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This open access edited volume addresses the multi-layered relations between migration, transnational flows, and the contested meanings of race in Asia. It tries to answer the following questions: how do migration and transnational flows from the Western world impact...
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Springer
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2025-03-06
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The volume examines urbanization and migration trends and their patterns in the light of India's emerging urban policy, planning and governance perspectives. It sheds light on the differences in urbanization between developed and less developed parts of the world, with...
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Springer
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2025-03-06
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Abrechnung – ein Begriff, der einen schonungslosen Blick erwarten lässt. Als Leitgedanke soll in diesem Buch eher mit dem Begriff gespielt werden. Der kalkulatorische Blick nimmt, wenn es um die Erklärung unseres Verhaltens geht, eine wichtige Rolle ein: Was bringt es?...
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Springer
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2025-03-06
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Part of the Performing Landscapes series, Performing Homescapes is an edited collection comprising a contemporary exploration of performing many iterations of landscapes of homes. Authors were invited to respond to a detailed brief with home to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-05
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This book provides a much-needed critical exploration of digital media interventions in Southeast Asia, while adopting a decolonial perspective to address issues such as digital inequality, mistrust, and the manipulation of digital spaces. By emphasizing State-society...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-04
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A memoir of family, color, and being Black, white, and other in America, from a preeminent historian “Intimate and searching.” —Natasha Trethewey, New York Times–bestselling author of Memorial Drive Named a Best Book of the Year by...
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Basic Books
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2025-03-04
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A fun and fascinating social history of the famed Katharine Gibbs School, which from the 1910s to the 1960s, trained women for executive secretary positions but surreptitiously was instilling the self-confidence and strategic know-how necessary for them to claim...
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Algonquin Books
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2025-03-04
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This book examines the role of the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) in public and scholarly discussions of the meaning of the Anthropocene proposal. The status of the Anthropocene, both as a geoscientific concept and as a cultural concept becoming increasingly familiar...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-03-03
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This open access edited volume focuses on fairness issues concerning the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for social service provision in national welfare systems. With this, it touches upon important questions in the innovation agenda of countries across continents...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-03-03
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Artificial Intelligence, Simulation and Society
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This volume explores contemporary caste dynamics in India, combining theoretical insights with rich empirical evidence. It offers an insightful examination of how caste practices, particularly concerning marginalized communities or Dalits, have transformed over the...
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Springer
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2025-03-02
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Using the theoretical framework of new economic geography and the research methods of GIS and econometrics, this book analyzes the impact of high-speed railway development on China's economic distribution, population mobility and regional integration. The development of...
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Springer
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2025-03-02
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Das Tableau der Nachhaltigkeitsziele der Vereinten Nationen fordert alle gesellschaftlichen Akteure heraus. Soll die globale Transformation in eine ressourcenorientierte Weltzivilisation gelingen, muss auch die Wissenschaft einen Beitrag für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2025-03-01
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This is an Open Access book.
Interprofessional communication remains both under-theorized and under-researched in healthcare contexts.This book aims to fill that gap by offering practitioners, policy makers, interprofessional curriculum builders, and students in the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-01
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This study aims to understand political transnationalism through the political incorporation of migrants in the receiving country. With a qualitative analysis of the perceptions of transnational second-generation Turks towards the political opportunity structures in...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2025-03-01
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In diesem Open Access Buch wird in einer Zeit, in der digitale Medien zunehmend an Bedeutung gewinnen, die dynamische Interaktion innerhalb digitaler Praxisgemeinschaften am Beispiel von Let’s Play-Videos auf YouTube untersucht. Die Autorin beleuchtet die sich...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2025-03-01
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This book centers the life histories of three women engaged in sex work in Kolkata, India to show how they make sense of their lived experiences and reveals deep insights into the risks women face in the current social environment of India. Much of the risk discourse...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-28
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The Palgrave Handbook of Ubuntu, Inequality and Sustainable Development interrogates the multiple inequalities that subsist in the world and explores how Ubuntu, emerging from Africa but being potentially applicable elsewhere, holds promise for mitigation and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-28
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This volume takes a global perspective on intersectionality embodied by Muslim women. It addresses questions such as balancing multiple identities, lived experiences and complex realities, and the role of faith in social roles. The chapters debunk the idea of Islam or...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-02-28
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This edited volume identifies and analyses the Eco-Weird as an interdisciplinary theoretical tool for engaging in fictional, philosophical, filmic, and ludic texts. It is the first volume to engage in the study of the Eco-Weird, which is a developing field at the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-28
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