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Closer to Freedom - Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South

Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of their masters. Building on this work a...

Trauma, Collective Trauma and Refugee Trajectories in the Digital Era - Development of the Trauma Recovery Understanding Self-Help Therapy (TRUST)

Forced migration has become an inescapable reality of our world in the 21st century. Why? The traumatic experiences of refugees are key t...

Collective Amnesia - American Apartheid: African Americans' 400 Years in North America, 1619-2019

Collective Amnesia: American Apartheid is a comprehensive study of the treatment African Americans have encountered since their arrival i...

Gesellschaftliche Transformationen - Gegenstand oder Aufgabe der Technikfolgenabschätzung?

Der intensiv diskutierte Begriff Transformation bezeichnet den umfassenden Umbau gesellschaftlicher Strukturen, um gesellschaftliche Hera...

The Obstacles Facing the Implementation of Nationalisation Policies - Analysis of UAE's Labour Market

Placing Emirati nationals in jobs through Emiratisation policy has become a topic that thoroughly deserves attention. The United Arab Emi...

Ethnography - A Theoretically Oriented Practice

This volume presents both a historical exploration of ethnography and a thematic discussion of major trends that, over different periods,...

Biopolitics, Geopolitics, Life - Settler States and Indigenous Presence

The contributors to Biopolitics, Geopolitics, Life investigate biopolitics and geopolitics as two distinct yet entangled techniques of se...

The Politics of Decolonial Investigations

In The Politics of Decolonial Investigations Walter D. Mignolo provides a sweeping examination of how coloniality has operated around the...

Her Best Shot - Women and Guns in America

The gun-toting woman holds enormous symbolic significance in American culture. For over two centuries, women who pick up guns have disrup...

Mental Health, Social Mirror

Sociologists often view research on mental health as peripheral to the real work of the discipline. This volume contains essays that reas...

Circuits of the Sacred - A Faggotology in the Black Latinx Caribbean

In Circuits of the Sacred Carlos Ulises Decena examines transnational black Latinx Caribbean immigrant queer life and spirit. Decena mode...

The Queens' English - The LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Phrases

A landmark reference guide to the LGBTQIA+ community's contributions to the English language--an intersectional, inclusive, playfully ill...

Transhumanismus, Posthumanismus und neue Technologien

Es ist das erklärte Ziel des Transhumanismus, dass sich der ,neue' Mensch aus seiner Abhängigkeit von der Natur befreie und sich ganz sel...

Women and Terrorism in Bangladesh - Women's Involvement and Roles in Jihadist Networks and the Problem of Human Rights Violations in Counterterrorism

In der gesamten süd- und südostasiatischen Region ist die zunehmende Beteiligung von Frauen am Terrorismus ein zunehmend auffälliges, abe...

Free Them All - A Feminist Call to Abolish the Prison System

An indispensable guide to the feminist case for prison abolition

Story of Daughters of Quchan - Gender and National Memory in Iranian History

In 1905 Iranian women had been sold to pay taxes or taken as booty in a raid by tribesmen from a village. The narration of this event too...

Confronting Rape and Sexual Assault

So serious are the topics of rape and sexual assault that the mere discussion of them is often avoided. In this book, Mary Odem and Jody ...

Black Life Matter - Blackness, Religion, and the Subject

In Black Life Matter, Biko Mandela Gray offers a philosophical eulogy for Aiyana Stanley-Jones, Tamir Rice, Alton Sterling, and Sandra Bl...

Small Places, Large Issues - An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology

Fully updated fifth edition of the classic introduction to social and cultural anthropology

Pluriversal Politics - The Real and the Possible

In Pluriversal Politics Arturo Escobar engages with the politics of the possible and how established notions of what is real and attainab...

A Renaissance of Our Own - A Memoir and Manifesto on Reimagining

Invisible China - How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China's Rise

"Twenty years ago, seemingly everything for sale at American retailers had a "Made In China" sticker on it. Now, things have changed. Eve...

The Invention of Green Colonialism

The story begins with a dream - the dream of Africa. Virgin forests, majestic mountains surrounded by savannas, vast plains punctuated wi...

The Girls Bathroom - The Must-Have Book for Messy, Wonderful Women

Capturing the kind words of advice and rallying calls of support you hear in The Girls' Bathroom, this book will uplift, inspire and empo...

The Queens' English - The LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Expressions

A landmark reference guide to the LGBTQIA+ community's contributions to the English language-an intersectional, inclusive illustrated glo...

The Racialized Social System - Critical Race Theory as Social Theory

Far from its origins in US legal studies in the 1980s, critical race theory has grown to become a leading approach to the analysis of rac...

Queer Data - Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action

Data has never mattered more. Our lives are increasingly shaped by it and how it is defined, collected and used. But who counts in the co...

Dub - Finding Ceremony

The concluding volume in a poetic trilogy, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's Dub: Finding Ceremony takes inspiration from theorist Sylvia Wynter, du...

A Social Ecology of Capital

An original theory of contemporary capitalist growth and its socio-ecological contradictions

The Forgotten Girls - A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'I couldn't put it down. . . an important book, raw and simple enough that you can...

