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The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Anthropology

The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Anthropology is a comprehensive inter- and intradisciplinary survey of feminist anthropology. Essentia...

East Asian Ethical Life and Socio-Economic Transformation in the Twenty-First Century - The Ethical Sources of the Entrepreneurial Renewal of Companies and Communities

This book considers ethical culture in East Asia, examines the impact it has had on economic and social transformation, and explores what...

Islam in Historical Perspective

Richly illustrated by quotations and images from Muslim scripture, historical chronicles, artistic works, and theological and juridical t...

Contract, Labour Law and the Realities of Working Life

This book offers a critical and timely account of how labour law has become a means for protecting employers rather than workers.

An Essay on Culture - Symbolic Structure and Social Structure

"What Berger has done is to synthesize a vast amount of material from an enormous literature he knows well, and given us the fruits of a ...

Muslims Don't Matter

Modern Britain has seen an insidious rise in Islamophobia on both the right and the left. From misleading media stories like the Trojan H...

Digital Touch

Touch matters. It is fundamental to how we know ourselves and each other, and it is central to how we communicate. Digital touch is embed...

Cannabis - Cultures and Markets

This book demonstrates how culture matters for the understanding of cannabis use. It stems from the growing body of research on how users...

Contemporary Challenges in the Jury System - A Comparative Perspective

This work explores issues facing contemporary juries, such as rapid advances in technology, changing dynamics and behaviours in society, ...

Time and Nature in the Poetry of Niyi Osundare - Poetics of Animism, Anthropocene, and Capitalocene

This book provides an ecocritical analysis of the poetry of Nigerian poet Niyi Osundare, interrogating the intricate interface between ti...

Indian Cinema Today and Tomorrow - Infrastructure, Aesthetics, Audiences

Cinema has been, and is, a powerful tool for social mobilisation. The political importance of cinema was of course always well-known and ...

Physical Security Assessment Handbook - An Insider's Guide to Securing a Business

This title has been fully updated to provide a comprehensive guide to identifying man-made threats to an organization, determining the vu...

Women in Eastern European Post-Socialist Countries - Social, Scientific, and Political Lives

Women in Eastern European Post-Socialist Countries explores the role of women in Central and Eastern Europe in bringing about social chan...

Platform Neutrality Rights - AI Censors and the Future of Freedom

This book analyses questions of platform bias, algorithmic filtering and ranking of Internet speech, and declining perceptions of online ...

My Father's Wars - Migration, Memory, and the Violence of a Century

"My father was born into war," begins this remarkable saga in Alisse Waterston's intimate ethnography, a story that is also twentieth-cen...

Gardens of God - A Paradigm Shift in Faith

This book deals with the theme of Kingdom of God in religion, politics and spirituality and strives to rethink and reconstitute it is as ...

Sarah Bowdich Lee (1791-1856) and Pioneering Perspectives on Natural History

This first book-length appraisal of the pioneering perspectives of Sarah Bowdich Lee (1791-1856) on natural history in the first half of ...

We Have Always Been Transcultural: The Arts as an Example

The book demonstrates for the first time that transculturality - the mixed constitution of cultures - is by no means only a characteristi...

Mutual Help Networks in Japanese Society - An International Comparison of East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific Islands Region

Onda compares Japan's traditional mutual help practices, an integral part of the nation's societal fabric, with other countries across As...

Transnational Public Spheres - Asian and Western Perspectives on Civic Spaces and Infrastructures Beyond the Nation-State

This book offers the first systematic theorisation of transnational public spheres from non-Western, spatial, and infrastructural perspec...

Handbook of Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discrimination

This new edition of this bestselling handbook offers a comprehensive and scholarly overview of the latest research on prejudice, stereoty...

Public Diplomacy of South Korea

This book introduces South Korea's public diplomacy and identifies and evaluates the goals and corresponding areas of current Yoon Suk Ye...

Human Rights in Probation - Theory, Practice and Balance

Exploring the application, theory, implications and socio-legal underpinnings of human rights in probation and associated offender manage...

Introduction to Forensic Science - The Science of Criminalistics

Introduction to Forensic Science: The Science of Criminalistics is a new textbook that takes a unique and holistic approach to forensic s...

Probation and Re-Education

First published in 1949, this book was primarily written for all who had to do with delinquent children. What is probation? What happens ...

Systems Theory and Agile Brand Management - The Educative View of Branding

This book explores the implications of Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems for the theory and practice of agile brand management, i...

Internet and Gender in Kazakhstan - A Decolonial Feminist Perspective on Women's Roles in the Digital Age

This book offers an empirically rich and theoretically compelling analysis of how the Internet is influencing societal attitudes towards ...

Chinese Islam - Models of Interaction with State and Society

This book explores the fascinating and complex histories of Islam and China. Meticulously researched and captivating, it provides a compr...

Commentary on Singapore, Volume 3: Culture, Identity and Society

Thought-leaders contributing to this volume include Alvin Tan, Kwa Chong Guan, Yang Razali Kassim, Kishore Mahbubani, Gerard Ee, and more...

The Feral Classroom

First published in 1983, The Feral Classroom argues that the experience of schooling needs to be understood in terms of peer interaction ...

