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Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in northwest China, Casey James Miller offers a novel, compelling, and intimately personal persp...

Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in northwest China, Casey James Miller offers a novel, compelling, and intimately personal persp...

Psychiatric Encounters presents an intimate portrait of a public inpatient psychiatric facility in the Southeastern state of Yucatan, Mexico. The b...

Intimate Connections dissects ideas, feelings, and practices around love, marriage, and respectability in the remote high mountains of Gilgit-Balti...

This accessible book introduces the key concepts and theoretical developments of queer criminology and explains what they mean for modern criminal ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is one of the international religions that have arrived from abroad to find adherents in Ireland. D...

A sweeping historical and political analysis with detailed ethnographic fieldwork of the politics of everyday life in postcolonial Africa. In post...

A sweeping historical and political analysis with detailed ethnographic fieldwork of the politics of everyday life in postcolonial Africa. In post...

Wide-ranging yet consistently affecting, these pieces offer a crucial and inspired survey of the immigrant experience in America. Publishers Weekly...

This is a classic study of Philadelphias business aristocracy of colonial stock with Protestant affiliations. It is also an analysis of how fabulou...

The Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory presents key contemporary themes in planning theory through the views of some of the most innovative thin...

'Remi Adekoya is a welcome blast of unsentimental rigour into a race debate clogged up with emotion and moralism. His dissection of the economic un...

Pleasure-based politics in Puerto Rican and Cuban pop culture Joy is a politicized form of pleasure that goes beyond gratification to challenge nor...

Pleasure-based politics in Puerto Rican and Cuban pop culture Joy is a politicized form of pleasure that goes beyond gratification to challenge nor...

Shortlisted for the Saltire Society First Book of the Year Award Red kites were once Britains most common bird of prey. By the early 1900s they'd ...

For decades, the outside world mostly knew Myanmar as the site of a valiant human rights struggle against an oppressive military regime, predominan...

This book critically explores the role of state schooling in the reproduction of social class inequalities in the UK. By uniquely combining critica...