Revolution in the echo chamber

Revolution in the Echo Chamber is a sociohistorical analysis of British and US radio and audio drama from 1919 to the present day. Building on historical analysis, this book provides contemporary perspective, drawing on trends from the current audio drama environment to analyse how people listen ...

World-wide-walks

This book presents Peter d'Agostino's World-Wide-Walks project, providing a unique perspective on walking practices across time and place considered through the framework of evolving technologies and changes in climate.

Dancing bahia

Dancing Bahia is an edited collection that draws together the work of leading scholars, artists and dance activists from Brazil, Canada and the United States to examine the particular ways in which dance has responded to sociopolitical notions of race and community, resisting stereotypes, and red...

The plight of potential

Drawing on an international body of case studies from leading millennial networks, "The Plight of Potential" shows how millennials can live deeper and more enriching lives by reflecting on the self, placing value on solitude and resisting the feeling that they must constantly connect and share.

Being human

This feels like a time of environmental and moral crisis without parallel.... Not only do human beings seem not to believe in anything but, despite exponential advances in information production, we do not appear to know much either. This book is a guide for everyone who feels understandably perp...

Salaam america

A rare insight into the group identity of South Asian Muslims in New York, investigating Islamic stereotypes post-September 11th.

The musical comedy films of grigorii aleksandrov

The musical comedy films of grigorii aleksandrov

Grigorii Aleksandrov’s musical comedy films, created with composer Isaak Dunaevskii, were the most popular Russian cinema of the 1930s and ’40s. Drawing on studio documents, press materials, and interviews with surviving film crew members, The Musical Comedy Films of Grigorii Aleksandrov presents...

Decolonial mourning and the caring commons

This book engages with decolonial mourning by bearing witness to the political grief work of contemporary struggles against migration-coloniality necropolitics in Europe, the United States and Latin America.

Radio content in the digital age

From nwico to wsis: 30 years of communication geopolitics

Two major regulatory activities have framed global media policies since World War II: the New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO) and the more recent World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Through extensive research and testimonies from those involved, this book presents an...

Radio content in the digital age

The traditional radio medium has seen significant changes in recent years as part of the current global shift toward multimedia content, with both digital and FM making significant use of new technologies, including mobile communications and the Internet. This book focuses on the important role t...

Journalism re-examined

The digital era has posed innumerable challenges to the business and practice of journalism. Journalism Re-examined sets out an institutional theoretical framework for exploring the journalistic institution in the digital age and analyses how it has responded to those profound changes in its soci...

From nwico to wsis: 30 years of communication geopolitics

Two major regulatory activities have framed global media policies since World War II: the New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO) and the more recent World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Through extensive research and testimonies from those involved, this book presents an...

Media in europe today

Media in europe today

Media in Europe Today provides a comprehensive overview of European media in its current state of transformation. Through a focus on specific European media sectors, it assesses the impact of new technologies across industries and addresses a wide range of practices, strategies, and challenges fa...

Media, markets and public spheres

This book uses newspapers and TV listings to present an overview of changes in European public spheres over the last fifty years. It explores how and why the media decisively influence most aspects of society with in-depth analyses of structural changes in press and broadcasting, changing relatio...

Media, markets and public spheres

This book uses newspapers and TV listings to present an overview of changes in European public spheres over the last fifty years. It explores how and why the media decisively influence most aspects of society with in-depth analyses of structural changes in press and broadcasting, changing relatio...

Keeping the faith

This book examines the development of northern soul, its clubs, publications, and practices by locating it in the shifting economic and social context of the English midlands and north in the 1970s. Using fanzines, diaries, letters, and oral testimony it presents a vivid insight into the scene.

Men and masculinities in south india

An anthropological examination of masculinity within South Asian societies.

Transnational celebrity activism in global politics

Celebrity activism is an ever-growing, internationally visible phenomenon – yet the impact on public awareness, government support and resource mobilization remains under-researched. Transnational Celebrity Activism in Global Politics brings together contributors to create a new framework for the...

Transnational celebrity activism in global politics

Celebrity activism is an ever-growing, internationally visible phenomenon – yet the impact on public awareness, government support and resource mobilization remains under-researched. Transnational Celebrity Activism in Global Politics brings together contributors to create a new framework for the...