Speak Out! - The Brixton Black Women's Group

The first ever collection of writing from the Brixton Black Women’s Group, one of the first and most important black radical organisation...

A Sociology of Family Life - Change and Diversity in Intimate Relations

Family relations are undergoing dramatic changes globally and locally. At the same time, certain features of family life endure. This pop...

Redefining Palestinian Women Organizations' Activism under Jewish Democratic State Restrictions

This book provides an overview of Palestinian women organizations and their advocacy for emancipation and equality in Israel, with a part...

The Battle for Yellowstone - Morality and the Sacred Roots of Environmental Conflict

Yellowstone holds a special place in America's heart. As the world's first national park, it is globally recognized as the crown jewel of...

Rethinking Black German Studies - Approaches, Interventions and Histories

Black German Studies is an interdisciplinary field that has experienced significant growth over the past three decades, integrating subje...

Who goes? Who stays? Who returns? - Migration Journeys of Highly Skilled Workers from Russia to Germany and Back Home

The subject of this book are migration journeys of highly skilled workers. By focusing on migration as a journey, the research considers ...

Invisible Child - Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

A vivid and devastating (The New York Times) portrait of an indomitable girl-from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Andrea Elliott From i...

Father Baikal and his Cosmopolitans | Vater Baikal und seine Weltbürger*innen - Buryats in Europe | Burjat*innen in Europa

Dieses Buch beschäftigt sich mit einer kleinen Gruppe von Migrant*innen, den nach Europa migrierten Burjat*innen, Angehörige einer der vi...

Governing in Europe - Effective and Democratic?

Governing in Europe explores strategies at the national level that could succeed in maintaining welfare state goals even under conditions...

On Women

`A brilliant, glittering intelligence¿ Sunday Times On Women brings together Susan Sontag's most fearless and incisive writing on women, ...

New Ethnographies of Football in Europe - People, Passions, Politics

Football has emerged as an important symbolic field through which various social, cultural, political, economic, and historical dimension...

Diffusion of Gender Quotas in Latin America and Beyond - Advances and Setbacks in the Last Two Decades

This book studies the adoption and diffusion of gender quotas in Latin America and beyond. Gender quotas are institutional mechanisms int...

Honeypot - Black Southern Women Who Love Women

E. Patrick Johnson's Honeypot opens with the fictional trickster character Miss B. barging into the home of Dr. EPJ, informing him that h...

Male Femininities

Innovative essays that explore how men perform femininity and what femininity looks like without women What counts as "male femininity?? ...

The Queer Art of History - Queer Kinship after Fascism

Jennifer V. Evans is Professor of History at Carleton University and author of Life among the Ruins: Cityscape and Sexuality in Cold War ...

Yogurt & Whey - Recipes of an Iranian Immigrant Life

As founder of much-loved The White Moustache Yogurt company, Homa Dashtaki employs the same traditionally Iranian methods of making yoghu...

The Pronoun Book - She, He, They, and Me!

A fun and beautifully illustrated book that celebrates gender diversity through educating young children on pronouns. The book teaches pr...

The Curse - Confronting the Last Unmentionable Taboo: Menstruation

A provocative look at the way our culture deals with menstruation. The Curse examines the culture of concealment that surrounds menstruat...

The Periodic Table of Feminism

Tells the history of feminism through a 'periodic table' depicting its most prominent advocates, with a diverse range of international na...

Mommy, I'm a Girl! - My Acceptance Journey Mothering a Transgender Child

"What I want people to understand is that being transgender is not a choice." Tasha Kuxhausen's son was just three years old the first ti...

Long Term - Essays on Queer Commitment

The contributors to Long Term use the tension between the popular embrace and legalization of same-sex marriage and the queer critique of...

A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin - Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon Which the Story Is Founded

Harriet Beecher Stowe reveals the many sources that inspired and motivated her writing the renowned anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin...

Women, Dance and Parish Religion in England, 1300-1640 - Negotiating the Steps of Faith

A lively exploration of the medieval and early modern attitudes towards dance, as the perception of dancers changed from saints dancing a...

Criminology - A Sociological Introduction

Comprehensive, critical and accessible, this text offers an authoritative overview of the study of criminology, from early theoretical pe...

Connectedness: an incomplete encyclopedia of anthropocene - views, thoughts, considerations, insights, images, notes & remarks

This timely book, in the form of an encyclopedia, considers the totality of issues surrounding the Anthropocene, that geologic era charac...

Socialization - Key Concepts

How does society form and transform individuals? Sociology has been asking this question since its inception and "socialization" has been...

Anxieties of Migration and Integration in Turbulent Times

How do migration and integration change when ¿crisis becomes normalcy¿? This open access book investigates this question in the present c...

Eternal return? - The Specter of Radicalism among Young People in Europe and Hungary

The studies in the present volume are based on the empirical data of a recently completed MYPLACE project (Memory, Youth, Political Legac...

The Body Book

A fun-filled book to teach children all about the inner-workings of the body!Your body is awe-inspiring, amazing and miraculous. Your hea...

Families - Key Concepts

In this accessible and engagingly written book, Vanessa May invites readers into the rich world of thought, research and study of the hig...