Forthcoming Contemporary Social Theory Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Understanding European Movements

   New Social Movements, Global Justice Struggles, Anti-Austerity Protest

   Edited by Cristina Flesher Fominaya, Laurence Cox

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   European social movements have been central to European history, politics, society and culture, and have had a global reach and impact. Yet they have rarely been taken on their own terms in the English-language literature, considered rather as counterpoints to the US experience. This has been...

   To Be Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge
2. 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
3. The Power of Connection

   Recent Developments in Relational-Cultural Theory

   Edited by Judith Jordan

   Relational-Cultural theory (RCT) proposes that all people grow through and toward relationships throughout the lifespan. RCT challenges prevailing theories that depict the "separate self" as the hallmark of maturity. Rather than movement toward autonomy and separation, RCT suggests we develop ever...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
4. Making Gender, Making War

   Violence, Military and Peacekeeping Practices

   Edited by Annica Kronsell, Erika Svedberg

   Series: Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality

   Making Gender, Making War is a unique interdisciplinary edited collection which explores the social construction of gender, war-making and peacekeeping. It highlights the institutions and processes involved in the making of gender in terms of both men and women, masculinity and femininity. The...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
5. Rethinking Transnational Men

   Beyond, Between and Within Nations

   Edited by Jeff Hearn, Marina Blagojević, Katherine Harrison

   Series: Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality

   The world is becoming more transnational. This edited collection examines how the immense transnational changes in the contemporary world are being produced by and are affecting different men and masculinities. It seeks to shift debates on men, masculinities and gender relations from the strictly...

   To Be Published June 4th 2013 by Routledge
6. The Sociology of Postmarxism

   By Richard Howson

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   Postmarxism’s broad project, since its beginning, has been about rescuing Marxism from the global collapse of Marxist praxis by re-thinking the fundamentalism and determinism that marked classical Marxist theory but that no longer represents Western politico-social reality. The Sociology of...

   To Be Published June 14th 2013 by Routledge
7. Post-identity?

   Culture and European Integration

   Edited by Richard McMahon

   Series: Routledge/ESA Studies in European Societies

   Collective identity, the emotionally powerful sense of belonging to a group, is a crucial source of popular legitimacy for nations. However efforts since the 1990s to politically support European integration by using identity mechanisms borrowed from nationalism have had very limited success....

   To Be Published June 18th 2013 by Routledge
8. Social Capital and Its Institutional Contingency

   A Study of the United States, China and Taiwan

   Edited by Nan Lin, Yang-chih Fu, Chih-jou Jay Chen

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   This volume is a collection of original studies based on one of the first research programs on comparative analysis of social capital. Data are drawn from national representative samples of the United States, China and Taiwan. The three societies selected for study allow the examination of how...

   To Be Published June 20th 2013 by Routledge
9. Emotion and Social Structures

   The Affective Foundations of Social Order

   By Christian von Scheve

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   The past decades have seen significant advances in the sociological understanding of human emotion. Sociology has shown how culture and society shape our emotions and how emotions contribute to micro- and macro-social processes. At the same time, the behavioral sciences have made progress in...

   To Be Published June 26th 2013 by Routledge
10. Migrant Marginality

    A Transnational Perspective

    Edited by Philip Kretsedemas, Jorge Capetillo-Ponce, Glenn Jacobs

    Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

    This edited book uses migrant marginality to problematize several different aspects of global migration. It examines how many different societies have defined their national identities, cultural values and terms of political membership through (and in opposition to) constructions of migrants and...

    To Be Published July 3rd 2013 by Routledge