Kate Nash is Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She is the author of Universal Difference: Feminism and the Liberal Undecidability of Women (1998).
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"Finally - a collection that explores political sociology as a series of conceptual political problems, as opposed to a diffuse empirical array. These articles raise the most central issues in political sociology in a way that engages and challenges the reader." Michael Kimmel, State University of New York at Stony Brook
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List of Contributors. Preface.Part I: Power and Politics:.Introduction.1. The Subject and Power: Michel Foucault.2. A Sociological Theory of Postmodernity: Zygmunt Bauman.3. Inequality After Class: Malcolm Waters.Part II: Globalization:.Introduction.4. From Fordism to Flexible Accumulation: David Harvey.5. The Social Revolutions of our Time: Anthony Giddens.6. Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy: Arjun Appadurai.7. The Question of Cultural Identity: Stuart Hall.Part III: Social Movements and the Politicization of the Social:.Introduction.8. "New Social Movements" of the Early Nineteenth Century: Craig Calhoun.9. The Concept of Social Movement: Mario Diani.10. Transnational Contention: Sidney Tarrow.Part IV: Citizenship, Exclusion, and Difference:.11. Rethinking Citizenship and Social Movements: Themes in Contemporary Sociology and Neoconservative Ideology: Maurice Roche.12. The Patriarchal Welfare State: Carole Pateman.13. Toward a Postnational Model of Membership [in Europe]: Yasemin Nuhoglu Soysal.Part V: Democracy:.Introduction.14. The Public Sphere: Jürgen Habermas.15. Hegemony and New Political Subjects: Toward a New Concept of Democracy: Chantal Mouffe.16. Democracy, the Nation-State and the Global System: David Held.Identity and Difference in Global Politics: William E. Connolly.Index.
