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Outsourcing and Service Work in the New Economy

The Case of Call Centres in Mexico City

By: José-Luis Álvarez-Galván

£39.99

This book examines outsourcing's impact on workers in the new economy. Through a study of Mexico City's call centres, it identifies managerial practices that harm employment conditions, revealing how 'old economy' tactics persist in the 21st century.

This book examines outsourcing’s impact on workers in the new economy. Through a study of Mexico City’s call centres, it identifies managerial practices that harm employment conditions, revealing how ‘old economy’ tactics persist in the 21st century.

Unequal Before Death

Edited By: Marcelline Block, Christina Staudt

£39.99

Death may be the “great equalizer,” but our journeys towards it are not. This interdisciplinary collection addresses the many socio-cultural inequalities surrounding death and the end of life to encourage research and action that can improve the experience for all.

Developments in the Theory and Practice of Citizenship

Edited By: Simon McMahon

£34.99

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.

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.

Bodies and Culture

Discourses, Communities, Representations, Performances

Edited By: Christopher E. Forth, Marike Janzen, Damon Talbott

£34.99

This interdisciplinary collection examines the role of culture in shaping bodies. Essays interrogate how the body articulates social differences under hegemonic ideologies, forms identities, and is modified through physical and artistic performance.

Re-inventing/Re-presenting Identities in a Global World

Edited By: Eleftheria Arapoglu, Tatiani Rapatzikou, Smatie Yemenedzi-Malathouni

£39.99

With the peripheral now the center of contemporary culture, this volume examines cultural identity in a global world. It addresses immigration, diaspora, and gender politics, exploring cultural identity as a site of crisis and fragmentation.

Out of the Ordinary

Representations of LGBT Lives

Edited By: Ian Rivers, Richard Ward

£34.99

This book challenges the ordinariness of heterosexuality by exploring the politics of representing LGBT lives. It demonstrates how representation is a battleground for the visibility of ‘non-normative’ voices and a site for fruitful reinvention.

The Future of Asian Feminisms

Confronting Fundamentalisms, Conflicts and Neo-Liberalism

Edited By: Nursyahbani Katjasungkana, Saskia E. Wieringa

£49.99

This book on Asian feminisms confronts fundamentalisms, conflicts, and neo-liberalism. A critical contribution from Asian women’s studies scholars and activists, it stimulates a unique “Asian voice” in the global women’s movement.

Episodes from a History of Undoing

The Heritage of Female Subversiveness

Edited By: Reghina Dascal

£39.99

This volume illustrates women’s resistance to patriarchal norms. From mythical amazons and Renaissance monarchs to modern activists and academics, these women became trail-blazers by undoing, rewriting, and refashioning political and cultural concepts.

Signs of Hope

Deafhearing Family Life

By: Donna West

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Three deafhearing families challenge the view of deafness as loss, celebrating deaf culture and sign language as vital for family life. Winner of the 2013 Outstanding Qualitative Book Award by the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.

Feminist Cyberspaces

Pedagogies in Transition

Edited By: Sharon Collingwood, Alvina E. Quintana, Caroline J. Smith

£44.99

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

Tales of Age, Gender and In/Visibility

By: Christine Bell

£44.99

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.

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.

The Crisis of the Human Sciences

False Objectivity and the Decline of Creativity

Edited By: Thorsten Botz-Bornstein

£34.99

Centralization and over-professionalization disconnect the human sciences from the real world, creating a sterile atmosphere that prevents creativity. The authors offer a broad range of approaches to reconnect the humanities to our world.

Fandom At The Crossroads

Celebration, Shame and Fan/Producer Relationships

By: Katherine Larsen

Edited By: Katherine Larsen, Lynn Zubernis

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As “aca-fans” of the television show Supernatural, the authors go behind the scenes with fans, writers, and actors. Their intimate examination explores fan psychology, passion, and shame, revealing the passionate relationship between a cult show and its fans.

Re-Constructing Place and Space

Media, Culture, Discourse and the Constitution of Caribbean Diasporas

Edited By: Kamille Gentles-Peart, Maurice L. Hall

£34.99

This book explores the influence of embodied, discursive, and mediated communication on the construction and maintenance of Caribbean diasporic communities, presenting a more complex picture of peoples from the region and their diasporic identities.

Crisis, Rupture and Anxiety

An Interdisciplinary Examination of Contemporary and Historical Human Challenges

Edited By: Will Jackson, Bob Jeffrey, Mattia Mariano

£39.99

This interdisciplinary collection critically interrogates ‘crisis,’ a defining concept of our times. Leading scholars unsettle common notions by exploring crises across politics, society, and the humanities, examining the roots of our understanding and its representation.

Academic Identities—Academic Challenges? American and European Experience of the Transformation of Higher Education and Research

Edited By: Tor Halvorsen, Atle Nyhagen

£49.99

EU reforms promote the US university system as a model for economic growth. This book demonstrates that this contradicts basic European values, ignores the social costs of copying an elite system, and neglects crucial issues of elitism and democracy.

Locality, Memory, Reconstruction

The Cultural Challenges and Possibilities of Former Single-Industry Communities

Edited By: Jopi Nyman, Risto Turunen

£39.99

This volume explores the role of culture in single-industry communities facing industrial loss. Through international case studies, it shows how cultural memory, local traditions, and identity become communal strategies for survival and perseverance.

Problems of Contemporary World Futurology

Edited By: Vladimir I. Yakunin

£44.99

Is scientific forecasting of the future possible? The authors of this book are convinced it is. Using rigorous methodology and mathematical modeling, leading experts demonstrate what the world will look like in the coming decades and centuries.

Spirit, Faith and Church

Women’s Experiences in the English-Speaking World, 17th-21st Centuries

Edited By: Laurence Lux-Sterritt, Claire Sorin

£39.99

Women are represented as inferior creatures or as privileged vessels for the divine. This volume questions how women have negotiated their spiritual roles in male-dominated institutions and reacted to perceptions of their bodies as facilitating or impeding access to God.

Migration and New International Actors

An Old Phenomenon Seen With New Eyes

Edited By: Maria Eugenia Cruset

£34.99

New migration studies focus on the political dimension of Diasporas and the trans-national character of migration, exploring their action as agents of para-diplomacy to move investigations beyond the narrow frame of the Nation State.