This volume addresses the crucial role of knowledge and innovation in coping with and adapting to socio-economic and political transformation processes in post-Soviet societies. Unique are the bott...
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Assembling Japan focuses on Japan's modernization as a long-term process that is reliant on changing technology and that has led to the nation's full engagement with the global system. This process...
Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publishers
In the context of the current wave of global environmental concern, this book considers measures aimed at solving environmental problems, investigating the example of ecological migration. The term...
Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publishers
Which are the aspects of cognition not yet focused on as such by brain research? How can one deal with them? This book sheds light on the other sides of cognition, on what they mean for forms and f...
Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publishers
A myriad of sensations inform and direct us when we engage with the environment. To understand their influence on the development of our habitus it is important to focus on unifying processes in se...
Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publishers
Invisibility Studies explores current changes in the relationship between what we consider visible and what invisible in different areas of contemporary culture. Contributions trace how these chang...
Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publishers
Mercedes Montoro Araque, professeur en langue et littérature françaises à l'Université de Grenade (Espagne), a soutenu sa thèse au CRI de l'Université Stendhal Grenoble III. Après avoir participé à...
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Este volumen presenta una serie de trabajos que estudian el reflejo de la identidad en varias obras de la literatura vasca actual. Se trata de estudios sobre diversas expresiones de la identidad: d...
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Matías Bruera is a sociologist, researcher and teacher of the history of ideas at the University of Buenos Aires and the University of Quilmes in Argentina. He has published extensively in journals...
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Migrant Memories provides an innovative perspective on the power of cultural memory and the influence of cinema on the Italian diaspora in Britain. Based on extensive interviews with Southern Itali...
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This book is proposed as a contribution to postcolonial critiques of the colonial and postcolonial exotic. It investigates the exotic as a representation of colonial cultural difference in colonial...
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Claire Gordon is a Teaching Fellow in East European Politics at the European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science (United Kingdom) Marko Kmezic is a Senior Researcher a...
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In der Schweiz aufgewachsene Kinder von Immigranten fühlen sich oft stark der Herkunftskultur bzw. dem Herkunftsland ihrer Eltern verbunden, obwohl sie diese(s) nicht oder nur sehr bedingt aus eige...
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Directeur du Centre de Recherches sur l'Imaginaire (Grenoble 3), Philippe Walter a incontestablement su donner une image moderne, ouverte et enrichissante des études médiévales et des recherches su...
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What can we learn from children traversing the liminal and transient time-space of migration? How do migrant children and their caretakers navigate educational systems in Europe today? How is it to...
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