Migration in Eastern Africa
This collection of essays honors Professor John Oyaro Oucho, exploring the nexus between migration and national development in Africa. The book covers challenges and opportunities in urbanization, human security, health care, and governance for scholars and policy-makers.
This book explores the role of MNCs in Cameroon’s economic development. An empirical survey on corporate social responsibility finds that some MNCs may contribute more to underdevelopment than development, and argues for policies to better regulate their activities.
The 3R’s Approach in Preclinical Pharmacology
This book offers a framework for integrating scientific advancement with ethical accountability. It details the 3R’s (Replacement, Reduction, Refinement) to reduce animal usage, refine study designs, and improve animal welfare while maintaining scientific integrity.
India’s Elderly
This book by multidisciplinary experts proposes policies to manage our growing elderly population with care and compassion, and to tap into the benefits of this demographic. It explores gerontology, quality of life, functional independence, healthcare, and psycho-social issues.
Identity, Politics, and Narratives of Belonging
This collection of essays explores Northeast India’s diverse heritage, from its literature and folklore to gender dynamics. It delves into identity, beliefs, and customs, revealing how they shape regional identities and the evolving cultural discourse of the region.
Intercultural Communication in Post-Pandemic and Dystopian Times
This essay turns intercultural concepts inside out, pointing out their shortcomings and dissecting the real obstacles to communication: identitarianisms, tribal meanings, and exclusionary differences. It is a call for us to become culturally resilient and readjust our mirrors.
COVID-19 and Human Security in Africa
In this collection of testimonies, African scholars and public health experts share first-hand knowledge and lived experiences of the harrowing COVID-19 period. These varied perspectives explore the pandemic’s impact and express concerns for Africa’s future preparedness.
Women’s Imaginary Cooking and Appetites Across Cultures
This book explores the cultural implications of women’s engagement with food, tackling the female body, appetites, culinary witchcraft, magic, and cannibalism. It traces how food disorders are alchemically transformed into aesthetics, with a pivotal focus on the Balkans.
Forced Migration to Bordering Countries
This book offers a comparative analysis of forced migration, examining Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, Syrians in Türkiye, and Ukrainians in the EU. It provides fresh insights into the varied geopolitical, legal, and humanitarian responses shaped by various ‘pull factors.’
This collection unravels how we represent non-humans in literature and film. From Noah’s Ark to Hitchcock’s The Birds, it probes the ethical and symbolic roles creatures play in our lives, challenging our perceptions and inviting us to reflect on their cultural significance.
BioFutures and the Legacy of Our Past
Our attempts to distance ourselves from nature have come at an immense cost to the planet. The problems which beset us – climate change, pandemics – have their origins in our biology. To survive, solutions must take our evolutionary heritage into account, or they will fail.
How do drugs hijack the brain? This guide explores the neurochemical foundations of addiction, unraveling the roles of reward systems, neurotransmitters, stress pathways, and neuroplasticity. It offers critical insights into the mechanisms driving addiction and new therapies.
Crossing Class Boundaries
How do social climbers navigate two worlds while remaining true to themselves? Lenette Schuijt draws from her own life, interviews, and research to explore the journey of transclass individuals, illustrating that class is still very much alive in our society.
India’s changing age structure is bound to make it an economic powerhouse as its rivals’ workforces shrink. This book introduces India’s emerging population issues, identifying variables policymakers can manipulate to exploit this potential and improve people’s well-being.
Alcohol and Alcoholism in Russia
Focusing on Russia since 1970, this book argues that alcoholism is used to veil healthcare failures by blaming victims. It exposes the unstable quality of legal beverages causing lethal poisonings, crimes against alcoholics to steal their property, and their overtreatment.
Despite their different economic models, the middle classes in the US and South Korea face the same crisis: labor market instability and widening inequality. This book examines the causes, the consequences for family and education, and presents policy ideas for revitalization.
Protecting Adolescent Girls with HIV in Malawi
This book examines the socio-cultural and structural barriers to contraception for adolescent girls living with HIV in Malawi. It highlights their compounded health risks and advocates for improved policies and programs to enhance their health outcomes and well-being.
African Immigrant Children in the United States
African immigrant children and their families navigate forging new identities in a foreign land while upholding their cultures. Their journeys, marked by challenges and triumphs, highlight the universal struggle of belonging and show how they become bridges between cultures.
Over the past century, Americans transformed from citizens to consumers, their identities defined by how they spent money. This history argues that while unsustainable, consumer culture has consistently served as a principal source of meaning and purpose in people’s lives.
The Social-Structural Determinants of Health
An understanding of the human body and mind is incomplete without examining the social environment. Social forces create conditions that can either strengthen or undermine the wellbeing of individuals, groups, and entire communities—the social-structural determinants of health.