Book Series
International Library of Sociology
New & Published Titles:
Global Nomads
Techno and New Age as Transnational Countercultures in Ibiza and Goa
Global Nomads provides a unique introduction to the globalization of countercultures, a topic largely unknown in and outside academia. Anthony D’Andrea examines the social life…
read moreJuly 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-55367-4 (Routledge)
Urban Fears and Global Terrors
Citizenship, Multicultures and Belongings After 7/7
Urban Fears and Global Terrors After 7/7 explores the disruption around that day, taking people back to the events and the sense of loss, fear…
read moreFebruary 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54599-0 (Routledge)
Caste and Kinship in Central India
A Study of Fiji Indian Rural Society
2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48757-3 (Routledge)
Jean Baudrillard
Fatal Theories
Jean Baudrillard was one of the most influential, radical, and visionary thinkers of our age. His ideas have had a profound bearing on countless fields,…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46442-0 (Routledge)
Sociology through the Projector
Sociology through the Projector takes issue with the question of how contemporary film can help answering the general, abstract but still urgent question: what is…
read more2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44598-6 (Routledge)
Multicultural Horizons
Diversity and the Limits of the Civil Nation
The intensity of feeling that multiculturalism invariably ignites is considered in this timely analysis of how the ‘New Britain’ of the twenty-first century is variously…
read more2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-39607-3 (Routledge)
Sound Moves
iPod Culture and Urban Experience
This innovative study opens up a new area in sociological and urban studies: the aural experience of the social, mediated through mobile technologies of communication.…
read more2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-25752-7 (Routledge)
Non-Representational Theory
Space, Politics, Affect
This astonishing book presents a distinctive approach to the politics of everyday life. Ranging across a variety of spaces in which politics and the political…
read more2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-39321-8 (Routledge)
Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Culture
Today, questions about how and why societies punish are deeply emotive and hotly contested. In Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Culture, Claire Grant argues that…
read more2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-41409-8 (Routledge)
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Complexity and Social Movements
Multitudes at the Edge of Chaos
Fusing two key concerns of contemporary sociology: globalization and its discontents, and the 'complexity turn' in social theory, authors Chesters and Welsh utilize complexity theory… read more2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43974-9 (Routledge)
Series Details:
The International Library of Sociology is the most important series of books on sociology ever published. Founded in the 1940's by Karl Mannheim, the series became the pioneering and prestigious forum for research and theory, marked by comparative approaches and analysis of new disciplines, such as the sociology of youth and culture. The history of the ILS is the history of modern sociology.
Forthcoming Titles:
Time, Innovation and Mobilities: Travels in Technological Cultures
By Peter Frank Peters
To be published January 20th 2010
Haunting the Knowledge Economy
By Jane Kenway, Elizabeth Bullen, Johannah Fahey, Simon Robb
To be published January 20th 2010
The Cinematic Tourist: Explorations in Globalization, Culture and Resistance
By Rodanthi Tzanelli
To be published January 20th 2010
Aeromobilities
Edited by Saulo Cwerner, Sven Kesselring, John Urry
To be published January 20th 2010
Social Transnationalism: Lifeworlds beyond the nation state
By Steffen Mau
To be published February 26th 2010
Towards Relational Sociology
By Nick Crossley
To be published July 30th 2010
Unintended Outcomes of Social Movements: The 1989 Chinese Student Movement
By Fang Deng
To be published July 30th 2010
Stillness in a Mobile World
Edited by David Bissell, Gillian Fuller
To be published September 30th 2010
Global China
By Lash Scott, Michael Keith, Jakob Arnoldi, Tyler Rooker
To be published October 31st 2010