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  • 1
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    Touchstones for Deterritorializing Socioecological Learning : The Anthropocene, Posthumanism and Common Worlds As Creative Milieux (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030122126
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (305 pages)
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    DDC: 303.32
    Keywords: Environmental sociology ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Touchstones for Deterritorializing the Socioecological Learner -- Clearing the Socioecological Ground -- De-imagining the Socioecological -- Touchstone 1: Anthropocene -- Touchstone 2: Posthumanism -- Touchstone 3: Common Worlds -- Creative Milieux -- Conclusion -- References -- 2: Posthumanist Learning: Nature as Event -- Learning and Childhood -- Nature as Event: Putting Posthumanist Learning Concepts to Work -- De-centring or Deterritorializing the Human -- Interview with a Tree: De-centring or Deterritorializing the Human -- De-bifurcation of Nature -- The Creatures in the Lake: The De-bifurcation of Nature -- Entanglements with the More-Than-Human -- Learning with Kosi the Pedadog: Entanglements with the More-Than-Human -- Attuning with the Affective, Material and Unknown -- The Entity of a River: Attuning with the Affective, Material and Unknown -- Conclusion -- References -- 3: The Socioecological (Un)learner: Unlearning Binary Oppositions and the Wicked Problems of the Anthropocene -- Introduction -- Learning in the Anthropocene -- Unlearning in the Anthropocene -- Monistic Dualism and the Anthropocene -- A Heuristic Model for Unlearning Binary Oppositions -- Unlearning the Socioecological Dualisms of the Anthropocene -- Contiguity -- Relationality -- Contextuality -- Conclusion -- References -- 4: The Risky Socioecological Learner -- Overview of the Chapter -- Introduction -- The Rise of the Risk-Averse Culture -- Risk Aversion in Education -- Causes of Risk Aversion in Education -- Neoliberal Governance Structures in Education -- Teachers as a Risk-Averse Cohort -- Consequences of Risk Aversion in Education -- Disembodied Learning -- Disempowered Students -- Vignettes: Risk Aversion and Negative Educational Outcomes.
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    The Evolution of Communitarian Ideas : History, Theory and Practice (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030265588
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (270 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 307
    Keywords: Communitarianism ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- 1 The Roots of Communitarian Ideas -- Lineage, Meaning and Significance -- Underlying Outlook and Key Elements -- Mutual Responsibility -- Cooperative Enquiry -- Citizen Participation -- Germinal Debates About Communities -- The Evolution of an Ethos -- References -- 2 The Emergence of Communitarian Challenges: 1400s-1600s -- Rethinking Communities -- The Renaissance and Proto-Communitarian Trends -- The Quest for Mutual Responsibility from More to Winstanley and Penn -- The Quest for Cooperative Enquiry from Bacon to Wilkins and the Royal Society -- The Quest for Citizen Participation from the Levellers to Harrington and Sidney -- Hobbessian, Lockean, or Communitarian -- References -- 3 Towards Enlightened Communities: The Eighteenth Century -- The Transformation of Communities -- Empathic Communities: Shaftesbury and Hutcheson -- Critical Communities: Hume and Diderot -- Democratic Communities: Thomas Paine -- Enlightenment Through Learning: Condorcet, Wollstonecraft, and Jefferson -- References -- 4 Beyond Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft: Nineteenth to Early Twentieth Century -- Robert Owen, Cooperation and Communitarianism -- Neither Gemeinschaft nor Gesellschaft -- Reforming Communities: The French Solidarity Advocates -- Reforming Communities: The British New Liberals -- Reforming Communities: The American Progressive Pragmatists -- References -- 5 Critiques of Depersonalisation: 1920s-1980s -- The Threat of Depersonalisation -- Contesting the Depersonalising Market -- Critiques of the Atomistic Self -- References -- 6 Communitarianism Articulated: 1989-2001 -- Democratic Communitarian Responses to Market Forces -- Liberal Communitarian Responses to Moral Clashes -- Communitarianism: Towards a Progressive Synthesis -- References -- 7 Tackling Community Disempowerment Post-2001.
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    The Aftermath of Defeats in War : Between Revenge and Recovery (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030137472
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (321 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.6
    Keywords: Politics and war ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Book Abstract -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction and Theoretical Framework -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Why Defeat? -- 3 Theoretical Framework -- 3.1 National Self-Images -- 3.2 Political Parties -- 3.2.1 Strong Political Parties -- 3.2.2 Weak Political Parties -- 3.2.3 Strength of Opposition Forces -- 3.3 International Environment -- 4 Methodology -- 4.1 Case Selection -- 4.2 Criteria for Case Selection -- 4.3 Typology of Defeat/Intensity of Defeat -- 4.4 Total Defeat -- 4.5 Dire/Decisive Defeat -- 4.6 Colonial Defeats -- 4.7 Temporary Defeats -- 4.8 Criteria for Exclusion -- 4.9 Criteria for Inclusion -- 4.10 Structured, Focused Comparison -- Chapter 2: Egypt: Defeat and the Transformation of State and Society -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Notes on Whether Defeat Is a Catalyst or a Causal Variable -- 3 Various Explanations of the Causes of Defeat -- 4 Egypt's Self-Image -- 5 Political Organizations -- 6 Strong Presidency -- 7 Public Pressures After Defeat -- 8 Domestic Changes -- 8.1 Left Radicalism -- 8.2 Islamist Militant Radicalism -- 8.3 Conclusions on Domestic Changes and Radicalization -- 9 Changes in Foreign Policy -- 9.1 Nasser's Foreign Policy -- 9.2 Sadat's Foreign Policy -- 9.3 Regional Effects/Strategic Environment -- 9.4 Concluding Remarks on Egypt's Foreign Policy -- 10 Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Bulgaria: Defeat and Nationalist Demobilization During the Peasant Era -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Balkan Wars -- 3 The First World War -- 4 National Self-Image -- 5 Political Organizations/Bulgarian Agrarian National Union (BANU) -- 6 The Impact of Defeat -- 6.1 BANU Consolidating and Discrediting Established Parties -- 6.2 Turn Away from Irredentism -- 6.3 Domestic Reforms -- 6.4 Cooperative Foreign Policy -- 7 The Descent: The June 1923 Coup -- 8 Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Hungary: The Cult of Defeat -- 1 Introduction.
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    Minority Languages from Western Europe and Russia : Comparative Approaches and Categorical Configurations (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030243401
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (166 pages)
    Series Statement: Language Policy Ser. v.21
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.7
    Keywords: Linguistic minorities ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Abstract of the Foreword "An Introduction to Comparing Categorizations of Minority Languages" -- Contents -- Contributors -- An Introduction to Comparing Categorizations of Minority Languages -- 1 Minority Language as Macro-Notion -- 2 Epistemological Data -- 3 Methodological Elements -- 4 Contributions of Multidisciplinarity and the Field -- References -- Part I: Comparative Approach -- Reflections on a Multidisciplinary Approach to "Minority Languages" as a Legal Object in Europe: The Categorization of Regional and Minority Languages under the Charter -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Categorization as a Process Inherent to Legal Rules -- 3 The Material Scope: Categorizing Languages -- 3.1 Excluded Language -- 3.2 Protected Languages -- 4 Spatial and Personal Scope: The Categorization of Language Speakers -- 4.1 The Spatial Dimension -- 4.2 The Personal Dimension -- 5 Sociolinguistics as a Tool for Legal Categorization -- References -- Reflection on a Multidisciplinary Approach to "Minority Languages" as a Linguistic Object in Europe -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Minority/Minoritized Language -- 3 Variety of Configurations -- 4 Characteristics in Situation of Minority Languages -- 5 From the Committed Construction of the Object to Its Multifaceted Crossover Approach -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- The Epistemological Significance of Comparing Social and Scientific Approaches to Minority Languages in France and Spain -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Different Historical Precedents -- 3 A Comparative Study of the Legal Treatment of Languages from 1950 to the Present Day -- 4 A Comparative Study of Linguistic Designators -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Areal Configurations in Post-Soviet Space and with Mirroring China -- Introduction.
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    The Theatrical Spectaculum : An Anthropological Theory (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030281281
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (280 pages)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology Ser.
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    DDC: 792.01
    Keywords: Theater-Philosophy ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Series Editors' Preface -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Introduction to Theatrical Cosmo-logic -- Anthropology and the Theatre -- The Spectaculum: Preliminary Remarks -- Boxes -- Dramatizing Theatricality: Natasha Rostova's Gaze -- Boxes: The Logic of Aesthetic Authority -- An Event-That-Models -- References -- 2 Aesth-Ethics -- An Abstract Machine -- On Virtue -- An Ethical Triangle -- References -- 3 The Spectaculum -- Space-Ification -- Syntax Semiotics -- Ethical Ostentation -- Boxes: Back to the Mythical Event -- Iteration: Receiving the Torah -- References -- 4 Epilogue: Prostration -- Against Hypermedia -- Wagner: Foreshadowing Theoretical Sovereignty -- Sacred: The Aesthetics of Sovereignty -- References -- References -- Index.
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    Everyday Life in Austerity : Family, Friends and Intimate Relations (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030170943
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (239 pages)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 338.9
    Keywords: Economics-Sociological aspects ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1: Introduction -- Approaching Austerity -- Austerity in the UK -- Everyday Life -- Crafting Feminist Theories of Everyday Life -- Living in and Living with Austerity -- Researching Everyday Life in Austerity: An Ethnographic Approach -- Ethnography in Argleton, Greater Manchester -- Contents of the Book -- Bibliography -- 2: Family, Friendship and Intimacy: A Relational Approach to Everyday Austerity -- Geographies of Austerity: Economic, Financial, Urban -- Towards a Relational Approach to Austerity -- Family Geographies -- Friendship -- Intimate Relations -- Everyday Austerity: Relational Spaces of Family, Friendship and Intimacy -- Care and Support -- Mundane Mobilities -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 3: Everyday Social Infrastructures and Tapestries of Care in Times of Austerity -- Feminist Politics of Care, Gendered Labour and Social Infrastructures -- Intergenerational and Gendered Infrastructures -- Tangled, Knotty and Textured Infrastructures of Care -- Fieldwork as Care Work -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 4: Austere Intimacies and Intimate Austerities -- Intimacy Between/Beyond Kith and Kin -- Intimate Monetary Arrangements -- Momentary Encounters -- More-Than-Human Intimacies -- Material Proximities -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 5: The Personal Is Political (and Relational) -- Personal-Political Geographies -- Quiet Politics of Austerity -- Micro-aggressions and Everyday Politics of Difference -- Politics of Presence -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 6: A Very Personal Crisis: Family Fragilities and Everyday Conjunctures in Austerity -- Crisis, Conjuncture and Everyday Life -- Crises as Part of Everyday Life -- A Life Crisis? -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 7: Conclusion -- Thinking Relationally About Austerity -- Austerity Is Over? -- Bibliography -- Bibliography.
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    EU Regional and Urban Policy : Innovations and Experiences from the 2014-2020 Programming Period (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030345754
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (93 pages)
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology Ser.
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    DDC: 307.76094000000001
    Keywords: Urban policy-European Union countries ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- References -- 2 The Reform of Cohesion Policy in the 2014-2020 Programming Period and the Regional Smart Specialization Strategy -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The 2014-2020 Reform of CP -- 2.2.1 The Changing and Uneven Nature of the Economic Geography of the EU -- 2.2.2 The Conceptual Debate on the Reform of CP -- 2.2.3 The Main Novelties of the 2014-2020 CP -- 2.3 EU Regional Innovation Policy and the Conceptual Underpinnings of the Smart Specialization Strategy -- 2.4 The Early Experience and the Emerging Weaknesses -- 2.5 Final Remarks -- References -- 3 Regions and Macro-regions in European Territorial Cooperation: Today and 2021+ -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Territorial Cohesion Process in the EU Policy -- 3.2.1 Sources and Evolution -- 3.2.2 The Emerging Picture of a Regionalised Europe -- 3.3 The Macro Regional Strategy in Re-shaping European Space -- 3.4 The EUSALP Case -- 3.5 Final Remarks -- References -- 4 The Urban Question and the EU Integration Project: A Continuous Experiment -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Politics and Problem Setting: Understanding the Specificities of the Urban in Europe -- 4.3 Problem Solving: From Pilot Projects to the EU Urban Agenda, an Open Experiment -- 4.4 Final Remarks -- References -- 5 Innovation in EU "Urban Policy" During the 2014-2020 Programming Period: Conceptions, Experiences and Perspectives -- 5.1 The Core Role of "Innovation" 2014-2020 Programming Cycle -- 5.2 Social Innovation in a Context of Economic and Financial Crisis -- 5.3 The EU Conception and Support of Social Innovation -- 5.4 The Programs with/for the Cities: Between Urban Innovation and Mainstreaming -- 5.5 Urbact and the UIAs: Two Examples in Milan -- 5.6 Conclusions -- References -- 6 Conclusions: Present and Future of Cohesion Policy -- References.
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    Geospatial Technologies for Urban Health (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030195731
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (263 pages)
    Series Statement: Global Perspectives on Health Geography Ser.
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    DDC: 614.42
    Keywords: Medical geography ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Overview -- 2 Parts of This Book -- References -- Part I: Urban Health Risk and Disease -- Geospatial Approaches to Measuring Personal Heat Exposure and Related Health Effects in Urban Settings -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Spatial Variation in Urban Heat Exposure and Individual Health Risk -- 3 Measuring Personal Heat Exposure -- 3.1 Methodological Approaches -- 3.2 Recent Advancements -- 3.3 Methodological Considerations and Limitations -- 4 Geospatial Theoretical and Methodological Advancements Utilizing Wearable Sensor Technology -- 4.1 Theoretical Contributions -- 4.1.1 Modifiable Areal Unit Problem -- 4.1.2 Uncertain Geographic Context Problem -- 4.2 Methodological Needs and Examples -- 4.2.1 GPS Tracking Technologies -- 4.2.2 Integration of Continuous Physiologic Monitoring -- 4.2.3 Visualizing and Analyzing Space-Time Data -- 4.2.4 Challenges with Geospatial Wearable Sensor Technologies -- 5 Future Directions -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Geographic Variation in Cardiovascular Disease Mortality: A Study of Linking Risk Factors and Built Environment at a Local Health Unit in Canada -- 1 Background -- 2 Methods -- 2.1 Study Area -- 2.2 Data -- 2.3 Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) -- 2.4 Postal Data -- 2.5 Census -- 2.6 CVD Mortality -- 2.7 Geospatial Factors -- 2.8 Statistical Analysis -- 3 Results -- 3.1 Prevalence of CVD Risk Factors -- 3.2 Hot Spot Analysis of CVD Mortality and Risk Factor Rate -- 3.3 OLS and GWR Regression Analysis -- 4 Discussion and Conclusion -- 5 Limitations -- References -- Evaluating the Effect of Domain Size of the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) Model on Regional PM2.5 Simulations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Method -- 2.1 CMAQ Model Setup -- 2.2 Effect of CMAQ Domain Size on PM2.5 Simulations -- 3 Results.
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    John Dewey and the Notion of Trans-Action : A Sociological Reply on Rethinking Relations and Social Processes (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030263805
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (298 pages)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Relational Sociology Ser.
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    DDC: 300.1
    Keywords: Social interaction ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- 1 Reinventing Social Relations and Processes: John Dewey and Trans-Actions -- John Dewey, Arthur Bentley and the Concept of Trans-Actions -- The Concept of Trans-Action: An Interdisciplinary History -- Self-Action, Inter-Action and Trans-Action -- A Sociological Response to Trans-Action -- References -- 2 Causation Is Not Everything: On Constitution and Trans-Actional View of Social Science Methodology -- To Relate Is to Cause: Inter-Actionalist Approach to the Social -- To Relate Is to Constitute: Trans-Actional Approach to the Social -- Bringing Relations Back to Social Science Methodology: Constitutive Explanation as Trans-Actional Research -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 There Is More to Groups of People Than Just Groups and People: On Trans-Actional Analysis and Nationalism Studies -- Looking Closer Up: From Self- to Inter- to Trans-Actional Analysis of Nation(alism)s -- The Warwick Debates Between Ernest Gellner and Anthony Smith -- Rogers Brubaker's Anti-Groupism -- Conclusion: Not Groups of People, Neither Groups nor People -- References -- 4 Trans-Action: A Processual and Relational Approach to Organizations -- Introduction -- The Micro-Macro Issue and the Paradigm of Organizational Control -- Sharedness -- The Limits of Sharedness and Representationalism -- Pragmatist Trans-Actional Inquiry -- Organizations as "Maxwellian Fields of Habits" -- A Processual and Relational Approach to Organizations -- An Empirical Illustration -- The Conflictual Dialogue of Two Logistic Teams -- The (Re)Organizing Process Is Trans-Actional and Pluralist -- Some Key Characteristics of the Organizing Trans-Action, in the Light of the Case -- Trans-Action Integrates Temporality and Relationality -- Common World and Pluralism -- An Ecological View of the Organization.
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    The History of Sociology in Britain : New Research and Revaluation (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030199296
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (429 pages)
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    DDC: 301.0941
    Keywords: Sociology-Great Britain-History ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction -- Disputed Origins -- Neglected Legacies -- Teaching Sociology -- Historical Peculiarities -- References -- Part I: Disputed Origins -- 2: Did British Sociology Begin with the Scottish Enlightenment? -- Tools Available -- Adventitious Sociology -- Four Apparently Attractive Narratives -- Smith Is an Egalitarian Sociologist, Concerned with the Poor? -- Ferguson's Division of Labour Was Sociologically Important? -- They Could Have Derived Much from the Work of the Political Arithmeticians? -- Conjectural History: The Origin of Sociology? -- Conclusion -- References -- 3: Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Social Science in Nineteenth-Century Britain -- References -- Part II: Neglected Legacies -- 4: Making Sense of Christopher Dawson -- Dawson as a Sociologist: The Externals and the Motivation -- Dawson's Core Intellectual Project -- The Civilisations of the World Religions -- Weber, Troeltsch, and the Problem of Progress -- Dawson as a Theorist -- Dawson in the 1930s -- The Moot -- Dawson's Later Career -- References -- 5: Richard Titmuss, Eugenics, and Social Science in Mid-twentieth-Century Britain -- Eugenics and Social Science in Mid-twentieth-Century Britain -- Eugenics, Social Science, and the Environment -- Eugenics, Social Science, and Morals -- Conclusion -- References -- 6: Social Status, Social Position and Social Class in Post-War British Society -- The Relics and the Problem -- The Past Is Another Country -- Dramatis Personae -- The Boys from Bolton -- The Boy from Mile End -- Why No Class in Social Mobility in Britain? -- They Do Things Differently -- The Gentleman Scholar -- A Tale of Two Eugenicists -- The Meeting of Theory and Data -- Why Status and Not Class? -- References.
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    Functional Urban Areas in Poland : Demographic Trends and Migration Patterns (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030315276
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (199 pages)
    Series Statement: The Urban Book Ser.
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    DDC: 301.329438
    Keywords: Poland-Population ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Definition of Functional Urban Areas in Poland -- 1.2 Data and Methods -- References -- 2 Functional Urban Areas-Theoretical Background -- 2.1 Delimitation of Functional Urban Areas -- 2.2 History of the Concept -- 2.3 Theoretical Insight of the Concept -- 2.4 Urban Development from the Demographic Context -- References -- 3 Population Growth in Functional Urban Areas -- 3.1 Demographic Situation of Poland in the Post-war Period, with a Focus on Socio-economic Transformations -- 3.2 Population Dynamics in Functional Urban Areas in Poland -- 3.3 Population Dynamics in FUAs by Core/Commuting Zone by Size Types -- 3.4 Spatial Variation of the Population Growth of Functional Urban Areas in Poland -- 3.5 Summary -- References -- 4 Regional Variation of Age Composition in Functional Urban Areas -- 4.1 Pre-working Age Population -- 4.2 Working Age Population -- 4.2.1 Mobile Working Age Population -- 4.2.2 Immobile Working Age Population -- 4.3 Post-working Age Population -- 4.4 Summary -- References -- 5 The Population Ageing Process in Functional Urban Areas -- 5.1 Changes in the Ageing Index -- 5.2 Changes in Dependency Ratios -- 5.2.1 Changes in the Total Dependency Ratio -- 5.2.2 Changes in the Young Dependency Ratio -- 5.2.3 Changes in the Elderly Dependency Ratio -- 5.3 Demographic and Economic Ageing Indexes -- 5.4 Economic Ageing Indicators -- 5.5 Summary -- References -- 6 Changes in Fertility and Mortality in Functional Urban Areas -- 6.1 Changes in Natural Population Change in FUAs Both Overall and by Zone -- 6.2 Variation in Natural Population Change in FUAs by Size -- 6.3 Natural Population Change in FUAs in Spatial Terms -- 6.4 Summary -- References -- 7 Changes in Migrations in Functional Urban Areas -- 7.1 Migration Trends in FUAs in General and by Zone.
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    The Art Museum Redefined : Power, Opportunity, and Community Engagement (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030210212
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (224 pages)
    Series Statement: Sociology of the Arts Ser.
