This book explores what it means to live an emotionally engaged and morally responsive life in a world increasingly governed by productivity, fragmentation, and emotional detachment. Drawing from a rich interdisciplinary background-including sociology, philosophy, moral psychology, feminist theory, and lived experience-this book offers a lyrical yet analytically rigorous meditation on empathy, recognition, and the fragile practice of democracy.

Structured as a blend of essay, accessible theory, and poetic reflection, this book argues that empathy is not mere sentimentality, but a vital cornerstone of ethical action and collective life. It seeks to revive the moral imagination-our shared capacity to see, feel, and respond to the vulnerability of others-by grounding political and social thought in emotional and relational awareness.

This book engages both classical and contemporary thinkers such as Arendt, Habermas, Weil, Honneth, Bauman, and Irigaray, while developing a distinct voice that bridges academic clarity with literary sensitivity. It proposes that love, care, and empathy must be reclaimed as active, public virtues-not confined to the private sphere, but central to justice, democratic participation, and meaningful life.

At a time of polarization, performance culture, and relational fatigue, Moral Imagination and the Search for Meaning challenges us to reimagine what it means to be human-not through control or achievement, but through attention, recognition, and vulnerability.

This volume speaks to academics and students in sociology, psychology, philosophy, and gender studies, while remaining accessible to therapists, educators, and general readers interested in emotional intelligence and ethics. It will particularly appeal to readers of bell hooks, Rebecca Solnit, and Martha Nussbaum who seek a lyrical voice that bridges academic theory with lived experience.

The Struggle for Public Goods in the Shadow of Fascism examines the present diminishment of democracy through the prism of intensifying conflict between market freedom and citizen rights. The fate of democracy is at the center of this book's exploration of the decline of the welfare state and rise of radical right politics.

Sources of hope in difficult times as expressed by artists and organizers are underscored as a constructive way forward. The rise of radical right politics has in part been fueled by the political capitalization of resentment and economic elite interest. State policies supporting basic functions of the welfare state, such as service benefits, anti-discrimination laws, and market regulation, are in the crosshairs of radical right politics. The welfare state is seen as undermining market interests and displacing "heritage citizens." Therefore, a primary intention of radical right politics is the disassembly of the welfare state.

Providing an important history of American social welfare, all of these are unpacked with careful attention and scrutiny to enable readers to perceive not only the winding path to how we got here but also the stakes in the current predicament. Tracing out the impact of the rise of far-right politics on American political discourse and social policy, this text will be an important resource for researchers, instructors, and students in sociology, social theory, social policy, human services and public administration, and American and political studies.

The main purpose of this book is to examine the applications of nature-based solutions (NBS) and circularity in the built environment from a multidisciplinary perspective, but with a focus on energy, civil, and environmental engineering. The book is therefore divided into three sections, energy management, hydrology and water management, and applications of sustainable natural resources in soil improvement in the built environment.

Section 1 introduces the concepts of circularity and NBS in the built environment with a focus on energy management in buildings and infrastructure through case studies of auditing, assessment, and best practice in design.

Section 2 examines NBS in the form of water management. Chapters cover urban and rural resilience in water management, the circular design of waste management and NBS in coastal contexts.

In Section 3, chapters and case studies present solutions that can be applied to improve the physical and mechanical properties of the soil. It presents viable options for sustainable reuse of construction materials from civil infrastructure projects, and industrial wastes in soil improvement.

This book is important reading for researchers and professionals in civil engineering, water engineering, coastal engineering, sustainable infrastructure design and urban planning.

How Manhattan's Koreatown functions as a new ethnic enclave

In the past decade, Korean entertainment has gained global recognition, with Korean movies and TV shows winning Oscars and Emmys, and K-Pop groups becoming wildly popular. In Manhattan, Koreatown has become a popular destination for both locals and tourists, drawing them in with its bars, restaurants, and day spas. Jinwon Kim argues that Manhattan's Koreatown has become a new type of ethnic enclave, what she dubs a "transclave." This commercialized ethnic space exists solely for consumption, leisure, and entertainment, and has been shaped by South Korea's nation-branding strategy, new economic and cultural strategies, patterns in Korean migration, and shifts in tourism and urban policies in New York City.

