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Alternative Futures and the Present: Postcolonial Possibilities

Alternative Futures and the Present: Postcolonial Possibilities...

Author: Ranabir Samaddar
ISBN: 9781032404806
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Through an engagement with selected texts, events and thinkers central to the present, this book offers an imagination...  Read More >>

The Politics of Community-making in New Urban India: Illiberal Spaces, Illiberal Cities

The Politics of Community-making in New Urban India:...

Author: Ritanjan Das (University of Portsmouth, UK) ,  Nilotpal Kumar (Azim Premji Uni., Bangalore, India)
ISBN: 9780367537234
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book explores the relationship between the production of new urban spaces and illiberal community-making in...  Read More >>

Crowds, Community and Contagion in Contemporary Britain

Crowds, Community and Contagion in Contemporary Britain...

Author: Sarah Lowndes
ISBN: 9781032040660
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book presents the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to re-assess the neoliberal politics, xenophobia, and...  Read More >>

Crimes of Passion Since Shakespeare: Red Mist Rage Unmasked

Crimes of Passion Since Shakespeare: Red Mist Rage Unmasked...

Author: Adrian Howe (University of Melbourne, Australia)
ISBN: 9781032295206
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Bringing key Shakespeare texts into dialogue with feminist socio-legal research, this book investigate the provenance...  Read More >>

Currere and Legacy in the Context of Family Business: Towards a New Theory of Intergenerational Learning

Currere and Legacy in the Context of Family Business:...

Author: Samuel Chen
ISBN: 9781032426976
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This book presents a new conceptualisation of the idea of legacy in a family business setting as an educational...  Read More >>

Algorithmic Ethics: Algorithms and Society

Algorithmic Ethics: Algorithms and Society

Author: Michael Filimowicz (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
ISBN: 9781032290669
Format: Paperback
$41.99

This book focuses on how new technologies are raising and reshaping ethical questions and practices which aim to...  Read More >>

Rethinking Education in the Context of Post-Pandemic South Asia: Challenges and Possibilities

Rethinking Education in the Context of Post-Pandemic...

Author: Uma Pradhan (University of Oxford, UK) ,  Karen Valentin (Aarhus University, Denmark)
ISBN: 9781032365671
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This edited volume offers new analytical and methodological approaches to the study of education in the post-pandemic...  Read More >>

Queering Wolverine in Comics and Fanfiction: A Fastball Special

Queering Wolverine in Comics and Fanfiction: A Fastball...

Author: Christopher Michael Roman (Kent State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032120157
Format: Paperback
$41.99

Queering Wolverine in Comics and Fanfiction: A Fastball Special interrogates the ways in which the Marvel Comics...  Read More >>

Undercover Reporting, Deception, and Betrayal in Journalism

Undercover Reporting, Deception, and Betrayal in Journalism...

Author: Denis Muller ,  Andrea Carson (University of Melbourne, Australia)
ISBN: 9781032414003
Format: Paperback
$41.99

This book discusses undercover reporting and deception in journalism, addressing the ethical issues encountered...  Read More >>

Dowry and Daughters: The Social, Religious and Legal Dilemma of Denying Dowry

Dowry and Daughters: The Social, Religious and Legal...

Author: Anwesha Arya-Bhattacharya
ISBN: 9781032460253
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book studies the relevance of dowry as a customary practice in Indian marriages. It examines the historical...  Read More >>

Performing Social Change on the Island of Ireland: From Republic to Pandemic

Performing Social Change on the Island of Ireland: From...

Author: Ciara L. Murphy
ISBN: 9781032078151
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book examines the relationship between moments of significant social change on the island of Ireland and performance...  Read More >>

Transitional Selves: Possibilities for Identity in a Plurified World

Transitional Selves: Possibilities for Identity in a...

Author: Marcus Bussey ,  Meera Chakravorty
ISBN: 9781032499635
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book engages with the ethics and practices of identity formation in a world experiencing identity stress.  Read More >>

The Markets for News: Enduring Structures in the Age of Business Model Disruptions

The Markets for News: Enduring Structures in the Age...

