The pandemic revealed more than a virus. This book uncovers the deep connections between emotion, vulnerability, poverty, and power, showing how the crisis exposed the pre-existing social fractures that determined who suffered most.
This book analyses the complex problems shaping our modern world. It explores the impact of digital technologies, social crises, and environmental threats on our communities, personal lives, and global consciousness in the age of globalization.
The Minorities of Cyprus
This book examines the history of Cyprus’s minorities: Maronites, Armenians, and Latins. It charts their evolving relationship with the dominant Greek and Turkish communities, their subsequent ‘internal exclusion’, and what the future holds for them.
Organizational Power and Ethical Subjectivity
This collection emphasizes the significance of the theoretical humanities in our times and their urgent task of reconstructing a more rationalized humanist-scientific foundation for a new type of human sciences through critically reorganizing all intellectual sources of mankind.
Re-theorising the Indian Subcontinental Diaspora
How do 30 million people of the Indian Subcontinental diaspora renegotiate their identities? This volume explores their historical, socio-cultural, and economic migration patterns, examining diasporic writers, films, and unique case studies ushering in a new era of identity.
Digital Diversities
Digital Diversities is a study of the ‘digital turn’s’ impact on global mobility and everyday life. It explores the shift to remote relationships, new forms of political expression, and intercultural encounters in the digital global hive.
Focusing on the digital lives of children aged eight and under, and paying attention to their parents and educators, this collection showcases international research findings from such diverse fields as education, media studies, sociology, cultural studies, and physiotherapy.
The first book on gangs in the Caribbean. Criminal gangs are increasing in number and are responsible for a rising proportion of violent crimes. This volume presents empirical data and analysis to understand the issues and examine strategies for dealing with them.
Heroes and Saints
This volume explores the moment of death in ancient cultures, from Asian religions to heroic sagas. Despite the diversity of traditions, these essays reveal a fundamental human need to see in death a possibility of choice and a promise of hope.
This publication addresses important issues such as the role of music in shaping identities, how music and social order are intertwined and why music is so relevant in human interaction. The last part explores issues related to the social application of musical research.
Female Empowerment
Gender discrimination impacts women from birth until death. This volume uncovers disparities in health, professional opportunities, and the household, charting a clear path to combat deep-rooted prejudice and achieve true empowerment.
Spanish and Latin American Women’s Crime Fiction in the New Millennium
This volume highlights the shift in focus in crime fiction written by women in Spain and Latin America since the late 1980s to transgressions often overlooked by their male counterparts, such as rape and sexual battery, and domestic violence.
This book explores education and empowerment for Afghan women. It examines the significant improvements achieved since the fall of the Taliban, the challenges that still lie ahead, and the threat women will face in the event of the Taliban returning to power.
Crisis, Globalization and Governance
As globalization challenges old business practices, this book tackles how to reinvent governance at private and public levels. It provides strategies to reorient globalization for a safer future, promoting public interest and social democracy.
Islam in the West
This book investigates the construction of Muslim identity in the West, exploring the difficulties of assimilation and integration. It analyzes the symbiotic relationship between Islam and the West and the pursuit of religious nationalism within Western societies.
Women Bloggers’ Quest for Fame, Labor and Identity
How does hope function for female bloggers? Through the narratives of women in the Turkish blogosphere, this book analyzes the relationship between womanhood, hope, and labor, offering a new, woman-centered, non-Western anthropological framework for digital labor studies.
Uncertain Lives
Uncertain Lives examines the impact of neoliberal policies on everyday life in Australia. It explores the persistence of race and racism as multicultural values have been replaced, charting how race has influenced everything from daily life to border control.
Globalization and Transnational Migrations
While globalization promised an interconnected world, for Africa it has meant marginalization, poverty, and instability. This book investigates the challenges of migration, brain drain, and identity to help readers make sense of Africa’s position today.
Psychology and Culture
This book uniquely explores clinical psychology and psychoanalysis from a cross-cultural perspective. It covers topics from personality disorders and suicide to cultural emotions and dream interpretation, offering vital insights for psychologists and culture enthusiasts alike.
This book illustrates how a small, disordered protein in the AIDS virus controls its structure, replication, and genetic variability. It highlights how proteins lacking a defined 3D structure can act as molecular adaptors through a series of interactions with RNA molecules.