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What drives social change - and how does control persist?

This book offers a bold and original framework for understanding how domination and autonomy constantly shift within our relationships, institutions and political systems. Drawing on both classical and contemporary theory, Browne traces how struggles against injustice generate change - while also giving rise to new forms of control.

From the workplace to the state, this book explores how power is negotiated, resisted and reasserted. Setting out an innovative agenda for critical social theory, it reveals how the push for greater autonomy drives both social conflict and institutional transformation.

This book investigates the transformative relationship between soccer and women in the 21st century, a time when football has increasingly embraced femininity and women have gained unprecedented visibility and empowerment in the digital soccer landscape. Highlighting the growing presence of women in fan culture and digital spaces, the book explores how these arenas have become pivotal in shaping women's roles and participation in soccer. By examining global, transnational, national, and local contexts, it delves into the interplay between soccer and women, focusing on the dynamic intersections of fandom and digitality.

Through documentary, discursive, analytical, and insider perspectives, the authors uncover the critical themes that define women's engagement with soccer in fan cultures and digital practices. These themes include gender, femininity, sexism, masculinity, misogyny, identity, platformization, digital and social media, e-commerce, and brand activism. The book sheds light on how these factors have influenced not only the women's game but also the broader societal roles of women as players, fans, and contributors to the sport's evolving narrative.

Spanning subject areas such as gender studies, women's history, sports sociology, digital culture, and media studies, this book is designed for scholars, students, researchers, and readers passionate about exploring the intersection of soccer, gender, and digital innovation in contemporary society.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Soccer & Society and are now accompanied by a newly updated Introduction.

This book renews our understanding of contemporary interculturality and today's intercultural world through an illuminating case study of the Labubu phenomenon.

Why do we queue for hours, shake blind boxes and refresh screens at 10 p.m. just for the privilege of buying something we did not even want yesterday? What does our hunger for a grinning monster reveal about how we connect, belong and exclude in today's divided world? Beneath these questions lies an ultimate search for the driving force behind the mania: What are we really chasing? The authors offer a surprising answer: ourselves. Drawing on critical interculturality, the sociology of consumption, media studies and discourse analysis, this interdisciplinary work examines media coverage, social media conversations and ethnographic fieldwork from countries such as China, Finland and France. It unpacks the hyper-capitalist machinery of artificial scarcity, emotional commerce and strategic emptiness, introducing the Labubu Model of Interculturality (LMI) - a framework for understanding how consumption has become the primary language of belonging in a glocalised world.

Written for scholars, students and curious readers alike, this book offers an intriguing and thought-provoking study for those drawn to the Labubu vogue, as well as researchers engaged in intercultural studies, business and marketing and postmodern studies.

This book offers a timely and necessary exploration of journalism in fiction, traditionally centered on American media, by analyzing journalistic discourses within European films and television series and examining how audiences make sense of these narratives.

Adopting an intersectional approach that considers gender, race, sexual orientation, and other dimensions of identity, the book revolves around two main pillars: content and audience. The first objective broadens the scope of analysis to include non- American fictional portrayals of journalism, while the third objective focuses on how different audiences engage with and interpret these representations. Interwoven throughout both is the second objective: to analyze diversity in fictional journalism and understand how audiences from various backgrounds perceive and respond to the inclusion of or notable absence of women and minority journalists.

This book will appeal to researchers, academics, and postgraduate students who are interested in the intersection of journalism, media representation, and audience reception within communication sciences, journalism studies, cultural studies, and cinema and media studies.

Reveals the class markers that operate within the world's most powerful firms and outlines the practical steps for leading employers to dismantle class barriers.

Class, so the narrative goes, has been banished to the past in our modern meritocratic world. Yet across the world's major economies, entry to the elite remains governed by a set of unwritten and largely invisible workplace class codes: rules encompassing ways of speaking and social etiquette, hidden cultural norms, and the confidence to advocate for yourself in highly competitive environments - codes passed down through generations.

In this groundbreaking global study, Lee Elliot Major and Anne-Marie Sim lay bare the class markers that operate within the world's most powerful firms, revealing how they connect to a wider class system structured around a small, detached elite and everyone else. They outline ten practical steps for leading employers to dismantle class barriers and make the urgent case for a fairer system in which everyone has a genuine chance to lead a decent life, whatever path they choose.

