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This book investigates the widespread and persistent human rights violations against Dalits in India, with a focus on the erstwhile central Bihar from 1977 to the present day. Drawing on historical data, field interviews, judicial records, and human rights reports, the...
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Springer
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2026-02-20
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This book provides an invaluable overview of urban transitions in Africa with a focus on innovations that offer alternative development approaches of these areas. The key to a successful transition is the nature of system changes and the identification of what is needed...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-20
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This book pioneers a systematic inquiry into the link between theatrical performances and histories of Philippine labor migration in the late-20th and early-21st centuries. Focusing on plays mounted by Tanghalang Pilipino of the Cultural Center of the Philippines, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-20
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The book explores the politics of gendered belonging in the South Asian (SA) diaspora through the lens of migration. It focuses on the lives of contemporary postcolonial SA migrants, particularly women, through a critical analysis of select South Asian diaspora...
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Springer
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2026-02-20
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This book explores how the public problem of the Ukrainian refugees is constructed in political and media discourses, by looking into the public debates, strategic narratives and practices circulated with reference to this crisis. Taking into consideration the...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-19
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Silk Road Cultural Exchange between East and West and the Art of the Northern Steppes is a six-volume series; this book is Volume 1. From multiple historical perspectives, it examines artistic cultures along theSilk Road and the mechanisms of East–West exchange,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-19
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Interweaving Tapestries of Culture and Sexuality, Volume 2 looks at Caribbean sexuality from around the region and through different disciplines. These include sociology, gender, cultural studies, linguistics, and psychology with topics ranging from masculinity,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-19
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A former investigator with the police judiciaire, the author was directly involved in the Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès case. Based on authentic facts, unpublished documents and field observations, this account offers an unprecedented immersion behind the scenes of the...
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Max Milo Éditions
Parution :
2026-02-19
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This Open Access book explores the role and agency of stories and storytelling in understanding places and in revealing how places tell stories. It addresses themes of colonialism, more-than-human agency, environment, atmospheres, borders, dwelling, enchantment,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-18
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„Haltung“ ist in der Sozialpädagogik ein vielbeachteter Begriff mit einer langen Tradition. Umso bemerkenswerter erscheint es, dass er zwar vielfach im Diskurs aufgegriffen, bislang jedoch wenig erforscht wird. Die vorliegende Studie setzt an diesem...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2026-02-17
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This book presents a dialogue between two seemingly incompatible bodies of social theories - Critical Political Economy and Southern approaches - to the study of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. In doing so, the book presents scholarly engagement with the ways...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-17
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This work explores the main elements of Merleau-Ponty’s humanism: corporeity, perception, intersubjectivity, and the historical and political dimension of his thought. Through these themes, it becomes clear that Merleau-Ponty’s humanism offers an original and profound...
Editeur :
Mimesis International
Parution :
2026-02-16
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This book argues for reframing endometriosis as a chronic pain condition, rather than an infertility issue. Drawing from feminist theory, disability studies, historical and archival research, and personal, embodied knowledge of living with the disease, it analyzes the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-16
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Genesis and Structure of Society, Giovanni Gentile’s last work, was based on a university course and published posthumously in 1946. Between August and September 1943, Gentile proposed it as a means of providing comfort during a period of profound personal and national...
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Mimesis International
Parution :
2026-02-16
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This book approaches the study from architectural perspectives, analyzing the collection of brochs’ features and classifying them based on regional differences. By identifying regional standard models and hypothesizing design schemes, it reveals insights into the...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-16
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Die Evaluation von Interventionen, Programmen und Alltagshandeln in der Sozialer Arbeit bildet einen essenziellen Bestandteil der Profession. Dabei dient sie der Beantwortung grundlegender Fragen darüber, ob die Soziale Arbeit ihre selbstgesetzten Ziele erreicht,...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2026-02-16
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In recent years, export horticulture for European markets has been promoted across sub-Saharan Africa as a rural development strategy. International donors and local governments argue that expanding fruit-and-vegetable exports can spur economic transformation and reduce...
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Mimesis International
Parution :
2026-02-16
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Science and technology have become inextricably intertwined with people’s daily lives, profoundly influencing social relations, habits, lifestyles and work activities, and exerting a substantial influence on public opinion. In response to these changes, institutions are...
Editeur :
Mimesis International
Parution :
2026-02-16
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In den Bänden dieser Reihe werden erstmalig detailliert die wichtigsten Strömungen und Themen der ungemein fruchtbaren Periode der Soziologie der Zwischenkriegszeit im deutschen Sprachraum in theoretischer, empirischer und institutioneller Hinsicht dargelegt...
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Springer VS
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2026-02-16
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As a transformative thinker of the twentieth century, whose work spanned all branches of the humanities, Michel Foucault had a complex and profound relationship with literature. And yet this critical aspect of his thought, because it was largely expressed in speeches...
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Polity
Parution :
2026-02-16
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