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Book SynopsisWe are living through a period of dramatic political change – Brexit, the election of Trump, the rise of extreme right movements in Europe and elsewhere, the resurgence of nationalism and xenophobia and a concerted assault on the liberal values and ideals associated with cosmopolitanism and globalization. Suddenly we find ourselves in a world that few would have imagined possible just a few years ago, a world that seems to many to be a move backwards. How can we make sense of these dramatic developments and how should we respond to them? Are we witnessing a worldwide rejection of liberal democracy and its replacement by some kind of populist authoritarianism? This timely volume brings together some of the world's greatest minds to analyse and seek to understand the forces behind this 'great regression'. Writers from across disciplines and countries, including Paul Mason, Pankaj Mishra, Slavoj Zizek, Zygmunt Bauman, Arjun Appadurai, Wolfgang Streeck and Eva Illouz, grapple with our current predicament, framing it in a broader historical context, discussing possible future trajectories and considering ways that we might combat this reactionary turn. The Great Regression is a key intervention that will be of great value to all those concerned about recent developments and wondering how best to respond to this unprecedented challenge to the very core of liberal democracy and internationalism across the world today. For more information, see: www.thegreatregression.euTrade Review"With 15 fresh, riveting essays by notable political analysts and international studies scholars from nearly as many different countries, The Great Regression, Heinrich Geiselberger's new volume addressing the many perilous aspects of global interdependence, is a must-read for anyone curious to know more about the deeper structures at play in contemporary international politics."HyperallergicTable of ContentsList of Contributors Preface Heinrich Geiselberger 1. Democracy Fatigue Arjun Appadurai 2. Symptoms in Search of an Object and a Name Zygmunt Bauman 3. Progressive and Regressive Politics in Late Neoliberalism Donatella della Porta 4. Progressive Neoliberalism versus Reactionary Populism: A Hobson�s Choice Nancy Fraser 5. Populism or the Crisis of Liberal Elites: The Case of Israel Eva Illouz 6. Majoritarian Futures Ivan Krastev 7. Europe as refuge Bruno Latour 8. Overcoming the Fear of Freedom Paul Mason 9. Politics in the Age of Resentment. The Dark Legacy of the Enlightenment Pankaj Mishra 10. The Courage to be Audacious Robert Misik 11. Decivilisation. On regressive tendencies in Western democracies Oliver Nachtwey 12. From Global Regression to Post-Capitalist Counter-Movements César Rendueles 13. The Return of the Repressed as the Beginning of the End of Neoliberal Capitalism Wolfgang Streeck 14. Dear President Juncker David Van Reybrouck 15. The Populist Temptation Slavoj Zizek

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Book SynopsisCulture, cultural difference, and cultural conflict always surround us. Cultural sociologists aim to understand their role across all aspects of social life by examining processes of meaning-making. In this crisp and accessible book, Lyn Spillman demonstrates many of the conceptual tools cultural sociologists use to explore how people make meaning. Drawing on vivid examples, she offers a compelling analytical framework within which to view the entire field of cultural sociology. In each chapter, she introduces a different angle of vision, with distinct but compatible approaches for explaining culture and its role in social life: analyzing symbolic forms, meaning-making in interaction, and organized production. This book both offers a concise answer to the question of what cultural sociology is and provides an overview of the fundamental approaches in the field.Trade Review“What is Cultural Sociology? reveals Spillman's remarkable ability for analytical synthesis, and her knowledge of (often little-known) empirical studies adds welcome depth to her theoretical discussion. Rather than posing cultural sociology as a battle between schools, Spillman reconstructs it as a relatively coherent model of social life, developing a sophisticated and compelling model that provides an organizing frame for the entire cultural sociological field.”Jeffrey C. Alexander, Yale University, and Co-Director, Center for Cultural Sociology “Spillman has produced a particularly smart, sound, clear, and up-to-date description of the state of the field of cultural sociology. With a focus on meaning-making and cultural processes, she takes stock and provides an excellent account of what this popular field has to offer after thirty exciting years of dynamic growth. Her book should become an essential tool for all sociologists and a popular reference source.”Michèle Lamont, Harvard University and former President of the American Sociological Association"What is Cultural Sociology? makes for a valuable resource for students and teachers from the undergraduate level and up, as well as researchers interested in cultural sociology, meaning making, and the social construction of reality."Acta Sociologica"The goal of this book is to create a means by which to learn cultural sociology that is not only about certain theorists or mutually exclusive theoretical positions, and towards this end, I believe, Spillman succeeds. […] The text would make for an excellent undergraduate primer, and as such, makes the task of teaching an introduction to cultural sociology all the more attainable."International Journal of Politics, Culture, and SocietyTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Making Meaning Central 3. Meaning and Interaction 4. Producing Meaning 5. Conclusion: Landscapes, Stages, and Fields

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Book SynopsisAt the end of life, our comfort lies mainly in relationships. In this book, Daniel Miller, one of the world's leading anthropologists, examines the social worlds of people suffering from terminal or long-term illness. Threading together a series of personal stories, based on interviews conducted with patients of an English hospice, Miller draws out the implications of these narratives for our understanding of community, friendship, and kinship, but also loneliness and isolation. This is a book about people's lives, not their deaths: about the hospice patients rather than the hospice. It focuses on the comfort given by friends, carers and relatives through both face-to-face relations and, increasingly, online communication. Miller asks whether the loneliness and isolation he uncovers is the result of a decline of English patterns of socialising, or their continuation. This moving and deeply humane book combines warmth and sharp observation with anthropological insight and practical suggestions for the use of media by the hospice. It will be of interest not only to students and scholars of anthropology, sociology, social policy and media and cultural studies, but also to healthcare professionals and, indeed, to anyone who would like to know more about the role of relationships in the final stage of our lives.Trade Review'The Comfort of People reveals, in both technicolour and shades of grey, the ordinariness, the drama, the simplicity and the complexity of networks as people live out lives in the shadow of a serious diagnosis... These stories need to be read by all those working with dying people.' —Dr Ros Taylor, Clinical Director, Hospice UKTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword Introduction Story 1) Sarah Story 2) Champneys for the Terminal Story 3) The Curse Of Confidentiality Story 4) Parkinson�s Story 5) Four Friends Story 6) Betty and Gloria Story 7) Tom, Dick and Robin Rigby Story 8) My Fair Lady Story 9) Maypole Story 10) Control Centre Story 11) Our Forum Story 12) Depression Story 13) Community Story 14) Bluebells Story 15) The Intimacy Of Strangers Story 16) The Silent Community Story 17) In This Room Story 18) Matt Conclusions Recommendations for Hospice Use of New Media Bibliography

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Book SynopsisFrom everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity. Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen discrimination while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to the racism of a previous era. Presenting the concept of the “New Jim Code,” she shows how a range of discriminatory designs encode inequity by explicitly amplifying racial hierarchies; by ignoring but thereby replicating social divisions; or by aiming to fix racial bias but ultimately doing quite the opposite. Moreover, she makes a compelling case for race itself as a kind of technology, designed to stratify and sanctify social injustice in the architecture of everyday life. This illuminating guide provides conceptual tools for decoding tech promises with sociologically informed skepticism. In doing so, it challenges us to question not only the technologies we are sold but also the ones we ourselves manufacture. Visit the book's free Discussion Guide: www.dropbox.comTrade ReviewWinner of the ASA Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities Oliver Cromwell Cox Best Book Award 2020 Awarded Honorable Mention in the ASA Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology Section's Book Award 2020 Winner of Brooklyn Public Library's Literary Prize for Nonfiction 2020 "Race After Technology is a brilliant, beautifully argued, engagingly written, and groundbreaking work. Ruha Benjamin is that rare scholar whose sophisticated understanding of science and technology is matched by her deep knowledge of race and racialization. Here she guides us into fresh terrain for understanding and tackling the persistence of racial inequality. This book should be read by everyone committed to creating a more just world."—Imani Perry, Princeton University, author of Vexy Thing and Looking for Lorraine "Race After Technology is essential reading, decoding as it does the ever-expanding and morphing technologies that have infiltrated our everyday lives and our most powerful institutions. These digital tools predictably replicate and deepen racial hierarchies — all too often strengthening rather than undermining pervasive systems of racial and social control."—Michelle Alexander, Union Theological Seminary, author of The New Jim Crow "This book is the best single overview of how and why new technologies perpetuate and exacerbate racism."—Rob Reich, The Wall Street Journal "This book is worthy of the widest readership, leaving us not only with a deeper understanding of the mutual and shifting roles of race and technology, but also, importantly, with the manageable and doable tools with which to create alternative, equitable, inclusive and prosperous futures."—Shakir Mohamed, DeepMind, Nature Machine Intelligence "Race After Technology is a scintillating examination of how even something as seemingly all-oppressive as surveillance normalization is differentially oppressive — and how we can build alternative futures and solidary coalitions all the same."—Full Stop "Race After Technology spins [a] web of examples over the reader's own understanding of technology and leaves the reader with a new lens to view the world around them."—Science & Technology Studies "Powerful yet accessible, [...] it is the foundation for an expanded, critical conversation about the meaning of technology in society that desperately calls for greater attention, both academic and activist."—Antipode Online "Benjamin's work is ideal for anyone who is unafraid to look at the historical intersections of racial injustice, technology, and where these topics inform possible solutions for the future."—Library Journal "[I]mpactfully written, well researched and refreshingly clear […] Simply said, Race After Technology will become a staple in contemporary critical thinking at a time when it is most needed."—Marx and Philosophy "Shines light on an important issue"—Morning Star "Ruha Benjamin contributes to our understanding of the dangers of racism in the 21st century in her illuminating account of how racism and inequality underpin new technologies. Benjamin reminds us that racism is everywhere - and by its very nature not only seeps into technological advances but is part of how they are designed."—Times Higher Education "What's ultimately distinctive about Race After Technology is that its withering critiques of the present are so galvanizing.... This is perhaps Benjamin's greatest feat in the book: Her inventive and wide-ranging analyses remind us that as much as we try to purge ourselves from our tools and view them as external to our flaws, they are always extensions of us. As exacting a worldview as that is, it is also inclusive and hopeful."—The Nation "What sets her [book] apart is not her lucid, clear and engaging writing style but rather her broad empirical scope which covers examples from digital security and surveillance infrastructures right through to search engines and AI-powered beauty apps. They are exemplify what Benjamin calls the new Jim Code."—Ethnic and Racial Studies "Benjamin has broken new ground with this volume, which is a crucial read for a wide audience, including novice consumers of technology all the way to the most experienced coders and creators."—Choice "One of the most interesting elements of Race After Technology is that it moves us from the fantasy world of the allegedly neutral robot into a world where we have to reckon with the unintended consequences of digital discrimination."—Edna Bonhomme, Radical Philosophy "Race After Technology provides a clear and useful synthesis of concepts of race within the broader science and technology studies discourse."—The Journal of Popular Culture "In her latest book, 'Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code' Ruha Benjamin offers a detailed, critical and sobering view of the ways in which bias is infused into technology. [….] 'Race After Technology' presents a wide range of examples of discriminatory design and offers a toolkit for understanding the ways in which technology can reinforce and deepen societal inequalities."—Denise Valenti, Press Release PointTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: The New Jim Code 1 Engineered Inequity: Are Robots Racist? 2 Default Discrimination: Is the Glitch Systemic? 3 Coded Exposure: Is Visibility a Trap? 4 Technological Benevolence: Do Fixes Fix Us? 5 Retooling Solidarity, Reimagining Justice Acknowledgments Appendix Notes References

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Book SynopsisWe live in a mutilated world and our humanity seems irrevocably damaged. Many critics suggest we have reached the end of humanity. In this challenging book, Ken Plummer suggests that such claims may be premature; instead, what we need is a new transformative understanding of humanity. Critical Humanism critically reflects upon and reimagines humanism for the twenty-first century. What is now required is a fresh, wide-ranging imaginary of an open, worldly, plural and caring humanity. It needs to take a critical stance towards older, often divisive ideas of what it means to be human, while reconnecting to a wider understanding of the rich diversity of life in the pluriverse. In an age of post- and transhumanist turns, Plummer provides a personal, political and passionate call for thinkers, researchers and activists to not turn their backs on humanism. We need instead to create a vital new political imaginary of being human in a connected planet. We simply cannot afford to be anti-human or posthuman. Restoring our belief in humanity has never been more important for edging towards a better world for all.Trade Review‘[R]efreshing: [Plummer’s] vision of critical humanism is aspirational and ambitious, yet it strives to sustain humility based on historical experiences.’Social Forces ‘This book is an extraordinarily brave and enormously comprehensive attempt to re-energize an interest in the battered concept of humanism, fully realizing its author’s intention to provide “a vision of something better”.’Laurie Taylor, University of York, and presenter of Thinking Allowed, BBC Radio Four ‘Plummer engages with an extraordinary range of different literatures and a lifetime of reflection to consider what it will take to be truly human in the twenty-first century. We should grapple seriously with his impassioned and challenging arguments.’Rob Stones, Western Sydney University ‘Ken Plummer’s mission has been to expand the range and depth of decencies; here he seeks larger principles on which to ground mutual regard. This is a fundamental study – rooted in conscience, sociological learning and intimate generosity. Critical Humanism stirs the mind.’Harvey Molotch, New York University, and University of California, Santa BarbaraTable of ContentsList of tables and figures Acknowledgements Introduction I Re-thinking the World: Connected Humanity 1 Critical Humanism II Dehumanizing the World: Disconnected Humanity 2 Damaging Humanity 3 Dividing Humanity 4 Traumatizing Humanity III Humanizing the World: Flourishing Humanity 5 Narrating Humanity 6 Valuing Humanity 7 Transforming Humanity IV Transforming the World: A Politics of Humanity 8 A Manifesto for the 21st Century Short Guide to Further Reding Notes Index

