Anthropology and AI explores the complex intersection of artificial intelligence and human society through a diverse collection of anthropological and social scientific perspectives.
This fourth edition of the essential volume Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice interrogates the relationship between sex, gender, crime and criminal justice as seen through the eyes of feminist perspectives and masculinity studies.
This book explores the collision of worlds when an artist becomes a parent by looking at the profound ways in which parenthood transforms the creative process and artistic expression.
A fresh interdisciplinary examination of the thought of Henri Lefebvre which sheds light on the politics of utopia and commoning through the examination of the wide-ranging socio-political dimensions of space.
This book examines the impacts of grading in higher education through comparative institutional ethnographies of two universities with radically different approaches to assessment.
This book critically evaluates the historical accomplishments, current challenges and future opportunities of the sociology of sport, offering a bold new vision for the field's development in the 21st century.
Drawing on the concepts and resources developed at the first international symposium on the role of the individual in primary care, the authors of this book, originally published in 1977, delineate self-care and its relationship to professional care, reasons for the interest in self-care and a framework for future research.
Regal tells the story of the engagement of philosophers, naturalists, and scientists in what we now call "e;cryptozoology,"e; a much longer history than most appreciate.
When this book was originally published in 1976, general practice had developed enormously in the preceding years and one of the most important changes was the creation of the Primary Health Care Team.
This authoritative resource examines the significant influence parents have on children's developmental outcomes and the challenges of modern-day parenting.
Celebrity Culture and the American Dream, Third Edition, considers how major economic and historical factors shaped the nature of celebrity culture as we know it today.
This book explains convergence and non-convergence to - as well as divergence from - EU policy with respect to broader Europeanization, showing how it varies considerably in outcome and form across time, policy dimensions and actors.
Regal tells the story of the engagement of philosophers, naturalists, and scientists in what we now call "e;cryptozoology,"e; a much longer history than most appreciate.
Drawing on the concepts and resources developed at the first international symposium on the role of the individual in primary care, the authors of this book, originally published in 1977, delineate self-care and its relationship to professional care, reasons for the interest in self-care and a framework for future research.
Sacred Ecology examines knowledge held by Indigenous peoples and local communities around the world, and asks how we can learn from this body of knowledge and practice.
This authoritative resource examines the significant influence parents have on children's developmental outcomes and the challenges of modern-day parenting.
This book highlights the role of the home as a central social unit of resilience in the face of climate change and sustainable living in contemporary cities.
This festschrift honours the work of Liz Stanley, whose scholarship has been highly influential in opening new paths in feminist research across the human sciences.
This pioneering volume makes a vital intervention to the growing movement of decolonising conceptual frameworks and methodological approaches in social sciences.
This book, with a focus on the East African coast and especially on the Kenyan coast, puts into conversation cross-generic texts - the historical novel, the Indian Ocean novel, oral history, oral testimony, and oral poetry - in two main languages - English and Kiswahili - with the aim of challenging, expanding and complementing the existing knowledge archive on Indian Ocean histories and its ideations on the Kenyan coast.
A fresh interdisciplinary examination of the thought of Henri Lefebvre which sheds light on the politics of utopia and commoning through the examination of the wide-ranging socio-political dimensions of space.
Originally published in 1993, Children's Social Competence in Context provides a comprehensive and critical overview of current knowledge about family, school and cultural influences on children's relations with others and the emergence of social competence at the time.
Examining the concept of TimeSpace in the work of Immanuel Wallerstein and its crucial role within world-systems analysis, Uncertainties of Time brings together important but previously hard-to-access material from Wallerstein's writings.
This book explores how functional stupidity - uncritical and unreflective thinking within prescribed, constrained ways - is institutionalized and why we should minimize it in workplaces.
Frugal Innovation: The Systematic Design of Resource-Intelligent Solutions advocates for a systematic approach to developing impactful, resource-efficient solutions in low-resource and high-resource settings.
This is the first book to shed light on the nuanced relationship between sports, cultural identity, and masculinity by examining the experiences of male Afghan and Pakistani athletes, within their respective regions and abroad.
This book explores one of the most pressing questions of our time: What happens to law when technological systems-algorithms, smart contracts, digital platforms-begin to regulate our lives as effectively as, or even more effectively than, traditional legal rules?
Volunteering, Migration and Citizenship brings together the fields of migration studies and volunteering research to juxtapose the study of volunteering by migrants with the study of volunteering for migrants.
This festschrift honours the work of Liz Stanley, whose scholarship has been highly influential in opening new paths in feminist research across the human sciences.
Tribes: Challenging the Image, Shifting the Paradigm reconsiders the concept of "e;tribe"e; in political, cultural, and academic discourse, offering a dynamic alternative to outdated and damaging stereotypes.
This book, with a focus on the East African coast and especially on the Kenyan coast, puts into conversation cross-generic texts - the historical novel, the Indian Ocean novel, oral history, oral testimony, and oral poetry - in two main languages - English and Kiswahili - with the aim of challenging, expanding and complementing the existing knowledge archive on Indian Ocean histories and its ideations on the Kenyan coast.
Innovative Qualitative Methods for Criminology showcases how lesser-known qualitative methods in social science can be used in dissertations researching sensitive and complex criminological topics.
In an era defined by armed conflicts and mass displacement, this book offers a powerful journey into the lives of diasporic communities as they grapple with memories of war, genocide and persecution.
This book positions the Cold War as a liminal time and space that holds sway in the second quarter of the 21st century, informing a broad and deep analysis of how contemporary society was - and continues to be - fashioned by the societies of distribution found in Cold War Sociology.
This book explores the collision of worlds when an artist becomes a parent by looking at the profound ways in which parenthood transforms the creative process and artistic expression.
Activism, Identity, and Social Theory in the 1960s examines the crucial connection between social analysis and everyday practice using a study of the transformative social movements of the 1960s.
Innovative Qualitative Methods for Criminology showcases how lesser-known qualitative methods in social science can be used in dissertations researching sensitive and complex criminological topics.
