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Book SynopsisA fascinating exploration of the social meaning of digital deathFrom blogs written by terminally ill authors to online notes left by those considering suicide, technology has become a medium for the dead and the dying to cope with the anxiety of death. Services like artificial intelligence chatbots, mind-uploading, and postmortem blog posts offer individuals the ability to cultivate their legacies in a bid for digital immortality. The Digital Departed explores the posthumous internet world from the perspective of both the living and the dead. Timothy Recuber traces how communication beyond death evolved over time. Historically, the methods of mourning have been characterized by unequal access to power and privilege. However, the internet offers more agency to the dead, allowing users accessibility and creativity in curating how they want to be remembered. Based on hundreds of blog posts, suicide notes, Twitter hashtags, and videos, Recuber examines the ways we die online, and the dTrade ReviewThe Digital Departed offers the first comprehensive treatment of death and dying online through the voices of those who have passed. At times moving and always beautifully written, the book is at once a theory of self in the digital age and a focused statement on the nature of life, death, community, and society. * Jenny L. Davis, author of How Artifacts Afford: The Power and Politics of Everyday Things *An innovative and timely study of digital approaches to commemorating, coping with, and avoiding death. Timothy Recuber manages to link seemingly disparate rituals and activities where the digital, ephemeral, and algorithmic meet questions of power, selfhood, and ontological frailty. Highly recommended. * Karla A. Erickson, author of How We Die Now: Intimacy and the Work of Dying *Uncovers a compelling web of complex relationships among digital technologies, broad cultural shifts, and the most intimate of human experiences, death. At once peculiar and profound, it is a memorable read bound to leave readers doing some digital soul searching. * Sarah Sobieraj, author of Credible Threat: Attacks Against Women Online and the Future of Democracy *Recuber’s exploration of death-related digital platforms is an exemplary work of digital sociology, which combines classical sociological theory with empirical work on a variety of technologies. I look forward to using this accessibly written book in my sociology classes. * Jessie Daniels, author of Nice White Ladies: The Truth about White Supremacy, Our Role in It, and How We Can Help Dismantle It *“The Digital Departed is a valuable book that presents many moving stories about the way that our digital life foreshadows our biological departure. The author’s engagement with classical and modern sociological theory will be appreciated by scholars and appeal to readers of all stripes.” * Nature *The author sheds lights on the advancement in technology that have revolutionized individuals’ ways of discussing, viewing, and confronting death. The deceased are endowed with chances to take control of their own life and conquer death through constructing and reconstructing the self in the digital age... Ultimately, this volume emerges as an indispensable resource for scholars in the field of social sciences, linguistics, and social media studies. * The Social Science Journal *

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Book SynopsisExplains why there is a crisis in caring for elderly people and how the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated itBecause government policies are based on an ethic of family responsibility, repeated calls to support family members caring for the burgeoning elderly population have gone unanswered. Without publicly funded long-term care services, many family caregivers cannot find relief from obligations that threaten to overwhelm them. The crisis also stems from the plight of direct care workers (nursing home assistants and home health aides), most of whom are women from racially marginalized groups who receive little respect, remuneration, or job security. Drawing on an online support group for people caring for spouses and partners with dementia, Elder Care in Crisis examines the availability and quality of respite care (which provides temporary relief from the burdens of care), the long, tortuous process through which family members decide whether to move spouses and partners to institutions, Trade ReviewAbel writes with empathy for direct caregivers as a family caregiver herself as well as a cancer survivor. While we are all familiar with how nursing homes failed during the pandemic, these stories of family members fighting for their institutionalized relatives, still feel new and crucially important to read. * Meika Loe, author of Aging our Way: Lessons for Living from 85 and Beyond *Drawing upon her deep knowledge and first-person accounts, from the nineteenth century to the COVID-19 pandemic, Emily Abel portrays both the joyful and heart-breaking aspects of family caregivers’ struggles to care for elderly people with dementia. This book will spur everyone to ask: why don’t we as a country do better for both the elderly and their caregivers? * Joan C. Tronto, author of Caring Democracy: Markets, Equality and Justice *Here you have a poignant, thoughtful, and extraordinarily useful account of trends that will curse us all unless we take action now. Call it investment in infrastructure, improved social insurance, commitment to common decency, or all of the above: we need a better, more sustainable system of care provision. The qualitative research highlighted here helps show us the way forward. * Nancy Folbre, author of Valuing Children: Rethinking the Economics of the Family *The author's observations, anecdotes, and notes yield a perspective that challenges the current system of long-term care. The author eschews providing simplistic answers, allowing those most concerned—currently active caregivers—to speak for themselves. -- T. E. Getzen, emeritus, Temple University * CHOICE *

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Book SynopsisUncovers the history of hair removal practices and sheds light on the prolific culture of beautyFrom the clamshell razors and homemade lye depilatories used in colonial America to the diode lasers and prescription pharmaceuticals available today, Americans have used a staggering array of tools to remove hair deemed unsightly, unnatural, or excessive. This is true especially for women and girls; conservative estimates indicate that 99% of American women have tried hair removal, and at least 85% regularly remove hair from their faces, armpits, legs, and bikini lines. How and when does hair become a problemwhat makes some growth excessive? Who or what separates the necessary from the superfluous? In Plucked, historian Rebecca Herzig addresses these questions about hair removal. She shows how, over time, dominant American beliefs about visible hair changed: where once elective hair removal was considered a mutilation practiced primarily by savage men, by the tuTrade ReviewPluckedmoves beyond current discourse, which is limited to whether shaving and waxing indicate subjugation to social norms or freedom and the practices associated with it. This interdisciplinary study, which unites sociology, anthropology, and history, draws on books, letters, advertisements, magazines, and contemporary interviews to show that determinations of whether hair is & excessive or & peculiar are subjective and flexible, dependent on the person doing the looking, and subject to change based on political, scientific, technological, military, and economic shifts * Women's Review of Books *[A] fascinating new book tracing the history of hair removal since the days when it was done with such delightful devices as clamshell razors or recipes featuring frogs' blood or cat feces, is so very timely. * The Times (UK) *Few people would link the forced beard shaving of Guantanamo Bay detainees with Gwyneth 'I work a seventies vibe' Paltrow, but historian Rebecca Herzig connects the dots in her new book, Plucked. * The Toronto Globe and Mail *Herzig unites anthropology, sociology, history and psychology in this gripping study... Plucked is an important work, not least because it is so very readable. What's more, Herzig is angry, and anger is the first step towards social change. * Times Higher Education *This is an interesting, serious, and meticulously researched contribution to American history, offering a variety of insights around key topics in the evolution of attitudes and practices relating to hair. * The Journal of American History *Her forthcoming book, Plucked: A History of Hair Removal in America, to be published by NYU Press in January 2015, examines techniques that Americans have used to remove their own hair, and the array of social force including beliefs about beauty and self-determination that create expectations about hair and hair removal. * Sun Journal *Humanity has used an impressive array of tools to remove hair. This is, biologically speaking, pretty strange. Most of earth's mammals possess luxuriant fur. Only one seeks to remove it. Rebecca Herzig's delightful history explains why: smooth skin is a cultural imperative. * The Economist *Herzig's history of the growing American antipathy to body hair, and the means used to deal with it, is full of such arresting moments. By its title, Plucked would seem to offer a volume of frothy fun (tinged with schadenfreude) about the high cost of fashion glory; it turns out to be eye-poppingly informative, thought-provoking and, almost against the author's will, frothy fun. * Maclean's Magazine *In Plucked [Herzig] tells the seemingly obscure story of 'hair removal below the scalp line' throughout American history. In a very reader-friendly way we are shown the relevance of hairlessness in the terms of society, race, politics, fashion and economic development...This book is astonishing. * Portland Press Herald *Well researched, well written, and knowledgeable, this work covers not only the history of hair removal in America but the social issues and movements associated with body hair, from cleanliness and race to free will...the author excels at drawing out the larger implications of each dubious procedure and the pseudo-scientific theory associated with hair-removal, from the turn of the 19th century to the present. * Library Journal *Well researched, well written, and knowledgeable, this work covers not only the history of hair removal in America but the social issues and movements associated with body hair, from cleanliness and race to free will. [] [T]he author excels at drawing out the larger implications of each dubious procedure and the pseudo-scientific theory associated with hair removal, from the turn of the 19th century to the present. Herzig carefully considers both sex and gender and never makes the assumption that white is the default. The book asks us to question what role advertising, science, and prejudice play in what we & know to be true. VERDICT: This would be a solid read for popular history buffs and fans of Lori Tharp and Ayana Byrds Hair Story or Bee Wilsons Swindled. * Library Journal *Athoughtful and unique microhistory of hair from the eyebrows down. * Journal of American Culture *If you ever want proof that a thoughtful, careful scholar can follow a single strand of social life and come to see race, class, gender and all the complexity of societythis is the book to read. -- Barbara Katz Rothman,author of Genetic Maps and Human ImaginationsA brilliant exploration of American preoccupations, irrationalities and inconsistencies in our perceptions of body hair. Rebecca Herzig will convince you that how we have hair on our bodies may not really matter, but how we have hair on our minds definitely does. -- Rachel P. Maines,author of The Technology of Orgasm: “Hysteria”, Vibrators, and Women’s Sexual SatisfactionRebecca Herzig's thought-provoking book makes an important contribution to the history of the body, science, and culture in the United States. Herzig insightfully explores how Americans came to perceive body hair as a sign of sexual disorder and animal-like traits, as she traces the scientists and entrepreneurs who promoted hair removal, the feminists who reviled it, and the ordinary women and men who increasingly saw hairlessness as a sign of beauty and respectability. Plucked convincingly argues there is more at stake in shaving and waxing than simply removing hair; rather, these practices are bound up in our understanding of what it means to be human. -- Kathy Peiss,author of Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty CulturePlucked's thorough investigation of hair removal's history makes this consuming read a wake-up call for those who haven't yet interrogated our shaving, plucking, threading, and lasering habits. * Bitch *Plucked is a fascinating look into a largely untaught part of our history...meticulously researched. * Bust Magazine *Herzig tracks the history of the commercialization of hair removal in industrial and post-industrial America. The book demonstrates persuasively that modern communications influenced fashions in hair removal as the U.S. moved from the era of ladies magazines to the broadcast age. * American Historical Review *Herzig draws from history, sociology, racial studies, anthropology, and dermatology, and has absorbed views of theologians and pornographers. Much of what she has found is disturbing, and other findings are just funny, illustrating what a peculiar set of mammals we are. * Columbus Dispatch *Table of ContentsContents Introduction: Necessary Suffering 1 1. The Hairless Indian: Savagery and Civility before the Civil War 19 2. "Chemicals of the Toilette": From Homemade Remedies to a New Industrial Order 35 3. Bearded Women and Dog-Faced Men: Darwin's Great Denudation 55 4. "Smooth, White, Velvety Skin": X-Ray Salons and Social Mobility 75 5. Glandular Trouble: Sex Hormones and Deviant Hair Growth 99 6. Unshaven: "Arm-Pit Feminists" and Women's Liberation 115 7. "Cleaning the Basement": Labor, Pornography, and Brazilian Waxing 135 8. Magic Bullets: Laser Regulation and Elective Medicine 153 9. "The Next Frontier": Genetic Enhancement and the End of Hair 171 Conclusion: We Are All Plucked 187 Acknowledgments 193 Notes 199 Index 275 About the Author 287

