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.
People, Care and Work in the Home
1st Edition
Edited
By Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem, Antonio Argandoña
February 01, 2022
Introducing novel theoretical, empirical and practical investigations with case studies from UK, Europe, South America and South East Asia, the book offers a novel global outlook on how contemporary homes are facing genuine challenges from operational, economic, spatial, social and wellbeing ...
The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies: Volume 1: A Space of Bounded Variety
1st Edition
By Will Atkinson
February 01, 2022
This first volume of The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies offers a bold and wide-ranging assessment of the shape and effects of class systems across a diverse range of capitalist nations. Plumbing a trove of data and deploying cutting-edge techniques, it carefully maps the distribution of ...
The Global Citizenship Nexus: Critical Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Debra Chapman, Tania Ruiz-Chapman, Peter Eglin
December 13, 2021
In the spirit of Ivan Illich’s 1968 speech ‘To hell with good intentions’, the book takes aim at a ubiquitous form of contemporary ideology, namely the concept of global citizenship. Its characteristic discourse can be found inhabiting a nexus of four complexes of ‘ruling’ institutions, namely ...
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 ...
Children in Social Movements: Rethinking Agency, Mobilization and Rights
1st Edition
By Diane Rodgers
September 30, 2021
Children’s participation in social movements is presented through a theoretical typology consisting of strategic participants, participants by default and active participants. This range of participation accounts for the social location of children historically and internationally, calling for ...
Later Life: Exploring Ageing through Literature
1st Edition
By Barbara Misztal
September 30, 2021
Later Life views older age as a valuable stage of life and argues for the centrality of self-making to the quality of later life. Aiming to enrich an understanding of ageing as the unfolding process in which people try to negotiate vulnerabilities of their bodies and manage mortality, it explores ...
Magical Realist Sociologies of Belonging and Becoming: The Explorer
1st Edition
By Rodanthi Tzanelli
September 30, 2021
At the bottom of the sea, freedivers find that the world bestows humans with the magic of bodily and mental freedom, binding them in small communities of play, affect and respect for nature. On land, rational human interests dissolve this magic into prescriptive formulas of belonging to a ...
Nostalgia Now: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on the Past in the Present
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Hviid Jacobsen
September 30, 2021
This volume explores the nature of nostalgia as an important emotion in contemporary society and social theory. Situated between the ‘sociology of emotions’ and ‘nostalgia studies’, it considers the reasons for which nostalgia appears to be becoming an increasingly significant and debated emotion ...
On the Genealogy of Critique: Or How We Have Become Decadently Indignant
1st Edition
By Diana Stypinska
September 30, 2021
On the Genealogy of Critique intervenes into both contemporary academic debates on critique, and today’s mainstream criticism, by reflecting upon the relationship between criticality and social change in the age of post-politics.What does it mean to be critical? When we are told that civilisation ...
Queer Campus Climate: An Ethnographic Fantasia
1st Edition
By Benjamin Arnberg
September 30, 2021
Queer Campus Climate: An Ethnographic Fantasia is a visceral and provocative account of the lives of ten queer college men living in the Deep South. The book serves many goals. It is an emancipatory research document told in the raucous, fiery voices of these queer men whose narratives are ...
Care, Power, Information: For the Love of BluesCollarship in the Age of Digital Culture, Bioeconomy, and (Post-)Trumpism
1st Edition
By Alexander Stingl
August 02, 2021
This book is a critique and provincialization of Western social science and Global Northern academia, by the author of The Digital Coloniality of Power. It exposes shared colonial and extractive rationalities and histories of research, higher education, digitalization, and bioeconomy while ...
The Field of Water Policy: Power and Scarcity in the American Southwest
1st Edition
By Franck Poupeau, Brian O'Neill, Joan Cortinas Muñoz, Murielle Coeurdray, Eliza Benites-Gambirazio
August 02, 2021
Bringing together the analysis of a diverse team of social scientists, this book proposes a new approach to environmental problems. Cutting through the fragmented perspectives on water crises, it seeks to shift the analytic perspectives on water policy by looking at the social logics behind ...