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New releases

Becker, Johannes/Weidenhaus Gunter/Witte, Nicole (Hrsg.)(2022): Biographie und Raum. Göttingen: Göttingen University Press.
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Köttig, Michaela/Witte, Nicole (Eds..)(2021): Biographie und Kollektivgeschichte.
Der Band ehrt eine der international führenden, schulbildenden Vertreter_innen der soziologischen Biographieforschung: Gabriele Rosenthal. Angelehnt an ihr wissenschaftliches Werk beschäftigen sich die Beiträge u. a. mit kollektiven Zugehörigkeiten und (inter-)nationalen Konflikten, (kollektiven) Gewalterfahrungen und Traumatisierungen in Zusammenhang mit Krieg und Fluchtmigration sowie der Verknüpfung von Täter-Opfer-Beziehungen.
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Breckner, Roswitha/Liebhart, Karina/Pohn-Lauggas, Maria (Eds.)(2021): Sozialwissenschaftliche Analysen von Bild- und Medienwelten. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg.
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Bahl, Eva/Rosenthal, Gabriele (Eds.)(2021): Navigating through increasing social inequalities in times of Covid-19: Research report on interviews with migrants in the Middle East and Europe and migrants and indigenous people in South America. Göttingen: Centre for Global Migration Studies. (Global Migration Studies)
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New releases in the Göttinger Universitätsverlag

Gabriele, Rosenthal/Witte, Nicole (Hrsg.)(2021): Diagnose Entwicklungsstörung. Familiengeschichte – Familiendynamik – Professionelles Hilfesystem. Göttingen: Göttingen University Press.
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Bahl, Eva (2021): Verflochtene Geschichten im postkolonialen Grenzraum [Entangled Histories in a Postcolonial Border Region: Biographies, Belongings and Memory Practices in Ceuta and Melilla]. Göttingen: Göttingen University Press.
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Schäfer, Miriam (2021): Polizist*in werden - Polizist*in sein. Strukturen und Widersprüche polizeilicher Arbeit. Göttingen: Göttingen University Press.
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Hinrichsen, Hendrik (2020): Die Generation Oslo im Westjordanland
Historische Generationen in prozesssoziologischer Perspektive. Göttingen: Göttingen University Press.
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Bahl, Eva/Becker, Johannes (2020): Global processes of flight and migration. The explanatory power of case studies. / Globale Flucht- und Migrationsprozesse. Die Erklärungskraft von Fallstudien. Göttingen: Göttingen University Press.
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Bogner, Artur/Rosenthal, Gabriele (2019): Child Soldiers in Context. Biographies, Familial and Collective Trajectories in Northern Uganda. Göttingen: Göttingen University Press.
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Rosenthal, Gabriele (2018): Interpretive Social Research. An Introduction. Göttingen: Göttingen University Press.
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Rosenthal, Gabriele (Hrsg.)(2018): Established and Outsiders at the Same Time.
Self-Images and We-Images of Palestinians in the West Bank and in Israel. Göttingen: Göttingen University Press.
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Bogner, Artur/Rosenthal, Gabriele (2018): KindersoldatInnen im Kontext. Biographien, familien- und kollektivgeschichtliche Verläufe in Norduganda. Göttingen: Göttingen University Press. .
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