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Sociology, Social Work and Welfare 

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Sociology, Social Work 

and Welfare 2012 

Contents 

Anthropology ....................................................2 

Criminology .....................................................5 

Cultural and Media Studies. .......................................8 

Family, Childhood and Youth ......................................12 

Gender and Sexuality ............................................13 

Sociology of Health and the Body .................................18 

Political Sociology and Globalization. ..............................20 

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Poverty, Class and Social Stratification .............................24 

Race, Ethnicity and Migration .....................................26 

Sociology of Religion ............................................31 

Sociology of Science and Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 

Social Theory ...................................................35 

Social Welfare ..................................................38 

Social Work ....................................................40 

Index ..................................................................42 

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Anthropology 

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Mortality, Mourning 

and Mortuary Practices 

in Indigenous Australia 

Edited by Katie Glaskin, Myrna Tonkinson, 

Yasmine Musharbash and Victoria Burbank, 

all at University of Western Australia, Australia 

ANTHROPOLOGY AND CULTURAL HISTORY 

IN ASIA AND THE INDO-PACIFIC 

“This volume is an important contribution to the 

anthropology of death. It provides both timely and 

thorough ethnographic accounts and analyses of how 

Indigenous Australians handle and manage extremely 

high mortality rates. These studies offer a much better 

understanding of the social consequences and human 

dimensions of dealing with bereavement in everyday 

life than bare statistics ever will.” 

—Eric Venbrux, Radboud University 

Nijmegen, The Netherlands 

2009 260 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-7449-8 $114.95 

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Patrons of History 

Nobility, Capital and Political 

Transitions in Poland 

Longina Jakubowska, Utrecht University, 

The Netherlands 

Drawing on rich interview material spanning 

fifteen years, Patrons of History sheds light 

not only on communism as it existed and the 

stratification that persisted under such regimes, 

but also on the functioning of relationships of power 

and the ways in which privilege can be studied in the 

contemporary world. As such, this book will appeal 

to anthropologists, sociologists, ethnographers and 

historians interested in cultural and social capital, 

inequality and resistance. 

Contents: Preface; The class that would not perish; 

Historical capital; Positioned histories: narratives 

of patriotism and the rift of the Second World War; 

Land reform and the dismantling of a class; On trial: 

1947–1956; Noble silence: public discourse, private 

lives; The endurance of prestige; References; Index. 

July 2012 

c. 272 pages 

Hardback 978-1-4094-4373-5 c. $124.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-4374-2 


Radical Human Ecology 

Intercultural and Indigenous Approaches 

Edited by Lewis Williams and Rose Roberts, 

both at University of Saskatchewan and 

Alastair McIntosh, Centre for Human 

Ecology and University of Strathclyde, UK 

“Below the clamor of a bustling world, this volume 

imparts the seeds of a radical alternative for human 

ecology…This is not the human ecology of a 

prehistoric fireside or an academic symposium. 

It is an unconventional and timely pedagogy of hope.” 

—From the Foreword by Richard J. Borden, 

College and Past-President/Executive 

Director, Society for Human Ecology 

Human ecology—the study and practice of 

relationships between the natural and the social 

environment—has gained prominence as scholars 

seek more effectively to engage with pressing 

global concerns. In the past seventy years most 

human ecology has skirted the fringes of geography, 

sociology and biology. This volume pioneers radical 

new directions. In particular, it explores the power of 

indigenous and traditional peoples’ epistemologies 

both to critique and to complement insights from 

modernity and postmodernity. 

January 2012 452 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-7768-0 $139.95 

ebook 978-0-7546-9516-5 


Violence Expressed 

An Anthropological Approach 

Edited by Maria Six-Hohenbalken, Austrian 

Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria 

and Nerina Weiss, University of Oslo, Norway 

“Brilliant: a truly global tour de force on the complex 

life of violence—the ‘wars of the 4th generation’— 

by the field’s leading anthropologists. Compelling, 

comprehensive, illuminating…” 

—Carolyn Nordstrom, University of Berkeley 

Violence Expressed explores the diverse expressions 

and manifestations through which the meaning 

of violent experiences and events are (re)produced. 

A compelling contribution to ongoing discussions 

on anthropological writing, this book will be of interest 

to anthropologists and social scientists working on 

violence, gender, collective representations and memory. 

February 2011 264 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-7884-7 $114.95 

ebook 978-0-7546-9753-4 


Serendipity in 

Anthropological Research 

The Nomadic Turn 

Edited by Haim Hazan, Tel Aviv University, Israel and 

Esther Hertzog, Beit Berl Academic College, Israel 

“This is a most fitting tribute to the life-long work 

of Emanuel Marx, the great practitioner and teacher 

of anthropology, and indefatigable explorer of the 

ways and means of interaction between cultures and 

of the accelerated pace of cultural transformations…” 

—Zygmunt Bauman, University of Leeds, UK, 

and author of, Modernity and the Holocaust 

and Modernity and Ambivalence 

Serendipity in Anthropological Research explores the 

role of fortune and happenstance in anthropology. 

It conceives of anthropological research as a lifelong 

nomadic journey of discovery in which the world 

yields an infinite number of unexplored issues 

and innumerable ways of studying them, each 

study producing its own questions and demanding 

its own methodologies. 

Contents: Foreword; Introduction: towards 

a nomadic turn in anthropology, Haim Hazan 

and Esther Hertzog. Part I: Navigation: Errancy in 

ethnography and theory: on the meaning and role of 

‘discovery’ in anthropological research, Ugo Fabietti; 

The growth of a conception: nomads and cities, 

Emanuel Marx; Seductive communities: on nonrepresentational 

constructions, Haim Hazan. Part II: 

Mirage: Israeli soldiers, Japanese children: fieldwork 

and the dynamics of participant-observation and 

reflection, Eyal Ben-Ari; Privileged and volatile 

nomadism, Shifra Kisch; Becoming a triple stranger: 

autoethnography of a kibbutznik’s long journey to 

discoveries of researchers’ faults, Reuven Shapira; 

Some cautionary tales from an anthropological 

romance with Jews from Libya, Harvey E. Goldberg; 

Moving field work: ethnographic experiences in the 

Israeli-Palestinian space, Cédric Parizot. Part III: The 

Journey: Spiritual travels, social knowledge: entering 

the space of Tuareg possession, Susan Rasmussen; 

Flying witches, embodied memories, and the 

wanderings of an anthropologist, Raquel Romberg; 

The anthropologist as a nomad in dangerous 

fields and the emergence of cultural criminology, 

Dina Siegel; The straw in anthropologists’ boots: 

studying nobility in Poland, Longina Jakubowska. 

Part IV: Wandering: The cosmopolitan movement 

of the global guest, Nigel Rapport; Social science 

under siege: the Middle East, Dale F. Eickelman; The 

suspicious anthropologist: documenting my mother’s 

holocaust, Esther Hertzog. Part V: Oases: The 

significance of colours in pastoral Bedouin society, 

Aref Abu-Rabi’a; The structure of Bedouin society 

in the Negev: Emanuel Marx’s Bedouin of the Negev 

revisited, Frank H. Stewart; Bones of contention, 

Alex Weingrod; Through the kaleidoscope: looking 

back at the prison, Ofra Greenberg; Index. 


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Sociology, Social Work and Welfare 2012 

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Anthropology 

URBAN ANTHROPOLOGY 

Series Editors: Italo Pardo and Giuliana Prato, both at University of Kent, UK 

Urban Anthropology is the first series of its kind to be established by a major academic publisher. 

Ethnographically global, the series includes original, empirically based works of high analytical 

and theoretical calibre. All volumes published in the series are peer-reviewed. The editors encourage 

submission of sole authored and edited manuscripts that address key issues that have comparative 

value in the current international academic and political debates. These issues include: the methodological 

challenges posed by urban field research; the role of kinship, family and social relations; the gap between 

citizenship and governance; the legitimacy of policy and the law; the relationships between the legal, the 

semi-legal and the illegal in the economic and political fields; the role of conflicting moralities across the 

social, cultural and political spectra; the problems raised by internal and international migration; the informal 

sector of the economy and its complex relationships with the formal sector and the law; the impact of the 

process of globalization on the local level and the significance of local dynamics in the global context; urban 

development, sustainability and global restructuring; conflict and competition within and between cities. 

For full series details, visit www.ashgate.com/urbananthropology 

Citizenship and the 

Legitimacy of Governance 

Anthropology in the Mediterranean Region 

Edited by Italo Pardo and Giuliana B. Prato, 

both at University of Kent, UK 


“This book represents a long-awaited comeback of 

theoretical reflection upon and field research within 

Mediterranean societies, which, in the aftermath 

of harsh criticism, had practically vanished from 

anthropological debate. By dealing with burning issues 

such as citizenship, legitimacy and governance it 

presents a thought-provoking and innovative approach 

to themes that the anthropology of the Mediterranean 

world had not tackled before.” 

—Christian Giordano, University 

of Fribourg, Switzerland 

2010 234 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-7401-6 $99.95 

ebook 978-0-7546-9149-5 


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The New Environmentalism? 

Civil Society and Corruption 

in the Enlarged EU 

Davide Torsello, University of Bergamo, Italy 


“Torsello’s work is rich in stimulating analysis of 

the theoretical literature on contentious social 

movements yet firmly grounded in his ethnography of 

environmentalist organizations in Slovakia, Hungary, 

the Czech Republic and Italy. His deliberate attention 

to historical local/global boundaries and relations 

gives new meaning and utility to concepts of civil 

society and political corruption.” 

