Social groups, communities and identities

Since the mid-1990s, Morocco has sought to present itself as a model of genuine and gradual reform, with decentralisation as a key tenet of this.

This book examines the formation of urban neighbourhoods in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia.

Japan's first professionally produced, commercially marketed and nationally distributed gay lifestyle magazine, Barazoku ('The Rose Tribes'), was launched in 1971.

Cultivated by the Allied press during the war and fostered by movies and novels ever since, the image of a U-boat skipper held by most Americans is the personification of evil: the wolf who stalks innocents.

Little more than seventy years after the British settled Van Diemen's Land (later Tasmania) in 1803, the indigenous community had been virtually wiped out.

Published just days before America's entry into World War II, Ozark Country is Otto Ernest Rayburn's love letter to his adopted region.

The Naxalbari movement marks a significant moment in the postcolonial history of India.

Hitlers regime was notorious for its many experiments and its various secret ploys, weapons, and technological developments.

In the poorest neighborhoods of Santiago, Chile, low-income residents known as pobladores have long lived at the margins-and have long advocated for the right to housing as part of la vida digna (a life with dignity).

What Does It Mean to 'Make' Love?

This book follows the journeys of those fleeing war, poverty or political crises, risking their lives as they attempt to find sanctuary in Europe.

This edited collection explores the meaning of feminism in the contemporary moment, which is constituted primarily by action but also uncertainty.

An insider's view of the world of contemporary Japanese women.

Bringing together leading international writers on cricket and society, this important new book places cricket in the postcolonial life of the major Test-playing countries.

In this book sociologist Joe Feagin extends the systemic racism framework in previous Routledge books by developing an innovative concept, the white racial frame.

In Search of Belonging explores the ways Latina/o audiences in general, and women in particular, make sense of and engage both mainstream and Spanish-language media.

This book explains how religious politics, repressive institutions, and leaders'' political strategies intersected in the US Global War on Terror.

Disabled women represent one of the most marginalised minority groups in the world, hence they are largely silent while their sexuality is ignored, suppressed, forbidden and buried underneath the carpet.

Child labor is work that harms children or keeps them from attending school.

The history of European nation-building and identity formation is inextricably connected with museums, and the role they play in displaying the acquired spoils and glorious symbols of geopolitical power in order to mobilize public support for expansionist ventures.

Less and less Christian demographically, America is now home to an ever-larger number of people who say they identify with no religion at all.

Provides a research-informed review of topics essential to clinical psychological assessment and diagnosis.

College Curriculum at the Crossroads explores the ways in which college curriculum is complicated, informed, understood, resisted, and enriched by women of color.

In 1912, in Storyville, the notorious red-light district of New Orleans, a photographer named E.

This book explores the interactions between social policy and migration in China.

Creating a Place For Ourselves is a groundbreaking collection of essays that examines gay life in the United States before Stonewall and the gay liberation movement.

This book is a comparative analysis of the architecture of central public spaces of capital cities in Central and Eastern Europe during the period of their authoritarian and post-authoritarian development.

The development of market socialism in China has contributed to a remarkable spatial economic transformation in particular areas of the Chinese countryside.

Present and Past in Middle Life presents an interdisciplinary focus on the life course from adolescence to middle age.

India's cities are in the midst of an unprecedented urban expansion.

Ray should have died on three separate occasions when he was in the ICU.

This timely book moves beyond struggling, suffering and loss to argue that forced migration often provides opportunities for men to pursue new relationships and re-organise their intimate lives.

This book considers that contextual factors are important for the achievement of social justice and it recognizes that vulnerability to which children are exposed is a phenomenon throughout the planet, particularly in the South.

Signs and Cities is the first book to consider what it means to speak of a postmodern moment in African-American literature.

This book seeks to revive dialectical materialist interpretations of sexuality, relevant to K-12 settings and society.

With emancipation, a long battle for equal citizenship began.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Markets, Politics and the Environment answers three groups of question: What is planning?

In this lively and engaging work, Carolyn Lewis explores how medical practitioners, especially family physicians, situated themselves as the guardians of Americans' sexual well-being during the early years of the Cold War.

Should we allow performance-enhancing substances in competitive athletics?

First published in 1982, The Triangular Connection explores the relationship between two countries, the USA and Israel, and Jews resident in America.

We Europeans?

When rifleman Tom Guttridge returned from war in the early summer of 1945, he brought home not only vivid memories of the battlefield and his five years in prisoner-of-war camps, but a unique collection of photographs obtained from his German captors by trading items from Red Cross parcels.

A little more than a century ago, the famous social scientist W.

This book-along with its companion volume Mary I in Writing: Letters, Literature, and Representations-centers on representations of Queen Mary I in writing, broadly construed, and the process of writing that queen into literature and other textual sources.