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This is the definitive guide to British folklore. Written by two of the country's leading experts, it covers everything from wizards and witches to UFOs and internet fanfiction.

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Future Perfect is a co-creative ethnography combining theatre improvisations, storytelling, collaborative filmmaking and participatory animation in the study of illegalised migration in the Mediterranean. It recognises the centrality of imagination and creativity in the making of lives and stories at the crossing of dehumanising border regimes.

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Hospital aesthetics: Disability, medicine, activism argues that contemporary disabled artists are offering a new hospital aesthetics, where artists are taking health and care into their own hands and body-minds. Disabled artists are contributing to a type of disability activism that can simultaneously improve mainstream bioethics and ableist museum and gallery culture.

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Hospital aesthetics: Disability, medicine, activism argues that contemporary disabled artists are offering a new hospital aesthetics, where artists are taking health and care into their own hands and body-minds. Disabled artists are contributing to a type of disability activism that can simultaneously improve mainstream bioethics and ableist museum and gallery culture.

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A compelling account of the threat immigration control poses to the citizens of free societies Immigration is often seen as a danger to western liberal democracies because it threatens to undermine their fundamental values, most notably freedom and national self-determination. In this book, however, Chandran Kukathas argues that the greater thr

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Industrial memory in North East England examines how the region's industrial myth and memory have been articulated in the renegotiation of northernness, offering a critical contextualisation of the concept of northernness and the English North.

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This book delves into the evolution of cultural diversity policies in Argentina, Brazil, and Peru. It highlights the struggles of marginalized groups for equality and explores how these policies challenge the monocultural narratives imposed by nation-states over the last 15 years.

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MexicoUS, SerbiaEU Border Lives and Works is an interdisciplinary, accessible study of MexicoUS and Serbia-EU border practices and policies.

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Scottish-born stylist Ray Petri (1948-89), founder of the Buffalo collective, defined the look of radical 1980s magazines including i-D, The Face, and Arena. This book traces how Petri's radical casting, genderplay, and iconography of homoeroticism boldly politicised the relationship between fashion and identity, creating a new template for modern fashion photography.

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Scottish-born stylist Ray Petri (1948-89), founder of the Buffalo collective, defined the look of radical 1980s magazines including i-D, The Face, and Arena. This book traces how Petri's radical casting, genderplay, and iconography of homoeroticism boldly politicised the relationship between fashion and identity, creating a new template for modern fashion photography.

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We need a new law of rape. One which puts the focus on the defendant, rather than the victim. Many survivors of rape report that their experience of the criminal courts is that they are on trial. This book argues we need to redefine rape so the focus is on the defendant and his responsibility.

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Soviet materialities rethinks Soviet history and culture through the lens of materiality, exploring how humans and objects co-shaped identity, ideology, and social life. This interdisciplinary volume bridges Soviet-era thought with theoretical insights from New Materialism, offering a groundbreaking approach to the study of the Soviet past.

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Surviving repression tells the story of the Muslim Brotherhood in the aftermath of the 2013 coup. It is the first book of its kind to analyse the movement's recent trajectories by showcasing the experiences of its individual members, analysing how their responses to repression are affecting the movement as a whole.

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This ethnographic study examines the moral, gendered, affective, social, and political dimensions of irregular migrants' experiences of entrapment, uncertainty, and violence in Morocco. To counter dehumanising narratives of a crisis, the book is articulated around the emic notion of 'the adventure' as a quest to carve out a better life and future.

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The purpose of this book is to revisit the legacy of David Riesman, author of The Lonely Crowd, the biggest selling sociology book to date, and a highly influential public intellectual during the second half of the twentieth century.

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This book explores the cultural politics of food in the South African context, bringing together a range of disciplinary perspectives on the links between media, nourishment, and inequality. The book critically explores the multiple ways in which food is never just food, and is always linked to complex and shifting modalities of meaning and knowledge in the South African context.

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The book introduces the concept of the "gig public" to reimagine the public's role in societies increasingly shaped by the dynamics of surveillance capitalism and algorithmic governance, reaffirming foundational critical sociological approaches-particularly its habitual and contractual roots-that are often overlooked by traditional public sphere theories.

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The book introduces the concept of the "gig public" to reimagine the public's role in societies increasingly shaped by the dynamics of surveillance capitalism and algorithmic governance, reaffirming foundational critical sociological approaches-particularly its habitual and contractual roots-that are often overlooked by traditional public sphere theories.

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