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Negotiating Non-Motherhood
This open access edited volume focuses on the representations, perceptions, and experiences of women who do not have children against the backdrop of traditional gender norms, pronatalist policies, and patriarchal structures. While involuntary and voluntary childlessness have typically been treated separately and studied within different disciplines in most previous scholarship, contributing au…
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- 978-3-031-66697-1
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- Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
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- XVII, 251
Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing
This open access volume offers original essays on how motherhood and mothering are represented in contemporary fiction and life writing across several national contexts. Providing a broad range of perspectives in terms of geopolitical places, thematic concerns, and theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches, it demonstrates the significance of literary narratives for understanding and critiqu…
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- 978-3-031-17211-3
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- Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
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- XI, 183
The Impact of EU Politicisation on Voting Behaviour in Europe
This open access book focuses on the importance that EU politicization has gained in European democracies and the consequences for voting behaviour in six countries of the EU: Belgium, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain. Most of the studies which research the way the EU is being legitimised focus on the European Parliament elections. In this book we argue that to understand how EU acc…
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- 978-3-031-29187-6
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- Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics
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- XXVIII, 337
Transnational Solidarity in Times of Crises
This open access collection is devoted to an in-depth, qualitative analysis of practices of cross-national solidarity in response to the current political and social crises, from citizens’ initiatives to networks of cooperation among civil society actors. The book analyses existing informal groups at the grassroots, furthering transnational solidarity in three thematic areas: disabili…
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- 978-3-030-49659-3
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- Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
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- XV, 305
mHealth Innovation in Asia
This open access book offers a detailed account of a range of mHealth initiatives across South, Southeast and East Asia. It provides readers with deep insights into the challenges such initiatives face on the ground, and a view of the diverse cultural contexts shaping strategies for overcoming these challenges. The book brings together various discussions on the broader mHealth literature, and …
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- 978-94-024-1251-2
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- Mobile Communication in Asia: Local Insights, Global Implications
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- X, 131
Organisationsbildung und gesellschaftliche Differenzierung
Dieses Open-Access-Buch bricht mit dem Konsens in der Forschung, nach dem Organisationen als Errungenschaft der modernen Gesellschaft und Produkt der Industrialisierung angesehen werden. Die Frage, wie sich Organisationen als eigenlogische Sozialform konkret ausdifferenziert haben, ist bislang weitgehend unklar geblieben. Das Buch zeigt auf, dass sich bereits in der „unorganisierten Gesellsch…
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- 978-3-658-32871-9
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- Organisation und Gesellschaft - Forschung
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- XIII, 322
Social Theory of Fear
A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. In the current crisis of the capitalist world system, elites promote fear of crime and terrorism to keep and expand their privileges and control the masses. This book offers an analysis of the crisis and strategies for rebellion. This ebook is participating in an experiment and is a…
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- 978-0-230-11263-6
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- XI, 234
(Re)presenting Brunei Darussalam
This thoughtful and wide-ranging open access volume explores the forces and issues shaping and defining contemporary identities and everyday life in Brunei Darussalam. It is a subject that until now has received comparatively limited attention from mainstream social scientists working on Southeast Asian societies. The volume helps remedy that deficit by detailing the ways in which religion, gen…
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- 978-981-19-6059-8
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- Asia in Transition
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- XXXI, 346
Migration, Education and Employment
This is an open access book which focuses on different aspects of education, employment, and successful integration of migrants in three countries: Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland. The chapters in this book reflect on these issues from micro, meso and macro perspectives; some are based on interviews with migrants and people who work with them, others on documents and literature about migration.…
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- 978-3-031-41919-5
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- Education, Equity, Economy
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- VIII, 203
Figure Concept and Method
This open access book shows how figures, figuring, and configuration are used to understand complex, contemporary problems. Figures are images, numbers, diagrams, data and datasets, turns-of-phrase, and representations. Contributors reflect on the history of figures as they have transformed disciplines and fields of study, and how methods of figuring and configuring have been integral to practi…
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- 978-981-19-2476-7
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- XV, 283
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