Sociology & anthropology books

Playful Pedagogy in the Pandemic seeks to create a space for playful learning in higher education, asserting the...  Read More >>

This book, based on extensive original research, examines the practice of kendo by Japanese women in a university...  Read More >>

This book shows how social work can be an agent for promoting revolutionary changes in order to counter the global...  Read More >>

As the concept of recognition shifts from philosophical theory to other fields of the humanities and social sciences,...  Read More >>

This book draws together debates from two burgeoning fields, liminality and informality studies, to analyze how...  Read More >>

Human Rights Museums presents case studies that trace how calls for historical and social justice, and the commensurate...  Read More >>

Drawing interview material, together with extensive data from the authors’ original social movement database, this...  Read More >>

This book presents the first collection of studies of the senses and sensory experiences in China, filling a gap...  Read More >>

This volume explores how television has been a significant conduit for the public consumption of changing ideas...  Read More >>

Through a variety of empirical studies, this volume offers fresh insights into the means by which communicative...  Read More >>

This book proposes a reconstruction of contemporary social theory, focusing on thematic issues rather than on authors...  Read More >>

This book examines the history, theological beliefs and current contextual practices of faith-based NGOs who work...  Read More >>

This political history studies the phenomenal growth of the modern British state’s interest in collecting, collating...  Read More >>

This book explores destitution from the perspective of International Human Rights Law and, more specifically, Economic,...  Read More >>

This book takes a case study approach to explore the crisis of legitimacy in American political culture.  Read More >>

Many people think that profound disability presents us with a real problem, often because it seems difficult to...  Read More >>

Focusing on the city of Istanbul in Turkey, this book examines the city’s informal urban settlements, the need for...  Read More >>

Global Political Leadership explores contemporary shifts in leadership, and the related leadership crisis, in the...  Read More >>

This book examines the performance of Bauls ‘folk’ performers from Bengal, in the context of a rapidly globalizing...  Read More >>

This book is an anthology of key essays that foregrounds coasts, islands, and shorelines as central to the scholarship...  Read More >>

This book provides the reader with a thorough understanding of the remedies available to victims of domestic abuse...  Read More >>

This book analyses the domestic relations which British men came to establish with native Indian women in early...  Read More >>

This book addresses the nature, social function, ethics and politics of the right to bequeath.  Read More >>

Drawing on an ethnographic study on young Moroccan immigrants in Europe (France and Italy), this book analyses the...  Read More >>

This book examines the impact of legislation premised upon the principle of ‘self-declaration’ of legal gender status....  Read More >>