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An incredibly wide-ranging critical account of popular music. The book is an essential resource for all staff and students in the field' - John Storey, Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland Organized in accessible sections and...
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Every year, the month of October is decked out in pink, with countless posters calling on people to crusade against breast cancer through mammography. Why are public health officials, doctors, associations and laboratories so keen to do this? Are women really well...
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Das Thema «Kinderfachabteilungen» wird in seinen vielseitigen Dimensionen dargestellt. Dabei handelte es sich im Zweiten Weltkrieg um etwa 30 Tötungsstätten in der Psychiatrie und anderen Heileinrichtungen im «Großdeutschen Reich», in denen über 5.000 geistig und...
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Kann ein Altenpflegeheim ein neues Zuhause werden? Dieser Frage geht diese Mikrostudie, eine empirische Ethnographie der eigenen Kultur, über mehrere Jahre nach. Gegensätzliche Kriterien, die kaum miteinander vereinbar sind, treffen zusammen: Der caritative Gedanke, den...
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The collective monograph contains the results of an empirical project conducted in Armenia and Georgia as well as in Moscow (as the favourite destination of migrants from the South Caucasus) from 2008 to 2010.The book is the first contribution to comparative research in...
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Die Wilden Cliquen Berlins erregten in den letzten Jahren der Weimarer Republik großes Aufsehen. Viele ihrer Zeitgenossen sahen in den provokativ auftretenden devianten Jugendgruppen eine Manifestation der sozialen, moralischen und politischen Not. Dabei stellten die...
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This book presents original research on the practical creation or use of places, homes, senses of loyalty and feelings of togetherness among Muslim minorities in Europe. The individual chapters deal with examples of Muslim «homing» or «sense-making» strategies, or the...
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Der alte Fokus inner- und zwischenstaatlicher Konflikte im Nahen Osten ist seit der Errichtung einer autonomen Region Kurdistan im Irak und den militärischen Interventionen der Türkei und des Iran gegen dort befindliche Rückzugsgebiete der Guerilla der PKK und der PJAK...
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A political science approach integrates multidisciplinary case studies about culture and language from multiple perspectives. Culture and language are viewed broadly with topics ranging widely across the conflict/cooperation continuum of human activities. Case studies...
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This volume is an exciting contribution to debates about identity and citizenship both in the UK and elsewhere. By examining the view from abroad, through popular cultural transmission, education, and travel and migration, the transnational nature of Britishness and the...
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Scrapbooks, Snapshots and Memorabilia: Hidden Archives of Performance asks the questions: What constitutes an archive? What is worthy of being archived? And who decides? Performances are ephemeral, so archival questions of selection and appraisal determine which...
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The Irish National Theatre Society began its centenary in 2004 with ambitious theatrical events at home and abroad. By the end of the year, however, the company was close to financial ruin, culminating in its dissolution and subsequent reestablishment.The financial...
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Ulster’s marching bands form perhaps the most vibrant participatory folk music tradition in contemporary Europe, and are one of the most significant and visible elements of working-class loyalist culture in the divided society of Northern Ireland. Their significance...
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Perceived inequalities, such as the lack of a proper job or bad living conditions, can play the role of push factors that make people migrate. Apart from this, there are studies which focus more on relative deprivation, exacerbated by inequality, as a basic determinant...
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This book discusses narrative as an adaptive cultural mechanism among Gypsies in Serbia. As a key traditional trait of Serbian Gypsies, storytelling, conveyed along kin generations, influences the behavior of all who listen. Since their appearance in the Balkans...
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Imaginative representations of different cultures are one of the major stumbling blocks to understanding, deepening the gap between people as they are passed from one text to another, especially in periods of historical transition. These transfers are sometimes...
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Im Mittelpunkt des dänischen «Positivismusstreits» zwischen Svend Ranulf und Theodor Geiger steht die Diskussion unterschiedlicher methodologischer und methodischer Möglichkeiten und Voraussetzungen der quantitativen empirischen Sozialforschung.
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Most people desire peace but understand that military intervention is sometimes required as a last resort. This book argues that more attention must therefore be given to the study and practice of post-conflict reconciliation. The essays collected here look at the work...
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This volume is the first book-length study devoted to gossip in early modern France. Whereas many works that focus on other countries and periods have concentrated on the relationship between gossip and women, none has explored the crucial link between gossip and...
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This collection of essays celebrates twenty years of Women in French, a network of female academics working in the discipline of French Studies. Based on papers delivered at the group’s tenth biennial conference in Leeds, which was entitled ‘Le parcours’, the volume...
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