Russia's new fin de siècle

This volume investigates Russian culture at the turn of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with scholars from Britain, Sweden, Russia and the United States exploring aspects of culture with regard to one overarching question: What is the impact of the Soviet discourse on contemporary cultu...

Fashion in popular culture

When we open our closet doors each morning, we seldom consider what our sartorial choices say, whether we tend toward jeans and a well-worn concert t-shirt or wingtips and a three-piece suit. Yet, how we dress divulges more than whether we crave comfort or couture; our clothing communicates who w...

Fashion in popular culture

Pride and panic

Pride and Panic probes cinematic representations of the Russian national consciousness, a complex cocktail of fear, anger and anxious uncertainty. Hashamova examines the works of both established and lesser-known Russian directors, drawing parallels between evolving social attitudes in Russia and...

Sustainability, participation and culture in communication

At a time when sustainability is on everyone’s lips, this edited collection is one of the first to offer an overview of sustainability and communication issues from a social development perspective.

Pride and panic

Pride and Panic probes cinematic representations of the Russian national consciousness, a complex cocktail of fear, anger and anxious uncertainty. Hashamova examines the works of both established and lesser-known Russian directors, drawing parallels between evolving social attitudes in Russia and...

Architectures of illusion

The world of media production is in a state of rapid transformation. In this age of the Internet, interactivity and digital broadcasting, do traditional standards of quality apply or must we identify and implement new criteria? This profile of the work of the Cambridge University Moving Image St...

Habitus of the hood

Since the 1990s, popular culture the world over has frequently looked to the 'hood for inspiration, whether in music, film or television. Habitus of the Hood explores the myriad ways in which the hood has been conceived – both within the lived experiences of its residents and in the many mediated...

Habitus of the hood

The postdigital membrane

The Postdigital Membrane explores the triad of imagination, technology and desire as they play upon each other. It offers fresh insights into the deeper problems of intelligence, reality and being human in order to map the emerging consciousness of the postdigital age.

The postdigital membrane

The Postdigital Membrane explores the triad of imagination, technology and desire as they play upon each other. It offers fresh insights into the deeper problems of intelligence, reality and being human in order to map the emerging consciousness of the postdigital age.

One hundred years of futurism

More than one hundred years after Futurism exploded onto the European stage with its unique brand of art and literature, there is a need to reassess the movement, from its Italian roots to its international ramifications. The contributors to this collection examine both the original context and t...

Fat activism (second edition)

In this new edition of her accessible autoethnography of fat feminist activism in the West, Charlotte Cooper revisits and discusses her activism in the context of recent shifts in the movement. It is part of a new wave of accessible, accountable and rigorous work emerging through Research Justice...

The cultural impact of rupaul’s drag race

Insightful and provocative, and new in paperback. Examines the social, cultural, political and commercial implications of RuPaul’s Drag Race, from its groundbreaking, subversive entry into the reality television arena, to a now mainstream, increasingly non-LGBTQ+, audience reach and relationship ...

Doing gender in heavy metal

This book offers a sociological study of gender regarding women in the heavy metal subculture. Relying on interviews with fans, women have made progress in the metal world, although gendered conditions also continue to exist. Heavy metal feminism is a process in becoming, but not yet an accomplis...

Men, war and film

The story and analysis of the Calling Blighty series of films made by the Combined Kinematograph Service in Burma and India between 1943 and 1946. These are remarkable and moving documents, a one-way Skype of their day, where men – and a very few women – sent spoken messages home to be shown to f...

Etruscan myth, sacred history, and legend

Making the Etruscans come alive for us, de Grummond is an archaeological detective, piecing together evidence from representations in art, from archaeological sites, and from accounts of Etruscan lore in Greek and Roman texts. This book is valuable for Etruscan researchers, classicists, and schol...

The city of rainbows

Written over four thousand years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, The City of Rainbows is one of the world's oldest folktales, featuring a wise king, a foolish king, magic deeds, talking animals, and a good witch who triumphs over a wicked sorcerer. This book offers the first modern retelling of the s...

Television antiheroines

This book focuses on the emergence of female characters in typically male roles, particularly in the crime and prison drama genres. Contributors explore the role of race and sexuality, focusing on the transgression of female identity, and examine how bad women are portrayed and how they reveal th...

