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1. Emotions and Social Change

   Historical and Sociological Perspectives

   Edited by Ann Brooks, David Lemmings

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

   This volume - organized around critical perspectives on Norbert Elias's history of emotions - focuses on the history of emotional styles and socio-historical change, providing an analysis of the intersection of historical and sociological perspectives on changes in emotional regimes. Exploring...

   To Be Published March 30th 2014 by Routledge
2. Consulting in Uncertainty

   The Power of Inquiry

   By Ann Brooks, Kathy Edwards

   The traditional model of consulting places an emphasis on diagnosing a problem and finding a cure. But in today’s business world of globalized organizations, rapid knowledge proliferation, and the intertwining of economies, that approach is becoming less and less viable; problems are quickly...

   To Be Published November 4th 2013 by Routledge
3. Social Theory in Contemporary Asia

   By Ann Brooks

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

   Philosophical debates around individualization and the implications for intimacy, reflexivity and identity have occupied a central part of social and cultural theorizing in the West in the last decade. In fact, late modernity has become conspicuously engaged with issues of intimacy, reflexivity and...

   Published March 23rd 2011 by Routledge
4. Gender, Emotions and Labour Markets - Asian and Western Perspectives

   By Ann Brooks, Theresa Devasahayam

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

   Concepts of emotion and emotional labour have largely been defined in European and American terms and according to Euro-American sensibilities with little attention given to the question of whether emotional work or emotional labour is different globally. In particular little has been written about...

   Published December 13th 2010 by Routledge
5. Postfeminisms

   Feminism, Cultural Theory and Cultural Forms

   By Ann Brooks

   Once seen as synonymous with "anti-feminism" postfeminism i now understood as the theoretical meeting ground between feminism and anti-foundationalist movements such as postmodernism, post-structuralism and post-colonialsm. In this clear exposition of some of the major debates, theorists and...

   Published July 2nd 1997 by Routledge