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    • Kurfürst, Sandra; Wehner, Stefanie (2020)
      Southeast Asia is one of the most dynamic regions in the world. This volume offers a timely approach to Southeast Asian Studies, covering recent transitions in the realms of urbanism, rural development, politics, and media. ...
    • Kling, Norbert (2020)
      Dynamic processes and conflicts are at the core of the urban condition. Against the background of continuous change in cities, concepts and assumptions about spatial transformations have to be constantly re-examined and ...
    • Barsch, Sebastian; van Norden, Jörg (2020)
    • Akca, Ayse Almila (2020)
    • Brantz, Dorothee; Sharma, Avi (2020)
      Urban Resilience is seen by many as a tool to mitigate harm in times of extreme social, political, financial, and environmental stress. Despite its widespread usage, however, resilience is used in different ways by policy ...
    • Agnew, Vanessa; Konuk, Kader; Newman, Jane O. (2020)
      The displaced are often rendered silent and invisible as they journey in search of refuge. Drawing on historical and contemporary examples from Turkey, the Ottoman Empire, Iraq, Syria, UK, Germany, France, the Balkan ...
    • Grümme, Bernhard; Werner, Gunda (2020)
    • Leistert, Oliver; Schrickel, Isabell (2020)
      The notion of »the problematic« has changed its meaning within the history of power and knowledge since the early 20th century, leading up to today's performative, neocybernetic fascination with generalized management ideas ...
    • Sievers, Norbert; Blumenreich, Ulrike; Dengel, Sabine; Wingert, Christine (2020)
    • Bose, Ines; Hannken-Illjes, Kati; Kurtenbach, Stephanie (2019)
      How do children behave in conversations? The authors of this book provide answers that are relevant to research and practice. The analysis is based on authentic conversations in everyday situations. The discussion process ...
    • Voigt-Zimmermann, Susanne; Kurtenbach, Stephanie; Finkbeinder, Gabriele; Bergt, Anke; Mainka, Wanda (2016)
      Working on the voice, whether diagnosticly, therapeuticly, preventively or restoratively, is and will remain one of the core areas of clinical speech science. The authors of this volume provide information on current vocal ...
    • Pietschmann, Judith (2017)
      Telephone service conversations are a central component of social and economic communication practice. They are to a considerable extent pre-planned and standardized. In addition to the desired positive effects (uniformity, ...
    • Jones, Matthew J. (2020)
      "From a stage erected in front of the US Capitol, on April 25, 1993, Michael Callen surveyed the throng: an estimated one million people stretched across the National Mall in the largest public demonstration of queer ...
    • Ryder, Andrew; Taba, Marius; Trehan, Nidhi (2020)
      "Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. The turn towards a Social Investment approach to welfare implies deploying resources to enhance human capital and mobilise the productive potential of citizens, starting in ...
    • Reyntjens, Filip (2020)
      Continuing the tradition of L’Afrique des grands lacs. Annuaire, this companion volume to Conjonctures de l’Afrique centrale (Paris, L’Harmattan) offers a survey of political developments in Burundi, the Democratic Republic ...
    • Leye, Els; Coene, Gily (2017)
      This volume consist of papers which provide an overview of the presentations at the Second International Academic Seminar: Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting at the intersection of qualitative, quantitative and mixed method ...
    • Nevola, Luca; Shiban, Baraa (2020)
      "From the onset of the Saada wars (2004 – 2010), the Houthis have been described as an Iranian proxy and a security threat. Ali Abdullah Saleh long deployed this Iranian narrative to obtain budgetary and military support ...
    • Day, Stephen W.; Brehony, Noel (2020)
      This international relations study investigates the underlying causes of the Yemen crisis by analyzing the interactions of global, regional, and local actors. At all phases, GCC member states played a key role, from political ...
    • Tendi, Miles; McGregor, JoAnn; Alexander, Jocelyn (2020)
      Zimbabwe; Politics, Violence, Political Violence
    • Florea, Ioana; Gagyi, Agnes; Jacobsson, Kerstin (2020)
      This chapter investigates housing contention in Bucharest and Budapest in the period after the 2008 financial crisis. Our focus of attention is on the antagonisms and solidarities produced across different social positions ...