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Book SynopsisHow is life in digital cities changing what it means to be human?In this perceptive book, Myria Georgiou sets out to investigate the new configuration of social order that is taking shape in today’s cities. Although routed through extractive datafication, compulsive connectivity, and regulatory AI technologies, this digital order nonetheless displaces technocentrism and instead promotes new visions of humanism, all in the name of freedom, diversity, and sustainability. But the digital order emerges in the midst of neoliberal instability and crises, resulting in a plurality of contrasting responses to securing digitally mediated human progress. While corporate, media, and state actors mobilize such positive sociotechnical imaginaries to promise digitally mediated human progress, urban citizens and social movements propose alternative pathways to autonomy and dignity through and sometimes against digital technologies. Investigating the dynamic workings of technology and power from a transnational and comparative perspective, this book reveals the contradictory claims and struggles for the future of digital cities and their humanity. In doing so, it will enrich understandings of digital urbanism, critical data studies, and critical humanist studies.​Trade Review‘Myria Georgiou offers a fascinating critique of how humans and cities are co-constructed through promises of a digital future. This is a highly engaging and important book, which will be of great interest to academics and students for years to come.’Ayona Datta, University College London ‘Discussion of what it means to be human is usually abstract. Myria Georgiou complements this with really helpful attention to urban contexts, their variety and the different shapes they give to human experience, action and, indeed, reality. An important contribution.’Craig Calhoun, Arizona State UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1. The Digital Order of Cities: For People, by the People?Chapter 2. The Competing Humanisms of the Digital CityChapter 3. Popular Humanism: The Sociotechnical Imaginaries of the Digital OrderChapter 4. Demotic Humanism: The Liminal Subject of the Digital OrderChapter 5. Critical Humanism: Against the Digital Order

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Book SynopsisHow is life in digital cities changing what it means to be human?In this perceptive book, Myria Georgiou sets out to investigate the new configuration of social order that is taking shape in today’s cities. Although routed through extractive datafication, compulsive connectivity, and regulatory AI technologies, this digital order nonetheless displaces technocentrism and instead promotes new visions of humanism, all in the name of freedom, diversity, and sustainability. But the digital order emerges in the midst of neoliberal instability and crises, resulting in a plurality of contrasting responses to securing digitally mediated human progress. While corporate, media, and state actors mobilize such positive sociotechnical imaginaries to promise digitally mediated human progress, urban citizens and social movements propose alternative pathways to autonomy and dignity through and sometimes against digital technologies. Investigating the dynamic workings of technology and power from a transnational and comparative perspective, this book reveals the contradictory claims and struggles for the future of digital cities and their humanity. In doing so, it will enrich understandings of digital urbanism, critical data studies, and critical humanist studies.​Trade Review‘Myria Georgiou offers a fascinating critique of how humans and cities are co-constructed through promises of a digital future. This is a highly engaging and important book, which will be of great interest to academics and students for years to come.’Ayona Datta, University College London ‘Discussion of what it means to be human is usually abstract. Myria Georgiou complements this with really helpful attention to urban contexts, their variety and the different shapes they give to human experience, action and, indeed, reality. An important contribution.’Craig Calhoun, Arizona State UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1. The Digital Order of Cities: For People, by the People? Chapter 2. The Competing Humanisms of the Digital City Chapter 3. Popular Humanism: The Sociotechnical Imaginaries of the Digital Order Chapter 4. Demotic Humanism: The Liminal Subject of the Digital Order Chapter 5. Critical Humanism: Against the Digital Order

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Book SynopsisAsian Americans are the fastest growing minority population in the country. Moreover, they provide a unique lens on the wider experiences of immigrants and minorities in the United States, both historically and today. Pawan Dhingra and Robyn Magalit Rodriguez’s acclaimed introduction to understanding this diverse group is here updated in a thoroughly revised new edition. Incorporating cutting-edge thinking and discussion of the latest current events, the authors critically examine key topics in the Asian-American experience, including education and work, family and culture, media and politics, and social hierarchies of race, gender, and sexuality. Through vivid examples and clear discussion of a broad range of theories, the authors explore the contributions of Asian American Studies, sociology, psychology, history, and other fields to understanding Asian Americans, and vice versa. The new edition includes further pedagogical elements to help readers apply the core theoretical and analytical frameworks encountered. In addition, the book takes readers beyond the boundaries of the United States to cultivate a comparative understanding of the Asian experience as it has become increasingly global and diasporic. This engaging text will continue to be a welcome resource for those looking for a rich and systematic overview of Asian America, as well as for undergraduate and graduate courses on immigration, race, American society, and Asian American Studies.Trade Review“Engaging, informative, and interdisciplinary, the new edition of Asian America is an excellent resource for readers interested in understanding the multifaceted experiences of one of the most diverse demographic groups in the United States. A most welcome addition to the literature on the state of race in twenty-first-century America.”Yến Lê Espiritu, University of California, San Diego “In this timely new edition of their invaluable examination of what it means to be Asian American, social scientists Dhingra and Rodriguez apply their intersectional lens to pressing contemporary issues, from systemic inequities to Dreamers and social media. The valuable insights from this important and accessible textbook go well beyond the classroom.”Helen Zia, author of Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American PeopleTable of ContentsForeword and acknowledgments Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality Chapter 3: Arrival and History Chapter 4: Class and Work Lives Chapter 5: Identity Chapter 6: Belonging and Exclusion Chapter 7: Interracial Relations Chapter 8: Class and Work Lives Chapter 9: Education Chapter 10: Family and Intimate Relations Chapter 11: Social Movements and Politics Endnotes References Index

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Book SynopsisAsian Americans are the fastest growing minority population in the country. Moreover, they provide a unique lens on the wider experiences of immigrants and minorities in the United States, both historically and today. Pawan Dhingra and Robyn Magalit Rodriguez’s acclaimed introduction to understanding this diverse group is here updated in a thoroughly revised new edition. Incorporating cutting-edge thinking and discussion of the latest current events, the authors critically examine key topics in the Asian-American experience, including education and work, family and culture, media and politics, and social hierarchies of race, gender, and sexuality. Through vivid examples and clear discussion of a broad range of theories, the authors explore the contributions of Asian American Studies, sociology, psychology, history, and other fields to understanding Asian Americans, and vice versa. The new edition includes further pedagogical elements to help readers apply the core theoretical and analytical frameworks encountered. In addition, the book takes readers beyond the boundaries of the United States to cultivate a comparative understanding of the Asian experience as it has become increasingly global and diasporic. This engaging text will continue to be a welcome resource for those looking for a rich and systematic overview of Asian America, as well as for undergraduate and graduate courses on immigration, race, American society, and Asian American Studies.Trade Review“Engaging, informative, and interdisciplinary, the new edition of Asian America is an excellent resource for readers interested in understanding the multifaceted experiences of one of the most diverse demographic groups in the United States. A most welcome addition to the literature on the state of race in twenty-first-century America.”Yến Lê Espiritu, University of California, San Diego “In this timely new edition of their invaluable examination of what it means to be Asian American, social scientists Dhingra and Rodriguez apply their intersectional lens to pressing contemporary issues, from systemic inequities to Dreamers and social media. The valuable insights from this important and accessible textbook go well beyond the classroom.”Helen Zia, author of Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American PeopleTable of ContentsForeword and acknowledgments Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality Chapter 3: Arrival and History Chapter 4: Class and Work Lives Chapter 5: Identity Chapter 6: Belonging and Exclusion Chapter 7: Interracial Relations Chapter 8: Class and Work Lives Chapter 9: Education Chapter 10: Family and Intimate Relations Chapter 11: Social Movements and Politics Endnotes References Index

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Book SynopsisThe year 2000 was the first time the US Census permitted respondents to choose more than one race. Although the US has long recognized that a “mixed-race” population exists, the contemporary “multiracial population” presents different questions and implications for today’s diverse society. This book is the first overview to bring a systematic critical race lens to the scholarship on mixedness. Avoiding the common pitfall of conflating “mixed” with “multiracial,” the book reveals how identity forms and fluctuates such that people with mixed heritage may identify as mixed, monoracial, and/or multiracial throughout their lives. It analyzes the dynamic and various manifestations of mixedness, including at the global level, to reveal its complex impact on both the structural and individual levels. Multiracialcritically examinestopics such as family dynamics and racial socialization, multiraciality in media and popular culture, and intersections of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation. Integrating diverse theories, qualitative research, and national-level data, this accessible and engaging book is essential for students of race and those looking to understand the new field of multiraciality.Trade Review“Multiracial tackles the momentous field of mixedness studies in a highly engaging and accessible manner. strmic-pawl provides critical reflection on what studies have shaped our understandings of how mixed-race is defined, whose experiences are highlighted, and the role of social institutions such as family and media. It is an important read for race scholars, as well as anyone interested in issues of mixedness and multiracialism.”Erica Chito Childs, Hunter College, CUNY Graduate Center“strmic-pawl not only offers a comprehensive overview of the growing literature on multiracial people, she delivers an indisputable critique of the purported celebration of multiracialism by elucidating how anti-Blackness and White dominance prevail in insidious ways. She engages with important questions about what factors impact racial identity, how institutions shape understandings of multiracial people, and what these patterns indicate about the future of multiracial people. An outstanding contribution to the literature.”Chandra D. L. Waring, University of Massachusetts–Lowell“[A] thorough and up-to-date overview of multiraciality and mixed-race studies […T]hrough careful examination of several decades’ worth of scholarship, strmic-pawl emphasizes the significance of multiraciality in the understanding of race as a social construction and how mixedness provides insight into the fluidity of racial identity, race, and racism.”Ethnic and Racial Studies Table of ContentsDetailed Contents List of Figures and Tables CHAPTER 1: MULTIRACIAL AMERICA CHAPTER 2: DEFINING MIXED-RACE & MULTIRACIAL CHAPTER 3: RACE AND FAMILY CHAPTER 4: INTERSECTIONAL IDENTITIES & GLOBAL MIXEDNESS CHAPTER 5: MULTIRACIALISM IN THE MEDIA CHAPTER 6: NEW, SHIFTING, OR REBOUNDING BOUNDARIES References Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe year 2000 was the first time the US Census permitted respondents to choose more than one race. Although the US has long recognized that a “mixed-race” population exists, the contemporary “multiracial population” presents different questions and implications for today’s diverse society. This book is the first overview to bring a systematic critical race lens to the scholarship on mixedness. Avoiding the common pitfall of conflating “mixed” with “multiracial,” the book reveals how identity forms and fluctuates such that people with mixed heritage may identify as mixed, monoracial, and/or multiracial throughout their lives. It analyzes the dynamic and various manifestations of mixedness, including at the global level, to reveal its complex impact on both the structural and individual levels. Multiracialcritically examinestopics such as family dynamics and racial socialization, multiraciality in media and popular culture, and intersections of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation. Integrating diverse theories, qualitative research, and national-level data, this accessible and engaging book is essential for students of race and those looking to understand the new field of multiraciality.Trade Review“Multiracial tackles the momentous field of mixedness studies in a highly engaging and accessible manner. strmic-pawl provides critical reflection on what studies have shaped our understandings of how mixed-race is defined, whose experiences are highlighted, and the role of social institutions such as family and media. It is an important read for race scholars, as well as anyone interested in issues of mixedness and multiracialism.”Erica Chito Childs, Hunter College, CUNY Graduate Center“strmic-pawl not only offers a comprehensive overview of the growing literature on multiracial people, she delivers an indisputable critique of the purported celebration of multiracialism by elucidating how anti-Blackness and White dominance prevail in insidious ways. She engages with important questions about what factors impact racial identity, how institutions shape understandings of multiracial people, and what these patterns indicate about the future of multiracial people. An outstanding contribution to the literature.”Chandra D. L. Waring, University of Massachusetts–Lowell“[A] thorough and up-to-date overview of multiraciality and mixed-race studies […T]hrough careful examination of several decades’ worth of scholarship, strmic-pawl emphasizes the significance of multiraciality in the understanding of race as a social construction and how mixedness provides insight into the fluidity of racial identity, race, and racism.”Ethnic and Racial StudiesTable of ContentsDetailed Contents List of Figures and Tables CHAPTER 1: MULTIRACIAL AMERICA CHAPTER 2: DEFINING MIXED-RACE & MULTIRACIAL CHAPTER 3: RACE AND FAMILY CHAPTER 4: INTERSECTIONAL IDENTITIES & GLOBAL MIXEDNESS CHAPTER 5: MULTIRACIALISM IN THE MEDIA CHAPTER 6: NEW, SHIFTING, OR REBOUNDING BOUNDARIES References Notes Index

