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Treason of the intellectuals
This book offers an incisive account of interwar Europe and a warning against the lure of tribal loyalties and antipathies.
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Appetite for innovation
The name elBulli is synonymous with creativity and innovation. Located in Catalonia, Spain, the three-star Michelin restaurant led the world to "molecular" or "techno-emotional" cooking and made creations, such as pine-nut marshmallows, rose-scented mozzarella, liquid olives, and melon caviar, in...
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The development of sociomoral knowledge
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Alladi memorial lectures
This is the second volume of a compilation of annual lectures delivered under the auspices of the Alladi Memorial Trust. Eminent jurists, lawyers, academicians, social activists, and distinguished persons serving in several fields of cognitive endeavor have delivered the annual lectures organize...
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Mapping the unmappable?
How can we map differing perceptions of the living environment? Mapping the Unmappable? explores the potential of cartography to communicate the relations of Africa’s indigenous peoples with other human and nonhuman actors. The contributors create a deepened understanding of indigenous ontologies...
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The sociocultural turn in psychology
The sociocultural turn in psychology treats psychological subjects, such as the mind and the self, as processes that are constituted, or "made up," within specific social and cultural practices. In other words, though one's distinct psychology is anchored by an embodied, biological existence, soc...
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Handbook of qualitative and visual methods in spatial research
This book presents a broad spectrum of established methods and innovative method development to capture and understand different facets of spaces.
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Climate protection, resource efficiency, and sustainable engineering
This book introduces explores the potential of light weight engineering in the areas of climate protection, resource efficiency, and sustainable mobility.
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Gang life in two cities
Refusing to cast gangs in solely criminal terms, Robert J. Durán, a former gang member turned scholar, recasts such groups as an adaptation to the racial oppression of colonization in the American Southwest. Developing a paradigm rooted in ethnographic research and almost two decades of direct ex...
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The transformation of humanities education
This first comprehensive study of Norwegian humanities education employs systems theory to analyze its transformation from a form of teacher training to its modern status as research-oriented generalist education.Using historical documents and statistical analyses, Vidar Grøtta shows that the exp...
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Postsocialist landscapes
Formerly socialist countries have gone through manifold transformations while remnants of socialism remain ubiquitous. The volume explores various spaces of the postsocialist landscape, describing the concreteness and intimacy of some of the places that span across and even beyond of what is left...
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Sociology in jokes
Paniotto demonstrates that sociology is interesting and fun. The reader will be able not only to laugh but also to understand the specifics of the sociological approach to analyzing society.
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The social organization of arts
The authors critically discuss seven major theories of the social organization of arts in Western societies, with the aim of encouraging further research and theoretical developments.
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»we are all activists«
The variety of intersecting positionings in migrant rights activism results in complex inequalities and power dynamics within activist groups. Solidarities are continually challenged, negotiated, and built. Lea Rzadtki develops a conceptual view on claims, challenges, and processes that activists...
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Education and social stratification in south korea
South Korea is noted for the hard-fought competition in university admission exams, which are widely believed to determine one’s prospects and shape their takers’ entire lives. In this book, Shin Arita validates this belief with vast amounts of sociological data. He traces the mechanisms that sho...
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Consumed nostalgia
Gary Cross reveals how consumed nostalgia shapes how we cope with accelerating change, unpacking the cultural dynamics that turn pop tunes into oldies and childhood toys into valuable commodities. By unmasking the character of modern nostalgia, Cross helps us better understand the rituals of reca...
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Interrogating datafication
What constitutes a data practice and how do contemporary digital media technologies reconfigure our understanding of practices in general? This volume collects theoretical, empirical, and historiographical contributions from a range of international scholars to shed light on the current shift fro...
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Retirement and its discontents
Michelle Pannor Silver considers how we confront the mismatch between idealized and actual retirement. She follows doctors, CEOs, elite athletes, professors, and homemakers during their transition to retirement as they struggle to recalibrate their sense of purpose and self-worth.
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Bordertextures
This book proposes an understanding of borders as effects and generators of complex formations. By introducing the concept of bordertextures and the approach of bordertexturing, this edited collection opens up new and fine-tuned perspectives on borders and borderlands.
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Being there, but how?
This book launches a conversation between social sciences and humanities on how this change affects human experience.
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The lower !garib – orange river
This volume focuses on the stretch of Orange River between Namibia and South Africa to understand the region's social history, geography, and economy.
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Dancing youth
Sandra Kurfürst examines youth’s aspirations and desires embodied in dance. Drawing on a rich and diverse range of qualitative data, including interviews and sensory and digital ethnography, she shows how dancers confront social and gender norms while following their passion.
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Processing choreography
Told from the perspective of the dancers, Processing Choreography is an ethnography of William Forsythe’s Duo project. Considering how the choreography of Duo emerges through practice and changes over two decades, Elizabeth Waterhouse offers a nuanced picture of creative cooperation and instituti...
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Refugee routes
Drawing on historical and contemporary examples from Turkey, the Ottoman Empire, Iraq, Syria, the UK, Germany, France, the Balkan Peninsula, the United States, Canada, Australia, and Kenya, this volume draws attention to refugees, asylum seekers, exiles, and forced migrants as individual subjects...
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The habitation society
A compelling analysis of our transition from an industrial economy to a habitation economy, which maps out how this new economy can work more effectively for people, their families and their communities.
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Dvs mindz
DVS Mindz might be the greatest rap group you’ve never heard of. Geoff Harkness takes readers on a unique two-decade journey alongside the members of DVS Mindz, chronicling their childhoods, their brush with success, and what became of them in the years that followed.
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Pastoral and anti-pastoral
This book critically discusses the literary representation of the village and the city.
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Structures of participation in digital culture
Digital technologies are engines of cultural innovation, from the virtualization of group networks and social identities to the digital convergence of textural and audio-visual media. User-centered content production, from Wikipedia and YouTube to Open Source, has become the emblem of this transf...
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Everyday democracy
Everyday Democracy is a groundbreaking study of bottom-up organizations in China, arguing that even in an authoritarian state, they nurture the skills and habits of democracy.
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Production power and world order
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The political economy of regionalism
The advent of the North American Free Trade Agreement, the ongoing process of economic integration in Europe, the formation of Mercosur, and the possibility of a new Asia-Pacific economic bloc have led to intense debates about the current status and future direction of regionalism. The Political ...
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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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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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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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