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Sociology & anthropology
Hardcover. This study outlines the emerging cultural turn in Peace Studies and provides a critical understanding of the cultural dimension of reconciliation. Taking an anthropological view on decentralization and peacebuilding in Indonesia, it sets new standards for an interdisciplinary research field. Series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FMN; GTJ; JHMC; JPSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137504340
- ISBN
- 9781137504340
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardback. Num Pages: 251 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, 17 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 251
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137503909
- ISBN
- 9781137503909
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.83
€ 138.83
Freedom in the Anthropocene: Twentieth-Century Helplessness in the Fac...
Stoner, Alexander M., Melathopoulos, Andony
Hardcover. Freedom in the Anthropocene illuminates the Anthropocene from the perspective of critical theory. The authors contextualize our current ecological predicament by focusing on the issues of history and freedom and how they relate to our present inability to render environmental threats and degradation recognizable and surmountable. Num Pages: 135 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JM; JHBA; RNA; RNPG; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 314.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137503879
- ISBN
- 9781137503879
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.08
€ 66.08
Hardcover. Building on contemporary efforts to theorize conflicts related to borders, migration, and belonging, this book transforms existing analyses in order to propose critical interventions. The chapters are written from multiple disciplinary perspectives and present rigorous empirical and theoretical analyses to advocate progressive transformation. Editor(s): Bauder, Harald; Crook, Nora. Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFFS; JHM; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 224 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137503800
- ISBN
- 9781137503800
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.56
€ 66.56
Hardcover. Building Noah's Ark for Migrants, Refugees, and Religious Communities examines religion within the framework of refugee studies as a public good, with the spiritual and material use of religion shedding new light on the agency of refugees in reconstructing their lives and positioning themselves in hostile environments. Editor(s): Horstmann, Alexander; Bach, Daniel. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 297 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFSR; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137501530
- ISBN
- 9781137501530
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. US military presence in twenty-first century in Latin America has recently been characterised by rapidly intensifying militarization alongside under-supported anti-military activism. This book redirects recent debates about twenty-first century social mobilization by taking seriously those who actively resist the social movements in their midst. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSE; JHMC; JPW; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 434.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137501172
- ISBN
- 9781137501172
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. Based on an ethnographic study of rural Poland, this book investigates the challenges of maintaining pluralism in a religiously homogenous society. By examining a multireligious and multiethnic community, Pasieka reveals paradoxes inscribed into the practice and discourse of pluralism. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 284 pages, 2 maps, 13 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVP; HRCC7; JFSR; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137500526
- ISBN
- 9781137500526
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.60
€ 127.60
Hardcover. Violence and Desire in Brazilian Lesbian Relationships examines the lives of Afro-Brazilian lesbian women in the city of Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFFE; JFSK1; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137498519
- ISBN
- 9781137498519
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
hardcover. Num Pages: 144 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFF; JFSJ; JFSL; JHB; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 337.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137498441
- ISBN
- 9781137498441
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.17
€ 66.17
Paperback. This book demonstrates the international dimension of eugenic racial policy and of scientific racism over the course of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBT; JFSL; JHBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 440.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137497000
- ISBN
- 9781137497000
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.14
€ 72.14
Hardback. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JHMC; KJSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 421.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137496553
- ISBN
- 9781137496553
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Hardcover. Jane Austen wrote when sociology was being established as the new discipline to understand social issues such as urbanization and industrialization. Drawing on landmark sociologists such as Durkheim and Bourdieu, this study argues that the novels of Austen were heavily influenced by these early developments in sociology. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137496010
- ISBN
- 9781137496010
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardback. Risk, Power, and Inequality in the 21st Century provides a groundbreaking new analysis of the increasingly important relationship between risk and widening inequalities. It shows how key processes associated with risk society - the social production and distribution of risks as side-effects - are intensifying inequalities in fundamental ways. Num Pages: 185 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFC; JFFJ; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 185
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137495563
- ISBN
- 9781137495563
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.05
€ 105.05
Hardcover. Lack begins with a discussion of Max Weber's analysis of the disenchantment of the world and proceeds to develop Heidegger's philosophy in a way that suggests a "re-enchantment" of the world that faces the modern condition squarely, without nostalgia. Num Pages: 118 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; HPX; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 169 x 15. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137495303
- ISBN
- 9781137495303
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.96
€ 65.96
Hardback. In this book, Po-Yi Hung uses tea production as a lens to investigate the tension between nature and society under the market economy in frontier China. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFSL9; JHMC; KNAC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 205
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137494078
- ISBN
- 9781137494078
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Hardcover. Drawing on a wide range of historical and contemporary studies, this book brings together the sociologies of racism and everyday life and presents the importance of thinking of racism and everyday life not just as 'act' and 'context', respectively, but as part of the making of each other. Num Pages: 74 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFFP; JFSL; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141 x 8. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137493552
- ISBN
- 9781137493552
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.64
€ 65.64
Hardcover. This book demonstrates principles of Ancestor Veneration Avatars (AVAs), by running avatars based on eleven deceased members of one family through ten highly diverse virtual worlds from the violent Defiance to the intellectual Uru: Myst Online, from the early EverQuest to the recent Elder Scrolls Online. Series: Contemporary Religion and Popular Culture. Num Pages: 143 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAM3; HRLK; JFCA; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 145 x 13. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137490544
- ISBN
- 9781137490544
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.17
€ 66.17
Regional Organizations and Social Policy in Europe and Latin America
. Ed(S): Bianculli, Andrea C.; Ribeiro Hoffma...
Hardback. The contributors assess to what extent regional organizations in Europe and Latin America provide a space for the regulation and provision of social policies in the area of social protection, higher education and health. They analyse the impact of regional organizations on social citizenship following political struggle and contestation. Editor(s): Bianculli, Andrea C.; Ribeiro Hoffmann, Andrea. Series: Development, Justice and Citizenship. Num Pages: 337 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JHMC; JPRB; JPSN2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 555.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 337
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137490346
- ISBN
- 9781137490346
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.49
€ 67.49
Hardcover. Through what he terms "bibliographical sociology", Suman Gupta explores the presence of English-language publications in the contemporary Indian context - their productions, circulations and readerships - to understand current social trends. Series: New Directions in Book History. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; DSB; JFC; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 224 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137489289
- ISBN
- 9781137489289
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Hardcover. Recent years have seen the rise of anti-politics as a political phenomenon. Beyond this new rejection of the political class there has long existed a deeper challenge to the political itself. Identifying the work of Derrida as 'a politics' and that of Baudrillard as 'transpolitics' this book charts convergences and divergences in their approaches. Num Pages: 110 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JHBA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137488558
- ISBN
- 9781137488558
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.90
€ 65.90