Population & Demography

Under the weight of apparently growing consumer affluence, globalisation and post-modern social theory, many have proclaimed the declining signific...

First published in 1978, this book explores the vital global issue of high and low fertility in poorer countries through a series of case studies b...

The Oxford Handbook of Urban Politics is an authoritative volume on an established subject in political science and the academy more generally: urb...

Superdiversity explores processes of diversification and the complex, emergent social configurations that now supersede prior forms of diversity in...

Superdiversity explores processes of diversification and the complex, emergent social configurations that now supersede prior forms of diversity in...

The colonial legacy in the construction of the modern Indian state has left a deep imprint on contemporary Indians’ self-identity and self-determin...

Even among the four Asian tigers, with their economic miracles during the past several decades that allowed them to join the ranks of the developed...

After ten years of a boom and on the eve of a downturn, Irish society has been turned on its head by a Generation War. The clear winners have been ...

The Flexible Imagination: At Work in the Transnational Corporate Offices of Jakarta, Indonesia is a behind-the-scenes ethnography examining the soc...

This collection of studies, first published in 1985, describes some contemporary problems of selected pastoral and agro-pastoral communities of the...

This book presents empirical observations and theoretical thinking of the fundamental changes in the Chinese economy. It starts with a warning of t...

Poverty is generally defined as a lack of material resources. However, the relationships that poor people have with their possessions are not just ...

First published in 1982, this collection was the result of an ambitious and wide-ranging, inter-disciplinary research programme conducted by the In...

This is Volume XI of eighteen in a collection on the Sociology of Development. Originally published in 1964 the book is based on lectures were conc...

Shocking in description and crammed with detail, this book is about where and how geopolitics plays out in the twenty-first century. Drawing on the...

First Published in 2011. This book grew out of a project initiated by Resources for the Future to search for selective interventions into the devel...

In 1926/27 the Soviet Central Statistical Administration initiated several yearlong expeditions to gather primary data on the whereabouts, econom...

First published in 1982, this collection was the result of an ambitious and wide-ranging, inter-disciplinary research programme conducted by the In...

This book examines identities, violence and conflict in the context of internal migration within India. As India prepares to count its citizens for...

This collection of studies, first published in 1985, describes some contemporary problems of selected pastoral and agro-pastoral communities of the...

When researchers want to study indigenous populations they are dependent upon the highly variable way in which states or territories enumerate, c...

Irregular Migration in Europe contributes to our knowledge of the scale and nature of the much discussed but under-researched phenomenon of irregul...

During the 1990s, Europe became the first continent with a 'mature society', where people aged 60 years and older outnumber children and as this tr...

First published in 1978, this book explores the vital global issue of high and low fertility in poorer countries through a series of case studies b...