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Book SynopsisBetween Germany and Russia is a region strewn with monuments to the horrors of war, genocide and disaster – the bloodlands where the murderous regimes of Hitler and Stalin unleashed the violence that scarred the twentieth century and shaped so much of the world we know today. In September 2016 the German-Iranian writer Navid Kermani set out to discover this land and to travel along the trenches that are now re-emerging in Europe, from his home in Cologne through eastern Germany to the Baltics, and from there south to the Caucasus and to Isfahan in Iran, the home of his parents. This beautifully written travel diary, enlivened by conversations with the people Kermani meets along the way, brings to life the tragic history of these troubled lands and shows how this history leaves its traces in the present. It will be of great interest to anyone concerned with current affairs and with the events that have shaped, and continue to shape, the world in which we live today.Trade Review"Along the Trenches is an important and timely book, reminding us of the complex cultural and communal currents that have always flowed from Isfahan to Cologne and beyond, enriching along the way the lives of everyone they touch."—John Burnside, University of St Andrews "A book so moving and so powerful that it's worth taking 54 days over it, so that each day you can immerse yourself in a new world."—Katja Weise, NDR Kultur "Kermani has succeeded in writing a stirring plea for Europe, one which confirms his place among the ranks of Germany's most influential intellectuals."—Rainer Hermann, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung "A Herodotus for our times."—Philipp Holstein, Rheinische Post "A breathtaking travel diary and a passionate plea for the diversity of cultures, for Europe and the beauty of stories."—Bayrischer Rundfunk "On almost every page there is something for the reader to think about, to learn, to marvel at."—Tages-Anzeiger "Navid Kermani ... is the best kind of scholar: one who writes with a touch as elegant as it is light."—Catholic Herald "... revealing and thought-provoking...."—Financial TimesTable of ContentsContents Cologne First Day: Schwerin Second Day: From Berlin to Wroc aw Third Day: Auschwitz Fourth Day: Cracow Fifth Day: From Cracow to Warsaw Sixth Day: Warsaw Seventh Day: Warsaw Eighth Day: From Warsaw to Masuria Ninth Day: Kaunas Tenth Day: Vilnius and Vicinity Eleventh Day: Via Paneriai to Minsk Twelfth Day: Minsk and Khatyn Thirteenth Day: Into the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Fourteenth Day: Kurapaty and Minsk Fifteenth Day: Into the Exclusion Zone East of Krasnapolle Sixteenth Day: From Minsk to Kiev Seventeenth Day: Kiev Eighteenth Day: From Kiev to Dnipro Nineteenth Day: To the Front in Donbas Twentieth Day: Via Mariupol to the Black Sea Twenty-first Day: Along the Black Sea to Odessa Twenty-second Day: Odessa Twenty-third Day: Leaving Odessa by Air Twenty-fourth Day: Via Moscow to Simferopol Twenty-fifth Day: Via Bakhtshyssarai to Sevastopol Twenty-sixth Day: Along the Crimean Coast Twenty-seventh Day: From Crimea to the Russian Mainland Twenty-eighth Day: To Krasnodar Twenty-ninth Day: From Krasnodar to Grozny Thirtieth Day: Grozny Thirty-first Day: In the Chechen Mountains Thirty-second Day: From Grozny to Tbilisi Thirty-third Day: Tbilisi Thirty-fourth Day: Tbilisi Thirty-fifth Day: To Gori and the Georgian-Ossetian Cease-fire Line Thirty-sixth Day: From Tbilisi to Kakheti Thirty-seventh Day: From Kakheti to Azerbaijan Thirty-eighth Day: Along the Azeri-Armenian Cease-fire Line Thirty-ninth Day: By Night Train to Baku Fortieth Day: Baku Forty-first Day: Baku and Qobustan Forty-second Day: Leaving Baku by Air Forty-third Day: Yerevan Forty-fourth Day: Yerevan Forty-fifth Day: To Lake Sevan and On to Nagorno-Karabakh Forty-sixth Day: Through Nagorno-Karabakh Forty-seventh Day: To the Armenian-Azeri Cease-fire Line and On to Iran Forty-eighth Day: Via Jolfa to Tabriz Forty-ninth Day: Via Ahmadabad to Alamut Castle Fiftieth Day: To the Caspian Sea and On to Tehran Fifty-first Day: Tehran Fifty-second Day: Tehran Fifty-third Day: Tehran Fifty-fourth Day: Flying Out of Tehran With Family in Isfahan The Journey Begins Acknowledgements Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn this book Jeffrey Alexander develops a new sociological theory of social crisis and applies it to a wide range of cases, from the church paedophilia crisis to the #MeToo movement. He argues that crises are triggered not by objective social strains but by the discourse and institutions of the civil sphere. When strains become subject to the utopian aspirations of the civil sphere, there emerges widespread anguish about social justice and the future of democratic life. Once admired institutional elites come to be represented as perpetrators and the civil sphere becomes legally and organizationally intrusive, demanding repairs in the name of civil purification. Resisting such repair, institutional elites foment backlash, and a war of the spheres ensues. This major new work by one of the world’s leading social theorists will be of great interest to students and scholars in sociology, politics, and the social sciences generally.Trade Review�This thrilling book starts with John Dewey�s puzzle: when and how does a problem that is troubling only a few people in a specific social sphere get transformed into a moral crisis for the whole of society? With his unique mixture of knowledge and imagination, Jeffrey Alexander formulates an elegant and complex answer to this question and, in so doing, highlights a central mechanism in the normative ordering of contemporary societies.�Axel Honneth, Columbia University �Few concepts better describe our age than that of �crisis�, from the economic meltdown of 2008 to the #MeToo movement of today. In a dazzling variety of case studies, Alexander shows that these crises suggest not collapse but vitality, not �danger and impurity� but sacredness and the quest for order. Read this urgent and startling book to understand why Jeffrey Alexander is one of the world�s leading social and cultural theorists.�Eva Illouz, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris �This is a very clearly written and highly insightful book. Situated within the context of Alexander�s wider intellectual project, it comprises one more case in the indictment against orthodox forms of social theory and theorizing.�Cultural SociologyTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements Introduction: Societalization in Society Chapter 1: What Is Societalization and How Does it Happen? Chapter 2: Who Are the Agents of Societalization? Chapter 3: Why Does Societalization NOT Happen? Chapter 4: Church Pedophilia Chapter 5: Financial Crisis Chapter 6: Phone Hacking Chapter 7: #MeToo Conclusion: Societalization in Theory Notes References

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Book SynopsisThis book argues that, as industrial capitalism enters a period of prolonged crisis, a new paradigm of ‘industrious modernity’ is emerging. Based on small-scale, commons-based and market-oriented entrepreneurship, this industrious modernity is being pioneered by the many outcasts that no longer find a place within a crumbling industrial modernity. This new industriousness draws on the new planetary commons that have been generated by the globalization of industrial capitalism itself. The outsourcing of material production to global supply chains has made the skills necessary to engage in commodity production generic and common, and the globalization of media culture and the internet have generated new knowledge commons. Together these new commons have radically reduced the capital requirements to engage in economic activity, and are providing new, highly efficient tools of productive organization at little cost. This timely analysis of the new forces of change in our societies today will be of great interest to anyone concerned with the impact of digital technologies and the future of capitalism.Trade Review‘The struggle for the future of capitalism is uncertain, but Adam Arvidsson is a singular and observant voice in describing the global repositioning towards new forms of “industrious” capitalism that are creating vast neo-nomadic economies, beyond the control both of nation-states and of the governance mechanisms of global financial capital. One of the most original books and analyses of the last decade. I cannot recommend it enough.’Michel Bauwens, Founder of the P2P Foundation‘Arvidsson's book works like a cold shower: every sentence wakes you up from a slumber. His thesis is that we are witnessing a re-feudalization of capitalism, where ordinary people matter very little, and society is carved out between powerful lords. This book is innovative, bold, and will be discussed.’Eva Illouz, EHESS, ParisTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgements 1 To Change the World: On Industrious Modernity 2 The Crisis of Digital Capitalism 3 The Industrious Economy 4 Industrious Capitalism 5 A New Industrious Revolution? Notes

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Book SynopsisThis book argues that, as industrial capitalism enters a period of prolonged crisis, a new paradigm of ‘industrious modernity’ is emerging. Based on small-scale, commons-based and market-oriented entrepreneurship, this industrious modernity is being pioneered by the many outcasts that no longer find a place within a crumbling industrial modernity. This new industriousness draws on the new planetary commons that have been generated by the globalization of industrial capitalism itself. The outsourcing of material production to global supply chains has made the skills necessary to engage in commodity production generic and common, and the globalization of media culture and the internet have generated new knowledge commons. Together these new commons have radically reduced the capital requirements to engage in economic activity, and are providing new, highly efficient tools of productive organization at little cost. This timely analysis of the new forces of change in our societies today will be of great interest to anyone concerned with the impact of digital technologies and the future of capitalism.Trade Review‘The struggle for the future of capitalism is uncertain, but Adam Arvidsson is a singular and observant voice in describing the global repositioning towards new forms of “industrious” capitalism that are creating vast neo-nomadic economies, beyond the control both of nation-states and of the governance mechanisms of global financial capital. One of the most original books and analyses of the last decade. I cannot recommend it enough.’Michel Bauwens, Founder of the P2P Foundation‘Arvidsson's book works like a cold shower: every sentence wakes you up from a slumber. His thesis is that we are witnessing a re-feudalization of capitalism, where ordinary people matter very little, and society is carved out between powerful lords. This book is innovative, bold, and will be discussed.’ Eva Illouz, EHESS, ParisTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgements 1 To Change the World: On Industrious Modernity 2 The Crisis of Digital Capitalism 3 The Industrious Economy 4 Industrious Capitalism 5 A New Industrious Revolution? Notes

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Book SynopsisThe migration crisis of recent years has elicited a double response: on the one hand, many states have responded by tightening border controls, in an attempt to restrict population movements, while on the other hand many citizens have responded by welcoming new arrivals, offering them shelter, food and whatever help they could provide. By so doing, they have re-awakened an old form of anthropology that was long-considered to be dead – that of hospitality. In this book, Agier develops an original anthropology of hospitality that starts from the reality of hospitality as a social relationship, albeit an asymmetrical one, in which each party has rights and duties. He argues that, with the decline of state and religious support, hospitality is now making a comeback at individual and municipal levels but these local initiatives, while important, are insufficient to respond to the scale of migration in the world today. We need a new hospitality policy for the modern era, one that will regard hospitality as a right rather than a favour and will treat the stranger as a guest rather than as an alien or an enemy. This timely and original book will be of great interest to students and scholars in anthropology, sociology and the social sciences generally, and to anyone concerned with migration and refugees in the world today.Trade Review“Michel Agier has created a sensitive and innovative anthropology which does not describe social types: rather, it analyses relations, through participation in the migrant’s trials and solidarity with their efforts to overcome a condition of fear and hostility, often death. Delineating the multiple figures of the stranger that we are all, he paves the way for a cosmopolitanism of the wandering humanity, our coming humanity.”Etienne Balibar, author of Secularism and CosmopolitanismTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction. Hospitality when least expected Chapter 1. Making the stranger my guest The conditions of unconditionality The elementary forms of hospitality From domestic hospitality to public hospitality Chapter 2. Hospitality – the challenge of the present Encounters of a new type Hospitality – causes and effects The emergence of municipal hospitality From ghetto to migrant houses Hospitable municipality versus hostile state Chapter 3. The need for cosmopolitics Cosmopolitanism today The principle of hospitality and cosmopolitics from a philosophical perspective Banal cosmopolitanism: an anthropological point of view Chapter 4. Becoming a stranger The death of Stavros or the birth of Joe Arness Three times a stranger The migrant poet and the spectre of the alien Conclusion Postscript. The stranger post Covid-19 Notes Index

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Book SynopsisFar from its origins in US legal studies in the 1980s, critical race theory has grown to become a leading approach to the analysis of racial inequality around the world. It has courted much controversy along the way, often misunderstood and poorly defined. So what precisely is critical race theory and what makes it different from other theories of race, racialization and racism? In this incisive book, Ali Meghji defines the contours of critical race theory through the notion of the 'racialized social system'. He thereby excavates a solid social theory that clears up many empirical and conceptual questions that continue to surface, offering a flexible, practical model for studying structural racism. In making his case, Meghji pays attention to the multiple dimensions of the racialized social system, focusing on core phenomena such as interaction orders, material interests, ideologies, emotions, and organizations. In a context where any work mentioning 'race' gets defined as critical race theory, this book expounds an approach that promises to be more generative for the social scientific study of race.Trade Review“Meghji provides an accessible overview showing critical race theory’s explanatory power across the social sciences. The writing is clear and accessible, making the book a great addition to syllabi for advanced undergraduates and graduate students. […] Meghji has done us a service by breaking through the disciplinary silos, showing the pervasiveness of structural racism, and creating a synthesis that future researchers will adopt.”Victor Ray, Social Forces“As debates over teaching Critical Race Theory (CRT) spread through the US, England, and Australia, Ali Meghji’s comprehensive and accessible book offers much needed clarification of the definition of CRT and its emergence. […] Beyond clarifying misconceptions, Meghji engages the internal debates concerning the strengths and limitations of CRT. Most importantly, this book links the overall discussion to the earlier roots of critical race perspectives in the social sciences and relates CRT to earlier conceptual frameworks dating back almost a century.”Mary Romero, Acta Sociologica“Meghji’s book enables readers […] to absorb and contend with the theoretical implications of CRT as a valid theory and the subsequent implications for broader theories of race and racism. [… Cuts] through the noise and present[s] responsible, informative, and inviting discussions around CRT that will resonate with many and result in more rational conversations about the topic.”Katya Salmi, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity “This is such an important and timely book. Beautifully written, it lays out the intellectual arc of critical race studies in sociology and maps the links with Critical Race Theory. It makes clear that sociology has a robust theory of racial dynamics and racism that both precedes and connects to these other important intellectual traditions. It is a book I wish I had had many times over the last few years but is especially needed in the current moment when everyone is talking about Critical Race Theory, but few know what it is. This is a book for intellectual friends and critics, newcomers and senior scholars alike, both incredibly useful and eminently accessible.”Amanda Lewis, University of Illinois at Chicago“Ali Meghji’s The Racialized Social System is an erudite yet accessible response to the question: why do we need critical race theory? Meghji shows rather than merely tells us how racism is systemic. His meticulously researched book will be a vital reference for years to come.”Alana Lentin, Western Sydney University“A very innovative theoretical work on structural racism. Unlike others, who just repeat what others have done and said, Meghji has taken the threads of a theory and woven them into a more complete garment that synthesizes how the macro, meso and micro levels of racial action work as one. I, for one, am very impressed with this book and look forward to assigning it in my own classes.”Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: Critical Race Theory as a Social Theory 1. The Racialized Social System and Social Space: Racial Interests and Contestation 2. Racial Ideologies and Racialized Emotions: Seeing, Thinking, and Feeling Race 3. Theorizing the Racialized Interaction Order 4. Meso Racial Structures and Racialized Organizations Conclusion: What is Critical about Critical Race Theory? Notes References

