Society & culture: general books

In this book, scholars working in civic education from selected nations share perspectives, policies, research and...  Read More >>

The world reflected in this book has several genealogical strands reaching back to other histories – to the nineteenth...  Read More >>

This book is an attempt to comprehend and compile the history, present status, and future trends of the gender roles...  Read More >>

This cross-disciplinary book engages with the provocation, ""Is lesbian identity obsolete?"". In this volume, researchers...  Read More >>

This book chronicles the discernible strains on the questions of indegeneity, citizenship, identity, and border...  Read More >>

Controversially argues that everyone should receive a hypothetical substance if it were discovered that it would...  Read More >>

This book concentrates on the politics of allocation and dispersal, the involvement of non-state actors, the role...  Read More >>

2020 deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor rekindled decades old concerns about the legitimacy of policing....  Read More >>

With a focus on the Nordic region, this book explores contemporary struggles around ‘identity politics’ in Europe,...  Read More >>

This volume presents a detailed and in-depth examination of women of color political elites in the United States...  Read More >>

This book explores the concept that, as participation in traditional religion declines, the complex and fantastical...  Read More >>

Analysing the evolution of Lahore’s social organization, culture and ideologies since Pakistan’s independence in...  Read More >>

This book analyses the paradoxes of Pakistan’s economy, meritocratic domestic policy and the role of the state and...  Read More >>

This book offers cutting-edge insights in cultural transformations of the sensory with particular emphasis on environments...  Read More >>

Ho's book explores music education in China, and how creativity, education reforms, and social transformation can...  Read More >>

This collection offers insights into the transnational and translingual implications of Simone de Beauvoir’s Le...  Read More >>

This introductory volume studies the challenges faced by the transgender community in India. It traces the history...  Read More >>

This book introduces the critical term ‘midgetism’, which the author has coined, to demonstrate that the socio-cultural...  Read More >>

Taking a qualitative approach based on original case studies, this book offers a detailed overview of the contemporary...  Read More >>

This book explores how leading news media responded to the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath, showing how...  Read More >>

An in-depth exploration of the political economy of the Chinese technology company Baidu which, along with China’s...  Read More >>

This book focuses on the recent rise of ‘infodemics’ as forms of disinformation, misinformation and malinformation...  Read More >>

This book discusses how to strengthen our healthcare systems and ensure sustainable community healthcare delivery...  Read More >>

This book focuses on the values and effects that are operational in data technologies as they sustain colonial and...  Read More >>

Studying the reception of Farsi Christian television channels by Muslim audiences in Iran, this book uses a wealth...  Read More >>