The exciting life of being a woman

The feminist survival manual you wish you had read as a teenager. It is written by Feminist Webs, a cross-generational youth project for girls and young women based in Manchester, UK. Many of their resources are not geographically specific.

Apo ti zoi ton vlachon sta 1900 (greek language edition)

An album of rare photographs highlighting the multiple dimensions of the Vlach populations living in both Greek and Ottoman lands in the Balkans in 1900.  Published in collaboration with the Egnatia Epirus Foundation.Greek language text. 226 b&w illus, 12 maps.

The life of the vlachs in 1900 (english language edition)

An album of rare photographs highlighting the multiple dimensions of the Vlach populations living in both Greek and Ottoman lands in the Balkans in 1900.  Published in collaboration with the Egnatia Epirus Foundation. English language text. 226 b&w illus, 12 maps.

Race and the obama administration

Did African Americans benefit from the election of Barack Obama? This book explores Obama's successes and failures on race policies by comparing his record to those of previous presidents, and explains why black support of Obama remained strong throughout his presidency.

Culture, control and commitment

This book documents the conventional wisdom that Japanese workers displayed significantly more commitment to their organizations than did American workers. As pointed out in the new prologue, the world is very different from when this survey first appeared; the Japanese are now moving closer to t...

The heart of haiti

Sub-saharan african immigrants’ stories of resilience and courage

The purpose of this book to give a voice to nameless and countless stories that represent the personal lived experiences of Sub-Saharan African immigrants in the US. The authors believe that telling our own stories from our own perspectives is important and empowering because when others tell our...

Global connections and emerging inequalities in europe

This book explores connections between poverty and migration in the context of the expansion of neoliberalism in Europe, examining these global concerns from a local perspective.

Migration and social policy in a changing world

This book bridges social policy and migration studies, exploring responses from the Industrial Revolution to today. Through global case studies, it offers a comprehensive analysis of migrant experiences and host society policies, providing insights for scholars and policymakers.

Mexico-us, serbia-eu border lives and works

Mexico–US, Serbia–EU Border Lives and Works is an interdisciplinary, accessible study of Mexico–US and Serbia-EU border practices and policies. Our interdisciplinary, collaborative team of scholars, artists, and migration practitioners tackle crucial questions about how these borders impact peopl...

Refugee reception in southern africa

This book offers an original and unique perspective on refugee hosting in Southern Africa, through a comparative analysis of the politics surrounding the welcome afforded to refugees in Zambia and South Africa. While state-based reception is frequently framed as one-off moments, such as registrat...

Ireland and migration in the twenty-first century

Considers migration to, from and within Ireland in the twenty-first century, covering the Celtic Tiger era of mass immigration to Ireland as well as the dramatic growth in levels of emigration that has occurred since the Irish economic collapse.

Sociology in times of glocalization

This book offers a series of critical discussions of how sociology is responding to the challenges of globalization, to local counter-reactions to them, to the many ways ‘the global’ impacts our lives, and to the new questions about research this poses.

Chagos islanders in mauritius and the uk

This is the first book to compare the experiences of displaced Chagos islanders in Mauritius with the experiences of those Chagossians who have moved to the UK since 2002. It provides a unique ethnographic comparative study of forced displacement and onward migration within the living memory of o...

Causes and consequences of global migration

The book summarizes scholarly knowledge on why people migrate to western countries, and how this impacts on the receiving economies and societies.

A liberal tide?

Over the past decade, a paradigm shift in migration and asylum law and policymaking appears to have taken place in Latin America. Does this apparent ""liberal tide"" of new laws and policies suggest a new approach to the hot topics of migration and refugees in Latin America distinct from the regr...

An immigrant nation seeks cohesion

An Immigrant Nation Seeks Cohesion' is based on years of studying and teaching Australian politics and an active interest and involvement in immigration and settlement policies since the 1950s. This was a period of mass immigration from Britain and Europe, organised and mainly subsidised by the B...

Navigating the inequitable u.s. healthcare system

This book explores the existing inequities within the U.S. healthcare system and their impacts on individuals and in particular Black women, who seek life-saving healthcare.  It deals with the social and economic costs of a healthcare system that fails to provide equitable care to everyone in need.

Fat china

'Fat China' provides an in-depth analysis of the growing problem of obesity in China and its relationship to the nation's changing diet, lifestyle trends and healthcare system.

