Contemporary Social Theory Books

New and Published Books

1. Migration in the 21st Century

   Political Economy and Ethnography

   Edited by Pauline Gardiner Barber, Winnie Lem

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   This edited collection focuses on global migration in its inter-regional, international and transnational variants, and argues that contemporary migration scholarship is significantly advanced both within anthropology and beyond it when ethnography is theoretically engaged to grapple with the...

   Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
2. Deconstructing Habermas

   By Lasse Thomassen

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

   This book is the first book-length deconstructive study of the political philosophy of Jürgen Habermas. Inspired by the work of Jacques Derrida, the book applies deconstruction to key issues in Habermas’s work: rational discourse and rational consensus, constitutional democracy, tolerance and civil...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Mythological State and its Empire

   By David Grant

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

   We see the modern State as the most rational form of governing yet devised, and one which properly recognises our inherent individual rights. However, as the histories of colonialism and imprisonment reveal, it is also an intruder into the lives of generally unwilling individuals, constraining...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Psychology and Politics of the Collective

   Groups, Crowds and Mass Identifications

   Edited by Ruth Parkin-Gounelas

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

   What are the psychological factors in operation when we form groups or crowds, and how are these affected by socio-historical circumstances? History offers endless examples of different forms of human collectivity, both private and public, small-scale and large: from the primal horde to the modern...

   Published April 24th 2012 by Routledge
5. Black and Postcolonial Feminisms in New Times

   Researching Educational Inequalities

   Edited by Heidi Mirza, Cynthia Joseph

   This book is a compelling collection of essays on the intersection of race, gender and class in education written by leading black and postcolonial feminists of colour from Asia, Africa and the Caribbean living in Britain, America, Canada, and Australia. It addresses controversial issues such as...

   Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge
6. Social Theory as Science (Routledge Revivals)

   By Russell Keat, John Urry

   This book, written by a philosopher interested in the problems of social science and scientific method, and a sociologist interested in the philosophy of science, presents a novel conception of how we should think about and carry out the scientific study of social life. This book combines an...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
7. Jurisdiction in Deleuze: The Expression and Representation of Law

   By Edward Mussawir

   Jurisdiction in Deleuze: The Expression and Representation of Law explores an affinity between the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and jurisprudence as a tradition of technical legal thought. The author addresses and reopens a central aesthetic problem in jurisprudence: the difference between the...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
8. Contemporary Theorists for Medical Sociology

   Edited by Graham Scambler

   Series: Critical Studies in Health and Society

   Contemporary Theorists for Medical Sociology explores the work of key social theorists and the application of their ideas to issues around health and illness. Encouraging students and researchers to use mainstream sociological thought to inform and deepen their knowledge and understanding of the...

   Published April 3rd 2012 by Routledge
9. Routledge Handbook of Cosmopolitanism Studies

   Edited by Gerard Delanty

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   Over the past two decades there has been great interest in cosmopolitanism across the human and social sciences. Where, earlier, it had largely been a term associated with moral and political philosophy, cosmopolitanism has now become a widely-used term in the social sciences. It is now integral to...

   Published April 3rd 2012 by Routledge
10. Conflict, Citizenship and Civil Society

    Edited by Patrick Baert, Sokratis Koniordos, Giovanna Procacci, Carlo Ruzza

    Series: Routledge/ESA Studies in European Societies

    This book provides readers – students, researchers, academics, policy-makers, activists and interested non-specialists – with a sophisticated understanding of contemporary discussion, analysis and theorizing of issues pertaining to conflict, citizenship and civil society. It does so through...

    Published March 30th 2012 by Routledge