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.
Suburbia in the 21st Century: From Dreamscape to Nightmare?
1st Edition
Edited
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
1st Edition
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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 ...
The Primordial Modernity of Malay Nationality: Contemporary Identity in Malaysia and Singapore
1st Edition
By Humairah Zainal, Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir
September 25, 2023
Humairah and Kamaludeen examine contemporary Malay national identity in Singapore and Malaysia through the lens of ‘primordial modernity’, taking on a comparative transnational perspective. How do Malays in Singapore and Malaysia conceptualise and negotiate their ethnic identity vis-à-vis the ...
We, Other Utopians: Recombinant DNA, Genome Editing, and Artificial Life
1st Edition
By Eva Šlesingerová
September 25, 2023
We, Other Utopians is the first book to analyze the topics of genome editing/recombinant DNA on the basis of ethnographic research in the post-communist context. The book focuses on the topics of human DNA editing and genome repair on two levels. First, inspired by texts analyzing the concept of ...
Class and Inequality in the Time of Finance: Subject to Terms and Conditions
1st Edition
By Niamh Mulcahy
May 31, 2023
This book explores the effects of the gradual liberalisation of capital markets and the expansion of consumer credit on poorer households in the United Kingdom, with particular attention to the precariousness caused by a lack of savings and a reliance on debt. Asking what it means for poorer ...
Community Resilience: A Critical Approach
1st Edition
By Katy Wright
May 31, 2023
This book provides an alternative perspective on community resilience, drawing on critical sociological and social policy insights about how people individually and collectively cope with different kinds of adversity. Based on the idea that resilience is more than simply an invention of neoliberal ...
Domestic Economic Abuse: The Violence of Money
1st Edition
By Supriya Singh
May 31, 2023
Supriya Singh tells the stories of 12 Anglo-Celtic and Indian women in Australia who survived economic abuse. She describes the lived experience of coercive control underlying economic abuse across cultures. Each story shows how the woman was trapped and lost her freedom because her husband denied...
Emotions and Belonging in Forced Migration: Syrian Refugees and Asylum Seekers
1st Edition
By Basem Mahmud
May 31, 2023
Emotions and Belonging in Forced Migration takes a sociology of emotions approach to gain a better understanding of the present situation of forced migration. Furthermore, it helps to bring the voices and views of forced migrants to academic and public debates in Western society, where they have ...
Identifying and Managing Risk at Work: Emerging Issues in the Context of Globalisation
1st Edition
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By Chris L. Peterson
May 31, 2023
With a focus on five major regions globally (UK, US, Europe, Canada, and Australia) Identifying and Managing Risk at Work outlines key regional factors affecting risk and its management. This volume looks at the social production and social construction of risk as well as taking a labour-process ...
National and Regional Symbolic Boundaries in the European Commission: Towards an Ever-Closer Union?
1st Edition
By Daniel Drewski
May 31, 2023
The process of European integration and the transfer of political authority from the national to the European level have led to the emergence of a field of EU policy making in Brussels, which attracts professionals and experts from all EU member states. This book contributes to research on the ...
Paramilitary Groups and the State under Globalization: Political Violence, Elites, and Security
1st Edition
Edited
By Jasmin Hristov, Jeb Sprague, Aaron Tauss
May 31, 2023
This book examines the phenomenon of paramilitarism across Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, Africa, and Asia, offering a nuanced perspective while identifying key patterns in the way paramilitary violence is implicated in processes of capital accumulation, state-building, and the ...
Sociology of World Heritage: An Asian Perspective
1st Edition
By Masahiro Ogino
May 31, 2023
Taking mainly Japanese and other Asian case studies as examples, Ogino examines the motivations behind the preservation of objects and sites considered to be of cultural significance. Using mainly the perspectives of Japanese approaches to cultural heritage, the book critiques the European logic of...