Social Groups

This book discusses the nuances of corridor development in India and its implications on land acquisition and displacement. It explores the complex...

In an era of human genome research, environmental challenges, new reproductive technologies, and more, students can benefit from introductory socio...

India Migration Report 2016 discusses migration to the Persian Gulf region. This volume: looks at contemporary labour recruitment and policy, both ...

This book analyses key theoretical influences on Indian culture in a business context. It shows the interactions between indigenous culture and wor...

The crime of homicide has long animated academic debate, community concern and political attention. The discussion has often centered on the percei...

This book addresses an emerging and vital field of scholarship, which deals with transgender- and gender-expansive-informed education, policy, and ...

We are used to thinking of human rights as a matter for state governments to deal with. Much less investigated is the question of what cities do wi...

Is planning for America anathema to the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness? Is it true, as ideologues like Friedrich Von Hayek, Milton Friedman...

This book examines the skyline as a space for radical urban politics. Focusing on the relationship between aesthetics and politics in Londons tall-...

Residential Property Appraisal, Volumes 1 and 2 are essential handbooks not only for students studying surveying but also for surveyors and others ...

The global capitalism perspective is a unique research program focused on understanding relatively recent developments in worldwide social, economi...

This book explores urban life and realities in the cities of the Global South and North. Through literature, film and other forms of media that con...

Analyzing Indian women's groups as one sector of a complex of new grass-roots, non-party political movements, Dr. Caiman considers why and how a wo...

This volume closely analyses womens role and experiences in migration (internal and international) and its interlinkages with the care economy in t...

This book explores the political-aesthetic practices of transgender women in Lima, Peru, and how they use these to survive and fight for recognitio...

This book is a revised, updated and expanded edition of #MeToo, Weinstein and Feminism (2019). In this second edition, Boyle argues for the importa...

This book explores the experiences of queer female and genderqueer fans  through interviews and an original documentary. Inspired by fan reactions ...

This book gathers contributions highlighting the role of women in science, with a focus on health and disease.Women have contributed in no small wa...

Significant health-industry human resource needs increase the reliance on family and friends to support older adults hoping to age in place. This b...

In Carnalities, Mariana Ortega presents a phenomenological study of aesthetics grounded in the work of primarily Latinx artists. She introduces the...

Reviews  Jessica Horns African Feminist Praxis is a ground-breaking and visionary work that weaves together decades of African feminist thought, ac...

Reviews  Jessica Horns African Feminist Praxis is a ground-breaking and visionary work that weaves together decades of African feminist thought, ac...

This book provides an updated comparative overview of womens movements in Latin America and the Caribbean, filling some of the gaps left by the exi...

Der Band untersucht die gewandelte Funktion von Religionen in modernen Gesellschaften.

In Carnalities, Mariana Ortega presents a phenomenological study of aesthetics grounded in the work of primarily Latinx artists. She introduces the...

Jews and Muslims in South Asia examines how Jews and Muslims relate to each other in a place where, in contrast to Europe, their perceived attitude...

Departing from more conscribed definitions, this book argues for an expansion of the concept of Creolization in terms of duration, temporality, pop...

Harry T. Burleigh (1866-1949) played a leading role in American music and culture in the twentieth century. Celebrated for his arrangements of spir...

A fascinating history of marginalized identities in the medieval worldWhile the term intersectionality was coined in 1989, the existence of margina...