Ciencias sociales

Surveillance and Identity analyses the discourse of surveillance in the contemporary United Kingdom, drawing upon public language from central government, governmental agencies, activist movements, a …

Elizabeth Johnson»s Resistance and Empowerment in Black Women»s Hair Styling develops the argument that one way Black women define themselves and each other, is by the way they style/groom their ha …

The first Madam President will be sworn in sooner than most people think. But the gender gap in politics is still shockingly broad, say two of America»s most readable political commentators in this …

Dutch planning is widely known and admired for its ambitions and its achievements. This book provides, for the first time, a comprehensive description and analysis in English of its full range of pol …

Over the last two decades, the conceptualisation and empirical analysis of mobilities of people, objects and symbols has become an important strand of social science. Yet, the increasing importance o …

How have cultural policies created new occupations and shaped professions? This book explores an often unacknowledged dimension of cultural policy analysis: the professional identity of cultural agen …

The human-environment relationship – intimately intertwined and often contentious – is one of the most pressing concerns of the 21st century. Explored through an array of critical approaches, this bo …

Employment has changed dramatically in the last few decades with the onset of neoliberal globalization. This change has become the objective of inquiry from different perspectives, such as developmen …

Organised crime covers a wide range of activities, including drug trafficking, illegal trafficking of people, and fraud. The existence of a land border does not impede these operations; instead in ma …

In a global and rapidly changing commercial environment, businesses increasingly use collaborative ethnographic research to understand what motivates their employees and what their customers value. I …