Ruud Koopmans & Wolfgang Merkel 
Struggle Over Borders [PDF ebook] 
Cosmopolitanism and Communitarianism

A selection of brilliant folk tales about heroines from all around the world. In these stories it”s the girls who save the day through their courage, cunning or kindness – whether they are facing up …

Ethnographic methods are becoming increasingly prevalent in contemporary educational research. Critical Ethnography in Educational Research provides both a technical, theoretical guide to advanced …

The main feature of this book is a discussion of ”role analysis” and its relevance to social structure. Arguing that the role system of a society is the matrix of its social structure, the author p …

There is a gap between the hope for improved social conditions in post-apartheid South Africa and the grim reality of black life there is especially striking for South African children who face serio …

The State of Sex is a study of Nevada’s brothels that situates the nation”s only legal brothel industry in the political economy of contemporary tourism. Nevada is part of the ‘new American heartlan …

This book tells the fascinating story of the reemergence of the American political left over the last quarter century in the form of the new Progressive Movement. Born out of Liberalism”s crushing d …

Crime Control As Industry, translated into many languages, is a modern classic of criminology and sociology. Nils Christie, one of the leading criminologists of his era, argues that crime control, ra …

Part of the ‘Religion and Citizenship’ series, this book is an ethnographic study of marginality of Muslims in urban India. It explores the realities and consequences of socio-spatial segregation fac …

In the second half of the twentieth century the theme of culture has dominated the human sciences. The forms of contemporary culture demand a radical reappraisal of the terms of description of the mo …

This major inter-disciplinary collection, edited by two of the best respected figures in the field, provides a superb general introduction to this subject. Chapters include discussions of fieldwork m …