Kim posits that for many consumers in Koreatown, especially those who are not of Korean descent, the space has become a commercialized place where transnational culture meets the diverse racial and ethnic mosaic of New York City. Kim emphasizes how the space functions to "brand Korea" as a space to "consume ethnicity," reflecting the landscape of South Korea's consumer culture through the physical appearance of buildings and stores and the inclusion of franchise brands. Ultimately, Koreatown, NYC is a fascinating exploration of the intersection of authenticity, ethnicity, and identity in the heart of New York's midtown.

Global trends as well as translocal exchanges and the everyday realities of local communities shape urban transformation. Turning to the idea of >contact zones<, the contributors to this volume explore the spaces of encounters between agents of diverse perspectives and across different scales and boundaries. Through the lens of urban contact zones, they reflect on themes and projects of the Department of International Urbanism taking account of the past ten years and deliberating what is next in international urbanism. This volume offers a new perspective on diverse urban challenges to everyone engaged in urban research and design, policy discourse, and the development of transformative education.

This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the face, defined not only as the human physical constitution but also in a metaphorical and cultural sense, and its connection with society.

Bridging the analogue and the digital, the face is examined step by step from multiple perspectives and analysed within a qualitative-semiotic framework. With art as the underlying paradigm, semiotics as the founding discipline, and the face as the subject of study, the author positions the face as a distinct landscape, offering the tools to study the metaphorical face and space as a panorama. Tracing historical conceptions of the face, along with the iconography and artefacts associated with it, the author follows an experimental and abductive methodology that culminates in a complex constellation of insights on the subject.

This book will interest specialists in the fields of visual semiotics, languages of art, creative industries and cultural heritage, humanities, and philosophy.

Faces and the City advances the understanding of the role of faces and face representations, their meanings and interpretations, in physical and digital urban space.

This comprehensive study builds a typology of biological, represented and digital faces within urban space and presents an interdisciplinary approach to the facial presence in urban space, which it is used to analyse in depth urban faces and facial representation in public art, monuments, memorials as well as memorial practices, including digital ones.

This innovative volume will interest PhD students and scholars in semiotics, visual communication, digital humanities, cultural geography and urban studies, as well as those working in urban planning and design, architecture, memory studies and art history.

This is the first book to focus on the psychology of esports and competitive gaming, bridging the gap between traditional sports psychology and the unique demands of digital competition. In doing so, it provides comprehensive insights into cognitive processes, motivation, personality traits, performance enhancement techniques, and the challenges faced by professional esports players.

The book is structured into three distinct sections, addressing the Foundations of Esports Psychology; Mental Optimization and Strategic Excellence; and Mental Health and Practical Applications. Featuring contributions from over 25 international experts, each chapter provides research insights and evidence-based strategies for competitive gaming environments. Topics include rapid decision-making in FPS/MOBA games, managing "always-on" training schedules, virtual team coordination, coping with online toxicity, and ethical considerations for young professionals. The book also emphasizes that esports requires distinct theoretical frameworks, rather than simply adapting traditional sports psychology.

Written accessibly whilst maintaining academic rigour, this is essential reading for sports psychologists, esports coaches, competitive gamers, researchers, students in sports psychology and esports management programmes, and organizations building sustainable gaming ecosystems that prioritize excellence and player well-being.

Earth's oceans are vital for sustaining life on our planet. Oceanography is an intrinsically multidisciplinary science that explores how the ocean does this. The author uses plankton as a focus for the book, drawing together the physics of the ocean circulation, the chemistry of nutrients and carbon, and the biology of the plankton.

The book begins by describing the major ocean currents and tides, and the importance of stratification, or layers, in the ocean. It explains how microscopic plants and animals, the plankton, are fundamental to ocean food chains and Earth's climate, and shows how ocean currents and mixing control the global distribution of plankton. Contrasts are explored between the open ocean and the shallow coastal seas, to help understand why the shallow seas are so productive. Case studies illustrate how the ocean supports fish, including upwelling of deep nutrients, the links between plankton and fish, and how ocean currents provide vital transport routes for fish eggs and larvae. The author explores the importance of the ocean in Earth's carbon cycle and climate. A final chapter describes some of the core techniques used to observe the ocean.

