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The fringes of citizenship
This book offers a socio-legal enquiry into the position of Roma as citizens in Europe. Rather than questioning the exceptionalities of Roma as a minority, it seeks to understand how citizenship in liberal democracies is constructed to marginalize certain minorities.
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Affective bordering
Affective bordering is a powerful exploration of the emotional politics of borders that demonstrates how racial and national boundaries are secured through the political mobilisation and unequal distribution of affect.
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Being boys
Offers a fresh and original approach to the masculinities, subjectivities and emotions of working-class young men, and makes a distinctive contribution to the history of leisure and interwar youth.
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Women in the weimar republic
The first comprehensive survey of women in the Weimar Republic, exploring the diversity and multiplicity of women’s experiences in the economy, politics and society.
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Fifty years of the international convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination
This is the very first edited collection on ICERD, the oldest of the UN human rights treaties. It provides a unique combination of members of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) and academic and other experts, to discuss the importance of the treaty on its fiftieth an...
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Imagining caribbean womanhood
Examines the links between beauty and politics in the Anglophone Caribbean
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The genesis of international mass migration
This book argues the modern mass transit of ordinary people derives from common conditions in modernising societies and that they were first manifested in the British Isles.
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Family rhythms
This textbook draws on original in-depth interviews with people of different ages to introduce contemporary scholarship on the family and to illustrate how Irish families have adapted and changed over time
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Irish children and teenagers in a changing world
This book provides an engaging and informative insight into the experiences, dreams and hopes of children and teenagers in contemporary Ireland.
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Britain’s rural muslims
This book exposes the benefits of shifting academic attention away from the major conurbations of Muslim settlement, and reveals how a more rural county with relatively small Muslim populations also has a role to play in wider debates on Britain’s multicultural society.
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Humanitarian mobilization in central and eastern europe
This volume examines humanitarianism in Central and Eastern Europe during the twentieth century. It challenges the often Western-focused history of humanitarianism by bringing together local, “private”, national, “socialist,” and international humanitarian actors.
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Digital ecologies
In a context where digital media are reshaping the futures of conservation, environmentalism, and ecological politics — for better and for worse — Digital ecologies draws together leading scholars in the humanities and social sciences to establish a research agenda for making sense of these trans...
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Borders of desire
Borders of Desire is a collection of studies from the eastern borders of Europe, particularly the Baltics and the Balkans, that take a novel approach to borders and the work they do. Instead of viewing borders only as obstructions to the fulfillment of desire, this book shows how borders produce ...
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Bordering britain
(B)ordering Britain argues that Britain is the spoils of empire, its immigration law is colonial violence and irregular immigration is anti-colonial resistance.
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Framing cosmologies
How might the anthropological study of cosmologies illuminate understandings of the contemporary world? This book addresses this question by bringing together anthropologists whose research is informed by a concern with cosmological dimensions of social life in different ethnographic settings
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Labour and working-class lives
This collection of essays deals with the latest research on British labour history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It has been written by leading British historians, such as Ken Brown, Malcolm Chase and Matthew Worley, in honour of Professor Chris Wrigley
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Understanding baby loss
This book offers an in-depth sociological analysis of parent and professional experience of baby loss, examining the role that post-mortem can play in the wider context of bereavement.
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The loneliness room
The loneliness room is a richly evocative account of loneliness as told through the photographs, videos, songs, poems, and writings supplied by its participants.
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Global health and the new world order
What does global health stem from, when is it born and how does it relate to the contemporary world order? In this book, historians and anthropologists tackle these questions by exploring the transnational circulation of drugs, bugs, therapies, biomedical technologies and people in the context of...
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Foreigners, minorities and integration
Explores the arrival and development of Muslim immigrant communities in Britain and Germany during the post-1945 period through the case studies of Newcastle upon Tyne and Bremen
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Odd men out
Examines the transformation of homosexual men from ‘odd’ to ‘normal’ during the tumultuous decades of the 1950s and 1960s.
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A savage song
This book examines key moments of violent social unrest in the twentieth century United States. Investigating the centrality of constructions of gender to American racism, it asks how African and Mexican American men, including those in uniform, responded to the violence of racism, and how their ...
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Changing gender roles and attitudes to family formation in ireland
This book presents the results of the first major study to examine people's attitudes to family formation and childbearing in Ireland. Based on a nationwide representative sample of 1,404 men and women in the childbearing age group, the study was carried out against a backdrop of changing gender ...
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Subjects of modernity
Subjects of Modernity brings together the past and the present as well as theory and narrative, sowing the historical, the ethnographic, and the methodological deep into its critical procedures.
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Racism and social change in the republic of ireland
In the last decade Irish society has visibly changed with the emergence of new immigrant communities of black and ethnic minorities. Argues that Ireland was never immune from the racist ideologies that governed relationships between the 'west and the rest' despite a history of colonial anti-Irish...
