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Inequality

There is little question about the colossal importance of inequality in society today. With huge amounts of wealth concentrated in the ha...

What is Political Sociology?

With an entire discipline devoted to political science, what is distinctive about political sociology? This concise book explains what a ...

metroZines #1 Reading the Map - Anleitung zum Kartenlesen

Während das Kartenmachen als Mapping in aller Munde ist, spielt das Kartenlesen bei der kritischen Analyse städtischer Räume bislang kaum...

metroZine #3 Das Atmen der Bilder - Schwarze Löcher und forensische Imagination

Wie handeln die Bilder in Räumen extremer Gewalt? Wie lässt sich vom gewaltsamen Verschwindenlassen erzählen, ohne die Nekropolitik des V...

metroZines #2 Die Tapete als Parergon - und Methode

Als ab Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts Papiertapeten in Rollen konfektioniert und produziert wurden, kam dies einer grafischen Befreiung und e...

African Feminist Praxis - Cartographies of Liberatory Worldmaking

This book explores the flesh and breath of African feminist politics as embodied in activism over the past thirty years against sexism, m...

Marx's Others - Bodies, Affects and Experience

While there recently has been renewed interest in Marx, we cannot simply apply his nearly 200-year-old texts to today's world. Capitalism...

Queer Power Couples - On Love and Possibility

"This photographic celebration of queer love and excellence gathers fourteen LGBTQ+ power couples, offering a glimpse into the journeys t...

A Century of Tomorrows - How Imagining the Future Shapes the Present

Queering the Asian Diaspora

Situated at the intersections of queer studies, diaspora studies and Asian Studies, this book articulates an intersectional cultural poli...

Pride

As Toronto marks the fiftieth year of its first gay rights march comes this celebration of those who march with pride. For the past fifte...

Afropea - A Post-Western and Post-Racist Utopia

Challenging conventional notions of racial and regional identity, Léonora Miano provides a fresh perspective on the complexities of self...

Privileging Place - How Second Homeowners Transform Communities and Themselves

"Over the past several decades and increasingly since the beginning of the pandemic, second homeowners have left a distinctive mark acros...

The Sustainability Class - How to Take Back Our Future from Lifestyle Environmentalists

An original argument that environmental sustainability has been co-opted by the urban elite, along with examples from around the world of...

Handbook of Qualitative and Visual Methods in Spatial Research

Listening, experiencing, drawing or interpreting spaces: narratives, experiences, visualizations and discourses can be helpful for the em...

Hanging Out - The Radical Power of Killing Time

"Hide your phone, stop hustling for a second, and read this passionate argument for the importance of unstructured pre-digital hang." —Pe...

Catalytic Mega-Events - Tokyo 2020 and Planetary Urban Transformation

Mega events are accelerators of urban transformation with lasting effects on urban environments. In the spotlight of the spectacle these ...

The Holocaust Industry - Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering

Controversial indictment of those who exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust for personal and political gain

The Displacement, Extinction and Genocide of the Pontic Greeks 1916-1923

(In der Schriftenreihe »Genozid und Gedächtnis« des Instituts für Diaspora- und Genozidforschung der Ruhr-Universität Bochum.) Over the l...

Organized Crime and American Power - A History

This book presents a comprehensive history of organized crime in the United States - and how it has been a significant part of the nation...

Theorizing Violence

Violence is increasing on many measures. As criminal justice and security interventions become more punitive, rising inequalities diminis...

Conspiracies - History's Greatest Plots, Collusions and Cover Ups

This fascinating hardback guide brings together the most intriguing and compelling conspiracy theories, illustrated with striking full-co...

Soul Woundedness - Spirituality on the Streets of Seattle

A profound exploration into the spiritual beliefs and practices of Seattle's unhoused youth Soul Woundedness is an intimate, piercing boo...

Sociology: Evidence and Insights, Global Edition

For courses in Introductory Sociology. Teach students to use evidence and insights to understand sociological phenomena Sociology: Eviden...

Feminism in Public Debt Too - A Human Rights Approach

This book explores the link between government debt and women's rights. Experts from academia, civil society and international organisati...

Sluts - The truth about slutshaming and what we can do to fight it

From award-winning journalist Beth Ashley comes a groundbreaking investigation into the history of slutshaming, how it continues to affec...

In Defense of Sex - Nonbinary Embodiment and Desire

Examines the need to recenter the category of sex - theorizing sex itself as nonbinary - in contemporary studies of gender and sexuality ...

Ibn Khaldun and the Social Sciences - Discourse on the Condition of Im-possibility

Arabic and European studies of Ibn Khaldun, the great medieval polymath, follow one of two paths. In one direction, scholars interpret hi...

Myths of China - Meet the Gods, Creatures, and Heroes of Ancient China

Delve into a world of magical creatures, powerful gods and brave warriors in this thrilling compendium of ancient Chinese myths. With mor...

All In Her Head - How Gender Bias and Medicalizing Our Moods Harms Women's Mental Health

"Over the past decade, mood disorders have skyrocketed among women, who are twice as likely to be diagnosed as men. ... In a healthcare s...

