Society & culture: general books

Viewing the plurality of creativity in music as being of paramount importance to the field of music education, The...  Read More >>

This book focuses on Sikh communities in east and northeast India. It studies settlements in Bihar, Odisha, West...  Read More >>

This book explores the experiences of managing the COVID-19 pandemic in Northeast India across different areas of...  Read More >>

This book makes a theoretical contribution to animal rights issues from a Marxist perspective. Drawing on ethics,...  Read More >>

This book explores the use of the Clay Embodiment Research Method (CERM) in working with sex trafficked women in...  Read More >>

A global range of and interdisciplinary contributors articulate the connections (and disconnections) between gender,...  Read More >>

Digital Space and Embodiment in Contemporary Cinema examines how contemporary cinema has represented and engaged...  Read More >>

This book analyses the increasing use of sport in European and Western welfare states as a tool of social policy...  Read More >>

Drawing on original research, this book looks at what sport can tell us about the social processes, patterns and...  Read More >>

This book explores the relationship between social mentality, public opinion, media, and other factors through mixed...  Read More >>

This book analyses the resolution of the psychic problem of diasporic existence from a postcolonial feminist perspective...  Read More >>

This book examines urban experience from the vantage point of the global South. Drawing upon narratives coming from...  Read More >>

This topical volume illuminates ethical issues brought to the...  Read More >>

This innovative collection offers a pan-Southern rejoinder to hegemonies of Northern Sociolinguistics. It showcases...  Read More >>

Based on a content analysis of writing assignments from a class on death and dying, this book focuses on the manner...  Read More >>

Erotic displays of marginalized people in medieval contexts, such as Santiago García and David Rubín’s Beowulf,...  Read More >>

The book examines contemporary food systems in Italy, paying particular attention to the landscape, innovative local...  Read More >>

This book provides an introduction to spatial planning in the Netherlands. It explores the academic underpinnings...  Read More >>

This book investigates why Chile suddenly confronted a violent social revolt in October 2019, after almost thirty...  Read More >>

This book offers a compelling new interpretation of James’ moral philosophy: an ""ethics of responsible self-fashioning.""...  Read More >>

This handbook presents the great contemporary challenges facing cities and urban spaces in Latin America and the...  Read More >>

Drawing from the wealth of academic literature about Eurovision written over the last two decades, this book consolidates...  Read More >>

This book examines sex, sexuality, gender and health in the Pacific with a focus on three key sets of issues: young...  Read More >>

This book considers the ways in which Black directors, screenwriters, and showrunners contend with the figure of...  Read More >>

This book focuses on the presence and contemporaneity of Shirdi Sai Baba (d.1918), who has a vast following in postcolonial...  Read More >>