Social groups, communities and identities

In Copts and Muslims, Jack Tajer presents a controversial study of Egyptian history from the Arab conquest to 1922, addressing the political, social, religious, and spiritual dimensions of Muslim-Coptic relations.

This book offers innovative insights from across disciplines to explore the soulful survival of migrants, refugees, and displaced individuals and communities amidst stalemates, crises and compromises in human rights.

Reveals how inclusive heritage policies simultaneously created exclusion and conflict within the Palenquero community in Colombia.

Ethnography of Shias living along frontiers of Kashmir, negotiating belonging to India by calibrating transnational religious-cultural ideas with nationalist ideologies.

Situating Birsa Munda as the canon, the book demonstrates how political parties and civil societies mobilise and reproduce his memory.

Historic littoral cities and sites of Southeast Asia that grew along the coast, seascapes, and the confluence of rivers as evolvements from Indigenous settlements linked the dynamism of trade and confluence of cultures, have defied categorization and characterization.

A pioneering study of Greek religion and cults at a key colonial frontier, with major consequences for antiquity at large.

An analysis of Balkan Islam and the formation of one of the largest Muslim communities in the early-modern Ottoman Balkans.

A fresh response to the problem of illegal immigration in the United States through the context of Christian theology.

Explores the evolving human rights of Roma in Eastern Europe''s recent history, and the complex politics of Roma rights today.

Analyzes the political roots of the systems of constitutional justice in Latin America, tracing their development over the last 40 years.

This thought-provoking study examines the backstory and enduring contemporary effects of Australia''s claim to an absolute right to exclude foreigners.

An up-to-date, theoretically informed study of male, in-group, street-aligned, youth language practice in various urban centres in Africa.

The Jewish Family examines Jewish family law in the light of new attitudes concerning the role of women.

This book offers innovative insights from across disciplines to explore the soulful survival of migrants, refugees, and displaced individuals and communities amidst stalemates, crises and compromises in human rights.

Investigates the underrepresentation of women in politics, by examining how language use constructs and maintains gender inequalities in political institutions.

Reframes gender variance and transition in positive, non-oppositional terms, informed by Christian constructive theologies of creation and personhood.

A path-breaking study of the role played by language in the construction of sexual identities in schools.

Examines the social, legal and cultural challenges navigating the boundaries of ''normal''-''problematic''-''risky'' sexual behaviours among peers.

Uses public opinion on LGBT equality to show an evolutionary shift toward deliberative democracy in which everyone has a voice.

LGBT, faith, and academic thought-leaders explore prospects for laws protecting each community''s core interests and possible resolutions for culture-war conflicts.

The first full treatment of Jewish childhood in the Roman world.

A transnational history of how Indigenous peoples mobilised en masse to support the war effort on the battlefields and the home fronts.

Explores unspoken beliefs that engender workplace behaviour and legislative/judicial failures that contribute to the “glass ceiling” and workplace inequality.

North and South Vietnamese youths had very different experiences growing up during the Vietnamese War.

Moral Contagion highlights the central roles that race and international diplomacy played in the development of American citizenship.

This timely account of politicized homophobia contests portrayals of the African continent as hopelessly homophobic, highlighting how elites deploy it.

Fourteen leading scholars explore the lives of seven of the most famous Jewish lawyers in the history of international law.

Detailed study of the ICC''s practice in prosecuting gender-based crimes, current up to the ICC Statute''s twentieth anniversary in 2018.

This unique study spotlights the role of masculinity in Iranian history, linking masculinity to social and political developments.

Rethinks and retells the history of music in sixteenth-century Ferrara, putting women, of the court and convent, at the narrative centre.

Explores the profession of singing, operatic culture, and the representation of female performers on the nineteenth century French stage.

This book contains expansive, multifaceted narrative of British women''s literary and textual production from the Reformation to the Restoration.

Provides a new way of thinking about parties formed by social movements, and their evolution over time.

Examines Iran''s Armenian community, shedding light on Muslim-Christian relations in Iran since the 1979 revolution.

Explores how global youth push the boundaries of standard language and exploit the potential of their multilingual repertoires online.

Provides the first formal account and theory of endurance as a practice in performance art and protest.

A cutting-edge description of subnational democracy combined with a ground breaking explanation for why some regions are much less democratic than others.

Explores the relationship between the legitimacy, the efficacy, and the decision-making of national and transnational constitutional courts.

Explains how weakly institutionalized and male-dominant parties undermine descriptive representation in Brazil''s OLPR legislative elections.

Examines the myriad consequences of World War II for racial attitudes and the presidential response to civil rights.

Argues that North American settler colonialism included episodes of genocide of Indigenous peoples as defined by the United Nations Genocide Convention.

This innovative book reveals children''s experiences and how they became victims and actors during the twentieth century''s biggest conflicts.

A historical and comparative analysis investigating two hundred years of migration and citizenship laws in South America.

Develops a theory of collaborative capitalism that produces economic stability for businesses and workers in American urban cores.

Explores the interplay between law and religion in the area of hate speech, whether religion is the target or source.

Provides a valuable transnational history of the African Diaspora through examination of British Afro-Caribbeans in Cuba.

This unique window into Muslim identities provides scholars and students with important up-to-date data about real Muslims living in Israel.