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  • Equality in progress

    From positive action to diversity and inclusion

    Edited by Angela Wroblewski, Angelika Schmidt ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The volume addresses current challenges for gender equality policy and the necessary further development of gender equality policy concepts in order to effectively engage with exclusion mechanisms. The contributions discuss this at the interface between research and policy and on the basis of specific examples. ... Read more

    $140.99 CAD

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  • New Social Mobility

    Second Generation Pioneers in Europe

    Edited by Jens Schneider, Maurice Crul, Andreas Pott ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This open access book comparatively analyses intergenerational social mobility in immigrant families in Europe. It is based on qualitative in-depth research into several hundred biographies and professional trajectories of young people with an immigrant working-class background, who made it into high-prestige professions. The biographies were collected and analysed by a consortium of researchers ... Read more

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  • The Entrepreneurial Self

    Fabricating a New Type of Subject

    by Ulrich Bröckling ...
    "This is a book about who we are today, and how we have become who we are. It is about the engineers of the modern soul, the entrepreneurial self. It is essential reading for all those who care about the incessant demands placed on us to become more than we are, to become entrepreneurs of our selves, to maximise and optimise our capacities in ways that align personal identity and political ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • The Relational Economy

    Geographies of Knowing and Learning

    by Harald Bathelt, Johannes Glückler ...
    How are firms, networks of firms, and production systems organized and how does this organization vary from place to place? What are the new geographies emerging from the need to create, access, and share knowledge, and sustain competitiveness? In what ways are local clusters and global exchange relations intertwined and co-constituted? What are the impacts of global changes in technology, demand, ... Read more

    $49.59 CAD

  • Multispecies Ethnography

    Methodology of a Holistic Research Approach of Humans, Animals, Nature, and Culture

    by Katharina Ameli ...
    How are natures and animals integrated inclusively into research projects through Multispecies Ethnography? While preceded by a vision that seeks to question holistically how scientists can integrate natures and animals into research projects through Multispecies Ethnography, this book focuses on inter- and multidisciplinary collaboration. From an examination of the interfaces between social and ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Evidence Contestation

    Dealing with Dissent in Knowledge Societies

    Edited by Karin Zachmann, Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio, Saana Jukola, Olga Sparschuh ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
    This book examines the practices of contesting evidence in democratically constituted knowledge societies. It provides a multifaceted view of the processes and conditions of evidence criticism and how they determine the dynamics of de- and re-stabilization of evidence.Evidence is an essential resource for establishing claims of validity, resolving conflicts, and legitimizing decisions. In recent ... 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

    $114.99 CAD

  • The Backstage of the Care Economy

    Transnational Perspectives on the Commercialisation of Care

    by Helma Lutz ...
    ***Shortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial Prize 2025***‘Reveals the causes and consequences behind the explosion of migrant care work. A remarkable contribution from one of the leading social scientists of gender, care and migration in Europe’ Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, Princeton University‘A tour-de-force distillation of radical social thought on domestic labour grounded in critiques of global ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Adult Learning and Education in International Contexts: Future Challenges for its Professionalization

    Comparative Perspectives from the 2016 Wuerzburg Winter School

    by Regina Egetenmeyer, Sabine Schmidt-Lauff, Vanna Boffo ...
    Series Book 69 - Studien zur Paedagogik, Andragogik und Gerontagogik / Studies in Pedagogy, Andragogy, and Gerontagogy
    This volume analyses adult education and lifelong learning as international phenomena, which have a strong influence on professionals working in this field. Based on the 2016 Würzburg Winter School, the book identifies influences on policy at local, national and international levels. It examines the internationalization of adult education and emphasizes the emergence of different dimensions of ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • 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

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Social Class and Transnational Human Capital

    How Middle and Upper Class Parents Prepare Their Children for Globalization

    by Jürgen Gerhards, Hans Silke, Sören Carlson ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    Due to globalization processes, foreign language skills, knowledge about other countries and intercultural competences have increasingly become important for societies and people’s social positions. Previous research on social inequality, however, has dominantly focused on the reproduction of class structures within the boundaries of a particular nation-state without considering the importance of ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Space, Place and Educational Settings

    Edited by Tim Freytag, Douglas L. Lauen, Susan L. Robertson ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book explores the nexus between knowledge and space with a particular emphasis on the role of educational settings that are, both, shaping and being reshaped by socio-economic and political processes. It gives insight into the complex interplay of educational inequalities and practices of educational governance in the neighborhood and at larger geographical scales. The book adopts ... Read more

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