Society & culture: general books

The metaverse seems to be on everybody’s lips – and yet, very few people can actually explain what it means or why...  Read More >>

This book examines the growing trend for housing models that shrink private living space and seeks to understand...  Read More >>

This book analyses diasporic literatures written in Indian languages written by authors living outside their homeland...  Read More >>

This book analyses faith-based development action in the Philippines by studying Catholic social movements and development...  Read More >>

Autofiction and Cultural Memory breaks new ground in autofiction research by showing how it gives postcolonial writers...  Read More >>

Taking the reader on a journey through queer manifestations in games, this book advocates for video games as a rich,...  Read More >>

This book brings together a range of experts, academics, and practitioners to interrogate the role of media in representing...  Read More >>

This book calls for a re-conceptualisation of the public health evidence-base to include crucial forms of creative...  Read More >>

This book analyses Pakistan’s foreign policy and external relations with a focus on contemporary developments, including...  Read More >>

This book explores some of the political and methodological directions that collectively lead to the repositioning...  Read More >>

This book presents a systematic analysis of the differential implementation of the urban reforms in two Indian cities,...  Read More >>

This volume elaborately studies the challenges posed and impact made by the Covid 19 pandemic. Through detailed...  Read More >>

This book studies the different models adopted by contemporary states in Central Europe in fighting SARS-CoV-2 virus....  Read More >>

This book explores middle power engagement in peace processes through cases of Australian, Japanese and Norwegian...  Read More >>

This book demonstrates how preserving ideology and relationship with other activists affords social movements to...  Read More >>

The book investigates the ways in which people in the Lake Chad region that divides Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and Cameroon...  Read More >>

This book explores the history of mental health in Senegal, and how psychological difficulties were also expressed...  Read More >>

This book offers a new way of thinking about ‘slums’ and southern cities based on the everyday life of slum localities...  Read More >>

This book brings Afrofuturism into conversation with digital humanities to pioneer the field of Digital Africana...  Read More >>

Comprehensive and interdisciplinary, this collection explores the complex, and often problematic, ways in which...  Read More >>

This book explores the relationship between multiplicity and representation of non-European and European-American...  Read More >>

This book takes a pragmatic approach to developing the competitive advantage of indigenous construction firms in...  Read More >>

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Inspired by the current political moment around the globe in which uprisings, protests, revolutions, and movements...  Read More >>

In this series, experts present collections of what they judge to be their most interesting publications. Professor...  Read More >>