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  • Academic Diary

    Or Why Higher Education Still Matters

    by Les Back ...
    Sharp and witty observations of academic life that range from the local to the global, from PowerPoint to the halls of power.Is a university education still relevant? What are the forces that threaten it? Should academics ever be allowed near Twitter? In Academic Diary, Les Back has chronicled three decades of his academic career, turning his sharp and often satirical eye to the everyday aspects ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Unfinished Politics of Race

    Histories of Political Participation, Migration, and Multiculturalism

    by Les Back, Michael Keith, Kalbir Shukra, John Solomos ...
    The Unfinished Politics of Race argues that the past few decades have seen important transformations in the politics of race. Contending that existing accounts have focused narrowly on the mainstream political sphere, this study argues that there is a need to explore the role of race more widely. By exploring the mainstream as well as transitional and alternative spheres of political mobilisation ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Refugee Youth

    Migration, Justice and Urban Space

    by Seyma Karamese, Rana Aytug, Anne Grent, Ajay Bailey, Malene H. Jacobsen, Luke Macaulay, Camila da Silva Lucena, Fabiele Stockmans De Nardi Sottili, Rebecca Walker, Catherina Wilson, Mastoureh Fathi, Les Back, Mohd Al Adib Samuri, Glynis Clacherty ...
    Telling the stories of young refugees in a range of international urban settings, this book explores how newcomers navigate urban spaces and negotiate multiple injustices in their everyday lives.This innovative edited volume is based on in-depth, qualitative research with young refugees and their perspectives on migration, social relations and cultural spaces. The chapters give voice to refugee ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Auditory Culture Reader

    Edited by Michael Bull, Les Back ...
    Series series Sensory Formations
    The first edition of The Auditory Culture Reader offered an introduction to both classical and recent work on auditory culture, laying the foundations for new academic research in sound studies. Today, interest and research on sound thrives across disciplines such as music, anthropology, geography, sociology and cultural studies as well as within the new interdisciplinary sphere of sound studies ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • New Ethnicities And Urban Culture

    Social Identity And Racism In The Lives Of Young People

    by Les Back ...
    Engaging exploration of race and youth culture which examines the development of new identities, ethnicities and forms of racism. This text analyzes the relationship between racism, community and adolescent social identities in the African and South Asian diasporas.; This book is intended for undergraduate and postgraduate students on courses in race and ethnicity, urban sociology, cultural ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Migrant City

    by Les Back, Shamser Sinha ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Ethnography
    Migrant City tells the story of contemporary London from the perspective of thirty adult migrants and two sociologists. Connecting migrants’ private struggles to the public issues at stake in the way mobility is regulated, channelled and managed in a globalised world, this volume explores what migration means in a world that is hyper connected – but where we see increasingly mobile, invasive and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Race, Politics and Social Change

    by Les Back ...
    Drawing on a wealth of original sources, including interviews with politicians and activists this book explores the changing contours of the politics of race in the present social and political environment. The volume seeks to go beyond abstract generalisations in order to develop an account which takes seriously the everyday processes that have shaped social understandings of race and politics in ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Cultural Sociology

    An Introduction

    by Les Back, Andy Bennett, Laura Desfor Edles, Margaret Gibson, David Inglis, Ron Jacobs, Ian Woodward ...
    Cultural Sociology: An Introduction is the first dedicated student textbook to address cultural sociology as a legitimate model for sociological thinking and research. Highly renowned authors present a rich overview of major sociological themes and the various empirical applications of cultural sociology.A timely introductory overview to this increasingly significant field which provides ... Read more

    $40.00 USD

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    by Steven Vertovec ...
    Series series Key Ideas
    'Transnationalism' refers to multiple ties and interactions linking people or institutions across the borders of nation-states.This book surveys the broader meanings of transnationalism within the study of globalization before concentrating on migrant transnational practices. Each chapter demonstrates ways in which new and contemporary transnational practices of migrants are fundamentally ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Migrant Men

    Critical Studies of Masculinities and the Migration Experience

    Edited by Mike Donaldson, Raymond Hibbins, Richard Howson, Bob Pease ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Gender and Society
    This edited volume contributes an important collection of chapters to the growing theoretical and empirical work being undertaken at the international level on men and migration. The chapters presented here focus on what we might call ‘migratory masculinities': the experiences men have of masculinity upon immigration into another national, ethnic, and cultural context. How do these men (re ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Rethinking Development Geographies

    by Marcus Power ...
    Development as a concept is notoriously imprecise, vague and presumptuous. Struggles over the meaning of this fiercely contested term have had profound implications on the destinies of people and places across the globe. Rethinking Development Geographies offers a stimulating and critical introduction to the study of geography and development. In doing so, it sets out to explore the spatiality of ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Anthropology and Development

    Culture, Morality and Politics in a Globalised World

    by Emma Crewe, Richard Axelby ...
    In recent decades international development has grown into a world-shaping industry. But how do aid agencies work and what do they achieve? How does aid appear to the adults and children who receive it? And why has there been so little improvement in the position of the poor? Viewing aid and development from anthropological perspectives gives illuminating answers to questions such as these. This ... Read more

    $44.29 USD