Sociology and Anthropology

This book explores the ‘folk’ performance genre of Kobigaan, a dialogic song-theatre form in which performers verse-duel in contemporary West Benga...

This book studies the different models adopted by contemporary states in Central Europe in fighting the SARS-CoV-2 virus. With thorough analysis of...

This book critically examines the new middle class and the emergence of neo-urban spaces in India within the context of rapid urbanisation and chan...

This book explores different strands of thinking about sexuality education in contemporary urban India. It interrogates the limits of sexuality edu...

This book explores the unparalleled adversities and strain that the Covid-19 pandemic has caused on the social and economic lives of people.

This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh. It analyses the socio-cultural and humanitarian challenge...

This book explores the concept of disability through a social, political, cultural, religious, and economics lens. It challenges the categorization...

This book presents a comprehensive account of the COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the novel coronavirus pandemic, as it happened. This volume exam...

This book presents a comprehensive overview of modern conceptualizations of justice in India. It analyses how these concepts relate to traditional ...

This book examines urban experience from the vantage point of the global South. Drawing upon narratives coming from three key axes—communities, nei...

This book examines the relationship between cultural difference and practical knowledge and its implications for the study of humanities and the so...

This book examines, for perhaps the first time, singlehood at the intersections of race, media, language, culture, literature, space, health, and l...

This volume discusses the current state of knowledge on the conceptual understanding of inequality. The book poses a range of empirical puzzles in ...

This book presents a systematic analysis of the differential implementation of the urban reforms in two Indian cities, Ahmedabad and Kanpur. It ana...

Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy explores the new forms, voices and venues of stand-up comedy in different parts of the world and its potential role ...

This book examines proximity as a benchmarked concept that can be deployed across a range of humanities disciplines to rethink the ways in which ex...

This book examines the epistemological, social and political dimensions of practising interdisciplinary approaches to enhance knowledge, pedagogy, ...

This volume brings together academics, activists, social work practitioners, poets, and artists from different parts of the world during the Covid-...

This volume explores the dialogic relationship between myths and places in the historically, geographically, and culturally diverse context of Indi...

This book studies the intersection of language and social privilege in education in India. Drawing on rich ethnographic detail and primary data, it...

This book presents a sociological interpretation of the emergence of modernity in India via the colonial encounter, and its ramifications for India...

This book deals with a wide range of issues related to rural-urban migration in the context of neoliberal economic development in India. Focusing o...

Media Technology and Cultures of Memory studies narrative memories in India through oral, chirographic and digital cultures. It examines oral cultu...

The book unravels the politics of representation and the process of exoticising women’s bodies through the prism of external gaze and knowledge pro...

This book explores the spatial characteristics of the city of Kolkata in India and the socio-political and physio-climatological events and process...

What is knowledge, and ignorance? How is it decided? Do power and power relations influence this process? Does the spread of knowledge lead to more...

This volume explores the intersections of diaspora and gender within the diasporic and Indian imagination. It investigates the ways in which race, ...

This book explores issues of rights, issues, and challenges faced by Indian migrant workers in the GCC countries. It focuses on the struggle of mig...

This book engages with the discourses on human rights as they apply to the transgender or the hijra community in India, capturing not only their la...

This book tracks the progress of maternal and child health (MCH)―part of SDG3―in empowered action group states in India. It lays bare regional disp...

This book presents a critical analysis of sense-making practices through an exploration of acoustic, creative, and artistic spaces. It studies how ...

This volume is a critical investigation into the contemporary phenomenon of the dissensus of the globe and the planet, and the new terrains of cons...

This book introduces the readers to the dynamics of various kinds of social movements. It examines how social movements have become an instrument o...

This book explores the transitions in the adivasi identity as well as in the political representation of adivasi communities in Bangladesh. It trac...

This work throws light on the areas of space and time, nature and culture, spirit and matter in the folktales that nurture systemic thinking. It id...

This book analyzes drug addiction and abuse from the perspectives of the state and community in India, with a special focus on North-West regions o...

This book critically analyses diverse experiences related to disability in India. Drawing upon intersectionality theory, it explores a range of iss...

The book examines the social and cultural role of selfies in India. It looks at how the selfie, unlike the photograph, which was a gesture towards ...

This book formulates a new pedagogy of death with regard to Northeast India and shows how this pedagogy offers an understanding of alternative know...

This book is an anthology of the collected essays of Sharmila Rege (1964 – 2013) that addresses themes to do with pedagogy and culture. Rege makes ...

This book examines the discourses on ageing and ageism in Indian culture, politics, art and society. It explores its representations and the anxiet...

This book studies the different dimensions of culture change in India. It covers important strands of the ancient and modern intellectual tradition...

This book injects nuance into the debate about the moral legitimacy of environmental and animal activism and explores how activism can lead to stig...

This book explores the experiences of managing the COVID-19 pandemic in Northeast India across different areas of life and work.

This book presents a broad overview of the challenges posed by COVID-19 in India and its neighboring countries. It studies responses to COVID-19 in...

The volume discusses critical issues surrounding the developments in gender movements in the last two decades in India following the Delhi rape cas...

This book probes into the marginalized communities of the Indian society through historical and contemporary societal perspectives. It discusses so...

This book examines the process of domination of a civilization and the creation of a vast empire by the British in India in the late nineteenth and...