Sociology

Exploring the most topical issues around migration and integration in relation to Britain, this book, now in paperback, examines people smuggling a...

An insightful exploration of intelligence cooperation (officially known as liaison), including its international dimensions. This book offers a dis...

Jude Howell brings together eight in-depth studies of the politics of global non-governmental public action. Covering detailed empirical research a...

Katie Wright explores how human wellbeing is constructed and how it 'travels' across spatial boundaries. She draws on empirical research, undertake...

The greening of citizenship, the state and ideology has created both opportunities and bottlenecks for progressive political movements. Scerri argu...

This book examines British and American women's narratives of cosmetic surgery, exploring what those narratives say about the contemporary status o...

This collection critically examines twenty-first century representations of ageing, focusing on various media images and discourses as well as indi...

Based on a reconstruction of earlier liberal conceptions of liberty (the political theories of John Locke & J.S. Mill), this book stresses the ...

Based on original research with self-identified paedophiles in the community, this book challenges assumptions and destroys the sacred cows of both...

This book develops a comprehensive understanding of the motivations and experiences of students who choose to study abroad for the whole or part of...

Exploring the most topical issues around migration and integration in relation to Britain, this book, now in paperback, examines people smuggling a...

Baker provides a unique insider perspective on factors affecting British Muslim converts and their susceptibility to violent radicalisation, includ...

This new paperback edition of Justifying Interventions in Africa includes a new preface written by Professor Annika Björkdahl from Lund University....

This book examines ideas of 'home' of Americans and Western Europeans under the influence of the two major revolutions of our times: the gender rev...

The first book to examine in detail the ways in which people adapt their understanding and behaviours towards poverty as a direct result to their e...

This study, by two leading scholars in the field, draws on feminist theory and science and technology studies to uncover a basic injustice for the ...

This book explores migration experiences of African families across two generations in Britain, France and South Africa. Global processes of Africa...

The first book in the new Postcolonialism and Religions series offers a preview of the series focus on multireligious, indigenous, and transnationa...

This book offers examples from both Christian and secular democratic institutions of higher education and then responds to possible criticisms abou...

This book shows how, after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the Gospel of the free market became the only world-religion of universal validity....

This book shows how, after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the Gospel of the free market became the only world-religion of universal validity....

Explores the differences and similarities between two groups: lifelong activists who have been engaged in campaigns and socials movements over many...

The everyday practices, policy ideas, and ideological and political battles that have shaped Egyptian education, from the era of nation-building in...