The anthem companion to norbert elias

The book brings together authoritative chapters by leading experts in the sociology of Elias. It charts Elias’s ambition to create an integrative sociological framework across a wide range of studies and assesses its continuing relevance for addressing significant issues facing sociology today.

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.

An introduction to changing india

This book provides a comprehensive view on rapidly changing India. It covers Indian culture, politics, economy and technology, as well as population and environmental issues.

Land dispossession and everyday politics in rural eastern india

‘Land Dispossession and Everyday Politics in Rural Eastern India’ analyses the political mobilization of farmers in Singur, West Bengal, in defence of their farmland. By foregrounding the everyday politics of popular mobilization, the book sheds new light on the internal politics of one of India’...

Bonfires of the american dream in american rhetoric, literature and film

 In Bonfires of the American Dream, through close cultural studies of classic novels and films – Atlas Shrugged, The Great Gatsby, It’s a Wonderful Life, and The Wolf of Wall Street – Daniel Shaviro helps to provide a better understanding of what went wrong culturally in America.

The anthem companion to alexis de tocqueville

‘The Anthem Companion to Alexis de Tocqueville’ contains original interpretations of Tocqueville’s major writings on democracy and revolution as well as his lesser- known writings on colonies, prisons and minorities. Each chapter compares Tocqueville’s ideas on a given subject with those of other...

Isis and the pornography of violence

‘ISIS and the Pornography of Violence’ is a collection of iconoclastic essays on ISIS, spanning the four-year period from its ascendancy in late 2014 to its demise in early 2018.

Literature and inequality

Great works of literature, by the likes of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton, can help us to better understand the social ramifications of high-end inequality – not just in the authors' eras but today.

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...

Journalism ethics in eastern europe

This textbook looks into the current ethical challenges of public communication in the former communist countries of Eastern Europe and addresses some of the most pressing issues of journalism, including political and corporate pressures, declining commercial revenues, the rise of citizen journal...

Regimes of happiness

‘Regimes of Happiness’ is a comparative and historical analysis of how human societies have articulated and enacted distinctive notions of human fulfillment.

Covid-19 and the challenges of trauma and transformations

Covid-19 has created trauma, death and destruction as well as challenged us for transformation of our existing society, economy and polity. The book deals with it.

The anthem companion to c. wright mills

This companion comprises interpretive, critical, and exploratory essays on Mills’s chief writings as well as his interventions in the political conflicts of his time, stressing important aspects of his work that are neglected in the literature. 

Network persistence and the axis of hierarchy

“Network Persistence and the Axis of Hierarchy” shows how networks, modestly redefined as a strong, yet imperfect tendency for pairings to recur day after day, that is, stickiness, imply a singular axis of stratification. This is contrary to the nearly universal insistence that stratification is ...

The anthem companion to philip selznick

The Anthem Companion to Philip Selznick is a collection of essays by renowned authors on the preeminent sociologist.

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.

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 dark side of news fixing

This book provides a local journalist's perspective on a four-decade long regional contribution to global news production. Fixers are local journalists hired to help global media outlets in developing news stories on wars. The book shows how the fixers' risky news pursuits made possible for globa...

Aging within transnational families

‘Aging within Transnational Families’ focuses on the often overlooked role of older people as active agents within transnational families.

The culture of caution

An ethnographic exploration of Islamic television talk show production, revealing behind-the-scenes challenges and strategies shaped by a culture of caution.

Ethnographic reflections on marriage in dhofar, oman

Studying Marriage in Dhofar, Oman explains the choices middle-class, Muslim, tribal Dhofari men and women make when creating a life together.

Life chances, education and social movements

‘Life Chances, Education and Social Movements’ dwells on the necessity of education and social movements for enhancing the life chances of individuals and disadvantaged groups respectively. Ralf Dahrendorf’s work on life chances and social conflict is used to support the theoretical and empirical...

Georgian women on the move

The lives of Georgian women who began migrating to Greece in the early 1990s have largely remained invisible. Georgian Women on the Move offers an intimate account of these Soviet-educated care-workers in Thessaloniki during 2015, amid Greece’s economic crisis. Through their everyday practices of...