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Book SynopsisFar from its origins in US legal studies in the 1980s, critical race theory has grown to become a leading approach to the analysis of racial inequality around the world. It has courted much controversy along the way, often misunderstood and poorly defined. So what precisely is critical race theory and what makes it different from other theories of race, racialization and racism? In this incisive book, Ali Meghji defines the contours of critical race theory through the notion of the 'racialized social system'. He thereby excavates a solid social theory that clears up many empirical and conceptual questions that continue to surface, offering a flexible, practical model for studying structural racism. In making his case, Meghji pays attention to the multiple dimensions of the racialized social system, focusing on core phenomena such as interaction orders, material interests, ideologies, emotions, and organizations. In a context where any work mentioning 'race' gets defined as critical race theory, this book expounds an approach that promises to be more generative for the social scientific study of race.Trade Review“Meghji provides an accessible overview showing critical race theory’s explanatory power across the social sciences. The writing is clear and accessible, making the book a great addition to syllabi for advanced undergraduates and graduate students. […] Meghji has done us a service by breaking through the disciplinary silos, showing the pervasiveness of structural racism, and creating a synthesis that future researchers will adopt.”Victor Ray, Social Forces“As debates over teaching Critical Race Theory (CRT) spread through the US, England, and Australia, Ali Meghji’s comprehensive and accessible book offers much needed clarification of the definition of CRT and its emergence. […] Beyond clarifying misconceptions, Meghji engages the internal debates concerning the strengths and limitations of CRT. Most importantly, this book links the overall discussion to the earlier roots of critical race perspectives in the social sciences and relates CRT to earlier conceptual frameworks dating back almost a century.”Mary Romero, Acta Sociologica“Meghji’s book enables readers […] to absorb and contend with the theoretical implications of CRT as a valid theory and the subsequent implications for broader theories of race and racism. [… Cuts] through the noise and present[s] responsible, informative, and inviting discussions around CRT that will resonate with many and result in more rational conversations about the topic.”Katya Salmi, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity “This is such an important and timely book. Beautifully written, it lays out the intellectual arc of critical race studies in sociology and maps the links with Critical Race Theory. It makes clear that sociology has a robust theory of racial dynamics and racism that both precedes and connects to these other important intellectual traditions. It is a book I wish I had had many times over the last few years but is especially needed in the current moment when everyone is talking about Critical Race Theory, but few know what it is. This is a book for intellectual friends and critics, newcomers and senior scholars alike, both incredibly useful and eminently accessible.”Amanda Lewis, University of Illinois at Chicago“Ali Meghji’s The Racialized Social System is an erudite yet accessible response to the question: why do we need critical race theory? Meghji shows rather than merely tells us how racism is systemic. His meticulously researched book will be a vital reference for years to come.”Alana Lentin, Western Sydney University“A very innovative theoretical work on structural racism. Unlike others, who just repeat what others have done and said, Meghji has taken the threads of a theory and woven them into a more complete garment that synthesizes how the macro, meso and micro levels of racial action work as one. I, for one, am very impressed with this book and look forward to assigning it in my own classes.”Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Critical Race Theory as a Social Theory1. The Racialized Social System and Social Space: Racial Interests and Contestation2. Racial Ideologies and Racialized Emotions: Seeing, Thinking, and Feeling Race3. Theorizing the Racialized Interaction Order4. Meso Racial Structures and Racialized OrganizationsConclusion: What is Critical about Critical Race Theory?NotesReferences

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Book SynopsisPrejudice against Muslims has a long and complex history. In recent decades, discrimination, violence, and human rights abuses against Muslims have taken a significant turn, with rising reports and discussions of Islamophobia across the globe. However, much of the conversation has missed the key features of this increasingly insidious phenomenon.This original book puts race at the center of the analysis, exposing the global racialization of Muslims. With special attention paid to the United States, China, India, and the United Kingdom, the authors examine both the unique national contexts and – crucially – the shared characteristics of anti-Muslim racism. They uncover how a range of counterterrorism policies, from hyper-surveillance to racialized policing, and the ensuing representation of Islam, have taken a decisive role in shaping social life for Muslims and have worked across borders to justify and institutionalize an acceptable, state-sponsored face of racism.Ultimately, A Global Racial Enemy argues that anti-Muslim animus is a symptom of a global and powerful form of twenty-first-century racism.Trade Review“Deftly weaving theory, history, and sociology across continents, this book is an essential read for understanding why a systemic analysis of race and racism must include the experiences of Muslims.”Sahar Aziz, Rutgers University Law School“The authors deploy a convincing argument, backed by persuasive data, that anti-Muslim racism is a global phenomenon that relies on a shared notion of threat, irrespective of varying national visions and agendas, and one that animates a worldwide surveillance industry. Persuasive, powerful, and highly recommended.”Louise Cainkar, Marquette University“This impressive, urgently needed book changes our understanding of the global nature of anti-Muslim racism, offering unparalleled insights into the differences and surprising similarities in how Muslims are demonized. An essential read.”Evelyn Alsultany, University of Southern CaliforniaTable of ContentsIntroduction – Muslim Global Racialization: 21st-Century Racism Chapter 1 – Muslim Histories: Contextualizing the Global War on Terror Chapter 2 – The Media and the Racialization of Muslims: Constructing a Global Threat Chapter 3 – The Global Racialization of Muslims and the Rise in Nationalism and Populism Chapter 4 – Global Counterterrorism Policies: Racializing Muslims via Surveillance, Policing, and Detention Conclusion: Where Do We Go from Here? Possibilities for Resistance and Further Securitization

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Book SynopsisPrejudice against Muslims has a long and complex history. In recent decades, discrimination, violence, and human rights abuses against Muslims have taken a significant turn, with rising reports and discussions of Islamophobia across the globe. However, much of the conversation has missed the key features of this increasingly insidious phenomenon.This original book puts race at the center of the analysis, exposing the global racialization of Muslims. With special attention paid to the United States, China, India, and the United Kingdom, the authors examine both the unique national contexts and – crucially – the shared characteristics of anti-Muslim racism. They uncover how a range of counterterrorism policies, from hyper-surveillance to racialized policing, and the ensuing representation of Islam, have taken a decisive role in shaping social life for Muslims and have worked across borders to justify and institutionalize an acceptable, state-sponsored face of racism.Ultimately, A Global Racial Enemy argues that anti-Muslim animus is a symptom of a global and powerful form of twenty-first-century racism.Trade Review“Deftly weaving theory, history, and sociology across continents, this book is an essential read for understanding why a systemic analysis of race and racism must include the experiences of Muslims.”Sahar Aziz, Rutgers University Law School“The authors deploy a convincing argument, backed by persuasive data, that anti-Muslim racism is a global phenomenon that relies on a shared notion of threat, irrespective of varying national visions and agendas, and one that animates a worldwide surveillance industry. Persuasive, powerful, and highly recommended.”Louise Cainkar, Marquette University“This impressive, urgently needed book changes our understanding of the global nature of anti-Muslim racism, offering unparalleled insights into the differences and surprising similarities in how Muslims are demonized. An essential read.”Evelyn Alsultany, University of Southern CaliforniaTable of ContentsIntroduction – Muslim Global Racialization: 21st-Century RacismChapter 1 – Muslim Histories: Contextualizing the Global War on TerrorChapter 2 – The Media and the Racialization of Muslims: Constructing a Global ThreatChapter 3 – The Global Racialization of Muslims and the Rise in Nationalism and PopulismChapter 4 – Global Counterterrorism Policies: Racializing Muslims via Surveillance, Policing, and DetentionConclusion: Where Do We Go from Here? Possibilities for Resistance and Further Securitization

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Book SynopsisThis important book by two leading scholars of Africa examines a series of issues that are central to the question of the postcolonial. The postcolonial paradigm, and the more recent decolonial paradigm, raise the issue of the universal: is the postcolonial the first phase of a new universalism, one which would be truly universal because it would be fully inclusive, or is it on the contrary the denial of all universalism, the triumph of the particular and of fragmentation? In addressing this issue Diagne and Amselle also tackle many related themes, such as the concepts of race, culture and identity, the role of languages in philosophy as practised in different cultural areas, the various conceptions of Islam, especially in West Africa, and the outlines of an Africa which can be thought of at the same time as singular and as plural. Each thinker looks back at his writings on these themes, comparing and contrasting them with those of his interlocutor. While Amselle seeks to expose the essentialist and culturalist logics that might underlie postcolonial and decolonial thought, Diagne consistently refuses to adopt the trappings of the Afrocentrist and particularist thinker. He argues instead for a total decentring of all thought, one that rejects all ‘centrisms’ and highlights instead branchings and connections, transfers, analogies and reciprocal influences between cultural places and intellectual fields that may be distant but are not distinct in space and time. This volume is a timely contribution to current debates on the postcolonial question and its new decolonial form. It will be of great interest to students and scholars in a variety of fields, from African studies and Black studies to philosophy, anthropology, sociology and cultural studies, as well as to anyone interested in the debates around postcolonial studies and decolonial thought

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Book SynopsisThis important book by two leading scholars of Africa examines a series of issues that are central to the question of the postcolonial. The postcolonial paradigm, and the more recent decolonial paradigm, raise the issue of the universal: is the postcolonial the first phase of a new universalism, one which would be truly universal because it would be fully inclusive, or is it on the contrary the denial of all universalism, the triumph of the particular and of fragmentation? In addressing this issue Diagne and Amselle also tackle many related themes, such as the concepts of race, culture and identity, the role of languages in philosophy as practised in different cultural areas, the various conceptions of Islam, especially in West Africa, and the outlines of an Africa which can be thought of at the same time as singular and as plural. Each thinker looks back at his writings on these themes, comparing and contrasting them with those of his interlocutor. While Amselle seeks to expose the essentialist and culturalist logics that might underlie postcolonial and decolonial thought, Diagne consistently refuses to adopt the trappings of the Afrocentrist and particularist thinker. He argues instead for a total decentring of all thought, one that rejects all ‘centrisms’ and highlights instead branchings and connections, transfers, analogies and reciprocal influences between cultural places and intellectual fields that may be distant but are not distinct in space and time. This volume is a timely contribution to current debates on the postcolonial question and its new decolonial form. It will be of great interest to students and scholars in a variety of fields, from African studies and Black studies to philosophy, anthropology, sociology and cultural studies, as well as to anyone interested in the debates around postcolonial studies and decolonial thought

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Book SynopsisHow should we talk about desire, power and equality in the wake of the #Me Too debate? For Carolin Emcke, bestselling author and winner of the German Peace Prize, the debate demonstrates one thing above all: a conversation about abuse and sexuality has emerged that can no longer be stifled. Too many questions remain unanswered: which images and concepts shape our imaginings of desire and revulsion? How is violence exposed and obstructed? How do the norms and structures into which men, women and those in between must fit get constructed? What gets hushed up, and who remains powerless? How can the plurality of desire and sexuality be expressed, without sacrificing their intricacies? By interrogating her own experiences as well as social practices, music and literature, Emcke demonstrates the enduring complexity of the relationship between sexuality and truth.Trade Review�When I Say Yes is an odd yet beautiful volume with a rebellious message and relatable stories. Emcke has produced a genuine piece that sparks outrage, doubt and hope at the same time. But mostly, serves as a powerful tool to fight the burden of #MeToo at a very convenient time.�The F Word

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Book SynopsisWherever love and death meet there is grief. It affects us all regardless of ethnicity, age, class, or sexual orientation. Grief is universal – it has endured across time, societies and cultures from the earliest human communities to the present day. But the way we deal with grief is changing. Increasingly, we are diagnosing grief as a medical condition to be treated rather than embracing it as a natural part of being human. In this book, Svend Brinkmann gets to the heart of what it is to grieve, arguing that the sorrow we experience after the death of a loved one is a necessary and meaningful dimension of human existence. However painful, it unites us all. As humans we are uniquely privileged to feel grief. Rather than trying to escape or smother grief, we must allow ourselves to feel and accept it as the price we pay for love.Table of ContentsPreface1. Introduction: The century of grief2. Grief as a foundational emotion3. The phenomenology of grief4. The body in grief – grief in the body5. The ecology of grief6. Grief as a psychological diagnosis?7. A homeless loveBibliographyNotes

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Book SynopsisModern society emerged in the context of European colonialism and empire. So, too, did a distinctively modern social theory, laying the basis for most social theorising ever since. Yet colonialism and empire are absent from the conceptual understandings of modern society, which are organised instead around ideas of nation state and capitalist economy. Gurminder K. Bhambra and John Holmwood address this absence by examining the role of colonialism in the development of modern society and the legacies it has bequeathed. Beginning with a consideration of the role of colonialism and empire in the formation of social theory from Hobbes to Hegel, the authors go on to focus on the work of Tocqueville, Marx, Weber, Durkheim and Du Bois. As well as unpicking critical omissions and misrepresentations, the chapters discuss the places where colonialism is acknowledged and discussed – albeit inadequately – by these founding figures; and we come to see what this fresh rereading has to offer and why it matters. This inspiring and insightful book argues for a reconstruction of social theory that should lead to a better understanding of contemporary social thought, its limitations, and its wider possibilities.Trade Review"Colonialism and Modern Social Theory is essential reading for all sociologists, regardless of the stage they are in their careers. [...] Altogether, this book bears the hallmarks of a powerful decolonization project—it disrupts, destabilizes, and deconstructs the canonized European social theory."—Zophia Edwards, Journal of Classical Sociology "Gurminder K. Bhambra and John Holmwood offer a stimulating and resourceful guide [...], setting forth a provocative approach in disrupting and radically reinterpreting dominant sociological understandings of modern world society."—Thesis Eleven "For Bhambra and Holmwood, colonialism is more than just another subject to be entrusted to a special subset of sociology to study. Rather, it forms the central context in which the discipline came about, which always engages in a bit of self-enlightenment when it deals with it. This is an elegant argument."—Soziopolis "This is a remarkably powerful book that supplies an eloquent, well-reasoned, and thorough account of how colonialism and empire are absent from sociology's current jurisdiction. Written by two outstanding sociologists, it is a nuanced and pertinent critique of the classical canon in modern social theory and an invitation to decolonize it."—Sari Hanafi, American University of Beirut and President of the International Sociological Association "Bhambra and Holmwood analyse incisively how the elided colonial context of modern social theory has shaped and limited its purview, and that of western sociology. They provide a timely, provocative optic for engaging the unanticipated ethnoracial nationalist backlash to multicultural democracy."—Robert J. Antonio, University of KansasTable of ContentsIntroduction: Colonialism, Historiography, and Modern Social Theory 1. Hobbes to Hegel: Europe and its Others 2. Tocqueville: From the United States to Algeria3. Marx: Colonialism, Capitalism, and Class 4. Weber: Religion, Nation, and Empire 5. Durkheim: Modernity and Community 6. Du Bois: Addressing the Colour Line Conclusion: The Fictions of Modern Social Theory

