Forthcoming Anthropology - Soc Sci Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Neoliberal Governance and International Medical Travel in Malaysia

   By Meghann Ormond

   Series: Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies

   International medical travel (IMT), people crossing national borders in the pursuit of healthcare, has become a growing phenomenon. With many of the countries currently being promoted as IMT destinations holding ‘developing’ status, IMT poses a significant challenge to popular assumptions about who...

   To Be Published May 31st 2012 by Routledge
2. Archaeology and Language I

   Theoretical and Methodological Orientations

   Edited by Roger Blench, Matthew Spriggs

   Series: One World Archaeology

   Archaeology and Language I represents groundbreaking work in synthesizing two disciplines that are now seen as interlinked: linguistics and archaeology. This volume is the first of a three-part survey of innovative results emerging from their combination. Archaeology and historical linguistics...

   To Be Published June 2nd 2012 by Routledge
3. Is There a Home in Cyberspace?

   The Internet in Migrants' Everyday Life and the Emergence of Global Communities

   By Heike Mónika Greschke

   Series: Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society

   How is global togetherness possible? How does the availability of the Internet alter migrants' everyday lives and senses of belonging? This book introduces an 'alien people' inhabiting a specific common virtual space in the World Wide Web, while the members of this space - most of them ethnic...

   To Be Published June 3rd 2012 by Routledge
4. Inventive Methods

   The Happening of the Social

   Edited by Celia Lury, Nina Wakeford

   Series: CRESC

   Social and cultural research has changed dramatically in the last few years in response to changing conceptions of the empirical, an intensification of interest in interdisciplinary work, and the growing need to communicate with diverse users and audiences. Methods texts, however, have not kept...

   To Be Published June 4th 2012 by Routledge
5. Transnational Marriage

   New Perspectives from Europe and Beyond

   Edited by Katharine Charsley

   Series: Routledge Research in Transnationalism

   Marriages spanning borders are not a new phenomenon, but occur with increasing frequency and contribute substantially to international mobility and transnational engagement. Perhaps because such migration has often been treated as ‘secondary’ to labor migration, marriage has until recent years been...

   To Be Published June 5th 2012 by Routledge
6. Indigenous Nations and Modern States

   The Political Emergence of Nations Challenging State Power

   By Rudolph C. Ryser

   Series: Indigenous Peoples and Politics

   Indigenous peoples throughout the world tenaciously defend their lands, cultures, and their lives with resilience and determination. They have done so generation after generation. These are peoples who make up bedrock nations throughout the world in whose territories the United Nations says 80...

   To Be Published June 11th 2012 by Routledge
7. Cultural Hybridity

   Contradictions and Dilemmas

   Edited by Kwok-Bun Chan

   This book brings together a group of scholars from diverse disciplines to interrogate everyday life events in various interpersonal and organizational contexts so as to answer an age-old question: what happens when (carriers of) cultures meet, or, when East meets West? The contributors to this...

   To Be Published June 13th 2012 by Routledge
8. Innovation and Industrialization in Asia

   Edited by Rajah Rasiah, Yeo Lin, Yuri Sadoi

   Existing accounts of East Asia’s meteoric growth and structural change has either been explained as one dictated essentially by markets with strong macroeconomic fundamentals, or a consequence of proactive governments. This book departs from such a dichotomy by examining inductively the drivers of...

   To Be Published June 19th 2012 by Routledge
9. Migration, Family and the Welfare State

   Integrating Migrants and Refugees in Scandinavia

   Edited by Karen Fog Olwig, Birgitte Romme Larsen, Mikkel Rytter

   Migration, Family and the Welfare State explores understandings and practices of integration in the Scandinavian welfare societies of Denmark, Norway and Sweden through a comprehensive range of detailed ethnographic studies. Chapters examine discourses, policies and programs of integration in the...

   To Be Published June 19th 2012 by Routledge
10. Emotions and Human Mobility

    Ethnographies of Movement

    Edited by Maruška Svašek

    This book provides insights into the emotional dimensions of human mobility. Drawing on findings and theoretical discussions in anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, philosophy, linguistics, migration studies, human geography and political science, the authors offer interdisciplinary...

    To Be Published June 19th 2012 by Routledge