OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2024)Maverick Movies tells the improbable story of New Line Cinema, a company that cut a remarkable path through the American film industry and movie culture. Founded in 1967 as an art film distributor, New Line made a small ...
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(2024)Deindustrialized cities in the United States are at a particular crossroads when it comes to the contest over refugees. Do refugees represent opportunity or danger? These cities are in desperate need to stem population and ...
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(2023)Since Pierre Bourdieu, we have known that the body forms incorporated cultural and social capital. It is a commodity and means of production, a sign of belonging to a social class, a place where sex, gender and power ...
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(2024)As part of an emerging literature on place branding, this book fills the important gap between practice-oriented literature—which lacks in-depth and critical analysis—and technical academic literature—which tends to miss ...
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(2023)This book analyses main lines of legal development in the area of proprietary security rights in movable assets (comprising pledges/charges, transfer of ownership for security purposes, assignment of claims for security ...
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(2023)Silke Felber describes Jelinek's theater of (tragedy) traversal for the first time at the intersection of theater, literary, and cultural studies. In the form of a richly detailed study, this foundational work reveals ...
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(2022)This open access book shows how to design labour rights to effectively protect digital platform workers, organise accountability on digital work platforms, and guarantee workers’ collective representation and action. It ...
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(2022)In the postmodern era, when the interface of bodies, biologies and technologies increasingly challenges the very notion of what counts as human, this open access book proposes new understandings of the limits and possible ...
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(2023)Following Paulo Freire and his concept of pedagogy of hope, this open access book explores the educational role of hope as an approach to learning about global issues in different areas of the world. Climate change, racism, ...
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(2023)This is the first broad-ranging, comprehensive and comparative study of the concepts of propaganda and neutrality. Bringing together world-leading and early career historians, this open access book explores case studies ...
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(2023)This open access book offers an overview of the relations between comics and religion from the perspective of cultural sociology. How do comics function in religions and how does religion appear in comics? And how do graphic ...
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(2024)Auf Talcott Parsons’ Schultheorie wird zwar immer wieder verwiesen, ihre systematische Aufarbeitung stand jedoch bisher aus. Diese Leerstelle füllt die vorliegende Monographie. Sie bündelt Parsons’ allgemeine soziologische ...
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(2024)Der Sammelband bietet einen systematischen Überblick über Grundlagen, empirische Erkenntnisse und Reflexionen zur Umsetzung inklusiver Bildung im Bildungssystem Islands und regt so den internationalen Dialog an. Neben dem ...
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(2023)Antonio Gramsci gilt als meistzitierter italienischer Autor in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften seit Machiavelli. Die Auseinandersetzung mit Gramsci prägt nicht nur die Cultural Studies, sondern ist auch Grundlage für ...
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(2023)Der neo-aristotelischen Tugendethik zufolge hängen ethische Maßstäbe von der biologischen Spezieszugehörigkeit der ethischen Akteure ab. Diese Perspektive, so argumentiert Richard Friedrich Runge in seinem Buch, bleibt ...
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(2023)In a 1987 interview, José Saramago eloquently expressed what could be considered his political-philosophical manifesto: “Human beings should not content themselves with the role of mere observers. They bear a responsibility ...
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(2021)How did the lives of those who were persecuted change under Nazi rule? In 1939, an unusual Harvard University prize competition posed this question and collected over 180 essays from emigrants from Nazi Germany as well as ...
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(2024)Taking into account politics, history, and aesthetics, this edited volume explores the main expressions of primitivism in Iberian and Transatlantic modernisms. Ten case studies are thoroughly analyzed concerning both ...
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(2023)The Canadian Mountain Assessment provides a first-of-its-kind look at what we know, do not know, and need to know about mountain systems in Canada. The assessment is based on insights from First Nations, Métis, and Inuit ...
