Sociology and anthropology Books

Book SynopsisSociology began as a historical discipline, created by Marx, Weber and others, to explain the emergence and consequences of rational, capitalist society. Today, the best historical sociology combines precision in theory-construction with the careful selection of appropriate methodologies to address ongoing debates across a range of subfields.Trade Review“Petitions for a sociology that takes social change as its central object.” Revue française de science politique "Richard Lachmann's excellent, readable short survey of historical sociology gets to the heart of the enterprise: understanding the ongoing transformations that have created the world in which we live. Lachmann provides incisive reviews of the major fields of research to which historical sociologists have contributed. The book will be a very useful text for those who would bring the concerns and approaches of historical sociology to the larger discipline - who want to historicize sociology in order to render it more vital and more grounded." Ann Shola Orloff, Northwestern University "One of the major contributors to the 'historical turn' in late twentieth-century social sciences guides us through a fascinating journey in a discipline. By examining exemplary works in different sociological domains, Lachmann skillfully sketches the varied concerns of historical sociology. Written in a readable and engaging style, What is Historical Sociology? is a must read, and not just for those interested in (historical) sociology." Roberto Franzosi, Emory UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements vi 1 The Sense of a Beginning 1 2 The Origins of Capitalism 16 3 Revolutions and Social Movements 31 4 Empires 56 5 States 72 6 Inequality 86 7 Gender and the Family 104 8 Culture 115 9 Predicting the Future 128 Notes 142 References 146 Index 157

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Book SynopsisIn a world of increasing austerity measures, democratic politics comes under pressure. With the need to consolidate budgets and to accommodate financial markets, the responsiveness of governments to voters declines. However, democracy depends on choice.Trade Review"Poses (very well) the questions that will shape our world for many years to come." European Voice "Nothing less than a novel, comprehensive and syncretic analysis of what has changed in the relationship between capitalism and democracy over the past thirty years - and into the future." Philippe C. Schmitter, European University Institute "Insightful and engaging, the essays in this volume cover a remarkably wide range of topics related to the fundamental question of our time: what happens to democracy when governments have so little fiscal room to manoeuvre? A great read that will inspire new thinking and research." Jonus Pontusson, University of Geneva "Politics in the Age of Austerity is a hugely important contribution to the contemporary literature on the political economy of the advanced capitalist countries. Featuring a series of penetrating essays by some of the field’s foremost theorists, the book offers a powerful – and sobering – picture of the dilemmas and constraints that governments face as they seek to reconcile the increasingly conflicting demands of two constituencies – voters and 'the markets'. As such, it sheds new light on the enduring question of the evolving relationship between democracy and capitalism." Kathleen Thelen, MITTable of ContentsContributors vii 1 Introduction: Politics in the Age of Austerity 1 Armin Schäfer and Wolfgang Streeck 2 Public Finance and the Decline of State Capacity in Democratic Capitalism 26 Wolfgang Streeck and Daniel Mertens 3 Tax Competition and Fiscal Democracy 59 Philipp Genschel and Peter Schwarz 4 Governing as an Engineering Problem: The Political Economy of Swedish Success 84 Sven Steinmo 5 Monetary Union, Fiscal Crisis and the Disabling of Democratic Accountability 108 Fritz W. Scharpf 6 Smaghi versus the Parties: Representative Government and Institutional Constraints 143 Peter Mair 7 Liberalization, Inequality and Democracy’s Discontent 169 Armin Schäfer 8 Participatory Inequality in the Austerity State: A Supply-Side Approach 196 Claus Offe 9 From Markets versus States to Corporations versus Civil Society? 219 Colin Crouch 10 The Normalization of the Right in Post-Security Europe 239 Mabel Berezin 11 The Crisis in Context: Democratic Capitalism and its Contradictions 262 Wolfgang Streeck Notes 287 Index 303

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Book SynopsisIn a world of increasing austerity measures, democratic politics comes under pressure. With the need to consolidate budgets and to accommodate financial markets, the responsiveness of governments to voters declines. However, democracy depends on choice.Trade Review"Poses (very well) the questions that will shape our world for many years to come." European Voice "Nothing less than a novel, comprehensive and syncretic analysis of what has changed in the relationship between capitalism and democracy over the past thirty years - and into the future." Philippe C. Schmitter, European University Institute "Insightful and engaging, the essays in this volume cover a remarkably wide range of topics related to the fundamental question of our time: what happens to democracy when governments have so little fiscal room to manoeuvre? A great read that will inspire new thinking and research." Jonus Pontusson, University of Geneva "Politics in the Age of Austerity is a hugely important contribution to the contemporary literature on the political economy of the advanced capitalist countries. Featuring a series of penetrating essays by some of the field’s foremost theorists, the book offers a powerful – and sobering – picture of the dilemmas and constraints that governments face as they seek to reconcile the increasingly conflicting demands of two constituencies – voters and 'the markets'. As such, it sheds new light on the enduring question of the evolving relationship between democracy and capitalism." Kathleen Thelen, MITTable of ContentsContributors vii 1 Introduction: Politics in the Age of Austerity 1 Armin Schäfer and Wolfgang Streeck 2 Public Finance and the Decline of State Capacity in Democratic Capitalism 26 Wolfgang Streeck and Daniel Mertens 3 Tax Competition and Fiscal Democracy 59 Philipp Genschel and Peter Schwarz 4 Governing as an Engineering Problem: The Political Economy of Swedish Success 84 Sven Steinmo 5 Monetary Union, Fiscal Crisis and the Disabling of Democratic Accountability 108 Fritz W. Scharpf 6 Smaghi versus the Parties: Representative Government and Institutional Constraints 143 Peter Mair 7 Liberalization, Inequality and Democracy’s Discontent 169 Armin Schäfer 8 Participatory Inequality in the Austerity State: A Supply-Side Approach 196 Claus Offe 9 From Markets versus States to Corporations versus Civil Society? 219 Colin Crouch 10 The Normalization of the Right in Post-Security Europe 239 Mabel Berezin 11 The Crisis in Context: Democratic Capitalism and its Contradictions 262 Wolfgang Streeck Notes 287 Index 303

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Book SynopsisScience occupies an ambiguous space in contemporary society. Scientific research is championed in relation to tackling environmental issues and diseases such as cancer and dementia, and science has made important contributions to today s knowledge economies and knowledge societies.Trade Review"After ten years, Mark Erickson’s Science, Culture and Society remains the best all-round entry point to the world of science and technology studies. It is the one book that I would recommend to a student interested in this field, regardless of starting point the arts, the social sciences or, indeed, the natural sciences. This new edition features a comprehensive account of a molecular biology experiment that is both cutting-edge and characteristic of the world of high stakes research into which we are quickly moving." Steve Fuller, University of Warwick"This book gives a masterful account of the key issues in science studies. Erickson has a remarkable ability to translate complex philosophical debates into accessible language, and he is sensitive to the different forms science has assumed. This book is an essential guide to the major debates about science and technology."Hugh Gusterson, The George Washington UniversityTable of ContentsPreface to Second EditionAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: Science, Culture and SocietyChapter 2: In the LaboratoryChapter 3: Scientific KnowledgeChapter 4: HistoryChapter 5: Scientists and Scientific CommunitiesChapter 6: Popular ScienceChapter 7: Science FictionChapter 8: Science in a Changing WorldReferences

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Book SynopsisIn this groundbreaking book, sociologist Andrew Perrin shows that rules and institutions, while important, are not the core of democracy. Instead, as Alexis de Tocqueville showed in the early years of the American republic, democracy is first and foremost a matter of culture: the shared ideas, practices, and technologies that help individuals combine into publics and achieve representation. Reinterpreting democracy as culture reveals the ways the media, public opinion polling, and changing technologies shape democracy and citizenship. As Perrin shows, the founders of the United States produced a social, cultural, and legal environment fertile for democratic development and in the two centuries since, citizens and publics use that environment and shared culture to re-imagine and extend that democracy. American Democracy provides a fresh, innovative approach to democracy that will change the way readers understand their roles as citizens and participants. Never will yoTrade Review''Written with uncommon imagination, this beautifully-realized book challenges too narrow a focus on formal institutions and the electoral process. Written in the spirit of Tocqueville as a sociology of democracy and of Habermas as a probe of the public realm, it deepens our understanding of the foundations of democratic culture, including civic values and the patterns of communication, association, and action that give shape and meaning to democratic citizenship.''Ira Katznelson, Columbia University ''In this bold reconceptualization of American democracy, Andrew Perrin introduces what he correctly calls a new sociology of publics. Perrin draws our attention to the dynamism inherent in American democracy by showing how democracy is learned and practiced as citizens interact with institutions. An important contribution that will inspire fresh thinking about what sustains democratic practice in the United States and how it might be re-energized.''Margaret Weir, University of California BerkeleyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments viii Introduction 1 1 History and Theory of Democracy 12 2 Voting, Civil Society, and Citizenship 48 3 Deliberation, Representation, and Legislation 81 4 Public Opinion, Policy Responsiveness, and Feedback 114 5 Media, Communications, and Political Knowledge 140 6 Democratic Culture and Practice in Postmodern America 163 Notes 188 References 191 Index 219

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Book SynopsisImmigration is the primary cause of population change in developed countries and a major component of population change in many developing countries. This clear and perceptive text discusses how immigration impacts population size, composition, and distribution.Trade Review"Bohon and Conley have written an important book that clearly articulates the ubiquitous impact of immigration on the U.S. economy, social institutions, and the country's demographic future. This book is a welcome state-of-the-field scientific literature overview for classroom instruction and scholarly advancement."—Gordon De Jong, Penn State University "In an age of large-scale U.S. immigration often enveloped in bombastic rhetoric, this book is a breath of fresh air. Bohon and Conley's straightforward analysis clearly shows how immigration intersects with demography, a field that uses empirical data to understand how immigrants fare in U.S. society. This is a must-read for everyone interested in understanding contemporary debates about U.S. immigration."—Katharine M. Donato, Vanderbilt University "The authors of this timely book provide an outstanding review of both the theoretical and empirical literature concerning immigration's effect on education, health, and the environment. The chapter on assimilation and integration is particularly noteworthy.... The text is jargon-free and accessible to non-demographers." —ChoiceTable of ContentsChapter 1: The Demography of Immigration Chapter 2: Assimilation, Adaptation, and Integration Chapter 3: Immigrants in the Economy Chapter 4: Immigration and the Environment Chapter 5: The Fertility of Immigrants Chapter 6: Replacement Migration to Offset Population Aging Chapter 7: Immigrant Health Chapter 8: Educating Children in Immigrant Families Chapter 9: Conclusions References