Post-contact archaeology of michigan and the upper great lakes region

In this comprehensive reassessment of post-contact archaeology in the Upper Great Lakes region, Sarah L. Surface-Evans and Misty M. Jackson highlight the diversity and breadth of the area’s archaeological sites and the innovative findings they offer. In doing so, they highlight archaeology’s impl...

Small adults or big kids?

This book explores the meaning of adolescence, a critical period of the life course, through the analysis of material culture, historical documents, skeletal remains, isotope analysis, and other lines of evidence. By considering the implications for archaeologists and biological anthropologists, ...

Prophetic histories

Embracing change in coastal sri lanka

Artificial violence

Drawing on ideas from across the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities, James Tyner considers how the advent of the Anthropocene and and the coming age of artificial intelligence challenges us to rethink our notions of violence. Humanity’s destruction of the Earth system, which has com...

Debt trap nation

This blistering expose takes the reader inside England's national scandal of homelessness to reveal how government choices have forced single mothers and their families into impossible hardship with hundreds of thousands of children living in temporary accommodation for months, years and sometime...

Constructing female terrorism

A critical examination of UK and French media’s representation of politically violent women, which shines fresh light on the construction of national gender identities.

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...

Bartered bridegrooms

This book explores the experiences of Muslim men born and raised in Pakistan and Kashmir who migrate after marrying British Pakistani nationals. The book particular focuses on the impact of migration and marriage on their masculinity.

The elementary structuring of patriarchy

Through life histories of Indigenous women, the volume bridges classical anthropological studies on kinship and contemporary research on the gender inequalities in transnational and transborder migrant families. This ethnographically-informed exercise establishes a critical feminist contribution ...

Citizens gone

The book examines how countries at the periphery of Europe deal with the challenge of large-scale emigration. They adapt politically and socially and thus re-define the relations between citizens and state. Emigration is a key variable to understand contemporary societal and political change in E...

The racial politics of police warfare

The racial politics of police warfare shatters prevailing myths about British police as an impartial public service. Taking contemporary anti-gang and counter-terrorism policies and practices as its point of departure, the book examines how modern policing is ultimately fashioned by a complex rel...

Ageing and new intimacies

This book examines the romantic and intimate lives of the baby boom generation, often portrayed as pioneers of new ways of relating and family-making. As this cohort enters mid and later life, it is frequently claimed they are redefining ageing itself. Drawing on sensory ethnography in salsa clas...

The neoliberal monarch

In this well-researched and thought-provoking book on the world’s longest reigning monarch today, Sweden’s Carl XVI Gustaf, sociologist Mikael Holmqvist examines how monarchies and royals exercise corporate power, and how they contribute to consecrating and legitimizing neoliberalism.

Race, bordering and disobedient knowledge

Developing the concept of disobedient knowledge, this book provides new perspectives on activism and everyday struggles against racism and borders. Drawing on empirical research in distinct European contexts, the chapters highlight the intertwined nature of racism and bordering, and the role of ...

Romanticizing masculinity in baathist syria

This book documents the influence of European Romantic nationalism in shaping the vision and practices of the Baathist regime in Syria, with particular attention to the impact of new concepts of gender in public life, the role of these constructs in perpetuating conflict and inequality, and curre...

Three scandinavian missionary women and the armenian genocide

Based on the lives of three missionary women, this book explores humanitarian aid to Armenians from a Scandinavian angle and discusses the transnational, religious and gendered dimensions of relief work. It addresses religious motivations and missionary practices in humanitarianism and the rolesp...

Cinematic nightscapes

Cinematic nightscapes explores how night in contemporary Cuba becomes a powerful space for political expression, imagination and artistic experimentation. Through Cuban documentary film, it examines how the night reshapes ethnographic practices and invites new ways of seeing, listening, feeling a...

Gendered urban violence among brazilians

This book aims to examine the nature of and resistance to gendered urban violence among Brazilian women in London and in the favelas of Maré, Rio de Janeiro. Drawing on the conceptualisation of translocational gendered urban violence framework, it highlights the importance of examining direct for...

The sound of difference

The sound of difference examines how diversity work takes shape in a cultural sector deeply implicated in hierarchies of class, structures of whiteness, and legacies of imperialism.

