Routledge Advances in Sociology
About the Book Series
This series presents cutting-edge developments and debates within the field of sociology. It provides a broad range of case studies and the latest theoretical perspectives, while covering a variety of topics, theories and issues from around the world. It is not confined to any particular school of thought.
The New Sociology of Ageing
1st Edition
By Martin Slattery
November 30, 2021
The New Sociology of Ageing explores the challenges and opportunities of ageing as a global force. Alongside globalisation, urbanisation, new technology, climate change, and global pandemics, ageing is transforming life in the twenty-first century. Through the eyes of a young sociology student and ...
Exploring Welfare Bricolage in Europe’s Superdiverse Neighbourhoods
1st Edition
By Jenny Phillimore, Hannah Bradby, Tilman Brand, Beatriz Padilla, Simon Pemberton
May 25, 2021
Migration-driven diversity means European cities are becoming increasingly superdiverse. Some European neighbourhoods have become places where newcomers arrive from across the world, speaking many different languages, from a range of socio-economic backgrounds and with diverse religious beliefs and...
Composing Processes and Artistic Agency: Tacit Knowledge in Composing
1st Edition
By Tasos Zembylas, Martin Niederauer
March 31, 2021
This monograph carries out an in-depth investigation into compositional processes, shedding new light on the components and conditions that constitute artistic agency. Artistic agency relies on the interlocking of such activities that emerge from various propositional and ...
Ageing, Diversity and Equality: Social Justice Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Sue Westwood
June 30, 2020
Current understandings of ageing and diversity are impoverished in three main ways. Firstly, with regards to thinking about what inequalities operate in later life there has been an excessive preoccupation with economic resources. On the other hand, less attention has been paid to cultural norms ...
Cinematic Tourist Mobilities and the Plight of Development: On Atmospheres, Affects, and Environments
1st Edition
By Rodanthi Tzanelli
June 30, 2020
It is said that movies have encroached upon social realities creating tourism enclaves based on distortions of history and heritage, or simulations that disregard both. What localities and nation-states value are discarded, suppressed, or modified beyond recognition in neoliberal markets; thus ...
Europe in Love: Binational Couples and Cosmopolitan Society
1st Edition
By Juan Díez Medrano
May 29, 2020
Inter-marriage both reflects and brings social change. This book draws on a unique survey of randomly selected samples of national and European binational couples to demonstrate that the latter are core cells of a future European society. Unrestricted freedom of movement has enabled a rise in...
Indigenous Knowledge Production: Navigating Humanity within a Western World
1st Edition
By Marcus Woolombi Waters
January 14, 2020
Despite many scholars noting the interdisciplinary approach of Aboriginal knowledge production as a methodology within a broad range of subjects – including quantum mathematics, biodiversity, sociology and the humanities - the academic study of Indigenous knowledge and people is struggling to ...
Intergenerational Family Relations: An Evolutionary Social Science Approach
1st Edition
By Antti Tanskanen, Mirkka Danielsbacka
January 14, 2020
This book offers a synthesis of social science and evolutionary approaches to the study of intergenerational relations, using biological, psychological and sociological factors to develop a single framework for understanding why kin help one another across generations. With attention to both ...
Performing Fantasy and Reality in Contemporary Culture
1st Edition
By Anastasia Seregina
January 14, 2020
We frequently engage with that which we consciously perceive not to be real, yet fantasy, despite its pervasive presence and strong role in everyday life through its connection to identities, communities, desires, and meanings, has yet to be properly defined and researched. This book examines ...
The Dark Side of Podemos?: Carl Schmitt and Contemporary Progressive Populism
1st Edition
By Josh Booth, Patrick Baert
January 14, 2020
In 2014 a new progressive party, Podemos, emerged on the Spanish political scene. Within just over two years it had become the country’s third-biggest party, winning a slew of seats in parliament and regularly making headline news. While some see Podemos as the saviour of Spanish democracy, others ...
The Sociology of Central Asian Youth: Choice, Constraint, Risk
1st Edition
By Mohd.Aslam Bhat
January 14, 2020
At the onset of the twenty-first century, ‘youth studies’ emerged as a distinct field of inquisition. Discourses and debates in the field have since become more sophisticated, and the spectrum of analysis has likewise broadened. However, it is striking to note how little reference is made to young ...
Time and Temporality in Transitional and Post-Conflict Societies
1st Edition
Edited
By Natascha Mueller-Hirth, Sandra Rios Oyola
January 14, 2020
Implicit conceptions of time associated with progress and linearity have influenced scholars and practitioners in the fields of transitional justice and peacebuilding, but time and temporality have rarely been systematically considered. Time and Temporality in Transitional and Post-Conflict ...