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Barriers to Community Archaeology: Reviewing the Legal Heritage Frameworks Within the South African Context
The archaeological landscape in South Africa has been changing, from one defined by the domination of white males to one now defined by women and...
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Reality Disjunctures and Epistemological Encampment: Addressing Relevance in Constructionist Perspectives on Social Problems
Constructionist perspectives on social problems have remained a fairly encapsulated subfield of sociology, frequently seen as hostile to notions of...
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A Reproducible Framework for Visualizing Demographic Distance Profiles in US Metropolitan Areas
Distance profiles have long been used in urban demography to explore how demographic characteristics of metropolitan areas vary by distance from...
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Advances in City-State Research, with an Example from Mesoamerica
The last 20 years have seen advances in the understanding of city-states, especially in ancient Greece, where textual information fuels new theories...
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Sea Swallowers and Land Devourers: Can Shark Lore Facilitate Conservation?
Polynesians’ detailed observations of shark behaviour encompass the notion of a divinity, the fleeting image of a sky god, as well as potential...
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Transdisciplinary Engagement to Address Transboundary Challenges for Small-Scale Fishers
Small-scale fisheries and their governance are increasingly affected by natural, social, and political issues that originate outside their immediate...
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The Map’s Changing Role: A Survey of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers
Recently, researchers have lamented the decreasing use of maps in refereed journals. Yet, what might have replaced the map if in fact it is less...
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Kiwi Dragons in Love: The Chinese Diaspora and New Zealand Interracial Screen Romance
In an increasingly multicultural New Zealand, film-makers are embracing the challenge of confronting on-screen issues that arise from the social and...
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Governance Without Legitimacy: An Italian Conundrum of Democracy
Drawing on his field research in NaplesNaples, Pardo discusses the trade of legitimacy for power. He examines ordinary Neapolitans’ mistreatment by...
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Unseen suffering: slow violence and the phenomenological structure of social problems
Social scientists have severed social problems from the study of framing work in social movements. This article proposes to rejoin problems and...
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Social Media in Disaster Communication
This chapter surveys the rapid rise of social media in a range of disaster experiences, reviewing topics of citizen reporting, community-oriented...
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Source (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan) and Host (Germany) Countries’ Policies Towards the Regulation of Tertiary Student Migration
As it was discussed earlier, the third phase of the migration-development nexus (MDN) represents a shift of the “challenges that migration presents...
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The Persistent Case for the Creative Industries
This chapter examines the manner in which statistics underlying a narrative of economic success relating to the creative industries in the UK have...
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Institutional Reputations and Influences
Reputations, especially of an institution over a long period, are a minefield for dispute; even a correlation between reputation and influence may...
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New Means of Behaviour and Space Appropriation in the Post-Privatisation Era
In the late 1990s, almost a decade after the dissolution of former Yugoslavia, Bosnia and Herzegovina commenced its transformational journey of...
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The Nubians of Kibera ‘Revisited’: Detribalized Natives, Slum Dwellers, Middle Class?
This chapter takes a diachronic perspective on middle classes in Africa, questioning the teleological assumptions connected to the ‘rise’ of new...
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Fazit
Mit der Annahme, dass Social Media wie YouTube und Co. – als ein Teil des gegenwärtig stattfindenden Medienwandels – zunehmend auch die Funktion und...
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Current Events
This chapter focuses on the development of electrically operated cartographic inventions before 1960. As early as 1910, inventors had devised clever...
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The Business Dialogue (2003–2006)
Bakhtin’s ideal was polyphonic, which basically means narratives ‘with equal rights and each with its own world’. In 2006, the co-chairs of the...
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Assembling Citizenship in Austere Times
As neoliberalism has been assembled and reassembled in its many forms, citizenship has remained a constant object of its attention as a focal point...