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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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
COVID in the Islands: A comparative perspective on the Caribbean and the Pacific
This book provides the first wide-ranging account of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in two contrasting island regions - the Caribbean and the Pacific - and in several islands and island states. It traces the complexity of effects and responses, at different scales, through the first critical year. Written by a range of scholars and practitioners working in the region the book focuses on si…
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- 978-981-16-5285-1
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- xxvii, 538p.:ill
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- 362.1 Cov
Connectivity and Global Studies
This textbook provides readers with evocative and analytical accounts of social processes that are linked to globalization and connectivity, which includes a wide range of multi-centred connections in history, DNA analysis, technology, art, populism and political economy. Rather than globalization, Nederveen Pieterse focuses on connectivity. His approach to globalization differs from both struc…
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- 978-3-030-59598-2
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- xxii, 230p.:ill
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- 301 Pie c
Impacts of Racism on White Americans In the Age of Trump
In this third iteration of the classic work The Impacts of Racism on White Americans (1981, 1996), a new generation of scholars make the case that racism often negatively affects Whites themselves, especially during the Trump era. In 1981, Impacts introduced an alternative understanding of racism, arguing that it went beyond white-black and/or inter-race relations. Instead, the book proposed th…
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- 978-3-030-75232-3
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- xxvii, 275p.:ill
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- 320.56 Imp
European Dispute over the Concept of Man
The book represents original research in a field of study rarely pursued while analysing the intellectual dimensions of disputes over ethically sensitive issues that occur in European Union politics. These disputes are generally analysed at ideological, ethical, economic and interstate levels. However, these references do not suffice in understanding the issue, which is related to a divergent p…
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- 978-3-030-61520-8
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- xv, 504p.:ill
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- 306.6 Gie e
Religion, Citizenship and Democracy
This innovative volume is focused on the impact of religion on the realization of democratic citizenship. The researchers contributing provide empirical evidence on how religion influences attitudes towards citizenship and democracy in different countries. The book also tackles the challenges and opportunities for citizenship education. Experts contributing from sociology, political science…
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- 978-3-030-83277-3
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- vi, 274p.:ill
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- 306.6 Rel
Ibn Khaldūn and the Arab Origins of the Sociology of Civilisation and Power
This book presents Ibn Khaldūn's anticipatory sociology of civilisations and power. Half a millennium before the birth of modern sociology in the West, Ibn Khaldūn—scholar, political counsellor, and Malikite judge—wrote a revolutionary sociological-philosophical treatise, the Muqaddima. This book places his broad, complex, and refined treatise against the background of the Islamo-Greek cu…
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- 978-3-030-70339-4
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- xxiii, 255p.:ill
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- 301 Ver i
Social Capital and Collective Action in Pakistani Rural Development
This book distinguishes conceptually between indigenous and constructed social capital and the associated spontaneous and induced collective action for rural development and natural resource preservation. While some of the case studies in this book show that induced collective action can lead to cost-effective, community-centric and empirically grounded rural development initiatives, other case…
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- 978-3-030-71450-5
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- xviii,, 295p.:ill
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- 306.4 Kha s
The Social Construction of AIDS Issues
This book explores AIDS from a relatively macro perspective rather than concrete operational methods and focuses on the social construction of AIDS issues instead of its transmission level in the context of China. First, it begins with the theoretical analysis and the social significance of AIDS, which is different from the simple conflict between different schools of thought. Second, it analys…
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- 978-981-16-7519-5
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- viii, 237p.:ill
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- 301 Pan t
Hope
This book provides a concise, interdisciplinary perspective on the emotion and practice of ‘hope'. Based on the idea that hope is a dream that we carry in different ways, the five chapters draw on the author’s original research and align it with literature on the sociology of culture and emotion, to explore the concept in relation to cultural and community practices and mental health. …
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- 978-3-030-69870-6
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- xvii, 150p.:ill
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- 306.4 Den h
Humans and Devices in Medical Contexts
This book explores an escalating modern-day crisis; managing waste in a sustainable way. The central question posed is whether advancing a circular economy provides a way to shift waste management practices towards more sustainable approaches. It begins with an in-depth analysis of the nature of waste management and the prevailing crisis, followed by a discussion about the circular economy in t…
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- 978-981-33-6280-2
