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Taming Risk
Uncertainty, Trust and the Sociological Discourse of Modernity
This work investigates late modernity through the interplay of risk and trust. It offers an integrative perspective aiming to reconcile the dimensions of individual agency and social structure in contemporary post-industrial societies.
This work investigates late modernity through the interplay of risk and trust. It offers an integrative perspective aiming to reconcile the dimensions of individual agency and social structure in contemporary post-industrial societies.
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Children and Childhoods 1
Perspectives, Places and Practices
Investment in early childhood results in high returns. This book presents current research that reflects the transdisciplinary nature of childhood, examining multiple perspectives, places and practices through explorations of playgrounds, hospitals, and museums.
Investment in early childhood results in high returns. This book presents current research that reflects the transdisciplinary nature of childhood, examining multiple perspectives, places and practices through explorations of playgrounds, hospitals, and museums.
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Signs of Hope
Deafhearing Family Life
Three deafhearing families challenge the view of deafness as loss, celebrating deaf culture and sign language as vital for family life. Winner of the 2013 Outstanding Qualitative Book Award by the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.
Three deafhearing families challenge the view of deafness as loss, celebrating deaf culture and sign language as vital for family life. Winner of the 2013 Outstanding Qualitative Book Award by the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.
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This collection of essays focuses on the eroticized “look” and the sexualization of visual culture. From sexy female robots and Bridget Jones to Victorian fashion and feminist debates, these essays offer new conceptions of perception and representation.
This collection of essays focuses on the eroticized “look” and the sexualization of visual culture. From sexy female robots and Bridget Jones to Victorian fashion and feminist debates, these essays offer new conceptions of perception and representation.
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In multi-ethnic societies, the threat is from within. Ethnic conflict is a time bomb, as nation-building often marginalizes groups and sparks violence. Can a democratic setting moderate these tensions and achieve peaceful resolution in Southeast Asia?
In multi-ethnic societies, the threat is from within. Ethnic conflict is a time bomb, as nation-building often marginalizes groups and sparks violence. Can a democratic setting moderate these tensions and achieve peaceful resolution in Southeast Asia?
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Eat History
Food and Drink in Australia and Beyond
Eat History offers fascinating new insights into gastronomic studies and cultural history. Nine leading historians explore topics from vodka to patty cakes across the globe, engaging academics and general readers keen to discover how food opens up new areas of history.
Eat History offers fascinating new insights into gastronomic studies and cultural history. Nine leading historians explore topics from vodka to patty cakes across the globe, engaging academics and general readers keen to discover how food opens up new areas of history.
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Queer Exoticism
Examining the Queer Exotic Within
These essays examine the queer tendency to seek different subjects of desire in an effort to find oneself. This search for the exotic becomes a path to self-knowledge, where the outward gaze turns inward to reveal an inner exoticism.
These essays examine the queer tendency to seek different subjects of desire in an effort to find oneself. This search for the exotic becomes a path to self-knowledge, where the outward gaze turns inward to reveal an inner exoticism.
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Developing countries stand to lose or gain from globalization. This book provides critical insights into trade competitiveness, foreign investment, and natural resources, provoking debate and leading to solutions that help improve their lot.
Developing countries stand to lose or gain from globalization. This book provides critical insights into trade competitiveness, foreign investment, and natural resources, provoking debate and leading to solutions that help improve their lot.
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Health and Cultural Values
Female Circumcision within the Context of HIV/AIDS in Cameroon
In the context of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, Female Circumcision among Cameroon's Ejagham tribes is transforming. This ethnography captures local agency and cultural complexity, questioning anti-FC interventions that miss the ritual's true significance.
In the context of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, Female Circumcision among Cameroon’s Ejagham tribes is transforming. This ethnography captures local agency and cultural complexity, questioning anti-FC interventions that miss the ritual’s true significance.
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Assessing Social Capital
Concept, Policy and Practice
Social capital is a key concept in policymaking, but does it hide more than it illuminates? Is it even harmful? This collection assesses the theory and its policy drawbacks. Renowned researchers reveal its flaws and offer alternatives, while others adapt it.
Social capital is a key concept in policymaking, but does it hide more than it illuminates? Is it even harmful? This collection assesses the theory and its policy drawbacks. Renowned researchers reveal its flaws and offer alternatives, while others adapt it.
