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Construed Heritage: Narratives and Collectable Experiences
Jennifer GoddardCurrent price €89.09Original price €98.99Heritage theory places individual experiences in a precarious position. Representational approaches draw attention to socio-political contexts and ...
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Disability and Social Theory: New Developments and Directions
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99This comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection, examines disability from a theoretical perspective, challenging views of disability that dominate...
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Ruling, Resources and Religion in China: Managing the Multiethnic State in the 21st Century
Elizabeth Van Wie DavisCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99China is growing in importance to the economies and governments of the world, and it has been run by men with very different ideas. How China copes...
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International Conflict over Water Resources in Himalayan Asia
C. JasparroCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99The authors explore the fresh water crisis of Himalayan Asia. While the region hosts some of the world's mightiest rivers, it is also home to rapid...
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Discourses of Ageing in Fiction and Feminism: The Invisible Woman
J. KingCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book explores the way older women are represented in society. Through close readings of novels by major 20th century novelists, compared with ...
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Remembering and Rethinking the GDR: Multiple Perspectives and Plural Authenticities
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Exploring the ways in which the GDR has been remembered since its demise in 1989/90, this volume asks how memory of the former state continues to s...
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Controversies in Policy Research: critical analysis for a new era of austerity and privation
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Under the themes of Justice, Participation and Social Exclusion contributors explore and discuss the impact on those targeted or excluded by import...
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Silence, Feminism, Power: Reflections at the Edges of Sound
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99An interrogation of the often-unexamined assumption that silence is oppressive, to consider the multiple possibilities silence enables. The volume ...
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Moving Verses: Poetry on Screen in Argentine Cinema
Ben BolligCurrent price €110.69Original price €122.99From Wild Tales to Zama, Argentine cinema has produced some of the most visually striking and critically lauded films of the 2000s. Argentina also ...
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Hispanic Caribbean Literature of Migration: Narratives of Displacement
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This collection explores the literary tradition of Caribbean Latino literature written in the U.S. beginning with José Martí and concluding with 20...
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Tolerance, Intolerance and Respect: Hard to Accept?
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Across European societies, pluralism is experienced in new and challenging ways. Our understanding of what it means for societies to be accepting o...
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Transitional Justice in Peru
R. RootCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Between 1980 and 2000, Peru suffered an armed conflict, massive human rights violations, and the destruction of its democracy. This book examines P...
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Ethnic Identity and the State in Iran
A. SalehCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99While the Islamic Republic has employed various strategies to mitigate the worst excesses of inter-ethnic tension while still securing a Shi'a domi...
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Urban Landscapes: Environmental Networks and the Quality of Life
Massimo SargoliniCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Today, more than 50% of the worlds population lives in cities and is subject to particular environmental and economic impacts against the backdrop ...
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Whiteness and Leisure
K. SpracklenCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book develops a new theory of instrumental whiteness and leisure. Empirical research is drawn upon to highlight whiteness across a comprehensi...
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Vanity: 21st Century Selves
C. TannerCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99What role does 'vanity' play in the lives of 21st century subjects? Exploring a range of fields including public health, information technology, me...
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Buddhism, Modernity, and the State in Asia: Forms of Engagement
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Leading scholars working on Buddhism and politics in South and Southeast Asia add to current discussions regarding 'Engaged Buddhism' and the recen...
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Children, Media and Playground Cultures: Ethnographic Studies of School Playtimes
A. BurnCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Drawing on ethnographic accounts of children's media-referenced play, this book explores children's engagement with media cultures and playground e...
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Relational Rituals and Communication: Ritual Interaction in Groups
D. KádárCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book provides a ground-breaking, interaction-based framework of rituals, drawing on multiple research disciplines. It examines ritual as a rel...
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Sporting Times
K. WoodwardCurrent price €38.24Original price €44.99Written against the backdrop of the 2012 London Olympics, this book examines the idea of 'time' in sport, using time as a conceptual lens to explor...
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Childhoods at the Intersection of the Local and the Global
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Childhoods at the Intersection of the Local and the Global examines the imposition of the modern Western notion of childhood, which is now deemed a...
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Men and Masculinities in Irish Cinema
D. GingCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Spanning a broad trajectory, from the New Gaelic Man of post-independence Ireland to the slick urban gangsters of contemporary productions, this st...
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Caste, Gender, and Christianity in Colonial India: Telugu Women in Mission
J. TanetiCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Beginning in the nineteenth century, native women preachers served and led nascent Protestant churches in much of Southern India, evolving their ow...
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Shaping Chinas Global Imagination: Branding Nations at the World Expo
J. WangCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99A comprehensive discussion of how countries embrace branding as a crucial element in their pursuit of soft power and why certain nation-branding ef...
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