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This book addresses the effects of poverty on multiple interdependencies in kinship, neighbourly and friendship relations. It explores how interpersonal relationships are made, unmade, recuperated or ended by people who are living with poverty in one of England's most deprived neighbourhoods.

Other Canon Economics: Essays in the Theory and History of Uneven Economic Development brings together key essays on development economics from one of the most prolific and important development economists and historians of economic policy today.

This book highlights the important creative work of Belarusian theatre and filmmakers seeking to raise awareness of the Pro-democracy movement and human rights abuses in Belarus and to build communities of care and mourning following the fraudulent 2020 presidential elections in Belarus.

Cultural Processes of Inequality: A Sociological Perspective show how systemic inequality is produced and reproduced through mundane, routine actions based on taken-for-granted assumptions. The book ties such cultural assumptions to personal and institutional behavior, drawing connections between individuals, culture (as meaning systems) and larger social structures.

Journalism has been in a state of disruption since the development of the Internet. The Metaverse, or the future of the Internet, is likely to fuel even further disruption in journalism. This book will provide a critical examination of the implications of the Metaverse for the continuing transformation of journalism in the digital age.

The book investigates Kripke's reading of Wittgenstein presented in his eminent book Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language(1982). It explores various aspects of Kripke's Wittgenstein's view and explicates key criticisms of it offered by numerous leading philosophers since the 80s.

This collection not only provides a starting point for students and researchers of Gothic Studies interested in the variations and adaptations within the German tradition, but it also serves as a primer for Germanists interested in establishing--or reevaluating--the place of the Gothic in German literary and cultural history.

This book considers the value of constitutional environmental rights in protecting water resources through an examination of the legal strategies utilized by communities engaged in protracted mining conflicts, including oil sands development in the Canadian boreal forest and gold mining in ecologically sensitive, glacier-rich areas of Argentina.

This book describes the social, cultural and economic backdrop of the growing phenomenon of orphanage tourism in Nepal.

This book is an Afrocentric exploration of the royal Indigenous dance known as the Kete dance-music, as an analytical path for reassessing African movement systems in the 21st century. It validates the agency of the Black dancing body as a critical element for the generation and use of Indigenous knowledge systems of the Africans/diaspora and explores critical perspectives on the role dancing plays in the cultural emancipation of African knowl...

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This book sheds light on American politics and power that has disadvantaged African Americans through the implementation of public policies, causing them to remain poor and underprivileged in the United States.

This book examines Nigeria, Africa's largest economy and most populous country, and five selected Asian countries in comparative development and sectoral perspectives. It employs quantitative and qualitative methods, including case studies and statistical/econometric methods, to analyze factors that separate the sample countries that made rapid economic progress in "catching up" and those that tend to be stagnating and "falling behind.

This scholarly monograph explores the published eyewitness testimonies, poetry and literature surrounding the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. It argues for the contextualisation of the disaster's collective traumatic wound and its Soviet political repression through public articulation of survivor experience and its interpretation by the trauma narratives of Science Fiction and the Gothic.

The SSAT is a standardized test used by admission officers to assess the abilities of students seeking to enroll in an independent school. The SSAT measures the basic verbal, math, and reading skills students need for successful performance in independent schools. About 80, 000 plus students take the SSAT every year to apply to independent schools.

This book is an annotated edition of The Correspondents (1775), a work, as the introduction argues, derived from A Sentimental Journey, and one of the best of the many later efforts to capture Sterne's unique blend of sensibility and sensuality.

This book explores the financial issues facing startup companies.

This book offers fresh perspectives about the religious convictions and faith of "the Mother of Feminism, " many of which have been ignored, misunderstood or misrepresented in Wollstonecraftian scholarship.

This book examines Australian parental leave provisions and compares them with their counterpart provisions in Canada, Germany, and Switzerland. Following comparison and analysis, recommended amendments to the Paid Parental Leave Act 2010 (Cth) are provided.

This book explores the emergence of the first bible, focussing on second-century Scripture, the earliest New Testament, and the canon formation process. Textual-interpretative, ritual, and paratextual aspects of the Christian Scriptures are discussed as well as their impact on the wider Roman and Medieval literary cultures, and beyond.