Racial and classed inequalities in education are relational, yet they are too often studied separately.

This edited volume tackles the interlocking systems of disadvantage linked to race and class that shape learning experiences across different stages of education. Through a Bourdieusian lens, the chapters reveal how policy, pedagogy and everyday practice reproduce or challenge inequities, offering new ways to understand inclusion and belonging in diverse educational spaces.

This is a must-read for educators, researchers and policymakers committed to combatting educational inequalities and promoting equity and social justice.

Football, Migration and Racism examines the complex intersections of racism, antiracism, football, and migration in contemporary global contexts. Drawing from a themed issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies, the volume investigates how race influences football cultures across different national settings.

The collection features empirical studies from West Africa, Czechia, Sweden, Costa Rica, England, and Italy, offering diverse theoretical and methodological approaches to understanding racialisation processes in football. It addresses critical gaps in sports sociology by explicitly connecting football to broader patterns of racial and ethnic relations. Contributors explore racialised stereotypes of African players, media representations, grassroots anti-racism initiatives, and the colonial legacies that continue to shape contemporary football cultures. Each chapter provides detailed analysis of how migration patterns, talent development systems, and institutional practices perpetuate or challenge racial hierarchies within football.

This book will be of great interest to scholars and students in sociology of sport, race and ethnic studies, migration studies, and cultural studies.

Memory and the Digital Manuscript reveals how the digitisation of medieval texts goes beyond mere replication to fundamentally reshape our spiritual and monumental engagement with history through a digital lens.

By engaging with this work, readers will discover that digitisation acts as a bridge rather than a barrier, deepening our connection to the ritualistic and material essence of the Middle Ages. The book delivers these insights through an amalgamation of theory and practical case studies, introducing innovative methodological tools that demonstrate how digitisation can reestablish layers of ritual meaning. The reader will gain a nuanced view of how digital archives function as "living" monuments, ensuring that the sacred and communal intentions of original manuscripts are preserved and reinterpreted for a technological age.

This book is designed for scholars and postgraduate students specializing in medieval studies, digital humanities, theology, and death studies who require a rigorous framework for navigating the "digital turn." It also serves as an essential resource for museum and library professionals tasked with the curation of cultural heritage, as well as researchers in memory studies seeking to understand the intersection of ancient materiality and contemporary digital culture

AI for Healthcare provides a comprehensive, evidence-based guide to how artificial intelligence is transforming medicine. Structured in three parts, the book first demystifies core technologies (machine learning, deep learning, large language models, and AI agents) through concrete clinical examples.

It then examines real-world applications already deployed in hospitals worldwide, including diagnostic imaging, predictive medicine, connected health, digital mental health therapies, AI-powered disability assistance, and hospital operations optimization.

The final part addresses the conditions for responsible implementation, including ethics, trust-building, cybersecurity, and regulatory frameworks. Each chapter is enriched with exclusive interviews featuring physician-researchers and technology leaders from institutions such as Stanford, Harvard, and MIT, as well as operational case studies from innovative technology companies and clinics.

The book bridges the gap between technical possibility and clinical reality. It is written for healthcare professionals, hospital decision-makers, health technology leaders, researchers, and policymakers who need to understand, evaluate, and act on AI within their organizations. Readers will gain a clear, jargon-free understanding of what AI can and cannot do today, the critical questions to ask before any deployment, and a practical framework for successfully implementing AI while keeping patients at the center.

This volume brings together cutting-edge research on how journalism is practiced and transformed in a rapidly changing media environment. Drawing on diverse case studies from around the world, the book explores how journalists navigate tensions between professional ideals and real-world constraints, including political pressures, technological change, audience demands, and evolving relationships with sources. It reveals not only how journalism is changing, but also why these transformations matter for democracy and public life.

Through a rich collection of empirical and theoretical contributions, the chapters examine how key journalistic roles are performed across different media systems and cultural contexts offering unparalleled comparative insights into journalistic role performance. From social media branding and news satire to investigative journalism, fact-checking, and coverage of artificial intelligence, the volume offers a comprehensive and accessible overview of contemporary journalism in practice.

