Peter Lang: 4879 books
Facing Poverty and Marginalization
Fifty Years of Critical Research in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
A long history of poverty, discrimination, colonialism and struggle for social justice has provided, over the last fifty years, the context for the development of a vast amount of critical scholarship targeting marginalization in Brazil: Freireian pedagogics, theology of liberation, critical sociology,...
Reimagineering the Nation
Essays on Twenty-First-Century Sweden
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
This collection of essays offers a critical analysis of neoliberal transformation as it has unfolded in Sweden, long regarded as exemplary in terms of social welfare, equality and an inclusive multicultural democracy. The book presents a multidisciplinary exposition on Sweden, seen in a wider European...
The Sino-African Partnership
A Geopolitical Economy Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
The Sino-African Partnership portrays with rigor and clarity the relationship between China and Africa by delving into the geopolitical, geo-economic, and sociocultural dynamics that underlie the extensive and deepening "South-South" cooperation between the two. The analysis highlights China’s role...
by Filip Ilkowski
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
This book analyzes the controversy surrounding imperialism associated with capitalist development. The last dozen years passed under the shadow of two momentous events: the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan conducted in the framework of the broader «war on terror», and the economic crisis. They occurred...
Reconsidering Obama
Reflections on Rhetoric
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
Perhaps no other presidential candidate or sitting president has attracted as much attention from rhetorical critics as Barack Obama. Much of this work was conceived and written during Obama’s initial presidential campaign, or relatively early in his two terms in office. This book provides rhetorical...
In the Shadow of the Iron Curtain
Central and Eastern European Alterglobalists
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
This book examines the alterglobalist activists in Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary. Based on lengthy ethnographic fieldwork and numerous in-depth interviews with key figures of the movement, it covers mobilizations and actions between 1998 and 2011 and analyzes the process of adapting the...
by Filip Pierzchalski
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
This book depicts a new research perspective of political leadership, in which the multi-level and dynamic leadership relation is explained as relations between the leader (human agency) and followers (sociological environment). In this sense, leadership comprises mutual influences between personal...
The American President in Film and Television
Myth, Politics and Representation
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
As evidenced by the election of celebrity and reality television star Donald Trump, popular culture has played a vital role in the conceptualisation of political leadership. This revised edition of The American President in Film and Television explores the complex relationship between the construction...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
This book presents a critical reflection on how the presence of «culture» in theory and practice of international relations is reflected in International Relations as a research field. The authors analyze culture in International Relations scholarship and evaluate culture in the practice of International...
Capitalisms Educational Catastrophe
And the Advancing Endgame Revolt!
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Neoliberal capitalism has paved the way to educational catastrophe. It has also opened paths for politically productive and transformative forms of localized resistance(s). This book examines the perilous catastrophe before us, and the possibility that we can reclaim our rights as citizens and redefine...
by Nadia Vazquez Novoa
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
The question of modern performance evaluation has been extensively discussed in the literature, leading to a call for models including non-optimizing behaviors of decision makers and non-financial performance criteria. A promising management instrument is data envelopment analysis (DEA), which enables...
When Race Breaks Out
Conversations about Race and Racism in College Classrooms 3rd Revised edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
The third revised edition of "When Race Breaks Out" is a guide for college and high school teachers who want to promote honest and informed conversations about race and racism. Based on the author's personal practice and interviews with students and faculty from a variety of disciplines,...
by Khrystyna Nordheimer
Language: German
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: German
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Das Buch leistet einen innovativen und praxisrelevanten Beitrag zur Unterstützung von kleinen und mittleren Softwareunternehmen im Bereich global verteilter Softwareentwicklung. Es identifiziert die bestehenden methodischen und softwaretechnischen Defizite in den relevanten Bezugsdisziplinen wie...
Clean Fashion
Water Footprint von Textilien
Language: German
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Angelika Adamcyk befasst sich in ihrem Buch mit dem so genannten Water Footprint. Dieser misst die Beeinträchtigung von Wasserressourcen und veranschaulicht die Nutzung bzw. Verschwendung dieses lebensnotwendigen Rohstoffs. Neben dem täglichen Gebrauch werden insbesondere für die Herstellung von...