Oceanography: The Basics is an essential introduction to the field for undergraduates and includes further resources and short, quantitative diversions for students who want to take the concepts further.

The Irvine Ranch: Fulfilling the Vision, 1977-2025 continues the story of the planning and development of the Irvine Ranch under a partnership of high-powered businessmen to the single ownership of Donald Bren.

The Irvine Ranch transformed from an agricultural empire into the most successful New Town in the United States in less than two generations. Since 1977, some of the most innovative and valuable master-planned residential, commercial, and retail developments have occurred on the Irvine Ranch in the cities of Irvine, Newport Beach, Tustin, and Orange. This book details the Irvine Company's success in planning and its strategic handling of major challenges, including infrastructure needs and responses to anti-growth sentiment and litigation. From the start of comprehensive planning of the Irvine Ranch in 1960 to today, the development is regarded by planning and real estate experts as the most significant and valuable master-planned community in the nation.

Successive generations of urban planners and real estate developers will look to the Irvine Ranch-shaped by Bren's long-term leadership-as a model of successful large-scale community development.

A new perspective on the relationship between race and space in Detroit

Detroit seemed to experience an explosive rebirth following its bankruptcy, the largest in US municipal history. It was as if the slate had been wiped clean and the color line erased in the nation's largest Black city. Detroit Never Left explains the relation between racism and space by analyzing the ways opportunities changed in the years leading up to and following bankruptcy.

Based on a variety of data, including in-depth interviews with people who identify as "Latina/o/x" in their early 20s, ethnographic observation, and media coverage, Nicole E. Trujillo-Pagan shows how a dialectic between empty and concrete abstractions created new opportunities for outside investment, often at the expense of residents' fortunes. She reveals space is much more than a neutral backdrop; It is continually produced through abstractions that act like bordering and crossing practices to control resources and opportunities. With broad implications for analyses of space and opportunity, Detroit Never Left tackles important contradictions in the post-bankruptcy city. For example, urban youth do not want to be moved out or isolated in their barrio. Similarly, many Detroiters feel spatial changes happen "to," instead of "for" them. Ultimately, residents' concerns underscored broader tensions between democratic inclusion and racialized capitalism.

As the first major U.S. urban center located west of the Appalachian Mountains, Cincinnati depended on the Ohio River for its early development, eventually becoming one of the country's iconic river cities, with incredible growth during the golden age of steamboats. By the end of the nineteenth century, however, the river had lost its shine and became known as the "poor man's highway." The twentieth century ushered in a period of incredible activity concentrated on the Ohio River. Local elites began a series of infrastructural projects focused on transforming both the Ohio River and Cincinnati, bringing to the fore a new kind of river city. Unlike many water management projects that wanted to tame rivers, Cincinnati elites sought to build a sustained relationship with the Ohio River. For its part, the Ohio River actively took part in these projects, becoming a major contributor to the successful realization of elite objectives around urban growth, public health, and white supremacy.

What can sport do to produce positive social change in our world today? Now in a fully revised, updated and expanded fourth edition, this critical, challenging and comprehensive textbook introduces the study of sport, culture and society.

International in scope, the book challenges the reader to activate an audacious spirit of activism in and through sport. Full of contemporary examples, it places sport at the heart of the analysis and introduces the reader to every core topic and emerging area in the study of sport and society, including the history and politics of sport, gender, disability and advocacy, race and racism, violence and crime, health and wellbeing, media and digital communication, the environment, religion, poverty and sport for development and peace. This edition features new material on sportswashing, sports management, debates around the inclusion/exclusion of transgender people in sport and the Black Lives Matter movement. It also features a wider geographical range of examples and case studies, including Latin America, China, India and Africa. Each chapter offers a wealth of useful features, such as 'Sport in Focus' case studies, chapter summaries, guides to further reading, revision questions, practical projects, definitions of key concepts and weblinks. At its heart, Sport, Culture and Society is an invitation to make a difference.

This is a broad-ranging, in-depth and thoughtful introduction to the sociocultural analysis of sport and sets a new agenda for the discipline. It is essential reading for all students with an interest in sport.

Additionally, updated online teaching and learning resources are available, including a testbank, resource list and glossary.

