Palgrave Macmillan

This book examines the current interest in recruiting and supporting more men in the early childhood education workforce. Drawing on extensive empirical data from case studies of an unusual English...

This book discusses men's friendships in relation to queer, discursive, and intersectional feminist theories. It analyses stories of intimacy, touch, hugs, and conversations, connecting these with...

This book provides an account of fatherhood and changing parental roles in Sweden and Poland. It uses a comparative perspective to show what men understand a father's role to be, and how they seek to...

This book offers an original empirical study into the gendered and sexual experiences of Iranian Muslim women going through menopause. Using a biographical lifecourse lens, it explores the processes...

This book interrogates how the so-called ?Feminine Care? industry travelled from the United States to Latin America via manufactured and disposable menstrual management technologies and certain...

This book makes the unorthodox claim that there is no such thing as mental health. It also deglamourises nature-based psychotherapies, deconstructs therapeutic landscapes and redefines mental health...

This book examines how the prison environment, architecture and culture can affect mental health as well as determine both the type and delivery of mental health services. It also discusses how...

Mental Health Uncertainty and Inevitability: Rejuvenating the Relationship Between Social Science and PsychiatryAuthor: Hugh MiddletonPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Feb 17, 2017Number...

Delivers a new theoretical framework for assessing integration and policy in Latin America and Europe.Compares the effects of MERCOSUR and the EU to expose the limits of regionalism. Analyzes...

In this anthology, a journey around the world and through time is undertaken in 21 countries on no less than six continents. In this way, the global reception of one of the biggest media events to...

Offers the first dedicated study on the core metaepistemological subject of epistemic ontology Brings together a wide range of different philosophical perspectives on epistemic ontology, ranging from...

This book explores the little-known world of scrappers and metal thieves. Benjamin F. Stickle bases his study on field research collected while traversing communities with thieves and scrappers...

This book takes stock of the strides made to date in African philosophy. Authors focus on four important aspects of African philosophy: the history, methodological debates, substantive issues in the...

This book identifies the strengths and weaknesses of different methodological approaches to research in communication and social change. It examines the methodological opportunities and challenges...

This is the first book addressing explicitly and specifically the methodological issues of relational sociology, and more broadly of the new relational paradigm in social sciences. The dynamically...

This book provides a detailed and carefully researched catalogue of over 140 manuscripts related to the Mevlevi Sufis in their formative period during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. It also...

This book explores how and why Mexico's approach to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) implementation with the L?pez Obrador administration is...

This book provides a first-hand account of the author's encounters as a social geographer, based on his field research and travels in Mexico and the Caribbean. The interlocutors of different classes...

Michael Oakeshott's Political Philosophy of International Relations: Civil Association and International SocietyAuthor: Davide OrsiPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Oct 13, 2016Number of...

​Provides the second instalment to Toporowski's fascinating intellectual biography of Michal KaleckiEvaluates Kalecki's political position and thoughts on economic cyclesDetails the reception...

This edited collection explores how First Lady Michelle Obama gradually expanded and broadened her role by engaging in social, political and economic activities which directly and indirectly impacted...

Micro Middle Ages brings together five microhistorical case studies focusing on small or seemingly inconsequential evidence that leads to broader conclusions about medieval history and the way we do...

Explores the potential of combining micro-history and global history Chapters include examples from the middle ages to the present day, across North America, South America, Asia, Africa and...

Microaggressions and Modern Racism: Endurance and Evolution explores the causes, manifestations, and consequences of microaggressions, macroaggressions, and modern racism within society. Using...

Innovatively brings together microbiology and Amerindian shamanic practice, with a view to interrogating both as equalsIntertwines biocultural and ethnohistorical approachesProviding a fresh...

This book focuses on the innovative development of microfinance in China and takes Luqiao District, Taizhou as the example to sum up Chinese experiences in the local innovative development of...

This edited collection presents recent developments, practical innovations, and policy reforms in the realm of microfinance in emerging markets. Microfinance has been hotly debated by ever-colliding...

?The book focuses on how microfinance institutions can be the alternative way to supply funds to combat different phases of global economic recessions. Also, it emphasizes upon their capabilities in...

​This volume challenges the concept of the 'new African middle class' with new theoretical and empirical insights into the changing lives in Sub-Saharan Africa. Diverse middle classes are on...

Brings Turkey to the core of the ongoing debates on interrelated issues of global governance, including contribution to international organizations and informal forums, south-south cooperation,...