Contemporary China’s Land Use Policy

Contemporary China’s Land Use Policy

Long Cheng
Springer

This book discusses contemporary China’s land use policy – the Link Policy – which calls for land consolidation and rural resettlement to achieve the goal of preserving farmland while also providing more space for urban development. Given the limited analyses and...

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Cultural Dynamics of Water in Iranian Civilization

Majid Labbaf Khaneiki
Springer

This book traces “water” back to the most primitive animistic notions that are still lingering on in the shape of such rituals as qanat marriage or rain-making.  Water, in the Iranian philosophy, is used in an attempt to find an explanation for the genesis of...

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The Case for Democracy in the COVID-19 Pandemic

David Seedhouse
SAGE Publications Ltd

One moment life was normal, the next, governments around the world were imposing radical lockdowns of their populations. But why were decision-makers so readily ignoring centuries of hard-won civil freedoms? Where was the discussion of ethics and human rights? Why...

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Information Nightmare: Fake News, Manipulation and Post-Truth Politics in the Digital Age

Tirse Erbaysal Filibeli
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

Today, we live in a post-truth era. Creating alternative realities, and making people believe fake realities become easier. Digital platforms tend to promote dramatic, sensational and emotional content that harms democracy. This book examines different aspects of the...

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The Handbook of Media Education Research

Collectif
Wiley-Blackwell

Over the past forty years, media education research has emerged as a historical, epistemological and practical field of study. Shifts in the field—along with radical transformations in media technologies, aesthetic forms, ownership models, and audience participation...

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European Social Work After 1989

Walter Lorenz , Zuzana Havrdová , Oldrich Matoušek
Springer

This book presents a unique analysis of the learning derived from East-West contacts in social work and reflects on the discipline's inalienable trans-national dimensions, of high actuality in the face of the re-emergence of nationalisms. The fundamental...

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Black Men’s Studies

Serie Mcdougal Iii
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

Black Men's Studies offers an approach to understanding the lives and the self determination of men of African descent in the U.S. context. It not only frames their experiences, it also explores the multidimensional approaches to advancing the lives of Black...

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Media, Migrants and Human Rights. In the Evolution of the European Scenario of Refugees’ and Asylum Seekers’ Instances

Gevisa La Rocca , Roberto Di Maria , Gino Frezza
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

The volume is a collection of essays – the result of studies, research, projects – on the theme of migration, of the condition of refugees and asylum seekers, of respect for or violation of human rights, of the narration of these events in the media. It offers a...

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Asian Fusion

Caroline Rupprecht
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers

This book contributes to a historically evolving conversation about immigration as a facet of globalization in the European context. Focusing on literary and artistic works from the post–World War II era, the author uses a «call-and-response» structure – as in...

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White Evolution

Christopher S. Collins , Alexander Jun
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

Two fundamental and underlying principles drive White Evolution. The first is that evolution means constant movement in the fight against the virus of White supremacy. If the virus is evolving rapidly, then our critical consciousness needs to evolve faster...

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