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Book SynopsisSociology, as a discipline, was born at the height of global colonialism and imperialism. Over a century later, it is yet to shake off its commitment to colonial ways of thinking. This book explores why, and how, sociology needs to be decolonized. It analyses how sociology was integral in reproducing the colonial order, as dominant sociologists constructed theories either assuming or proving the supposed barbarity and backwardness of colonized people. Ali Meghji reveals how colonialism continues to shape the discipline today, dominating both social theory and the practice of sociology, how exporting the Eurocentric sociological canon erased social theories from the Global South, and how sociologists continue to ignore the relevance of coloniality in their work. This guide will be necessary reading for any student or proponent of sociology. In opening up the work of other decolonial advocates and under-represented thinkers to readers, Meghji offers key suggestions for what teachers and students can do to decolonize sociology. With curriculum reform, innovative teaching and a critical awareness of these issues, it is possible to make sociology more equitable on a global scale.Trade Review“Sociology is a late comer to the decolonizing discourses in the social sciences and humanities. This book, therefore, is an important addition to a slow but steadily growing literature, and reaffirms the stance that to decolonize our discipline is only epistemically just.”Syed Farid Alatas, National University of Singapore “In this well-written and lively book, Ali Meghji makes the 'decolonial' project accessible to a wide audience of students and scholars. A welcome guide to a complex intellectual terrain that social scientists can no longer ignore.”Julian Go, author of Postcolonial Thought & Social Theory“Its main audience are those sociologists unfamiliar with the [decolonizing] perspective – in other words, the majority of sociologists. […] Yet, the way in which Ali Meghji threads together the different decolonial arguments and elaborates on his own decolonial sociology program makes this more than just an introductory book. It is also a contribution to further the decolonial conversation. […] It ought to be read by all sociologists.”José Itzigsohn, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity“Meghji offers a unique and highly valuable contribution to the discipline that goes beyond merely outlining these issues to show how they are reflected and implemented in everyday practice. I would recommend this book as required reading for all undergraduate and postgraduate sociology courses […] applying a decolonial approach to teaching that factors in the numerous insightful and well-articulated justifications for change that Meghji so eloquently outlines.”Tanisha Spratt, The Sociological Review“the high point of the book […] takes us through what [Meghji] calls 'a Sociology in Conversations', where he discusses the necessity of having a horizontal approach to knowledge production […] A decolonial sociology should allow us to think less about 'things' and more about relationships.”Rochelle Smith, Ethnic and Racial Studies“A manifesto and rallying-cry, aimed at changing how sociology has been customarily done, critiquing inherited Eurocentric biases in thematics, theory and methodology, and correcting them with post-, anti- and de-colonial pedagogic and research practices.”David Inglis, European Journal of Social Theory“A timely tool to assist our curricular revisions and present students with a comprehensible critical reflection on the canon, and possible remedies for invigorating the metaphorically terminal patient.”South African Review of SociologyTable of ContentsIntroduction: Sociology and Coloniality 1. The Decolonial Challenge to Sociology 2. Beyond Intellectual Imperialism: Indigenous and Autonomous Sociologies 3. Walking while Asking Questions: Towards a ‘Sociology in Conversations’ Conclusion: Sociology and the Decolonial Option

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Book SynopsisThe question of migration has come to dominate the news agenda in many countries, but what does the word ‘migrant’ really mean today and how should we respond to those who are labelled ‘migrants’? In this short book Alain Badiou argues that our way of thinking about migration should be governed both by an ethical duty to welcome the migrant in the name of hospitality and also by the urgent need to put an end to the global capitalist oligarchy that has produced the migrant as a figure of contemporary crisis. For the ‘migrant,’ argues Badiou, is in fact a nomadic proletarian. Today, our homeland is the world, and any meaningful politics must include those who come to us and who represent the universal nomadic proletariat. Writing with the rigor, clarity, and polemical flair that have made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers, and drawing on a rich body of material including contemporary poetry and the words of an anonymous migrant, Badiou develops a powerful riposte to those who have stoked the fear of migrants and exploited the migration question for political ends.

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Book SynopsisThe history of migration is deeply entangled with colonialism. To this day, colonial logics continue to shape the dynamics of migration as well as the responses of states to those arriving at their borders. And yet migration studies has been surprisingly slow to engage with colonial histories in making sense of migratory phenomena today. This book starts from the premise that colonial histories should be central to migration studies and explores what it would mean to really take that seriously. To engage with this task, Lucy Mayblin and Joe Turner argue that scholars need not forge new theories but must learn from and be inspired by the wealth of literature that already exists across the world. Providing a range of inspiring and challenging perspectives on migration, the authors’ aim is to demonstrate what paying attention to colonialism, through using the tools offered by postcolonial, decolonial and related scholarship, can offer those studying international migration today. Offering a vital intervention in the field, this important book asks scholars and students of migration to explore the histories and continuities of colonialism in order to better understand the present.Trade Review"In this book, Lucy Mayblin and Joe Turner offer a thoroughgoing critique of the analytical and political blind spots that plague migration studies when posited from the unexamined Eurocentric standpoint of formerly imperial nation-states. This book provides a synoptic overview of how postcolonial and decolonial critiques are utterly necessary to adequately comprehend cross-border, intercontinental human mobility in our global society, and it makes an impassioned appeal to situate the contemporary politics of migration, citizenship and race within the enduring legacies of colonialism." Nicholas De Genova, University of Houston "This book is sorely needed. If your students ‒ or you yourself ‒ need to navigate the complex terrain of global violence, expropriation and the movement of people over a very long period, let them read this." Gargi Bhattacharyya, University of East London"The book is a sharp and salutary read."Ethnic and Racial Studies"A powerful case for rethinking migration under the lens of colonialism and its enduring legacies […A] much needed and long-awaited intervention, which renders readily available key literatures that migration scholars should engage with."International AffairsTable of ContentsForeword 1. Introduction 2. Time and Space: Migration and Modernity 3. ‘Race’ & Racism in International Migration 4. Putting sovereignty, citizenship and migration in dialogue with past and present colonialisms 5. Deconstructing Forced Migration, Rethinking Asylum 6. Towards a Colonial Account of Security and Borders 7. Gender, Sexuality, Colonialism… and Migration 9. Conclusion References

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Book SynopsisWe inhabit a world of more than humans. For life to flourish, we must listen to the calls this world makes on us, and respond with care, sensitivity and judgement. That is what it means to correspond, to join our lives with those of the beings, matters and elements with whom, and with which, we dwell upon the earth. In this book, anthropologist Tim Ingold corresponds with landscapes and forests, oceans and skies, monuments and artworks. To each he brings the same spontaneity of thought and observation, the same intimacy and lightness of touch, but also the same affection, longing and care that, in the days when we used to write letters by hand, we would bring to our correspondences with one another. The result is a profound yet accessible inquiry into ways of attending to the world around us, into the relation between art and life, and into the craft of writing itself. At a time of environmental crisis, when words so often seem to fail us, Ingold points to how the practice of correspondence can help restore our kinship with a stricken earth.Trade Review“Tim Ingold’s correspondents include not only his fellow humans and their works, but also animals, trees, rocks, rivers, sunshine, wind, rain, and snow – in short, all of the variegated, sensate, ever transforming materials of a universe in constant becoming. Ranging across what the author has previously referred to as the “4 A’s” (Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture) and beyond, and expressed through a prose that is at once exactingly lucid and engagingly lyrical, these writerly exchanges set out not merely to describe but embody the co-emergence and inextricable intertwinement of human and other than human being in the world.”Stuart J. McLean, University of Minnesota “In his most artistic work, Tim Ingold invites the reader to wander through these 27 touching and breathing pieces of writing. During the process of reading them, an image has been growing along my correspondence with the author: this work is not a building, nor a box, rather a tent, or a beehive; it is made of linen cloths and wooden reeds provisionally rooted into the different grounds it encounters. It goes along with you, reader, adapting itself to the occurring weather.”Nicola Perullo, Università di Scienze Gastronomiche di Pollenzo “Tim Ingold has taught with unparalleled grace how to think with the textures of a living world. In these marvelous new dispatches from the deep woods and coastal tidelands, from museum galleries and temple ruins, Ingold recovers an art of attentive writing.”Anand Pandian, Johns Hopkins University “Tim Ingold’s extraordinary book presents a celebration of the care of letter writing which in our age risks to disappear. Correspondences helps us to relearn the art of thinking and writing from the heart and is an urgent book for the 21st century.”Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Director, Serpentine GalleryTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements Invitation Part 1: Tales from the Woods Introduction 1.1 Somewhere in Northern Karelia… 1.2 Pitch-black and firelight 1.3 In the shadow of tree being 1.4 Ta, Da, Ça Part 2: Spitting, Climbing, Soaring, Falling Introduction 2.1 The foamy saliva of a horse 2.2 The mountaineer’s lament 2.3 On flight 2.4 Sounds of snow Part 3: Going to Ground Introduction 3.1 Scissors paper stone 3.2 Ad coelum 3.3 Are we afloat? 3.4 Shelter 3.5 Doing time Part 4: The Ages of the Earth Introduction 4.1 The elements of fortune 4.2 A stone’s life 4.3 The jetty 4.4 On extinction 4.5 Three short fables of self-reinforcement Part 5: Line, Crease and Thread Introduction 5.1 Lines in the landscape 5.2 The chalk-line and the shadow 5.3 Fold 5.4 Taking a thread for a walk 5.5 Letter-line and strike-through Part 6: For the Love of Words Introduction 6.1 Words to meet the world 6.2 In defence of handwriting 6.3 Diabolism and philophilia 6.4 Cold blue steel Au revoir

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Book SynopsisToday, in Western countries, we are seeing both the fragmentation of the gender binary (the division of the social world into two and only two genders) and its persistence. Multiple genders, gender-neutral pronouns and bathrooms, X designations, and other manifestations of degendering are becoming common, and yet the two-gender structure of our social world persists. Underneath the persistence of the binary and its discriminatory norms and expectations lurks the continuance of men’s power and privilege. So there is the continued need to valorize the accomplishments of women, especially those of denigrated groups. This succinct and thoughtful book by one of the world’s foremost sociologists of gender shines a light on both sides of this paradox – processes in the fragmentation of gender that are undermining the binary and processes in the performance of gender that reinforce the binary, and the pros and cons of each. The conclusion of the book discusses why we haven’t had a gender revolution and how degendering would go a long way in creating gender equality.Trade Review“The New Gender Paradox provides a blueprint of the contemporary institution of gender, identifying the ways in which it is reconstructed, showing where there are cracks in its structure, and highlighting a path toward equality. … Three decades since Lorber first used the term ‘paradox’ to describe gender, it is now more relevant than ever.”Social Forces“[T]his is a book that students will love for what it succeeds at doing: laying out in concise and clear language how we think about gender in feminist studies and how the fragmentation of gender in and of itself will not bring about a world without patriarchy.”International Sociology“Lorber gives us a much needed and clear sighted assessment of what is and is not changing about the gender binary that says there are two and only two genders, and lays out the implications for eliminating gender inequality.”Cecilia L. Ridgeway, Stanford University “For those interested in both the fragmentation and persistence of the gender binary, this short book is essential reading. The New Gender Paradox is engaging, thought-provoking, carefully researched, and well written. I highly recommend it!”James W. Messerschmidt, University of Southern MaineTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. How gendered people, organizations, and societies are constructed 2. Fragmentation of the gender binary 3. Persistence of the gender binary 4. Why haven’t we had a gender revolution? References Index About the author

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Book SynopsisThe field of science and technology studies has long critiqued the idea that there is such a thing as a universal and singular "Science" that exists independently of human society, interpretation, and action. However, the multiple significant ways in which colonial legacies impact and shape this project have often remained out of sight at the edges of the discipline. In this important book, Amit Prasad seeks to rectify this erasure, demonstrating that problematic idealized imaginaries of science, scientists, and the scientific realm can be traced back to the birth of "modern science" during European colonialism. Such visions of science and technology have undergirded the imagination of the West (and thus of its others), constructing hierarchies of technological innovation and scientific value, but also unexpectedly leaving society vulnerable to contemporary threats of misinformation and conspiracy theories, as has been strikingly evident during the COVID-19 pandemic. Far from being an indictment of STS, this rigorous book seeks to highlight such concerns to make STS engage more carefully with issues of colonialism and thus to enable readers to understand the rapidly changing global topography of science and technology today and into the future.Trade Review“Prasad is a nimble and quick thinker. In this ambitious project, he weaves an engaging and highly readable discussion of what science is, why it is questioned, how we tell its history, and how we do this within a colonial frame.”Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Harvard University​​“Amit Prasad has long been a major contributor to the vibrant field of postcolonial science studies. Those interested in the persistence of colonialism and the shadows it casts into the present will find much here to discuss and debate.”Suman Seth, Cornell University Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION – Genealogies of Colonialism in Postcolonial Times CHAPTER 1 – COVID-19, Science versus Anti-Science, and the Colonial Present CHAPTER 2 – Historicism without History: The Scientific Revolution, Reimagining the European Past, and Postcolonial Futures CHAPTER 3 – Colonialism, & Euro/West-centrism: Postcolonial Desires, Colonial Entrapments CONCLUSION – Modern Science & European Colonialism: A Conversation with J. P. S. Uberoi and Bruno Latour

