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"Many scholars have critiqued the neocolonial assumptions embedded in global development agendas. These often focus on the bodies and lives of poor, racialized adolescent girls in the global south as ideal sites for intervention based on these girls' potential to multiply investment, interrupt intergenerational poverty, and predict economic growth. Girls in Global Development presents case studies from established and emerging scholars to collectively theorize and examine the concept of "Girls in Development" (GID), a distinctive way of approaching notions of girls and girlhoods in locations around the globe, at various points in history, through a critical feminist lens"--

"Using truly interdisciplinary social science, this book demonstrates the many ways in which social and cultural forces affect individuals in their relationships on a regular basis. It is the first of its kind to highlight the diverse contexts in which romantic relationships operate"--

This book explores the transnational practices of migrant groups in global London, illustrating the complex relations between migrants and the city in the context of globalisation. The chapters offer a starting point to examine migrants and the city from a comparative perspective by bringing together case studies of diverse migrant communities.

"Two billion people around the world use Instagram. On Display examines how a platform that is unfailingly polished and ruthlessly judgmental shapes us and our environments. Instagram has a reputation for shallowness, but the ongoing self-presentation it demands confronts users with profound dilemmas as it compels them to do serious soul-searching. What do we want to show of ourselves? Who are we? What do we want to be? On Display is a book about how people remake their worlds through social media. It examines how personalities, relations, social movements, urban subcultures, and city streets change as they are represented on Instagram. Through computational analysis, the authors reveal how Instagram is implicated in social inequalities, while interviews and ethnographic vignettes provide an intimate account of the desires and anxieties that animate the platform. Whereas many have argued that social media promote polarization, On Display shows that this is not so for Instagram: its users are embedded in large and diverse networks, compelling them to take many, often contradictory expectations into account. Existing theories about social media are often a poor fit for Instagram. The authors propose a new perspective: social media are stages for status displays rather than public spheres for the exchange of arguments"--

"Selling French Sex challenges contemporary understandings of trafficking by exploring the discourses and experiences surrounding the migration of French women for work in the early-twentieth-century sex industry. It will interest students and scholars of French, immigration, women's and gender, and world history"--

"This book deconstructs the public performance of technological innovation and imagined modernity in relation to the home technologies market in late state socialist Poland. Patryk Wasiak goes on to discuss how these technologies would have an impact on the creation of a desirable future social order and economy."

"This book argues that Nigeria's economic growth from 2001-2011 was fostered by improved governance, and it examines the perceived rivalry between China and the United States as well as how their foreign policies influenced decisions on foreign aid and trade in Nigeria."

"An archivally based exploration of the everyday life in Hungary's communist apparatus class after 1956, this book covers consumption, mobility, and leisure. Péteri shows how class power and privilege as well as Western patterns asserted themselves in the everyday of state-socialist society"--

Over the course of the last few decades, the nature of close personal relationships has evolved dramatically. More people choose to marry in their 30s & 40s, meaning that a higher number of people start families later in life. Around the world, more cultures are embracing nontraditional lifestyles. Many regions have grown more accepting of diverse gender & sexual orientations, & as a result, the image of what a family is, who has one, & at what age it is acceptable to start one all look very different from previous generations. Even our friendships have evolved, with technology bridging physical & interpersonal distances in previously impossible ways. This volume compiles the latest research on close relationships in the 21st century from multi-disciplinary & international perspectives.

Introduction -- Now I can go on! -- Creature of rules -- Preliminaries I: Rules and other human gear -- Preliminaries II: Rules as part of nature -- Preliminaries III: Kinds of rules -- Normative attitudes -- Rules in the natural world -- The natural history of correctness -- Systems of rules and institutions -- Behavioral patterns -- Practices -- The space of meaningfulness -- Logic -- Cooperation and morals -- Freedom -- The world -- Conclusion: We have become a normative species.