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Democratic nationalism in scotland
Philipp Rückheim highlights the crucial role of inclusion in this democratic nationalism, distinguishing the political collective based on place of residence and the national collective based on identity.
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The almighty latin king and queen nation
From Los Angeles and New York to Chicago and Miami, street gangs are regarded as one of the most intractable crime problems facing our cities, and a vast array of resources is being deployed to combat them. This book chronicles the astounding self-transformation of one of the most feared gangs in...
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A theory of narrative
Narrative is a powerful element of human culture, storing and sharing the cherished parts of our personal memories and giving structure to our laws, entertainment, and history. We experience narrative in words, pictures, and film, yet regardless of how the tale is told, story remains independent ...
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Jahrbuch migration und gesellschaft / yearbook migration and society 2022/2023
The 2022/2023 edition of the Yearbook Migration and Society focuses on the topic Climate.
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Teenage suicide notes
In Teenage Suicide Notes, sociologist Terry Williams pores over the writings of a diverse group of troubled youths to better grasp the motivations behind teenage suicide and to humanize those at risk of taking their own lives. Williams evaluates young people in rural and urban contexts and across...
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Alterity and transcendence
Internationally renowned as one of the great French philosophers of the twentieth century, the late Emmanuel Levinas remains a pivotal figure across the humanistic disciplines for his insistence—against the grain of Western philosophical tradition—on the primacy of ethics in philosophical investi...
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Rites of return
The first decade of the twenty-first century witnessed a passionate engagement with the losses of the past. Rites of Return examines the effects of this legacy of historical injustice and documented suffering on the politics of the present. Twenty-four writers, historians, literary and cultural c...
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Lead us into temptation
Coke adds life. Just do it. Yo quiero Taco Bell. We live in a commercial age, awash in a sea of brand names, logos, and advertising jingles—not to mention commodities themselves. Are shoppers merely the unwitting stooges of the greedy producers who will stop at nothing to sell their wares? Are th...
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Libidinal economies of crisis times
What is a libidinal economy? How are we psychically hooked into the circuits of the capitalist economy? The contributors to this book question the relevance of a concept that began reappearing in critiques and analyses of capitalist societies since the financial crisis of August 2007.
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Just like us
Just Like Us is a pathbreaking exploration of what foreignness has meant across American history. Thomas Borstelmann traces American ambivalence about non-Americans, identifying a paradoxical perception of foreigners as suspiciously different yet fundamentally sharing American values at heart ben...
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Post-growth geographies
Post-Growth Geographies examines spatial relations of diverse and alternative economies between growth-oriented institutions and multiple socio-ecological crises. The book brings together conceptual and empirical contributions that offer different perspectives on the possibilities, demands, and c...
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The journalist's predicament
Drawing on in-depth interviews in France and the United States, Matthew Powers and Sandra Vera-Zambrano explore the ways individuals come to believe that journalism is a worthy pursuit—and how that conviction is managed and sometimes dissolves amid the profession’s ongoing upheavals.
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Emotional drivers of innovation
The contributors to this book argue that emotions influence innovations as they are inherent in initial ideas, expectations and habitual evaluation criteria that impact the development process.
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The diagnostic system
The sociologist Jason Schnittker looks at the multiple actors involved in crafting the DSM and the many interests that the manual hopes to serve. The Diagnostic System urges us to become comfortable with the socially constructed nature of categorization and accept that a perfect taxonomy of menta...
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Coming of age on the streets of java
This book is based on almost five years of fieldwork with street-related communities in the city of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, between 2001 and 2015. The author inquires into children's and adolescents' coming of age on the streets and their remarkable social and emotional competences, instead of res...
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Rust belt union blues
Lainey Newman and Theda Skocpol provide timely insight into the relationship between the decline of unions and the shift of working-class voters away from Democrats.
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Namibia's children
Many children in Namibia find themselves facing a social crisis. For three years, Michaela Fink and Reimer Gronemeyer conducted interviews in Namibia with women who take care of vulnerable children. The book gives these children a voice in interviews and essays.
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Civic activism in south korea
Examining how “citizens’ organizations” in South Korea negotiate with the market and neoliberal governance, Seungsook Moon offers new ways to understand the intricate relationship between democracy and neoliberalism as modes of ruling.
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Large housing estates under socialism
This book argues that harnessing large urban housing estates in former socialist countries as a resource for the future housing supply requires innovative and practicable strategies and concepts.
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The meritocracy paradox
Emilio J. Castilla analyzes the structure and culture of meritocracy inside organizations, providing a practical, research-backed framework to help achieve true fairness and opportunity for all.
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Towards a new enlightenment – the case for future-oriented humanities
This timely book argues that the humanities engender conceptual tools that are capable of reconciling theory and practice. In a bold move, we call for the humanities to reach beyond the confines of universities and engage in the most urgent debates facing humanity today - in a multidisciplinary, ...
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Transitional justice, culture, and society
Transitional justice processes have a fundamental public dimension. Their impact depends in part on the social support they receive. For this reason, transitional justice bodies have increasingly implemented outreach programs. Beyond the role of outreach, however, other initiatives—such as media ...
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Is this ‘azaadi’?
This study of the living conditions of Dalit agricultural laborers in Muktidih Village in southwest Bihar throws light on the problems they face in accessing the basic necessities of existence, including food, clothing, shelter, health care, and education. Their tribulations are conveyed through ...
