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After Whiteness
Unmaking an American Majority
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
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"Beautifully written and rigorously argued, After Whiteness is the most important theoretical statement on white racial formation since ‘whiteness studies' began its current academic sojourn. By reading debates about multiculturalism, ethnicity,...
The Kpim of Social Order
A Season of Social Uprising
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
Frequently overlooked in the search of knowing and acting wisely are some important philosophical and cultural ideas and questions. The kpim of Social Order boldly captures such ideas and questions for awareness through critical thinking. The current volume in the Kpim Book Series makes the point...
Queer in Africa
LGBTQI Identities, Citizenship, and Activism
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
African sexualities are dynamic, multi-faceted and resilient. However, people with non-heterosexual sexualities and gender variant identities are often involved in struggles for survival, self-definition, and erotic rights.
Queer in Africa forms an entry point for understanding the vulnerabilities...
Virtually Criminal
Crime, Deviance and Regulation Online
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Amidst the sensationalist claims about the dangers of the Internet, Virtually Criminal provides an empirically grounded criminological analysis of deviance and regulation within an online community. It integrates theory and empiricism to forge an explanation of cybercrime whilst offering new insights...
The Flaming Feet and Other Essays
The Dalit Movement in India
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Described by Ashis Nandy as the foremost non-Brahmin intellectual to emerge from Indias vast non-English speaking world, D.R. Nagaraj (19541998) was a profound political commentator and cultural critic.Nagarajs importance lies in consolidating and advancing some of the ideas of Indias leading Dalit...
Muslims in Britain
Making Social and Political Space
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
The management of social, religious and ethnic diversity is a key social policy concern in Britain, and Muslims in particular have become a focus of attention in recent years. This timely and topical volume examines the position of Muslims in Britain and how they are changing and making social, political...
Responding to Youth Crime in Hong Kong
Penal Elitism, Legitimacy and Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
A society’s response to youth crime reveals much about its broader cultural values, social circumstances, and political affairs. This book examines reactions and policy responses to youth delinquency and crime in Hong Kong during its colonial and post-colonial periods, and in doing so, underscores...
India's Princely States
People, Princes and Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
This is an invaluable work looking into new areas relating to India's princely states. Based on an abundance of rarely used archival material, the book sheds new light on diversities related to the princely states such as health policies and practices, gender issues, the states’ military contribution...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
The *Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage in North America *provides an accessible ready reference on the retention and continuity of African culture within the United States. Our conceptual framework holds, first, that culture is a form of self-knowledge and knowledge about self in the...
Knowing Differently
The Challenge of the Indigenous
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
This book offers a bold and illuminating account of the worldviews nurtured and sustained by indigenous communities from across continents, through their distinctive understanding of concepts such as space, time, joy, pain, life, and death. It demonstrates how this different mode of ‘knowing’...
Race, Class, and Power
Ideology and Revolutionary Change in Plural Societies
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Examining in detail the apparently inexorable polarization of society in such countries as Rwanda, Algeria, and South Africa, the author questions whether current theories correctly explain the past or offer adequate guides for the future. In their place he puts forward an alternative neo-Durkheimian...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
She's So Fine explores the music, reception and cultural significance of 1960s girl singers and girl groups in the US and the UK. Using approaches from the fields of musicology, women's studies, film and media studies, and cultural studies, this volume is the first interdisciplinary work to link close...
Interdisciplinarity
Reconfigurations of the Social and Natural Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
The idea that research should become more interdisciplinary has become commonplace. According to influential commentators, the unprecedented complexity of problems such as climate change or the social implications of biomedicine demand interdisciplinary efforts integrating both the social and natural...
by Chiara Brambilla, Jussi Laine, Gianluca Bocchi
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Using the borderscapes concept, this book offers an approach to border studies that expresses the multilevel complexity of borders, from the geopolitical to social practice and cultural production at and across the border. Accordingly, it encourages a productive understanding of the processual, de-territorialized...