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Writing Culture - The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography

"Humanists and social scientists alike will profit from reflection on the efforts of the contributors to reimagine anthropology in terms,...

Our Women on the Ground - Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World

Nineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it's like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay coll...

The Vice-device

Women and Fairness - Navigating an Unfair World

This collection brings together scholars from various disciplines to ask fundamental questions concerning how women handle the manifold i...

The Many Meanings of Home - Cultural Representations of Housing across Media

Few ideas are as universally key, basic and primal as "home". Few ideas require more attention and new, critical re-examination in recogn...

Sounds and the City - Volume 2

This book draws from a rich history of scholarship about the relations between music and cities, and the global flows between music and u...

When the Refugees Are Gone, They'll Come after Us - Experiences with Anti-Semitism in Central Europe after Auschwitz

How have people's knowledge about and attitudes towards the Shoah and anti-Semitism evolved over time? This book compiles various perspec...

Multidimensional Approach to Quality of Life Issues - A Spatial Analysis

This comprehensive volume provides a broad overview of quality of life issues covering a wide geographical region: North America, Europe,...

Radical Change in Everyday Life - Foundations of Psychological Future Management

This volume deals with a key concept concerning the future: change. It is omnipresent and yet is often only perceived in retrospect. The ...

Politische Funktionen städtischer Räume und Städtetypen im zeitlichen Wandel. Nutzung der historischen Städteatlanten in Europa. - Political Functions of Urban Spaces and Town Types through the Ages. Making Use of the Historic Towns Atlases in Europe and of other space-related Historical Research

Politische Funktionalitäten von mittelalterlichen und neuzeitlichen Stadträumen aus verschiedenen disziplinären Perspektiven und im europ...

Minority Issues in Europe: New Ideas and Approaches - Volume 2

As the political landscape of Europe transforms, so too does the field of minority issues. New areas of focus encompass topics as varied ...

A Sense of Viidu - The (Re)creation of Home by the Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora in Australia

This book is the first compilation of the experiences of the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora in Australia. It explores the theme of home¿from w...

Recovering Overlooked Pragmatists in Communication - Extending the Living Conversation about Pragmatism and Rhetoric

This collection of essays engages with the current resurgence of interest in the relationship between American pragmatism and communicati...

Laicidad and Religious Diversity in Latin America - Boundaries of Religious Freedom: Regulating Religion in Diverse Societes 6

This book presents revealing reflections on historical, socio-political, and legal aspects, as well as their contexts, in Argentina, Boli...

Child Abuse and Neglect in Uganda

This book provides a unique perspective on addressing issues of various forms of violence against children from scholars within their own...

Art and Archaeology - Collaborations, Conversations, Criticisms

This volume presents a collection of interdisciplinary collaborations between contemporary art, heritage, anthropological, and archaeolog...

Forced Migration and Separated Families - Everyday Insecurities and Transnational Strategies

This open access book examines the impacts and experiences of family separation on forced migrants and their transnational families. On t...

Manga Girl Seeks Herbivore Boy - Studying Japanese Gender at Cambridge

Japan's gender roles are in turmoil. Traditional life courses for men and women are still presented as role models, but there is an incre...

Generative Mechanisms Transforming the Social Order

This volume examines how generative mechanisms emerge in the social order and their consequences. It does so in the light of finding answ...

Sociology of Europeanization

The numerous and far-reaching socio-political transformations that have taken place on the European continent since the mid-20th century ...

Macedonia & Its Questions - Origins, Margins, Ruptures & Continuity

Macedonia and its Questions: Origins, Margins, Ruptures and Continuity is a multi-disciplinary book of 11 chapters, containing contributi...

Climate Protection, Resource Efficiency, and Sustainable Engineering - Transdisciplinary Approaches to Design and Manufacturing Technology

The Big Societal Challenges, such as climate change and public health, call for innovative approaches to address them. The contributors o...

Home Girls Make Some Noise - Hip Hop Feminism Anthology

Gesellschaftliche Transformationen - Gegenstand oder Aufgabe der Technikfolgenabschätzung?

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Marx's Others - Bodies, Affects and Experience

While there recently has been renewed interest in Marx, we cannot simply apply his nearly 200-year-old texts to today's world. Capitalism...

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...

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...

Wallerstein 2.0 - Thinking and Applying World-Systems Theory in the 21st Century

Immanuel Wallerstein's world-systems theory can help to better understand and describe developments of the 21st century. The contributors...

