This forward-thinking Handbook explores two major research strands in the fast-developing field of culture and network analysis: the underlying social networks of culture and the cultural bases of social networks.
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This prescient Research Handbook facilitates the integration between two substantial yet often separate fields: the study of couple relationships and the study of family relationships. An array of expert contributors provide an up-to-dat...
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In recent decades, emerging challenges such as increased digitalization of social lives and the ongoing processes of border externalization and internalization, have prompted scholars and civil societies to question the ways in which peo...
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Digital Entrepreneurship in Science, Technology and Innovation explores digitalisation in various spheres of life with a focus on business models, innovation, scientific research, entrepreneurship, and sustainability.
Fragmenting Cities offers a conceptionally innovative and empirically detailed analysis of the surprising acceptance and normalization of state-based stigmatization and discrimination based on place. It does this by drawing on the exampl...
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This unique book offers an in-depth examination of the changing nature of work and the production of waste in a crisis-ridden era dominated by climate change and worker precarity.
Examining the role of elections and top-down democracy promotion in Africa, this book focuses on how and why electoral contests are associated with division and violence. It considers whether the Western political model has failed develo...
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