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Women’s Memory
The Problem of Sources
This book brings together researchers to address the problems of sources and archives in women's studies. The articles examine perceptions of women in collective memory through oral, written, and visual culture, aiming to form accessible international archives.
This book brings together researchers to address the problems of sources and archives in women’s studies. The articles examine perceptions of women in collective memory through oral, written, and visual culture, aiming to form accessible international archives.
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Georg Simmel in Translation
Interdisciplinary Border Crossings in Culture and Modernity
Though his name was forgotten, Georg Simmel’s writings on modernity left a significant mark. In this collection, scholars trace his influence through time and space, from Imperial Berlin to contemporary Singapore, and in the works of other intellectuals.
Though his name was forgotten, Georg Simmel’s writings on modernity left a significant mark. In this collection, scholars trace his influence through time and space, from Imperial Berlin to contemporary Singapore, and in the works of other intellectuals.
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Feminist Insiders-Outsiders
Muslim Women in Nigeria and the Contemporary Feminist Movement
This book examines the Islamic feminism of Nigerian Muslim women. It argues that their struggles are rooted in Islamic texts from the Prophetic era, contrary to stereotypes of patriarchal domination, and shows how they use organizations for feminist changes.
This book examines the Islamic feminism of Nigerian Muslim women. It argues that their struggles are rooted in Islamic texts from the Prophetic era, contrary to stereotypes of patriarchal domination, and shows how they use organizations for feminist changes.
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The American Village in a Global Setting
Selected papers from an interdisciplinary conference in honor of Sinclair Lewis and Ida K. Compton
Selected from a conference honoring Sinclair Lewis, these papers consider his world through today’s lens. Scholars address community, comparing his vision to other authors and media, and use his work as a springboard to discuss today’s global issues.
Selected from a conference honoring Sinclair Lewis, these papers consider his world through today’s lens. Scholars address community, comparing his vision to other authors and media, and use his work as a springboard to discuss today’s global issues.
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This book researches three solutions to steel congestion in reinforced concrete: steel fibers, self-consolidating concrete, and headed bars. Based on test results, it proposes new models that provide a basis for future research and improved codes.
This book researches three solutions to steel congestion in reinforced concrete: steel fibers, self-consolidating concrete, and headed bars. Based on test results, it proposes new models that provide a basis for future research and improved codes.
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Scottish Devolution and Social Policy
Evidence from the First Decade
This work examines the impact of devolution on Scottish social policy. Considering issues like class and equality, it judges whether the founding principles of the Scottish Parliament have successfully transferred from principles into actual policy.
This work examines the impact of devolution on Scottish social policy. Considering issues like class and equality, it judges whether the founding principles of the Scottish Parliament have successfully transferred from principles into actual policy.
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Making Sense of the Global
Anthropological Perspectives on Interconnections and Processes
Anthropology is more relevant than ever to making sense of intercultural encounters in our shrinking world. This volume’s analyses show how ethnographic research creates bridges of understanding and can contribute to a better understanding of social phenomena.
Anthropology is more relevant than ever to making sense of intercultural encounters in our shrinking world. This volume’s analyses show how ethnographic research creates bridges of understanding and can contribute to a better understanding of social phenomena.
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Aging Femininities
Troubling Representations
Older women have never been more visible, or more problematised. This collection of essays interrogates the troubling representations of “aging femininity” in popular culture, forging links between contemporary lived experience and feminist cultural theory.
Older women have never been more visible, or more problematised. This collection of essays interrogates the troubling representations of “aging femininity” in popular culture, forging links between contemporary lived experience and feminist cultural theory.
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As societies face complex challenges like climate change, the role of academics as public intellectuals is vital. This book explores how they make specialized knowledge relevant, discussing historical and contemporary cases from Europe, the US, and beyond.
As societies face complex challenges like climate change, the role of academics as public intellectuals is vital. This book explores how they make specialized knowledge relevant, discussing historical and contemporary cases from Europe, the US, and beyond.
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This collection of essays explores television's state of flux. It examines how news packages the 'real,' how reality styles have influenced dramas like CSI, and how shows like Big Brother have created a culture of performance and surveillance.
This collection of essays explores television’s state of flux. It examines how news packages the ‘real,’ how reality styles have influenced dramas like CSI, and how shows like Big Brother have created a culture of performance and surveillance.
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