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This book examines one of the most important questions in peace research: What leads to enduring peace after civil wars, and what leads to the resurgence of violence? For decades, intrastate conflicts have been the predominant form of armed conflict, and most recent...
The goal of this book is to advance our understanding of how “high-stakes information”, including religious information, will be presented by AI systems and the implications to our sense of identity, how we see the world and how we treat others.To do this,...
Drawing upon family and individual interviews conducted in six major cities in Turkey, this study examines the family as a social field through Pierre Bourdieu’s theoretical framework, with a particular focus on his concepts of doxa (taken-for-granted assumptions)...
The use, political and economic implications of the Internet and new technologies have always shaped diplomatic means and methods leading to new phenomena such as the emergence of tech diplomacy. As a subcategory of Internet governance, tech diplomacy refers to the new...
This work explores the potential of creative storytelling as a tool for emotional support, identity-building, and narrative advocacy among neurodivergent adults, particularly those who are self-diagnosed or late-diagnosed. By combining an animated documentary with...
Is indirectness the key to politeness or rather an obstacle in intercultural communication? This book is part of the first cohort of a student research project on the perception of politeness and constitutes a restudy with modifications of the renowned CCSARP...
This book examines the influence of authoritarian rule on the development of the welfare state. Building on theoretical approaches from research on autocratic regimes and comparative welfare state research, it develops a novel theoretical argument on authoritarian...
This book explores how a museum in Bristol, England, opened up to Black and African-Caribbean communities and shows how these encounters were shaped by different understandings of heritage practices and spaces. Using exploratory and ethnographic methods, the book first...
This book examines climate change communication on Twitter (now X) through the lens of transnational public sphere theory. Building on contributions from Nancy Fraser and Iris Marion Young, it argues that the concept of a transnational public sphere is useful if two...
This Open-Access-book focuses on the legacies of post-Fukushima activism, which are linked to significant changes in Japan’s civil society. Thirteen years have passed since the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The Japanese government tries to convey the impression that...
Why are bilateral migration agreements (BMAs) concluded the way they are? "Of Times Ontologically Insecure" combines the newest datasets on both bilateral labor agreements (BLAs) and other types of BMAs to get at the question in how far ontological security seeking...
This book describes the contemporary urban society of Bosnia and Herzegovina in a triple post: Post-socialism, post-war and post-9/11. Using the approach of playground ethnography, the author applied a bottom-up approach to find out the social significance of Salafist...
What makes a neighborhood livable, and what do urban inhabitants need to learn in order to be able to use the city according to their needs, wishes, and aspirations? The empirical study presented in the book, embedded in urban sociology and educational science, is set...
This book extends the term Critical Making to the critical technical practices of grassroots innovation communities in the Global South, specifically in Indonesia. Recent socio-technical shifts in an era of participation have led to the rapid growth in the number of...
This book critically examines the cultural, religious, and linguistic contestations within Kannywood, the Hausa-language film industry in northern Nigeria. It explores how filmmakers navigate religious expectations, cultural norms, and language ideologies while...
The study explores the impact of Poland’s (1999 and) 2017 education reform(s) on Upper Silesian language teachers and educators, focusing on how reforms influenced their (professional) self-perception and identity. Through twelve autobiographical-narrative...
Contributing scholars engaging with Southern African contexts challenge hegemonic climate paradigms. They employ pluralistic strategies that respect diverse epistemologies and advance decolonised discourse. Drawing from the humanities and social sciences, this...
The sociology of Pierre Bourdieu has become one of the most influential theories in music education and sociology of music. Generations of scholars in both fields have applied, criticized and advanced the concepts and methods invented by Bourdieu and his...
Spanning the 19th century to the present, this book explores how educational transfer debates shaped the reception and representation of Galatasaray High School’s heritage from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Türkiye. It shows how Galatasaray became a...
Building on advancements in research on public policy, interest groups, and governance, this book addresses the translation of drivers and hurdles of change into concrete policy change and transformation. It follows the question how we can understand and explain the...
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