Social Theory

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...