Society & culture: general books

This book reviews the development and performance of the global film industry during the COVID-19 pandemic and examines...  Read More >>

Arising from foundations in green and eco-consumerism, ethical consumption is a multidisciplinary area of research....  Read More >>

This book examines how American Graffiti (1973), a low-budget and star-less teen comedy, became one of the highest...  Read More >>

This book offers a brief history of how autoethnography has been employed in studies of sport and physical (in)activity...  Read More >>

Digital-Native News and the Remaking of Latin American Mainstream and Alternative Journalism explores the rise of...  Read More >>

This book is the culmination of three years of research into sexual violence policies and sexual consent education...  Read More >>

This book addresses urbanisation and peri-urban land markets, with a special focus on Bangalore, one of the fastest...  Read More >>

This book provides a detailed overview of Central European urban heritage. It examines the key aspects of urban...  Read More >>

This shortform book investigates the significance of digitization in Vietnamese culture, illuminating how cultural...  Read More >>

This volume foregrounds some of the unknown or lesser-known incidents of xenophobia and genocide from India, Bangladesh,...  Read More >>

This book builds a case for how social norms are neither mere conventions nor are they merely anthropological phenomena,...  Read More >>

Does democracy require an agreement on specific foundational values? Bringing insights from Turkey to the study...  Read More >>

Consumer Society and Ecological Crisis advances a critique of consumer capitalism and its role in driving environmental...  Read More >>

This book examines the creative impact of licensing on the entertainment industry, how licensing practitioners’...  Read More >>

This book brings together ethnographic field research on four permacultural ecovillages in Brazil to highlight the...  Read More >>

This book focuses on the 3.11 disaster in Japan, involving a powerful earthquake and tsunami, from an anthropological...  Read More >>

It situates Northern England at the centre of a new devolutionary approach to contemporary British fiction. By reassessing...  Read More >>

This edited collection brings together journalism scholars from mainland China, Hong Kong, the UK and Australia...  Read More >>

This book explores Kierkegaard’s significance for bioethics and discusses how Kierkegaard’s existential thinking...  Read More >>

This book presents a comparative ethnographic understanding of government and low-fee private schools in India within...  Read More >>

This book explores the role of international news agencies and investigates whether they have been able to adapt...  Read More >>

This book explores the various psychosocial, sociocultural, and contextual factors that affect the sexual health...  Read More >>

In “after modernism” the meanings of “after” include periodisation, homage and critique. This book attends to neglected...  Read More >>

This edited book makes an epistemic claim that disability studies’ approaches to curriculum are doing more than...  Read More >>

This book explores nuances of various narratives on long-term transcultural exchanges between Africa and South Asia...  Read More >>