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Running the family firm
The British royal family has experienced a resurgence in public interest at the same time as global inequalities have expanded between ‘the elites’ and ‘the rest’. Yet, the monarchy is absent from conversations about inequality. This is the only book arguing that we cannot talk about inequalities...
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Object matters
Produces an original empirical analysis of the discourse of safer sex, condom use and consent
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Uncertain citizenship
This book investigates uncertainty as a governing practice from the unique vantage point of ‘citizenisation’ - twenty-first-century integration and naturalisation measures that make and unmake citizens and migrants, while indefinitely holding many applicants for citizenship in the waiting room of...
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Ethical and legal debates in irish healthcare
This is an in-depth study of the contentious issues in Irish healthcare and deals with issues such as assisted suicide, abortion, adolescent treatment refusal, end of life care, retention of biological samples, involuntary admission to care and the regulation of stem cell research.
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Humanitarian intervention in the long nineteenth century
A comprehensive presentation of humanitarian intervention in theory and practice during the course of the nineteenth century.
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Citizen convicts
The first comprehensive study of prisoners and the right to vote
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Divergent paths
Documents for the first time a representative sample of Irish immigrant families and uses the techniques of family and digital history to explore their long-term fate.
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The war on the uyghurs
This is the first account of one of the world's most pressing humanitarian catastrophes. Revealing how China has used the US-led War on Terror as cover for its brutal suppression of the Uyghur people, it provides a lucid and far-reaching analysis of a cultural genocide, while allowing the voices ...
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Reclaiming migration
Reclaiming migration assesses the EU’s migration policies based on a counter-archive of migratory testimonies, co-produced with people on the move across the Mediterranean during 2015 and 2016. It highlights the flawed assumptions on which policies are based and documents the precarities produced...
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Politicising and gendering care for older people
This book offers a new critical framework for understanding the processes of politicising and gendering care for older people and their manifestations in different European contexts. It contributes to an in-depth comprehension of how it becomes an arena of political struggle and the object of pub...
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Mummies, magic and medicine in ancient egypt
This volume presents the latest research on three of the most important aspects of ancient Egyptian civilisation: mummies, magic and medicine. Drawing on recent archaeological fieldwork, new research on human remains, reassessments of ancient texts and modern experimental archaeology, it seeks to...
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Church, state and social science in ireland
This case study casts new light on wider processes of change, and the story features a strong and somewhat surprising cast of characters ranging from Sean Lemass and T.K. Whitaker to Archbishop John Charles McQuaid and Father Denis Fahey.
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Feeling the strain
By examining the popular and vernacular discourse of stress, the book traces the ways in which stress became a ubiquitous condition of everyday life by the end of the twentieth century in Britain.
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The road
An ethnographic and historical study of the main Albania-Greece highway, exploring the post-Cold War political and cultural transformation of Europe through the examination of cross-border infrastructure.
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Stacking the coffins
A social history of the 1918-19 influenza pandemic’s effects on an Ireland where normal patterns of life were disturbed by war and the growing separatist movement. The influenza seemed to disrupt every aspect of Irish life – culture, economics, politics, medicine and family life.
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Translations, an autoethnography
Colonial anthropology, creative practice and migrant ethnography combine in Paul Carter’s Translations to produce a remarkably intimate and forthright autoethnography.
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Discourses on lgbt asylum in the uk
This book looks at the specificities of the exclusion of LGBT refugees, to show how the cultural politics of queer migration help us rethink emancipatory sexual politics.
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Doubting sex
This groundbreaking analysis of nineteenth-century European clinical case histories of hermaphrodites shows how sex changed from an outward appearance inscribed in a social body to something to be found deep inside body and self.
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How media and conflicts make migrants
Based on interviews and workshops with refugees in both countries, the book develops the concept of “migrantification” – in which people are made into migrants by the state, the media and members of society.
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Hierarchies and exclusion in humanitarianism
Hierarchies and exclusion in humanitarianism analyses – through diverse disciplinary perspectives and methods - how hierarchies, power asymmetries and exclusion emerge, are maintained and can ultimately be challenged in humanitarian governance. It informs current efforts to increase inclusiveness...
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The spatiality and temporality of urban violence
This interdisciplinary edited volume studies practices and representations of urban violence from a spatiotemporal perspective. It discusses how the spatial and temporal characteristics of the urban can produce and shape violence, and how practices as well as memories of violence transform spatia...
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China’s digital presence in the asia-pacific
This book examines China’s digital economy and its presence in the Asia-Pacific region. Drawing on the political economy of the media, industry analysis, platform studies and cultural policy studies, the book shows that China's commercial digital platforms are increasingly recognized outside Chin...
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Aspirational chinese in competitive social repositionings
Drawing upon a new perspective of competitive social repositioning and numerous new sources, this book fills the analytical gap caused by the research focus on either macro- or micro-level issues through analysing how everyday Chinese had reacted to and influenced the numerous changes in China fr...
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Demilitarizing the future
Demilitarizing the Future draws from art, anthropology, and activism to investigate the entrenchment of militarism in everyday lives and consider novel imaginaries of its dissolution—of peacemaking, community, and shared equitable futures.
