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Chinese migrant parents and complementary schooling in germany
This study takes a close look at the social relationships among various groups of Chinese parents at a Chinese Mandarin language school in a metropolitan city in Germany.
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The concept of the new
In this book the author takes the concept of the New as a starting point to open the way to a broader reflection on ar t production within neoliberal capitalism. Piazza explores the notions of innovation and New respectively in the Social Sciences and in the Humanities, tracing the differences fr...
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Mobile entrepreneurs
This book explores the biographies of highly mobile startup founders who often run startups that have been called “born global.” Presenting current ethnographic research, the book critically discusses approaches in migration and mobility studies and the research field of the “migration of the hig...
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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 Isla...
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Doing democracy differently
Transnational civil society networks have become increasingly important democratizing actors in global politics. This book attempts to understand how new forms of democratic practice emerge in the interaction between political actors and their structural environments.
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Government formation in central and eastern europe
The formation of governments without a majority in parliament is a counterintuitive, albeit empirically relevant, phenomenon: minority governments make up about one-third of all governments in Europe. The author offers an analysis of the conditions leading to the formation of minority governments...
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Regional participation within european multi-level governance
Why is there a regional participation of Saxony-Anhalt within the European Multi-Level Governance system? The author provides an account of the characteristics of European Multi-Level Governance (EMLG) and regional participation therein, by describing the EMLG and identifying its topics and categ...
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Doing tolerance
How is tolerance reflected in urban space? Which urban actors are involved in the practices and narratives of tolerance? What are the limits of tolerance? The edited volume answers these questions by considering different forms of urban in/exclusion and participatory citizenship. By drawing toget...
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International perspectives on inclusive education
This book takes this up and focuses on the often blurred relationship between inclusive education and educational equity.
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Security beyond the state
Which is the role of the European Union in dealing with crises that go beyond the nation states borders – terrorism, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, regional conflicts, state failure, organised crime, natural and man-made disasters? The authors assess the main challenge for the EU: ...
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Economic competence and financial literacy of young adults
The authors take a detailed look at the economic competence and financial literacy of young adults, especially of those who start an apprenticeship or who take up their studies at a university. Economic competence and financial literacy are of special interest within this group, because these you...
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Materializing fairness
This book showcases initiatives addressing the gender gap across the tech industry's various sectors.
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The internet and european integration
This book offers a wealth of original empirical data on how online media shape EU contestation. Taking a public sphere perspective, the authors highlight myths and facts about the nature of audience-driven online media content and show how public demands for legitimacy are at the heart of the pol...
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Women, biomedical research and art
This book investigates intersectional vulnerabilities, sociogeographical and racial injustices, as well as the potential of trauma in reproductive medicine, human trafficking, and black-market organ trades in a global context. It emphasizes dignity and integrity in the everyday lives of affected ...
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Borders and margins
The theory and concept of multi-level governance (MLG) is a fairly recent one, emerging from the deepening integration of the European Union in the early 1990s and the development of free trade agreements around the world. MLG enlarges the traditional approaches, namely those of neo-institutional...
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International relations
The book is written for active learners – those keen on cutting their own path through the complex and at times hardly comprehensible world of THEORY in International Relations. To aid this process as much as possible, this book employs the didactical and methodical concept of integrating teachin...
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Overcoming the deficit view of the migrant other
What contribution can a humanistic pedagogy make in the context of a migration society? This book illustrates the deficit-oriented pressure to assimilate that foreigners are often subjected to and develops proposals for a universalistic alternative to the prevailing particularistic approaches in ...
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Greek tragedy, european odyssey: the politics and economics of the eurozone crisis
Debate among politicians and academics alike vacillates as to whether the euro is the crowning achievement of a half-century of European integration efforts, or now constitutes a force that threatens to drive European Union member states apart. This book introduces both the political and economic...
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Breaking intergenerational cycles of repetition
The authors in this volume explore the interconnected issues of intergenerational trauma and traumatic memory in societies with a history of collective violence across the globe. Each chapter’s discussion offers a critical reflection on historical trauma and its repercussions, and how memory can ...
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Political leadership between democracy and authoritarianism
This book sheds new light on the theory of political leadership and its importance for understanding the contemporary conflict between liberal democracy and the new authoritarianism. Jerzy J. Wiatr reconsiders Max Weber's typology of political rule and his concept of the ethics of responsibility.
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The city
This book presents the current state of urban research in the relevant disciplines in a comprehensible way. An overview of the central approaches and theories as well as of their practical application enables readers to see a familiar topic in a new way.
