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Creativity and Time: A Sociological Exploration
This book defends that the pursuit of originality constitutes one of the most important characteristics of creativity, but that originality refers, etymologically, to both origin and originary. Hence, the book is structured into two parts, dedicated, respectively, to the creative categories of origin and the creative categories of originary. Within the former are creation myths, games – the o…
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- 978-3-030-84838-5
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- viii, 221p.:ill
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- 301 Car c
History and Regional Area Studies of Hachioji
This book looks at the case study of Hachioji as a major transit hub with a world-class public transportation system in Japan. It tracks how Tokyo slowly expands into its suburban, rural or sub-rural districts. It also wants to profile the multiple identities of a city that is simultaneously an ecological asset, a heritage locale in addition to a logistics hub. The volume is probably the first …
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- 978-981-16-6178-5
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- xiii, 109p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.7 Lim h
Narratives of Parental Death, Dying and Bereavement
This collection shows what happens when facing the inevitable and sometimes expected death of a parent, and how such an ordinary part of life as parental death might connect with the children left behind. In many ways, individual deaths are extraordinary and leave a unique legacy – a kind of haunting. The authors' accounts seek to make sense of death through witnessing its enactment and re…
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- 978-3-030-70894-8
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- xv, 199p.:ill
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- -
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- 306.8 Nar
Belonging and Resilience in Individuals with Developmental Disabilities
This book examines belonging as a key protective factor for enhancing resilience for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families. It focuses on understanding intellectual and developmental disabilities and resilience from systemic and social-ecological perspectives, emphasizing the roles of professionals, families, and communities in combating long-standing s…
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- 978-3-030-81277-5
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- xix, 147p.:ill
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- 306.8 Bel
Religiosity and Recognition
This book argues that multiculturalism remains a relevant and vital framework through which to understand and construct inclusive forms of citizenship. Responding to contemporary ethnic and religious diversity in European states and the position of religious minorities, debates in multiculturalism have revitalized discussion of the public role of religion, yet multiculturalism has been increasi…
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- 978-3-030-75127-2
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- ix, 233p.:ill
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- -
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- 306.6 Sea r
COVID-19's political challenges in Latin America
This book analyzes how COVID-19 impacted politics and how politics shaped the response to the pandemic in Latin America, the region which has become the epicenter of the global health crisis started in China. The volume brings together studies carried out in eight countries of the region – Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua and Uruguay – and show how the impacts …
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- 978-3-030-77602-2
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- xi, 198p.:ill
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- 306.3 Cov
A Historical Survey of the Yellow River and the River Civilizations
This book explores the relationship between rivers and ethics in China, with a particular focus on the health of the Yellow River and China’s sustainable development. Though the book falls into the category of East Asian History, it is an interdisciplinary academic work that addresses not only history, but also culture, human geography and physical geography. It traces the changes in the…
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- 978-981-33-4481-5
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- x, 242p.:ill
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- -
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- 306.4 Jia a
Countering Islamophobia in North America
This book puts together grounded research on the discourses that counter Islamophobic tropes in North America. Dealing with an important and urgent issue of human rights, it explores how public policies, new conceptualizations, and social movements can transform Islamophobia into a positive and healthy discourse. Surprisingly, and apart from selected media studies, empirical investigations abou…
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- 978-3-030-84673-2
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- xxxii, 214p.:ill
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- -
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- 306.6 Ela
Food, Social Change and Identity
Unlike food publications that have been more organized along regional or disciplinary lines, this edited volume is distinctive in that it brings together anthropologists, archaeologists, area study specialists, linguists and food policy administrators to explore the following questions: What kinds of changes in food and foodways are happening? What triggers change and how are the changes impact…
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- 978-3-030-84371-7
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- xvii, 188p.:ill
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- 301 Foo
Networks, Knowledge Brokers, and the Public Policymaking Process
Social network analysis provides a meaningful lens for advancing a more nuanced understanding of the communication networks and practices that bring together policy advocates and practitioners in their day-to-day efforts to broker evidence into policymaking processes. This book advances knowledge brokerage scholarship and methodology as applied to policymaking contexts, focusing on the ways…
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- 978-3-030-78755-4
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- xxvii, 396p.:ill
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- 301 Net
Technology and Democracy: Toward A Critical Theory of Digital Technologies, T…
As we enter a new millennium, it is clear that we are in the midst of one of the most dramatic technological revolutions in history that is changing everything from the ways that we work, communicate, participate in politics, and spend our leisure time. The technological revolution centers on computer, information, communication, and multimedia technologies, is often interpreted as the beginnin…
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- 978-3-658-31790-4
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- vii, 303p.:ill
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- 301 Kel t
Racism in Australia Today
This book focuses on historical and current data to examine racism in Australia. Making use of the latest state and federal data sets, it critically synthesises contemporary research on race relations with a focus on racism and anti-racism initiatives. Employing innovative analytical methods, the book provides students and researchers with a current and up-to-date analytical framework, and …
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- 978-981-16-2137-6
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- xviii, 377p.:ill
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- 320.56 Eli r
The Ethnographic Radiographer
Written from the perspective of a diagnostic radiography educator, this book introduces readers to ethnography as a methodology and examines how an ethnographic researcher sees the world in which they live.