Written in an engaging style, it provides valuable insights for students, scholars, and anyone interested in understanding how journalism shapes-and is shaped by-the societies it serves.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Journalism Practice.

The book offers an ethnographic account of the composition, leadership, and ritual performance of a charismatic Catholic prayer group. Through analysis, it reveals how the charismatic priest maximizes his authority by integrating personal and institutional power within the context of global Pentecostalism and recent American cultural history.

What happens when charisma and bureaucratic structure collide? This book provides a firsthand look at how charismatic authority emerges within highly institutional settings and explains why it matters. It demonstrates how vertical ties of personal devotion between the leader and followers and horizontal ties among group members, built through stories of conversion and healing, forge deeply charismatic relationships that strengthen group cohesion and resilience. Written in accessible language, the book explores the tension between individualism and distrust of institutional structures and the unique experience of Catholics in a predominantly Protestant culture. Moving beyond the classic Weberian paradigm, it delivers a fresh, nuanced understanding of charismatic leadership in American culture and society and reveals how a deeply personal, sacred form of Christianity takes root.

The book will appeal to scholars and students of religious studies, anthropology of religion, and anyone who is interested in Pentecostalism, Christianity, charisma, and American culture.

This edited collection presents new work by leading international scholars that addresses the multi-layered meaning of frictions within empirical and theoretical research across media and communications, digital technologies, culture and society.

It brings together an impressive range of global scholars from media and communication, visual and cultural studies, to sociology, anthropology and cultural geography, and digital technology research, to critically examine the dynamics of friction, providing an original perspective on media frictions and a new understanding of the social tensions, instabilities and power inequalities of friction within media, culture and society. Together the chapters provide a timely opportunity to understand both the creative force, and negative consequences, of frictions within media and society.

The book will be of interest to scholars and students of television, media and cultural studies.

AI for Understanding Subtext in Film and Drama offers a novel, rigorous, and deeply reflective approach to one of the most elusive problems in aesthetics and interpretation: how meaning emerges when it is not explicitly stated.

Drawing on film and drama case studies-from Pulp Fiction and Bergman to Pinter and Mamet-Prof. Yair Neuman develops a structured methodology for uncovering subtext through a disciplined tri-alogue between the human reader, the text, and artificial intelligence. This book introduces third-mind hermeneutics: a theoretically grounded, pedagogically applicable framework that uses large language models as tools for attentive observation rather than mechanical explanation. The result is a work that enriches aesthetic experience, sharpens interpretive skill, and extends the analysis of subtext beyond art to everyday human interaction.

This book will be of strong interest to researchers and advanced students, scholars in human-AI interaction and AI for the humanities, and educators teaching interpretation, subtext, and critical reading. It is suitable for graduate-level courses, advanced undergraduate seminars, and interdisciplinary programs that bridge the humanities, social sciences, and AI studies.

This powerful book examines the global asbestos industry's devastating impact on health, communities, and ecosystems, exposing how corporations and governments collaborate to silence victims while prioritizing profits. Drawing on research from Brazil and Italy, it reveals how race, gender and social privilege determine which harms are recognized and which are tolerated.

Grounded in Black feminist and decolonial thought, the book uses the asbestos industry as a lens to expose colonial male-dictions-narratives that shield powerful actors from accountability. Beyond a story of victims versus corporations, it offers a radical reimagining of state-corporate harm through memory and transformative justice.

Designed to support your early childhood studies, this is the companion for your research journey. Structured to follow key topics as you encounter them on your course, this book leads you through the concepts and processes needed to design and carry out successful and ethical early childhood research.

This fifth edition includes:

• New coverage of the ethics of power dynamics in research and using focus group workshops and zines as research tools.
• Guidance on how to develop your online researcher presence.
• Research in Focus boxes, which introduce you to real world examples of research from around the world.
• Activities to help strengthen your knowledge and understanding of research.
• Case Studies, drawn from real student research projects, which demonstrate best practice approaches to your course research.