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Book SynopsisImmigration is the primary cause of population change in developed countries and a major component of population change in many developing countries. This clear and perceptive text discusses how immigration impacts population size, composition, and distribution.Trade Review"Bohon and Conley have written an important book that clearly articulates the ubiquitous impact of immigration on the U.S. economy, social institutions, and the country's demographic future. This book is a welcome state-of-the-field scientific literature overview for classroom instruction and scholarly advancement."—Gordon De Jong, Penn State University "In an age of large-scale U.S. immigration often enveloped in bombastic rhetoric, this book is a breath of fresh air. Bohon and Conley's straightforward analysis clearly shows how immigration intersects with demography, a field that uses empirical data to understand how immigrants fare in U.S. society. This is a must-read for everyone interested in understanding contemporary debates about U.S. immigration."—Katharine M. Donato, Vanderbilt University "The authors of this timely book provide an outstanding review of both the theoretical and empirical literature concerning immigration's effect on education, health, and the environment. The chapter on assimilation and integration is particularly noteworthy.... The text is jargon-free and accessible to non-demographers." —ChoiceTable of ContentsChapter 1: The Demography of Immigration Chapter 2: Assimilation, Adaptation, and Integration Chapter 3: Immigrants in the Economy Chapter 4: Immigration and the Environment Chapter 5: The Fertility of Immigrants Chapter 6: Replacement Migration to Offset Population Aging Chapter 7: Immigrant Health Chapter 8: Educating Children in Immigrant Families Chapter 9: Conclusions References

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Book SynopsisThis exciting new book presents the field of social demography, animating the study of population with a vibrant sociological imagination. Gregg Lee Carter provides multiple demonstrations of how taking a demographic perspective can give us a better understanding of social phenomena once thought to be largely the products of culture, politics, or the economy. Five key chapters concentrate on (1) the social and individual determinants of fertility, mortality, and migration; (2) the social and individual impacts of changing levels of fertility, mortality, and migration; and (3) the impacts of overpopulation on the environment, and how changes in the environment, in turn, impact the human condition, especially regarding migration. What gives these analyses coherence is how each emphasizes the ways in which demographic forces both reflect and limit individual choices. Written in a straightforward and engaging style, and without getting bogged down in academic debateTrade Review"Anyone wanting to learn the basics of demography and the ways it relates to broader social forces will profit from reading this book. Carter provides an overview of the field that is informative and wide-ranging."William H. Frey, The Brookings Institution "Carter offers a comprehensive yet concise overview of the major concepts, theories, and data sources in the fields of classic and social demography. Written in an accessible style and leveraging the most recent data from countries around the world, the book highlights the salience of the demographic perspective in understanding all contemporary social problems and provides multiple examples of how demographic forces both reflect and constrain individual choices."Shannon Monnat, Pennsylvania State University "Population and Society does an outstanding job of bringing to life demographic processes such as fertility, mortality, and migration by illustrating their impact using a range of student-engaging, in-depth examples and easy-to-understand data. The book applies demographic events to a range of critical social issues, from environmental degradation, overpopulation, and gender inequality, to the everyday choices we make in our own lives. In short, this book is an outstanding accomplishment!"Sharlene Hesse-Biber, Boston College "This book is well written and with a non-specialist in mind, one more interested in getting quickly into the main points of consensus about human populations instead of the academic quibbles underlying that consensus. The book is peppered with many thought-provoking questions [… T]his is an engaging read, non-technical in style, best suited for undergraduates." American Library Association Choice Reviews"Demography textbooks tend to be high priced and lacking an explicit sociological perspective. Population and Society has neither of these weaknesses. [… Greg Lee Carter's] goal, successfully achieved in my opinion, is to provide students access to the power of social demography to help explain a wide variety of social problems."Teaching SociologyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Overview of Population Study 2. World Population Growth and Distribution 3. Mortality 4. Fertility 5. Migration

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Book SynopsisIdentity is never just an individual matter; it is intricately shaped by our experiences of social life. Taking a Symbolic Interactionist approach, and drawing on Goffman's dramaturgical theory, Susie Scott explores the micro-social processes of interaction through which identities are created, maintained, challenged and reinvented. With a focus on empirical studies as illustrations, classic sociological theory is applied to contemporary examples.Each chapter focuses on a key dimension of how identities are negotiated in the drama of everyday life, from politeness and face-saving rituals to secrecy, lies and deception. Goffman's ideas are explored in relation to self-presentation, role-making, group interaction and public behaviour, while language and discourse are shown to help people to give credible identity performances and to frame social situations. The book reveals how social selves change over the life course through stigma, labelling and deviant careers, and how liTrade Review"Casting identity as lived and negotiated, Scott extends a pragmatist orientation to symbolic interaction, dramaturgy, and ethnomethodology. Pertinent and interesting case material grounds theory in everyday circumstances, making for accessible reading. The book is highly recommended for courses on self and society and on social control."Jaber F. Gubrium, University of Missouri [and author of The Self We Live By] "Susie Scott has already established herself as one of our leading exponents of interactionist sociology. Here she has again assimilated and synthesised a impressive array of material in a scholarly overview of the sources and enactments of social identity. At a time when issues of identity are written about loosely in many quarters, we need Scott’s careful, systematic and disciplined review. She clearly establishes the continuing relevance of symbolic interactionism for sociology today." Paul Atkinson, Cardiff University"With the lucidity we have come to expect, Susie Scott draws from her remarkable command of micro social theory to provide a profound exploration of social identity. Illuminating this through a glittering variety of real-world illustrations, she reveals the artistry, the fragility, and the poignancy of the everyday processes by which we negotiate who we are."Rob Stones, University of Western SydneyTable of ContentsChapter 1. Interacting selves: Symbolic Interactionist approaches to identity Chapter 2. Relating in public: Rudeness, civility and polite fictions Chapter 3. Framing pictures: Definitions, accounts and motive talk Chapter 4. Managing faces: Roles, performance and self-presentation Chapter 5. Casting members: Teamwork, collusion and dramaturgical loyalty Chapter 6. Spoiling careers: Deviance, stigma and moral trajectories Chapter 7. Reinventing futures: Organizations, power and institutionalized identities Chapter 8. Faking identity: Secrecy, deception and betrayal

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Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to think of children as social subjects and how should we go about studying childhood in society? Childhood is a key site where children come to understand themselves as particular kinds of people, not only as individuals but also as members of social and cultural groups.Trade Review"Wells offers an interesting, astute and highly accessible analysis of the interconnections between liberalism, racism and the creation of the child subject. Her work compels Childhood Studies to become more self-critical." Sarada Balagopalan, Rutgers University "This original and provocative book has the potential to shift several key paradigms within Childhood Studies and set the agenda for future debates. Focusing on the interplay between the biological and the social, the book offers new and challenging ways of theorizing childhoods." Heather Montgomery, The Open UniversityTable of Contents 1 Making young subjects 2 The disciplines 3 Governing through race, governing through childhood 4 Policing gender 5 Class discrimination in childhood 6 Disability in Childhood Studies 7 Children’s bodies matter 8 Development psychology and Social Identity Theory 9 Consuming childhoods 10 Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to think of children as social subjects and how should we go about studying childhood in society? Childhood is a key site where children come to understand themselves as particular kinds of people, not only as individuals but also as members of social and cultural groups.Trade Review"Wells offers an interesting, astute and highly accessible analysis of the interconnections between liberalism, racism and the creation of the child subject. Her work compels Childhood Studies to become more self-critical." Sarada Balagopalan, Rutgers University "This original and provocative book has the potential to shift several key paradigms within Childhood Studies and set the agenda for future debates. Focusing on the interplay between the biological and the social, the book offers new and challenging ways of theorizing childhoods." Heather Montgomery, The Open UniversityTable of Contents 1 Making young subjects 2 The disciplines 3 Governing through race, governing through childhood 4 Policing gender 5 Class discrimination in childhood 6 Disability in Childhood Studies 7 Children’s bodies matter 8 Development psychology and Social Identity Theory 9 Consuming childhoods 10 Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisWhy is it so hard to talk about sex and sexuality? In this crisp and compelling book, Amin Ghaziani provides a pithy introduction to the field of sexuality studies through a distinctively cultural lens.Trade Review“Amin Ghaziani’s Sex Cultures demonstrates how to bring LGBT Studies to a broad audience. His central thesis is that sex and sexuality are not biologically determined, but only make sense through the lens of culture. Or, as Ghaziani schematizes it: ‘Sex + Culture = Sexuality’ [...] I can only hope that Ghaziani’s book is widely adopted in classes and can enlighten a generation of youth, thus providing the revolutionary potential of mainstreaming LGBT studies.” The Gay and Lesbian Review “Sex Cultures is a field guide to the study of sexuality that is written in a delightfully accessible manner. [… A] fluid book that will hold up even as the sexual cultures of our world continue to evolve. It is written for scholars, students, and general audiences alike, and recognizes the investment that we all have in better understanding desire and the meanings we attach to it.”Social Forces“Ghaziani showcases his in-depth knowledge, his powerful analyses, and his clear, conversational writing style. These strengths make the text extremely useful to anyone interested in the study of sexuality, social change, or LGBTQ issues. Ghaziani provides a thorough overview of the existing knowledge about sexuality studies, while also advancing aspects of the field using a distinctly cultural approach – Ghaziani’s book is an excellent read.”Sociation“[A]n innovative, conceptually and theoretically novel framework that builds on the sociologies of sexualities and of culture. […] Ghaziani also reminds us of the diverse kinds of institutional consequences associated with different understandings of what sexuality is. This book will be useful in undergraduate and graduate classes alike.”Tristan Bridges, Contemporary Sociology“Ghaziani provides a smart, engaging and accessible introduction to thinking about sex in society. […] Drawing on a canon of scholarship from the social sciences and the humanities, along with a creative strategy of using an international set of ‘case studies’ to breathe life into those respective theories, he places culture in the driver’s seat and thus at the centre of the production of sexuality. […A] well-written, well-evidenced, and scintillating account.”Eric Anderson, British Journal of Sociology“Sex Cultures provides a unique and new way to examine sexuality through a cultural lens. […] Ghaziani helps readers explore how the seemingly abstract concepts of sexuality and culture can be uncovered throughout history and in their everyday lives. […] It is accessible, easy to read and enjoyable, making it a great introduction for students.”Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie“By outlining movements and events that have effected, constructed and formed modern sexual cultures, Ghaziani has produced an accessible, useful pathway for those wanting to start exploring historical and social movements concerning sexuality.”Screening Sex“Sex Cultures is a wonderful introduction to how to think about sexuality today. Unlike so many sexuality textbooks, here’s a teaching resource that elegantly weaves its way through cultural codes, political programs, and moral debates.”Steven Epstein, Professor of Sociology and John C. Shaffer Professor in the Humanities, Northwestern University“This is the book we have been waiting for – a comprehensive and engaging overview of the field of sexuality accessible to beginning students that also provides a concise and updated review of the field for graduate students. Beautifully written and insightful, Ghaziani’s text cleverly couches major theoretical perspectives and empirical questions in case studies that will be invaluable to both instructors and students.”Verta Taylor, Professor of Sociology and Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa BarbaraTable of ContentsIntroduction: Feeling Flustered Chapter 1. The City Chapter 2. Politics and Protest Chapter 3. Heterosexualities Chapter 4. Studying Sexuality Conclusion: Culture Wars? Notes

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Book SynopsisWhy is it so hard to talk about sex and sexuality? In this crisp and compelling book, Amin Ghaziani provides a pithy introduction to the field of sexuality studies through a distinctively cultural lens.Trade Review“Amin Ghaziani’s Sex Cultures demonstrates how to bring LGBT Studies to a broad audience. His central thesis is that sex and sexuality are not biologically determined, but only make sense through the lens of culture. Or, as Ghaziani schematizes it: ‘Sex + Culture = Sexuality’ [...] I can only hope that Ghaziani’s book is widely adopted in classes and can enlighten a generation of youth, thus providing the revolutionary potential of mainstreaming LGBT studies.”The Gay and Lesbian Review “Sex Cultures is a field guide to the study of sexuality that is written in a delightfully accessible manner. [… A] fluid book that will hold up even as the sexual cultures of our world continue to evolve. It is written for scholars, students, and general audiences alike, and recognizes the investment that we all have in better understanding desire and the meanings we attach to it.”Social Forces“Ghaziani showcases his in-depth knowledge, his powerful analyses, and his clear, conversational writing style. These strengths make the text extremely useful to anyone interested in the study of sexuality, social change, or LGBTQ issues. Ghaziani provides a thorough overview of the existing knowledge about sexuality studies, while also advancing aspects of the field using a distinctly cultural approach – Ghaziani’s book is an excellent read.”Sociation“[A]n innovative, conceptually and theoretically novel framework that builds on the sociologies of sexualities and of culture. […] Ghaziani also reminds us of the diverse kinds of institutional consequences associated with different understandings of what sexuality is. This book will be useful in undergraduate and graduate classes alike.”Tristan Bridges, Contemporary Sociology“Ghaziani provides a smart, engaging and accessible introduction to thinking about sex in society. […] Drawing on a canon of scholarship from the social sciences and the humanities, along with a creative strategy of using an international set of ‘case studies’ to breathe life into those respective theories, he places culture in the driver’s seat and thus at the centre of the production of sexuality. […A] well-written, well-evidenced, and scintillating account.”Eric Anderson, British Journal of Sociology“Sex Cultures provides a unique and new way to examine sexuality through a cultural lens. […] Ghaziani helps readers explore how the seemingly abstract concepts of sexuality and culture can be uncovered throughout history and in their everyday lives. […] It is accessible, easy to read and enjoyable, making it a great introduction for students.”Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie“By outlining movements and events that have effected, constructed and formed modern sexual cultures, Ghaziani has produced an accessible, useful pathway for those wanting to start exploring historical and social movements concerning sexuality.”Screening Sex“Sex Cultures is a wonderful introduction to how to think about sexuality today. Unlike so many sexuality textbooks, here’s a teaching resource that elegantly weaves its way through cultural codes, political programs, and moral debates.”Steven Epstein, Professor of Sociology and John C. Shaffer Professor in the Humanities, Northwestern University“This is the book we have been waiting for – a comprehensive and engaging overview of the field of sexuality accessible to beginning students that also provides a concise and updated review of the field for graduate students. Beautifully written and insightful, Ghaziani’s text cleverly couches major theoretical perspectives and empirical questions in case studies that will be invaluable to both instructors and students.”Verta Taylor, Professor of Sociology and Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa BarbaraTable of ContentsIntroduction: Feeling Flustered Chapter 1. The City Chapter 2. Politics and Protest Chapter 3. Heterosexualities Chapter 4. Studying Sexuality Conclusion: Culture Wars? Notes

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Book SynopsisFewer than 12 percent of U.S. workers belong to unions, and union membership rates are falling in much of the world.Trade Review''Stephanie Luce gives us an informed and wise assessment of the crucial role of unions in resisting the forces unleashed by neoliberal capitalism. She deals unblinkingly with the opposition that unions confront today and with their own internal weaknesses as well. Yet she concludes that rolling back an unbridled capitalism cannot be accomplished without a revived and innovative labor movement. A sobering yet refreshing antidote, and one that inspires both hope and hard work.''Frances Fox Piven, Graduate Center, City University of New York ''Stephanie Luce's "Labor Movements" is must read book for those who are interested in workers' rights, unionization and the future of labor movements. Luce provides a critical review on neo-liberal gobalization, global financial crisis, illusion of economic growth, and assess the effect on the role of unions and workers' struggles. By debunking the myth of mobile and global capitalism, the book calls for changes on the existing system and new ways of workers' emancipation worldwide.''Pun Ngai, Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction Part I: Background 2. A Role for Unions? 3. Why Unions Decline: External Challenges on the Macro Level 4. Adding to Further Decline: Labor Market Changes Part II: Union Response 5. Changing from Within 6. Union Power 7. Rebuilding the Movements 8. New Directions – Going Global Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisFewer than 12 percent of U.S. workers belong to unions, and union membership rates are falling in much of the world.Trade Review''Stephanie Luce gives us an informed and wise assessment of the crucial role of unions in resisting the forces unleashed by neoliberal capitalism. She deals unblinkingly with the opposition that unions confront today and with their own internal weaknesses as well. Yet she concludes that rolling back an unbridled capitalism cannot be accomplished without a revived and innovative labor movement. A sobering yet refreshing antidote, and one that inspires both hope and hard work.''Frances Fox Piven, Graduate Center, City University of New York ''Stephanie Luce's "Labor Movements" is must read book for those who are interested in workers' rights, unionization and the future of labor movements. Luce provides a critical review on neo-liberal gobalization, global financial crisis, illusion of economic growth, and assess the effect on the role of unions and workers' struggles. By debunking the myth of mobile and global capitalism, the book calls for changes on the existing system and new ways of workers' emancipation worldwide.''Pun Ngai, Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction Part I: Background 2. A Role for Unions? 3. Why Unions Decline: External Challenges on the Macro Level 4. Adding to Further Decline: Labor Market Changes Part II: Union Response 5. Changing from Within 6. Union Power 7. Rebuilding the Movements 8. New Directions – Going Global Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThis ground-breaking book offers a deep and original analysis of the Mafia in particular Cosa Nostra as a distinct form of politics. Marco Santoro breaks with criminal and economic approaches which see the Mafia as an industry of private protection and rationally calculating wealth accumulation. Instead he argues that it represents an alternative way of organizing political relations, the exercise of power, and the struggle for prestige. Nor is this a distortion or failure of the modern Western state, based on the rule of law: the Mafia is best understood as an older, alternative tradition of politics, a distinctly Southern institutional arrangement of social life focused on personal ties and obligations. Today, the Mafia still thrives among subaltern classes and in regions that the modern state has not yet incorporated, as a conservative counter-politics of prestige. Pivotal to understanding this world is a cultural sociology of the Mafia, offering the tools and concepts necessary tTrade Review“Absorbing and important [Santoro] builds a convincing and subtly argued case for why we need to treat the Mafia as a type of politics. […An] essential contribution.” David Nelken, Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia“Santoro takes us closer to the human side of mafiosi than anyone. As he convincingly argues, Mafia style and ceremonial go back to an ancient Mediterranean form of politics, antedating the state and continuing alongside it.” Randall Collins, author of Violence: A Micro-sociological Theory“This book is valuable and important: it combines political science, history, sociology and Maussian anthropological observations to develop a novel theory of Mafia as an elementary form of politics. The result is a provocative text for those interested in the many dimensions of organized crime beyond criminal and economic analysis and, crucially, the global North.”Lucia Michelutti, University College LondonTable of Contents1. Mafia, Politics, and Social Theory: An Introduction 2. The ‘Mafia’ in ‘Mafia Studies’: (Re)constructing a Sociological Object 3. What is Right with the Economic Theory of the Mafia? 4. The Public Life of Mafiosi 5. The Mafioso’s Gift or, Making Sense of an “Offer You Cannot Refuse” 6. Blood, Bund, and (Personal) Bonds: The Mafia as an Institutional Type 7. Mafia as an Elementary Form of Politics

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an interpretation of one of the key aspects of Max Weber s work: the relationship between his political and sociological writings.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements and Bibliographical Note 6 1 Introduction 7 2 Main Themes in Weber’s Political Writings 15 3 The Political Context of Weber’s Sociology 28 4 The Sociological Framework of Weber’s Political Thought 40 5 Conclusion 54 Bibliography 60

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Book Synopsis* Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most original and influential social thinkers of out time. * Renowned sociologist, Zygmunt Bauman, reflects upon the startling and worrying facts of social inequality of which we have become so conscious in the last decade.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 1 Just how unequal are we today? 6 2 Why do we put up with inequality? 20 3 Some big lies on which a bigger one floats 27 4 Words against deeds: an afterthought . . . 90 Notes 97

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"As the world is caught up in a whirlwind of multiple crises - social, ecological, political, civilizational - we desperately need to get our hands on and shut down the source. In this book, two of the most acute minds in critical theory point their fingers towards capitalism. Fraser in particular elaborates on her path-breaking 'unifying' theory of capitalism as a system resting on several hidden abodes that it cannot live without and cannot avoid wrecking. This is the sort of sober and passionate thinking we need in a world careening out of control."—Andreas Malm, Lund University "Fraser and Jaeggi supply an eloquent, well-reasoned, and thorough account of the key institution of our time - capitalism. For them, capitalism is not only a mode of production but also an institutional order or form of life. Those who have followed Fraser's discussion of recognition or justice, or read Jaeggi on the actuality of alienation, will cherish this brilliant contribution to understanding the world in which we live."—Robin Blackburn, University of Essex "An engaging and probing conversation between two eminent scholars on how to unravel the key problems of a troubled contemporary capitalism."—David Harvey, City University of New YorkTable of ContentsContents Preface Introduction Chapter 1: Conceptualizing Capitalism Chapter 2: Historicizing Capitalism Chapter 3: Criticizing Capitalism Chapter 4: Contesting Capitalism Notes

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Book Synopsis* The latest work of Arthur Kroker, internationally renowned theorist, Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture and Theory, and the Director of the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture (PACTAC) at the University of Victoria.Trade Review"Kroker’s long-awaited Exits to the Posthuman Future presents us with a much more complex, and definitely more profound, analysis of the emerging posthuman condition. Motivated neither by a nostalgic yearning for what has been left behind nor by an unbridled optimism for what the fully realized technological society will bring, Kroker seeks to draw closer attention to the essentially elusive character of a future shaped by technologies that thrive on the liminal, the uncertain, and the indeterminate."Cultural Politics"With remarkable range and acuity, Arthur Kroker defines the posthuman condition of the twenty-first century as 'drift culture,' exploring its ramifications through genetics, data archives, and a variety of other cultural and technological sites. This is an exciting and crucially important synthesis of recent trends that anyone interested in where we are going should read." N. Katherine Hayles, Duke University "This book, on the thorny, arid issue of the posthuman, turns out to be Arthur Kroker’s most humane, personal, and deeply felt work. It is so vast, dark, mythic and oracular that every haunted page should be read aloud by the ghosts of Nietzsche and McLuhan." Bruce Sterling, The Well "Arthur Kroker is a founding figure of posthuman futural studies. He is philosopher of the vectors of speed, theorist of the live data feed, and thinker of our need to ‘drift’ beyond today’s codes, archives, and screens as post-historical mediators of a self-induced techno- catastrophe. A contemporary tour de force, Kroker’s Exits to the Posthuman Future helps transform our understanding of technopolitics and war, consciousness, and power as theoretical categories and futural practices of disappearance." John Armitage, University of SouthamptonTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii 1 Introduction: Trajectories of the Posthuman 1 Accelerate 29 2 The Posthuman Imagination: Neuro-Diversity, Psychic Trauma, and History in the Data Feed 31 Drift 47 3 Code Drift 49 4 History Drift 60 5 Archive Drift 80 6 Screen Drift 90 7 Media Drift 97 Crash: Slow Suicide of Technological Apocalypse 109 8 After the Drones 111 9 Guardian Liberalism: Rhetoric of the “Just War” 122 Crash: Traversal Consciousness 153 10 Premonitory Thought: That Fateful Day When Power Abjected Itself 155 11 Thinking the Future with Marshall McLuhan: Technologies of Abandonment, Inertia, Disappearance, Substitution 173 12 Epilogue: Media Theory in the Data Storm 195 Notes 199 Index 207

