In this volume, eighteen scholars provide a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary look beyond the statistics at the experiences of the women, men, girls, and boys who comprise the global migration flow, and at the highly gendered forces that frame and affect them.
Jurgen Kocka is one of the foremost historians of Germany whose work has been devoted to the integration of different genres of the social and... Læs mere
The death of a shaman in 1980 had an enormous spiritual and political consequences for one of the Arakmbut communities, resulting in a shift in its social... Læs mere
In this second volume of Liberal Jewish sermons spanning the greater part of the second half ofthe twentieth century, the author again combines a radically progressive stance with Jewish commitment and seeks to understand contemporary history from a "prophetic" point of view.
In contrast to most other countries, both Germany and Israel have descent-based concepts of nationhood and have granted members of their nation (ethnic Germans and Jews) who wish to immigrate automatic access to their respective citizenship privileges.
Looking back at the last century with its devastating wars, genocides, environmental disasters, more often than not caused by humans, an urgent... Læs mere