Intersectionality as Epistemic Resistance is the first collection of scholarly essays devoted to the work of Patricia Hill Collins, one of the most influential Black feminist thinkers of her generation. Bringing together philosophers and political theorists, the volume takes stock of Collins's enduring theory of intersectionality and her impact on critical theory.

After an introduction by coeditors Amy Allen and Eduardo Mendieta situating Collins's work within debates about intersectionality and critical theory, the volume opens with a substantial, previously unpublished essay by Collins. In it, she reflects on her intellectual and political praxis amid contemporary political turbulence, emphasizing the need to guard intersectionality against cooptation and dilution. Subsequent chapters explore how her work reshapes core concepts in critical theory, examining its relationship to the Frankfurt School and Indigenous theory as well as its significance for environmental philosophy and Black politics. The book concludes with a new essay in which Collins responds to her interlocutors and reflects on what it means to practice critical social theory at a moment when critical thought itself is under pressure.

An indispensable resource for students and scholars of critical theory, feminist philosophy, Black feminism, and intersectionality, this volume serves as a compelling introduction to Collins's thought and its continuing relevance.

In addition to Collins and the editors, the contributors to this volume include Kanisha D. Bond, William Paris, Maria Pia Lara, Nancy Tuana, and Sarah Tyson.

Suicide: The Basics is a concise, accessible, and evidence-informed introduction to the study, prevention, and lived experience of suicide.

Written for students and readers approaching the topic for the first time, this book explains key areas in suicidology such as theories, risk and protective factors, and suicidal crisis processes. Rather than reducing suicide to diagnoses or statistics, it explains how suicidal crises develop through pain, meaning, relationships, and moments of feeling trapped. Bridging science and humanity, it shows not just what suicide is, but how it unfolds and where intervention can make a real difference. By considering methods of assessment, treatments, and community and policy strategies that help, the author explores how age, culture, and identity shape both vulnerability and recovery. He provides a compassionate and straightforward overview of suicide with short sections, illustrative tables, end-of-chapter summaries, and annotated reading lists.

By including practical ways to find help, support others, and pursue further study, this book will appeal to students of counseling, nursing, philosophy, psychology, public health, social work, and sociology, as well as readers with a general interest in the topic of mental wellbeing and suicide prevention.

This book examines how vast, arid environments have become a coveted natural resource for American and European film and media producers. Seeking to sustain the colonial imaginary of the uninhabited frontier, the screen industries increasingly depend on states in the former colonies, transforming portions of their territories into quasi-extraterritorial zones stripped from Indigenous stewardship, deregulated as tax-exempt enclaves, and devoted to techno-military experimentation. Hot Locations traces the production of abstracted desert images and re-anchors them in their material relations to land and the humans and nonhumans who reside there. In so doing, Daniel Mann produces a highly original work that theorizes the desert as a distinctive extractive formation within cinema: an environment framed, captured, rendered, and circulated as both war zone and extraterrestrial world.

This thoroughly updated fifth edition provides a broad introduction to the major theoretical perspectives on the ethics of communication, covering classical and modern theories of ethical philosophy that address issues at play in specific careers and domains throughout the field.

By incorporating a framework for ethical reasoning, readers can develop their own understanding of various criteria for making ethical judgments. The book applies ethical theories, such as virtue ethics and dialogical ethics, to interpersonal, political, organizational contexts. There is expanded discussion of social media and developments in artificial intelligence (AI), large language models, and machine learning. This edition also continues increased coverage of contemporary and non-Western issues and theories, including Confucian, Islamic, Hindu, as well as African ethical systems of Yoruba, Igbo, and Akan Peoples.

The book serves as a core textbook for undergraduate courses in communication and media ethics and can be used as a supplemental resource for field-specific courses in strategic communication, interpersonal communication, public relations, and others.

Online resources for instructors include sample syllabi, sample assignments, PowerPoint lecture slides, and test banks with multiple choice and essay questions. They are available at www.routledge.com/9781041341499.

Race, Protest, and the Power of the Body in Sport explores how and why athletes use public performance to bring audience's attention to structural racism.