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Book SynopsisAt a time when significant social status, economic resources, and political opportunities seem to become ever more unequally distributed and only available to a few, this book represents the first systematic effort in recent years to develop a sociological model of elites and non-elites.Trade ReviewElites deserves wide attention. Writing with exceptional clarity, Milner balances the simplicity of deep conceptual structures with an empirical complexity spanning three sharply contrasting civilizations. He emphasizes, against purely economic and political approaches, that elite status can be powerfully based on distinctive cultural competences, which in contemporary societies involve increasing visibility. This is the first really new theory of elites in many decades. Jeffrey C. Alexander, Yale University Professor Milner provides a powerful set of social science tools for those keen to understand many of the pressing issues we face today. These include those concerned with the rise of the 1% and the decline of the rest; legalized corruption that deeply distorts our political process; and the influence of the military industrial complex. Amitai Etzioni, The George Washington University"In such historical circumstances, [… Elites: A General Model…] is not only timely and relevant, but also exciting. […] It is a refreshing contribution to the growing volume of elite-focused analyses of power and politics."Jan Pakulski, Books and IdeasTable of ContentsPrefaceChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. The General ModelChapter 3. Traditional India: the Varna SchemeChapter 4. Athens in the Classical PeriodChapter 5. The U.S. 1980-2008: Economics and PoliticsChapter 6. The U.S. 1980-2008: Other ActorsChapter 7. The 2007-2009 Financial CrisisChapter 8. ConclusionsAppendix: Some Implications and Elaborations of the ModelReferences

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Book SynopsisToday we hear much talk of crisis and comparisons are often made with the Great Depression of the 1930s, but there is a crucial difference that sets our current malaise apart from the 1930s: today we no longer trust in the capacity of the state to resolve the crisis and to chart a new way forward.Table of ContentsPreface1. CRISIS OF THE STATE1a. A definition of crisis1b. A statism without a State1c. State and nation1d. Hobbes and the Leviathan2. MODERNITY IN CRISIS2a. The promises withdrawn2b. Leaving modernity2c. Through postmodernity2d. Deconstruction and denial2e. The end of history?3. DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS3a. Ethics of progress and democracy3b. An excess of democracy?3c. Postdemocracy3d. For a new global order

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Book SynopsisTo ordinary people, science used to seem infallible. Scientists were heroes, selflessly pursuing knowledge for the common good. More recently, a series of scientific scandals, frauds and failures have led us to question science s pre-eminence.Trade Review"To the extent we might come to witness a reaction against the fallen idol of everyone thinking they are an expert, Are We All Scientific Experts Now? might come to be a classic, a Gangnam Style shot across the STS bow." (Metascience) "In his remarkable manifesto, sociologist Harry Collins, a major voice in the field of science studies, answers the provocative question presented in the book’s title: Are We All Scientific Experts Now? Collins starts out by outlining science's fall from grace in the public’s eye and by presenting a tongue-in-cheek caricature of scientific expertise based on the zeitgeist he holds responsible for the distortions." (Physics Today) "A valuable contribution to the ways in which we ascribe value to expertise.... Although Collins convincingly answers the book’s title question with a resounding 'no', what is most interesting and refreshing about his analysis is that it enables people holding different kinds of expertise to recognise their role in scientific debate." (LSE Review of Books) "Certainly a book for those who are interested in science and its role in society. For those who are curious about how scientists tackle problems and why they do often have the answers, it should prove illuminating." (Times Higher Education) "This brave, thoughtful little book should be sent to every newspaper editor. Collins doesn't write with Ben Goldacre's righteous anger, but his careful, nuanced scholarship is just as persuasive." (Seamus O'Mahony, Dublin Review of Books) "Masterful new book." (Mother Jones) "Brief book with a very high level argument relying a lot on his experience... this kind of nuanced, important thinking about science and expertise is a wonderful gift from Collins that I truly hope we don't squander." (Stark Reality - Todd I. Stark) "I read this short book with admiration - an analysis by a social scientist which (unlike much of that genre) should resonate with most actual researchers."(Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal and Former President of the Royal Society) "Packed into a slim polemic that succinctly yet movingly distills years of painstaking research into expertise, Harry Collins delivers an immensely rich book— a thorough cultural and intellectual analysis of why attitudes towards scientific expertise have changed, and why a new view of them needs to be adopted, to preserve society. Readers who are new to Collins's ideas will find come away with a fresh take on explosive controversies, including Climategate and anti-vaccination campaigns. Long time readers of Collins will be amazed at how accessible his technical arguments are and the big impact that's made by seeing them integrated into a gripping, short-form narrative."(Evan Selinger, Rochester Institute of Technology) "[O]ne of the best examples of 'practical philosophy of science for regular people' I have encountered." (ScienceBlogs)Table of ContentsFigures and Tables page vi Introduction: The Growing Crisis of Expertise 1 1 Academics and How the World Feels 17 2 Experts 49 3 Citizen Sceptics 80 4 Citizen Whistle-blowers 103 Conclusion: Are We All Experts Now? 115 Notes 133 Bibliography 138 Index 142

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Book SynopsisSocial mobility has long been one of the central topics of sociology. It has been the subject of major theoretical contributions from the earliest generations of scholars, as well as being of persistent political interest and concern. Social mobility is frequently used as a key measure of fairness and social justice, given the central role that modern liberal democracies give to equality of opportunity. More pragmatically, policymakers often consider it a force for economic growth and social integration. However, discussions of social mobility have increasingly become dominated by advanced statistical techniques, impenetrable to all but specialists in quantitative methods. In this concise and lucid book, Anthony Heath and Yaojun Li cut through the technical literature to provide an eye-opening account of the ideas, debates and realities that surround this important social phenomenon. Their book illuminates the major patterns and trends in rates of social mobility, and their drivers, in contemporary western and emerging societies, ultimately enabling readers to understand and engage with this perennially relevant social issue.Trade Review“This is a very interesting, well written, comprehensive and accessible survey of a complex topic – I would recommend it!”Alun Francis, Chair of the Social Mobility Commission “Heath and Li are impressively comprehensive in their discussion of social mobility. They examine occupational change from the medieval period onwards, review insights generated by the latest studies using tax data and provide fresh statistics on the historically understudied issues of mobility by gender, race and migration status.”Jo Blanden, University of Surrey“Social Mobility is a hugely important book on a topic that matters to us all. It is historical, comparative and interdisciplinary in its review of patterns and trends with due regard to gender and race and ethnicity. The discussion on who gets ahead and why is simply excellent.”Fiona Devine, University of ManchesterTable of Contents1. What is Social Mobility and Why Does It Matter?2. Landmarks: A Brief History of Mobility Research3. Intergenerational Social Class Mobility in the Twenty-First Century4. Intergenerational Income Mobility and the Great Gatsby Curve5. Gender: Bringing Mobility Research into the Twenty-First Century6. Race and Ethnicity: Entrenched Disadvantage?7. Trends in Social Mobility: From the Medieval Period to the Twenty-First Century8. Who Gets Ahead and Why?9. Conclusion: Individual and Collective Consequences of Mobility

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Book SynopsisThe urban century manifests itself at the peripheries. While the massive growth in urbanization is often referred to as an 'urban revolution', most of the twenty-first century's startling urban growth worldwide is happening in city peripheries.Trade Review"Keil provides a crucial theoretical underpinning to show how a plurality of suburbanization processes are multifariously linked to urban expansion yet constitute their own force and way of existing. This is the first book I know to really engage this heterogeneity with all of its problems, weird splendor, and ambivalent potentiality." AbdouMaliq Simone, Goldsmiths, University of London "Suburban Planet is a major contribution to the theoretical and policy debates that are emerging in the increasingly urbanized twenty-first century. It is in the spatially 'exploding' urban places that the urban drama of the 21st century will be played out against a background of economic volatility, social tension and environmental risk." Terry McGee, University of British ColumbiaTable of Contents Acknowledgments 1 Introduction 2 Suburbanization Explained 3 Suburban Theory 4 Suburban Studies 5 From Lakewood to Ferguson 6 Beyond the Picket Fence: Global Suburbia 7 Suburban Infrastructures 8 The Urban Political Ecology of Suburbanization 9 The Political Suburb Notes References

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Book SynopsisEnvironmentalism has relentlessly warned about the dire consequences of abusing and exploiting the planet's natural resources, imagining future wastelands of ecological depletion and social chaos. But it has also generated rich new ideas about how humans might live better with nature.Trade Review"This subtle, lucid and measured account charts the changing and conflicting discourses of limits, sustainability, wildness, adaptation and apocalypse. With clarity and care, Lisa Garforth's distinctive use of social theory explains and counters the difficulty of thinking (beyond) crisis and the importance of the utopian lens in exploring possible futures."—Ruth Levitas, University of Bristol "Green Utopias moves from the romantic eco-utopian interventions of the 1960s infused by hope for a redeemable nature to the realistic, yet stubbornly utopian, manoeuvres of the Anthropocene. Garforth articulates a utopian method informed by 'green hope' that 'unsettles' capitalist hegemony and enables humanity to live creatively with 'multiple ecologies and nonhuman others.' This is essential reading for all citizens of the world."—Tom Moylan, University of Limerick "The conclusion intriguingly chooses not to choose between the various ecotopian possibilities that have been sketched out in the monograph, not even between the 'before' and 'after' nature of the title; instead, Garforth argues, we must 'greet the Anthropocene' with a multitude of strategies ranging from hope and fear to apocalypse and adaptation. [...] In such dire times, the thinking goes, we should welcome any sort of utopian hope we can muster."—Science Fiction StudiesTable of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction: utopia, environment and nature Chapter 2 Environmentalism: from crisis to hope Chapter 3 Deep ecology: wild nature, radical visions Chapter 4 Utopian fiction: imagining the sustainable society Chapter 5 No future: green utopias between apocalypse and adaptation Chapter 6 After nature: ecological utopianism from limits to loss Chapter 7 Conclusion: long live the green utopia?

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Book SynopsisEnvironmentalism has relentlessly warned about the dire consequences of abusing and exploiting the planet's natural resources, imagining future wastelands of ecological depletion and social chaos. But it has also generated rich new ideas about how humans might live better with nature.Trade Review"This subtle, lucid and measured account charts the changing and conflicting discourses of limits, sustainability, wildness, adaptation and apocalypse. With clarity and care, Lisa Garforth's distinctive use of social theory explains and counters the difficulty of thinking (beyond) crisis and the importance of the utopian lens in exploring possible futures."—Ruth Levitas, University of Bristol "Green Utopias moves from the romantic eco-utopian interventions of the 1960s infused by hope for a redeemable nature to the realistic, yet stubbornly utopian, manoeuvres of the Anthropocene. Garforth articulates a utopian method informed by 'green hope' that 'unsettles' capitalist hegemony and enables humanity to live creatively with 'multiple ecologies and nonhuman others.' This is essential reading for all citizens of the world."—Tom Moylan, University of Limerick "The conclusion intriguingly chooses not to choose between the various ecotopian possibilities that have been sketched out in the monograph, not even between the 'before' and 'after' nature of the title; instead, Garforth argues, we must 'greet the Anthropocene' with a multitude of strategies ranging from hope and fear to apocalypse and adaptation. [...] In such dire times, the thinking goes, we should welcome any sort of utopian hope we can muster."—Science Fiction StudiesTable of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction: utopia, environment and nature Chapter 2 Environmentalism: from crisis to hope Chapter 3 Deep ecology: wild nature, radical visions Chapter 4 Utopian fiction: imagining the sustainable society Chapter 5 No future: green utopias between apocalypse and adaptation Chapter 6 After nature: ecological utopianism from limits to loss Chapter 7 Conclusion: long live the green utopia?

