Society & culture: general books

This book addresses the recent transformations of popular Hinduism by focusing upon the religious cum artistic practice...  Read More >>

This book engages in a dialogue with Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya (1875-1949) and presents a vista of contemporary...  Read More >>

Digital Approaches to Inclusion and Participation in Cultural Heritage brings together best examples and practices...  Read More >>

The Language of Nation-State Building in Late Qing China investigates the linguistic and intellectual roots of China’s...  Read More >>

Written for early-career scholars still in the planning stages of their research, this book explores some of the...  Read More >>

This book examines contemporary issues & debates of terrorism in Bangladesh, their narratives and counternarratives,...  Read More >>

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This book explores the complex legal, cultural, economic and human rights issues associated with development-induced...  Read More >>

This book analyzes the emergence, rise, and decline of insurgency by the Pakistani Taliban in Pakistan’s North-Western...  Read More >>

Nuclear Cultures: Irradiated Subjects, Aesthetics and Planetary Precarity aims to develop the field of nuclear humanities...  Read More >>

This book offers new insights into the crucial role of investigative journalism at a pivotal time of technological...  Read More >>

Megatrends of World Politics identifies globalization, integration, and democratization as three key trends shaping...  Read More >>

This approach to literary reading of any provenance based on an ""experimental cosmopolitan"" epistemology. It recontextualizes...  Read More >>

Focusing on the practice of journalism in modern China, this book studies the history of modern Chinese journalism...  Read More >>

The book takes a close look into the definitions and categorizations of marginality, inequality, agency and location...  Read More >>

Unaccompanied child asylum seekers are amongst the world’s most vulnerable populations and their numbers are increasing....  Read More >>

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the most rapidly developing technology in the current Digital Age, but it is also...  Read More >>

This book explores a spontaneous uprising that occurred in the Ecuadorian Amazon, in which workers confronted a...  Read More >>

This book analyses the development of private healthcare in post-Independence Kolkata, India, and the rapid expansion...  Read More >>

This book investigates the roots of rapid economic growth of India in recent decades, by exploring the late colonial...  Read More >>

This substantial collection of newly commissioned essays presents an ambitious, entertaining, and accessible guide...  Read More >>

Understanding the middle classes as a set of complex political relationships and examining continuities and changes...  Read More >>

This book asks why crime and violence persist in Latin America on these extreme levels and why the states have not...  Read More >>

This book critically analyses the historical evolution of ideas, perceptions, and principles on higher education...  Read More >>

Presenting securitization as a communication issue, this book combines media framing with the theory of securitization...  Read More >>