Author: Helle Sjøvaag
ISBN: 9780367533960
Format: Paperback
$41.99

In the face of ongoing digitization, The Markets for News examines how certain established economic features of...  Read More >>

Female Football Spectators in Britain 1863-1939: A Historical Analysis

Female Football Spectators in Britain 1863-1939: A Historical...

Author: Robert Lewis
ISBN: 9781032062532
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Some women have always been ‘authentic’ fans of football, both knowledgeable and enthusiastic in their support,...  Read More >>

Health, Literature and Women in Twentieth-Century Turkey: Bodies of Exception

Health, Literature and Women in Twentieth-Century Turkey:...

Author: Şima İmşir
ISBN: 9781032009469
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Health, Literature and Gender in Twentieth Century Turkey offers readers fresh insight into Turkish modernity and...  Read More >>

Digital Food TV: The Cultural Place of Food in a Digital Era

Digital Food TV: The Cultural Place of Food in a Digital...

Author: Michelle Phillipov (University of Tasmania, Australia)
ISBN: 9781032200330
Format: Paperback
$41.99

This book explores the new theoretical and political questions raised by food TV’s digital transformation. This...  Read More >>

Arab Digital Journalism

Arab Digital Journalism

Author: Noha Mellor
ISBN: 9781032111988
Format: Paperback
$41.99

Responding to urgent calls to de-westernise Media and Journalism Studies and shed light on local agency, this book...  Read More >>

Stringers and the Journalistic Field: Marginalities and Precarious News Labour in Small-Town India

Stringers and the Journalistic Field: Marginalities...

Author: Nimmagadda Bhargav (Manipal Institute of Communication, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India)
ISBN: 9781032438955
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book is one of the first ethnographic works on small-town stringers or informal news workers in Indian journalism....  Read More >>

Corporate Culture and Globalization: Ideology and Identity in a Global Fashion Retailer

Corporate Culture and Globalization: Ideology and Identity...

Author: Yi Zhu (Lancaster University, UK.)
ISBN: 9781032304441
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book offers an ethnographic analysis of how corporate culture has been transformed in the age of globalization...  Read More >>

Dalit Cosmos: Understanding Caste, Marginalisation and Dalit Literature in India

Dalit Cosmos: Understanding Caste, Marginalisation and...

Author: Mudnakudu Chinnaswamy (Independent Scholar)
ISBN: 9781032234946
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book is a fierce argument against social and caste discrimination in India, especially untouchability and emphatic...  Read More >>

The Partition of the Indian Subcontinent (1947) and Beyond: Uneasy Borders

The Partition of the Indian Subcontinent (1947) and...

Author: Chhanda Chatterjee
ISBN: 9781032451749
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The book is a comprehensive study of border-related issues arising from the 1947 Partition of India.  Read More >>

Power and Paranoia in Syria-Iraq Relations: The Impact of Hafez Assad and Saddam Hussain

Power and Paranoia in Syria-Iraq Relations: The Impact...

Author: Amjed Rasheed (Lancaster University, UK)
ISBN: 9781032384030
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book examines the perplexing twists and turns in Syria-Iraq relations which since the establishment of modern...  Read More >>

Empowering Subaltern Voices Through Education: The Chakma Diaspora in Australia

Empowering Subaltern Voices Through Education: The Chakma...

Author: Urmee Chakma (Faculty of Education, Monash University)
ISBN: 9781032354521
Format: Paperback
$81.99

Based on a four‐year-long empirical study, this book employs contemporary theories from the Global South to investigate...  Read More >>

Sustainable Apple Breeding and Cultivation in Germany: Commons-Based Agriculture and Social-Ecological Resilience

Sustainable Apple Breeding and Cultivation in Germany:...

Author: Hendrik Wolter
ISBN: 9781032409962
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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