The Values, World Society and Modelling Yearbook 2015 analyses contemporary world events with special attention to values. It explores the year’s economic, political and cultural tensions—from austerity to migration—through the core notions of space, time and value.
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.
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.
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.
A crucial guide for clinicians and leaders on preventing and treating child maltreatment. It offers research-based strategies to reduce job stress for working parents, addressing the work-family conflicts that can put children at risk.
Climate change poses a significant threat to human security in Kenya. This anthology is a vital guide to the country’s challenges, exploring effective solutions for food security, public health, and gender-sensitive resilience in the face of extreme weather.
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.
Digitalisation, Inclusion, and Exclusion in Higher Education
Moving beyond access, this collection examines how the digital divide perpetuates inequality in higher education. Through a social justice lens, it analyzes the issue from theory to practice with global case studies and showcases innovative policies to bridge the divide.
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.
Biology of the Indian Stingless Bee
This book covers all aspects of the Indian stingless bee, including its distribution, biology, foraging behaviour, conservation, and products. It provides valuable insights for beekeepers, researchers, and students, offering practical guidance on managing these vital pollinators.
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.’
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.
This book is about shifting road users’ negative attitudes towards positive mindsets. It presents a new spectrum of attitudes to replace outdated binary systems, showing attitudes are not expressed as approve-disapprove but as a range of at least ten distinct mindsets.
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.
Sport Tourism Development
This book brings together international authors to explore sport tourism from theory to practice, examining E-sport events, territorial development, and sustainability. Essential for academic researchers, students, policymakers, and professionals in sports tourism and management.
These essays explore “identity and dialogue” from perspectives like art, politics, and gender. Within diverse cultural contexts, they question the relational element at work in identity formation, disclosing how it is conditioned by self and otherness.
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.
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.
Sociology of China
This textbook introduces sociology and Chinese society. Drawing on 50+ years of combined experience and the expertise of an author born in China, this unique fusion of perspectives enlightens readers as they explore Chinese culture, norms, history, and society.
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.