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.
Housing and Domestic Abuse: Policy into Practice
1st Edition
By Yoric Irving-Clarke, Kelly Henderson
May 30, 2022
Housing and Domestic Abuse provides an analysis of how housing policy has been historically utilised in responding to domestic abuse. The authors trace the history of policy from the feminist roots of the refuge movement, to the use of ‘anti-social behaviour’ legislation to address abuse, and the ...
Indigenous Invisibility in the City: Successful Resurgence and Community Development Hidden in Plain Sight
1st Edition
By Deirdre Howard-Wagner
May 30, 2022
Indigenous Invisibility in the City contextualises the significant social change in Indigenous life circumstances and resurgence that came out of social movements in cities. It is about Indigenous resurgence and community development by First Nations people for First Nations people in cities. ...
Mobilising Place Management
1st Edition
Edited
By Claus Lassen, Lea Holst Laursen
May 30, 2022
Mobilising Place Management makes an important contribution to the mobilities field by arguing for the need to rethink place management. It takes a point of departure in the mobilities turn and relational place thinking while exploring the relationship between place and mobility. In a world of ...
The Economy of Collaboration: The New Digital Platforms of Production and Consumption
1st Edition
By Francesco Ramella, Cecilia Manzo
May 30, 2022
Over the past few decades, the world economy has undergone radical transformations, in part connected to the expansion of the ‘digital economy’, in part to the growing interconnection via the internet of the world of objects and physical processes. This ‘great transformation’ poses the dilemma on ...
The Subjectivities and Politics of Occupational Risk: Mines, Farms and Auto Factories
1st Edition
By Alan Hall
May 30, 2022
The Subjectivities and Politics of Occupational Risk links restructuring in three industries to shifts in risk subjectivities and politics, both within workplaces and within the safety management and regulative spheres, often leading to conflict and changes in law, political discourses and ...
Studies on the Social Construction of Identity and Authenticity
1st Edition
Edited
By J. Patrick Williams, Kaylan C. Schwarz
May 06, 2022
As identity and authenticity discourses increasingly saturate everyday life, so too have these concepts spread across the humanities and social sciences literatures. Many scholars may be interested in identity and authenticity but lack knowledge of paradigmatic or disciplinary approaches to these ...
Classifying Fashion, Fashioning Class: Making Sense of Women's Practices, Perceptions and Tastes
1st Edition
By Katherine Appleford
April 29, 2022
Drawing together theoretical ideas from across the social sciences, Classifying Fashion, Fashioning Class examines how the fashion-class association has developed and, using the experiences of middle-and-working class British women, demonstrates how this relationship operates today. Though ...
Globalisation, Tourism and Simulacra: A Baudrillardian Study of Tourist Space in Thailand
1st Edition
By Kunphatu Sakwit
April 29, 2022
This book draws on the thought of Baudrillard to explore the effects of globalisation and tourism in a Thai context. Arguing that tourism does not necessarily erode local culture but that local culture can in fact be recreated through globalisation and tourism, the author employs studies of the ...
International Labour Migration to Europe’s Rural Regions
1st Edition
Edited
By Johan Fredrik Rye, Karen O'Reilly
April 29, 2022
Emerging in the throes of a global pandemic that threatens Europe’s economies and food security, International Labour Migration to Europe’s Rural Regions combines a diverse range of empirically rich, in-depth case studies, analysis of their rural context specificities, and insights from labour ...
Women and Work in Ireland: A Half Century of Attitude and Policy Change
1st Edition
By Margret Fine-Davis
April 29, 2022
This book chronicles the evolution of women’s participation in the labour force in Ireland over the last five decades. This was largely spearheaded by married women and mothers, leading to many related social issues including childcare, flexible working, the sharing of domestic work and work-life ...
Thinking Through Dilemmas: Schemas, Frames, and Difficult Decisions
1st Edition
By Lawrence H. Williams
February 14, 2022
Departing from the sociological dual process model that divides thoughts into automatic and unconscious, or deliberate and conscious occurrences, this book draws on empirical cases to demonstrate the existence of “automatic deliberation.” Through research into the ways in which people address ...
Neurodiversity Studies: A New Critical Paradigm
1st Edition
Edited
By Hanna Rosqvist, Nick Chown, Anna Stenning
February 01, 2022
Building on work in feminist studies, queer studies and critical race theory, this volume challenges the universality of propositions about human nature, by questioning the boundaries between predominant neurotypes and ‘others’, including dyslexics, autistics and ADHDers. This is the first work of...