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Social Imaginaries: Critical Interventions by Suzi Adams 9781786607768
Booksplease Price: £45.75Written by members of the Social Imaginaries Editorial Collective, these programmatic essays showcase new critical interventions in understandings of social imaginaries and the human condition. They... -
Flip-Flop: A Journey Through Globalisation's Backroads by Caroline Knowles 9780745334127
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £69.54*Shortlisted for the BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography 2015* This book follows the global trail of one of the world's most unremarkable and ubiquitous objects - flip-flops... -
Does Capitalism Have a Future? by Immanuel Wallerstein 9780199330850
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £23.65The Great Recession has prompted a reassessment of the specific mode of capitalist accumulation that achieved dominance in the era of globalization. Yet just about all of this literature has focused... -
Time and World Hartmut Rosa 9781509566273
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.34Hartmut Rosa is a leading social theorist whose books on social acceleration and resonance have become milestones in discussions about the problems and promises of late modern societies. Rosa not... -
The Politics of Belonging: Intersectional Contestations by Nira Yuval-Davis 9781412921305
Booksplease Price: £62.02"This is an in-depth examination of a slippery and contradictory subject. Knowledge alone is not enough for this type of project. It takes breaking out of narrow conceptual cages and unsettling... -
European Cosmopolitanism in Question by Roland Robertson 9780230302624
Booksplease Price: £48.04Including a stellar line-up of international scholars, this book is an ambitious analysis of cosmopolitanism that will push the debate into new arenas, open up new lines of inquiry and have an impact... -
The New Medical Sociology: Social Forms of Health and Illness by Bryan S. Turner 9780393975055
Booksplease Price: £27.56The author, Bryan Turner, examines how macro processes like globalization, risk, economic deregulation, and technological change shape personal experiences of health and illness. Addressing key... -
Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem by Steven E. Aschheim
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £24.75For many years Hannah Arendt (1906--1975) has been the object of intense debate. After her bitter critiques of Zionism, which seemed to nullify her early involvement with that movement, and her... -
Dialectic of Romanticism by Peter Murphy 9780826487865
Booksplease Price: £81.47Dialectic of Romanticism presents a radical new assessment of the aesthetic and philosophical history and future of modernity. An exploration of the internal critique of modernism treats romanticism... -
Flip-Flop: A Journey Through Globalisation's Backroads Caroline Knowles (Goldsmiths, University of London) 9780745334110
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.29*Shortlisted for the BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography 2015* This book follows the global trail of one of the world's most unremarkable and ubiquitous objects - flip-flops... -
Does Capitalism Have a Future? by Immanuel Wallerstein 9780199330843
RRP: £147.50Booksplease Price: £117.40The Great Recession has prompted a reassessment of the specific mode of capitalist accumulation that achieved dominance in the era of globalization. Yet just about all of this literature has focused... -
Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Theory and Practice across Disciplines by Scott Frickel 9780813585895
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £96.15Interdisciplinarity has become a buzzword in academia, as research universities funnel their financial resources toward collaborations between faculty in different disciplines. In theory,... -
European Cosmopolitanism in Question by Roland Robertson 9780230302631
Booksplease Price: £46.28Including a stellar line-up of international scholars, this book is an ambitious analysis of cosmopolitanism that will push the debate into new arenas, open up new lines of inquiry and have an impact... -
Democracy Needs Religion by Hartmut Rosa 9781509561230
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.89What role does religion play in modern societies? Is it merely an anachronism that hinders our economic growth? Is it a kind of superstition that people should be left to enjoy in private but... -
Alienation and Acceleration: Towards a Critical Theory of Late-Modern Temporality Hartmut Rosa 9781509572076
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.48Modern life is speeding-up, constantly. While the art of saving time reaches unprecedented heights through the introduction of ever-new technologies of communication and production, it nevertheless... -
Passionate Politics: Emotions and Social Movements by Jeff Goodwin
Booksplease Price: £33.24Emotions are back. Once at the center of the study of politics, emotions have receded into the shadows during the past three decades, with no place in the rationalistic, structural, and... -
Passionate Politics – Emotions and Social Movements by Jeff Goodwin
RRP: £81.00Booksplease Price: £78.54Emotions are back. Once at the center of the study of politics, emotions have receded into the shadows during the past three decades, with no place in the rationalistic, structural, and... -
Alienation and Acceleration: Towards a Critical Theory of Late-Modern Temporality Hartmut Rosa 9781509572069
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £40.55Modern life is speeding-up, constantly. While the art of saving time reaches unprecedented heights through the introduction of ever-new technologies of communication and production, it nevertheless... -
Loving Your Neighbour in an Age of Religious Conflict: A New Agenda for Interfaith Relations by James Walters
Booksplease Price: £25.71This book offers a fresh perspective on religious difference by setting local challenges within the global picture, and exploring the meaning of religious resurgence for Western secularist ideas... -
Hannah Arendt: An Introduction by John McGowan 9780816630707
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24An informative and lively book about one of the foremost political thinkers of our time.Hannah Arendt was one of this century's leading political theorists and most controversial public intellectuals... -
Democracy Needs Religion by Hartmut Rosa 9781509561223
