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.
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 ...
Boundaries of European Social Citizenship: EU Citizens’ Transnational Social Security in Regulations, Discourses and Experiences
1st Edition
Edited
By Anna Amelina, Emma Carmel, Ann Runfors, Elisabeth Scheibelhofer
June 30, 2021
This edited collection contributes to studies of intra-EU migration and mobility, welfare, and European social citizenship by focusing on transnational labour movements from new to the old EU member states (Hungary–Austria, Bulgaria–Germany, Poland–UK and Estonia–Sweden). The volume provides a ...
Cultures, Citizenship and Human Rights
1st Edition
Edited
By Rosemarie Buikema, Antoine Buyse, Antonius C. G. M. Robben
June 30, 2021
In Cultures, Citizenship and Human Rights the combined analytical efforts of the fields of human rights law, conflict studies, anthropology, history, media studies, gender studies, and critical race and postcolonial studies raise a comprehensive understanding of the discursive and visual mediation ...
Impoverishment and Asylum: Social Policy as Slow Violence
1st Edition
By Lucy Mayblin
June 30, 2021
Impoverishment and Asylum argues that a shift has taken place in recent decades towards construing asylum as primarily a political and/or humanitarian phenomenon, to construing it as primarily an economic phenomenon, and that this shift has had led to the purposeful impoverishment, by the state, of...
Regional Cultures, Economies, and Creativity: Innovating Through Place in Australia and Beyond
1st Edition
Edited
By Ariella Luyn, Eduardo Fuente
June 30, 2021
Drawing on Australian and comparative case studies, this volume reconceptualises non-metropolitan creative economies through the ‘qualities of place’.This book examines the agricultural and gastronomic cultures surrounding ‘native’ foods, coastal sculpture festivals, universities and regional ...
Urban Environments for Healthy Ageing: A Global Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Anna Lane
June 30, 2021
Around the world, researchers, policy makers, and practitioners are working to ensure cities and communities are prepared for the challenges and opportunities of aged and highly urbanised populations. Bringing together stakeholders from Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America, this book presents...
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 ...
European Solidarity in Times of Crisis: Insights from a Thirteen-Country Survey
1st Edition
By Jürgen Gerhards, Holger Lengfeld, Zsófia Ignácz, Florian Kley, Maximilian Priem
March 31, 2021
The euro crisis, several sovereign debt crises, the Great Recession, the refugee crisis, and Brexit have all challenged Europeans’ willingness to show solidarity with other European citizens and member states of the European Union. European Solidarity in Times of Crisis provides a clear theoretical...
Investments in a Sustainable Workforce in Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Tanja van der Lippe, Zoltán Lippényi
March 31, 2021
A sustainable European workforce has become increasingly relevant in our present day and age. Flexibility and job insecurity are omnipresent; organizational workforces are displaying growing diversity with respect to age, gender, ethnicity and family status; and Europe’s welfare states are ...
The World Multiple: The Quotidian Politics of Knowing and Generating Entangled Worlds
1st Edition
Edited
By Keiichi Omura, Grant Jun Otsuki, Shiho Satsuka, Atsuro Morita
March 31, 2021
The World Multiple, as a collection, is an ambitious ethnographic experiment in understanding how the world is experienced and generated in multiple ways through people’s everyday practices. Against the dominant assumption that the world is a single universal reality that can only be known by ...