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Book SynopsisThe field of science and technology studies has long critiqued the idea that there is such a thing as a universal and singular "Science" that exists independently of human society, interpretation, and action. However, the multiple significant ways in which colonial legacies impact and shape this project have often remained out of sight at the edges of the discipline. In this important book, Amit Prasad seeks to rectify this erasure, demonstrating that problematic idealized imaginaries of science, scientists, and the scientific realm can be traced back to the birth of "modern science" during European colonialism. Such visions of science and technology have undergirded the imagination of the West (and thus of its others), constructing hierarchies of technological innovation and scientific value, but also unexpectedly leaving society vulnerable to contemporary threats of misinformation and conspiracy theories, as has been strikingly evident during the COVID-19 pandemic. Far from being an indictment of STS, this rigorous book seeks to highlight such concerns to make STS engage more carefully with issues of colonialism and thus to enable readers to understand the rapidly changing global topography of science and technology today and into the future.Trade Review“Prasad is a nimble and quick thinker. In this ambitious project, he weaves an engaging and highly readable discussion of what science is, why it is questioned, how we tell its history, and how we do this within a colonial frame.”Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Harvard University​​“Amit Prasad has long been a major contributor to the vibrant field of postcolonial science studies. Those interested in the persistence of colonialism and the shadows it casts into the present will find much here to discuss and debate.”Suman Seth, Cornell UniversityTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION – Genealogies of Colonialism in Postcolonial Times CHAPTER 1 – COVID-19, Science versus Anti-Science, and the Colonial Present CHAPTER 2 – Historicism without History: The Scientific Revolution, Reimagining the European Past, and Postcolonial Futures CHAPTER 3 – Colonialism, & Euro/West-centrism: Postcolonial Desires, Colonial Entrapments CONCLUSION – Modern Science & European Colonialism: A Conversation with J. P. S. Uberoi and Bruno Latour

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Book SynopsisEven as the specter of populism haunts contemporary societies, scholars have not been able to agree about what it is. Except for one thing: a deviation from democracy, the source, it seems, of the precarious position in which so many societies find themselves today. This volume aims to break the Gordian knot of “populism” by bringing a new social theory to bear and, in so doing so, suggesting that normative judgments about this misunderstood phenomenon need to be reconsidered as well. Populism is not a democratic deviation but a naturally occurring dimension of civil sphere dynamics, fatal to democracy only at the extremes. Because populism is highly polarizing, it has the effect of inducing anxiety that civil solidarity is breaking apart. Left populists feel as if civil solidarity is an illusion, that democratic discourse is a fig leaf for private interests, and that the social and cultural differentiation that vouchsafes the independence of the civil sphere merely reflects the hegemony of narrow professional interests or those of a ruling class. Right populists share the same distrust, even repulsion, for the civil sphere. What seems civil to the center and left, like affirmative action or open immigration, they call out as particularistic; honored civil icons, such as Holocaust memorials, they trash. How can the sense of a vital civil center survive such censure from populism on the left and the right? Populism in the Civil Sphere provides compelling answers to these fundamental questions. Its contributions are both sophisticated theoretical interventions and deeply researched empirical studies, and it will be of great interest to anyone concerned about the most important political developments of our time.Trade Review"Jeffrey Alexander and his collaborators have brought sociological insights drawn from political and social theory to bear on the study of populism. Alexander’s bold new approach based on civil society theory addresses populism’s central conundrum. How can populism manifest itself as both a left and right political phenomenon and how do we distinguish one form from the other? Populism and the Civil Sphere argues that a vibrant democracy depends on social solidarities that develop within a bounded public space of civic discourse. Within the civil sphere, politics can veer to the left or right—the radical to the conservative—without seriously threatening democracy. It is only when the center does not hold then extremism on left and right becomes a possibility. The seventeen exciting and theoretically linked case studies in this cogent and coherent anthology span the globe as they explore left and right variants of populism. This innovative collection is a must read for anyone inside and outside of the academy who seeks to understand the major political challenge of our time."—Mabel Berezin, Professor of Sociology, Cornell "The vexed question of the relationship between populism and democracy here receives fresh, subtle, and compelling analysis. The contributors' thorough examination of cases in light of civil sphere theory tells a new and nuanced story: despite the threats to democracy it can unleash, populism can sometimes even contribute to the vital democratic task of civil repair."—John S. Dryzek, Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis, University of Canberra "... an essential reference point for future studies of populism."European Journal of Social TheoryTable of ContentsList of ContributorsList of FiguresList of TablesPreface and AcknowledgementsIntroduction The Populist Continuum from within the Civil Sphere to Outside ItJeffrey C. Alexander Chapter 1Populism’s Cultural and Civil DynamicsMarcus MorganChapter 2#Disente and Duterte: The Cultural Bases of Antipopulism in the Philippines, 2001-2019Celso M. VillegasChapter 3Uncivil Populism in Power: The Case of ErdoğanismAteş AltınorduChapter 4The Populist Transition and the Civil Sphere in MexicoNelson Arteaga BotelloChapter 5Far-Right Populism in Poland and the Construction of a Pseudocivil SphereMaría Luengo and Małgorzata KolankowskaChapter 6The “Thirteenth Immigrant”? Migration and Populism in the 2018 Czech Presidential ElectionBernadette Nadya JaworskyChapter 7Memory Culture, Civil Sphere and Right-Wing Populism in Germany – The Resistible Rise of the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD)Werner BinderChapter 8Populism and the Particularization of Solidarity: On the Sweden DemocratsHenrik EnrothChapter 9Left-Populism in a Communist Civil Sphere: The Lesson of Bo Xilai Andrew JunkerChapter 10A Civil Sphere Theory of Populism: American Forms and Templates, from the Red Scare to Donald Trump Jason L MastCommentaryDemarcating Constructive from Destructive Populisms: Civil Translation vs. Civil MimicryCarlo TognatoConclusionIs Populism the Shadow of the Civil?Peter Kivisto and Giuseppe SciortinoIndex

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Book SynopsisEven as the specter of populism haunts contemporary societies, scholars have not been able to agree about what it is. Except for one thing: a deviation from democracy, the source, it seems, of the precarious position in which so many societies find themselves today. This volume aims to break the Gordian knot of “populism” by bringing a new social theory to bear and, in so doing so, suggesting that normative judgments about this misunderstood phenomenon need to be reconsidered as well. Populism is not a democratic deviation but a naturally occurring dimension of civil sphere dynamics, fatal to democracy only at the extremes. Because populism is highly polarizing, it has the effect of inducing anxiety that civil solidarity is breaking apart. Left populists feel as if civil solidarity is an illusion, that democratic discourse is a fig leaf for private interests, and that the social and cultural differentiation that vouchsafes the independence of the civil sphere merely reflects the hegemony of narrow professional interests or those of a ruling class. Right populists share the same distrust, even repulsion, for the civil sphere. What seems civil to the center and left, like affirmative action or open immigration, they call out as particularistic; honored civil icons, such as Holocaust memorials, they trash. How can the sense of a vital civil center survive such censure from populism on the left and the right? Populism in the Civil Sphere provides compelling answers to these fundamental questions. Its contributions are both sophisticated theoretical interventions and deeply researched empirical studies, and it will be of great interest to anyone concerned about the most important political developments of our time.Trade Review"Jeffrey Alexander and his collaborators have brought sociological insights drawn from political and social theory to bear on the study of populism. Alexander’s bold new approach based on civil society theory addresses populism’s central conundrum. How can populism manifest itself as both a left and right political phenomenon and how do we distinguish one form from the other? Populism and the Civil Sphere argues that a vibrant democracy depends on social solidarities that develop within a bounded public space of civic discourse. Within the civil sphere, politics can veer to the left or right—the radical to the conservative—without seriously threatening democracy. It is only when the center does not hold then extremism on left and right becomes a possibility. The seventeen exciting and theoretically linked case studies in this cogent and coherent anthology span the globe as they explore left and right variants of populism. This innovative collection is a must read for anyone inside and outside of the academy who seeks to understand the major political challenge of our time."—Mabel Berezin, Professor of Sociology, Cornell "The vexed question of the relationship between populism and democracy here receives fresh, subtle, and compelling analysis. The contributors' thorough examination of cases in light of civil sphere theory tells a new and nuanced story: despite the threats to democracy it can unleash, populism can sometimes even contribute to the vital democratic task of civil repair."—John S. Dryzek, Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis, University of Canberra "... an essential reference point for future studies of populism."European Journal of Social TheoryTable of ContentsList of Contributors List of Figures List of Tables Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction The Populist Continuum from within the Civil Sphere to Outside It Jeffrey C. Alexander Chapter 1 Populism’s Cultural and Civil Dynamics Marcus Morgan Chapter 2 #Disente and Duterte: The Cultural Bases of Antipopulism in the Philippines, 2001-2019 Celso M. Villegas Chapter 3 Uncivil Populism in Power: The Case of Erdoğanism Ateş Altınordu Chapter 4 The Populist Transition and the Civil Sphere in Mexico Nelson Arteaga Botello Chapter 5 Far-Right Populism in Poland and the Construction of a Pseudocivil Sphere María Luengo and Małgorzata Kolankowska Chapter 6 The “Thirteenth Immigrant”? Migration and Populism in the 2018 Czech Presidential Election Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky Chapter 7 Memory Culture, Civil Sphere and Right-Wing Populism in Germany – The Resistible Rise of the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) Werner Binder Chapter 8 Populism and the Particularization of Solidarity: On the Sweden Democrats Henrik Enroth Chapter 9 Left-Populism in a Communist Civil Sphere: The Lesson of Bo Xilai Andrew Junker Chapter 10 A Civil Sphere Theory of Populism: American Forms and Templates, from the Red Scare to Donald Trump Jason L Mast Commentary Demarcating Constructive from Destructive Populisms: Civil Translation vs. Civil Mimicry Carlo Tognato Conclusion Is Populism the Shadow of the Civil? Peter Kivisto and Giuseppe Sciortino Index

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Book SynopsisThe evidence for the ancestry of the human species among the apes is overwhelming. But the facts are never “just” facts. Human evolution has always been a value-laden scientific theory and, as anthropology makes clear, the ancestors are always sacred. They may be ghosts, or corpses, or fossils, or a naked couple in a garden, but the idea that you are part of a lineage is a powerful and universal one. Meaning and morals are at play, which most certainly transcend science and its quest for maximum accuracy. With clarity and wit, Jonathan Marks shows that the creation/evolution debate is not science versus religion. After all, modern anti-evolutionists reject humanistic scholarship about the Bible even more fundamentally than they reject the science of our simian ancestry. Widening horizons on both sides of the debate, Marks makes clear that creationism is a theological, not a scientific, debate and that thinking perceptively about values and meanings should not be an alternative to thinking about science – it should be a key part of it.Trade Review“When the gadfly of contemporary anthropology turns his attention to the creationism/evolution controversy, neither creationists nor their foes emerge unscathed. Insightful and delightful.”Glenn Branch, Deputy Director, National Center for Science Education “This deeply thoughtful history of ideas engages evolutionary science, biblical studies, and contemporary culture to tackle head on the book’s title question. In unfurling his persuasive argument, Marks shows that science and religion are both dogmatic and demonstrates the unexpected ways in which scholars of science and religion should be ‘allies’. His ability to push past sweeping dismissals to actual facts is unparalleled.”Candida Moss, Professor of Theology, University of Birmingham“Marks argues persuasively that creationism is a theological and not a scientific debate, that its thinking about values and meanings might better be a crucial part of scientific explorations.”Lavender Magazine“The easy answer, of course, is that stupidity seems to be a historical constant […]. But then no one would be wiser about this extensive movement […]. Marks's aim is that we should try to understand what drives creationists and their opposition to scientific explanations.”Moderne TiderTable of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: Introducing the Ancestors Chapter 2: Scientific Stories of our Ancestors Chapter 3: Attacking Evolution Chapter 4: Biblical Literalism and Rationalism Chapter 5: Myths of Science and Religion Chapter 6: Sacred Ancestry References

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Book SynopsisOne of the most persistent concerns about the future is whether it will be dominated by the predictive algorithms of AI – and, if so, what this will mean for our behaviour, for our institutions and for what it means to be human. AI changes our experience of time and the future and challenges our identities, yet we are blinded by its efficiency and fail to understand how it affects us. At the heart of our trust in AI lies a paradox: we leverage AI to increase our control over the future and uncertainty, while at the same time the performativity of AI, the power it has to make us act in the ways it predicts, reduces our agency over the future. This happens when we forget that that we humans have created the digital technologies to which we attribute agency. These developments also challenge the narrative of progress, which played such a central role in modernity and is based on the hubris of total control. We are now moving into an era where this control is limited as AI monitors our actions, posing the threat of surveillance, but also offering the opportunity to reappropriate control and transform it into care. As we try to adjust to a world in which algorithms, robots and avatars play an ever-increasing role, we need to understand better the limitations of AI and how their predictions affect our agency, while at the same time having the courage to embrace the uncertainty of the future.Trade Review‘In this ambitious and visionary book, the brilliant Helga Nowotny offers an original analysis of the current moment, at a time when the combined challenges of the pandemic, AI and climate change may alter our future in unimaginable ways. The author’s remarkable intellectual range is brought to bear on this complex constellation of social developments as she provides readers with much-needed tools for making sense of the situation. In AI We Trust should certainly be the “go-to” book for navigating the decades ahead.’Michèle Lamont, Harvard University ‘In this thoughtful and urgent book Helga Nowotny describes how the excitement of riding in digital time machines can blind us to the precariousness of our present circumstances, how imperfect predictions too readily mutate into policies, and how efficiency is more often than not a euphemism for moral indecision. This book is an important guide to the open-ended co-evolutionary future that is equal parts human spirit and mechanical appliance.’David Krakauer, Santa Fe Institute ‘Simultaneously erudite and readable, Nowotny charts a route through techno-solutionism and dystopia to help us imagine a digital future that addresses human needs. Her previous work on time and uncertainty is brought to bear in this sharp analysis of the digital and the Anthropocene. Nowotny shows how our future depends on human wisdom guiding machine “smartness”.’​Sally Wyatt, Maastricht University ‘Humankind has mechanized energy processing, leading to transformations so broad as to be termed industrial revolutions. We are now mechanizing the processing of information, a notion more subtle, and closer to the core of the human condition. This calls for multidisciplinary scholarship. Helga Nowotny’s wise work exposes questions, sharpens perception, and inspires action.’Bernhard Schölkopf, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen‘A fascinating and timely meditation. Nowotny… throws out provocative questions and does not become too prescriptive — the mark of a good book.’NatureTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction A personal journey into digi-land Chapter 1 Life in the digital time machineChapter 2 Welcome to the mirror worldChapter 3 The quest for public happiness and the narrative of progress Chapter 4 Future needs wisdomChapter 5 Disruption: from B.C. (before COVID-19) to A.D. (after domestication) References

