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The Contemporary Goffman

Edited by Michael Hviid Jacobsen

The sociology of Erving Goffman has inspired generations of sociologists throughout the world. Students and scholars alike have in Goffman’s unsurpassable and generous ability to...

August 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-99681-5 (Routledge)

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The Design Culture Reader

Edited by Ben Highmore

Design is part of ordinary, everyday life, to be found in every room in every building in the world. While we may tend to think...

August 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40356-6 (Routledge)

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Gender, Race and National Identity

Nations of Flesh and Blood

By Jackie Hogan

All nations construct stories of national belonging, stories of the nation’s character, its accomplishments, its defining traits, its historical trajectory. These stories, or discourses of...

August 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-38476-6 (Routledge)

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Vygotsky and Research

By Harry Daniels

This book provides readers with an overview of the implications for research of the theoretical work which acknowledges a debt to the writings of L.S....

August 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-39593-9 (Routledge)

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Cultural Trends

Vol. 15.3

By Various Authors

August 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40941-4 (Routledge)

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The Violence of Incarceration

Edited by Phil Scraton, Jude McCulloch

Conceived in the immediate aftermath of the humiliations and killings of prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq, of the suicides and hunger strikes at Guantanamo Bay...

August 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96313-8 (Routledge)

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Women's Health and Social Change

By Ellen Annandale

Traditional distinctions between the experiences of women and men are breaking down and being reconfigured in new, more complex ways. The long-established life expectancy gap...

July 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-19087-9 (Routledge)

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Gender and Chinese Development

Towards an Equitable Society

By Lanyan Chen

This book takes a look beneath the surface of this "miracle growth", to explore the political economy of this process. Beyond the superficial macroeconomics of...

July 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46723-0 (Routledge)

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Queer Inclusion in the United Methodist Church

By Amanda Udis-Kessler

The United Methodist Church has been in conflict over lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender inclusion issues since 1972. That year, in response to the gay liberation and gay rights...

July 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96249-0 (Routledge)

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Governmentality, Biopower, and Everyday Life

By Majia Holmer Nadesan

Governmentality, Biopower, and Everyday Life synthesizes and extends the disparate strands of scholarship on Foucault's notions of governmentality and biopower and grounds them in familiar...

July 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95854-7 (Routledge)

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