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Book SynopsisTaking stock of the recent environmental justice scholarship, this book examines the connections among residential segregation, zoning, and exposure to environmental hazards.Trade ReviewIn this excellent assessment of multimethod research, Taylor brings a refreshing emphasis on nuance and accountability to the environmental justice discussion . . . provides a comprehensive, objective, and balanced portrait of environmental justice to date. * Choice *.a survey of the environmental justice movement which has so crucially challenged white traditions of conservation and the pastoral images of land and ecology that are their hallmarks. * Art Journal *Dorceta Taylors book,Toxic Communitiesis an intellectually weighty book that elevates the discussion of environmental justice."An intellectually weighty book that elevates the discussion of environmental justice * Human Ecology *It offers a valuable review of the diverse mechanisms of structural racism that has produced and maintained patterns of residential segregation, spatial exclusion, and environmental injustices in the United States. * PsycCritques *Well-written and researched. * Olive Branch United *Toxic Communities is the most comprehensive account to date of why certain communities host toxic facilities and why certain populations are more likely to live in close proximity to those facilities. Taylor not only forthrightly confronts the complex causal processes that shape the uneven distribution of environmental hazards, but she does so with a keen sensitivity to the vast differences among communities, their geographies and their histories. This book deepens our understanding of the phenomenon of environmental (in)justice and promises to be a standard-bearer in the field for a long time to come. -- Sheila R. Foster,co-author of From the Ground UpIn Toxic Communities, Dorceta Taylor tackles a vexing question: why dont people in contaminated communities just move? This highly original book reframes the entire field of environmental justice studies by urging us to focus on the social mechanisms behind the scourge of environmental racism, which relegate people to those spaces and make it nearly impossible for them to move out. Only when we can target those underlying mechanisms will there be any hope of securing a meaningful and lasting environmental justice. Rather than simply demonstrating the fact that people of color are disproportionately exposed to environmental hazards and accepting simple explanations for this phenomenon, Taylor goes to the heart of the matter and explores why and how environmental racism remains an enduring wound on the American social landscape. This is the first book to delve so deeply and broadly into the debates concerning environmental racism. Toxic Communities will become the gold standard for the field of environmental justice studies. -- David Naguib Pellow,co-author of The Slums of Aspen: Immigrants vs. the Environment in America’s EdenDorceta Taylor, a distinguished scholar in the field of environmental sociology, has just published a book that contributes to research on environmental racism in the USA. InToxic Communities,Taylor surveys long-standing debates in the field of environmental justice and identifies new theoretical and methodological directions for environmental justiceresearchers. * Urban Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Acronyms and Abbreviations Introduction: Environmental Justice Claims 1 Toxic Exposure: Landmark Cases in the South and the Rise of Environmental Justice Activism 2 Disproportionate Siting: Claims of Racism and Discrimination 3 Internal Colonialism: Native American Communities in the West 4 Market Dynamics: Residential Mobility, or Who Moves and Who Stays 5 Enforcing Environmental Protections: The Legal, Regulatory, and Administrative Contexts 6 The Siting Process: Manipulation, Environmental Blackmail, and Enticement 7 The Rise of Racial Zoning: Residential Segregation 8 The Rise of Racially Restrictive Covenants: Guarding against Infiltration 9 Racializing Blight: Urban Renewal, Eminent Domain, and Expulsive Zoning 10 Contemporary Housing Discrimination: Does It Still Happen? Conclusion: Future Directions of Environmental Justice Research References Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisChoice Outstanding Academic Title of 2016Rural queer experience is often hidden or ignored, and presumed to be alienating, lacking, and incomplete without connections to a gay culture that exists in an urban elsewhere. Queering the Countryside offers the first comprehensive look at queer desires found in rural America from a genuinely multi-disciplinary perspective. This collection of original essays confronts the assumption that queer desires depend upon urban life for meaning.By considering rural queer life, the contributors challenge readers to explore queer experiences in ways that give greater context and texture to modern practices of identity formation. The book's focus on understudied rural spaces throws into relief the overemphasis of urban locations and structures in the current political and theoretical work on queer sexualities and genders. Queering the Countryside highlights the need to rethink notions of the closet and coming out and the charactTrade ReviewQueering the Countryside operationalizes the & rural as a queer analytic that serves as a productive framework to rethink the relationship between sexuality, space, and place. It is a welcomed addition to the queer studies canon. -- E. Patrick Johnson,author of Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South—An Oral HistoryRather than simply populating rural landscapes with queer folk who, in multiple senses, have been there all along, Queering the Countryside opens with a much more ambitious question: What would the study of life in the countryside look like if it pushed past its historic dependence on the fantasy-ridden spatial dichotomy between rural and urban? Imaginative, capacious, and complex. -- Kath Weston,author of Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, KinshipTogether these essays gift scholars with a new chapter in the rural turn that further cracks the foundations of metronormativity. Welcome to the backwoods of North America and the forefront of queer studies. -- Scott Herring,author of Another Country: Queer Anti-UrbanismThis collection of essays is, in many ways, an important contribution to the study of LGBT individual living in rural areas. * Choice Connect *These interdisciplinary essays, taken together, are generally successful in rejecting stereotypes of non-urban queer life as one of isolation and alienation. * Journal of American History *This new book is the first detailed and comprehensive study of queer desire in rural American and it does so from a multi-disciplinary perspective.What we read here challenges us to look at our experiences in ways that have a great deal more to form identity. * Reviews by Amos Lassen *An eclectic volume that serves the crucial function of relocating queer studies scholarship from city to country. * The Journal of Southern History *

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Book SynopsisTechnological innovations have advanced at an incredible speed since the introduction of the computer that it has altered the fabric of our society.  The possession of computers, smart-devices, along with social media, texting and video games, is now an intimate part of the structure of our culture. This book is a framework to start a conversation on how technology is changing our lifestyles and transforming our world. There is now an entire generation that has been using technology through the most delicate developmental time in their lives. This book presents how to look at the cognitive and psychosocial developmental stages and what are the age-appropriate milestones and factsheet of behaviors at different ages. It provides insight into the strength and vulnerable characteristics at each stage and the prevalence of some negative conditions in our society. You will gain a perspective of the encouraging and challenging aspects of computer learning, smart devices, aTable of ContentsPart 1: Scientific AdvancesChapter 1: The History of Computers and Personal ComputerChapter 2: History of the Internet, Search Engines, Emails, Word Processors, WiFi, and TextingChapter 3: History of Smart Devices, Video Games and Video Communication, and ConferencingPart 2: History of Social MediaChapter 4: Beginning of Social Media's LaunchChapter 5: Meta, Twitter, Spotify, Instagram, Pinterest, Snap Chat and Tik TokPart 3: Synopsis of Psychological Theories, with Behavioral Milestones and Factsheet as SupportChapter 6: Jean Piaget's Life and Stages of Cognitive DevelopmentChapter 7: Erik Erickson's Life and Psychosocial Developmental StagesChapter 8: CDC and Medline Milestones and APA Factsheet GuidelinesPart 4: Developing a Framework and an Understanding of the Problem's in Today's WorldChapter 9: Guidelines on When and How to Give Your Children TechnologyChapter 10: Common Problems Prevalent in Today's SocietyChapter 11: Conclusions and Thoughts.

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Book SynopsisA riveting look at the real reasons Americans feel inadequate in the face of their dreams, and a call to celebrate how we support one another in the service of family and work in our daily life. Jay's days are filled with back-to-back meetings, but he always leaves work in time to pick his daughter up from swimming at 7pm, knowing he'll be back on his laptop later that night. Linda thinks wistfully of the treadmill in her garage as she finishes folding the laundry that's been in the dryer for the last week. Rebecca sits with one child in front of a packet of math homework, while three others clamor for her attention. In Dreams of the Overworked, Christine M. Beckman and Melissa Mazmanian offer vivid sketches of daily life for nine families, capturing what it means to live, work, and parent in a world of impossible expectations, now amplified unlike ever before by smart devices. We are invited into homes and offices, where we recognize the crushing pressure of unraveling plans, and the healing warmth of being together. Moreover, we witness the constant planning that goes into a "good" day, often with the aid of phones and apps. Yet, as technologies empower us to do more, they also promise limitless availability and connection. Checking email on the weekend, monitoring screen time, and counting steps are all part of the daily routine. The stories in this book challenge the seductive myth of the phone-clad individual, by showing that beneath the plastic veneer of technology is a complex, hidden system of support—our dreams being scaffolded by retired in-laws, friendly neighbors, spouses, and paid help. This book makes a compelling case for celebrating the structures that allow us to strive for our dreams, by supporting public policies and community organizations, challenging workplace norms, reimagining family, and valuing the joy of human connection.Trade Review"This marvelous book captures the contemporary experience of nine families, allowing them to speak for themselves about their dreams and how they cope with everyday life. Uniquely, it celebrates the fact that it is the dense web of social connections or scaffolding that enables family life to thrive in the digital age."—Judy Wajcman, London School of Economics"What makes this book unique is its tough love message. Left to its own devices, technology makes us more likely to buy into myths of our perfectibility. The way out begins with our deep understanding of our vulnerability. From there, these savvy and humanistic researchers can help you design a customized plan for individuals and organizations. But it's going to be a plan, not a gimmick."—Sherry Turkle, author of Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other"Christine Beckman and Melissa Mazmanian embarked on an ambitious project to understand how technology shapes our lives and wound up producing an intimate and urgent portrait of American families stretched to the breaking point. An important work, Dreams of the Overworked busts some potent myths and makes a compelling argument for large-scale changes necessary in public policy and our overworked workplace cultures to allow American families time to breathe, and thrive at work and at home."—Brigid Schulte, author of Overwhelmed: Work, Love & Play when No One Has the Time, director, The Better Life Lab at New America"Work-life balance might be a myth, but the evidence that better rhythm is possible is very real. In this thoughtful, readable book, two experts share what they've learned about how to prioritize work, family, health, and relationships without making yourself insane."—Adam Grant, New York Times-bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take"Beckman and Mazmanian show the stakes in everyday life as we pursue perfection. Whether being the best parent and worker or having a perfect body, we try achieving the unattainable by working hard and efficiently to do more and do it better. Dreams of the Overworked explores the internal work that fills our days—and our minds—as we navigate life, simultaneously alone and in a crowd."—Chuck Darrah, San Jose State University"Beckman and Mazmanian capture timeless and essential truths about blending parenting and employment. Their study of nine upper-middle-class families exposes the independent 'choice' narrative as an idealized fiction and reveals the power of interdependencies in well-run organizations and in loving families. This is a book about cooperation and dependence—dependence on both earning an income and being an involved parent; dependence on our children for their cooperation in the shared endeavor; dependence on our partners, extended family, and friends for their engagement and care; dependence on caregivers who, as Beckman and Mazmanian explain, provide the scaffolding that makes each unique work-family blend possible."—Kathleen L. McGinn, Harvard Business School"This wonderfully intriguing book vividly portrays the lives of nine California-based professional families with young children at home as they try to meet the competing demands of work, parenting, and being fit and healthy. By observing and participating in the home life of these families over extended periods of time, Beckman and Mazmanian reveal how invisible and undervalued support from extended family members, friends, neighbors, and communities is the scaffolding that makes survival and success possible; and they show how smartphones and other personal devices, which are supposed to help, may actually increase the stress of overwork. The example-rich writing is delightful and the informative endnotes fully cover a wide range of literature. By making vivid the everyday details of family work necessary to deal with the competing demands created by the myths of the ideal worker, perfect parent, and ultimate body, this book is eye-opening and a must-read for all."—Lotte Bailyn, author of Breaking the Mold: Redesigning Work for Productive and Satisfying Lives"In their excellent new book, Beckman and Mazmanian explore the Herculean task today's families face as they strive to live up to the unrealistic expectation of doing everything perfectly while also being bombarded by 'helpful technologies.' Their in-depth look at different family configurations frames the challenges—but, more importantly, potential solutions—that today's unique families need to understand in order to thrive in these changing times."—Brad Harrington, Executive Director, Boston College Center for Work & Family"We cannot see what we cannot name. Beckman and Mazmanian cover the familiar terrain of work-family pressures by following real families and telling their stories. In the process, they make much that is invisible visible, naming and defining different kinds of work and introducing the important new concept of scaffolding. They allow us to see society not as individuals making choices and decisions, but as webs of vital but under-appreciated and under-nourished relationships. I learned a great deal from this book; it's an easy read with a lot to say."—Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO, New America"How might the myths of the ideal worker, perfect parent/caregiver, and ultimate body play out as we live and work longer? Are there new myths that also need to be explored for overwork as we age and care for others over the life course? Beckman and Mazmanian have started us strongly on the path to answer such deep questions that remain in our struggles to thrive in our lives on and off the job."—Ellen Ernst Kossek, Administrative Science Quarterly"Dreams of the Overworked is a text that succeeds in rendering the textures and feelings of the everyday struggles of middle- to upper-class American working parents... a beautiful piece of ethnography."—Anne Antoni, Organization StudiesTable of Contents1. Introducing the Dream(s) 2. Aspiring to Be the Ideal Worker 3. Playing the Perfect Parent 4. Working Toward the Ultimate Body 5. The Promise of Technology 6. Creating a Spiral of Expectations 7. Invisible Work Is Real Work 8. Scaffolding Dreams 9. Building Tomorrow's Scaffolding Epilogue: Steps Forward

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Book SynopsisCities in a World Economy examines the emergence of global cities as a new social formation. As sites of rapid and widespread developments in the areas of finance, information and people, global cities lie at the core of the major processes of globalization. The book features a cross-disciplinary approach to urban sociology using global examples, and discusses the impact of global processes on the social structure of cities. The Fifth Edition reflects the most current data available and explores recent debates such as the role of cities in mitigating environmental problems, the global refugee crisis, Brexit, and the rise of Donald Trump in the United States. Table of ContentsPreface to the Fifth Edition Preface to the Fourth Edition Preface to the Third Edition Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the First Edition List of Exhibits Chapter 1. Place and Production in the Global Economy Note Chapter 2. The Urban Impact of Economic Globalization The Global Economy Today Strategic Places Conclusion: After the Pax Americana Notes Chapter 2 Appendix Chapter 3. National and Transnational Urban Systems Global Patterns of Urbanization Urbanization in Africa Today Urbanization in Asia Today Impacts on Primate Systems: The Case of Latin America and the Caribbean Impacts on Balanced Urban Systems: The Case of Europe Transnational Urban Systems Global Cities and Immigration Global Cities and Diasporic Networks A Politics of Places on Global Circuits Conclusion: Urban Growth and Its Multiple Meanings Notes Chapter 3 Appendix Chapter 4. The New Urban Economy: The Intersection of Global Processes and Place From the Keynesian City to the Global City The Multiple Circuits of the Global Economy The Specialized Differences of Cities Matter: There Is No Perfect Global City Urban/Rural Specificity Feeds the Knowledge Economy The Global City as a Postindustrial Production Site Producer Services The Formation of a New Production Complex Corporate Headquarters and Cities An Emerging Global Labor Market Conclusion: Cities as Postindustrial Production Sites Notes Chapter 4 Appendix Chapter 5. Issues and Case Studies in the New Urban Economy The Development of Global City Functions: The Case of Miami The Growing Density and Specialization of Functions in Financial Districts: Toronto The Concentration of Functions and Geographic Scale: Sydney Competition or Specialized Differences: The Financial Centers of Hong Kong and Shanghai Making New Global Circuits in Energy and Finance: The Gulf States An Old Imperial City in Today’s New East–West Geopolitics: Istanbul Globalization and Concentration: The Case of Leading Financial Centers Why Do Financial Centers Still Exist in the Global Digital Era? In the Digital Era: More Concentration Than Dispersal Conclusion: The Space Economy of Centrality Notes Chapter 5 Appendix Chapter 6. The New Inequalities Within Cities Transformations in the Organization of the Labor Process The Informal Economy The Earnings Distribution in a Service-Dominated Economy The Birth of Global Slums The Restructuring of Urban Consumption Conclusion: A Widening Gap Notes Chapter 7. Global Cities and Global Survival Circuits Women in the Global Economy Localizing the Global The Other Workers in the Advanced Corporate Economy Producing a Global Supply of the New Caretakers: The Feminization of Survival Conclusion Notes Chapter 7 Appendix Chapter 8. The Urbanizing of Global Governance Challenges Cities as Frontier Spaces for Global Governance Bridging the Ecologies of Cities and of the Biosphere When Finance Hits Urban Space When Pursuing National Security Is the Making of Urban Insecurity Notes Chapter 9. A New Geography of Centers and Margins Summary and Implications The Locus of the Peripheral Contested Space References and Suggested Reading Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisWith the advent of digital devices and software, self-tracking practices have gained new adherents and have spread into a wide array of social domains. The Quantified Self movement has emerged to promote 'self-knowledge through numbers'. In this groundbreaking book Deborah Lupton critically analyses the social, cultural and political dimensions of contemporary self-tracking and identifies the concepts of selfhood and human embodiment and the value of the data that underpin them. The book incorporates discussion of the consolations and frustrations of self-tracking, as well as about the proliferating ways in which people's personal data are now used beyond their private rationales. Lupton outlines how the information that is generated through self-tracking is taken up and repurposed for commercial, governmental, managerial and research purposes. In the relationship between personal data practices and big data politics, the implications of self-tracking are becoming ever more crucial.Trade ReviewShortlisted for the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2017 "Lupton's book is an excellent primer for readers interested in data surveillance, self-tracking cultures, and the increasing push to metricize aspects of personal experience that were previously not considered in statistical terms. Lupton's insight that no one alive today is exempt from becoming subjectedto digatization lends her project great immediate urgenc."The British Society for Literature and Science"The Quantified Self offers an excellent overview of the breadth and depth of issues related to self-tracking cultures. It is not only a useful resource for scholars and practitioners focusing on the value of quantified data with regard to health and bodily practices, but also an invitation to use self-tracking research in new kinds of political initiatives. Ultimately self-tracking is defined as a means of communicating and challenging dominant interests and aims." Minna Ruckenstein, University of Helsinki "Lupton's book is a fascinating read and I highly recommend it to researchers and practitioners who wish to gain a comprehensive account of self-tracking practices. Along with the commonly discussed topics of motivation and data representations, Lupton sheds light onto less explored topics, such as data-surveillance, while offering various theoretical foundations to support her arguments. Her writing is both visionary and provocative, and the book is a must read for researchers and practitioners of the Quantified Self movement." Florian 'Floyd' Mueller, Director, Exertion Games Lab, RMIT University"Impressive and comprehensive overview of the way in which people are tracking their lives using digital technologies"Times Higher Education"The Quantified Self is a careful, evenhanded survey of a trend that is on the cusp of seeming so ubiquitous that we'll soon forget how utterly specific the problems associated with this aspect of our sci-fi future are to the wealthy countries."Inside Higher EducationTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1 ‘Know Thyself’: Self-tracking Practices and Technologies2 ‘New Hybrid Beings’: Theoretical Perspectives3 ‘An Optimal Human Being’: the Body and Self in Self-Tracking Cultures4 ‘You are Your Data’: Personal Data Meanings, Practices and Materialisations5 ‘Data’s Capacity for Betrayal’: Personal Data PoliticsConclusionReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisToday's economic system, premised on the sale of physical goods, does not fit the information age in which we live. The capitalist order requires the maintenance of an artificial scarcity in goods that have the potential for near infinite and almost free replication. The sharing of informational goods through distributed global networks – digital libraries, file–sharing, live–streaming, free software, free–access publishing, the free–sharing of scientific knowledge, and open-source pharmaceuticals – not only challenges the dominance of a scarcity–based economic system, but also enables a more efficient, innovative, just and free culture. In a series of seven explorations of contemporary sharing, Matthew David shows that in each case sharing surpasses markets, private ownership and intellectual property rights in fostering motivation, creativity, innovation, production, distribution and reward. In transforming the idea of an information economy into an information society, sharing connects struggles against inequality and poverty in developed and developing countries. Challenging taken-for-granted justifications of the status quo, Sharing debunks the 'tragedy of the commons' and makes the case for digital network sharing as a viable mode of economic counterpower, prefiguring a post–capitalist society.Trade Review"Through a remarkably broad cross-industry synthesis, Matthew David demonstrates how information industries could benefit by adjusting market mechanisms to support the vitality of sharing-based economies. Anyone with a serious interest in intellectual property policy and practice should read this provocative case for building business models around sharing." William H. Dutton, Quello Professor of Media and Information Policy, Michigan State University "Matthew David has written a thought-provoking book that challenges the view that property rights are the only solution to the 'tragedy of the commons'. He brings a much needed analytical perspective to the study of the sharing economy and suggests that capitalist societies might just not be the end of history. A fascinating read."Federico Varese, Professor of Criminology, University of OxfordTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Libraries and the Digital World 3. Peer-to-Peer Music Sharing Online 4. Live-streaming and Television Rights Management 5. Open Source Software and Proprietary Software 6. Publishing: Academic, Journalistic and Trade 7. Genes, Genetically Modified Organisms, Patents and Agribusiness 8. Pharmaceutical Patents and Generic Drugs 9. Conclusions Ð Sharing: Crime Against Capitalism References

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Book Synopsis'I'm 79 years old. So why on earth should I concern myself with speaking about youth?' This is the question with which renowned French philosopher Alain Badiou begins his passionate plea to the young. Today young people, at least in the West, are on the brink of a new world. With the decline of old traditions, they now face more choices than ever before. Yet powerful forces are pushing them in dangerous directions, into the vortex of consumerism or into reactive forms of traditionalism. This is a time when young people must be particularly attentive to the signs of the new and have the courage to venture forth and find out what they're capable of, without being constrained by the old prejudices and hierarchical ideas of the past. And if the aim of philosophy is to corrupt youth, as Socrates was accused of doing, this can mean only one thing: to help young people see that they don't have to go down the paths already mapped out for them, that they are not just condemned to obey social customs, that they can create something new and propose a different direction as regards the true life.Trade Review"Scarcely any other moral philosopher of our day is as politically clear-sighted and courageously polemical, so prepared to put notions of truth and university back on the agenda."—Terry Eagleton, Lancaster University, UK "Alain Badiou's plea in this stimulating little book contains the 'serious coquetry' one expects from a philosopher committed to the corruption of youth: young people, whether young in body or mind, reorganize your youth, and in so doing reanimate thinking in radically new directions!"—Jason Barker, Kyung Hee UniversityTable of ContentsNote 1. To be young, today: Sense and nonsense 2. About the contemporary fate of boys 3. About the contemporary fate of girls

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Book SynopsisIn this important book, Niklas Luhmann uses his powers as an analyst of the social system to examine two of the most important concepts which hold that system together and allow it to evolve: trust and power. He criticises those theoretical accounts whose roots lie in what he refers to as ideologies – accounts which use implicit beliefs in particular conceptions of human nature to explain and predict social action in a one-dimensional way. Theories of rational choice and moralistic explanations are taken to task, as are the theories of both Marx and Habermas. Luhmann's unique scientific sociology underpins every page and enables him to highlight the potential shortcomings of these narrative approaches. Underlying this approach is the idea that ideologically-based social theory, whether critical or conservative, is unable to do justice to the complexities existing within the parameters of social systems, individuals, and the interactions between them. He aims to show instead how only a painstaking systems analysis can capture these intricacies. Although written over 40 years ago, Luhmann's complex vision of the operations of trust and power provides a wealth of insights of considerable value to scholars and students grappling with contemporary social and economic problems. The editors' introduction to this new edition and the significant revisions they have made to the translation will help to reveal the richness and clarity of this vision and its relevance to the ways that trust and power operate in today's society.Trade Review"A must-read for anyone interested in trust research in German-speaking contexts, Luhmann's ideas around trust as a mechanism of reducing complexity have also been highly influential for scholars..."Journal of Trust ResearchTable of ContentsContents Introduction: Niklas Luhmann's Sociological Enlightenment and its Realisation in Trust and Power - by Christian Morgner and Michael King Editors� note on the revised translation Part 1: Trust Preface - by the author 1. Defining the Problem: Social Complexity 2. Constancies and Events 3. Familiarity and Trust 4. Trust as a Reduction of Complexity 5. Exceeding Information and Possibilities For Sanctions 6. Personal Trust 7. Communications Media and System Trust 8. The Tactical Conception: Trust as Opportunity and as Constraint 9. Trust in Trust 10. Trust and Distrust 11. Readiness to Trust 12. The Rationality of Trust and Distrust References Part 2: Power Introduction 1. Power as a Communication Medium 2. The Action Framework 3. Code Functions 4. Power and Physical Force 5. Lifeworld and Technique 6. The Generalization of Influence 7. Risks of Power 8. Power�s Relevance to Society 9. Organized Power References Relevant Articles by Luhmann in English

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Book SynopsisBringing together the most recent empirical evidence and the latest theoretical debates, this fully revised new edition gets to grips with a broad range of inequalities in people’s lives. Examining social class, gender, ethnicity, disability and migration status, it demonstrates how these play out in relation to education, health, poverty, neighbourhood and housing and how they cumulate across the life course. Richly illustrated with figures and concrete examples showing the distribution of life chances across social groups, the book demonstrates how people’s lives are structured by inequalities across multiple dimensions. Comprehensive topical chapters are framed by an exploration of the meaning and interpretation of inequalities and a discussion highlighting the important intersections between them. With new chapters on disability and international migration, this updated edition continues to provide a wide-ranging but detailed and theoretically sophisticated account of contemporary inequalities that will be invaluable to undergraduate and masters students alike.Trade Review‘Platt’s brilliant razor-sharp forensic analysis not only reveals the shocking disparities between rich and poor but uniquely shows how social class and the inequalities of ethnicity, gender, migration and disability intersect and affect people’s intimate and lived lives.’Heidi Mirza, Emeritus Professor, UCL Institute of Education ‘With inequality now at the forefront of political debate, this outstanding book provides a clear, comprehensive and nuanced overview of what is known about the extent and nature of inequalities on key dimensions and the linkages across them.’Brian Nolan, University of Oxford

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Book SynopsisThis fifth edition of An Introduction to Sociology provides an accessible and engaging introduction to sociology, without oversimplifying or passing over the important and exciting insights sociology has to offer. Building on the book's existing achievements, Ken Browne has restructured the fifth edition to focus on the core issues in sociology considered in introductory courses. The book covers all the topics and options specified by the GCSE and IGCSE examining boards, including the required classic texts and theoretical perspectives which are helpfully applied throughout the chapters. The new edition has been completely updated to reflect contemporary social changes, including the latest statistics and topical illustrative examples. New material is to be found throughout, such as more extensive treatment of family and household diversity, the marketization of education, social inequality, the control and prevention of crime, and the effects of new media technologies. Carefully designed to support and extend students' learning, a number of features – such as a range of activities, questions and discussion points – add to the book's value as a learning and teaching resource. Explanatory graphics, photographs and cartoons also enliven the text, presenting sociology as an exciting and relevant topic to students of all ages, interests and abilities. The new edition of this highly successful textbook will prove invaluable to anyone first approaching sociology, especially on Access, GCSE and related courses. Students will find the book provides an easy-to-follow and thoughtful introduction to studying sociology.Table of Contents1 The Sociological Approach: Key Ideas and Concepts 2 Sociological Theories and Research Methods 3 Families 4 Education 5 Crime and Deviance 6 Social Stratification and Social Inequality 7 The Media 8 Health and Illness (online chapter)

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Book SynopsisWhat do mompreneurs, angry working-class men, and migrant domestic workers all have in common? They are all gendered subjects responding to the economic, political, and cultural realities of neoliberalism’s global gender order. In this ambitious book, Radhakrishnan and Solari map the varied gendered pathways of a global hegemonic regime. Focusing on the US, the former Soviet Union, and South and Southeast Asia, they argue that the interconnected histories of imperialism, socialism, and postcolonialism have converged in a new way since the fall of the Soviet Union, transforming the post-war international order that preceded it. Today, the ideal of the empowered woman – a striving, entrepreneurial subject who overcomes adversity and has many “choices” – symbolizes modernity for diverse countries competing for status in the global hierarchy. This ideal bridges the painful gap between aspiration and lived reality, but also spurs widespread discontent. Blending social theory, rich empirical evidence, and a multi-sited understanding of neoliberalism, this book invites all of us to question taken-for-granted knowledge about gender and capitalism, and to look to grassroots international movements of the past to chart the path to a fairer future.Trade Review“This perceptive book shows that offloading state responsibility onto individuals and families reinforces both the cover story of neoliberal feminism (i.e. making women free to choose, as long as they choose to continue providing unpaid social reproductive labor) and of the manly protector as both bulwark and, occasionally, threat to the neoliberal order.”Quinn Slobodian, Wellesley College and author of Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism“This is a fascinating book! It offers an original and thought-provoking definition of the neoliberal gender order. This great author pairing provides expertise on a fantastic combination of cases, not usually placed in conversation with each other, to create one persuasive and engaging argument.”Sarah Ashwin, London School of Economics and Political Science, and author of Gender, State and Society in Soviet and Post-Soviet RussiaTable of Contents1. Introduction: A Multicentric World Order 2. Neoliberalism’s Pre-histories 3. Investing in “Empowered” Women 4. Neoliberalism’s Gendered Architecture 5. Moving Towards Modernity 6. Manly Protectors 7. Conclusion: A Fairer Multipolar Future

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Book SynopsisDigital hyperconnectivity is a defining fact of our time. The Silicon Valley dream of universal connection – the dream of connecting everyone and everything to everyone and everything else, everywhere and all the time – is rapidly becoming a reality. In this wide-ranging and sharply argued book, Rogers Brubaker develops an original interpretive account of the pervasive and unsettling changes brought about by hyperconnectivity. He traces transformations of the self, social relations, culture, economics, and politics, giving special attention to underexplored themes of abundance, miniaturization, convenience, quantification, and discipline. He shows how hyperconnectivity prepared us for the pandemic and how the pandemic, in turn, has prepared us for an even more fully digitally mediated future. Throughout, Brubaker underscores the ambivalence of digital hyperconnectivity, which opens up many new and exciting possibilities, yet at the same time threatens human freedom and flourishing. Hyperconnectivity and Its Discontents will be essential reading for everyone interested in the constellation of socio-technical forces that are profoundly remaking our world.Trade Review"Bracing, stimulating, and recurrently insightful, Rogers Brubaker's exploration of ubiquitous digital connectivity is observant and often wise. He advances our understanding of technology's very mixed human implications, from distractions to deep transformations, and also the implications of how we use new technologies, knowingly and unknowingly."—Craig Calhoun, Arizona State University (ASU) and London School of Economics (LSE) "In this lucid, elegant book, Rogers Brubaker demonstrates that if you read hyperconnectivity through the lens of classic social theory, you'll better understand its costs and what to do about them. So when he considers the sociality of the web and our ever-lonelier hearts, his exploration leads him to the dangers of populism and a threat to democracy. He speaks to our moment."—Sherry Turkle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) "[A]n informative and engaging overview of digitally intertwined life that does not sacrifice breadth for depth."—International Journal of Communication“In this incisive, panoramic book. . . . Brubaker makes a compelling case for the pervasive ways that hyperconnectivity structures social life.”—Social ForcesTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Selves 2. Interactions 3. Culture 4. Economics 5. Politics Conclusion Notes Works Cited

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Book SynopsisIn times of entrenched social upheaval and multiple crises, we need the kind of social theory that is prepared to look at the big picture, analyze the broad developmental features of modern societies, their structural conditions and dynamics, and point to possible ways out of the crises we face. Over the last couple of decades, two German sociologists, Andreas Reckwitz and Hartmut Rosa, have sought to provide wide-ranging social theories of this kind. While their theories are very different, they share in common the view that the analysis of modernity as a social formation must be kept at the heart of sociology, and that the theory of society should ultimately serve to diagnose the crises of the present. In this book, Andreas Reckwitz and Hartmut Rosa join forces to examine the value and the limits of a theory of society today. They provide clear and concise accounts of their own theories of society, explicate their key concepts – including "singularization" in the case of Reckwitz, "acceleration" and “resonance” in the case of Rosa – and draw out the implications of their theories for understanding the multiple crises we face today. The result is a book that provides both an excellent introduction to the work of two of the most important sociologists writing today and a vivid demonstration of the value of the kind of bold social theory of modern societies that they espouse.Trade Review"For those of us who think that the big picture matters and not just information, empirical data, and small narratives, this book is good news. Two prominent sociologists, each in their own way and both with rigor and erudition, take up the question on the minds of many: What sort of society are we really living in? In what direction are our societies headed? A major contribution to the revitalization of interest in a comprehensive theory of modernity."—Miroslav Volf, Yale University "... an admirable attempt to raise the kind of Big Ideas that the founding figures of sociology – Durkheim, Marx, Weber, Simmel, and others – thought were important if we were to understand society as a whole. It might be just what we need at this fraught period in our journey together as a global society."—The Englewood Review of BooksTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I Andreas Reckwitz The Theory of Society as a Tool 1. Doing Theory 2. Practice theory as Social Theory 3. The Practice of Modernity 4. The Theory of Society at Work: From Bourgeois and Industrial Modernity to Late Modernity 5. Theory as Critical Analytics 6. Coda: The Experimentalism of Theory Part II Hartmut Rosa Best Account: Outlining a Systematic Theory of Modern Society 1. What Is a Theory of Society and What Can It Do? 2. Dynamic Stabilization and the Expansion of Our Share of the World: An Analysis of the Modern Social Formation 3. Desynchronization and Alienation: A Diagnosis and Critique of Modernity 4. Adaptive Stabilization and Resonance: A Therapeutic and Transgressive Outline of an Alternative Horizon Part III Modernity and Critique: A Conversation with Martin Bauer Notes

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Book SynopsisExam Board: SQALevel: HigherSubject: Modern StudiesFirst Teaching: August 2018First Exam: June 2019A course textbook covering the most recent political developments and fully updated to take on board the latest SQA course assessment changes. Written specifically to match the Higher syllabus offered by the Scottish Qualifications Authority, Democracy in Scotland and the UK covers all of the topics that students will encounter in this unit of the course: UK constitutional arrangements, representative democracy and the political process, electoral systems and voting behaviour. - Questions to help monitor progress throughout the topics - Case studies and fact files to focus attention on specific areas - Assessment guides to prepare students for the final exam

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Book SynopsisReinforce understanding of the content examined in A-level Paper 3: Crime and deviance with Theory and methods.Packed full of clear topic summaries, knowledge check questions and sample exam-style questions and answers with commentaries, this guide will help students aim for and achieve the highest grades.This Student Guide will help to:- Identify key content for the exams with our concise coverage of topics- Avoid common pitfalls with clear definitions and exam tips throughout- Reinforce learning with bullet-list summaries at the end of each section- Test knowledge with rapid-fire knowledge check questions and answers - Find out what examiners are looking for with our Questions & Answers section

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Book SynopsisReinforce students' understanding of the content examined in A Level Paper 1: Socialisation, culture and identity with Family and Youth Subcultures.Packed full of clear topic summaries, knowledge check questions and sample exam-style questions and answers with commentaries, this guide will help students aim for and achieve the highest grades.This Student Guide will help to:- Identify key content for the exams with our concise coverage of topics- Avoid common pitfalls with clear definitions and exam tips throughout- Reinforce learning with bullet-list summaries at the end of each section- Test knowledge with rapid-fire knowledge check questions and answers- Find out what examiners are looking for with our Questions & Answers section

