Sociology & anthropology
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Sociology & anthropology
Hardcover. Drawing on case studies from the global South, this book explores the politics of mediated citizenship in which citizens are represented to the state through third party intermediaries. The studies show that mediation is both widely practiced and multi-directional and that it has an important role to play in deepening democracy in the global South. Editor(s): Lieres, Bettina von; Piper, Laurence. Series: Frontiers of Globalization. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFM; JHBA; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137405302
- ISBN
- 9781137405302
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€ 62.95
€ 62.95
Hardcover. This collection examines how the EU is seen in the two regions that are at the centre of its geopolitical interest. Focusing on Eastern Europe and sub-Saharan Africa, it provides a critical assessment of how their external perceptions relate to EU policy towards them. Editor(s): Muller, Martin L.; Bachmann, Veit. Series: Europe in a Global Context. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 1HF; 1QFE; JFFS; JHB; JPSL; JPSN2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
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- New
- SKU
- V9781137405463
- ISBN
- 9781137405463
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€ 62.36
€ 62.36
Hardcover. This volume offers both an insight into the current state of research on domestic animals in leisure and a lens through which to begin to chart the future of research in this field. All of the contributions to the collection are underpinned by ongoing debates about human-animal relationships and the rights and welfare of the latter. Editor(s): Carr, Neil. Series: Leisure Studies in a Global Era. Num Pages: 310 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFZ; JHBS; WSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 510.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
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- New
- SKU
- V9781137415530
- ISBN
- 9781137415530
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€ 62.87
€ 62.87
Hardcover. The contributors investigate how the large scale structures of capitalism and the local social relations of workplaces and organizations shape each other. They argue for a new integration of political economy and the sociology of work and organizations. Editor(s): O Riain, Sean; Behling, Felix; Ciccia, Rossella; Flaherty, Eoin. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBL; KCF; KCP; KCS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 480.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
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- New
- SKU
- V9781137427076
- ISBN
- 9781137427076
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€ 62.74
€ 62.74
Hardcover. This volume aims to map out the complex relationships leisure has with notions of place and space in contemporary life. Illustrating the transdisciplinarity of this key feature of leisure studies, it explores how leisure places and spaces affect personal, social and collective identities. Editor(s): Gammon, Sean; Elkington, Sam. Series: Leisure Studies in a Global Era. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
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- New
- SKU
- V9781137428523
- ISBN
- 9781137428523
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€ 150.14
€ 150.14
Hardcover. This collection explores why powerful knowledge matters for social justice and discusses its implications for curriculum and pedagogy. The contributors argue that the purpose of education is to provide all students with access to powerful knowledge so that they acquire the means to move beyond their experiences and enhance their lives. Editor(s): Barrett, Brian; Rata, Elizabeth. Series: Palgrave Studies in Excellence and Equity in Global Education. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBA; JNAM; JNKC; JNL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 219 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137429254
- ISBN
- 9781137429254
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€ 118.65
€ 118.65
Hardcover. In many countries, the number of people working beyond pension age is increasing. This volume investigates this trend in seven different countries, examining the contexts of this development and the consequences of the shifting relationship between work and retirement. Editor(s): Scherger, Simone. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSP31; JHBL; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 25. Weight in Grams: 548.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137435132
- ISBN
- 9781137435132
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€ 109.38
€ 109.38
Hardcover. This volume offers a wide-reaching overview of current academic research on women's participation in combat sports within a range of different national and trans-national contexts, detailing many of the struggles and opportunities experienced by women at various levels of engagement within sports such as boxing, wrestling, and mixed martial arts. Editor(s): Channon, Alex; Matthews, Christopher R. Series: Global Culture and Sport Series. Num Pages: 338 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSJ; JHBS; WST. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 25. Weight in Grams: 560.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137439352
- ISBN
- 9781137439352
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Condition: New
€ 140.24
€ 140.24
Hardcover. Travelling intensively to and for work helps - but also challenges - people to find ways of balancing work and personal life. Drawing on a large European longitudinal study, Mobile Europe explores the diversity and ambivalence of mobility situations and the implications for family and career development. Editor(s): Viry, Gil; Kaufmann, Vincent. Num Pages: 232 pages, 38 black & white illustrations, 35 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1D; JFFM; JHBK; JHBL; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 434.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137447371
- ISBN
- 9781137447371
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€ 62.46
€ 62.46
Hardcover. Is it possible for football matches or players to help forge a collective European identity? Pyta and Haverman seek to answer this question through a detailed analysis of how football is remembered across the continent. European Football and Collective Memory is the first book to deal with collective memory of football on a continental scale. Editor(s): Pyta, Wolfram; Havemann, Nils. Series: Football Research in an Enlarged Europe. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JHBS; WSBG; WSJA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 384.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137450142
