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Workers of the World, Enjoy!: Aesthetic Politics from Revolutionary Syndicalism to the Global Justice Movement by Kenneth H. Tucker
RRP: £73.00£57.77The rise of the public sphere, as chronicled by social movements spanning the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuriesBook InformationISBN 9781592137640Author Kenneth H. TuckerFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Temple University Press,U.S... -
Why I Burned My Book by Paul K. Longmore
RRP: £27.99£24.27"Personal inclination made me a historian. Personal encounter with public policy made me an activist.""Personal inclination made me a historian. Personal encounter with public policy made me an activist."About the AuthorPaul K. Longmore is Professor of... -
Missing Pieces: A Chronicle Of Living With A Disability by Kenneth Zola
RRP: £21.99£17.54The personal odyssey of a man with a disability, this passionate book tries to tell as well as analyze what it is like to have a disability in a world that values vigor and health. Zola writes, "Missing Pieces is an unraveling of a social problem in the... -
Emergency Broadcasting & 1930'S Am Radio by Edward Miller
RRP: £25.99£22.49The voice we hear on the radio--the voice with no body attached--is a key element in the history of media in the twentieth century. Before television and the internet, there was radio; and much of what defined the makeup of these newer media was... -
Performing Asian America: Race and Ethnicity on the Contemporary Stage by Josephine Lee
RRP: £26.99£20.84At a time when Asian American theater is enjoying a measure of growth and success, Josephine Lee tells us about the complex social and political issues depicted by Asian American playwrights. By looking at performances and dramatic texts, Lee argues that... -
The Politics of the Possible: The Brazilian Rural Workers' Trade Union Movement, 1964-1985 by Biorn Maybury-Lewis
RRP: £32.00£29.13Despite the repressive military dictatorship in Brazil from 1964 to 1985, rural workers' trade unions flourished. During that period, 2,800 trade unions, representing 8 million laborers, were founded. Biorn Maybury-Lewis examines how union leaders carved... -
Making Ethnic Choices: California's Punjabi Mexican Americans by Leonard Karen
RRP: £26.99£23.32Defining and changing perceptions of ethnic identityDefining and changing perceptions of ethnic identityAbout the AuthorKaren Isaksen Leonard is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine.Reviews"[A] thoroughly original study that... -
Scandinavian Homosexualities: Essays on Gay and Lesbian Studies by Jan Leofstreom
RRP: £47.99£42.21Scandinavian Homosexualities offers non-Scandinavian readers a rare opportunity to explore the history, sociology, notions, experiences, and cultural politics of homosexuality in Scandinavian societies in English. This unique insight into some of the... -
Anarchism and Eugenics: An Unlikely Convergence, 1890-1940 by Richard Cleminson
RRP: £85.00£60.17At the heart of this book is what would appear to be a striking and fundamental paradox: the espousal of a 'scientific' doctrine that sought to eliminate 'dysgenics' and champion the 'fit' as a means of 'race' survival by a political and social movement... -
Invisible People: Stories of Lives at the Margins by Alex Tizon
RRP: £19.99£12.74"Somewhere in the tangle of the subject's burden and the subject's desire is your story."-Alex Tizon Every human being has an epic story. The late Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Alex Tizon told the epic stories of marginalized people-from lonely... -
Undermining Intersectionality: The Perils of Powerblind Feminism by Barbara Tomlinson
RRP: £57.00£49.33In this provocative book, esteemed scholar Barbara Tomlinson asserts that intersectionality-the idea that categories such as gender, race, and class create overlapping systemsof oppression-is consistently misinterpreted in feminist argument. Despite... -
Unsettled Solidarities: Asian and Indigenous Cross-Representations in the Americas by Quynh Nhu Le
RRP: £31.00£27.36Unsettled Solidarities examines contemporary Asian and Indigenous cross-representations within different settler states in the Americas. Quynh Nhu Le looks at literary works by both groups alongside public apologies, interviews, and hemispheric race... -
Gross Misbehavior and Wickedness: A Notorious Divorce in Early Twentieth-Century America by Jean Elson
RRP: £82.00£71.26The bitter and public court battle waged between Nina and James Walker of Newport, Rhode Island from 1909 to 1916 created a sensation throughout the nation with lurid accounts of-and gossip about-their marital troubles. The ordeal of this high-society... -
