Social Theory

This book enquires from a sociological perspective into contemporary corporeal transformations brought about by exoskeletal devices.Challenging mat...

This book enquires from a sociological perspective into contemporary corporeal transformations brought about by exoskeletal devices.Challenging mat...

This book revolves around epistolary narratives of women political theorists and activists, following traces of Hannah Arendts philosophical approa...

This book revolves around epistolary narratives of women political theorists and activists, following traces of Hannah Arendts philosophical approa...

This book provides an original and compelling analysis of registration as a dynamic process which makes and unmakes legal identities.Critical legal...

Over the past thirty years, humanity has made a huge mistake. We handed over to big tech decisions that have allowed them to build what has become ...

Over the past thirty years, humanity has made a huge mistake. We handed over to big tech decisions that have allowed them to build what has become ...

Social Healing draws on a transdisciplinary approachbringing sociology, philosophy, psychology, and spirituality togetherto understand health, soci...

Producing, buying, selling, inventing, destroying, caring, imagining, failing with their everyday practices, people bring about what we call the e...

This volume explores a variety of harmful cultural practices: a term increasingly employed by organizations working within a human rights framework...

This title was first published in 2001. An investigation of the new wave of militant political activity emerging across Europe. The book examines t...

This book examines how identities are formed and expressed in political, social and cultural contexts across South Asia. It is a comprehensive inte...

This volume, from an international and interdisciplinary cohort of scholars, offers independent-minded essays about central Greek texts and about t...

Can heterotopia help us make sense of globalisation? Against simplistic visions that the world is becoming one, Heterotopia and Globalisation in th...

This book presents a clear and precise account of the structure and content of Max Weber's sociology of law: situating its methodological and epist...

Throughout history mankind has struggled to reconcile itself with the inescapability of its own mortality. This book explores the themes of immorta...

Originally published in 1999 Social Theory and Psychoanalysis in Transition is a benchmark critique of Freudian theory in which a dialogue between ...

This title was first published in 2000. Rethinking Prejudice offers the first philosophical monograph on the concept of prejudice. It takes its sta...

Challenging the classical conception of Goffmans sociology, this book offers a new interpretation based on a comprehensive examination of previous ...

The concept of society sui generis society as a level of reality which could be studied scientifically crystallized in the middle of the nineteen...

At the start of the twentieth century, when Germany, among other nations, was undergoing industrialization, Max Weber famously characterized modern...

This book provides an illuminating perspective on alcohol use, drawing on approaches from both anthropological research and historical sociology to...

Genealogies of Emotions, Intimacies and Desire excavates epistemologies which attempt to explain changes in emotional regimes from medieval society...