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    DDC: 708
    Keywords: Cultural policy ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1: Art Museums and Community Cooperation -- Introduction -- The Socially Engaged Turn in Museums -- The Queens Museum in Corona, Queens, New York City: Case Study as Global Example -- My Personal Connection to This Work -- Framework of the Book -- References -- 2: Corona, Community of Global Convergence -- Corona Today -- Freedom to Live Life as Chosen in Corona: The Right to the City -- Celebration of Global Diversity and Human Rights -- Cultivating Local Civic Engagement in Corona -- Cooperation to Build a Cultural and Civic Cornerstone -- Challenges of Inclusion in Making Today's Library a Community Engaged Space -- Organizational Response to Communities: Organizations and Institutions Changed by Communities -- Urban Form and Neighborhood Socio-political Landscape -- Spatial Landscape of the Neighborhood -- Perceptions of Violence and Vice -- Cultivating Community Engagement with Art -- From Art Object to Art for People -- Institutions and Community Responsibility -- Community Art to Socially Engaged Art -- Conclusion -- References -- 3: Stronger Together: Cooperation and Collaboration -- Cooperation: Connecting Socially Engaged Art and Museums -- Prioritizing Cooperation in Tense Social and Political Moments -- The Queens Museum: Community Organizing as Museum Work -- Art Project as Community Partner and Museum Satellite: Immigrant Movement International -- "Dignity Has No Nationality": Connecting IMI with Corona and with the Art World -- From Artist-Led to Resident Control -- A Satellite Museum with a Social Mission -- Grassroots Art Collective: Mobile Print Power Takes to the Streets -- Making Printmaking a Community Conversation -- Building on Legacies of Collective Action and Radical Printmaking -- Museums as Community Centers: Libraries Are Models for Cooperation and Partnership.
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    Metropolitan Regions, Planning and Governance (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030256326
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (272 pages)
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    DDC: 307.764
    Keywords: Metropolitan areas ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Editors and Contributors -- 1 Conceptualising Metropolitan Regions: How Institutions, Policies, Spatial Imaginaries and Planning Are Influencing Metropolitan Development -- 1.1 Metropolitan Regions, Metropolitan Questions -- 1.2 Approaching Metropolitan Regions: The TTP Framework -- 1.2.1 The Thematic Dimension -- 1.2.2 The Temporal Dimension -- 1.2.3 The Phronetic Dimension -- 1.3 Unpacking the Thematic Dimension of Metropolitan Change from a Planning and Governance Perspective -- 1.3.1 Institutions and Institutional Shifts -- 1.3.2 Policies and Ideas -- 1.3.3 Spatial Imaginaries -- 1.3.4 Planning Styles -- 1.4 Rationale of the Book -- References -- Institutions and Institutional Shifts -- 2 Metropolitan Revolution or Metropolitan Evolution? The (Dis)continuities in Metropolitan Institutional Reforms -- 2.1 Metropolitan Institutions at Stake -- 2.2 Convergent Metropolitan Reforms, Divergent Periodisation -- 2.3 Recent Reforms: Similar Form, Different Pace? -- 2.3.1 Territorial Restructuration -- 2.3.2 Legitimacy and Democracy -- 2.4 Old Wine in New Bottles? -- References -- 3 The Multiple Agencies of Metropolitan Institutions: Is There Convergence? -- 3.1 Metropolitan Institutions and Their Agencies -- 3.2 From the Visible Hand of the State to the Invisible Hand of Multiple Actors and Beyond -- 3.2.1 Government: The Visible Hand of the State in the Reorganisation of Government at Local, Regional and Metropolitan Scales (1950s-70s) -- 3.2.2 Governance: The (In)visible Hand of the Multiple Actors in Orchestrating Metropolitan Institutional Change (1980s-2000s) -- 3.3 The Dynamics of Multiple Agencies Shaping Metropolitan Regions -- 3.3.1 France: An Alliance of National and Local Governments -- 3.3.2 Frankfurt/Rhine-Main: A Case for Metropolitan Government?.
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    Reading Cultural Representations of the Double Diaspora : Britain, East Africa, Gujarat (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030180836
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (224 pages)
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    DDC: 305.891471
    Keywords: Gujaratis (Indic people) ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Historical Context: The Indian in East Africa -- Historical Context: Arriving in Britain -- Researching the Single Diaspora, Overlooking the Double -- Limiting Language -- Innovating Methodologies: Discovering 'Texts' and Synthesising Scholarship -- Chapter 2: The Gastropoetics of The Settler's Cookbook: Diasporic Trauma and Embodied Narratives -- A Cookbook Memoir -- Exceptional Narratives: Colouring and Juicing Cultural Memory -- Memoir: The New Novel? -- The Palliative Memoir and Writing Trauma -- Writing Nostalgia, Resistance and Memory: Writing Recipe -- The Cookbook as Archive and Repertoire -- 'Jena's Fish and Chips' -- Palatabilities of Speaking Out: Culinary Practices Pornographed -- Transcending Limits: A Meta-language of Recognisability -- Chapter 3: The Performing Body of Navratri: Dancing Dandiya, Dressing to Impress -- Dancing Dandiya, Gathering Data -- Writing Dance Scholarship to Thinking Through the Body -- Navratri: Playing Garba and Dandiya-Raas -- Navratri's Macarena Moves -- Strictly Hindu Gujarati: Strictly Dandia -- Dancing Homelands: India and Gujarat -- Fashioning Gujaratiness -- Sequined Saris, Dazzling Dandiyas: Performing Navratri -- The Book of Secrets: Covert Culture -- Corporeal Conclusions -- Chapter 4: Picturing the Modern Self: Vernacular Modernity and Temporal Synchronicity -- India: Anti-modernity Versus Modernity -- Finding Family Photographs -- Framing Family Photographs -- Performing Modernity: Suits and Sunglasses -- Selecting saris: Guarding Identity and the Nation -- Compiling the 'Flotsam of History' -- The Photograph and Culinary Commodity as Fetish -- Collecting Commodities -- The Exile's Mantra: Packing for 'Just in Case' -- Temporal Synchronicity: Pulled Forwards, Yet Drawn Backwards.
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    The Years of Alienation in Italy : Factory and Asylum Between the Economic Miracle and the Years of Lead (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030151508
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (257 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.544094509046
    Keywords: Alienation (Social psychology) ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Contributors -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Social and Mental Alienation in Italy Between the Economic Miracle and the Years of Lead -- 1.1 Social Alienation -- 1.1.1 Alienation, Society, and Literature: Theoretical Perspectives -- 1.1.2 Industrial Literature and the New Avant-Garde -- 1.2 Mental Alienation and the Asylum -- 1.2.1 Philosophical Coordinates: Subjective and Social Alienation -- 1.2.2 Mental Alienation Represented -- 1.3 Summary of Chapters -- References -- Filmography -- Part I: Spaces of Alienation -- Chapter 2: Into the De/Construction of the Psychiatric Space -- References -- Chapter 3: Doctor in Slaughter: Emilio De Rossignoli's Dialectic of Enlightenment -- References -- Part II: Workers at Olivetti -- Chapter 4: Volponi-Ottieri-Olivetti and the Ills of Homo industrialis: Returning to a "Civiltà della natura" as a Questionable Antidote to the Urban-Industrial Malaise -- 4.1 Matera: "Capitale del mondo contadino" -- 4.2 Alienation in Industry and the Factory: Not Only an Urban Ill -- References -- Chapter 5: "Sentirsi Scorticati Vivi." The Theme of Alienation in Ottiero Ottieri's Works -- References -- Chapter 6: Paolo Volponi's Memoriale: Industry Between Alienation and Utopia -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Volponi, Olivetti, and the Dream of an Orderly Industry -- 6.3 Beyond Industrial Alienation -- 6.4 Inside Albino Saluggia's Memoriale -- 6.5 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Part III: Psychoanalysis and Alienation -- Chapter 7: Alienation and Psychoanalysis: Some Notes on Italy in the Years of the Economic Miracle -- 7.1 Psychoanalysis, Ideology, and Politics in Italy: An Overview -- 7.2 Alienation in the Years of the Miracle -- 7.3 Psychoanalysis and the Economic Boom: Depersonalization and Industrial Alienation -- 7.4 Conclusion -- References.
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    Supercomplexity in Interaction : An Introduction to The 4Es (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030280185
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (139 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302
    Keywords: Social interaction ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Complex and Supercomplex Adaptive Systems -- What Are Complex Systems? -- Features of Complex Systems -- What Are the Origins of Complex Systems? -- Items in Complex Systems -- Boundaries of Complex Systems -- Balance in Complex Systems -- Applications of Complex Systems -- What Are Complex Adaptive Systems? -- What Are Supercomplex Systems? -- Features of Supercomplex Systems -- Supercomplexity -- Summary -- References -- 3 Supercomplexity in Interaction: The 4Es -- What Is Interaction? -- Approaches to Interaction -- What Makes Interaction a Supercomplex Adaptive System? -- Sub-Systems of Interaction: The 4Es -- The 4Es: To Be Handled with Caution -- Components of the Sub-Systems of Interaction -- Example -- Summary -- References -- 4 The 4E Expression -- What Is 'Expression'? -- Some Popular Components of Expression -- Language -- Non-Verbal Communication (NVC) -- Art -- Expression as a Complex Adaptive System -- Expression in Interaction -- Example -- Summary -- References -- 5 The 4E Encounter -- What Is Encounter? -- Some Popular Components of Encounter -- Interaction Episode Related Factors -- Context -- Enjeux -- Encounter as a Complex Adaptive System -- Encounter in Interaction -- Example -- Summary -- References -- 6 The 4E Education -- What Is Education? -- Some Popular Components of Education -- Formal Education -- Non-Formal and Informal Education -- Self-Education -- Culture -- Education as a Complex Adaptive System -- Education in Interaction -- Example -- Summary -- References -- 7 The 4E Emotion -- What Is Emotion? -- Some Popular Components of Emotion -- Emotional State -- Emotional Awareness -- Volonté -- Emotion as a Complex Adaptive System -- Emotion in Interaction -- Example -- Summary -- References -- 8 Teaching About Supercomplexity in Interaction.
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    Young People and the Diversity of (Non)Religious Identities in International Perspective (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030161668
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (260 pages)
    Series Statement: Boundaries of Religious Freedom: Regulating Religion in Diverse Societies Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.8
    Keywords: Cultural pluralism-Religious aspects ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- About the Editors -- Chapter 1: Young People and the Diversity of (Non)religious Identities in International Perspective: Introduction -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Wider Academic Context and Literature -- 1.3 Overview of the Thematic Sections -- 1.3.1 Society and Institutions -- 1.3.2 Identity and Experiences -- 1.3.3 Gender and Sexuality -- 1.4 Conclusion -- References -- Part I: Society and Institutions -- Chapter 2: Religious/Spiritual Identity among Younger Adults in Canada: A Complex Portrait -- 2.1 Introduction: Religious Transformation and Measuring Religion -- 2.2 A New Survey Instrument to Address the Changing Context -- 2.3 Data: General Characteristics -- 2.4 Analysis: Clusters of Religious Identity Construction -- 2.4.1 The Standard Religious -- 2.4.2 The Moderately or Eclectically Religious -- 2.4.3 The Spiritual But Not Religious -- 2.4.4 The Non-religious and Non-spiritual: A Brief Summary -- 2.5 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3: Religious Belonging in Family, School, and Ethnic Communities: Changes in Christian-Catholic Second Generations in Italy -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Theoretical Framework -- 3.3 Immigrants from Non-Muslim Countries: A Growing Issue in the Italian Integration Debate -- 3.4 Methodology -- 3.5 The Weight of Migration in Religious Biographies -- 3.6 Religious Environments as Safe Havens: Parents' Anxieties in Emigration -- 3.7 Towards a New Secularised Millennium Generation? -- References -- Chapter 4: The 'Hidden Christians' of the UK University Campus -- 4.1 Introduction: The 'Secret Religion of the Educated Classes' -- 4.2 The Hidden Religion of University Students -- 4.2.1 Individualism -- 4.2.2 Tolerance -- 4.2.3 Syncretism -- 4.3 Interrogating 'Hiddenness' -- 4.4 Conclusion -- References.
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    A Performative Feel for the Game : How Meaningful Sports Shape Gender, Bodies, and Social Life (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030351298
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (218 pages)
    Series Statement: Cultural Sociology Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.483
    Keywords: Sports-Social aspects ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Series Editor Preface -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction: Sport, Meaning and Gender -- The Challenge of the Critical Theorist: Gender as Perspective -- Meaning-Making and Sport: Play and Game Theory -- A Cultural Sociology of Sport: Culture as Perspective -- Methodology -- Outline of the Book -- References -- Part I Media, Sport Enchantment and Gender -- 2 Media and Sport Enchantment: Narrative, Myth, and Games of Modernity -- This One's for the Record Books: Game Dynamics and Storytelling -- Entering Enchantment: Sensing the Mythmaking Vortex -- Transcending Time: Handball and Viking Warriors -- The Generative Grammar: Cognitive Simplifications that Shapes Sport -- The Bang: Codes Generating Vocabularies and Iconic Consciousness -- References -- 3 Enchanted Fusion: Bringing Together Game Play and Gender -- The First Sex of Norwegian Handball: The Iconic Women Warrior -- The Second Sex of Norwegian Handball: Playing Catch-up? -- References -- Part II Socialization, Sport Felicity and Gender -- 4 Throwing Like a Handballgirl: Performance and Materiality -- Handballgirls in the Making, Part I: Performances Shaping Materiality -- Handballgirls in the Making, Part II: Sensing a Meaningful Universe -- Performative Repetition of Toughness: The Problematics Kindness -- Being Snill on the Handball Court: When the Match Gets Underway -- Sporting Emotions: How Culture Structures Shape Feelings -- The Gendered Significance of the Smile -- References -- 5 Throwing Like a Handballboy: Enchanted Flows of Power -- Reimmersion in Youth: Teens and Parents in Dreaming Disarray -- Agency and Choreography: Carving Out Stages for Serious Play -- The Size of a Handballboy: Corporal Materiality and Meaning -- Moral Guardian of His Rational Actors: Individual Flows in Culture -- References.
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    Theory Beyond Structure and Agency : Introducing the Metric/Nonmetric Distinction (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030189839
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (287 pages)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Relational Sociology Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305
    Keywords: Social groups ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 From Structure and Agency to Metric and Nonmetric -- 1.2 Preliminary Lessons from the Sociology of Globalization -- 1.3 A Little Help from Philosophy -- 1.4 Plan of the Book: Toward a Three Layers Model -- References -- Chapter 2: Structure and Agency: Problem and Solution -- 2.1 The Problem of Structure and Agency (Phase A) -- 2.2 Forced Perspective and Depthless Perception (Phase B) -- 2.3 Breaking the Illusion: A Threefold Operationalization (Phase C) -- 2.3.1 First Operationalization: The Micro/Macro Distinction -- 2.3.2 Second Operationalization: The Individual/Society Distinction -- 2.3.3 Third Operationalization: The Structure/Agency Distinction -- 2.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: DeLanda and the Metric/Nonmetric Distinction -- 3.1 The Concept of Multiplicity (Phase A) -- 3.2 The Concept of Assemblages (Phase A, Continued) -- 3.3 DeLanda Against DeLanda (Phase B) -- 3.4 Metric and Nonmetric: An Overview (Phase C) -- 3.4.1 First Dichotomy -- 3.4.2 Second Dichotomy -- 3.4.3 Third Dichotomy -- 3.4.4 Fourth Dichotomy -- 3.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Metric and Nonmetric in Weber and Durkheim -- 4.1 The Relation Actor/Action (Phase A) -- 4.2 The Relation Between Types of Actions (Phase B) -- 4.3 Metric and Nonmetric in Weber (Phase C) -- 4.3.1 The Dichotomy Between Patrimonialism and Bureaucracy -- 4.3.2 The Different Types of Rationality -- 4.3.3 The Separation of Value-Spheres -- 4.3.4 Charisma and Its Routinization -- 4.3.5 Additional Remarks on the Separation of Value-Spheres -- 4.4 The Theory of Homo Duplex (Phase A) -- 4.5 The Critique of Homo Duplex (Phase B) -- 4.6 Metric and Nonmetric in Durkheim (Phase C) -- 4.7 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Form and Medium in Luhmann's Systems Theory.
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    Believers, Skeptics, and Failure in Conflict Resolution (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030141448
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (248 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.69
    Keywords: Conflict management.. ; Dispute resolution (Law) ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Author -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: The Problem of Conflict Resolution -- Chapter 2: Perspectives on Conflict Resolution -- Perspectives on Time and Progress -- Perspectives on Good and Evil -- Perspectives on When to Intervene -- Perspectives on the Nature of Intervention -- Perspectives on Post-conflict Governance -- Perspectives on the Future -- Why Believers Are Not "Winning the War on War" -- Chapter 3: Sources of Violent Conflict and the Banality of Conflict Resolution -- Ethnicity as a Source of Conflict -- Believer Solutions to Ethnic Conflict -- Skeptic Solutions to Ethnic Conflict -- Economic Sources of Conflict -- Believer Solutions to Economic Wars -- Skeptic Solutions to Economic Wars -- Environmental Sources of Violent Conflict -- Believer Solutions to Environmental Conflict -- Skeptic Solutions to Environmental Conflict -- Religious Militancy and Terrorism as Sources of Conflict -- Believer Solutions to Militant Religion -- Skeptic Solutions to Militant Religion -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Problems of Knowledge, Power, and Political Will -- The Condition of Knowledge and Understanding -- The Condition of Power -- The Condition of Political Will -- Chapter 5: States, Leaders, Governance, and Why Conflict Resolution Fails -- Permanent Borders and Permanent States -- Good Governance and Good Leadership -- Inclusion and Power-Sharing -- Grassroots State-Building -- State-Building and Democracy -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6: Why Belligerents Choose Conflict over Peace -- Choosing Violence for Pleasure, Material Gain, or Self-Interest -- Choosing Violence for Reasons of Justice and Progressive Change -- Choosing Violence for Development and Renewal -- Choosing War for Reasons of Peace -- Conclusion -- Index.
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    The Political Economy of Hungary : From State Capitalism to Authoritarian Neoliberalism (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030105945
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (178 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.2
    Keywords: Political science-Economic aspects ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- Abbreviations -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- References -- Chapter 2: Rethinking the Political Economy of Neoliberal Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe -- 'Capitalism Triumphant': The Neoliberal Account of the Transformation -- 'Institutional Fixes' -- 'Against the Current': A Marxist Approach to the Transformation in CEE and the Former USSR -- References -- Chapter 3: The Pre-1989 Origins of Neoliberalism in Hungary -- Introduction -- The State Capitalist Economies and the World Economy, 1945-70 -- Deepening Crisis and the Emergence of Proto-Neoliberal Forces: The Financial Research Institute in Context -- 'Turnabout and Reform': The Construction of Neoliberal Consent in Practice -- The Impact of 'Turnabout and Reform' on Reform Debates in Hungary -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 4: The Neoliberal Reconfiguration of the Hungarian Political Economy, 1990-2006 -- The Panacea of Privatisation -- Opening the Doors to Foreign Capital -- Labour: A Heavy Adjustment -- The Economic and Political Limitations of Hungary's Neoliberal Regime of Accumulation -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 5: From Poster Boy to Basket Case: Hungary and the Global Economic Crisis, 2007-10 -- The CEE Economies and the Economic Boom, 2004-07 -- The CEE Economies and the 'Great Recession', 2008-10 -- Hungary: The Demise of the Neoliberal Consensus? -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 6: The Consolidation of the Orbán Regime: Towards 'Authoritarian-Ethnicist Neoliberalism'? -- Master, How Should We Call You? Theorising the Orbán Regime -- Restoring Law and Order, Economic Competitiveness, and National Pride: Authoritarian-Ethnicist Neoliberalism in Discourse and Practice -- Resisting the Orbán Regime: The Limits of Appeasement -- Concluding Remarks.
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    Spirituality in Management : Insights from India (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030139841
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (211 pages)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Indian Management Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.60973
    Keywords: Spirituality-Social aspects-United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction: Spirituality and Organization -- References -- Part I: The Evolution and Characteristics of Workplace Spirituality -- 2: Spirituality in Management: Towards Management by Higher Consciousness -- Introduction -- Evolution of Management Thought -- Defining Spirituality -- Typology of Energies and OSHA-OSHE Model of Human Beings -- Religion, Science, Spirituality: Historical Perspective -- Three Models of Spirituality/Inner Search -- Model I: IBA (Inner Being-Anchor) Model -- Model II: ISRON (Inner Search for Realization of Oneness-Nirvana) -- Model III: JHS (Joining of Heart and Spirit) Model -- Implications for Management and Leadership -- From Old Paradigm of CEO to New Paradigm of CEO -- References -- 3: AdhyAtma or Spirituality: Construct Definition and Elaboration Using Multiple Methods -- Introduction -- AdhyAtma: A Lexical Analysis -- AdhyAtma in the bhagavadgItA -- AdhyAtmic AcaraNa: yama and niyama in pAtaJjalayogasUtra -- Behavioural Anchors of adhyAtma: pramukh swAmIjI as an Exemplar -- Discussion -- References -- 4: Constructing Workplace Spirituality in an Indian Context: A Study on Working Professionals -- Introduction -- Spirituality for Working Professionals -- Research Question -- Method -- Findings -- Inability to Articulate Spirituality Initially -- Identifying a Spiritual Person -- Saints, Reformers and Social Activists -- Religious Leaders as Spiritual People -- Close Networks as Spiritual -- Traits and Behaviours of a Spiritual Person -- Immaterialist -- Compassionate and Helping -- Forgiving -- Calm and Composed -- Nonviolent -- Enlightened -- Otherworldly -- Actions to Become a Spiritual Person -- Belief and Devotion -- Remembrance -- Discipline and Adherence to Values -- Yoga and Meditation -- Following Spiritual Idols.