We Shall Not Be Moved/No nos moveran: Biography of a Song of Struggle by David Spener
RRP: £19.99£17.54The activist anthem "We Shall Not Be Moved" expresses resolve in the face of adversity; it helps members of social movements persevere in their struggles to build a better world. The exact origins of the song are unknown, but it appears to have... -
Jesus, Jobs, and Justice: African American Women and Religion by Bettye Collier-Thomas
RRP: £24.99£22.67Bettye Collier-Thomas's groundbreaking book, Jesus, Jobs, and Justice-now available for the first time in paperback-provides a remarkable account of the religious faith, social and political activism, and extraordinary resilience of black women during... -
The Strange Music of Social Life: A Dialogue on Dialogic Sociology by Michael Bell
RRP: £24.99£21.67How the music of human interaction can help us better understand the nature of social science researchBook InformationISBN 9781439907245Author Michael BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University... -
Body Language: Sisters in Shape, Black Women's Fitness, and Feminist Identity Politics by Kimberly J. Lau
RRP: £22.99£20.01In her evocative ethnographic study, Body Language, Kimberly Lau traces the multiple ways in which the success of an innovative fitness program illuminates what identity means to its Black female clientele and how their group interaction provides a new... -
American Heathens: The Politics of Identity in a Pagan Religious Movement by Jennifer Snook
RRP: £23.99£20.84American Heathens is the first in-depth ethnographic study about the largely misunderstood practice of American Heathenry (Germanic Paganism). Jennifer Snook-who has been Pagan since her early teens and a Heathen since eighteen-traces the development and... -
Protestors and Their Targets by James Jasper
RRP: £27.99£24.14The strategic interactions between protestors and their targets shape the world around us in profound ways. The editors and contributors to Protesters and Their Targets-all leading scholars in the study of social movements-look at why movements do what... -
Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studies by Anne Enke
RRP: £72.00£62.00Lambda Literary Award for Best Book in Transgender Nonfiction, 2013An exploration of the impact of trans issues in various aspects of higher education.About the AuthorAnne Enke (now Finn Enke )is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies,... -
The Protestant Ethic Revisited by Philip S. Gorski
RRP: £24.99£21.67Essays on the contradictory resurgence of religion and liberalism in the twenty-first century by one of the most important voices in the study of the sociology of religionEssays on the contradictory resurgence of religion and liberalism in the... -
The Borders of Justice by Etienne Balibar
RRP: £24.99£21.67Exploring the limits of and contradictions of transitional justiceExploring the limits of and contradictions of transitional justiceAbout the AuthorEtienne Balibar is Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of California at Irvine. He is... -
Childhood Socialization: Revised Second Edition by Norman K. Denzin
RRP: £45.99£40.13Norman Denzin presents a social psychological account of how the lives of children are shaped by social interaction, particularly interaction with parents and other caretakers. He examines the special language of children, their socialization... -
American Studies: An Anthology by Janice Radway
RRP: £36.95£34.36American Studies is a vigorous, bold account of the changes in the field of American Studies over the last thirty-five years. Through this set of carefully selected key essays by an editorial board of expert scholars, the book demonstrates how changes in... -
steirischer herbst ’19: A Pleasant Apocalypse. Notes from the Grand Hotel Abyss by Ekaterina Degot
RRP: £34.00£11.08A grand hotel on the edge of the abyss? The phrase that provided the title and the agenda for steirischer herbst ’19—Grand Hotel Abyss came from the pen of the philosopher Georg Lukács. In the early 1930's he used this striking metaphor to describe the... -
Embracing Sexuality: Authority and experience in the Catholic Church by Joseph Selling
RRP: £32.99£29.16This title was first published in 2001. This text examines sexuality and interpersonal relationships in relation to the Catholic Church. Topics discussed include spirituality; sexuality; bodiliness and sacramentality; the female experience of sexuality;... -
Analyzing Affective Societies: Methods and Methodologies by Antje Kahl
RRP: £41.99£37.15In recent years, research in the social sciences and cultural studies has increasingly paid attention to the generative power of emotions and affects; that is, to the questions of how far they shape social and cultural processes while being... -
