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Reimagining the higher education student : constructing and contesting identi…
Drawing on the perspectives of scholars and researchers from around the world, this book challenges dominant constructions of higher education students. Given the increasing number and diversity of such students, the book offers a timely discussion of the implicit and sometimes subtle ways that they are characterised or defined. Topics vary from the ways that curriculum designers ‘imagine’ …
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- 9780367854171
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- 280 p
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- 370 REI
Queer Roma
This book offers in-depth insight into the lives of queer Roma, thus providing rich evidence of the heterogeneity of Roma. The lived experiences of queer Roma, which are very diverse regionally and otherwise, pose a fundamental challenge to one-dimensional, negative misrepresentations of Roma as homophobic and antithetical to European and Western modernity. The book platforms Romani agency a…
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- 9780367822699
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- 234 p
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- 300 FRE q
Modernity and Spirit Worship in India : An Anthropology of the Umwelt.
This book investigates the entangled relations between people’s daily worship practices and their umwelt in South India. Focusing on the practices of spirit (būta) worship in the coastal area of Karnataka, it examines the relationship between people and deities. Based on extensive fieldwork, this book links important anthropological theories on personhood, perspectives, transactions, and …
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- 9780367822668
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- 312 p
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- 301 ISH m
Postsocialist Shrinking Cities
This book provides a comparative analysis of shrinking cities in a broad range of postsocialist countries within the so-called Global East, a liminal space between North and South. While shrinking cities have received increased scholarly attention in the past decades, theoretical, and empirical research has remained predominantly centered on the Global North. This volume brings to the fore a ra…
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- 9780367815011
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- 392 p
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- 337 CHU p
Bisexuality in Europe : Sexual Citizenship, Romantic Relationships, and Bi+ I…
Bisexuality in Europe offers an accessible and diverse overview of research on bisexuality and bi+ people in Europe, providing a foundation for theorising and empirical work on plurisexual orientations and identities, and the experiences and realities of people who desire more than one sex or genderCounteracting the predominance of work on bisexuality based in Ango-American contexts, this colle…
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- 9781000220841
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- 222 p
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- 336.765 BIS
Consumption corridors: living a good life within sustainable limits
Consumption Corridors: Living a Good Life within Sustainable Limits explores how to enhance peoples’ chances to live a good life in a world of ecological and social limits. Rejecting familiar recitations of problems of ecological decline and planetary boundaries, this compact book instead offers a spirited explication of what everyone desires: a good life. Fundamental concepts of the good …
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- 9780367748746
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- 110 p
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- 330 FUC c
Cultural Resources : Planning And Management
ABSTRACT Cultural resource management is a new and vital field that has come about as a result of intensified federal efforts to identify, evaluate, and manage cultural resources as an element of the environment. Anthropologists, sociologists, historians, folklorists, planners, and others have had to pool their talents and knowledge to properly respond to n
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- 9780429047817
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- 216 p
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- 300 HIL c
Commoning the City Empirical Perspectives on Urban Ecology, Economics and Ethics
This collection seeks to expand the limits of current debates about urban commoning practices that imply a radical will to establish collaborative and solidarity networks based on anti-capitalist principles of economics, ecology and ethics. The chapters in this volume draw on case studies in a diversity of urban contexts, ranging from Detroit, USA to Kyrenia, Cyprus – on urban gardening an…
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- 9780429021886
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- 228 p
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- 337 COM
Hipster Porn
ABSTRACT Hipster Porn examines models of gay hipster masculinity through the lens of the gay fanzine Butt. The book reconstructs an important chapter of recent gay and queer history in order to make sense of the cultural shifts of the last 20 years in the contemporary gay world. Butt exemplifies the changing nature of gay contemporary masculinity as it marked the beginning of a new era of q…
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- 1st Edition
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- 9781003193296
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- 306
Digital Youth with Disabilities
An examination of media and technology use by school-aged youth with disabilities, with an emphasis on media use at home. Most research on media use by young people with disabilities focuses on the therapeutic and rehabilitative uses of technology; less attention has been paid to their day-to-day encounters with media and technology—the mundane, sometimes pleasurable and sometimes frustrating…
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- 9780262527156
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- 362 ALP d
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