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Hierarchies at Work: Race, World-Systems, and Legal Distribution Karen Engle 9780231212243
RRP: €159.46Booksplease Price: €126.41This book challenges dominant understandings of both economic inequality and the future of work. Leading scholars in law, social sciences, and the humanities consider the production and reproduction... -
DREAMers and the Choreography of Protest by Michael P. Young 9780197608180
Booksplease Price: €84.20DREAMers and the Choreography of Protest chronicles the history of the DREAMers--the term used to describe undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children. Based on interviews with... -
Stitches on Time: Colonial Textures and Postcolonial Tangles by Saurabh Dube
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94Destined to become a key work of subaltern studies and a crucial intervention in postcolonial scholarship, Stitches on Time probes the relationships between empire and modernity, nation and history,... -
Routledge International Handbook of the Sociology of Art and Culture Laurie Hanquinet 9781138596399
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €59.73The Routledge Handbook of the Sociology of Arts and Culture offers a comprehensive overview of sociology of art and culture, focusing especially - though not exclusively - on the visual arts,... -
A Social Theory of the Nation-State: The Political Forms of Modernity Beyond Methodological Nationalism Daniel Chernilo 9780415439930
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €59.37A Social Theory of the Nation-State: the political forms of modernity beyond methodological nationalism, construes a novel and original social theory of the nation-state. It rejects nationalistic... -
Marcel Gauchet and the Crisis of Democratic Politics Natalie J. Doyle (Monash University, Melbourne, Australia) 9780367696894
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €50.27This book presents, for the first time in the English language, Marcel Gauchet's interpretation of the challenges faced by contemporary Western societies as a result of the crisis of liberal... -
Laid Off, Laid Low: Political and Economic Consequences of Employment Insecurity by Katherine S. Newman
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.37Laid Off, Laid Low provides a sobering portrait of the ailing American labor system and the social and political consequences of increasing job insecurity. It proves that the health of the labor... -
Habitus: A Sense of Place Emma Rooksby 9780754645641
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €59.73Habitus is a concept developed by the late French sociologist, Pierre Bourdieu, as a 'sense of one's place...a sense of the other's place'. It relates to our perceptions of the positions (or 'place')... -
Pop Music, Pop Culture by Chris Rojek 9780745642642
Booksplease Price: €31.89What is happening to pop music and pop culture? Synthesizers, samplers and MDI systems have allowed anyone with basic computing skills to make music. Exchange is now automatic and weightless, with... -
Transnationalizing the Public Sphere by Nancy Fraser 9780745650593
Booksplease Price: €20.46Is Habermas's concept of the public sphere still relevant in an age of globalization, when the transnational flows of people and information have become increasingly intensive and when the... -
Challenging Capitalism: Paths Taken, Roads Ahead Peter A. Coclanis 9781041030386
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.59Commentators today generally agree that we are at an inflection point in the history of capitalism. This economic system in its long-regnant neoliberal form-privileging free international trade,... -
Humanitarianism in Question: Politics, Power, Ethics by Michael Barnett 9780801444869
RRP: €142.80Booksplease Price: €79.16Years of tremendous growth in response to complex emergencies have left a mark on the humanitarian sector. Various matters that once seemed settled are now subjects of intense debate. What is... -
Surveillance After September 11 by David Lyon 9780745631813
Booksplease Price: €20.38Prominent among the quests for post-9/11 security are developments in surveillance, especially at national borders. These developments are not new, but many of them have been extended and intensified... -
Evil Michel Wieviorka (Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales) 9780745653938
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €18.25In contrast to traditional systems of thought which regarded evil as a supernatural force that explained human misfortune, Michel Wieviorka develops a sociological analysis of evil phenomena. His... -
Evil by Michel Wieviorka 9780745653921
RRP: €59.50Booksplease Price: €53.31In contrast to traditional systems of thought which regarded evil as a supernatural force that explained human misfortune, Michel Wieviorka develops a sociological analysis of evil phenomena. His... -
The Making of White American Identity by Ron Eyerman 9780197658949
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €29.25An account of the emergence and development of white consciousness throughout American history. In The Making of White American Identity, Ron Eyerman provides an explanation for how whiteness has... -
The Sociology of Katrina: Perspectives on a Modern Catastrophe by David L. Brunsma 9781442206274
Booksplease Price: €53.62The second edition of The Sociology of Katrina brings together the nation's top sociological researchers in an effort to deepen our understanding of the modern catastrophe that is Hurricane Katrina... -
The Sociology of Theodor Adorno by Matthias Benzer 9781107000094
RRP: €74.97Booksplease Price: €72.30Theodor Adorno is a widely-studied figure, but most often with regard to his work on cultural theory, philosophy and aesthetics. The Sociology of Theodor Adorno provides the first thorough... -
The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences: Positivism and Its Epistemological Others by George Steinmetz 9780822335061
RRP: €138.04Booksplease Price: €111.65The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences provides a remarkable comparative assessment of the variations of positivism and alternative epistemologies in the contemporary human sciences. Often... -
New Media, Development and Globalization: Making Connections in the Global South Don Slater (London School of Economics and Political Science) 9780745638331
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €19.27New media, development and globalization are the key terms through which the future is being imagined and performed in governance, development initiatives and public and political discourse. Yet... -
Resonance: A Sociology of Our Relationship to the World Hartmut Rosa (Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena, Germany; Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, Erfurt, Germany) 9781509519897