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Book SynopsisUncertainty is central to the governance of citizenship, but in ways that erase, even deny, this uncertainty. This book investigates uncertain citizenship from the unique vantage point of ‘citizenisation’: twenty-first-century integration and naturalisation measures that make and unmake citizens and migrants, while indefinitely holding many applicants for citizenship in what Fortier calls the ‘waiting room of citizenship’. Fortier’s distinctive theory of citizenisation foregrounds how the full achievement of citizenship is a promise that is always deferred: if migrants and citizens are continuously citizenised, so too are they migratised. Citizenisation and migratisation are intimately linked within the structures of racial governmentality that enables the citizenship of racially minoritised citizens to be questioned and that casts them as perpetual migrants. Drawing on multi-sited fieldwork with migrants applying for citizenship or settlement and with intermediaries of the state tasked with implementing citizenisation measures and policies, Fortier brings life to the waiting room of citizenship, giving rich empirical backing to her original theoretical claims. Scrutinising life in the waiting room enables Fortier to analyse how citizenship takes place, takes time and takes hold in ways that conform, exceed, and confound frames of reference laid out in both citizenisation policies and taken-for-granted understandings of ‘the citizen’ and ‘the migrant’. Uncertain Citizenship’s nuanced account of the social and institutional function of citizenisation and migratisation offers its readers a grasp of the array of racial inequalities that citizenisation produces and reproduces, while providing theoretical and empirical tools to address these inequalities.Trade Review'Uncertain Citizenship is innovative, nuanced and both theoretically inspiring and empirically engaging. It is certain to become a cornerstone for future scholarship and debates around racism, migration and citizenship.' Ethnic and Radical Studies 'In this brilliant book, Fortier examines the uncertainties in which citizenship is enmeshed and their effects on states, would-be citizens and those charged with managing the process of citizenship. These uncertainties condense long histories and shifting political, cultural and emotional pressures, making citizenship carry a formidable burden of desire and anxiety.'John Clark, Emeritus Professor, The Open University'By forensically examining scenes of uncertainty where non-citizens await becoming citizens, Fortier brilliantly illustrates how governments engage both citizens and non-citizens through insufferable games of conferral, deferral and repeal.'Engin Isin, Professor of International Politics, Queen Mary University of London'This vital contribution dismantles taken-for-granted understandings about contemporary citizenship to lay bare the inherent uncertainties, insecurities and inequalities at its heart. You'll never look at citizenship the same way again.'Michaela Benson, Reader in Sociology, Goldsmiths University of London'Anne-Marie Fortier writes with such sensitivity and perception on the impact of the UK government’s regimes of citizenship and naturalization. This book illuminates the precarities and uncertainties of racialized citizenship and raises important questions on the injustices involved in process of determining who is deemed worthy of citizenship.'Bridget Byrne, Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester'Taking British citizenship as her focal point, Fortier combines field work with an exhaustive reading of the secondary literature to contend that citizenship is rendered vulnerable by political and socioeconomic developments and that this uncertainty is central to governmental practices of citizenship.'CHOICE (March 2022) -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction – Uncertain citizenshipScene 1 – Researching citizenisation1 The world of citizenisation: life in the waiting room2 Citizenising BritainScene 2 – Documents, stories, pictures3 The documented citizenScene 3 – Conversing with Anglophones4 The speaking citizenScene 4 – Becoming citizen5 The becoming citizenConclusion – Lessons from the waiting room: citizenisation and migratisationIndex

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Book SynopsisThis collection brings together academics and practitioners to consider the increasingly central role that memory and recalling the past plays in determining contemporary politics and the future direction of Northern Irish society. Using theoretical, comparative and case-study approaches, it considers not only how narratives of the past are constructed, reconstructed, understood and commemorated, but also the ways in which the key themes that emerge are harnessed and mobilised to political and social effect in the present. The book draws deeply on a wide range of expert opinion and viewpoints to add significantly to existing knowledge surrounding the debates over memory and the ways it is used in Northern Irish society.Table of ContentsIntroduction: through a single lens? Understanding the Troubles of the past, present and future – James W. McAuley, Máire Braniff and Graham Spencer1 Agonistic remembering and Northern Ireland’s 1968 @ 50 – Chris Reynolds2 Pogroms, presence, myth and memory: August 1969 and the outbreak of the Northern Ireland conflict – Shaun McDaid3 ‘Touching the third rail?’ The problems of dealing with the past in Northern Ireland – Eamonn O’Kane4 On notions of dealing with the past in Northern Ireland and the place of historians – Stuart Aveyard5 Collective memory, ethno-national forgetting and the limits of history in misremembering the past – Aaron Edwards6 Irish republicanisms and radical nostalgia – Stephen Hopkins7 Irish republican commemoration and narratives of legitimacy – Kris Brown8 Ulster loyalism, memory and commemoration – James W. McAuley and Neil Ferguson9 Remember the women: memory-making within loyalism – Lisa Faulkner-Byrne, John Bell and Philip McCready10 Visual memory at sites of troubles past: participatory and collective memories in Croatia and Argentina – Máire Braniff11 The tears of the mothers: conflict and memory in comparison – Catherine McGlynn12 The problem of legacy and remembering the past in Northern Ireland – Graham SpencerIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Me Too movement, started by Black feminist Tarana Burke in 2006, went viral as a hashtag eleven years later after a tweet by white actor Alyssa Milano. Mainstream movements like #MeToo have often built on and co-opted the work of women of colour, while refusing to learn from them or centre their concerns. Far too often, the message is not ‘Me, Too’ but ‘Me, Not You’. Alison Phipps argues that this is not just a lack of solidarity. Privileged white women also sacrifice more marginalised people to achieve their aims, or even define them as enemies when they get in the way.Me, not you argues that the mainstream movement against sexual violence expresses a political whiteness that both reflects its demographics and limits its revolutionary potential. Privileged white women use their traumatic experiences to create media outrage, while relying on state power and bureaucracy to purge ‘bad men’ from elite institutions with little concern for where they might appear next. In their attacks on sex workers and trans people, the more reactionary branches of this feminist movement play into the hands of the resurgent far-right.Trade Review'This is a necessary and vital addition to feminist texts. Alison Phipps has done exactly what women of colour wish we saw more of during these days of #NotAllWhiteWomen. She has looked white feminism and political whiteness in the eyes and delivered a much-needed reckoning. It is exhausting to both fight political whiteness and explain to white women what that whiteness is, how it benefits them and why the status quo must end if we are all to be free. This is a book I will be carrying everywhere, eager to share, excited to have Phipps’ words fighting alongside me.'Mona Eltahawy, author of The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls'Paints a cohesive and alarming picture of sexual violence activism today.'Textual Practice 'Me, not you is an essential book for this historical moment. Phipps adds to the growing consideration of “carceral feminisms” by writing an accessible text that addresses how white women can enact violence while organising to end sexual violence. I was particularly interested in the book’s theorisation of “political whiteness,” a concept that owes much to the work of Black feminist scholars and activists. Me, not you uplifts this lineage and offers more food for thought. For anyone interested in anti-violence, anti-racism, and anti-criminalisation organising, this book is required reading. I’ll be coming back to it often.'Mariame Kaba, organiser, educator and founder of Project NIATimely is a tired trope for a book recommendation, but if you wanted to capture the solidarity, backlash, and politics of feminism in 2020 Alison Phipps’ Me Not You would be an excellent place to start. Phipps is upfront with her aims for the book – this is a book about mainstream feminism aimed at white people. This is the book I will give to those who still don’t get it and keep next to me for when I forget it. The Sociological ReviewThis book is very relevant to feminism now. The carefully considered research and representation of Phipps provides a way for white feminists to understand the long history and complexity of current public debates surrounding race, gender and, at times, sexuality. LIMINA, a journal of historical and cultural studies.' Me, Not You is essential reading for white women everywhere.'the F word -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Gender in a right-moving world2 Me, not you3 Political whiteness4 The outrage economy5 White feminism as war machine6 Feminists and the far rightConclusion References

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Book SynopsisThis book analyses how racism and anti-racism affects Black British middle-class cultural consumption. In doing so, it challenges the dominant understanding of British middle-class identity and culture as being ‘beyond race’.Paying attention to the relationship between cultural capital and cultural repertoires, Meghji argues that there are three modes of black middle-class identity: strategic assimilation, ethnoracial autonomous, and class-minded. Individuals within each of these identity modes use specific cultural repertoires to organise their cultural consumption. Those employing strategic assimilation draw on repertoires of code-switching and cultural equity, consuming traditional middle-class culture to maintain equality with the white middle-class in levels of cultural capital. Ethnoracial autonomous individuals draw on repertoires of ‘browning’ and Afro-centrism, self-selecting traditional middle-class cultural pursuits they decode as ‘Eurocentric’ while showing a preference for cultural forms that uplift black diasporic histories and cultures. Lastly, class-minded individuals draw on repertoires of post-racialism and de-racialisation, polarising between ‘Black’ and middle-class cultural forms. Black middle class Britannia examines how such individuals display an unequivocal preference for the latter, lambasting other black people who avoid middle-class culture as being culturally myopic or culturally uncultivated.Trade Review'A tour de force with original arguments, empirical richness and theoretical ambition, all presented in a beautifully crafted written narrative.' Les Back is a Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London 'Black middle-class Britannia offers a fascinating portrait of race and class in contemporary London. Using the cultural world as a site to examine inequality, Ali Meghji shows how racial and class boundaries are both understood and navigated in varying ways depending on the identities of middle-class blacks. While some see the existence of middle class blacks as evidence that Britain is now color-blind, Black middle-class Britannia provides a timely and in depth counterpoint to this view.'Patricia A. Banks, Associate Professor of Sociology, Mount Holyoke College -- .Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1 Introduction: Taking off the colourblind goggles: Crafting a study on Britain’s Black middle class2 Towards a triangle of Black middle class identity3 White spaces: consuming traditional middle class Culture4 Constructing and using Black cultural capital5 Revisiting race and nation: double consciousness, Black Britishness, and cultural consumption6 Race, class, and culture in the British racialised social systemAppendix: Building a reflexive case study of the Black middle classReferences

