Sociology
Featured Books
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Aboriginal Art and Australian Society
Hope and Disenchantment
Laura Fisher
This unique study tracks the way the Aboriginal art phenomenon has mediated Indigenous/non-indigenous relations in Australia. It illuminates the utopian and dystopian currents of thought that have arisen in relation to the art, and the contradictory social and political aspirations to which it has been anchored in public culture.
Anthem Press
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9781783085316
May 2016
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£115.00 / $115.00This unique study tracks the way the Aboriginal art phenomenon has mediated Indigenous/non-indigenous relations in Australia. It illuminates the utopian and dystopian currents of thought that have arisen in relation to the art, and the contradictory social and political aspirations to which it has been anchored in public culture.
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Islamic Ethos and the Specter of Modernity
Farzin Vahdat
Drawing on the work of Hegel, this book proposes a framework for understanding modernity in the Muslim world and analyzes the discourse of prominent Muslim thinkers and political leaders with reference to some of the most significant markers of modernity.
Anthem Press
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9781783084364
June 2015
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£115.00 / $115.00Drawing on the work of Hegel, this book proposes a framework for understanding modernity in the Muslim world and analyzes the discourse of prominent Muslim thinkers and political leaders with reference to some of the most significant markers of modernity.
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Ethnographies of Grey Zones in Eastern Europe
Relations, Borders and Invisibilities
Edited by Ida Harboe Knudsen, Martin Demant Frederiksen
Over the last two decades, Eastern European countries have experienced extensive changes in geo-political relocations and relations leading to everyday uncertainty. Based on ethnographic cases, this anthology explores how grey zones of governance, borders, relations and invisibilities affect everyday life in contemporary Eastern Europe.
Anthem Press
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9781783084128
April 2015
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£115.00 / $115.00Over the last two decades, Eastern European countries have experienced extensive changes in geo-political relocations and relations leading to everyday uncertainty. Based on ethnographic cases, this anthology explores how grey zones of governance, borders, relations and invisibilities affect everyday life in contemporary Eastern Europe.
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Indian and Chinese Immigrant Communities
Comparative Perspectives
Edited by Jayati Bhattacharya, Coonoor Kripalani
This interdisciplinary collection of essays offers a window onto the overseas Indian and Chinese communities in Asia. Contributions give insight on the interactive role of the cultural and religious ‘other’, the diasporic absorption of local beliefs and customs, and the practical business networks and operational mechanisms unique to these communities.
Anthem Press
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9781783083626
March 2015
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£115.00 / $115.00This interdisciplinary collection of essays offers a window onto the overseas Indian and Chinese communities in Asia. Contributions give insight on the interactive role of the cultural and religious ‘other’, the diasporic absorption of local beliefs and customs, and the practical business networks and operational mechanisms unique to these communities.
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The Deoband Madrassah Movement
Countercultural Trends and Tendencies
Muhammad Moj
This innovative book analyses the growth of Deobandi Islam, a religious sect whose followers include extremist groups such as the Taliban, through the frame of a counterculture in conflict with mainstream Muslim society.
Anthem Press
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9781783083886
March 2015
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£115.00 / $115.00This innovative book analyses the growth of Deobandi Islam, a religious sect whose followers include extremist groups such as the Taliban, through the frame of a counterculture in conflict with mainstream Muslim society.
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Rethinking the Social through Durkheim, Marx, Weber and Whitehead
Michael Halewood
This is the first book to systematically analyse the different concepts of the social developed by Durkheim, Marx and Weber, suggesting that debates surrounding this concept are still very much alive.
Anthem Press
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9781783083688
December 2014
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£115.00 / $115.00This is the first book to systematically analyse the different concepts of the social developed by Durkheim, Marx and Weber, suggesting that debates surrounding this concept are still very much alive.
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The Spirit of Luc Boltanski
Essays on the ‘Pragmatic Sociology of Critique’
Edited by Simon Susen, Bryan S. Turner
This volume – which brings together essays by prominent scholars in the field of sociology – provides a range of perspectives on the increasing influence of Luc Boltanski’s writings on both theoretical and empirical problems of contemporary social and political analysis.
Anthem Press
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9781783082964
November 2014
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£295.00 / $295.00This volume – which brings together essays by prominent scholars in the field of sociology – provides a range of perspectives on the increasing influence of Luc Boltanski’s writings on both theoretical and empirical problems of contemporary social and political analysis.
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Émile Durkheim and the Collective Consciousness of Society
A Study in Criminology
Kenneth Smith
This volume presents the first ever book-length treatment of Émile Durkheim’s concept of the ‘collective consciousness of society’.
Anthem Press
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9781783082278
August 2014
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£130.00 / $130.00This volume presents the first ever book-length treatment of Émile Durkheim’s concept of the ‘collective consciousness of society’.
