Sociology

This collection highlights new perspectives on the work of Erving Goffman, revisiting his place in contemporary social theory and interactional lin...

Imagination and Arts-Based Practices for Integration in Research explores the philosophical assumptions, defining concepts, and methodological issu...

This book explores how Lean a global management doctrine operates and is adopted in the real, corporeal, collective, and affective environments o...

This volume bridges contemporary philosophical conceptions of risk and responsibility and offers an extensive examination of the topic. It shows th...

The Portuguese Colonial War and the African Liberation Struggles: Memory, Politics and Uses of the Past presents a critical and comparative analysi...

This book explores the relationship between climate changeinduced migration and conflict in Bangladesh one of the most ecologically fragile countr...

This book explores female faith practices, drawing on qualitative research to consider how women navigate and create spiritual and religious practi...

Bringing a needed perspective on African Epistemologies on the critical topics of higher education in relation to knowledge systems, this book high...

This book brings together contributions from twenty-three world-leading scholars and commentators that address a range of contemporary and pressing...

This book counters the common understanding of study abroad in Latin America as a White and middle-class colonizer practice and re-imagines it to f...

This book explores and explains how traditional and alternative media have framed the issues of gun trafficking into Mexico, drug-related violence,...

Through case studies, this book investigates the pictorial imaging of epidemics globally, especially from the late eighteenth century through the 1...

Bu and her contributors illustrate the complexity of tensions and negotiations in the development of different types of public health systems in As...

Economists measure the effects of immigration through the yardstick of income. This book offers a broad survey of the conventional approach but in ...

The book explores the politics of immigration in Australia through an in-depth study of the new generation of young Korean migrants in Melbourne.St...

This volume is one of the first wide-ranging academic surveys of the major types and categories of Jain praxis. It covers a breadth of scholarly vi...

This book brings together a diverse range of scholars and practitioners working at the nexus of peace and development to reflect, at the mid-way po...

This book offers a fresh social scientific analysis of how theologically conservative male clergy respond to the ordination of women to the priesth...

Drawing on a corpus of 113 narratives told by migrant workers who have returned to their home country, Ladegaard details Indonesian and Filipina (d...

This book characterises the problematic status of motherhood in present-day Iranian society that is, problem in the Foucauldian sense of an object...

This book applies a novel theory of unbalanced responsiveness to the issue of economic inequality in China to better understand the relationship be...

This book brings together papers that employ postfoundational theory to critically investigate the social, political, economic and ecological dynam...

This book tackles the historical relationship between colonial violence and monuments in Africa, Europe, the Indian subcontinent, North America, an...