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.
Baudrillard and Lacanian Psychoanalysis
1st Edition
By Victoria Grace
January 29, 2024
This book is the first to develop a Baudrillardian critique of the problematic way Lacanian psychoanalysis, as a clinical practice and by extension as a source of socio-cultural and philosophical theory, continues its vain attempt to (re)animate a subject of the unconscious. The text throws into ...
Ethics, Economy and Social Science: Dialogues with Andrew Sayer
1st Edition
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By Balihar Sanghera, Gideon Calder
January 29, 2024
This book is a collection of critical engagements with Andrew Sayer, one of the foremost postdisciplinary thinkers of our times, with responses from Sayer himself. Sayer’s ground-breaking contributions to the fields of geography, political economy and social theory have reshaped the terms of ...
Spatialized Injustice in the Contemporary City: Protesting as Public Pedagogy
1st Edition
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By S. Nombuso Dlamini, Angela Stienen
January 29, 2024
This volume documents research illustrating public dissents and interventions to injustice in modern-day cities. Authors present everyday occurrences of city life and place making; still, they show how the ordinary city grows from historical dimensions of injustice, violence and fear. Yet, ordinary...
The Diversity of Darkness and Shameful Behaviors
1st Edition
By Tim Delaney
January 29, 2024
The premise of The Diversity of Darkness and Shameful Behaviors is to emphasize the need for enlightened, rational thinking as a paradigm of thought as the culture of shamelessness continues to grow and cast its repulsive dark shadow over those who embrace enlightened reason and basic human rights ...
The Ethos of the Enlightenment and the Discontents of Modernity
1st Edition
By Matan Oram
January 29, 2024
This book probes the sources and nature of the ‘discontents of modernity’. It proposes a new approach to the philosophic-critical discourse on modernity. The Enlightenment is widely understood to be the foundational moment of modernity. Yet despite its appeal to reason as the ultimate ground of ...
Transformative Action for Sustainable Outcomes: Responsible Organising
1st Edition
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By Maria Sandberg, Janne Tienari
January 29, 2024
This book critically examines sustainability challenges that humankind faces and offers responsible organising as a solution in responding to these challenges. The text explores how different actors can responsibly organise for transformative action towards sustainable outcomes, as expressed in ...
Doing Public Scholarship: A Practical Guide to Media Engagement
1st Edition
By Christopher J. Schneider
December 05, 2023
A basic premise of public scholarship is making academic work and related ideas accessible and available to publics. Media engagement, whether interviews with news journalists, or the use of hashtags, is a necessary feature of any public scholarship. Media formats play a fundamental and interactive...
Attention and its Crisis in Digital Society
1st Edition
By Enrico Campo
November 06, 2023
In the context of debates surrounding the effects of new technologies on our mental faculties, particularly the attention span, this volume addresses the notion of a deterioration of attention, and the related ideas of cognitive overload, an inability to concentrate, and attention deficit disorder....
Governing Human Lives and Health in Pandemic Times: Social Control Policies
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By Matilda Hellman, Tom Kettunen, Saara Salmivaara, Janne Stoneham
September 25, 2023
Governing Human Lives and Health in Pandemic Times looks into the instruments and the type of reasoning involved when large-scale social control strategies were implemented worldwide in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The repertoires of institutional and administrative governance tools used ...
Political Friendship and Degrowth: An Ethical Grounding of an Economy of Human Flourishing
1st Edition
By Areti Giannopoulou
September 25, 2023
Developing a contemporary account of political friendship and synthesizing it with the radical movement of degrowth, this book provides the ethical grounding and the rationale of an alternative economy which serves human flourishing. The Aristotelian political friendship embodies active concern for...
Suburbia in the 21st Century: From Dreamscape to Nightmare?
1st Edition
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By Paul Maginn, Katrin B. Anacker
September 25, 2023
The majority of the world’s population now live in urban areas and the 21st century has been declared as the "urban age". However, closer inspection of where people live in cities, especially within so-called advanced liberal democracies such as Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, ...
The Disfigured Face in American Literature, Film, and Television
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By Cornelia Klecker, Gudrun M. Grabher
September 25, 2023
The face, being prominent and visible, is the foremost marker of a person’s identity as well as their major tool of communication. Facial disfigurements, congenital or acquired, not only erase these significant capacities, but since ancient times, they have been conjured up as outrageous and ...