- ISBN
- 9781137450142
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Condition: New
€ 62.23
€ 62.23
Hardcover. The added value of mixed methods research in poverty and vulnerability is now widely established. Nevertheless, gaps and challenges remain. This volume shares experiences from research in developed and developing country contexts on how mixed methods approaches can make research more credible, usable and responsive to complexity. Editor(s): Roelen, Keetie; Camfield, Laura. Num Pages: 304 pages, 22 black & white tables, 1 maps, 7 figures. BIC Classification: JFFA; JHBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 482.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137452504
- ISBN
- 9781137452504
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€ 139.93
€ 139.93
Hardcover. This timely book inspires researchers to deploy relevant, effective, innovative digital methods. It explores the relationship of such methods to 'mainstream' social science; interdisciplinarity; innovations in digital research tools; the opportunities (and challenges) of digital methods in researching social life; and digital research ethics. Editor(s): Snee, Helene; Hine, Christine; Roberts, Steven; Watson, Hayley. Num Pages: 256 pages, 7 black & white tables, 4 figures. BIC Classification: JHBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137453655
- ISBN
- 9781137453655
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Condition: New
€ 170.50
€ 170.50
Hardcover. The UEFA European football championship was the first European mega-event to take place in post-socialist Europe. Taking this as a departure point, this volume focuses on football as a realm of constructing and negotiating identities using rich ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth media analysis. Editor(s): Alpan, Basak; Schwell, Alexandra; Sonntag, Albrecht. Series: Football Research in an Enlarged Europe. Num Pages: 180 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JFFS; JHBS; WSB; WSJA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 224 x 16. Weight in Grams: 378.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137455055
- ISBN
- 9781137455055
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Condition: New
€ 62.03
€ 62.03
Hardcover. Global Health involves, among many things the intensified travelling of people, resources, technologies, knowledge, standards, and ideas. This book describes what happens when innovations are transferred to new settings: What work is needed to make them work, but also how they change the setting into which they are introduced. Editor(s): Engel, Nora; Hoyweghen, Ine van; Krumeich, Anja. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; MBN; MBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137456021
- ISBN
- 9781137456021
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Condition: New
€ 62.06
€ 62.06
Hardcover. Elaborating on themes of resilience, memory, critique and metal beyond metal, this volume highlights how the development and future of metal music scholarship is predicated on the engagement with other forms of popular culture such as comics, documentaries, and popular music. Editor(s): Snell, Dave. Series: Leisure Studies in a Global Era. Num Pages: 232 pages, 1. BIC Classification: AVGT; JFCA; JFSS; JHBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137456670
- ISBN
- 9781137456670
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Condition: New
€ 118.87
€ 118.87
Hardcover. Drawing from work in a wide range of fields, this book presents novel approaches to key debates in thinking about and defining disability. Differing from other works in Critical Disability Studies, it crucially demonstrates the consequences of radically rethinking the roles of language and perspective in constructing identities. Editor(s): Lesnik-Oberstein, Karin. Num Pages: 216 pages, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JFFG; JFSL1; JHB; JMS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137456960
- ISBN
- 9781137456960
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€ 62.15
€ 62.15
Hardcover. This book examines the extent to which the insights of STS can be used to analyse the role of architecture in and for social life. The contributions examine the question of whether architecture - and thus materiality as a whole - has agency. The book also proposes a theoretical and methodological approach on how to research architecture's agency. Editor(s): Muller, Anna-Lisa; Reichmann, Werner. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AMA; JHB; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137461124
- ISBN
- 9781137461124
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Condition: New
€ 129.70
€ 129.70
Hardcover. The personal anecdotes and candid reflections on the lives and work of these important critical scholars, and their predictions on the future of the field, make this book a valuable resource for scholars and students of communication, media studies, political economy, political science, and those interested in critical theoretical approaches. Editor(s): Lent, John A.; Amazeen, Michelle A. Series: Palgrave Global Media Policy and Business. Num Pages: 272 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: GTC; JHBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137463401
- ISBN
- 9781137463401
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Condition: New
€ 61.98
€ 61.98
Hardcover. Women migrants are doubly-disadvantaged by their sex and outsider status when moving to a new country. Highly skilled women are no exception to this rule. This book explores the complex relationship between gender and high-skill migration, with a special focus on the impact of the current economic crisis on highly skilled women-migrants in Europe. Editor(s): Triandafyllidou, Anna; Isaakyan, Irina; Schiavone, Giuseppe. Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Num Pages: 324 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFSJ1; JHBL; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 24. Weight in Grams: 538.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137467102
- ISBN
- 9781137467102
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Condition: New
€ 62.95
€ 62.95
Hardcover. Considering both retrospective memories and the prospective employment of memories, Memory in a Mediated World examines troubled times that demand resolution, recovery and restoration. Its contributions provide empirically grounded analyses of how media are employed by individuals and social groups to connect the past, the present and the future. Editor(s): Hajek, Andrea; Lohmeier, Christine. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 312 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, 3 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137470119
- ISBN
- 9781137470119
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.31
€ 150.31