Product Description: Within a movement towards the circulation and globalisation of knowledge, new centres and new peripheries form and new hierarchies appear - more or less discretely - producing competition and rivalry in the development of new knowledge...read more

Product Description: Climate change, and also other factors, are capable of bringing about major disasters on a scale hitherto unimaginable. Ecological and other risks, besides having scientific and technological dimensions, are also a subject of study for social scientists, concerned with how disasters and potential disasters are noticed, perceived, guarded against, managed once they have occurred, and coped with after they have happened...read more

Product Description: One consequence of China’s economic growth has been a massive increase in migration, both internal and external. Within China millions of rural workers have migrated to the cities. Outside China, many Chinese have migrated to other parts of the world, their remittances home often having a significant impact within China...read more

Product Description: In North-American and European cities, youth live in precarious social and economic conditions. The issue of employment has become a political problem. In this volume, sociological, economical and ethnographical perspectives are used to explain ethnic discrimination, inequalities at school, unemployment and marginalization...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Entre ville et banlieues, dans le centre et les peripheries, des jeunes, precaires pour la plupart, circulent sur des territoires ou se constituent des microcultures, ou se (re)negocient des identites sociales. Dans ces lieux d'activites et de sociabilites informelles qui se developpent - en marge - des institutions, ils tentent d'ajuster leurs projets aux ressources que leur offrent des modes de vie alternatifs...read more