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Dislocation, which involves moving from a familiar place to an unknown place, is a common experience in this era of globalization yet it can cause a deep sense of alienation – people feel invisible, voiceless, and anonymous. A Hermeneutic on Dislocation as Experience:...
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In der Schweiz aufgewachsene Kinder von Immigranten fühlen sich oft stark der Herkunftskultur bzw. dem Herkunftsland ihrer Eltern verbunden, obwohl sie diese(s) nicht oder nur sehr bedingt aus eigener Anschauung kennen. Wie kommt dieses – oftmals diffuse – Gefühl der...
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Subjekt, Objekt und Intersubjektivität bilden drei der wohl zentralsten Elemente im menschlichen Erkenntnisprozess. Anhand einer kritischen Rekonstruktion der Erkenntnistheorien Hegels und Adornos beleuchtet die vorliegende Arbeit die Dialektik zwischen Subjekt und...
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De Feuerbach à Derrida, de la gastronomie au cannibalisme et de la saveur à la terreur, cette étude décline les différentes postures du sujet mangeant. Plus précisément, et résolument ancré dans un corps placé au centre du présent volume, c’est d’abord un sujet phagique...
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Seit Anfang der 1990er Jahre ist eine Zunahme bei den Unternehmensgründungen durch Frauen zu erkennen. Diese Entwicklung weckte vor allem auf beschäftigungs- und wirtschaftspolitischer Seite hohe Erwartungen und stellte eine neue Herausforderung für Politik und...
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This book aims to study the intellectual lives of three Hong Kong intellectuals by narrating their lives as self-reflections on theories related to social margins. Drawing on insights from Paul Ricoeur, Hannah Arendt and Zygmunt Bauman, the author analyses their...
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This book is the result of a field research carried out by the author among a community of agriculturists in what was till recently the uttermost part of Southern Pakistani Balochistan. It deals with themes such as ways of living and representing spaces, constructing...
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Questo libro intende offrire una nuova prospettiva interpretativa di tre romanzi della letteratura femminile italiana scritti tra Ottocento e Novecento: Un matrimonio in provincia (1885) di Marchesa Colombi, Teresa (1886) di Neera e Una donna (1906) di Sibilla Aleramo....
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In the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, concerns about the environment and the future of global capitalism have dominated political and social agendas worldwide. The culture of excess underlying these concerns is particularly evident in the issue of...
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Geniale Entdeckungen wie auch gewöhnliche Praxen aus den Formal-, Ingenieur- und Naturwissenschaften prägen die Gartenkunst der Neuzeit. Seit jeher reagierte die Gartenkunst auf wissenschaftliche Revolutionen und gab wissenschaftlichen Ergebnissen, Methoden und Stilen...
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Diese Studie befasst sich mit der Entstehung von PEN-Zentren in der Schweiz und zeigt die Haltung ihrer Präsidenten als Schweizer Delegierte an den jährlich stattfindenden Kongressen des Internationalen PEN-Clubs, der sich in den Dreissiger- und Vierzigerjahren vor...
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New theories and theory-based methodological approaches have found their way into Comparative Education – just as into Comparative Social Science more generally – in increasing number in the recent past. The essays of this volume express and critically discuss quite a...
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Carefully researched and highly readable, this textbook explores what enables good and effective practice in local authority field social work delivered to children, young people and their families.
The book sets the context for local authority social work practice...
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Original, fresh and relevant this is a theoretically-informed practical guide to researching social relations. The text provides a mixed methods approach that challenges historical divisions between quantitative and qualitative research. It adopts a...
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This book details the evolution of Bengali culture (in both Bangladesh and West Bengal) since antiquity and argues for its modernization. Originally peripheral to Hindu civilization based in North India, Bengali culture was subjected to various forms of Sanskritization....
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"A sprightly, critical and intelligent guided tour around the mansion of media and communications/cultural research... enormously useful for students and researchers." - James Curran, Goldsmiths, University of London "A highly comprehensive guide to core concepts in...
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Derek Robbins has shown once again that he is one of the few Anglophone scholars with an exceptionally profound and impressively comprehensive knowledge of the history of modern European social thought. This book is a must for anybody interested in twentieth-century...
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This innovative book provides students and researchers alike with an indispensible introduction to the key theoretical issues and practical methods needed for data collection. It uses clear definitions, relevant interdisciplinary examples from around the world and...
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In order for science to advance, previous research findings must be reviewed and criticized. However, conveying criticism is particularly difficult for scientists who must, at the same time, try to maintain an impersonal stance. This co-edited collection of independent...
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The volume is an attempt to assess the meanings of 1989, in particular the multiple transformation processes and their effects in Eastern Europe. Obviously, the realities of the post-communist transformations have not met the expectations. Were the expectations too...
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