Is intercultural exchange truly possible in societies riddled with tensions? This collection of studies addresses the challenges posed by diversity and inequality in the construction of inclusive societies.
New Media and the Mediatisation of Religion
New media has transformed religious practice and expression. This book offers a unique, Africa-centred perspective on how technology influences religious engagement, shapes discourses, and enables beliefs to reach a broader audience.
While chiefly a site of popular pleasure and merriment, popular culture also functions as a site and source through which identities are inhabited, brokered and contested. This volume offers theoretical reflections on the significance of particular elements of popular culture.
Brazilians Abroad
This book explores Brazil’s experience with emigrant voting. It investigates what external voting rights represent to the Brazilian emigrant community and how emigrants engage politically with their country of origin, based on original data from Brazilians abroad.
Bulut addresses the constitutional journey of religious minorities in modern Turkey, specifically the Lausanne minorities, who have been blacklisted in the official records for decades. He focuses on the non-Muslim citizens who have maintained their lives with confidential codes.
Modern Woman in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
The first book to situate the Saudi woman in a broader cultural context, this monograph explores a variety of themes, historical developments, and taboos. It also investigates a range of writing by Saudi women, and discusses their social, economic, and religious contributions.
This monograph brings forth the voice of Bambui, one of the smallest kingdoms in the western Grassfields of Cameroon, through the presentation of its historical arts and culture, and the changes that have taken, and continue to take place, in its society.
The borders between leisure and work are becoming more and more blurred. Such border-crossing is the leitmotif of this book, which has a multidisciplinary scope for scholars and students interested in leisure’s effects on social cohesion.
The Debt Crisis in the Eurozone
In a crisis comparable to the Great Depression, 20 social scientists delve into the causes and social impacts on Europe’s periphery. They cover consequences from poverty to protest and offer policy recommendations to transform the crisis into an opportunity.
The European Culture for Human Rights
This pioneering analysis frames happiness as a human right, linking our quality of life to collective responsibility. It offers a pragmatic vision for improving our inner and outer worlds in a complex, modern society.
Labour Law and Industrial Relations in Recessionary Times
This volume of papers in English analyzes the many changes in the Italian labour market. The book provides an international readership with a frame of reference for Italian Labour Law and adds a comparative dimension to the national reform debate.
Indigenous Perspectives of North America
Exploring contemporary Native reality, this volume unites researchers from diverse disciplines under the theme ‘Indigenous perspectives.’ Articles on human rights, law, and culture offer a platform for critical investigation and classroom discussion.
Using autobiographies from transgender and intersex lives, this book challenges static notions of gender. It reveals how identity is shaped by the material world, offering a nuanced analysis of gender as a fluid, evolving experience for anyone seeking a deeper understanding.
The Social-Structural Determinants of Health
An understanding of the human body and mind is incomplete without examining the social environment. Social forces create conditions that can either strengthen or undermine the wellbeing of individuals, groups, and entire communities—the social-structural determinants of health.
The Construction of Motherhood and Maternal Experiences
Women have been called inadequate, yet are sanctified as perfect mothers. This book offers a new lens on motherhood, examining its history, its experiences across cultures, and the effects of this sacred ideal in a world shaped by poverty, trauma, and social media.
Caribbean slave rebellions conjure images of charismatic men, but women were also leaders. This book explores the erased narratives of enslaved women who led revolts as rebels and warriors, revealing their crucial roles in dismantling the plantation slavery system.
The American 1950s will not be left alone. This book addresses this enduring phenomenon through its Portuguese proponents, from the arrival of rock ‘n’ roll to the contemporary retro scene. Through interviews, it reveals why this American aesthetic continues to fascinate.
Psychology, Interregna and the Struggle for New Orders
When an old order collapses and a new one is yet to emerge, “monsters” arise. This book decodes the psychological and economic dynamics of systemic instability, providing a critical lens to understand the populist surges and digital disruptions shaping the future.
This title is a passionate scholarly inquiry focused on some of the most pressing issues confronting architectural practice, urbanism, and city-making today. It offers an array of conversations with leading architects, urbanists, architectural historians and urban thinkers.
New Women’s Writing
The uptake of women’s writing as a distinct literary genre since the 1960s has been multifarious, and has fuelled a generation of literary and cultural studies. This anthology addresses this legacy and reflects on how a critical history of women’s writing may be created.