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Sklaverei, Freiheit und Arbeit

This volume investigates the intertwining of freedom, slavery and work. The contributions shed light on this relationship by examining labour relations socio-historically based on violence and coercion. T…

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Jens Eder
Characters in Film and Other Media

Characters are of crucial importance for the creation and experience of films and other media. Their cultural significance can hardly be overestimated, but they also raise manifold questions.This book pro…

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Dorit Brixius
Creolised Science

This rich, deeply researched study offers the first comprehensive exploration of cross-cultural plant knowledge in eighteenth-century Mauritius. Using the concept of creolisation - the process by which el…

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Life in Dignity

Studien aus dem Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Sozialrecht - volume 83

Despite the abundance of legal and socio-political promises, combatting poverty remains an unrealised goal. This raises the question of how states actually guarantee minimum subsistence. Addressing it tou…

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Alejandro Hermida Carrillo
The Many Selves in Social Structures - Applications to Corporate Strategy, Work-Life Dynamics, and Cross-Class Interactions

How do identities shape and react to the socio-economic landscape? I draw from paradigms in cultural anthropology, organizational behavior, and sociology to dissect how distinct elements of individual ide…

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James Goodman, Gareth Bryant, Linda Connor
Decarbonising Electricity

The current shift to renewable energy is dominated by globalised energy companies building large-scale wind and solar plants. This book discusses the consequences and possibilities of this shift in India,…

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Diretnan Dikwal-Bot
Blogging and Gender Activism in Nigeria

This book critically examines the interplay between gender inequality and activism in Nigeria and related African contexts. It does so by tackling, for the first time, the vibrant world of Nigerian blogs,…

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Aram Mohamadi
Contemporary Photography in Iran

This book deals with Iranian photography from its first photography exhibition in 1964 until the present. Taking an interpretive-historical approach, this book will explain how photographic images in a pa…

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Benjamin Lewis Robinson
Need/Emergency

Modern politics is preoccupied with states of emergency. Yet emergency politics obscures underlying socio-economic, infrastructural, and ecological conditions of need. Prompted by Hannah Arendt's claim th…

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Letizia Palumbo
Taking Vulnerabilities to Labour Exploitation Seriously

This open access book intends to contribute to the debate on migrant labour exploitation by exploring the extent to which the EU and the European countries provide a standard for protecting migrant worker…

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Trust Management XIV

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 14th IFIP WG 11.11 International Conference on Trust Management, IFIPTM 2023, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, during October 18-20…

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Susan Dominus
The Family Dynamic

"Investigative journalist Susan Dominus profiles six families with several exceptionally accomplished children in order to tease apart the various factors that might have led to their success, includ…

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The Resilience of Traditional Knowledge Systems for a Sustainable Future

This book is an effort to draw attention to the resilience of traditional knowledge systems for a sustainable future in the Himalayas with a particular focus on agriculture and food practices. Through exa…

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Public Sector Reforms in Kazakhstan

This book explores the dynamics of implementation of the political and socio-economic agenda on building a 'Listening and Just State' during the first five-years of Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's leadership (201…

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Victoria Motta de Lamare França
The UN Community Liaison Assistants and the Politics of Translation

This book explores how the United Nations (UN) attempts to stabilise and justify an ambivalent meaning of protection and its socio-political roles in the Protection of Civilians agenda. Negotiating betwee…

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Sustainability: Science, Policy, and Practice in India

This book is an interdisciplinary work that reveals the contemporary sustainability narratives in India within the context of various SDGs. Several case studies are presented, each of which sheds light on…

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Hooshmand Alizadeh, Selda Tuncer, Josef Kohlbacher, Sonya Karami
Women's Empowerment Through Public Space

This book explores the transformative power of urban public space for women's empowerment. Addressing a critical gap in the existing literature, the authors develop an empirically grounded methodology to …

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Krzysztof Skonieczny
Deleuze and Slowness

This book diverges from the conventional interpretation of Deleuze as a philosopher of speed or even accelerationism, delving instead into the minor but critical themes of slowness - from idiocy to catato…

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Josef Hien
How Economic Ideas Evolve

How Economic Ideas Evolve offers a unique perspective on the development of political economies in Europe. With three major contributions, the book first establishes a link between religious, social, and …

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Luisa T. Schneider
Love and Violence in Sierra Leone

In the decades following the civil war that took place in Sierra Leone between 1991 and 2002, new laws were passed to rebuild the state, and to prevent rape, teenage pregnancy and domestic violence. In th…

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