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How the UK's immigration detention and deportation system turns people into monetized, measurable units on a supply chain In the UK's fully outsourced "immigration detainee escorting system," private sector security employees detain, circulate and deport foreign national...

Why some cities are more effective than others at reducing inequalities in the built environment For the first time in history, most people live in cities. One in seven are living in slums, the most excluded parts of cities, in which the basics of urban life--including...

A timely and urgent argument for preserving the work that connects us in the age of automation "A compelling case for valuing care as a societal good and as skilled labor."--The Nation With the rapid development of artificial intelligence and labor...

The utilization--and weaponization--of charm in contemporary global politics Politics is a site of performance, and contemporary politicians often perform the role of a regular person--perhaps someone we would like to have a beer with. They win elections not because of the...

"An insightful and breathtaking exploration of humanity's evolutionary baggage that explains some of our species' greatest successes and failures." --Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens The ancient inheritance that made us who we are--and is now driving us to ruin....

This book is the first English-language monograph about the institutional development of sociology in (North) Macedonia. It maps and discusses the contexts, goals, and merits of the pioneering attempts for sociological research in the interwar period, early post-war educational and publishing...

Jean-Louis Genard est décédé le 13 juin 2022. Le livre était pratiquement complété. Il s'agit de l'aboutissement et la consolidation d'une pensée forte qui, depuis les années 1990, n'a cessé d'approfondir ses intuitions premières quant à la reconnaissance sociologique d'un modèle « moral » d...

A groundbreaking survey of the language used around queerness in the Arab world, with contributions by leading Arab queer writers, thinkers and activists, The Queer Arab Glossary is a first-of-its-kind surveyof the linguistic landscape surrounding...

No detailed description available for "Resistance as Negotiation".

The Indus civilization in South Asia (c. 320 - 1500BC) was one of the most important Old World Bronze Age cultures. Located at the cross-roads of Asia, in modern Pakistan and India, it encompassed ca. one million square kilometers, making it one the largest  and most ecologically, culturally,...

Family estrangement and the stigma attached to it are complex phenomena affecting a great number of people in various ways. In response, Navigating Family Estrangement offers a deep dive into the reality of being estranged in contemporary society. This practical guide looks at how to...

As a species, we have always been mobile and migration was a habitual feature of prehistoric life. This open-access volume uses archaeological case studies mainly from the European Neolithic, but also from the Pacific, the US Southwest, the medieval Migration Period and the historical Great...

No detailed description available for "Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene".

What does it mean to partner across class difference? This lucid and original book is the first to explore cross-class relationships in contemporary Australia, a society long-invested in the myth of egalitarianism. Drawing on in-depth interviews with people from a range of class and cultural...

Longlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award A novel economic interpretation of how religions have become so powerful in the modern world Religion in the twenty-first century is alive and well across the world, despite...

How are human computation systems developed in the field of citizen science to achieve what neither humans nor computers can do alone? Through multiple perspectives and methods, Libuse Hannah Veprek examines the imagination of these assemblages, their creation, and everyday negotiation in the...