Maternal morbidity in the United States remains alarmingly high, despite rapid medical advancements. The disparities in maternal outcomes - particularly across racial, socioeconomic, and geographic lines - are stark and persistent. This book investigates how artificial intelligence (AI) might help reduce these disparities, offering a critical examination of both its potential and its limitations within the evolving maternal health landscape.

This book engages with complex questions about how AI can complement or supplement the work of health care providers. It draws on the latest data and research to explore AI's role across a range of med tech applications, including chatbots, electronic medical records, virtual coaching, and social media. Through evidence-based analysis, it considers how these technologies might prevent maternal morbidity and mortality and promote health equity. This book also takes a carefully balanced approach, acknowledging the risks of AI - such as algorithmic bias - and evaluates when and how AI is most or least effective in meeting patient needs.

This is an essential resource for students, researchers, and professionals working in maternal health and related fields. It offers a timely and nuanced perspective on the intersection of technology and care.

This book explores the 21st-century practices of using sport and physical activity to engage with social issues and inequalities.

Based on two years of ethnographic research exploring and contextualizing one not-for-profit organization, Back on My Feet, which uses running to empower those experiencing homelessness in cities across the United States, and including interviews and participant observation, this book takes a critical look at how this organization fits within wider historical dynamics of urban homelessness, race, and neoliberalism in the United States. Arguing that such programs and interventions can unintentionally reinforce the systems that create homelessness, this book closely examines aspects of the work of Back on My Feet and similar organizations, including how sport and physical activity can help participants foster identities beyond "homeless," how such programs fit within urban change and homeless discourses, the experiences of both recovery participants and volunteers, and the tension between helping individuals and addressing systemic issues.

Empirically rich and challenging some long-eld assumptions about the social role of sport and physical activity-ed interventions, this is fascinating reading for any advanced student, researcher, practitioner, or policymaker working in sport studies and development, cultural studies, urban studies, or political science.

This book presents thirty-three essays examining postcolonial literature, cultural studies, and literary pedagogy. Contributors analyze diverse literary traditions including Indian progressive poetry, Dalit autobiographies, African literature, and Caribbean writing. The volume explores themes of gender, identity, migration, and digital humanities while examining works by authors from Premchand to contemporary writers, besides which it also offers:

• Comprehensive collection of 33 scholarly essays examining diverse aspects of postcolonial literature and cultural studies
• Interdisciplinary approach covering Indian, African, Caribbean, and diasporic literary traditions
• Critical analysis of progressive aesthetics, Dalit literature, and gender representation in contemporary writing
• Examination of digital humanities and raciolinguistic perspectives in literary studies
• Tribute volume featuring extensive analysis of Harish Narang's literary contributions and pedagogical philosophy

The book offers a special focus on Professor Harish Narang's literary contributions includes critical essays and an exclusive interview. With foreword by Kapil Kapoor, this collection offers comprehensive perspectives on literature, politics, and pedagogy in the contemporary global context.

This title has been co-published with Aakar Books. T&F does not sell or distrubute the print versions in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Now in its seventh edition, and fully revised with a complete reimagining of voice, structure, and purpose, Introduction to Family Processes explores the complex workings of inner family life. Focusing on family processes and dynamics, rather than sociological trends, political topics, or the individual psychological approach, the text presents the research underlying core family processes and offers practical strategies to enhance family well-being and strengthen positive relationships.

Key features of this edition include:

• A new chapter focused on parenting and intergenerational relationships, exploring how family roles evolve and shift over time.
• A contemporary focus, fully reflecting the values of inclusivity and diversity in the study of families, and including topics that speak directly to the lives of today's students, including digital life, family formation, identity, and resilience.
• A wealth of pedagogical features throughout, including Points to Ponder and TL;DR summary boxes, a Family Toolbox of activities, study questions, and suggested readings.

Tailored for students across undergraduate, postgraduate, and professional programs related to family studies, this book provides essential insights into the complex dynamics that shape how families function and thrive.

This book examines the complex interrelationship between rugby, honour, and the African moral philosophy of ubuntu, positioning sport within the broader history of coloniality to reveal how athletic practices can become powerful vehicles for social justice transformation.

