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Forthcoming Sociology & Social Policy Books

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Forthcoming Books

  1. Conspicuous and Inconspicuous Discriminations in Everyday Life

    By Victor N. Shaw

    Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

    In everyday life, people negotiate on issues, entertain offers and counteroffers, and gain or lose in terms of economic capital, political power, communal status, and social influence. Although life goes on in the form of compromise, feelings of discrimination or misfortune haunt consciously or...

    To Be Published May 22nd 2013 by Routledge

  2. Language in Late Capitalism

    Pride and Profit

    Edited by Alexandre Duchêne, Monica Heller

    Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism

    This book examines the ways in which our ideas about language and identity which used to be framed in national and political terms as a matter of rights and citizenship are increasingly recast in economic terms as a matter of added value. It argues that this discursive shift is connected to...

    To Be Published May 23rd 2013 by Routledge

  3. Global Civil Society and Transversal Hegemony

    The Globalization-Contestation Nexus

    By Karen Buckley

    Series: Rethinking Globalizations

    There has been clear recognition of tendencies towards uncritically celebrating resistance and the need for critical appraisal within the literature on globalization and contestation. This book provides a conceptual history of global civil society and a critical examination of the politics of...

    To Be Published May 26th 2013 by Routledge

  4. Epidemiological Criminology

    Theory to Practice

    Edited by Eve Waltermaurer, Timothy Akers

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice

    Epidemiological criminology is an emerging paradigm which explores the public health outcomes associated with engagement in crime and criminal justice. This book engages with this new theory and practice-based discipline drawing on knowledge from criminology, criminal justice, public health,...

    To Be Published May 26th 2013 by Routledge

  5. Gender, Sexuality and Reproduction in Evolutionary Narratives

    By Venla Oikkonen

    Series: Transformations

    Since the early 1990s, evolutionary psychology has produced widely popular visions of modern men and women as driven by their prehistoric genes. In Gender, Sexuality and Reproduction in Evolutionary Narratives, Venla Oikkonen explores the rhetorical appeal of evolutionary psychology by viewing it...

    To Be Published May 26th 2013 by Routledge

  6. Feminist Criminology

    By Claire Renzetti

    Series: Key Ideas in Criminology

    Feminist criminology grew out of the Women’s Movement of the 1970s in response to the neglect of women by, and the male dominance of, mainstream criminology. Examining feminist theoretical perspectives and empirical research in criminology, this key book investigates their impact on the discipline,...

    To Be Published May 27th 2013 by Routledge

  7. 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...

    To Be Published May 28th 2013 by Routledge

  8. Racism, Governance, and Public Policy

    Beyond Human Rights

    By Katy Sian, Ian Law, S. Sayyid

    Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

    This book presents a new framing of policy debates on the question of racism through a discursive critique of contemporary issues and contexts, drawing on a program of new European research carried out between 2010 and 2013, with a central focus on the UK. This includes analysis of the discursive...

    To Be Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge

  9. Children in Crisis

    Ethnographic Studies in International Contexts

    Edited by Manata Hashemi, Martín Sánchez-Jankowski

    Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

    This volume brings together ethnographers conducting research on children living in crisis situations in both developing and developed regions, taking a cross-cultural approach that spans different cities in the global North and South to provide insight and analyses into the lifeworlds of their...

    To Be Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge

  10. The Longings and Limits of Global Citizenship Education

    The Moral Pedagogy of Schooling in a Cosmopolitan Age

    By Jeffrey S. Dill

    Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

    As the world seemingly gets smaller and smaller, schools around the globe are focusing their attention on expanding the consciousness and competencies of their students to prepare them for the conditions of globalization. Global citizenship education is rapidly growing in popularity because it...

    To Be Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge