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Cover of Mary (University of Warwick, UK) Harrod & Suzanne (Simmons University in Boston) Leonard: Imagining 'We' in the Age of 'I'

Mary (University of Warwick, UK) Harrod & Suzanne (Simmons University in Boston) Leonard: Imagining ‘We’ in the Age of ‘I’

Winner, Me CCSA Edited Collection of the Year , Me CCSA Outstanding Achievement Awards 2022 In the early twenty-first century shifts in gender and sexuality, work and mobility patterns and especial …

Cover of Robert (Strathmore University, Kenya) Mudida: An Emerging Africa in the Age of Globalisation

Robert (Strathmore University, Kenya) Mudida: An Emerging Africa in the Age of Globalisation

Since the turn of the century, Africa has been emerging economically, politically and socially and striving to assert itself on the global stage. This book provides an interdisciplinary view of Afric …

Cover of Tina (Jacksonville State University, USA) Deshotels & Craig (University of Louisiana, USA) Forsyth: Gendered Power Dynamics and Exotic Dance

Tina (Jacksonville State University, USA) Deshotels & Craig (University of Louisiana, USA) Forsyth: Gendered Power Dynamics and Exotic Dance

Gendered Power Dynamics and Exotic Dance examines the social phenomenon of exotic dancing. Presenting a compelling multilevel analysis of dancer interactions, organizational practices, and institutio …

Cover of Prospera (United Arab Emirates University) Tedam: Social Work with Minority Groups

Prospera (United Arab Emirates University) Tedam: Social Work with Minority Groups

This book brings together several valuable papers from diﬀerent parts of the world, addressing social work with minorities in the areas of disability, sexuality, race, and ethnicity. Collectively, th …

Cover of Samantha (University of Oxford, UK) Vanderslott: Attention and Responsibility in Global Health

Samantha (University of Oxford, UK) Vanderslott: Attention and Responsibility in Global Health

Attention and Responsibility in Global Health shows the construction of health through what is neglected and how the label of neglect is used to make the case that a shift in attitudes towards tropic …

Cover of Robert P. Latham: Forensic Forestry

Robert P. Latham: Forensic Forestry

Forensic Forestry: A Guidebook for Foresters on the Witness Stand is a one-of-a-kind, hands-on resource for those forestry and land use professionals called upon to work on legal cases and testify in …

Cover of Niamh (University of Cambridge, UK) Mulcahy: Class and Inequality in the Time of Finance

Niamh (University of Cambridge, UK) Mulcahy: Class and Inequality in the Time of Finance

This book explores the effects of the gradual liberalisation of capital markets and the expansion of consumer credit on poorer households in the United Kingdom, with particular attention to the preca …

Cover of Gabriella Sanchez & Sheldon X. (University of Massachusetts Lowell) Zhang: Beyond Drugs, Smuggling and Trafficking

Gabriella Sanchez & Sheldon X. (University of Massachusetts Lowell) Zhang: Beyond Drugs, Smuggling and Trafficking

Graphic depictions of crime in Mexico abound in the global imagination, fueled not merely by media representations, but also by an abundant body of scholarship that reproduces grotesque, simplistic c …

Cover of Chris K. K. Tan: Stand Up for Singapore?

Chris K. K. Tan: Stand Up for Singapore?

This book details queer Singaporeans’ efforts to fashion their sense of national belonging and highlights how the Singaporean state could have better incorporated its diverse population into its nati …

Cover of Johannes Wheeldon: Visual Criminology

Johannes Wheeldon: Visual Criminology

This edited collection captures the expertise of scholars from the US, the UK, Australia, and Canada to catalog the rise in visual approaches in criminology. It presents examples of visual methods, u …