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Research in social movements, conflicts and change
Contains a collection of theoretically data-driven papers, which addresses a series of questions that are at forefront of social movement scholarship. This book builds bridges between scholarship on social movements and on social conflicts. It carries on the distinguished tradition of the Researc...
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Advances in longitudinal methods in the social and behavioral sciences
This volume explores advances in longitudinal methods for social and behavioral sciences. Written by experts across disciplines, it provides accessible insights for researchers in psychology, education, epidemiology, and more. Ideal for advanced students, faculty, and applied researchers using lo...
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Indigenous research ethics
It’s important that research with indigenous peoples is ethically and methodologically relevant. This volume looks at challenges involved in this research and offers best practice guidelines to research communities, exploring how adherence to ethical research principles acknowledges and maintains...
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Human dignity
This special issue investigates the meaning of justice and dignity and how they have changed over time. What do we mean by human dignity? How do we understand and interpret that meaning? How has it evolved?
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Community-based interventions for criminal offenders with severe mental illness
Criminal offenders with serious mental health problems pose a difficult problem for courts and the law enforcement industry. The contributors to this collection explore the key issues of the problem and discuss radical solutions like new community-based approaches for serving offenders.
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Sociological studies of child development
This is the fifth volume in a series which endeavours to organize, centralize and present current ideas and research in the field of child development, viewed with a sociological perspective. It contains three main sections: early childhood care; children's peer groups; and, family influence.
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Urban resilience
Taking the Turkish case as a pioneering testing ground, Stefano Salata advocates for the reintroduction of natural areas and biodiverse green spaces within our cities.
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Research on accounting ethics
This annual publication is devoted to the advancement of ethics research and education in the profession and practice of accounting. It aims to advance innovative and applied ethics research in all accounting-related disciplines on a global basis and to improve ethics education in the field.
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Rural social infrastructure development in india
A compelling call to action for development impact on a global scale, this mission-driven work brings us one step closer to building a more inclusive India.
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Conceptualizing and modeling relational processes in sociology
With broad appeal across scholars and graduate students in the social and behavioral sciences, Joslyn presents new ideas for expanding relationship modeling methods in a way that unites relationship scholars and extends relational theory.
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Cultural ergonomics
Explores cultural influences in relation to concerns of ergonomics and human factors. These include scientific-philosophical considerations, aircraft and maritime safety, cross-national training, effective use of the world-wide web, multinational decision making, third-world industrial developmen...
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Critical ethnography and education
This text firstly attempts to deal with challenges about the validity of qualitative research. Then, after outlining the theory and methodology adopted, seven case studies are presented, covering such topics as multicultural literature, school restructuring, and standardized testing.
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Geography and strategy
As the world shrinks and globalization continues apace, efficient communications systems allow firms to operate easily over vast distances. These papers consider the strategic management of space and place from both an academic and practical point of view.
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Jack katz
This book is a timely re-introduction to the work and life of one of criminology’s more respected theorists, Jack Katz, to the next generation of thinkers in this field. For nearly 40 years, his work has offered an alternative philosophical perspective to study crime and criminal behavior that is...
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Symbolic interaction and inequality
Highlighting fruitful accomplishments achieved by a range of symbolic interactionists, this volume exhibits the significance of studying inequality, a venture that not only enriches symbolic interactionism but human life as a whole.
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Making sense of ultra-realism
Making Sense of Ultra-Realism offers a unique insight into one of the most significant theoretical advances in 21st century criminology, drawing upon popular films and television series to contextualise and clarify the ultra-realist school of thought and providing a theoretically rich yet accessi...
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Community work with migrant and refugee women
Arguing for a bottom-up approach that centres on needs as well as assets, Community Work with Migrant and Refugee Women highlights the importance of cultural relevance of services, and a holistic approach to integration that acknowledges the full range of needs and experiences migrant and refugee...
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Expanding the scope of social science research on disability
Presents a collection of papers exploring several areas of disability research. This work includes an examination of the media representation of disability and coverage of disability policy issues which gives an understanding of the far reaching impact of the fourth estate.
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Punishment, politics and culture
Starting with an overview of the history and philosophy of punishment, this title includes articles that explore penal practices in the modern state and the deeper philosophical and social aspects of retributive justice.
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Privatisation of migration control
This special issue is the second of a two-part edited collection on the privatisation of migration. The central thrust of the special issue is a critical analysis of modern day manifestations of private participation in immigration control.
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Postcolonial sociologies
How can postcolonial thought be most fruitfully translated and incorporated into sociology? This special volume brings together leading sociologists to offer some answers and examples. The chapters offer new postcolonial readings of canonical thinkers like Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim and...
