Migration and Insecurity addressess an important but rarely considered aspect of migration: how are migrants and refugees received in their new homes? What defines inclusion and exclusion for migrants, and how does this affect the concept of 'belonging' in a transnational societ…
The Republic of Rock uncovers the lost story of rock music and citizenship in the sixties counterculture by tracing the way people in two key places - San Francisco and Vietnam - used rock to make sense of their lives and the world around them.
This book explores the way in which disability activists in the United Kingdom and Canada have transformed their aspirations into legal claims in their quest for equality
How can liberal democracy best be realized in a world fraught with conflicting forms of identity politics and intensifying conflicts over culture? This text aims to bring clarity to the contemporary debate over this question. Maintaining that cultures are themselves torn by conf…
In this text Sylvia Walby, thoroughly investigates changes in contemporary gender relations. She deals, both theoretically and substantively, with the diversity of gender relations, especially in relation to locality, nation and age. The book examines the changes in the economic…