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Book SynopsisOur everyday lives are increasingly intertwined with psychiatry and discussions of mental health. Yet the dominant medical discipline of psychiatry remains surrounded by controversy. Is mental distress really an illness like any other, treatable by drugs? Can psychiatrists differentiate between mental disorders normal eccentricities, anxieties or even sadness? Should the power of psychiatrists be challenged by the knowledge of those with lived experience of mental ill health? In this penetrating analysis, Nikolas Rose critiques the powerful part that psychiatry has come to play in the lives of so many across the world. A series of chapters, each tackling an area of dispute head on, opens wide the terrain of debate addressing issues such as advances in brain science, the politics of Western psychiatry's spread across the globe, and recent evidence of social adversity's role in producing mental ill health. The answers we find to these pressing questions will shape the psychiatric futures that are being brought into existence. Ultimately, this book proposes a radically different future, no less evidence-based or rigorous, and indeed far more attuned to the realities of mental health, and argues that, as a branch of social medicine, another psychiatry is possible.Trade Review"Nikolas Rose brings a remarkable wealth of scholarship and experience to seriously difficult questions about mental health - and his inspiring answers suggest original and enlightening solutions. Rose's brilliant analyses provide stunning revelations about practical ways mental distress can be alleviated. Everyone with any stake in psychiatry and mental health should read this book."—Emily Martin, New York University "In another landmark volume, Rose presents the culmination of decades of critical questioning about the reach of psychiatry's long arms into all our lives, whether we live with mental distress or not. His 'Seven Hard Questions' are ones we need to keep asking."—Sarah Carr, University of Birmingham "If you want a scholarly and thought-provoking critique of current psychiatry, then this is the book for you."—Tom Burns, Times Higher Education Supplement "Even-handed, meticulously researched, offering a wealth of historical detail explaining how psychiatry has got to where it is today."—The Psychologist "Rose's writing is logical and straightforward, and he is able to convey complex arguments and nebulous ideas in a way that will be clear to most readers."—Journal of Mental HealthTable of ContentsChapter One: What is psychiatry? Our psychiatric lives Everyone’s little helpers Many psychiatries Psychiatry defines the boundaries What mental disorder is Psychiatry as a political science The politics of psychiatry Critical psychiatry today OnwardsÉ Chapter Two: Is there really an ‘epidemic’ of mental disorder? ‘The burden of brain disorders’ Counting the costs Burden today From ‘mental’ disorders to ‘brain disorders’ So is there an ‘epidemic’? Chapter Three: Is it all the fault of neoliberal capitalism? Our unhappy present The factory of unhappiness Social capital Loneliness Stress So is it all the fault of neoliberal capitalism? Chapter Four: If mental disorders exist, how shall we know them? Diagnosis as a social phenomenon Solution One: Define the phenotype Solution Two: Find the biomarker Solution Three: Straight to the brain Solution Four: Beyond diagnosis From diagnosis to formulation Chapter Five: Are mental disorders ‘brain disorders’? Proven by psychopharmaceuticals? Discovered in the genes? Visible in the brain images? So are mental disorders brain disorders? Chapter Six: Does psychopharmacology have a future? How did we get here? The drugs don’t do nothing, but The pipeline is empty! Beyond psychopharmacology? Chapter Seven: Who needs global mental health? Grand challenge: no health without mental health? The debate Beyond the conflict? All our futures? Chapter Eight: Experts by experience? Mental patient movements From ‘on our own’ to ‘nothing about us without us’ The politics of recovery A new epistemology of mental distress Have we moved beyond the monologue? Chapter Nine: Is another psychiatry possible? Manifestoes for the future Seven answers to seven hard questions Another psychiatry, another biopolitics

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Book SynopsisNeuroscience, with its astounding new technologies, is uncovering the workings of the brain and with this perhaps the mind. The 'neuro' prefix spills out into every area of life, from neuroaesthetics to neuroeconomics, neurogastronomy and neuroeducation.Trade Review"This book is a bold, forthright and courageous commentary on looming cultural trends�a true tour de force." Scientific American �An important corrective to the rise of neuroscientific ideas, and to the neoliberal ideology that spawned them.� CounterfireTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 The Rise and Rise of the Neurosciences 2 The Neurosciences Go Mega 3 Early Intervention: Making the Most of Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century 4 Neuroscience Goes to School Conclusion

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Book SynopsisChina is in the midst of transitioning from a manufacturing-based economy to one driven by innovation and knowledge. This up-to-date analysis evaluates China''s state-led approach to science and technology, and its successes and failures. In recent decades, China has seen huge investments in high-tech science parks, a surge in home-grown top-ranked global companies, and a significant increase in scientific publications and patents. Helped by state policies and a flexible business culture, the country has been able to leapfrog its way to a more globally competitive position. However, the authors argue that this approach might not yield the same level of progress going forward if China does not address serious institutional, organizational, and cultural obstacles. While not impossible, this task may well prove to be more difficult for the Chinese Communist Party than the challenges that China has faced in the past.Trade Review"This highly important work gives us insightful analysis founded on a tremendous depth of scholarship and interviews. It is the most comprehensive account of China's innovation system through a western lens."—Margaret McCuaig-Johnston, University of Alberta "Innovation in China offers a masterful account of China's innovation system, its working, and its impacts (for better and worse). A must read for those who care about innovation, China, or both." —Dan Breznitz, University of Toronto "The various aspects related to the effectiveness of China's industrial and innovation policy have long been debated and analysed, but have never been fully understood. [...T]his book will be a valuable source for scholars and practitioners alike."—Asian AffairsTable of ContentsIntroduction: From the World's Factory to the World's Innovator? Chapter 1 - China's Science and Technology Policy - A New Developmental State? Chapter 2 - Science and Technology in China: A Historical Overview Chapter 3 - China's Science and Technology Enterprise: Can Government-Led Efforts Successfully Spur Innovation? Chapter 4 - China's International S&T Relations: From Self-Reliance to Active Global Engagement Chapter 5 - How Effective Is China's State-Led Approach to High-Tech Development? Chapter 6 - Xi Jinping's Chinese Dream: Some Challenges

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Book SynopsisChina is in the midst of transitioning from a manufacturing-based economy to one driven by innovation and knowledge. This up-to-date analysis evaluates China's state-led approach to science and technology, and its successes and failures. In recent decades, China has seen huge investments in high-tech science parks, a surge in home-grown top-ranked global companies, and a significant increase in scientific publications and patents. Helped by state policies and a flexible business culture, the country has been able to leapfrog its way to a more globally competitive position. However, the authors argue that this approach might not yield the same level of progress going forward if China does not address serious institutional, organizational, and cultural obstacles. While not impossible, this task may well prove to be more difficult for the Chinese Communist Party than the challenges that China has faced in the past.Trade Review"This highly important work gives us insightful analysis founded on a tremendous depth of scholarship and interviews. It is the most comprehensive account of China's innovation system through a western lens."—Margaret McCuaig-Johnston, University of Alberta "Innovation in China offers a masterful account of China's innovation system, its working, and its impacts (for better and worse). A must read for those who care about innovation, China, or both." —Dan Breznitz, University of Toronto "The various aspects related to the effectiveness of China's industrial and innovation policy have long been debated and analysed, but have never been fully understood. [...T]his book will be a valuable source for scholars and practitioners alike."—Asian AffairsTable of ContentsIntroduction: From the World's Factory to the World's Innovator? Chapter 1 - China's Science and Technology Policy - A New Developmental State? Chapter 2 - Science and Technology in China: A Historical Overview Chapter 3 - China's Science and Technology Enterprise: Can Government-Led Efforts Successfully Spur Innovation? Chapter 4 - China's International S&T Relations: From Self-Reliance to Active Global Engagement Chapter 5 - How Effective Is China's State-Led Approach to High-Tech Development? Chapter 6 - Xi Jinping's Chinese Dream: Some Challenges

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Book SynopsisThe new edition of this accessible and wide-ranging book demonstrates the distinctive insights that sociology has to bring to the study of globalization. Taking in the cultural, political and economic dimensions of globalization, the book provides a thorough introduction to key debates and critically evaluates the causes and consequences of a globalizing world. Bringing the discussion right up to date, the new edition includes an increased emphasis on the rise of China, the aftermath of the financial crisis and austerity, the benefits of migration and open borders, and the changing structure of global inequality. Data and literature have been updated throughout the book, with new sections on global cities, the environment and international protests, and expanded discussion of gender. Martell argues that globalization offers many opportunities for greater interaction and participation in societies throughout the world, for instance through the media and migration, but alTrade Review‘Based on an interdisciplinary approach drawing on economic and political power as well as culture and social spheres, The Sociology of Globalization provides an excellent overview of key themes and major debates related to global restructuring. Comprehensive in its conceptual coverage and broad in its empirical focus, this book is a must read for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and academics in Sociology, Economics and Politics alike. - Andreas Bieler, University of Nottingham‘Luke Martell provides students and scholars with a rich analysis of the features, causes and consequences of globalization. Martell draws attention to the power, inequality and conflict that are inherent in contemporary globalization. The author draws on a range of disciplinary perspectives, offering the reader a nuanced sociological perspective that is informed as well by politics and economics.’ - Layna Mosley, University of North Carolina, Chapel HillTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Preface to the second edition Introduction: Concepts of Globalization 1 Perspectives on Globalization: Divergence or Convergence? 2 The History of Globalization: Pre-modern, Modern or Postmodern? 3 Technology, Economy and the Globalization of Culture 4 The Globalization of Culture: Homogeneous or Hybrid? 5 Global Migration: Inequality and History 6 The Effects of Migration: Is Migration a Problem or a Solution? 7 The Global Economy: Capitalism and the Economic Bases of Globalization 8 Global Inequality: Is Globalization a Solution to World Poverty? 9 Politics, the State and Globalization: The End of the Nation-state and Social Democracy? 10 Global Politics and Cosmopolitan Democracy 11 Anti-globalization and Global Justice Movements 12 The Future World Order: The Decline of American Power and the Rise of China? Conclusion Acknowledgements References Index

