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Usually conceived in opposition to each other – birth as a hopeful beginning, death as an ending – this book brings them into dialogue with each other to argue that both are central to our experiences of being in the world and part of living. Written by two authors, this book takes an…
Paperback – 2019-12-20
Routledge
The Routledge International Handbook of Perpetrator Studies traces the growth of an important interdisciplinary field, its foundations, key debates and core concerns, as well as highlighting current and emerging issues and approaches and pointing to new directions for enquiry. With a focus on the…
Hardback – 2019-11-14
Routledge
Routledge International Handbooks
This book represents the vanguard of new work in the rapidly growing arena of Trans Studies. Thematically organised, it brings together studies from an international, cross-disciplinary range of contributors to address a range of questions pertinent to the emergence of trans lives and discourses.…
Paperback – 2019-07-16
Routledge
Gender, Bodies and Transformation
Feminism as a method, a movement, a critique, and an identity has been the subject of debates, contestations and revisions in recent years, yet contemporary global developments and political upheavals have again refocused feminism’s collective force. What is feminism now? How do scholars and…
Hardback – 2019-05-31
Routledge
Routledge International Handbooks
In this ground-breaking book, Cambridge-trained sociologist Anthony Elliott argues that much of what passes for conventional wisdom about artificial intelligence is either ill-considered or plain wrong. The reason? The AI revolution is not so much about cyborgs and super-robots in the future, but…
Paperback – 2018-12-20
Routledge
This book originated from a proposal by one author (J. R. H.) who was subsequently joined by a second (E. D.) and then by a third (K. J. G.). It has taken longer to produce than we expected because of the complications imposed by the distances which the authors have succeeded in putting between…
Hardback – 2019-09-13
Routledge
In science, a few areas particularly capture the imagination because of a combination of excitement, substantial technical progress, and implicit significance in affecting the nature and quality of life. Perhaps no area of science exhibits these characteristics more abundantly than that dealing…
Hardback – 2019-09-13
Routledge
At the end of the twentieth century, the bookstores are full of books on crime, though this title will certainly not find a place on the same shelves. In the massive Waterstones bookstore in the city of Manchester, England, where I lived through most of the 1990s, the ground floor display area was…
Hardback – 2019-09-13
Routledge
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With forced migration being at the forefront of political discussion, editors Alice Bloch and Giorgia Dona new timely publication Forced Migration: Current Issues and Debates provides a critical engagement with and analysis of contemporary issues in the field.
Routledge is pleased to share with you our author Q&A; session with Anthony Elliott following the publication of his latest title Routledge Handbook of Celebrity Studies - his 18th book with us!
Graham Room, author of Agile Actors on Complex Terrains, discusses his new book and complex systems in the social sciences.
Erich Goode discusses his inspirations behind his book, Deviant Behavior and how it has grown over the years with each edition.
Tyler Bay commissions a broad range of books in sociology, social work, and women’s and gender studies. He welcomes proposals for textbooks that make both foundational and innovative approaches accessible for students in undergraduate and graduate courses, as well as supplementary readings, edited collections, handbooks, and professional works in these areas.
Gerhard (gerhard@routledge.co.uk) Gerhard Boomgaarden commissions for a world-class Sociology list that features textbooks, supplementary reading, research monographs, edited collections, translations, encyclopedias, and handbooks. He publishes in all established fields of teaching and research, as well as in newer and more interdisciplinary areas. He also manages a team of seven editors in the social sciences.
Emily Briggs commissions research monographs, edited collections, Routledge Focus texts, Handbooks and supplementary/further reading titles in sociology. She is responsible for publishing academically rigorous, ground-breaking research across all sub-disciplines within sociology, but has particular interest in youth studies, ageing studies, feminist and intersectional approaches, gender studies, critical diversity studies, emotion and society, surveillance, activism and resistance, race and ethnicity, emerging societies, the sociology of health and illness, ignorance studies, and research methods (especially ethnography).
Neil Jordan has worked across a number of lists within the social sciences and now publishes a range of texts in sociology, focusing primarily on monographs, research-based books and reference collections. He has a variety of active series and is keen to consider proposals in the areas of social theory, ethics, inequalities, migration, race and ethnicity, popular culture and cultural politics, research methods, the sociology of knowledge, memory studies, globalisation, political and economic sociology, gender studies, the body, the sociology of emotion and social movements.
Alex McGregor commissions books across the broad spectrum of Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her list covers titles across the humanities and social sciences. She is particularly interested in publishing monographs on cutting edge interdisciplinary research and new textbooks for Gender Studies and Women’s Studies courses. Key topics and series include Gender, Sexuality and Media, Masculinity and Pop culture, Gender and Race, LGBTQI Studies, Feminism, Activism, and Global Perspectives.
Shashank S. Sinha publishes monographs, edited volumes and handbooks on a range of subjects including history, sociology, anthropology, linguistics, area studies, indigenous studies and northeast India. He oversees many key series and titles related to several topical themes and heads the Routledge India Originals (RIO) list.
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