Anthropology: Kinship & Community

Edited by Rodolfo Rosales

Community as the Material Basis of Citizenship addresses community as the site of participation, production, and rights of citizens and brings to bear a profound critique of a collective process that has historically excluded working class communities and communities of color from any real…

Paperback – 2019-07-10
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By W.T.J. Gun

Originally published in 1928, Studies in Hereditary Ability studies the genealogy of great families of Britain and America and examines how their ancestors influenced their genetics and who they subsequently ended up becoming. The book examines the descent of ability through both maternal and…

Hardback – 2019-06-21
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Routledge Library Editions: Evolution

Edited by Michael W. Young

Bronislaw Malinowski is one of the founding fathers of modern social anthropology and the innovator of the technique of prolonged and intensive fieldwork. His writings about the Trobriand Islands of Papua were in their time the most formative influence on the work of British social anthropologists…

Paperback – 2019-06-12
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Routledge Revivals

By Karolina Barglowski

Transnational mobility in the EU has become a key factor for supranational integration, equal life chances and socioeconomic prosperity. This book explores the cultural and social patterns that shape people’s migration, the historical and contemporary patterns of their movement, and the manifold…

Hardback – 2019-06-11
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Routledge Research in Transnationalism

By Sue Heath, Katherine Davies, Gemma Edwards, Rachael Scicluna

With a growing population, rising housing costs and housing providers struggling to meet demand for affordable accommodation, more and more people in the UK find themselves sharing their living spaces with people from outside of their families at some point in their lives. Focusing on sharers in a…

Paperback – 2019-05-21
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Routledge Advances in Sociology

Edited by Maya Halatcheva-Trapp, Giulia Montanari, Tino Schlinzig

While the ‘spatial turn’ within the social sciences has already nurtured a broad discussion of the relation between society and space, little attention has so far been paid to the question of what we can learn about families when exploring space in its different facets. This book brings together…

Hardback – 2019-03-29
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Routledge Studies in Family Sociology

Edited by Lionel J. Beaulieu, Alice Diebel

This book highlights the experiences of 14 high poverty communities in the rural South that accepted the invitation to be part of the Turning the Tide on Poverty (Tide) initiative. While history would suggest that impoverished places have limited capacity to make good things happen, Tide…

Paperback – 2019-03-22
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Community Development – Current Issues Series

Edited by Miguel A. Guajardo, Francisco J. Guajardo, Leslie Ann Locke

Story and auto-ethnography are study methods based on decolonizing and liberating research perspectives. Stories, auto-ethnographies, and other qualitative methodologies enable the researcher/educator to be both a research instrument and an object in their study. Stories allow for the examination…

Paperback – 2019-03-22
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Edited by Paul Lachapelle, Michael Rios

This book is the outcome of a multiyear process of participatory meetings, individual and collective writings, and insightful criticisms sponsored by the Kettering Foundation regarding the intersection of community development and democratic practice. The collective outcome from these processes is…

Paperback – 2019-02-07
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Community Development – Current Issues Series

Edited by Alistair Hunter, Eva Soom Ammann

A recurring theme of the public discourse on immigration in Europe today is that migrants are primarily young people, of working age. Against this short-sighted view, the main contribution of this book is to propose that processes of ageing and dying constitute a critical juncture in the settlement…

Paperback – 2019-02-07
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Edited by Vered Amit, Pauline Gardiner Barber

In academic descriptions of cosmopolitanism, one particularly important distinction often recurs. Specifically, scholars have been concerned to distinguish between cosmopolitanism as a set of mundane practices and/or competences on the one hand and cosmopolitanism as a cultivated form of…

Paperback – 2019-01-08
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By Tendai Chitewere

Sustainable communities raise questions about the compatibility of capitalism and environmentalism and how we can green our way of life in a capitalist economy that values short-term production and consumption over long-term conservation and simple living. If capitalism and its drive towards…

Paperback – 2019-01-08
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