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Children and youth as ‘sites of resistance’ in armed conflict
During the chaos and devastation of armed conflict, children and youth often emerge as powerful agents of change and resilience. The first of two volumes, this is a compelling exploration of their profound roles as active participants, often functioning as sites of resistance within the complex d...
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Digital transformation and institutional theory
This volume contains two Open Access chapters. Digital Transformation and Institutional Theory explores how manifestations of digital transformation requires rethinking of our understanding and theorization of institutional processes.
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Debates and developments in ethonographic methodology
Volume 6 of this series draws together chapters presenting diverse views on developments in ethnographic methodology. It covers topics such as validity in ethnographic work, feminist research, comparison within research, public identification of research sites and research involving children.
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Theorizing the sharing economy
This volume takes advantage of this opportunity by presenting a collection of empirical and conceptual work that explores the variety and the trajectories of new forms of organizing in the sharing economy, and in doing so builds on, rejuvenates, and refines existing organization theories.
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Disability and community
Examines an array of issues related to disability and community. This title also examines a range of social institutions and practices such as education, employment, and cultural venues and the extent to which and how they include people with disabilities in the workings of these institutions.
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Cultural differences in a globalizing world
Explains the relationship between national culture and national differences in crucially important phenomena, such as speed of economic growth, murder rates, and educational achievement. This book also explains differences in suicide rates, road death tolls, female inequality, happiness, and a nu...
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Criminal justice responses to maternal filicide
Milne provides a comprehensive analysis of conviction outcomes through court transcripts of 14 criminal cases in England and Wales during 2010 to 2019. Drawing on feminist theories of responsibilisation and 'gendered harm', she critically reflects on the gendered nature of criminal justice's resp...
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Social media use in crisis and risk communication
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and is freely available to read online. Presenting research on social media use in crisis and risk cases: a terrorist attack, a natural disaster and an infectious disease of international concern, this book investigates how social media plays a cruci...
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Studies in symbolic interaction
Discusses a variety of topics in the field of symbolic interaction. This title addresses remembering Anselm Strauss; the pragmatic heritage; and reading self, media and culture.
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Digital politics, digital histories, digital futures
Digital politics is rarely explored holistically and interdisciplinary beyond a focus on digital activism, digital warfare or Internet governance. Digital Politics, Digital Histories, Digital Futures addresses this gap, initiating conversations about digital politics to a range of disciplines, de...
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Advances in disability research ethics
Considering important aspects of general ethical research principles, this volume establishes an inspiring vision for both present and future improvements across all levels of disability research.
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The colonial past in history textbooks - historical and social psychological perspectives
This book analyzes how colonial history is depicted in post-war textbooks worldwide, from the mid-19th century to the 1960s-70s. It uses an interdisciplinary approach to explore portrayals in former colonizer and colonized countries, focusing on collective memory, popular culture, and academic kn...
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Forensic psychologists
Built on a large body of research relating specifically to forensic psychologists and prison life more generally, this book examines how this professional discipline has become central to life within the modern prison. Exploring a number of themes, it takes the reader behind the scenes of forens...
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Positive autoethnography
Developed in consultation with Dr. Mark Weeks, and featuring the work of numerous scholars, this collection introduces the theoretical and practical underpinnings of Positive Autoethnography.
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Research in consumer behavior
Presents a range of consumer behavior research using both quantitative and qualitative research methods. This book addresses such topics as self-gifts, souvenirs, grocery coupon proneness, socialization, acculturation, tattooing, possession attachment, consumer decision making, information acquis...
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Wrong life
This study contains a series of theoretical reflections inspired by empirical research into the ethical dilemmas of life in contradiction-ridden postmodern America. It looks at hospital birth, special education, Gen X, community-based anti-crime policy, public intellectuals, and mass death.
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Cultural studies
This is the second volume of an interdisciplinary publication, drawing on contemporary scholarship in such fields as speech communication, education, anthropology, sociology, history and English.
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On practice and institution
The concepts of practice and institution are of longstanding importance across the social sciences, that have been too disconnected. Bringing together novel theoretical statements and empirical studies that bridge these social worlds, these two volumes provide a major touchstone for scholars inte...
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Four dead in ohio
This Special Issue of Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change reflects upon global student and youth activism 50 years after the shooting of student activists protesting against the US wars in SE Asia at Kent State University providing the needed space for the narratives of those who h...
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Identity, territories, and sustainability
Addressing the urgent need to tackle the global challenges of poverty, inequality, and environmental degradation, this is highly valuable reading for those interested in implementing sustainable development strategies across a variety of contexts.
