Sociology and anthropology Books
Transcript Verlag Comfort in Contemporary Culture – The Challenges
Book SynopsisComfort is a prominent and highly loaded concept, as popular discourses on cosy environments, safe spaces, but also the importance of "getting out of your comfort zone" attest. This volume is the first to investigate "comfort" as a cultural narrative and emotional touchstone in contemporary culture. Taken together, the contributions to the volume offer an overview of different approaches to and conceptualisations of comfort in linguistics, in literary, media, and cultural studies, and art history. They showcase how "comfort" serves as a valuable lens to analyse contemporary artworks and developments, e.g. live theatre broadcasting or political interventions in the US-American media sphere.
£44.79
Transcript Verlag Good White Queers? – Racism and Whiteness in
Book SynopsisHow do white queer people portray our own whiteness? Can we, in the stories we tell about ourselves, face the uncomfortable fact that, while queer, we might still be racist? If we cannot, what does that say about us as potential allies in intersectional struggles? A careful analysis of Dykes To Watch Out For and Stuck Rubber Baby by queer comic icons Alison Bechdel and Howard Cruse traces the intersections of queerness and racism in the neglected medium of queer comics, while a close reading of Jaime Cortez's striking graphic novel Sexile/Sexilio offers glimpses of the complexities and difficult truths that lie beyond the limits of the white queer imaginary.
£35.99
Transcript Verlag Robotic Knitting – Re–Crafting Human–Robot
Book SynopsisAs a reaction to typically dead-end debates on future human and robot collaboration that tend to be either dismissive or overly welcoming towards "cobot" technologies, this book provides a technofeminist intervention. Pat Treusch not only shows how both the fields of technofeminism and robotics can engage in a practical exchange through knitting, but also contributes a tangible example of coboting dynamics. Robotic Knitting re-negotiates the boundaries between formalisation and embodiment, craft and high-tech as well as useful and dysfunctional machines. It re-crafts the nature of collaboration between human and robot. This finally entails an alternative mode of relating - a mode that enables an account of careful coboting.
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Transcript Verlag Reading ′Black Mirror′ – Insights into Technology
Book SynopsisVery few contemporary television programs provoke spirited responses quite like the dystopian series Black Mirror. This provocative program, infamous for its myriad apocalyptic portrayals of humankind's relationship with an array of electronic and digital technologies, has proven quite adept at offering insightful commentary on a number of issues contemporary society is facing. This timely collection draws on innovative and interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks to provide unique perspectives about how confrontations with such issues should be considered and understood through the contemporary post-media condition that drives technology use.
£30.59
Transcript Verlag Poetic Resurrection – The Bronx in American
Book SynopsisWhile many Americans dismissed the borough of The Bronx in the late 1970s through the belief that "The Bronx is burning," this study challenges that assumption. As the first explicit study on The Bronx in American popular culture, this book shows how a wide variety of cultural representations engaged in a complex dialogue on its past, present, and future. Sina A. Nitzsche argues that popular culture ushered in the poetic resurrection of The Bronx, an artistic and imaginative rebirth, that preceded, promoted, and facilitated the spatial revival of the borough.
£31.19
Transcript Verlag Observing Conflict Escalation in World Society:
Book SynopsisHow do conflicts escalate? This is one of the major questions in conflict research. To offer further answers, Richard Bösch follows a tripartite agenda: First, he develops a constructivist methodology for the study of conflict escalation embedded in a Luhmannian systems theoretical world society perspective. Bösch argues that conflicts can be observed as social systems and he looks at the process of conflict escalation by analysing communication. Second, this analysis offers two cases studies: the Maidan protests in Ukraine 2013-2014 and Mali's crisis 2010-2012. Third, it gives impulses on how systems theoretical research can further on be beneficial for Peace and Conflict Studies.
£49.59
Transcript Verlag Emotional Drivers of Innovation
Book SynopsisInnovation is ubiquitous and has become a universal term that is indispensable to describe interventions, projects, or products. Franziska Sorgel argues that emotions influence innovations as they are inherent in initial ideas, expectations and habitual evaluation criteria that impact the development process. Instead of assuming that the innovation process is subject to rational and linear creativity, the study adopts the notion of moral economies by Lorraine Daston as a space for negotiation. Such an approach enables decision-makers to question the evaluation criteria and patterns for technological developments before implementing them in society.
