Society & culture: general books

Women in the Digital World brings together the latest academic research on women online and includes chapters on...  Read More >>

Critical Discourse Studies aims to enhance our understanding of how discourse figures in social processes, social...  Read More >>

In many countries, movement parties have swayed large tracts of the electorate. Contributions to this edited book...  Read More >>

Offering a rich translation of Shaykh Yusuf’s Arabic writings, Spiritual Path, Spiritual Reality fills an important...  Read More >>

This book investigates how information infrastructures enact particular forms of knowledge. It juxtaposes the logics...  Read More >>

This book analyses what is at stake in the regulation of cross-border marriages and how European states use particular...  Read More >>

This book is a collection of essays by prominent thinkers on the historist and humanist transcendence of the caste...  Read More >>

This book examines the interplay between rural places and the competing narratives of globalization and nationalism....  Read More >>

Resisting some of the negative connotations that repetition can attract, this book illustrates how it has been used...  Read More >>

This book provides an innovative analysis of the survival movie genre from an Orthodox Christian anthropological...  Read More >>

Can political violence create freedom? What if the cost of violent liberation is too high? How does one even calculate...  Read More >>

Beyond The Mountain: Queer Life in ""Africa’s Gay Capital"" contributes to the body of knowledge on the lived experiences...  Read More >>

This book contextualizes Afrofuturism's diverse approaches in the past and present through investigations into overlapping...  Read More >>

This book identifies and examines three years of Beyoncé’s career as a pop mega star using critical race, feminist,...  Read More >>

In this book, authors engage in an interdisciplinary discourse of theory and practice on the concept of personal...  Read More >>

Beyond Citizenship and the Nation-State examines tensions between a push for clear boundaries defining nation-states...  Read More >>

This book underscores the importance of moving beyond lip service or hollow platitudes to mobilize and expand the...  Read More >>

This book assembles cutting edge contemporary research and thinking on multiple forms and meanings of displacements...  Read More >>

This edited volume foregrounds Disability Critical Race Theory (DisCrit) as an intersectional framework that has...  Read More >>

Focusing on locations as diverse as the rural southern United States, Brazil, Istanbul and South Korea, this book...  Read More >>

This book looks at India of the 1950s and 60s and critically explores the history of nationalism and identity in...  Read More >>

This book examines the relationship between gender and sustainability in tourism. Whilst an extensive body of work...  Read More >>

This book brings together a variety of innovative perspectives on the inclusion of gender in the governance of (counter-)terrorism...  Read More >>

Reaching beyond the Global North, this book showcases research on transnational celebrity as a technology of soft...  Read More >>

This book reassesses the precariousness of Jean Rhys as a distinct positionality eliciting an isolated voice which...  Read More >>