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    Information, Technology and Control in a Changing World : Understanding Power Structures in the 21st Century (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030145408
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (321 pages)
    Series Statement: International Political Economy Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.42
    Keywords: Information technology-21st century ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Acknowledgements: Let's Put on a Show! -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- 1 Creating a Common Dialogue -- 2 Enter the Strange -- 2.1 Key Concepts -- 2.1.1 Structural Power -- 2.1.2 Four Key Structures -- The Knowledge Structure -- 2.1.3 State and Non-State Actors -- Market and Authority -- 2.1.4 Research Focus and Emphasis on Empirical Work -- 2.2 Strange in Critical Focus -- 2.2.1 Underdeveloped Conception of the Knowledge Structure -- 2.2.2 Identity Construction and Definitions of Granularity -- 2.2.3 Status Quo Bias -- 2.3 Productive Problems -- 3 Organisation of This Volume -- References -- Part I: Susan Strange and the Twenty-First Century Knowledge Structure -- Taking Knowledge Seriously: Towards an International Political Economy Theory of Knowledge Governance -- 1 Structural Power, Knowledge, and the Knowledge Structure -- 2 Unpacking the Knowledge Structure -- 2.1 Knowledge-Legitimation -- 2.2 Knowledge-Regulation -- 3 Operationalising Strange: The Knowledge Structure in the Global Political Economy -- 3.1 The Curious Cases of Intellectual Property and Data in International Trade Agreements -- 3.1.1 Knowledge Feudalism -- 3.1.2 Digital Statism -- 3.2 Trade and the (CP)TPP: When Is a Trade Agreement Not a Trade Agreement? -- 3.3 A Strangean Analysis of the TPP and CPTPP -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- A Strange Approach to Information, Network, Sharing, and Platform Societies -- 1 The Knowledge Structure -- 1.1 Knowledge Structure: Technology -- 1.2 Knowledge Structure: Ideas -- 1.3 Knowledge Structure: Regulation -- 2 The Production Structure -- 2.1 Interactions Between the Production Structure and the Knowledge Structure -- 2.1.1 Technology -- 2.1.2 Ideas -- 2.1.3 Regulation -- 2.2 Feedback to the Knowledge Structure -- 3 The Security Structure.
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    Women Rock Science : A Pocket Guide for Success in Clinical Academic Research Careers (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030104986
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (199 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.435
    Keywords: Women scientists-Vocational guidance ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Preface -- How to Use This Book -- How to Use Each Chapter -- Embrace Curiosity -- Stay in Touch -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- The Framework for This Book: The Socioecological Model -- The Socioecological Model -- The Academic Three-Legged Stool and the SEM -- Mentorship: It Takes a Village (or a SEM) -- Transformational Leadership: Women and Context -- The Third Person for This Book -- Take-Home Points -- Homework -- You as a Scientist -- Unique Strengths of Women Scientists -- What Is Your Passion? -- WHAT and WHY -- HOW -- WHO -- I.CAN'T.EVEN. -- When Things Do Not Go as Planned -- What Do You Value? What Are Your Strengths? -- Tools to Consider -- What Is Your Work Style? Daily Time Management and Long-Term Tasks -- Do Not Forget Self-Care -- A Note About Haters -- Your Mission Statement -- Take-Home Points -- Homework -- Your Team: Mentors, Staff, Colleagues, and Mentees -- Your Mentors -- Finding Your Mentors -- What Are You Seeking in a Mentor? -- You Have Found Some Mentors, Now What? -- Risks of Mentorship -- Your Research Lab and Team -- Setting Expectations for Your Team -- Developing Your Own Manager Skills -- Your Colleagues -- Your Close Collaborators -- Your Mentees -- Take-Home Points -- Homework -- Your Institutional Support/Academic Environment -- What Is Your "Institution?" -- What Does Your Institution Offer to You? -- What Should Your Institution Offer to You? -- How Does Your Institution Assure Their Faculty Advance? -- Where Do You Find Your Institution's Resources? -- What Is Your Academic Environment? How Is that Different than Your Institution? -- Take-Home Points -- Homework -- Your Scientific Community -- Joining Professional Societies -- What Can You Get Out of a Professional Society? -- Why Would You Not Join a Professional Society? -- What Can You Do in a Professional Society?.
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    Gender, Democracy and Institutional Development in Africa (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030118549
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (220 pages)
    Series Statement: Gender, Development and Social Change Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.096
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: African Traditional Philosophies -- Chapter 3: Ancient Governance in Africa -- Chapter 4: Trade, Routes Trade, and Commerce in Pre-colonial Africa -- Chapter 5: African Indigenous Education -- Chapter 6: The Spirit of African Indigenous Science -- Chapter 7: Women and Gender Relations in Africa -- Chapter 8: The Science of African Spirituality -- Chapter 9: Centering African Women's Leadership Course: A Conversation -- Chapter 10: Conclusion: Continuity and Futurity-Ancient Africa Survives -- Index.
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    100 Years of NCVO and Voluntary Action : Idealists and Realists (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030027742
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (320 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.14
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue: Edward Vivian Dearman Birchall -- References -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- References -- Chapter 2: Setting Up -- Introduction -- Charity Organisation Society -- Guilds of Help -- Councils of Social Welfare -- Coming Together -- Wartime Developments -- The 1915 Conference -- A New Organisation -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Early Years -- Introduction -- Establishing the Organisation -- Idealists and Realists -- Urban Activities -- Rural Work -- New Estates -- Policy Work -- Internal Matters -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Out of Adversity -- Introduction -- The Unemployment Question -- The Occupational Club Movement -- Government Funding -- The Special Areas -- Opposition -- A Reassessment -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Warfare and Welfare -- Introduction -- Change in Leadership -- Coordinating the War Effort -- Relations with Government -- New Initiatives -- Existing Activities -- Local Networks -- Finance -- Internal Developments -- Future Direction -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Marking Time -- Introduction -- Finding Its Place -- Voluntary Action -- Organising the Movement -- Resourcing the Movement -- Internal Developments -- Business as Usual -- Stirrings of Independence -- Seeds of Professionalisation -- Reaching Out -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: Losing Ground -- Introduction -- Supporting the Movement -- Fundraising -- Relations with Government -- Taxation and Charity Law -- The Age of Volunteering -- Losing the Crown Jewels -- A New Direction -- Parting of the Ways -- Core Networks -- Funding and Resources -- The Return of Unemployment -- Internationalism and Integration -- Internal Developments -- A Missed Opportunity -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: Recovery and Challenge -- Introduction.
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    Ethiopian Migrant Domestic Workers : Migrant Agency and Social Change (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030240554
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (161 pages)
    Series Statement: Mobility and Politics Ser.
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    DDC: 305.488928056
    Keywords: Foreign workers.. ; Household employees ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms -- Contents -- Chapter 1: The Will to Change -- Aspirations for Change -- Conceptualising Migrant Women's Agency -- Conceptualising Migration and Social Reproduction -- Methodological Journey -- Outline of Chapters -- References -- Chapter 2: 'We Are Like Oil to Our Government' -- Ethiopian Exodus -- Gendered Structures of Opportunity in Ethiopia -- Legislation and Policy Practices Governing Migration from Ethiopia -- Migrant Journeys -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: (De)Constructing Docility at the Destinations -- The Kafala -- Race, Class, and the Ethiopian Migrant Domestic Worker -- 'None of Us Live in This Country Because It Is Easy': The Agency of Contract Domestic Workers -- Agency in Silence? Abeba and the Refusal to Speak -- 'Exit' Options: Run-Away and Freelance Workers -- Exit via the Detention Centre: Run-Away Women and Deportation -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: 'We Ethiopians Are More Sociable People: We Cannot Live Alone' -- Ethiopian Migrant Women's Agency in the Public Sphere -- Room to Manoeuvre? Women's Intimate Relationships and Marriage -- Precarious Migrant Mothers and Their Children -- Caring for the Self, Caring for Others -- Collective Agency: Ethiopian Women Organise -- Pushing Back, Creating Space -- References -- Chapter 5: 'Now We Welcome the Birth of Daughters' -- Oda Dawata and Kormargeffia -- Migrant Women's Personal Transformations -- Relationships with Parents and Natal Family -- 'Who Wouldn't Want a Rich Woman?': Relationships with Partners and Husbands -- Relationships with Children -- 'Our Community Respects Returnee Migrants' -- Directions and Degrees of Change -- References -- Chapter 6: On the 'Cutting Edge of Change' -- 'Will-Full' Subjects -- No 'Bottomless Well': Social Reproduction and Migration -- Power, Projects, and Transformation -- References.
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    Multiculturalism in Canada : Constructing a Model Multiculture with Multicultural Values (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030198350
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (328 pages)
    Series Statement: Recovering Political Philosophy Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.80971
    Keywords: Multiculturalism-Canada ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Series Editors' Preface -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Prologue -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Celebrating Diversity -- Words and Things -- Mere Words? -- Practical Cultural Balancing -- Valued and Valuable -- Affirmative Toleration -- Chapter 2: Official Multiculturalism -- A National Unity Strategy -- Multiculturalism Becomes Official -- Early Reactions -- Chapter 3: Visionary Policies -- Immigration Policy -- The Charter -- Human Rights -- The Visionary Idea -- Chapter 4: Culture and Equality -- Modern Liberal Egalitarianism -- Sexual (or Gender) Equality -- Cultural Equality -- Equity Egalitarianism -- Looking Beyond Equality -- Chapter 5: Cultural Freedom -- Practical Political Freedoms -- Freedom Versus Diversity -- Access to Culture: The Theory -- From Theory to Practice -- The New Shape of Freedom -- Chapter 6: Cultural Recognition -- The Right Words -- Recognition: The Thesis -- A Very Short Genealogy -- Hérouxville -- Waffling over Recognition -- Chapter 7: Ethical Authenticity -- Discomforts in Global Civilization -- Diplomacy Trumps Transparency -- Authentic "Authenticity" -- Chapter 8: Forms of Openness -- Open Societies -- Open Borders -- Open Minds -- Open Horizons -- Looking Ahead -- Chapter 9: Culturally Open Governance -- Clearing the Ground -- Electoral Reform -- Inclusive Citizenship -- Value-Based Citizenship -- Senate Reform -- The Monarchy -- Chapter 10: Going Forward: Future Imaginaries -- Public Education -- The Media -- Languages -- Foreign Policy -- Public Safety -- Quebec -- Chapter 11: Conclusion: Just Words -- Recognition -- Balance -- Multiculturalism -- Appendix: The Facts of Multiculturalism -- Measuring Diversity -- Explaining Diversity Trends -- Locating and Managing Diversity -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Index.
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    Experiences of Hunger and Food Insecurity in College (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030318185
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (141 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 338.19
    Keywords: Food security ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Food Insecurity in the U.S. -- 1.2 Food Insecurity Among College Students -- 1.3 A Deep Dive: Ethnographic Research on Food Insecurity at UNT -- 1.3.1 Methodology -- 1.4 Overview of Book -- References -- Chapter 2: Meaning and Experience of Food Insecurity -- 2.1 Demographics of Study Participants -- 2.2 Financial Situation -- 2.3 The Meaning of Food Insecurity -- 2.4 Profiles of Food Insecurity Experiences in College -- 2.5 Coping Strategies -- 2.5.1 At the University of North Texas -- 2.6 Impact of Childhood Food Insecurity -- References -- Chapter 3: Stigma and Shame -- 3.1 At the University of North Texas -- 3.1.1 Shame About Being Food Insecure -- 3.1.2 Social Services and Stigma -- 3.1.3 Food Secure Students' Perceptions -- 3.1.4 Stigma and the Food Pantry -- 3.1.5 Childhood Stigma -- 3.2 Conversations About Food Insecurity -- 3.3 Destigmatization Through Awareness -- References -- Chapter 4: Physical Health, Mental Health, and Nutrition -- 4.1 Physical Health, Hunger, and Poor Nutrition -- 4.1.1 Among College Students -- 4.1.2 At the University of North Texas -- 4.2 Mental Health, Hunger, and Poor Nutrition -- 4.2.1 Among College Students -- 4.2.2 At the University of North Texas -- 4.3 Where Does Nutrition Fit In? -- References -- Chapter 5: Academic Success and Motivation -- 5.1 At the University of North Texas -- 5.1.1 Academic Success -- 5.1.2 School Sacrifices -- 5.1.3 School Activities -- 5.1.4 Motivations -- References -- Chapter 6: Solutions -- 6.1 College and University Food Pantries -- 6.1.1 UNT Food Pantry Evaluation -- 6.1.1.1 Overall Pantry Experience -- 6.1.1.2 Confidentiality -- 6.1.1.3 Helpfulness of Pantry -- 6.1.1.4 Adequacy of the Amount of Food -- 6.1.1.5 Pantry Items Most Wanted.
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    The Self, Relational Sociology, and Morality in Practice (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030318222
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (195 pages)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Relational Sociology Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 170
    Keywords: Sociology ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: A Relational Sociology of Morality in Practice -- Chapter Outline -- References -- 2 An Overview of Relational Sociology -- What Is Relational Sociology Standing Against? -- The Critique of Holism and Structure -- The Critique of Individualism -- The Relational Constitution of the Subject -- The Relational Constitution of Action -- Agency and Practice -- Relational Sociology and Practice -- Summary -- References -- 3 From Rationalism to Practices, Dispositions, and Situated Subjectivities: The View from Philosophy -- The View from Philosophy -- Practice and Virtue in MacIntyre -- Dreyfus and Ethical Comportment -- Entangled Subjectivities and Entangled Action: Carol Gilligan -- Summary -- References -- 4 From Holism and Individualism to a Relational Perspective on the Sociology of Morality -- The Sociology of Morality: From the Old to the New -- Two Grand Positions on the Sociology of Morality: Durkheim and Bauman -- Durkheimian Holism -- Bauman's Moral Individualism -- Summary: A Relational View of Moral Phenomena -- References -- 5 The New Sociology of Morality and Morality in Practice -- Morality and the Realm of Ordinary Practice -- Ordinary Moral Concern in Habituated Interaction -- Reflexivity, Relational Entanglement, and Morality in Practice -- Summary -- References -- 6 The Self and a Relational Explanation of Morality in Practice -- Habitus and Moral Dispositions -- Mead and the Social Emergence of the Self -- Self-Consciousness and Self -- The 'I', the 'Me', and the 'Generalised Other' -- Individuation and Dialogic Selfhood -- The Self in Action -- Mead, Moral Habituation, and Moral Consciousness -- Beyond the Dispositional: Mundane Reflexivity and Morality in Practice -- The Self and Reflexive Moral Subjectivity -- Summary -- References.
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    Working with Assumptions in International Development Program Evaluation : With a Foreword by Michael Bamberger (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030330040
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (223 pages)
    Edition: 2nd ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 001.42
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Offering practical tools for planning effective development programs, as well as methods for evaluating their success, this book benefits from the author's 12 years of experience and features workshop materials for students and in-service trainees.
    Abstract: Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Endorsements -- Contents -- About the Author -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Chapter 1: Working with Assumptions: An Overview -- Challenges of a Growing Profession -- Assumptions in Responding to Evaluation's Challenges -- The Focus of This Book -- What's New? -- References -- Part I: Designing and Evaluating Complex Development Programs -- Chapter 2: Attributes of Complex Development Programs -- The More Complexity, the More Assumptions -- Complexity Theory -- Development Programs as Complex Systems -- Other Characteristics of Complex Development Programs -- Nonlinearity -- Dynamism -- Dynamic Stratification -- Complexity and Certainty -- Complexity and Assumptions in Program Evaluation -- References -- Chapter 3: Designing Complex Development Programs -- Introduction -- Stakeholder-Focused Approaches -- The Change Perspective -- Outcome-Focused Frameworks -- The Logical Framework Approach -- The ZOPP -- Variations of the LFA -- Dealing with Complexity and Assumptions in the Log Frame -- Lessons from the LFA -- The Need for Explicit Assumptions -- Exploring Factors That Might Affect Program Success and the Likelihood of Those Factors -- Theory of Change Approach (TOCA) -- Pathways of Change -- Outcome and Precondition -- Indicators -- Intervention -- Assumptions -- Theory of Change Versus Log Frame -- Participatory Impact Pathways Analysis (PIPA) -- Comparing the LFA, TOCA, and PIPA -- References -- Chapter 4: Evaluating Complex Programs -- Introduction -- The DQuant Camp -- The DQual Camp -- What the DQuants Think of the DQuals -- What the DQuals Think of the DQuants -- An Example of the Paradigm Fights -- The Need for an Integrated Approach -- Adjusting Methods to Evaluation Questions -- Evaluation Questions -- A Crucial Part of Evaluation Planning.
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    Uplifting Gender and Sexuality Education Research (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030242053
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (336 pages)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 370.72
    Keywords: Sex differences in education ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I The Landscapes of Gender &amp -- Sexuality Education Research -- 1 Conceptualisation Landscapes: Overview of Global Gender and Sexuality Constructions -- Introduction -- Globalising LGBTI Conceptualisations -- Sharing Reliable Research with Educators -- Conclusion -- References -- 2 Social Landscapes: A Conservative Turn for Russian Gender and Sexuality Education -- Introduction -- Does Propaganda Law Reframe Russian Education? -- Propaganda Law -- Regional Propaganda Laws -- The Federal Law -- Realisation: How 'Prohibition Laws' Frame Homosexuality -- Narration Theory: From a Frame to Action -- Russian Gender Education Study: Methods -- Russian Gender and Sexuality Education: Findings -- Gender, Family and Social Norms in Russian Education Settings and Texts -- Gender, Family and Social Norms According to Russian Teachers -- Gender, Family and Social Norms According to Russian Students -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Media Landscapes: 'Meet the Maker'-The Highs and Lows of Translating Gender and Sexuality Research into Practice -- Introduction -- The Context -- A Useful Case Study on G&amp -- S Research -- Making G&amp -- S Under the Radar -- The Discussion Paper -- The Strategy -- The Catching On Resources -- The Development Challenges -- Being Explicit and Acknowledging Young Peoples' Sexual Activity -- The Politics of G&amp -- S Education -- Working with Community Agencies -- Final Reflections: Working to 'Current Political Climate' -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Developmental Landscapes: Milestones in the Development of Sexual Orientation of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Adolescents in Israel -- Introduction -- Developmental Models for Sexual Orientation -- Research Method -- Findings and Discussion -- Conclusion.
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    Handbook on Corporate Foundations : Corporate and Civil Society Perspectives (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030257590
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (305 pages)
    Series Statement: Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 658.15
    Keywords: Nonprofit organizations-Finance-Handbooks, manuals, etc ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 The Corporate Philanthropy Context -- 1.1.1 Philanthropy as a Result of Economic Activities -- 1.1.2 Various Perspectives on Corporate Philanthropy -- 1.2 Defining a Corporate Foundation -- 1.3 Hybridity at Its Core -- 1.4 Outline of the Book -- References -- Part I: Governance and Management -- Chapter 2: Challenges in Corporate Foundation Governance -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Who Are Involved in Corporate Foundations' Governance? -- 2.3 Theoretical Perspectives and the Challenges of Hybridity in Governance -- 2.3.1 Institutional Theory -- 2.3.2 Agency Theory -- 2.3.3 Resource Dependence Theory -- 2.4 Key Challenges and Tensions for Those Who Govern Corporate Foundations -- 2.4.1 Why Do Corporate Foundations Exist and to What End? -- 2.4.2 Who Really Governs and with What Orientation? -- 2.4.3 To Whom Are Corporate Foundations Accountable and for What? -- 2.5 Conclusion and the Road Ahead -- References -- Chapter 3: Strategic in What Sense? Corporate Foundation Models in Terms of Their Institutional Independence and Closeness to Core Business -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Case for Alignment -- 3.3 The Case for Independence from a Foundation Perspective -- 3.4 The Structural Relationship Between the Foundation and the Corporation -- 3.4.1 Board of Directors -- 3.4.2 Staff -- 3.4.3 Operations -- 3.4.4 Funding -- 3.4.5 In-Kind Contribution -- 3.4.6 Visibility -- 3.5 An Iterative Research Approach -- 3.6 Findings -- 3.6.1 Pull and Push -- 3.6.2 The Four Models -- Instrumental Philanthropy -- Complementary Philanthropy -- Reputational Philanthropy -- Purpose-Driven Philanthropy -- 3.7 Discussion -- 3.8 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Families, Firms, and Philanthropy: Shareholder Foundation Responses to Competing Goals -- 4.1 Introduction.
