Lumina Literati · Digital Library
Books & Monographs
An interdisciplinary record of ideas across the humanities, social sciences, law, technology, and the built environment.
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Inequality and the Social Imagination: Class, Culture, and Power in Everyday Life
An examination of how class, culture, and power shape everyday encounters, institutions, and imagined possibilities, connecting taste, language, respectability, shame, and dignity with cultural democracy and collective approaches to equality.
View publicationLanguage, Power and Digital Society: Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Online Communication
Language, Power and Digital Society: Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Online Communication begins from a single, urgent conviction: the language we use online is no longer a private or trivial matter. Every post, comment, share, and silence is now embedded within sociotechnical architectures that…
View publicationNuclear Iran: Deterrence, Power Shifts, and the Future of the Middle East
Nuclear Iran: Deterrence, Power Shifts, and the Future of the Middle East investigates the rise of the nuclear question in Iran — one of the most consequential geopolitical developments of the modern Middle East. The Iranian nuclear programme, this book argues, is…
View publicationRural Social Systems and Agricultural Change: Institutions, Inequality, Innovation, and Just Agrarian Futures
An evidence-based study of how institutions, inequality, innovation, markets, and mobility shape agricultural change and rural livelihoods.
View publicationScreen Time and Adolescent Well-being: Synthesizing Evidence from Large-Scale National Surveys
Screen Time and Adolescent Well-being: Synthesizing Evidence from Large-Scale National Surveys begins from a single, clarifying premise: the question of whether screens are harming young people deserves better science than it has so far received. Every year, new headlines proclaim a crisis…
View publicationSociety in Transition: Social Change, Institutions, and the Crisis of Modernity
A sociological examination of social transition, institutional change, inequality, trust, and the crisis of modernity, with a framework for comparative research and inclusive institutional responses.
View publicationThe Abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A of the Indian Constitution and Its Implications for the South Asian Regional Strategic Environment
An examination of the historical, constitutional, political, and strategic implications of the abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A for Jammu and Kashmir and the South Asian regional environment.
View publicationThe Digital Cohort Dilemma: A Macro-Level Analysis of Screen Time and Youth Well-Being
The Digital Cohort Dilemma: A Macro-Level Analysis of Screen Time and Youth Well-Being begins from a deceptively simple reframing: the rise in youth screen time is not a failure of individual willpower but a transformation of the environment in which children now…
View publicationThe Digital Vernacular: A Corpus-Based Study of Semantic Shifts in Social Media Discourse
The Digital Vernacular: A Corpus-Based Study of Semantic Shifts in Social Media Discourse emerges from the urgent global conversation about how meaning itself is changing in the age of networked communication. While social media is widely recognised as a transformative cultural force,…
View publicationThe Economies of Attention: Literature, Distraction, and the Digital Self
The Economies of Attention: Literature, Distraction, and the Digital Self begins from a deceptively simple observation: in an age of digital abundance, the scarcest resource is no longer information but attention itself. Drawing on Herbert Simon’s foundational insight that “a wealth of…
View publicationThe Historical Analysis of National Integration in Pakistan: A Case Study of the General Pervez Musharraf Era
The Historical Analysis of National Integration in Pakistan: A Case Study of the General Pervez Musharraf Era begins from a question that has shadowed the Pakistani state since its birth in 1947: how does a country forged from many peoples — multi-ethnic,…
View publicationThe Retrofit Reality: A Longitudinal Meta Analysis of Energy Performance Gaps in Adaptive Reuse
The Retrofit Reality: A Longitudinal Meta Analysis of Energy Performance Gaps in Adaptive Reuse emerges from the urgent global conversation surrounding urban growth, resource depletion, and heritage. While adaptive reuse is widely celebrated for preserving embodied carbon and cultural heritage, far less…
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