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European competence standards for the academic training of career practitioners
The citizens of Europe are facing increasingly complex challenges to their career development nowadays. Over the span of their lifetime, they need to manage their careers, and make numerous decisions concerning education, training and employment – decisions, which seriously impact their futures a...
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Europeanisation and renationalisation
The book explores how the European Union and its members have been renegotiating Europeanisation and renationalisation in response to the multiple crises they faced in recent years. The authors highlight varying understandings of ´crises´ in different national and supranational policy and institu...
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Education in a globalized world
How can the ideals of the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize,” be implemented in future-oriented teacher training? This book addresses this issue from both an academic and practical point of view.
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Syrian female refugees in turkey
In recent years, migration has become one of the most discussed phenomena, both within and outside the academic world. This book takes into account how Syrian female refugees are socially, economically, culturally, ethnically and sexually marginalized. The author analyzes how discourses produced ...
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Why do some civil wars not happen?
Since its early beginnings peace and conflict research has focused on causes of phenomena such as civil war, terrorism, and state failure. The author merges this approach with a peace causes perspective and asks why civil war happened in Peru (1980-1995) though not in Bolivia, which is striking g...
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Education, work and family events in women’s lives
This book investigates how educational expansion, the trend toward the service society, and the German unification affect East and West German women’s life courses and family lives. The findings suggest that women’s entry into motherhood during full-time education is highly dependent on their age...
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Survival through bildung
Heinz-Joachim Heydorn’s 1974 essay “Survival Through Education: Outline of a Prospect” remains a powerful text, recently translated into English for the first time. In this book, scholars from different theoretical perspectives question the text and its contemporary relevance and put their interp...
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The future of childhood studies
Since the 1990s, the emerging field of childhood studies has been catalyst for empirical research, for policy analysis, and for the development of professional practice. Which concepts and theories are the most helpful in analyzing phenomena relevant to children’s lives? The book reflects on this...
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New authoritarianism
Authoritarian tendencies have appeared in several long-standing democracies, but their main successes have taken place in states that emerged from dictatorial rule only recently. This book contains case studies of contemporary Hungarian, Kenyan, Polish, Russian, and Turkish regimes and what they ...
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Modern adult education and politics
This study guide describes the relation between modern adult education and politics. It explores the emergence and development of liberal democracies and the progressive role of adult education as a way of promoting successful participation in labour, social affairs, and culture. The importance ...
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U.s. democracy promotion – the case of cuba
The book examines U.S.-Cuba relations within the framework of the United States long-standing policy agenda of promoting a democratic transition in Cuba. The study builds a theoretical framework which is used to analyze the assumptions underlying the U.S. strategy and presents a rich empirical an...
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The governance of small states in turbulent times
What is special about small states? How do they adapt their policies and patterns of governance to meet turbulent times such as a new security environment and the international financial crisis? Answers to these and further questions are provided by experts. What are the constraints on and oppor...
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Defining work tools: studying effects of digitalising work tools
This reader combines empirically grounded insights into how changes in work tools affect our work and how we react to it. It offers a hands-on approach to discovering the impacts digitalization might have on qualification and the labor market. Work tools can be used to link analytical perspective...
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Rethinking teacher education for the 21st century
This book focuses on current trends, potential challenges, and further developments in teacher education and professional development from theoretical, empirical, and practical points of view. It provides fresh insights and examples of best practices from all over the world on the strengths and l...
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“frozen conflicts” in europe
Oft forgotten but simmering “frozen conflicts” continuously mark the political map of Europe. All located in South Eastern Europe, the Black Sea area and Transcaucasia, these conflicts run along ethnic, national, cultural and linguistic lines, separating communities. This insightful book offers a...
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Consumer psychology: a study guide to qualitative research methods
This book provides students with a clear and concise guide to studying undergraduate courses in qualitative consumer research and ethnography. The authors present the major qualitative research approaches used in consumer and marketing research as well as practical procedures and theoretical aspe...
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Parliamentarism and democratic theory
This book argues that the parliamentary culture of politics plays a central role in democracy, vindicating the argumentative, debating experience of politics to recast both democratic theory’s normative assumptions and real democracies’ reform potential.
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Multivariate scaling methods and the reconstruction of social spaces
This edited volume assembles contributions of leading scholars in the fields of statistical methods and applications in the social sciences.
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Mobile schools
How can children from nomadic communities go to school, when they are permanently on the move? This publication deals with the necessity and the development of a mobile school system for pastoralists in Northern Kenya. The underlying system Ladders of Learning guides pupils and teachers with a re...