RRP: €77.35Booksplease Price: €69.44The pace of modern life is undoubtedly speeding up, yet this acceleration does not seem to have made us any happier or more content. If acceleration is the problem, then the solution, argues Hartmut... -
The Sociology of Theodor Adorno by Matthias Benzer 9781107416741
RRP: €49.98Booksplease Price: €48.77Theodor Adorno is a widely-studied figure, but most often with regard to his work on cultural theory, philosophy and aesthetics. The Sociology of Theodor Adorno provides the first thorough... -
Resonance, A Sociology of the Relationship to the World by H Rosa
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €20.79The pace of modern life is undoubtedly speeding up, yet this acceleration does not seem to have made us any happier or more content. If acceleration is the problem, then the solution, argues Hartmut... -
A God of One's Own: Religion's Capacity for Peace and Potential for Violence Ulrich Beck (University of Munich) 9780745646190
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €18.25Religion posits one characteristic as an absolute: faith. Compared to faith, all other social distinctions and sources of conflict are insignificant. The New Testament says: 'We are all equal in the... -
The Metamorphosis of the World: How Climate Change is Transforming Our Concept of the World Ulrich Beck (Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich) 9780745690216
RRP: €59.50Booksplease Price: €53.31We live in a world that is increasingly difficult to understand. It is not just changing: it is metamorphosing. Change implies that some things change but other things remain the same capitalism... -
Babel Unbound: Rage, reason and rethinking public life by Lesley Cowling 9781776145898
RRP: €45.22Booksplease Price: €38.18In this timely, original and sophisticated collection, writers from the Global South demonstrate that forms of publicness are multiple, mobile and varied The notion that societies mediate issues... -
The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences: Positivism and Its Epistemological Others by George Steinmetz 9780822335184
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €32.96The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences provides a remarkable comparative assessment of the variations of positivism and alternative epistemologies in the contemporary human sciences. Often... -
On the Grid: Climate Change and the Utopia of Green Energy Michael Warner 9780197696248
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €23.61What kind of future would the utopian idea of unlimited green energy bring about? On the Grid, based on Michael Warner's Berkeley Tanner Lectures, raises critical questions about the sharp turn in... -
Moments of Truth: The Politics of Financial Crises in Comparative Perspective by Francisco Panizza
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23The current financial and sovereign debt crisis of the European Union and the United States can be regarded as the most recent of a wave of financial and sovereign debt crises that have affected... -
The Metamorphosis of the World: How Climate Change is Transforming Our Concept of the World Ulrich Beck (Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich) 9780745690223
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €20.27We live in a world that is increasingly difficult to understand. It is not just changing: it is metamorphosing. Change implies that some things change but other things remain the same capitalism... -
The Making of White American Identity by Ron Eyerman 9780197658932
Booksplease Price: €109.34An account of the emergence and development of white consciousness throughout American history. In The Making of White American Identity, Ron Eyerman provides an explanation for how whiteness has... -
Bourdieu and the Journalistic Field by Rodney Benson 9780745633862
RRP: €65.45Booksplease Price: €60.27Bourdieu and the Journalistic Field is an exciting new text which builds on and extends Pierre Bourdieu's impassioned critique of our media-saturated culture. Presenting for the first time in... -
Media and Social Justice by Jefferson Pooley 9780230108639
Booksplease Price: €55.07This book is an anthology of work by critical media scholars, media makers, and activists who are committed to advancing social justice. Topics addressed include but are not limited to international... -
The Sociology of Cosmopolitanism: Globalization, Identity, Culture and Government by Gavin Kendall 9780230008687
Booksplease Price: €55.07The dream of a cosmopolitical utopia has been around for thousands of years. Yet the promise of being locally situated while globally connected and mobile has never seemed more possible than today... -
Sinews of the Nation: Constructing Irish and Zionist Bonds in the United States by Dan Lainer-Vos 9780745662640
RRP: €65.45Booksplease Price: €58.37Fundraising may not seem like an obvious lens through which to examine the process of nation-building, but in this highly original book Lainer-Vos shows that fundraising mechanisms - ranging from... -
Sinews of the Nation: Constructing Irish and Zionist Bonds in the United States by Dan Lainer-Vos 9780745662657
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €20.27Fundraising may not seem like an obvious lens through which to examine the process of nation-building, but in this highly original book Lainer-Vos shows that fundraising mechanisms - ranging from... -
Making Sense of Brexit: Democracy, Europe and Uncertain Futures Victor Seidler 9781447345206
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €16.95After the shock decision to leave the EU in 2016, what can we learn about our divided and unequal society and the need to listen to each other? This engaging and accessible book addresses the causes... -
Media and Social Justice by Sue Curry Jansen 9781137331441
Booksplease Price: €55.07This book is an anthology of work by critical media scholars, media makers, and activists who are committed to advancing social justice. Topics addressed include but are not limited to international... -
What's Going On?: The Struggle for Contemporary American Identity Lawrence Grossberg 9781041119999
RRP: €38.07Booksplease Price: €37.12Exploring the backstory of contemporary political polarization, What's Going On? recognizes that simple stories of blame and uncontested stories of polarization prove themselves to be bad stories... -
Beyond Common Sense: Psychological Science in the Courtroom by Eugene Borgida 9781405145732
RRP: €129.65Booksplease Price: €116.33Beyond Common Sense addresses the many important and controversial issues that arise from the use of psychological and social science in the courtroom. Each chapter identifies areas of scientific...