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.
Economy in Society
This book analyzes classic sociology and economics, exposing their flaws. It then presents a constructive programme, socio-economic structuralism, which offers theoretical innovations that draw on, but move beyond, the achievements of past thinkers.
Everlasting Countdowns
Politics, not demographics, is at the core of censuses. This book argues that there is no objective method for counting social identities. Using studies from Latin America, it shows how ethnic and racial categories are defined by states to serve political goals.
Let’s Learn Together, Let’s Work Together
This volume explores global challenges and solutions for transcultural health care. Providing competent care requires knowledgeable, culturally sensitive professionals. Deeply rooted values must be challenged to address unwitting prejudices and stereotyping.
Strangers in New Homelands
For immigrants, the concept of “home” evokes confusion, fear, and hope. This collection explores what this concept means for people making new lives in strange environments, examining the challenges of settlement, integration, and adaptation.
Iraq’s Kurdistan Region is massively contaminated by landmines used by the Baathist government to de-populate the area. This work investigates the landmine problem’s devastating social, health, and economic impacts and the actions taken to rebuild.
In post-socialist countries, consumer culture is a “science in the shadows,” studied commercially but neglected by academia. This book creates a counterbalance, exploring consumer behaviour, new theories, and recent criticism from leading scholars.
Seductive Screens
This book describes the development of children’s media from radio to Facebook, explaining the perfect storm—a collision of economics, psychology, and technology—behind its growth. It explores the influence of Disney, Sesame Street, and Batman in this context.
Children and Childhoods 2
Decisions about children’s lives depend on images of childhood, yet these are rarely critiqued. Images of Childhood examines public images against research findings, analysing how they are formed and how evidence is used, distorted, or minimised.
Confronting the International Patriarchy
While external states—often in the name of women’s liberation—restrict the participation of women in the Middle East, this book demonstrates their joint efforts to confront the international patriarchy with examples of resistance from Iran to the UN.
Applied Social Sciences
This collection of essays on social work explores topics from burnout and migration to child attachment and rehabilitation. It is an essential resource for students, social workers, and researchers who wish to improve personally and professionally.
Applied Social Sciences
Applied Social Sciences: Sociology offers a collection of studies explaining complex phenomena like migration, culture, and identity. This volume provides material for professionals and is accessible to the public interested in interdisciplinary sociological approaches.
Beyond Natural Resources to Post-Human Resources
Are natural resources limited, or does demand create its own supply? This book rejects these opposing views and offers a new theory to fundamentally change the way we think about resources, diversity, discontinuity, and the future of humanity.
Gendered
Challenging disciplinary boundaries, this volume moves beyond an art-history survey to explore the bond between feminist art, theory, and politics. It compares American and European artists to reveal the continuing relevance of both for the contemporary reader.
Culture and Power
This collection explores identity and identification in cultural studies. Incorporating theoretical contributions and practical case studies, this monograph adds to contemporary debates on topics such as gender politics, postcolonialism, and the nation.
Speaking–Writing With
Our differences often divide us. This text theorises ways of speaking “with” (instead of “for”) others by exploring the relationship between poststructural theories and indigenous relational ontologies to transform relations of suppression into mutual respect.
Wilde’s Wiles
This unique collection of essays by international experts celebrates Oscar Wilde’s genius. It explores his enduring influence on culture—from aesthetics to queer theory—and examines the influence of his family and friends on him.
Migration and Exile
This volume challenges the boundaries between American studies, exploring exile and migration. It asks how crossing borders affects notions of home, nation, and language, charting new literary and artistic territories in exilic creation.
Press, Propaganda and Politics
This study compares media in Francoist Spain and Communist Romania, revealing startling similarities in the propaganda of two opposing regimes. It challenges old paradigms and forges a new, unified framework for understanding totalitarian systems.
Risk Assessment of Food Supply
What are the true risks of agricultural free trade? Using CGE models, this book analyzes Japan’s trade liberalization and the 2008 food crisis, revealing the severe impacts on the world’s poorest economies.