This book reveals how masked activists in Saudi Arabia use social media to challenge a patriarchal society. It connects their hidden online identities to influential newspaper columns, investigating the true extent and consequences of a Saudi woman’s freedom of expression.
Luxury and American Consumer Culture
This book analyzes the role of luxury in American consumer culture, with case studies on how it affects our choices of automobiles, homes, and hotels. Adopting a global perspective, it also features analyses of luxury in China, Germany, Russia, and other countries.
This book presents critiques of African American authors, poets, and a composer who contributed to social change, including Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, and James Baldwin. It also discusses Vietnamese-American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen and his novel The Sympathizer.
This powerful guidebook provides evidence-based strategies for first responders, healthcare providers, and families caring for individuals with developmental disabilities, including Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, or autism. It is a must-read for all involved in their care.
An Analysis of the Role of Cycling in Sustainable Urban Mobility
This book analyses why cycling is returning to cities to solve the crisis of the car-centric model. It argues that it is not possible to solve this crisis without giving a central role to the bicycle as a key part of any sustainable urban mobility project.
The Ecological Footprint of Tourism
This book provides a methodological approach to calculating the Ecological Footprint of Tourism (TEF). Through a Greek case study, it offers insights on the TEF as a sustainability indicator under the pressures of climate change, mass tourism, and the energy transition.
Human Impacts at a Planetary Scale
Our global infrastructure has exceeded planetary boundaries. To protect Earth and ensure our survival, we must transition to lifestyles that restore natural ecosystems. This book explores the systems contributing to species loss and documents the solutions being offered.
The New York Yankees in the Twentieth Century
This is not for baseball fans only. This exploration of Yankee history examines how design, corporatism, and philosophy created a global franchise. It reveals the distinction between looking and seeing by exploring the meaning of the pinstripes, the stadium, and the iconic cap.
This book presents multidisciplinary research from Turkey on urban studies, sustainability, environment, and migration. Using specific examples, it offers innovative approaches to current problems, arguing that local policy is key to achieving sustainability on a wider scale.
Social network analysis is a methodological tool used to investigate collections of individuals and their shared relationships. The book provides an overview of the tool’s growing body of research in sport, and details practical guidance for its application.
Contemporary Turkish media is placed under the microscope in this text which sheds light on current trends and debates in the different mass media spheres of the digitalized world. It offers valuable insights into the current conditions of the field of communications in Turkey.
This book tackles the effects of co-occurring substance abuse and mental health disorders on offenders transitioning from incarceration. Offering an inside look at a community reentry program, it uncovers how these disorders jeopardize the transition back into society.
Media researchers and journalists consider what happens in the wake of a terrorist attack: how the people affected communicate and how terrorists use social media. This collection will appeal to academic readers and anyone interested in this contemporary global problem.
This book explores what it means to re-assert an African identity to counter neo-colonialism. Drawing on Pan-Africanism and the spirit of Ubuntu, it revisits the dream of an African rebirth to inspire youth to build a better life on the continent.
Latin American Marxisms in Context
In Latin America, governments and popular mobilizations have challenged neoliberalism, sparking a revival of Marxist perspectives. This book provides an insight into the rich diversity of Latin American Marxism, appealing to all interested in the region’s radicalism.
The various essays collected here examine how ‘women’, across time and space, experimented with new genres or forms of expression in order to transform, question, resist or paradoxically consolidate gender discriminations and dominant ideologies in their respective societies.
Perspectives of Five Kuwaiti Women in Leadership Roles
In intimate conversations, five remarkable Kuwaiti women leaders—including one of the first female MPs, an art advocate, and an oil industry leader—share their thoughts on gender equality, the women’s rights movement, and the role of religion in their country’s future.
This text evaluates the promises, myths, and critiques of sustainable consumption from a wide range of perspectives, covering individual consumptive choices and the carbon footprint of cities, as well as resource sharing and environmental entrepreneurism.
Alpine Refugees
This collection of essays highlights how Alpine territories are facing challenges from migration, and how these can trigger policy innovations with beneficial impacts for both migrants and local inhabitants. It will appeal to practitioners, social scientists, and policy makers.
The Turkish-American Conundrum
This novel collection of essays discusses various aspects of the experiences of Turkish immigrants in the United States, as well as those of US expatriates in Turkey. It heralds in print the launching of a new paradigm, Turkish-American Studies.