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Decolonizing Bodies explores processes of racialization through decolonial and radical relational lenses. It weaves together theory and the author’s personal stories to examine how human bodies and whole nations are racialized by late capitalism’s colonial...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-13
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The historic centre of the southern European city of Naples has been shaped by opposing urban processes throughout the 2010s and into the 2020s. On the one hand, touristification has led to the financialisation of housing, the displacement of inhabitants and everyday...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-13
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This open-access book highlights recent setbacks that threaten women’s human rights and positions achieved through feminist activism and commitment in academia and civil society. Almost three decades after the Beijing Conference and the Platform for Action, this book...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-01-13
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This book explores how Internet use empowers users and the range of economic and social implications of these impacts.This is the first systematic study of how the Internet and online social networks reconfigure the life choices and opportunity sets Chinese people of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-13
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This book reveals how ableism permeates cultural portrayals of crime. What does it mean to consume crime narratives that are so thoroughly ableist? While there are many interpretations of crime in media, there is not yet a sustained analysis of its ableist underpinnings...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-12
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This two-volume set provides insights not only into issues of criminology, but also criminal justice issues that are generally not at the forefront of Caribbean scholarship, for example, remand detention and the Caribbean Court of Justice.This volume focusses on crime,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-11
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This open access book offers a unique and timely investigation of the multifaceted relationship between migration and European cities. Its chapters critically examine the historical, economic, socio-spatial, cultural and policy–political dimensions of the...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-01-10
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This book addresses the pressing challenges of the twenty-first century—an era marked by crises and uncertainty—by advocating for anthropology’s vital role in fostering compassionate intercultural dialogue and promoting harmonious coexistence between...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-10
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There are more ways of connecting and communicating via technology than ever before. Yet loneliness is on the rise as we begin to experience an 'attachment crisis' in forming and maintaining intimate relationships. Enter sex robots. Built from the bodies of sex dolls,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2026-01-09
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This book examines our understanding of the ways in which we produce and consume archaeological knowledge and proposes that this should play a greater role in our attempts to describe and comprehend the nature and purpose of archaeology, and the nature of archaeological...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-01-09
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This book uses the author's personal narrative as a tool to explore environmental sociological thinking and broader societal issues. The author not only traces the birth of environmental sociology as a research field but also emphasizes the crucial role of environmental...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-09
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This book demonstrates the multi-disciplinary nature of the contemporary fashion industry. Edited and authored by leading scholars and industry experts, this comprehensive volume explores how ethnicity influences every facet of fashion—from design and production to...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-01-09
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Hartmut Rosa is a leading social theorist whose books on social acceleration and resonance have become milestones in discussions about the problems and promises of late modern societies. Rosa not only presents a critical diagnosis of our times but also searches for...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2026-01-09
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This book examines the serious dysfunction of the nation's family courts--a dysfunction that too often results in the courts' failure to protect the people they were designed to help. Specifically, the authors chronicle cases in which mothers who believe their children...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-01-08
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In June 1969, police raided New York gay bar the Stonewall Inn. Pride charts the events of that night, the days and nights of rioting that followed, the ensuing organization of local members of the community – and the 50 years since in which activists and ordinary...
Editeur :
Welbeck
Parution :
2026-01-08
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This book examines the modalities of learning and development of older persons. It calls upon theoretical perspectives that conceptualise people both in their unicity and in their cultural and historical inscriptions – here, mainly, sociocultural psychology and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-01-07
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This book provides an in-depth exploration of women's resilience, leadership and empowerment through Indigenous knowledge and their crucial roles in various socio-cultural contexts across the world. It challenges the conventional narrative, highlighting the strength and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-01-07
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Als Exekutivorgan des staatlichen Gewaltmonopols muss die Polizei Bürgernähe, Transparenz, aber auch die Durchsetzungskraft des Rechtsstaates in sich vereinen. Der Anspruch an die Polizeibeamtinnen und Beamten muss also sein, in ihrem dienstlichen Alltag...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2026-01-07
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This book explores violence in Latin America societies and its social representations in cinema. Just as mass media can legitimize and reproduce patterns and discourses of discrimination, they can also serve to raise awareness and change minds about social issues such...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-06
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This edited collection illuminates what the concept of a specifically epistemic type of injustice has to offer socio-legal analysts. The epistemic aspects of injustice comprise more than knowledges, meaning and understanding, to include the supporting material and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-06
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