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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Sexuality is a complex and multifaceted domain – encompassing bodily, contextual and subjective experiences that resist ready categorisation. To claim the sexual as a viable research object therefore raises a number of important methodological questions: what is it possible to know about experiences,...
The Money Changers
A Guided Tour through Global Currency Markets
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
At almost $2 trillion per day in trades, currency markets vitally link the world together. Yet few people understand how they work and why they are prone to instability and bouts of panic. This book takes the reader behind the scenes on a tour of the places, the machines, the circuitry and the people...
Gender and Migration
Feminist Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Provocative and intellectually challenging, Gender and Migration critically analyses how gender has been taken up in studies of migration and its theories, practices and effects. Each essay uses feminist frameworks to highlight how more traditional tropes of gender eschew the complexities of gender...
Lost Voices
Central Asian Women Confronting Transition
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
In 1991 the collapse of the Communist Party and the dissolution of the Soviet Union launched the republics of Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan into an unexpected self-declared independence and a precarious, uncertain future. Emerging from almost seventy-five years of Soviet tutelage all three...
The New Cultural Climate in Turkey
Living in a Shop Window
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
The New Cultural Climate in Turkey is a beautifully written collection of essays by a leading Turkish intellectual. It presents a compelling analysis of cultural politics in Turkey, arguing that the dominant clichéd dualities of East/West and secular/sacred mask a reality of silence, repression and...
No Borders
The Politics of Immigration Control and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
From the streets of Calais to the borders of Melilla, Evros and the United States, the slogan 'No borders!' is a thread connecting a multitude of different struggles for the freedom to move and to stay. But what does it mean to make this slogan a reality?
Drawing on the author's extensive research...
Rethinking the 21st Century
'New' Problems, 'Old' Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Rethinking the 21st Century brings much needed context and perspective to the security problems we face today. In recent years, the 'Bush Doctrine' - that the security threats we now face are entirely unprecedented - has echoed around the world. Global security and stability is now challenged not...
Its Only Blood
Shattering the Taboo of Menstruation
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Across the world, 2 billion people experience menstruation, yet menstruation is seen as a mark of shame. We are told not to discuss it in public, that tampons and sanitary pads should be hidden away, the blood rendered invisible. In many parts of the world, poverty, culture and religion collide causing...
Where Now for Palestine?
The Demise of the Two-State Solution
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Where Now for Palestine? marks a turning point for the Middle East. Since 2000, the attacks of 9/11, the death of Arafat and the elections of Hamas and Kadima have meant that the Israel/Palestine 'two-state solution' now seems illusory. This collection critically revisits the concept of the 'two-state...
The Good University
What Universities Actually Do and Why Its Time for Radical Change
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
The higher education industry might seem like it’s booming, with over 200 million students in universities and colleges worldwide and funds flowing in like never before. But the truth is that these institutions have never been unhappier places to work. Corporate-style management, cost-cutting governments,...
Pentecostal Republic
Religion and the Struggle for State Power in Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Throughout its history, Nigeria has been plagued by religious divisions. Tensions have only intensified since the restoration of democracy in 1999, with the divide between Christian south and Muslim north playing a central role in the country’s electoral politics, as well as manifesting itself in...
Poverty and Social Deprivation in the Mediterranean
Trends, Policies and Welfare Prospects in the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
In the growth of regional identities worldwide, the Mediterranean Basin is emerging as an entity in its own right. This book, a unique collaboration among social scientists around the entire Mediterranean littoral, covers Southern Europe, Turkey, the Balkans, North Africa, and the Near East. Leading...
Perspectives on Commoning
Autonomist Principles and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
In the wake of socialism’s demise and liberalism’s loss of direction, new ideas are needed for the next major realignment of the social and political domain. Making a unique contribution to the idea of ‘the commons’, this book offers a radical form of direct democracy with real-world implications....
Black British History
New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
A remarkable contribution to black British history and an invaluable resource for students and scholars, as well as those looking for an approachable introduction to the subject.
Editor is a leading authority on the subject and has a considerable profile, having served as an expert contributor and historical...