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Book Synopsis* Before his sudden death in January 2015, Ulrich Beck was one of the world s foremost sociologists. This new book is the last book he wrote before his death; it was completed in December 2014 * In this book Beck introduces a new concept 'metamorphosis' to describe what is happening in our world today.Trade Review'This book, which its author, one of the most original and perceptive thinkers of our time, was prevented from completing by a sudden catastrophe, reads as a most thorough and exhaustive - indeed complete - description of our world: a world defined by its endemic incompleteness and dedicated to resisting completion.'—Zygmunt Bauman 'This brilliant manifesto is in good part Ulrich Beck having a debate with himself. He comes out winning, because whatever doubts or disagreements he may have with himself, he moves on, never losing sight of the foundational distinction he is after – transformation vs metamorphosis. The text oscillates between deeply engaging philosophical reflections and decisive interpretive outcomes. And there is no need to worry about the unresolved doubts Beck puts on the table: they are certain to become a great research project for future generations.'—Saskia Sassen, Columbia University 'Amid crises, challenges, and startling innovations the world is taking on a new shape and character. Quantitative change gives way to qualitative on dimensions from inequality through climate change. The new reality is by definition not completely knowable, but we can know the path to it better by reading Ulrich Beck's sadly but somehow also aptly unfinished book, The Metamorphosis of the World.' —Craig Calhoun, Director, London School of Economics and Political ScienceTable of Contents Foreword Preface Introduction, Evidence, Theory Chapter I Why metamorphosis of the world, why not transformation? Chapter II Being God Chapter III How climate change might save the world Chapter IV Theorising metamorphosis Themes Chapter V From class to risk-class: Inequality in times of metamorphosis Chapter VI Where does the power go? Politics of invisibility Chapter VII Emancipatory catastrophism: Common goods as side effects of bads Chapter VIII Public bads: Politics of visibility Chapter IX Digital risk: Failing of functioning institutions Chapter X Meta-power game of politics: Metamorphosis of the nation and international relations Chapter XI Cosmopolitan communities of risk: From United Nations to United Cities Outlook Chapter XII Global Risk Generations: United in decline Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIt is well known that the world is transitioning to an irrevocable urban future whose epicentre has moved into the cities of Asia and Africa. What is less clear is how this will be managed and deployed as a multi-polar world system is being born. The full implications of this challenge cry out to be understood because city building (and retrofitting) cannot but be an undertaking entangled in profound societal and cultural shifts. In this highly original account, renowned urban sociologists AbdouMaliq Simone and Edgar Pieterse offer a call for action based fundamentally on the detail of people''s lives. Urban regions are replete with residents who are compelled to come up with innovative ways to maintain or extend livelihoods, whose makeshift character is rarely institutionalized into a fixed set of practices, locales or organizational forms. This novel analytical approach reveals a more complex relationship between people, the state and other agents than has previously Trade Review"Ceaselessly inventive and frequently provocative, New Urban Worlds anticipates new models, methods and modes of urbanism. Paying attention to the details, AbdouMaliq Simone and Edgar Pieterse recount a multiplicity of urban stories from Asia and Africa - stories of political possibility and experimental potential - with a keen-eyed and always creative purpose."—Jamie Peck, University of British Columbia "Deeply conceptual and creatively pragmatic, this is a core text from two of the most significant voices in urban studies today. They offer a highly original retheorization of the urban and open up distinctive new horizons for scholars everywhere seeking to catch the dynamic, varied meanings and effects of the urban."—Jennifer Robinson, University College London "The vision of urban life that emerges here is messy, pluralistic, paradoxical and - perhaps above all - serendipitous. Simone and Pieterse call on researchers to be as experimental and eclectic in our scholarship as urban inhabitants are in their everyday lives; borrowing ideas and resources from different domains, and re-assembling them in ways that shed new light on pressing issues."—Urban StudiesTable of ContentsDetailed Table of Contents Acknowledgements Preface Chapter 1: Paradoxes of the Urban Chapter 2: Precarious Now Chapter 3: Re-Description Chapter 4: Secretions Chapter 5: Horizons From Within the Break Chapter 6: Experimentations Chapter 7: Epilogue: A Story About Stories Endnotes References

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Book SynopsisThis book reconstructs and extends sociological approaches to the understanding of food consumption. It identifies new ways to approach the explanation of food choice and it develops new concepts which will help reshape and reorient common understandings.Trade Review"Over the course of his exemplary career Alan Warde has emerge as an important - perhaps the important - theorist of eating and dining. In The Practice of Eating Warde provides a detailed analysis of the practice of dining and culinary production. Building on the centrality of consumption as a form of action, Warde synthesizes a wide range of theoretical approaches, applicable not only to the gastronomic world but in all corners of sociability. Warde has developed an approach to foodways as practice that belongs with the most trenchant works of contemporary theory."—Gary Alan Fine, Northwestern University and author of Kitchens: The Culture of Restaurant Work "Rejecting conventional accounts of consumer choice, Alan Warde examines the routinized and habitual character of eating as a social practice. In a field that is prone to political rhetoric and media speculation, The practice of eating offers conceptual clarity and empirical rigour, a compelling synthesis of more than a decade's research on the sociology of consumption."—Peter Jackson, University of Sheffield "In this accomplished new book, Alan Warde conducts a substantive analysis of aspects of eating situations and performances in the light of theory, paying due attention to its various contexts. The growing ranks of sociologists in the broad area of food studies will welcome this ambitious attempt to unify a hitherto dispersed and disparate field by devising an comprehensive theory of how we eat."—Christel Lane, University of Cambridge "The book serves as a solid, multi-disciplinary bibliography of food studies. It can be acclaimed for its presentation on a versatile set of themes from various levels and domains of eating (from a very close up look at the orchestration of a restaurant menu to the aggregate level phenomena such as the obesity crisis and the spreading of taste for 'exotica'), which are noteworthy and relevant for sociologists of eating."—Acta SociologicaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Towards a Sociological Theory of Eating Chapter 3: Elements of a Theory of Practice Chapter 4: Elementary Forms of Eating Chapter 5: Organizing Eating Chapter 6: Habituation Chapter 7: Repetition and the Foundations of Competence Chapter 8: Conclusions: Practice Theory and Eating Out Notes References

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Book SynopsisSexual violence has become a topic of intense media scrutiny, thanks to the bravery of survivors coming forward to tell their stories. But, unfortunately, media reports too often portray sexual violence in a way that inhibits proper understanding of its causes, placing too much emphasis on individual responsibility or blaming minority cultures.Trade Review“Alcoff’s groundbreaking book draws on the author’s decades of experience as a scholar, an activist, and a survivor. Her nuanced and richly informed work recognizes that violence is shaped by the ways in which we talk about it and yet that that it cannot be talked away. Alcoff’s account attends both to the phenomenological irreducibility of sexual violence and to the variety of ways in which it is conceptualized across the world. She argues that different understandings of violence not only affect the ways in which we think about victims and survivors; they also shape the possibilities for advocacy and resistance.”Alison M. Jaggar, University of Colorado at Boulder“Linda Alcoff insists upon the need for — and then provides — a philosophical analysis of sexual violation that refuses to shy away from its political and social complexity. From her rejection of sexual libertarianism to her description of the ways in which sexual violence thwarts victims’ ability to contribute substantially to their own sexual becoming, Alcoff’s writing is as lucid as it is insightful. A major and timely contribution to the theoretical literature on a pressing social problem.”Ann Cahill, Elon University"Alcoff's work is consistently insightful, clearly written, and well argued. She bravely tackles a number of contemporary challenges to feminist philosophy, including attacks on the epistemic authority of sexual assault victims, worries about making normative judgments about sex, difficulties with defining the concept of rape, and the political dangers of public discourse. ... The best book I have read in several years."Debra L. Jackson, California State University, Bakersfield “What Alcoff achieves is a deftly crafted exploration of not only how rape impacts the self, but of what constitutes ‘the self’ and how our selves are constantly in the making. She challenges us to rethink many of the concepts discussed so widely today, doing so in a deeply informed and reflective way.”Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books Table of Contents Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Rape after Foucault 1. Global Resistance: A New Agenda for Theory 2. The Thorny Question of Experience 3. Norming Sexual Practices 4. Sexual Subjectivity 5. “Consent”, “Victim”, “Honor” 6. Speaking As (with Laura Gray-Rosendale) 7. The Problem of Speaking for Myself Conclusion: Standing in the Intersection Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisImmigration has been a contentious issue for decades, but in the twenty-first century it has moved to center stage, propelled by an immigrant threat narrative that blames foreign-born workers, and especially the undocumented, for the collapsing living standards of American workers. According to that narrative, if immigration were summarily curtailed, border security established, and illegal aliens removed, the American Dream would be restored. In this book, Ruth Milkman demonstrates that immigration is not thecauseof economic precarity and growing inequality, as Trump and other promoters of the immigrant threat narrative claim. Rather, the influx of low-wage immigrants since the 1970s was aconsequenceof concerted employer efforts to weaken labor unions, along with neoliberal policies fostering outsourcing, deregulation, and skyrocketing inequality.These dynamics have remained largely invisible to the public. The justifiable anger of US-born workers whose jobs have been eliminated or degraded has been tragically misdirected, with even some liberal voices recently advocating immigration restriction. This provocative book argues that progressives should instead challenge right-wing populism, redirecting workers' anger toward employers and political elites, demanding upgraded jobs for foreign-born and US-born workers alike, along with public policies to reduce inequality.Trade Review“This new book is a vital corrective to the conservative claim that immigrants ‘take jobs’ from American workers. Milkman's careful historical research shows that de-unionization and job degradation, on the one hand, and rising inequality on the other, are the key drivers of rising low-wage immigration over the past half-century — not vice versa. Understanding that employers and political elites are to blame for the plight of U.S.-born workers — not immigrants — can help to build bridges across racial and ethnic lines to mount a unified challenge to the toxic politics of right-wing populism.” Pramila Jayapal, member of the U.S. House of Representatives and co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus “Ruth Milkman addresses the central claim of contemporary nativism, that immigrants ‘take’ the jobs of ‘Americans.’ She persuasively shows that immigrant labor is not the cause of wage degradation, but its consequence. An important and timely book.” Mae Ngai, Columbia University “This carefully documented and forcefully argued book is a convincing counter to conventional immigration narratives.” Michael J. Piore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology"In her four-plus decades of pioneering research, Ruth Milkman has profoundly changed the way we approach gender, immigration, and work. . . . Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat does much to capture the policy and political-economic changes that have formed the backdrop of Milkman’s equally pioneering work on immigrant labor organizing."ILR Review "A cogent historical sociological argument regarding the main driver of low wage migration to the USA since the 1970s. […] Milkman provides a concise, readable, evidence-based counter-narrative to the 'immigrant threat narrative.'"SociologyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Brown-Collar Jobs: Low-Wage Immigrant Workers in the 21st Century 2 Immigration and Labor in Historical Perspective 3 The Eclipse of the New Deal: Labor Degradation, Union Decline, and Immigrant Workers 4 Growing Inequality and Immigrant Employment in Paid Domestic Labor and Service Industry Jobs 5 Immigrant Labor Organizing and Advocacy in the Neoliberal Era Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book is a radical plea for the centrality of experience in the social and human sciences. Lash argues that a large part of the output of the social sciences today is still shaped by assumptions stemming from positivism, in contrast to the tradition of interpretative social enquiry pioneered by Max Weber. These assumptions are particularly central to economics, with its emphasis on homo economicus, the utility-maximizing actor, but they have infiltrated the other social sciences too. Lash argues for a social sciences based not in positivism's utilitarian a priori but instead in the a posteriori of grounded and embedded subjective experience. His wide-ranging account starts from considerations of ancient experience via Aristotle's technics, continues through a politics of Hannah Arendt's a posteriori' public sphere and concludes with the contemporary with technological experience, on the one hand, and with Chinese post-ontological thought, in which the ten thousand things' themselves are doing the experiencing, on the other. This original book by a leading social and cultural theorist will be of great interest to students and scholars in sociology, cultural studies and throughout the social sciences.Trade Review"This is a book of amazing scholarly scope. It stands out as an extremely serious study that does not pander to fads and fashions nor seek approval from readers. Here is a major statement that will surprise many who think they are familiar with Lash's thought."—Philip Smith, Yale University "In this book, Scott Lash analyses the diverse meanings of a concept key to the social sciences and provides a hermeneutic lens through which the languages of sociology, anthropology, technology and art illuminate one another. A broadening of perspective, engaging with Chinese cosmology at the end of the book, distinguishes Experience as a truly global account of our age."—Roberto Esposito, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa "In his remarkable book, Scott Lash weaves his way through eras and cultures to construct a possible theory - transcultural and transhistorical - of what most defies theory. The 'empirical' option he gradually develops can indeed, after James and Arendt, erect experience as philosophy's decisive issue."—François Jullien, Fondation maison des sciences de l’homme, ParisTable of ContentsIntroduction: Three Types of Experience Chapter One: Have We Forgotten Experience? 1.1 In Praise of the A Posteriori 1.2 Substance 1.3 New Totalitarianisms and Technological Phenomenology: The Chapters Chapter Two: Experience in Antiquity: Aristotle's A Posteriori Technics 2.1 Technics and Praxis: Aristotle 2.2 Against Theoretical Reason: Praxis, Technics, Contingency 2.3 Form and Substance: Ancients, Christians and Moderns Chapter Three: Subjective Experience: William James's Radical Empiricism 3.1 James's Radical Empiricism 3.1.1 James and Hume: Radical Empiricism and Classical Empiricism 3.1.2 Experience and its Functions 3.2 Pragmatism: Activities 3.3 Dewey or Formal Pragmatics 3.4 Some Conclusions Chapter Four: Objective Experience: Methodenstreit and Homo Economicus 4.1 Methodenstreit: Formalists and Substantivists 4.1.1 Historical School: Subjective Experience and Institutions 4.1.2 Max Weber: Subjective Experience as Method, Objective Experience as Outcome 4.2 Classicals and Neoclassicals 4.2.1 Physics and Economics: From Conservation of Substance to Field of Utilities 4.2.2 Scottish Enlightenment 4.3 Conclusions: The Economic and the Political Chapter Five: Hannah Arendt's A Posteriori Politics: Free Will, Judgment, and Constitutional Fragility 5.1 Ancients and Moderns 5.2 Pax Romana 5.3 After the Polis: Augustine and Free Will 5.4 Politics as Aesthetic Judgment 5.5 Conclusions: From Politics to the Technological System Chapter Six: Forms of Life: Technological Phenomenology 6.1 Forms of Life: Transformations of Performative Language 6.1.1 Forms of Life and Exclusion: Homo sacer's experience 6.1.2 Language and Forms of life 6.2 Technological Forms of Life 6.2.1 Communicational Forms of Life 6.2.2 Entropy against Negentropy 6.2.3 Incompleteness: From Predications (Science) to Algorithms (Engineering) 6.2.4 System Encounter: War Games or Sex Games? 6.3 Conclusions Chapter Seven: Aesthetic Multiplicity: The View and the Ten Thousand Things 7.1 Fuzzy Singularities 7.1.1 Views 7.1.2 Art and Singularities 7.2 The Gaze as Multiplicity 7.2.1 Beauty: China against Metaphysics 7.2.2 Mountains that Breathe (and Perceive) Chapter Eight: Conclusions 8.1 Technology 8.2 Institutions 8.3 Metaphysics or Empirical Multiplicity

