Ini adalah buku akses terbuka. Unik dalam cakupannya, buku ini memberikan untuk pertama kalinya perspektif Eropa Selatan tentang pemukiman rawa prasejarah dan lingkungan alaminya. Ini adalah tempat tinggal yang awalnya dibangun di lokasi lembab, yaitu di tepi dan di daerah perairan dangkal danau, rawa, mars, sungai, muara, dan laguna. Sisa-sisa arkeologis yang relevan sebagian besar dalam keada…
Buku sumber terbuka ini menggabungkan metode ekonomi tradisional dengan teknik pembelajaran mesin yang lebih baru seperti pohon regresi dan hutan acak untuk menganalisis data dan memberikan analisis mendalam tentang ketidaksetaraan peluang dan kemiskinan di India. Dengan menggunakan data dari survei nasional dan sumber unik seperti gambar satelit malam hari dan data lokasi titik-titik menarik, …
Buku ini memberikan gambaran tentang hasil proyek 'Move for Health' dan mengaitkannya dengan diskursus saat ini mengenai pentingnya gerakan, permainan, dan olahraga pada masa kanak-kanak. Tiga bidang tema yang diteliti adalah: kesehatan psiko-sosial anak-anak dan remaja serta potensi gerakan, permainan, dan olahraga, klub olahraga sebagai dunia hidup yang menarik dalam pertumbuhan, dan kondisi …
This open access book examines the interactions between India’s economic development, agricultural production, and nutrition through the lens of a “Food Systems Approach (FSA).” The Indian growth story is a paradoxical one. Despite economic progress over the past two decades, regional inequality, food insecurity and malnutrition problems persist. Simultaneously, recent trends in obesity …
This open access book presents a condensed history of Sociology in Mexico from its origins, through to the middle of the 19th century and up to the present day. The book analyses the interaction between sociology and the main economic, political and social change in the country, including the 1910 Mexican Revolution, the main social movements, the role of the intellectual exiles from Spain and …
This open access book traces the development of sociology in Germany from the late 19th century to the present day, providing a concise overview of the main actors, institutional processes, theories, methods, topics and controversies. Throughout the book, the author relates the discipline’s history to its historical, economic, political and cultural contexts. The book begins with sociology in…
In this Open Access book, Katharina Merian discusses memories of Marielle Franco from the perspective of the concept of dangerous memory introduced by the political theologian Johann Baptist Metz. Franco was an Afro-Brazilian human-rights activist and city councilor of Rio de Janeiro who was assassinated on March 14, 2018. Her murder elicited worldwide protest and empathy. Today she is consider…
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…
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…