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Global Social Sciences: Under European
Book SynopsisThe European social sciences tend to absorb criticism that has been passed on the European approach and re-label it as a part of what the critique opposes; criticism of European social sciences by subaltern social sciences, their talking back, has become a frequent line of reflection in European social sciences. The re-labelling of the critique of the European approach to social sciences towards a critique from Southern social sciences of Western social sciences has somehow turned Southern as well as Western social sciences into competing contributors to the same globalising social sciences. Both are no longer arguing about the European approach to social sciences but about which social thought from which part of the globe prevails. If the critique becomes a part of what it opposes, one might conclude that the European social sciences are very adaptable and capable of learning. One might, however, also raise the question whether there is anything wrong with the criticism of the European social sciences; or, for that matter, whether there is anything wrong with the European social sciences themselves. The contributions in this book discuss these questions from different angles: They revisit the mainstream critique of the European social sciences, and they suggest new arguments criticising social science theories that may be found as often in the Western as in the Southern discourse.
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Contributions to Alternative Concepts of
Book SynopsisIn the past, the European social sciences labelled and discredited knowledge that did not follow the definition for scientific knowledge as applied by the European social sciences as an alternative concept of knowledge, as indigenous knowledge. Perception has changed with time: Not only has indigenous knowledge become an entrance ticket to the European social science world, but the indigenisation of European theories is seen by some as the contribution of peripheral social sciences to join the theories of the centres. This book offers contributions to the discourses about alternative concepts of knowledge, inviting the reader to decide if they are alternative, indigenous, or European types of knowledge. However, in order to make this decision, the reader must know what the nature of the European concepts of science and of scientific knowledge is; this might be a motivation to read a book that presents thoughts claiming to be alternative concepts of knowledge, alternative to the European concept of science.
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Academic Culture -- An Analytical Framework for
Book SynopsisThat we live in a world ruled and confused by cultural diversities has become common sense. It was the social sciences that gave birth to a new theoretical paradigm, the creation of cultural theories. Since then, social science theorising applies to any social phenomenon across the world exploring cultural diversities in any social practice -- except in regard to the social sciences and how they practice the creation of knowledge. How academics in the social sciences across the world create knowledge is no topic for cultural theories. Social science theorising seemingly assumes that creating knowledge does not know such diversities. Kazumi Okamoto presents the development of an analytical instrument that helps study academic culture, analyse academic practices of how social sciences create and distribute knowledge, and the influence the academic environment has on their knowledge productions. Applying this theoretical tool to the academe in Japan, she further presents a case study about how social scientists in Japan interpret academic practices and how they are affected by their academic environment. Studying the academic culture in the case of Japan, she reveals that not only the academic practices and the academic environment of the academe in Japan show much less diversities than cultural theories tend to presuppose, but that the assumption that creating social science knowledge does not know cultural diversities is an error as well.
£27.99
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Mass Murder and Serial Murder – An Integrative
Book SynopsisWhile Mass murder refers to the murder of several people at the same time, "serial murder" describes several killings by the same perpetrator in a repetitive pattern. Usually these incidents count a high toll of victims and create significant anxiety in the public. Yet, the rate of finding murderers in these cases is relatively very low, especially in serial murders; that is if they are ever caught at all. Arnon Edelstein examines the various categories of mass murder and serial murder and suggests a new category: mass-serial murder. He presents and criticizes the most up-to-date research and theoretical literature in the field and suggests an integrative theoretical model. This groundbreaking volume is intended for criminologists, psychologists, sociologists, students, and readers who are interested in truly understanding the complicated aspects of this fascinating field of investigation.
