Social Theory Books

New and Published Books

1. Routledge Handbook of World-Systems Analysis

   Edited by Salvatore Babones, Christopher Chase-Dunn

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   World-systems analysis has developed rapidly over the past thirty years. Today's students and junior scholars come to world-systems analysis as a well-established approach spanning all of the social sciences. The best world-systems scholarship, however, is spread across multiple methodologies and...

   Published May 24th 2012 by Routledge
2. 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
3. Gambling, Freedom and Democracy

   By Peter J. Adams

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

   As a consequence of the rapid proliferation of commercial gambling in Western-style democracies, governments and communities are encountering a complex array of economic, social and cultural harms associated with this expansion. This book focuses specifically on harms to democratic systems. It...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. 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
5. 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
6. Marxist Aesthetics (Routledge Revivals)

   The foundations within everyday life for an emancipated consciousness

   By Pauline Johnson

   Originally published in 1984, this study deals with a number of influential figures in the European tradition of Marxist theories of aesthetics, ranging from Lukacs to Benjamin, through the Frankfurt School, to Brecht and the Althusserians. Pauline Johnson shows that, despite the great diversity in...

   Published May 8th 2012 by Routledge
7. 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
8. Beyond Methodological Nationalism

   Research Methodologies for Cross-Border Studies

   Edited by Anna Amelina, Devrimsel D. Nergiz, Thomas Faist, Nina Glick Schiller

   Series: Routledge Research in Transnationalism

   Cross-border studies have become attractive for a number of fields, including international migration, studies of material and cultural globalization, and history. While cross-border studies have expanded, the critique on nation-centered research lens has also grown. This book revisits drawbacks of...

   Published April 24th 2012 by Routledge
9. 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
10. Environmental Solidarity

    How Religions Can Sustain Sustainability

    By Pablo Martínez de Anguita

    Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

    The past few decades have seen the beginnings of a convergence between religions and ecological movements. The environmental crisis has called the religions of the world to respond by finding their voice within the larger Earth community. At the same time, a certain religiosity has started to...

    Published April 24th 2012 by Routledge