—Peter Schneider, Fordham University 

Comparative in approach, The New Environmentalism? 

provides new insights into the emergence of strong 

civic movements at local and trans-local levels, in 

resistance to citizens’ sense of increasing alienation 

from political participation and decision making. 

As such, it will be of interest to anthropologists, 

sociologists and political scientists concerned with 

questions of legitimacy, corruption and activism. 

Contents: Introduction; Environmentalism; 

Civil society: ambiguities and opportunities; The 

ethnographic study of corruption; Case 1: the 

motorway transport project in Považská Bystrica, 

Slovakia; Case 2: road transport development in 

the Czech Republic—the Brno-Vienna highway; 

Case 3: railway transport project in North-Western 

Italy—the TAV; Case 4: the Budapest M0 ring-road; 

Case 5: illegal waste export to Central Eastern 

Europe; Conclusions: inside the Green Commando; 

Bibliography; Index. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-2364-5 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-2365-2 


Seeing Cities Change 

Local Culture and Class 

Jerome Krase, City University of New York 


Seeing Cities Change demonstrates the utility of a 

visual approach and the study of ordinary streetscapes 

to document and analyze how the built environment 

reflects the changing cultural and class identities 

of neighborhood residents. Discussing the manner 

in which these changes relate to issues of local and 

national identities and multiculturalism, it presents 

studies of various cities on both sides of The Atlantic 

to show how global forces and the competition 

between urban residents in “contested terrains” 

is changing the faces of cities across the globe. 

Contents: Introduction; Seeing diversity in New York 

City; Seeing Little Italy change; Chinatown: a visual 

approach to ethnic spectacles; Visualizing American 

cities; Polish and Italian landscapes; Seeing ethnic 

succession in Big Italy; Gentrification in Poland and 

polonia; Seeing community in a multicultural society; 

References; Index. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-2878-7 $104.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-2879-4 


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Anthropology 

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ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDIES 

OF CREATIVITY AND PERCEPTION 

Series Editor: Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen, UK 

The books in this series explore the relations, in human social and cultural life, between perception, creativity and 

skill. Their common aim is to move beyond established approaches in anthropology and material culture studies 

that treat the inhabited world as a repository of complete objects, already present and available for analysis. 

Instead these works focus on the creative processes that continually bring these objects into being, along 

with the persons in whose lives they are entangled. 

For full series details, visit www.ashgate.com/sociology 

Conversations With Landscape 

Edited by Karl Benediktsson and 

Katrín Anna Lund, both at University of Iceland 



“The central theme is clear and persuasive, the focus 

on northern landscapes fascinating throughout. 

Conversations with Landscape offers a consistently 

excellent set of essays which will be welcomed and 

widely read by anthropologists, cultural geographers, 

visual and aesthetic theorists, and, in particular, 

the wide interdisciplinary community of landscape 

scholars and students.” 

—John Wylie, University of Exeter, UK 

2010 276 pages 

Hardback 978-1-4094-0186-5 $114.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-0187-2 


Ways of Walking 

Ethnography and Practice on Foot 

Edited by Tim Ingold and Jo Lee Vergunst, 

both at University of Aberdeen, UK 



“This fascinating collection, edited by Aberdeenbased 

anthropologists Tim Ingold and Jo Lee Vergunst, 

unveils the tacit nature of walking and will likely 

make most readers take a different stroll through 

their own ethnographic data. The volume convincingly 

demonstrates that walking is not merely another 

field of enquiry, but an integral, and often forgotten, 

aspect of social life per se.” 

—Social Anthropology 

2008 218 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-7374-3 $114.95 


Redrawing Anthropology 

Materials, Movements, Lines 

Edited by Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen, UK 



“Drawing (in both senses) bodily trajectories 

in/from fleeting instants of insight and touch, 

these authors explore vital convergences between 

being and movement, perception and description, 

past and future. Their work reveals how we 

experience life itself.” 

—Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University 

Drawing on expertise from various fields, this 

ground-breaking volume of twelve chapters 

explores the potential of a graphic anthropology 

to change the way we think. Along the way a team 

of authors from the UK, Europe, North America 

and Australia contribute to key debates on what 

happens in making, the relation between design 

and performance, how people acquire bodily skills, 

the place of movement in human self-awareness, 

the relation between walking and imagination, 

and the perception of time. 

Contents: Preface; Introduction, Tim Ingold; 

Materials in making, Stephanie Bunn; Practice 

drawing writing object, Lesley McFadyen; Networks 

of objects, meshworks of things, Carl Knappett; 

Thinking through movement: practising martial arts 

and writing ethnography, Rupert Cox; Learning the 

‘banana tree’: self-modification through movement, 

Greg Downey; Performing precision and the limits 

of observation, Brenda Farnell and Robert N. Wood; 

The imaginative consciousness of movement: 

linear quality, kinaesthesia, language and life, 

Maxine Sheets-Johnstone; Beyond A to B, 

Griet Scheldeman; Drawing with our feet 

(and trampling the maps): walking with video as 

a graphic anthropology, Sarah Pink; ‘Both created 

and discovered’: the case for reverie and play 

in a redrawn anthropology, Amanda Ravetz; 

Expanded visions: rethinking anthropological 

research and representation through experimental 

film, Arnd Schneider; Index. 

December 2011 216 pages 

Hardback 978-1-4094-1774-3 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-1775-0 


Photography, Anthropology 

and History 

Expanding the Frame 

Edited by Christopher Morton, University 

of Oxford, UK and Elizabeth Edwards, 

University of the Arts London (LCC), UK 

“This volume is l kely to serve as a stimulus to the 

new phase of research that is getting underway— 

an essential text in any course, undergraduate 

or postgraduate, that references anthropology 

and photography.” 

—Nicolas Peterson, The Australian 

National University, Australia 

2009 310 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-7909-7 $114.95 

ebook 978-0-7546-9800-5 


Ritual 

Edited by Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern, 

both at University of Pittsburgh 

THE INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY 

OF ESSAYS IN ANTHROPOLOGY 

This volume is a unique research tool for those 

interested in pursuing the study of ritual processes in 

depth. The papers selected cover classic and recent 

themes and display both historical and contemporary 

approaches. The introduction complements the 

selection of papers with an overall survey of the field 

and with critical reflections on the topics covered. 

2010 612 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-2748-7 $325.00 



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Criminology 

The Ashgate Research 

Companion to Biosocial 

Theories of Crime 

Edited by Kevin M. Beaver, Florida State University 

and Anthony Walsh, Boise State University 

“This is the most impressive, comprehensive 

and informative review of research on biological 

contributions to criminology. It should be required 

reading for all criminologists who are interested 

in understanding and explaining criminal behavior.” 

—David P. Farrington, Cambridge University, UK 

This work spans multiple levels of analysis and 

thus multiple disciplines, offering an essential 

overview of the current state of research in the field. 

Contents: Part I: Introduction and Overview 

of Biosocial Criminology: Biosocial criminology, 

Kevin M. Beaver and Anthony Walsh; Biosocial 

interactions and correlates of crime, Anna Rudo-Hutt, 

Yu Gao, Andrea Glenn, Melissa Peskin, Yaling Yang 

and Adrian Raine; The relationship between low resting 

heart rate and antisocial behavior: correlation or 

causation?, Todd A. Armstrong. Part II: Genetics and 

Crime: The genetics of criminality and delinquency, 

Lisabeth Fisher DiLalla and Sufna Gheyara; Molecular 

genetics and crime, John Paul Wright, Kristan Moore 

and Jamie Newsome; Gene x environment interactions 

in antisocial behavior, Christopher J. Ferguson. Part III: 

The Brain and Crime: Neurotransmitters: indirect 

molecular invitations to aggression, Raymond E. Collins; 

The limbic system and crime, Matt DeLisi; 

Neurobiological perspectives of brain vulnerability 

in pathways to violence over the life course, 

Denise Paquette Boots; The neuroscientific basis 

of situational action theory, Kyle Treiber. Part IV: 

Environments and Crime: The independence of 

criminological ‘predictor’ variables: a good deal of 

concerns and some answers from behavioral genetic 

research, H. Harrington Cleveland, Charles Beekman 

and Yao Zheng; Birth complications and the 

development of criminality: a biosocial perspective, 

Stephen G. Tibbetts; Presaging problem behavior: 

the mutability of child temperament, parenting, 

and family environments from gestation to age three, 

Matt DeLisi and Michael G, Vaughn; Social class 

and criminal behavior through a biosocial lens, 

Anthony Walsh and David G. Mueller. Part V: 

Evolutionary Psychology and Crime: Women’s 

avoidance of rape: an evolutionary psychological 

perspective, William F. McKibbin and Todd K. Shackelford; 

The search for human rape and anti-rape adaptations: 

10 years after A Natural History of Rape, 

Ryan M. Ellsworth and Craig T. Palmer; The nature 

and utility of low self-control, Richard P. Wiebe. 

Part VI: Implications of Biosocial Research: 

Biosocial treatment and prevention strategies, 

Michael G. Vaughn and Ralph Groom; From petri 

dish to public policy: a discussion of the implications 

of biosocial research in the criminal justice arena, 

Joseph Rukus and Chris L. Gibson; Index. 

November 2011 460 pages 

Hardback 978-1-4094-0843-7 $149.95 

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ASHGATE ORIGINAL RESEARCH 

Disability Hate Crimes 

Does Anyone Really Hate Disabled People? 

