Jean Baudrillard is generally recognized as one of the most important and provocative contemporary social theorists. But in the English speaking world...
This authoritative book brings together the sociologies of globalization and the environment in one volume. Steven Yearley argues that environmental...
This book goes beyond Baudrillard's writings on consumer objects, the Gulf War and America, to identify the fundamental logic that underpins his...
An accessible and readable introduction to Bourdieu's work, this book places him in intellectual and historical context, and shows how Bourdieu is...
`Written with clarity and sophistication, it is not just an original argument about relationships of nature and culture, but also a useful text' -...
Bakhtin and the Human Sciences demonstrates the abundance of ideas Bakhtin's thought offers to the human sciences, and reconsiders him as a social...
The dramatic transformation of relationships between humans and animals in the 20th century are investigated in this fascinating and accessible book...
`Barne's work is remarkable in its attempt to transcend previously held dualisms like causal versus voluntaristic explanations, and to advance a model...
de Certeau is often considered to be the theorist of everyday life par excellence. This book provides an unrivalled critical introduction to de...
This critical analysis of long-term trends and recent developments in world systems examines such questions as: Will the cycles of boom and bust...