This volume brings together for the first time an updated collection of articles exploring poverty, poor relief, illness, and health care as they intersected in Western Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East, during a ‘long’ Middle Ages.
This book examines trade and trafficking in endangered animal species and how the trade increasingly puts large numbers of non-human species at risk.
This volume of case studies examines the rise in violent extremism, terrorism, and insurgency in South and South East Asia, and subsequent state responses.
This maritime anthropology volume presents a cosmology of ships. In order for this cosmology to be written, some of the volume’s contributors have travelled... Læs mere
This book explores how young people define, perceive, and experience cyber-risks, how they respond to both the messages they are receiving from society regarding their safety online, and the various strategies employed to regulate online activity.
This book is an outcome of the 17th Congress of the World Organization of Systems and Cybernetics that took place in Rome in January 2017. It... Læs mere
This book shows how culture and education operate within and across societies. It imagines education as an integrated part of cultural... Læs mere
This book brings together leading specialists from a range of disciplines including geography, anthropology, sociology and political science to discuss... Læs mere
This innovative book connects the disciplines of participatory and development... Læs mere
What does 'heritage' mean in the 21st century? This book furthers understanding on how heritage is socially constructed; how it is created in the present, how it is ‘used’,... Læs mere
What Steven Walker labels a cryptic subtext, is an extreme case of hypertextuality. It involves a series of allusions to... Læs mere
Combining qualitative and quantitative comparative analyses from anti-austerity... Læs mere