Mark Sherry, University of Toledo, Ohio 

“…groundbreaking…This work will help readers 

to define hate crimes as well as place the issue of 

disability hate crimes in their wider social context… 

Highly recommended.” 

—Choice 

2010 182 pages 

Hardback 978-1-4094-0781-2 $59.95 

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Doing Harder Time? 

The Experiences of an Ageing Male Prison 

Population in England and Wales 

Natalie Mann, Anglia Ruskin University, UK 

“Revealing for the first time the plight of older men in 

prison and addressing the challenges faced by prison 

officers in managing the needs of this cohort Mann 

approaches her research material with sensitivity 

and shows that the needs of an ageing prison 

population have to be confronted. It is an engaging 

and challenging read—a must for those who are 

interested and working with older offenders.” 

—Azrini Wahidin, Queen’s University Belfast, UK 

Framed within the theoretical perspective of 

structuration theory, but also drawing on aspects 

of Goffman’s interactionism and Bourdieu’s concept 

of habitus, this book offers a unique interpretation of 

research carried out with ageing prisoners and their 

prison officers and shows the reality of prison for 

those who are reaching the end of their life course. 

Contents: Introduction; The child sex offenders; 

Ageing and the prison regime; Coping strategies 

and sources of support; power, order and the 

maintenance of a masculine identity; Discussions 

and conclusions; Appendices; Bibliography; Index. 

April 2012 152 pages 

Hardback 978-1-4094-2804-6 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-2805-3 


Jury Psychology: Social 

Aspects of Trial Processes 

Psychology in the Courtroom, Volume I 

Edited by Joel D. Lieberman, University 

of Nevada, Las Vegas and Daniel A. Krauss, 

Claremont McKenna College 

PSYCHOLOGY, CRIME AND LAW 

2009 256 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-2641-1 $89.95 

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Guarding Against Crime 

Measuring Guardianship 

within Routine Activity Theory 

Danielle M. Reynald, Griffith University, Australia 

“Reynald delivers a wake-up call for all researchers and 

practitioners interested in the environmental approach 

to criminology. She unravels and clarifies the rather 

under-researched process of guardianship and its 

central role in crime prevention, through a carefully 

designed series of incremental observational and 

interview studies. In future, no criminologist can 

write about guardianship without discussing this 

ground-breaking work.” 

—Henk Elffers, Netherlands Institute for the 

Study of Crime and Law Enforcement 

NSCR, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

This ground-breaking book examines the critical 

role that citizens play in guarding against crime. 

By focusing on the ways in which residents are able 

to capably guard their residential environments from 

crime, Reynald shows how local residents function 

(or fail to function) as effective crime controllers. 

The studies contained herein are aimed at developing 

our theoretical, empirical and practical understanding 

of the function of the capable guardian as a critical, 

yet elusive actor in the crime event model. 

Contents: Introduction: guarding against crime; 

The guardians, guardianship and defensible space 

in residential crime prevention; Theories related to 

defensible space and guardianship of residential 

environments; Presenting guardianship in action: 

how local residents guard against crime; Observing 

guardianship in action: putting the model of active 

guardianship to the test; Environmental predictors 

of active residential guardianship; Daytime and 

nighttime guardianship and property crime: 

considering the offender’s perspective; Supervision 

and residents’ ability to detect potential offenders; 

Decision making by guardians affecting the decision 

to intervene; Supplement to chapters 8 and 9: 

supervision, intervention and the neighbourhood 

context; Conclusions and directions for the future; 



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Loss of Control and 

Diminished Responsibility 

Domestic, Comparative 

and International Perspectives 

Edited by Alan Reed, Sunderland University, UK 

and Michael Bohlander, Durham University, UK 

“This book is a notable contribution to the debate 

about partial defenses to murder in cases of loss of 

self-control. The authors analyze and evaluate this 

question not just in the UK, but in other jurisdictions, 

presenting a comparative view of this defense in cases 

of domestic abuse, self-defense of battered women, 

sexual infidelity killings and provocation, giving us 

a balanced and comprehensive perspective from 

different legal views and cultures.” 

—Francisco Muñoz-Conde, Universidad 

Pablo Olavide, Spain 

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This book provides a leading point of reference in the 

field of partial defenses to murder and with respect to 

the mental condition defenses of loss of control and 

diminished responsibility in general. The work includes 

contributions from leading specialists from different 

jurisdictions. Analyzing concerns such as domestic 

violence, revenge and mixed motive killings and 

mistaken beliefs, it also presents a comparative and 

international view to provide a wider background of 

how alternative systems treat issues of human frailty. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-3175-6 $144.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-3176-3 



Criminology 

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ADVANCES IN CRIMINOLOGY 

Series Editor: David Nelken, University of Macerata, Italy and Cardiff University, UK 

The Advances in Criminology series seeks to publish original cutting-edge contributions to the 

fields of criminology, criminal justice and penology. Volumes include discussions of Foucault and 

“governmentality”; critical criminology; victims and criminal justice; corporate crime; comparative 

criminology and women’s prisons. 

For full series details, visit www.ashgate.com/advancesincriminology 

The Arts of Imprisonment 

Control, Resistance and Empowerment 

Edited by Leonidas K. Cheliotis, Queen Mary, 

University of London, UK 


“Leonidas Cheliotis has provided a profoundly 

scholarly and highly readable exploration of the many 

ways in which the arts and prison life intersect. The 

contributions collected in this volume are relevant 

globally but also offer local depth and range from 

the German Red Army Faction to US prison choirs, 

from educational and therapeutic programs to media 

initiatives and the ‘arts of resistance’…” 

—Gonda Van Steen, University of Florida 

This edited collection sheds light both on state use 

of the arts for the purposes of controlling prisoners 

and the broader public, and the use made of the arts 

by prisoners and portions of the broader public as 

tools of resistance to penal states. The book also 

includes a number of chapters that address arts-inprisons 

programs, making distinctive contributions 

to the literature on their philosophy, formation, 

operation, effectiveness and research evaluation, 

but taking care to explore the politics surrounding 

and underpinning all these themes as well. 

May 2012 

c. 320 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-7586-0 c. $134.95 


Comparative Criminal Justice 

and Globalization 

Edited by David Nelken, University 

of Macerata, Italy and Cardiff University, UK 


“Comparative Criminal Justice and Globalization 

imaginatively juxtaposes work by leading 

contemporary scholars of two usually separate 

subjects. Editor David Nelken’s incisive, nuanced 

opening and closing essays provide analytical and 

conceptual frameworks that will shape understanding, 

and future research and writing, for years to come.” 

—Michael Tonry, University of Minnesota 

In this exciting and topical collection, leading scholars 

discuss the implications of globalization for the fields 

of comparative criminology and criminal justice. 

July 2011 

228 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-7681-2 $104.95 

ebook 978-0-7546-9359-8 


The Hidden Order of Corruption 

An Institutional Approach 

Donatella della Porta, European University 

Institute, Italy and Alberto Vannucci, 

University of Pisa, Italy 


“Uncertainty, mutual distrust and fear are usually 

things to avoid. Yet, Della Porta and Vannucci show 

that they are essential for the control of corruption. 

Interpersonal trust and norms of reciprocity facilitate 

bribery. Their rich and fascinating book illustrates 

this argument with a wide variety of examples, 

ranging from Italy to Illinois to Sub-Saharan Africa.” 

—Susan Rose-Ackerman, Yale Law School 

This book investigates the hidden order of corruption, 

looking at the invisible codes and mechanisms that 

govern and stabilize the links between corrupters 

and corruptees. This book is theoretically informed 

and based on empirically sound research on 

a central challenge for democratic quality and 

as such presents an important study of corruption 

in democratic countries. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-7899-1 $124.95 

ebook 978-0-7546-9771-8 


Racial Criminalization of 

Migrants in the 21st Century 

Edited by Salvatore Palidda, 

University of Genoa, Italy 


“As the criminalization of immigrants, often coupled 

with processes of racialization and expressions of 

religious intolerance, has become a major issue in 

Western Europe, Salvatore Palidda’s edited volume 

offers an important and timely contribution to the 

understanding of phenomena which put to the test 

the very heart of our democracies.” 

—Didier Fassin, Institute for 

Advanced Study, Princeton 

In the course of the last two decades, the number 

of arrests, imprisonment and detention of aliens and 

citizens of foreign origin has increased significantly 

in the West. This volume examines this growing 

trend towards racial criminalization and victimization 

of migrants in the West, exploring the problem 

in a polysemous context that concerns immigrants, 

deviants and the many salient characteristics 

affecting both emigrating and immigrating 

societies and relations between the two poles. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-0749-2 $134.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-0750-8 


Networks and National Security 

Dynamics, Effectiveness and Organisation 

Chad Whelan, Deakin University, Australia 

“…This book provides an outstanding analysis of 

the dynamics and effectiveness of security networks 

that will fascinate scholars and practitioners alike. An 

original contribution that will provoke further research.” 

—Grant Wardlaw, Australian National 

University, Australia 

This analysis presents a highly innovative, qualitative 

study of networks in the field of national security. 

Developing our understanding of “organizational 

networks” in organizational theory, management 

and public administration, and “security net-works” 

in criminology and international relations, Whelan 

presents a multi-disciplinary analysis of network 

forms of organization. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-3123-7 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-3124-4 


The Neurobiology 

of Criminal Behavior 

Gene-Brain-Culture Interaction 

Anthony Walsh and Jonathan D. Bolen, 

both at Boise State University 

“This book presents extremely interesting and valuable 

information about the importance of neurobiology in 

the understanding of criminal behavior. It throws new 

light on many important issues such as the age-crime 

curve, gender differences in crime, low intelligence 

and crime, violence, psychopathy, hyperactivity and 

the effects of substance abuse. It should be essential 

reading for all criminologists.” 

