Society & Culture: General

Provides a new theoretical approach to explore an important issue in platform capitalism.

Now more than ever, activists are using media to document injustice and promote social and political change. Yet with so many media platforms avail...

The seventh edition of this field-leading textbook provides an accessible and rigorous presentation of major theories of persuasion and their appli...

This book is about relating the concepts of rape and murder in both senses of the term; that is the way rape and murder are linked and related and ...

In our highly interconnected and globalized world, people often pursue their aspirations in multiple places. Yet in public and scholarly debates, a...

As intimate lives become more public, and discussions of gender and sexuality more complex, there is a need to rethink how we engage with our own p...

This book examines the development of enterprise among key migrant groups in Europe and the United States. It argues that the development of 'ethni...

A revisionist study of Mansfield as a profoundly colonial yet daringly experimental writer, at the forefront of modernism. The essays in this volum...

Through empirical material as well as theoretical discussions, this book explores developments in gender-technology relations from the 1980s to tod...

This book is about the new politics of leisure and pleasure - the values, practices, struggles and contradictions that now characterize the social ...

This book provides a novel approach to unemployment as a contested political field in Europe and examines the impact of welfare state regimes, conc...

'Full of unbelievable nonsense' Ian Hislop'A tour de force' Jeremy Vine'An excellent piece of investigative journalism' Julia Ebner, Telegraph'A co...

An in-depth account of EU policies in the area of public service broadcasting, focusing mainly on the application of the European State aid rules. ...

The author examines the moral, methodological, and practical problems that arise from poverty measurement. He establishes a methodological framewor...

Shaw argues that journalism should focus on deconstructing the underlying structural and cultural causes of political violence such as poverty, fam...

The present crisis of capitalism has a history. A history of the private accumulation of wealth through property regimes which allow increasing com...

This ground breaking book provides empirical and theoretical insights into the interface between deliberative democracy and the rough and tumble of...

Ireland is the first country in the world to extend civil marriage to same sex couples through a public vote. The marriage equality referendum saw ...

Recent field studies of a variety of mammalian species reveal a surprisingly high frequency of infanticide - the killing of unweaned or otherwise m...