Sociology

This volume brings social and cultural anthropologists into dialogue with historical sociology and illustrates the continued potential of the conce...

Explores the slow but inevitable implosion of our civilization by considering the correlation between capital, work, and ideology.Unworkable discus...

Discusses world literature and cinema from the perspective of literary languages and film traditions that do not hold a hegemonic position.World li...

Explores the delicate interplay between emigration of Jews from Israel to Germany and the construction of a new identity in the shadow of antisemit...

Identifies the many ways in which unexpected outcomes are endemic to international relations due to the complexity of world politics.In this compre...

Documents the surprising role pharmaceutical science and technology has played in Russia's search for national identity over a century of political...

Draws upon the situated work of professional coffee tasters in over a dozen countries to shed light on the methods we use to convert subjective exp...

Traces the inner connections between the second slavery in the Americas, slavery in Africa, the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, and the "Gre...

Juxtaposes Antonio Gramsci's work and critical race theory to offer a new understanding of tactics as a transformative practice.While scholars of s...

Explores the effects of the cyber revolution for security in the Americas.Cybersecurity Governance in Latin America discusses how the massification...

Putting at work a negative pedagogy centered around learning from unlearning, problematizes and boldly challenges today's culturalist discourses, c...

Reveals the often-untold stories of front-line public servants.Community health workers, elections officers, emergency managers, air traffic contro...

Draws on and centers oral histories with Black women college graduates to demonstrate the role of community in fostering their success in and beyon...

Examines how the new wave of Generation Y public service employees are affecting the dynamics of continuity and change in public management ethics....

The essential guide to understanding, designing, conducting, and presenting a qualitative research study Qualitative Research: A Guide to Design an...

In a world where cultural identity is often defined by national borders, this book follows the compelling journeys of young adults caught between p...

This book explores events in Georgia in the years following Stalin’s death in March 1953, especially the demonstrations of March 1956 and their bru...

This study examines the social and psychological processes that led to the Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. It recognizes the long-ter...

Ten years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, patterns of change to the former communist nations of Europe are now discernible in a way that was imp...

This study examines the social and psychological processes that led to the Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. It recognizes the long-ter...

This book investigates how customary practices in South Africa have led to negotiation and contestation over human rights, gender and generational ...

This book examines the life and work of Mazisi Kunene, the only recognized poet laureate of Africa, a Nobel Prize nominee, and a key symbol of Afri...