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International Migration and Ethnic Relations
Critical Perspectives
Av Magnus Dahlstedt, Anders Neergaard
Häftad, 2017
717 kr
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Each day, in so many aspects of daily life, we are reminded of the significance of migration and ethnicity. This book is a critical contribution to the understanding of the phenomena of migration and ethnicity, from a Swedish vantage point looking outwards towards a European context. It presents …
Capitalism
A Companion to Marx’s Economy Critique
Av Johan Fornäs
Häftad, 2014
906 kr
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In the most complete, accurate and accessible presentation of Karl Marx’s theory of capitalism to date, Johan Fornäs presents a guide for anyone who wants to understand how today’s crisis-ridden society has emerged and is able to sustain and intensify its own deep inner contradictions. Capitalism …
Domestic Economic Abuse
The Violence of Money
Häftad, 2023
326 kr
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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 …
Youth Radicalisation in Europe
Nativists vs. Islamists
Av Ayhan Kaya
Häftad, 2026
651 kr
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Based on extensive in-depth interview research with young Europeans, this book reveals the root causes of radicalisation among European youth with different ethno-cultural and religious backgrounds.Drawing on interdisciplinary research and the voices of young people themselves, the book …
Youth Radicalisation in Europe
Nativists vs. Islamists
Av Ayhan Kaya
Inbunden, 2026
2525 kr
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Based on extensive in-depth interview research with young Europeans, this book reveals the root causes of radicalisation among European youth with different ethno-cultural and religious backgrounds.Drawing on interdisciplinary research and the voices of young people themselves, the book …
What is the Sociology of Philosophy?
Studies of Swedish and Scandinavian Philosophy
Av Carl-Göran Heidegren, Henrik Lundberg
Inbunden, 2024
2525 kr
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This book introduces the sociology of philosophy as a research field, asking what can be gained by looking at the discipline of philosophy from a sociological perspective and how to go about doing it, as presented through three case studies of 20th-century Swedish and Scandinavian philosophy.After …
Equine Cultures in Transition
Ethical Questions
Av Jonna Bornemark, Petra Andersson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2759 kr
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Societal views on animals are rapidly changing and have become more diversified: can we use them for our own pleasure, and how should we understand animal agency? These questions, asked both in theoretical discourses and different practices, are also relevant for our understanding of horses and the …
Austere Histories in European Societies
Social Exclusion and the Contest of Colonial Memories
Av Stefan Jonsson, Julia Willén
Inbunden, 2016
2600 kr
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In recent years European states have turned toward more austere political regimes, entailing budget cuts, deregulation of labour markets, restrictions of welfare systems, securitization of borders and new regimes of migration and citizenship. In the wake of such changes, new forms of social …
Institutionalization of Social Welfare
A Study of Medicalizing Management
Häftad, 2013
314 kr
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Today most countries rely on formally organized welfare programs - in some cases to the extent that they are labeled "welfare states". These programs, which have been constructed over the last decades, make up a larger national and international system of good intentions. Overall, it appears …
Ethos of the Enlightenment and the Discontents of Modernity
Av Matan Oram
Inbunden, 2022
2517 kr
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This book probes the sources and nature of the ‘discontents of modernity’. It proposes a new approach to the philosophic-critical discourse on modernity. The Enlightenment is widely understood to be the foundational moment of modernity. Yet despite its appeal to reason as the ultimate ground of its …
On the Genealogy of Critique
Or How We Have Become Decadently Indignant
Inbunden, 2020
2517 kr
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On the Genealogy of Critique intervenes into both contemporary academic debates on critique, and today’s mainstream criticism, by reflecting upon the relationship between criticality and social change in the age of post-politics.What does it mean to be critical? When we are told that civilisation …
Cultural Sociology of Cultural Representations
Visions of Italy and the Italians in England and Britain from the Renaissance to the Present Day
Inbunden, 2023
2592 kr
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This book provides a historical cultural sociological analysis of cultural representations of Italy in England and later Britain, from the period of the Italian Renaissance to the present day. Rooted in a critical account of orthodox social scientific approaches to thinking and theorising cultural …
Studies on the Social Construction of Identity and Authenticity
Av J. Patrick Williams, Kaylan C. Schwarz
Inbunden, 2020
2517 kr
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As identity and authenticity discourses increasingly saturate everyday life, so too have these concepts spread across the humanities and social sciences literatures. Many scholars may be interested in identity and authenticity but lack knowledge of paradigmatic or disciplinary approaches to these …
Queer Community
Identities, Intimacies, and Ideology
Av Neal Carnes
Inbunden, 2019
2517 kr
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The context for this work is defined by a second wave of social and political activity contextualized by queer. For example, three, self-identified black, queer women started the Black Lives Matter movement. For a new generation, the first-wave reclamation of queer speaks to their position in a …
Youth and the Politics of the Present
Coping with Complexity and Ambivalence
Av Enzo Colombo, Paola Rebughini
Inbunden, 2019
2517 kr
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Youth and the Politics of the Present presents a range of topical sociological investigations into various aspects of the everyday practices of young adults in different European contexts. Indeed, this volume provides an original and provocative investigation of various current central issues …
Magic, Science and Society
Av Alex Dennis
Inbunden, 2024
2517 kr
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Magic, Science and Society investigates the way the ‘rationality debate’ has developed over the last century, from E.E. Evans-Pritchard’s study of Azande magic, through Peter Winch’s argument that there can be no such thing as a social science, across the arguments about the proper status of …
Cultures, Citizenship and Human Rights
Av Rosemarie Buikema, Antoine Buyse m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2517 kr
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In Cultures, Citizenship and Human Rights the combined analytical efforts of the fields of human rights law, conflict studies, anthropology, history, media studies, gender studies, and critical race and postcolonial studies raise a comprehensive understanding of the discursive and visual mediation …
Towards a Sociology of Selfies
The Filtered Face
Av Maria-Carolina Cambre, Christine Lavrence
Inbunden, 2023
2137 kr
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This book examines selfies as a relational and processual networked social practice, performed between people within digital contexts and that involve online/offline intersections and tensions. It offers an analysis of selfies through a rich and interdisciplinary framework, that explores the …
Trade Unions and European Integration
A Question of Optimism and Pessimism?