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- 978-981-16-7252-1
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- viii, 138p.:ill
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- 301 Str t
Culture and Policy-Making
This book advances the understanding and modelling of sensemaking and cultural processes as being crucial to the scientific study of contemporary complex societies. It outlines a dynamic, processual conception of culture and a general view of the role of cultural dynamics in policy-making, drawing three significant methodological implications: pluralism, performativity, and semiotic capital. It…
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- 978-3-030-71967-8
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- xxxii, 217p.:ill
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- -
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- 306.2 Cul
The Biomedical Sciences in Society
This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the interdisciplinary field of the Social Studies of Science and Technology (SSST). Over the past two decades, the biomedical sciences have transformed our understanding of the relationship between the social and natural worlds, while its ‘promissory visions’ are seen to offer extraordinary opportunities for economic and social developm…
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- 978-981-15-9523-3
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- ix, 203p.:ill
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- 362.1 Cri t
Housing Movements in Rome
This book explores contemporary challenges of housing movement organizations, looking specifically at the case of Rome, Italy. The work identifies conditions that allow the re-composition of a class of housing dispossessed and, consequently, the features of its action in urban spaces. The book offers fresh analytical perspectives to understanding contemporary urban transformation via new spatia…
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- 978-981-16-2738-5
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- Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
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- Alternatives and Futures: Cultures, Practices, Activism and Utopias
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- 307.7 Cac h
Assessing Spirituality in a Diverse World
This volume addresses an important problem in social scientific research on global religions and spirituality: How to evaluate the role of diverse religious and spiritual (R/S) beliefs and practices within the rapid evolution of spiritual globalization and diversification trends. The book examines this question by bringing together a panel of international scholars including psychologists, soci…
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- 978-3-030-52140-0
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- xx, 618p.:ill
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- -
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- 306.6 Ass
A Sociology of Place in Australia
This book weaves a social, economic and cultural history of Australia with rare first-hand accounts of the lived experience of change related to farming and agriculture. It provides a rich sociology of how living on the land has changed throughout Australia’s history. The book investigates the complex effects of the state on everyday life, using an historical agricultural case study of place …
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- 978-981-33-6240-6
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- xvi, 320p.:ill
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- -
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- 306.3 Bak a
European Social Work After 1989
This book presents a unique analysis of the learning derived from East-West contacts in social work and reflects on the discipline's inalienable trans-national dimensions, of high actuality in the face of the re-emergence of nationalisms. The fundamental transformations in Europe subsequent to the revolutions of 1989 had a profound impact on social work in terms of raising sharply the professio…
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- 978-3-030-45811-9
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- xvi, 211p.:ill
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- European Social Work Education and Practice
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- 305.9 Eur
Eating Disorders and Child Sexual Abuse
This book takes up the challenge of examining women’s understandings of eating disorders and child sexual abuse away from a framework focused on pathology. The central argument is that women’s distress is an enactment of their engagement with certain discourses and practices, rather than a reaction triggered by child sexual abuse. Guided by a contemporary feminist framework and Mikhail Bakh…
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- 978-981-33-6296-3
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- xi, 280p.:ill
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- 362.1 Hod e
The knowledge of experience
This book explores the role of social and epistemic diversity in science, technology, and medicine in the 21st century. It argues that most contemporary endeavours to democratize science are epistemically conservative. Using illustrative case studies, Dr Dana Mahr shows how epistemic diversity can contribute to a renewal of the production of scientific knowledge. Her exploration of online self-…
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- 978-981-16-3702-5
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- Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
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- 301 Mah t
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar and the Question of Socialism in India
This book offers a reading of Bhimrao Ambedkar’s engagement with the idea and practice of socialism in India by linking it to his lifelong political and philosophical concerns: the annihilation of the caste system, untouchability and the moral and philosophical systems that justify either. Rather than view his ideas through a socialist lens, the author suggests that it is important to measure…
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- 978-3-030-80375-9
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- xix, 341p.:ill
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- -
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- 320.954 Gee b
Healthcare Technology in Context
This book investigates how the technology used by telehealth services shapes our healthcare, and how we, as humans, collectively change and shape the technology and services used in healthcare. Based on extensive field research on telehealth services in Australia and Brazil, the book reveals some surprisingly obvious conclusions about our powers to shape the society.