—David P. Farrington, University of Cambridge, UK 

The main feature of this work is that it explores 

criminal behavior from all aspects of Tinbergen’s 

Four Questions. Rather than focusing on a single 

theoretical point of view, this book examines the 

neurobiology of crime from a biosocial perspective. 

It suggests that it is necessary to understand some 

genetics and neuroscience in order to appreciate 

and apply relevant concepts to criminological issues. 

Presenting up-to-date information on the circuitry of 

the brain, the authors explore and examine a variety 

of characteristics, traits and behavioral syndromes 

related to criminal behavior. 

March 2012 232 pages 

Hardback 978-1-4094-3841-0 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-3842-7 



ASHGATE

Criminology 

Persisters and Desisters 

in Crime from Adolescence 

into Adulthood 

Explanation, Prevention and Punishment 

Edited by Rolf Loeber, University of Pittsburgh, 

Machteld Hoeve, University of Amsterdam, The 

Netherlands, N. Wim Slot, VU University Amsterdam, 

The Netherlands and Peter van der Laan, 

University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

“Loeber and colleagues have done it again! Following 

on the success of Tomorrow’s Criminals, this book 

brings together top-notch scholarship and intelligent 

policy proposals on another pressing social issue of 

our age: the transition of juvenile delinquency to adult 

crime. It demands serious attention.” 

—Brandon C. Welsh, Northeastern University and 

Senior Research Fellow, NSCR, The Netherlands 

Focusing on the transition between juvenile offending 

and adult crime, this book examines research based 

on Dutch, European and North-American studies 

on the persistence and discontinuity of offending 

between late adolescence and early adulthood. 

June 2012 c. 304 pages 

Hardback 978-1-4094-3192-3 c. $124.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-3193-0 


Policing Cyber Hate, Cyber 

Threats and Cyber Terrorism 

Edited by Imran Awan and Brian Blakemore, 

both at University of Glamorgan, UK 

“…This new title is required reading for all in authority 

who are charged with the responsibility of countering 

the cyber threat and is an important contribution 

to understanding this phenomenon.” 

—Andrew Staniforth, North East Counter Terrorism 

Unit & Honorary Research Fellow, City University, UK 

This book brings together a diverse range of 

multidisciplinary ideas to explore the extent of 

cyber threats, cyber hate and cyber terrorism. It also 

shows how this activity forms in our communities 

and what can be done to try to prevent individuals 

from becoming cyber terrorists. 

Contents: Introduction, Imran Awan and 

Brian Blakemore; Cyberspace, cyber crime and 

cyber terrorism, Brian Blakemore; Cyber threats 

and cyber terrorism, Imran Awan; Psychological 

aspects of cyber hate and cyber terrorism, Jane Prince; 

Cults, Brian Blakemore; Hate in a cyber age, 

Geoff Coliandris; The global phenomenon of cyber 

terrorism, Imran Awan; Knowledge management and 

cyber terrorism, James Gravell; Intelligence gathering 

and police systems, Colin Rogers; National and 

international cyber security strategies, Tim Read; 

Policing cyber hate, cyber threats and cyber 

terrorism, Imran Awan and Brian Blakemore; Index. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-3816-8 c. $74.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-3817-5 


Principles of Geographical 

Offender Profiling 

Edited by David Canter and Donna Youngs, 

both at University of Huddersfield, UK 

PSYCHOLOGY, CRIME AND LAW 

2008 274 pages 

Paperback 978-0-7546-2549-0 $44.95 

Hardback 978-0-7546-2547-6 $114.95 


Probation Practice 

and the New Penology 

Practitioner Reflections 

John Deering, University of Wales, Newport, UK 

“This important book gives a voice to those who 

implement the theories and practices of probation 

work and in so doing provides a glimmer of hope for 

those who have conceded the defeat of humanitarian 

values to right and left wing punitivists…” 

—Maurice Vanstone, Swansea University, UK 

This study discovers the extent to which practitioners 

within the National Probation Service for England and 

Wales and the National Offender Management Service 

ascribe to the values, attitudes and beliefs associated 

with these macro and mezzo level changes and how 

much their practice has changed accordingly. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-0140-7 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-0141-4 


The Right Not 

to be Criminalized 

Demarcating Criminal Law’s Authority 

Dennis J. Baker, King’s College, 


APPLIED LEGAL PHILOSOPHY 

Shortlisted for the SLS Peter Birks Prize 

for Outstanding Legal Scholarship 2011 

“Dennis Baker provides fascinating insight into the 

justification, if any, for criminalizing conduct that is 

not in itself harmful. His book is a rich resource for 

arguments about criminalization of many controversial 

activities in the world today.” 

—Jeremy Horder, King’s College London, UK 

This book presents arguments and proposals for 

constraining criminalization, with a focus on the 

legal limits of the criminal law. The book approaches 

the issue by showing how the moral criteria for 

constraining unjust criminalization can and has been 

incorporated into constitutional human rights and thus 

provides a legal right not to be unfairly criminalized. 

June 2011 312 pages 

Hardback 978-1-4094-2765-0 $124.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-2766-7 


Securing and Sustaining 

the Olympic City 

Reconfiguring London for 2012 and Beyond 

Pete Fussey, University of Essex, UK, Jon Coaffee, 

University of Birmingham UK, Gary Armstrong, 

Brunel University, UK and Dick Hobbs, University 

of Essex, UK 

“…a very interesting interdisciplinary study 

of the security construction for the London 2012 

Olympic Games, which enriches the nascent field 

of Olympic Security…” 

—Minas Samatas, University of Crete, Greece 

Through analyzing the social and community impact 

of the 2012 Games and its security operation on East 

London, this book considers whether utopian visions 

of legacy can be sustained given the demands of 

providing a global securitized event on the magnitude 

of the modern Olympics. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-7945-5 $99.95 

ebook 978-0-7546-9884-5 


Tracing Technologies 

Prisoners’ Views in the Era of CSI 

Helena Machado, University of Minho, Portugal 

and Barbara Prainsack, Brunel University, UK 

“Tracing Technologies…is the first empirical 

study to investigate prisoners’ views on forensic 

technologies in the era of CSI, providing fascinating 

insights in a so far under-explored field of research.” 

—Thomas Lemke, Goethe University 

Frankfurt, Germany 

Through critically engaging with STS, sociological 

and criminological perspectives on the use of DNA 

technologies within the criminal justice system, 

this work provides the reader with valuable insights 

into the effect of different legal, political, discursive 

and historical configurations on how crime scene 

technologies are utilized by the police and related 

to by convicted offenders. 

Contents: Foreword: CSI in fiction, fantasy and fact, 

Troy Duster; Introduction; Setting the scene: Austria; 

Setting the scene: Portugal; Inside jobs: sources of 

information on avoiding crime scene traces; ‘The 

evidence doesn’t lie’: biological traces as ‘truth 

machines’; In everybody ‘there’s always a bug inside’: 

does DNA profiling and databasing deter criminals?; 

Technologies of Innocence: exoneration and 

exculpation; Criminal bodies and abusive authorities; 

Conclusion; Afterword: forensic DNA and the human 

sciences, Robin Williams; References; Glossary; Index. 

May 2012 

c. 190 pages 

Hardback 978-1-4094-3074-2 c. $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-3075-9 


World Wide Weed 

Global Trends in Cannabis Cultivation 

and its Control 

Edited by Tom Decorte, Ghent University, Belgium, 

Gary Potter, London South Bank University, UK 

and Martin Bouchard, Simon Fraser University 

Bringing together some of the world’s leading 

experts on cannabis cultivation; this book takes an 

interdisciplinary look at global trends in cannabis 

cultivation. It serves as an exemplar for wider 

discussions of key theories and concepts relating to 

the spread not just of cannabis cultivation, but also of 

illegal markets more generally, the actors that operate 

within these markets and the policies and practices 

that are employed in response to developments 

within these markets. 

July 2011 

314 pages 

Hardback 978-1-4094-1780-4 $104.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-1781-1 


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Cultural and Media Studies 

8 

American Mythologies 

Semiological Sketches 

Manuel Peña 

American Mythologies examines eleven myths that 

form part of the storehouse of present-day American 

mythologies, elucidating the nature of contemporary 

myths by investigating their ideological sub-terrain. 

Grounded in a semiological approach, which 

explores the displacement of information and the 

transformation of signs that characterize mythic 

communication, this book sheds light on the socioeconomic, 

gendered, national and racial interests 

that lie behind myth-making. 

Contents: Introduction: American mythologies; 

Bright toy truck; The international community; 

Corrupt union bosses; Wal-Mart’s associates; From 

rags to riches; Obama’s death panels; Puff Daddy’s 

tuxedo; Egypt in Las Vegas; The Alamo as a shrine; 

Manufactured natural; Designing intelligence; 

Selected bibliography; Index. 

May 2012 

c. 176 pages 

Hardback 978-1-4094-4274-5 c. $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-4275-2 


Civilized Violence 

Subjectivity, Gender and Popular Cinema 

David Hansen-Miller 

“This beautifully written book offers a brilliant 

diagnosis of our changing psychic and social 

investments in violent representations. Moving 

between sociology, film studies and feminist 

theory to demonstrate the centrality of gendered 

subjectification to our fascination with violence, 

this is interdisciplinary research at its very best: 

lucid, incisive and utterly persuasive.” 

