Social Sciences

Die Kultursprache Italienisch wird unter verschiedenen didaktisch-methodischen Fragestellungen beleuchtet.

Nahrungsmittel und Ernährungsgewohnheiten sind stets mit Bedeutung aufgeladen. Im Essen verkörpert sich mehr als eine bloß überlebensnotwendige Handlung: Stattdessen sagt die Bewertung von Lebensmitteln und die Art, wie wir sie zu uns nehmen, nicht nur viel über die Gesellschaft, sondern auch...

Bancroft provides an ethnographic account of the reality in north Kosovo, mixing first-hand interviews and anecdotes with historical background and academic insight.

Den Sozialismus oder radikalen Demokratismus grundsätzlich zu kritisieren, wäre niemandem in den Sinn gekommen. ... Kritik am Sozialismus und Radikalismus war eine unerhörte Häresie.

Over the last three decades, migration management in the newly independent states which emerged from the ruins of the USSR in 1991 has become a tool for staking out zones of influence, a winning slogan for election campaigns, and a handle on the domestic population. Such an instrumentalization of...

This volume illustrates how the events that started in 1985 and brought down the USSR six years later led to the rise of fifteen successor states.

The second part of this multi-volume project assembles a series of recollections and debates on the Ukrainian revolutions of 1990, 2004, and 2013–2014.

Hümeyra Genç investigates the impact that additional visual information has in multi-modal inputs on the academic listening comprehension of EFL (English as a foreign language) students. Her findings suggest that the inclusion of nonverbal information, whether context- or content-related, has a...

In the US as well as in Europe, migration and migration policy is one of the top issues. This timely volume gathers distinguished authors from academic institutions throughout Europe addressing the growing importance of migration policy making and the refugee crisis that European Union member...

The 2010s saw an introduction of legislative acts about religion, sexuality, and culture in Russia, which caused an uproar of protests.