Social groups, communities and identities

This book examines the ways in which mixed ethnic identities in Scandinavia are formed along both cultural and embodied lines, arguing that while the official discourses in the region refer to a "e;post-racial"e; or "e;color blind"e; era, color still matters in the lives of people of mixed ethnic descent.

The relationship between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Western World is fraught with challenges and tensions.

The relationship between nation and queer sexuality has long been a fraught one, for the sustaining myths of the former are often at odds with the needs of the latter.

An up-close account of how Nigerians' self-reliance in the absence of reliable government services enables official dysfunction to strengthen state powerWhen Nigerians say that every household is its own local government, what they mean is that the politicians and state institutions of Africa's richest, most populous country cannot be trusted to ensure even the most basic infrastructure needs of their people.

This edited collection addresses how therapy can engage with issues of race, culture, religion and spirituality.

Das Handbuch führt in den aktuellen Diskussionsstand der sozialwissenschaftlichen Entwicklungsforschung ein und liefert einen systematischen Überblick über die Vielfalt der vertretenen Paradigmen und Forschungsfelder.

The dynamic nature of Christianity has necessitated its movement from the cathedral to the mountain top.

At the time of publication, no single volume in English had ever appeared in the West dealing with this intriguing subject area.

In Care at the End of the World, Jina B.

In the nineteenth and early twentieth century Kyiv was an important city in the European part of the Russian empire, rivaling Warsaw in economic and strategic significance.

Experimental Times is an in-depth ethnography of the transformation of Bengaluru/Bangalore from a site of backend IT work to an aspirational global city of enterprise and innovation.

Broken Landscape is a sweeping chronicle of Indian tribal sovereignty under the United States Constitution and the way that legislators have interpreted and misinterpreted tribal sovereignty since the nation's founding.

How philanthropy has shaped America in the twentieth centuryAmerican philanthropy today expands knowledge, champions social movements, defines active citizenship, influences policymaking, and addresses humanitarian crises.

Christian Coalition experienced a meteoric rise in American politics in the 1990s only to see its profile and impact vanish into embarrassing irrelevancy at the end of the decade, leaving many to ask, "e;Whatever happened to the Christian Coalition?

In Goddess and God in the World, leading theologians Carol P.

This new edition of Genevieve Lloyd's classic study of the maleness of reason in philosophy contains a new introduction and bibliographical essay assessing the book's place in the explosion of writing and gender since 1984.

'My aunt, listening to the Prime Minister's speech, remarked of "e;our greatest orator"e;, "e;He's no speaker, is he?

Operation Frankton is a story of how a handful of determined and resourceful men, using flimsy canoes, achieved what thousands could not by conventional means.

'I was asked the other day what I thought the hardest part of parenting was.

Reader's comments:`Then along comes your book - lands on my desk like a gift, which I have barely put down since.

The role of women in politics in the Gulf is a much-debated and often little-understood subject in the West.

This book examines the low-carbon energy transition taking place in developing Asia, in the context of persisting social and gender inequalities, the threat of climate change which has necessitated the decarbonisation of industry, and examines how developing Asia can 'leap-frog' the carbon-emitting stages that more developed economies have passed through, while simultaneously 'leap-frogging' social and gender equity gaps.

First published in 2007.

Travel beyond the fear and paranoia of 9-11 to experience Muslim cultureGay Travels in the Muslim World journeys where other gay travel books fear to treadMuslim countries.

Since the 1990s, Baltic-Russian relations have been amongst the most contentious on the European continent.

Red, White & Black is a provocative critique of socially engaged films and related critical discourse.

Those who regard him as a "e;doom and gloom"e; critic will find an unexpected Chomsky in these pages.

The study of Islamic philosophy has entered a new and exciting phase in the last few years.

From Ramallah to New York, Tel Aviv to Porto Alegre, people around the world celebrate a formidable, transnational Palestinian LGBTQ social movement.

Since launching his career at the Village Voice in the early 1980s Greg Tate has been one of the premiere critical voices on contemporary Black music, art, literature, film, and politics.

Exploring the relationship between gender and events, this book delivers an ethnographic analysis of the celebration of gender equality in the context of the culture-led event.

The Imperial Japanese Navy was a pioneer in naval aviation, having commissioned the world's first built-from-the-keel-up carrier, the Hosho.

By accepted standards of tradition, Calvert's culture is declining.

This book explores the ways in which religion is observed, performed, and organised in skateboard culture.

Manumission-the act of freeing a slave while the institution of slavery continues-has received relatively little scholarly attention as compared to other aspects of slavery and emancipation.

As American Indian tribes seek to overcome centuries of political and social marginalization, they face daunting obstacles.

The first detailed, illustrated description in English of wartime life in Germany, and the tentacles of the Nazi state as they affected every man, woman and child.

Whether or not Henry Sinclair Horne was the ‘silent’ General he might certainly, if he were still alive, lay claim to being the ‘forgotten’ General of the Western Front.

The black separatist movement led by Marcus Garvey has long been viewed as a phenomenon of African American organization in the urban North.

Barack Obama is widely considered one of the most powerful and charismatic speakers of our age.

When Grameen Bank was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, microfinance was lauded as an important contributor to the economic development of the Global South.

This study documents the history, traditions, tales, customs, and institutions of the Jadid al-Islam "e;New Muslims.

Representing the Woman: Cinema and Psychoanalysis examines the theory and politics of representation in narrative film.

Despite recent advances in our understanding of the genetic basis of human behavior, little of this work has penetrated into formal demography.

Henry Roe Cloud was the first Native American to graduate from Yale.

This book examines local leadership and policy changes as a result of globalisation.

Feminist theories of social work have been criticised in recent years for treating women as a uniform category and displaying insufficient sensitivity to the complex ways in which other social divisions (those of race, age, disability, etc.

This book is a study of the challenges, issues, and obstacles facing black professional workers in the United States.

RICHMOND WAS NOT only the capital of Virginia and of the Confederacy; it was also one of the most industrialized cities south of the Mason-Dixon Line.