Society & Culture: General

Critical Rural Theory is an attempt to bring together the concepts of structure, space, and culture in order to explain the relationship between ru...

Identity and Social Change examines the thorny problem of modern identity. Trenchant critiques have come from identity politics, focusing on the co...

In Unveiling Desire, Devaleena Das and Colette Morrow show that the duality of the fallen/saved woman is as prevalent in Eastern culture as it is i...

What kinds of pleasure do we take from writing and reading? What authority has the writer over a text? What are the limits of languages ability to ...

What does it mean for Black women to organize in a political context that has generally ignored them or been unresponsive although Black women have...

In den elektronischen Bildmedien tritt uns Joseph Beuys als veritabler Medienkünstler entgegen. Kaum überschaubar sind die Fotografien, Filme und V...

The successes and failures of an industry that claims to protect and promote our online identities What does privacy mean in the digital era? As te...

**Available now: Whistleblower Frances Haugen's searing exposé of the internal workings of Facebook revealing the company's struggles to regain con...

An expansion of Dr. Rudofossi's theory of Police and Public Safety Complex Trauma, this text integrates other models of trauma and loss into a one-...

Octave Mannoni worked in France, Madagascar and Africa throughout the twentieth century to extend Lacanian psychoanalytical methods into the field ...

The denial of equal educational opportunities to women is arguably one of the great injustices in British history. In Willingly to School, Mary Cat...

This book introduces critical mapping as a problematizing, reflective approach for analyzing systemic societal problems like food, scoping out exis...

This book challenges the ways we read, write, store, and retrieve information in the digital age. Computersfrom electronic books to smart phonespla...

'Truly inspirational' The SunSabrina Pace-Humphreys is a 44-year-old mother of four and grandmother of three, an award-winning businesswoman, an ul...

Suppose you were given two qualitative studies: one is a piece of empirically sound social science and the other, though interesting and beautifull...

This book offers a cultural and historical perspective on the Sherpa people, exploring how their traditional way of life has been impacted by such ...

What could middle-class German supermarket shoppers buying eggs and impoverished coffee farmers in Guatemala possibly have in common? Both groups u...

Many people who have thought about God have not thought about animals, or about the relationship between the two. But among those who have are some...

Throughout the silent-feature era, American artists and intellectuals routinely described cinema as a force of global communion, a universal langua...

Digital Cinema considers how new technologies have revolutionized the medium, while investigating the continuities that might remain from filmmakin...

Mexico and the United States exist in a symbiotic relationship: Mexico frequently provides the United States with cheap labor, illegal goods, and, ...

Today there are approximately fifty thousand prisoners in American prisons serving life without parole, having been found guilty of crimes ranging ...

The American popular imagination has long portrayed World War II as the good war, fought by the greatest generation for the sake of freedom and dem...