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.
Cities of Culture: A Global Perspective
1st Edition
By Deborah Stevenson
May 18, 2017
Culture now has a prominent place on the urban policy and re-profiling agendas of cities around the world. City-based cultural planning emphasising creativity in all its guises has emerged as a significant local policy initiative, while the notion of the ‘creative city’ has become an urban imaging ...
(Sub)Urban Sexscapes: Geographies and Regulation of the Sex Industry
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Maginn, Christine Steinmetz
April 28, 2017
(Sub)Urban Sexscapes brings together a collection of theoretically-informed and empirically rich case studies from internationally renowned and emerging scholars highlighting the contemporary and historical geographies and regulation of the commercial sex industry. Contributions in this edited ...
Changing Gay Male Identities
1st Edition
By Andrew Cooper
April 28, 2017
As the world changes, so sexual identities are changing. In a context of globalisation, mass communication and technological advances, individuals find themselves able to make lifestyle choices in new and different ways. In this increasingly confusing world, sociologists have argued that identities...
Twentieth Century Population Thinking: A Critical Reader of Primary Sources
1st Edition
Edited
By The Population Knowledge Network
April 28, 2017
This reader on the history of demography and historical perspectives on "population" in the twentieth century features a unique collection of primary sources from around the globe, written by scholars, politicians, journalists, and activists. Many of the sources are available in English for the ...
The Geography of Nostalgia: Global and Local Perspectives on Modernity and Loss
1st Edition
By Alastair Bonnett
February 27, 2017
We are familiar with the importance of 'progress' and 'change'. But what about loss? Across the world, from Beijing to Birmingham, people are talking about loss: about the loss that occurs when populations try to make new lives in new lands as well as the loss of traditions, languages and ...
Digital Publics: Cultural Political Economy, Financialisation and Creative Organisational Politics
1st Edition
By John Roberts
February 07, 2017
Today we often hear academics, commentators, pundits, and politicians telling us that new media has transformed activism, providing an array of networks for ordinary people to become creatively involved in a multitude of social and political practices. But what exactly is the ideology lurking ...
Global Management, Local Resistances: Theoretical Discussion and Empirical Case Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Ulrike Schuerkens
January 30, 2017
This book originates from a research project involving extensive collection and analysis of primary and secondary materials (scholarly literature, statistical data, and interviews with key actors) on global management and local resistances in all major world regions during the last years. It seeks ...
Ideology and the Fight Against Human Trafficking
1st Edition
By Reyhan Atasü-Topcuoğlu
January 27, 2017
Human trafficking has become one of the most spoken-of problems of our day, and fighting it has grown into a multi-million-dollar project sector. This book is about how we all come to name various exploitative migratory experiences "human trafficking" and how we build a consensus on how to counter ...
Critical Theory and Social Media: Between Emancipation and Commodification
1st Edition
By Thomas Allmer
January 09, 2017
Social media platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter are enormously popular: they are continuously ranked among the most frequently accessed websites worldwide. However there are as yet few studies which combine critical theoretical and empirical research in the context of digital and ...
Atoms, Bytes and Genes: Public Resistance and Techno-Scientific Responses
1st Edition
By Martin W. Bauer
December 20, 2016
"Atom," "byte" and "gene" are metonymies for techno-scientific developments of the 20th century: nuclear power, computing and genetic engineering. Resistance continues to challenge these developments in public opinion. This book traces historical debates over atoms, bytes and genes which raised ...
Migrant Professionals in the City: Local Encounters, Identities and Inequalities
1st Edition
Edited
By Lars Meier
December 20, 2016
The migration of professionals is widely seen as a paradigmatic representation and a driver of globalization. The global elite of highly qualified migrants—managers and scientists, for example—are partly defined by their lives’ mobility. But their everyday lives are based and take place in specific...
Punk Rock and the Politics of Place: Building a Better Tomorrow
1st Edition
By Jeffrey S. Debies-Carl
December 20, 2016
This book is an ethnographic investigation of punk subculture as well as a treatise on the importance of place: a location with both physical form and cultural meaning. Rather than examining punk as a "sound" or a "style" as many previous works have done, it investigates the places that the ...