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    Rethinking Input-Output Analysis : A Spatial Perspective (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030334475
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (123 pages)
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Regional Science Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 339.23
    Keywords: Input-output analysis ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Preface: History and Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Variables and Coefficients -- 1 Introduction: Importance Interindustry Relations and Overview -- References -- 2 Basic, Demand-Driven IO Quantity Models -- 2.1 Single-region IO Tables and Their Descriptive Power -- 2.2 Mathematics Versus Economics of the Closed Economy IO Model -- 2.3 Open Economy Interregional and Multi-regional IO Models -- 2.3.1 Distinguishing Technical and Trade Origin Coefficients -- 2.3.2 Underestimation of Interregional Spillovers and Feedbacks -- References -- 3 Data Construction: From IO Tables to Supply-Use Models -- 3.1 Construction of Regional IO Tables: Towards Cost-Effective Methods -- 3.1.1 Most Non-Survey Methods Overestimate Intra-Regional Multipliers -- 3.1.2 Non-Survey CC-RAS Method: Advantage of Using Multiple Comparable IOTs -- 3.1.3 Semi-Survey DE-BRIOT Method: Advantage of Constructing Bi-Regional IO Tables -- 3.2 Construction of Interregional Supply-Use Tables and Models -- 3.2.1 Difficulty of Deriving an IO Model from a Supply-Use Table -- 3.2.2 Family of Interregional Supply-Use Tables and Models -- 3.3 Difference Between Constructing Interregional and International SUTs -- References -- 4 From Basic IO and SU Models to Demo-Economic Models -- 4.1 Interregional Models with Endogenous Household Consumption -- 4.2 Further Demo-Economic Model Extensions -- 4.3 Where to End with Endogenizing Final Demand? -- References -- 5 Cost-Push IO Price Models and Their Relation with Quantities -- 5.1 Forward Causality of the Single-Region IO Price Model -- 5.2 Type II Interregional Price and Quantity Models Combined: Lower Multipliers -- References -- 6 Supply-Driven IO Quantity Model and Its Dual, Price Model -- 6.1 Plausibility of the Supply-Driven Input-Output Model -- 6.1.1 Basic Supply-Driven IO Model: How Factories May Work Without Labour.
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    Culture, Diversity and Mental Health - Enhancing Clinical Practice (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030264376
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (325 pages)
    Series Statement: Advances in Mental Health and Addiction
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Zangeneh, Masood Culture, Diversity and Mental Health - Enhancing Clinical Practice
    DDC: 362.196890086912
    Keywords: Immigrants-Mental health ; Electronic books
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    Investigating Radicalization Trends : Case Studies in Europe and Asia (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030254360
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (303 pages)
    Series Statement: Security Informatics and Law Enforcement Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.484
    Keywords: Radicalization-Psychological aspects.. ; Radicalization ; Electronic books
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    Music, Leadership and Conflict : The Art of Ensemble Negotiation and Problem-Solving (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030136284
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (231 pages)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Business, Arts and Humanities Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.69
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- 1: Framing the Problem -- The Conflict Crisis -- Responding to "The Problem" -- A Word on Terms and Perspective -- References -- 2: Ensemble Negotiation -- The Multiple Layers of Ensemble Negotiation -- Relationship-The Essence of Ensemble Work -- The Three Cs -- Interviews -- Barry Shiffman -- Steve Wallace -- Ann Hampton Callaway -- Dr Mary-Lou Vetere -- Adi Braun -- Emerging Themes -- Theme #1: Importance of Communication Skills -- Theme #2: Essentialness of Emotional and Social Intelligence Competencies -- Theme #3: Leadership and Followership as Part of a Balanced and Fully Participatory Process -- Theme #4: Individual Preparation Is Critical to Achieving the Ultimate Shared Goal of Producing an Outstanding Aesthetic Product -- Theme #5: Group Is Guided by the Superordinate Goal of an Outstanding Performance -- This Is a Goal That No Individual Ensemble Member Can Achieve on His or Her Own -- Reflecting Back -- Next Steps -- References -- 3: Setting the Stage: Theoretical Landscape -- Education-Leading Out or Putting In? -- Twenty-First-Century Learning Science Concepts and Objectives -- Changing Learning Philosophies -- Experiential Learning -- Reflective Learning -- Core Competency Development -- Embodied Learning -- Social and Emotional Competencies -- Interdisciplinary Learning -- Arts-based Teaching and Learning as Part of Interdisciplinary, Experiential Learning -- Elliot Eisner-Lessons Art Can Teach Us -- Arts-based Education Programmes and Studies -- Arts-based Methods in Professional Schools -- The Management School Experience -- The Medical School Experience -- The Law School Experience -- Arts-based Work in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Teaching and Training -- Why Music as an Arts-based Learning Modality in Dispute Resolution -- Summary of the Chapter.
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    A Math-Based Writing System for Engineers : Sentence Algebra and Document Algorithms (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030107567
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (365 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 808.0666
    Keywords: Technical writing ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Preface -- Developing Math-Based Engineering Writing -- Sentence Algebra: The Rules and Logic of Grammar -- How to Use This Book for Teaching and Self Study -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction to the Math-Based Writing System -- Action Items -- Recap -- Part I: Sentence Algebra -- Chapter 2: Part I Primer: The Elements of Sentence Algebra -- Eight Functions, Eight Variables -- ``Spark´´ -- Five Basic Sentence Equations -- Advanced Sentence Equations -- Coding Conventions -- Some Additional Resources -- Action Items -- Recap -- Reference -- Chapter 3: The Core Variables N, V, and X -- N = Noun -- Features and Properties of Nouns -- Compound Nouns -- Number -- Collective -- Proper vs. Common Nouns -- V = Verb -- Features and Properties of Verbs -- Verb Tense: The Dimension of Time (When?) -- Irregular Verbs -- Verb Number -- Point of View (POV) or ``Person´´ -- Verb Conjugation Matrices -- X = Pronoun -- Features and Properties of Pronouns -- POV and Number -- Gender -- Case -- Reconciling Pronouns in Action: Matching Xs with Ns -- Action Items -- Recap -- References -- Chapter 4: The Accessory Variables: Mn, Mv, L, C, and I -- Mn = Adjective -- Four Features of Adjectives in Action -- Three Special Conventions for Articles -- Mv = Adverb -- L = Preposition -- C = Conjunction -- Punctuation Conventions for Coordinating and Subordinating Conjunctions -- Examples of Coordinating and Subordinating Conjunctions in Action -- Coordinating Conjunctions -- Subordinating Conjunctions -- I = Interjection -- Action Items -- Recap -- Chapter 5: Basic Sentence Equations: B1, B2, and B3 -- Basic Sentence Equation One (B1) -- Five Applied Demonstrations of B1 -- Coding Demonstration 5.1 -- Coding Demonstration 5.2 -- Coding Demonstration 5.3 -- Coding Demonstration 5.4 -- Coding Demonstration 5.5 -- Basic Sentence Equation Two (B2).
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    Handbook of Quality of Life in African Societies (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030153670
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (456 pages)
    Series Statement: International Handbooks of Quality-Of-Life Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306
    Keywords: Quality of life ; Quality of life-Africa, Sub-Saharan ; Quality of life.. ; Quality of life-Africa, Sub-Saharan ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Foreword -- References -- Contents -- About the Editor -- Part I: Social Context, Culture and Community -- 1: Cultures of Positivity: Interconnectedness as a Way of Being -- 1.1 Cultures of Positivity/Well-Being -- 1.1.1 Culture -- 1.1.2 Positivity/Well-Being: The Positives and Negatives of Life -- 1.2 The Meaning and Relatedness Well-Being Model (M&amp -- RW) -- 1.2.1 Meaning -- 1.2.2 Relatedness -- 1.2.3 Meaning, Relatedness and Context -- 1.2.4 The M&amp -- R Model Embedded in the Scientific Text -- 1.2.5 Meaning and Relatedness as Core or DNA of the Model -- 1.3 Summary and Way Forward -- References -- 2: Communities in Action: The Participation of Communities in Two South African Literacy Campaigns -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Campaigning for Literacy -- 2.2.1 Why Literacy? -- 2.2.2 Working in Poor Communities -- 2.2.3 Linking Literacy to the Development Agenda -- 2.3 Research Approach -- 2.4 The Development of Agency and Resilience Through the Development of Social Capital -- 2.4.1 The Relationship Between Agency, Social Capital and Resilience -- 2.4.2 Organising for Literacy -- 2.4.3 Literacy Within a Social Nexus -- 2.5 Findings: Learning to Support Development -- 2.5.1 Increased Agency -- 2.5.2 Enhanced Self-Esteem -- 2.5.3 Literacy Relieving the Plight of Poverty -- 2.5.4 Increased Social Networks -- 2.5.5 Interrelated Networks -- 2.5.6 Survivalist Entrepreneurial Activities -- 2.5.7 Learning to Learn -- 2.6 Conclusion -- References -- 3: The Development of an Integrated, Multi-level Process to Facilitate the Promotion of Holistic Wellbeing in School Communities -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Philosophical and Theoretical Perspectives -- 3.3 Contextualising the Research -- 3.4 Entrée into the School Communities -- 3.5 The Development of the Process -- 3.6 Methodology -- 3.7 Data Analysis.
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    Learning Automata Approach for Social Networks (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030107673
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (339 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in Computational Intelligence Ser. v.820
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.30284999999998
    Keywords: Online social networks ; Online social networks ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction to Learning Automata Models -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Learning Automata -- 1.2.1 Environment -- 1.2.2 Automaton -- 1.2.3 Fixed-Structure Learning Automata (FSLA) -- 1.2.4 Variable-Structure Learning Automata (VSLA) -- 1.2.5 Variable Action Set Learning Automata -- 1.2.6 Continuous Action-Set Learning Automata (CALA) -- 1.2.7 Non-estimator Learning Algorithms -- 1.2.8 Estimator Learning Algorithms -- 1.2.9 Pursuit Algorithms -- 1.3 Interconnected Learning Automata -- 1.3.1 Hierarchical Structure Learning Automata (HSLA) -- 1.3.2 Multi-level Game of Learning Automata -- 1.3.3 Network of Learning Automata (NLA) -- 1.3.4 Distributed Learning Automata (DLA) -- 1.3.5 Extended Distributed Learning Automata (eDLA) -- 1.4 Recent Applications of Learning Automata -- 1.5 Conclusion -- References -- 2 Wavefront Cellular Learning Automata: A New Learning Paradigm -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.1.1 Cellular Learning Automata -- 2.2 Wavefront Cellular Learning Automata -- 2.2.1 Analysis -- 2.3 Conclusion -- References -- 3 Social Networks and Learning Systems: A Bibliometric Analysis -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Material and Method -- 3.2.1 Data Collection and Initial Results -- 3.2.2 Refining the Initial Results -- 3.2.3 Analyzing the Final Results -- 3.3 Results -- 3.3.1 Initial Result Statistics -- 3.3.2 Key Journals -- 3.3.3 Key Researchers -- 3.3.4 Key Articles -- 3.3.5 Key Affiliation -- 3.3.6 Top Keywords -- 3.4 Conclusion -- References -- 4 Social Network Sampling -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Categorization of Graph Sampling Algorithms -- 4.2.1 Random Versus Topology-Based Sampling -- 4.2.2 Simple Versus Extended Sampling -- 4.2.3 Static Versus Streaming Graph Sampling -- 4.3 Learning Automata Based Graph Sampling Algorithms.
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    Reimagining Justice, Human Rights and Leadership in Africa : Challenging Discourse and Searching for Alternative Paths (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030251437
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (197 pages)
    Series Statement: Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.34096
    Keywords: Africa-History-21st century.. ; Africa-Politics and government-21st century.. ; Africa-Economic conditions-21st century ; Electronic books
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    Communication in the Era of Attention Scarcity (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030209186
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (145 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.2
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    AP 12860
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    Keywords: Communication-Psychological aspects ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
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    Articulating Intersex (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030218980
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (198 pages)
    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine Ser. v.131
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.768
    Keywords: Intersex people ; Intersex people ; Electronic books
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    Endangered and Transformative Childhood in Caribbean Small Island Developing States (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030255688
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (240 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in Childhood and Youth Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Henry-Lee, Aldrie Endangered and transformative childhood in Caribbean small island developing states
    DDC: 305.2309729
    Keywords: Kind ; Lebensbedingungen ; Verwundbarkeit ; Electronic books ; Karibik ; Barbados ; Jamaika ; Haiti ; Saint Lucia
    Abstract: Intro -- Foreword -- References -- Acknowledgements -- About the Book -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Our Commitments to the Children of the World -- The Growth of the International Child Agenda -- The Regional Context and Response -- National Commitments to Children -- Barbados -- Jamaica -- St. Lucia -- Haiti -- References -- 2: Childhood in Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS) -- Small Island Developing States (SIDS) -- Problematizing Childhood -- Some Main Theories of Childhood -- Micro Theories -- Macro Theories -- The Impact of the SIDS Experience -- Elements of an "Endangerment Theory" -- Endangered Childhood in SIDS -- Vulnerability at the National Levels -- Profile of Children in the Caribbean SIDS -- Perceptions of Childhood in a Caribbean SID: Jamaica -- Past Childhood: Nostalgic Memories -- Children's Voices -- References -- 3: Climate Change, Childhood and Caribbean SIDs -- Climate Change and Its Impact -- International Response to Climate Change Issues -- Climate Change and Caribbean SIDS -- Conclusion -- References -- 4: Human Capital Investment in Children -- Introduction -- The Right to Health -- Health Outcomes -- HIV/AIDS -- Child Health Endangerment -- Inequities in Health -- The Right to Education -- Education Outcomes -- Child Educational Endangerment -- Inequities in Education -- References -- 5: Children in Violent Circumstances -- Introduction -- Impact of Violence -- Children's Perceptions of Violence -- Reported Cases of Child Abuse -- Corporal Punishment -- Alternatives to Corporal Punishment -- Violence in Schools -- Sexual Abuse -- Suicide -- Bullying and Cyberbullying -- References -- 6: Voiceless Citizens -- Some Models of Participation -- Child Participation in Selected Small Island Developing States (SIDS) -- Barbados -- Jamaica -- Haiti -- St. Lucia.
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    African Mythology, Femininity, and Maternity (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030246624
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (172 pages)
    Series Statement: Pan-African Psychologies Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 398.082
    Keywords: Mythology, African ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Series Editors' Foreword -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Feminine Figures in African Mythology -- 2.1 Matriarchy in the African Mythology -- 2.1.1 Myths of the Genesis -- 2.1.2 Phallus and Femininity -- 2.1.3 The Paradox of Eve the Seductive Woman to Mary the Saint -- 2.1.4 The Myth of Lilith -- 2.2 The Devouring Mother/Sorcerer/Goddess -- 2.2.1 The Denial of Symbolic Permutation -- 2.2.2 The Exchange Process Guarantor of Peace -- 2.2.3 Caraweelo a Somali Legend of an All Powerful Tyrannic Mother -- 2.2.4 Bouti the Ogress of the Past -- 2.2.5 Mami Wata -- 2.2.6 Abraha Pokou -- 2.3 The Old Woman -- 2.3.1 The Good Old Woman -- 2.3.2 The Evil Old Woman -- 2.4 The Good Mother -- 2.5 Summary -- References -- 3 Symbolic References to the Feminine Body -- 3.1 The Matrix and the Placenta -- 3.1.1 The Matrix -- 3.1.2 The Placenta -- 3.2 The Breastmilk -- 3.3 The Treatments Given to the Feminine Body -- 3.3.1 The Mothering Techniques -- 3.3.2 The Rites of Passage -- 3.4 The Calabash -- 3.5 Summary -- References -- 4 Correspondences with Tales from Europe and Middle East -- 4.1 Pregnancy and Sleep in European and Middle Eastern Tales -- 4.2 Transgression of the Laws of Nature: Giving Life to a Child Without a Woman -- 4.2.1 A Handmade Child -- 4.2.2 A Devious Child as a Punishment for Audacious Parents -- 4.2.3 The Quest for Redemption and the Intervention of Mother Nature -- 4.3 Punishments for Women's Greed -- 4.3.1 The Temptation -- 4.3.2 The Envy Toward Others' Goods -- 4.3.3 The Old Lady/Ogress Willing to Keep a Girl as Her Daughter -- 4.3.4 The Representation of Death in Fairytales -- 4.4 Women's Jealousy in Tales -- 4.4.1 The Jealousy of Older Women Toward Young Women -- 4.4.2 Polygamy and Rivalry -- 4.5 Summary -- References -- 5 Impact on Women's Social Status -- 5.1 The Mother Who Has Worked.
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    Negotiating Fatherhood : Sport and Family Practices (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030197841
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (274 pages)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.8742
    Keywords: Fatherhood ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1: Locating Sport in Family Practices -- Locating Sport and Leisure -- Locating Family Practices -- Locating Sport and Leisure in Family Practices -- The Aim -- The Study -- Gendered Parenting -- Children -- Migrant and Transnational Families -- Intergenerational Approach -- Chapter Outline -- References -- 2: Sport, Fathers and Fathering -- Ideologies, Stereotypes and Fathering Practices -- Fathers, Fathering Practices and Diversity -- Non-resident Fathers -- Black and Minoritised Ethnic Fathers -- Gay Fathers -- Fathering Through Sport and Leisure -- Conclusion -- References -- 3: Getting into Sport -- Culture and Sporty Families -- The Value of Sport -- Routes into Sport -- Family Socialisation -- School -- The Community -- Conclusion -- References -- 4: The 'Good Father' -- Family Planning -- Age and Maturity -- Financially Ready -- 'We Didn't Have a Plan' -- Fathering Philosophies: Learning What (Not) to Do -- Being There, Being Involved and Quality Time -- Conclusion -- References -- 5: Fathering Practices, Sport and Children -- Sons and Daughters -- Daughters -- Sons -- Fathering Through Sport and Play -- Conclusion -- References -- 6: The Extended Extended Family, Sport and Familial Relationships -- Sport, Sport Clubs and Familial Relationships -- Open, Welcoming and Family Oriented Club Spaces -- 'My Sport Family' -- Hub of the Community -- Conclusion -- References -- 7: Family Practices and Youth Sport -- Negotiating Involvement in Youth Sport -- Watching and Being Watched -- A Father's Responsibility? -- Unsupportive Parents -- Front Stage and Back Stage Practices -- Conclusion -- References -- 8: Family Sport and the Sport Widow -- The Juggling Act -- Being and Feeling Supported -- Uniting Families -- Dividing Families -- Sporting Guilt -- Conclusion -- References -- 9: Conclusions.
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    Quality of Life and Early British Migration (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030330774
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (87 pages)
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 304.841
    Keywords: Great Britain-Emigration and immigration-History ; Great Britain-Emigration and immigration-History ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Introduction -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Quality of Life: Eras and Procedures -- 1.1 Introduction -- Appendix: An Estimate of Emigrants' Quality of Life -- References -- 2 Seventeenth Century Immigrants to North America -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Personal Factors -- 2.3 The Voyage -- 2.4 The Colonies -- Appendix 1: John Harrower's Wife and Bairns and the Plight of an Emigrant Male's Dependents -- Appendix 2: Numerical Estimate of Females Indentured to America, Quality of Life -- Appendix 3: Numerical Estimate of Males Indentured to America, Quality of Life -- References -- 3 Forced Emigration to the Antipodes -- 3.1 Preface -- 3.2 Victorian Britain -- 3.3 Victorian Female Criminals -- 3.4 Australia -- 3.5 The First Fleet -- 3.6 The Ship, Harmony -- 3.7 Tasmania -- 3.8 The Lord Goderich and the Frances Charlotte -- Appendix 1: Numerical Estimate of Adult Immigrants to Australia, Quality of Life -- Appendix 2: Numerical Estimate of Young Male Convicts to Australia, Quality of Life -- References -- 4 The Quality of Internal Life -- 4.1 The Self -- 4.2 Motivation -- 4.3 Migration -- 4.4 Ireland -- 4.5 Modernism -- 4.6 Elements of Quality of Life -- 4.7 Comparisons -- 4.8 Notes -- References.
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    Digital Transformation in Business and Society : Theory and Cases (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030082772
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (306 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.4833
    Keywords: Information technology-Economic aspects ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Introduction -- The Digital Transformation of Businesses and Societies -- A Brief Overview of the Chapters -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: Human Flourishing in Smart Cities -- Introduction -- Socially Constructed Norms and Values of Smart Cities -- Characteristics of Smart Cities -- Logical Reasons for the Rise of Smart Cities -- Why Do Smart Cities Matter? -- A Tale of Two Cities: Singapore and Songdo -- Singapore -- Songdo, Republic of Korea -- Lessons Learnt from Singapore and Sondgo -- Critique of Smart Cities and Human Flourishing -- A Paradigm for Human Flourishing in Smart Cities -- Implications to Public Policy and Higher Education -- Responsible Data Policy -- Open and Collaborative Governance Structure -- Heavy Investment in People and Community -- References -- Chapter 3: On How Big Data Revolutionizes Knowledge Management -- Introduction -- Technology-Driven Business Transformation -- Knowledge Management -- Big Data and the 3V Model -- The Contextual Relationship Between Big Data and Knowledge Management -- Role of KM in Big Data -- Role of Big Data in Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) -- The Role of Big Data in Customer Knowledge Management(CKM) -- Integration of Knowledge Management and Big Data -- Conclusion -- Limitation and Future Scope -- Appendix -- References -- Chapter 4: Social Media in Marketing Communications: A Synthesis of Successful Strategies for the Digital Generation -- Introduction -- Brief History of Social Media Marketing -- Theoretical Framework: Electronic Word-of-Mouth (eWOM) -- Successful Strategies -- Create Good Content -- Get the Right People to Spread the Message -- Create Virtual Communities of Individuals with Common Interests -- Careful Planning and Little Intervention.
