Society & Social Sciences Books

The contributors to this handbook conduct a rigorous, innovative and distinctive analysis of the relationship between philosophy and psychoanalysis. Emphasising that any psychoanalytic subject or school necessarily involves philosophical reflection, the...

This book critically examines the intersection of religion, public health and human security in Nigeria. Focusing on Christianity, Islam, traditional religions and "intra-religious" doctrinal divergencies, the book explores the impact faith has on...

This book is a significant contribution to the socio-political history of science and technology in India, combining a wholistic perspective with a strong regional flavour.

Dilli ki Khoj is an anecdotal history of Delhi and its monuments by Shri Brij Kishan Chandiwala, an eminent Gandhian. The volume was published in Hindi by the Publications Division of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, in...

This book weaves the past with the present to trace and analyse the distinctive but reiterative evocations of Hindutva ideology in the modern-colonial period. It studies the concept of Hindutva as understood by its first major spokesperson Chandranath...

This book analyses marginalisation and human rights in Southeast Asia and offers diverse approaches in understanding the nuances of marginalisation and human rights in the region. It will be of interest to readers in the fields of Asian Law, Human Rights...

This book is a historical exploration of the social and cultural processes that led to the rise of the ideology of labor as a touchstone of Bengali Muslim politics in late colonial India. It will be of interest to SA history, colonialism and end of...

To what extent is autonomy under threat today and how should these threats to autonomy be analysed? The essays in this book range over economics, politics, technology, philosophy, feminism and literature to assess the present state and future prospects...

Working with Infertility and Grief: A Practical Guide for Helping Professionals explores issues of grief, including disenfranchised grief and chronic sorrow, related to infertility and reproductive loss. Out of the small handful of books related to this...

Criminal Careers follows the lives and criminal behaviours of 2,397 people in Poland who as juveniles committed a crime and received a form of punishment from the juvenile court between the late 1980s and the year 2000. Through combining quantitative and...

In Fratriarchy, Juliet Mitchell expands her ground-breaking theories on the sibling trauma and the Law of the Mother. Writing as a psychoanalytic practitioner, she shows what happens from the ground up when we use feminist questions to probe the...

This book presents the creative industries as a suite of practices intimately connected to political, economic, and cultural power. Seeking to illuminate the creative industries through critical cultural analysis, the book shows the extent to which...

Through empirical analysis and conceptual development, this book analyses the political psychology of Xi Jinping's Anti-Corruption Campaign and its role in the Chinese political system.

An Introduction to Culture and Psychology offers an innovative introduction to culture and psychology, taking a sociocultural approach to understand the intricacies of culture-mind-behaviour interactions.

This book offers a comparative study of minority-majority relations in post-conflict societies. Drawing on three contentious cases - Bulgaria, Croatia, and Montenegro -it explores how pluralist governance structures are established in the area of...

The Uprising of Women in Philanthropy tells the inspiring, never-before-told, story of the Global Women's Funding Movement -- considered the women's movement's greatest secret - and how it enabled women from all walks of life to harness the power of...

Very little research has been conducted on how parliamentary oversight is undertaken in small countries and jurisdictions or across the southern Africa region (excluding South Africa). This ground-breaking book fills that void, providing rich insights...

This book draws from the disciplines of anatomy, physiology, psychology, and sociology to develop an integrated approach and illustrates how female athletes can be safely prepared for training and performance in a way that benefits their health and...

This volume explores the lives and work of those who are kept out of poverty by their employment, but who occupy tenuous social positions and subaltern jobs. Presenting a score of household portraits - urban, suburban, and rural - the authors examine...

Agrarian Crisis in the United States: Pathways for Reform situates the many food system problems that the COVID-19 pandemic laid bare in historical context across four key policy areas, namely, in land, labor, markets, and the environment.

This book explores the notion of cultural capital, offering insights into its evolution and definitions, as well as the relationship between cultural, social and human capital, the distinctions between capital and capitalism, and the conflicts that exist...

This book studies national security strategies introduced by the Koizumi administration (2001-2006) and the second Abe administration (2012-2020).

This handbook explores the significance of the Indo-Pacific in world politics. It shows how the re-emergence of the Indo-Pacific in international relations has fundamentally changed the approach to politics, economics and security.The volume:explores the...

Drawing on interview and survey data, this book provides a systematic look at the lobbyists active in influencing policy-making in the European Union, asking whether we are witnessing the emergence of an integrated occupational field and considering...