Av Johannes Kiess, Martin Seeliger
Inbunden, 2019
2517 kr
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Trade Unions and European Integration brings together pessimists and optimists on trade unionism under the contemporary pressures of European integration. The Great Recession has brought new attention to structural problems of the European integration process, specifically monetary integration; …
Mobilising Place Management
Av Claus Lassen, Lea Holst Laursen
Inbunden, 2020
2517 kr
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Mobilising Place Management makes an important contribution to the mobilities field by arguing for the need to rethink place management. It takes a point of departure in the mobilities turn and relational place thinking while exploring the relationship between place and mobility.In a world of …
Field of Water Policy
Power and Scarcity in the American Southwest
Av Franck Poupeau, Brian O'Neill m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2517 kr
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Bringing together the analysis of a diverse team of social scientists, this book proposes a new approach to environmental problems. Cutting through the fragmented perspectives on water crises, it seeks to shift the analytic perspectives on water policy by looking at the social logics behind …
Turkish National Identity and Its Outsiders
Memories of State Violence in Dersim
Av Ozlem Goner
Häftad, 2019
751 kr
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This book examines the ways in which states and nations are constructed and legitimated through defining and managing outsiders. Focusing on Turkey and the municipality of Dersim – a region that has historically combined different outsider identities, including Armenian, Kurdish, and Alevi …
Urban Environments for Healthy Ageing
A Global Perspective
Av Anna Lane
Inbunden, 2019
2592 kr
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Around the world, researchers, policy makers, and practitioners are working to ensure cities and communities are prepared for the challenges and opportunities of aged and highly urbanised populations. Bringing together stakeholders from Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America, this book presents …
Globalization, Modernity and the Rise of Religious Fundamentalism
The Challenge of Religious Resurgence against the “End of History” (A Dialectical Kaleidoscopic Analysis)
Inbunden, 2019
2517 kr
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The emergence of religious fundamentalism in a globalized, post-colonial world poses a significant challenge to the "End of History" narratives common in academic and non-academic literature alike.Globalization, Modernity and the Rise of Religious Fundamentalism proposes that we must seek new …
Meta-Regulation in Practice
Beyond Normative Views of Morality and Rationality
Av F.C. Simon
Häftad, 2019
649 kr
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Meta-regulation presents itself as a progressive policy approach that can manage complexity and conflicting objectives better than traditional command and control regulation. It does this by ‘harnessing’ markets and enlisting a broad range of stakeholders to reach a more inclusive view of the …
Socio-gerontechnology
Interdisciplinary Critical Studies of Ageing and Technology
Av Alexander Peine, Barbara Marshall m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2137 kr
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Social change in the twenty-first century is shaped by both demographic changes associated with ageing societies and significant technological change and development. Outlining the basic principles of a new academic field, Socio-gerontechnology, this book explores common conceptual, theoretical and …
Young Refugees and Forced Displacement
Navigating Everyday Life in Beirut
Av Liliana Riga, Mary Holmes m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2517 kr
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Young Refugees and Forced Displacement is about young Syrian and Iraqi refugees navigating the complex realities of forced displacement in Beirut. It is based on a British Academy funded two-year project with 51 displaced youths aged 8 to 17 and under the care of three local humanitarian …
Paramilitary Groups and the State under Globalization
Political Violence, Elites, and Security
Av Jasmin Hristov, Jeb Sprague m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2517 kr
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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 …
Gypsy Feminism
Intersectional Politics, Alliances, Gender and Queer Activism
Häftad, 2019
372 kr
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Clumsy stereotypes of the Romani and Travellers communities abound, not only culturally in programmes such as Big Fat Gypsy Weddings, but also amongst educators, social workers, administrators and the medical profession. Gypsy cultures are invariably presented as ruled by tradition and machismo. …
Boundaries of European Social Citizenship
EU Citizens’ Transnational Social Security in Regulations, Discourses and Experiences
Av Anna Amelina, Emma Carmel m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2517 kr
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This edited collection contributes to studies of intra-EU migration and mobility, welfare, and European social citizenship by focusing on transnational labour movements from new to the old EU member states (Hungary–Austria, Bulgaria–Germany, Poland–UK and Estonia–Sweden). The volume provides a …
