Recent studies show it is necessary to deal with addiction in an interdisciplinary context. This volume responds to this need, discussing addiction within psychology, health sciences, and forensic sciences to help academics and professionals develop a common ground.
This is a lively, nuanced portrayal of the struggles around identity, inequality, and domination. Ambitious in its scope, this international and interdisciplinary collection offers a powerful, hopeful picture of the pursuit of change through the lens of boundaries.
The concept of culture industry leads a double life. This book is a contribution to a critical tradition that explores the term in relation to media, philosophy, and consumption, showing the continued relevance of an expression whose muteness corroborates its darkest content.
This book analyses land grabbing and displacement in India. Based on fieldwork in Odisha and Jharkhand, it reveals the subsequent impoverishment and trauma, with a special focus on the tribal women who bear the brunt of displacement and lose their autonomy as migrant labourers.
This book analyzes how social economics and entrepreneurship can be successful approaches in social work. It deals with core topics like management and social development, with implications for policy and organizations, appealing to researchers and a wider audience.
This book unveils the dimensions of work-life balance for female academics in Bangladesh. Key findings suggest that factors from both family and work have a mostly negative effect, limiting their job satisfaction and career growth by disrupting work-home harmony.
These interdisciplinary essays explore race and ethnicity in Ecuador, highlighting understudied Afro-Ecuadorian perspectives alongside Indigenous ones. Examining politics, culture, and gender, they reveal the richness, complexities, and promises facing the country.
Transnational Landscapes and Postmodern Poetics
How the spatial imagination has informed our postmodern mapping of literature, culture, history, geography and politics, is explored here. The text invites a reappraisal of the value of space in our social, political and historical realities.
Culture and Power
These essays explore the performance of historical plots. Questioning traditional historiography, they analyze the emplotment of history in visual culture, museums, and national identities, arguing that writing history is a performative act.
Early Public School Football Codes
Puddings, bullies, squashes. These were the names for the brutal melee of early football, when half a school battled the other. Uncover the lost codes that existed before the FA and RFU rewrote the rules and nationalised the game.
South Sudanese Diaspora in Australia and New Zealand
This collection of contemporary research offers crucial insights into the South Sudanese resettlement experience in Australia and New Zealand. Diverse scholars examine the challenges, opportunities, and successes of one of the region’s fastest-growing communities.
Trumpism
This collection by scholars and activists focuses on the 2016 election of Donald J. Trump as it relates to gender. Chapters explore Trump’s hyper-masculine posturing, the effect on marginalized populations and survivors of sexual assault, and how to teach and parent in this era.
In multi-ethnic societies, the threat is from within. Ethnic conflict is a time bomb, as nation-building often marginalizes groups and sparks violence. Can a democratic setting moderate these tensions and achieve peaceful resolution in Southeast Asia?
In a post-7/7 world, multiculturalism is more important than ever. This collection examines the historical context and social policy perspectives of multiculturalism, presenting arguments for both integrationist and multicultural approaches to the debate.
Media Agoras
This collection of essays presents up-to-date perspectives on the media’s role in constructing a more inclusive society. From theoretical debates to empirical analyses, this book presents a critical overview of crucial debates in contemporary European societies.
Selling James Bond
Selling James Bond offers an in-depth “behind the scenes” look at the series’ history of product placement. It charts the practice’s progression, drawing correlations to cultural events and showing how brands became embedded in the film narrative.
This volume explores linguistic understandings of gender non-conformity and diverse masculinities. Contesting stereotypes and prejudices, it demonstrates that language matters in the everyday experience of gender diversity beyond the traditional binary.
Football’s First 100 Years, 1866-1966
From the pioneers who created the FA Cup, journey through England’s splendid isolation and World Cup wilderness to the ultimate triumph of 1966—a victory witnessed firsthand by the author.
A Malaysian Study of Mixed Methods
Roosli and O’Keefe focus on how to combine quantitative with qualitative methods in a research project. This approach, which is detailed here, is called ‘Triangulation’; a plan, structure and investigation strategy used to obtain answers to problems from an earlier stage.
Ex-sistere
These essays address literary discourses on the mobility of women writers in Europe. The literary systems of Ireland, Galicia, and Wales experienced a rebirth in the late twentieth century, and the present century has seen new research exploring emergent literatures in Europe.