—Jackie Stacey, University of Manchester, UK 

Civilized Violence provides a social and historical 

explanation for the popular appeal of cinema 

violence. Drawing on historical-sociology, cultural 

studies, feminist and queer theory, masculinity 

studies and textual analysis, Hansen-Miller explains 

how modern society has concealed and denied the 

exercise of violence while retaining considerable 

power over how we live. Through engagement with 

specific narratives from the last century of film and 

the pervasive violence of contemporary cinema, 

Hansen-Miller investigates how representations can 

transform our understanding of how violence works. 

Contents: Introduction; From scaffold to cinema: 

violence as a force of subjection and subjectivation; 

Violence and clinical authority in ‘the aetiology of 

hysteria’ and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari; Violence 

and the passage from responsibility to desire in 

The Sheik; The death of popular sovereignty in 

Once Upon a Time in The West; Deliverance and its 

uses: subjectivity, violence and nervous laughter; 

Conclusion: gender and pervasive violence; 


October 2011 214 pages 

Hardback 978-1-4094-1258-8 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-1259-5 


The Collective Imagination 

The Creative Spirit of Free Societies 

Peter Murphy, James Cook University, Australia 

“The Collective Imagination is quite simply 

a tour de force. It traverses the grand landscape 

of creativity and its sources. It explores with original 

and persuasive clarity the links, in nations and 

regions, between economic prosperity and creative 

individuals. Its argumentcarries fateful implications 

for Western countries today—highlighting political 

failure, economic policy stupidity and a blindness 

to the factors necessary for innovation, and thereby 

for social vitality.” 

—John Carroll, La Trobe University, Australia 

The Collective Imagination explores the social 

foundations of the human imagination. A 

comprehensive audit of the creativity claims of the 

post-modern age—that finds them badly wanting 

and looks to the future—this book will appeal to 

sociologists and philosophers concerned with cultural 

theory, cultural and media studies and aesthetics. 

Contents: Introduction. Part 1: The Media of 

Creation: Imagination; Wit; Paradox; Metaphor. 

Part 2: Collective Creation: Art; Economy; Society; 

Politics; References; Index. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-2135-1 c. $114.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-2136-8 


Considering Animals 

Contemporary Studies 

in Human–Animal Relations 

Edited by Carol Freeman, Elizabeth Leane and 

Yvette Watt, all at University of Tasmania, Australia 

“The inclusion of work from scholars across a wide 

range of fields, including art and art history, law, social 

anthropology, literature and biology, is a clear strength 

of the book…Recommended.” 

—Choice 

Taking their cue from the specific “animal moments” 

that punctuate our relationships with nonhuman 

animals, experts from the biological sciences, 

humanities and social sciences engage with issues 

and debates central to human-animal studies. 

Considering Animals brings together contemporary 

international case studies from across the globe that 

examine our interactions with animals. Given current 

discussions about the status of animals and the 

widespread extinction of species, this is an important 

and timely collection. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-0013-4 $64.95 

ebook 978-0-7546-9863-0 


Consumption Challenged 

Food in Medialised Everyday Lives 

Bente Halkier, Roskilde University, Denmark 

“This is a pioneering contribution to an important, 

largely neglected topic in consumption studies: media 

campaigns and debates which increasingly rely on 

the agency of ordinary consumers to solve serious 

social problems. Halkier’s empirical cases of food 

consumption reflect major modern concerns about 

the health of the human body and soul and its relation 

to the external world.” 

—Jukka Gronow, Uppsala University, Sweden 

2010 222 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-7476-4 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-1022-5 


Cyberspaces and Global Affairs 

Edited by Sean S. Costigan, MIT CogNet 

and The New School and Jake Perry 

“This excellent anthology stands apart from many other 

assessments of the relationship between information 

technology and society. Contributors offer uncommon 

insights about theory and policy, lucid prose styles, 

awareness of pertinent literature, and appropriate 

skepticism toward received wisdom. Chapters 

devoted to IT and its impact on military thinking and 

organization are especially pertinent to modern policy 

making dilemmas. The book is highly recommended for 

expert and lay readers interested in the nexus between 

public policy and information technology.” 

—Stephen J. Cimbala, Penn State 

University, Brandywine 

The essays and topical cases in this book explore such 

issues as networks and networked thinking, information 

ownership, censorship, neutrality, cyberwars, 

humanitarian needs, terrorism, privacy and rebellion, 

giving a comprehensive overview of the core issues 

in the field, complimented by real world examples. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-2754-4 $124.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-2755-1 


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Dictionary of Visual Discourse 

A Dialectical Lexicon of Terms 

Barry Sandywell, University of York, UK 

Ethnographies of the Videogame 

Gender, Narrative and Praxis 

Helen Thornham, City University London, UK 

Mediating Climate Change 

Julie Doyle, University of Brighton, UK 

ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY 

“…Definitions are comprehensive, historically rich 

and full of references that will assist readers in 

understanding and applying entries. Sophisticated 

and challenging…will be valuable for students and 

scholars in social sciences, philosophy and the visual 

arts…Highly recommended.” 

—Choice 

Exploring the languages and cultures of visual 

studies and offering a theoretical introduction to the 

many languages of visual discourse, this substantial 

dictionary explains the foundations of current 

theoretical and academic discourse, and the different 

forms of visual culture in everyday life. It is essential 

reading for students in visual studies, the sociology 

of visual culture, cultural and media studies, 

philosophy, art history and theory, design, film 

and communication studies. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-0188-9 $225.00 

ebook 978-1-4094-0189-6 


The Empty Museum 

Western Cultures and the Artistic 

Field in Modern Japan 

Masaaki Morishita, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific 

University, Japan and National Research Institute 

for Cultural Properties, Tokyo, Japan 

“This excellent work promises a new way of thinking 

about Museology, as well as injecting a welcome 

non-Eurocentric line of argument…” 

—Timon Screech, University of London, UK 

2010 160 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-4954-0 $99.95 

ebook 978-0-7546-9064-1 


Gaydar Culture 

Gay Men, Technology and 

Embodiment in the Digital Age 

Sharif Mowlabocus, University of Sussex, UK 

“By focusing on Gaydar—the UK-based, globallyaccessed, 

gay/queer male website—Sharif Mowlabocus 

both theorizes and documents how the personal 

profiles men post there have allowed for the emergence 

and negotiation of new forms of gay male subjectivities 

and practices. In so doing he has produced a truly 

interdisciplinary work that bridges the fields of 

sexuality studies and new media/internet studies.” 

—Ken Hillis, University of 

North Carolina, Chapel Hill 

2010 252 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-7535-8 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-1044-7 


“Helen Thornham’s excellent exploration of video 

gaming decisively shifts the terrain of game 

studies…A rich and sustained ethnographic study 

that also re-theorizes the relation between games 

and those who play them.” 

—Caroline Bassett, University of Sussex, UK 

Ethnographies of the Videogame uses the medium 

of the videogame to explore wider significant 

sociological issues around new media, interaction, 

identity, performance, memory and mediation. The 

book is particularly concerned with issues of agency 

and power, identifying strong correlations between 

perceptions of gaming and actual gaming practices, 

as well as the reinforcement, through gaming, of 

established power relationships within households. 

Thornham provides pertinent and reflexive commentary 

highlighting the relationships of gender and power 

in gaming practice. 

July 2011 

218 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-7978-3 $99.95 

ebook 978-0-7546-9940-8 


Holocaust Images and 

Picturing Catastrophe 

The Cultural Politics of Seeing 

Angi Buettner, Victoria University 

of Wellington, New Zealand 

“At last, an author who is not afraid to examine the 

politics of the use of Holocaust imagery. Buettner’s 

ground-breaking study enables us to understand 

not only why these images, rather than other 

catastrophes, have come to hold such tremendous 

power but also how their use evokes affect in a wide 

range of recent catastrophes and causes. I highly 

recommend it.” 

—Jon Stratton, Curtin University, Australia 

Holocaust Images and Picturing Catastrophe explores 

the phenomenon of Holocaust transfer, analyzing 

the widespread practice of using the Holocaust 

and its imagery for the representation and recording 

of other historical events in various media sites. 

Richly illustrated with concrete examples, this 

book traces the visual rhetoric of Holocaust imagery 

and its application to events other than the genocide 

of Jewish people. 

Contents: Introduction: aftermaths and the afterlife 

of images; Aftermaths and the Holocaust; Holocaust 

into Holocausts; Never again: Rwanda, genocide, 

and the Holocaust; Leaving history behind: memorials 

and the dead of genocide; Leaving victims behind: 

animal rights, environmental catastrophe, and the 

limits of the Holocaust; The Holocaust as master 

theory; The act of looking: suffering the search 

for explanations, and the image as accusation; 



Hardback 978-1-4094-0765-2 $99.95 


“This is an insightful volume that challenges us to 

unpack and reconsider ways in which climate change 

becomes meaningful in our lives. In particular, author 

Julie Doyle has insightfully explored how imagery 

shapes our understanding, and how food consumption 

matters to mitigation efforts. Overall, Doyle has asked 

novel and productive questions that advance our 

shared considerations of climate and society.” 

—Maxwell T. Boykoff, University of Colorado, Boulder 

Mediating Climate Change explores how practices 

of mediation and visualization shape how we think 

about, address and act upon climate change. 

Through historical and contemporary case studies 

drawn from science, media, politics and culture, 

Doyle identifies the representational problems 

climate change poses for public and political debate. 