The book it focuses on the case of Colin Kaepernick and his decision to take the knee, which eventually became a global gesture for bringing attention to structural racism. In doing so, the book provides the reader with a clear understanding of how audiences respond to athlete activists in the US and in global contexts who seek to bring their attention to structural issues. Through the central case study of taking the knee, the book analyses how Kaepernick was able to bring attention to structural racism, and why taking the knee eventually became a global gesture for bringing attention to police brutality. The book also situates taking the knee in a history of athlete activism to recognise patterns in public response to athlete activism and suggests why different performative features can reduce the hostility athlete activists face.

This book is intended for students and scholars interested in athlete activism, sports, and how sports fans respond to activism.

This book traces the history of spaces used for Chinese opera performances (xiqu), from early ritual grounds and temple stages to guild halls, commercial theatres, court playhouses, and modern urban venues. It shows how xiqu was profoundly shaped by the environments in which it was performed.

Based on extensive fieldwork, archaeological materials, inscriptions, and historical records, the book explores how these spaces were constructed, utilised and managed, and their links to religion, local society, commerce, architecture, and state power. It covers developments from early China through to the twentieth century. The narrative highlights how these spaces influenced the styles, practices, and growth of xiqu, with a special focus on significant surviving stages, particularly in Shanxi.

Written for scholars and students of Chinese theatre, art, architecture, and cultural history, this book also appeals to librarians, curators, and general readers seeking an engaging and accessible account of China's rich theatrical heritage.

With the conditions of parenthood constantly changing, this book examines the reconfiguration of parenting as well as the political, institutional and personal conditions that play a role in its development.

Juhl and Westerling take a social psychological approach to the state of Denmark's early childhood education policy, and the influence of government legislature on everyday family life. With contributions from guest authors Hansen, Lyndelse & Stegeager, the volume seeks the answers to significant questions: What does the current political focus on early learning mean for parents and family living? How do transnational political agendas become meaningful in everyday life of parents and young children? How do new generations of parents come to understand themselves in the light of contemporary institutionalisation of parenthood? The discussion and answers to these questions shed light on the complexity of family practices and the perspectives of parents.

The book is relevant and insightful for researchers and scholars in family policy, parenthood and early childhood education and care. It can also be used by early childhood educators and care practitioners, as well as policymakers. Moreover, students at the postgraduate level who study education, psychology and sociology will also benefit from this volume.

Animal Advocacy Documentaries in the Twenty-first Century is the first monograph dedicated exclusively to the study of this subgenre.

The book explores how the plasticity of nonfiction film engages with nonhuman otherness and with the rhetorical discourses of advocates and activists, while simultaneously reaffirming its claims to truth. It examines how documentary mechanisms associated with form and content are deployed by filmmakers to represent nonhuman animals as subjects deserving of moral consideration, effectively seeking an ethical response from viewers. Rhetorical devices at the service of the documentary genre and animal ethics discourses come together in the formulation of narratives and aesthetics that reflect filmmakers' awareness of the intertextual forces embodied by nonhuman animals in moving images.

Contributing to the fields of (Critical) Animal, Film, and Media Studies by defining and historicizing these films, the book situates their identity in the context of Western mythographies, politics of sight, the systemic practices of the animal-industrial complex, and contemporary self-reflexivity. It will appeal to academics, students, advocates, activists and people with an interest in nonfiction film, offering them an understanding of the historical and aesthetic place of animal advocacy documentaries, as well as a critical assessment of their limits and problematic interstices.

The East in Western Media: A Critical Introduction is a comprehensive guide to understanding how 'the East' has been represented across Western media, exploring the cultural, ethical, and political implications of cross-cultural representation.

This student-friendly textbook introduces core concepts including orientalism, postcolonialism, and media representation through eleven thematically organized chapters. Each chapter is divided into manageable sections and includes questions for reflection, discussion prompts, and recommended further reading. The flexible structure allows the book to serve as the foundation for an entire course or enables instructors to assign specific chapters and sections tailored to their curriculum. Readers gain a clear understanding of complex cross-cultural issues through structured guidance that demystifies the often-confusing landscape of representation studies, equipping them with critical tools to analyse media portrayals of the East and their broader consequences.

