Social theory books

These include meditations on the very nature of future studies, visions of preferred futures, ideas about alternative...  Read More >>

The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami caused immense destruction and over 170,000 deaths in the Indonesian province of Aceh....  Read More >>

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Heeding Wacquant’s call for constant theoretical critique and development in understanding dynamic urban relations...  Read More >>

The authors develop a theoretical framework to explain how and when public and non-public warnings about future...  Read More >>

In Mexico, one of the most recent policies aiming to promote new ways of encouraging the generation and application...  Read More >>

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In Mexico, one of the most recent policies aiming to promote new ways of encouraging the generation and application...  Read More >>

In Migration, Reproduction and Society, Alejandro I. Canales offers a theoretical model for understanding the role...  Read More >>

Translation of: The danger of a single story.  Read More >>

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Along the way, he punctures all the myths and taboos that so often cloud our understanding, from arguments about...  Read More >>

Through studies of visualisation in relation to machines and the monstrous, memory, mirrors and optics, and the...  Read More >>

Patricia Hill Collins offers a set of analytical tools for those wishing to develop intersectionality's capability...  Read More >>

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How to Be Less Stupid About Race is your essential guide to breaking through the half-truths and ridiculous misconceptions...  Read More >>

In this book, this author utilizes various concepts, theories, analytical methods, techniques, and practical knowledge...  Read More >>

In this book, this author utilizes various concepts, theories, analytical methods, techniques, and practical knowledge...  Read More >>

These conceptions of culture are interrogated, and a reformulation of the concept is sketched.This book will be...  Read More >>

The embrace of competitive market principles, increasingly prevalent in our neoliberal age, often obscures the enduring...  Read More >>

This book is about the challenge of our time to re-imagine a democracy that empowers everyday citizens to participate...  Read More >>

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In 1973 Viktor Duvakin taped six interviews with Mikhail Bakhtin over twelve hours. They remain our primary source...  Read More >>

Drawing on a range of approaches from the social sciences and humanities, this handbook explores theoretical and...  Read More >>