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Book SynopsisThe fall and rise of the English upper class explores the role traditionalist worldviews, articulated by members of the historic upper-class, have played in British society in the shadow of her imperial and economic decline in the twentieth century. Situating these traditionalist visions alongside Britain’s post-Brexit fantasies of global economic resurgence and a socio-cultural return to a green and pleasant land, Smith examines Britain’s Establishment institutions, the estates of her landed gentry and aristocracy, through to an appetite for nostalgic products represented with pastoral or pre-modern symbolism. It is demonstrated that these institutions and pursuits play a central role in situating social, cultural and political belonging. Crucially these institutions and pursuits rely upon a form of membership which is grounded in a kinship idiom centred upon inheritance and descent: who inherits the houses of privilege, inherits England.Trade Review"An astonishing exploration of a contemporary moment – the one that exploded with Brexit -- this book creeps up on late modernity in a way that no direct address could. Who would think to juxtapose aristocracy, inheritance and nationhood with change, empiricism and contingency through the vernacular idiom of ‘the house’? Smith shows how the idiom of the house perpetuates a world simultaneously lost and made, problematising Englishness in the most profound way."Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern, University of Cambridge"Much has been written about the supposed downfall of the aristocracy. But that doesn’t explain their ongoing presence in society, nor our continued fascination with them. The Fall and Rise of Britain's Upper-Classes makes a distinct intervention into the sociology of the elites through the concept of ‘the house society’. Arguing that ‘idioms’ of the aristocratic classes ‘haunt’ contemporary Britain, Smith argues that capitalism in England arose out of a landed aristocracy, and so logics of capital have always already been imbricated by inheritance, kinship and traditionalism. The book deftly combines a huge range of case studies, from close readings of political memoirs to an ethnography of a bookshop, to contend that our national imagination still hinges upon this privileged group. An important contribution to research on social class and privilege, Smith’s book is a rare account of the group whose power is in its invisibility: the aristocracy."Laura Clancy, Lecturer in Media at Lancaster University and author of Running the family firm: How the royal family manages its image and our money -- .Table of ContentsList of tablesAcknowledgementsIntroduction: England’s hope and lossPart I: Fall and rise1. Houses, kinship and capital2. England as a house societyPart II: The social poetics of houses3. Imperial melancholia: Rory Stewart’s The Marches (2017)4. Arcadianism: Adam Nicolson’s Sissinghurst (2008)5. ‘Island Englishness’: Roger Scruton’s England: An Elegy (2000)Part III: Houses as kinship & capital6. The Reading Public 7. The Branded Gentry8. The fortunes of the land Conclusion: contingent remaindersReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisAt a time of climate crisis, isolation and social breakdown, Driving with strangers is a manifesto to alter how we think about our place in the world. Veteran hitchhiker and lifelong aficionado of hitchhiking culture, Purkis journeys through the history of hitchhiking to explore the unique opportunities for cooperation, friendship, sustainability and openness that it represents.Join Purkis on the kerbside, in search of Woody Guthrie as he examines the politics of the travelling song, deep on a Russian hitch-hiking expedition, or considering the politics of travel and risk on the ‘Highway of Tears’ in British Columbia, Canada. The reader is taken on a panoramic road trip through a century of hitchhiking across different decades, countries and continents.Purkis, a self-styled ‘vagabond sociologist’, is the perfect passenger to accompany you on a journey away from isolation, social distancing, closed borders and into a better understanding of why and how strangers can enrich our lives.Trade Review'This book is an ambitious, comprehensive and fascinating celebration of the righteous pursuit of hitchhiking. I hope it inspires new hitchers and convinces uncertain readers.' Amy Liptrot, author of The Outrun'A marvelous, profound look at the art of hitchhiking: it is a journeying, questing book, opening up avenues of exploration, following curiosity-paths, creating networks of thoughts and discursive, fascinating politics. This is a book with a world within its covers: I am richer for having read it.'Jay Griffiths, writer and author of Wild: An Elemental Journey'At a time when cultivating human connection has never been more important, Driving with strangers is a wonderful tribute to the great art of hitchhiking and what it can teach us. Purkis takes us on a fascinating journey and opens up worlds of wisdom, story, and possibility. This is a captivating book that pays tribute to the remarkable power of the thumb to connect humanity.'Ruairí McKiernan, Irish Times No. 1 bestselling author of Hitching for Hope: A Journey into the Heart and Soul of Ireland 'The hope expressed in Driving with Strangers is that the continuing presence of young hitchhikers – long before middle age when most of us, including Purkis himself, appear to give it up – and others who share their general outlook means an alternative future remains possible. Though the capacity-building and political re-imagining that Purkis would like to see emerge seems almost unrealisable in these conflictual and alienating times, we should not forget the mutuality and generosity that were brought to the forefront of everyday life during the COVID-19 pandemic. If that could be harnessed in a political movement, we might even find ourselves hitchhiking again.' Professor Tim Newburn, LSE Review of Books'Whether you are a scholar or a (former) hitchhiker, I reckon it will be difficult for you not to like Jonathan Purkis' book.'Patrick Laviolette, Sociology'From the emotion of the first ever "thumb out" experience and the immediate discovery of all manner of life on the road, through to the fascinating unfolding history of how hitching has ebbed and flowed through the decades. Crossing continents, political time-zones and yesteryear travel scenes, this delightful narrative continues through to today’s world of technology dominated travel environments. On the basis that travel will always be a force for good, enhanced by direct human communications, Jonathan Purkis’ commentary, observations and stories will remain travel relevant for further decades to come. A cracking read and wonderful journey.'Jono Vernon-Powell, Founder and Managing Director, Nomadic Thoughts (Worldwide Travel)'Purkis sees hitchhiking as a symbol of an alternative economic system and more sensible way of interacting between people than the doomed conditions that now prevail.'Svenska Dagbladet -- .Table of ContentsPrologue: ‘A Romantic, gallant and even brilliant adventure’1 The intention of a tradition: Definitions of hitchhiking 2 How to think like a hitchhiker: An introduction to vagabond sociology3 In search of Woody Guthrie: Singing the politics of hitchhiking4 ‘Maybe we will meet a nice person’: Hitchhiking, conflict, human nature5 The great European adventure trail: Hitchhiking as a measure of freedom6 The Alaska Highway hitchhiker’s visitor’s book: The personality of the ‘extreme hitchhiker’7 The power of the gift without return: Hitchhiking as economic allegory8 The myth of the great decline: Hitchhiking and the increasing levels of trust in the world9 Climatic dangers: Hitchhiking and the relative realities of risk10 Good news from Vilnius: The rich life of hitchhiking in former communist countries11 A prescription for hitchhiking? Travel and talk in the age of pandemics and extinctionAfterword: The bookcase at the end of the roadAcknowledgments: A hitchhiker’s guide to the journeyNotesBibliography

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Book SynopsisLiving with water brings together sociologists, geographers, artists, writers and poets to explore the ways in which water binds, immerses and supports us. Drawing from international research on river crossings, boat dwelling, wild swimming, sea fishing, and drought impacts, and navigating urban waters, glacial lagoons, barrier reefs and disappearing tarns, the collection illuminates the ways that we live with and without water, and explores how we can think and write with water on land. Water offers a way of attending to emerging and enduring social and ecological concerns and making sense of them in lively and creative ways. By approaching Living with water from different disciplinary and methodological perspectives, and drawing on research from around the world, this collection opens up discussions that reinvigorate and renew previously landlocked debates.This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 6, Clean water and sanitationTrade Review'This edited collection explores how living, thinking and writing with water can act as a vehicle for exploring emerging and persistent social and ecological issues. Structured around three aquatic themes – float, flow, submerge – the contributions are methodologically and textually diverse, including the creative arts, social sciences, history and ethnography, and encompassing a pleasing diversity of writing styles ranging from the personal and confessional to the figurative, theoretical and critical. As a reading experience, it is delightful.' Karen Throsby, author of Immersion: Marathon Swimming, Embodiment and Identity and Professor of Gender Studies, University of Leeds‘I love to surf, swim, dive, fish, and sit rugged up in a blanket with hot drink in hand just before plunging into icy winter sea. By diving into this beautifully polymorphous collection of emotional, intoxicating, playful, and daring storytelling you will be carried away by waves of analysis that will in turn alarm you, send shivers of joy across your skin, prompt deep introspection, and leave you with a deeply embodied sense of contentment. The collection is a flowing unity saturated with uncompromising reflexivity, care, and vulnerability that not only enriches thinking, listening, imagining, creating, feeling, and learning with water but perhaps, most importantly of all, a necessary responsibility to this giver of life.’Clifton Evers, Senior Lecturer in Media & Cultural Studies, Newcastle University -- .Table of ContentsForeword – Jessica J. Lee1 Living with water – Kate Moles and Charlotte Bates 2 Jo¨kulsa´rlo´n 64°04'13''N 16°12'42''W – Wayne Binitie Float 3 Ryan and Alfie: the teenage fishers – Alys Tomlinson 4 Fereð ofer flodas: floating on a ferry – Eva McGrath5 Homes, happenings and everyday lives: afloat on London’s waterways – Lorna Flutter6 Bathed in feeling: water cultures and city life – Les Back 7 River crossings: the mighty London Thames – Sophie Watson 8 Living with/out water: media, memory and gender – Joanne Garde-HansenFlow9 How deep is your love? Spurting, surging, leaking and hissing in Calgary’s pressurised drinking water infrastructure – Becky Shaw10 Rain – Sans façon11 More than a body of water: disentangling the affective meshwork of the Belize Barrier Reef – Phillip Vannini and April Vannini12 Shifting tides: Anthropocene entanglements and unravellings in the Bay of Fundy – Aurora Fredriksen13 Follow the water – Perdita Phillips14 Glacial erratic – Stephanie KrzywonosSubmerge 15 17 bridges – Vanessa Daws 16 Churn – JLM Morton17 Submerging bodies in cold waters – Charlotte Bates and Kate Moles 18 How to swim without water: swimming as an ecological sensibility – Rebecca Olive 19 I just want an earth of cool mysteries – Samantha Walton20 Conjuring a swimming pond – Emily BatesIndex

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Book SynopsisMore than 25 experts from around the world have contributed to this unique and provocative book. In a series of illuminating short essays, each author has presented a striking image as an invitation to consider the ghosts of colonialism and imperialism in today’s global economy. In defiance of those who claim that today’s capitalist system is free of racism and exploitation, this book shows that the past is not behind us, it defines our world and our lives. This book takes the reader on a global tour, from Malaysia to Canada, from Angola to Mexico, from Libya to China, from the City of London to the Australian outback, from the deep sea to the atmosphere. Along the way we meet the financiers, artists, advertisers, activists and everyday people who are grappling with the entangled legacies of empire.Table of ContentsIntroduction – Paul Robert Gilbert, Clea Bourne, Max Haiven and Johnna MontgomeriePart I: Blowouts1 Pumpjacks, playgrounds and cheap lives – Imre Szeman2 ‘Boom!' – Tracy Lassiter3 Spillcam – Alysse KushinskiPart II: Circulations4 Te Peeke o Aotearoa: colonial and decolonial finance in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1860s–1890s – Catherine Comyn5 Both sides of the coin: Lady Liberty and the construction of ‘the New Native’ on currency in Oregon’s colonial period – Ashley Cordes6 Milo – Syahirah Abdul RahmanPart III: Borders7 ‘The trust will pursue debt through all means necessary' – Kathryn Medien8 Hunger or indebtedness? Enforcing migrant destitution, racializing debt – Eve Dickson, Rachel Rosen and Kehinde Sorinmade9 Libre: debt, discipline and humanitarian pretension – Christian RossipalPart IV: Emergence10 ‘Afro-pessimism’ and emerging markets finance – Ilias Alami11 Dreams of extractive development: reviving the Benguela Railway in central Angola – Jon Schubert12 Spectral cities and rare earth mining in the North China Plain – Linsey LyPart V: Gestures13 Italy, Libya and the EU: co-dependent systems and interweaving imperial interests at the Mediterranean border – Alessandra Ferrini14 Racial capitalism and settler colonization in Australia: Australian debts to Gurindji economies – Holly Eva Katherine Randell-Moon15 Connected by a blue sweater: ethical narratives of philanthrocapitalist development – Zenia KishPart VI: Play16 Eternal conflict: Sderot’s underground playground – Oded Nir17 I am your dividend – Ben StorkPart VII: Control18 ‘The shape of the Stock Exchange is shapeless’ – Laura Kalba19 Data Centre Séance: telepathic surveillance capitalism, psychic debt and colonialism – Jacquelene DrinkallPart VIII: Imaginaries20 Mesoamérica Resiste: staging the battle over Mesoamerica – capitalist fantasies vs grassroots liberation – Debbie Samaniego and Felix Mantz21 Extractive scars and the lightness of finance – Maria Dyveke Styve22 Imagined maps of racial capitalism – Gargi BhattacharyyaIndex

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Book SynopsisFaith stories is an investigation of faith and belief systems in Australia and England. Drawing on ethnography, interviews, focus groups for adults and arts-based workshops for their children, Hickey-Moody takes a community-based approach to examining belonging, attachment, faith, belief and ‘what really matters’ in diverse areas. Each of the book’s research sites is geographically and culturally specific in ways that shape residents’ experiences of community and belonging, but they are united by enduring threads relating to colonisation, diaspora and negotiating belonging in culturally diverse contexts. Examining faith reveals that there are striking similarities between seemingly different cultures. Understanding these connections can reduce conflict and promote cohesion in communities that are often struggling to adapt to huge changes. This book provides rich resources for those who wish to explore faith and belief in complex social circumstances, either as research or as community engagement. In such increasingly divided times, work like this is needed now more than ever.Trade Review'Weaving between disciplines, methods, and interactive practices, Hickey-Moody expertly pulls the reader along several threads of the personal, the communal, the political, and the belief that there is always something more. This is a work that enacts an ethos of radical, collective care, a richly descriptive work that never hides from its readers all of the living and breathing, all of the troubles and joys, of its own making.'Gregory J. Seigworth, Professor of Communication Studies in the Department of Communication and Theatre at Millersville University -- .Table of Contents1 Contexts / Comhthéacs2 Faith: a new materialist approach / Creideamh3 Mapping and making / Ag déanamh4 Affect and joy / Áthas5 Belonging / Muintearas6 Connections / Naisc7 Incapacity / Neamhábaltacht8 Other worlds / NeamhshaoltaConclusion / ConclúidIndex

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Book SynopsisThreads of labour examines the effects of ruination and loss of community in an ex-industrial village. Charting a collaborative project of hope using carpet-making skills and industrial heritage, the book investigates how a cleaved ex-industrial community used arts methodologies as a strategy of re-making. -- .