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    Multimodal Communication : A Social Semiotic Approach to Text and Image in Print and Digital Media (2019)
    Cham : Springer International Publishing AG
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    ISBN: 9783030154288
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (200 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.2
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Social Semiotics: Setting the Scene -- 1.1 Theoretical Background of Social Semiotics -- 1.2 Aims and Scope of This Book -- References -- Part I: Print Media -- Chapter 2: Slim Arms, Waist, Thighs and Hips, but Not the Breasts: Portrayal of Female Body Image in Hong Kong's Magazine Advertisements -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Background Literature -- 2.2.1 Cultural Expectations of Female Body Figure in Hong Kong -- 2.2.2 Theory and Method of Analysis -- 2.3 Analysis -- 2.3.1 The Layout of the Print Advertisements -- 2.3.2 The Analytical and Symbolic Representations -- 2.4 Discussion -- 2.4.1 Thin-Idealisation -- 2.4.2 Gender Roles and Stereotypes -- 2.4.3 Influence from Japanese Culture -- 2.4.4 Intertextuality -- 2.4.5 Final Remarks -- References -- Chapter 3: Postage Stamps as Windows on Social Changes and Identity in Postcolonial Hong Kong -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Theoretical Considerations of Social Semiotics and National Identity -- 3.3 An Overview of Hong Kong's Postage Stamps -- 3.4 The Visual Meanings of Definitive Stamp Issues -- 3.4.1 A Brief Description of the Three Post-handover Definitive Issues -- 3.4.2 The Representational and Compositional Meanings of the Definitive Issues -- 3.5 Discussion: Changing Definitions of National Identity -- 3.5.1 Identity at a Crossroads -- 3.5.2 East-West Hybridity -- 3.5.3 Integration with the Motherland -- 3.6 Final Remarks -- References -- Part II: Digital Media -- Chapter 4: Emotional Branding in Multimodal Personal Loan TV Advertisements: Analysing Voices and Engagement -- 4.1 Introduction: Corporate Branding and Advertising -- 4.1.1 Background Literature on Emotional Branding -- 4.2 Methodology: Data and Analytical Approach -- 4.2.1 Data Selection and Transcription.
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    Pragmatics and Philosophy. Connections and Ramifications (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030191467
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (313 pages)
    Series Statement: Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy and Psychology Ser. v.22
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.44
    Keywords: Pragmatics ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Pragmatics and Philosophy (and the Semantics/Pragmatics Debate) -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Contents of the Chapters -- 2.1 Part I: The Semantics/Pragmatics Debate -- 2.1.1 Chapter 2: On a Theory-Internal Problem in the Semantics/Pragmatics Debate: How to Resolve Grice's Circle -- 2.1.2 Chapter 3: On the Nature of Pragmatic Increments at the Truth-Conditional Level -- 2.1.3 Chapter 4: On the Tension Between Semantics and Pragmatics -- 2.1.4 Chapter 5: The Pragmatics of Referential and Attributive Expressions -- 2.1.5 Chapter 6: Knowing How and the Semantics/Pragmatics Debate -- 2.2 Part II: Indirect Reports and Presuppositions as Pragmatic Phenomena -- 2.2.1 Chapter 7: Quotation With and Without Quotation Marks -- 2.2.2 Chapter 8: Indirect Reports and Societal Pragmatics -- 2.2.3 Chapter 9: Maier on the Alleged Transparency of Mixed Quotation -- 2.2.4 Chapter 10: First Person Indirect Reports -- 2.2.5 Chapter 11: What Happens When We Report Grammatical, Lexical and Morphological Errors? -- 2.2.6 Chapter 12: Conversational Presuppositions. Presupposition as Defeasible (and Non-defeasible) Inference -- 2.2.7 Chapter 13: The Clitic 'Lo' in Italian, Propositional Attitudes and presuppositiOns -- References -- Part I: The Semantics/Pragmatics Debate -- Chapter 2: On a Theory-Internal Problem in the Semantics/Pragmatics Debate: How to Resolve Grice's Circle -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Pragmatic Intrusionism: A Story -- 3 Recent Views on the Semantics/Pragmatics Debate -- 4 Grice's Circle -- 5 Can Implicatures That Intrude into Propositional Forms Be Cancelled? -- 6 A Tentative Solution -- 6.1 GSDP -- 6.2 Revised GSDP -- 6.3 Revised GSDP -- 7 Towards a Redefinition of Pragmatics -- 8 A Closer Look at Explicatures -- 9 Does Bach's Proposal Avoid Grice's Circle? -- 10 Conclusion -- References.
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    The Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of Interactions : A Case Study of an Ethnic Grocery Shop (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030195847
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (270 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.44
    Keywords: Sociolinguistics ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Transcription Conventions -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: The Framing of Service Encounters -- Definition of the Situation: The Frame of Service Encounters -- Discourse -- Immigration to Australia -- Persian Shops in Sydney -- Motivational Relevancies -- My Role as a Researcher and as a Shop-Assistant -- Data Collection -- The Structure of the Book -- References -- 2: Studying Service Encounters -- Introduction -- Discourse Analysis -- Ontological Questions -- Framing: The Case of Persian Shops -- Mediated Discourse Analysis -- The Essence of MDA -- Social Action as Mediated Action -- Mediated Action and Participation Framework -- Role Set -- Participation Framework -- Identity in Interaction -- Site of Engagement -- Site of Engagement: Hybrid Ethnicity -- Face: Goffman -- Goffman's Face and Facework -- Persian Society -- The Concept of Ta'arof (Ritual Politeness) -- The Persian Concept of Face -- Mediational Means -- Social Practice as Nexus of Practice -- Conclusion -- References -- 3: Framing and Footing: Negotiation of Roles and Status -- Mediational Means and Expert/Novice Status -- Participation Frameworks and Family Discourse -- Conclusion -- References -- 4: Authenticity in Interaction -- Mediational Tools as an Authenticating Resource -- Constructing Authenticity in Interaction -- Conclusion -- References -- 5: The Construction of Identity in Interaction -- Membership Categorization Devices -- Persian Identities in Mediational Tools -- Action, Category and Identity -- Shop Chronotope and Identities -- Conclusion -- References -- 6: Linguistic and Spatial Practices in the Shop -- Social Space and Linguistic Practices -- Persian Ethnic Shops as Portals -- Constructing a Persian Space through Mediational Means -- Conclusion -- References -- 7: Narratives -- Narratives as Small Stories.
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    Expressions of War in Australia and the Pacific : Language, Trauma, Memory, and Official Discourse (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030238902
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (245 pages)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Languages at War Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.440994
    Keywords: Sociolinguistics-Australia ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Introduction: Expressions of War in Australia and the Pacific-Language, Trauma, Memory, and Official Discourse -- Writing About Language and War -- Methodologies and Approaches -- War and Trauma -- War and Memory -- Language, Propaganda, and Official Communication -- Losing People: A Linguistic Analysis of Minimisation in First World War Soldiers' Accounts of Violence -- Methodology: Corpus and Analysis -- Results and Discussion -- Downplaying Violence and Death Via Figurative Language -- Euphemism -- Metaphor -- Downplaying the Involvement of Humans -- Passive Voice -- Simplified Register -- The Omission of the Copula -- The Omission of the Subject -- The Omission of Subject and Copula -- The Omission of Existential there is/are -- Verbless Clauses -- Numbers Used in Isolation -- Nominalisation/Light Verb Constructions -- Use of Inanimate Nouns in Place of People Involved -- Conclusion -- Portraying the Enemy: Humour in French and Australian Trench Journals -- Language and the Enemy -- Naming the Enemy -- The German Language in French and Australian Trench Journals -- Conclusion -- Mnemosyne and Athena: Mary Booth, Anzac, and the Language of Remembrance in the First World War and After -- Mary Booth -- Invoking and Evoking 'Home' -- Women, Remembrance, and the Language of Anzac -- Anzac, Britishness, and Language -- Language and Politics in Interwar Australia -- Conclusion -- Jacques Rancière and the Politics of War Literature: Poetry and Trauma in Edmund Blunden's Undertones of War (1928) -- War Literature, Trauma, and the Experience of Suffering -- Rancière and the Representation of Trauma -- Voicing the War Effort: Australian Women's Broadcasts During the Second World War -- The Radio War -- Language and Broadcasting.
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    Sustainable Development Goals and Institutions of Higher Education (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030261573
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (229 pages)
    Series Statement: Sustainable Development Goals Ser.
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    DDC: 304.20711
    Keywords: Sustainability-Study and teaching (Higher) ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Peer Review Process -- Acknowledgements -- About the Book -- Contents -- About the Contributors -- 1: The Context: SDGs and Institutions of Higher Education -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 SDGs Localisation in the Teaching and Learning Space -- 1.3 SDGs Localisation in the Research and Development Space -- 1.4 SDGs Localisation in IHE: Focus on Governance and Management -- 1.5 Book Outline -- References -- 2: Towards Realising SDGs in the University of Helsinki -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Transition to Sustainability -- 2.3 Methods -- 2.4 Realising SDGs in the University of Helsinki -- 2.4.1 SDG Mapping -- 2.4.2 The Internal Push for Sustainability: Active Grassroots Actors and Networks -- 2.4.3 External Pushing for Sustainability: Policies and Funding -- 2.4.4 External Pushing for Sustainability: Timing -- 2.4.5 Hindering the Transition to Sustainability: Resistance from Current Disciplines and the Faculty Structure -- 2.5 Conclusions -- References -- 3: Higher Education and the Energy Sustainable Development Goal: Policies and Projects from University of South Africa -- 3.1 Introduction and Background -- 3.2 A Literature Survey and Conceptual Setting -- 3.3 Methodology -- 3.4 Presentation of Data and Discussion of Findings -- 3.4.1 Cycle 1: Green Economy and Sustainability Engagement Model -- 3.4.2 Cycle 2: Development of Energy Master Plan and Energy and Carbon Policy -- 3.4.3 Cycle 3: Implementation and Scaling up -- 3.5 Conclusion -- References -- 4: Build It and They Will Come: The Faculty Learning Community Approach to Infusing the Curriculum with Sustainability Content -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 A Brief History of the Sustainability-Focused Faculty Learning Community -- 4.3 The SUNY New Paltz SFLC: A Case Study -- 4.4 Assessment of the Program and Results.
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    Developing Global Leaders : Insights from African Case Studies (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030146061
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (378 pages)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in African Leadership Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.34096
    Keywords: Leadership-Africa ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Introduction -- Part I: Foundations -- Chapter 2: Global Leadership: Key Concepts and Frameworks -- 2.1 Defining Leadership -- 2.2 Focus on the Leader -- 2.3 Leadership and Purpose/Goal -- 2.4 The Relational Dynamic between Leaders and Followers -- 2.5 Leadership and Context -- 2.6 Global Leadership -- 2.7 Route(s) to Becoming a Global Leader -- 2.8 Concluding Comments -- References -- Chapter 3: Leadership in Africa: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Focus on the Leader: Overwhelmingly Political and Male -- 3.2.1 Pre-colonial Times -- 3.2.2 Colonial Times -- 3.2.3 Post-colonial Times -- 3.3 Relation Between Leader and Follower Leadership Styles -- 3.4 Women Leaders in Africa -- 3.5 Leadership Philosophy and Values in Africa -- 3.5.1 Power Distance-Perception of Hierarchy -- 3.5.2 In-Group Collectivism -- 3.5.3 Humane Orientation -- 3.5.4 Implications for Leadership -- 3.6 Future African Leaders and Leadership Development -- 3.7 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 4: The Historical, Political, and Demographic Context of Leadership in Africa -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Cultural and Social Diversity -- 4.3 Structures of Political Authority -- 4.3.1 Indirect Rule and Local Government -- 4.3.2 Political Leaders of Postcolonial States -- 4.4 Economic Context -- 4.4.1 Economic Structure -- 4.4.2 Structural Adjustment and Inequality -- 4.4.3 Informality and Corruption -- 4.5 Social and Demographic Context -- 4.5.1 Urbanization -- 4.5.2 Youth -- 4.5.3 Gender -- 4.5.4 Education -- 4.6 African Leaders and Leadership Experience -- References -- Part II: Case Studies and Survey Findings -- Chapter 5: Methodology -- 5.1 Research Approach -- 5.2 The Case Studies -- 5.2.1 The Initial Survey.
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    Michel Foucault and Sexualities and Genders in Education : Friendship As Ascesis (2019)
    Cham : Springer International Publishing AG
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    ISBN: 9783030317379
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (165 pages)
    Series Statement: Queer Studies and Education Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 371.8266
    Keywords: Homosexuality and education ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Foucault, Friendship, and Education -- References -- 2 #NoHomo: Men's Friendships, or "Something Else" -- Degaying Gesture: #NoHomo -- Collaborating on Friendship, Pleasure, and Homosociality -- Education, Ascesis, and Friendship -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Intimacy and Access: Clone Culture, Exclusion, and the Politics of Friendship -- Homosexuality, Hegemonic Masculinity, and Queer Publics -- Killjoys not Welcome: Tension and Difference in Queer Publics -- References -- 4 Queer Ascesis and the Invention of New Games -- Friendship as Queer Ascesis -- Daddy Issues -- References -- 5 Transcendent Friendship: The Potential of Foucault's Ascesis to Subvert School Gender Regimes and Facilitate Learning -- School Gender Regimes -- The Possibilities for "A Homosexual Ascesis" -- The Curricular and Extracurricular Promotion of Friendship -- Theory into Practice: Synthesizing Knowledge, Skills, and Dispositions -- References -- 6 Gender and Sexual Minority Faculty Negotiating "A Way of Life": Friendships and Support Within the Academy -- Friendships in the Workplace -- The Workplace Environment of GSM Faculty -- Constructing a Way of Life in the Academy -- Final Thoughts -- References -- 7 Gay Ascesis: Ethics of Strategic Disorientation and the Pedagogies of Friendship -- Friendship as a Way of Life -- Pedagogies of Friendship -- Conclusion -- References -- 8 Befriending Foucault as a Way of Life -- The Interview -- Tending Toward Friendship -- Homosexuality as Relationality Through Friendship -- An Escape Hatch of Friendship -- To Be Normal -- Learning Homosexuality in School: Befriending Foucault -- Work, Visiting, and Ascesis -- On Ending Too Soon -- References.
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    Marginality and Global LGBT Communities : Conflicts, Civil Rights and Controversy (2019)
    Cham : Springer International Publishing AG
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    ISBN: 9783030224158
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (218 pages)
    Series Statement: Neighborhoods, Communities, and Urban Marginality Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 362.108660973
    Keywords: Sexual minorities-Civil rights ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Series Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Objectives and Significance of the Volume -- Origins of Homosexuality -- Defining Homosexuality -- LGBT Population Estimates in the United States and Globally -- Global Estimates of the LGBT Population -- Overview of the History of Homosexuality -- Homosexuality as a Social Movement 1950s and 1960s -- The Stonewall Inn: Respite and Refuge -- The Riots Begin -- Structure of the Volume -- References -- 2 Legal Status and Challenges to Homosexuality -- Same-Sex Sexual Behaviors in the United States and Globally -- Same-Sex Marriage and Adoption in the United States and Globally -- The Legal Status of Anti-discrimination Laws and Remedies -- Housing and Employment Discrimination in the United States -- Public Accommodations -- Discrimination Within the Military -- Global Advances and Challenges in LGBT Civil Rights -- Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the United States and Globally -- Hate Crimes -- Hate Crimes and Discrimination Globally -- Summary -- References -- 3 Access to Health Care -- Culturally Competent Health Care -- Access to Health Insurance -- ACA Nondiscrimination Protections -- Expanded Data Collection -- Attempts to Repeal the ACA: Impact on LGBT Health -- Summary -- References -- 4 HIV/AIDS -- History of HIV/AIDS -- HIV Transmission and Risky Sexual Behaviors -- The Minority Stress Model -- Social Media and HIV/AIDS Risk -- HIV Prevention and Intervention in the United States -- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- HIV Prevention and Intervention Globally -- Latin America -- Africa -- Asia and the Pacific -- Summary -- References -- 5 Substance Use and Abuse -- Discrimination and Substance Abuse Among the LGBT Community in the United States -- Alcohol Abuse in the United States -- Smoking in the United States.
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    The Science of Generosity : Causes, Manifestations, and Consequences (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030265007
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (208 pages)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 179.9
    Keywords: Generosity ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Acknowledgments and Preface -- Bibliography -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction: The Science of Generosity: From Disparate to Integrated -- Need for the Book -- Scholarly Contributions -- Focusing on Learning to Give -- Improving Access to Newly Available Survey Data on the Manifestations of Generosity -- Learning from Multiple Methods -- Gaining Insights on the Consequences of Generous Behavior -- Synthesizing and Encouraging Cross-Discipline Generosity Research -- Science of Generosity Initiative -- Approach of the Book -- Plan for the Book -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: The Manifestations of Generosity: From Cooperation to Social Justice -- Philanthropy -- Generosity -- Cooperation -- Informal Helping -- Relational Generosity -- Charitable Giving -- Volunteering -- Political Action -- Blood and Organ Donation -- Social Justice -- Conceptual Framework -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: The Causes of Generosity: From Attachment to Cultural Solidarity -- Individual Causes -- Genetic Causes -- Social Psychological Orientations -- Family Causes -- Interpersonal Causes -- Children Learning to Give -- The Power of Asking: By Unknown Others -- The Power of Asking: By Known Others -- Group, Community, and Organizational Causes -- Institutional Causes -- Religious Institutions -- Governmental Institutions -- Societal and Cultural Causes -- Multiplicative Causes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: The Consequences of Generosity: From the Interpersonal to the Collective -- Individual Consequences -- Interpersonal Consequences -- Group Consequences -- Organizational Consequences -- Social Network Consequences -- Community Consequences -- Institutional Consequences -- Rippling Consequences -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: The Interdisciplinary Study of Generosity: The Sum Is Greater Than Its Parts -- Interdisciplinarity.
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    Gender, Textile Work, and Tunisian Women's Liberation : Deviating Patterns (2019)
    Cham : Springer International Publishing AG
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    ISBN: 9783030241049
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (116 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 331.413309611
    Keywords: Women's rights ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1: The Paradoxes of Tunisian Women's Liberation -- Exceptional Tunisia -- Tunisia in Global Capitalism -- The Tunisian Personal Status Codes and Working-Class Women -- The Discourse of the Already-Liberated Tunisian Woman -- The Organization of This Book -- References -- 2: Fieldwork and Family -- The Femininity Impetus -- Marriage Rituals and Gender -- Female Masculinity -- Conclusion -- References -- 3: Producing Factory Femininity -- Introduction: Binzart's Export Processing Zone -- The Search for a Factory -- Conducting Field Research in Z-Textiles Factory -- Z-Textiles Factory -- A Geography of Power in Z-Textiles Factory -- The Work -- Sexualized Surveillance -- Gender and Work as Play -- Jokes, Sexual Innuendo, and Sexual Harassment on the Factory Floor -- Gendered Dependence at Work -- Conclusion: Domination and Acquiescence -- References -- 4: Producing Men and Masculinity in the Factory -- Introduction -- Masculinity and Patriarchy -- The Hierarchy of Masculinities in Z-Textiles Factory -- Hegemonic Masculinity in Z-Textiles -- Men's Emotional Labor -- Joking Around in the Factory -- Factory Bromance -- Heterosexual Romance in the Factory -- Sexual Harassment and Masculinity in Z-Textiles -- Conclusion -- References -- 5: Female Masculinity in the Factory -- Introduction -- Who Are Masculine Women Workers? -- Research on the Queer Middle East and North Africa -- Working Manly Womanhood -- Accommodation and Manipulation of Masculinity -- The Freedoms of Illegitimate Masculinity -- Female Masculinity and Women's Empowerment -- Conclusion -- References -- Postscript: Women's Work and Revolution -- Reference -- Index.
