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  • Sense(s) of Heimat

    Plurilocal Self-Location and Emotional Geographies through the Lens of International Migration

    by Jessica Andel ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The German notion of ‘Heimat’ is highly subjective, ambiguous and historically charged. Senses of belonging and identity associated with Heimat render the concept vulnerable to appropriation and instrumentalization by different political forces. Thereby, a static and exclusive understanding of Heimat is often depicted. This book drafts a counternarrative to demystify the contested concept. On the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Other Germans

    Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender, and Memory in the Third Reich

    by Tina Marie Campt ...
    Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
    It's hard to imagine an issue or image more riveting than Black Germans during the Third Reich. Yet accounts of their lives are virtually nonexistent, despite the fact that they lived through a regime dedicated to racial purity.Tina Campt's Other Germans tells the story of this largely forgotten group of individuals, with important distinctions from other accounts. Most strikingly, Campt centers ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Anthropology

    A Continental Perspective

    by Christoph Wulf ...
    Originally published in German, Christoph Wulf's Anthropology sets its sights on a topic as ambitious as its title suggests: anthropology itself. Arguing for an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach to anthropology that incorporates science, philosophy, history, and many other disciplines, Wulf examines—with breathtaking scope—all the ways that anthropology has been understood and practiced ... Read more

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  • A Sociological Theory of Law

    by Niklas Luhmann ...
    Niklas Luhmann is recognised as a major social theorist, and his treatise on the sociology of law is a classic text. For Luhmann, law provides the framework of the state, lawyers are the main human resource for the state, and legal theory provides the most suitable base from which to theorize on the nature of society. He explores the concept of law in the light of a general theory of social ... Read more

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  • Habermas

    A Biography

    by Stefan Müller-Doohm ...
    ‘Jürgen Habermas’, wrote the American philosopher Ronald Dworkin on the occasion of the great European thinker’s eightieth birthday, ‘is not only the world’s most famous living philosopher. Even his fame is famous.’ Now, after many years of intensive research and in-depth conversations with contemporaries, colleagues and Habermas himself, Stefan Müller-Doohm presents the first comprehensive ... Read more

    $32.00 USD

  • Design Ethnography

    Epistemology and Methodology

    by Francis Müller ...
    Translated by Anna Brailovsky ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This open access book describes methods for research on and research through design. It posits that ethnography is an appropriate method for design research because it constantly orients itself, like design projects, towards social realities. In research processes, designers acquire project-specific knowledge, which happens mostly intuitively in practice. When this knowledge becomes the subject of ... Read more

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  • Freedom's Right

    The Social Foundations of Democratic Life

    by Axel Honneth ...
    Series Book 13 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    Theories of justice often fixate on purely normative, abstract principles unrelated to real-world situations. The philosopher and theorist Axel Honneth addresses this disconnect, and constructs a theory of justice derived from the normative claims of Western liberal-democratic societies and anchored in morally legitimate laws and institutionally established practices.Honneth's paradigm—which he ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Sociology of Space

    Materiality, Social Structures, and Action

    by Martina Löw ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In this book, the author develops a relational concept of space that encompasses social structure, the material world of objects and bodies, and the symbolic dimension of the social world. Löw’s guiding principle is the assumption that space emerges in the interplay between objects, structures and actions. Based on a critical discussion of classic theories of space, Löw develops a new dynamic ... Read more

    $125.09 USD

  • Individualization

    Institutionalized Individualism and its Social and Political Consequences

    by Ulrich Beck, Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    Individualization argues that we are in the midst of a fundamental change in the nature of society and politics. This change hinges around two processes: globalization and individualization. The book demonstrates that individualization is a structural characteristic of highly differentiated societies, and does not imperil social cohesion, but actually makes it possible.Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

  • Reconceptualising Agency and Childhood

    New perspectives in Childhood Studies

    Edited by Florian Esser, Meike S. Baader, Tanja Betz, Beatrice Hungerland ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    By regarding children as actors and conducting empirical research on children’s agency, Childhood Studies have gained significant influence on a wide range of different academic disciplines. This has made agency one of the key concepts of Childhood Studies, with articles on the subject featured in handbooks and encyclopaedias.Reconceptualising Agency and Childhoodis the first collection devoted to ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • The Impact of Idealism: Volume 2, Historical, Social and Political Thought

    The Legacy of Post-Kantian German Thought

    by Nicholas Boyle, Liz Disley ...
    The first study of its kind, The Impact of Idealism assesses the impact of classical German philosophy on science, religion and culture. This second volume explores German Idealism's impact on the historical, social and political thought of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Each essay focuses on an idea or concept from the high point of German philosophy around 1800, tracing ... Read more

    $112.39 USD

  • Death in the Shape of a Young Girl

    Women's Political Violence in the Red Army Faction

    by Patricia Melzer ...
    In the early 1970s, a number of West German left-wing activists took up arms, believing that revolution would lead to social change. In the years to come, the bombings, shootings, kidnappings and bank robberies of the Red Army Faction (RAF) and Movement 2nd June dominated newspaper headlines and polarized legislative debates. Half of the terrorists declaring war on the West German state were women ... Read more

    $31.49 USD