Doug McAdam & John D. McCarthy 
Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements [EPUB ebook] 
Political Opportunities, Mobilizing Structures, and Cultural Framings

This book examines concepts of the border and translation within the context of social and cultural theory through the lens of southern Africa. Borders, Media Crossings and the Politics of Translatio …

The home is, for many people, the location for their most intense relationships with visual things. Because they are constructed through the objects we choose, domestic spaces are deeply revealing of …

One of the problems facing Europe is that the building of institutional Europe and top-down efforts to get Europeans to imagine their common identity do not necessarily result in political and cultur …

Hands-on activities, games, and crafts introduce children to the diversity of Asian American cultures and teach them about the people, experiences, and events that have shaped Asian American history. …

Through its artful engagement with consumers, advertising subtly shapes our everyday worlds. It plays upon powerful emotions — envy, fear, lust and ambition. But the industry itself is far more subt …

For the first time in human history, the vast majority of the world’s population is connected through trade, travel, production, media and politics. Ours is an era of ubiquitous mobile communication, …

This study deals with three domains of food which raise complex epistemological, political and moral issues. Through an examination of a wide range of material drawn from anthropology, history, liter …