Sociology and anthropology

This edited collection interrogates the diversity of transnational migration experiences in the Asia-Pacific through the lens of digital ethnography in order to explore the transformative effects digital media plays in these experiences.

This book explores contemporary migration by boat through the intertwined, and under-explored, elements of empirical data, governance and geopolitics, and discourses.

Gathering researchers from or towards Global South epistemologies, this book enriches the debate on crucial questions for liberation in the South and the improvement of South relations.

What does pregnancy mean when it does not lead to the birth of a child?

One of the most important French philosophers working today, Francois Laruelle has developed an innovative and powerful repertoire of concepts across an oeuvre spanning four decades and more than twenty books.

This book rethinks the history of colonisation by focusing on the formation of the European aesthetic ideas of indigeneity and blackness in the Caribbean, and how these ideas were deployed as markers of biopolitical governance.

The 2008 global financial crisis and the subsequent Eurozone crisis triggered dramatic changes in European labour relations.

Since the early 2000s there has been an increase in artists who are walking as an essential part of their artistic practice.

Despite widespread recognition that we are living in an era of mass globalization, there has been a startling resurgence of nationalism in many regions of the world.

When do we interpret?

Becoming an Ethnomusicologist centers on the life and education of the author, Bruno Nettl, a well-known ethnomusicologist.

In the 21st century, an accelerated pace of global movements of people, goods, capital, technology and ideas has led to ambivalence regarding cultural identity for individuals, as well as collectives like neighbourhoods and cities.

Written by members of the Social Imaginaries Editorial Collective, these programmatic essays showcase new critical interventions in understandings of social imaginaries and the human condition.

Gender, Sexuality, and Space Culture explores how traditional ideologies of gender and sexuality have influenced the culture of space travel.

Fair Work explores topics relating to work and labor at the intersection of ethics, social justice, and public policy.

Contemporary theoretical discussions of exploitation are dominated by thinkers in the liberal and Marxian traditions.

How has European identity been shaped through its colonial empires?

Spaces and Politics of Motherhood offers a fresh perspective on maternity based on original qualitative research from the United Kingdom and the United States.

Common Worlds: Paths Toward Sustainable Urbanism explores expert and lay approaches to sustainable urbanism, focusing on the politics and civic aesthetics of space and place; project-based learning and it consequences for the life chances of youth; and the prospect of intergenerational civic engagement.

The most profound crisis of conscience for white Americans at the end of the eighteenth century became their most tragic failure.

Immigration Structures and Immigrant Lives provides a concise, comprehensive, interdisciplinary introduction to United States immigration and immigrants.

How Non-being Haunts Being reveals how the human world is not reducible to "e;what is.

This fundamental study provides the first comprehensive history in any language of the lands between the Red and Pearl Rivers in southern China and the people who resided there over a span of a thousand years.

While there are books about folk dances from individual countries or regions, there isn't a single comprehensive book on folk dances across the globe.

Long, productive lives are the destiny of most of us, not just the privilege of our great-grandchildren.

Does putting your smartphone on the dinner table impact your relationships?

K'Oben traces the Maya kitchen and its associated hardware, ingredients, and cooking styles from the earliest times for which we have archaeological evidence through today's culinary tourism in the area.

A collection of her speeches and writings which address the political and social changes of the past decade as they are concerned with the struggle for racial, sexual, and economic equality.

How Nonprofits Work looks at nonprofit organizations through a sociological lens, identifying characteristics that make some nonprofits successful and characteristics that cause challenges, focusing on nonprofts in the health services sector.

Finding lasting love and intimacy can be difficult for many women.

In 2008 a media firestorm erupted when snippets of Reverend Jeremiah Wright Jr.

Sexidemic is the first real cultural history of sexuality in the United States since the end of World War II.

Japan, which is among the most earthquake-prone regions in the world, has a long history of responding to seismic disasters.

Exploring the fundamental question of how a new discipline comes into being, this groundbreaking book tells the story of the emergence of native ethnology in Imperial Japan, a "e;one nation"e; social science devoted to the study of the Japanese people.

Just Plain Data Analysis teaches students statistical literacy skills that they can use to evaluate and construct arguments about public affairs issues grounded in numerical evidence.

From Betty White to Toni Morrison, we're surrounded by examples of women working well past the traditional retirement age.

Ethnic diversity has marked the United States from its inception, and it is impossible to separate ethnicity from an understanding of the United States as a country and "e;Americans"e; as a people.

Globalization and Money explores how men and women, particularly the poor and the unbanked in the global South, use money in ways that empower themselves and their families.

For professional comedians, their primary goal is to make people laugh.

The media today is filled with powerful men in trouble for their sexual behaviors, and invariably, they are diagnosed as sexual addicts.

From tribal religious rituals to the Playboy mansion, and from ancient Rome to Burning Man, Plays Well in Groups explores the phenomenon of group sex.

This accessible text on social research methodology teaches students of sociology and related disciplines how standard methods can be adapted toward critical ends.

Basic Statistics provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to statistics using the free, state-of-the-art, powerful software program R.

When Race, Religion, and Sport Collide tells the story of Brandon Davies' dismissal from Brigham Young University's NCAA playoff basketball team to illustrate the thorny intersection of religion, race, and sport at BYU and beyond.

This is a powerful resource for anyone who wants to understand the nature of interpersonal conflict-to study it, understand why it's a consistent part of human history, and perhaps avert it in their own lives.

This book presents the Great Depression through the lens of 13 films, beginning with movies made during the Depression and ending with films from the 21st century, and encourages readers to examine the various depictions of this period throughout history.

This wide-ranging resource uses evidence-based documentation to examine claims and beliefs - and provide the facts - about sexual assault and harassment and other forms of sexual violence in the United States.

Exploring the lives of the wide range of people who struggled to make a home for themselves in this harsh and unforgiving region.

The documents in this collection trace the course of the Renaissance in Italy and northern Europe, describing the emergence of a vibrant and varied intellectual and artistic culture in various states, cities, and kingdoms.

Pregnant teens have three options - abortion, adoption, and keeping the baby - and each comes with its own challenges and issues.