This book is designed for university-level students and instructors in film, media, and cultural studies programmes. It is ideal for courses focusing on cross-cultural representation, orientalism, postcolonial studies, and media analysis, as well as students seeking either a comprehensive overview of the field or focused exploration of specific topics within representation studies.

This book is a pioneering exploration of science and society through insights gathered from social movements in India post-Independence. Based on rigorous empirical investigation of civil society organisations, it unearths the genealogy of science activism in India while raising pertinent questions on science-society coupling.

This interdisciplinary volume spotlights cases and focused content which thoroughly analyses mobilisation, institutionalisation and how science movement organisations have emerged and changed since Independence. Drawing out theoretical perspectives on the people's science movement in India, it identifies new areas of research in science, technology and society studies.

Written in a lucid and engaging style, this book will be useful to the departments of Sociology, Anthropology, Philosophy, Political Science, Education, Social Work, Development Studies, Science and Technology Studies, and South Asian Studies. It would also be useful to social activists, social workers, and professionals in the voluntary sector.

This book examines the transformation of news consumption in the 21st century, focusing on the shift from one-way communication to more personalised and interactive practices. It traces the historical evolution of news consumption, from traditional media to the rise of social media and incidental news practices, highlighting the increasing agency of audiences in determining what news they consume, when, and how. By exploring the technological enablers of these changes, it provides a comprehensive overview of how news has moved from producer-driven to audience-centred models.

Through an analysis of media communication theories and the history of news values, this book explains the processes behind news consumption and the implications of the audience turn. It explores the characteristics of news, what distinguishes it from other forms of information, and how new technologies have reshaped the channels, formats, and content of news. Readers will gain insights into the ways audiences now engage with news, from traditional outlets to social media platforms, where news often reaches them incidentally rather than being actively sought out. The book also examines the broader impacts of these shifts, including the challenges faced by legacy media and the growing influence of non-journalistic sources.

Designed for scholars, students, and professionals in journalism and communications, it is an essential resource for understanding the changing nature of news and its implications for audiences. It is particularly relevant for those studying media consumption, journalism practices, and the role of technology in shaping communication. With its interdisciplinary approach, the book offers valuable background for academic courses in journalism, communications, and media studies, providing readers with the tools to critically analyse the evolving media landscape and the future of news consumption.

This book is an essential resource for stepfamily members and the professionals who support them, offering a comprehensive roadmap to navigate the unique challenges of stepfamily life.

Written by Dr. Patricia L. Papernow, this second edition of Surviving and Thriving in Stepfamily Relationships weaves together five decades of clinical experience, the latest research, and many diverse clinical approaches to provide evidence-based strategies for stepfamilies at every stage of their journey. This book offers an accessible framework to help families and professionals understand why stepfamilies differ so fundamentally from first-time nuclear families - and how to address the confusion and conflict that can arise. At the heart of the book are five predictable challenges that can make stepfamily life unexpectedly complex. Dr. Papernow shares best practices for meeting each of these challenges on three levels: practical guidance for what's "normal" and what works, skills for building connection, and more intensive family-of-origin work when needed.

The book's multi-level approach makes it an invaluable guide for both stepfamily members and a wide range of professionals, including therapists, educators, clergy, and legal or medical practitioners. Combining concrete strategies, real-life stories, and current research, this book equips readers with the tools to help stepfamilies not just survive, but thrive.

The first study of hip-hop and aging, featuring insights from over twenty hip-hop pioneers and veterans.

Hip-hop is now in its sixth decade. How are the culture's oldest innovators aging in, and with, hip-hop? In In Old in the Game, Murray Forman examines how hip-hop artists, audiences, and entrepreneurs negotiate the cultural process of aging.

Featuring commentary from hip-hop pioneers Grandmaster Caz, Grandwizzard Theodore, and Sha-Rock as well as veterans like Chuck D, LL Cool J, Ice-T, Pepa, and Yo-Yo, Forman reveals age as an essential component of identity and a mode of expression through which hip-hop-identified heads comprehend the world and present themselves. The book covers themes of generational difference and dissonance, ageism, memory and nostalgia, and retirement and death and offers a new way of understanding hip-hop as generations of hip-hop elders come of age, mature, and learn to grow old within the culture.