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Ukraine in Histories and Stories – Essays by
Book SynopsisThis collection of texts by writers, historians, philosophers, political analysts, and opinion leaders combines reflections on Ukrainian history and analyses of the present with outlines of conceptual ideas and life stories. The authors present a multi-faceted image of Ukraines memory and reality touching upon topics from the Holodomor to Maidan, from the Russian aggression to cultural diversity, from the depth of the past to the complexity of the present. The contributors include Ola Hnatiuk, Irena Karpa, Haska Shyyan, Larysa Denysenko, Hanna Shelest, Andriy Kulakov, Yaroslav Hrytsak, Serhii Plokhy, Yuri Andrukhovych, Andriy Kurkov, Andrij Bondar, Vakhtang Kebuladze, Volodymyr Rafeenko, Alim Aliev, Leonid Finberg, and Andriy Portnov. The book was initially published by Internews Ukraine and UkraineWorld with the support of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation.Trade Review"[The book] includes everyone from internationally renowned academics like Harvards Serhii Plokhiy to never-before-translated poets, that seek to articulate Ukraine to the wider world. [ It] gives Ukrainians a chance to explain their country themselves, and the Ukraine that emerges is uncannily relevant at a time when so many countries are undergoing identity crisesnot least the United States."Peter Pomerantsev, journalist, author, and TV producer, in The American Interest (January 2020)
£18.00
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Stand-up Comedy in Africa: Humour in Popular
Book SynopsisAfrican cultural productions of humour have increased even in the face of myriad economic foibles and social upheavals. For instance, from the 1990s, stand-up comedy emerged across the continent and has maintained a pervasive presence since then. Its specificities are related to contemporary economic and political contexts and are also drawn from its pre-colonial history, that of joking forms and relationships, and orality. Izuu Nwankwá's fascinating collected volume offers a transnational appraisal of this unique art form spanning different nations of the continent and its diasporas. The book engages variously with jokesters, their materials, the mediums of dissemination, and the cultural value(s) and relevance of their stage work, encompassing the form and content of the practice. Its ruling theoretical perspective comes from theatre and performance, cultural studies, linguistics, and literary studies.Table of ContentsForeword by Ebenezer Obadare; Introduction; Old Wine in a New Bottle: Stand-up Comedy and its Dispersal across Africa; Confronting Racism and Colonialism in Cécile Djungas and Trevor Noahs Stand-up Comedy; South African Vernacular Stand-Up Comedy as Performative Resistance; The Peoples Joker: The Popularity of Mr Jokes Stand-up Comedy in Malawi; Resisting Shame and the Male Gaze: Humour Evocations in the Acts of Noha Kato and Real Warri Pikin; Discourse and Humour Strategies in Two-Person Stand-up Art in Nigeria; In the Shadow of the 1994 Genocide: Arthur Nkusi and Stand-up Comedy in Rwanda; The Afterlife of Ugandan Stand-up Comedy: Examining the Multiple Roles and Jocular Devices of Teacher Mpamire; Scripted and Non-Scripted Humour in Stand-up Comedy: Techniques of Egypts Comedian Ali Quandil; Reinventing Taboo in Kenyan Stand-up Comedy; Africa on the British Stage: Laughter-Making Mechanics of Andi Osho and Daliso Chaponda; Theres No Such Thing as Too Soon Here: Taking Stock of South Africas Comedy Boom; The Many-Sides of Kenyan Stand-up Comedy: A Stylistic Interrogation of the Acts of Jemutai, Professor Hamo and Oga Obinna; Nigerias The Mock News with Pararan: The Poetics of its Punchline; About the Contributors; Endorsements.
£32.40
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Kharkiv Is a Dream
Book SynopsisWhen the war hit Kharkiv in 2022, the urban space transformed at a scale impossible for its inhabitants and artistic community to process. As it turns out, the urban space of Kharkiv was difficult to process long before the impact of drones and missiles. Kharkiv has been transforming for centuries, collecting monuments and memories from the ebbs and flows of history. The authors zoom in on three events over the past decade that reflect how different actors used the cityscape of Kharkiv to make sense of and shape their context: Architect and visual artist Vasylysa Shchogoleva explores the urban space of Kharkiv in 2023 as a place of healing and compassion. Cultural anthropologist Viktoriia Grivina takes us back to 2018 when a piece of street art on a wall became the epicenter of a community conflict. Anthropologist Hjørdis Clemmensen opens a window to the workshop of a group of architecture students in 2013 who wished to not only influence the space around them but also time itself.
