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Who Benefits from the Sanitized Language of Violence?
Language is not neutral; it determines, and is determined, by perspective. This volume explores the role of an influential vocabulary of war, sanitised language, the language that seeks to clean up the appearance of events through euphemism, abstract words and opaque phrases. Critical discourse analysis of the language of recent military campaigns shows that the public authorities do not explai…
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- 9789004696426
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- 80 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- International Studies on Military Ethics, Volume: 14
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What Politics? = Youth and Political Engagement in Africa
What Politics? Youth and Political Engagement in Africa examines the diverse experiences of being young in today’s Africa. It offers new perspectives to the roles and positions young people take to change their life conditions both within and beyond the formal political structures and institutions. The contributors represent several social science disciplines, and provide well-grounded qualit…
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- 9789004356368
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- 368 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Youth in a Globalizing World, Volume: 6
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Environment, Trade and Society in Southeast Asia
In Environment, Trade and Society in Southeast Asia: A Longue Durée Perspective, eleven historians bring their knowledge and insights to bear on the long Braudelian sweep of Southeast Asian history. In doing so they seek both to debunk simplistic assumptions about fragile traditions and transformational modernities, and to identify real repeating patterns in Southeast Asia's past: clientelisti…
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- 978-90-04-28805-8
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Volume: 300
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'Entré en tant que cousin, sorti en tant que gendarme'
« Entré en tant que cousin, sorti en tant que gendarme ». Cette anecdote révèle le paradoxe identitaire aux Comores et le drame ‘migratoire’ qui se déroule dans l’Archipel depuis l’instauration arbitraire du Visa Balladur en 1995. L’île de Mayotte, officiellement française, est taxée de « plus grand cimetière marin du monde. » Comment des œuvres d’imagination sur la « …
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- 978-90-04-67897-2
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Africa Multiple, Volume: 2
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Lifelong Religion as Habitus : Religious Practice among Displaced Karelian Or…
In this book, Helena Kupari examines the lived religion of Finnish, evacuee Karelian Orthodox women through an innovative reading and application of Pierre Bourdieu’s practice theory. After the Second World War, Finland ceded most of its Karelian territories to the Soviet Union. Over 400,000 Finns, including two thirds of the Finnish Orthodox Christians, lost their homes. This book traces …
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- 978-90-04-32674-3
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- viii, 200 pp.
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- Numen Book Series, Volume: 153
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Les manuscrits arabes des lettres de Paul : État de la question et étude de…
Cet ouvrage ouvre une fenêtre sur la transmission des lettres de Paul en arabe. Il s’interroge sur le manque d’intérêt depuis le début du 20ème siècle pour les manuscrits arabes du Nouveau Testament et apporte une contribution à la récente reprise scientifique de ce champ, en étudiant le corpus largement inexploré des manuscrits arabes des lettres de Paul. Après un état des lieu…
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- 978-90-04-37816-2
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- xii, 550 pp.
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- Biblia Arabica, Volume: 6
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Learning across Generations in Europe: Contemporary Issues in Older Adult Edu…
Learning across Generations in Europe: Contemporary issues in older adult education constitutes an important book in the emergent field of study of older adult learning. The book gives a clear and wide overview on the different concepts, ideas, and meanings, related to older adults’ education, learning and intergenerational learning through strong theoretical standpoints, empirical research, …
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- 978-94-6209-902-9
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- 232 pp.
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- Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, Volume: 2
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Le Labyrinthe littéraire de Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
Depuis ses débuts avec la nouvelle « La Cale » en 2014, les textes de Mohamed Mbougar Sarr connaissent un succès qui ne se dément pas. Terre ceinte en 2015, Silence du chœur en 2017 et De purs hommes en 2018 ont remporté des prix littéraires de grand renom. Enfin, le jury du prix Goncourt a opté en 2021 avec La plus secrète Mémoire des hommes pour un roman qui offre une métaréflexi…
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- 978-90-04-71089-4
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- xiv, 362 pp.
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- Francopolyphonies, Volume: 36
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Law and Language in the Middle Ages
Law and Language in the Middle Ages investigates the encounter between law and legal practice from the linguistic perspective. The essays explore how legal language expresses and advances power relations, along with the ways in which the language of law legitimates power. The wide geographical and chronological scope showcases how power, legitimacy and language interact, moving the discussion b…
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- 978-90-04-37576-5
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- 328 pp.
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- Medieval Law and Its Practice, Volume: 25
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Large-Scale Land Acquisitions : Focus on South-East Asia
Large-scale land acquisitions, or ‘land grabbing’, has become a key research topic among scholars interested in agrarian change, development, and the environment. The term ‘land acquisitions’ refers to a highly contested process in terms of governance and impacts on livelihoods and human rights. This book focuses on South-East Asia. A series of thematic and in-depth case studies put ‘…
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- 978-90-04-30475-8
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- xx, 300 pp.
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- International Development Policy, Volume: 6
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