AZU - Social & Cultural Studies 1

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Groups most severely affected by COVID-19 have tended to be those marginalised before the pandemic and are now being largely ignored in……続きを見る

Tábata não se sente entusiasmada com a ideia de passar as férias na casa dos avós, longe da cidade e sem acesso à internet. Porém, tudo muda quando o avô revela que coisas estranhas estão acontecend……続きを見る

A profound rethinking of the political categories of openness and closedness. In a new work building upon his Philosophy of the Tourist, Hiroki Azuma reconsiders the connection between the figure of……続きを見る

This compelling study of a previously overlooked vice industry explores the larger structural forces that led to the growth of prostitution in Japan, the Pacific region, and the North American West ……続きを見る

Zostałeś oszukany. Od dziecka wmawiano Ci, że jeśli będziesz miły, uczynny i wrażliwy, kobiety będą Cię kochać. Że jeśli kupisz kwiaty i wysłuchasz jej problemów, ona odwdzięczy się lojalnością i po……続きを見る

Robert Mazur leidde jarenlang een dubbelleven: ambtenaar voor zijn vrienden, Bob Musella' voor de onderwereld. In opdracht van de Amerikaanse overheid zette hij zijn leven op het spel om de hoofdrol……続きを見る

An examination of the transformation of the Japanese diet from subsistence to abundance and an assessment of the consequences for health, longevity, and the environment. In a little more than a cent……続きを見る

The world was stunned when Putin’s Russia invaded Ukraineーhow could war erupt in Central Europe in the 21st century? Yet it did. Why? One key to understanding this atrocity lies in Vladimir Putin’s……続きを見る

En este volumen confluyen investigaciones de autores nacionales e internacionales que abordan, desde perspectivas contemporáneas y diversas, los principales desafíos de América Latina en materia de ……続きを見る

El genocidio indígena en la Patagonia sigue vigente en la movilidad forzada y la exclusión. Este estudio interdisciplinario analiza las políticas racistas del siglo XIX, las tensiones entre etnicida……続きを見る

Black Women’s Stories of Everyday Racism puts literary narrative theory to work on an urgent real-world problem. The book calls attention to African American women’s everyday experiences with system……続きを見る

This book investigates the affective and aesthetic resonances between the works of Philip K. Dick, Thomas Pynchon, and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, offering a fresh perspective on the current fas……続きを見る

Géneros, sexualidades y educación es una obra colaborativa que reúne las valiosas contribuciones de investigadores e investigadoras de Colombia, Brasil y Argentina, ofreciendo un análisis sobre la i……続きを見る

This book is the second edition of Behavioral Decision Theory, published in 2014. The main approach and structure of this book have been retained in the new edition. However, this second edition pro……続きを見る

The European social sciences tend to absorb criticism that has been passed on the European approach and re-label it as a part of what the critique opposes; criticism of European social sciences by “……続きを見る

Russia has changed dramatically since the beginning of this decade. This volume presents a unique collection of articles by Russian scholars and experts, originally published in Russian in the journ……続きを見る

This innovative book provides new perspectives on the globalization of knowledge and the notion of hegemonic sciences. Tying together contributions of authors from all across the world, it challenge……続きを見る

The second part of this multi-volume project assembles a series of recollections and debates on the Ukrainian revolutions of 1990, 2004, and 2013–2014. After an introduction to the methodology of or……続きを見る

That we live in a world ruled and confused by cultural diversities has become common sense. It was the social sciences that gave birth to a new theoretical paradigm, the creation of cultural theorie……続きを見る

Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies is a unique collection of essays derived from a series of dialogues held in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Los Angeles on the issues of racializations, gender, communities……続きを見る

This book focuses on the official regional population projections of Japan and examines its methodologies and results, written in English, by Japanese pioneers in this field for readers who are non-……続きを見る

Temas en torno a la privatización energética analizando las políticas económica, fiscal, sindical, petrolera, de medios y debate energético, de soberanía nacional y de derecho constitucional de Méxi……続きを見る

From the 1811 German Coast Slave Rebellion to the 1971 Attica Prison Uprising, from the truancy of enslaved women to the extreme self-discipline exercised by prisoners in solitary confinement, Black……続きを見る

In People's Diplomacy**, Kazushi Minami shows how the American and Chinese people rebuilt US-China relations in the 1970s, a pivotal decade bookended by Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China and 1979 ……続きを見る

Das Buch verfolgt anhand von vier Schweizer Romanen die aus diversen Perspektiven gespiegelte, zwischen 1871 und 1945 situierte Schweizer Geschichte. Die Werke «Ein Rufer in der Wüste» (1921) von Ja……続きを見る

The book is the second volume of an extensive four-volume monograph devoted to the work of Cyprian Norwid (1821–1883), one of the most outstanding Polish authors. The impact of Norwid’s oeuvre does ……続きを見る

Reaching into the depths of the collective unconscious, A Sense of Apocalypse explores and re-interprets one of the West’s primordial fears, namely that of the apocalyptic closure of both cultural p……続きを見る

Mentalidad social y niñez abandonada. La Paz, 1900-1948 es un estudio sobre los niños abandonados, la evolución del concepto de niño, el proceso de construcción de la sensibilidad social y pública e……続きを見る

What truly holds a family together? Is it grand gestures, or the quiet moments of love and devotion? Son: A Story of Love, Devotion, and Family takes you into a home where love is felt in every smal……続きを見る

In the 1960s and 1970s, the United States and Japan went through massive welfare expansions that sparked debates about citizenship. At the heart of these disputes stood African Americans and Koreans……続きを見る