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"is the turk a white man?"
A critical study of race, racialization and representation in the context of Turkish modernization
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A companion to antonio gramsci
Some of Italy's most important Gransci scholars offer thoughts, reflections, and engagements with the Sardinian's life and works.
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A comparative historical and typological approach to the middle eastern state system
Showcasing the legacy of Norwegian political scientist and sociologist Stein Rokkan, this volume ushers in a new vision in the field of state formation and nation building.
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A feel for thinking
A pocket book on big ideas in social justice for those seeking refuge in learning.
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A sociological examination of the gift economy
On the whole, this book presents gift-giving as an intuitive path toward a viable economy, society, and culture here on Earth, and even toward an amiable engagement with our cosmic surroundings in the future.
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A sociological perspective on hierarchies in educational institutions
A Sociological Perspective on Hierarchies in Educational Institutions bridges the gap between theory and practice, drawing together research from different perspectives without losing comprehensiveness, accuracy, and in-depth coverage of hierarchy and educational institutions - a novel contributi...
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A spectre, haunting
China Miéville's riveting engagement with the Communist Manifesto offers a lyrical introduction and a spirited defense of the modern world's most influential political document. Few written works can so confidently claim to have shaped the course of history as Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels's Man...
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A time for critique
In A Time for Critique, Didier Fassin, Bernard E. Harcourt, and a group of eminent political theorists, anthropologists, sociologists, philosophers, literary and legal scholars reflect on the multiplying contexts and forms of critical discourses and on the social actors and social movements engag...
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Absentees
An intellectually adventurous account of the role of nonpersons that explores their depiction in literature and challenges how they are defined in philosophy, law, and anthropology In thirteen interlocking chapters, Absentees explores the role of the missing in human communities, asking an urgent...
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Adapt!
This book, a crossover hit in France, offers a fresh genealogy of our neoliberal moment.
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Advances in contemplative social research
This book describes a new paradigm in social sciences, contemplative inquiry. Deep contemplation of a situation is an epistemological choice for social scientists. It is a fundamentally different approach to research, whereby the investigator is researching not only the object but also the situat...
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Advances in cultural entrepreneurship
With contributions from some of the field’s leading scholars, this volume aims to further expand the agenda and scope of cultural entrepreneurship research by broadening what culture encompasses and what entrepreneurship entails.
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Ali shariati and the future of social theory
An exploration into the lasting influence of the Iranian sociologist and revolutionary, Ali Shariati, who is thought to be the most important intellectual behind the Iranian Revolution of 1979.
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Ambivalent recognition
In this ambitious and compelling book, Kristina Lepold challenges the common assumption that recognition is positive, emphasizing its ambivalent role in social life.
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An anthropological toolkit
Presenting 60 theoretical ideas, David Zeitlyn asks, ‘How to write about anthropological theory without making a specific theoretical argument?’ and ‘Is it possible to practice anthropology without arguing for a single specific approach?’ To answer, he gives a series of mini-essays about an ecl...
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Anti-abortion activism in the uk
Taking a lived religion approach that draws on extensive ethnographic research on abortion debates in public spaces, Anti-Abortion Activism in the UK explores the sacred and profane commitments of anti-abortion activists and counter-demonstrations outside clinics, examining the contestations over...
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Arab and middle eastern sport
This timely edited collection responds to an ongoing need for a critical Muslim studies approach to sport and physical cultures in the Arab World, the Middle East, and North Africa, illuminating and legitimizing the sporting knowledge and experiences of those from physical cultures in these regio...
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Athletic activism
Rooted in a global, transnational perspective, Athletic Activism: Global Perspectives on Social Transformation demonstrates how athletic activism can not only impact global discourse about inequity across various social location, but foster institutional change that advances social justice.
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Authenticity & tourism
This book brings together contributions from authors who are actively engaged in authenticity research in a tourism context. In so doing, it demonstrates the various trajectories research has taken towards understanding the significance of authenticity.
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Bad stories
If you’re one of the millions of Americans lying awake at night, asking yourself, How did we get here? you need to read Bad Stories. In a short, sharp lamentation, New York Times bestselling author Steve Almond explains why the election of a cruel con artist was not only possible, but inevitable.
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Bauman's legacy
What remains of the idea of liquid modernity? Is Bauman’s thought still relevant? This volume aims to answer these questions, without forgetting the vastness and complexity of his work, where the idea of liquidity remains fundamental, before and after the central turning point of the year 2000.
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Beauty industry
Beauty Industry offers a collection of edited chapters that critically dissect the beauty industry through a gendered lens, delving into topics such as gendered beauty ideals, the relationship between beauty products and gender identities, and the challenge to traditional gender norms.
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Beyond marx and other entries
Beyond Marx and Other Entries explores everything from semiotics, economics, anthropology, sociology, history, philosophy and political science, to Franz Kafka's literary works.
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Beyond microfoundations and macrofoundations of institutions
Transcending the limitations of Coleman’s “bathtub” metaphor, papers advance a multilevel theory of institutions as dynamic, recursive systems. Rather than privileging micro-action or macro-structure, contributors view institutions as a continuum where influence flows continuously across levels—f...
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Beyond survival
Structural inequality is the root cause of crime; here are some strategies for accountability beyond the criminal justice system.
