Felix Behnke wird der Boden unter den Füßen entrissen, als er von dem Verschwinden seiner siebenjährigen Tochter erfährt. Die Polizei schließt eine Entführung nicht aus. Auf der verzweifelten Suche nach der kleinen Emma häufen sich die Überfälle auf die Familie Behnke und diejenigen, die ihnen nahe stehen...
Unsere Seele kennt eine Vergangenheit, die wir vergessen haben. Eine zweite Chance gibt uns die Moglichkeit zu zeigen, dass wir uns auf dem rechten Weg befinden. Die Schatten deiner Vergangenheit drohen dich einzuholen. Finde sie, bevor sie dich finden!" So lautet der einzige Hinweis, den Erzengel Raphael dem noch jungen Engel Isai mit auf seinen Weg gibt, als er ihn auf die Erde schickt. Isai versteht nicht und hat auch von der Macht der Engel bisher nie etwas gehort. Doch auf seiner Reise findet er Antworten auf seine Fragen und enthullt ein dunkles Geheimnis, das seine eigene Vergangenheit betrifft."
Given the escalating and existential nature of our current environmental crises, environmental sociology has never mattered more. We now face global environmental threats, such as climate change and biodiversity loss, as well as local threats, such as pollution and household toxins. The complex interactions of such pervasive problems demand an understanding of the social nature of environmental impacts, the underlying drivers of these impacts, and the range of possible solutions. Environmental sociologists continue to make indispensable contributions to this crucial task. This compact book introduces environmental sociology and emphasizes how environmental sociologists do “public sociology,” that is, work with broad public application. Using a diversity of theoretical approaches and research methods, environmental sociologists continue to give marginalized people a voice, identify the systemic drivers of our environmental crises, and evaluate solutions. Diana Stuart shines a light on this work and gives readers insight into applying the tools of environmental sociology to minimize impacts and create a more sustainable and just world.
This book examines the meaning and implications of the sociological maxim, 'make the familiar strange'. Addressing the methodological questions of why and how sociologists should make the familiar strange, what it means to 'make the familiar strange', and how this approach benefits sociological research and theory, it draws on four central concepts: reification, familiarity, strangeness, and defamiliarization. Through a typology of the notoriously ambiguous concept of reification, the author argues that the primary barrier to sociological knowledge is our experience of the social world as fixed and unchangeable. Thus emerges the importance of constituting the familiar as the strange through a process of social defamiliarization as well as making this process more methodical by reflecting on heuristics and patterns of thinking that render society strange. The first concerted effort to examine an important feature of the sociological imagination, this volume will appeal to sociologists of any specialty and theoretical persuasion.
What is to be done when the future's already ablaze?
Degrowth is a planned economic contraction in wealthy countries that reduces production and consumption to sustainable levels within ecological limits. This book explores the idea of degrowth as an economic alternative to offer a more sustainable and just future.