Sociology and Anthropology

This book explores different theories of justice and explains how these connect to broader geographical questions and inform our understanding of u...

This book, a timely mapping of a shifting political field around gender-based violence in the global south, brings together academics and activists...

For 40 years, this classic text has taken the issue of economic inequality seriously and asked: Why are our prisons filled with the poor? Why aren’...

David Harvey is among the most influential Marxist thinkers of the last half century. This book offers a lucid and authoritative introduction to hi...

Crime, Criminal Justice & Religion: A Critical Appraisal seeks to bridge a gap in the examination of crime and criminal justice by taking both ...

How is gender signified, produced and reproduced through paid and unpaid labour? In what ways does gender intersect with other kinds of disadvantag...

Sources for Studying the Holocaust provides a pathway for readers to engage with questions about what sources can be used to study the Holocaust. ...

Sociological perspectives can be used to analyse societal and structural influences on human behaviour at individual, group and community levels. T...

When Mr Radcliffe was asked by the British rulers with tacit concurrence of the Indian leaders to draw a line of demarcation for two communities li...

Technology and Oligopoly Capitalism is a major contribution to our understanding of how technology oligopolies are shaping America’s social, econom...

This leading comprehensive text for courses on the sociology of work covers many vital new topics since the 2015 edition, just as it continues to o...

An indispensable resource for students, researchers and teachers seeking to use visual sources in their research and understand how images work. Th...

With an emphasis on everyday life, this respected text offers a lively and perceptive account of the key theories and ideas which dominate the fiel...

In 1936, Walter Benjamin defined the revolutionary Class as being in opposition to a dense and dangerous crowd, prone to fear of the foreign, and u...

A coherent and comprehensive account of the different frameworks for understanding power which have been advanced within the social sciences.

Public Sociology highlights the relevance of sociological perspectives to Australian social life and encourages students to apply a sociological ga...

The Golden Horde is a definitive work on the Italian revolutionary movements of the 1960s and ’70s. An anthology of texts and fragments woven toge...

Now in its third edition, Social Work: An Introduction will equip you, as a future social worker, with everything you need to know in your first ye...

This thought-provoking and contemplative novel is perceptive in planning and philosophical in approach liberating the soul from evil forces that su...

Gender, Religion and Local History: The Early Deccan straddles two areas of research, namely the study of women in a socio-religious context and im...

A compelling memoir that focuses on the intersectionality of race and sexuality experienced by a gay Asian man living in a white world. Born to C...

Concealing Caste opens a window into the experience of women and men in India who, though born into communities stigmatized as 'untouchable,' are p...

This book takes readers across the polycentric world of the pre-colonial period in AfroAsia, which involved systems, processes and interactions tha...

Against easy framings of hijras that render them marginalized, Saria shows how hijras makes the normative Indian family possible. The book also sho...

Embedding Subversion and Gender Identity: ‘Ulti’, the Secret Language of the Hijra-Koti Community opens a window on to the world of the hijra-koti ...

Labour bondage is a major feature of the peasant economies that have dominated the subcontinent of South Asia from an unrecorded pre-colonial past ...

This work is the first comprehensive effort to recover the forgotten histories of the highly impactful women's association, the Assam Mahila Samiti...

“I believe that we should have a sense of history. In a sense, an autobiography is history. It has in it traces of geography as well. Each new plac...

The Routledge Handbook of International Critical Social Work is a companion volume to the Routledge Handbook of Critical Social Work. It brings tog...

This book offers an accessible overview of the issues related to the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) global agenda. This new edition has been upda...

Visual Research: A Concise Introduction to Thinking Visually, Second Edition, provides an accessible introduction to doing visual research in the s...

Racism has a long history and its devastating impacts continue to spark heated, moral and political debate and give rise to social movements and wi...

This book is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to primates. It provides both a survey and synthesis of primate history, biology, and beh...

Multimodal Methods in Anthropology develops several goals simultaneously. First, it is an introduction to the ways that multimodality might work fo...

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the discourse on health in India, examining governance, policies, programmes, and the involvement of...

This book helps readers bridge the gap between school-level mathematical skills and the quantitative and analytical skills required at the professi...

This book examines the process of information diffusion and the challenges of spreading awareness about maternal and child health (MCH) outcomes in...

Table of Contents Preface I. THE EUROPEAN ROOTS OF SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY: The Origins of Sociological Theory Theorizing after the Revolution Saint-Si...

Rising global poverty, widespread conflict and post-conflict reconstruction, and the large population of displaced persons? these are a few global ...

This book offers new approaches and insights into the ongoing and topical discussions on the concepts and definitions of the global south. Instead ...

This book is a historical study of the development of agrarian class relations among the tribal population in Tripura. Tracing the evolution of Tri...

Towards Inclusive Societies: Psychological and Sociological Perspectives focuses on the importance of building inclusive societies and communities ...

This book examines sanitation and toilet access across rural India, focusing on psychological, socio-cultural, infrastructural, and normative barri...

This book examines the validity of the notion of the ‘vernacular’ and the position of the so-called ‘vernaculars’ in colonial and postcolonial sett...

This handbook is a comprehensive text on social work education based on the narratives of social work educators, practitioners, and researchers fro...

The Routledge Handbook for Global South Studies on Subjectivities provides a series of exemplary studies conjoining perspectives from Asian, Africa...

This book analyses regional expressions of the queer experience in texts available in the Indian vernacular languages. It studies queer autobiograp...