The Queer Bible

'We stand on the shoulders of giants. Now we learn their names.'

Handbook of Qualitative and Visual Methods in Spatial Research

Listening, experiencing, drawing or interpreting spaces: narratives, experiences, visualizations and discourses can be helpful for the em...

Catalytic Mega-Events - Tokyo 2020 and Planetary Urban Transformation

Mega events are accelerators of urban transformation with lasting effects on urban environments. In the spotlight of the spectacle these ...

Collective Motherliness in Europe (1890 - 1939) - The Reception and Reformulation of Ellen Key's Ideas on Motherhood and Female Sexuality

Ellen Key (1849-1926) was one of Europe's most influential thinkers on issues of motherhood and women's sexuality during the early 1900s....

Decolonizing Research - Indigenous Storywork as Methodology

From Oceania to North America, indigenous peoples have created storytelling traditions of incredible depth and diversity. The term 'indig...

Sexual Disorientations - Queer Temporalities, Affects, Theologies

Sexual Disorientations brings some of the most recent and significant works of queer theory into conversation with the overlapping fields...

Transgender Marxism

The first collection of its kind, Transgender Marxism is a provocative and groundbreaking union of transgender studies and Marxist theory...

Border Environments - CRA #1

In den letzten 15 Jahren hat das Centre for Research Architecture am Goldsmiths, University of London, etablierte Wissenschaftler·innen u...

Durable Economies - Organizing the Material Foundations of Society

Leaking water infrastructures, heritage tourism, investments in artworks, failing electronics: Durability lies at the heart of a wide ran...

Engaging Erik Olin Wright - Between Class Analysis and Real Utopias

A LIFEWORK FINDING THE SEEDS OF EMANCIPATION IN EXISTING INSTITUTIONS

Masculinities Ageing between Cultures - Relationality, Kinship and Care in Dialogue

Global mobility is one of the crucial phenomena of our time. Combining the theoretical frameworks of masculinity studies and age studies,...

Women and Leadership

This empowering volume presents current empirical findings and rich personal insights into the evolving challenges women face in attainin...

The Small-Scale Fisheries Guidelines - Global Implementation

In June 2014, FAO member-states endorsed the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries (SSF Guidelines). These ...

Global Migration, Ethnicity and Britishness

Exploring the most topical issues around migration and integration in relation to Britain, this book, now in paperback, examines people s...

Global Eastern Orthodoxy - Politics, Religion, and Human Rights

This volume highlights three intertwined aspects of the global context of Orthodox Christianity: religion, politics, and human rights. Th...

Collaborative Research in Fisheries - Co-creating Knowledge for Fisheries Governance in Europe

This book is about the ongoing transition of fisheries governance, from top-down command and control towards a more transparent and parti...

From Economic to Energy Transition - Three Decades of Transitions in Central and Eastern Europe

This book examines energy transition issues within the Central and Eastern European (CEE) region. The European Union is aiming for an alm...

Learning and Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education in Oceania

The mission of higher education in the 21st century must address the reconciliation of student learning and experiences through the lens ...

"Weltbeziehung" - The Study of our Relationship to the World

Die Soziologie der Weltbeziehungen untersucht, wie Menschen sich in der Welt verorten und mit ihr in Verbindung treten. Auf welche Weise ...

Religion and Violence - Muslim and Christian Theological and Pedagogical Reflections

In this volume, the authors attempt to speak freely about the potential in religions both for violence and peace. I am confident that man...

Gender and Genre in Ethnographic Writing

This book provides new insights into an intense and long-standing debate on women, gender, and masculinity with an explicit focus on ethn...

Cultural Linguistics and World Englishes

This book investigates the study of World Englishes from the perspective of Cultural Linguistics, a theoretical and analytical framework ...

Militarization and the Global Rise of Paramilitary Culture - Post-Heroic Reimaginings of the Warrior

This edited book demonstrates a new multidimensional comprehension of the relationship between war, the military and civil society by exp...

Twenty-first Century Feminism - Forming and Performing Femininity

This collection of essays considers the ways in which feminism is still an important issue in twenty-first century society. Looking at va...

Safe or Free? - Comparative Analysis of Media Discourses on Security

One of the biggest dilemmas of our times is how much safety and security we desire and what price we are prepared to pay for it. By apply...

Blurring Boundaries - 'Anti-Gender' Ideology Meets Feminist and LGBTIQ+ Discourses

'Gender' is a catch-all term: it is used in discourses on women's and LGBTIQ+ rights, gender equality, sexual education, gender studies -...