Socialising the biomedical turn in hiv prevention

This book addresses the major challenge for HIV prevention: that is, to reach beyond the limitations of biomedical approaches to disease and to design prevention strategies informed by and connected with the social realities of people’s lives.

Cultural processes of inequality

Cultural Processes of Inequality: A Sociological Perspective show how systemic inequality is produced and reproduced through mundane, routine actions based on taken-for-granted assumptions. The book ties such cultural assumptions to personal and institutional behavior, drawing connections between...

Marx in the field

Marx in the Field is a unique edited collection illustrating the relevance of Marxian methods to study contemporary capitalism and the global development process. Essays in the collection bring Marx ‘to the field’ in three ways. They illustrate how Marxian categories can be concretely deployed fo...

Reclaiming development studies

As the mission, relevance and intellectual orientation of development studies is increasingly being challenged, this collection of essays argues for the continued necessity to ground the field in a critical political economy approach informed by the contributions of Ashwani Saith.

A matter of trust

Producing high-quality data is necessary for progress on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals initiative to be measured accurately. Flawed statistics can result in misguided decisions. This book explores the substantial challenges for assembling reliable data and statistics to address...

A new india?

This volume critically examines the notion of a ‘new’ India by recognizing that India is changing remarkably and by exposing the many economic, social, and political contradictions that are integral to contemporary India.

The demographic dividend and the power of youth

The book is a compendium of essays from around the world on how governments and institutions can effectively manage and take advantage of the demographic dividend. It highlights the role young people can play as actors of change.

Can we live forever?

An enlightening look into the medical, cultural, religious and philosophical implications of life extension.

The asia-pacific in the age of transnational mobility

Asia Pacific in the Age of Transnational Mobility addresses and discusses the challenges of community and identity in the evolving transnational migrant and ethnographic landscapes of the region in the era of social media.

Creating ethnicities & identities in the roman world

The expansion of Rome entailed encounters with a wide range of peoples, many of which had well-established pre-conquest ethnic identities which can be compared with Roman perceptions of them. In other cases, people have been perceived almost entirely through a Roman lens. The formation of such id...

Mediating multiculturalism

This book addresses a historical problem—multiculturalism—using contemporary phenomena: digital storytelling. ‘Mediating Multiculturalism’ offers an innovative model for reconceptualising cultural difference in a highly mobile and contradictory global moment.

The social and political life of latin american infrastructures

This cross-disciplinary book makes a novel contribution to global infrastructure debates and provides important new insights into Latin America’s history and politics. It captures the characteristics, limits and vibrancy of Latin America’s infrastructures, exploring irrigation networks in Peru to...

Australian newspapers in the television age, 1956-2006

This extensive, quantitative study illuminates how newspaper practices and priorities developed, and how the nature of news changed in the half century after the introduction of television.

Living across connectivity

This volume looks at the role of digital media platforms in shaping migrants’ practices of connectivity and mobility. Focusing on migration within and beyond East Asia, it explores the pervasive use of smartphones as an everyday reality for intimacy, entrepreneurship, and care for East Asian migr...

Digital immersive art in china

This book explores the role of virtual reality and augmented reality in China’s rejuvenation, especially in relation to cultural displays, performances and art exhibitions. It examines how audiences, both in China and globally, respond to Digital China through digital immersive art.

Legal identity, race and belonging in the dominican republic

This book provides a cautionary tale regarding legal identity practices as promulgated by the World Bank, UN and Inter-American Development Bank. It warns that policies encouraging the en masse registration of native-born migrant-descended populations can also force the thorny question of nationa...

Culture and conflicts in sierra leone mining

This book argues that mining area conflicts of Sub-Saharan African countries, like Sierra Leone, and their impacts on mineral development and policy stem from cultural differences in land governance. Extractive industries operating under state laws, which have roots in colonial policies, clash wi...

Racism and the cultural politics of punishment

Justifying (in)justice offers an in-depth analysis of the 2011 English ‘riots’ and the state’s startlingly punitive response. Drawing on original research inside the criminal justice system, it traces the forms of denial and ignorance that underpin the contemporary politics of law and order, and ...

Émile durkheim and the collective consciousness of society

This volume presents the first ever book-length treatment of Émile Durkheim’s concept of the ‘collective consciousness of society’.