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- xxiv, 324p.:ill
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- 362.1 Hum
The Power of Parasites
This book describes how malaria both frustrates and facilitates life for Indigenous Pälawan communities living in the forested foothills of the municipality of Bataraza on the island of Palawan in the Philippines. Tracing the arc of malaria on the archipelago from colonial encounters to the present day, it examines the ways in which malaria parasites have become entangled in contemporary lives…
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- 978-981-16-6764-0
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- ix, 217p.:ill
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- 362.1 Isk t
Public Secrets and Private Sufferings in the South African AIDS Epidemic
This book tells the story of the HIV epidemic in South Africa, and asks why, after more than three decades, it has not normalised. Despite considerable efforts to prevent infection, and ambitious targets set to end the epidemic by 2030, HIV infections are increasing among young women and treatment uptake and adherence have been uneven. Focusing on the years preceding and following treatment acc…
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- 978-3-030-69437-1
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- xiii, 188p.:Ill
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- 362.1 Sta p
Sociological Reflections on the Covid-19 Pandemic in India
This book presents a sociological study of the COVID-19 pandemic in the context of India. It invites readers to understand disasters and crises as triggers of radical transformations in society, changing the very nature of every day and the meaning of normal. It discusses the processes through which society accepts, internalizes and reinvents a new way of life. It provides insights into its imp…
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- 978-981-16-2320-2
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- xiii, 148p.:ill
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- 362.1 Soc
Leisure in Later Life
This book analyses leisure choice as a complex concept, made more complicated in later life than at any other time. The author posits that there are many unanswered questions about the new booming generation of healthy, older people, and this book asks what it is really like to be old at the beginning of the 21st century in the United Kingdom, analysing leisure in older people in th…
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- 978-3-030-71672-1
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- XXIX, 224p.:ill
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- 306.85 Wis l
Rethinking Alternatives with Marx
This book presents a Marx that is in many ways different from the one popularized by the dominant currents of twentieth-century Marxism. The dual aim of this edited volume is to contribute to a new critical discussion of some of the classical themes of Marx’s thought and to develop a deeper analysis of certain questions to which relatively little attention has been paid until recently. Con…
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- 978-3-030-81764-0
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- XXXIII, 354p.:ill
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- 306.2 Ret
Eating in Israel
This book explores the relationship between the food culture of Israel and the creation of its national identity. It is an effort to research what the mundane, everyday behaviours such as cooking and feeding ourselves and others, can tell us about the places we were born and the cultural practices of a nation. With the aim of developing a better understanding of the many facets of Israeli …
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- 978-3-030-87254-0
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- XIII, 192p.:ill
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- 301 Bla e
The Bolsonaro Paradox
This book presents the first in-depth academic investigation published in English about one of the most radical incarnations of the current global wave of new right-wing movements and governments: the movement that brought to power the current Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro. The rise of this new right-wing movement in Brazil came as a surprise to many analysts who used to see the country a…
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- 978-3-030-79653-2
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- xxi, 154p.:ill
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- 306.2 Roc t
Single Parents
This edited volume addresses how single mothers and fathers are represented in novels, self-help literature, daily newspapers, film and television, as well as within their own narratives in interviews on social media. With proportions varying between countries, the number of single parents has been increasing steadily since the 1970s in the Western world. Contributions to this volume analyse ho…
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- 978-3-030-71311-9
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- IX, 258p.:ill
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- 306.85 Sin
Close Relations
This book speaks to the meanings and values that inhere in close relations, focusing on ‘family’ and ‘kinship’ but also looking beyond these categories. Multifaceted, diverse and subject to constant debate, close relations are ubiquitous in human lives on embodied as well as symbolic levels. Closely related to processes of power, legibility and recognition, close relations are surrounde…
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- 978-981-16-0792-9
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- vii, 220p.:ill
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- 306.85 Cla
Populations as Brands
In Populations as Brands Aaro Tupasela extends the fields of critical data studies and nation branding into the realm of state controlled biobanking and healthcare data. Using examples from two Nordic countries - Denmark and Finland – he explores how these countries have begun to market and brand their resources using methods and practices drawn from the commercial sector. Tupasela identifies…
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- 978-3-030-78578-9
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- xvii, 225p.:ill
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- 306.3 Tup p
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