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Conclusion
This Conclusion brings together the main strands of the argumentation in the book. It revisits its main findings and discusses their contribution to advancing a general theory of welfare institutions. It concl...
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The Shaping of Municipal Policies on Inclusion
This chapter contextualises recent developments at municipal level in Europe and the ways in which these have been addressed in the research literature. The chapter sets out the national policy frameworks with...
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Textual Analysis of Facebook Communities Related to Depression
Because depression is a debilitating illness affecting individuals of all ages, genders, and socioeconomic groups, being aware of its signs helps speed up the process by which patients seek care from specialis...
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Methods and Epistemologies
BBW culture has largely remained beneath scholarly interest. As a foundational project exploring these spaces, the choice of methodology was vitally important. In this chapter, I ground the work in feminist st...
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A Brazilian Initiative Toward Digital Literacy: Evaluating the Impact of Motivational Factors on the Intention to Use a Distance Learning Platform
The research focuses on human interactions with the technology and contributes to understanding the adoption and utilization of specific technology, making this topic relevant to the field of digital humanitie...
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The Bede Community: A Nomadic Group in Bangladesh
In this chapter, the Bede, a nomadic marginalised community in Bangladesh, is studied, emphasising their identity, customs, and hardships. Many Bede were illiterate and poverty-stricken, supporting themselves as ...
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Phenomenon “Diversity”
We explore how ‘diversity’ is specified with regard to the relationship between the dominant German ingroup and two non-dominant groups, specifically Jews in one case and Muslims in the other. This is accompli...
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Between High and Low Tide. Participatory Approaches to Managing England’s Coastal and Riverine Natural and Cultural Heritage: A Case Study from the CITiZAN Initiative
The English coastline represents arguably the most extensive and diverse natural landscape in the country, drawing a wide range and number of visitors annually. Here we focus specifically on the intertidal zon...
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Styles and Stylistic Change in Creole Languages: Formal Language in the Eastern Maroon Creole
Sociolinguistic research on Creoles traditionally investigates the interaction between a Creole and a standardized language using quantitative methods. It is assumed that Creoles do not have stylistic depth an...
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The Politics of Asylum in Africa
This chapter examines three distinct periods: the colonial period of the 1960s during when refugees first became a major concern in Africa; the post-independence period of the 1970s considered a ‘golden age’ f...
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Applying the Urban Scene as Community Practice Approach in the Field
The chapter is based on extensive fieldwork carried out in three Polish cities and serves as an exemplification of the application of the approach proposed in Chapter 2 to the...
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Gender Patterns, Equality Paradoxes, and Lessons for an Inclusive Digital Future
The aim of this book was to answer the question: what makes women enter fields of IT? This final chapter will sum up the lessons from studying the women’s chronological pathways, space invader experiences, and...
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The Values of the Gutenberg Era: Myth and Media Rhetoric
Sixty years after its first publication, The Gutenberg Galaxy can still be read as an attentive and stunning analysis of the communicative complexity stemming from the sedimentation and re-organization of the typ...
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Introduction
Jane Jacobs is renowned as a great urbanist who wrote about and profoundly influenced urban planning and design. This book is about the original and useful lessons we can learn about economics and social theor...
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Fatherhood in Urban South Africa: The Making of the “Poor, Black man” as the Absentee Father in South African Media
The last decade has witnessed a gradual shift in South Africa in the ways that men are talked about in policy and development discourses. Men and particular types of masculinity have become an important focus ...
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Peruvians in Milan: Subsidiarity the Other Way Round
The chapter shows that among Peruvians in Milan the key distinction was between regular and irregular migrants. While the experience of the pandemic for regular Peruvian citizens was substantially similar to t...
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Spatialising Islamophobia: Responding to and Resisting Anti-Muslim Racism in Scotland
This chapter spatialises the key characteristics of gendered Islamophobia using a scalar perspective to demonstrate the complex ways that Islamophobia functions within and across different geographical scales....
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Experiments and Interventions: Re-envisioning Qualitative Research Methods in Migration
The purpose of this chapter on methodology is manifold. It begins by telling the story of the StOries Project, a migration-centred teaching-training initiative that started in 2021 at CERC, in Migration at Tor...