Horizontal Europeanisation: The Transnationalisation of Daily Life and Social Fields in Europe by Martin Heidenreich
RRP: £41.99£36.75Chapter 8 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. https://tandfbis.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws... -
Subverting Consumerism: Reuse in an Accelerated World by Robert Crocker
RRP: £39.99£35.06There is now a widespread interest in reuse in many domains, from opera houses built over old warehouses, to vintage clothes and everyday goods incorporating repurposed materials or parts. Despite its ubiquity, this extensive creative work is typically... -
Populism and the Crisis of Democracy: Volume 3: Migration, Gender and Religion by Gregor Fitzi
RRP: £41.99£36.75The contributions to this volume Migration, Gender and Religion bring together empirically grounded and theoretically sophisticated case studies of populist responses to what are perceived to be the threats to national survival and sovereignty from... -
Police Powers and Citizens’ Rights: Discretionary Decision-Making in Police Detention by Layla Skinns
RRP: £39.99£35.06Police detention is the place where suspects are taken whilst their case is investigated and a case disposal decision is reached. It is also a largely hidden, but vital, part of police work and an under-explored aspect of police studies. This book... -
Populism and the Crisis of Democracy: 3 volume set by Gregor Fitzi
RRP: £120.00£104.61Today, there is no comparable threat to Western democracies as the rise of right-wing populism. While it has played an increasing role at least since the 1990s, only the social consequences of the global financial crises in 2008 have given its break that... -
Gender Hierarchy of Masculinity and Femininity during the Chinese Cultural Revolution: Revolutionary Opera Films by Zhuying Li
RRP: £49.99£28.51Focusing on the influence of Maoist ideology and masculinist power on the representations of women in revolutionary opera films made during the Cultural Revolution, this book considers the gendered hierarchy between masculinity and femininity in relation... -
Risks, Identities and the Everyday by Julie Scott Jones
RRP: £39.99£35.06Risks, Identities and the Everyday focuses on the individual and the lived experience of everyday risks - a departure from the focus on risk from a macro level. The contributors look at risk and how perceptions of risk, risk taking, and risk assessment... -
Viewing Pleasure and Being a Showgirl: How Do I Look? by Alison Carr
RRP: £21.99£16.87Drawing on interviews with a breadth of different showgirls, from shows in Paris, Las Vegas, Berlin, and Los Angeles, as well as her own artworks and those by other contemporary and historical artists, this book examines the experiences of showgirls and... -
Queer Movie Medievalisms by Tison Pugh
RRP: £39.99£35.06How is history even possible, since it involves recapturing a past already lost? It is through this urge to understand, feel and experience, that films based on medieval history are made. They attempt to re-create the past, but can only do so through a... -
Health Care Systems in Developing Countries in Asia by Christian Aspalter
RRP: £38.99£34.22For the last two decades, major Asian economies have successfully kept their economic growth momentum going. Now, as these economies are entering a new phase of economic growth, more attention is being paid to their respective states of social... -
Bicycle Utopias: Imagining Fast and Slow Cycling Futures by Cosmin Popan
RRP: £41.99£36.75Bicycle Utopias investigates the future of urban mobilities and post-car societies, arguing that the bicycle can become the nexus around which most human movement will revolve. Drawing on literature on post-car futures (Urry 2007; Dennis and Urry 2009),... -
Cinematic Tourist Mobilities and the Plight of Development: On Atmospheres, Affects, and Environments by Rodanthi Tzanelli
RRP: £39.99£35.06It is said that movies have encroached upon social realities creating tourism enclaves based on distortions of history and heritage, or simulations that disregard both. What localities and nation-states value are discarded, suppressed, or modified beyond... -
Emotions, Embodied Cognition and the Adaptive Unconscious: A Complex Topography of the Social Making of Things by John A. Smith
RRP: £135.00£117.28Emotions, Embodied Cognition and the Adaptive Unconscious argues for the need to consider many other factors, drawn from disciplines such as socio-biology, evolutionary psychology, the study of the emotions, the adaptive unconscious, the senses and...