Social Theory

This book critically assessesthird-wave feminist strategies for advancing a feminist 'politics of the self' within the late modern, postfeminist ge...

With tribes and individual Indians increasingly participating in American electoral politics, this study examines the ways in which tribes work tog...

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It is common to hear that we live in unique, turbulent and crisis-ridden times and this turbulence, transformation and crisis are said to be deeply...

This book challenges the discourses, narrative frames, and systems of beliefs that support and promote violence and conflict, it defines new compre...

Sex, or the Unbearable is a dialogue between Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman, two of our leading theorists of sexuality, politics, and culture. In j...

This book argues for the centrality of Georg Simmel's social theory to the relational and processual emphases that are often considered as much mor...

Social theory and research has long faced the limitations of its conventional Eurocentric focus. The essays in this volume offer new thoughts and e...

When one speaks of sociology, places such as the US, UK, Germany, and France come to mind. To western or even eastern students of social sciences, ...

What's wrong with the world today and how might it become better (or worse)? These are the questions pursued in this book, which explores the hopes...

Disasters are part of the modern condition, a source of physical anxiety and existential angst, and they are increasing in frequency, cost and seve...

This book draws upon data collected over an 18 year period with over 1000 boys and young men across Northern Ireland. Providing critical reflection...

This volume addresses issues of precariousness in a broad, interdisciplinary perspective, looking at socio-economic transformations as well as the ...

Simon Susen examines the impact of the 'postmodern turn' on the contemporary social sciences. On the basis of an innovative five-dimensional approa...

The Politics of the Encounter is a spirited interrogation of the city as a site of both theoretical inquiry and global social struggle. The city, w...

In the 1980s and 1990s, neoliberal forms of governance largely dominated Latin American political and social life. Neoliberalism, Interrupted exami...

While many analysts emphasize Trumps uniqueness, he can also be viewed as a symptom of a deeper systemic crisis. This collection examines the roots...

When do we interpret? That is the question at the heart of this important new work by Johann Michel. The human being does not spend his time interp...

When do we interpret? That is the question at the heart of this important new work by Johann Michel. The human being does not spend his time interp...

This special issue is animated by the necessary entanglement of theory and history, the cortical relationship between theory and practice, and the ...

We now live in a world where all aspects of everyday life are thoroughly mediated by digital technologies. Making sense of digital life is accordin...

We now live in a world where all aspects of everyday life are thoroughly mediated by digital technologies. Making sense of digital life is accordin...

It is increasingly recognized that, to achieve social justice, policies and organizations need to apply an intersectional approach, rather than add...

Drawing on her own experiences, Tumi Mampane provides deep insights into the daily lives of women in a South African Pentecostal community. Equally...

Utopia should be understood as a method rather than a goal. This book rehabilitates utopia as a repressed dimension of the sociological and in the ...

Utopia should be understood as a method rather than a goal. This book rehabilitates utopia as a repressed dimension of the sociological and in the ...

This collection explores the current economic and political crisis in Greece and more widely in Europe. Greece is used to illustrate and exemplify ...

Untrammelled neoliberalism and the inexorable force of production have produced a 21st century crisis of community: a narcissistic cult of authenti...

How, when, and why has the Pacific been a locus for imagining different futures by those living there as well as passing through? What does that te...

This comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection, examines disability from a theoretical perspective, challenging views of disability that dominate...

T. E. Lawrence once observed that Saudi Arabia had so little art that it could be said to have no art at all. Whether that was once the case is arg...

An Age of Limits outlines a new social theory for understanding contemporary society. Providing an analysis of why political, economic and cultural...

An Age of Limits outlines a new social theory for understanding contemporary society. Providing an analysis of why political, economic and cultural...

This book offers a new ideology critique for political analysis by revisiting Habermas via a iekian reading. The book includes an application of th...

Offering a comprehensive overview of contemporary theoretical and programmatic issues in the fields of sustainability, culture, communication, deve...

Drawing on case studies from the global South, this book explores the politics of mediated citizenship in which citizens are represented to the sta...

Freedom in the Anthropocene illuminates the Anthropocene from the perspective of critical theory. The authors contextualize our current ecological ...

Feminism is not dead. This groundbreaking book advances a radical and pioneering feminist manifesto for today's modern audience that exposes the re...

Alexander Kluge is one of contemporary Germany's leading intellectuals and artists. A key architect of the New German Cinema and a pioneer of auteu...

This book explores the uses and limits of Max Weber's work for thinking sociologically about capitalism today. The books argues that through Weber,...

This book will compare the approach and works of Norbert Elias, well known for his analysis of the civilizing process, his work on sport and violen...

Psychosocial studies challenges the traditions of psychology and sociology from a genuinely transdisciplinary perspective. The book reflects this a...

Citizenship is increasingly the core concept by which human belonging is defined but do we really understand what it is? This book develops an evol...

Drawing from the intriguing (and sometimes unbelievable) true stories of the lives of everyday Americans, historian Julie M. Fenster traces the his...

This innovative study engages critically with existing conceptualisations of diaspora, arguing that if diaspora is to have analytical purchase,...

Knowing Governance sets out to understand governance through the design and making of its models and instruments. What kinds of knowledge do they r...