Reputed scholars offer a critical analysis of strategies for the development of SCs and STs in India. This well-researched volume is an invaluable tool for planners and policymakers seeking to evolve viable strategies for the coming years.
Citizenship is being reassessed and redefined. In a world of globalisation, migration, and social change, this book’s contributions analyze the evolution of our understanding of citizenship and the individual’s relationship to the state.
Diaries of a Forgotten Parent
An intimate window on the lives of divorced men. Ten American fathers share intensely personal reflections of guilt, pain, and pride, deconstructing the societal myth that fathers are less valuable parents than mothers.
This book challenges the standards, values, and parameters used to judge women in society. Drawing on literary texts, case studies, and insights from global scholars, it serves as an authentic representative of the women’s cause.
Digital Diversities
Digital Diversities is a study of the ‘digital turn’s’ impact on global mobility and everyday life. It explores the shift to remote relationships, new forms of political expression, and intercultural encounters in the digital global hive.
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.
Digitalization, Economic Development and Social Equality
This book is an outcome of the WCSA Conference “Turbulent Convergence.” It gathers research from international scholars to provide a forum for valuable discussion.
Focusing on the digital lives of children aged eight and under, and paying attention to their parents and educators, this collection showcases international research findings from such diverse fields as education, media studies, sociology, cultural studies, and physiotherapy.
In a rare convergence of perspectives, experts from philosophy, history, science, and law address crucial moral issues. This volume explores the nature of goodness in areas from bioethics to economics, invaluable for a common reflection on our values.
This book follows migrants from challenging homelands into even more challenging new worlds. Spanning historical periods, these essays use diverse approaches to reveal the experiences of immigrants, providing a fresh perspective on today’s immigration issues.
This collection sets out the needs of social services for dealing with disadvantaged groups, and specifies the social services required for these communities and the role played by religious institutions in providing services to disadvantaged individuals.
This volume reveals the important role of cultural stereotypes in how societies adapt to and cope with crises. Through detailed analysis of global case studies, it redefines disasters as any deviation from “normality” in a particular culture.
This book analyses data from floods, earthquakes, and bio-infections to provide a model of ethnological disaster research. It focuses on communities’ quality of life, offering contributions to policy for disaster prevention, response, and recovery.
Disasters, Culture, Politics
This volume explores contemporary crises—from epidemics to social catastrophes—in China and Bulgaria. Using ecological anthropology and a cross-cultural approach, it investigates the full life-cycle of disasters and our strategies for coping and relief.
Discourses and Practices of Othering
This book investigates how ‘others’ are manufactured and anchored in collective memory. Through analysis of film, news, and social media, it sheds light on the institutional, political, and social forces that form and transform the discourses and practices of othering.
Discourses on Disability bridges academic and personal voices from India to deconstruct ableism. Narratives from people with disabilities examine how it feels to exist in a world of cultural taboos, challenging the systemic silence around disability in India.
This book explores the partnership between the French state and Disney to create Val d’Europe. It reveals why a welfarist state joined a capitalist giant and critically examines their ongoing efforts to build a massive urban tourism pole despite criticisms and challenges.
Dispersion of Meaning
In a fractured world, how do we find shared meaning? This book breaks disciplinary barriers to connect art, technology, and economics, showing how a collective learning process becomes the heart of productivity in a new era of cognitive capitalism.
Disrespected Neighbo(u)rs
Media, fictional and non-fictional texts, feature prominently in producing and propagating cultural difference and stereotypes in ideologically effective ways. This text analyses media representations from various angles, dealing with ethnic groups from three world areas.
This work brings together nine papers written within the realms of political science, the humanities, theology and religion, as well as business, economics, and management. They offer unique perspectives to provide a multifaceted take on dissidence in the European context.