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1. Society and Nature

   A Sociological Inquiry

   By Hans Kelsen

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Unintended Outcomes of Social Movements

   The 1989 Chinese Student Movement

   By Fang Deng

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   Why did the 1989 Chinese student movement end in violent confrontation at Tiananmen Square, despite the fact that both the Chinese government and the students very much wanted to avoid violence? This puzzle, which lies at the heart of the tragic events at Tiananmen, is addressed here from a fresh...

   Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
3. Transforming Images

   Screens, affect, futures

   By Rebecca Coleman

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   Contemporary social and cultural life is increasingly organised around a logic of self-transformation, where changing the body is seen as key. Transforming Images examines how the future functions within this transformative logic to indicate the potential of a materially better time. The book...

   Published October 18th 2012 by Routledge
4. Mobility, Space and Culture

   By Peter Merriman

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   Over the past ten to fifteen years there has emerged an increasing concern with mobility in the social sciences and humanities. In Mobility, Space and Culture, Peter Merriman provides an important and timely contribution to the mobilities turn in the social sciences, encouraging academics to...

   Published June 17th 2012 by Routledge
5. Social Transnationalism

   Lifeworlds Beyond The Nation-State

   By Steffen Mau

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   In recent decades, the rise of world markets and the technological revolutions in transportation and communication have brought what was once distant and inaccessible within easy reach of the individual. The territorial and social closure that characterized nation-states is fading, and this is...

   Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge
6. Travel Connections

   Tourism, Technology and Togetherness in a Mobile World

   By Jennie Germann Molz

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   Living in a world that is increasingly ‘on the move’ means that many of us now rely on mobile devices, social media, and networking technologies to coordinate togetherness with our social networks even when we are apart. Nowhere is this phenomenon more evident than in the emerging practices of ‘...

   Published March 26th 2012 by Routledge
7. Towards Relational Sociology

   By Nick Crossley

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   Towards Relational Sociology argues that social worlds comprise networks of interaction and relations. Crossley asserts that relations are lived trajectories of iterated interaction, built up through a history of interaction, but also entailing anticipation of future interaction. In addition, he...

   Published February 5th 2012 by Routledge
8. Jean Baudrillard

   Fatal Theories

   Edited by David B. Clarke, Marcus Doel, William Merrin, Richard G. Smith

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   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, from art and politics to science and technology. Once hailed as the high priest of postmodernity, Baudrillard’s sophisticated theoretical analyses...

   Published December 15th 2011 by Routledge
9. India's Changing Villages

   By S.C. Dube

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   Published December 13th 2011 by Routledge
10. Delinquency and Opportunity

    A Study of Delinquent Gangs

    By Richard A. Cloward, L.E. Ohlin

    Series: International Library of Sociology

    Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge