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Migrant City by Les Back 9780367371210
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94Migrant City tells the story of contemporary London from the perspective of thirty adult migrants and two sociologists. Connecting migrants' private struggles to the public issues at stake in the way... -
The Art of Listening by Les Back 9781845201210
Booksplease Price: £38.41Our culture is one that speaks rather than listens. From reality TV to political rallies, there is a clamour to be heard, to narrate, and to receive attention. It reduces 'reality' to revelation and... -
Theories of Race and Racism: A Reader by Les Back
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Theories of Race and Racism: A Reader provides an overview of historical and contemporary debates in this vital and ever-evolving field of scholarship and research. Combining contributions from... -
Race, Politics and Social Change by Les Back
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £58.94Drawing on a wealth of original sources, including interviews with politicians and activists this book explores the changing contours of the politics of race in the present social and political... -
Cultural Sociology: An Introduction Les Back (Goldsmith's College, London, UK) 9781405189842
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £26.06Cultural Sociology: An Introduction is the first dedicated student textbook to address cultural sociology as a legitimate model for sociological thinking and research. Highly renowned authors present... -
The Unfinished Politics of Race: Histories of Political Participation, Migration, and Multiculturalism by Les Back 9781009261319
RRP: £83.00Booksplease Price: £79.36The Unfinished Politics of Race argues that the past few decades have seen important transformations in the politics of race. Contending that existing accounts have focused narrowly on the mainstream... -
The Unfinished Politics of Race: Histories of Political Participation, Migration, and Multiculturalism by Les Back 9781009261357
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £25.42The Unfinished Politics of Race argues that the past few decades have seen important transformations in the politics of race. Contending that existing accounts have focused narrowly on the mainstream... -
New Ethnicities And Urban Culture: Social Identity And Racism In The Lives Of Young People Les Back 9781857282528
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Engaging exploration of race and youth culture which examines the development of new identities, ethnicities and forms of racism. This text analyzes the relationship between racism, community and... -
Walking Through Social Research by Charlotte Bates
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £43.94As an ethnographic method walking has a long history, but it has only recently begun to attract focused attention. By walking alongside participants, researchers have been able to observe,... -
The Craft of Knowledge: Experiences of Living with Data by C. Smart 9781137287335
Booksplease Price: £100.25This book is a contribution to contemporary debates on social research with a unique focus on the relationship between methods and the crafting of knowledge. Nine experienced researchers from... -
Young Migrants: Exclusion and Belonging in Europe by Katrine Fangen 9780230298873
Booksplease Price: £46.74This collection is the first to examine the life experiences of young adult immigrants in Europe, as transmitted by the young adults themselves, and together with the analytical framework, seeks to... -
Multicultural Encounters by Sanjay Sharma 9781349517961
Booksplease Price: £95.78This book confronts the challenge of difference for rethinking everyday multiculture. It proposes both a theory and practice of a critical pedagogy of popular culture through an analysis of... -
Cultural Sociology: An Introduction by Andy Bennett 9781405189859
RRP: £80.95Booksplease Price: £74.52Cultural Sociology: An Introduction is the first dedicated student textbook to address cultural sociology as a legitimate model for sociological thinking and research. Highly renowned authors present... -
Out of Whiteness: Color, Politics, and Culture by Vron Ware
Booksplease Price: £28.55What happens when people in societies stratified by race refuse to accept the privileges inherent in whiteness? What difference does it make when whites act in a manner that contradicts their... -
Out of Whiteness: Color, Politics, and Culture by Vron Ware 9780226873411
Booksplease Price: £94.14What happens when people in societies stratified by race refuse to accept the privileges inherent in whiteness? What difference does it make when whites act in a manner that contradicts their... -
New Ethnicities and Language Use by Roxy Harris 9780230580077
Booksplease Price: £46.28The children and grandchildren of South Asian migrants to the UK are living out British identities which go largely unrecognized. This book emphasizes their everyday low-key Britishness, albeit a... -
Offside Racism: Playing the White Man by Colin King 9781859737293
Booksplease Price: £41.78It is a fact that disproportionately few black football players have ever been employed as managers or coaches, despite their prominent presence on the field. How big a role does racism play in... -
Racism and Society by John Solomos 9780333584392
Booksplease Price: £45.30Why is there a resurgence of racism in contemporary societies? How do ideas about race and ethnicity serve to construct forms of social and political identity? These are some of the key questions... -
Inventive Methods: The Happening of the Social by Celia Lury
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Social and cultural research has changed dramatically in the last few years in response to changing conceptions of the empirical, an intensification of interest in interdisciplinary work, and the... -
Placing London: From Imperial Capital to Global City by John Eade 9781571818034
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £21.16"[The] book is neatly divided into three tours of the focal districts of Central London [and] replete with lurid and dangerous sights and sounds ...I am lured by Eade's new manual to travel to... -
Stuart Hall and ‘Race’ Claire Alexander 9781032925165