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £25.93What role does religion play in modern societies? Is it merely an anachronism that hinders our economic growth? Is it a kind of superstition that people should be left to enjoy in private but... -
Self, Social Structure, and Beliefs: Explorations in Sociology by Jeffrey C. Alexander 9780520241374
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.84Teacher, scholar, and leader, Neil Smelser stands as an iconic figure in sociology in the second half of the twentieth century. The essays in this volume, written by prominent scholars from all walks... -
Wronged and Dangerous: Viral Masculinity and the Populist Pandemic by Karen Lee Ashcraft 9781529221398
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £69.79Recent years have seen the rapid spread of far-right movements across the globe. Far beyond Donald Trump, these movements are reshaping the physical world in ways that pose danger to everyone,... -
<i>Group Experiment</i> and Other Writings: The Frankfurt School on Public Opinion in Postwar Germany by Friedrich Pollock
RRP: £55.95Booksplease Price: £45.78During the occupation of West Germany after the Second World War, the American authorities commissioned polls to assess the values and opinions of ordinary Germans. They concluded that the fascist... -
Repertoires and Cycles of Collective Action by Mark Traugott 9780822315278
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £89.90The modern era has generated a bewildering profusion of popular protest including widespread social movements and sporadic revolutionary upheaval. Despite the seemingly chaotic character of such... -
Global Governance at Risk by David Held 9780745665245
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05Since 2007 the world has lurched from one crisis to the next. The rise of new powers, the collapse of our global financial system, the proliferation of nuclear weapons and crisis in the Eurozone have... -
Repertoires and Cycles of Collective Action by Mark Traugott 9780822315469
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48The modern era has generated a bewildering profusion of popular protest including widespread social movements and sporadic revolutionary upheaval. Despite the seemingly chaotic character of such... -
The New American Cultural Sociology by Philip Smith 9780521586344
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £37.44American Cultural Sociology presents a serious challenge to British Cultural Studies and European grand theory alike. This exciting volume brings together sixteen seminal papers by leading figures in... -
Global Governance at Risk by David Held 9780745665252
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.03Since 2007 the world has lurched from one crisis to the next. The rise of new powers, the collapse of our global financial system, the proliferation of nuclear weapons and crisis in the Eurozone have... -
Civic War and the Corruption of the Citizen by Peter Alexander Meyers
Booksplease Price: £33.54In this unique book, Peter Alexander Meyers leads us through the social processes by which shock incites terror, terror invites war, war invokes emergency, and emergency supports unchecked power. He... -
The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa: Money, War and the Business of Power Alex de Waal 9780745695570
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa delves into the business of politics in the turbulent, war-torn countries of north-east Africa. It is a contemporary history of how politicians, generals and... -
Pierre Bourdieu and Democratic Politics: The Mystery of Ministry by Loic Wacquant 9780745634876
Booksplease Price: £56.67Pierre Bourdieu was a brilliant sociologist and social thinker; he was also an intensely political man whose work is of profound significance for rethinking democracy. This original volume presents... -
Time and World Hartmut Rosa 9781509566266
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80Hartmut Rosa is a leading social theorist whose books on social acceleration and resonance have become milestones in discussions about the problems and promises of late modern societies. Rosa not... -
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Democratic Theorizing From The Margins by Marla Brettschneider 9781566399210 [USED COPY]
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £1.93Democratic Theorizing from the Margins lays out the basic parameters of diversity-based politics as a still emerging form of democratic theory. Students, activists, and scholars engage in diversity... -
Democratic Theorizing From The Margins by Marla Brettschneider 9781566399210
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £44.17Democratic Theorizing from the Margins lays out the basic parameters of diversity-based politics as a still emerging form of democratic theory. Students, activists, and scholars engage in diversity... -
Jeffrey Alexander and Cultural Sociology by Jean–Francois Côté
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.03This book presents the first comprehensive and critical account of Jeffrey Alexander's cultural sociology. Alexander has proposed a "strong program" in cultural sociology that analyses the cultural... -
The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa: Money, War and the Business of Power Alex de Waal 9780745695587
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.89The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa delves into the business of politics in the turbulent, war-torn countries of north-east Africa. It is a contemporary history of how politicians, generals and... -
Pierre Bourdieu and Democratic Politics: The Mystery of Ministry by Loic Wacquant 9780745634883
Booksplease Price: £19.71Pierre Bourdieu was a brilliant sociologist and social thinker; he was also an intensely political man whose work is of profound significance for rethinking democracy. This original volume presents... -
Imagined Societies: A Critique of Immigrant Integration in Western Europe by Willem Schinkel 9781107573093
Booksplease Price: £32.12In many countries in Western Europe, the demand for immigrant integration has inevitably raised questions about the 'societies' into which immigrants are asked to integrate. Imagined Societies... -
Cosmopolitan Vision by Ulrich Beck 9780745633992
Booksplease Price: £19.71In this new book, Ulrich Beck develops his now widely used concepts of second modernity, risk society and reflexive sociology into a radical new sociological analysis of the cosmopolitan implications...