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Michael J Madson
The Rise and Fall of Original Oxycontin

The United States opioid crisis has wrought devastation on a massive scale. With closure elusive, much of the blame has fallen on a single pill, a long-acting oxycodone tablet called OxyContin. Perhaps on…

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Rajdeep Routh
Participatory Governance in Urban Heritage Management

This book examines who really gets to decide the fate of a UNESCO World Heritage City. Drawing on original fieldwork at Old Ahmedabad, India's first UNESCO World Heritage City, it investigates the quality…

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Lennard J. Davis
Enforcing Normalcy

In this highly original study of the cultural assumptions governing our conception of people with disabilities, Lennard J. Davis argues forcefully against "ableist" discourse and for a complete …

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Yanfei Sun
Religious Change in Post-Mao China

"A sweeping examination of how the religious landscape has changed in post-Mao China. In Religious Change in Post-Mao China, sociologist Yanfei Sun examines the transformation of major religions and …

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Megan Bang, Bryan Brayboy, Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Across Lands and Waters

Experts from the field of indigenous education offer vital perspectives and resources for transforming the future for Native studentsAcross Lands and Waters is the first book to offer a vision for the fut…

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Brian Chama
Race, Crime, and Media in the Digital Age

Offering a sweeping examination of how racial meaning, criminality, and social mobility are produced and contested across contemporary media systems, this book traces the criminalisation of Blackness thro…

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Parul Baxi
Aadhaar Beyond the Numbers

What can the world's most acclaimed yet controversial state-led universal biometric identification program, Aadhaar, reveal about contemporary Indian society and citizenship? This book studies Aadhaar's j…

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Youngah Guahk
Sustainable Development and Local Government in South Korea

This book addresses one of the key issues of our time, the process of sustainable transition in modern, industrial societies, by looking at the dynamics associated with this objective at the decentralised…

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Muhammad Amin El-Yousfi
The Neoliberal Turn in Regulating Islam

Drawing on over two years of relational ethnography, featuring real-life case studies, interviews, and observations in mosques and madrasahs, The Neoliberal Turn in Regulating Islam explores the transform…

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Stuart Ewen, Elizabeth Ewen
Typecasting Revisted

A groundbreaking portrait of racial, sexual and social class stereotyping as it was forged by colonialism, industrialization, mass media, urban life, and the global economy.The rampant anti-immigrant viol…

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Haijing Dai
Beyond Market Meritocracy

Beyond Market Meritocracy investigates how employers evaluate and treat male and female employees with varied family care responsibilities in three different labor regimes of Chinese societies - the neo-l…

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Yndia S Lorick-Wilmot
Belonging to Blackness

With the public's use of popular biogeographic ancestry technologies offered by direct-to-consumer companies such as Ancestry.com, 23andMe, and African Ancestry, it is now possible for novice and expert f…

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Zhang Hui
Windfall Wealth and Envy in Contemporary China

This groundbreaking study examines the cultural manifestations of envy in China during the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, a period of unprecedented economic and social change.China's rapid accumulation of wealth…

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Fugitive Anthropology

A personal, provocative, and boundary-breaking volume on the power relations that racialized, gendered, and sexualized researchers grapple with while conducting activist research.Fugitive Anthropology is …

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Migration, Aging and Japan's Sustainable Society

This book analyzes the relationship between migration and social sustainability in Japan and examines the transformation of its foreign-national and ethnic minority population over the past thirty years w…

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Courtney T Wittekind
City of Speculation

In 2018, amidst a celebrated political transition, Myanmar's first democratically elected government since 1962 proposed a built-from-scratch "new city" just outside Yangon, the country's former…

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Doreen Lee
The Urban Grotesque

In The Urban Grotesque , Doreen Lee shows how ordinary life is made and sustained in Jakarta, one of the world's largest and most dense cities, through obligation and debt, grift and grounded financial pr…

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Tara Kangarlou
Women Beyond Borders

A piercing look at women who are using food to reclaim their communities and families in worlds shattered by war, including recipes . . .Based on exclusive interviews with a dozen women displaced by moder…

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Doreen Lee
The Urban Grotesque

In The Urban Grotesque , Doreen Lee shows how ordinary life is made and sustained in Jakarta, one of the world's largest and most dense cities, through obligation and debt, grift and grounded financial pr…

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Courtney T Wittekind
City of Speculation

In 2018, amidst a celebrated political transition, Myanmar's first democratically elected government since 1962 proposed a built-from-scratch "new city" just outside Yangon, the country's former…

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