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Transgenerational technology and interactions for the 21st century
This book is rooted in co-design and co-production, taking an interdisciplinary lens and expertise from academia, industry, and stakeholder organisations to examine contemporary issues and to deliver a manifesto for technology innovation, application, and transgenerational living experiences for ...
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Ai and popular culture
AI and Popular Culture sheds light on how artificial intelligence has changed our world and helps you to understand where it might take us next.
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Sdg5 - gender equality and empowerment of women and girls
Taking a comprehensive global approach, this book identifies the trends, drivers and impact of gender equality. Providing best practice recommendations and posing key challenges for achieving SDG5, this is the only book which comprehensively deals with all the key aspects of the goal based on the...
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Sociological studies of children and youth
The volumes in this series illustrate how social organization and private, emotional experience are different phases of the social process. They show the steps by which emotional experience is shaped by social structural, macro-level processes and how these processes are changed by experience.
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Social movements and media
This volume focuses on media and social movements. Contributing authors draw on cases as diverse as the Harry Potter Alliance to youth oriented, non-profit educational organizations to systematically assess how media environments, systems, and usage affect collective action in the 21st Century.
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Religion, humility, and democracy in a divided america
Strong religious convictions motivate citizens to engage in American public life, and are viewed as a source of closed-mindedness and a driver of political polarization. This book combines theoretical reflections on this tension, empirical studies examine how a range of religious actors balance c...
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Care and compassion in capitalism
Addressing a gap in the examination of market-centric and individual-focused aspects of care, this volume brings together interdisciplinary insights from across the social sciences to enrich the debate in the field of business and management around the treatment of care, compassion and capitalism.
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Seven faces of women's sport
This book explores the connections between women's experiences of and contributions to sport as a profession, product and pastime. This collection brings together insights and experiences from academics, activists, players and practitioners to critically reflect upon contemporary women's sport.
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Organizing creativity in the innovation journey
This volume brings together empirical and conceptual papers that go beyond questions of idea generation to account for the dynamics of idea development, judgement, and dissemination – processes which are at the heart of organizing for innovation.
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Seeing is believing
Rather than providing a step-by-step guide to the use of visual methods, the authors draw on their experience of visual research to provide critical accounts of its use in the field, its potential for unlocking otherwise unseen places, spaces and social action, and as a basis for the generation o...
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The contested moralities of markets
Highlighting the sources, processes and outcomes of moral struggles in and around markets, this volume advances our current understanding of markets and their contested moralities.
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The legacy of socrates
James Rachels's philosophical writings address key questions of contemporary life and the classic dilemmas of moral philosophy. A leading figure in the development of applied ethics, James Rachels became an influential and sometimes controversial thinker on issues concerning animal rights, euthan...
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Programming creativity
Jan Sebastian Zipp examines the concept of creativity in large IT companies in times of digital change, including new ways of working or potential artificial creativity with no human interaction. This study contributes vital foundations for a critical engagement with today's prevailing understand...
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The evolution of goth culture
In this book, Spracklen and Spracklen use the idea of collective memory to explore the controversies and boundary-making surrounding the genesis and progression of the modern gothic alternative culture. They suggest that the only way for goth culture to survive is if it becomes transgressive and ...
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Community economic development in social work
This cutting-edge text explores the intersection of CED and social work practice
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Anxious eaters
Anxious Eaters shows that fad diets are popular because they fulfill crucial social and psychological needs—which is also why they tend to fail. Janet Chrzan and Kima Cargill bring together anthropology, psychology, and nutrition to explore what these programs promise yet rarely fulfill for dieters.
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More harm than good
In More Harm Than Good, Carter, Boyd and MacPherson take a critical look at the current state of Canadian drug policy and raise key questions about the effects of Canada’s increasing involvement in and commitment to the “war on drugs.” A primer on Canadian drug policy, the analysis in More Harm T...
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Group work practice to advance social competence
Small social groups are fundamental for achieving personal growth, social development, socialization, and the skills of sustaining relevance, relationships, and connections to society. Unfortunately, those who would benefit most from small groups often find themselves unable to achieve membership...
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Youth engagement
This volume critically examines the multiple and contested meanings of ideal citizenship and reveal how children and youth craft active citizenship as they encounter and respond to the various institutions and organizations designed to encourage their civic and political development.
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Racism and anti-racism in canada
Multiculturalism is regarded as a key feature of Canada’s national identity. Yet despite an increasingly diverse population, racialized Canadians are systematically excluded from full participation in society through personal and structural forms of racism and discrimination.Race and Anti-Racism ...
