Social Groups

This book presents the first national study of the practice of polygamy undertaken amongst Malay Muslims, contextualised within the broader social,...

This reference work collates academic discourses and practices around family, gender, and violence in social work.  A huge body of discourse is av...

The Druze and the Maronites, arguably the two founding communities of modern Lebanon, have the reputation of being primordial enemies. Makram Rabah...

Exploring the physical, embodied landscape of the military-peace complex in AfghanistanThis book focuses on the military and statebuilding componen...

Traces and measures the material impact of Dickens' fiction in London's built environmentDickens and Demolition examines how tropes, characters, or...

Global Urban Politics: Informalization of the State In what ways has global urbanization affected the political process? This book offers a reflect...

So much of great literature centres on explorations of gender, sex, and sexuality. What does it mean to be a proper man or woman; what if one canno...

The Sexual/Political engages with contemporary political issues in sexuality through a survey of modern philosophy, psychoanalytic thought, 20th-ce...

This book is a critical disability studies examination of the lived experience of chronic pain, engaging with and making a significant contribution...

This book explores contemporary American true crime narratives across various media formats. It dissects the popularity of true crime and the effec...

This handbook provides the most comprehensive examination of Asian citiesdeveloped and developing, large and smalland their urban development. Inve...

Foregrounding the ways in which men experience transnational migration, Migratory Men: Place, Transnationalism and Masculinities considers how we c...

This book uncovers, explores and analyses the cultural and social factors and values that lie behind waste making, recycling and disposal in the As...

Warrick Dunn was only eighteen when his mother, a Baton Rouge police officer, was shot and killed. Yet somehow he managed to enroll at Florida Stat...

This book analyses case studies of heritage-rich cities that hosted mega-events to discuss emerging challenges, controversies, and accomplishments....

Metaphors are diversly and intricately embedded in architectural practice and discourse. Precisely for this reason, this volume argues and sets out...

The Sikh World is an outstanding guide to the Sikh faith and culture in all its geographical and historical diversity. Written by a distinguished t...

Medium-Sized Cities in the Age of Globalisation provides a brand-new perspective on academic discussions of globalisation through exploring urban d...

This book grapples with the challenges inherent in an uncertain period for global human rights and explores the future of international human right...

The Cunning of Gender Violence focuses on how a once visionary feminist project has folded itself into contemporary world affairs. Combating violen...

The Cunning of Gender Violence focuses on how a once visionary feminist project has folded itself into contemporary world affairs. Combating violen...

Running from 1990 to 1999, the annual OutWrite conference played a pivotal role in shaping LGBTQ literary culture in the United States and its emer...

In Reckoning with Slavery Jennifer L. Morgan draws on the lived experiences of enslaved African women in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to...

For decades, social scientists have assumed that fictive kinship is a phenomenon associated only with marginal peoples and people of color in the U...

Qualitative Methods in Media and Communication offers a learning-centered guide to designing, conducting, and evaluating qualitative communication ...

designing networks cities presents a sophisticated, multi-disciplinary, and multi-dimensional approach to urban design. Emerging from years of prac...

This book argues that the prevailing view of colonialism that it was a negative and destructive phenomenon needs to be rethought. It focuses on t...