Key Issues Confronting the Black Community in Denver, CO
This volume highlights critical issues in Colorado’s Black and Brown communities—from policing and equity to prisoner reintegration—and offers solutions. It contains essential tools for educators and leaders, providing a model for urban communities nationwide.
Foundational Social Ritual Practices of Parish Life
What makes a parish strong? This book argues it begins not with structures, but with relationships. Discover the foundational ingredients of community and how social rituals, like sharing a meal, forge the bonds that make a parish truly thrive.
This book explores education’s impact on women’s equality, focusing on technical education and entrepreneurship. It shows how, when given their rightful place in decision-making and economic freedom, women become powerhouses of innovation and partners for prosperity and peace.
To address diverse student needs, education must move to an inclusive, student-centric approach. This volume highlights diversity and inclusion practices, helping educators understand and address the challenges students face.
This book presents critiques of African American authors, poets, and a composer who contributed to social change, including Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, and James Baldwin. It also discusses Vietnamese-American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen and his novel The Sympathizer.
Neighborhood Organization and Social Control in Changing Urban China
Using large-scale survey data, this book assesses the neighborhood social control system in a changing urban China. It conceptualizes this system through multiple levels of control and highlights the importance of cross-cultural studies of neighborhood effects.
Hope, Solidarity and Death at the Australian Border
This book reveals how Australia’s asylum seeker policy plays out on Christmas Island. It examines how islanders responded to strangers in need and provides insights into why humans help or turn them away, encouraging a future of hope and solidarity over border deaths.
Islamic Teachings and Social Structure
This book corrects misconceptions about Islam, challenging social perceptions and deviations from its religious guidelines. It offers an opportunity to learn about various social dimensions and Islamic views in the light of the Quran and Sunnah.
Origins of Capitalism and Jewish Ethics
This book critically analyzes Werner Sombart’s link between Jewish ethics and the spirit of capitalism. It follows a little-investigated avenue of exploration, analyzing the origins of capitalism to generate new perspectives on the relationship between economy and religion.
Traditional Sports and Games in the Contemporary World
A captivating journey from Denmark to the Basque Country and Scotland exploring traditional sports. This book reveals why these games are valuable, necessary, and fit the needs of our times, offering inspirational ideas for how to use them in practice.
This volume offers new approaches to considering Italy’s traumatic experiences through a wide array of unanalyzed media. It looks at trauma not simply as a national event, but as the force creating subnational and transnational communities.
Delving into radical Islam in Saudi Arabia, this book exposes a hidden front: female terrorism. It uncovers the causes of women’s extremism and reveals their crucial, often overlooked, role in terrorist networks, shattering the myth of their non-involvement.
The Sociology of Longevity
For the first time, this book analyzes how socioecological factors influence our probability of becoming a centenarian. It presents global evidence on the factors affecting life expectancy and contributes applicable knowledge on how to become a healthy centenarian.
Belonging and Place-Making in a Neoliberal Waterfront Area
This book explores how privatisation and elite developments transform urban waterfronts into exclusive spaces. It argues these policies affect the distribution of owners and renters and change the meaning of home. Using a case study, it examines the feelings of tenure groups.
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.
Will future migration be organized and humane or deadly and chaotic? This book argues that to meet their structural labor shortages, developed countries must stop building useless walls and start co-managing migration by financing training in countries of departure.
Sex, Gender, and Engineering
This timely book examines sexual harassment in engineering in the context of #MeToo. It provides a window into the experiences of individuals, presents effective strategies for practitioners to reduce harassment, and outlines where future research is needed.
This collection of essays challenges the idea that capitalism can be reformed to meet today’s existential threats. It explores why “it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism” and offers actual alternatives and ways forward, community by community.
This volume examines critical aspects of global migration—from the rule of law and climate refugees to human trafficking and integration. It explores how the situation might evolve over the next 20 years, offering a broader perspective on this complex phenomenon.
This volume explores Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) through case studies from Gabon, India, Mozambique, Sri Lanka, and the USA. It articulates the complexities and ambiguities within heritage discourses, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic.