Sociology: Political Sociology

Edited by Alice Bloch, Giorgia Dona

Forced Migration: Current Issues and Debates provides a critical engagement with and analysis of contemporary issues in the field using inter-disciplinary perspectives, through different geographical case studies and by employing varying methodologies. The combination of authors reviewing both the…

Paperback – 2018-10-20 
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Edited by Kenneth Worthy, Elizabeth Allison, Whitney Bauman

Carolyn Merchant’s foundational 1980 book The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution established her as a pioneering researcher of human-nature relations. Her subsequent groundbreaking writing in a dozen books and over one hundred peer-reviewed articles have only fortified…

Paperback – 2018-10-15 
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By Matthew Crosston

This volume provides a comprehensive and unique look into a crucial emerging issue of global security; how ecological dilemmas and resource scarcity issues will have an increasing influence on and be impacted by intelligence community concerns. Covering issues in parts of Latin America, Africa, the…

Hardback – 2018-10-01 
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Transforming Environmental Politics and Policy

By Yukiko Nishikawa

While Japanese pacifism is usually seen as a national policy or an ideology rooted in the provision of Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, it cannot be adequately understood without grasping Japanese social discourses on peace, war and justice. The perspective of political sociology provides a…

Hardback – 2018-10-01 
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Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

By Kenneth B Liberman

First published in 1985, this book gives an intimate account of the cultural-political conflict between Australian Aboriginal people and Anglo-Australians, presenting the Australian social world from the perspective of the Aboriginal person. Adopting a rigorous ethnomethodological analysis and the…

Paperback – 2018-09-30 
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Directions in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis

By Klaus Eder, Bernd Giesen, Damian Tambini

This title was first published in 2003. Thirty years of sociological and political science enquiry failed to predict the wave of ethnic conflict that swept through Europe in the 1990s, and the continuing ethnic tensions in the developing world. Since then, researchers have been unable to construct…

Hardback – 2018-09-30 
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Routledge Revivals

By Miroslav Hadžic

This title was first published in 2002. This insightful volume examines the period from the death of the Yugoslav People's Army (YPA), to its resurrection as a Serbian army. Miroslav Hadzic has spent his career in the YPA and therefore he knows the institution, and most of the major players, very…

Hardback – 2018-09-30 
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Routledge Revivals

By Werner Bonefeld

Edited by Sergio Tischler

This title was first published in 2002. On the eve of the first centenary of Lenin’s, What is to be Done?, this book provides a critical assessment of the theory and practice of revolution at the start of the new millennium. The volume shows the pertinence of revolution in our post-socialist world…

Hardback – 2018-09-30 
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Routledge Revivals

By Detlef Pollack, Gert Pickel

Edited by Jörg Jacobs

This title was first published in 2003. Engaging directly with some of the most important issues in contemporary politics, this volume deals with the role of political culture in democratic transitions, focusing in particular on democratization in Eastern and Central Europe. The central question is…

Hardback – 2018-09-30 
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Routledge Revivals

By Enver Motala

Edited by John Pampallis

This title was first published in 2002: Has the South African post-apartheid state been able to achieve its stated goals? What has been the relationship between the process of educational reform and the impact on the state of the Constitution and other laws? This seminal book responds to these…

Hardback – 2018-09-30 
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By Christian Aspalter

This title was first published in 2002: Since the bloodless transition from authoritarian state to fully-fledged democracy, Taiwan has undergone a period of dramatic social and political change. In a political culture increasingly dominated by platforms built on social policy issues, this book…

Hardback – 2018-09-30 
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By Francisco Letamendia

This title was first published in 2000. Nationalism and the national question have represented a problem since the early years of the 19th century. Understanding these phenomena represents a challenge for political science, because "the nation" is not a natural phenomenon, rather it is the…

Hardback – 2018-09-30 
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