Society & Culture: General

This book uses Norbert Eliass theory of the civilisational process to provide a sociological and historical study of Portuguese bullfighting. Its a...

This book examines how fiction films and novels depict the communist-led national democratic (NatDem) revolution in the Philippines. Produced above...

This edited collection unveils the pivotal role of entrepreneurship in realizing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Global scholars conve...

This concise and thought-provoking book examines the myths and realities surrounding the wider value of sport. It asks a fundamental question: what...

This book provides the most comprehensive picture to date of work in the visual arts ecosystem in Australia. In a context where artists incomes are...

The remarkably creative life of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) has long been an area of scholarly enquiry. Yet, surprisingly, his role as the foun...

In this important volume, leading scholars take an honest look at the progress since Brown v. Board of Education. Critical and forward-looking chap...

In this important volume, leading scholars take an honest look at the progress since Brown v. Board of Education. Critical and forward-looking chap...

Heritage in Eight Acts brings together contributions on cultural heritage at an international level with an emphasis on Latin American and Ibero-Am...

With the methodology of eye-tracking experiments, in-depth interviews, and large-scale questionnaires across cities, this book provides a panoramic...

Using the analogy of an orchestra, the book looks at the ways in which the Party-state conducts communications in China.Rather than treating Chinas...

For more than 40 years, researchers have explored the utility of Bourdieus sociology for settings beyond the French and Algerian contexts of its or...

This edited collection offers evocative ways into a range of fascinating worlds of popular music, from the Ecuadorian indie scene to Chinese rock. ...

This book traces developments in design education in India and shows the continuing impact of the Bauhaus School of design education, which formed ...

This book examines the complexities of womens lives in Africa and the transnational spaces of Europe and North America through the literary works o...

This book takes an interdisciplinary and diverse critical look at the work of comic artist Ilan Manouach, situating it within the avant-garde movem...

This book is about the soul of the city, embodied in its spaces and people. It traces dynamics in inner city neighbourhoods of South Africas post-a...

The COVID-19 pandemic represents a critical juncture in the development of the welfare state affirming its importance for its citizens economic, he...

Traditionally, popular music has long been said to intrinsically contest, resist, and defy the powers that be. This new book challenges this long-s...

Diese theoretische Arbeit gründet auf der Beobachtung, dass einzelne Funktionssysteme der Gesellschaft wie Politik, Wirtschaft oder Erziehung nicht...

This book delves into the fascinating and often overlooked history of Walt Disney's influence in Australia, tracing the cultural impact of iconic c...

Promiscuous Infrastructures brings together more than twenty contributorsart and social practitioners, researchers, and educatorswho have been rese...

This short critical introduction to Pierre Bourdieus thought has been comprehensively brought up to date for the third edition. Where Bourdieus own...

This short critical introduction to Pierre Bourdieus thought has been comprehensively brought up to date for the third edition. Where Bourdieus own...

This book reports the outcomes of a research project which involved developing and implementing a research-informed curriculum for low-attaining fu...

This book centralizes the importance of using culturally relevant models within health promoting schools (HPS) to promote the participation of Blac...

This volume is a theoretically informed comparative analysis of the telecommunications and information policy-making process in two major developin...

Difficult Empathy takes up the question of empathy as fundamentally a rhetorical concern, focusing on the ways we encounter and understand one anot...

Islamic schools are growing exponentially in the West to meet the demands of Muslim learners and their parents. Today, there are hundreds of Islami...

This book is based on China's poverty alleviation work and combines social work expertise with anti-poverty research to provide a blueprint as a re...

This companion to Lacans Seminar VI guides readers through an examination of desire, fantasy, dream interpretation, death, object a, and the signif...

This book argues that a major part of the Chinese governments road map, formulated in 2017, to modernise China comprehensively by 2049 is the proce...

This is the first scholarly attempt to write a history of cyber literary criticism in China. The author uses the Internet as the departure point, l...