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 innovative study corrects persistent misconceptions about Edward S. Curtis, the influential photographer of American Indians. The author argues that Curtis was keenly aware of the major changes Native Americans faced, providing a reappraisal of his monumental work.
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.
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.
Agrarian Modernity and Development in India
This book investigates modernity in contemporary India’s agrarian social system. Farming is revealed as more than an economic activity; it is a performance where culture and social status are key, offering a new approach to agrarian development in postcolonial India.
Master culture-specific vocabulary for intercultural communication between English and Romanian. This unique dictionary is an easy-to-use tool for translators, students, and professionals, with vocabulary organised thematically to cover cuisine, holidays, sports, and more.
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.
Reconceptualising Material Culture in the Tricontinent
This is the first volume to engage with material culture in the Tricontinent of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. It interrogates how objects trace an alternate history, subverting Eurocentric formulations to arrive at a uniquely Tricontinental model of material culture studies.
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.
Rethinking the Theoretical Concepts of Sociology
This book discusses key problems in contemporary social-scientific theory, focusing on fundamental contradictions in concepts like social action, institutions, and systems. Despite dealing with abstract problems, the book’s argument is clear, accessible, and understandable.
Based on original research, this book explores the struggles of working women in Karachi, Pakistan. From managers to domestic workers, it reveals how women in each category are victims of a gender-biased society, fighting for survival in a male-dominated world.
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.
Writing about Latin American Sovereignty
This book explores Sherpa culture, a distinct lifestyle preserved despite outside influence from tourism and modernisation. As the Sherpa language is oral, outside accounts often suffer from mistranslations. Written by a Sherpa, this unique work overcomes these barriers.
Yuri Vella’s Fight for Survival in Western Siberia
A Siberian indigenous poet, reindeer herder, and activist chose to live in the forest, where he fought an oil giant to save his way of life. These essays explore his native spirituality, his struggle, and a new vision for indigenous leadership in post-Soviet Russia.
This guide to retiree destinations worldwide is based on research and hands-on testimonies. Hear directly from retirees in Spain, Canada, and Ecuador, and learn what factors to consider. Chapters include destination profiles based on personal interviews with locals.
Rethinking Social Capital
The essays here offer reflections and case studies from all over the world. They step out of well-known paths of discourse and discuss the phenomenon of social capital in manifold ways and from new perspectives, with a particular focus on its practical application.
Religious Minorities’ Migration from Iran
This book explores the marginalization of non-Muslim religious minorities by state authorities and the mechanisms these groups develop to survive. It examines the dynamics of extremism, its impact, and the responses of these communities in Iran.
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.
Hope, Solidarity and Death at the Australian Border
This book reveals how Australia’s asylum seeker policy plays out on Christmas Island. It examines how islanders responded to strangers in need and provides insights into why humans help or turn them away, encouraging a future of hope and solidarity over border deaths.