s The Levittowners. The product of two years of living in Levittown, the work chronicles the invention of a new community and its institutions, social and political life, and the former city resid...
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Cosmopolitan communication studies
A timely call and a guideline on how to make communication studies and its various fields truly international.
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Conservatorship
This book is an incisive and compelling portrait of the functioning—and failings—of California’s conservatorship system, drawing on hundreds of interviews with professionals, policy makers, families, and conservatees.
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Managing expatriates
This volume examines the individual, social, and environmental factors that contribute to the success of expatriate employees. Using data from large-scale studies from both the public and private sectors, this volume provides valuable insights into expatriate success with implications for both th...
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Nursing the spirit
Don Grant investigates the subtle ways that nurses at an academic medical center incorporate spirituality into their care work. Developing a new understanding of the social significance of religion, Nursing the Spirit recasts the intersection of science and spirituality by centering the perspecti...
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Catalytic mega-events
Starting from the case of Tokyo 2020, the contributors bring about planetary trajectories of urban transformation today from both a theoretical and empirical perspective.
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Inside data science
Inside Data Science examines how data scientists defined their professional role and identity, offering an empirically rich and theoretically grounded account of the emergence of a new field.
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Settler
Canada has never had an “Indian problem”— but it does have a Settler problem. But what does it mean to be Settler? And why does it matter?Through an engaging, and sometimes enraging, look at the relationships between Canada and Indigenous nations, Settler: Identity and Colonialism in 21st Century...
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Urban resilience in a global context
This volume moves beyond praise and critique by focusing on the actors, agendas, and narratives that define urban resilience in a global context. By exploring the past, present, and future of urban resilience, this volume unlocks the potential of this concept to build more sustainable, inclusive,...
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The black power movement and american social work
The Black Power movement has often been portrayed in history and popular culture as the quintessential "bad boy" of modern black movement-making in America. Yet this impression misses the full extent of Black Power's contributions to U.S. society, especially in regard to black professionals in so...
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Performing technocapitalism
Based on ethnographic research in makerspaces and co-working spaces in Nairobi, Alev Coban argues that postcolonial technology entrepreneurship is neoliberal, and inherently political work.
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Governance in the new global disorder
Has globalization made the world ungovernable?
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Marx's others
This book revives Marx in order to understand race and gender as part of the capitalist totality, and to strike more fundamentally at the heart of contemporary capitalism.
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Why do they kill our people?
This book is a collection of stories from witnesses and victims of Russian war atrocities that occurred in Ukraine during the full-scale Russian invasion that started in 2022.
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The youth climate uprising
The Youth Climate Uprising offers an insider perspective on the fight for a globally just and sustainable society.
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Space production by migrants in china's urban villages
This book offers insights into how the Chinese government has made massive investments to modernize the urban fabric without paying much attention to the socioeconomic impacts of these policies
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The global social sciences
The European social sciences tend to absorb criticism of their approach and re-label it as a part of what the critique opposes; thus criticism of European social sciences by subaltern social sciences, their 'talking back,' has become a frequent line of reflection. The relabeling of the critique o...
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Resonant fabrics
Marvin Heine explores soundscapes as they shape, and are shaped by urban cultures and particular ways of listening.
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Making transformative geographies
Benedikt Schmid considers the development of visions, alternatives, and strategies for a radical transformation beyond growth-based economies. Covering a sample of 24 eco-social organizations, projects, and groupings in the city of Stuttgart, Germany, the study drills down into the social, spatia...
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European regions
Regions are important objects of identification to their citizens, but also relevant political and legal entities in the EU’s multilevel governance system. This edited volume asks about the potential of regions for trendsetting when it comes to combat the EU’s democratic deficit today.
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Whistleblowing for change
What are the effects of whistleblowing on politics, society, and the arts? By linking a diverse selection of perspectives and practices, this book investigates whistleblowing as a developing political practice that has the ability to provoke change from within.
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Change a life, change your own
“Change a Life, Change Your Own is a long-overdue adult discussion about how child sponsorship, a spectacularly successful fundraising tool, infantilizes both donor and recipient, turning good intentions into paternalism and reinforcing stereotypical Western ideas about helplessness and hopelessn...
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Musical practice as a form of life
How is musical practice connected with everyday life? Eva-Maria Houben shows that performing music as an activity—indeed, as playing—allows meaning to unfold in specific situations, places, and relationships.
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Concrete and water
An extraordinary ethnographic dive into documenta fifteen, analyzing its organization, execution, impact, and unique atmospheric forces.
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Race and the genetic revolution
Do advances in genomic biology create a scientific rationale for long-discredited racial categories? Leading scholars in law, medicine, biology, sociology, history, anthropology, and psychology examine the impact of modern genetics on the concept of race. Contributors trace the interplay between ...
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Water – handbook of the anthropocene in latin america iv
This volume of The Handbook The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis focuses on water in the main macro-regions of Latin America from the colonial regime to the contemporary era of the Anthropocene.
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Youth and the state in guinea: meandering lives
By combining an ethnographic study of youth with an analysis of the local state in the making, this monograph introduces the perspective of “meandering lives” to grasp being young and growing up in the Guéckédou borderland, a remote space approximately 700 kilometers southeast of Conakry, Guinea’...
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The extraordinary in the mundane
This book brings together a diverse group of scholars to explore the many ways people in China self-organize and create varied forms of coordination to solve important problems.
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Scenes of love and murder
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Climate change – handbook of the anthropocene in latin america iii
This book discusses the genealogy of the Anthropocene in Latin America with critical perspectives from the social sciences and the humanities.
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Chinatown, honolulu
This book offers a critical account of the history of Chinese in Hawai‘i from the mid-nineteenth century to the present in this context of U.S. empire, settler colonialism, and racialization.
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Nautical media
Asher Boersma explores the mediatisation of navigation and nautical mobility.
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