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The politics of nuclear energy in the european union
For the foreseeable future the overall use of nuclear electricity in the European Union is unlikely to change significantly despite the controversies surrounding its use amongst the EU’s nation states. The author questions the role that nuclear electricity plays in meeting the challenges of provi...
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Gender and diversity studies
Against the backdrop of current European developments, from economic deregulation and a shrinking welfare state to the dissolution and reinforcement of borders, this book examines the development of gender and diversity studies in different European regions and beyond.
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Educating students with refugee and asylum seeker experiences
This book examines the educational systems into which students with refugee backgrounds are placed when relocated into their new homelands. The authors propose ways in which these students can be educated with policies and perspectives that respect diversity, using a primary school in Australia d...
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Demographics of korea and germany
Korea and Germany are commonly described as emblematic examples of divided nations. But while Korea is still divided Germany has gone through a peaceful unification. The book offers a unique comparative study on the demographic change in these divided countries. It also investigates the developme...
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Algorithmic and aesthetic literacy
This book presents a wide array of transdisciplinary perspectives on computational and aesthetic practices and thinking. Drawing on computer and educational science, artistic research, designing, and crafting, this collection delves deeply into social and educational challenges in the wake of the...
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Germany’s new partners
In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis Germany became Europe’s most influential nation state. This book aims to provide a comparative assessment of how this is reflected in the country’s bilateral security relationships with key global and regional partners. Prepared by an international team of...
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Russia and china
This book depicts the sophisticated relationship between Russia and China as a pragmatic one, a political “marriage of convenience”. Yet at the same time the relationship is stable, and will remain so. After all, bilateral relations are usually based on pragmatic interests and the pursuit of thes...
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Migration and mobility in an enlarged europe
The book investigates transnational migration and mobility of women from and within Central-Eastern European countries. It looks at women’s practices and experiences mostly in the service sector where they are in demand as substitutes in stereotypically „women’s work“. The book combines different...
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Interventions against child abuse and violence against women
This book offers insights from a study of cultural encounters in intervention against violence in four EU countries. Seeking a deeper understanding of the underpinnings of intervention practices, this study explored variations in institutional structures and traditions of law, policing, and socia...
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Professionals in early childhood education and care systems
In a European context of rapidly expanding early education/ care provision for young children, the staffing of these services is a critical quality issue. What are the requirements for professional education and training? How alike or how varied are the qualification profiles and fields of work? ...
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At the origins of parliamentary europe
This book investigates the significance of the Ad Hoc Assembly for the politicization of European integration.
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External democracy promotion and diversity among international agencies
This research considers the mixed results of international agencies in democracy promotion despite their attempt to shape a common policy emphasized in various international agreements. On the background of backlashes and the search for new answers it analyses how the UNDP and the EC promoted dem...
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Experiences of intervention against violence
The stories in this anthology emerged from interviews with women and young people about their experience of intervention when they were escaping a situation of abuse, neglect and/or sexual exploitation. They come from the research project “Cultural Encounters in Intervention Against Violence (CEI...
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Entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial skills in europe
The labour markets and European societies as a whole are subject to constant change. One way to face these challenges is the application of “entrepreneurial skills” such as self-motivation, time management etc. The authors give examples of entrepreneurship in the fields of digitalization, social ...
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Safe or free?
One of the biggest dilemmas of our times is how much safety and security we desire and what price we are prepared to pay for it. By applying and advancing the methods of social research this book fills the gap in the study of security and security risks by analyzing unique data (media, survey, ma...
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Managing challenging behaviour in schools
This book presents approaches and solutions for understanding and acting in difficult educational situations at school.
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Contested social and ecological reproduction
Although it is potentially possible, humankind has not succeeded in securing the basis of life for all people. This book looks at how different actors deal with the multidimensional crisis.
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Democracy under stress
This book focuses on the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 and its implications for democracy. Why and how did the crisis come about? Are there any instructive lessons to be drawn from comparisons with the Great Depression of the 1930s? What are the democratic response mechanisms to cope with ...
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Europeanised defiance – czech euroscepticism since 2004
Why is there so much reservation and scepticism among the Czech public as well as politicians towards the European Union? Has the experience of the Czech Republic as a member of the EU changed Czech Euroscepticism since 2004? The authors provide a detailed analysis of the dynamics of Eurosceptici...
