Social theory

This book intervenes in contemporary debates about climate activism, militancy, and strategy that have been gathering force in radical ecological circles.

Rethinking Contemporary Feminist Politics puts forward a timely analysis of contemporary feminism.

This book is the first general social analysis that seriously considers the daily experience of information disruption and software failure within contemporary Western society.

Originally published in 1965 and written by a noted economist and leader in the field of conflict resolution, this book traces the forces which have brought the 20th century 'post-civilisation' into being: the ever-increasing power of science and the scientific attitude, the global communication network, the high efficiency of industrial societies.

Examining questions of statehood, biopolitics, sovereignty, neoliberal reason and the economy, Governmentality explores the advantages and limitations of adopting Michel Foucault's concept of governmentality as an analytical framework.

The transition to twenty-first century post-industrial capitalism from the 'welfare' industrial capitalism of the twentieth century, has affected the ways in which class is lived in terms of relational inequality and the factors that structure identity.

In what is the first sustained analysis of Marx's attitude to the puzzle of the individual in history and society, this book, first published in 1990, challenges received views on the importance of class analysis and the place of a theory of human nature in Marx's thought.

This interdisciplinary volume of thirty original essays engages with four key concerns of queer theoretical work - identity, discourse, normativity and relationality.

* What do we mean by discourse?

This book draws together some of the most innovative studies in contemporary Southeast Asian research by social science scholars in the region.

This book presents a set of related studies aimed at showing key points of intersection and common interest between jurisprudence and socio-legal studies, which are otherwise typically considered distinct fields.

Originally published in 1975, Ralf Dahrendorf's Reith Lectures were an important contribution to public debate, exploring as they do the theme of the new liberty and being concerned to refashion liberalism to cope with the problems and tension of contemporary societies.

European thought is often said to be a gift to the rest of the world, but what if there is no gift as such?

One of the world's preeminent cultural anthropologists leaves a last work that fundamentally reconfigures how we study most other culturesFrom the perspective of Western modernity, humanity inhabits a disenchanted cosmos.

Volume 1: Theories, Methods and Ideas explores the mobility of ideas through time and space and how interdisciplinary theories and methodological approaches used in mobilities studies can be profitably utilised within the humanities and social sciences.

A response to the depletion of the rhetoric of sociology and the spiritual capital of theology, this volume explores the remains of Christianity that still lurk as portents in a progressively de-Christianised society seeking replacements for belief.

This book explores the thought of - and is dedicated to - David Frisby, one of the leading sociologists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Originally published in 1965, Social Policy became a classic text and one of the best-known and most widely-used textbooks in social administration.

Modern Privacies addresses emergent transformations of privacy in western societies from a multidisciplinary and international perspective.

This is an original, accessible book for scholars, students, activists, and the general public on the greatest crisis the world has faced.

This book explores the nature of regions and how they function, particularly at the local and micro-level.

An important literary and philosophical figure, Georges Bataille has had a significant influence on other French writers, such as Foucault, Derrida and Baudrillard.

This book continues the Class Structure of Capitalist Societies series by exploring the place of class among a confluence of factors in shaping people's lives, loves and lifestyles across three nations.

The euro crisis, several sovereign debt crises, the Great Recession, the refugee crisis, and Brexit have all challenged Europeans' willingness to show solidarity with other European citizens and member states of the European Union.

The essays and letters of Ervin Szabo (1877-1918) present proof of his critical insight into Marxist theory and of his perceptive analysis of socialism around the turn of the century.

More than sixty years since the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights first enshrined the right to freedom of movement in an international charter of human rights, the issue of mobility and the right to tourism itself have become increasingly significant areas of scholarly interest and political debate.

This title was first published in 2001.

This seven volume set reissues a collection of out-of-print titles covering a range of responses to modern culture.

Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault are often cast as intellectual adversaries, their legacies marked by differences in method, lineages, and analytical priorities.

Sociology and social theory has always been a major source of new perspectives for organization studies.

If crisis defines our era, we need a coherent socialist policy in response.

First published in 1975.

This is a broad ranging introduction to twenty-first-century anarchism which includes a wide array of theoretical approaches as well as a variety of empirical and geographical perspectives.

This book explores and proposes original definitions of central terms in political sociology and social theory, including political culture, imaginary, ideology, and utopia, in a manner that renders the individual definitions consistent with one another as part of a single and general conceptual framework for understanding social action.

This set collects together in 19 volumes a wealth of texts on Sociology of Religion.

The essays presented in this volume examine knowledge mobilisation and its relation to research impact and engagement.

This book is an ethnographic investigation of punk subculture as well as a treatise on the importance of place: a location with both physical form and cultural meaning.

Is resilience simply a fad, or is it a new way of thinking about human-environment relations, and the governance of these relations, that has real staying power?

In particular, Donna Haraway argued in her famous 1991 'Cyborg Manifesto' that people, since they are so often now detached and separated from nature, have themselves evolved into cyborgs.

In an age of anxiety, Toope makes the case for a revitalised rule of law to bolster collective resilience and restore our capacity to build healthier societies.

Rankings sind in der modernen Gesellschaft allgegenwärtig: Athleten, Hotels, Nationalstaaten, Unternehmen, Universitäten, Kunsttreibende und viele andere sehen sich Leistungsvergleichen in der Form von regelmäßig veröffentlichen Ranglisten ausgesetzt.

Multiculturalism and the Nation in Germany: A Study in Moral Conflict examines the new debates surrounding matters of multiculturalism, immigration, and national identity in Germany in the wake of the 2015 Refugee Crisis.

Until a century ago, a metaphor was just a mere figure of speech, but since the development of discourse analysis a metaphor has become more than merely incidental to the content of the arguments or findings.

This book aims to recast the way that philosophers understand rhetoric.

First Published in 1991, this book attempts to show the relevance of Durkheim's sociology to the debate on modernity and postmodernism.

Impending environmental catastrophe, threat of terrorism, viruses both biological and virtual, disease: there seem to be so many reasons to panic today.

What happens to traditional conceptions of heritage in the era of fluid media spaces?