The book offers a nuanced analysis of how Springbok rugby served as both an instrument of colonial and apartheid exclusion and a catalyst for democratic change in post-apartheid South Africa. The re-entry of the Springboks into international rugby involved the transformation of South African rugby and sporting honour that is worthy of study from a decolonial perspective. Through a creative methodological lens that centres ubuntu as a humanising philosophical framework, the book explores how notions of sporting honour shaped racial boundaries and colonial conduct, while simultaneously demonstrating sport's potential for advancing inclusion and social justice. The book provides fresh insights into the connections between rugby and other sports, South African colonial societies, the collapse of apartheid, and the transition to democracy. By considering rugby as a postcolonial, post-apartheid sport, it reveals nuanced complexities and possibilities for weaving a desirable fabric of inclusive sociality. This involves transcending damaged and limiting notions of colonial honour and rethinking colonial violence through ubuntu's humanising principles, offering a compelling critique that reimagines how rugby, and sport more broadly, can be re-humanised and transformed into a force for positive social change.

This book will appeal to students, scholars, and academics across multiple disciplines, including sports studies, African philosophy, postcolonial studies, sociology, and social justice research, as well as anyone interested in sport, ubuntu, and social change more generally.

Marriage and fertility rates are falling around the world, upending social security planning and threatening economic growth. In Love Apocalypse, anthropologists present their insights into this society-altering demographic shift, drawing on their research into the ways love, romantic relationships, and family are being transformed by cultural, social, and economic forces. Each case study in this volume examines a unique cultural context from either Asia (China, South Korea, Japan, India), Europe (Germany, Lithuania), or Latin America (Cuba, Peru), grounded in years of ethnographic research into how communities' experiences and perceptions of love, marriage, and family are changing in response to economic precarity, shifting gender relations, status competition, and diversifying cultural norms. It is increasingly clear that marriage and two-parent nuclear families will not be the universal norm of the twenty-first century even if this arrangement was largely idealized a mere generation ago. However, this does not mean the end of love, intimacy, or family but rather its transformation and the emergence of new intimate relationships and adaptations to the challenges and opportunities of life in the twenty-first century.

For built environment professionals, delivering socially impactful projects is more crucial and challenging than ever. This step-by-step guide provides an innovative approach to stakeholder engagement, empowering project teams to create meaningful social value through the stakeholder engagement process and build better projects.

Socially Successful Projects in the built environment will help the reader understand the theory behind a reframed approach to stakeholder engagement using a social value lens. The authors argue that projects in the built environment need to be technically feasible, financially viable, and socially successful. Project managers need to focus on all three elements, which are summarised as 'concrete, cash, and connection'. Failing to meet that third criterion can lead to pushback, protests, delays, and potentially unsuccessful projects. This book focuses on the third of those elements (the social dimension) and provides a step-by-step guide to how a project can be socially successful. In summary, this is about delivering better projects for both the stakeholders and the project teams.

In Socially Successful Projects in the built environment, the authors unravel the complex relationship between social value and stakeholder engagement and reveal a transformative practical theory for effective collaboration and facilitation. Along the way, they address key issues such as design philosophy, scenario development, stakeholder analysis, optioneering, and project learning, and provide practical advice on how to use these methods within real-world projects. This book is essential reading for all built environment stakeholders and teams working to deliver better projects.

Kits for Digital Methods: Doing Sociotechnical Research is a guide to innovating research methods for a world where digital technologies permeate everyday life and research. Drawing on the expertise of leading sociotechnical researchers, it reimagines the "kit" not as a fixed set of tools or solutions, but as a flexible, transparent, and collaborative framework for methodological experimentation. These kits are sandboxes for experimenting, playing, and reflecting on the ethics and possibilities of digital research.

Organized into three sections-Digital Engagement, Digital Elicitation, and Digital Data-contributors share their processes for designing and adapting methods to complex digital contexts. Each chapter contains background, components, practical guidance, and lessons learned for exploring the frictions, failures, and surprises that shape sociotechnical research.

Kits range from remote fieldwork and social media ethnography to participatory analysis, collaborative image description, and AI-assisted elicitation-filled with concrete techniques for engaging digital environments, eliciting novel forms of data, and working with digital materials. This volume encourages adaptation, remixing, and the creation of new kits, fostering a culture of openness and methodological innovation. Written for researchers, educators, and students across the social sciences and humanities, it demystifies advanced digital methods while encouraging critical thinking, ethical reflexivity, and creative problem-solving.

