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  • Refuge

    Social Science Debates

    Edited by Birgit Blättel-Mink, Torsten Noack, Corinna Onnen, Katrin Späte, Rita Stein-Redent ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The welcome culture of 2015 in Germany has, not least due to the (re)definition of safe countries of origin, turned into a deportation policy. How can this change in policy be understood and is it also accompanied by a change of attitude among the population? Which reasons for and which reasons against the admission of refugees are cited in social debates? This volume brings together analyses of ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

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  • Sport, Forced Migration and the 'Refugee Crisis'

    by Enrico Michelini ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Sport, Culture and Society
    Drawing on original research, this book looks at what sport can tell us about the social processes, patterns and outcomes of forced migration and the 'refugee crisis'.Adopting a systems theory framework and examining different sport disciplines, performance levels and settings, it represents a significant contribution to our understanding of one of the most urgent social issues facing the modern ... Read more

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  • Governing Compact Cities

    How to Connect Planning, Design and Transport

    by Philipp Rode ...
    Series series Cities series
    Governing Compact Cities investigates how governments and other critical actors organise to enable compact urban growth, combining higher urban densities, mixed use and urban design quality with more walkable and public transport-oriented urban development. Philipp Rode draws on empirical evidence from London and Berlin to examine how urban policymakers, professionals and stakeholders have worked ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Geographies of Asylum in Europe and the Role of European Localities

    Edited by Birgit Glorius, Jeroen Doomernik ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book describes how the numerous arrivals of asylum seekers since 2015 shaped reception and integration processes in Europe. It addresses the structuration of asylum and reception systems, and spaces and places of reception on European, national, regional and local level. It also analyses perceptions and discourses on asylum and refugees, their evolvement and the consequences for ... Read more

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  • Self-Initiated Expatriation

    Individual, Organizational, and National Perspectives

    Edited by Maike Andresen, Akram Al Ariss, Matthias Walther ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy
    Globalization and the development of multinational organizations have led to an increase in the number of people spending part of their lives living and working in foreign countries. While the contemporary literature has focused on organizational expatriates sent overseas by their employers, self-initiated expatriation is becoming an important area of study in its own right. Studies on self ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • The Myth of Media Globalization

    by Kai Hafez ...
    The ongoing interconnection of the world through modern mass media is generally considered to be one of the major developments underpinning globalization. This important book considers anew the globalization phenomenon in the media sphere.Rather than heralding globalization or warning of its dangers, as in many other books, Kai Hafez analyses the degree to which media globalization is really ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Disrupting the university

    The stifling of academic freedom in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

    by Heike Egner, Anke Uhlenwinkel ...
    Translated by Zachary Gallant ...
    At universities, professors are increasingly being dismissed or demoted from high positions for allegedly disruptive behaviors. But when is a professor disruptive? In the media, you read about unpopular statements, false attitudes, bullying or abuse of power. But that is only part of the story. This book looks at the structures behind the cases and shows that the dismissals repeatedly affect ... Read more

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  • Geographies of Schooling

    Edited by Holger Jahnke, Caroline Kramer, Peter Meusburger ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book explores the complex relationship between schooling as a set of practices embedded in educational institutions and their specific spatial dimensions from different disciplinary perspectives. It presents innovative empirical and conceptual research by international scholars from the fields of social geography, pedagogy, educational and social sciences in Germany, the United ... Read more

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  • Education in Germany

    Tradition and Reform in Historical Context

    Edited by David Phillips ...
    The German education and training system has been the subject of considerable attention from other nations, and has often been used as a model. David Phillips' book brings together articles from some of the best known names in the field including Mitter, Glowka, Hearnden, Fuhr, Robinsohn and Prais and wagner. The book is organised into four sections. Section one examines the historical inheritance ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Environmental Organizations in Modern Germany

    Hardy Survivors in the Twentieth Century and Beyond

    by William T. Markham ...
    Series Book 21 - Monographs in German History
    German environmental organizations have doggedly pursued environmental protection through difficult times: hyperinflation and war, National Socialist rule, postwar devastation, state socialism in the GDR, and confrontation with the authorities during the 1970s and 1980s. The author recounts the fascinating and sometimes dramatic story of these organizations from their origins at the end of the ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Trajectories in the Development of Modern School Systems

    Between the National and the Global

    Edited by Daniel Tröhler, Thomas Lenz ...
    Series series Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
    As contemporary education becomes increasingly tied to global economic power, national school systems attempting to influence one another inevitably confront significant tensions caused by differences in heritage, politics, and formal structures. Trajectories in the Development of Modern School Systems provides a comprehensive theoretical and empirical critique of the reform movements that seek to ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Citizenship and Democracy in an Era of Crisis

    Essays in honour of Jan W. van Deth

    Edited by Thomas Poguntke, Sigrid Rossteutscher, Sonja Zmerli, Rudiger Schmitt-Beck ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Comparative Politics
    Democracies are transforming worldwide, but at the same time political inequality is increasing. This development threatens to leave growing portions of mass publics effectively ‘outside’ the political process.This volume brings together leading authorities in the field of democratic citizenship and participation to address pertinent questions concerning the quality of the democratic political ... Read more

    $70.99 USD