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41. Globalizing Dissent

    Essays on Arundhati Roy

    Edited by Ranjan Ghosh, Antonia Navarro-Tejero

    Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

    Arundhati Roy is not only an accomplished novelist, but equally gifted in unraveling the politics of globalization, the power and ideology of corporate culture, fundamentalism, terrorism, and other issues gripping today’s world. This volume – featuring prominent scholars from...

    Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
42. Hegemony

    Studies in Consensus and Coercion

    Edited by Richard Howson, Kylie Smith

    Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

    The originality and depth of Gramsci's theory of hegemony is now evidenced in the wide-ranging intellectual applications within a growing corpus of research and writings that include social, political and cultural theory, historical interpretation, gender and globalization. The reason that hegemony...

    Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
43. The Political Philosophy of Michel Foucault

    By Mark G.E. Kelly

    Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

    This book is the first to systematically reconstruct Michel Foucault’s political and philosophical thought across his career. It argues, in the areas of epistemology, power, subjectivity, resistance, politics, and ethics, that Foucault’s work represents the articulation of a consistent and...

    Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
44. The Philosophy of MetaReality

    Creativity, Love and Freedom

    By Roy Bhaskar

    Series: Classical Texts in Critical Realism

    The Philosophy of MetaReality: Creativity, Love and Freedom is the third of three books elaborating Roy Bhaskar’s philosophy of metaReality, which appeared in rapid succession in 2002. A big, rich book teaming with ideas, The Philosophy of MetaReality is undoubtedly the magnum opus of Bhaskar’s...

    Published February 20th 2012 by Routledge
45. 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
46. 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
47. Contexts of Social Capital

    Social Networks in Markets, Communities and Families

    Edited by Ray-May Hsung, Nan Lin, Ronald L. Breiger

    Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

    The concept of social capital refers to the ways in which people make use of their social networks in "getting ahead." Social capital isn’t just about the connections in networks, but fundamentally concerns the distribution of resources on the basis of exchanges. This volume focuses on how social...

    Published February 2nd 2012 by Routledge
48. Understanding the Social Dimension of Sustainability

    Edited by Jesse Dillard, Veronica Dujon, Mary C. King

    Series: Routledge Studies in Development and Society

    The imperative of the twenty-first century is sustainability: to raise the living standards of the world's poor and to achieve and maintain high levels of social health among the affluent nations while simultaneously reducing and reversing the environmental damage wrought by human activity....

    Published February 2nd 2012 by Routledge
49. Human Animal Studies

    An Introduction

    By Fiona Probyn-Rapsey

    Human relationships to animals (both ‘real’ animals and the ideas attached to animality) have shifted over the last century. Pet ownership is on the increase, wildlife has gone from being a threat to being threatened, and animal science ruptures traditional ideas about animal capabilities and human...

    Published January 29th 2012 by Routledge
50. Beyond Relativism

    Raymond Boudon, Cognitive Rationality and Critical Realism

    By Cynthia Lins Hamlin

    Series: Routledge Studies in Critical Realism

    This book argues that critical realism offers the theory of cognitive rationality a real way of overcoming the limitations of methodological individualism by recognising both the agents' - and the social structure's - causal powers and liabilities. Cynthia Lins Hamlin persuasively argues that...

    Published January 19th 2012 by Routledge