This book develops a novel theoretical-interpretative framework for understanding how individuals and societies deal with risk and uncertainty, drawing on Hermann Schmitz’ New Phenomenology.
In the decades between the Berlin Conference that partitioned Africa and the opening of the African Hall at the American Museum of Natural History, Americans in several fields and from many backgrounds argued that Africa had something to teach them.
This book presents an intimate portrayal of African migration through Mexico, based on a four-year longitudinal ethnography (2021-2025) conducted in Tijuana, Tapachula, and Mexico City.
The first English-language anthology of Latin American communication theory Latin American communication scholarship has shaped global debates on mediation, dependency, and mediatization, yet most foundational texts remain unavailable in English.
This book is a sociological exploration of gender beliefs and capabilities of Malaysian Tamil women who are members of a community that have struggled with marginalisation and inequality.
This book is a sociological exploration of gender beliefs and capabilities of Malaysian Tamil women who are members of a community that have struggled with marginalisation and inequality.
Africa abounds with examples of material and immaterial innovations that were envisaged, developed and designed elsewhere yet came to be innovatively and sometimes unexpectedly transformed in Africa.
The stimulating mix of academics and practising poets that have contributed to this volume provides an unusual and illuminating integration of critical and creative practice and a vibrantly diverse approach to questions of poetry and sexuality.
This book unpacks the distinctive dynamics of public diplomacy between Saudi Arabia and the United States in the post 9/11 period by examining the "e;King Abdullah Scholarship Programme (KASP)"e;, launched in 2005, which has largely escaped academic scrutiny.
Mixed Race Children (1987) challenges the stereotype of 'mixed race' children having identity problems, that they 'don't fit in anywhere', showing that many of the children in this study of radical identity and categorization had worked out their own positive mixed race identity.
Japan's population crisis is often discussed as a set of statistics, but Last Generation of Japan shows why it is really a story about how a society works, and what happens when the assumptions behind everyday life begin to disappear.
Japan's population crisis is often discussed as a set of statistics, but Last Generation of Japan shows why it is really a story about how a society works, and what happens when the assumptions behind everyday life begin to disappear.
This volume argues for the pressing need to understand the role of religious beliefs, religious scholars, and religious centres in promoting welfare and social protection services for the strengthening of global social welfare systems.
Europe Growing Old explains how the continent's aging population, rising public debt, and sluggish growth are reshaping politics, budgets, and long-term economic prospects.
Europe Growing Old explains how the continent's aging population, rising public debt, and sluggish growth are reshaping politics, budgets, and long-term economic prospects.
This volume argues for the pressing need to understand the role of religious beliefs, religious scholars, and religious centres in promoting welfare and social protection services for the strengthening of global social welfare systems.
When significant numbers of college-educated American women began, in the early twenty-first century, to leave paid work to become stay-at-home mothers, an emotionally charged national debate erupted.
