Society & Culture: General

Paper Knowledge is a remarkable book about the mundane: the library card, the promissory note, the movie ticket, the PDF (Portable Document Format)...

Identity and Belonging examines the interplay between self and society and in doing so explores the complex nature of 'who we are' and 'how we come...

A cutting-edge volume on current trends in sex work, from sugar relationships and cyber brothels to financial domination, sex worker activism, and ...

The World White Web provides an interdisciplinary analysis of far-right radicalisation in the digital age, drawing from criminology, history, and c...

Social media communications play a huge role in the day-to-day operations of sport teams and organizations. Both current and aspiring sport busines...

This volume brings together scholarship from both established scholars and early career academics to provide fresh insights and new research on the...

This handbook provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive review of the literature on inequality. It provides comprehensive overviews of the mai...

The decisive role of Britains wartime newspaper journalism in shaping public opinion and government policy has been majorly overlooked. Much of the...

In the age of social media, fake news and data-driven capitalism, the need for critical understanding is more urgent than ever. Half-baked ideas ab...

In her research, Pinaka uses the term porno-graphing to group together and examine lens-based artworks where artists use material sexual situations...

George F. Will has been one of this country's leading columnists since 1974. He won the Pulitzer Prize for it in 1977. The Wall Street Journal once...

Red Tape presents a major new theory of the state developed by the renowned anthropologist Akhil Gupta. Seeking to understand the chronic and wides...

This book examines labour in the age of US hegemony through the art that has grappled with it; and, vice versa, developments in American culture as...

Veri, Orangina & Aperol Spritz is the result of a collaboration between two young Spanish artists, Sofía París and Andreu de Pedro. The book gr...

Gesellschaftsdiagnosen durchkreuzen die Soziologiegeschichte in sehr unterschiedlichen Formen. Während sich geschichtsphilosophische Traditionslini...

This Handbook is the first of its kind addressing gender issues in health in five countries of the South Asian Region, namely: Bangladesh, India, P...

This volume contributes to ongoing discussions of ethics in Applied Linguistics scholarship by focusing in depth on several different sub-areas wit...

This volume contributes to ongoing discussions of ethics in Applied Linguistics scholarship by focusing in depth on several different sub-areas wit...

A detailed look into ancient advanced technology, science, and medicine--some of which has yet to be reproduced today Explores countless examples ...

The last days of colonialism taught America's revolutionaries that soldiers in the streets bring conflict and tyranny. As a result, our country has...

This book presents a collection of research papers that explore how managers, practitioners and policymakers can address the challenges of the Digi...

In Imprisoned Minds, Erik Maloney tells the stories of men in prison that few people ever hear. Six gripping, first-person narratives of incarcerat...

Hollywood Unions is a unique collection that tells the stories of the unions and guilds that have organized motion picture and television labor: IA...

This book provides a much-needed critical exploration of digital media interventions in Southeast Asia, while adopting a decolonial perspective to ...

Wie wurde in führenden deutschen Massenmedien zur Zeit der Corona-Pandemie über die Schule geschrieben? Welche Themen standen dort im Mittelpunkt, ...

This book presents high-quality, peer-reviewed papers from the International Conference in Information Technology & Education (ICITED 2023), to...

Media Unmade presents the definitive story of the decade in which big media in Australia was cut down to size a decade that forever altered what h...

The debate about the return of cultural assets to former colonial territories is highly topical and at the same time much older than most assume. ...

Das Buch führt umfassend und kenntnisreich in das soziologische Werk Zygmunt Baumans ein und leistet einen Beitrag zur Aktualisierung seiner theore...

In this book, Sólveig Guðmundsdóttir uncovers the crucial role of esotericism in the art of the Vienna Actionistsa group of Austrian neo-avant-gard...

This volume explores the Indian artist, K. Venkatappas (18861965) life, his works and the political and cultural contexts that influenced and inspi...

This book presents the impact of digital transformation and other megatrends on the steel industry, focusing on the digitization of processes, and ...

This is a difficult piece to write. It cuts closer to the bone than most of what I have written; closer to my bones, through my blood and flesh to ...

This volume provides an original theoretical and practical discussion around language ontology, social theory, ethics, and pedagogy to enhance soci...

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the struggles of youth in India, Myanmar, and Thailand towards the creation of a freer, more in...

This book presents a machine-generated review on various works related to pedagogy and space, especially relevant to the context of the Global Sout...

Curating Human Rights conceptualizes the human rights museum as a dynamic cultural-political genre that interacts with multiple social activist, st...

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Firmly anchored in contemporary political issues, Freedom and B...

Fresh perspectives on the implications of gender and race in US military history from a diverse group of scholars in the field of war and society.

The Berlin Olympics, August 14, 1936. German rowers, dominant at the Games, line up against America's top eight-oared crew. Hundreds of millions of...

Current research in Sociology of Disability has a tendency to assume that very little written in this area until the last 20 years. However, this i...

This book explores the dark side of leadershipthose areas of unethical, unlawful and unconscionable practice in which some organizational leaders e...