Socio-Cultural Construction of Recognition
This book fills a crucial research gap by examining the representation of Islam and Muslims in the British Christian media. It takes a different turn from previous studies, analyzing these portrayals through the lens of the politics of recognition.
This book situates African literature as a site of artistic and cultural production within postcolonial politics. It evaluates the literature as a cultural contestation with imperial knowledge and as an ideological strategy for societal self-knowledge.
This volume examines important themes in medical sociology, documenting the thinking and frameworks shaping research today. It covers topics from the morality of death to conflicts between health providers, and will interest students and professionals.
The Space of Memory
This volume preserves the endangered Arbëresh language through its tales, stories, and songs. By recording its authentic sound, it serves as a vital linguistic and cultural tool to bring Arbëresh to future generations of young speakers.
Social Sciences Today
This collection of essays will appeal to teachers and researchers of social sciences. The essays deal with three main issues in Europe and Asia: educational theory, society in the context of globalisation, and identity, alterity and multiculturalism.
Whiteness and Social Change
Whiteness and Social Change compares the unearned privilege of whiteness in Australia and Canada. Examining community campaigns supporting First Peoples struggles, it identifies how collaborative struggle can destabilise whiteness and move towards a fair society.
These essays explore women, gender, and disease in 18th-century England and France. Excluded from universities, women nonetheless contributed to anatomy, botany, and medicine, informing literary texts and raising questions about their role in the Enlightenment.
Humorous Garden-Paths
This book investigates short humorous texts like one-liners and witticisms based on the “garden-path mechanism”—the pleasurable surprise of being deceived. It will interest anyone who finds humour research appealing; no background knowledge is necessary.
Contemporary Television Series
This volume proposes an interdisciplinary approach to worldwide television series, analyzing the invisible barriers between fiction and reality. Readers can explore unique insights into the impact of television on reality and on their own lives.
Feminist Cyberspaces
This collection of essays explores how new media technologies are used in the feminist classroom. Using practical experience as a basis for feminist theorizing, it seeks new ways to foster provocative, creative, and non-hierarchical learning.
Visible Women
Why do stories of older women becoming invisible persist? This moving exploration challenges that myth, weaving the author’s own journey with the poetic lives of women aged 50-70 to discover what other, more visible, stories can be told.
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.
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.
About The Boys
To ease tensions in a Bristol school, seven Somali and African Caribbean boys are brought together. Five years later, the author finds them again, uncovering powerful stories of exclusion, ambition, and success as they approach their GCSEs.
Muslim Societies in the Age of Mass Consumption
Muslim consumers are not passive victims of globalization. They adapt global brands, reshaping their culture. This volume uses consumption as a prism to understand the enormous transformations that Muslim societies have undergone in the past few decades.
As men and women question gender roles, this book examines masculine expression across Europe, Africa, and the Americas. In this collection, authors write about men’s challenges, friendships, and outcasts to foster understanding and tolerance of all sexualities.
Mother-Texts
Patriarchy has worked to silence women’s dialogue, creating unrepresentative maternal narratives. This book’s valuable research gives recognition to mothers as they speak up, developing a literature in their own language and claiming maternal knowledge and power.
Social Issues presents the social problems confronting Romanian society after the fall of Communism. Essays analyse national and international migration, the construction of identity in physical and virtual spaces, and the health of vulnerable populations.
Community Policing as a Public Policy
Many community policing initiatives fail. This book explains community policing not as a philosophy, but as a sustainable public policy. It provides a model with challenges and recommendations to serve as guidelines for policymakers and implementers.
This book sheds light on how the welfare-states of Scandinavia struggle with diversity, inclusion and citizenship. In Denmark, Norway and Sweden, migration challenges social citizenship, creating new tensions between rights, obligations, and identity.