Sociology

Tastes of Justice reveals the diversity of creative and cultural practices in contemporary food art and performances in and between Asia and Australia.

This book links the current wave of political polarisation to the polarisation taking place between cosmopolitan and parochial identity discourses and their antagonistic valuation of iconic urban and regional places.

This book serves as a scholarly work examining Karbi philosophy, oral traditions, and cultural practices through comprehensive analysis.

This book is about the future of leadership and organisations with the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in the business ecosystem.

City and Identity in Modern Iraq examines the role of Baghdad in the process of shaping collective identity and analyzes how different visions of citizenship have changed the face of the city.

Human activities are rapidly depleting essential resources and polluting our environment, jeopardizing not only our well-being but that of countless other species.

The global crisis of road traffic fatalities and injuries has remained an ongoing challenge, plagued by inconsistent estimation methods, data gaps, and underreporting.

Prepared by Patrick J.

Necrosociety, Mortispolitics, and Miquiztli-politics challenges the underlying assumptions of necropolitics and biopolitics, exploring core concepts such as neoliberalism, neonationalism, and decoloniality, and proposing a new framework that expands our comprehension of these two domains.

This book examines the critical role of human resources (HR) in advancing sustainability within organisations.

This volume focuses on select contributions made to the Nepali periodical Chandrika, published in Kurseong, Darjeeling, India, from 1918 to 1919.

This book links the current wave of political polarisation to the polarisation taking place between cosmopolitan and parochial identity discourses and their antagonistic valuation of iconic urban and regional places.

This volume focuses on select contributions made to the Nepali periodical Chandrika, published in Kurseong, Darjeeling, India, from 1918 to 1919.

Arab Modernism(s) is an exploration of how the Arab world encountered modernism - sometimes inadvertently, sometimes deliberately - and how those encounters continue to shape the built environment of its cities today.

This book introduces a comprehensive model for evaluating the effects of artificial intelligence (AI) on human rights, democracy, and the rule of law and an innovative framework that merges Human Rights Impact Assessments (HRIAs) practices with AI-focused algorithmic impact assessment approaches.

This book provides an overview of the history of food policy in the UK, tracing economic, social and political influences from the 1840s to present day.

This book explores the process of food migration, adaptation, and connections to cultural identities through the lens of food design research.

This book tackles the fundamental question of how a society with competing collective memories and visions can build a common nation while trying to reconcile the past and forge a common future.

Through qualitative interviews with formerly incarcerated veterans, this book focuses on the lived experiences, and behaviors associated with the incarceration of veterans.

Work-Nonwork Management: Research and Practice in a Changing Work Context advances the understanding of how individuals, couples, teams, and organizations can effectively navigate work-nonwork integration in ways that promote well-being and productivity.

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.

Arguing for a broader understanding of welfare, with culture as a unifying theme, this book demonstrates the explanatory power of an interdisciplinary approach to economic and social welfare.

In recent years, the global socio-economic balance has been disrupted by a series of events: first, the economic crisis, then the pandemic, followed by conflicts both within and outside Europe, and finally the energy crisis.

Weaving together first-person narratives of art practice, analytical accounts, and ethnographic research by artists and scholars in art history, theater, new media, music, and anthropology, this volume offers an overview of the wide range of conditions, processes, and motivations for artmaking among asylum seekers in view of Israel's continued legal obfuscation of the refugee status process.

City and Identity in Modern Iraq examines the role of Baghdad in the process of shaping collective identity and analyzes how different visions of citizenship have changed the face of the city.

This groundbreaking research monograph offers a comprehensive analysis of workforce transformation in the emerging Industry 5.

Offering a radical interdisciplinary exploration of human-wilderness relationships during our current climate crisis, and drawing on psychoanalytic insight, political critique, and ecological wisdom, this volume diagnoses the profound alienation endemic to late capitalist modernity while delineating pathways toward regenerative forms of being.

This ethnographic investigation of prostate health in the super-aged, Japanese society analyses prostate cancer and benign prostate hyperplasia.

Arab Modernism(s) is an exploration of how the Arab world encountered modernism - sometimes inadvertently, sometimes deliberately - and how those encounters continue to shape the built environment of its cities today.

Offering a radical interdisciplinary exploration of human-wilderness relationships during our current climate crisis, and drawing on psychoanalytic insight, political critique, and ecological wisdom, this volume diagnoses the profound alienation endemic to late capitalist modernity while delineating pathways toward regenerative forms of being.

Prepared by Patrick J.

Tastes of Justice reveals the diversity of creative and cultural practices in contemporary food art and performances in and between Asia and Australia.

This engaging guide is designed to demystify artificial intelligence (AI) in the business world, no advanced maths degrees or robotic companions are necessary.

There is a prevailing sense that commercial Superhero Comics cannot be serious objects of academic enquiry.

This book presents public health as a method-driven integrative discipline, a dynamic field of science and practice, shaped by the interplay of knowledge, power and ideology.

This book, with articles by leading experts and researchers, explores the ongoing concerns of labor migration in India in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mapping has evolved beyond navigation into a method for interpreting spatial, ephemeral, and sociopolitical dimensions of contemporary life.

This volume is the first edited collection that offers various theoretical and analytical perspectives on migration narratives in children's picturebooks.

Necrosociety, Mortispolitics, and Miquiztli-politics challenges the underlying assumptions of necropolitics and biopolitics, exploring core concepts such as neoliberalism, neonationalism, and decoloniality, and proposing a new framework that expands our comprehension of these two domains.

This volume is the first edited collection that offers various theoretical and analytical perspectives on migration narratives in children's picturebooks.

There is a prevailing sense that commercial Superhero Comics cannot be serious objects of academic enquiry.

Arguing for a broader understanding of welfare, with culture as a unifying theme, this book demonstrates the explanatory power of an interdisciplinary approach to economic and social welfare.

This book examines the nexus of environmental change and defence in the Arctic as a national and global security issue.

This book explores the intricacies of the post-pandemic world, delving into diverse themes such as international politics, diplomacy, democracy, migration, climate justice, mental well-being, education, human rights and the marginalised.

This book presents public health as a method-driven integrative discipline, a dynamic field of science and practice, shaped by the interplay of knowledge, power and ideology.

Networks, Entrepreneurship and Power in Contemporary Spirituality offers an in-depth analysis of the social organisation of New Age spirituality.

This book introduces a comprehensive model for evaluating the effects of artificial intelligence (AI) on human rights, democracy, and the rule of law and an innovative framework that merges Human Rights Impact Assessments (HRIAs) practices with AI-focused algorithmic impact assessment approaches.

This book explores how innovative shading design improves psychological comfort in synaptic spaces – those dynamic and transitional built environments where people connect, engage, and interact.

This book explores how innovative shading design improves psychological comfort in synaptic spaces – those dynamic and transitional built environments where people connect, engage, and interact.

The result of a six-year collaboration between sociology professor Dany Lacombe and Mac, an ex-convict, Talking Reform highlights ongoing struggles of reintegration and the importance of compassion and inclusion in offering hope for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated persons.