Social theory books

""The last interview of one of the greatest social thinkers of our time""--  Read More >>

ENG What do bathing culture and otium have to do with one another? How the two are linked has so far barely been...  Read More >>

""The last interview of one of the greatest social thinkers of our time""--  Read More >>

Departing from reductive accounts of well-being that characterise the field of ‘well-being studies’ and exclude...  Read More >>

Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory: Text and Readings provides students with the best of both worlds—carefully-edited...  Read More >>

Through theories of metagovernance and case studies of mobilisations against economic and social problems, Bob Jessop...  Read More >>

Instead of merely providing an overview of possible trajectories for articulating a relational political analysis,...  Read More >>

Nonmetric forms, arising in a crowd made out of innumerable individuals, correspond to social groups that divide...  Read More >>

Addressing a significant gap in the interdisciplinary field of animal studies, Tuomivaara presents a close reading...  Read More >>

Beginning with the question of how animals, and their bodies, are variously mapped by humans according to their...  Read More >>

"Al comenzar a escribir mi libro anterior (Buchonas de Culiacán) se desató una pandemia, un pandemónium mundial,...  Read More >>

The notion of quality features prominently in contemporary discourse. Numerous ratings, rankings, metrics, auditing,...  Read More >>

This book is the first introductory guide to the work of Zygmunt Bauman, designed specifically for students and...  Read More >>

Reviews historical impacts of some Deviant Voluntary Associations (DVAs) as moral dark energy. Dissenting DVAs,...  Read More >>

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From the coauthor of the New York Times-bestselling The Second Machine Age comes a compelling argument that despite...  Read More >>

This book explores death in contemporary society, unfolding the notion of ‘spectacular death’ through studies that...  Read More >>

This book analyses a diverse range of experiences of Co-Creation in neighbourhood settings across the Global North...  Read More >>

This book explores death in contemporary society, unfolding the notion of ‘spectacular death’ through studies that...  Read More >>

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This book analyses a diverse range of experiences of Co-Creation in neighbourhood settings across the Global North...  Read More >>

It will be of great interest to psychoanalysts interested in collective phenomena, psychosocial studies scholars...  Read More >>

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The Equality Bomb is a hard-hitting look at the train wreck that is the American School system. The whole country...  Read More >>

""Originally published in Spanish as Memoria y autobiografia: Exploraciones en los lâimites à Fondo de Cultura Econâomica...  Read More >>