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £35.44It is impossible to overestimate the importance of Stuart Hall's work in shaping the field of racial and ethnic studies for nearly five decades. From his groundbreaking work Policing the Crisis... -
Race and Ethnicity in Pandemic Times by John Solomos 9781032073538
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This edited collection brings together social scientists working on race and ethnicity to address the question of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, with a focus on issues linked to racial and... -
Affinities: Potent Connections in Personal Life Jennifer Mason 9780745664644
RRP: £18.75Booksplease Price: £17.69How is it possible to feel an affinity with a place? What is happening when someone feels almost literally transported to another time by a smell or a texture or a song? Why do striking family... -
Loud and Proud: Passion and Politics in the English Defence League by Hilary Pilkington 9781784992590
Booksplease Price: £23.93Loud and proud is an ethnographic study of grassroots activists in the English Defence League (EDL). Setting the findings within contemporary debates on race and racism, Islamophobia, social... -
Affinities: Potent Connections in Personal Life by Jennifer Mason 9780745664637
RRP: £57.25Booksplease Price: £50.96How is it possible to feel an affinity with a place? What is happening when someone feels almost literally transported to another time by a smell or a texture or a song? Why do striking family... -
Footwork: Urban Outreach and Hidden Lives by Tom Hall 9780745330587
Booksplease Price: £107.56Footwork is an original street-corner ethnography drawing on the themes of urban regeneration, lost space and the 24-hour city. From the rough sleeping homeless to street drinkers and sex workers, it... -
Punk Sociology by D. Beer 9781137371201
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book explores the possibility of drawing upon a punk ethos to inspire and invigorate sociology. It uses punk to think creatively about what sociology is and how it might be conducted and aims to... -
Vital Bodies: Living with Illness by Charlotte Bates 9781447335047
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £69.79This book is the story of twelve people, each living with long-term illness. Delving into the routines and rhythms of everyday life, the book reveals the significance of the things that we usually... -
No One Likes Us, We Don't Care: The Myth and Reality of Millwall Fandom by Garry Robson 9781859733677
Booksplease Price: £113.11Shortlisted for the Philip Abrams Memorial Book Prize 2001 'No one likes us, we dont care' is the anthem of the most notorious fans in British football. But little is known about the actual people... -
Vital Bodies: Living with Illness Charlotte Bates (Cardiff University) 9781447335061
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.53This book is the story of twelve people, each living with long-term illness. Delving into the routines and rhythms of everyday life, the book reveals the significance of the things that we usually... -
No One Likes Us, We Don't Care: The Myth and Reality of Millwall Fandom by Garry Robson 9781859733721
Booksplease Price: £31.86Shortlisted for the Philip Abrams Memorial Book Prize 2001 'No one likes us, we dont care' is the anthem of the most notorious fans in British football. But little is known about the actual people... -
Footwork: Urban Outreach and Hidden Lives by Tom Hall 9780745330570
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.24Footwork is an original street-corner ethnography drawing on the themes of urban regeneration, lost space and the 24-hour city. From the rough sleeping homeless to street drinkers and sex workers, it... -
Black Middle-Class Britannia: Identities, Repertoires, Cultural Consumption by Ali Meghji 9781526143075
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £61.61This book analyses how racism and anti-racism affects Black British middle-class cultural consumption. In doing so, it challenges the dominant understanding of British middle-class identity and... -
Black Middle-Class Britannia: Identities, Repertoires, Cultural Consumption by Ali Meghji 9781526156082
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.54This book analyses how racism and anti-racism affects Black British middle-class cultural consumption. In doing so, it challenges the dominant understanding of British middle-class identity and... -
The Invisible Empire: White Discourse, Tolerance and Belonging Georgie Wemyss 9781138274211
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98This book offers a significant and original contribution to critical race theory. Georgie Wemyss offers an anthropological account of the cultural hegemony of the West through investigations of the... -
Racism, Policy and Politics Karim Murji 9781447319580
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £24.04This book analyses and bridges the gap between critical social research on race and politics by reviewing the academic field of race theorising and scholarship, covering changes in race and racism... -
The Auditory Culture Reader Michael Bull 9781472569028
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.99The first edition of The Auditory Culture Reader offered an introduction to both classical and recent work on auditory culture, laying the foundations for new academic research in sound studies... -
Social Tragedy: The Power of Myth, Ritual, and Emotion in the New Media Ecology by S. Baker 9781137386137
Booksplease Price: £46.74A social tragedy is a collective representation of injustice. Baker demonstrates how social tragedies facilitate moral action and discusses a series of contemporary case studies - the death of... -
Social cohesion and counter-terrorism: A policy contradiction? by Charles Husband 9781847428011
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.79Post 9/11, the imposition of policies of counter-terrorism has seen the erosion of support for fundamental human rights. Simultaneously, Muslim communities in European cities have become a focus for... -
The Changing Face of Football by John Solomos 9781859734834
Booksplease Price: £36.44The game of football has undergone massive changes in the past few decades. The creation of the F.A. Premier League, the influx of television revenue, the commercialization of the game, and the...