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Book SynopsisIndustrial robots, self-driving cars, customer-service chatbots and Google’s algorithmic predictions have brought the topic of artificial intelligence into public debate. Why is AI the source of such intense controversy and what are its economic, political, social and cultural consequences? Tracing the changing fortunes of artificial intelligence, Elliott develops a systematic account of how automated intelligent machines impact different spheres and aspects of public and private life. Among the issues discussed are the automation of workforces, surveillance capitalism, warfare and lethal autonomous weapons, the spread of racist robots and the automation of social inequalities. Elliott also considers the decisive role of AI in confronting global risks and social futures, including global pandemics such as COVID-19, and how smart algorithms are impacting the search for energy security and combating climate change. Making Sense of AI provides a judiciously comprehensive account of artificial intelligence for those with little or no previous knowledge of the topic. It will be an invaluable book both for students in the social sciences and humanities and for general readers.Trade Review“[T]he book is an interesting attempt at building a multidimensional account of AI as a social phenomenon. The reading could be particularly useful for social science students and researchers who might be triggered to think of how AI redefines basic human notions like intelligence, privacy, sexuality, autonomy, and trust.”-International Journal of Technoethics“Anthony Elliott’s books on the social and cultural consequences of the development of artificial intelligence… form a comprehensive, multidimensional picture of the contemporary digital revolution.”-Dariusz Brzeziński, Thesis ElevenTable of ContentsPreface 1 The Origins of Artificial Intelligence 2 Making Sense of AI 3 Global Innovation and National Strategies 4 The Institutional Dimensions of AI 5 Automation and the Fate of Employment 6 Social Inequalities Since AI 7 Algorithmic Surveillance 8 The Futures of AI Further Reading Notes

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Book SynopsisIndustrial robots, self-driving cars, customer-service chatbots and Google’s algorithmic predictions have brought the topic of artificial intelligence into public debate. Why is AI the source of such intense controversy and what are its economic, political, social and cultural consequences? Tracing the changing fortunes of artificial intelligence, Elliott develops a systematic account of how automated intelligent machines impact different spheres and aspects of public and private life. Among the issues discussed are the automation of workforces, surveillance capitalism, warfare and lethal autonomous weapons, the spread of racist robots and the automation of social inequalities. Elliott also considers the decisive role of AI in confronting global risks and social futures, including global pandemics such as COVID-19, and how smart algorithms are impacting the search for energy security and combating climate change. Making Sense of AI provides a judiciously comprehensive account of artificial intelligence for those with little or no previous knowledge of the topic. It will be an invaluable book both for students in the social sciences and humanities and for general readers.Trade Review“[T]he book is an interesting attempt at building a multidimensional account of AI as a social phenomenon. The reading could be particularly useful for social science students and researchers who might be triggered to think of how AI redefines basic human notions like intelligence, privacy, sexuality, autonomy, and trust.”International Journal of Technoethics“Anthony Elliott’s books on the social and cultural consequences of the development of artificial intelligence… form a comprehensive, multidimensional picture of the contemporary digital revolution.”Dariusz Brzeziński, Thesis ElevenTable of ContentsPreface 1 The Origins of Artificial Intelligence 2 Making Sense of AI 3 Global Innovation and National Strategies 4 The Institutional Dimensions of AI 5 Automation and the Fate of Employment 6 Social Inequalities Since AI 7 Algorithmic Surveillance 8 The Futures of AI Further Reading Notes

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Book SynopsisThe fourth edition of this best-selling introductory reader has been thoroughly revised and updated to offer a stimulating and wide-ranging set of readings for anyone who wishes to engage with the scope of sociological thought and practice today. The book delivers a productive mix of classic, contemporary and provocative readings that are highly readable and lively, while retaining their critical bite. Ideal as a companion to the ninth edition of Giddens and Sutton’s Sociology, the reader can equally be used independently or alongside other textbooks. Readings are grouped around ten key sociological themes, with a sustained emphasis on comparative, globally and historically informed work. The carefully curated collection ranges from studies of face-to-face interaction through to the analysis of large-scale global systems, covering both the theory and the practice of sociology. Among the new selections in this volume are readings on the decolonial turn; the persistence of racism and its consequences; global health issues and the social impact of COVID-19; digital sociology and the digitization of social life; feminist research and shifting forms of misogyny; climate change and the emerging Anthropocene era; income and wealth inequalities, national populist movements and the spread of ‘fake news’. Each of the thematic sections is preceded by a discussion and followed by further reading to facilitate students’ comprehension and critical reflection. The result is an exciting new companion that encompasses the major themes and debates in both classical and contemporary sociology. Sociology: Introductory Readings will be an essential resource for all students of sociology.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Sociological Perspective​ 1. Sociology as the Science of Social Life – W.E.B. Du Bois 2. The Promise of Sociology – C. Wright Mills 3. Sociology as the Study of Figurations: Beyond Individual and Society? – Norbert Elias 4. Decolonizing Sociology – Raewyn Connell 5. Understanding Ourselves and Others – Zygmunt Bauman & Tim May Further Reading PART 1 Thinking Sociologically 6. The Capitalist Revolution – Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels 7. Tastes, Distinctions and Social Structure – Pierre Bourdieu 8. Learning from the Outsiders Within – Patricia Hill Collins 9. The Consequences of Modernity – Anthony Giddens 10. Sociology after the Postcolonial Turn – Gurminder K. Bhambra Further Reading ​PART 2 Doing Sociology 11. Treat Social Facts as Things – Émile Durkheim 12. Sociology's Historical Imagination – Philip Abrams 13. Mixing Methods in Empirical Research – Emma Pullen, Daniel Jackson & Michael Silk 14. Digital Sociology: Opportunities and Dangers – Noortje Marres 15. What is Feminist Research? – Patricia Leavy & Anne Harris Further Reading PART 3 Environment and Urbanism 16. The Metropolis and Mental Life – Georg Simmel 17. A Sociology of Climate Change – John Urry 18. Navigating the 'White Space' – Elijah Anderson 19. Urban Transitions in the Global South – AbdouMaliq Simone & Edgar Pieterse 20. Entering an Anthropocene Era? – Rolf Lidskog & Claire Waterton Further Reading PART 4 Structures of Society 21. Religion and the Origins of Capitalism – Max Weber 22. The Feminization of Work – Teri L. Caraway 23. Families and Personal Life – Deborah Chambers & Pablo Gracia 24. Schools: Challenging or Reproducing Social Inequalities? – Christy Kulz 25. Capitalism and the Digital Revolution – Shoshana Zuboff Further Reading PART 5 Social Inequalities 26. Intersectionality: Structural and Political – Kimberlé Crenshaw 27. Producing Disability and Abledness – Fiona Kumari Campbell 28. Wealth Concentration and Inequality – Thomas Piketty 29. Racial Distinctions and Social Structures – Michael Banton 30. 'Doing Gender' via Domestic Labour – Clare Lyonette & Rosemary Crompton Further Reading PART 6 Relationships and the Life Course 31. I, Me and the Social Self – George Herbert Mead 32. Towards a Sociology of Personal Life – Carol Smart 33. Love as a Sociological Problem – Eva Illouz 34. From the Life Cycle to the Life Course – Stephen J. Hunt 35. The Significance of Generational Experience – Lorraine Green Further Reading PART 7 Interaction and Communication 36. Self Presentation and Impression Management – Erving Goffman 37. Violence in Sociological Perspective – Randall Collins 38. Misogyny, Beauty and Body Modification – Sheila Jeffreys 39. Constructing and Negotiating Social Identity – Susie Scott 40. Knowledge Production in a Post-Truth World – Dominic Malcolm Further Reading PART 8 Health, Illness and the Body 41. The Medical Re-definition of Social Life – Peter Conrad 42. Does Inequality Cause Poor Health Outcomes? – Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett 43. Challenging the Dominance of Biomedicine – Sarah Nettleton 44. Health and Illness in Sociological Perspective – William C. Cockerham 45. The Exceptional and the Normal After COVID-19 – Jens O. Zinn Further Reading PART 9 Crime and Social Control 46. The Social Construction of Outsiders – Howard S. Becker 47. The Shifting Politics of Punishment – David Garland 48. Race, Blackness and Exclusion in the USA – Loïc Wacquant 49. The Digital Transformation of Criminality – David S. Wall 50. Back to the Future: The Return of Banishment – Katherine Beckett & Steve Herbert Further Reading PART 10 Political Sociology 51. Conceptualizing Power in Sociological Theory – Steven Lukes 52. Ethnic Cleansing and the Dark Side of Democracy – Michael Mann 53. Populist Politics and Mobilization – Bart Bonikowski 54. Representations of British Muslims During the Covid-19 Pandemic – Elizabeth Poole & Milly Williamson 55. Social Media Use in Black Lives Matter Activism – Marcia Mundt, Karen Ross & Charla M. Burnett Further Reading

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Book SynopsisArtificial intelligence not only powers our cars, hospitals and courtrooms: predictive algorithms are becoming deeply lodged inside us too. Machine intelligence is learning our private preferences and discreetly shaping our personal behaviour, telling us how to live, who to befriend and who to date. In Algorithmic Intimacy, Anthony Elliott examines the power of predictive algorithms in reshaping personal relationships today. From Facebook friends and therapy chatbots to dating apps and quantified sex lives, Elliott explores how machine intelligence is working within us, amplifying our desires and steering our personal preferences. He argues that intimate relationships today are threatened not by the digital revolution as such, but by the orientation of various life strategies unthinkingly aligned with automated machine intelligence. Our reliance on algorithmic recommendations, he suggests, reflects a growing emergency in personal agency and human bonds. We need alternatives, innovation and experimentation for the interpersonal, intimate effort of ongoing translation back and forth between the discourses of human and machine intelligence. Accessible and compelling, this book sheds fresh light on the impact of artificial intelligence on the most intimate aspects of our lives. It will appeal to students in the social sciences and humanities and to a wide range of general readers.Trade Review"Algorithms impact today all aspects of everyday life, and what is most personal in it. Anthony Elliott masterfully shows us what is at stake in this curve of digital life, where our intimate being-with-others is built and transformed."Massimo Durante, University of Turin "Anthony Elliott offers intriguing insights into how the algorithms embedded in digital technologies contribute to people's closest relationships. Drawing on popular culture for examples, Elliott's lucid writing and expansive focus help the reader make sense of a rapidly evolving landscape of digitized love, sex and friendship."Deborah Lupton, UNSW Sydney"[This book] provides the reader with a distinctly critical understanding of how automation and prediction engage users in personal digital intimacy projects: working on the self, consuming digital relationships, optimizing the psyche... Algorithmic Intimacy is not a simple warning of a dystopian future of out-of-control machine intelligence. Instead, it is about the one-dimen-sionality of today’s industrial AI products and their promises of simplicity and conformism in social relationships. It is therefore also an emphatic call to delve deeper into the multiple ways in which algorithms will shape the interior self, create new digital identities, and define our being-with-others."Science and Technology Studies“Anthony Elliott’s books on the social and cultural consequences of the development of artificial intelligence… form a comprehensive, multidimensional picture of the contemporary digital revolution.”Dariusz Brzeziński, Thesis Eleven“Algorithmic Intimacy is a wake-up call to consider our own and our children’s responses to algorithmic intimacy, its reward-based enchantments, and the data webs it weaves.”Australian Book ReviewTable of ContentsPreface 1 What is Algorithmic Intimacy? 2 Togetherness Transformed 3 Relationship Tech 4 Therapy Tech 5 Friendship Tech 6 Versions of Algorithmic Intimacy Notes

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Book SynopsisEven though we often think of bodies as natural and given, or else as freely plastic objects, bodies are both constructed and fundamental to our sense of self. This book investigates the body as an essential vector of inequality, shaped by institutions, interaction and culture, and how in turn it contributes to partly modify them. Sassatelli and Ghigi show how the process of embodiment is at the same time naturalized and contested, particularly evident in the case of gender. Drawing on classical sociological research about modernity and contemporary studies that emphasize intersectionality, the book looks at how the gendered body has been conceptualized with special attention to body politics, the power of appearance and the representation of embodied identity. It also considers the interplay between body, sex and sexuality and the way gendered bodies intersect with other dimensions of social inequality such as race, age, class and disability. This exploration of the rich field of sociological inquiry into the gendered body will be an invaluable read for all seeking to understand gender, sexuality and embodiment in contemporary society.Trade Review‘Body and Gender is a comprehensive feminist and sociological account of how the body is socially constructed as gendered. Informative and thoughtful, it would be a broadly useful text for gender studies and embodiment studies.’Judith Lorber, City University of New York, author of The New Gender Paradox‘Sensitive to the materiality of the body and its deeply constructed character, Sassatelli and Ghigi have produced a comprehensive study of the sociology of the body and the many social, political and legal complexities of gender from birth to old age.’Bryan S. Turner, Australian Catholic UniversityTable of ContentsIntroducing: Embodying Gender Chapter 1: The Social Body Chapter 2: Gendered Bodies and Subjectivity Chapter 3: Body Politics Chapter 4: Gender, Sex and Sexuality Chapter 5: Intersectional Experiences and Identities Chapter 6: The Power of Appearances Chapter 7: Visualizing Gendered Bodies Conclusion