£21.60
Transcript Verlag Tensions and Convergences – Technological and
Book SynopsisThis book presents results of an international conference which addressed the interaction of aesthetical and technological dimensions within the formation of contemporary society. The contributions discuss the production of time and space, self and nature, individual and society in the image of technology. They focus on the productive tensions and convergences between aesthetic and technological concepts when implemented in everyday life. The volume contains - among others - texts about technologies of visualisation, the aesthetics of warfare and the design of technological lifeworlds.
£32.29
Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Modern Nepal
Book SynopsisNepal is the ancient land of an ancient people. It lies on the southern slopes of the Central Himalaya, and adjoins China and India. Until the second half of the eighteenth century, or until the 1768-69 to be precise, the name "Nepal" denoted only the valley of the Bagmati River, where Kathmandu, the capital of present-day Nepal, is situated.
£7.12
Manas Publications Training for Leadership
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Deep & Deep Publications Society, Law and Administration in Ancient India
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Deep & Deep Publications Raj Kumari Amrit Kaur: Contribution to Political
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors Patrons, Devotees and Goddesses: Ritual and Power
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£18.99
Manohar Publishers and Distributors Cultural Cooperation in South Asia: The Search
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Deep & Deep Publications Socio-economy of India: The First 50 Years and
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Minerva Press India Pvt Ltd One World Family: The Goal of the Twenty First
Book SynopsisIs a universal world order mere conjecture and an utopian dream? Or is it a foregone conclusion? A book that exhorts the reader to publicly express his views on creating a world union and brotherwood of man so that a feasible approach towards it can be chalked out.
£5.48
Minerva Press India Pvt Ltd Puppy Beneath the Beam
Book SynopsisA stark picture of rural degeneration. A vivid portrayal of rampant casteism and growing unrest in rural society as seen through the eyes of its young protagonist who survives an avalanche of ordeals, all the while managing to maintain to hold on to his dreams.
£10.35
Cosmo Publications The Sociological Study of Religion
Book SynopsisThe text discusses various aspects of religion, including its relationship with culture, ideology, rationality, conflict, and legitimation. It explores the intersection of sociology, philosophy, theology, history, psychology, and geography in understanding religious phenomena and their impact on society.
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Cosmo Publications The Sociology of Indian Politics: Theoretical
Book SynopsisPolitical culture in modern India explores themes of tolerance, integration, economic development, changing behavior, nationalism, religion, secularism, and social change. Key figures like Gandhi, Nehru, and Rajagopalachari shape the discourse on politics, religion, and communalism in Indian society.
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Cosmo Publications The Sociology of Indian Politics
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Cosmo Publications Sociology of World Religions
Book SynopsisSociology of religion analyzes religion's influence on society, studying its impact on relationships and behavior. It delves into social movements, myths, and daily actions, exploring topics like class, conflict, sects, and the connection between religion and politics, science, and technology.
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Cosmo Publications The Sociology of International Politics
Book SynopsisInternationalism vs. Nationalism, Marxian theory, state power, wartime propaganda, professional autonomy, Hitlerism psychology, policy intelligence, political factions, Europeanisation.
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Kalpaz Publications Schedule Castes Education: Issues and Aspects
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Isha Books Role of NGOs in Development of Social System
Book SynopsisNGOs play a crucial role in various aspects of society, from education to poverty alleviation. Despite limited decision-making authority, they have grown in influence globally, receiving support from governments and contributing to the United Nations. The book explores the forms, roles, and implications of NGOs in social development.
