Illuminating, through ethnographic inquiry, how individual agents "make" language policy in everyday social practice, this volume advances the growing field of language planning and policy using a critical sociocultural approach. From this perspective, language policy is conceptualized not only as official acts and documents, but as language-regulating modes of human interaction, negotiation, and production mediated by relations of power. Using this conceptual framework, the volume addresses ...

Western society has become estranged from the borders and social boundaries that have for centuries given meaning to human experience. This book argues that the controversy surrounding mass migration and physical borders runs in parallel and is closely connected to the debates surrounding the symbolic boundaries people need to guide on the issues of everyday life. Numerous commentators claim that borders have become irrelevant in the age of mass migration and globalisation.

Some go so far as ...

This book explores how people encounter, understand, live with and respond to health risks associated with social economic and political inequality.

This significantly expanded edition of Essential Criminology covers the broadest range of criminological theories — the essential criminological theories — from longstanding ones such as classical theory and strain theory to recently introduced ones such as ultra-realism and green cultural criminology.

In this landmark study, now celebrating thirty years in print, Paul Rabinow takes as his focus the fieldwork that anthropologists do. How valid is the process? To what extent do the cultural data become artifacts of the interaction between anthropologist and informants? Having first published a more standard ethnographic study about Morocco, Rabinow here describes a series of encounters with his informants in that study, from a French innkeeper clinging to the vestiges of a colonial past, to ...

This international best-selling textbook provides an interdisciplinary review of the theories and research in cross-cultural psychology. These dynamic authors bring a diverse set of experiences in writing this text that provides cross-cultural perspectives on a wide range of applied topics.

This important book introduces the Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach to health promotion, detailing how policy making at all levels can foster the right conditions for better public health, but also examining the inherent challenges to such an overarching approach.

This book is an easy-to-read self-help guide for people facing cancer diagnosis and treatment. Following an effective Q&A format and based on a unique Wellbeing Essentials framework, it offers a valuable ‘dip in and out’ approach with signposting to evidence-based guidance on major challenges they may face.

This compelling collection of essays examines how historically significant marketing schemes have profoundly impacted women’s health and healthcare across the world, this book will find readers among students in Public Health, Allied Health, Gender Studies, Sociology and beyond.

This book explores the close connections between populism and conspiracy theory. It contributes to filling the gap in the research by providing in-depth analyses of specific configurations of populism and conspiracy theory, and nuanced considerations of more theoretical issues