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- 978-981-16-4075-9
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- xix, 298p.:ill
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- -
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- 362.1 Tay h
Handbook of Classical Sociological Theory
This is the first handbook focussing on classical social theory. It offers extensive discussions of debates, arguments, and discussions in classical theory and how they have informed contemporary sociological theory. The book pushes against the conventional classical theory pedagogy, which often focused on single theorists and their contributions, and looks at isolating themes capturing the ess…
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- 978-3-030-78205-4
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- vii, 725p.:ill
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- -
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- 301 Han
Sociology in Germany
This open access book traces the development of sociology in Germany from the late 19th century to the present day, providing a concise overview of the main actors, institutional processes, theories, methods, topics and controversies. Throughout the book, the author relates the discipline’s history to its historical, economic, political and cultural contexts. The book begins with sociology in…
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- 978-3-030-71866-4
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- xi, 222p.:ill
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- -
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- 301 Moe s
New Approaches to Health Literacy
In this anthology of health literacy, drawing on New Social Literacy studies and contemporary debates on equity, we discuss health literacy within German regional and cultural contexts as well as in selected non-European regions, such as in Asia and South America. Topics include unique reviews on health literacy, new empirical results on different population groups, in-depth ethnographic insigh…
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- 978-3-658-30909-1
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- xiii, 326p.:ill
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- -
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- 362.1 New
Sexual and Reproductive Health of Adolescents with Disabilities
This book investigates various experiences of teaching sexual and reproductive health to adolescents with disabilities. Following the adoption of the UNCRPD, adolescents with disabilities still commonly suffer from widespread violation of their rights particularly concerning sexual and reproductive health – often being viewed as either asexual or hypersexual. Contemporary societies do not rea…
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- 978-981-15-7914-1
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- xv, 223p.:ill
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- 362.1 Sex
Thinking about Belonging in Youth Studies
This book takes a global perspective to address the concept of belonging in youth studies, interrogating its emergence as a reoccurring theme in the literature and elucidating its benefits and shortcomings. While belonging offers new alignments across previously divergent approaches to youth studies, its pervasiveness in the field has led to criticism that it means both everything and nothing a…
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- 978-3-030-75119-7
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- xiii, 236p.:ill
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- 306.85 Har t
Topologies of Digital Work
This book provides a unique contribution to the controversial discussion that surrounds the digitalisation and virtualisation of work. With a focus on the new formation of space and place, it critically discusses the idea that places in the context of work are increasingly losing their importance, and becoming more arbitrary with new technical possibilities. Theoretical considerations that …
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- 978-3-030-80327-8
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- xvii, 289p.:ill
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- -
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- 305.9 Top
Chemical Youth
This open access book explores how young people engage with chemical substances in their everyday lives. It builds upon and supplements a large body of literature on young people’s use of drugs and alcohol to highlight the subjectivities and socialities that chemical use enables across diverse socio-cultural settings, illustrating how young people seek to avoid harm, while harnessing the bene…
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- 978-3-030-57081-1
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- xxiii, 318p.:ill.
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- 362.1 Har c
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