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Advanced clinical social work practice
Advanced Clinical Social Work Practice traces the development of relational ideas from their origin in object relations and self psychology to their evolution in current relational, intersubjectivity, and attachment theory. Relational treatment emphasizes openness and collaboration between client...
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Triumph of order
In an effort to create a secure urban environment in which residents can work, live, and prosper with minimal disruption, New York and London established a network of laws, policing, and municipal government in the nineteenth century aimed at building the confidence of the citizenry and creating ...
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Blowback
Chronicling the horrific story of the Agent Orange experiments near Oromocto, New Brunswick, this shocking history reveals the tragic accounts of numerous families who lost loved ones due to military testing. Depicting the initial spraying of the deadly defoliant near Gagetown, this document port...
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A new science for future
This book is an investigation of computational and data practices in climate impact research. Drawing on ethnographic and digital methodologies, it explores how simulation modelers calculate future climate risks in computer models and how they make their scientific knowledge accessible to others.
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Is this ‘azaadi’?
This study of the living conditions of Dalit agricultural laborers in Muktidih Village in southwest Bihar throws light on the problems they face in accessing the basic necessities of existence, including food, clothing, shelter, health care, and education. Their tribulations are conveyed through ...
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Deadly fever
Focusing on a 2001 Canadian news story that turned into a frantic rumor mill, this study analyses how media reporting on health issues often alarms the public, particularly when the race or immigration status of the sufferers is part of the coverage. In this case, a woman from the Congo was admit...
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On becoming a rock musician
In On Becoming a Rock Musician, the sociologist H. Stith Bennett observes what makes a rock musician and then persuades others to take him seriously.
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Deserved
Till Hilmar examines memories of the postsocialist transition in East Germany and the Czech Republic to offer new insights into the power of narratives about economic change.
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Blaming children
This book explains the Canadian media`s current moral panic, its affiliations with information/political systems, understandings of reader viewers, its alliances with corporate Canada, and its ability to construct and frame debates about youth crime. The reality of youth crime is presented in sta...
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Studies in social organization
In this third volume of the author's scholarly work, twenty-five articles address topics important to Greek society, culture, and politics. Topics discussed include ethnonationalism, civil-military relations, class consciousness, and the Olympic Games.
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African film and literature
Analyzing a range of South African and West African films inspired by African and non-African literature, Lindiwe Dovey identifies a specific trend in contemporary African filmmaking-one in which filmmakers are using the embodied audiovisual medium of film to offer a critique of physical and psyc...
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Theories about and strategies against hegemonic social sciences
This innovative book provides new perspectives on the globalization of knowledge and the notion of hegemonic sciences. Tying together contributions of authors from all across the world, it challenges existing theories of hegemonic sciences and sheds new light on how they have been and are being c...
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Transferring professional knowledge and skills
Due to the current shortage of medical doctors in Germany, hospital administrations increasingly recruit physicians from abroad to meet their demand. Relaxed migration policies and access regulations to the medical profession enable the formal recognition of these physicians’ qualifications. Howe...
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Movements. journal for critical migration and border regime studies
The journal "movements" collects academic, activist and artistic output that deals with migration and border regimes. It fosters exchange between academic discourse and the movements of migration, and thus allows for political debate about our societies in motion.This issue discusses the current ...
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How the social sciences think about the world's social
At the beginning of the new millennium, the social sciences took an epochal 'turn' that revolutionized their theory-building. As a response to what they called the globalization of the social, they found the need to globalize their theorizing as well. It is curious that only after two centuries o...
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Sexual orientation and gender expression in social work practice
This volume offers an invaluable resource for both social work educators and practitioners working with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) clients and their families. It is the first such work to specifically address issues affecting bisexual and transgender people as well as the larg...
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Normed children
Gender- and sex-related norms have an impact on us from the first to the last day of our lives. What are the effects of such norms on the education of children and adolescents? Conveyed via parents/family, school, and peers, they seem to be an inseparable part of human relations.After its favorab...
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Out of left field
High-performance sport, like other social and cultural formations, is a site of social, economic and racial inequalities emerging from larger histories of colonialism and capitalism. In this introductory text, the authors explore the nature of historical and contemporary social inequality in high...
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Re-discovering age(ing)
Since Mentor, Telemachus' advisor in Homer's Odyssey, gave name to the figure of the ›wise teacher,‹ fictional representations of mentoring have permeated classic and contemporary cultural texts of different literary genres such as fiction, poetry, and life writing. The contributions of this volu...
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Religion and magic in socialist and post-socialist contexts
Religion and magic have played important roles within Eastern European societies where social reality and sociopolitical balance may differ greatly from those in the West. Although often thought of as being two distinct, even antagonistic forces, religion and magic find ways to work together. By ...
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