New Jersey's Natures takes up the challenge of expanding academic and popular conceptions of New Jersey and its landscapes through the lens of environmental history. Scholars' essays showcase the ways in which nature is integral to understandings of the state and its past as well as its future. These essays show that New Jersey should no longer solely be known as a place where pollution and suburbanization run amok but rather a place where history happens.

The contributors investigate how nature and history are intertwined within this small but mighty state, covering topics from the colonial period to the present across North, South, and Central Jersey. They investigate natural features like the Delaware River and Bay, the Pinelands, and the unforgettable Jersey Shore. In this book, you will find Indigenous Americans making meaning as settlers threaten their ways of life, Governor William Livingston considering Central Jersey's features as he fights in the American Revolution, farmers building the state's industrial agriculture, a foreign diplomat planting an arboretum, squatters in the swampy Meadowlands subverting social and economic norms, activists fighting for parks, forests, and beaches across two centuries, and much more.

This book explores the role played by museums and museum exhibitions in South Korea's cultural diplomacy and international projection of itself to the world.

Based on extensive archival research and fieldwork in cultural diplomatic institutions across South Korea, Britain, and the United States, this book charts the important role played by this form of cultural diplomacy. It considers specific travelling exhibitions including Masterpieces of Korean Art, which was on tour from 1957 to 1962, and 5000 Years of Korean Art, on tour from 1976 to 1985, and permanent and special exhibitions in the Korea Foundation Gallery in the British Museum and the Arts of Korea in the Metropolitan Museum of Art globally. This book goes on to examine the place of museums in South Korea's cultural diplomacy overall, explores the connections with South Korea's very successful development of its cultural sector, and concludes by assessing the effectiveness for South Korea of prioritising this form of soft power projection.

Analysing the developmental stages of South Korean cultural diplomacy in relation to international museum exhibitions, this book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of Korean history, culture and diplomacy as well as museums studies.

What happens when ancient systems of oppression travel across oceans? How do Indian diaspora communities across five nations challenge centuries-old systems of oppression while building new forms of solidarity? Caste, Country, and Creed: Struggles for Social Justice in the Contemporary Indian Diaspora takes readers inside the dynamic world of contemporary social justice activism spanning Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

This groundbreaking collection brings together the voices of artists, activists, and scholar-activists who are reshaping conversations about caste discrimination, Islamophobia, and Hindu nationalism beyond India's borders. Through intimate first-person accounts and critical reflections, contributors reveal how diaspora activists are creating powerful counter-narratives and mobilizing collective resistance across local and transnational networks.

The book documents the lived realities of organizing-the values, knowledge traditions, and pivotal moments that spark political protest. Caste, Country, and Creed shows how activists construct alternative knowledge to dissent, build solidarity, and inspire political participation. Contributors offer nuanced insights into the complex relationships and power dynamics that sustain collective action for social justice in the Indian diaspora.

For copyright reasons this edition is not for sale in India.

This book explores the paradoxical endurance of terrorism, which continues to exist despite often failing to achieve its central goals. Multifaceted and wide-ranging in scope, the analysis comprehensively surveys a range of global contexts from the last two centuries, where long-term terrorism has prevailed, and systematically identifies various terrorism-sustaining determinants.

Using South Asia as a case study, the chapters trace the etymology, origins, and study of terrorism within colonial India, during its partition and post-independence period. An in-depth study of pre-post-9/11 persistent terrorism in Pakistan - the second-most adversely impacted country globally by terrorism - links the phenomenon's broader historical patterns and contemporary causes to explain terrorism's contentious efficacy contextually and theoretically and to resolve the persistence-inefficacy paradox. This book makes two significant contributions: it fills a critical, empirical, methodological, and theoretical gap in understanding the paradoxical persistence of terrorism, while also underscoring the need for specific recognition of this violence genre as a distinct sub-phenomenon warranting dedicated study.

Offering a fresh perspective from a scholar based in the Global South, the book will be of interest to researchers, analysts, academics, and postgraduate students of South Asian politics, international security, and terrorism and political violence studies more broadly.