This title offers cross-disciplinary visions and insights into the implications of housing policy across continents, through accounts of the lived experience of homelessness and housing stress.
Fires of Goldis a powerful ethnography of the often shrouded cultural, legal, political, and spiritual forces governing the gold mining industry in Ghana, one of Africa's most celebrated democracies.
The Death and Life of Southern Soviet Cities discussed on New Books Network podcast with Ernest LeeWhat does it mean, three decades after the demise of the USSR, to inhabit cities built for a future that has never arrived?
This pioneering volume makes a vital intervention to the growing movement of decolonising conceptual frameworks and methodological approaches in social sciences.
This book provides an epistemology of the body as it relates to subjectivity through an analysis of selected works of Antonin Artaud and Samuel Beckett.
This book critically examines the application of the enabling housing strategy in Asia, and assesses why market-driven strategies fail to meet the housing needs of the urban poor.
This handbook addresses the new watershed moment in youth environmental activism: the collision of the historic and globally prominent youth-centred movements on the one hand, with established, consolidated power in opposition to environmental action on the other.
Today, Max Weber appears to many younger academic rebels as the patron sait of "e;value neutral"e; social science, yet he too engaged in a furious generational rebellion of his own, and in the end chose science as a vocation.
The heart-wrenchingly honest new book about life and death from forensic pathologist and bestselling author of UNNATURAL CAUSES, Dr Richard ShepherdA TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'Deeply insightful.
In this groundbreaking ethnographic study, Patty Kelly examines the lives of the women who work in the Zona Galactica, a state-run brothel in Chiapas's capital city.
From the Preface, by Arthur Kleinman: Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture presents a theoretical framework for studying the relationship between medicine, psychiatry, and culture.
From the Preface, by Arthur Kleinman: Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture presents a theoretical framework for studying the relationship between medicine, psychiatry, and culture.
The Routledge Handbook on the Sociology and History of Cinema and Television in Latin America explores the historical and sociological dimensions of Latin American cinema and television from the 1960s and 1970s onward, decentering the New Latin American Cinema (NLAC) without diminishing its significance.
This book uncovers the processes at play in the development of cultural policies, projects and networks in spaces at the edge of their countries, marked by their proximity with a borderline.
This book offers a wide-ranging exploration of the social and psychological forces that shape human judgment, communication, and conflict resolution, with a particular focus on legal and dispute-resolution contexts.
The expansion of social history that took place in the twentieth century has produced some of the most exciting works in the field of historical studies.
This book focuses on the challenges of parenting in the digital age, providing a counter-narrative to, and critique of, risk and cyber safety narratives, as well as some suggestions for a way forward.
Using a novel interdisciplinary focus, this title examines cities as sites of coexistence where different ideas, discourses, histories, and people are constantly brought together in the course of everyday life.
This ground-breaking volume shows that young people largely shape their own political development, and that to understand young people's political development, we must consider their political agency.
Whenever and wherever people communicate, they contend with powerful and sometimes hidden systems of symbols, meanings, premises, and rules pertaining to communicative conduct, i.
This book presents Documents of Life (DoLs) as a research framework, offering both scholarly insight and practical guidance for conducting this kind of work.
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 interdisciplinary collection to analyse the place of Romanies and Travellers within contemporary Europe through the lens of gender and violence.
The fourth edition of Society and the Environment centers its discussion on realistic solutions to the problems that persist and examines current controversies within a socio organizational context, shifting focus away from simply explaining what is wrong with the world around us.
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.
Interviewing and communication are central to the work of the social worker, the psychotherapist, and to that of many other specialists, yet little attempt has been made to explore their interrelationship and complexity.
This book critiques the traditional practice of community organization, change and development, and concludes that the present practice of Community Development (CD) and Social Policy and Planning (SP&P) is no longer capable of meeting the current challenges at the local or national level.
This is the first interdisciplinary collection to analyse the place of Romanies and Travellers within contemporary Europe through the lens of gender and violence.
This book is a sociological study of knowledge and knowers and explores the production and perceived value of 'yogic knowledge,' how distinction is curated, and how access to this knowledge is gained.