Unruly subjects

Unruly Subjects unravels how everyday solidarity, resistance, and violent abandonment intersect at Europe’s borders. Through long-term ethnographic research in Greece, it explores the creative, yet ambivalent solidarities between ‘illegalised’ migrants incarcerated in camps and the grassroots vol...

Heritage and healing in syria and iraq

This book explores what to do with heritage that has been destroyed in conflict in Syria and Iraq. Drawing on research into trauma and trauma recovery, it challenges existing modes of cultural heritage reconstruction and envisages gentler, creative and ethically-driven ways to use heritage for he...

Cinematic ethnography

Cinematic Ethnography proposes an interdisciplinary approach to filmmaking at the intersection of art, anthropology and cinema. Rejecting the straightforward representational modes typical of visual anthropology and film studies, the book advances a model grounded in collective aesthetics and col...

The construction of public opinion in a digital age

This book presents a new conceptual model for understanding the role of the media in the construction of public knowledge, belief and opinion in the context of a radically changed communications infrastructure.

Border abolitionism

This book mobilises an abolitionist approach to contemporary borders, combining critical migration scholarship and carceral abolitionism literature. It argues that a critique of borders involves rethinking the right to mobility as part of processes of commoning.

Waiting on borders

A powerful contribution to ongoing debates on refugees, borders, and camps and the politics of waitingThe Lebanese–Syrian borderscape is predominantly porous and ambiguous, without an actual border control, and is incessantly contested. Repeated internal displacement and refugee crises have been ...

Hypocrisy

Although the official propaganda surrounding the drug detainees in China is that of helping, educating, and saving them from their drug habits and the drug dealers who lure them into drug abuse, it is clear, according to Vincent Shing Cheng, that those who have gone through the rehabilitation sys...

Civility and its development

This is the first book-length study of the development of civility in Chinese societies. Although some social scientists and political philosophers have discussed civility, none has defined it as an analytical tool to systematically measure attitudes and behavior, and few have applied it to a non...

Maid to queer

Maid to Queer is the first book about Asian female migrant workers who develop same-sex relationships in a host city. Based on participant observation and in-depth interviews with Indonesian domestic workers in Hong Kong, the book explores the meanings of same-sex relationships to these migrant w...

Hong kong land for hong kong people

Hong Kong is one of the world’s most densely populated cities. Land supply, property values, and housing provision are inextricably linked with the city’s economic growth and questions of economic equality. In Hong Kong Land for Hong Kong People, Yue Chim Richard Wong traces the history of Hong K...

Places of nature in ecologies of urbanism

If twenty-first-century urbanization is understood as a problem, its regional epicenter is the cities in Asia. Facing unprecedented diversity in scale, scope, and environmental dynamics in the Asian urban experience, scholars will need an approach that can truly capture the significance of place ...

Women we love

Women We Love: Femininities and the Korean Wave is an edited volume exploring femininities in and around the Korean Wave since 2000. While studies on the Korean Wave are abundant, there is a dearth of thought put toward the female-identifying stars, characters, and fans who shape and lead this cr...

Queer chinese cultures and mobilities

In Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities, John Wei brings light to the germination and movements of queer cultures and social practices in today’s China and Sinophone Asia. While many scholars attribute China’s emergent queer cultures to the neoliberal turn and the global political landscape, Wei...

Chinese discourses on happiness

Happiness is on China’s agenda. From Xi Jinping’s “Chinese Dream” to online chat forums, the conspicuous references to happiness are hard to miss. This groundbreaking volume analyzes how different social groups make use of the concept and shows how closely official discourses on happiness are int...

Making national heroes

Making National Heroes is an ethnography on the making of national heroes in the commemoration of the Second World War in contemporary China. Foregrounding the lived experience of men and women who participate in commemorative activities, it theorises how masculinity and nationalism entangle in r...

Death and life of nature in asian cities

Death and Life of Nature in Asian Cities explores the encounter between two processes that are unfolding in diverse patterns across Asia—the rapid urbanization of Asia across big cities, smaller towns, and the newest urban concentrations; and the contentious debates and novel schemes by which nat...