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Book SynopsisA victim of the Nazis, then the communists. Twice a refugee, yet always remaining a committed socialist. In countless ways, Zygmunt Bauman lived the political upheavals of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He was an actor within them. Bauman’s own lived history informed his politics, which found expression in varying degrees in his sociology, as he wrote extensively on socialism, democracy, bureaucracy, morality, Europe and the Jewish experience. This volume brings together hitherto unknown or rare pieces by Bauman on the themes of history and politics by drawing upon previously unpublished material from the Bauman Archive at the University of Leeds. A substantial introduction by the editors provides readers with a lucid guide through this material and develops connections to Bauman’s other works. The second volume in a series of books that will make available the lesser-known writings of one of the most influential social thinkers of our time, History and Politics will be of interest to students and scholars across the arts, humanities and social sciences, and to a wider readership. Trade Review‘We live in an age when in every decade one day occurs – such as 9/11 or 24 February – after which matters taken firmly for granted yesterday are abruptly swept away. It is the rare sociological genius of Zygmunt Bauman that helps us to make critical sense of such liquidity.’Claus Offe‘Among émigré intellectuals, ranging from the Frankfurt School to Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin, Zygmunt Bauman stands out for his intimate knowledge and experience of “really existing socialisms” and their demise after 1989. In this new essay collection, drawn from his archives, we experience the sizzling quality of his insights and the beauty of his prose as he reflects on bureaucracy, class vs status, the new anti-Semitism and much else.’Seyla Benhabib

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Book SynopsisA victim of the Nazis, then the communists. Twice a refugee, yet always remaining a committed socialist. In countless ways, Zygmunt Bauman lived the political upheavals of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He was an actor within them. Bauman’s own lived history informed his politics, which found expression in varying degrees in his sociology, as he wrote extensively on socialism, democracy, bureaucracy, morality, Europe and the Jewish experience. This volume brings together hitherto unknown or rare pieces by Bauman on the themes of history and politics by drawing upon previously unpublished material from the Bauman Archive at the University of Leeds. A substantial introduction by the editors provides readers with a lucid guide through this material and develops connections to Bauman’s other works. The second volume in a series of books that will make available the lesser-known writings of one of the most influential social thinkers of our time, History and Politics will be of interest to students and scholars across the arts, humanities and social sciences, and to a wider readership. Trade Review‘We live in an age when in every decade one day occurs – such as 9/11 or 24 February – after which matters taken firmly for granted yesterday are abruptly swept away. It is the rare sociological genius of Zygmunt Bauman that helps us to make critical sense of such liquidity.’Claus Offe‘Among émigré intellectuals, ranging from the Frankfurt School to Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin, Zygmunt Bauman stands out for his intimate knowledge and experience of “really existing socialisms” and their demise after 1989. In this new essay collection, drawn from his archives, we experience the sizzling quality of his insights and the beauty of his prose as he reflects on bureaucracy, class vs status, the new anti-Semitism and much else.’Seyla Benhabib

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Book SynopsisOrlando Patterson’s classic study of slavery in Jamaica reveals slavery for what it was: a highly repressive and destructive system of human exploitation, which disregarded and distorted almost all of the basic prerequisites of normal social life. What distinguishes Patterson's account is his detailed description of the lives and culture of slaves under this repressive regime. He analyses the conditions of slave life and work on the plantations, the psychological life of slaves and the patterns and meanings of life and death. He shows that the real-life situation of slaves and enslavers involved a complete breakdown of all major social institutions, including the family, gender relations, religion, trust and morality. And yet, despite the repressiveness and protracted genocide of the regime, slaves maintained some space of their own, and their forced adjustment to white norms did not mean that they accepted them. Slave culture was characterized by a persistent sense of resentment and injustice, which underpinned the day-to-day resistance and large-scale rebellions that were a constant feature of slave society, the last and greatest of which partly accounts for its abolition. This second edition includes a new introduction by Orlando Patterson, which explains the origins of the book, appraises subsequent works on Jamaican slavery, and reflects on its enduring relevance. Widely recognized as a foundational work on the social institution of slavery, this book is an essential text for anyone interested in the role of slavery in shaping the modern world.Trade Review‘a lucid, densely packed, and extremely intelligent analysis of slavery… indispensable’Eric Hobsbawm, The Guardian ‘an inventive and perceptive book’Jack P. Greene, The American Historical Review ‘a valuable contribution to the study of West Indian history… Patterson has asked new questions and elicited some new answers in his discussion of the Jamaican slave society.’Elsa Goveia, The Times Literary Supplement ‘This book is a badly needed and well done study of the slave society of Jamaica… Refreshingly free of romanticism, it deals frankly with the impact of slavery upon all the members of Jamaican society.’Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, The Historian"[Orlando Patterson] is one of our great comparative and historical sociologists"SocietyTable of ContentsIntroduction to the 2022 Edition: Life and Scholarship in the Shadow of Slavery Preface I The Masters: An Overall View of Slavery II The Slave Plantation: Its Socio-Economic Structure III The Treatment of the Slaves in Law and Custom IV An Analysis of the Slave Population of Jamaica V The Tribal Origins of the Jamaican Slaves VI The Socialization and Personality Structure of the Slave VII Social Institutions of the Slaves: Witchcraft, Sorcery and Religion VIII Social Institutions of the Slaves: Economy, Recreation and Control XIV The Mechanisms of Resistance to Slavery XX The Cultural and Social Development of Jamaica: 1655-1865 Appendix 1: Stephen Fullers Account of the Number of Negroes imported and exported at Jamaica each year, 1702-75 Appendix 2: Exports from Jamaica, 1768 Appendix 3: General Return from the Island of Jamaica, for Fifty-Three Years, ending 31st December 1836, abstracted from the Journals of the House Assembly Appendix 4: Output, Income and Expenditure in 1832 Appendix 5: Manuscripts and Official Publications Consulted Appendix 6: Europeans in West Africa; Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries Appendix 7: Africa as known to Europeans in the Mid-eighteenth Century Index

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Book SynopsisZygmunt Bauman was one of the great social thinkers of our time: inventor of the idea of liquid modernity, he transformed our way of thinking about the social conditions shaping our lives today. His own life was shaped by the great social forces that scarred the second half of the twentieth century – war, communism, antisemitism, forced migration. His work bears the traces of an outsider who knew all too well the enormous impact that social and political forces can have on personal lives. Bauman never wrote a full biography, but he wrote extended letters to his daughters in which he recounted the details of his life – his childhood and schooling; his experiences during the war and its aftermath; his forced emigration from Poland in 1968 and his subsequent life in exile, first in Israel and then in the UK, where he eventually settled at the University of Leeds. This book makes available for the first time these fragments of a life recounted, woven into a compelling autobiographical narrative that is laced with the broader reflections of a master thinker on some of the great issues of our time: identity, antisemitism and totalitarianism.Trade Review‘Brilliant, witty, sometimes moving autobiographical texts by Zygmunt Bauman, comprehensively annotated by Bauman’s accomplished biographer. Fascinating reading for all interested in Bauman’s scholarly writings.’Jan Tomasz Gross, Princeton University‘When I read certain authors on war, I find myself engaged in a kind of vastness of complexities. Some wars are simply wars. But other, often less-known wars are devastating in their capacity to alter an epoch, even if this is not immediately evident. In his own way, I find that Zygmunt Bauman invites us to enter what appears as something familiar but opens up gradually to worlds that can transform our understanding of the familiar.’Saskia Sassen, Columbia University‘a sharp, rewarding insight into one of recent history’s most renowned thinkers… The value of [Bauman’s] books will not last an eternity – but they will continue to be read long enough. My Life in Fragments is among the best of them.’Danny Dorling, LSE Review of Books‘This chronicle of a soul in relation to society affords a fascinating glimpse into how deeply [Bauman’s] personal experiences inflected both his ideas and the controversies they still excite… this hopeful book is both a beautifully narrated memoir and a reflection on memoir.’Books and Ideas

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Book SynopsisArabic and European studies of Ibn Khaldun, the great medieval polymath, follow one of two paths. In one direction, scholars interpret his Prolegomena, written in 1377, as the point at which the new social sciences emerged. They identify Ibn Khaldun’s ‘new science of culture’ as sociology or as an ‘Islamic’ (or ‘Arab’) alternative to sociology. In the other direction, the interpretation of Khaldunian discourse is confined to the Islamic-Aristotelian paradigm of its time. The epistemological novelty of the Prolegomena is dismissed and the science of culture is perceived as a minor contribution to the Aristotelian curriculum. Charting a different path, Javad Tabatabai’s highly original Ibn Khaldun and the Social Sciences is an inquiry into the condition of the im-possibility of the social sciences in the Islamic-Aristotelian paradigm. Rather than identifying the science of culture as a forerunner of, or alternative to, sociology, it investigates the Prolegomena within the epistemological framework established by the social sciences. Javad Tabatabai theorizes the condition of im-possibility of the ‘scientific revolution’ as the ‘epistemic obstacle’ to modernity in Islamic civilization. This theorization revisits Michel Foucault’s discussion of the condition of possibility of the human sciences in light of the history of Christian-Aristotelian thought and the broader French debates about epistemology from Bachelard to Althusser. Ibn Khaldun and the Social Science offers a critical theory of tradition and modernity in the Middle East, elaborating on a historical situation where social and human sciences emerged by the way of colonial and post-colonial translations of discourse from Europe, and in a historical and epistemological break with inherited traditions of knowledge. In this situation, Tabatabai highlights the significance of reactivating Ibn Khaldun’s critical reckoning with the limit of inherited traditions as the political-theological horizon of renewal.

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Book SynopsisThis book does to sex what other sociologists did to culture: it shows that sex, no longer defined by religion, now plays a role in the economy and can yield tangible benefits in the realms of money, status, and occupation. How do people accumulate sexual capital, and what are the returns for investing money, time, knowledge, and energy in establishing and enhancing our sexual selves? Dana Kaplan and Eva Illouz disentangle the current cultural politics of heterosexual life, arguing that sex – that messy amalgam of sexual affects and experiences – has increasingly assumed an economic character. Some may opt for plastic surgery to beautify their face or body, while others may consume popular sex advice or attend seduction classes. Beyond particular practices such as these, the authors trace an emerging form of “neoliberal” sexual capital, which is the ability to glean self-appreciation from sexual encounters and to use this self-value to foster employability, as exemplified by Silicon Valley sex parties. This highly original book will appeal to students and scholars in sociology, anthropology, gender studies, and cultural studies and to anyone interested in the nature of sex and how it is changing today.Trade Review“There’s plenty of food for thought here, and Kaplan and Illouz offer an important contribution to understanding the socioeconomic function of sex.”Publisher's Weekly“What is Sexual Capital? sets up an ambitious query and offers bold, illuminating answers. With historical evidence and incisive theoretical logic, Dana Kaplan and Eva Illouz uncover the intricate neoliberal mingling of sexuality, economic worth, and social inequality. A compelling book that will inspire future research.”Viviana A. Zelizer, Princeton UniversityTable of Contents1. Introduction: Sex and sociological metaphors 2. Sexual freedom and sexual capital 3. What is sexual capital? 4. Forms of sexual capital: The four categories 5. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisMost theories of modernity are based, explicitly or implicitly, on the development of Western societies since the late medieval period, but these theories are of limited value for understanding the development of societies in Asia and other parts of the world, where the process of modernization took place under different circumstances and often in a rapid and highly compressed fashion – not over centuries but in decades. Asian societies have been propelled into modernity too, but theirs is a compressed modernity, which displays very different traits. In this important book, Chang Kyung-Sup provides a systematic account of this compressed modernity and uses it to analyse the extreme social changes, complexities and imbalances found in South Korea and other East Asian societies. While these changes enabled South Korea to modernize very quickly and achieve high levels of economic growth, they also created a society that is haunted by various developmental and civilizational costs, such as endemic generational conflicts, overloaded family responsibilities and exceptionally high suicide rates. As with other societies that have experienced compressed modernity, the South Korean “miracle” is replete with extreme and contradictory social traits. This pioneering work of the nature and consequences of compressed modernity will be of great interest to students and scholars of sociology, politics and development studies, as well as anyone interested in South Korea, Asia and postcolonial societies.Trade Review“An original and fascinating work by a distinguished and globally versed Korean sociologist, critically reflecting on the societies of the multi-faceted ‘compressed modernity’ coming out of the extraordinary rise and transformation of South Korea and of East Asia.”Göran Therborn, University of Cambridge “An important view from the dynamic East Asia, this book is an excellent presentation of compressed modernity theory as a surpassing of classical modernization theory. A must-read for scholars of development and of South Korea and Asia in general.”Paget Henry, Brown University“The Logic of Compressed Modernity provides a stimulating discussion of the particularly relevant historical case of South Korea, from which Chang articulates key principles that help explain the past and orient the possible futures of “compressed” societies. I recommend brushing up on South Korea history first so that you are prepared to appreciate Chang’s eloquent theorizing from this case: the theoretical payoff is well worth it.”Social Forces“The Logic of Compressed Modernity is a culmination of Chang’s arduous effort since the last three decades to understand the phenomena of social, cultural, political and economic changes in South Korean society as seen through the lens of compressed modernity…The book will definitely be useful for anyone who wishes to understand contemporary South Korean society but also to the students and teachers of social sciences who wish to make sense of complexity of lived experiences of modernity in non-Western societies.”Millennial AsiaTable of ContentsList of Figures, Tables and Illustrations Preface Part I. Compressed Modernity in Perspective Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Compressed Modernity: Constitutive Dimensions and Manifesting Units Chapter 3. Compressed Modernity in the Universalist Perspective Part II. Structural Properties of Compressed Modernity Chapter 4. Internal Multiple Modernities: South Korea as Multiplex Theater Society Chapter 5. Transformative Contributory Rights: Citizen(ship) in Compressed Modernity Chapter 6. Complex-Culturalism vs. Multiculturalism Chapter 7. Productive Maximization, Reproductive Meltdown Chapter 8. Social Institutional Deficits and Infrastructural Familialism Chapter 9. The Demographic Configuration of Compressed Modernity Part III. After Compressed Modernity Chapter 10. The Post-Compressed Modern Condition Notes References Index

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