Social groups books

Liu and Cowan offer a unique in-depth study of educational development and social transformation in rural China....  Read More >>

This book argues that urban outcomes are better understood as the result of the interactions between policies from...  Read More >>

This book, aimed at students in urban studies, critical geography and planning, uses a unique typology of ten core...  Read More >>

Women, Migration, and Aging in the Americas analyzes how immigrant women have coped with life after they settled...  Read More >>

This book explores the reproduction of colonialism at the International Criminal Court (ICC), and examines International...  Read More >>

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

This book examines the possibility of using alternative programmes to address cases of honour-based violence and...  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 analyses the domestic relations which British men came to establish with native Indian women in early...  Read More >>

Drawing on participant observations, in-depth interviews and content analysis of online materials, Lai investigates...  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 >>

Violence against Women in and beyond Conflict explores the processes and structures that underlie sexual violence...  Read More >>

With contributions from six leading scientific countries of the Global North and from the general European Higher...  Read More >>

This book explores the ambiguous legal status of traditional – adat – communities in Indonesia and their informal,...  Read More >>

Bringing together two voices, practice and theory, in a collaboration that emerges from lived experience and structured...  Read More >>

Drawing on rich interview material, this book examines marginalized knowledges as a field of epistemic struggle,...  Read More >>

This book introduces the notion of culinary capital to investigate socialisation and school mealtime experiences...  Read More >>

The book presents a new materialist understanding of acts of deliberate destruction of the built environment and,...  Read More >>

This book looks at the trajectories of reproduction and abortion rights in diverse socio-cultural contexts in various...  Read More >>

This book analyzes the relationship between trust and social capital in contemporary Chinese society. It attempts...  Read More >>

This book examines the paved road as a liminal space and legal frontier for enlivened, everyday struggles over property,...  Read More >>

This book takes religion as an entry point for a deeper exploration into why practices of gender-based violence...  Read More >>

The book argues that women's perspectives and gender issues must be mainstreamed across African philosophy in order...  Read More >>

Drawing on research from Ghana, this book examines the experiences of women liberated from indigenous ritual servitude...  Read More >>