She explores how climate change can be made 

more meaningful and calls for a more nuanced 

understanding of human-environmental relations. 

August 2011 194 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-7668-3 $89.95 

ebook 978-0-7546-7669-0 


Mediating Mental Health 

Contexts, Debates and Analysis 

Michael Birch, Massachusetts 

College of Liberal Arts 

“Mike Birch has accomplished one of the most 

qualitatively rigorous studies of media representations 

of mental health that has ever been attempted. It 

embraces the perspectives of all major stake-holders, 

and yields profound and practical insights into 

mediated constructions of stigma.” 

—Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Bowling 

Green State University 

This book offers a detailed critical analysis of the 

representation of mental health conditions across a 

range of fictional and factual genres in film, television 

and radio, thus presenting an understanding of the 

ways in which media forms construct a mental health 

space, portray the related realities and identities, 

organize meaning about mental health through 

language, and addresses audiences in respect 

of a range of mental health issues. 

Contents: Foreword; Preface; A note about language 

and mental health; Introduction; Mediating mental 

health; Critical contexts; Historical contexts for 

popular meanings of ‘madness.’ An outline of the 

case studies; Phase one genre studies 1: film; Phase 

one genre studies 2: news and documentary; Phase 

one genre studies 3: drama; Phase two, part 1: the 

community project: reception study; Phase two, part 2: 

the community project: production study: exploring 

change: approach, alternative images and practices; 

Conclusion; Bibliography; Index. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-7474-0 $104.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-2501-4 


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Muslims and the New Media 

Historical and Contemporary Debates 

Göran Larsson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden 

Muslims and the New Media explores how 

the introduction of the latest information and 

communication technologies are mirroring changes 

and developments within society, as well as the 

Middle East’s relationship to the West. Exploring 

how reformist and conservative Muslim “ulama” 

are debating and coming to terms with technological 

and social changes, this book includes both historical 

and contemporary examples and exposes historical 

trajectories as well as different (and often contested) 

positions in the Islamic debate about the new media. 

September 2011 234 pages 

Hardback 978-1-4094-2750-6 $89.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-2751-3 


Paradoxes of 

Individualization 

Social Control and Social Conflict 

in Contemporary Modernity 

Dick Houtman, Stef Aupers and 

Willem de Koster, all at Erasmus 

University Rotterdam, The Netherlands 

“…Reporting original research on a contentious issue, 

it makes stimulating reading for anyone interested in 

a central modern myth and its very real consequences.” 

—Frank Lechner, Emory University 

Paradoxes of Individualization addresses one of 

the most hotly debated issues in contemporary 

sociology: whether a process of individualization 

is liberating selves from society so as to make them 

the authors of their personal biographies. The book 

adopts a cultural-sociological approach that firmly 

rejects such a notion of individualization as naïve. 

Contents: Introduction: the myth of individualization 

and the dream of individualism; Agony of choice?: 

the social embeddedness of consumer decisions (with 

Sebastiaan van Doorn and Jochem Verheul); Beyond 

the spiritual supermarket: why new age spirituality 

is less privatized than they say it is; ‘Be who you 

want to be’: commodified agency in online computer 

games; ‘Stormfront is like a second home to me’: 

social exclusion of right-wing extremists; Contesting 

individualism online: Catholic, Protestant and holistic 

spiritual appropriations of the world wide web (with 

Ineke Noomen); Two lefts and two rights: class voting 

and cultural voting in the Netherlands, 2002 (with 

Peter Achterberg); One nation without God?: post- 

Christian cultural conflict in the Netherlands, (with 

Peter Achterberg and Jeroen van der Waal); Secular 

intolerance in a post-Christian society: the case of 

Islam in the Netherlands (with Samira van Bohemen 

and Roy Kemmers); Bibliography; Index. 


Paperback 978-0-7546-7901-1 $49.95 

Hardback 978-0-7546-7902-8 $99.95 

ebook 978-0-7546-9774-9 


Personality Presenters 

Television’s Intermediaries with Viewers 

Frances Bonner, University of Queensland, Australia 

“…Offering in-depth analyses of contemporary case 

studies, as well as covering appropriate contexts such 

as ethics, genre, aesthetics, gender and celebrity, this 

book is novel, insightful, readable and well-researched.” 

—Brett Mills, University of East Anglia, UK 

Personality Presenters explores the role of the 

television presenter, analyzing the distinct skills 

possessed by different categories of host and the 

expectations and difficulties that exist with regard 

to the promotion of the various films, books, consumer 

and cultural products with which they are associated. 

Offering detailed case studies of internationally 

recognized presenters, as well comparisons between 

national presenters from the UK and Australia, this 

book provides a rich discussion of television presenters 

as significant conduits in the movement of ideas. 

May 2011 

204 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-7654-6 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-2503-8 


Places of the Imagination 

Media, Tourism, Culture 

Stijn Reijnders, Erasmus University 

Rotterdam, the Netherlands 

“Stijn Reijnders has produced a lucid and engaging 

book with a fresh perspective…Informed by a strong 

theoretical framework, employing the concept of lieux 

d’imagination, Reijnders nevertheless recognizes 

the physical reality of places. I shall refer to this 

book in my teaching, using it as the key source 

for new lectures on media tourism.” 

—Karen O’Reilly, Loughborough University, UK 

Places of the Imagination presents a timely and 

insightful analysis of the increasing popularity 

of media tourism within contemporary culture. 

Drawing on extensive empirical and interview 

material, this book examines the representation of 

landscapes in popular narratives that have inspired 

media tourism, while also investigating the effects 

over time of such tourism on local landscapes, 

and the processes by which tourists appropriate 

the landscape, experiencing and accommodating 

them into their imagination. Oriented around three 

central case studies of popular television detective 

shows, famous films and classic literature, Places 

of the Imagination develops a new theoretical 

understanding of media tourism. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-1977-8 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-1978-5 


Progress or Perish 

Northern Perspectives on Social Change 

Edited by Aini Linjakumpu 

and Sandra Wallenius-Korkalo, 

both at University of Lapland, Finland 

“Progress or Perish offers a freshening blow from 

the North to the analysis of social change. It reveals 

the social construction of progress through detailed 

study of micro-histories, arts and common experiences 

hitherto often written off in existing literature. It is a 

worthy contribution to those intrigued by the Northern 

communities, be they sociologists, geographers, 

cultural historians or lay observers of political life.” 

—Samu Pehkonen, University of Tampere, Finland 

2010 200 pages 

Hardback 978-1-4094-0424-8 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-0425-5 


Rethinking Class in Russia 

Edited by Suvi Salmenniemi, 

University of Helsinki, Finland 

By engaging with discussions in new class analysis 

and by highlighting how the logic of global neoliberal 

capitalism is appropriated and negotiated vis-à-vis the 

Soviet hierarchies of value and worth, this book offers 

a multifaceted and carefully contextualized picture of 

class relations and identities in contemporary Russia 

and makes a contribution to the theorization of class 

and inequality in a post-Cold War era. 

Contents: Introduction: rethinking class in Russia, 

Suvi Salmenniemi; Class analysis in the USSR 

and contemporary Russia, Harri Melin and 

Suvi Salmenniemi. Part I: Class in Public Discourse: 

Business for pleasure: elite women in the Russian 

popular media, Saara Ratilainen; Post-Soviet khoziain: 

class, self and morality in Russian self-help literature, 

Suvi Salmenniemi; Doing class in social welfare 

discourses: ‘unfortunate families’ in Russia, 

Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova and Pavel Romanov; Political 

parties and the construction of social class in Russia, 

Sirke Mäkinen. Part II: Classed Practices: Making 

and managing class: employment of paid domestic 

workers in Russia, Anna Rotkirch, Olga Tkach 

and Elena Zdravomylova; ‘We are not rich enough 

to buy cheap things’: clothing consumption of the 

St Petersburg middle class, Olga Gurova; Women’s 

use of legal advice and claims in Russia: the impact 

of gender and class, Vikki Turbine. Part III: Living 

Class: Wealth brings health? Class, body and health 

in Russia, Marja Rytkönen and Ilkka Pietilä; Class 

differences and social mobility among the collegeeducated 

young people in Russia, Elena Trubina; 

Re-inventing themselves? Gender, employment 

and subjective well-being amongst working-class 

young Russians, Charles Walker; The excluded class: 

Russia’s forgotten middle-aged men, John Round; 

Afterword: thinking and rethinking class, 

Steph Lawler; Index. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-2137-5 c. $114.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-2138-2 



ASHGATE


Revisiting the Frankfurt School 

Essays on Culture, Media and Theory 

Edited by David Berry, Southampton 

Solent University, UK 

“Revisiting the Frankfurt School is a comprehensive 

and engaging corrective to perennially ill-informed 

misunderstandings and misrepresentations of 

critical cultural theory. Mixing fascinating historical 

and conceptual material, it expertly presents the 

convincing case that in today's dark age of cultural 

banality, the Frankfurt School's learned insights have 

never been more valuable.” 

—Paul A. Taylor, University of Leeds, UK 

The Television Entrepreneurs 

Social Change and Public 

Understanding of Business 

Raymond Boyle and Lisa W. Kelly, 

both at University of Glasgow, UK 

“Boyle and Kelly offer a powerful narrative of the 

centrality of television in debates about business and 

public knowledge. Anyone who wants to understand 

reality TV should read their rich and insightful research 

in production and reception processes for business 

entertainment that connects culture with society 

and politics.” 

