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Tyneside neighbourhoods : deprivation, social life and social behaviour in on…
Nettle’s book presents the results of five years of comparative ethnographic fieldwork in two different neighbourhoods of the same British city, Newcastle upon Tyne. The neighbourhoods are only a few kilometres apart, yet whilst one is relatively affluent, the other is amongst the most economically deprived in the UK. Tyneside Neighbourhoods uses multiple research methods to explore social re…
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- 9781783741908
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- 148 p. ; ill
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- 942.876 NET t
Lifestyle in Siberia and the Russian North
This book draws on a wide range of theoretical perspectives – from Chaney and Bourdieu to Berger, Sontag and Bakhtin – and from ideas about nostalgia to theories of consumption, nation, and ethnicity. The ethnographic detail in each chapter is impressive, and in my view is the real core of the book. It is a resource which will be widely used by Russian, Soviet and postsocialist specialists,…
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- 9781783747191
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- xv, 465 p. : ill
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- 306.0957 HAB l
Social and economic vulnerability of Roma people : key factors for the succes…
This open access volume provides an understanding of the different aspects of success, school continuity and social mobility among European Roma, including the motives justifying the high rates of school dropout and failure among this group. It offers a critical and reflexive perspective about social reality from a multidisciplinary and transversal point of view, sharing knowledge and practices…
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- 9783030525880
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- xxi, 253p. : ill.
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- 371.82991497 SOC s
Social exclusion in later life : interdisciplinary and policy perspectives
Drawing on interdisciplinary, cross-national perspectives, this open access book contributes to the development of a coherent scientific discourse on social exclusion of older people. The book considers five domains of exclusion (services; economic; social relations; civic and socio-cultural; and community and spatial domains), with three chapters dedicated to analysing different dimensions of …
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- 9783030514068
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- xxix, 450p. : ill.
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- 302.545 SOC s
Ethnicity, race and inequality in the UK : state of the nation
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. 50 years after the establishment of the Runnymede Trust and the Race Relations Act of 1968 which sought to end discrimination in public life, this accessible book provides commentary by some of the UK’s foremost scholars of race and ethnicity on data relating to a wide range of sectors of society, including employment, health, education, criminal …
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- 9781447351252
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- xv, 300 p.; ill
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- 305.800941 ETH e
Social cash transfer in Turkey : toward market citizenship
This open access book asks whether cash-transfer programs for very low-income households promote social and economic citizenship and, if so, under what conditions. To this end, it brings together elements that are too often considered separately: the transformation of social and economic citizenship rights in a market-centered context, and the increasing popularity of cash transfer as an instru…
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- 9783030703813
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- ix, 149p. : ill.
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- 323.6 ARK s
A table for one: a critical reading of singlehood, gender and time
A Table for One explores the links between female singlehood and social time, juxtaposing two theoretical fields that are rarely linked: the social study of time and the study of singlehood. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this book paves the way for a new theorisation of singlehood which will put it at the fore of deconstructive critical thinking and on the feminist agenda. Although…
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- 9781526116352
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- viii, 153 pages ; 24 cm
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- 306.8153 LAH t
Childhood in the late Ottoman empire and after
This title, in its entirety, is available online in Open Access. This volume explores the ways childhood was experienced, lived and remembered in the late Ottoman Empire and its successor states in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when rapid change placed unprecedented demands on the young.
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- 9789004305809
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- 304 p.; 22 cm
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- The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage, 59
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- 305.230956 CHI c
Borderland studies meets child studies : a European encounter
This edited volume provides a comparative analysis of the history of borderland children during the 20th Century. More than their parents, children were envisioned to play a crucial role in bringing about a peaceful Europe. The contributions show the complexity of nationalisation within various spheres of borderland children´s lives and display the dichotomy between nationalist policies and ma…
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- 9783653070804
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- 194 p.
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- 305.230940904 VEN b
A new era? : Timor-Leste after the UN
Timor-Leste has made impressive progress since its historic achievement of independence in 2002. From the instability that blighted its early years, the fledgling democratic country has achieved strong economic growth and a gradual reinstatement of essential social services. A decade on in 2012, Presidential and Parliamentary elections produced smooth political transitions and the extended UN p…
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- 9781925022513
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- xv, 263p. : ill.
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- 959.8704 ANE a
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