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The concept of the ”ideal city” is, perhaps, more important today – when planners and architects are so firmly confined by considerations of our immediate environment – than ever before. Yet it is …

By examining the fiction of three women modernists–Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen–this book complicates binary paradigms of national, gender, and ethnic identities in the interwar p …

This work on homelessness amongst women investigates how far it is a gender- based condition. Describing the lives of women without homes, and drawing upon homeless women”s views of themselves and s …

`The Prevention Society” is a definition that can otherwise be summarized as: the information society, the risk society, the surveillance society or the insecure society. This book shows the connect …

The condition of precariousness not only provides insights into a segment of the world of work or of a particular subject group, but is also a standpoint for an overview of the condition of the socia …

What are we actually talking about when we talk of flexibility in organizational settings? Do flexible forms of organization lead to varied, challenging and autonomous work or do they have a negative …

In recent years, there has been an increased engagement throughout the social sciences with the study of extreme places and practices. Dangerous games and adventure tours have shifted from being marg …

Through an ”ethnography of ethnographers”, this volume explores the varied ways in which anthropologists become and remain attracted to the discipline. The contributors reflect on the initial preco …

Proposing a new, dynamic conception of citizenship, this book argues against understandings of citizenship as a collection of rights that can be either possessed or endowed, and demonstrates it is an …

Ask No Questions provides readers with a better understanding of Sexual Orientation Discrimination as an increasingly important area of law around the world. It aims to increase the likelihood of ach …