Sociology and Anthropology

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...

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...