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This book is the first full-length study of Marguerite Yourcenar's Le Labyrinthe du monde along environmental lines. Written by the first académicienne more than twenty years after Mémoires d’Hadrien, the three-volume work was her most ambitious undertaking. Drawing...
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In The Anti-Enlightenment in Popular Culture, author George A. Gonzalez argues that the politics of greed and hate lie at the center of the long twentieth century. Using the Star Wars and Star Trek franchises, he postulates that within the Anti-Enlightenment mode of...
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Douglas Kellner’s Re-Visioning Education: Cultural Studies, Critical Media and Digital Literacies, and Democracy provides a comprehensive account of his critical theory of education that combines his work in philosophy of education, cultural studies, and media and...
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We live in an age of digital ID. Through the digitisation of our biometric and demographic selves, digital ID converts human beings into digital data, which in turn mediates access to services and rights – be they public or private, commercial or not-for-profit,...
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El futbol es más que un deporte en México, es una parte fundamental de su cultura. Juego peligroso: historias de lucha y diversidad en el futbol femenil mexicano analiza el papel del futbol femenil en México en relación con la violencia de género, la visibilidad lésbica...
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«New media determine our dystopian situation. Miguel Sebastián-Martín maps the new media hell. Read this book to understand how SF reproduces our dystopian present and to find the cracks where the light gets in.»
(J. Jesse Ramírez, Eastern Switzerland University of...
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Over the last ten years or so, it has become commonplace to hear talk of an obscurantist threat linked to a rise in irrationality, manifested mainly by a mistrust of vaccination and conventional medicine. But obscurantism can also be found where we pride ourselves on...
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It is now beyond question that Arctic Region is experiencing an unprecedented andradical transformation. Due to the impacts of global warming, physical, climatic,and environmental conditions of the Arctic Region are rapidly changing. This rapidtransformation of the icy...
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«This volume is colossal in all senses: most obviously – at over 500 pages – in its sheer physical heft, but most importantly in its ambition, scope and achievement. It brings an unparalleled range of approaches to bear on Carroll’s neglected sequel and in doing so...
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Der Band rückt die kulturelle, ethnische, geografische und soziale Vielfalt des asiatischen Kontinents in den Vordergrund. Präsentiert werden Porträts von Menschen aus verschiedenen Ländern und Regionen Asiens, um einen tiefen Einblick in ihre Lebensweisen, Traditionen...
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How is the work of social workers shaped in terms of individuals and the internal organization of the structure? And how does the relationship between knowledge and practical knowledge affect professional vision, performance and choices of action? This book helps to...
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The 2020 global pandemic further underscored the need for justice and visibility for Black women. Despite occurring over two months earlier, the tragedy surrounding the killing of unarmed Breonna Taylor at the hands of police seemingly went unnoticed until the murder of...
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Im Eigenheim zu wohnen ist nach wie vor der meistgenannte Wohnwunsch in Deutschland, die aktuelle Politik und die Baulandnachfrage sind eindeutige Indizien hierfür. Zugleich sind Einfamilienhausgebiete als Siedlungstyp unspektakulär, als gesellschaftlicher Ort terra...
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Aus Beiträgen der Ringvorlesung „Die Welt retten!? Ein kritisch-interdiszi-plinärer Blick auf die Nachhaltigen Entwicklungsziele der Vereinten Nationen (SDGs)“ sowie der 17. Entwicklungspolitischen Hochschulwochen „Reduce Inequalities. Global denken, nachhaltig...
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Beats Not Beatings: The Rise of Hip Hop Criminology is a powerful radical intersectional scholarly-activist collection of liberation-based articles by "Mic" Crenshaw, Chandra Ward, Maurece Graham, Daniel White Hodge, Anthony J. Nocella II, Antonio Quintana, Andrea N....
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The approach to images as cultural documents of collective memory and instruments of social shaping builds a central theoretical component of cultural theories since its establishment as a critical discipline. Prominent thinkers ofcultural studies and art history...
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This book offers a new reading of the work of Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa. It provides a formal and detailed analysis of his films to suggest that Costa’s formal procedures generate a contingency of meaning. The book proposes that Costa’s films suggest a critical...
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How to respond to the challenge of climate change in Africa?Can the international climate court (ICC) make its contribution?This work raises the need to create an ICC (International Climate Court) in order to repair and reduce the environmental inequalities suffered by...
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The brain is the basis for the development of every individual’s imagination.The only safe that is a priori inviolable for any individual.Neurological rights or neuro-rights are atypical rights. Their legal framework is experiencing increasing development...
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The gap between health for all and the imperative of profitability of patents on medicines is enormous.This work highlights the eternal conflict between health for all and the imperative of profitability of intellectual property linked to patents on medicines in the...
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