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Émile Durkheim and the Collective Consciousness of Society
A Study in Criminology
Kenneth Smith
This volume presents the first ever book-length treatment of Émile Durkheim’s concept of the ‘collective consciousness of society’.
Anthem Press
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9781783082285
August 2014
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£40.00 / $40.00This volume presents the first ever book-length treatment of Émile Durkheim’s concept of the ‘collective consciousness of society’.
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Women, Gender and Everyday Social Transformation in India
Edited by Kenneth Bo Nielsen, Anne Waldrop
‘Women, Gender and Everyday Social Transformation in India’ explores key processes of gendered change in contemporary India. Through ethnographically grounded case studies, the volume foregrounds the contradictory and contested co-existence of discrepant gendered norms, values and visions in a society caught up in wider processes of sociopolitical change.
Anthem Press
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9781783082698
August 2014
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Women, Gender and Everyday Social Transformation in India’ explores key processes of gendered change in contemporary India. Through ethnographically grounded case studies, the volume foregrounds the contradictory and contested co-existence of discrepant gendered norms, values and visions in a society caught up in wider processes of sociopolitical change.
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Consumption, Cities and States
Comparing Singapore with Asian and Western Cities
Ann Brooks, Lionel Wee
‘Consumption, Cities and States: Comparing Singapore with Asian and Western Cities’ examines the fascinating intersection of consumption, citizenship and the state in a cross-section of global cities in Asia and the West.
Anthem Press
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9781783082261
May 2014
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Consumption, Cities and States: Comparing Singapore with Asian and Western Cities’ examines the fascinating intersection of consumption, citizenship and the state in a cross-section of global cities in Asia and the West.
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Philosophy and Anthropology
Border Crossing and Transformations
Edited by Ananta Kumar Giri, John Clammer
‘Philosophy and Anthropology: Border Crossings and Transformations’ is an innovative and original collection of essays exploring the relationships between philosophy and anthropology – historically and presently – and the theoretical and practical issues concerning their dialogue.
Anthem Press
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9780857285126
December 2013
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£130.00 / $130.00‘Philosophy and Anthropology: Border Crossings and Transformations’ is an innovative and original collection of essays exploring the relationships between philosophy and anthropology – historically and presently – and the theoretical and practical issues concerning their dialogue.
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The Politics of Time and Youth in Brand India
Bargaining with Capital
Jyotsna Kapur
A study of the profound preoccupation with time, youth and the relationship between generations in contemporary popular Indian media culture, this book suggests that the politics of time is a manifestation of the radicalised war between labour and capital inherent in India’s shift to neoliberalism since the 1990s.
Anthem Press
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9780857281098
October 2013
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£115.00 / $115.00A study of the profound preoccupation with time, youth and the relationship between generations in contemporary popular Indian media culture, this book suggests that the politics of time is a manifestation of the radicalised war between labour and capital inherent in India’s shift to neoliberalism since the 1990s.
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Colonialism and Transnational Psychiatry
The Development of an Indian Mental Hospital in British India, c. 1925–1940
Waltraud Ernst
This book provides an in-depth case study of a psychiatric institution within the context of colonial rule during the early twentieth century. It focuses on patient statistics, medical treatments and diagnoses, and considers the ‘indigenisation’ or ‘Indianisation’ of the colonial medical services and the significance of international professional networks.
Anthem Press
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9780857280190
October 2013
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£150.00 / $150.00This book provides an in-depth case study of a psychiatric institution within the context of colonial rule during the early twentieth century. It focuses on patient statistics, medical treatments and diagnoses, and considers the ‘indigenisation’ or ‘Indianisation’ of the colonial medical services and the significance of international professional networks.
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Fighting Scholars
Habitus and Ethnographies of Martial Arts and Combat Sports
Edited by Raúl Sánchez García, Dale C. Spencer
‘Fighting Scholars’ presents insightful ethnographic research on a range of different martial arts and combat sports. Taking the habitus as a central theme of analysis, the different contributions of this volume are aligned within the same project that began to crystallize in Loïc Wacquant’s ‘Body and Soul’: the construction of a ‘carnal sociology’ that constitutes an exploration of the social world ‘from’ the body.
Anthem Press
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9780857283320
September 2013
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Fighting Scholars’ presents insightful ethnographic research on a range of different martial arts and combat sports. Taking the habitus as a central theme of analysis, the different contributions of this volume are aligned within the same project that began to crystallize in Loïc Wacquant’s ‘Body and Soul’: the construction of a ‘carnal sociology’ that constitutes an exploration of the social world ‘from’ the body.
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Ernst Cassirer and the Critical Science of Germany, 1899–1919
Gregory B. Moynahan
Reconstructing the relationship between science and politics in Imperial Germany, this book covers the early work of the philosopher and historian Ernst Cassirer (1874–1945) and discusses his relation to the Marburg School of philosophy.
