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Cultural representations of gender vulnerability and resistance : a Mediterra…
This Open Access book considers the cultural representation of gender violence, vulnerability and resistance with a focus on the transnational dimension of our contemporary visual and literary cultures in English. Contributors address concepts such as vulnerability, resilience, precarity and resistance in the Anglophone world through an analysis of memoirs, films, TV series, and crime and liter…
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- 1
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- 9783030955083
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- xvi; 233p;
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- 305.3 CUL P
AI FOR EVERYONE? CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES
We are entering a new era of technological determinism and solutionism in which governments and business actors are seeking data-driven change, assuming that Artificial Intelligence is now inevitable and ubiquitous. But we have not even started asking the right questions, let alone developed an understanding of the consequences. Urgently needed is debate that asks and answers fundamental questi…
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- -
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- 9781914386169
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- 310p.
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- -
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- 006.3 FOR v
Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries : The Legacy of Central Planning in E…
This open access book focuses on the formation and later socio-spatial trajectories of large housing estates in the Baltic countries—Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. It also explores claims that a distinctly “westward-looking orientation” in their design produced housing estates that were superior in design to those produced elsewhere in the Soviet Union (between 1944 and 1991, Estonia was…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030233921
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- xviii, 383 p.
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- 307.76809479 HOU D
Bordering intimacy : Postcolonial Governance and the Policing of Family
Bordering intimacy is a study of how borders and dominant forms of intimacy, such as family, are central to the governance of postcolonial states such as Britain. The book explores the connected history between contemporary border regimes and the policing of family with the role of borders under European and British empires. Building upon postcolonial, decolonial and black feminist theory, the …
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- 9781526146946
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- xii, 312 p.
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- 320.12 BOR J
The Spectacle 2.0 : Reading Debord in the Context of Digital Capitalism
Spectacle 2.0 recasts Debord's theory of spectacle within the frame of 21st century digital capitalism. It offers a reassessment of Debord’s original notion of Spectacle from the late 1960s, of its posterior revisitation in the 1990s, and it presents a reinterpretation of the concept within the scenario of contemporary informational capitalism and more specifically of digital and media labour…
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- -
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- 9781911534464
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- xi, 252 p.
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- -
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- 303.484 SPE E
Transgender Identities : Towards a Social Analysis of Gender Diversity
Transgender Identities: Towards a Social Analysis of Gender Diversity emerges from, and speaks to, recent sociological considerations of ‘transgender.’ The term ‘transgender’ denotes a range of gender experiences, subjectivities and presentations that fall across, between or beyond stable categories of ‘man’ and ‘woman.’ ‘Transgender’ includes gender identities that have, mo…
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- -
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- 9780203856147
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- x, 312 p.
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- -
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- 306.768
Grey Area : Regulating Amsterdam’s Coffeeshops
Coffeeshops are the most famous example of Dutch tolerance. But in fact, these cannabis distributors are highly regulated. Coffeeshops are permitted to break the law, but not the rules. On the premises, there cannot be minors, hard drugs or more than 500 grams. Nor can a coffeeshop advertise, cause nuisance or sell over five grams to a person in a day. These rules are enforced by surprise polic…
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- -
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- 9781787355910
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- xix, 186 p.
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- -
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- 362.29509492352 GRE S
Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse
This open access book is the culmination of many years of research on what happened to the bodies of executed criminals in the past. Focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it looks at the consequences of the 1752 Murder Act. These criminal bodies had a crucial role in the history of medicine, and the history of crime, and great symbolic resonance in literature and popular culture.…
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- -
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- 9783319779089
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- x, 273 p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 941
EXPLORING ISLAMIC SOCIAL WORK : between community and the common good
This open access book addresses, for the first time, Islamic social work as an emerging concept at the interface of Islamic thought and social sciences. Applying a multidisciplinary approach it explores, on the one hand, the discourse that provides religious legitimisation to social work activities and, on the other hand, case studies of practical fields of Islamic social work including educati…
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- 3
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- 9783030958800
- Collation
- xii; 284p;
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- -
- Call Number
- 306.697 EXP A
Representing Mass Violence : Conflicting Responses to Human Rights Violations…
How do interventions by the UN Security Council and the International Criminal Court influence representations of mass violence? What images arise instead from the humanitarianism and diplomacy fields? How are these competing perspectives communicated to the public via mass media? Zooming in on the case of Darfur, Joachim J. Savelsberg analyzes more than three thousand news reports and opinion …
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- -
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- 9780520963085
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- xix, 341 p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 962.4043
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