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    Desire in the Age of Robots and AI : An Investigation in Science Fiction and Fact (2019)
    Cham : Springer International Publishing AG
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    ISBN: 9783030240172
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (147 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 809.93356
    Keywords: Robots in literature ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: The Gears and Wires of Robot Sex -- Introduction -- Glossary -- Science Fiction Versus Science Fact: The Stories We Tell Ourselves -- Stories Against the Dark -- Are We Alone Together? -- The Desire to Create: Frankenstein, Robotics, and Playing God -- The Fetishizing of What We Create: Sex-Bots, Sex-Slaves, and Freud's Psychosexual -- Androids Among Us: Biomechanical Creations -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: What Defines Reality?: Robot/Android Self-Knowledge and Authenticity -- Synopsis -- Authenticity: What Does It Mean to Be Human? -- Institutions and Androids-Does a Being Without Emotions Have a Panopticon? -- Deckard: Authentic Human, or Manufactured Android? -- The Rachael/Pris Dichotomy: Doubling or Halving? -- The Gender Binary, Traditional Gender Roles, and Early Robotic Technology -- What Is the Opposite of a Manifesto? Daily Cyborgs, Daily Lives -- Rachael Passes-Judaism as a Metaphor -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Incep Dates and Pleasure Models: Death, Life, and Love in Blade Runner -- Synopsis -- The Undetectable Replicant: Why Must We Mimic Humanity? -- Gender Roles Again?: Deckard's Lack of Emotion, Rachael's Humanity, and the Question of Replicant Gender -- For His Pleasure: What Meets the Definition of Sex Robotics? -- The Rachael/Pris Dichotomy: Cartesian Dualism and Replicants -- Death as Representative of Human Likeness and Humanity -- Race and Racialization: Why Does LA Look like Japan? -- Developments in Robotics: 1980-2000-Cognition, Neuromorphic Chips, and Biofeedback -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Angel Replicants and Solid Holograms: Blade Runner 2049 and Its Impact on Robotics -- Synopsis -- What Is in a Name?: The Functional and Metaphorical Contrast of the Joi/Luv Dichotomy.
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    Feminism and a Vital Politics of Depression and Recovery (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030116262
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (253 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 362.19685270082
    Keywords: Feminist psychology ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Boxes -- 1: Introduction: Towards a Vital Feminist Politics -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Reconfiguring the Bio-Psycho-Social Model -- Vital Feminism -- Bodyminds -- A Post-Qualitative Approach: Thinking with Theory -- References -- 2: Rhizomatic Movements and Gendered Knots of 'Bad Feelings' -- Post-qualitative Writing-Agitating -- Thinking Depression-Recovery Rhizomatically -- Mapping the Biopsychosocialities of Depression-Recovery -- Chemical Imbalance: Moody-Bitch-Racism -- Creating, Moving Futures -- References -- 3: Reconfiguring Recovery Beyond Linearity -- Talking-Listening-Writing Research: Enacting Spacetime Configurations -- The Gender Performativity of Hormonal Intra-actions -- 'Silly' Girls, 'Snowflakes' and Young Womanhood: The Eruption of 'Depression' -- Psychopharmacologies, Placebo and the Entangled Politics of Care -- References -- 4: Motherhood, Hauntings and the Affective Arrangement of Care -- The Moral Terrain of Motherhood -- Objects of Classification and Order -- Haunted Arrangements and Infrastructures of Care -- Guilt and the Performativity of Motherhood -- Infrastructures of Maternal Care -- Matters of Attachment -- References -- 5: Moving-Transforming Bodyminds -- Everyday Habits and Rhythms -- A Little Public Sphere -- The Setting -- Immersive Bodymind Practices -- The Little Public Sphere Continues -- Visceral Practices, Gendered Habits -- We Return to the Little Public Sphere -- Little Public Sphere Continued -- References -- 6: Creative Enactments in More-Than-Human Worlds -- Creative Lines of Flight -- Creative Enactments: Recovery Blogs -- Hauntings -- Imaginings of Becoming Through Metaphors of Recovery -- References -- 7: Reimagining Feminist Futures: Vital Politics, Disruptive Pedagogies.
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    Greenspace-Oriented Development : Reconciling Urban Density and Nature in Suburban Cities (2019)
    Cham : Springer International Publishing AG
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    ISBN: 9783030296018
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (105 pages)
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Geography Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 307.12160994
    Keywords: City planning-Australia ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Acknowledgements for Julian Bolleter -- Acknowledgements for Cristina E. Ramalho -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Background -- 1.1.1 Global Urban Growth -- 1.1.2 Mass Suburbanization -- 1.1.3 The Problems of Urban Sprawl -- 1.1.4 Planning for Urban Densification -- 1.1.5 Introducing Greenspace-Oriented Development -- 1.1.6 How Does GOD Differ from Related Concepts? -- 1.1.7 Who Is This Book Directed Towards? -- 1.2 Overview of the Book's Chapters -- 1.3 Conclusion -- References -- 2 Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) and Its Problems -- 2.1 An Overview of TOD -- 2.2 TOD Planning in Australian Cities -- 2.3 What Are the Predominant Barriers to TOD in Australian Cities? -- 2.3.1 Community Barriers -- 2.3.2 Development Feasibility Barriers -- 2.3.3 Governance Barriers -- 2.3.4 Emerging Barriers -- 2.4 What Is Our Record for Delivering TOD in Australian Cities? -- 2.4.1 Sydney -- 2.4.2 Melbourne -- 2.4.3 South East Queensland -- 2.5 Feature Case Study: Perth -- 2.5.1 The Delivery of TOD in Perth -- 2.5.2 Background Infill -- 2.5.3 Impacts of Background Infill in Perth -- 2.5.4 Access to Nature -- 2.5.5 Access to Retail Destinations -- 2.5.6 Accessibility to Public Transport -- 2.6 Conclusion -- References -- 3 Why GOD? The Benefits of Greenspace-Oriented Development -- 3.1 An Overview of GOD -- 3.2 Why Focus Densification Around Upgraded Parks? -- 3.3 What Are the Benefits of Green Spaces to Residents in Higher-Density Settings? -- 3.3.1 Human Health and Well-Being -- 3.3.2 Biodiversity Conservation -- 3.3.3 Services to the Local Environment -- 3.4 The Benefits of Well-Designed Higher-Density Urban Precincts for Co-located Parks -- 3.5 Conclusion -- References -- 4 A Manual for Implementing Greenspace-Oriented Development.
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    Student and Graduate Mobility in Armenia (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030196134
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (92 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 378.1691
    Keywords: College students ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1: Armenia in Context -- Why Study Mobility? -- A Student and Graduate Mobility Research Field? -- Mobility in Armenia -- Methodological Approach -- Research Questions -- References -- 2: Reflexive Mobility -- Moving Beyond the Myth of the Involuntary Migrant -- Theoretical Precedents in Reflexivity -- Reflexive Mobility as an Internal and Externalized Conversation -- Reflexive Mobility in Armenia -- Conclusions -- References -- 3: Spatial Pathways to Work -- The Armenian Labour Market and Soviet Legacy -- Pathways to Russia -- Armenia and the US -- Armenia and the European Union -- Return to Armenia? -- Conclusions -- References -- 4: Working Inside and Outside Armenia -- Transitions-to-Work? -- Finding Work in Armenia -- Progressing Within the Armenian Labour Market -- Outward Trajectories -- Conclusions -- References -- 5: Mobility in Transition -- Background to the Velvet Revolution -- Political Change in Armenia -- Transitions in a Transition Society -- Armenia After the Velvet Revolution -- Mobility in Transition? -- Conclusions -- References -- 6: Postscript -- Rethinking Mobility and Transitions Among the Highly Qualified -- Addressing Theoretical Underdevelopment -- Following Different Pathways to Work -- Mobility as a Resource -- References -- Index.
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    Political Culture in the Baltic States : Between National and European Integration (2019)
    Cham : Springer International Publishing AG
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    ISBN: 9783030218447
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (233 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.209479
    Keywords: Political culture-Baltic States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- The Soviet Experience -- The Demographic Shift -- Political Culture at the Crossroads -- Baltic Barometer -- Structure of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2: When Nation and State Are at Odds -- Language: A Difference That Matters -- Turning Russians into Baltic Speakers -- Between Conflict and Integration -- Between Past and Present -- The Contours of a Regime Divide -- References -- Chapter 3: Between Identities and Interests -- Overcoming the Soviet Past -- Building Party Systems from Scratch -- Baltic Party Systems at a Glance -- Party System Consolidation -- Perceptions of Party Divisions -- Left and Right -- Perceptions of State and Markets -- Concluding Remarks -- Appendix -- References -- Chapter 4: Performance and Political Support -- Analysing Different Types of Political Orientations -- System Support and Regime Performance in the Baltic States -- The Socioeconomic Context -- Evaluation of Regime Performance -- Vertical and Horizontal Trust -- Patterns of Disaffection -- Political Subcultures in the Baltic States -- Democracy and System Support -- References -- Chapter 5: Living Next to Russia -- Support for Russia -- Support for the EU -- The Lasting Challenge of Integration -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 6: European Values Under Attack? -- The Copenhagen Criteria -- Baltic Democracy Trajectories -- Democracy and Its Alternatives -- Generations of Baltic Democrats -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 7: Conclusions -- References -- Index.
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    French Muslims in Perspective : Nationalism, Post-Colonialism and Marginalisation under the Republic (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030161033
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (295 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.6970944
    Keywords: Muslims-Government policy-France ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1: 'French Muslims' and Banality: Beyond Essentialism, Exceptionalism and Salaciousness -- 1.1 Introducing Banality, Essentialism and French Muslims -- 1.2 How to Investigate French Muslims? The Centrality of the Symbolic and the Discursive in This Book: Methodological Approach and Statement -- 1.3 Who Are They? French Muslims, Names, Numbers and Confusion -- 1.4 The Path from Here: Charting This Journey Through the Social, Political and Cultural Experiences of French Muslims -- Bibliography -- 2: Many Republics, Many Solitudes: Europeanisation, Politics, Islam, Ethnicity and the State in France -- 2.1 Introducing the Many Republics and Their Dealings with Islam -- 2.2 Conceptualising Assimilation, Laïcité, Religion, Ethnicity and the Republic -- 2.3 The Many Central States and Political Solitudes -- 2.4 Local Republics, Vulnerability in Solitude: Exploring the Issues with Forming Local Policy Relationships to French Muslims -- 2.5 Europeanising Solitudes: Transnational Norms and Their Conflict and Complementarity with Many Republics -- 2.6 Conclusions on Many Republics and Many Solitudes -- Bibliography -- 3: Liberating France from Fascism and Upholding Civil Liberties: French Muslims Soldiering and Policing for the Republic -- 3.1 Introducing Muslims and the French Security Services -- 3.2 Liberating France from the Nazis and Upholding the Empire: Conceptualising and Historicising the Muslim Presence in the French Security Services -- 3.3 Paradoxes in Stone and Bronze: War Memorials and Historical Commemoration of Muslims in the French Army -- 3.4 Insights into Contemporary Muslim's Contributions: Conceptualising Victimhood -- 3.5 Insights into Contemporary Muslim Contributions to French Security: Muslim Victimhood in the Army and Police Forces.
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    La niña and the Making of Climate Optimism : Remembering Rain (2019)
    Cham : Springer International Publishing AG
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    ISBN: 9783319761411
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (301 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 304.250994
    Keywords: Climatic changes-Australia.. ; Australia-Climate ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Preface -- The Importance of La Niña -- Australians and Their Climate -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Attitudes to Climate -- Introduction -- Chapter 2: Wastelands, Gardens, Hopes and Visions -- At Home with a New Climate -- Chatting About the Weather -- Soakers and Scorchers -- Colonising the Inland Plains -- Indigenous Weather Knowledge -- Land Hunger -- What About Permanent Change? -- Manipulating the Climate -- Climate and Nation-Building -- Chapter 3: Federated and Fed-Up: Fragility After Fecundity (1895-1905) -- Enter El Niño -- Misery in the West -- Crying Out for Rain -- The 1899-1900 El Niño -- The 1901 Royal Commission -- Climate Science and the Periodicity of Seasons -- The Power of Nature and National Character -- A Brighter Outlook -- Chapter 4: Soaking in Hope: Provident Nature and Grand Schemes (1909-25) -- Beneficial Rains -- The 1909-11 La Niña -- Selling Climate Overseas -- The "Men of Vision" -- Harnessing the Rivers -- The 1916-18 La Niña -- The Power of La Niña -- Chapter 5: The Battle with Drought: Water, the Essential Element (1940-49) -- El Niños of Drought, Debt and Dust -- The Failure of Closer Settlement -- Peopling the Continent -- Rural Reconstruction -- The Social Construction of Drought -- Chapter 6: A Run of Good Seasons (1950-59 and 1970-76) -- A "Remarkable" Recovery -- Seasonal Blessings for a Nation -- A Favourable Outlook -- Rural Revival in the 1970s -- The Miracle of Rain -- Chapter 7: Remembering Rain: The Ghost of Good Seasons Past (1960-69) -- The Punch Inquiry and the 1965-66 El Niño -- Analysing Drought -- Climate-Proofing Australia: The Drive for Irrigation -- Chapter 8: A Change in the Weather: Conservation as the Catch-Cry (1980-90) -- The Big Dry -- Fragile or Resilient? -- Urban Campaigns -- The City and the Bush.
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    Deviant Leisure : Criminological Perspectives on Leisure and Harm (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030177362
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (439 pages)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.542
    Keywords: Crime-Sociological aspects ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction: Why Leisure? -- References -- Part I: Theoretical Perspectives -- 2: The Deviant Leisure Perspective: A Theoretical Introduction -- Reclaiming 'Deviant' Leisure -- Does Leisure Exist in Late-Capitalism? -- Ultra-Realism, Consumerism and Motivation -- Leisure Futures: Towards the Pro-social -- Conclusion -- References -- 3: What Lies Beneath? Some Notes on Ultra-realism, and the Intellectual Foundations of the 'Deviant Leisure' Perspective -- What Is Ultra-realism? -- Background -- Critical Realism -- Deviant Leisure and Ultra-Realism -- Conclusion -- References -- 4: Consumptive and Non-Consumptive Leisure and Its Fit with Deviance -- A Leisure Studies Perspective on Leisure Commodification -- Forms of Leisure -- Deviant Consumption -- Non-Consumptive Leisure -- Non-Deviant, Non-Consumptive Casual Leisure -- Non-Deviant, Non-Consumptive Serious Leisure -- Deviant Serious Leisure -- The Harm in Leisure -- Harm and the SLP -- Conclusions -- References -- 5: Real Ultras and Ultra Realism: Deviant Leisure Cultures, High Theory and Raw Realism -- Real Ultras -- Ultras and the Futurism of the Moment -- Claustropolitanism and Deviant Leisure Cultures -- The Dialectics of Deviant Leisure and the Red and Black Bloc -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part II: Consuming Harm -- 6: 'Be More VIP': Deviant Leisure and Hedonistic Excess in Ibiza's 'Disneyized' Party Spaces -- Introduction -- Ibiza as a 'Disneyized' Space -- Theming -- Branding (and Merchandising) -- Hybrid Consumption -- Performative Labour -- Conclusion -- References -- 7: Substance Use in the Night-Time Economy: Deviant Leisure? -- The Changing Nature of Substance Use and the Night-Time Economy -- Substance Use and the Night-Time Economy: The Cultural Injunction to Enjoy.
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    Participatory Research with Young Children (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030193652
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (207 pages)
    Series Statement: Educating the Young Child Ser. v.17
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.23072
    Keywords: Children-Research ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Preface -- Structure of the Text -- Part I: Conceptual and Ethical Considerations for Participatory Work -- Part II: Exploring Children's Agency Through Engagement in Participatory Research Practices -- Part III: Participatory Research and Challenges to Accepted Practices and Understandings of Young Children -- Part IV: Analysis and Dissemination of Participatory Work with Children -- Concluding Thoughts -- Reference -- Contents -- Part I: Conceptual and Ethical Considerations for Participatory Work -- Chapter 1: Participation Takes Many Forms: Exploring the Frameworks Surrounding Children's Engagement in Participatory Research -- The Roots of Participatory Work -- Frameworks Supporting Understandings of Children's Participatory Engagement -- Understanding Children's Experience of Place: Out-of-School Learning -- Research Perspectives -- Methods of Data Collection -- Participants -- Methods of Data Analysis -- Findings Overview -- Problematizing Children's Participation -- References -- Chapter 2: Ethical Considerations in Participatory Research with Young Children -- Introduction -- Background to the Ethical Research Involving Children Project -- Understanding Ethics in Research with Children -- A Framework of Three Rs - Rights, Relationships and Reflexivity -- Background to the Nature-Based Play Study -- Ethical Research Design -- In the Nature-Based Play Study -- Ethical Recruitment and Informed Consent -- In the Nature-Based Play Study -- Ethical Research Practice in the Field -- In the Nature-Based Play Study -- Data Analysis and Dissemination -- In the Nature-Based Play Study -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: "You Have to Sign Here:" A Hermeneutic Reading of Young Children's Politeness Play -- Introduction -- The Visit -- The Institutional Review Board -- Participatory Research -- Hermeneutics in Research -- Research Design.
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    Governance Beyond the Law : The Immoral, the Illegal, the Criminal (2019)
    Cham : Springer International Publishing AG
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    ISBN: 9783030050399
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (372 pages)
    Series Statement: International Political Economy Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.372
    Keywords: Social norms ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acronyms -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction: "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly": Transnational Perspectives on the Extralegal Field -- The Informal Everyday: From Marijuana for Breakfast to Itinerant Judges -- Informality as a Concept and Source of Scholarly Inspiration -- "In Spite of" and "Beyond" the State -- The Illegal, the Immoral and the Criminal -- A "Living" Edition: Our Grounds for Debate -- Structure of the Book -- References -- Part I: The Social Morality of Crime -- Chapter 2: Conversations Bamakoises in Time of Crisis: Criminalisation of Everyday Life and State Formation in Mali -- Introduction -- Looking for the State -- The State: The Interweaving of Registers -- "Being Social": The Production of Politics in Mali as the Criminalisation of Everyday Life -- Conclusion: The 2012 Malian Crisis and State Formation -- References -- Chapter 3: The Criminalization of Informal Practices in the Danube Delta: How and Why -- Regulation, Informality, and the State as a Partaker -- Specificity of the Delta: Center-Periphery and State Control in Borderlands -- Agencies and Seats of Power: Overlapping Jurisdictions and Conflicting Regulation -- The Difficulty of Fishing -- Discussion: Controlling Territory and Resisting Control -- References -- Chapter 4: Use of Language in Blurring the Lines Between Legality and Illegality -- Introduction -- Researching Hashish Harvesting -- Contextualising Hashish Harvesting in Toolu -- Re-interpreting Hashish Making in Toolu -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Mothers as Pot Legalizers: From Illegality to Morality in Medical Use of Cannabis in Latin America -- Introduction -- Immorality and Illegality of Cannabis in Latin America -- Illegal Mothers -- From Illegality to Morality of Medical Cannabis.
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    Intersections of Inequality, Migration and Diversification : The Politics of Mobility in Aotearoa/New Zealand (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030190996
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (176 pages)
    Series Statement: Mobility and Politics Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 304.80993
    Keywords: Equality-New Zealand ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Praise for Intersections of Inequality, Migration and Diversification -- Contents -- Notes -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction: The Intersections of Inequality, Migration and Diversification -- In the Intersections of Inequality -- Histories of Migration and Diversification in Aotearoa/New Zealand -- Inequalities Debates in Aotearoa/New Zealand -- Outline of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2: Quantifying and Qualifying Inequality Among Migrants -- Introduction -- The Dimensions of Quantifying Migrant Inequality -- Quantitative Evidence of Inequality Between Migrant Groups -- Inequality Within Migrant Groups -- Spatiality of Inequality -- Conclusion: Qualifying the Quantifications -- References -- Chapter 3: Justifying Inequalities: Multiculturalism and Stratified Migration in Aotearoa/New Zealand -- Introduction -- Multiculturalism and Diversity in Aotearoa/New Zealand (2000-2017) -- High-Value Migration and the Politics of Stratification -- Migrant Types and Preferred Multiculturalism -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Legislated Inequality: Provisional Migration and the Stratification of Migrant Lives -- Introduction -- From Settlement to Provisional Migration -- Gender, Nationality and Occupation -- Income Inequality and Exploitation -- Unequal Futures -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: The Intersecting Electoral Politics of Immigration and Inequality in Aotearoa/New Zealand -- Introduction -- Immigrant Representation in Parliament -- Immigrant Electoral Participation -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Inequality and Adolescent Migrants: Results from Youth2000 Survey -- Introduction -- The Youth2000 Survey Series -- Profiling Inequality Among Migrant Students -- Dimensions of Migrant Deprivation -- Socio-economic Inequalities.
