Civilization at Risk
A devastating human rights war has unfolded, an injustice of Holocaust dimensions. With 30 million people in slavery, this 21st Century scourge cannot be combated by indifference. This book is an immediate call to arms to fight the evil of Human Trafficking.
Mothers at the Margins
This collection speaks with the voices of mothers who feel alienated, stigmatised, or silenced for not fitting the expected norms of motherhood. It challenges narrow ideas of maternal identity, revealing structures of oppression and strategies of resistance and love.
Everyday Feminist Research Praxis
This volume explores the everyday as a site of micro-political power struggles. By connecting theory with feminist research practice, contributors show how to disentangle daily routines, scrutinize entrenched power relations, and energize new forms of recognition.
The Willow and the Spiral
This book of essays commemorates Nobel laureate Octavio Paz. Top scholars offer studies of his poetry and essays in relation to art, politics, translation, and world cultures, celebrating his legacy of criticism and open viewpoints.
Dark Heritage Tourism in the Iberian Peninsula
This collection explores dark tourism in the Iberian Peninsula, examining how sites of death and suffering are transformed into dissonant heritage that forges powerful collective identities.
This volume explores how a dialogue between diversity and migration research can deepen understanding. It highlights challenges in host societies, from exclusion to anti-migrant attitudes, and points toward solutions through diversity management and legal reform.
Northern Atlantic Islands and the Sea
This anthology delves into the shared Nordic cultural and linguistic heritage of Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Orkney, Shetland and the Hebrides, showing how the experience of being surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean has been a constant in the islanders’ history and identities.
Beyond Money, Cars, and Women
How does hip hop shape black masculinity? Going beyond outsider criticism, this book gives a voice to the men affected. Through interviews, it explores hip hop’s damaging and positive effects, and its potential as a powerful tool for social change.
Beyond the Book
This collection explores aspects of children’s literature ‘Beyond the Book’.
From woodcuts to e-books, children’s literature is reinterpreted through illustration, pop-ups, film, and stage adaptations, celebrating the creativity that engages young readers.
Unfashionable Objections to Islamophobic Cartoons
Byrd critiques the political philosophy of Stéphane Charbonnier of Charlie Hebdo, showing how the new “Enlightenment Fundamentalism” of the political left contributes to the Islamophobic politics of Europe’s neo-fascist right.
Africa’s Finances
Remittances to developing countries exceed development aid. This volume explores their contribution to Africa’s finances and provides guidelines to expand them, examining resources from money transfers and new technologies to skills remitted by the diaspora.
Mediated Deviance and Social Otherness
This thought-provoking anthology explores provocative representations of deviance in various media—from films to internet sites—and their substantial cultural, political, and social consequences for individuals of different backgrounds and lifestyles.
Intersections of Displacement
A new, hidden homelessness has emerged among asylum seekers. Examining refugee experiences in London and Toronto, this book argues that this requires a new perspective from refugees themselves, asking how they reconstruct ‘home’ in the face of differing national policies.
This illustrated book uses cultural studies to analyze the significance of blue jeans, handbags, wrestling, Donald Duck, and other aspects of American pop culture. Written in a lively, accessible style, it is ideal for students and the general reader alike.
Academic Mobility and Migration are a reality for most in higher education. This unique volume explores their impact on institutions and people, considering underexplored aspects like virtual mobility, North-South mobility, and questions of identity.
This ground-breaking work, featuring contributions from W.E.B. Du Bois’s great-grandson, Arthur McFarlane III, among others, is the first devoted exclusively to Du Bois’s rhetoric and motives, and serves as a blueprint for today’s continuing struggle for a post-racial society.
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.
An expert shares 25 more facts learned from a quarter-century in criminal justice. Covering policing, courts, corrections, and race, each point is backed by research. Though scholarly, the book is written for the layperson in a timely, engaging, “tell it like it is” style.
This book analyses the connections between Victorian perceptions of childhood and the anxieties of the Fin-de-Siècle. It examines how children in literature came to represent both the promise and the threat of the future in an age of upheaval.
Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Shadow (Expanded Edition)
Ken Saro-Wiwa’s non-violent struggle for democracy, minority rights, and environmental awareness defined the Ogoni crisis of the 1990s. In a context of despotism, he was brutally cut down. This study provides an in-depth analysis of the crisis and its unfolding aftermath.