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By Bernard McGrane, John Gunderson

This book uses a social world–today's undergraduate students' ubiquitous everyday experience of television–as a vehicle for helping awaken students to the true possibilities for learning and their responsibilities inherent in achieving those goals. The book also introduces students to the social…

Paperback – 2009-10-21
Routledge
Sociology Re-Wired

Edited by Dimitrios Theodossopoulos

Drawing upon anthropological studies that document culturally specific ways of perceiving ethic Others in Greece and Cyprus, this book explores the cultural boundaries of the categories ‘Greek’ and ‘Turk’, and compares views on what it means to be one of these ethnic groups or both. The…

Paperback – 2009-09-29
Routledge

Edited by Nicholas Breyfogle, Abby Schrader, Willard Sunderland

Though usually forgotten in general surveys of European colonization, the Russians were among the greatest colonizers of the Old World, eventually settling across most of the immense expanse of Northern Europe and Asia, from the Baltic and the Pacific, and from the Arctic Ocean to Central Asia.…

Paperback – 2009-05-12
Routledge
BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

Edited by Toyin Falola, Niyi Afolabi

In an era of globalization, population growth, and displacements, migration is now a fact of life in a constantly shifting economic and political world order. This book contributes to the discourse on the beneficiaries, benefactors, and the casualties of African displacement. While the few existing…

Paperback – 2009-03-06
Routledge
African Studies

By James A. Tyner

Nearly five million migrant workers from the Philippines are employed in over 190 countries and territories. They work as doctors and domestic helpers, engineers and entertainers, seamstresses and surveyors. It is through their collective labor that the Philippines has assumed a global presence.…

Paperback – 2008-09-19
Routledge
Global Realities

By Ronald Berger

Hoop Dreams on Wheels is a life-history study of wheelchair athletes associated with a premier collegiate wheelchair basketball program. The book, which grapples with the intersection of biography and history in society, situates the study in broader context with background on the history and…

Paperback – 2008-09-12
Routledge
Sociology Re-Wired

By Gail Landsman

Examining mothers of newly diagnosed disabled children within the context of new reproductive technologies and the discourse of choice, this book uses anthropology and disability studies to revise the concept of "normal" and to establish a social environment in which the expression of full lives…

Paperback – 2008-08-20
Routledge

Edited by Jane Kenway, Johannah Fahey

In the provocative opening essay Kenway and Fahey explore ways in which the notion of the imagination itself might be mobilized by researchers. They are encouraged to develop 'defiant' global imaginations and communities with the capacities to think, 'be' and 'become' differently in a world of…

Paperback – 2008-08-07
Routledge

By Juan Flores

In The Diaspora Strikes Back the eminent ethnic and cultural studies scholar Juan Flores flips the process on its head: what happens to the home country when it is being constantly fed by emigrants returning from abroad? He looks at how 'Nuyoricans' (Puerto Rican New Yorkers) have transformed the…

Paperback – 2008-08-07
Routledge
Cultural Spaces

By Robert Nash Parker, Emily K. Asencio

This is the first book to provide sociologists, criminologists, political scientists, and other social scientists with the methodological logic and techniques for doing spatial analysis in their chosen fields of inquiry.  The book contains a wealth of examples as to why…

Paperback – 2008-07-10
Routledge
Sociology Re-Wired

By Julia Solis

Did alligators ever really live in New York's sewers? What's it like to explore the old aqueducts beneath the city? How many levels are beneath Grand Central Station? And how exactly did the pneumatic tube system that New York's post offices used to employ work? In this richly illustrated…

Paperback – 2007-11-26
Routledge

Edited by Laura T. Raynolds, Douglas Murray, John Wilkinson

This book explores the challenges and potential of Fair Trade, one of the world’s most dynamic efforts to enhance global social justice and environmental sustainability through market based social change. Fair Trade links food consumers and agricultural producers across the Global North/ South…

Paperback – 2007-05-10
Routledge