Society & Social Sciences Books

This book offers new, multi-disciplinary perspectives on esports, one of the most rapidly growing sectors in the sport and leisure industries.

Erotic Transferences: A Contemporary Introduction offers a comprehensive introduction to this key, yet challenging aspect of the psychoanalytic process.

On Freud's "Neurosis and Psychosis" and "The Loss of Reality in Neurosis and Psychosis" explores these two key papers on the topics of psychosis and neurosis and their relationship to the unconscious and to reality.

Rooted in a lively, critical approach to social work education and practice, Social Work and Common Sense challenges readers to think critically and more deeply about core facets of social work knowledge and 'received ideas'.

This book explores the relationship between social mentality, public opinion, media, and other factors through mixed methods in China, especially since the 21st century.The book deploys qualitative and quantitative research and adopts a...

Using an indigenous research methodology analyzing memoirs of formerly incarcerated people, Transformation During Incarceration: Breaking the System contextualizes and identifies the role of community and shared emotional connection among incarcerated...

This edited volume presents an international collection of fieldwork experiences from every stage of the research process with a view to normalising the process of adaptation, modification, and even failure during the fieldwork process when circumstances...

This book provides a comprehensive cultural and historical account of the key film policies put into place by the Spanish state between 1980 and 2010 through a gendered lens, framing these policies within the wider context of European film and media...

Researchers of human behaviour have identified an 'orgasm gap': Men usually orgasm during intercourse, whereas women often do not. The two leading explanations are either that women are "psychologically broken" - Freud's theory - or badly designed - the...

Yang examines the political process of the Occupy Movement and adopts an actor-centered approach in the study of democratization, placing civil society as the focus of the analysis. A valuable resource for scholars of Hong Kong's Politics and a relevant...

What if your new client, a man in his early 40s, cannot answer basic questions in your initial assessment interview?  You think he might be alexithymic, but you do not know how to assess for that, or even more importantly, how to treat it. Assessing...

The Indian Ocean world has a rich history of socio-economic and cultural exchanges across time and space. This book and its companion, Merchants and Ports in the Indian Ocean World, explore these connections around the wider Indian Ocean world.The book...

Surveying disaster film from a Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective, this book explores the disaster film genre from its initial appearance in 1933 (The Grapes of Wrath, 1933) to its present-day form (Don't Look Up!, 2021), laying bare the ideological...

Drawing on many years of research and activism, this book argues that insights from the disabled people's movement, particularly the original Social Model of Disability, can be usefully extended to focus resistance on the disabling restrictions imposed...

This book traces the evolution of organisational activism among Muslim women in India. It deconstructs the 'Muslim woman' as the monolith based on tropes like purdah, polygamy, and tin talaq and compels the reader to revisit the question of Muslim...

This book addressees a timely and fundamental problematic: the gap between the aims that people attempt to realize democratically and the law and administrative practices that actually result. The chapters explain the realities that administration poses...

This third edition of Drugs, the Brain, and Behavior provides a comprehensive overview of the brain and explores the clinical and pharmacological issues surrounding drug abuse and dependence.

This book aims to understand how Asian jurisdictions conceptualise rehabilitation within both the correctional and forensic mental health sectors.

This book brings a fresh approach and conversation to the practice of professional supervision for human services by specifically articulating its often performed, but unnamed and under-explored therapeutic function. The discussion of the therapeutic...

Assessing and Treating Suicidal Thinking and Behaviors in Children and Adolescents is a guide to working with children and young people who present with either obvious or hidden suicidal thoughts, preoccupations, or plans.

This book reconceptualises the idea of 'post-truth'. It does not limit the domain of post-truth to the production factories of fake news.

This book examines two patterns of democracy - collegial and personal - through a comprehensive comparison of political institutions.

This book examines the nature of ethnopolitics evolving in the Darjeeling hills, located in the Eastern Himalayas. It highlights how in the wake of regional politics minorities pursue alternative avenues to attain rights and recognition. The book...

