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Society & culture: general

Hardcover. Norway, Sweden, and Denmark are home to more than 90,000 transnational adoptees of Scandinavian parents raised in a predominantly white environment. This ethnography provides a unique perspective on how these transracial adoptees conceptualize and construct their sense of identity along the intersection of ethnicity, family, and national lines. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DN; JFSL; JHBK; JKSF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 570.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137480644
ISBN
9781137480644
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.39

Hardcover. Today, there is new appeal in the analysis of ethnicity, not merely as innate and fixed identities or fragmented and lost identities, but rather as wounded and then creatively reclaimed. Kearney discusses international examples of cultural wounding and healing and presents two close readings of emerging ethnicities in Australia and Brazil. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 1MBF; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137480569
ISBN
9781137480569
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.36

Hardcover. This book investigates how films made about the URA since the 1990s have engaged with, reproduced and contested cultural memories of the organisation, discussing how directors have addressed questions of narrativization, trauma, intergenerational connection, and political subjectivity as they engage in the politics of cultural memory on screen. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 156 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJPL; JFD; JPWQ; KNTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 334.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137480347
ISBN
9781137480347
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.25

hardcover. This book enriches empirical and theoretical understandings of how school choice and school segregation are generated by the construction and negotiation of ethnic divisions by placing emphasis on feelings of belonging and we-ness as important structuring forces that guide and restrict students' school choices. Num Pages: 108 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFFN; JNFR; JNLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 291.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2015th Edition
Number of pages
108
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137480064
ISBN
9781137480064
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.94
€ 55.40

Hardcover. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 170 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3F; BGX; HRC; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 16. Weight in Grams: 365.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Number of pages
170
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137479631
ISBN
9781137479631
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.99

Hardcover. Shaped by the experiences of the Iranian Revolution, Iranian-American autobiographers use this chaotic past to tell their current stories in the United States. Wagenknecht analyzes a wide range of such writing and draws new conclusions about migration, exile, and life between different and often clashing cultures. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137479617
ISBN
9781137479617
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.73

Paperback. This book shows how the individual constructs a self from the thousands of colloquial identities provided by a society's culture, and reveals how the individual actualizes and sustains an integrated and stable self while navigating the sometimes treacherous waters of everyday institutional life. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFP; JFSC; JHB; JMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 217 x 13. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137479600
ISBN
9781137479600
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 82.92

Hardcover. This book explores the processes of migration and integration within the West African sub-region and unearths subsisting promises and failures of the ECOWAS' intent of transmuting the sub-region into a single socio-economic (and political) entity. Num Pages: 139 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFFN; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 13. Weight in Grams: 326.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137479525
ISBN
9781137479525
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.15

Hardback. This edited volume presents a critique of citizenship as exclusively and even originally a European or 'Western' institution. It explores the ways in which we may begin to think differently about citizenship as political subjectivity. Series: Palgrave Studies in Citizenship Transitions. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JHBA; JPS; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 510.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137479495
ISBN
9781137479495
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.05

Hardcover. Rebel Friendships explores the ties between people connected through affinity and efforts aimed at social change. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFP; JFSJ; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137479310
ISBN
9781137479310
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.64

Hardcover. The assumptions made in the media regarding graduate skills and occupations are no longer valid within the changing educational context. This book traces seven key trends that shape the graduate labour market and reveals that their effects contradict the conceptualisation of the graduate labour market which dominates media and policy discourses. Num Pages: 106 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JHBL; JN; KCF; KCFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 160 x 14. Weight in Grams: 274.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137479068
ISBN
9781137479068
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.86

Hardback. This study is based on the authors' fieldwork inside Cultural Enterprise Office, a small Scottish agency that supports creative businesses. It discusses UK policy on the creative economy, the rise of intermediaries between policy-making and the marketplace, and the playing out in the delivery of business advice services to creative microbusinesses. Num Pages: 142 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; JFC; JFD; KJP; KNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 335.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
142
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137478870
ISBN
9781137478870
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.13

Hardback. Giving the first overarching, empirically grounded, critical analysis of child trafficking as an idea, ordering principle, and artefact of politics, this book deconstructs the child trafficking paradigm, contrasts it with 'real histories of child and youth labour and mobility, and seeks to explain it by going 'inside the anti-trafficking field. Series: Palgrave Studies on Children and Development. Num Pages: 178 pages, 3 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFSP1; JKV; LNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Number of pages
178
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137478177
ISBN
9781137478177
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 182.99

Hardback. Social Capital in Development Planning updates and advances the debate on social capital, through the analysis of the application of the concept of social capital to programs for sustainable and smart socio-economic development; empirical findings; and a new paradigm for development planning. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFFP; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 475.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
275
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137478009
ISBN
9781137478009
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.82

Hardback. This volume explores the manifold relations between nation and childhood. Millei and Imre bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to address pressing questions about the regulation of childhood through national agendas, ideals of childhood and their role in national projects, and accounts of children's life as national subjects. Editor(s): Millei, Zsuzsa; Imre, Robert. Series: Critical Cultural Studies of Childhood. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JNF; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 170 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 486.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
265
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137477828
ISBN
9781137477828
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.07

Hardcover. This book describes how Christian communities in South Africa have responded to HIV/AIDS and how these responses have affected the lives HIV-positive people, youth and broader communities. Drawing on Foucault and the sociology of knowledge, it explains how religion became influential in reshaping ideas about sexuality, medicine and modernity. Series: Non-Governmental Public Action. Num Pages: 232 pages, 8 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 3JM; HRCX6; JFFH2; JHMC; JPWH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137477767
ISBN
9781137477767
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. An examination of the development of local radio broadcasting and the trend for locally-owned, locally-originated and locally-accountable commercial radio stations to fall into the hands of national and international media groups. Starkey traces the early development of local radio through to present-day digital environments. Num Pages: 220 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APW; GTC; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
209
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137477637
ISBN
9781137477637
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.86

Hardback. Series: Mapping Global Racisms. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DV; 3JJ; JFFJ; JFSL; JFSR; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137476913
ISBN
9781137476913
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.76

Hardcover. Based on the author's fieldwork and readings of media, government reports, and historical and contemporary records, this book explores how Muslim migrants in Europe contribute to a changing European landscape, focusing on Muslim Moroccan migrants. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1HBM; JFFN; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137476487
ISBN
9781137476487
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.73

Hardback. Everyday foodways are a powerful means of drawing boundaries between social groups and defining who we are and where we belong. This book draws upon auto/biographical food narratives and emphasises the power of everyday foodways in maintaining and reinforcing social divisions along the lines of gender and class. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 208 pages, 1. BIC Classification: JFCV; JFSC; JFSJ; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 222 x 16. Weight in Grams: 374.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137476401
ISBN
9781137476401
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.49

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