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Book SynopsisInvestigating the rise of the social media 'cleanfluencer', this book asks why women are still the ones tidying up in the twenty-first century. -- .

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Book SynopsisBrilliant...explains how the rhetoric of competition has invaded almost every domain of our existence." —Evgeny Morozov, author of To Save Everything, Click Here" "In this fascinating book Davies inverts the conventional neoliberal practice of treating politics as if it were mere epiphenomenon of market theory, demonstrating that their version of economics is far better understood as the pursuit of politics by other means." —Professor Philip Mirowski, University of Notre Dame "A sparkling, original, and provocative analysis of neoliberalism. It offers a distinctive account of the diverse, sometimes contradictory, conventions and justifications that lend authority to the extension of the spirit of competitiveness to all spheres of social life…This book breaks new ground, offers new modes of critique, and points to post-neoliberal futures." —Professor Bob Jessop, University of Lancaster Since its intellectual inception in the 1930s and its political emergence in the 1970s, neo-liberalism has sought to disenchant politics by replacing it with economics. This agenda-setting text examines the efforts and failures of economic experts to make government and public life amenable to measurement, and to re-model society and state in terms of competition. In particular, it explores the practical use of economic techniques and conventions by policy-makers, politicians, regulators and judges and how these practices are being adapted to the perceived failings of the neoliberal model. By picking apart the defining contradiction that arises from the conflation of economics and politics, this book asks: to what extent can economics provide government legitimacy? Now with a new preface from the author and a foreword by Aditya Chakrabortty. Trade Review"Brilliant... explains how the rhetoric of competition has invaded almost every domain of our existence." -- Evgeny Morozov"In this fascinating book Davies inverts the conventional neoliberal practice of treating politics as if it were mere epiphenomenon of market theory, demonstrating that their version of economics is far better understood as the pursuit of politics by other means." -- Professor Philip Mirowski"A sparkling, original, and provocative analysis of neoliberalism. It offers a distinctive account of the diverse, sometimes contradictory, conventions and justifications that lend authority to the extension of the spirit of competitiveness to all spheres of social life…This book breaks new ground, offers new modes of critique, and points to post-neoliberal futures." -- Professor Bob JessopWilliam Davies has made a substantial contribution to the study of neoliberal doctrine and policy-making. The book is a must for those writing in any way on neoliberalism and not unnecessarily difficult in relation to the complex topic it charts. It clearly breaks new ground by shedding light on debates beyond the most famous neoliberal intellectuals, debates that not many critical scholars until recently have seriously engaged with. -- Johan PriesTable of ContentsThe Disenchantment of Politics: Neoliberalism, Sovereignty and Economics The Promise and Paradox of Competition: Markets, Competitive Agency and Authority The Liberal Spirit of Economics: Competition, Anti-Trust and the Chicago Critique of Law The Violent Threat of Management: Competitiveness, Strategy and the Audit of Political Decision Contingent Neoliberalism: Financial Crisis and beyond Afterword: Critique in and of Neoliberalism

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Book Synopsis'Captivating, emphatic and deeply inspiring, Sexual Revolution lifted me greatly by envisioning the possibilities of our moment' V (formerly Eve Ensler) 'Brilliant; vital; revolutionary' Kate Manne _________________ This is a story about how modern masculinity is killing the world, and how feminism can save it. It’s a story about sex and power and trauma and resistance and persistence. Sex and gender are changing, and the world is changing with them. In this time of crisis, we are also witnessing a productive transformation: a revolutionary change in how we define gender, sex, consent and whose bodies matter. This sexual revolution is a threat to the social and economic order. It undermines the existing power structures and weakens the authority of institutions from the waged workplace to the nuclear family. No wonder the far right is fighting back so hard. Told with Laurie Penny’s trademark urgency and candour, Sexual Revolution is a hand-grenade of a book: both a manifesto for social change and a story of how feminism can save us.Trade ReviewThis broad, ambitious book skilfully skewers everyday sexisms … Penny is a skilled polemicist, and their underlying argument, if not exactly original, is vital: that questions of sex and love are central to politics … A perfect summation of our cultural double standards … Penny has a knack for identifying missed connections … This is a broad, ambitious book, and Penny’s writing is vivid and passionate * New Statesman *A call to arms . . . Sexual Revolution is about shining a spotlight on the changes that are already happening, and encouraging them, despite the backlash, despite the fear * Irish Times *This is a voice of blazing fury. These are the clear, ferocious words of a millennial, intersectional feminist . . . Penny connects up the dots of the many issues impacting on women’s lives and links them through to the attitudes of a patriarchal, racist and capitalist society . . . The book contains many blistering arguments, including the reminder that what we are tackling is not just one sexual violence case but a whole culture . . . Sexual Revolution provides an analysis of how far we have yet to go * Herald *Laurie Penny's searing critique of male dominance, violence and supremacy traces the link between everyday sexism and the far right's project of biopower. Penny's quiet but incandescent anger burns through every page, guiding with wit and erudition us towards solutions that involve a hitherto discounted possibility: that men might change -- Paul MasonLaurie Penny’s electric new book boldly announces that the feminist sexual revolution is here; we are in the midst of a ‘fundamental reimagining of gender roles and sexual roles, work and love, trauma and violence, pleasure and power.’ Captivating, emphatic, and deeply inspiring, Sexual Revolution lifted me greatly by envisioning the possibilities of our moment -- V (formerly Eve Ensler), author of THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES and THE APOLOGYBrilliant; vital; revolutionary -- Kate ManneLaurie Penny is a true gift. Their excoriation of the patriarchy and its continued harm against all humans is life-giving, and perhaps only matched by the exceptional warmth and good humour they express while making great strides to change the world -- Clementine Ford, author of FIGHT LIKE A GIRLI can't really think of another writer who so consistently and bravely keeps thinking and talking and learning and trying to make the world better -- Caitlin Moran (praise for Laurie Penny)

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Book SynopsisIs it possible for individuals to tackle waste by recycling, reusing and reducing alone? This provocative book critically analyses the widespread assumption that individuals and households have created our global waste crisis. Sociologist and waste expert Myra J. Hird reveals neoliberal capitalism’s fallacy of infinite growth as the real culprit, and demonstrates how industry and local governments work in tandem to deflect our attention away from the real causes of our global waste problem. Hird offers crucial insights into the relations between waste and wider societal issues including ongoing (settler) colonialism, poverty, racism and sexism, and showcases how sociology may provide solutions through a ‘pubic imagination’ of waste.Table of Contents1. The Public Problem of Waste 2. Framing Waste 3. The Public Problem of Recycling 4. The Public Problem of Plastics 5. The Public Problem of PPE Waste and Being Prepared 6. A Public Sociology of Waste

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Book SynopsisIs it possible for individuals to tackle waste by recycling, reusing and reducing alone? This provocative book critically analyses the widespread assumption that individuals and households have created our global waste crisis. Sociologist and waste expert Myra J. Hird reveals neoliberal capitalism’s fallacy of infinite growth as the real culprit, and demonstrates how industry and local governments work in tandem to deflect our attention away from the real causes of our global waste problem. Hird offers crucial insights into the relations between waste and wider societal issues including ongoing (settler) colonialism, poverty, racism and sexism, and showcases how sociology may provide solutions through a ‘pubic imagination’ of waste.Table of Contents1. The Public Problem of Waste 2. Framing Waste 3. The Public Problem of Recycling 4. The Public Problem of Plastics 5. The Public Problem of PPE Waste and Being Prepared 6. A Public Sociology of Waste

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Book SynopsisDrawing from an activist research project spanning Loja, Santo Domingo, New York, New Jersey, and Barcelona, this book offers a feminist intersectional analysis of the impact of migration on health and well-being. It assesses how social inequalities and migration and health policies, in Ecuador and destination countries, shape the experiences of migrants. The author also explores how individual and collective action challenges health, geopolitical, gender, sexual, ethnoracial, and economic disparities, and empowers communities. This is a thorough analysis of interpersonal, institutional, and structural mechanisms of marginalization and resistance. It will inform policy and research for better responses to migration’s negative effects on health, and progress towards greater equality and social justice.Trade Review"The book is valuable for sociologists and demographers—as well as practitioners working to improve migrant health—and would make an excellent addition to courses on topics such as migration, immigration, health, and the family." Social ForcesTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Migration-related Health Processes 3. Coping with the Challenges of Migration 4. Post-migration Family Relationships 5. Transformative Border Politics 6. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisWhat are the challenges for the current generation of graduate millennials? The role of universities and the changing nature of the graduate labour market are constantly in the news, but less is known about the experiences of those going through it. This book traces the transition to the graduate labour market of a cohort of middle-class and working-class young people who were tracked through seven years of their undergraduate and post-graduation lives. Using personal stories and voices, the book provides fascinating insights into the group’s experience of graduate employment and how their life-course transitions are shaped by their social backgrounds and education. Critically evaluating current government and university policies, it shows the attitudes and values of this generation towards their hopes and aspirations on employment, political attitudes and cultural practices.Trade Review"An insightful read that will captivate the interest of anyone concerned with how inequalities continue to affect graduates’ transitions from university to the labour market" Educational ReviewTable of Contents1. Graduate Success and Graduate Lives 2. Moving on Up: Researching the Lives and Careers of Young Graduates 3. London Calling: Being Mobile and Mobilizing Capitals 4. ‘There’s No Place Like Home’: Graduate Mobilities and Spatial Belonging 5. Jobs for the Boys? Gender, Capital and Male-Dominated Fields 6. Intersections of Class and Gender in the Making of ‘Top Boys’ in the Finance Sector 7. Following Dreams and Temporary Escapes: The Impacts of Cruel Optimism 8. Lucky Breaks? Unplanned Graduate Pathways and Fateful Outcomes 9. Conclusion: The Making of Graduate Lives

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection harnesses a diversity of interpretivist perspectives to provide a panoramic view of the production, experiences, contexts, and meanings of religion. Scholars from the US, South Asia and Europe explore religious phenomena using ethnographic, comparative historical, psychosocial, and critical theoretical approaches. Each chapter addresses foundational themes in the study of religion – from identity, discourse and power to ritual, emotion, and embodiment. Authors examine dynamic intersections of race, gender, history, and the present within the religious traditions of Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism, as well as among the non-religious. Cutting boldly across religious traditions and paradigms, the book investigates areas of harmony and contradiction across different interpretive lenses to achieve a richer understanding of the meanings of religion.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Interpretive Approaches in the Study of Religion ~ Erin F. Johnston 1. Making Sense of Queer Christian Lives ~ Jodi O'Brien 2. Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma: Religion, Spirituality and Ritual among Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors ~ Janet Jacobs 3. Doing It: Ethnography, Embodiment, and the Interpretation of Religion ~ Daniel Winchester 4. Mind the Gap: What Ethnographic Silences Can Teach Us ~ Rebecca Kneale Gould 5. The Public Sphere and Presentations of the Collective Self: Being Shia in Modern India ~ Aseem Hasnain 6. Meaning and Power: Toward a Critical Discursive Sociology of Religion ~ Titus Hjelm 7. The Religion of White Male Ethnonationalism in a Multicultural Reality ~ George Lundskow 8. Totalitarianism as Religion ~ Yong Wang 9. The Heritage Spectrum: A More Inclusive Typology for the Age of Global Buddhism ~ Jessica Marie Falcone 10. Interpreting Nonreligion ~ Evan Stewart Afterword: Approaching Religions – Some Refl ections on Meaning, Identity, and Power ~ Vikash Singh

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Book SynopsisePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. During the 20th century the locus of care shifted from large institutions into the community. However, this shift was not always accompanied by liberation from restrictive practices. In 2014 a UK Supreme Court ruling on the meaning of ‘deprivation of liberty’ resulted in large numbers of older and disabled people in care homes, supported living and family homes being re-categorized as ‘detained’. Placing this ruling in its social, historical and global context, this book presents a socio-legal analysis of social care detention in the post-carceral era. Drawing from disability rights law and the meanings of ‘home’ and ‘institution’ it proposes solutions to the Cheshire West ruling’s paradoxical implications.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Distinguishing Social Care Detention 3. The Law of Institutions 4. The Post-carceral Landscape of Care 5. Social Care Detention in Human Rights Law 6. Institution/ Home 7. Regulatory Tremors 8. The Acid Test 9. Aftermath 10. ‘Protecting the Vulnerable’ 11. Out of the Shadows of the Institution?