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    Guanxi in the Western Context : Intra-Firm Group Dynamics and Expatriate Adjustment (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030240011
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (149 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.350951
    Keywords: Corporate culture-China.. ; Joint ventures-China.. ; Business enterprises, Foreign-China.. ; Industrial management-China ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- Overview of Book -- References -- 2 Conceptualization of Guanxi -- Introduction -- Guanxi vs. Social Networks -- References -- 3 Guanxi Practices in Intra-firm Multicultural Groups: A Case of Chinese MNCs Operating in Europe -- Introduction -- Guanxi Practice in the Chinese Context -- Guanxi Practice in Multicultural Context -- Research Method -- Research Setting -- Sampling -- Data Collection -- Data Analysis -- How Guanxi Practice Affects Intra-firm Multicultural Group Dynamics -- Group Salience Increased by Exclusive Guanxi Practice -- Out-Group Activation -- Formation of Superordinate Group -- In-group Prototyping -- Interplay Discrepancy of Demographic Intergroups -- Discussion and Conclusion -- Paradox of Guanxi Practice -- Boundarylessness of Professional and Private Domain -- Practical Implications -- Limitations -- References -- 4 Developing Guanxi in the West: Chinese Expatriates' Adjustment in Europe -- Introduction -- Guanxi Building -- Expatriate Adjustment -- CEs -- A Process Model of Guanxi Building -- U-Curve Theory -- Research Method -- Research Setting -- Data Collection -- Data Analysis -- Findings -- Honeymoon Euphoria -- Trigger of Culture Shock -- Adaptation Modes -- A Process Model of Guanxi Development and the Adjustments of Chinese Expatriates -- Discussion and Conclusion -- Limitation -- References -- 5 Cross-Cultural Guanxi Leadership -- Introduction -- Leader and Leadership in the Chinese Context -- Leadership Style of Chinese Expatriates -- Paternalistic Leadership (PL) -- Chinese Leadership Challenge in the West -- Cultural Intelligence (CQ) -- Cross-Cultural Guanxi Leadership Development -- Pre-IAs Development -- Development During IAs -- Discussion and Conclusion -- References.
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    The Biology of Senescence : A Translational Approach (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030151119
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (127 pages)
    Series Statement: Practical Issues in Geriatrics Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.26
    Keywords: Aging-Social aspects ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Acknowledgment -- Abbreviations -- Contents -- 1: Introduction -- References -- 2: The Emerging Medical Landscape -- 2.1 The Overwhelming Human Responsibility -- 2.2 The Two Recent Epidemiological Transitions -- 2.2.1 Throughout the World -- 2.3 The Emergencies -- 2.3.1 The Two Out-Of-Control Risks: Nuclear Power and Poverty -- 2.3.2 Age, the First of the Emerging Risks -- 2.3.3 Incidence of Non-Transmissible Chronic Diseases -- 2.3.4 Other Age-Linked Diseases -- References -- 3: The Origins of Ageing -- 3.1 Genome Instability -- 3.2 Genetics and Heredity -- 3.3 Telomeres and Telomerase -- 3.4 Proteostasis -- 3.5 Epigenetics -- 3.6 Microbiota -- References -- 4: The Senescent Cell, SC -- 4.1 The Overview -- 4.2 Consequences of Stem/Precursor Cell Proliferation Arrest -- 4.3 The SC Secretome -- 4.4 Fibrosis -- References -- 5: The Nonfatal Clinical Manifestations of Ageing -- 5.1 Hair, Skin, Adipose Tissue -- 5.2 Bones, Muscles, and Joints -- 5.3 General Conditions, Frailty Syndrome, Fluid Balance, Immune System -- 5.4 Biological Rhythms -- 5.5 The Senses and Sensitivity -- References -- 6: Age-Linked Non-Transmissible Diseases -- 6.1 Cancers -- 6.2 Neurodegenerative Diseases -- 6.3 Type 2 Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome -- 6.4 Lungs, Kidneys and Liver Diseases -- 6.5 The Senescent CV System -- 6.5.1 The Senescent Myocardium -- 6.5.2 The Senescent Vascular System -- 6.5.3 Consequences of Change in Characteristic Arterial Impedance -- 6.5.4 The Clinical Manifestations of Atherosclerosis -- 6.5.5 Heart Failure in Senescence -- 6.5.6 Atrial Fibrillation -- References -- 7: How to Treat or Prevent, or Slow Down, Cellular Ageing and Senescence? -- 7.1 The Various Attempts at Reprogramming -- 7.2 Calorie Restriction -- 7.3 Physical Exercise -- References -- 8: Senescence: A Darwinian Evolutionary Perspective.
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    Human Trafficking Finances : Evidence from Three European Countries (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030178093
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (105 pages)
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Criminology Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.742094
    Keywords: Human trafficking-Europe.. ; Human trafficking-Economic aspects.. ; Human trafficking ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- 1 Human Trafficking and Its Financial Management in Bulgaria -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Market Overview -- 1.3 Market Structure and Social Organisation of Trafficking Networks -- 1.3.1 Structure of the Domestic Sex Market -- 1.3.2 The Organisation of the Cross-Border Trafficking -- 1.4 Financing and Financial Management -- 1.4.1 Source of Capital for Initiating/Sustaining Criminal Operations. Access to Capital in Critical Moments -- 1.4.2 Settlement of Payments -- 1.4.3 Costs of Doing Business -- 1.4.4 Profits and Profit Sharing -- 1.5 The Role and Impact of the Internet on Human Trafficking Activities and Its Finances -- 1.6 Conclusion -- References -- 2 Human Trafficking and Its Financial Management in Italy -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Market Overview -- 2.3 Market Structure and Social Organisation of Trafficking Networks -- 2.3.1 Sexual Exploitation: The Central Role of Female Criminal Entrepreneurs -- 2.3.2 Labour Exploitation: The Key Role of the Agricultural Sector -- 2.4 Financing and Financial Management -- 2.4.1 Sources of Capital for Initiating/Sustaining Operations of Trafficking in Human Beings and Profiles of Financiers -- 2.4.2 Settlement of Payments -- 2.4.3 Costs of Doing Business -- 2.4.4 Profits, Spending and Money Laundering -- 2.5 Conclusion -- References -- 3 Human Trafficking and Its Financial Management in the United Kingdom -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Market Overview -- 3.3 Market Structure and Social Organisation of Trafficking Networks -- 3.4 Financing and Financial Management -- 3.4.1 Sources of Capital for Initiating/Sustaining Criminal Operations -- 3.4.2 Settlement of Payments -- 3.4.3 Costs of Doing Business -- 3.4.4 Profits and Profit Sharing.
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    Islamist Extremism in Kosovo and the Countries of the Region (2019)
    Cham : Springer International Publishing AG
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    ISBN: 9783030185695
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (123 pages)
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Criminology Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.484
    Keywords: Radicalism-Religious aspects-Islam ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Foreword -- Foreword -- Foreword -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Religious Structures in Kosovo -- 1.2 The Spread of Religious Beliefs in Kosovo -- 1.3 The Historical Root Causes of Islamist Extremism -- 1.4 Understanding the Notion of "Islamist Terrorism" -- 1.5 The Boundaries of the Distinction Between Radicalism and Islamist Extremism in Kosovo -- Chapter 2: The Genesis of Islamic Extremism in Albanian Lands -- 2.1 The Historical Circumstances of the Occurrence of Islamist Extremism in Albania -- 2.2 Use of Islamic Religion for Political Goals in Kosovo -- 2.2.1 The Period Before the Second World War -- 2.2.2 The Period of the Communist Dictatorship -- 2.2.3 The Period of "Yugoslav Liberalization" -- Chapter 3: The Factors on Which Islamist Extremism in Kosovo Has Been Based -- 3.1 The Social Circumstances in Kosovo and the Countries of the Region -- 3.1.1 Albania Became a Member of the Organization of the Islamic Conference -- 3.1.2 The Outbreak of the War in Bosnia and Hercegovina (1992-1995) -- 3.2 The Activities of Foreign Islamist Organizations in Albania -- 3.2.1 The International Islamic Relief Organization -- 3.2.2 The Arab-Albanian Islamic Bank -- 3.2.3 The Muwafaq Foundation -- 3.2.4 The Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation -- 3.2.5 The Society of the Revival of Islamic Heritage -- 3.3 The Activities of Arabian Islamist Organizations in Kosovo -- 3.3.1 Al Waqf Al Islami -- 3.3.2 Kosova Aid and Development -- 3.3.3 Nektari-He -- 3.3.4 The Saudi Joint Relief Committee for Kosovo and Chechnya -- 3.3.5 The Institute for Contemporary Culture and Studies -- 3.3.6 Other Arabian Islamist Organizations in Kosovo -- 3.4 The Activities of the Shiite Islamist Organizations in Kosovo -- 3.4.1 Nisa -- 3.4.2 "Qur´an" -- 3.4.3 Ehli Bejti -- 3.4.4 Ibn Sina.
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    Visions of Peace of Professional Peace Workers : The Peaces We Build (2019)
    Cham : Springer International Publishing AG
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    ISBN: 9783030279752
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (290 pages)
    Series Statement: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.66
    Keywords: Peace-building ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 The Peace Cube -- 1.2 A Brief Note on Methodology -- 1.3 Structure of the Book -- 1.4 Some Notes on Terminology -- References -- Chapter 2: Peace in Peace Studies: Beyond the 'Negative/Positive' Divide -- 2.1 Classical Academic Conceptions of Peace -- 2.2 Post-Cold War Conceptions of Peace -- 2.3 Peace in Peacebuilding: The Liberal Peace Debate -- 2.3.1 The Liberal Peace -- 2.4 Criticisms and Alternatives to the Liberal Peace -- 2.4.1 Hybrid Peace -- 2.4.2 Agonistic Peace -- 2.4.3 Welfare -- 2.4.4 Everyday Peace -- 2.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Western Dissensus, Non-Western Consensus: A Q Study Into the Meanings of Peace -- 3.1 Five Visions of Peace -- 3.1.1 Vision I: Peace as a Personal Endeavour -- 3.1.2 Vision II: Peace as a Universal Ideal -- 3.1.3 Vision III: Freedom from Fear -- 3.1.4 Vision IV: Peace as Process -- 3.1.5 Vision V: Peace as Politics -- 3.2 A Non-Western Consensus? -- 3.3 Refining the Conceptual Framework -- 3.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Military Visions of Peace -- 4.1 The Base Layer: Freedom from Fear in a Safe and Secure Environment -- 4.2 Towards Sustainable Peace: A Functioning State Authority -- 4.3 A Peace Worth Defending: Peace-as-Freedom -- 4.4 Underlying Dimensions -- 4.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Diplomats: Peace as Governance -- 5.1 A Narrow Universal Ideal: The (Formal) Absence of Armed Conflict -- 5.2 Peace-as-Governance -- 5.3 Underlying Dimensions -- 5.3.1 Political or Personal Peace -- 5.3.2 Scope -- 5.3.3 Ontology -- 5.3.4 Embedding: Individuals or Institutions -- 5.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Dutch Civil Society: Peace Writ Large -- 6.1 Peace Writ Large -- 6.2 Peace-as-Process -- 6.3 Human Security -- 6.4 Underlying Dimensions -- 6.4.1 Scope.
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    Culture in Education and Education in Culture : Tensioned Dialogues and Creative Constructions (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030284121
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (273 pages)
    Series Statement: Cultural Psychology of Education Ser. v.10
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.43
    Keywords: Educational anthropology ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Preface of the Series Editor -- Education in Between the Established and the Possible -- References -- Editors' Introduction: Tensioned Dialogues and Creative Constructions Between Culture and Education in Cultural Developmental Key -- Introduction -- Culture in Education -- Education in Culture -- Format of the Book -- Content of the Book -- Part I: Perspectives on the Challenge of Globalization -- Part II: Constructing Culturally Responsive Education -- Part III: Educational Cultivation of Personal Lives -- References -- Contents -- About the Editors -- Perspectives on the Challenge of Globalization -- 1 Education, Competition, and Cultural Development -- 1 The Promise of Enlightenment -- 2 De-Moralizing Education -- 3 Competition -- 4 Globalization and Rationality -- 5 The Meaning of Bildung -- 6 Inspiration from Non-western Education -- 7 Local Cultures -- References -- 2 What Is Disruptive About Disruptive Behavior? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Outcome-Oriented Education -- 3 Disruptive Behavior in the Outcome-Oriented School -- 4 Control, Self-management, and the Taming of the School -- 5 Changed Attitudes Toward Disruptive Behavior -- 6 Concluding Discussion -- References -- 3 Bildung, Motivation, and Deliberative Democracy in Primary Education -- 1 Introduction -- 2 From Whence We Came -- 3 Democratic Citizenship as an Educational End -- 4 Deliberative Democracy as the Model of Democracy -- 5 Habermas and Motivation -- 6 A Matter of Motivation -- 7 Faith and Religious Practices as a Central Motive in 4th and 5th Grade -- 7.1 Ramadan and Koran School -- 7.2 Discussions Around Faith and Different Religions Practices in "Christianity Studies" -- 7.3 Challenges and Potentials-In a History Lesson -- 8 On the Possibility of Deliberative Participation in School -- References.
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    Rebuilding Lives after Genocide : Migration, Adaptation and Acculturation (2019)
    Cham : Springer International Publishing AG
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    ISBN: 9783030140748
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (227 pages)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Compromise after Conflict Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 304.663
    Keywords: Genocide-Sociological aspects ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- General Editor's Introduction -- Contents -- About the Author -- 1: Introduction -- Defining 'Genocide' -- Defining 'Victims' -- The Focus of This Book -- Methods, Methodology and Ethics -- Specific Experiences of Survivors of Genocide -- Structural Overview -- References -- 2: Bourdieu and Social Capital -- Bourdieu and Social Capital -- Habitus -- Linguistic Habitus -- Field -- References -- 3: Migration and Acculturation -- Theories of Migration and Acculturation -- Integration, Bourdieu and Social Capital -- References -- 4: New Lives: Initial Adaptation -- Utilising Existing Social Capital -- The Kindertransport -- Leaving After the Genocide -- Use of Symbolic Capital -- Why the UK? -- Early Adaptation Experiences -- Cultural Attachments -- Role of Family -- Reconnecting with Families -- Adaptation Through Independence and Dependence -- Leaving the Genocide Behind -- Need for Other People -- Pride in Independence -- Reliance on Others -- Adaptation Through Risk-Taking and Trust -- Risky Individuals -- References -- 5: Resettlement and Reintegration: Adapting to Life in the UK -- Resettlement and Reintegration: The Role of Education and Employment -- The Impact of Family and Class Background on Education -- Purpose of Education -- Starting Small and Working Hard -- Exploitative Employment and Denial of Work -- Taking Risks -- Resettlement and Reintegration: The Role of Support Groups -- Community Groups -- Receiving Charity -- Participation in Sport -- Sibling Support -- Formal Support Organisations -- References -- 6: Identity and Adaptation -- Defining Identities -- Hierarchy -- Nationality and Alienation -- Talking -- References -- 7: Conclusion -- Concluding Thoughts -- Succeeding as a Survivor -- Policy Implications -- References -- Index.
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    New Localism : Living in the Here and Now (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030215798
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (118 pages)
    Series Statement: Numanities - Arts and Humanities in Progress Ser. v.10
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.482
    Keywords: Anti-globalization movement ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Background and Rationale -- 1.2 Knowledge and Understanding as 'Recognition As' -- References -- 2 Globalisation and Dis-location: Theoretical Framework -- 2.1 The Problem -- 2.2 The Welcome Principle -- 2.3 Micro, Meso and Macro Structures -- 2.4 The Rise of Globalisation -- 2.4.1 Standardisation -- 2.4.2 Universalism, Impersonalism and Modernity -- 2.4.3 Modernity: The Long March of Applied Universal Reason -- 2.4.4 The Limits of Universal Ethics -- 2.5 The Performativity Problem -- 2.6 The Left-Behind Problem -- 2.7 Democratic Deficit -- 2.8 Modernism Cf. Humanism -- 2.9 In Summary: Globalisation/Dis-Location -- 2.9.1 Theoretical Resources and Possibilities -- References -- 3 Localism and Protectionism -- 3.1 The Importance of Context -- 3.2 Forms of Local Production -- 3.2.1 Steel -- 3.2.2 Food and Drink -- 3.2.3 Music -- 3.2.4 Summary -- 3.3 Security of Supply -- 3.4 Community Cohesion -- 3.5 Environmental Health and Welfare -- 3.6 Cultural Diversity -- References -- 4 Economic Localism -- 4.1 Economic Ideologies -- 4.2 Arational Utility Maximisation -- 4.3 Public Services -- 4.3.1 Health -- 4.3.2 Policing -- 4.3.3 Transport -- 4.4 Conclusions -- References -- 5 Living in and for the Here-and-Now -- 5.1 Ethics of New Localism -- 5.2 Politics and Policy -- 5.3 Existential Localism -- 5.4 From Consumption to Production -- 5.5 Localism, Waste and Recycling -- 5.6 Borderless Crime and Local Action -- References -- 6 New Localism, Arts and Culture -- 6.1 The Importance of Local Engagement -- 6.2 Synaesthesia: Relating the Local and the Global -- 6.3 Local Arts Organisations -- 6.4 Aesthetics, Environment and Policy -- 6.5 The Local Dimension of Other Aspects of Culture -- 6.6 From Measurement to Meaning -- References -- 7 Going with the Flow of Human Aspirations -- 7.1 The Way and the Truth.
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    Post-War Prostitution : Human Trafficking and Peacekeeping in Kosovo (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030194741
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (230 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies of Organized Crime Ser. v.17
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.74
    Keywords: Prostitution ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Maps -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Methodology -- 1.1.1 Participant Observation -- 1.1.2 In-depth Interviews -- 1.1.3 Analysis of Brochures and Reports -- 1.1.4 Visual Method -- 1.2 Academic Relevance -- 1.3 Social Relevance -- 1.4 Outline of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2: Theorizing Prostitution -- 2.1 The Abolitionist Perspective -- 2.1.1 Conflating Prostitution with Human Trafficking and the Battle Against Both -- 2.1.2 Critique for the Abolitionist Perspective -- 2.2 Pro-Sex-Work Scholarship -- 2.2.1 Critique for Pro-Sex-Work Stance -- 2.3 Instrumental Goals -- References -- Chapter 3: The Kosovo War and Its Aftermath -- 3.1 A Brief History of the Kosovo War and Its Aftermath -- 3.1.1 War and Its Prelude -- 3.1.2 The Road to Independence -- 3.2 Characteristics of Post-War Kosovo and the Growth of the Prostitution Business -- 3.2.1 Weak Law Enforcement -- 3.2.2 Corruption -- 3.2.3 Socio-Cultural Attitudes -- 3.2.4 Cooperation with Regional Smuggling and Trafficking Rings -- 3.2.5 Northern Kosovo as a Nexus Point for Smuggling and Trafficking -- 3.2.6 Economic Prosperity in the Wake of the War -- 3.3 No Business as Usual, But Booming Nonetheless -- References -- Chapter 4: Clientele of the Post-War Prostitution Business -- 4.1 Internationals Employed in Kosovo -- 4.1.1 Prostitution as an Unofficial Promise of "Mission Life" -- 4.1.2 UN Regulation of Prostitution during Peacekeeping Missions -- 4.1.3 Evaluation of the UN's Zero-Tolerance Policy -- 4.1.4 Immunity or Impunity? -- 4.2 "Schatzis" on a (Moral) Holiday -- 4.2.1 Sex Tourism as an (Unintended) Consequence of Peacekeeping Missions? -- 4.3 Local Clients -- 4.3.1 Those Looking for Commercial Sex -- 4.3.2 Those Finding Company -- 4.3.3 Boyfriends -- 4.4 Not Just Internationals.
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    The Endless Reconstruction and Modern Disasters : The Management of Urban Space Through an Earthquake - Messina, 1908-2018 (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030193614
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (295 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 363.349509458111
    Keywords: Earthquakes-Italy-History ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Messina: A Modern Catastrophe -- 1.2 The Organization of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2: Researching Disasters: Theories for a Case Study -- 2.1 The End of the World -- 2.2 Civility in the Post-disaster City -- 2.3 Blaming the Victims -- 2.4 Public Memory and Latent Forces in Local Society -- 2.5 Public Responses to Disaster -- 2.6 The "Productive" Role of Disasters -- 2.7 Bureaucratic Classifications and Social Responses -- References -- Chapter 3: History Seen Through the Slums: The Southern Question and the Current Crisis -- 3.1 Messina, No South and No North -- 3.2 A Southern Question? Beyond the Myth of Development -- 3.3 Is an Agricultural Question at the Root of the Southern Question? -- 3.4 The Fund for the South -- 3.5 Italian Neoliberalism -- 3.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Messina, From the Earthquake to the Present -- 4.1 The Roots of a Speculative Economy: State, Market, and the Messina Community -- 4.2 Proto-financialization and Decadence -- 4.3 Reconstructing Inner Circles: Geographies of Separation and Exclusion -- 4.4 Fascism and the Consolidation of the Shacks -- 4.5 A Speculative Capitalism Based on Construction (1950-1990) -- 4.6 Continuity, the Neoliberalization of Building -- References -- Chapter 5: Working and Dreaming at the Margins of the City -- 5.1 A Study on the Present-Day City -- 5.2 Getting by in an Informal World -- 5.3 The Public Sector and the Circularity of Formal and Informal -- 5.4 Cynicism and Nostalgia: Being Unemployed in a Time of Crisis -- 5.5 Subaltern Politics -- 5.6 Final Remarks -- References -- Chapter 6: Formal and Informal Housing in Today's City -- 6.1 The Reproduction of the Shanties -- 6.2 The Shack and the Neighborhood: Talking on Spatial Segregation.
