It would have been hard to miss the pivotal role debt has played for contentious politics in the last decades. The North Atlantic Financial Crisis, Global Recession and European Debt Crisis - as well as the recent waves ...

Dans nos sociétés, le changement social suit trois directions : démocratisation politique, globalisation économique et diffusion de la culture postmoderne. Les problèmes qui prennent origine dans l'un ou l'autre de ces ...

Since the end of the 19th century, social scientists, such as Georg Simmel and Max Weber in particular, have been engaged in developing theoretical concepts aimed at providing insight into the economic and socio-cultural ...

Since the late 1980s visibility has become a currency of social recognition, and a political issue. It also brought forth a new discipline, visual culture studies, and a hotly contested debate unfolded between art history ...

This collection brings together a variety of anthropological, historical and sociological case studies from Central Asia and the Caucasus to examine the concept of translocality. The chapters scrutinize the capacity of ...

The historical and contemporary development of certain informal and formal articulations of Muslim social and political identities and forms of association in Muslim-majority and Arab societies has facilitated the emergence ...

Seit einigen Jahren wird in Berlin verstärkt über "Jugenddelinquenz" diskutiert und geforscht. Im Rahmen einer qualitativen Auftragsstudie beleuchten Talja Blokland und Vojin Šerbedžija den Jugendalltag in den Kreuzberger ...