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Young people as agents of sustainable society : reclaiming the future
This book analyses young people’s societal participation as a central dimension of their well-being and as vitally important to secure the sustainable future of humankind and the whole eco-social system. It develops a theoretical framework for analysing youth participation holistically, embedded in its everyday context, and as a relational phenomenon, underpinned by universal human needs. …
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781003345114
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- 258 p.
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- 304.2 YOU y
Relating Worlds of Racism : dehumanisation, belonging, and the normativity of…
This international edited collection examines how racism trajectories and manifestations in different locations relate and influence each other. The book unmasks and foregrounds the ways in which notions of European Whiteness have found form in a variety of global contexts that continue to sustain racism as an operational norm resulting in exclusion, violence, human rights violations, isolation…
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- 9783319789903
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- xxiii, 463p. : ill.
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- 305.8 REL r
Social Media and Social Order
This book addresses the relationship between social media and social order at multiple scales and sites, from city neighborhoods to national politics, to how the data harvested by transnational corporations influence lives worldwide. It provides insights into how diverse social worlds are being reshaped by social media, analysis of what this means, and reflection on how critical publics might c…
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- 9788366675612
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- ix, 149p ; ill.
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- 302.231 HER s
A century of violence in a red city : popular struggle, counterinsurgency, an…
In A Century of Violence in a Red City Lesley Gill provides insights into broad trends of global capitalist development, class disenfranchisement and dispossession, and the decline of progressive politics. Gill traces the rise and fall of the strong labor unions, neighborhood organizations, and working class of Barrancabermeja, Colombia, from their origins in the 1920s to their effective activi…
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- 9780822374701
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- xiv ; 287p : ill.
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- 986.125 LES a
Cultural models of nature
Drawing on the ethnographic experience of the contributors, this volume explores the Cultural Models of Nature found in a range of food-producing communities located in climate-change affected areas. These Cultural Models represent specific organizations of the etic categories underlying the concept of Nature (i.e. plants, animals, the physical environment, the weather, humans, and the supernat…
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- 9781351127905
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- 394p. : ill.
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- 338.19 CUL c
Changing gender norms in Islam between reason and revelation
Women‘s movements in Islamic countries have had a long and arduous journey in their quest for the realization of human rights and genuine equality. The author examines whether discriminatory laws against women do in fact originate from Islam and, ultimately, if there is any interpretation of Islam compatible with gender equality. She investigates women’s rights in Iran since the 1979 Revolu…
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- 9783863882983
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- 247p
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- 305.48697 MAR c
Zootechnologies : a media history of swarm research
Swarming has become a fundamental cultural technique related to dynamic processes and an effective metaphor for the collaborative efforts of society. This book examines the media history of swarm research and its significance to current socio-technological processes. It shows that the hype about collective intelligence is based on a reciprocal computerization of biology and biologization of com…
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- 9789048537426
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- 006.3 ZOO
Electric-shock weapons, tasers and policing : myths and realities
Building on five years of research, and drawing on criminology, science and technology studies (STS), socio-legal studies and social psychology, this book is the first non-medical book written on electric-shock weapons, of which the best well known is the TASER brand. The police’s ability to use force is one of their most crucial powers, yet one that has been relatively neglected by crimin…
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- 6
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- 9781003002864
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- 202p
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- 363.230284 ELE A
Remains of the Soviet past in Estonia : an anthropology of forgetting, repair…
What happens to legacies that do not find any continuation? In Estonia, a new generation that does not remember the socialist era and is open to global influences has grown up. As a result, the impact of the Soviet memory in people’s conventional values is losing its effective power, opening new opportunities for repair and revaluation of the past. Francisco Martinez brings together a numb…
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- 9781787353534
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- xix, 255 p. ill;
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- 974.98 REM F
Gender And Sport; Changes And Challenges
This volume covers current issues, cutting-edge debates and new knowledge on women and sport. The range of topics extends from female coaches and women in sport to sexual harassment, from snowboarders to schoolgirls, and from physical education to football. The aim of this book is to provide an overview of the current debates on gender and sport from a women’s perspective, to share new knowle…
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