Tam Ha - Social & Cultural Studies 10

One glaring lacuna in studies of Haitian Vodou is the scarcity of works exploring the connection between the religion and its main roots, traditional Yoruba religion. Discussions of Vodou very often……続きを見る

"Em grandes cidades o medo é parte do dia a dia. No contexto urbano, não conhecemos a maior parte dos habitantes e não sabemos o que nos espreita na próxima esquina. Em sociedades globalizadas també……続きを見る

This book gives voice to the direct practice experience of social workers working in rural and remote contexts using Australia as the primary case-study. The authors undertake a qualitative research……続きを見る

This book presents a metacritique of racial formation theory. The essays within this volume explore the fault lines of the racial formation concept, identify the power relations to which it inheres,……続きを見る

Extrait : "Goethe tint un jour ce singulier propos : – Savez-vous, dit-il, ce qui caractérise le plus les Français ? – Leur esprit ? – Non. – Leur galanterie ? – Non. – Leur légèreté ? – Non. La sym……続きを見る

Gender in a Transitional Era addresses a range of issues relevant in current gender and sexuality studies scholarship which span many disciplines. The contributors prioritize the critical thinking t……続きを見る

Innovation has become an important focus for governments around the world over the last decade, with greater pressure on governments to do more with less, and expanding community expectations. Some ……続きを見る

Winner, CCCC Outstanding Book Award in the Edited Collection Category, 2018 With the election of our first black president, many Americans began to argue that we had finally ended racism, claiming t……続きを見る

This book explores the significance of remembering the rescuers denouncing human rights crimes as well as protecting and sheltering targeted victimsーincluding the deadーduring the Cold War state vi……続きを見る

Premier palais de la République, l'Elysée brille d'un éclat particulier... et d'un certain mystère. Patrice Duhamel et Jacques Santamaria invitent à un voyage dans la grande et petite histoire de ce……続きを見る

While the president is the commander in chief, the US Congress plays a critical and underappreciated role in civil-military relationsーthe relationship between the armed forces and the civilian lead……続きを見る

Groups for parents, babies and toddlers, spanning the 1001 critical days from late pregnancy up to age two, are an effective way of supporting expectant and new parents by helping them to become mor……続きを見る

The Care Act 2014 represents a major upheaval in adult social care law: the biggest since 1948. This book sets out and explains the provisions of the Care Act 2014 in simple terms, illustrating its ……続きを見る

This timely, readable text offers an authoritative and balanced analysis of how racially driven policies in America impact post release education as a leading pathway to social reintegration. Compel……続きを見る

El Estado de derecho es hoy el ideal político más importante, pero hay mucha confusión sobre su significado y su funcionamiento. Este libro explora la historia, la política y la teoría del ideal del……続きを見る

In this volume, the author challenges a number of widely held cultural stereotypes about India. Caste is not as old as Indian civilization itself, and current changes are no more radical than in the……続きを見る

In the last decade, public discussions of transgender issues have increased exponentially. However, with this increased visibility has come not just power, but regulation, both in favor of and again……続きを見る

Der dritte Band der Reihe Systemische Impulse versammelt systemisch oder systemtheoretisch orientierte Beiträge zu zwei für die individuelle Erwerbstätigkeit ummittelbar relevanten Feldern der Sozia……続きを見る

In this second volume of the groundbreaking survey, Michael J. Pfeifer edits a collection of essays that illuminates lynching and other extrajudicial "rough justice" as a transnational phenomenon re……続きを見る

Toleration in Comparative Perspective is a collection of essays that explores conceptions of toleration and tolerance in Asia and the West. It tests the common assumption in Western political discou……続きを見る

In nineteenth-century America, many black women left their homes, their husbands, and their children to spread the Word of God. Descendants of slaves or former “slave girls” themselves, they travele……続きを見る

What social change has been achieved over the past 30 years? What have been the main barriers to progress? What great achievements can we identify and celebrate today? Marking Jessica Kingsley Publi……続きを見る

What are the reasons behind, and trajectories of, the rapid cultural changes in Ukraine since 2013? This volume highlights: the role of the Revolution of Dignity and the Russian-Ukrainian war in the……続きを見る

In the past, the European social sciences labelled and discredited knowledge that did not follow the definition for scientific knowledge as applied by the European social sciences as an alternative ……続きを見る

The European social sciences tend to absorb criticism that has been passed on the European approach and re-label it as a part of what the critique opposes; criticism of European social sciences by “……続きを見る

Over the past three decades, Uzbekistan has attracted the attention of the academic and policy communities because of its geostrategic importance, its critical role in shaping or unshaping Central A……続きを見る

Despite China's desire to make its rapid ascendance in the 21st century as non provocative as possible, the key to ensure China's peaceful rise lies in two-way integration and engagement. A closely ……続きを見る

Throughout distressing cultural battles and disputes over child care, each side claims to have the best interests of children at heart. While developmental scientists have concrete evidence for this……続きを見る

Death and Digital Media provides a critical overview of how people mourn, commemorate and interact with the dead through digital media. It maps the historical and shifting landscape of digital death……続きを見る

This book highlights some of the unique aspects of spatio-temporal graph data from the perspectives of modeling and developing scalable algorithms. The authors discuss in the first part of this book……続きを見る