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Illiberal Politics and Religion in Europe and Beyond Concepts, Actors, and Identity Narratives
ISBN: PB: 9783593509976, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2021
560 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Despite the broadly assumed institutional separation of church and state in contemporary Western politics, there is a trend towards renewed alliances between illiberal interpretations of religion and right-wing populist politics that challenge libera...
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£52,00
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Politics of Solidarity Privatisation, Precarious Work and Labour in South Africa
ISBN: PB: 9783593510477, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2020
430 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 1 colour plate, 15 halftones
"Politics of Solidarity" explores the transformation of public services in post-apartheid South Africa and the effects of privatization in three cities: Johannesburg, Ekurhuleni, and Cape Town. Drawing on extensive qualitative fieldwork, Carmen Ludwi...
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£34,00
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Vertical Europe The Sociology of High-Rise Construction
ISBN: PB: 9783593510163, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2020
300 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 13 colour plates, 5 halftones
More high-rise residential buildings have been built in the last two decades than at any other time before. Even in Europe, where historically a typical city's most prominent vertical accents came from chimneys and church steeples, towering buildings...
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£36,00
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Failed Individual Amid Exclusion, Resistance, and the Pleasure of Non-Conformity
ISBN: PB: 9783593507828, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, May 2018
399 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 4 halftones
The freedom of the individual to aim high is a deeply rooted part of the American ethos but we rarely acknowledge its flip side: failure. If people are responsible for their individual successes, is the same true of their failures? "The Failed Indivi...
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£37,50
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"Labor Is Not a Commodity!" The Movement to Shorten the Workday in Late Nineteenth-Century Berlin and New York
ISBN: PB: 9783593506272, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, April 2017
237 pp., 21.6x14 cm
Analyzing the history of the movement to shorten the workday in late nineteenth-century New York City and Berlin, this book explores what Karl Polanyi has termed the "fictitious commodification" of labor. Despite the concept's significance for presen...
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£36,00
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Cities as Multiple Landscapes Investigating the Sister Cities Innsbruck and New Orleans
ISBN: PB: 9783593506470, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
529 pp., 20.9x14 cm, 60 halftones, 15 colour plates, 20 line drawings, 4 maps
Cities are composed of a combination of urban and rural spaces, buildings and boundaries, and human bodies engaged in political, social, and cultural discourses. Together, these combine to create what the contributors to this volume call multiple lan...
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£55,00
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Survey Measurements Techniques, Data Quality and Sources of Error
ISBN: PB: 9783593502809, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2015
239 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 28 halftones
The accuracy of a survey is directly affected by how the survey is presented, how the questions are worded, and what the format is for responses. In addition, survey methods continue to develop at an accelerating rate to keep step with technological...
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£56,50
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Producing Cultural Diversity Hegemonic Knowledge in Global Governance Projects
ISBN: PB: 9783593503165, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2015
245 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 1 colour plate
How did cultural diversity become a buzzword fraught with tension? And what do the controversies surrounding it reveal about contemporary policy making? "Producing Cultural Diversity" investigates these questions through an empirical analysis of the...
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£42,00
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Inventing the Modern American Family Family Values and Social Change in 20th Century United States
ISBN: PB: 9783593396408, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2015
335 pp., 21.6x14 cm
Family is the foundation of society, and debates on family norms have always touched the very heart of America. This volume investigates the negotiations and transformations of family values and gender norms in the twentieth century as they relate to...
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£40,50
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Fitting In and Getting Happy How Conformity to Societal Norms Affects Subjective Well-being
ISBN: PB: 9783593500560, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2014
196 pp., 22x13.9 cm
Do unemployment, religiosity, or morality play a role in people's perception of happiness and well-being?  Using large-scale survey data from more than seventy countries, Olga Stavrova shows in "Fitting In and Getting Happy" that to a large extent ha...
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