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Book SynopsisThinking about the future is essential for almost all organizations and societies. States, corporations, universities, cities, NGOs and individuals believe they cannot miss the future.Trade Review�It is time for progressive forces to reclaim the future. Through the crucial lens of social science, this means understanding both the past and how to better work together to craft the futures we want. This brilliant book cuts through a tangle of complexity to show us how.� Stewart Wallis, New Economics Foundation �John Urry, one of the leading sociologists of the past half-century, made a major contribution to the analysis of climate change and related issues, and this new book combines a comprehensive overview of the futures literature with a more detailed focus on some central themes. This learned yet very accessible book is in the best traditions of critical future studies. Anyone interested in the big questions facing our societies should read it.� William Outhwaite, Newcastle UniversityTable of Contents PREFACE 1 THE FUTURE HAS ARRIVED 2 TELLING FUTURES IN THE PAST 3 NEW CATASTROPHIC FUTURES 4 TIME AND COMPLEX SYSTEMS 5 INNOVATIONS AND FUTURES 6 ANTICIPATING FUTURES 7 MANUFACTURING FUTURE WORLDS 8 FUTURE CITIES ON THE MOVE 9 CLIMATE FUTURES 10 THE FUTURE OF FUTURES REFERENCES INDEX

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Book SynopsisThe images of migrants and refugees arriving in precarious boats on the shores of southern Europe, and of the makeshift camps that have sprung up in Lesbos, Lampedusa, Calais and elsewhere, have become familiar sights on television screens around the world. But what do we know about the border places ? these liminal zones between countries and continents ? that have become the focus of so much attention and anxiety today, and what do we know about the individuals who occupy these places? In this timely book, anthropologist Michel Agier addresses these questions and examines the character of the borderlands that emerge on the margins of nation-states. Drawing on his ethnographic fieldwork, he shows that borders, far from disappearing, have acquired a new kind of centrality in our societies, becoming reference points for the growing numbers of people who do not find a place in the countries they wish to reach. They have become the site for a new kind of subject, the bordTrade Review�In Borderlands, Michel Agier epitomizes what makes his standing unique in contemporary research: nothing less than the creation of a whole disciplinary field, empirical and theoretical, of urgent importance for our tragic present, the general anthropology of the displaced human in its multiple figures and locations, reversing traditional assessments of mobility and settlement, identity and strangeness, borders and neighbourhoods. He provides the missing link between the cosmopolitisms of yesterday and those we need for tomorrow.� Étienne Balibar, Université de Paris X – NanterreTable of Contents Contents Introduction: The Migrant, the Border and the World Blocked at the border Indifference and solidarities Borders and walls Borderlands and their inhabitants: a banal cosmopolitism Part I: Decentring the World Chapter 1. The Elementary Forms of the Border The border as centre of reflection Temporal, social and spatial dimensions of the border ritual Community and locality: the border as social fact The sacred space in Salvador de Bahia The symbolic construction of the border An anthropology of/in the border Founding, naming, limiting Borderlands as uncertain places: Tocqueville at Saginaw Interval time: carnivals and deceleration Everything that the border is the place of Borders and identity Border situations and liminality Chapter 2. The World as ‘Problem’ War at the borders Is the world a problem? Cosmopolitical reality and realpolitik Economic globalization and the weakening of nation-states Landscapes, routes and networks: the shape of the world Violence at the border: the outside of the nation The ‘border police’, or what remains of nation-states The fiction of ‘national indigeneity’ and its naturalization Expulsions trace the boundary of national identity Humanitarian spaces as partial delocalization of sovereignty Walls of war Colonial war, war on migrants Questions about the ‘desire for walls’ Chapter 3. Border Dwellers and Borderlands: Studies of banal cosmopolitism The border dwellers: figures and places of relative foreignness Wandering as adventure and the border encampment Becoming a pariah and living in a camp Four ‘métèques’, and the squat as border The foreigner in his labyrinth, or the tiers-instruit Being-in-the-world on the border: a new cosmopolitan condition An ordinary cosmopolitism Part Two: The Decentred Subject Chapter 4. Questions of Method: Decentring Reconsidered Today A critical moment: the contemporary turn in anthropology The end of the ‘Great Divide’ From ethnic group to ethnic identities Identity-based essentialisms and ontologies Decentring reconceived Beyond cultural decentring The construction of epistemological decentring Political decentring. The question of the other-as-subject A contemporary and situational anthropology WYSIWYG: what you see is what there is The contribution of situational anthropology Chapter 5. Civilization, Culture, Race: Three Explorations in Identity Civilization as hyper-border: mirrors of Africa The 1950s: ‘One civilization accused by another!’ 1980s and 1990s: deconstructions, reinventions A global and diffuse African presence The migration of spirits: mobilities and identity-based cultures The devil, the priest and black culture (Colombian Pacific) The Tunda as urban monster (Charco Azul, Cali) Borders and temporalities of identity-based cultures Race and racism: how can one be black? Republic and racial thought in France Brazil: from ‘racial democracy’ to ‘multicultural nation’ Citizenship without identity Escaping the identity trap Chapter 6. Logics and Politics of the Subject An anthropology of the subject From person to individual: ethnology and sociology From subjectification to subjects: anthropology and philosophy The subject in situation: an ethnographic proposal The decentred subject: three situational analyses The ritual subject, or the subject as duplication of self and world The aesthetic subject, or the care of self and the subject as author The political subject, or the subject as a demand for citizenship Moments and politics of the other-subject Conclusion: Towards an Anthropology of the Cosmopolitan Condition Notes Index

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Book SynopsisAs the twenty-first century unfolds, computers challenge the way in which we think about culture, society and what it is to be human: areas traditionally explored by the humanities. In a world of automation, Big Data, algorithms, Google searches, digital archives, real-time streams and social networks, our use of culture has been changing dramatically. The digital humanities give us powerful theories, methods and tools for exploring new ways of being in a digital age. Berry and Fagerjord provide a compelling guide, exploring the history, intellectual work, key arguments and ideas of this emerging discipline. They also offer an important critique, suggesting ways in which the humanities can be enriched through computing, but also how cultural critique can transform the digital humanities. Digital Humanities will be an essential book for students and researchers in this new field but also related areas, such as media and communications, digital media, sociology, iTrade Review"This important book addresses significant questions about the role of digital humanities in scholarship today. Concise and comprehensive, it is essential reading and a major addition to the emerging critical appraisal of the field." Lorna Hughes, University of Glasgow "This is a compelling and exciting analysis of the ways in which the encounter between the humanities and computers is reshaping and remediating our shared cultural and intellectual world. David Berry and Anders Fagerjord present an inspiring manifesto for a pluralistic and critical digital humanities and provide an essential roadmap for anyone seeking to understand our emerging digital cultures."Andrew Prescott, University of Glasgow "This book covers excellent ground. It draws together and analyses developments and critical moments in the growth of Digital Humanities in ways that clearly show their importance and impact." Kathryn Eccles, University of Oxford"as a clearly articulated, accurate, and concisely critical introduction, this book is exemplary. … I would recommend this volume to any newcomer who wanted a fair and true institutional history of the digital humanities. … a benignly deceptive introductory overview that also serves as a guiding critical compass for the future of the digital humanities."Martin Paul Eve, New FormationsTable of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Genealogies of the Digital Humanities 3. Computational Thinking 4. Knowledge Representation and Archives 5. Research Infrastructures 6. Digital Methods and Tools 7. Digital Scholarship and Interface Criticism 8. Towards a Critical Digital Humanities Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisHealth communication is key to promoting good population and individual health outcomes. As the field has developed, there is a growing need for a critical appraisal of the ideologies and theories underpinning health communication in order to ensure effective practice. This book clearly situates health communication within its social context. It provides a critical overview of three key disciplinary areas education, psychology and communication. Drawing on international examples throughout, the book challenges the underlying assumptions that drive the design and delivery of health promotion interventions. The authors argue that health communication is inherently political and pay close attention to issues of power, ethics and inequality throughout the text.This book will be valuable for those students at all levels who require a critical perspective, as well as practitioners in health communication and health promotion. With reference to detailed examples anTrade Review"This text provides the reader with a clear background to communication theories, models of communication, and education theory as well as an examination of key theoretical themes and perspectives on health communication. With the inclusion of discussions around new and emerging social media as well as social marketing techniques, Health Communication offers much to students as well as those working in health today."—Dr Ranjit Khutan, University of Wolverhampton"This is an original and good quality contribution to the literature. The authors are setting an important and new critical agenda, drawing together contributions from a variety of disciplines. The clear focus on the social construction of health and health related decision making encourages critical analysis of many of the 'taken for granted' assumptions about how to communicate successfully with people about health."—Dr Paul Reid, University of Central LancashireTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Part 1: Theoretical Perspectives Chapter 1: Introduction to Health Communication: Theoretical and Critical Perspectives Chapter 2: Communication Theory Chapter 3: Educational Theory Part 2: Key Topics Chapter 4: Psychological Theory Chapter 5: Methods and Media Chapter 6: Social Marketing Chapter 7: Health Literacy Part 3: Issues and Challenges Chapter 8: Challenges in Health Communication and Behaviour Change Chapter 9: The Politics of Health Communication and Behaviour Change Chapter 10: Looking to the Future References Index

