Book Series
International Library of Sociology
New & Published Titles:
Consuming the Caribbean
From Arawaks to Zombies
From sugar to indentured labourers, tobacco to reggae music, Europe and North America have been relentlessly consuming the Caribbean and its assets for the past…
read more2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-25760-2 (Routledge)
Adorno on Popular Culture
Robert W. Witkin unpacks Adorno's notoriously difficult critique of popular culture in an engaging and accessible style, looking first at the development of the overarching… read more2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-26825-7 (Routledge)
Risk and Technological Culture
Towards a Sociology of Virulence
The question as to whether we are now entering a risk society has become a key debate in contemporary social theory. Risk and Technological Culture… read more2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-22901-2 (Routledge)
Reconnecting Culture, Technology and Nature
From Society to Heterogeneity
In this exciting new book, Mike Michael uses case studies of mundane technologies such as the walking boot, the car and the TV remote control… read more2000 | Paperback: 978-0-415-20117-9 (Routledge)
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Mobilising Modernity
The Nuclear Moment
During the nuclear heyday of the post-war years advocates of atomic power promised cheap electricity and a prosperous future. From the present, however, this promise… read more2000 | Hardback: 978-0-415-04791-3 (Routledge)
Sociology Beyond Societies
Mobilities for the Twenty-First Century
In this ground-breaking contribution to social theory, John Urry argues that the traditional basis of sociology - the study of society - is outmoded in… read more1999 | Paperback: 978-0-415-19089-3 (Routledge)
Informality
Social Theory and Contemporary Practice
For most of the twentieth century, modernity has been characterised by the formalisation of social relations as face to face interactions are replaced by impersonal… read more1999 | Paperback: 978-0-415-15674-5 (Routledge)
The Sociology of Nationalism
Tomorrow's Ancestors
In recent years nationalism has emerged as one of the dominant issues of our time. In this lucid and balanced account, David McCrone lays out… read more1998 | Paperback: 978-0-415-11460-8 (Routledge)
Tourists at the Taj
Performance and Meaning at a Symbolic Site
Clearly written and fascinatingly illustrated, Tourists at the Taj describes the conflicting narratives which surround the site. For some the Taj is an evocative symbol… read more1998 | Paperback: 978-0-415-16713-0 (Routledge)
Illness as a Work of Thought
A Foucauldian Perspective on Psychosomatics
Illness as a Work of Thought is a practical application of Foucault's archaeological and genealogical methods of the study of illness and modernity. From medicine… read more1998 | Hardback: 978-0-415-17849-5 (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