"Refugee and Forced Migration Studies has grown from being a concern of a relatively small number of scholars and policy researchers in the 1980s to a global field of interest with thousands of students worldwide studying displacement either from traditional disciplinary perspec…
This authoritative handbook critically evaluates the birth and development of refugee and forced migration studies, and analyses the key contemporary and future challenges faced by academics and practitioners working with and for forcibly displaced populations around the world.
Africa traditionally has had a bad image. For many, particularly in the West, the continent summons up ideas of corrupt leadership, malnourished, diseased children, conflict and crime from internet scams to piracy. Often it seems that outsiders -development agencies, well-meanin…
This title challenges the widely-held idea that Africans are powerless in the creation of self-image. It explores the ways in which image creation is a process of negotiation entered into by a wide range of actors within and beyond the continent.
This volume explores the evolutionary context of terrorism and political violence. It will be of interest to students of terrorism and political violence, psychology, criminology and security studies.
No one can doubt that Muslim cultures and Muslim populations are under intense scrutiny in the west and worldwide. Moreover, queer politics has been increasingly drawn into this contemporary Islamophobia. This book presents a detailed interdisciplinary study of the issues surrou…
This volume tells the story of Jewish political integration into a modern Islamic empire. It follows the efforts of Sephardi Jews from Salonica to Izmir to Istanbul to become citizens of their state during the final half century of the Ottoman Empire's existence.
Was hält die Gesellschaft wie unsichtbarer Zement zusammen? Cornelius Castoriadis' (1922-1997) Begriff des »Imaginären« gibt eine differenzierte Antwort.Nicola Condoleos Untersuchung klärt systematisch die mit dem Imaginären verbundenen Kernbegriffe wie Entfremdung, Autonomie un…
"In a comparative fashion, [this volume] analyses reform trajectories and political destinations in an era of rapid socioeconomic restructuring, including the critical impact of the global financial crisis on welfare state futures. The book argues that the overall scope of socia…
Strauss proposes that Americans form views on immigration and social welfare programmes from conventional ways of speaking rather than from liberal or conservative ideologies. This book explains what conventional discourses are, how to study them and why they are fundamental ele…
This volume provides an introduction for flood risk management practitioners, up-to-date methods for analysis of uncertainty and its use in risk-based decision making. It addresses decision making for both short term (real-time forecasting) and long term (flood risk planning und…
Cafees and coffee shops have become core venues in the urban landscape, places to be social, chat with friends or colleagues, take a break or relax, or work in companionable solitude. In this edited volume, researchers from a range of social sciences and countries examine the pr…
Animal studies is a growing interdisciplinary field which seeks to understand how humans study and conceive of other-than-human animals, and how these conceptions have changed over time, across cultures, and among various scholarly modes of inquiry. Until now, this growing field…
First holistic introductory text in the field of animal studies Addresses complex scholarly questions in accessible and jargon-free writing, making the book appropriate for both experts and new students Discusses both practical and theoretical aspects of humans' relationship to …
"Animal studies is a growing interdisciplinary field that incorporates scholarship from public policy, sociology, religion, philosophy, and many other areas. In essence, it seeks to understand how humans study and conceive of other-than-human animals, and how these conceptions h…
For more than five hundred years the success or failure of nations has been determined by a country's ability to acquire knowledge and technical skill and transform them into strength and prosperity. Leading historian Jeremy Black approaches global history from a distinctive per…
Revives the concept of reification from Marx and the Frankfurt School to spotlight resistance to neoliberal capitalism, identifying practices used by artists and activists to challenge neoliberalism.
The authors, like the baby boom generation itself, posit new ways of thinking about aging, as longevity and declining birthrates put the world on track for a mature population of unprecedented size and significance. With a positive call to action, they illuminate the upside for …
