Social Groups

49% of the worlds population lives in small towns, villages and farms, yet until recent years criminological scholarship has focused almost exclusi...

This book investigates how and why the criminal law differentiates between different types of body alterations, with particular reference to how th...

This book addresses womens rights to work and motherhood in Libya from a legal and international human rights perspective. In an attempt to solve t...

Based on original research and personal encounters, this book narrates the real-life-stories of women locked up in Indian prisons for alleged or ac...

The resurgence of marriage as a transnational institution, same-sex or otherwise, draws upon as much as it departs from enlightenment ideologies of...

While fat sexual bodies are highly visible as vehicles for stigma, there has been a lack of scholarly research addressing this facet of contemporar...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been called the worst place in the world for women, with reports of widespread and horrific incidents of...

This path-breaking book explains the processes through which the heterogeneous population of Roma in Europe constitutes itself into a transnational...

The twelfth volume in the series Indias National Security: Annual Review offers a detailed analysis of Indias complex security environment: persist...

This book attempts to deal with the problem of literary subjectivity in theory and practice. The works of six contemporary women writers Doris Les...

First published in 2000, this volume draws from the result of the fieldwork conducted in Yogyakarta Special Region in 1991 and 1992, with the aim o...

Challenging existing assumptions about how our towns and cities are structured and formed, Julian Hart provides an engaging and thought-provoking a...

Unsafe abortion remains one of the most neglected sexual and reproductive health problems according to the World Health Organisation. In recent yea...

Illustrated by a range of case studies of affordable housing options in Canada, this book examines the liveability and affordability of twenty-firs...

1992 was a pivotal moment in African American history, with the Rodney King riots providing palpable evidence of racialized police brutality, media...

What is the role of the university? Current systems may stress research output, but Wortham-Galvin, Allen, and Sherman seek to re-establish the imp...

An understanding of law and its efficacy in Latin America demands concepts distinct from the hegemonic notions of rule of law which have dominated ...

This volume considers the interconnection of racial oppression in the U.S. South and West, presenting thirteen case studies that explore the ways i...

In July 1919, an explosive race riot forever changed Chicago. For years, black southerners had been leaving the South as part of the Great Migratio...

This title was first published in 2002: The information revolution has deeply influenced the development of Europes large cities. They are faced wi...

Originally published in 1990, Soviet Urbanization provides an assessment of Soviet urban systems. Drawing on her personal experiences at the Soviet...

the urban West, it is easy to forget that most of the world's population still lives in villages, and despite increasing globalization it remains t...

In this book the author has intended to portray Japan as he finds it rather than as it was in the past. However, the past is not ignored as it woul...

This book looks at the contested relationship between Adivasis or the indigenous peoples, migrants and the state in India. It delves into the natur...

This title was first published in 2000: An investigation of how the claims of minority groups for greater political power through 'autonomy' and 's...

Construction Economics provides students with the principles underlying the relationship between economic theory and the construction industry. Its...

Writing the Materialities of the Past offers a close analysis of how the materiality of the built environment has been repressed in historical thin...

This book sets out to address some of the issues that a smart city needs to overcome to make use of both the data currently available to them and h...

As an evolving and contested field, urban design has been made, unmade, and remade at the intersections of multiple disciplines and professions. It...

Striptease and other types of erotic dance increasingly make up a large, lucrative and visible part of the sex industries in the United Kingdom and...

Recent migratory flows to Europe have brought about considerable changes in many countries. Italy in particular offers a unique point of view, sinc...

What are the differences between the sexes? That is the question that Ann Oakley set out to answer in this pioneering study, now established as a...

Detailing the history of a well-known phenomenon of post-socialism - cross-border petty trade and smuggling - as the history of a practice in daily...

This book explores the contemporary phenomenon of forced marriage and 'honour' killings in Britain. Set against a background of increasing 'honour'...

With the demise of the Old Regionalist project of achieving good regional governance through amalgamation, voluntary collaboration has become the m...

Within western political, media and academic discourses, Muslim communities are predominantly seen through the prism of their Islamic religiosities...

This book examines new tenementsdense, medium-rise, multi-storey residences that have been the backbone of European inner-city regeneration since t...

Cities can be seen as geographical imaginaries: places have meanings attributed so that they are perceived, represented and interpreted in a partic...

This book presents new empirical studies of social difference in the Nordic welfare states, in order to advance novel theoretical perspectives on t...

Over the past two decades it has become widely recognized that housing issues have to be placed in a broader framework acknowledging that civil soc...

In this path-breaking book Anna Arrowsmith analyses gendered dating behaviour and shows how mens behaviour is both defined and illustrated by socie...

Profound transformations in residential practices are emerging in Europe as well as throughout the urban world. They can be observed in the unfoldi...

The entanglements of information and materiality in our media environment, that new information and communication technologies make increasingly mo...

When traditionally white public schools in the South became sites of massive resistance In the wake of the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Educat...

Enhancing our understanding of how people and places are affected by globalization at the level of everyday interactions within Nordic Peripheries,...

Violence and Gender in the Globalized World expands the critical picture of gender and violence in the age of globalization by introducing a variet...

Un-Roman Sex explores how gender and sex were perceived and represented outside the Mediterranean core of the Roman Empire. The volume critically e...