Making Music in Japan’s Underground

The Tokyo Hardcore Scene

By Jennifer Milioto Matsue

Grounded in the fields of Ethnomusicology, Anthropology, Popular Music Studies, and Japanese Studies, this book explores the underground Tokyo hardcore scene, ultimately asking what play...

Published July 17th 2008 by Routledge.

Social Networks

An Introduction

By Jeroen Bruggeman

Social Networks: An introduction is the first textbook that combines new with still-valuable older methods and theories.

Designed to be a core text for graduate...

Published June 24th 2008 by Routledge.

By Armine Ishkanian

This volume considers the challenges of democracy building in post-Soviet Armenia, and the role of civil society in that process.

It argues that, contrary to...

Published April 3rd 2008 by Routledge.

Multicultural Horizons

Diversity and the Limits of the Civil Nation

By Anne-Marie Fortier

The intensity of feeling that multiculturalism invariably ignites is considered in this timely analysis of how the ‘New Britain’ of the twenty-first century is variously re-imagined...

Published March 19th 2008 by Routledge.

The Culture of Copying in Japan

Critical and Historical Perspectives

Edited by Rupert Cox

This book challenges the perception of Japan as a ‘copying culture’ through a series of detailed ethnographic and historical case studies.

It addresses a question...

Published September 13th 2007 by Routledge.

Resource, Tradition and Cooking

Edited by Sidney Cheung, Chee-Beng Tan

Food is an important cultural marker of identity in contemporary Asian societies, and can provide a medium for the understanding of social relations, family and...

Published May 17th 2007 by Routledge.

Its Scales, Spaces and Subjects

Edited by Saskia Sassen

Published April 2nd 2007 by Routledge.

New Genetics, New Social Formations

Edited by Peter Glasner, Paul Atkinson, Helen Greenslade

New genetic technologies cut across a range of public regulatory domains and private lifeworlds, often appearing to generate an institutional void in response to the...

Published December 14th 2006 by Routledge.

New Genetics, New Identities

Edited by Paul Atkinson, Peter Glasner, Helen Greenslade

What implications are applications of new genetic technologies in biomedicine having on social identity in today’s society?

New Genetics, New Identities, a wide-ranging multi-disciplinary volume...

Published December 14th 2006 by Routledge.

Highland Homecomings

Genealogy and Heritage Tourism in the Scottish Diaspora

By Paul Basu

The first full-length ethnographic study of its kind, Highland Homecomings examines the role of place, ancestry and territorial attachment in the context of a modern...

Published December 7th 2006 by Routledge.