Whatever the Hell You Want - An Escape Plan to Break Out of Life's Little Boxes and Live Free from Expectations

F*ck the expectations. You can live a life that is bigger than the little boxes others have tried to put you in. Are you expected to: mar...

Clown World

Engaging Erik Olin Wright - Between Class Analysis and Real Utopias

A LIFEWORK FINDING THE SEEDS OF EMANCIPATION IN EXISTING INSTITUTIONS

Out in the World - The Gay Guide to Travelling with Pride

Get ready for an adventure across the world with this essential LGBTQ+ handbook. The Nomadic Boys share their favourite travel experience...

GIS and Spatial Analysis for the Social Sciences - Coding, Mapping, and Modeling

GIS and Spatial Analysis for the Social Sciences, Second Edition is a foundational text that provides sociologists, criminologists, polit...

What Gender Should Be

What is gender? More importantly, what should gender look like in the 21st century? This book brings together philosophy with insights fr...

Planning for the Wrong Pandemic - Covid-19 and the Limits of Expert Knowledge

The fractious and disorganized governmental response to the coronavirus pandemic in the United States prompted many observers to ask: why...

Masculinities Ageing between Cultures - Relationality, Kinship and Care in Dialogue

Global mobility is one of the crucial phenomena of our time. Combining the theoretical frameworks of masculinity studies and age studies,...

Reframing Education Failure and Aspiration - The Rise of the Meritocracy

Education is considered central to social mobility and, following a drive to raise learners' aspirations, an 'aspiration industry' has em...

Inequality and Globalization - Improving Measurement through Integrated Financial Accounts

A remedy for the gap between micro and macro data, making measures of inequality and national income consistent with each otherIncreasing...

The Interloper - Lessons from Resistance in the Field

"A stranger enters your world, and starts asking questions you would prefer not to answer. What do you do? Mostly, when an interloper app...

Weimar's Long Shadow

"The political and cultural lessons drawn from the collapse of the Weimar Republic are invoked in order to understand contemporary threat...

Race, Bordering and Disobedient Knowledge - Activism and Everyday Struggles in Europe

This book delves into the intricate dynamics of contemporary Europe through a groundbreaking exploration of racialised injustices and bor...

Gendering Place and Affect - Attachment, Disruption and Belonging

Drawing on affect theory and the key themes of attachment, disruption and belonging, this book examines the ways in which our placed surr...

Our Future is Biotech - A Plain English Guide to How a Tech Revolution is Changing Our Lives and Our Health for the Better

Tech has been the most important theme for human development for the last several decades. Biotech is next

Covid-19 and the Challenges of Trauma and Responsibility - Ethics, Politics and Spirituality and Alternative Planetary Futures

Covid-19 has created trauma, death and destruction as well as challenged us for transformation of our existing society, economy and polit...

Happy Apocalypse - A History of Technological Risk

How risk, disasters and pollution were managed and made acceptable during the Industrial Revolution

My Glorious Defeats - Hacktivist, Narcissist, Anonymous: A Memoir

Barrett Brown went to prison for four years for leaking intelligence documents. He was released to Trump's America. This is his story. Af...

Administering Global Health - How the Pragmatic and Strategic Business of Doing Global Health Shapes Priorities and Policies

In the last decade, the landscape of global health policy has been transformed, with a marked expansion in the number and type of organiz...

Domestic Workers in Postcolonial Tanzania - Gender, Learning and Unlearning

Domestic Workers in Postcolonial Tanzania focuses on a highly vulnerable group - Tanzanian women domestic workers in private households. ...

Crisis by Design - Emergency Powers and Colonial Legality in Puerto Rico

Devastating hurricanes, deteriorating infrastructure, massive public debt, and a global pandemic make up the continuous crises that plagu...

Controversial Encounters in the Age of Algorithms - How Digital Technologies Are Stifling Public Debate and What to Do about It

This book explores how digital technologies shape our opinions and interactions, often in ways that limit our exposure to diverse perspec...

Drag as Marketplace - Contemporary Cultures, Identities and Business

Today drag has an unprecedented mass cultural appeal. Reaching far beyond traditional queer venues and audiences into the mainstream, it ...

Mad Wife - A Memoir

Submitting to unwanted sex destroyed Kate’s love for her husband But she considered killing herself before she could imagine leaving In t...

Changing Mobilities

Drawing on ethnographic studies of everyday practices of mobile living and working in the context of collaborative innovation in mobile a...

Violence Prevention and Intervention - Coordinated Community Response

Coordinated Community Response (CCR) refers to community-wide efforts to bring together relevant stakeholders to address complex social p...

Muslim Villagers, Child Survival, and Fertility in North India - Contextualising the demographic transition

This book by one of the most accomplished sociologists working on contemporary Indian society explores the intersections between secular ...

Minority Integration and State-Building - Post-communist Transformations

This book examines the political and social transformation of post-communist states. With a focus on minority integration, the author eva...

Capitalism in the Colonies - African Merchants in Lagos, 1851-1931

"A look into the Golden Age of African merchants at the end of the nineteenth century, through case studies in Lagos"--

On Gaslighting

A philosopher examines the complicated phenomenon of gaslighting “Gaslighting” is suddenly in everyone’s vocabulary. It’s written about, ...