Social Theory
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Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
Douglas RushkoffCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99Five mysterious billionaires summoned Douglas Rushkoff to a desert resort for a private talk. The subject? How to survive the Event: the societal c...
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Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides
Geoffrey L. CohenCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99We live in enormously polarised times. From politics to race, religion, gender and class, division runs rampant. In 2020, 40 percent of each politi...
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The Broadview Anthology of Social and Political Thought: From Machiavelli to Nietzsche
Broadview Press LtdCurrent price €59.39Original price €65.99This volume contains many of the most important texts in western political and social thought from the sixteenth to the end of the nineteenth centu...
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Thinking Through Food: A Philosophical Introduction
Alexandra PlakiasCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50This book offers a wide-ranging yet concise introduction to the many philosophical issues surrounding food production and consumption. It begins wi...
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What''s Wrong with Rights?: Social Movements, Law and Liberal Imaginations
Radha D'SouzaCurrent price €89.09Original price €98.99Through mapping the rights discourse and the transformations in transnational finance capitalism since the world wars, and interrogating the connec...
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Postcoloniality and Forced Migration: Mobility, Control, Agency
Bristol University PressCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99Establishes methodologies for the linkages between colonialism, postcoloniality and forced migration; Draws from a broad selection of case studies ...
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Developing Scholars: Race, Politics, and the Pursuit of Higher Education
Domingo MorelCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99Over the past fifty years, debates concerning race and college admissions have focused primarily on the policy of affirmative action at elite insti...
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A Deadly Wind: The 1962 Columbus Day Storm
John DodgeCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99A Deadly Wind is a deeply researched historical account of the most powerful non-tropical windstorm to ever strike the West Coast: The Columbus Day...
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Civilisation: Its Cause and Cure: And Other Essays
Edward CarpenterCurrent price €111.59Original price €123.99This volume, originally published in 1889 with this edition published in 1912, contains Carpenter's famous essays on civilisation and his theory th...
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Routledge Handbook of Sport, Gender and Sexuality
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €68.84Original price €80.99The Routledge Handbook of Sport, Gender and Sexuality brings together important new work from 68 leading international scholars that, collectively,...
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Changing Saudi Arabia: Art, Culture & Society in the Kingdom
Sean FoleyCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50T. 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 ar...
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American Community: Radical Experiments in Intentional Living
Mark S. FerraraCurrent price €31.49Original price €34.99Mainstream notions of the American Dream usually revolve around the ownership of private property, a house of ones own. Yet for the past 400 years,...
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Migrant Labour After Apartheid: The Inside Story
HSRC PressCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99South Africa is a rapidly urbanising society. Over 60% of the population lives in urban areas and this will rise to more than 70% by 2030. However,...
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Bourdieu and Historical Analysis
Duke University PressCurrent price €31.49Original price €34.99The French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu had a broader theoretical agenda than is generally acknowledged. Introducing this innovative collection of e...
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Reconstructing Sustainability Science: Knowledge and action for a sustainable future
Thaddeus MillerCurrent price €56.69Original price €62.99The growing urgency, complexity and wickedness of sustainability problemsfrom climate change and biodiversity loss to ecosystem degradation and per...
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Left Universalism, Africacentric Essays
Ato Sekyi-OtuCurrent price €49.49Original price €54.99Left Universalism, Africacentric Essays presents a defense of universalism as the foundation of moral and political arguments and commitments. Con...
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The Journey of Humanity: And the Keys to Human Progress
Oded GalorCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50This breakthrough scientific masterwork - and INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - reveals the underlying forces that have shaped human history and will secu...
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In the Midst of Things: The Social Lives of Objects in the Public Spaces of New York City
Mike Owen BenediktssonCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50How ordinary urban objects influence our behavior, exacerbate inequality, and encourage social changeAssumptions about human behavior lie hidden in...
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Township Economy: People, Spaces and Practices
Andrew CharmanCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99Township Economy provides a unique insight into township informal business and entrepreneurship. It is set in the post-apartheid period, in the thi...
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Intersectional Socialism: A Utopia for Radical Interdependence
Charles MasquelierCurrent price €83.69Original price €92.99In the context of sustained economic and environmental crises, marked by extreme inequalities of wealth, rising xenophobia, racism and precarity, n...
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Nation-Building as Necessary Effort in Fragile States
René GrotenhuisCurrent price €108.89Original price €120.99Policies intended to bring stability to fragile states tend to focus almost exclusively on building institutions and systems to get governance righ...
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Transclasses: A Theory of Social Non-reproduction
Chantal JaquetCurrent price €21.59Original price €23.99One is not born a worker or a boss, one becomes one from father to son... or almost. Social reproduction is not an iron law; it admits of exception...
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