£16.69
Pentagon Press Pakistan Cauldron: Conspiracy, Assassination &
Book SynopsisThe killing of Osama bin Laden spotlighted Pakistan?s unpredictable political dynamics, which are often driven by conspiracy theories, paranoia, and a sense of betrayal. In Pakistan, the late prime minister Benazir Bhutto famously declared that there is ?always the story behind the story.? In The Pakistan Cauldron, James P . Farwell explains what makes Pakistani politics tick. Farwell has advised the Department of Defense on terrorism, sovereignty, and the political issues in the Middle East, Africa, and Pakistan. Here he reveals how key Pakistani political players have inconsistently employed the principles of strategic communication to advance their agendas and undercut their enemies. Pakistan is an enigma to many. Only by understanding the complex forces that shape Pakistani leaders can we uncover their shifting political agendas and how they affect America and the West. Farwell explains how and why former president Pervez Musharraf clamped down on nuclear scientist A. Q. Khan and isolated him. He assesses Benazir Bhutto?s unique legacy and analyzes how Musharraf handled the aftermath of her assassination. He explains Pakistan?s current instability and demonstrates how the country?s emotional reaction to bin Laden?s death is best understood as the outcome of long-standing political dynamics. The Pakistan Cauldron is for anyone who needs to know why Pakistan continues to pose increasingly difficult challenges for the United States and the West.
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Regal Publications Naxalism: Myth and Reality
Book SynopsisApproach to Naxalite issue requires firm yet sensitive handling, addressing both violence and development. Naxals raise land and livelihood concerns, blaming government. India faces challenges of equality, justice, economic growth, and defense. Administration burdened by Naxalism amidst welfare responsibilities.
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Caxton Publications Encyclopaedia of Human Knowledge
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Sandeep Prakashan Guilds of Mediaeval Andhra Desa
Book SynopsisIndia is a land of hair styles. In no other country has so much imagination, and artistic genius lent to devising hair styles.
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The Energy and Resources Institute, TERI Domestic Environment and Health of Women and
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Regency Publications Trends in Social Sciences and Humanities in
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Aravali Books International Organized Power and Unorganised Resistance
Book SynopsisWith reference to Andhra Pradesh, India.
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Aravali Books International Rural China in Transition: Scale and Pace of
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Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd An ABC of Indian Culture
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Cappelen Damm Akademisk CSR & Beyond: A Nordic Perspective
Book SynopsisFollowing the neoliberal turn in the 1980s, leading global companies have established an influential trend in business through adoption of the doctrine of corporate social and environmental responsibility (CSR). This book critically explores the new megatrend and its varying interpretations and presents overviews of several fields of CSR practice: governance, business ethics, SRI/ESG investment, communication, reporting, labour relations/HR, supply chain management, life cycle analysis, climate strategy, innovation, leadership and public policy. The book also presents visions of CSR development going forward. While the book contributes to the international research frontier, it also reflects its Nordic context, both with respect to authorship and empirical focus. Chapters on leading companies and on state CSR initiatives illustrate how the Nordic tradition has fostered pioneering CSR positions both in business and public policy. In the final chapter the book engages in the broader international debate on CSR, democracy, and value creation, with leading international critical thinkers in dialogue with industrial strategists.
£999.99
Museum Tusculanum Press Nuussuarmiut: Hunting Families on the Big
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Museum Tusculanum Press The Byways of the Poor: Organizing Practices and
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£36.54
Museum Tusculanum Press Ethnologia Europaea vol. 30:2
Book SynopsisEthnologia Europaea vol. 30:2
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Museum Tusculanum Press Inuit in Cyberspace: Embedding Offline Identities
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International Labour Office World employment and social outlook 2015: the
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HarperCollins India Wild Animals Prohibited: Stories/Anti-Stories
Book SynopsisSubimal Misra, a bold anti-writer, presents a collection of 25 stories reflecting the violent history of Bengal in the 70s and 80s. Influenced by Godard, Misra's 'anti-stories' challenge traditional literature with cinematic techniques. Translated by V. Ramaswarmy, "Wild Animals Prohibited" showcases Misra's evolution in form and daring ideas.
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Sterling Publishers Pvt.Ltd Society & Social Institutions
Book SynopsisThis book aims to provide a clear understanding of different types of societies and their social institutions. Besides discussing the concept of socials institutions, it explains important social institutions such as marriage, family, kinship, economic organization, political organization, religion, and the caste system. An independent chapter on some important basic concepts being used in sociology and anthropology like globalization, post-modernism, ethnicity, diaspora, multiculturalism, rural-urban continuum, social exclusion, and empowerment, help the reader get a better understanding of the various social institutions. This book will be of great help to the students sociology, anthropology, and social work at the UG and PG levels as well as those appearing in UPSC Civil Services, State Civil Services and NET/JRF examinations.
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