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A Study of the Regional Cultures of Chinese Traditional Villages in Shaanxi ProvinceA Study on the Regional Culture of Chinese Traditional Villages in Shaanxi Province analyses the traditional villages of China's Shaanxi Province in the context of the natural environment and human history and explores the cultural diversity accommodating the orthodox, nomadic, farming and immigrant cultures...
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Violent Intimacy: Family Harmony, State Stability, and Intimate Partner Violence in Post-Socialist ChinaBased on ethnographic research with victims of intimate partner violence since 2014, this book brings to the forefront women's experiences of, negotiations about, and contestations against violence, and men's narratives about the reasons for their violence. Using an innovative methodology - online chat groups,...
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The Case for Case Studies: Methods and Applications in International DevelopmentThis book seeks to narrow two gaps: first, between the widespread use of case studies and their frequently 'loose' methodological moorings; and second, between the scholarly community advancing methodological frontiers in case study research and the users of case studies in development policy and...
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The Changing Culture of a FactoryThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Feminist Food Studies: Intersectional PerspectivesThis expansive collection enriches the field of food studies with a feminist intersectional perspective, addressing the impacts that race, ethnicity, class, and nationality have on nutritional customs, habits, and perspectives.Throughout the text, international scholars explore three areas in feminist food studies: the socio-cultural, the...
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Applied Photovoice in Criminal Justice: Voices Made VisibleBuilding on her leading research in creative methodology, in this book Wendy Fitzgibbon explores and illustrates how Photovoice, a participatory, active research tool, can enable new insights and engagement with both marginalised people and those working with them in the criminal justice system. Including...
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Knowledge Resistance in High-Choice Information EnvironmentsThis book offers a truly interdisciplinary exploration of our patterns of engagement with politics, news, and information in current high-choice information environments. Putting forth the notion that high-choice information environments may contribute to increasing misperceptions and knowledge resistance rather than greater public knowledge, the...
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Understanding Phenomenological Reflective Practice in the Social and Ecological Fields: Three Rivers FlowingThis book introduces social practitioners - community development workers, social workers, organisational change facilitators, social, ecological, cultural and political activists - to a phenomenological tradition of reflective practice. Critiquing reductionist, linear and ossified thinking in the social and ecological fields, the book offers an...
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Passages of Play in Urban India: People, Media, Objects and Spaces in Mumbai's Slum LocalitiesIn this book, Prasad Khanolkar offers a new way of thinking about 'slums' and southern cities based on a grounded engagement with the relationship between media, objects, spaces, and people in the everyday life of slum localities in Mumbai, India. Over the past few...
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Campus Medius: Digital Mapping in Cultural and Media StudiesPublisher: Transcript PublishingPublished: 01/31/2023Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9783837656015
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Digital Culture & Society (Dcs): Vol. 7, Issue 2/2021 - Networked Images in Surveillance CapitalismCapturing personal data in exchange for free services is now ubiquitous in networked media and recently led to diagnoses of surveillance and platform capitalism. In social media discourse, dataveillance and data mining have been criticized as new forms of capitalist exploitation for some time.From...
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Power and Resistance, 7th Ed.: Critical Thinking about Canadian Social IssuesPublisher: Fernwood PublishingPublished: 08/02/2022Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.75lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.70w x 1.20dISBN: 9781773635187
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Violence and Reflexivity: The Place of Critique in the Reality of DominationAddressing the relationship among social critique, violence, and domination, Violence and Reflexivity: The Place of Critique in the Reality of Domination examines a critique of violent and unjust social arrangements that transcends the Enlightenment/postmodern opposition. This critique surpasses the "reflexive violence" of classical enlightenment...
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Foresight 2030: Conversations About The Decade AheadForesight 2030: Conversations About The Decade Ahead looks at the influences that will impact the decade from now through the end of 2029. The author suggests that this may be the most consequential decade of our lives. It's off to a pretty profound start,...
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Criminal Justice: An IntroductionThis book offers a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the criminal justice system of England and Wales. Starting with an overview of the main theories of the causes of crime, this book explores and discusses the operation of the main criminal justice agencies including...
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America after Empire: The Vision for a New America in the 21st CenturyAfter the end of America's longest (20-year) war in Afghanistan and Iraq that cost more than $6 trillion and nearly half a million lives, what does the future hold for America and the American people in the 21st century? In this timely and important...
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Social Work Practice with People with DementiaSocial Work Practice with People with Dementia critically discusses the cultural and discursive contexts in which social work with dementia takes place. This is because how we think about dementia influences how we treat people living with the condition. The book also explains the...
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Introduction to Sociology: Concepts and TheoriesThis textbook explores the emergence of sociology as a distinct social science. Focusing on the evolution of social theories, movements and ideas through history, it analyses the dynamic relationship between the individual and the larger social forces around them.This volume examines the definitive aspects...
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The Diamond Sutra: (Chin-Kang-Ching) or Prajna-ParamitaThis book, first published in 1912, is an English translation of The Diamond Sutra from the Chinese text of Kumarajiva, one of the most metaphysical of the works ascribed to Buddha. With parallel passages and numerous annotations, this is a classic translation of the...
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T'Ai Chi Ch'uan and I Ching: A Choreography of Body and MindThis book, first published in 1974, explains the connections between T'ai Chi Ch'uan and I Ching and shows that they are the keys by which the theoretical philosophy of Taoism can be converted to a practical way of knowledge. This careful and helpful guide...
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