Forthcoming Ethnography & Methodology Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Is There a Home in Cyberspace?

   The Internet in Migrants' Everyday Life and the Emergence of Global Communities

   By Heike Mónika Greschke

   Series: Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society

   How is global togetherness possible? How does the availability of the Internet alter migrants' everyday lives and senses of belonging? This book introduces an 'alien people' inhabiting a specific common virtual space in the World Wide Web, while the members of this space - most of them ethnic...

   To Be Published June 3rd 2012 by Routledge
2. Inventive Methods

   The Happening of the Social

   Edited by Celia Lury, Nina Wakeford

   Series: CRESC

   Social and cultural research has changed dramatically in the last few years in response to changing conceptions of the empirical, an intensification of interest in interdisciplinary work, and the growing need to communicate with diverse users and audiences. Methods texts, however, have not kept...

   To Be Published June 4th 2012 by Routledge
3. Migration, Family and the Welfare State

   Integrating Migrants and Refugees in Scandinavia

   Edited by Karen Fog Olwig, Birgitte Romme Larsen, Mikkel Rytter

   Migration, Family and the Welfare State explores understandings and practices of integration in the Scandinavian welfare societies of Denmark, Norway and Sweden through a comprehensive range of detailed ethnographic studies. Chapters examine discourses, policies and programs of integration in the...

   To Be Published June 19th 2012 by Routledge
4. Emotions and Human Mobility

   Ethnographies of Movement

   Edited by Maruška Svašek

   This book provides insights into the emotional dimensions of human mobility. Drawing on findings and theoretical discussions in anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, philosophy, linguistics, migration studies, human geography and political science, the authors offer interdisciplinary...

   To Be Published June 19th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Ethnomethodologists (Routledge Revivals)

   By W.W. Sharrock, Bob Anderson

   Originally published in 1986, this work examines how key figures such as Garfinkel, Sacks and Cicourel have revolutionised thinking about how sociology's presuppositions about 'being social' are grounded. Yet until the appearance of this book there were no clear and authoritative...

   To Be Published June 30th 2012 by Routledge
6. Visual Sociology

   By Douglas Harper

   Visual sociology has been part of the sociological vocabulary since the 1970s, but until now there has not been a comprehensive text that introduces this area. Written by one of the founding fathers in the field, Visual Sociology explores how the world that is seen, photographed, drawn, or...

   To Be Published July 1st 2012 by Routledge
7. Hybrid Voices and Collaborative Change

   Contextualising Positive Discourse Analysis

   By Tom Bartlett

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Discourse

   In this study, Bartlett presents a theoretical and descriptive development in the discipline of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) extending the recent trend away from critiques of hegemonic practices and towards the description of alternative and minority practices that has been labelled Positive...

   To Be Published July 11th 2012 by Routledge
8. Routledge International Handbook of Participatory Design

   Edited by Jesper Simonsen, Toni Robertson

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   Participatory design is about the direct involvement of people in the co-design of the technologies they use. Its central concern is how collaborative design processes can be driven by the participation of the people affected by the technology designed. Embracing a diverse collection of principles...

   To Be Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge
9. Qualitative Methods in Military Studies

   Research experiences and challenges

   Edited by Helena Carreiras, Celso Castro

   Series: Cass Military Studies

   This book examines the methodology of qualitative research in military studies. Since the end of the Cold War, the number of studies on military and society has grown substantially in substance, size and impact. However, only a tiny part of this bibliography deals in depth with the research...

   To Be Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge
10. Changing lives, changing drug journeys

    Drug taking decisions from adolescence to adulthood

    By Lisa Williams

    Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography

    This book describes how a group of young people make decisions about drug taking. It charts the decision making process of recreational drug takers and non-drug takers as they mature from adolescence into young adulthood. With a focus upon their perceptions of different drugs, it situates their...

    To Be Published August 15th 2012 by Routledge