Waste Research from the Social Sciences and Humanities Perspectives
Diverse international scholars interrogate waste from the social sciences and humanities. Offering insider perspectives and practical experiences from global South and North communities, they highlight innovative solutions and propose new approaches to our shared waste dilemmas.
This book addresses sustainable urban development, covering governance, green technology, and the environment. It is a reference for local stakeholders making policy and planning choices to protect the environment and to provide for equitable housing, health, and education.
Gender plays a significant role in accessing resources, rights, and power. Through case studies, research, and theory, interdisciplinary scholars shed light on the intricate links between gender, policy, and social change in Africa and worldwide.
Living Outside the Walls
The influx of Chinese to Prato’s textile industry has stirred strong emotions. This is the first comprehensive English study of the migration, exploring the economic and social dilemmas from a full range of perspectives.
This volume explores how practitioners respond to current social realities with creative and innovative social work practice. It examines how they can contribute to policy development through their work on dementia, substance use, juvenile reintegration, and more.
News over Five Millennia
Concentrating on the past 200 years, this book studies messengers and newsmen, focusing on news agency journalists. The book will appeal to historians, social scientists, linguists, media professionals and “news addicts”.
The Luo People in South Sudan
Drawing on oral history and literature, this work explores the kinships, lineages, and identity of Luo ethnic groups. It reaffirms their history and migration path, aiming to evoke intellectual curiosity and inspire further research into their ways of life and contributions.
This book explores the social conditions for valuing education and the limits of sociology in addressing this problem. Its central idea is that the main challenges refer to the conditions of autonomy of the social sciences, especially when studying higher social spheres.
Servant Leadership in Management Practice
This book reviews servant leadership in the context of foodbanks and their volunteers. Through personal narratives, it explores issues of supportive management and organization, underlining the importance of the unpaid workforce and the future of these vital community services.
America in Crisis
America is in crisis. A changing climate, financial instability, and political turmoil threaten our future. Using the new science of cliodynamics, this book explains how rising inequality causes such crises and reveals how we can build a stronger, more prosperous America.
Populism and Illiberalism in Western Societies
Radical right forces threaten to supplant liberal democracy. This book offers a fresh perspective on the populism behind this challenge, applying Niklas Luhmann’s theory of autopoietic social systems to analyze its rise in Britain, Europe, and the United States.
Botswana Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Tourism Development
This book explores cultural heritage and sustainable tourism from an African perspective, using Botswana as a case study. It reconciles the demand to commodify heritage with the quest for its preservation, confronting the hard questions about its business, value, and future.
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 work argues that third-wave feminine activism has given rise to feminine patriarchy. In their push for equality, women have paradoxically reproduced the patriarchy, seeking integration into the system rather than changing it, reifying their identity as feminine men.
This book tells the stories of eight women from a village in Africa reacting to anthropain—pain inflicted by humans. They weep in “sweet sobs,” turning tears into creative energy that generates resilience, hope, and positive change.
While the COVID-19 crisis impacted everyone, women and girls were affected differently, with preexisting inequalities often exacerbated. This collection of rigorous analyses from international scholars critically interrogates this under-examined issue around the world.
India is in an era of great upheaval, making a complete break with its past to redefine its role in the world. This collection of essays captures these extraordinary times, chronicling the changes and fault-lines shaping its future and impacting the world around it.
This volume provides a framework for studying the key decisions potential migrants face. The chapters illustrate how these choices are shaped by immigration policies, personal characteristics, and the economic environment, while also analyzing the effectiveness of those policies.
A psychiatrist’s experiences in the Vietnam War inspired a lifelong commitment to refugee care. This book chronicles his psychiatric clinic, sharing profound stories of loss and trauma from his patients and revealing their remarkable paths to healing.
Mediating Germany
This volume explores how German popular culture responds to contemporary life, combining tradition with current social debates. Essays offer case studies of popular fiction, theatre, music, and filmmaking, analyzing today’s issues and their historical legacies.