Life Studies in Psychoanalysis consists of four psychoanalytic studies, each representing a patient's course of treatment over several years.These studies demonstrate how love, in an array of forms, is refracted through the process of psychoanalysis,...

This Handbook provides a comprehensive look at the educational scope of life and values that characterize 21st century Asia as well as those values shared across cultures.

This book argues that highly praised prestige TV shows reveal the underlying fantasies and contradictions of upper-middle class political centrists. It contributes to a greater understanding of the ways media and political ideology can circulate on a...

This textbook provides an introduction to cultural policy in the US, enabling both students and practitioners to understand how government impacts the arts and culture.

This book explores America's decline as a global power, arguing that the implosion of Pax Americana was initiated by the process of globalization, preceding the collapse of the Soviet Union by nearly a decade. The era of Pax Americana, and with it...

Examining the Psychological Foundations of Science and Morality is a progressive text that explores the relationship between psychology, science and morality, to address fundamental questions about the foundations of psychological research and its...

In Finding Winnicott: Philosophical Encounters with the Psychoanalytic, Fadi Abou-Rihan expands upon Winnicott's category of the found object and argues that a genuine understanding of the analyst's own thought requires that it be considered in relation...

In the second edition of Uprooted Minds, Hollander offers a unique social psychoanalytic exploration of our increasingly destabilized political environment, augmented by her research into the previously untold history of psychoanalytic engagement in the...

This book analyzes the role of laws and the judiciary in the process of censorship in India. It examines the rationales and observations produced by the judiciary when demands for censorship are directed against publications that allegedly offend...

This book examines the trajectory of federalization in Myanmar's political development, evaluating the attitudes of different political actors toward, and negotiation strategies for, designing federalism.It argues that three factors drive federalization...

Hyungkee Kim analyses the model of East Asian development as it existed during periods of high growth and how it was transformed by pressures from both the Washington consensus and its own internal contradictions. Many have discussed the successes and...

The Poetry of the Word in Psychoanalysis presents selected key papers by leading Spanish psychoanalyst Pere Folch Mateu.The pieces chosen for this book address clinical, psychopathological, technical and theoretical issues approached in Folch Mateu's...

This collection examines the continuities and changes that have set the Dominican political system apart from its Latin American counterparts over the last couple of decades. Whereas traditional political parties have lost support throughout Latin...

The Anthropology of Digital Practices connects digital ethnography, causal ethnography and media practice theory to track the effects of new media practices in a digital world. It invites media and communication students and scholars to explore the...

The book aims to broaden understanding of the diverse positions and meanings of motherhood by investigating understudied and marginalized mothers (rural itinerant, African American, and Irish Catholic American) between 1920 and 1960.Fuelled by anxieties...

This book analyses the complexity of South and Southeast Asia in international health, taking into account the impact of the geopolitics of the Cold War on the development of public health and development in the regions. 　In light of the recent health...

Multimodal Methods in Anthropology takes readers through historical and contemporary sites of multimodality and introduces the methodological and theoretical challenges of multimodal anthropology in a digital world. Like multimodality itself, readers...

This book examines cultural imaginations post 9/11. It explores the idea of a religious community and its multifaceted representations in literature and popular culture. The essays in the volume focus on the role of literature, film, music, television...

Myths and Lies About Dads: How They Hurt Us All is a groundbreaking book that destroys more than 100 of the most damaging beliefs about fathers. Using the most recent research, this pioneering work exposes these baseless beliefs and the toll they take on...

Policy thought integrates the "why" of political philosophy and the "how" of public policy formulation.Lee outlines five key principles for the development of policy thought:The Principle of Policy StatismThe Principle of Policy GoodnessThe Principle of...

Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective examines how conspiracy theories and related forms of misinformation and disinformation about the Covid-19 pandemic have circulated widely around the world.Covid conspiracy theories have attracted...