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 Re-Use of Urban Ruins: Atmospheric Inquiries of the City
1st Edition
By Hanna Katharina Göbel
June 30, 2020
How do urban ruins provoke their cultural revaluation? This book offers a unique sociological analysis about the social agencies of material culture and atmospheric knowledge of buildings in the making. It draws on ethnographic research in Berlin along the former Palace of the Republic, the E-Werk ...
Values, Economic Crisis and Democracy
1st Edition
Edited
By Mălina Voicu, Ingvill C. Mochmann, Hermann Dülmer
June 30, 2020
For the past decade European countries have undergone a severe economic crisis, with severe consequences both for individuals and for governments. Unemployment and rising poverty have compelled individuals to reconsider their own priorities and goals, while governments have been forced to rethink ...
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...
Austere Histories in European Societies: Social Exclusion and the Contest of Colonial Memories
1st Edition
Edited
By Stefan Jonsson, Julia Willén
February 25, 2020
In recent years European states have turned toward more austere political regimes, entailing budget cuts, deregulation of labour markets, restrictions of welfare systems, securitization of borders and new regimes of migration and citizenship. In the wake of such changes, new forms of social ...
Practicing Art/Science: Experiments in an Emerging Field
1st Edition
Edited
By Philippe Sormani, Guelfo Carbone, Priska Gisler
February 25, 2020
Over the last two decades, multiple initiatives of transdisciplinary collaboration across art, science, and technology have seen the light of day. Why, by whom, and under what circumstances are such initiatives promoted? What does their experimental character look like - and what can be learned, ...
The Philosophy of Homelessness: Barely Being
1st Edition
By Paul Moran, Frances Atherton
February 25, 2020
The Philosophy of Homelessness is borne out of a five-year ethnographic research project involving being with a group of chronically homeless people in Chester. A small city located in the northwest of the UK, Chester is economically supported by its heritage and the tourism that this attracts...
The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse: Investigating the Politics of Knowledge and Meaning-making.
1st Edition
Edited
By Reiner Keller, Anna-Katharina Hornidge, Wolf Schünemann
February 25, 2020
The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD) has reoriented research into social forms, structuration and processes of meaning construction and reality formation; doing so by linking social constructivist and pragmatist approaches with post-structuralist thinking in order to study ...
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 ...