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Bizarre-privileged items in the universe
An imaginative new theory of likeness that ranges widely across history and subjects, from physics and evolution to psychology, language, and artA butterfly is like another butterfly. A butterfly is also like a leaf and at the same time like a paper airplane, an owl’s face, a scholar flying from ...
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Black expression and white generosity
Taking inspiration from the bold, powerful, and experimental work of black artists and activists, Natalie Wall forges an alternative narrative that strives for freedom and justice without relinquishing anything in return. It is your indispensable guide to remaining ungrateful.
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Breaking the poverty code
Transcending the Mexican context, this book fuses the importance of statistical data with the lived realities of impoverished people everywhere.
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Bringing back the social into the sociology of religion
Based on original empirical research, the contributions collected here make possible a fuller sociological understanding of power, emotions, the self, and ethnic relations in religious life.
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Broadlands and the new rurality
The work is a story of an English village and rural change more broadly. Based on original fieldwork funded by the RCUK, the book offers an important and original contribution to our understanding of rural spaces and the behaviour of the people who occupy them.
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Capitalism's future
This book outlines conjoined critiques of commodity-fetishism and authority fetishism as the emancipatory agenda of 21st century critical theory.
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Charm
The utilization—and weaponization—of charm in contemporary global politicsPolitics is a site of performance, and contemporary politicians often perform the role of a regular person—perhaps someone we would like to have a beer with. They win elections not because of the elevated rhetorical perform...
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Child abuse in sport
Elucidating deeper understanding of the problem of child abuse in sport and the various responses to it, both academic and policy-based, this collection uses a critical sociological lens and various distinct theoretical lenses to provide the conceptual tools to problematise the practice and admin...
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Citizen marx
The first book to offer a comprehensive exploration of Marx’s relationship to republicanism, arguing that it is essential to understanding his thoughtIn Citizen Marx, Bruno Leipold argues that, contrary to certain interpretive commonplaces, Karl Marx’s thinking was deeply informed by republicanis...
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Citizen subject
A collection of Essays over the last 20 years, exploring different dimensions (historical, political, philosophical, literary) of the philosophical debate on “subjecthood” and “subjectivity” in Modernity, as it was framed by the “Controversy on the subject” from the 1960’s, and showing how it is ...
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Co-creation and smart cities
Co-creation and Smart Cities: Looking Beyond Technology highlights a more robust value-based perspective on public service development and delivery, helping structure co-creation processes that foster responsible innovation and a systemic, value-based approach to sustainable urban development.
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Concepts in action
Concepts in Action follows on the earlier Theory in Action (2016) as part of a three volume project broadening our understanding of the interplay of theory and methods.
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Conceptualizing and modeling relational processes in sociology
With broad appeal across scholars and graduate students in the social and behavioral sciences, Joslyn presents new ideas for expanding relationship modeling methods in a way that unites relationship scholars and extends relational theory.
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Considering class
Considering Class shows why the process of reconstructing class consciousness must take place on the terrain of cultural and subjective formation where everyday values, habits and media practices are in play.
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Consumers and consumption in comparison
Providing a theoretically informed discussion of the specificities of sociology of consumption, Consumers and Consumption in Comparison focuses on three main approaches: Consumption and social inequality; Consumption and gender; and Consumption and social movements.
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Crisis under critique
Didier Fassin, Axel Honneth, and an assembly of leading thinkers examine how people experience, interpret, and contribute to the making of and the response to critical situations. Featuring analysis from below as well as above, from the inside as well as the outside, Crisis Under Critique is a si...
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Critical realism, history, and philosophy in the social sciences
This volume examines the relationship between history, philosophy, and social science, and contributors explore questions concerning realism, ontology, causation, explanation, and values in order to address the question “what does a post-positivist social science look like?”
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Cultures of authenticity
This volume contains an Open Access Chapter. This collection explores the complex and controversial idea of authenticity. Addressing the concept from an interdisciplinary perspective and offering a diverse range of topical cases.
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Cultures of sport hazing and anti-hazing initiatives for the 21st century
Providing a much-needed cutting-edge update on the last major publication on sport hazing practices published more than two decades ago, chapters cover the continuation of potentially harmful, traditional initiations, and the cycle of status from initiated to initiator.
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Defining web3
Bringing together researchers, artists, and organisational designers to explore Web3’s potential as a progressive platform for creative social coordination, this uniquely experimental volume presents the state of the art in socio-cultural and economic research into cryptocurrencies and blockchains.
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Desire and fate
Brilliant and unsparing essays on the blind spots and maladies of contemporary culture.
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Developing africa?
The book depicts an Afrocentric thinker grounded in the theory of Afrocentricity in the interrogation of an African development discourse in pursuit of cognitive justice.
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Digital society, interaction order and automation
Digital Society, Interaction Order and Automation advances our understanding of how interactionist thinking can be leveraged as a conceptual and methodological resource for approaching digital societies in relation to automation and the emerging contours of interaction order in the 21st century.
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Digital transformation and institutional theory
This volume contains two Open Access chapters. Digital Transformation and Institutional Theory explores how manifestations of digital transformation requires rethinking of our understanding and theorization of institutional processes.
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