—Annette Hill, Lund University, Sweden 

The University of Google 

Education in the (Post) Information Age 

Tara Brabazon, University of Brighton, UK 

“A passionate, scholarly, deeply considered and, at 

the same time, ‘practical’ critique of how universities 

internationally confuse access to digital information 

with developing educated and critical citizens. The 

book will be of value in positively shaping both 

pedagogic practice and institutional policies.” 

—Alan Jenkins, Oxford Brookes University, UK 

2007 240 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-7097-1 $54.95 

ebook 978-0-7546-8538-8 


This book expands our understanding by addressing 

the writings of intellectuals who were either members 

of the Frankfurt School, or were closely associated 

with it, but often neglected. It thus brings together 

the latest research of an international team of experts, 

offering a critical reassessment of the contributions 

of the Frankfurt School and its associates to cultural, 

media and communication studies, as well as to 

our modern understanding of new media technology 

and debate within the public sphere. 

Contents: Introduction; Siegfried Kracauer: critical 

observations on the discreet charm of the metropolis; 

Walter Benjamin in the intellectual field; Herbert 

Marcuse and the politics of negotiationism; Max 

Horkheimer: issues concerning liberalism and 

culture; Theodor Adorno and Dallas Smythe: culture 

industry/consciousness industry and the political 

economy of media and communication; Hans 

Magnus Enzensberger and the politics of new media 

technology; Jürgen Habermas: the modern media 

and the public sphere; The legacy of Leo Lowenthal: 

culture and communication; On Erich Fromm: why 

he left the Frankfurt school; Index. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-1180-2 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-1181-9 


Surfing Life 

Surface, Substructure and the 

Commodification of the Sublime 

Mark Stranger, University of Tasmania, Australia 

“An exhilarating contribution to the sociology 

of leisure and sport. Stranger writes with real 

verve and insight. A marvelous book.” 

—Chris Rojek, Brunel University, UK 

Surfing Life is a study of surfing and social change 

that also provides insights into other experiencebased 

contemporary subcultures and the nature 

of the self and social formations in contemporary 

society. Making use of extensive empirical material 

to support innovative theoretical approaches to 

social change, this book offers an analysis of the 

relationship between embodied experience, culture 

and the economy. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-7443-6 $114.95 


Based on extensive interviews with key industry 

and business figures and drawing on new empirical 

research into audience perceptions of business, 

The Television Entrepreneurs draws upon popular 

business-oriented shows such as The Apprentice 

and Dragons’ Den to explore the relationship 

between television and business. Raymond Boyle 

and Lisa Kelly investigate how the television 

audience engages with such programs and 

the possible impact these may have on public 

understanding of the nature of business. 

Contents: Introduction. Part 1: Industry, Text 

and Media Discourse: Television, representation 

and social change; Continuity and change in the 

development of television’s ‘business entertainment 

format’; Risking it all: analysing ‘business 

entertainment formats’; Enterprise, society and 

cultural change. Part II: Audiences, Television and 

the Entrepreneur: Understanding the audience: 

Engaging with television; The television entrepreneur: 

representations and role models; Television business 

in the age of celebrity; Conclusion: knowledge, 

television and understanding business; Appendix; 



Hardback 978-1-4094-0322-7 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-0323-4 


Transgressive Bodies 

Representations in Film and Popular Culture 

Niall Richardson, University of Sussex, UK 

“With its refreshingly lucid applications of body theory 

to popular cultural texts, this is an original, political, 

unsettling and utterly readable book. It is essential 

reading for anyone with a body.” 

—Trish Winter, University of Sunderland, UK 

2010 246 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-7622-5 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-1829-0 


Value and the Media 

Cultural Production and Consumption 

in Digital Markets 

Göran Bolin, Södertörn University, Sweden 

“Göran Bolin is something rare: a media and cultural 

studies scholar who draws intensively on social theory 

and cares deeply about getting the theory right. His 

new book, clearly written and rich in examples, clarifies 

and advances the debates about value that underlie the 

culture industries. Essential reading for students on 

media, cultural studies and cultural sociology courses.” 

—Nick Couldry, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK 

Value is seldom discussed in its own right, though 

it is of utmost importance to our relations with 

media texts and cultural objects, as we constantly 

make judgments of various kinds with respect 

to them. Bolin focuses on how value is produced 

in contemporary media and cultural production, 

particularly through social relations. Discussing 

changes over the past two decades, Bolin emphasizes 

the rise of digital media and the opportunities that 

these afford for media’s production and consumption. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-1048-5 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-1049-2 


Exam copies 

Paperbacks marked with the magnifying glass 

symbol above can be requested as examination 

copies. Contact Suzanne Sprague with your request 

at ssprague@ashgate.com. 

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Family, Childhood and Youth 

12 

British Untouchables 

A Study of Dalit Identity and Education 

Paul Ghuman, Aberystwyth University, UK 

MONITORING CHANGE IN EDUCATION 

“Ghuman’s latest book is a highly original study of the 

Indian Untouchables’—the Dalit. In a highly readable 

style, he reveals that the Dalit remain an oppressed 

minority, but that education is providing a means for 

progression. Based on scholarly research in a Punjabi 

village and the English Midlands, this is a delightful 

book in every respect.” 

—Colin Baker, Bangor University, Wales 

British Untouchables provides a major study on 

the issues facing the education of Dalit children 

and young people growing up in Britain. The 

book is based on extensive field work and uses 

a qualitative research methodology, including indepth 

interviews with parents, teachers and children, 

and detailed observations in homes and schools. It 

offers a detailed view of areas such as socialization 

of children, schooling and education, examination 

success, parental perceptions of education, 

bilingualism, acculturation patterns, cultural 

conflicts and cast and social identities, caste 

prejudice and racial discrimination. 

Contents: Introduction; Origin and theories of the 

caste system; A case study of Untouchables in a 

Punjabi village: class a new avatar of caste; Family, 

social and religious organization of Dalits; Voices of 

young people; Teachers’ and parents’ views on caste 

and educational matters; Reflections and application; 

Bibliography; Appendices; Indexes. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-4877-2 $99.95 

ebook 978-0-7546-8968-3 


Family Configurations 

A Structural Approach to Family Diversity 

Eric D. Widmer, University of Geneva, Switzerland 

“Overall, the book makes a significant contribution to 

the literature on family structure and composition and 

makes an important call for the study of larger family 

networks…Widmer clearly illustrates the importance 

of relying on respondents’ subjective reports of family 

rather than on preconceived notions about who relevant 

family members are. Families continue to matter, and 

the book makes it clear that people ‘do’ family outside 

of nuclear families and that a network perspective 

is a fruitful way of understanding family dynamics.” 

—American Journal of Sociology 

2010 178 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-7679-9 $99.95 

ebook 978-0-7546-9350-5 


Risk and Public Policy 

in East Asia 

Edited by Raymond K.H. Chan, City University 

of Hong Kong, Mutsuko Takahashi, 

Kibi International University, Japan and 

Lillian Lih-rong Wang, National Taiwan University 

“This excellent book should be required reading for 

students of social and public policy. It breaks new 

ground by examining the concepts of risk and risk 

management in an East Asian context. A thorough 

theoretical foundation at the start provides the 

reference point for specific case studies, helpfully 

grouped into integrated sections, which together 

create a comprehensive picture of the key issues 

concerning risk and risk regulation in East Asia.” 

—Alan Walker, University of Sheffield, UK 

2010 252 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-7895-3 $99.95 

ebook 978-0-7546-9766-4 


Young People and Work 

Edited by Robin Price and Paula McDonald, 

both at Queensland University of Technology, 

Australia, Janis Bailey, Griffith University, 

Australia and Barbara Pini, Curtin University 

of Technology, Australia 

This edited book brings together empirical studies 

of young people in paid employment from a variety 

of disciplinary perspectives and in different national 

settings. Each of the three sections of the book 

explores a key aspect of young people’s employment: 

their experience of work, intersections between 

work and education, and the impact of other actors 

and institutions. 

Contents: A majority experience: young people’s 

encounters with the labour market, Robin Price, 

Paula McDonald, Janis Bailey and Barbara Pini. 

Part I: Experiences of Work: Making money, 

helping out, growing up: working children in 

Sweden, Tobias Samuelsson; Young people 

experiencing work in a boomtown labour market, 

Christopher D. O’Connor; The working experiences 

of student migrants in Australia and New Zealand, 

Danaë Anderson, Ryan Lamare and Zeenobiyah Hannif; 

Men at work? Emerging nuances in young masculinities 

in the United Kingdom’s retail sector, Steven Roberts. 

Part II: Intersections Between Work and Education: 

Good, the bad and the ugly: the health and safety of 

young workers, Danaë Anderson, Zeenobiyah Hannif 

and Felicity Lamm; Juggling school and work 

and making the most of both, Margaret Vickers; 

Work-study conflict or facilitation? Time use tradeoffs 

among employed students, Lonnie Golden and 

John Baffoe-Bonnie; The occupational aspirations 

of adolescents: understanding the developmental 

context of teenagers’ desires for future work roles, 

Sampson Lee Blair; Youth and precarious employment 

in Europe, Luísa Oliveira, Helen Carvalho and 

Luísa Veloso. Part III: The Other Actors: Regulating 

youth work: lessons from Australia and the United 

Kingdom, Andrew Stewart and Natalie van der Waarden; 

Employers’ management of part-time student labour, 

Erica Smith and Wendy Patton; Social inclusion for 

young people in the Nordic countries: similar but 

not identical, Jonas Olofsson and Eskil Wadensjö; 

University student employment in Germany 

and Australia and its impact on attitudes toward 

union membership, Damian Oliver; Declining 

youth membership: the views of union officials, 

Linda Esders, Janis Bailey and Paula McDonald; Index. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-2236-5 $124.95 

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ASHGATE

Gender and Sexuality 

Counselling Ideologies 

Queer Challenges to Heteronormativity 

Edited by Lyndsey Moon, University of Warwick, UK 

“Counselling Ideologies: Queer Challenges to 

Heteronormativity offers a timely and significant 

interrogation of the transforming terrains of sexuality 

and psychology. The authors in this collection take 

up a number of critical questions concerning the 

constraints of heteronormative counselling ideologies 

on counselling practice and explore the expansive 

terrains of queer politics and queer theory to rethink 

both. The collection bridges theory and practice, 

drawing together insights from cultural studies 

of sexuality to refresh and reinvigorate the 

applied, professional dimensions of counselling 

and psychology. An excellent text.” 

