Social Groups

Challenges and Prospects for the Chagos Archipelago considers the origins, challenges and future of Chagos, bringing together leading experts and a...

In addition to being a fundamental concept for planning the water infrastructure which supports extensive agricultural economies across Southeast A...

This edited volume examines the importance of centering gender in research and policymaking focused on climate change, environmental sustainability...

This book explores (mis)representations of two female claimants to the Tudor throne, Lady Jane Grey and Mary I of England. It places Jane's attempt...

Gendering Criminology provides a contemporary guide for understanding the role of gender in criminal engagement and experiences as well as reaction...

The book investigates urban development and governance in China and introduces China perspectives to the understanding of governing urban developme...

The book investigates urban development and governance in China and introduces China perspectives to the understanding of governing urban developme...

This book brings together essays from a range of disciplines within Early Modern Italian Studies, which focus on research areas pioneered by the pr...

During the 1930s and 1940s, Jews in the Middle East took part in extensive debates on fascism in the public sphere. How did the rise of fascism imp...

This book provides a richer understanding of democratic local politics in Indonesia after the implementation of local direct elections in 2005. Co-...

This book brings together contributions from ten academics and a commentary from a Muslim community leader on how the British media represent some ...

What happens when migration takes place between sites defined by different types of colonial difference?  This book asks this question in the conte...

Climate Adaptation and Resilience Across Scales provides professionals with guidance on adapting the built environment to a changing climate. This ...

This book explores how gender equality, a central part of the Nordic imaginary, is used in the political communication of Nordic states. The analys...

Since the publication of the bestselling second edition 5 years ago, vast and new globally-relevant geographic datasets have become available to ca...

The overarching research topic addressed in this book is the complex and multifaceted interaction between infrastructural accessibility/connectivit...

This book examines the socio-economic and demographic conditions of Scheduled Castes (SCs) with religious affiliation to Hinduism, Islam and Christ...

This book examines the question of class formation and social inequality within tribal groups in North-East India.Focussing on the Nagas, it analys...

This companion demonstrates how art, craft, and visual culture education activate social imagination and action that is equity- and justice-driven....

Sociological research on Indian families has largely focused on questions of household form and structure, to the exclusion of not only the more ne...

Human Capital in Gender and Development addresses timely feminist debates about the relationship between feminism, neoliberalism, and international...

Singer. Dancer. Movie star. Activist. Queer icon. Afrofuturist. Working class heroine. Time traveler. Prophet. Feminist. Android. Dirty Computer.  ...

The rural is not what it used to be. No longer simply a site for agricultural production for the city, the relationship between the rural and urban...

Reads like a fairy tale Far from frivolous, this biography draws on original research to give a nuanced account. The LadyImmerse yourself in The ...

This book features all the women inducted in the first fifty years of the US National Inventors Hall of Fame. Each entry first provides a biography...

Technology, Policy, and Inclusion looks at the intersections between public policy and technology in India. It explores the barriers in instituting...

How teachers can unlock the power of inclusivity and joy to transform their classroom and behavior management In Rooted in Joy: Creating a Classroo...

This book investigates changing geographies of fast growing Asian metropolitan regions, in particular their peripheral areas.Through examining the ...

This innovative volume compels readers to re-think the notions of performance, performing, and (non)performativity in the context of the COVID-19 g...

This book describes a secondary analysis of survey data collected from a modified snowball sample of 96 homeless and runaway youth. The sample cont...

From the 1870s to the second decade of the twentieth century, more than fifty exhibitions of so-called exotic people took place in Denmark. Here la...

This anthology examines maternity in contemporary performance at the intersection of a wide range of topics from nationhood to mental health, queer...

Who controls space? Powerful corporations, institutions, and individuals have great power to create physical and political space through income and...

Health status and the experience of working in health care roles are both strongly shaped by gender and, although there have been attempts to incor...

Definitions of urban entities and urban typologies are changing constantly to reflect the growing physical extent of cities and their hinterlands. ...

There is a vast amount of information about a city which is invisible to the human eye crime levels, transportation patterns, cell phone use and a...

For pathways to be truly sustainable and advance gender equality and the rights and capabilities of women and girls, those whose lives and well-bei...

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...