Anthem Press
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9780857283214
July 2013
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£115.00 / $115.00Reconstructing the relationship between science and politics in Imperial Germany, this book covers the early work of the philosopher and historian Ernst Cassirer (1874–1945) and discusses his relation to the Marburg School of philosophy.
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The Art and Ideology of the Trade Union Emblem, 1850–1925
Annie Ravenhill-Johnson
Edited by Paula James‘The Art and Ideology of the Trade Union Emblem, 1850–1925’ is a groundbreaking book that considers trade union emblems and banners as art objects in their own right. It studies their commissioning, their designers and the social conditions and gender relations that they knowingly or unwittingly reveal.
Anthem Press
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9780857285300
June 2013
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£115.00 / $115.00‘The Art and Ideology of the Trade Union Emblem, 1850–1925’ is a groundbreaking book that considers trade union emblems and banners as art objects in their own right. It studies their commissioning, their designers and the social conditions and gender relations that they knowingly or unwittingly reveal.
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Ageing, Corporeality and Embodiment
Chris Gilleard, Paul Higgs
This book investigates the emergence of a ‘new ageing’ and its realisation through the body. The work explores new forms of embodiment concerned with identity and care of the self, which have seen the body become a site for ageing differently – for ageing without becoming old.
Anthem Press
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9780857283290
May 2013
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£115.00 / $115.00This book investigates the emergence of a ‘new ageing’ and its realisation through the body. The work explores new forms of embodiment concerned with identity and care of the self, which have seen the body become a site for ageing differently – for ageing without becoming old.
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War and Peace
Essays on Religion and Violence
Edited by Bryan S. Turner
The book explores the role of religion in war and peace through nine original contributions that examine a range of case studies from different historical periods. Religion, the volume suggests, is typically not the cause of human conflict, but rather the product of actions by the state and the legal system.
Anthem Press
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9780857283078
March 2013
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£115.00 / $115.00The book explores the role of religion in war and peace through nine original contributions that examine a range of case studies from different historical periods. Religion, the volume suggests, is typically not the cause of human conflict, but rather the product of actions by the state and the legal system.
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Knowledge and Human Liberation
Towards Planetary Realizations
Ananta Kumar Giri
Human liberation has become an epochal challenge in today’s world, requiring not only emancipation from oppressive structures but also from the oppressive self. This book seeks to rethink knowledge vis-à-vis familiar themes such as human interest, critical theory and cosmopolitanism.
Anthem Press
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9780857284525
February 2013
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£115.00 / $115.00Human liberation has become an epochal challenge in today’s world, requiring not only emancipation from oppressive structures but also from the oppressive self. This book seeks to rethink knowledge vis-à-vis familiar themes such as human interest, critical theory and cosmopolitanism.
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Experiencing Globalization
Religion in Contemporary Contexts
Edited by Derrick M. Nault, Bei Dawei, Evangelos Voulgarakis, Rab Paterson, Cesar Andres-Miguel Suva
This collection of essays, with special reference to Asia, analyzes religion through lived experience and reveals how religious phenomena are inextricably linked to globalizing processes.
Anthem Press
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9780857285591
February 2013
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£115.00 / $115.00This collection of essays, with special reference to Asia, analyzes religion through lived experience and reveals how religious phenomena are inextricably linked to globalizing processes.
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Thorstein Veblen
Economics for an Age of Crises
Edited by Erik S. Reinert, Francesca L. Viano
The book presents state-of-the-art scholarship on Thorstein Veblen, one of the world's most influential social scientists. It explores hitherto neglected aspects of his life, works and historical relevance.
Anthem Press
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9781843318583
December 2012
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£115.00 / $115.00The book presents state-of-the-art scholarship on Thorstein Veblen, one of the world’s most influential social scientists. It explores hitherto neglected aspects of his life, works and historical relevance.
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A Guide to Marx’s ‘Capital’ Vols I–III
Kenneth Smith
This book provides a comprehensive guide to all three volumes of Karl Marx’s ‘Capital’, with advice on further reading and points for further discussion.
Anthem Press
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9780857285065
November 2012
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£115.00 / $115.00This book provides a comprehensive guide to all three volumes of Karl Marx’s ‘Capital’, with advice on further reading and points for further discussion.
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Organising Neoliberalism
Markets, Privatisation and Justice
Edited by Philip Whitehead, Paul Crawshaw
This collection of essays explores the impact of neoliberalism within different organisational domains from both theoretical and empirical perspectives.
Anthem Press
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9780857285331
September 2012
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£115.00 / $115.00This collection of essays explores the impact of neoliberalism within different organisational domains from both theoretical and empirical perspectives.