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    Nordic Families, Children and Early Childhood Education (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030168667
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (231 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in Childhood and Youth Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 372.210948
    Keywords: Education, Preschool-Study and teaching ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: An Introduction to the Nordic Countries Around Family, Children and Early Childhood Education -- Introduction -- Nordic Perspectives -- Overview of the Book -- References -- 2: Children's Initiatives in the Finnish Early Childhood Education Context -- Introduction -- Theoretical Framework -- Children's Participation -- Motivation and Learning -- The Pedagogical Concerns of Interactions in the Classroom -- Methods -- The Finnish ECE Context -- Data Collection -- Data Analysis -- Children's Initiatives in Classroom from Teachers' and Children's Perspectives -- The Focus of Action -- The Target Person -- The Gaps of Children's Initiatives in Pedagogical Practices -- Conclusions -- Discussion and Implications for Research and Practice -- References -- 3: Do Children Learn Through Play? How Do We Know? -- Introduction -- Changing Values in Policy and Practice in the Nordic Countries -- Children's Play and Learning in Preschool -- The Study -- Location and Participants -- Methods, Methodology, and Analysis -- Ethical Considerations -- Findings and Discussion -- Similarities and Differences Between the Two Preschools -- Available Materials and Organization of the Indoor Environment -- The Choice Processes and Play in the Chosen Areas -- The Differences Observed During Group Time -- Different Degrees of Participation Appearing in the Preschools -- Pedagogy for Children's Play and Learning -- Policy for Children's Play and Learning -- Final Words -- References -- 4: Practicing Belonging in Kindergarten: Children's Use of Places and Artifacts -- Introduction and Background -- Theoretical Framework -- Method and Analysis -- Mike -- Discussion -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- 5: Parental Involvement in ECEC in Finland and in Sweden -- Introduction.
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    Urbanization and Regional Sustainability in South Asia : Socio-Economic Drivers, Environmental Pressures and Policy Responses (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030237967
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (339 pages)
    Series Statement: Contemporary South Asian Studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 330.91732
    Keywords: Urban economics.. ; Urban geography.. ; Municipal government.. ; Emigration and immigration ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Drivers of Urbanization -- 1 Introduction: Learning from Urbanisation in South Asia -- 1.1 Drivers of Urbanisation -- 1.2 Pressures on the Environment -- 1.3 Restructuring Adapted Spaces -- 1.4 Societal Effects of Urbanisation -- 1.5 Policy Issues -- 1.6 Lessons from South Asia -- References -- 2 Mapping of Urban Growth Dynamics in Kolkata Metropolitan Area: A Geospatial Approach -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Methodology -- 2.2.1 Study Area -- 2.2.2 Data Processing -- 2.3 Analysis and Discussion -- 2.3.1 Growth of Kolkata Metropolitan Area -- 2.3.2 Mean Centre of Population -- 2.3.3 Land-Use and Land-Cover Change from 2000 to 2010 -- 2.3.4 Salient Features of Urban Growth in KMA -- 2.4 Conclusion -- References -- 3 Sikkim-Once a Captivating au Naturel Himalayan Kingdom in the Light of Its Growing Urbanscape -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Sikkim's Present Geographical Setting -- 3.3 The Changing Population Scenario -- 3.4 The Emerging Urbanscape and Its Various Expressions -- 3.4.1 The Spread of Towns and Development -- 3.4.2 Cosmopolitan Cohesion -- 3.4.3 The New Infrastructure and Comfort -- 3.4.4 Appearance of Slums and Squatters -- 3.5 The Environmental Transformations at a Glance -- 3.6 Conclusion -- References -- 4 Migration and Entry to Urban Street Food Market: A Study of Selected Street Food Vendors in Delhi -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Survey Design -- 4.2.1 Objective -- 4.2.2 Study Area -- 4.2.3 Methodology -- 4.3 Results -- 4.4 Discussion -- 4.5 Conclusion -- References -- Pressures on the Environment -- 5 Disaster Risk Mitigation Strategies in the Southwestern Coastal Region of Bangladesh -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Background -- 5.2.1 Impact of Natural Disasters in Bangladesh: An Analytical View -- 5.2.2 Major Economic Activities in Coastal Zones.
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    Transforming Education Outcomes in Africa : Learning from Togo (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030127084
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (114 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 370.96
    Keywords: Education-Aims and objectives-Africa ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Chapter 1 Learning in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Abstract -- 1.1 Introduction -- Appendix -- References -- Chapter 2 Primary Education in Togo -- Abstract -- 2.1 Primary Education Since the Year 2000 -- 2.2 Closer Look at the Introduction of Free Primary Education -- 2.3 Learning Outcomes -- 2.4 Is Togo a Special Case? -- 2.5 Conclusion to the Chapter -- Annex -- References -- Chapter 3 Drivers of Performance -- Abstract -- 3.1 Introduction and Motivation -- 3.2 Scholastic Inputs, Efficiency and Performance -- 3.3 Data -- 3.4 Estimation Results -- 3.5 The Demand Side: Determinants of School Enrollment -- 3.6 Conclusions -- Appendix -- References -- Chapter 4 Student Learning and Teacher Competence -- Abstract -- 4.1 Introduction to the Chapter -- 4.2 SDI Data -- 4.3 Descriptive Evidence -- 4.3.1 Pupils' Knowledge -- 4.3.2 Regional Differences -- 4.3.3 Teachers Knowledge -- 4.4 Analysis of Variance -- 4.5 Regression Analysis -- 4.6 Concluding Remarks -- Appendix -- References -- Chapter 5 Policy Suggestions and Concluding Remarks -- Abstract -- 5.1 Summary of Main Findings -- 5.2 What Can Be Done? -- Reference -- Correction to: Transforming Education Outcomes in Africa -- Correction to: J. Hoogeveen and M. Rossi (eds.), Transforming Education Outcomes in Africa, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12708-4 -- Index.
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    A Psychology of Liberation and Peace : For the Greater Good (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030135973
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (188 pages)
    Series Statement: Pan-African Psychologies Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.896
    Keywords: Blacks-Psychology.. ; Blacks-Ethnic identity-Psychological aspects.. ; Race relations-Psychological aspects.. ; Liberty-Psychological aspects.. ; Peace-Psychological aspects ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- A Case Illustration of Racialized Violence -- Racialized Violence and Black People -- Racial Identity Theory: An Explanatory Conceptualization and Framework for Action -- Black People at War? -- References -- Chapter 2 Violence and Racialized Lives -- Defining Violence -- How Violence Operates in Racialized Societies -- A Rare Look at the Other Side of the Racial Construction of Violence -- The Reproduction of Racialized Violence: When African-Descended People Revolt -- The Constancy and Spread of Violence in Present-Day Societies -- Structural Violence, Poverty and Wealth -- Education -- Blacks in Urban Settings: How Violence Begets Violence -- Mass Incarceration: A Close Look at the Free and Unfree -- Looking Ahead -- References -- Chapter 3 How Racial Identity Theory Is Relevant to Liberation and Peace Psychology -- A Re-formulation of Racial Identity Theory -- The Final Status of Development -- The Process -- The Two Projects -- Resistance to Healthy Racial Identity Development -- Protecting White People and Claiming Neutrality to Race -- Fear of Retaliation Violence by White Hate Groups -- Hidden Realities That Blind Us to Racialized Violence -- Desire to Dissociate from Undesirables -- A Lack of Hope -- References -- Chapter 4 Waging Liberation and Peace -- Seeing the Self in the Other, the Other in the Self -- Cultural and Sociopolitical Education and Communication -- Policing, Mass Incarceration, and Prison Reform -- Insurgency -- Two Illustrations of Urban-Focused Liberation and Peace Work -- Yasser Payne and Street Participatory Action Research -- Ginwright and Leadership Excellence -- When Culture and Race Combine at the Cost of Black Children's Safety -- Aaron Bailey -- References.
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    The Values of Independent Hip-Hop in the Post-Golden Era : Hip-Hop's Rebels (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030024819
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (190 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.484249
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Abstract -- Overview of Research -- Theoretical Framework -- Relations of Domination and Culture -- Oppositional Consciousness and Social Movement Activism -- Previous Research on the History of Hip-Hop Culture -- Politics of Hip-Hop Culture -- The Fall of the Golden Era -- Resistance from the Underground -- The Role of Race and Gender in Hip-Hop -- Racial Inequality and the Perpetuation of Racial Stereotypes -- What Is "Real" Hip-Hop? -- Another Claim at Authenticity via Glocalization -- Is It an All-Male World? -- Oppositional Consciousness -- The Message in the Music and the Formation of Oppositional Consciousness -- What Can the Message Do for You? -- Hip-Hop Activism -- The Future of Hip-Hop? -- Data and Methodology -- Content Analysis of Independent Hip-Hop Lyrics -- Interviews with Independent Hip-Hop Listeners -- Overview of Major Findings -- References -- Chapter 2 Just Say No to the Majors: Independent Hip-Hop Culture -- Abstract -- Resistance to the "Majors" -- Resistance to Mainstream Artists Who "Sell Out" -- Resistance to Major Radio Stations -- Rejection of Interactions with Record Labels -- Fighting Back Against the Majors -- Creation of Independent Labels and Culture -- Rejection and Rebellion Against the Majors -- Independent Hip-Hop as an Alternative Culture -- For the "Love" of the Music Regardless of Money -- "Keeping It Real" -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 Just Say No to 360s: Hip-Hop's Claim of Economic Exploitation -- Abstract -- The "Takeover" Part I: Independent Artists Claim Exploitation by the Majors -- The Beginnings: Major Labels Corporatize Hip-Hop and Its Music -- Major Label Contracts: A Site of Economic Exploitation -- Artist Development Contracts -- 360 Degree Contracts.
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    Writing Friendship : A Reciprocal Ethnography (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030265427
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (196 pages)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology Ser.
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    DDC: 305.80072
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    Children's Voices from the Past : New Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030118969
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (349 pages)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood Ser.
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    DDC: 305.2309
    Keywords: Children-History ; Electronic books
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    Theorizing Stupid Media : De-Naturalizing Story Structures in the Cinematic, Televisual, and Videogames (2019)
    Cham : Springer International Publishing AG
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    ISBN: 9783030281762
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (232 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.23
    Keywords: Mass media-History and criticism ; Electronic books
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    Human Well-Being and Policy in South Asia (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030332709
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (186 pages)
    Series Statement: Human Well-Being Research and Policy Making Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306
    Keywords: Quality of life-South Asia ; South Asia-Economic conditions ; Quality of life-South Asia.. ; South Asia-Economic conditions ; Electronic books
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    Are We Postmodern Yet? : And Were We Ever? (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030305697
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (333 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.39999999999998
    Keywords: Postmodernism-Social aspects ; Electronic books
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    Persisting Patriarchy : Intersectionalities, Negotiations, Subversions (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030214883
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (247 pages)
    Series Statement: New Approaches to Religion and Power Ser.
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    DDC: 306.8580954
    Keywords: Patriarchy-India ; Electronic books
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    Sport Entrepreneurship and Public Policy : Building a New Approach to Policy-Making for Sport (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030294588
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (207 pages)
    Series Statement: Contributions to Management Science Ser.
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    DDC: 306.483
    Keywords: Sports and state ; Electronic books
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    Letters to the Editor : Comparative and Historical Perspectives (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030264802
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (193 pages)
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    DDC: 302.23
    Keywords: Journalism-Social aspects ; Electronic books
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    Children and Adolescents in Times of Crises in Europe (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030163310
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (214 pages)
    Series Statement: Children's Well-Being: Indicators and Research Ser. v.20
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.235
    Keywords: Youth-Social life and customs ; Youth-Social life and customs ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Children and Adolescents in Times of Crisis in Europe -- Current State of Research -- Complex Crises -- The Contributions -- References -- Contents -- About the Contributors -- Part I: Methodological Challenges of a Child-Oriented Crises Research -- Chapter 1: Theories for a Childhood and Youth-Related Crisis Research -- Introduction -- Social-Theoretical Recourse -- Durkheim and Moral Crisis -- Breaching or Crisis Experiments of Ethnomethodology -- Bourdieu and the Crises of Dispositional Systems -- Society Within the Subject and the Subject of Society -- Problem-Related Convergences -- Epistemological Divergences -- Habitus as Analytical Concept -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: Crises and Future Expectations from the Perspective of Children and Adolescents -- Introduction -- The Neoliberal Crisis: Bourdieu's Social Theory and Its Empirical Access -- Crisis Research: The Actors as Focus -- Bourdieu's Missing Developmental Perspective -- Bourdieu's Missing Perspective in Childhood and Adolescent Research -- The Weight of the World on Children and Adolescents -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Epistemological Questions of Qualitative Crisis Research. Exploring the Attitudes of Children and Adolescents on Migration and Meritocratic Ideas of Society -- Exploratory Interviews -- Nisrin "Do They Just Sit Around at Home All Day?" -- Johanna "The First Thing Is to Do Away with War…" -- Exploring Children's Subjectivity -- Foundations of Childhood- and Adolescence-Centred Crisis Research -- Children and Adolescents on the Subjective Level -- Pedagogical Conditions -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Impacts of Crises -- Chapter 4: Insecure Right from the Start? Socialization Effects of Parental Self-Perceived Job Insecurity -- Introduction.
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    Framing Big Data : A Linguistic and Discursive Approach (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030167882
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (123 pages)
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    DDC: 303.4833
    Keywords: Big data-Social aspects.. ; Linguistics.. ; Digital humanities ; Electronic books
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    Handbook of Population (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030109103
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (909 pages)
    Edition: 2nd ed.
    Series Statement: Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research Ser.
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    DDC: 304.6
    Keywords: Population-Handbooks, manuals, etc.. ; Demography-Handbooks, manuals, etc ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This is the most comprehensive reference collection on population in the last 40 years. It represents the first effort to assess the entire field. The chapter authors are among the leading contributors to demographic scholarship over the past four decades.
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    Power-Sharing and Consociational Theory (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030141912
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (391 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.69
    Keywords: Conflict management.. ; Peace-building ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- References -- Chapter 2 What Is Consociation? -- Lijphart's Concept of Consociation -- Grand Coalition -- Segmental Autonomy -- Proportionality -- Veto Power -- Does the System Promote Stability in Plural Societies? -- References -- Part I A Quantitative Assessment of Consociation -- Chapter 3 The Plural Societies for Which Consociation Is Prescribed -- References -- Chapter 4 Empirically Depicting Consociation's Role -- Part 1: Dependent Variable Representing the Goal of Stability -- Part 2: Independent Variables Representing Consociation -- Segmental Autonomy -- Proportionality -- Minority Veto Power -- Part 3: Control Variables -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5 Quantitative Results -- Describing the Data -- Statistical Results -- Multiple Regression Analyses -- Scatterplots -- Factor Analyses -- Assessing the Value of These Quantitative Results -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6 Comparison of this Project's Quantitative Findings with Others' Evaluations of Consociation's Effects -- Responses to Lijphart's Work in This Area: Is It Scientifically Falsifiable? -- Critical Analyses of the Conditions Identified by Lijphart as Conducive to Consociation's Success -- Previous Quantitative Evaluations of Concepts Related to Consociation -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II A Qualitative Examination of Consociation's Role in Seven Cases -- Chapter 7 Supposed Cases of Historical Success Experiencing Significant Instability: Canada and Belgium -- Canada -- Belgium -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8 Some of Consociation's Most Celebrated Successes: Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Austria -- Switzerland -- The Netherlands -- Austria -- Conclusion -- References.
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    Beyond Capitalism : Machines, Work and Property (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030207694
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (196 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.3
    Keywords: Economics-Sociological aspects ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Preface -- Bibliography -- Contents -- Introduction to the Book by Giulio Sapelli -- 1: The Global Crisis Caused by Deflation -- Transformation of Global Capitalism, Deflation with Unemployment and Rhetoric Around Intergenerational Conflict -- Public Spending and Social Reproduction: Overturning the Rhetoric -- Transformation of Public Intervention in the Crisis in the US and Japan -- The European Exception to the Generational Narrative -- Deficit and Debt -- Low Growth, Demographics, Labour: Problems to Be Solved -- Social Reproduction Is Difficult -- European Growth Is Possible Only If the Public Debt Paradigm Changes -- Europe Is the Epicentre of Deflation and Power Imbalance -- France and Germany -- Neo-colonialism and Neo-imperialism -- New Areas of State: Between Leviathan and Behemoth -- Bibliography -- 2: Financialised, High-tech Capitalism Based on Modern Slavery -- The Advent of Owner Capitalism: Ordoliberalism and New Technologies -- A New Kondratieff Cycle -- A Technology for Long-term Stagnation? -- Mechanics, Commodities, Labour -- Soul of the Capitalist Machinery -- Why Should We Research Workers and Employees Today? -- Disappearance of Trade Unions: Deinstitutionalised Capitalism? -- Bibliography -- 3: Is a Non-capitalist Economy Possible? -- Histories, Wars, Markets -- The Problem Is Ownership and Its Variable Forms -- Faith? -- Bibliography -- 4: Freedom and Diversity: The Anticapitalist Revolution -- More on Allocation of Ownership -- Common Goods -- Bibliography -- 5: Against Rhetoric, Back to Theory and Struggle -- Living Worlds … Communities? -- People: Our Strength -- Bibliography -- 6: Blowing into the Bottle -- Adriano Olivetti and the Language of Hope -- Index.
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    Focal Points in Negotiation (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030279011
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (240 pages)
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    DDC: 302.3
    Keywords: Negotiation ; Electronic books
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    Representing the Experience of War and Atrocity : Interdisciplinary Explorations in Visual Criminology (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030139254
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (262 pages)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture Ser.
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    DDC: 303.66
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction -- Eye -- Experience -- Visual Representations of War and Atrocity: The Contributions -- References -- 2 Georges Bataille's Paleolithic Cave Art and the Human Condition -- The Word Is Dead -- Atrocity and the Bourgeois Worldview -- The Lascaux Cave Paintings -- Prohibition and Taboo in Wartime Situations -- The Cave Paintings as Language -- Rebels -- Sovereignty -- References -- 3 The Aesthetics of Violence -- Introduction -- The Phenomenology of the Imaging of War -- Agamben and the Image as Apparatus -- Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State: Imaging Jihadi Terrorism and the Construction of the "Subject" -- The They Self of Al-Qaeda and the Transformation of the Subject -- Islamic State: The New Jihadi-Salafist-They -- The Islamic Subject and the Enemy: Aesthesis and the Imagery of the Islamic State -- Closing Reflections -- References -- 4 Images of Atrocity: From Victimhood to Redemption and the Implications for a (Narrative) Victimology -- Introduction -- Kim Phuc: From Napalm Girl to Goodwill Ambassador -- Documentary Photography as Public Narrative -- Documentary Photography and Private Narrative -- War, Atrocity and Victimhood -- Conclusion: Narrative Victimology and Theoretical Lacunae -- References -- 5 Fathers and Sons: Loss and Truth in War Films from Bosnia and Sri Lanka -- Introduction -- The Contexts of War and Postwar -- Telling the Stories: Narrative Plots -- Death on a Full Moon Day (Purahanda Kaluwara) -- Fuse (Gori Vatra) -- Masculine Alterities -- Impairments-The Blind and the Seeing -- Rejecting Community-Outsiders and Keepers of the Memory -- Resisting State Ideology-Unheroic Manhood -- Into Patriarchies-Fathers and Daughters -- Toward Conclusions -- References -- 6 Implicit Criminologies in the Filmic Representations of Genocide -- Introduction.
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    Invisibility in Visual and Material Culture (2019)
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    ISBN: 9783030162917
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (242 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306
    Keywords: Invisibility-Social aspects ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1 Invisibility Matters -- Works Cited -- Chapter 2 Archaeologists of the Off-Screen: Harun Farocki and Trevor Paglen -- Genesis I: The Image Factory -- Exodus: A Brief History of Operational Images -- Numbers: Façade and Functionality -- Genesis II: The Cloud Factory -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3 Literary Device: Invisible Light and a Photo of Photography -- The Impact of Invisible Light -- Blind Amnesia -- Literary Invisibility -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4 Tomas van Houtryve's Packing Heat and the Culture of Surveillance -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5 Neurointerfaces, Mental Imagery and Sensory Translation in Art and Science in the Digital Age -- Mental Images and the Problem of Mediated Representation -- Sensory Translation in Artistic Perspective -- From Images to Mental Images -- From Mental Images to Images -- From Images to Constellations of Signals -- From Mental Images to Datasets -- From Mental Images to Movements -- From Haptic Stimulation to Recognizable and Non-recognizable Images -- In Conclusion: Artistic Epistemologies -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6 Invisibility and the Ethics of Erasure: Khaled Barakeh's The Untitled Images -- Works Cited -- Chapter 7 Neither Visible Nor Hidden: The Structuring of the Sensible -- Introduction -- The Photograph -- The Invisible of the Image Is Central to These Processes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8 Reading the Invisible in Marjane Satrapi's Graphic Memoir Embroideries -- Visual Culture, Power and Reading -- Looking at the Other in Embroideries -- Reading the Invisible: Seeing Eye to I -- Works Cited -- Chapter 9 Hearing and Seeing the In/Visible: Anne Charlotte Robertson's Five Year Diary -- Five Year Diary: Brass Tacks -- Hearing, Seeing, Madness.
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