Social groups, communities and identities Books

Black Film Through a Psychodynamic Lens delves into the nuanced character development and narrative themes within the struggles and successes presented in Black films over the last five decades.

Feminist Intersectional Research Methodologies: Applications in the Social Sciences and Humanities is a multi-disciplinary volume in which scholars present new feminist research methods and re-evaluates existing approaches. It will be of value to...

This book offers a qualitative analysis of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on New York City and on the practices of the city's urban prepper subculture, exploring the lived experience of the pandemic in terms of class division and examining the...

The authors of this volume discuss some of the regional Sufi Centres in India and their contribution in the social emancipation of the society.

Questioning Gender Politics: Contextualising Educational Disparities In Uncertain Times showcases contemporary thinking on pressing aspects of gender equalities, such as patriarchal culture, sexual harassment, trans rights, queer pedagogies and sex...

This book explores the dick pic in popular culture. Drawing from a range of disciplines, cultural analyses, lived experiences and theoretical approaches, this book explores the polysemous nature of dick pics.

Leading scholars and policy analysts from around the Americas come together to untangle the factors that have fuelled the implementation of mano dura politics, their rising popularity, and impacts across nine widely heterogeneous countries in Latin...

This book focuses on education and power in Southeast Asia and analyses the ways in which education has been instrumentalized by state, non-state, and private actors across this diverse region. It fills a gap in the literature on education in...

This collection presents a critical and comparative analysis on the memory of the colonial and liberation wars that led to a regime change in Portugal and to the independence of five new African countries: Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde...

This book examines Indonesia's strategies and policies to influence regional cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, focusing especially on Indonesia's efforts to be the maritime fulcrum in the Indo-Pacific during President Joko Widodo's (Jokowi) administration...

This long-awaited volume is the first to focus entirely on Hip Hop in Australia. Bringing together both scholarly and practitioner perspectives, across eleven chapters, contributors explore the diversity of identities, communities, practices, and...

This is the first major piece of scholarship to provide an overview of the lives of Sweden's earliest documented queens, together with some of their most influential female relatives, who lived between 970 and 1330.

This book is a detailed analysis of moderate Islamism and its controversial challenges for the modern world, & will be of interest to researchers in the fields of Political Science, electoral politics, Islamic studies and Area Studies, with...

This timely, insightful, and data-led book fills a gap in gang scholarship by examining gangs in rural areas, specifically focussing on youth gang activity.

This comprehensive book brings together reflections, lessons and insights relating to the post Covid-19 era in Zimbabwe.

Although relations between China and Europe are strained in many areas, including trade, human rights and views about political systems, nevertheless established linkages, development trajectories and intellectual cultures, offer good prospects for...

This book analyses Singapore's decolonisation movement between 1953-63 and important unresolved conflicts in Singaporean society. It will be of interest to researchers of Southeast Asian History and Politics, and those interested in decolonisation,...

This book provides a systematic analysis of every major secessionist group and insurgency in the region within a unified and original explanatory framework, focusing on the post-colonial period. It will be of interest to researchers in Asian studies,...

The book provides an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of Dagestan, a strategically important republic of the Russian Federation which borders Chechnya, Georgia and Azerbaijan, and its people. It outlines Dagestan's rich and complicated history, from...

This ground-breaking volume examines enduring and emerging discourses around communication rights in Africa, arguing they should be considered an integral component of human rights discourse. The book will interest those in the fields of media studies,...

This introductory volume studies the challenges faced by the transgender community in India. It traces the history of the representation of the community in Hindu texts to understand the evolution of their status within Indian society.

Feminists Talk Whiteness offers a multidimensional introduction to whiteness as an ideology and a system of institutional practices, exploring how and why whiteness is a feminist issue. It will work well as a main or companion text in courses in Women's,...

Iwasaki analyses the state of Japanese politics using the established analytical framework of presidentialization - looking at leadership power resources, leadership autonomy and the personalization of the electoral process - and assesses the factors...

