Culture, Crisis and COVID-19
The pandemic is a priceless opportunity for a Great Reset. Can we re-vision capitalism as a life-preserving phenomenon? We must create an economy that serves all stakeholders, not just shareholders. The true mission of business is to serve humanity with higher goals.
This book offers interdiscursivity as a platform for understanding contemporary culture. Re-engaging Foucault, it provides novel theoretical approaches and methodological innovations to scrutinize cultural consumption, from Web 2.0 social movements to micro-celebrities.
Georg Simmel in Translation
Though his name was forgotten, Georg Simmel’s writings on modernity left a significant mark. In this collection, scholars trace his influence through time and space, from Imperial Berlin to contemporary Singapore, and in the works of other intellectuals.
Written by distinguished researchers, coaches, and athletes, this volume of innovative research informs sports theory and practice. It provides historical perspectives, contemporary analyses, and unique insights from case studies to help readers develop best practices.
Traditional Counselling
This book narrows the gaps in the under-researched field of traditional counselling. It articulates a theoretical framework rooted in African sociocultural values and community-based practices, underscoring the relevance of this thought-provoking counselling model.
This book examines Western thought on technology through seven paradigm-shifting eras. It argues that we have failed to learn from the past, allowing technology to take control of our lives. But we can free ourselves by humanizing technology so that humans are in control.
Chinese Immigration in Latin America
This book explores the social and cultural relationship between Latin America and China, focusing on the challenges of Chinese immigration to countries like Costa Rica, Argentina, and Mexico.
Exploring gentrification in heterotopic post-industrial urban spaces, these studies illustrate, empirically, the extent to which advertising adsensory technologies have become integral to the gentrification of post-industrial urban spaces.
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.
Health Disparities and the Ancestral Environment
Health disparities among people of African descent have deep evolutionary roots. This book reveals how genetic adaptations that once protected against deadly infections in Africa now increase susceptibility to chronic diseases in North America.
American Popular Culture
“A varied and fascinating collection of original investigations.” Scholars explore how pop culture has become our new reality, absorbing every facet of life. This book offers important insights into this maddening phenomenon’s uplifting and downgrading possibilities.
Breaking the Cycle of Women’s Paid Domestic Work in Brazil
This book portrays the life stories of Brazilian domestic workers and their daughters, who are the first in their families to get a higher education. It explores their social mobility through the mother-daughter bond that transforms trauma into empowerment.
Connecting Criminology and Criminal Justice
This integrated criminology/criminal justice textbook presents critical perspectives on the justice system. Covering key theories, research, and crime trends in the Canadian context, it provides students with the critical skills they need to excel in social justice and beyond.
Children, Childhood, and the Future
The science of a “good childhood” is based on Western children, ignoring the global majority. This volume bridges that gap by exploring childhood in African countries, offering ways to develop joint ideas about childhood instead of imposing one-sided standards.
This volume offers new approaches to considering Italy’s traumatic experiences through a wide array of unanalyzed media. It looks at trauma not simply as a national event, but as the force creating subnational and transnational communities.
This book takes an intersectional approach to explore gender, race, and class in television and film. It sheds light not only on intersectional elements of on-screen fiction, but also on the very nature of intersectional criticism.
Women Moving Forward
These are the deeply moving narratives of women who uprooted themselves to seek a better life. United in their quest for a self-constructed future, they persevere and prevail. These are the stories of everyday heroes, a treasure that cannot be missed.
This book introduces citizen science approaches to coastal and marine sciences. It goes beyond the narrow definition of citizen science to include contributions from the tourism industry, discussing methods from social media and apps to tour operator sighting logs.
Reinventing Capitalism in New Zealand
White settlers began to arrive in New Zealand in numbers during the 1840s, and sought with their colonial ambitions to reinvent capitalism in a new land. Wilkes traces the shape of this reinvention, and the slow emergence of New Zealand’s particular form of class structure.
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.