The Politics and Poetics of Indian Digital Diasporas - From Desi to Brown

This book explores the emancipatory potential and pitfalls of digital platforms and how well or how poorly they reflect intra-communal di...

A Companion to Ingmar Bergman

The Heredity Hoax - Challenging Flawed Genetic Theories of Human Development

This innovative and thought-provoking book integrates both new, authored material and reprints of existing literature that, together, pro...

Institutions and Public Policy for India's Sustainable Development - Perspectives on Governance, Technology, and Finance

This volume looks at how India's sustainable development has progressed through changes in its institutions and public policy discourse.

Toussaint Louverture - The French Revolution and the Colonial Problem

This book is the long-overdue publication in English of Aimé Césaire's account of Toussaint Louverture, the legendary leader of the revol...

Well-Being in the Legal Profession - Altruism, Justice, and Legal Reform

This book provides a critical psychosocial analysis of legal practice, documenting a mental health crisis among lawyers and judges and li...

Routledge Handbook on Palestine

This Handbook provides a broad overview of Palestinian history, society, politics, and culture across different contexts and periods, rev...

Mountain Arapesh - Volume One

For approximately eight months during 1931-1932, anthropologist Margaret Mead lived with and studied the Mountain Arapesh-a segment of th...

Israel - Pluralism and Conflict

First published in 1978, Israel focuses on the pluralistic structure of Israel and its internal conflicts. Dr Smooha suggests that Israel...

The Festivals of Nepal

First Published in 1971, The Festivals of Nepal describes the most important festivals from the country, which have been arranged accordi...

Technocolonialism - When Technology for Good is Harmful

With over 300 million people in need of humanitarian assistance and with emergencies and climate disasters becoming ever more common, art...

Collective Sustainable Consumption - The Case of Poland

This volume promotes a collective approach to sustainable consumption, and combines general theoretical issues with empirical examples fr...

Looka Yonder! - The Imaginary America of Populist Culture

First published in 1988, Looka Yonder! analyses important and ambivalent terrain of American populism across a range of cultural forms, h...

Critical Race Counterstories along the Chicana/Chicano Educational Pipeline

Chicanas/os are part of the youngest, largest, and fastest growing racial/ethnic 'minority' population in the United States, yet at every...

Representation - Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices

The highly anticipated Third Edition of one of the most popular and influential books ever written in media and cultural studies. A genui...

Implementation of Rights for Crime Victims in Theory and Practice - Lessons from India

This book presents theoretical models capturing implementations of victims' rights across jurisdictions. It offers a framework comprising...

Social Movements in Contemporary India

This book delves into the concept and definition of social movements from different perspectives with relevance to India. It offers criti...

Philanthropy in Children's Periodicals, 1840-1930 - The Charitable Child

[headline] Uncovers the role of children's periodicals in the development of charitable ideals for children between 1840-1930 Drawing on ...

The Triumph of Textiles - Industrial Dundee, C. 1700-1918

Describes and reassesses the long-term industrial development of Dundee, emphasising the ever-shifting dynamics of textile production in ...

Football, Fandom and Collective Memory - Global Perspectives

This book examines the topic of identity and collective memory in football fandom. Drawing on global research in history, sociology and p...

Star Wars Icons: Darth Vader

Unmask one of the most memorable villains of all time and discover the incredible story behind the creation and the legacy of the galaxy’...

The Pocket Billie Eilish - A Look Inside the Genius of a Once-In-A-Generation Icon.

A look inside the genius of a once-in-a-generation icon.

China from the Margins - New Narratives of the Past and Present

This book explores and brings to light untold stories from the margins of Chinese society. It investigates and reveals grassroots and pop...

Addressing Global Challenges - Exploring Socio-Cultural Dynamics and Sustainable Solutions in a Changing World - Proceedings of International Symposium on Humanities and Social Sciences (ISHSS 2023, August 11-13, 2023, Macau, China)

The International Symposium on Humanities and Social Sciences: Addressing Global Challenges-Exploring Socio-Cultural Dynamics and Sustain...

On the Sovereignty of Mothers - The Political as Maternal

Paternal, patriarchal, and fraternal concepts, metaphors, and images have long dominated thinking about politics. But the political, Gil ...

Creating Meaning in Funerals - How Families and Communities Make Sense of Death

Creating Meaning in Funerals is a book about the ways in which bereaved families and communities create meaningful ceremonies against a b...

Asianization of Asia

This book explores the Asianization of contemporary Asia, a trend which through neoliberal economic globalism has diluted the political e...

Conspiracy Narratives from Postcolonial Africa - Freemasonry, Homosexuality, and Illicit Enrichment

"In this book, anthropologists Peter Geschiere and Rogers Orock examine the moral panic that engulfed Cameroon and Gabon, beginning in th...

Grey Sex - Heterosexuality and Everyday Domination

Grey sex is saying 'yes' but thinking 'no'. It's feeling invisible, like you're not even in the room. It's wondering afterwards, 'is that...

Positive Psychology and Biodiversity Conservation - Health, Wellbeing, and Pro-Environmental Action

This book reveals how pro-environmental actions can boost individuals' and communities' wellbeing, as well as resulting in positive envir...