Rina Agarwala 
Informal Labor, Formal Politics, and Dignified Discontent in India [PDF ebook] 

The book”s central focus explores several ’myths’ associated with American entrepreneurship: the idea that small business owners are ’job creators’; that entrepreneurs are the ’backbone’ or ’engine’ …

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One of the major works of twentieth-century anthropological theory, written by one of the discipline’s most important, complex, and controversial figures, has not been in print for several years. Now …

This book contributes to a critical reflection of current legislative and jurisprudential developments in Non-Discrimination Law, focusing on the European Union. The book is focused on intersectional …

Over the last decade, concepts of diaspora and locality have gained complex new meanings in political discourse as well as in social and cultural studies. Diaspora, in particular, has acquired new me …

This book is grounded in the debates of the 1980s and 1990s that surrounded recollections of childhood sexual abuse, particularly those that emerged in the context of psychotherapy. When growing numb …

With the twentieth century arrived the first electric tramcars in London. Thirty years later the first trolley buses arrived – along with a fleet of new trams that were the most modern of their day. …

Underlying current controversies about environmental regulation are shared concerns, divided interests and different ways of thinking about the earth and our proper relationship to it. This book brin …

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 …

Following drastic shifts in the spatial organization of goods production, increasingly fierce competition now forces firms also to look critically at how to organize the production of services. While …