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Advancing conflict transformation. the berghof handbook ii
Following the first volume of its Handbook for Conflict Transformation in 2004, Berghof Conflict Research (Berlin) now presents Volume II. This edition collects new insights into nonviolent ways of managing inter-group conflict and what is needed for consolidating positive peace. The Berghof Ha...
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Business and government
This volume reviews current debates on the role of business in politics and it assesses emerging methodological approaches to its study. The book brings together leading scholars to assess various qualitative and quantitative methods, network analysis, historical context and positive rational cho...
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Research-driven curriculum design
Research-based course design involves processes of needs assessment, course development, and testing. This book presents a curriculum design study in the field of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) that aims to link curriculum theory to educational practice through research-oriented course devel...
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Democratization
Problems of democratization, its successes, failures and future prospects, belong to the most pressing concerns of our times. Empirical democratic theory has received many new impulses since the last „wave“ of democratization in Latin America, Eastern Europe, Africa and Southeast and East Asia. I...
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The holocaust in three generations
Victims and Perpetrators What form does the dialogue about the family past during the Nazi period take in families of those persecuted by the Nazi regime and in families of Nazi perpetrators and bystanders? What impact does the past of the first generation, and their own way of dealing with it ...
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Fathers in work organizations
This book is dedicated to the role of work organizations when it comes to the realization of an active fatherhood. Firstly, it deals with barriers for active fatherhood and its correlating mechanisms of inequality: Which aspects of discrimination and social closure do fathers face today if they a...
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Covid, crisis, care, and change?
The authors examine how fundamental and sustainable the social changes over the course of the corona pandemic are at the social levels of labour, care work and state regulation in their gender dimensions.
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After 9/11: leading political thinkers about the world, the u.s. and themselves
After 9/11 presents 17 interviews with America´s leading political thinkers. Renowned experts such as Zbigniew Brzezinski, Francis Fukuyama, and Noam Chomsky discuss the nation’s foreign policy in the post-9/11 world. Yet, they also comment on their own role in US society – and the mounting chall...
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India
The title is part of the International Handbook of Vocational Education and Training, the standard reference for comparative research in vocational education in German. It is intended for an academic audience as well as vocational education and training practitioners. Selected titles are translat...
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International developments in research on extended education
From childhood to adolescence, young people are enrolled in various public or private forms of educational arrangements outside regular school lessons. This volume provides an overview of extended education in nations around the world. Different models, policies, methods, and research findings ar...
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Electronic democracy
The timely book takes stock of the state of the art and future of electronic democracy, exploring the history and potential of e-democracy in global perspective. Analysing the digital divide, the role of the internet as a tool for political mobilisation, internet Voting and Voting Advice Applicat...
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Multilateralism and multipolarity
The international system is undergoing a fundamental change from unipolarity to multipolarity and is facing a growing importance of Asia in world politics. In order to build Global Governance for the 21st century the multipolar state-system must be complemented and linked with structures of multi...
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Gender equality in context
Taking Switzerland as a case study, this book critically reflects on the state of gender equality in different policy areas such as education, family, and labor. Articles reveal how gender policies and cultural contexts interact with social practices of gender (in)equality.
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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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Mind your writing
In order to write and publish successfully, academic writers must be aware of their skills and their role as writers. They need to be able to answer fundamental questions about their writing, enabling them to make conscious and strategic decisions. Only in that way they will become writing profes...
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Social glocalisation and education
This book discusses the local effects of globalization, especially in the context of social work and health, as well as the challenges of higher education. The more globalized the world becomes, the more important local identities are. This phenomenon, called “glocalisation,” poses many challenge...
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The making of the world
International organizations were designed to provide global public goods, such as security for all, trade for the richest, and development for the poorest. Yves Schemeil draws on his in-depth knowledge of IOs to analyze their effects on international relations and their potential to shape the glo...
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Aiming for diversity
This book argues that two different logics of diversity dominate political and educational spaces – one inclusive and one exclusive.
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International social work and forced migration
This book focuses on social work in different refugee-related contexts, including countries of origin, transit, and destination as well as country-specific responses to ever-increasing migration flows. The book aims to facilitate debate on international social work in contexts of flight and refug...
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Government favouritism in europe
This volume on Government Favouritism in Europe reunites the fieldwork of 2014-2015 in the ANTICORRP project. It is entirely based on objective indicators and offers both quantitative and qualitative assessments of the linkage between political corruption and organised crime using statistics on s...
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Participation in residential childcare
This book presents the far-reaching research findings of the project "Participation in Organisational Cultures of Residential Education."