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Marriage and family
Family life has been radically transformed over the past three decades. Half of all households are unmarried, while only a quarter of all married households have kids. A third of the nation's births are to unwed mothers, and a third of America's married men earn less than their wives. With half o...
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Inertia
This book demonstrates how long-standing social relationships within the investing world contribute to a state of inertia, which prevents substantive change to the status quo.
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White racism
In an unusual, novel approach to critical race theory, Joel Kovel manages to tackle a subject that stumped so many theorists in the 1960s and 1970s: unconscious bias. White Racism: A Psychohistory presents a psychohistorical matrix of racism in an analysis of unconscious bias. Kovel’s psychoanaly...
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Democracy, markets and the commons
Lukas Peter argues that the notion of the commons can provide answers to the shortcomings of centralized states and open and competitive markets. By building on and going beyond the work of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom, he develops an ecological understanding of the commons and human freedom more ge...
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Proposing prosperity?
Through interviews with couples and observations and participation in marriage education courses, Jennifer M. Randles challenges assumptions about marriage and critically examines the effects of such classes. She ventures inside healthy marriage classrooms to reveal how they reflect broader issue...
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Competing climate cultures in germany
In this book, Sarah Kessler shows that conventional assumptions of an implicit consensus on the need to prioritize climate action should be reconsidered.
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Artificial intelligence – intelligent art?
This book discusses the transformation of creative practice brought about by various forms of AI.
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Governmental migration research in germany
The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) is the central executive authority on migration and integration policy in Germany. Vinzenz Kratzer analyzes the Federal Office’s research output between 2005 and 2015, in the wake of political reforms around the turn of the millennium.
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The university unfettered
An unparalleled account of how a typical public university really works, this book makes a timely and distinctive case for the nonelite institutions that educate the vast majority of America’s college students.
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A new science for future
This book is an investigation of computational and data practices in climate impact research. Drawing on ethnographic and digital methodologies, it explores how simulation modelers calculate future climate risks in computer models and how they make their scientific knowledge accessible to others.
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Smoother pebbles
Smoother Pebbles presents a collection of essays authored or coauthored by Jonathan R. Cole, a leading Columbia Program figure, that trace the development and institutionalization of the sociology of science.
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The capitalist economy and its prosthetics
Gerhard H. Wächter examines what will happen when capitalist economics have exhausted artificial transfers to the productive economy.
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Becoming an ally, 3rd edition
An updated 4th edition of this book is available now!Becoming an Ally is a book for men who want to end sexism, white people who want to end racism, straight people who want to end heterosexism, able-bodied people who want to end ableism — for all people who recognize their privilege and want to ...
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Working misunderstandings
As exemplified by project collaboration across three offices of a multinational consulting firm in India, Frauke Mörike explores how misunderstandings shape the organizational system and why they prove not only necessary but even productive for organizational functioning.
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Envisioning the world: mapping and making the global
The “global” is continually made and remade by how it is envisioned in political projects, language, and literature. Through a range of case studies, this book shows how practices of referring to the world actually constitute the global in its many facets.
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Creative control
Michael L. Siciliano draws on nearly two years of ethnographic research as a participant-observer in a Los Angeles music studio and a multichannel YouTube network to explore the contradictions of creative work. Creative Control explains why “cool” jobs help us understand how workers can participa...
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Black sun
Julia Kristeva addresses the subject of melancholia, examining this phenomenon in the context of art, literature, philosophy, the history of religion and culture, and psychoanalysis.
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Bullshit jobs: a work rant
Bullshit Jobs is part polemic, part social theory, and part cathartic scream—a razor-sharp diagnosis of a system that rewards appearance over substance, and a call to imagine something radically better.
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Socio-economic foundations of the russian post-soviet regime
Simon Kordonsky divides the social structure of contemporary Russia into distinct estates or social groups and describes each organization's unique resource-based political and economic nature. As he guides readers through Russia's peculiar service and support estate system, Kordonsky reveals how...
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Modernity's corruption
Nicholas Hoover Wilson develops a new account of the changing category of corruption by examining the English East India Company and its transformation from a largely commercial enterprise to a militarized offshoot of British empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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The creativity complex
There is a demand to be new and special, conspicuous and singular. How did this creativity complex and its imperative to be creative come about? Gathering and interweaving forty short and incisive essays, this companion maps, investigates, and illuminates the contemporary creativity complex.
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Ambitious and anxious
Yingyi Ma offers a multifaceted analysis of the wave of Chinese students across American higher-education based on research in both Chinese high schools and U.S. institutions. Ma argues that their experiences embody the duality of ambition and anxiety that arises from transformative social change...
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Intellectuals, inequalities and transitions
A landmark examination of the work of acclaimed sociologist Iván Szelényi, and its enduring relevance.
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The mediating power of sport
Encouraging readers in other international settings to consider this topic from their own cultural contexts, this collection demonstrates how China has created new forms of influence through sport and considers what this might mean for how we understand the deeper role sport can play on the world...
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Is democracy doomed?
In an era marked by political polarization, institutional strain, and global uncertainty, Is Democracy Doomed? gathers leading scholars from law, political science, and sociology to dissect the fragility and resilience of democratic systems in the 21st century.
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Reimagining the urban commons in italy
Presenting different case studies of urban commons and socially innovative and democratic practices in Italian cities, the chapters analyse the different contexts and specific political and socio-economic needs that are being addressed.
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Virtual reality gaming
This volume contains an Open Access Chapter. Offering a comprehensive and research-oriented survey of the complexities of VR gaming, emphasising immersion, embodiment, and player presence.
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