Society and Social Sciences

Humans of the advanced world are the most violent beings of all times.

Take three things: the home, nature, and the feminine ideal-a notional and perfected femininity.

How has technology changed what it means to be human and to be a member of a human society?

Animals regularly populate philosophical texts as a foil to illustrate what it means to be human.

Many NGOs are mobilizing transnationally in order to form new social networks that enable them to better interact with nation-state policies on migrant and refugee inclusion.

The first decade of the 21st century has witnessed the decline of multiculturalism as a policy in Western countries with tighter national border controls and increasing anti-migration discourse.

A popular cliche in contemporary public discourse holds that we live in a time of increasing uncertainty; that the next catastrophe is perpetually imminent and yet increasingly beyond our capacity to foresee.

From Tolkien to Star Trek, from Game of Thrones to Battlestar Galactica, and from The Walking Dead to Janelle Monae's Afrofuturist concept albums, transmedia world-building offers us complex and immersive environments beyond capitalism.

The Question Concerning the Thing presents a full English translation of a lecture course first delivered by Heidegger at Freiburg University during the Winter Semester of 1935-36 (originally published in German as volume 41 of the Gesamtausgabe).

This book offers the reader an incisive view into the political, social and economic evolutions of mass incarceration across the globe.

International Relations tends to rely on concepts that developed on the European continent, obscuring the fact that its history is far less 'international' than one might expect.

Carl Schmitt is a key figure in modern political thought, but discussion of his work often focuses upon specific elements or themes within his texts.

Identity plays an important part in terms of how we imagine our relationship with the state and governing bodies.

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Globalization can sometimes seem like an abstract concept, an unconscious aspect of our everyday existence.

Transnational Memory and Popular Culture in East and Southeast Asia explores the significance of transnational popular culture in the formation and mediation of collective memories across the region.

Stuart Hall conceptualized his time at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies as a series of interruptions.

Affective Labour explores four distinct landscapes in order to demonstrate how collective feelings are organized by social actors in order to both reproduce and contest hegemony.

A critique of theory through literature that celebrates the diversity of black being, The Desiring Modes of Being Black explores how literature unearths theoretical blind spots while reasserting the legitimacy of emotional turbulence in the controlled realm of reason that rationality claims to establish.

Words are everywhere.

From the Arab uprisings to the indignados movement and the global Occupy sit-ins, recent protests and civil unrest have sparked new debates about political organisation, media representation and the nature of contemporary citizenship.

Contemporary protest, often presented in media forms as a dramatic ritual played out in an iconic public space has provided a potent symbol of the widespread economic and social discontent that is a feature of European life under the rule of "e;austerity.

How does the avant-garde create spaces in everyday life that subvert regimes of economic and political control?

Working from an interdisciplinary perspective that draws on the social sciences, legal studies, and the humanities, this book investigates the causes and effects of the extremities experienced by migrants.

A number of women's issues serve to create novel policy problems that require creative, and sometimes unique, regulatory and legal responses.

Feminist theory is a challenging and often deeply divided body of thought that raises issues which affect us all.

Debate in animal ethics needs reenergizing.

Is it possible to think of a counter-hegemonic, progressive nostalgia that celebrates and helps sustain the marginalised?

The socio-political context of Egypt is full of the affectual burdens of history.

Austerity as Public Mood explores how politicians and the media mobilise nostalgic and socially conservative ideas of work and community in order to justify cuts to public services and create divisions between the deserving and undeserving.

The ethics of climate governance is of critical importance to current debates in climate justice, yet until now it has been largely neglected.

What for decades could only be dreamt of is now almost within reach: the widespread provision of free online education, regardless of a geographic location, financial status, or ability to access conventional institutions of learning.

Cosmopolitanism has resurfaced as a prominent perspective within philosophy and the social sciences.

Gunther Anders's prolific philosophy of technology is undergoing a major revival but has never been translated into English.

What do Germany's memorials, films, artworks, memory debates and national commemorations tell us about the lives of Germans today?

In light of the Eurozone crisis and the growth of Asian economies, have new challenges emerged for the relations between nations in these regions?

Paris, along with New York, was one of the main centres of the fashion industry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

China and India have huge potential to exert global influence due to their geography, population size and material resources.

Since the end of the Cold War, there has been a wealth of discussion and controversy about the idea of a 'postnational' or 'cosmopolitan' politics.

Tracing the complex yet intimate relationship between a present-day national obsession with childhood and a colonial past with which Australia as a nation has not adequately come to terms, Young and Free draws on philosophy, literature, film and testimony.

There is massive public interest in same-sex marriage, a controversial topic that is rarely out of the media.

There has been a recent revival of interest in reading Kierkegaard as an ontologist, as a thinker who engages with questions about the kinds of entity or process that constitute ultimate reality.

There has been extensive research into the impact of the Holocaust on the children of survivors who immigrated to the US and Israel.

Urban activism can manifest in many guises, from community gardening to mass naked bike rides.

What sort of ethos does democratic politics demand?

Political practices, agencies and institutions around the world promote the need for humans, individually and collectively, to develop capacities of resilience.

Postcolonial Nations, Islands, and Tourism examines how real and literary islands have helped to shape the idea of the nation in a postcolonial world.

Sites of Protest examines the global resurgence of protest movements and the ways in which they use public and private space - both physical and 'immaterial' - to secure attention for a wide variety of causes, cultural events and moral campaigns.

The Dimensions of Difference departs from traditional takes on feminist film criticism, and in particular from the psychoanalytical focus on the gaze, to examine the question of sexual difference through three axes: space, time, and bodies.

Contemporary politics is dominated by a liberal creed that champions 'negative liberty' and individual happiness.