Political Sociology Books

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41. Making Culture, Changing Society

    By Tony Bennett

    Series: CRESC

    Making Culture, Changing Society proposes a challenging new account of the relations between culture and society focused on how particular forms of cultural knowledge and expertise work on, order and transform society. Examining these forms of culture’s action on the social as aspects of a...

    Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
42. The State and Indigenous Movements

    By Keri E. Iyall Smith

    Series: Indigenous Peoples and Politics

    Using the comparative historical method, this book looks at the experience of indigenous peoples, specifically the Native Hawaiians, showing how a nation can express culture and citizenship while seeking ways to attain greater sovereignty over territory, culture, and politics....

    Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
43. The Promise and Perils of Transnationalization

    NGO Activism and the Socialization of Women’s Human Rights in Egypt and Iran

    By Benjamin Stachursky

    Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

    To date, most constructivist international relations studies have characterized the influence of transnationalism on domestic forms of activism as uniformly positive. In particular, transnational interactions are viewed as positive factors for the development and daily impact of gender activism....

    Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
44. Reinventing Eden

    The Fate of Nature in Western Culture, 2nd Edition

    By Carolyn Merchant

    This revised edition of Carolyn’s Merchant’s classic Reinventing Eden has been updated with a new foreword and afterword. Visionary quests to return to the Garden of Eden have shaped Western Culture. This book traces the idea of rebuilding the primeval garden from its origins to its latest...

    Published March 18th 2013 by Routledge
45. Sustainable Practices

    Social Theory and Climate Change

    Edited by Elizabeth Shove, Nicola Spurling

    Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

    Climate change is widely agreed to be one the greatest challenges facing society today. Mitigating and adapting to it is certain to require new ways of living. Thus far efforts to promote less resource-intensive habits and routines have centred on typically limited understandings of individual...

    Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
46. Youth Citizenship and the Politics of Belonging

    Edited by Sharlene Swartz, Madeleine Arnot

    Around the world today, young people are being called upon to develop civic competence and carry the burden of forging a political future in the midst of impoverishment, exclusion and inequality. In societies that have experienced civil war, military occupation, mass immigration of displaced people...

    Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
47. New Directions in Feminism and Human Rights

    Edited by Dana Collins, Sylvanna Falcon, Sharmila Lodhia, Molly Talcott

    On the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, feminists are at a critical juncture to re-envision and re-engage in a politics of human rights. Interdisciplinary feminist conversations among scholar-activists can both challenge and enrich new directions in feminism and...

    Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
48. Atoms, Bytes and Genes

    Public Resistance and Socio-Technical Responses

    By Martin Bauer

    Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

    This book demonstrates the varied contributions of public resistance to technological developments. Bauer compares public resistance to three strategic technologies over the last fifty years (nuclear power, information technology, and genetic engineering), and shows how resistance contributes to...

    Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
49. Taiwan, Humanitarianism and Global Governance

    By Alain Guilloux

    Series: Routledge Research on Taiwan Series

    In this unique book, Alain Guilloux uses four major elements of governance - namely norms, actors, processes, and outcomes - to examine Taiwan’s national governance as well as its participation in global governance in relation to humanitarian aid. Including case studies on Taiwan’s application to...

    Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
50. Local Organizations and Urban Governance in East and Southeast Asia

    Straddling state and society

    Edited by Benjamin L. Read, Robert Pekkanen

    Series: Routledge Studies on Civil Society in Asia

    This edited collection brings together enterprising pieces of new research on the many forms of organization in East and Southeast Asia that are sponsored or mandated by government, but engage widespread participation at the grassroots level. Straddling the state-society divide, these organizations...

    Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge