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 Meanings of Europe: Changes and Exchanges of a Contested Concept
1st Edition
Edited
By Claudia Wiesner, Meike Schmidt-Gleim
August 23, 2018
What is Europe? What are the contents of the concept of Europe? And what defines European identity? Instead of only asking these classical questions, this volume also explores who asks these questions, and who is addressed with such questions. Who answers the questions, from which standpoints ...
Algorithmic Cultures: Essays on Meaning, Performance and New Technologies
1st Edition
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By Robert Seyfert, Jonathan Roberge
August 14, 2018
This book provides in-depth and wide-ranging analyses of the emergence, and subsequent ubiquity, of algorithms in diverse realms of social life. The plurality of Algorithmic Cultures emphasizes: 1) algorithms’ increasing importance in the formation of new epistemic and organizational paradigms; and...
Becoming Anorexic: A sociological study
1st Edition
By Muriel Darmon
August 14, 2018
Anorexia tends to be studied within health disciplines, such as medicine, psychoanalysis or psychology. When the condition is discussed in relation to society more broadly, focus is commonly restricted to considerations about the demise of the traditional family meal or the all-pervading obsession ...
Mediating Sexual Citizenship: Neoliberal Subjectivities in Television Culture
1st Edition
By Anita Brady, Kellie Burns, Cristyn Davies
August 14, 2018
Mediating Sexual Citizenship considers how the neoliberal imperatives of adaptation, improvement and transformation that inform the shifting artistic and industrial landscape of television are increasingly indexed to performed disruptions in the norms of sexuality and gender. Drawing on examples ...
New Generation Political Activism in Ukraine: 2000–2014
1st Edition
By Christine Emeran
August 14, 2018
Individuals in the post-Communist Ukraine dealt with a political climate of stalled reforms and corruption, leading to a mass distrust of many political institutions. This had a demobilizing effect on a citizen’s sense of capacity to effect social change. Therefore, the emergence of any individual ...
The Third Digital Divide: A Weberian Approach to Digital Inequalities
1st Edition
By Massimo Ragnedda
August 14, 2018
Drawing on the thought of Max Weber, in particular his theory of stratification, this book engages with the question of whether the digital divide simply extends traditional forms of inequality, or whether it also includes new forms of social exclusion, or perhaps manifests counter-trends that ...
National Policy-Making: Domestication of Global Trends
1st Edition
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By Pertti Alasuutari, Ali Qadir
August 10, 2018
Notions of social change are often divided into local versus international. But what actually happens at the national level—where policies are ultimately made and implemented—when policy-making is interdependent worldwide? How do policy-makers take into account the prior choices of other countries?...
Heritage in the Digital Era: Cinematic Tourism and the Activist Cause
1st Edition
By Rodanthi Tzanelli
August 09, 2018
What happens to traditional conceptions of heritage in the era of fluid media spaces? ‘Heritage’ usually involves intergenerational transmission of ideas, customs, ancestral lands, and artefacts, and so serves to reproduce national communities over time. However, media industries have the power to ...
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans* Individuals Living with Dementia: Concepts, Practice and Rights
1st Edition
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By Sue Westwood, Elizabeth Price
July 30, 2018
This groundbreaking collection is the first to focus specifically on LGBT* people and dementia. It brings together original chapters from leading academics, practitioners and LGBT* individuals affected by dementia. Multi-disciplinary and international in scope, it includes authors from the UK, USA,...
Mobility, Modernity and the Slum: The Real and Virtual Journeys of 'Slumdog Millionaire'
1st Edition
By Rodanthi Tzanelli
July 30, 2018
Only virtuous humans are supposed to move in time to meet their happy destiny or karma. The tale of Jamal in Slumdog Millionaire is such a case of serendipitous mobility towards riches and love – a ‘journey’ in which good heroes and urban communities respecting solidarity are successfully ...
Science, Technology and the Ageing Society
1st Edition
By Tiago Moreira
July 30, 2018
Ageing is widely recognised as one of the social and economic challenges in the contemporary, globalised world, for which scientific, technological and medical solutions are continuously sought. This book proposes that science and technology also played a crucial role in the creation and ...
Socio-Cultural Mobility and Mega-Events: Ethics and Aesthetics in Brazil’s 2014 World Cup
1st Edition
By Rodanthi Tzanelli
July 30, 2018
In June 2014, Brazil opened the twentieth FIFA World Cup with a spectacular ceremony. Hosting the World Cup was a strategic developmental priority for Brazil: mega-events such as these allow the country to be ranked amongst the world’s political and economic leaders, and are supposed to propel the ...