Social Theory

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...