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Book SynopsisFirst edited collection to systemise the debate on prefigurative politics from a transdisciplinary perspective, offering an overview for researchers and students interested in deploying the concept of prefiguration in their work.Trade Review"Unpacking the actual and potential contribution of prefigurative politics, this edited volume reinvigorates and bridges ongoing debates on social movements, grassroots activism and alternative futures." Flor Avelino, Utrecht University"In times of rapidly deepening multiple crises, radical emancipatory alternatives are needed more than ever. Opponents of such a systemic change often argue that alternatives are not viable. This fascinating volume shows that this is simply not true. Prefiguration is key if we are to rethink what the "good life" means and how we can get there." Ulrich Brand, University of ViennaTable of ContentsForeword by Arturo Escobar Introduction by Lara Monticelli Part I: Contextualizing Prefigurative Politics 1. Prefigurative Politics Within, Despite and Beyond Contemporary Capitalism - Lara Monticelli 2. Prefiguration: Between Anarchism and Marxism - Paul Raekstad 3. Decolonizing Prefiguration: Ernst Bloch’s Philosophy of Hope and the Multiversum - Ana Cecilia Dinerstein 4. Rethinking Prefiguration: Between Radical Imagination and Imaginal Politics - Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou and Chiara Bottici 5. Prefiguration and Emancipatory Critical Pedagogy: The Learning Side of Practice - Antonia De Vita and Francesco Vittori Part II: Prefigurative Politics in Practice 6. Prefiguration and the Futures of Work - Ana Cecilia Dinerstein and Frederick Harry Pitts 7. Prefiguration and Utopia: The Auroville Experiment - Suryamayi Aswini Clarence-Smith 8. Prefiguration in Everyday Practices: When the Mundane Becomes Political - Francesca Forno and Stefan Wahlen 9. Prefiguration and Ecology: Understanding the Ontological Politics of Ecotopian Movements - Laura Centemeri and Viviana Asara 10. The Paradox of the Commons: The Spatial Politics of Prefiguration in the Case of Christiania Freetown - Jilly Traganou 11. Prefiguring Post-Patriarchal Futures: Jineolojî’s Matristic Praxis in the Context of Rojava’s Revolution - Eleonora Gea Piccardi Part III: Doing Research on Prefigurative Politics 12. The Concept of Prefigurative Politics in Studies of Social Movements: Progress and Caveats - Luke Yates and Joost de Moor 13. Organizing Prefiguration - Mikko Laamanen 14. Process-Time and Event-Time: The Multiple Temporalities of Prefiguration - Marianne Maeckelbergh 15. Five Challenges for Prefiguration Research: A Sympathetic Polemic - Erik Mygind du Plessis and Emil Husted Afterword by Davina Cooper

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Book SynopsisChildren’s leisure lives are changing, with increasing dominance of organised activities and screen-based leisure. These shifts have reconfigured parenting practices, too. However, our current understandings of these processes are race-blind and based mostly on the experiences of white middle-class families. Drawing on an innovative study of middle-class British Indian families, this book brings children’s and parents’ voices to the forefront and bridges childhood studies, family studies and leisure studies to theorise children’s leisure from a fresh perspective. Demonstrating the salience of both race and class in shaping leisure cultures within middle-class racialised families, this is an invaluable contribution to key sociological debates around leisure, childhoods and parenting ideologies.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Critical Sociology of Children’s Leisure: A Framework 3. Concerted Cultivation the Indian Way? Organised Leisure and Racial Parenting Strategy 4. The Fun, the Boring and the Racist Name Calling: How Children Make Sense of their Leisure Geographies 5. Negotiated Temporalities: Leisure, Time-Use and Everyday Life 6. Relating, Place-Making, and the Cultural Politics of Leisuring 7. Concluding Thoughts

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Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking collection interrogates protest camps as sites of gendered politics and feminist activism. Drawing on case studies that range from Cold War women-only peace camps to more recent mixed-gender examples from around the world, diverse contributors reflect on the recurrence of gendered, racialised and heteronormative structures in protest camps, and their potency and politics as feminist spaces. While developing an intersectional analysis of the possibilities and limitations of protest camps, this book also tells new and inspiring stories of feminist organising and agency. It will appeal to feminist theorists and activists, as well as to social movement scholars.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Feminism/Protest Camps - Catherine Eschle and Alison Bartlett Part 1: Gendered Power and Identities in Protest Camps 2. Safe Spaces and Solidarity: Confronting Gendered Violence in the US Occupy Encampments - Celeste Montoya 3. The Pu’u We Planted: (Re)birthing Refuge at Mauna Kea - Māhealani Ahia and Kahala Johnson 4. ‘You Can’t Kill the Spirit’ (But You Can Try): Gendered Contestations and Contradictions at Menwith Hill Women’s Peace Camp - Finn Mackay 5. Women Activists, Gendered Power and Postfeminism in Taiwan’s ‘Sunflower Movement’ - Chia-Ling Yang Part 2: Feminist Politics in and through Protest Camps 6. The Feminist Movement in Turkey and the Women of the Gezi Park Protests - Yeşim Arat 7. Feminism and Protest Camps in Spain: From the Indignados to Feminist Encampments - Emma Gómez Nicolau 8. ‘Why the Compost Toilets?’: Ecofeminist (Re)Generations at the HoriZone Ecovillage - Joan Haran Part 3: Feminist Theorising and Protest Camps 9. Protest Camps as ‘Homeplace’? Social Reproduction in and against Neoliberal Capitalism - Catherine Eschle 10. Project Democracy in Protest Camps: Caring, the Commons and Feminist Democratic Theory - Anastasia Kavada 11. Feminised and Decolonising Reoccupations, Re-existencias and Escrevivências: Learning from Women’s Movement Collectives in Northeast Brazil - Sara C. Motta, Sandra Maria Gadelha de Carvalho, Claudiana Nogueira de Alcencar and Mila Nayane da Silva Part 4: The Feminist Afterlives of Protest Camps 12. Feminism on Aboriginal Land: The 1983 Pine Gap Women’s Peace Camp, Central Australia - Alison Bartlett 13. Remembering an Eco/Feminist Peace Camp - Niamh Moore 14. US Occupy Encampments and Their Feminist Tensions: Archiving for Contemporary ‘Big-Tent’ Social Movements - Heather McKee Hurwitz and Anne Kumer 15. Greenham Women Everywhere: A Feminist Experiment in Recreating Experience and Shaping Collective Memory - Kate Kerrow, Rebecca Mordan, Vanessa Pini and Jill (Ray) Raymond, with Alison Bartlett and Catherine Eschle 16. Conclusion: Rethinking Protest Camps, Rethinking Feminism - Catherine Eschle and Alison Bartlett

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Book SynopsisThe idea of public sociology, as introduced by Michael Burawoy, was inspired by the sociological practice in South Africa known as ‘critical engagement’. This volume explores the evolution of critical engagement before and after Burawoy’s visit to South Africa in the 1990s and offers a Southern critique of his model of public sociology. Involving four generations of researchers from the Global South, the authors provide a multifaceted exploration of the formation of new knowledge through research practices of co-production. Tracing the historical development of ‘critical engagement’ from a Global South perspective, the book deftly weaves a bridge between the debates on public sociology and decolonial frameworks.Table of Contents1. Critical Engagement in South Africa and the Global South: An Introduction - Andries Bezuidenhout, Sonwabile Mnwana and Karl von Holdt 2. Critical Engagement and SWOP’s Changing Research Tradition - Andries Bezuidenhout and Karl von Holdt 3. Choosing Sides: The Promise and Pitfalls of a Critically Engaged Sociology in Apartheid South Africa - Edward Webster 4. The Decline of Labour Studies and the Democratic Transition - Sakhela Buhlungu 5. From ‘Critical Engagement’ to ‘Public Sociology’ and Back: A Critique from the South - Karl von Holdt 6. The Antinomies and Opportunities of Critical Engagement in South Africa’s Rural Mining Frontier - Sonwabile Mnwana 7. Sociological Engagement with the Struggle for a Just Transition in South Africa - Jacklyn Cock 8. Feminist Participatory Action Research in African Sex Work Studies - Ntokozo Yingwana 9. Participatory Action Research for Food Justice in Johannesburg: Seeking a More Immediate Impact for Engaged Research - Brittany Kesselman 10. Dilemmas and Issues Confronting Socially Engaged Research within Universities - Aninka Claassens and Nokwanda Sihlali 11. Experiences of Meetings and Cooperation between Academics and Unions: The Work Studies Group from the South (GETSUR) - Dasten Julián Vejar 12. Critically Engaging Public Sociology in Turkey and 'Sociology across the South' - Ercüment Çelik 13. Reflections on Critical Engagement - Michael Burawoy 14 Conclusion: Towards a Southern Sociology - Karl von Holdt

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Book SynopsisThe emergence of trans-exclusionary movements raises many questions for feminism and transgender studies. Challenging the framing of ‘transgender activists versus feminists’, this bold collection engages with both historical and contemporary hostility within and across trans/feminist movements. It examines the politics of trans, feminist, and trans-exclusionary movements, and imagines a future of collaboration, rather than conflict. This book delivers a range of essays on topics including sex, gender ideology, education, community mobilisation, autogynephilia, ‘rapid-onset’ gender dysphoria, detransition, migration, sex work, and public toilets. The authors examine questions of solidarity and difference from European, African, North and South American perspectives, emphasising the intertwined, intersectional politics of gender, sexuality, disability, and race that shape our lives. Together they rigorously unpack topics that have been subject to popular misinformation and moral panic, to inform lines of feminist inquiry that are emancipatory for all.

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Book SynopsisIs sexual identity biologically determined or a product of social convention? In this brilliant and provocative classic, the distinguished feminist scholar Anne Fausto-Sterling argues that even the most fundamental knowledge about sex and gender is shaped by the culture in which scientific knowledge is produced. Drawing on illuminating real-life cases and a probing analysis of centuries of scientific research, Fausto-Sterling demonstrates how scientists have historically politicized the body. In lively and impassioned prose, she breaks down three key dualisms -- sex/gender, nature/nurture, and real/constructed -- and asserts that intersex and other non-binary individuals should not be forced to fit flawed societal definitions of normality.Now with a new preface and final chapter considering the many scientific and political developments of the last two decades, Sexing the Body is an indispensable and revolutionary look at how biology, society, and history together determine sexual difference.

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Book SynopsisThis book was the first to sketch the full dimensions of the nation's voluntary sector, give it a name (the independent sector), explain its unfamiliar metabolism, and imagine its enormous unused potential for defining the central problems of an industrial society accurately and acting on them effectively. Upon publication, George Gallup said the book has sparked "the most dramatic shift in American thinking since the New Deal."Table of ContentsIntroduction to the Transaction Edition, A Personal Summary, 1 Resignation, Right and Left, 2 Why the Conservatives Can't Win, 3 Why the Liberals Can't Win, 4 That Was the Dream That Was, 5 The Rediscovery of Independent Action, 6 The Independent Sector, 7 The Failure of the Independent Sector, 8 What Took Us So Long?, 9 The Independent Sector's Driving Force, 10 The Independent Sector's Discipline, 11 Accepting the Competitive Challenge, 12 How to Compete with Government, 13 Business and the Public Business, 14 The Giant Stirs, 15 The Churches: Center of Concern, 16 Foundations: Citizen Risk Capital, 17 Chief Citizens in Politics, 18 Big Brotherhood or a Free Society, Afterword

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