Tuberculosis control and institutional change in shanghai, 1911–2011

This volume is the first book-length monograph on the most widespread and deadly infectious disease in China, both historically and today: tuberculosis (TB). Weaving together interviews with data from periodicals and local archives in Shanghai, Rachel Core examines the rise and fall of TB control...

Queering chinese kinship

What does it mean to be queer in a Confucian society in which kinship roles, ties, and ideologies are of such great importance? This book makes sense of queer cultures in China—a country with one of the largest queer populations in the world—and offers an alternative to Euro-American blueprints o...

A chinese melting pot

Drawing on almost fifty years of research and first-hand experience, Elizabeth Lominska Johnson and Graham E. Johnson have produced a masterpiece of ethnography, a fine-grained study of the transformation of a rural district into a chaotic industrial—and now post-industrial—city. Their work has i...

Changing chinese masculinities

It is now almost a cliché to claim that China and the Chinese people have changed. Yet inside the new clothing that is worn by the Chinese man today, Kam Louie contends, we still see much of the historical Chinese man. With contributions from a team of outstanding scholars, Changing Chinese Mascu...

Searching for sweetness

Traversing from the rapidly urbanising county-level city of Fuqing to the remote mountainous kingdom of Lesotho in Southern Africa, Searching for Sweetness is one of the first and most extensive ethnographies linking rural-to-urban migration in China with Chinese migration to Africa. Against the ...

On saving face

In On Saving Face, Michael Keevak traces the Western reception of the Chinese concept of “face” during the past two hundred years, arguing that it has always been linked to nineteenth-century colonialism. “Lose face” and “save face” have become so normalized in modern European languages that most...

Everyday masculinities in 21st-century china

Everyday Masculinities in 21st-Century China: The Making of Able-Responsible Men argues that a moral dimension in Chinese masculinity is of growing significance in fast-changing China. ‘Able-responsible men’—those who can create wealth and shoulder responsibilities—have replaced the ‘moneyed elit...

Asian celebrity cultures in the digital age

Asian Celebrity Cultures in the Digital Age represents the first comprehensive study on the transformations of celebrity cultures in increasingly globalised and digitalised Asian societies. It discusses relations between Asian celebrities and digital media across emerging phenomena in celebrity p...

Crime and the chinese dream

Although official propaganda emphasizes the Chinese Dream as the dream of all Chinese, the opportunities of achieving the prosperity by legal means are distributed unequally. Crime and the Chinese Dream reveals how people on the margins of Chinese society find their way to the Chinese Dream throu...

Empires of panic

Empires of Panic is the first book to explore how panics have been historically produced, defined, and managed across different colonial, imperial, and post-imperial settings—from early nineteenth-century East Asia to twenty-first-century America. Contributors consider panic in relation to coloni...

Ambient screens and transnational public spaces

Large public screens have now become a ubiquitous part of the contemporary cityscape. Far from being simply oversized televisions, the media experts contributing to Ambient Screens and Transnational Public Spaces put forward a strong case that such screens could serve as important sites for cultu...

The cosmopolitan dream

The Cosmopolitan Dream presents the broad patterns in the transformations of mainland Chinese masculinity over recent years, covering both representations (in film, fiction, and on television) and the lived experiences of Chinese men on four continents. Exposure to transnational influences has ma...

Hong kong foodways

This book examines Hong Kong foodways in different periods of social development and hopes to advance anthropological inquiries by addressing issues concerning identity, migration, consumerism, globalization, and the invention of local cuisines in the context of Hong Kong as a fast-changing socie...

Transnational feminism and women's movements in post-1997 hong kong

This study demonstrates that recognizing the differences of the women activists promoting disparate agendas leads to a fuller appreciation of the connections and commonalities in the relations among those involved. Transnational Feminism and Women’s Movements in Post-1997 Hong Kong: Solidarity Be...

Socializing medicine

In Socializing Medicine, Pao-chen Tang, Yuqian Yan, and Ling Zhang explore the intersections of medicine, health, and East Asian media. Interweaving archival research, audiovisual analyses, and theoretical insights from the emerging field of health humanities, the book reveals the multifaceted wa...

