Sociology
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Roots in Reverse: Senegalese Afro-Cuban Music and Tropical Cosmopolitanism [Hardback]
Richard M. Shain (Author)
£58.95ISBN: 9780819577085
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music/Culture
Roots in Reverse explores how Latin music contributed to the formation of the négritude movement in the 1930s. Taking Senegal and Cuba as its primary research areas, this work uses oral histories, participant observation, and archival research to ... .... Learn More -
Roots in Reverse: Senegalese Afro-Cuban Music and Tropical Cosmopolitanism [Paperback]
Richard M. Shain (Author)
£18.50ISBN: 9780819577092
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music/Culture
Roots in Reverse explores how Latin music contributed to the formation of the négritude movement in the 1930s. Taking Senegal and Cuba as its primary research areas, this work uses oral histories, participant observation, and archival research to ... .... Learn More -
Sociological Imagination: Horizons of Contemporary Society [Paperback]
Fiammetta Fanizza (Author)
£12.00ISBN: 9788869771521
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Sociology
How can we restore fundamental values on a political and cultural level? Taking this question as a starting point, the book identifies the notion of sociological imagination as a suitable method to address the widespread disorientation within the ... .... Learn More -
Concerning Astonishing Atmospheres: Aisthesis, Aura, and Atmospheric Portfolio [Paperback]
Andreas Rauh (Author)
£12.00ISBN: 9788869771033
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Atmospheric Spaces
Atmospheres are omnipresent and they are frequently used in everyday language. Yet, when do we perceive atmospheres and how can we explore them? The concept of atmosphere extends aesthetics to aisthesis and comprehends perception as a relation bou... .... Learn More -
Raising Racists: The Socialization of White Children in the Jim Crow South [Paperback]
Kristina DuRocher (Author)
£21.50ISBN: 9780813175782
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: New Directions in Southern History
White southerners recognized that the perpetuation of segregation required whites of all ages to uphold a strict social order -- especially the young members of the next generation. White children rested at the core of the system of segregation be... .... Learn More -
The Public Sphere And The Populist Challenge [Paperback]
Walter Privitera (Author)
£10.00ISBN: 9788869771118
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Sociology
In the sixties and seventies, the public sphere in Western countries was a place of critique. Through their activism in the public sphere, various kinds of social movements democratised institutions and political culture. Today, neoliberal politic... .... Learn More -
Exploring Human Nature: A Reflexive Mixed Methods Enquiry into Solo Time in the Wilderness [Paperback]
Jana Lemke (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9789088905582
Published by : Sidestone Press
Exploring human nature takes the reader deep into the human experience of being in nature. Our current ecological predicament highlights the need to change people’s nature awareness and behaviour. This pioneering mixed methods study investigates a... .... Learn More -
Exploring Human Nature: A Reflexive Mixed Methods Enquiry into Solo Time in the Wilderness [Hardback]
Jana Lemke (Author)
£95.00ISBN: 9789088905599
Published by : Sidestone Press
Exploring human nature takes the reader deep into the human experience of being in nature. Our current ecological predicament highlights the need to change people’s nature awareness and behaviour. This pioneering mixed methods study investigates a... .... Learn More -
Vulnerability as Generativity: Undoing Parenthood in a Gylanic Perspective [Paperback]
Cristiana Ottaviano (Author); Alessia Santambrogio (Author)
£10.00ISBN: 9788869771217
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Social Science
The book is focused on parenthood and generativity, considered by the authors not only as biological functions, but above all as human and socio-cultural capabilities able to overcome gender differences.Therefore, the authors reconsider motherhood... .... Learn More -
The Rise of the European Self-Employed Workforce [Paperback]
Sergio Bologna (Author)
£19.00ISBN: 9788869770647
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Sociology
Sergio Bologna has long been one of the sharpest analysts and critics of the changing structures in the contemporary labour market. In this new volume, the Italian thinker focuses on the phenomenon of ‘freelance workers’, and particularly of knowl... .... Learn More
