Theory & Political Sociology Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. Law, Ethics and the Biopolitical

   By Amy Swiffen

   Law, Ethics and the Biopolitical explores the idea that legal authority is no longer related to national sovereignty, but to the ‘moral’ attempt to nurture life. The book argues that whilst the relationship between law and ethics has long been a central concern in legal studies, it is now the...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
3. Security, Law and Borders

   At the Limits of Liberties

   By Tugba Basaran

   Series: Routledge Studies in Liberty and Security

   This book focuses on security practices, civil liberties and the politics of borders in liberal democracies. In the aftermath of 9/11, security practices and the denial of human rights and civil liberties are often portrayed as an exception to liberal rule, and seen as institutionally, legally...

   Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
4. Frankfurt School Perspectives on Globalization, Democracy, and the Law

   By William E. Scheuerman

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

   Frankfurt School Perspectives on Globalization, Democracy, and the Law makes use of the work of first-generation Frankfurt School theorist Franz L. Neumann, in conjunction with his famous successor, Jürgen Habermas, to try to understand the momentous political and legal transformations generated by...

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
5. Mobilizing Regions, Mobilizing Europe

   Expert Knowledge and Scientific Planning in European Regional Development

   By Sebastian M. Buettner

   Series: Routledge/ESA Studies in European Societies

   Regional development strategies are becoming more similar all around Europe, even though regional differences are more pronounced than ever and many European regions have become more autonomous actors. This thesis of a peculiar standardized diversification of sub-national space in the modern...

   Published February 8th 2012 by Routledge
6. The Social after Gabriel Tarde

   Debates and Assessments

   Edited by Matei Candea

   Series: CRESC

   The social sciences and humanities are now being swept by a Tardean revival, a rediscovery and reappraisal of the work of this truly unique thinker, for whom ‘everything is a society and every science a sociology’. Tarde is being brought forward as the misrecognised forerunner of a post-Durkheimian...

   Published February 5th 2012 by Routledge
7. The International Social Survey Programme 1984-2009

   Charting the Globe

   Edited by Max Haller, Roger Jowell, Tom W Smith

   Series: Social Research Today

   The social sciences rely more on the comparative method than on experimental data mainly because the latter is difficult to acquire amongst human populations. The International Social Survey Programme has played a pioneering role in creating and sustaining methodologically-sophisticated mass...

   Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
8. Neoliberalism and the Global Restructuring of Knowledge and Education

   By Steven C. Ward

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   This book examines the influence of neoliberal ideas and practices on the way knowledge has been conceptualized, produced, and disseminated over the last few decades at different levels of public education and in various national contexts around the world....

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
9. The Post-Colonial State in the Era of Capitalist Globalization

   Historical, Political and Theoretical Approaches to State Formation

   By Tariq Amin-Khan

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

   State formation in post-colonial societies differed greatly from the formation of the Western capitalist state. The latter has been extensively studied, while a coherent grasp of the post-colonial state has remained elusive. Amin-Khan provides a critical historical and contemporary understanding of...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
10. Baltic Biographies at Historical Crossroads

    Edited by Aili Aarelaid-Tart, Li Bennich-Björkman

    Series: Routledge/ESA Studies in European Societies

    This book brings together life stories from five generations of Balts, living through the diverse and recurring transformations of the twentieth century: occupations, war, independence, totalitarianism, and democratic rule and market economy. The twentieth century history of the Baltic...

    Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge