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Regional Governance and Policy-Making in South America (Governance, Development, and Social Inclusion in Latin America)
Regional Governance and Policy-Making in South America (Governance, Development, and Social Inclusion in Latin America)
This book analyzes Latin American regional integration with a novel conceptual approach grounded in extensive field research. Using the UNASUR (Unión de Naciones Suramericanas) as a case study, the author investigates the process of policy-making in regional public policy fields in South America. The project focuses on intergovernmental...
Gay Liberation to Campus Assimilation: Early Non-Heterosexual Student Organizing at Midwestern Universities
Gay Liberation to Campus Assimilation: Early Non-Heterosexual Student Organizing at Midwestern Universities

Association for the Study of Higher Education Outstanding Book Award Winner, 2020

This book outlines the beginning of student organizing around issues of sexual orientation at Midwestern universities from 1969 to the early 1990s. Collegiate organizations were vitally important to establishing a public presence as...

The Geography of Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Africa
The Geography of Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Africa
This book takes a comprehensive look at several cases of climate change adaptation responses across various sectors and geographical areas in urban Africa and places them within a solid theoretical context. Each chapter is a state-of-the-art overview of a significant topic on climate change adaptation in urban Africa and is...
Teaching Business Discourse (Research and Practice in Applied Linguistics)
Teaching Business Discourse (Research and Practice in Applied Linguistics)
This book presents research in business discourse and offers pedagogical approaches to teaching business discourse in both classroom and consultancy contexts that address the key issues of dealing with different types of learners, developing teaching materials and evaluation. Drawing on the authors’ extensive experience of researching...
Internationalizing Firms: International Strategy, Trends and Challenges
Internationalizing Firms: International Strategy, Trends and Challenges

This book explores emerging trends in internationalization, analyzing the processes and steps that firms take when entering new markets. This timely contribution highlights the need for a deeper understanding of today’s internationalization process, critiquing existing literature and instead proposing a new paradigm based on a...

Games, Rhymes, and Wordplay of London Children
Games, Rhymes, and Wordplay of London Children
This book presents a unique annotated collection of some 2000 playground games, rhymes, and wordplay of London children. It charts continuity and development in childlore at a time of major social and cultural change and offers a detailed snapshot of changes in the traditions and language of young people. Topics include: starting a game;...
The Building of Civil Europe 1951–1972
The Building of Civil Europe 1951–1972
This book argues that early European Commission officials envisaged an integrated civil Europe from the outset. Largely overlooked is the fact that between 1951 and 1972 there was a group of European Commission (and before that the High Authority) officials who wished to build a Civil Europe to sit alongside an economic and political Europe....
Destination China: Immigration to China in the Post-Reform Era
Destination China: Immigration to China in the Post-Reform Era
This book is a compelling account of China’s response to the increasing numbers of ‘foreigners’ in its midst, revealing a contradictory picture of welcoming civility, security anxiety and policy confusion. Over the last forty years, China’s position within the global migration order has been undergoing a remarkable shift....
Locating Maldivian Women’s Mosques in Global Discourses
Locating Maldivian Women’s Mosques in Global Discourses

In this ethnographic examination of women’s mosques in the Maldives, anthropologist Jacqueline H. Fewkes probes how the existence of these separate buildings?where women lead prayers for other women?intersect with larger questions about gender, space, and global Muslim communities. Bringing together ethnographic insight with...

Detecting the Social: Order and Disorder in Post-1970s Detective Fiction
Detecting the Social: Order and Disorder in Post-1970s Detective Fiction

This book analyses the ways in which twenty-first century detective fiction provides an understanding of the increasingly complex and often baffling contemporary world ? and what sociology, as a discipline, can learn from it.

Conventional sociological accounts of fiction generally comprehend its value in terms of...

Affect Theory and Literary Critical Practice: A Feel for the Text (Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism)
Affect Theory and Literary Critical Practice: A Feel for the Text (Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism)

Affect Theory and Literary Critical Practice develops new approaches to reading literature that are informed by the insights of scholars working in affect studies across many disciplines, with essays that consider works of fiction, drama, poetry and memoir ranging from the medieval to the postmodern. While building...

Researching Risk and Uncertainty: Methodologies, Methods and Research Strategies (Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty)
Researching Risk and Uncertainty: Methodologies, Methods and Research Strategies (Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty)

Understanding and managing risk and uncertainty is a central task in contemporary societies characterised by rapid social, technological and environmental change.

This book presents research approaches used by scholars who all share a passion to gain new insights in how individuals, organisations and societies
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