Judaism, christianity, and islam

Islam, Christianity, and Judaism share several common features, including their historical origins in the prophet Abraham, their belief in a single divine being, and their modern global expanse. Yet it is the seeming closeness of these “Abrahamic” religions that draws attention to the real or ima...

Locating chinese women

This ground-breaking edited collection draws together Australian historical scholarship on Chinese women, their gendered migrations, and their mobile lives between China and Australia. It considers different aspects of women’s lives, both as individuals and as the wives and daughters of immigrant...

Hong kong public and squatter housing

In Public Housing and Formalizing Squatting in Hong Kong, 1963–1985, Alan Smart and Fung Chi Keung Charles trace two decades of development of squatting in Hong Kong. The authors reconstruct the government policy on squatting through both ethnographic and archival research. The book sheds new lig...

Utopia and utopianism in the contemporary chinese context

Utopia and Utopianism in the Contemporary Chinese Context: Texts, Ideas, Spaces decisively demonstrates the extent to which utopianism has shaped political thought, cultural imaginaries, and social engagement after it was introduced into the Chinese context in the nineteenth century. In fact, pur...

Boys' love, cosplay, and androgynous idols

Chinese-speaking popular cultures have never been so queer in this digital, globalist age. The title of this pioneering volume, Boys’ Love, Cosplay, and Androgynous Idols: Queer Fan Cultures in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan already gives an idea of the colorful, multifaceted realms the fa...

Sinoglossia

Sinoglossia places the terms of embodiment, mediality, and translation at the center of analytical inquiry into Chinese and Sinophone cultures. Converging in the rubric of Sinoglossia, the chapters in this volume introduce a theory defined by cultural formations not overdetermined by Sinitic lingu...

Queer tv china

The 2010s have seen an explosion in popularity of Chinese television featuring same-sex intimacies, LGBTQ-identified celebrities, and explicitly homoerotic storylines even as state regulations on “vulgar” and “immoral” content grow more prominent. This emerging “queer TV China” culture has genera...

Obsession

This is the most serious study to date on the topic of male same-sex relations in China during the early twentieth century, illuminating male same-sex relations in many sites: language, translated sexological writings, literary works, tabloid newspapers, and opera. Documenting how nationalism and...

First queer voices from thailand

This is a fully revised and substantially expanded edition of Peter Jackson’s highly regarded pioneering study of an Asian gay culture, Male Homosexuality in Thailand (1989). The hero of Jackson’s fascinating narrative is “Uncle Go”, which was the pen name of a popular magazine editor who, despit...

Chinese indonesians in post-suharto indonesia

Selfish, obscenely rich, insular, and opportunistic: these remain how Chinese minorities in Indonesia are perceived by the indigenous population. However, far from being passive victims of discrimination and marginalisation, Chong presents a forceful case in which Chinese Indonesians possess the ...

Tracing china

Tracing China’s journey began from exploring rural revolution and reconstitutions of community in South China. Spanning decades of rural-urban divide, it finally uncovers China’s global reach and Hong Kong’s cross-border dynamics. Helen Siu traverses physical and cultural landscapes to examine po...

Piecing together sha po

Hong Kong boasts a number of rich archaeological sites behind sandy bays. Among these backbeaches is Sha Po on Lamma Island, a site which has long captured the attention of archaeologists. However, until now no comprehensive study of the area has ever been published.Piecing Together Sha Po presen...

Tales of hope, tastes of bitterness

China’s new globalism plays out as much in the lives of ordinary workers who shoulder the task of implementing infrastructure projects in the world as in the upper echelons of power. Through unprecedented ethnographic research among Chinese road builders in Ethiopia, Miriam Driessen finds that th...

Archaeology and digital communication

An exploration of how digital media—social platforms, video, games, and more—can enhance public engagement with archaeology. Through case studies, the volume highlights effective strategies for designing and delivering digital experiences, emphasizing collaboration with media professionals and in...

Men in search of man

In 1962 the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania observed its seventy-fifth anniversary. During those seventy-five years the sciences of anthropology, archaeology, and ethnology-the studies of man, his antiquity, and his cultures-grew into major areas of study and research. Parall...

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