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American cities continue to experience profound fiscal crises. Falling revenues cannot keep pace with the increased costs of vital public services,...

American cities continue to experience profound fiscal crises. Falling revenues cannot keep pace with the increased costs of vital public services,...

Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS), this volum...

In Postcolonial Configurations Josen Masangkay Diaz examines the making of Filipino America through the dynamics of dictatorship, coloniality, and ...

In Postcolonial Configurations Josen Masangkay Diaz examines the making of Filipino America through the dynamics of dictatorship, coloniality, and ...

A Mexican State of Mind: New York City and the New Borderlands of Culture explores the cultural and creative lives of the largely young undocumente...

A Mexican State of Mind: New York City and the New Borderlands of Culture explores the cultural and creative lives of the largely young undocumente...

The 2020 Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests highlighted with sharp clarity the role of race in social conflict and social movements. Building on mor...

Transgenerational Technology and Interactions for the 21st Century explores how we as humans navigate the 21st Century, interacting with technologi...

Understanding Authenticity in Chinese Cultural Heritage explores the construction of authenticity and its consequences in relation to Chinese cultu...

Who Killed My Father rips into Frances long neglect of the working class and its overt contempt for the poor, accusing the complacent French politi...

We understand urban regeneration as all efforts managed, funded or at least guided to some extent by public authorities that aim at improving, stab...

This international and interdisciplinary handbook offers a comprehensive and an in-depth overview of contemporary research, theory, and practice in...

Imagine you are a proud lesbian and a feminist. You have the odd doubt about your sexuality but you understand how the male-dominated world works a...

In Europe and North America, we see a trend of the white working-class tempted by right-wing political parties. Fascistic candidates and ideas seem...

This book explores the use of street art tourism in eight cities: Barcelona, Paris, Porto, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Montevideo, Bogota and Buenos Air...

Deeply informed by jazz, Billie's Bent Elbow explores the nonsensical and nonsensuous in black radical thought and expression. Extending the encoun...

Deeply informed by jazz, Billie's Bent Elbow explores the nonsensical and nonsensuous in black radical thought and expression. Extending the encoun...

Reimagining adaptation amidst climate changedriven mutations of urban space and life   Between its susceptibility to flooding and an ever-expandin...

Reimagining adaptation amidst climate changedriven mutations of urban space and life   Between its susceptibility to flooding and an ever-expandin...

Beth Hoffman was living the good life: she had a successful career as a journalist and professor, a comfortable home inSan Francisco, and plenty of...

As China's economic development continues to improve in overall quality as well as regional integration and coordination, this book gives an overvi...

The first decade of the twenty-first century saw a radical new approach to higher education in Cuba, as the country began slowly to recover from th...

The book offers a lively and detailed analysis of the ideological subtext of Hindi Horror cinema. It unearths its codes and conventions, its relati...

This Handbook explores the ways in which religion among the African people has been applied in situations of conflict and violence to contribute to...

Thomas Dai has never gone by his Chinese name, Nuocheng, fashioned from the Knoxville (Chinese: Nuokeshiweier) of his childhood and the Chengdu his...

Housing is more than bricks and mortar. The home is where our hopes and dreams play out, and it lies at the heart of our lives. This is where we re...

This book centres refugees and asylum seekers as agents of global politics, broadening our thinking about political agency beyond statism, citizens...

Academic accommodations have become quite commonplace in universities in the Global North. At their best, accommodations support the rights of all ...

Zahra confidently wears the hijab and challenges the widespread assumption that Islam and feminism are mutually exclusive. Hamza, on the other hand...

First published in 1984, Face Value confronts the pervasive power of beauty through art and literature, as well as interviews with men and women wi...

This book delves into the values, attitudes, and behaviours of Koreans over the course of the past twenty years. Compiled by leading Korean scholar...

Celebrated stage actress Mona Zahid wakes up on Thanksgiving morning to the clamor of guests packed into her Manhattan apartment and to a wave of d...

We are survivors. We were subjected to dehumanizing practices by people who sought our erasure.We believe telling our stories is both powerful and ...

'Profound and vulnerable. An essential gift for all of us that relate' - Anne MauroWhat do we mean when we say 'relationship'?How do we separate ou...

Atara loves to wear her crown - to the library, to the dentist, even to her swim lessons. It gives her confidence, and shows the world that she is ...

Offers a Black male response to the challenge of womanist thought Although much Black religious scholarship has engaged with feminist theory and wo...

Offers a Black male response to the challenge of womanist thought Although much Black religious scholarship has engaged with feminist theory and wo...

Eros and Alienation delves into the underexplored relationship between alienated labour and sexuality. Our deeply human drive to shape the world ar...

This book provides a comprehensive overview on micromobility, which is a mode of transportation that has become particularly popular among young pe...

How grassroots activism transforms contemporary urban politics in Philadelphia and beyond Immigration, gentrification, and the rise of an innovatio...

Introduction to Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies: Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Approaches, third edition, reflects the exciting chan...

Increasing and changing migration trends between Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Western European locations, as well as those from outside of ...

What does it mean to fight for womens rights in the 21st century? Around the globe, women stand up to repression, violence, and authoritarianism to...

This edited book explores examples of different ways in which societies and individuals have dealt with the concepts of religious diversity, tolera...