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Book SynopsisThe pursuit of wealth has captivated people's attention for centuries. Yet, as a topic of social research, the way in which wealth is accumulated and unequally distributed has largely been neglected, remaining hidden beneath data on income inequality. Wealth aims to address this blind spot in the academic discourse. In accessible prose, Yuval Elmelech explains how personal wealth differs fundamentally from other conventional measures of socioeconomic status and why it has become increasingly important to our understanding of social mobility and stratification. Crucially, Elmelech presents a dynamic sociological framework of wealth attainment that illuminates the effects of cumulative advantages and disadvantages over the course of an individual's life, and across generations. He describes how these advantages and disadvantages are in turn shaped by a complex interplay of multiple markets, changing demographic landscapes, and persistent inter-group wealth disparities. Blending theTrade Review"Elmelech provides an engaging and comprehensive examination of one of today's most pressing social problems. A must-read for anyone interested in wealth ownership and inequality and the policies that attempt to address asset poverty."—Lisa A. Keister, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University "Elmelech moves considerations of wealth from a purely economic context to encompass sociological insights about institutional, demographic, and intergenerational factors that influence household accumulations and inequality. Theoretically profound and empirically comprehensive. A fitting companion to Piketty's seminal volume, Capital."—Seymour Spilerman, Co-Director, Center for the Study of Wealth and Inequality, Columbia UniversityTable of Contents1 Introduction: Why Wealth Matters 2 The Tenets of Wealth 3 The Evolution of Wealth 4 Individuals, Families, and Generations 5 Wealth Polarization and the Demography of Wealth Inequality 6 Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThe pursuit of wealth has captivated people's attention for centuries. Yet, as a topic of social research, the way in which wealth is accumulated and unequally distributed has largely been neglected, remaining hidden beneath data on income inequality. Wealth aims to address this blind spot in the academic discourse. In accessible prose, Yuval Elmelech explains how personal wealth differs fundamentally from other conventional measures of socioeconomic status and why it has become increasingly important to our understanding of social mobility and stratification. Crucially, Elmelech presents a dynamic sociological framework of wealth attainment that illuminates the effects of cumulative advantages and disadvantages over the course of an individual's life, and across generations. He describes how these advantages and disadvantages are in turn shaped by a complex interplay of multiple markets, changing demographic landscapes, and persistent inter-group wealth disparities. Blending theoretical approaches with empirical evidence and macro-level contexts with micro-level processes, this book is an astute guide for thinking about wealth as a key determinant of social and economic wellbeing and for interrogating the role of wealth accumulation in social inequality.Trade Review"Elmelech provides an engaging and comprehensive examination of one of today's most pressing social problems. A must-read for anyone interested in wealth ownership and inequality and the policies that attempt to address asset poverty."—Lisa A. Keister, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University "Elmelech moves considerations of wealth from a purely economic context to encompass sociological insights about institutional, demographic, and intergenerational factors that influence household accumulations and inequality. Theoretically profound and empirically comprehensive. A fitting companion to Piketty's seminal volume, Capital."—Seymour Spilerman, Co-Director, Center for the Study of Wealth and Inequality, Columbia UniversityTable of Contents1 Introduction: Why Wealth Matters 2 The Tenets of Wealth 3 The Evolution of Wealth 4 Individuals, Families, and Generations 5 Wealth Polarization and the Demography of Wealth Inequality 6 Conclusions

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Book SynopsisA frank, thorough history and review of service-learning....Service-Learning is a critical piece of the large service-learningmovement. It is an ideal guide for new service-learningprofessionals, faculty members, academic or service administrators,and hopefully, public policymakers. --Pade Informer In this fascinating collection of stories, leaders inservice-learning describe their early efforts to combine educationwith social action. Their reflections help construct a pedagogy ofservice-learning that will inspire newcomers and guide programdevelopment. The authors assess pioneering experiences andrecommAnd steps for future policy and practice, emphasizing thecritical need to preserve an activist commitment as programs becomeincreasingly institutionalized. This highly readable book willassist academic leaders, faculty members, student servicesprofessionals, educational researchers, adult educators, and publicpolicymakers who seek a common understanding of the origins,Trade Review"A frank, thorough history and review of service-learning....Service-Learning is a critical piece of the large service-learningmovement. It is an ideal guide for new service-learningprofessionals, faculty members, academic or service administrators,and hopefully, public policymakers." (Pade Informer) "For those interested in service-learning--whether as a novice orexperienced faculty practitioner, as a scholar of higher educationor social movements, as a student, as a community partner, or as aninterested observer--this book is a must read." (Michigan Journalof Community Service Learning) "This is an engrossing story of pedagogical pioneers who sought, indifferent ways, to link their passions for service to society, forsocial justice, and for democracy, with their deep commitments toundergraduate learning. The story is so captivating because it isprimarily told in the words of the women and men who shaped thepedagogy of service-learning." (Thomas Ehrlich, DistinguishedUniversity Scholar, California State University, and seniorscholar, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching) "When three of today's most important voices in service-learningconduct oral histories with the movement's pioneers and founders,the dialogue creates a rich historical tapestry of inspiration,warning, encouragement, and understanding with immediateconsequence for the place of students in American higher educationand the role of higher education in the American community."(Jeremy Cohen, dean, College of Communications, The PennsylvaniaState University) "This book presents a vivid picture of the role of radical politicsin the emergence of service-learning, the early tension betweenstudent and community development, and the pioneers' sometimesanti-establishment orientations toward universities. The authorsprovide a historical context that greatly enriches ourunderstanding of service-learning in its contemporary forms, whichbecomes ever more important as the enthusiasm for this approach toeducation grows." (Anne Colby, senior scholar, Carnegie Foundationfor the Advancement of Teaching)Table of Contents1. Helping a "New" Field Discover Its History. 2. Early Connections between Service and Education (Seth S.Pollack). 3. Seeds of Commitment: Personal Accounts of the Pioneers. 4. First Professional Steps: A Journey into UnchartedTerritory. 5. Which Side Were They On? The Pioneers Target HigherEducation. 6. Strategy and Practice: Empowering Students to ServeCommunities. 7. Strategy and Practice: Empowering Communities through StudentService. 8. Mainstreams or Margins? The Dilemma ofInstitutionalization. 9. Helps, Hindrances, and Accomplishments: Reflections on thePioneer Experience. 10. Passing the Torch: Advice to Today's Students andPractitioners.

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Book SynopsisThis unique information source and time-saver for social studies teachers provides more than 550 useful lists for developing instructional materials and planning for students from the fourth through the twelfth grades. This updated and expanded edition contains 200 new lists! For quick access and easy use, all of these lists are organized into seven sections corresponding to seven areas of the social studies curriculum, numbered consecutively, and printed in a format that can be photocopied as many times as required for individual or group instruction. This book is filled with illuminating facts, startling statistics, practical checklists, and relevant research findings which will enhance social studies courses.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Learning to Make Rain All the Time; PART I: BREAKING THROUGH AS AN EXPERT; The Loyalty Equation: Three Factors That Determine Your Client's Loyalty; The Attributes of Extraordinary Advisors; Breakthrough Strategies for Experts; Building Trust in the First Ten Minutes; More Important Than Your 401K: Building Your Relationship Capital; Benjamin Franklin's Secret Weapon; Why a Client Might Like You; Meeting Client Expectations Is Not Enough; Leonardo da Vinci: Lessons from a Consummate Deep Generalist; Finding the Hidden Creases: Influencing Your Clients; PART II: MOVING INTO THE INNER CIRCLE; I Love My Guruaand Other Client Pitfalls; The Masters of Relationship Capital; The Doubting Mind; The Deep Generalist and the Branded Expert; How to Identify Client Needs; The Power of Size: Developing Large, Multi-Year Client Relationships; Four Ways to Start a relationship and Position It for the Long Term; Five Ways to Grow a Client relationship; Are Clients Meeting Your Expectations?; PASRT III: SUSTAINING RELATIONSHIPS YEAR AFTER YEAR; Sustaining and Multiplying; Merlin: Working a Little Magic with Your Clients; Developing New Business within a Long-Term Relationship; The Rothschild Bankers: Bringing Unique Capabilities to Clients; Cultivating the Attitude of Independent Wealth; Managing Client Relationships during Uncertain Times; Developing Relationships with Foreign Clients: Try Not to Commit These Graffes; Becoming a Firm That Makes Rain: How Great Organizations Build Clients for Life; GETTING STARTED: A SELF-ASSESSMENT; Do You Have the Ability to Make Rain? Two Assessment Tools for Individuals and Organizations; A Pantheon of Historical Advisors; Notes; Acknowledgements; About the Author.

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Book SynopsisIn Awkward Dominion, Frank Costigliola offers a striking interpretation of the emergence of the United States as a world power in the 1920s, a period in which the country faced both burdens and opportunities as a result of the First World War...Trade ReviewCostigliola's book is required reading for all serious students of American-European relations from Versailles to 1933. * The Historian *The great virtue of this book—and Costigliola desrves congratulations for it— is the intensive use and careful evaluation of new materials. It has intelligent, often acute comments about arms limitation, reparations, and the Kellogg-Briand pact.... This is a fine piece of research by a scholar from whom much will be heard. * International History Review *This is a subtle and imaginative contribution to the increasingly accepted view that American foreign relations in the 1920s do not fit a clownish, isolationist stereotype. The author succeeds in going beyond the formal actions of governments to deal with the ambivalent response to American culture and economic power. * Foreign Affairs *

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