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Taking responsibility for the life of complex human ecosystems
Moving towards, not away from, the vexing array of discouraging crises of our time and drawing on a number of innovative but congruent concepts, this short book offers to focus our path towards deep accountability for the life of complex human ecosystems.
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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...
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Don't shoot the journalists
Born out of the University of Oregon’s “Extra!! Don’t Kill the Messenger: Migrating to Stay Alive” international symposium on journalism-in-exile, this volume brings together the presentations, conversations, and reflections of writers, reporters, and scholars who have faced dangers and threats t...
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Developing africa?
The book depicts an Afrocentric thinker grounded in the theory of Afrocentricity in the interrogation of an African development discourse in pursuit of cognitive justice.
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Unhappy families
Adam Ferner's short, engaging book explores the ethical and political dimensions of parenthood, childcare and reproduction, and the dominant ethos of the family, in a world riven by conflict, inequality and the absence of hope.
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Dhaka
A critical examination of the urban growth, political economy and geography of Bangladesh's capital city and one of the world’s leading garment manufacturers.
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A modern migration theory
How does the EU square the seemingly contradictory objectives of bringing about less migration – its current approach to the refugee crisis – and more migration, which is its current response to the Union’s demographic deficit? Peo Hansen explores how this might be resolved.
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Stopping gender-based violence and harassment at work
An analysis of the International Labour Organization's ground-breaking global Treaty on eliminating violence and harassment in the world of work and the ten-year campaign that led to its enactment from three authors who each played a key role in the campaign and the negotiation of the Convention.
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London
As one of the fastest growing cities in Europe London's expansion has generated many planning challenges. This book examines the tensions, complexities and difficulties in mobilizing policy agendas in the city, and the market-led development that has led to widescale privatization of the city’s d...
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A feminist political economy for an inclusive and sustainable society
A significant critique of neoliberal economics that shows how the free market perspective is tied up with an androcentric understanding of the economy which overlooks the role of social reproduction. The book identifies alternatives for a more gender equitable, environmentally and socially sustai...
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Demography and the making of the modern world
How has demography shaped the Arab Spring, migrant flights from Africa to Europe, budget negotiations in the USA, immigration debates in Japan and economic growth in India and Brazil, among others? John Rennie Short explores the wide-ranging economic, social and public policy implications of popu...
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Evolving regional economies
Martin Henning explores why economic growth and transformation is essentially a regionally based and spatially dependent process and introduces the core ideas involved in understanding the dynamics of regional economies drawing on case studies to illuminate these ideas in practice.
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The urban field
A critical examination of the relationship between capital and the state, and the generation of an urban governmentality centred on the economization of knowledge and technology. A rethinking of the role of contemporary urbanism in today’s knowledge-intensive capitalism.
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Doreen massey
These essays interrogate both the generative sources and the potential of Doreen Massey’s remarkably wide-ranging and influential work and provide an unparalleled assessment of the context that gave rise to Massey’s key ideas and how they subsequently travelled, and were translated and transforme...
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Market/place
This collection of new essays from leading economic geographers addresses the contested place of markets in a physical setting and explore how the impact of political, social and economic factors determine the shape of a particular market space.
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Social movements in latin america
A comprehensive survey of Latin American social movements, which are likely to be at the centre of any future progressive politics in Latin America.
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The economy's other half
James Heintz tackles the shortcomings of macroeconomic policies in relation to gender dynamics, such as ignoring the valuable and quantifiable role that the unpaid work of women for their families contributes to the economy, and suggests new ways of framing macroeconomic concepts.
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The wealth of cities and the poverty of nations
A corrective to the view that cities are only ever "good", arguing that the same urban properties which make cities so extraordinarily proficient at producing the “good” innovations also provides fertile ground for the development of the “bad” ones, on which urban elites have syphoned off wealth ...
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The doreen massey reader
This collection of Doreen Massey’s writings brings together for the first time her formative contributions, showcasing the continuing relevance of her ideas to current debates. With introductions and explanatory notes from the editors, the collection provides an unrivalled introduction to the ran...
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Race and the undeserving poor
A major new work that charts the historical development of a postcolonial settlement that has given rise to a racialized distintion between the "deserving" and "undeserving" poor, the latest incarnation of which is a distinction between a deserving, neglected white working class and "others" who ...
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Global health
A comprehensive and authoritative examination of the key issues relating to global health. Written by a leading health geographer with an international reputation, the book offers a critical and rigorous analysis of contemporary challenges facing world health.
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Economic anthropology
This accessible and authoritative overview of the subdiscipline of economic anthropology defines and frames the field for a new generation of students in search of an inspiring and fresh way of looking at the economic world.
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Max weber’s sociological thought on the economy
Max Weber (1864–1920) has long been considered a founding figure of sociology. This book offers a fresh reading of Weber’s work and highlights his thinking about the economy and economic interactions in society.
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