This edited book significantly contributes to the knowledge on how to address gang problems from a broad community perspective, which takes into account criminal justice agencies, social service providers, and community leaders, along with police, who have implemented collaborative anti-gang policies and practices. As community-wide efforts become more common, it is increasingly important to investigate effective strategies to address social problems. Beyond Suppression: Community Strategi...

Drawing from the diverse fields of postcolonial studies, literary studies, history, anthropology, sociology, political science, environmental studies, and development studies, among others, Gender and Sexuality in Senegalese Societies demonstrates the urgency and necessity of new research in gender and queer studies in and on Senegalese societies. By focusing on subjects that have thus far been largely neglected in national and scholarly debates, the chapters are subversive, complex, and i...

Paris har lämnat Habib - för EritreaParis har åkt tillbaka till hemlandet med sina föräldrar och Habib känner att solen för alltid har försvunnit bakom mörka moln. Det är vinter och kallt: mörkt när man går till skolan och mörkt när man kommer hem. Livet är inte kul längre...Så vad ska Habib göra? Ska han sluta skriva dagbok? Satsa på skolan? På fotbollen? Eller köpa en enkelbiljett till Eritrea?Om Habib fick önska sig en enda sak i livet skulle det vara att Paris å...

The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Global Health provides an overview of the complex relationship between anthropology and global health. The book brings together a diverse group of scholars who consider the intersection of anthropological concerns with health and disease as understood and intervened upon by the field of global health.The book is structured around five sections: (1) social, cultural, and political determinants of health; (2) knowledge production in...