Society & Culture: General

Thirty years ago, world leaders made a historic commitment to the world's children by adopting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the C...

For 11 months Calvin White worked for Doctors Without Borders as a mental health specialist in the off-the-radar region of Karakalpakstan in wester...

Love and its attendant emotions not only spur migrationthey forge our response to the people who leave their homes in search of new lives. Emotiona...

Using a framework of online connection and disconnection, The Paradox of Connection examines how journalists practices are formed, negotiated, and...

The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller Learn how to recognise and resist the daily attempts to control and manipulate your mind. T...

Ecocriticism: The Ibero-American Experience presents a distinct view of the diverse social and physical geographies of the Americas, their politica...

Mainstreaming Gays discusses a key transitional period linking the eras of legacy and streaming, analyzing how queer production and interaction tha...

Culture is at the heart of what it means to be human. But twenty-five years ago, the British government rebranded art and culture as creative indus...

Throughout history, innovations in media have had a profound impact on protest and dissent. But while these recent developments in social media hav...

Hector Amaya advances into new territory in Latin American and U.S. cinema studies in this innovative analysis of the differing critical receptions...

CaShawn Thompson crafted Black Girls Are Magic as a proclamation of Black womens resilience in 2013. Less than five years later, it had been repurp...

At a time when women are more vocal than ever about our lives, there's one last taboo.We need to talk about porn.Briskly confronting...porn is an i...

A humanist manifesto for the age of AIArtificial intelligence may be the most transformative technology of our time. As AIs power grows, so does th...

Ancient Egypt offers rich sources of documentary evidence for the study of the experiences of dependent people, particularly enslaved persons, and ...

In socialist Eastern Europe, radio simultaneously produced state power and created the conditions for it to be challenged. As the dominant form of ...

Brute Reality provides an authoritative analysis of those formal attempts, made by prominent social actors, to present a rationale for the existenc...

By 1990 there were approximately 200 million guns in private hands in the United States, and around half of American households contained a gun. Ov...

This volume examines Saint Georges intertwined traditions in the competing states of the eastern Mediterranean and Transcaucasia, demonstrating how...

The Role of Todays Museum provides a thorough investigation of what museums do and why. Arguing that museums are multifunctional institutions, the ...