Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
New Immigration Destinations
Migrating to Rural and Peripheral Areas
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Current population movements involve both established and new destinations, often encompassing marginal and rural communities and resulting in a whole new set of issues for these communities. New Immigration Destinations examines structural forces and individual strategies and behaviour to highlight...
Refugee Children
Towards the Next Horizon
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2007
The last twenty years have seen unprecedented numbers of refugee children entering Western countries. Many of these children will have experienced the atrocities of war and issues concerning their care and treatment are high on the agenda of research bodies, policy makers and service providers.
Refugee...
Iraq in the Twenty-First Century
Regime Change and the Making of a Failed State
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Much has been written about the events surrounding the 2003 Anglo-American invasion of Iraq and its aftermath, especially about the intentions, principles, plans and course of action of US policy, but much less attention has been given to the consequences of US policy on Iraqi political and social...
Grounding Global Climate Change
Contributions from the Social and Cultural Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
This book traces the evolution of climate change research, which, long dominated by the natural sciences, now sees greater involvement with disciplines studying the socio-cultural implications of change. In their introduction, the editors chart the changing role of the social and cultural sciences,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
This book explores the diverse landscapes wherein women struggle for their personal and social identities and lives, between biology and culture, destiny and choice, shared and individual worlds, tradition and modernity. Their “peripheral lives” have “central meaning” (Chaudhary, this volume)...
Everyday State and Politics in India
Government in the Backyard in Kalahandi
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
The Kalahandi district in the state of Odisha in Eastern India is regarded as an iconic region of underdevelopment, and is often perceived to be the ‘Somalia’ of the country. It is also the site of a large number of governmental interventions.
This book focuses on processes of governance...
The Korean Wave
Evolution, Fandom, and Transnationality
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Since the Korean Wave phenomenon started in 1997, Hallyu has undergone many changes. Geographically, while Asia has been the largest cultural market for the Korean cultural industries, other parts of society, including North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America have gradually admitted...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Across the Asia Pacific, there are a vast range of experiences of homelessness and an equally diverse range of responses from state systems. Since understandings of homelessness are also heavily dependent on geographical, cultural, and historical contexts, attitudes towards it as a ‘social problem’...
by Bernstein, Colleen Kattau, Katherine Ndinda
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2009
Women's Activism for Gender Equality in Africa This volume on Womens Activism for Gender Equality in Africa is a special collaboration between the Journal of International Womens Studies (JIWS) and Wagadu, two open-access journals that address gender issues within a transnational and cross-cultural...
Culture and Politics in the Information Age
A New Politics?
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
This volume addresses these key issues through an analysis of important theoretical debates on issues such as digital democracy, cultural politics and transnational communities.
Featuring contributors from both sides of the Atlantic, the book contains a series of case studies on new social movements...
Transnationalizing Inequalities in Europe
Sociocultural Boundaries, Assemblages and Regimes of Intersection
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Unequal life-chances became a key feature of cross-border migration to, and within, the enlarged Europe. Combining transnational, intersectional and cultural-sociological perspectives, this book develops a conceptual tool to analyse patterns, contexts and mechanisms of these cross-border inequalities.
This...
by Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
"Genomics in Asia" focuses on issues dealing with the development and application of molecular biology and bioengineering technologies in Asian societies and cultures. The workshop on which this book is based aimed to gain an insight into bioethical issues with relation to the dynamics of...
Scandalize My Name
Black Feminist Practice and the Making of Black Social Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
From sapphire, mammy, and jezebel, to the angry black woman, baby mama, and nappy-headed ho, black female iconography has had a long and tortured history in public culture. The telling of this history has long occupied the work of black female theorists—much of which has been foundational in situating...
Difference and Modernity
Social Theory and Contemporary Japanese Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
The question of ‘postmodernity’ that has swept Western academic and intellectual circles raises critical comparative questions. Do societies that have not experienced the same historical development as the West pass inevitably through modernity into postmodernity, or can they skip such stages...