Social Sciences Books

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31. Striving and Surviving

    A Daily Life Analysis of Honduran Transnational Families

    By Leah Schmalzbauer

    Series: New Approaches in Sociology

    Drawing on data the author gathered in Honduras and the United States from weekly time diaries, in-depth interviews, participant observation and interpretive focus groups, she looks specifically at the experience and prospects of transmigrant labor in the United States; the aspirations and...

    Published January 10th 2013 by Routledge
32. Eastern European Immigrant Families

    By Mihaela Robila

    Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

    Immigration from Eastern Europe to the United States has grown significantly in the last few decades. While Asian and Latin American immigrations have been central to the discourse of migration to the US, the rapid growth of Eastern European immigrants has received insufficient attention. Robila...

    Published January 10th 2013 by Routledge
33. Racial Attitudes and Asian Pacific Americans

    Demystifying the Model Minority

    By Karen Kurotsuchi Inkelas

    Series: Studies in Asian Americans

    This study examines the complex sources and implications of the racial attitudes of Asian Pacific American (APA) college students, who, as one of the fastest growing demographics in higher education enrollments, play an increasingly significant role in campus race relations....

    Published January 10th 2013 by Routledge
34. Contextualising Narrative Inquiry

    Developing methodological approaches for local contexts

    Edited by Sheila Trahar

    Narrative inquiry is growing in popularity as a research methodology in the social sciences, medicine and the humanities. In narrative inquiry, the transparency of interactions between researcher and research participants, together with rich, contextual descriptions, help to shape and structure...

    Published January 9th 2013 by Routledge
35. Atomic Mumbai

    Living with the Radiance of a Thousand Suns

    By Raminder Kaur

    Atomic Mumbai offers an insightful historical and ethnographic account of how nuclear issues are represented in popular culture, print media, films, documentaries, advertising and superhero comics, driven by perceptions of those based in the city of Mumbai, a prime site of nuclear establishments in...

    Published January 9th 2013 by Routledge India
36. Dharavi

    From Mega-Slum to Urban Paradigm

    By Marie-Caroline Saglio-Yatzimirsky

    Series: Cities and the Urban Imperative

    Located in the heart of Mumbai, Dharavi is estimated to be the largest slum in Asia. Often referred to as ‘Little India’, it has been home to thousands of migrants from across the country providing opportunities for work and livelihood. As such, Dharavi presents a fascinating paradox: the...

    Published January 9th 2013 by Routledge India
37. India Migration Report 2013

    Social Costs of Migration

    Edited by S. Irudaya Rajan

    This volume is an empirical assessment of an often-neglected space in migration research — social, psychological and human costs for both migrants and the families they leave behind — based on qualitative and quantitative research findings. Globally, the focus of migration research has consisted of...

    Published January 9th 2013 by Routledge India
38. The Integral Nature of Things

    Critical Reflections on the Present

    By Lata Mani

    The world is an interdependent whole of which everything is an integral, complexly related, part. Yet current ways of thinking, and being, persistently separate social phenomena and the individual self from the multiple dimensions with which they are interconnected. The Integral Nature of Things...

    Published January 9th 2013 by Routledge India
39. Nuclear Power, Economic Development Discourse and the Environment

    The Case of India

    By Manu Mathai

    Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies

    Nuclear power is often characterized as a "green technology." Technologies are rarely, if ever, socially isolated artefacts. Instead, they materially represent an embodiment of values and priorities. Nuclear power is no different. It is a product of a particular political economy and the question...

    Published January 7th 2013 by Routledge
40. Alcohol

    Social Drinking in Cultural Context

    By Janet Chrzan

    Series: Routledge Series for Creative Teaching and Learning in Anthropology

    Alcohol: Social Drinking in Cultural Context critically examines alcohol use across cultures and through time. This short text is a framework for students to self-consciously examine their beliefs about and use of alcohol, and a companion text for teaching the primary concepts of anthropology to...

    Published January 6th 2013 by Routledge