Social Theory

The diagnosis of 'Dyslexia' and the medical problematisation of reading difficulties were almost unknown one hundred years ago, yet today the Briti...

Technology and Touch addresses the development of a range of new touch technologies, both technologies that we reach out to touch and technologies ...

Edited by François Depelteau and Christopher Powell, this volume and its companion, Conceptualizing Relational Sociology: Ontological and Theoretic...

In Economies of Abandonment, Elizabeth A. Povinelli explores how late liberal imaginaries of tense, eventfulness, and ethical substance make the gl...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

Drawing on affect theory and the key themes of attachment, disruption and belonging, this book examines the ways in which our placed surroundings ...

Co-operative enterprises, which are democratically owned and governed by their workers, customers, or suppliers, have long captured the imagination...

Max Weber (18641920) has long been considered a founding figure of sociology. This book offers a fresh reading of Webers work and highlights his th...

Transatlantic policing is experiencing an unprecedented crisis of legitimacy, epitomised by public responses to the murders of George Floyd and Sar...

A Lifehouse is an institution at the heart of each neighborhood that responds to the terrifying reality of climate collapse in our own communities....

In The Zone, Justinien Tribillon takes the reader on a tour of an eponymous Parisian hinterland. The site of dreams and nightmares, from Van Gogh's...

The world and its politics are becoming ever more polarised, leaving no room for the light and the shade. In The Half of It, Emma and Nicole explor...

Race and Racism in Russia identifies the striking changes in racial ideas, practices, exclusions and violence in Russia since the 1990s, revealing ...

Citizen Engagement in Cuba: Neighbors and the State in Pogolotti examines citizen engagement at the local level in Cuba through projects initiated ...

Using an innovative framework, this reader examines the most important and influential writings on modern class relations. Uses an interdisciplina...

How have our emotions shaped the course of human history? And how have our experience and understan...

Why acknowledging diverse eco-social relationships can help us overcome the political polarization that undermines our ability to protect the envir...

The book addresses the theme of the advent of a Matrix Land as a pervasive environment of digital (virtual) reality in which humanity is destined t...

For over twenty years, A History of Anthropological Theory has provided a strong foundation for understanding anthropological thinking, tracing how...

This book pretends to extract a kind of Critical Humanism from the works of prominent members of the Frankfurt School. Oliver Kozlarek argues that ...

In this poetical-philosophical manifesto, Gerald Raunig develops a materialist philosophy of multiplicity. On the basis of seventeen conceptual inn...

The breadth and depth of Zygmunt Baumans engagement with social theory and the history of social thought has perhaps been underestimated, in part b...

The breadth and depth of Zygmunt Baumans engagement with social theory and the history of social thought has perhaps been underestimated, in part b...

African-American Males and the US Justice System of Marginalization provides an overview of the economic and social status of African-American male...

This book extends Max Webers theory of the value-spheres of modernity into wholly new areas, showing that the addition of home, nature and sport to...

How crime and security are governed has become a critical issue in criminology over the first quarter of the twenty-first century. Today, we see a ...

Why did the Chinese party state collapse so quickly after the onset of the Cultural Revolution? The award-winning author of China Under Mao offers ...