Social Theory

Jigsaw puzzles' notorious complexity and mega-multiple, amorphously-shaped pieces provide an appropriate metaphor for the navigating and maneuverin...

The essays collected in this volume develop the theoretical perspective initiated in Laclau and Mouffe's classic Hegemony and Socialist Strategy, t...

The reality of runaway climate change is inextricably linked with the mass consumerist, capitalist society in which we live. And the cult of endles...

Old Gods, New Enigmas is the highly-anticipated book by the best-selling author of City of Quartz and Planet of Slums. Mike Davis spent years worki...

Classical liberalism regarded universal suffrage as a mortal threat to property. So what explains the advent of liberal democracy, and how stable t...

Classical liberalism regarded universal suffrage as a mortal threat to property. So what explains the advent of liberal democracy, and how stable t...

The human species is very young, but in a short time it has acquired some striking, if biologically superficial, variations across the planet. As t...

Why is our society so unequal? Why, despite their small numbers, do the rich dominate policy and politics even in democratic countries? Why is it o...

Chantal Mouffe is one of the most influential political theorists at work today. Her work has influenced political parties across Europe and contin...

An attack on the idea that nature and society are impossible to distinguish from each otherIn a world careening towards climate chaos, nature is de...

Over the last ten years - especially with the 'no' votes in the French and Dutch referendums in 2010, and the victory for Brexit in 2016 - the issu...

Human history is periodically punctuated by natural disasters, from Vesuvius' eruption to the modern-day COVID-19 pandemic. Volcanoes have buried e...

Five mysterious billionaires summoned Douglas Rushkoff to a desert resort for a private talk. The topic? How to survive The Event: the societal cat...

This textbook provides an introduction to the scientific study of sociology and other social sciences. It offers the basic tools necessary for read...

Ancient Greek philosophers, medieval theologians, Enlightenment thinkers, and contemporary humanists alike have debated all aspects of human sexual...

Its theme is political fanaticism, with which it deals severely and brilliantly.   New YorkerThe famous bestseller with concise insight into what d...

One of the worlds preeminent cultural anthropologists leaves a last work that fundamentally reconfigures how we study most other culturesFrom the p...

Social construction addresses the cultural factors and social dynamics that give rise to and maintain values and beliefs. Drawing on postmodern phi...

Few ideas are more contested today than class. Some have declared its death, while others insist on its centrality to contemporary capitalism. It i...

In a time of malevolent righteousness, often described as Cancel Culture, JAccuse is an essay-in-poetry by Canadas Parliamentarian Poet Laureate em...

How do our bodies speak for us when words don?t suffice? How can we make ourselves understood when what we have to say is inarticulable?In Disquiet...