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This text encourages a greater understanding of the US-Mexico border. It focuses on employment, education, drug addiction, violence, healthcare, and women's issues. The authors of the chapters have researched, studied, worked with, or have been border-landers themselves.

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A superstar scholar reinterprets the historical significance of key figures in African-American history reveals their enduring relevance for a new generation.

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Focusing on two cases of resettlement in rural Cundinamarca, Colombia, this book examines how displaced campesinos make sense of their displacement and how displacement shapes their everyday lives -- .

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Why are so many Australians working more yet struggling to meet their basic needs This account of the plight of low paid workers is a stinging indictment of our society and a threat to our social fabric.

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"Written under the aspices of the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies."

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"Written under the aspices of the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies."

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Explores the crucial notion of "colonial difference" in the study of the modern colonial world and traces the emergence of an epistemic shift, which author calls "border thinking". This title expands the horizons of debates under way in postcolonial studies of Asia and Africa by dwelling in the genealogy of thoughts of South/Central America.

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This sequel to "The Interpretation of Cultures" is a collection of essays which reject large abstractions, going beyond the mere translation of one culture into another, and looks at the underlying, compartmentalized reality.

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This book examines the social relations of longing and belonging to be found in nation building, ethnographic practices, dwelling, and diasporas.

Ilcan propels us into various dimensions of movement, as well as social relations in the fields of dispersion, transition, and displacement.

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This book is an ethnographic study of grassroots activists in the English Defence League. Setting the findings within contemporary debates on race and racism, Islamophobia, social movements and the far right. -- .

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This book is an ethnographic study of grassroots activists in the English Defence League. Setting the findings within contemporary debates on race and racism, Islamophobia, social movements and the far right. -- .

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This work provides a review of Wirth's life based on available biographical sources including unpublished materials. It focuses on Wirth's social, political, and professional evolution, and depicts his personal development through his scholarship, his social activism, and his commitment to reform.

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"Interdisciplinary studies on the position of love in contemporary global thought and literature that address love and care work within social structures and institutions"--

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This work is aimed at those caught in the middle between those for whom only heterosexual marriage or "anything goes" are paradigms of suitable behaviour. It explores what it means to be in an intimate relationship surrounded by domestic violence and continued silencing of women's voices.

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Based on Soviet sociological studies, Soviet fiction and film, and mass media reports, this volume explores the ways in which Soviet attitudes about love, sex, marriage, friendship, and children have been influenced by the evolution of Soviet ideology, politics, and economy since the Bolshevik revolution.

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An hilarious spoof self-help book from the star of Marion & Geoff and host of the new hit BBC comedy The Keith Barret Show.

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Volunteering improves inner character, builds community, cures poverty, and prevents crime. We've all heard this kind of empowerment talk from nonprofit and government-sponsored civic programs. But what do these programs really accomplish In Making Volunteers, Nina Eliasoph offers an in-depth, humorous, wrenching, and at times uplifting look insid

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A tribute to the highly influential contributions of Jill Rubery, this book proposes a 'new labour market segmentation approach' for the investigation of issues of job quality, employment inequalities and precarious work. -- .

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Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942) was a wide-ranging thinker whose ideas affected almost every branch of the social sciences. And nowhere is this impact more evident or more persistent than on the study of myth, ritual, and religion. He articulated as never before or since a program of seeing myths as part of the functional, pragmatic, or performed