The Millennium Dome, Braveheart and Rolls Royce cars. How do cultural icons reproduce
and transform a sense of national identity? How does national identity vary across time and …

The second edition addresses new theoretical and empirical developments since its initial
publication, including the burgeoning influence of globalization and the relentless rise of …

For the first time in human history, the vast majority of the world's population is connected
through trade, travel, production, media and politics. Ours is an era of ubiquitous mobile …

Small Cities explores the economic, political, socio-spatial and cultural practices and
processes relating to small cities. While intense attention from a range of disciplines and by …

Little India is a rich historical and ethnographic examination of a fascinating example of
linguistic plurality on the island of Mauritius, where more than two-thirds of the population is …

There exists by now an enormous literature on contemporary ethnicity and nationalism in its
various forms. It deals with a wide range of phenomena—North American multiculturalism …

Si le système sportif, qui est né en Angleterre au XIXe siècle, a constitué une rupture
radicale avec les pratiques athlétiques antérieures, sa diffusion aux quatre coins de la …

This paper reports an investigation on how and why computer science in Malaysia is
dominated by women. Inspired by recent critical interventions in gender and technology …

Women, Science, and Technology is an ideal reader for courses in feminist science studies.
This third edition fully updates its predecessor with a new introduction and twenty-eight new …

Social scientists and folk wisdom have both claimed that there is an association between
religiosity and prosocial behavior, but hard evidence for such a relationship is limited …