Palgrave Macmillan

This book represents the first comprehensive historical treatment of sociology in Russia from the mid-nineteenth century through the pre-revolutionary and Soviet eras to the present day. It sheds new...

This book is the first comprehensive account of the history and current state of South African sociology. Providing a holistic picture of the subject both as it is taught in universities and as a...

This book provides a sociological understanding of the phenomenon of exorcism and an analysis of the reasons for its contemporary re-emergence and impact on various communities. It argues that...

Sociology Through Relation: Theoretical Assessments from the French TraditionAuthor: Christian PapilloudPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Oct 27, 2017Number of Pages: 271 pagesBinding:...

This book presents a sociomaterial perspective on work and organizational practices within the operating room. Looking at medical work from a sociological perspective and drawing on ethnographic...

Socrates in the Cave: On the Philosopher's Motive in PlatoAuthor: Paul J. DiduchPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: May 31, 2018Number of Pages: 347 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased...

This book analyzes the ways in which China's soft power growth faces dilemmas in East Asia through both online and offline platforms. One dilemma for China's transnational soft power-field expansion...

Solidarity in Europe: Citizens' Responses in Times of CrisisAuthor: Christian LahusenPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Apr 30, 2018Number of Pages: 287 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased...

This edited collection introduces conceptual innovations that critically engage with understanding refugee movements as part of the broader category of 'poor people's movements'. The empirical focus...

Illustrates the application of the theory of solution focused brief therapy and harm reduction to case study examplesProvides a detailed description of both approaches and how they fit together in a...

This book highlights the historic inflection point we are in, both in terms of philanthropy in general, and specifically in financing the solutions to our largest and most urgent social and...

This book is about the human mental capacities that are mostly veiled in the use of language yet can be revealed through music activities. In speech, just one word is articulated at the time, whereas...

Sound and the Aesthetics of Play: A Musical Ontology of Constructed EmotionsAuthor: Justin ChristensenPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Dec 18, 2017Number of Pages: 128 pagesBinding:...

Sound Poetics: Interaction and Personal IdentityAuthor: Se?n StreetPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Jul 26, 2017Number of Pages: 122 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...

This edited collection takes the prompt "hope in crisis" as a starting point for investigating sound research as it is situated in these troubling times. The book brings together thinkers from...

What makes a body of sound appear as an aesthetic object as well as a method for knowledge? In Sounding Bodies Sounding Worlds, Mickey Vallee argues that we must impose our sonic imagination onto the...

This book draws from a rich history of scholarship about the relations between music and cities, and the global flows between music and urban experience. The contributions in this collection comment...

This volume considers the linguistic complexities associated with Shakespeare's presence in South Africa from 1801 to early twentieth-first century televisual updatings of the texts as a means of...

The South African economy has largely performed below its potential. Although the size of the South African economy has significantly increased since 1994, its performance has lagged behind other...

This edited volume examines global power-rivalry in and around South Asia through Bangladeshi lenses using imperfect and overlapping interest concentric-circles as a template. Dynamics from three...

South Asian Migration in the Gulf: Causes and ConsequencesAuthor: Mehdi ChowdhuryPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Dec 28, 2018Number of Pages: 216 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

This book presents South Asian women?s voices which have been marginalised in the theory and practice of international relations in the region. It highlights critical issues of importance for women...

licy minds together in contemplating the risks and rewards of finally ending the 70 year stalemate between North and South Korea through reunification. While North Korea is in conflict with the...

This book brings Korea's finest foreign policy minds together in contemplating the risks and rewards of finally ending the 70 year stalemate between North and South Korea through reunification. While...

This book is a collection of 15 case studies on China?s foreign aid and economic cooperation with developing countries. Each case introduces the general information of a China?s project, analyzes its...

Written by area studies specialists whose assessment is informed by expert grasp of South East Asia's complex economic, social and political conditions and historical realitiesThoroughly explores...

Addresses the pre-1914 sovereign debt market from both creditors' and borrowing governments' perspectivesPresents new primary documents that bolster opinions of Brazil and Mexican government...

In coming to terms with the still smoldering financial crisis, little attention has been paid to the flaws within our monetary system and how these flaws lie at the root of the crisis.This book...

Author: Ivan SimicPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Aug 13, 2018Number of Pages: 271 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10: 3319943812ISBN-13: 9783319943817

Deploying a spatial approach towards children's everyday life in interwar Hong Kong, this book considers the context-specific development of five transnational movements: the garden city movement;...