Nordic Media Histories of Propaganda and Persuasion

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Urban Socio-Economic Segregation and Income Inequality: A Global Perspective

This open access book investigates the link between income inequality and socio-economic residential segregation in 24 large urban regions in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. It offers a unique global overview of segregation trends based on case studies by local author teams. The book shows important global trends in segregation, and proposes a Global Segregati…

Self as Method

Despite China’s rise to the status of global power, many Chinese youths are anxious about their personal future, in large measure because the rapid changes have left them feeling adrift. This book, available in open access, provides a manifesto of intellectual activism that counsels China’s young people to think by themselves and for themselves. Consisting of three conversations between Xi…

International Impacts on Social Policy

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978-3-030-86645-7

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Nordic Media Histories of Propaganda and Persuasion

This open access edited volume shines new light on the history of propaganda and persuasion during the Nordic welfare epoch. A common analytical framework is developed that highlights transnational and transmedial perspectives rather than national or monomedial histories. The return of propaganda in contemporary debate underlines the need to historically contextualize the role and function of p…

Self as Method

Despite China’s rise to the status of global power, many Chinese youths are anxious about their personal future, in large measure because the rapid changes have left them feeling adrift. This book, available in open access, provides a manifesto of intellectual activism that counsels China’s young people to think by themselves and for themselves. Consisting of three conversations between Xi…

Remembering African Labor Migration to the Second World

This open access book is about Mozambicans and Angolans who migrated in state-sponsored schemes to East Germany in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. They went to work and to be trained as a vanguard labor force for the intended African industrial revolutions. While they were there, they contributed their labor power to the East German economy.

Remembering African Labor Migration to the Second World

This open access book is about Mozambicans and Angolans who migrated in state-sponsored schemes to East Germany in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. They went to work and to be trained as a vanguard labor force for the intended African industrial revolutions. While they were there, they contributed their labor power to the East German economy.

The Evolution of China’s Anti-Poverty Strategies

This open access book presents the findings of the author’s 3 decades of studying China’s evolving anti-poverty strategies. It argues that much of the billions that nations spend yearly on economic aid is used inefficiently or to treat the symptoms but not the root causes of poverty. China, however, has evolved an effective sustainable alternative by providing the means for self-reliance to…

Polizei(en) in Umbruchsituationen

Der Umbruch steht für einen tiefgreifenden Wandel, der sich auf unterschiedlichen Ebenen vollziehen kann. Bezogen auf die Polizei spielen neben politischen Zäsuren auch gesellschaftliche und kulturelle Umbrüche eine wesentliche Rolle. Dabei kann die Institution zum Objekt der Forschung oder aber als Subjekt (Akteur) in einer historischen Konstellation analysiert werden. Dieser Ansatz wird in…