Society & Culture: General

Benjamin K. Sovacool applies concepts from justice and ethics theory to contemporary energy problems, and illustrates particular solutions to those...

This collection of original scholarly work and first-person accounts takes globalization processes and the transnational links these processes crea...

This book examines the multiple relationships between education, pedagogy, and social change in Latin America and beyond through a discussion of cr...

University rankings have gained popularity around the world, and are now a significant factor shaping reputation. This book is the first comprehens...

Eine Untersuchung über Habitus-Struktur-Konflikte im Studium durchzuführen und zu dokumentieren, ist ein konfliktreicher Prozess und dies nicht nur...

Bei der vorliegenden Arbeit handelt es sich um meine Dissertationsschrift, die ich im Herbst 2008 abgeschlossen und eingereicht habe. Damit ging ei...

Im Rahmen des cultural turn der Sozialwissenschaften hat sich die Religionssoziologie wieder zu einem nachgefragten Interessengebiet der Soziologie...

Werden schwule Politiker positiver dargestellt als Arbeitslose? Warum verdienen Frauen in Journalismus und PR weniger als Männer? Fördert Ethnomark...

Travel, Humanitarianism, and Becoming American in Africa uses observations of American travelers to southern Africa to ask: why is Africa so import...

News journalism is in the midst of radical transformation brought about by the spread of digital information and communication technology and the r...

This collection explores the representation and performance of queer youth in media cultures, primarily examining TV, film and online new media. Sp...

The news media has become a key arena for staging environmental conflicts. Through a range of illuminating examples ranging from climate change to ...

The Media of Testimony explores testimony relating to the Stasi in different cultural forms: autobiographical writing, memorial museums and documen...

This collection demonstrates a constructive potential in reimagining with doctrines, which unlocks them from centuries of patriarchal constraint. I...

Have you ever fallen out with someone close to you over your political ideas or convictions or felt that a personal relationship was damaged becaus...

At the turn of the twenty-first century, American media abound with images and narratives of bodily transformations. At the crossroads of American,...

Martin Luther King, Jr., was not an advocate of homosexual rights, nor was he an enemy; however both sides of the debate have used his words in the...

This book focuses on human trafficking in Europe for labour and sexual exploitation. It includes empirical work on trafficking throughout Europe, i...

A blend of political theory, social theory, and philosophy of culture, the book will show the relationship and tension between thought and action, ...

This book uses global perspectives to address questions of media ethics and justice in a local and transnational global environment, and examines t...

An exploration of how educational institutions have been portrayed in horror film, this book examines the way that scary movies have dealt with the...

The text analyses identities within virtual on-screen environments. Investigating regions in Second Life, it explores topical issues of the body in...

If societies have only memories of war, of cruelty, of violence, then why are we called humankind? This book marks a new trajectory in Memory Studi...

An accessible and wide-ranging consideration of concerns facing English Studies in its surrounding context of the university and society. The contr...

This volume aims to map out the complex relationships leisure has with notions of place and space in contemporary life. Illustrating the transdisci...

In historical studies, 'collective memory' is most often viewed as the product of nationalizing strategies carried out by political élites in the h...

Masculinity, it seems, is in crisis, again. This edited volume critically interrogates the current situation facing contemporary young men. The con...

This book examines the development of opposed Nationalist and Unionists identities as products of different economies, symbolically represented in ...

What does it mean to be a woman in the 21st century? The feminist movement has a long and rich history, but is its time now passed? This edited col...

Published with the support of the Academy for Social Sciences, this volume provides an illuminating look at topics of concern to everyone at the be...

Published with the support of the Academy for Social Sciences, this volume provides an illuminating look at topics of concern to everyone at the be...

Domestic Violence Laws in the United States and India is a comparative study of the domestic violence laws in India and the United States, seeking ...

In Argentina, Colombia, and Peru, there has been an out-pouring of popular-performative activities that have asked citizens to pose questions about...