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Motherhood in patriarchy
„Motherhood in Patriarchy“ pioneers the argument that the current Western understanding of motherhood is a patriarchal one based on a long historical tradition of subjection and institutionalization. The book makes an important contribution to women’s studies on reproduction, feminist theory, mot...
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Arsenal of autocracy
This book explores the military strategy and modernization of Russia and China post-2001. In an international system where U.S. power wanes, Russia and China are the most potent challengers to the post-Cold War world order. The security challenge these powers pose is enhanced by their histories a...
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Gendered configurations of humans and machines
In numerous fields of science, work, and everyday life, humans and machines have been increasingly entangled, developing an ever-growing toolbox of interactions. These entanglements affect our daily lives and pose possibilities as well as restrictions, chances as well as challenges. The contribut...
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The good cause
Money makes the world go round - corruption The book presents the state of the art in studying the causes of corruption from a comparative perspective. Leading scholars in the field of corruption analysis shed light on the issue of corruption from different theoretical perspectives. Understandin...
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Beyond the panama papers. the performance of eu good governance promotion
This last title in the series covers the most important findings of the five yearsEU sponsored ANTICORRP project dealing with corruption and organized crime.How prone to corruption are EU funds? Has EU managed to improve governancein the countries that it assists? Using the new index of public in...
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Psychology’s feminist voices from turkey
The book highlights feminist psychology in Turkey as a force for justice, healing, and solidarity.
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Stifled progress – international perspectives on social work and social policy in the era of right-wing populism
Social work as a democratically constituted profession committed to human rights is currently facing cross-border encroachments and attacks by right-wing populist movements and governments. This book examines how social work can respond effectively to nationalism, exclusion, and skepticism about ...
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The multigrademultilevel-methodology and its global significance
The MultiGradeMultiLevel-Methodology (MGML) offers students and teachers a reliable learning framework for both individualized and community-oriented education. In this publication, the authors introduce MGML’s origin and international variations, localizing them within scientific horizons.
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New approaches towards the ‘good life’
The Capability Approach founded by Armatya Sen and Martha Nussbaum offers a justicebased analytical framework for human development. The contributions to the present volume show how the Capability Approach can be applied productively in empirical analyses of the life situations of young people an...
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Costa rican technical and vocational education and training
This edited volume provides a comprehensive insight into the Costa Rican TVET system and its related research by bringing together descriptive and empirical studies.
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Early childhood education leadership in times of crisis
Authors from twelve countries present empirical findings gaining information on different crisis management mechanisms in early childhood education and care ECE systems around the world.
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Family dynamics after separation
In many Western societies, there has been a tremendous increase in family diversity over the course of the past few decades, resulting in a considerable prevalence of non-traditional family forms. The increased instability of marital and non-marital unions entails new challenges for both parents ...
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The anticorruption frontline
From Turkey to Egypt, Bulgaria to Ukraine, and Brazil to India, we witness the rise of an angry urban middle class protesting against what they see as fundamental corruption of their political regimes, perceived as predatory and inefficient. Corruption is near the top of all global protesters’ li...
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Transdisciplinary impulses towards socio-ecological transformation
In this volume, academic interdisciplinary contributions from philosophy, social sciences and education are complemented by transdisciplinary contributions from practical fields. They provide impulses for reflection and open up spaces for thinking in order to do justice to the complexity of the t...
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Health among the elderly in germany
Whether increasing life expectancy leads to better health remains still controversial. Three topics are explored: (1) vanguard groups which inform about possible levels of health if the general social and environmental conditions were to approach those of the vanguard group; (2) the social and be...
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Radical approaches to political science: roads less traveled
This ground breaking volume offers a range of alternative approaches to political science, highlighting problems too rarely confronted by “mainstream” political scientists. Ranging from Gunfighter Sagas to the changing faces of an imaginary Mars, the innovative chapters introduce whole new ways o...
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Critical social policy and the capability approach
The (European) welfare state as well as the political space of “the social” is currently being reorganised in a fundamental way. This has major implications for any attempt to contribute to a more just or even emancipatory way of shaping “the social”. The authors discuss what the Capabilities App...
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Joy, reflections, resistance – lgbtiq+ lived realities in africa
This book brings together activist and scholarly perspectives from different African countries on the multifaceted lived realities of LGBTIQ+ persons.
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European social work – a compendium
This compendium takes stock of the fundamental developments transforming social work in Europe. It discusses visible and invisible changes and maps out where social work is positioned in the emerging post-welfare states. International experts give an overview of different aspects of crucial chang...
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