The Routledge International Handbook of Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health is the authoritative reference work on important, leading-edge developments in the domains of women's sexual and reproductive health.The handbook adopts a life-cycle approach...

How much do you know about the lives of bisexual men who are married to women? Do you know any personally? Have you seen them represented in the media or pop culture? Bisexual people make up a majority of the LGBT+ community, but they are still...

This book examines the roots of systemic aggression against women in contemporary Mexico, and the connection between social practices and the institutional permissiveness of the Mexican State with regard to gendered violence.

This book problematises and then reshapes critical social work to bring a range of perspectives to what constitutes truly effective and ethical social work practice.

This book disrupts the dominant underlying international norms informing urban development strategies across African cities. The book will interest practitioners, scholars and students of urban studies, development planning, urban governance, human...

This book investigates gender equality and women's empowerment in Sierra Leone, focusing in particular on women's interactions with the state and its development partners.

Sexual/Political engages with contemporary political issues in sexuality through a survey of modern philosophy, psychoanalytic thought, 20th century political theory, and more recent queer philosophies.

This groundbreaking book provides a comprehensive account of social work, social welfare, and social development in Nigeria from a postcolonial perspective.

This volume explores indirect parenting behavior that changes the structure of the parent-child relationship, examining the ecological dimension of parenting in addition to nurturance and control.

The United Nations, Indo-Pacific and Korean Peninsula focuses on the United Nations (UN) and its frameworks to examine the power politics on the two of the world's more politically sensitive and geo-strategically crucial regions of the Korean Peninsula...

This book presents an investigation of economic growth in Russia. The sharp decline in the national production that Russia endured in the 1990s resulted in Russia plunging into the poverty trap. The goal of this book is to determine whether and how...

Critical race theory (CRT) in education centers, examines and seeks to transform the relationship that undergirds race, racism, and power. This book reconsiders the possibilities of CRT applications to quantitative methodologies through 'QuantCrit.'

This book studies the relevance of dowry as a customary practice in Indian marriages. It examines the historical articulation between traditional cultural texts and modern statutory law to understand how daughters are valued, and how dowry as a custom...

This edited collection brings together leading and emerging scholars in the important field of sexual violence scholarship.

Wu examines how national and transnational forces and discursive logic mediate international secondary school students' educational routes and life trajectories. This insightful book will be of interest to a wide range of education stakeholders, as well...

Charlotte Hogg takes a close look, through the example of White university sororities, at how we create and cling to subcultures through the notion of belonging, and how spoken and unspoken rhetorics contribute to this notion.

This book presents comparative analyses of different modes of the governance of religious diversity and state-religion connections and relations in twenty-three countries in five world regions: Western Europe, Southern and South-Eastern Europe, Central...

This is an interdisciplinary examination of depictions of girlhoods through a comparative study of foundational fairy tales revised in popular narrative, film and television adaptations.

This book examines key issue areas of Indo-Pacific strategies in the context of deepening US-China rivalry. It will be of interest to scholars and policy makers working on Asian Security, Politics, International Relations and the security dynamics of...

This volume brings a critical lens to dance and culture within North East India. Through case studies, first-hand accounts, and interviews, it explores unique folk dances of Indigenous communities of North East India that reflect diverse journeys,...

This book is a narrative non-fiction, based on the patchy epistemologies of traditional small-scale fishers in India and the Indian Ocean Region. It specifically explores the impact of climate change on Fish and Fishers, and the mutual entanglements in...

This book provides essential guidance to help schools in developing countries to promote and maintain hand hygiene practices, thus reducing the prevalence of infectious diseases such as diarrhoea and respiratory infection that cause both illness and...

The dynamics of Indian politics is reflected in the flexible and fluctuating relations between the centre and the states. This book is one of the first to explore the participation of women in state and local politics in India and how women navigate the...

Readers will be ushered into their own spiritual experience of literature as they consider how American writers craft images of God that affirm the aging process. In deploying the motif of the imago Dei, it establishes that literature reveals how...

This book offers new insights and methodological tools to improve our understandings of how prestigious schools in Poland navigate the major political, social and cultural crosscurrents.