—Deborah Lynn Steinberg, University of Warwick, UK 

2010 250 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-7683-6 $99.95 

ebook 978-0-7546-9361-1 


Critical Queer Studies 

Queer Life in Law, Film, and Fiction 

Casey Charles, University of Montana 

GENDER IN LAW, CULTURE, AND SOCIETY 

“This is a highly accessible, very readable, topical 

and acute study of a neglected area of doctrine… 

political astuteness, easy style and use of film 

as well as literature mean that this work will 

appeal to students as well as scholars.” 

—Peter Goodrich, Cardozo School of Law 

Critical Queer Studies examines contemporary films 

and documentaries that dramatize the intersection 

of law and queer life, analyzing the effects of legal 

doctrines—jury selection, unwanted sexual advance, 

negligence, hate crimes and gay marriage—on the 

production and reception of queer film and fiction 

Contents: Introduction; A jury of one’s queers: 

revisiting the Dan White trial; Panic in the project; 

Queer torts: gender trans-gression in the Brandon 

Teena case; ‘The imagined power’: the spectre of 

hate crime in Brokeback Mountain; Queer exposures: 

making the reel real in Van Sant’s Milk; Conclusion: 

toward a queer political aesthetic; bibliography; 

Filmography; Index. 

July 2012 

c. 208 pages 

Hardback 978-1-4094-4406-0 c. $104.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-4407-7 


De-Centring Western Sexualities 

Central and Eastern European Perspectives 

Edited by Robert Kulpa, Birkbeck College, London, 

UK and Joanna Mizieliñska, Warsaw School 

of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland 

“De-Centring Western Sexualities is a landmark 

volume in the study of gender and sexuality. Kulpa 

and Mizielinska have gathered here and framed some 

of the very best essays on discourses of sexuality in 

the context of Central and Eastern Europe…Ranging 

in topic from heteronormativity to lesbian families, 

from transnational activism to queer temporalities 

and combining social science methodologies with 

theoretical inquiries, this collection is as broad as it is 

deep and it creates many new contexts for rethinking 

sexuality and de-centering the West.” 

—Judith Halberstam, University of Southern 

California, author of In a Queer Time and Place 

Providing rich case studies drawn from a range of 

“post-communist” countries, this interdisciplinary 

volume brings together the latest research on the 

formation of sexualities in Central and Eastern 

Europe, alongside analyses of the sexual and national 

identity politics of the region. As such, it will be 

of interest to sociologists, queer studies scholars, 

geographers and anthropologists. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-0242-8 $114.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-0243-5 


Derrida and the Writing 

of the Body 

Jones Irwin, Dublin City University, Ireland 

“A remarkable book that forcefully and convincingly 

argues that central to Derrida’s thought are issues of 

embodiment and sexuality. Jones Irwin begins with a 

nuanced and well-argued analysis of ‘Derrida’s debt 

to Artaud and moves on to examine the important role 

Bataille and Mallarme play in Derrida’s deconstruction 

of embodiment and desire. With two extraordinary 

chapters on Derrida and feminism, including a long 

discussion of deconstruction’s contributions to queer 

theory, this is an essential book not only for serious 

readers of Derrida, but for all those engaged with 

issues of embodiment, desire and politics.” 

—Peg Birmingham, DePaul University Chicago 

2010 206 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-7865-6 $99.95 

ebook 978-0-7546-9702-2 


Fallgirls 

Gender and the Framing 

of Torture at Abu Ghraib 

Ryan Ashley Caldwell, Soka University of America 

CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL THEORY 

“I will never forget this book. The topic, is of course, 

frightful, horrific and memorable. Yet unlike the many 

attorneys and journalists who have tracked down 

the Abu Ghraib story, Ryan Ashley Caldwell brings 

a unique perspective to these materials. Her lens 

is complex as she brings many perspectives to her 

topic—human rights and justice, ethics, politics. 

What is unique is her analysis of gendering and 

gender. Powerful. Unique. A remarkable contribution.” 

—Judith Blau, University of North Carolina, 

Chapel Hill 

Fallgirls provides an analysis of the abuses that 

took place at Abu Ghraib in terms of social theory, 

gender and power, based on first-hand participantobservations 

of the courts-martials of Lynndie 

England and Sabrina Harman. This book examines 

the trials themselves, including interactions with 

soldiers and defense teams, documents pertaining 

to the courts-martials, US government reports and 

photographs from Abu Ghraib, in order to challenge 

the view that the abuses were carried out at the 

hands of a few rogue soldiers. 

Contents: Preface; Prologue: so, what really 

happened at Abu Ghraib?; Defense Counsel’s opening 

statements, Sabrina Harman courts-martial; It was 

not Lucifer achieved: Zimbardo, women and Abu 

Ghraib; Captain Donald J. Reese, US Army, testimony, 

Sabrina Harman courts-martial; Gender, power 

and the ‘rationalization’ of rationality: uses of the 

masculine and feminine symbolic narratives; Major 

David DiNenna, US Army, testimony, Sabrina Harman 

courts-martial; The abuse was reported: Parsonian 

gender roles and Abu Ghraib transfigurations; Sabrina 

Harman letter to Kelly Bryant; The significance 

of identity simulacra and gender hyperreality: 

the American military and the case of Abu Ghraib; 

Stjepan Mestrovic, expert witness in sociology, 

Sabrina Harman courts-martial; The fallgirls of Abu 

Ghraib: feminist analyses and the importance of 

context; Sabrina Harman and Lynndie England sworn 

statements; Conversations with Sabrina Harman, 

summer 2007; Defense Counsel’s closing statements, 

Sabrina Harman courts-martial; Index. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-2969-2 $89.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-2970-8 


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QUEER INTERVENTIONS 

Series Editor: Michael O’Rourke, Cardiff University, UK 

Founded by Noreen Giffney and Michael O’Rourke, Queer Interventions is an exciting, fresh and unique 

new series designed to publish innovative, experimental and theoretically-engaged work in the burgeoning 

field of queer studies. The aim of the series is to attract work which is highly theoretical; queer work which 

intersects with other theoretical schools (feminism, postcolonial theory, psychoanalysis, Marxism); work 

which is accessible but values difficulty; ethical and political projects; and most importantly work which 

is self-reflexive about methodological and geographical location. It is also keen to commission empirical 

work which is meta-theoretical in focus. 

For full series details, visit www.ashgate.com/queerinterventions 


Companion to Queer Theory 

Edited by Noreen Giffney, University of Limerick, 

Ireland and Michael O’Rourke, University College 

Dublin, Ireland 


“Those invigorated by the multiple facets and 

faces of queerness will welcome this handy, heady, 

interdisciplinary tome…Recommended.” 

—Choice 

2009 558 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-7135-0 $154.95 

ebook 978-0-7546-9057-3 



Debates in Transgender, Queer, 

and Feminist Theory 

Contested Sites 

Patricia Elliot, Wilfrid Laurier University 


“This impressive book provides a lucid and engaging 

critical mapping of what Elliot identifies as key rifts in 

feminist, queer and trans studies conceptualizations 

of transsexing and transgendering…the book is, to 

my mind, an example of feminist practice at its most 

generous and engaged.” 

—Nikki Sullivan, Macquarie University, Australia 

2010 204 pages 

Hardback 978-1-4094-0393-7 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-0394-4 


Hegemony and 

Heteronormativity 

Revisiting ‘The Political’ in Queer Politics 

Edited by María do Mar Castro Varela, 

Alice Salomon University Berlin, Germany, 

Nikita Dhawan, Goethe-University Frankfurt, 

Germany and Antke Engel, Institute for Queer 

Theory, Berlin Germany 


“…an extraordinary collection…In helping us to 

rethink power, new modes of embodied existence 

and future alliance, this book proves smart and 

urgent for our times.” 

—Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley 

This book reflects on “the political” in queer theory 

and politics by revisiting two of its key categories: 

hegemony and heteronormativity. It explores the 

specific insights offered by these categories and the 

ways in which they augment the analysis of power 

and domination from a queer perspective, while also 

examining the possibilities for political analysis and 

strategy building provided by theories of hegemony 

and heteronormativity. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-0320-3 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-0321-0 


Queer in Europe 

Contemporary Case Studies 

Edited by Lisa Downing, University 

of Exeter, UK and Robert Gillett, 

Queen Mary University of London, UK 


“This excellent book is a timely reminder that 

‘queer’ goes far beyond the debates between activists 

and academics in English-speaking countries…” 

—Michael Gratzke, University of St. Andrews, UK 

Queer in Europe takes stock of the intellectual and 

social status and treatment of queer in the New 

Europe of the twenty-first century, addressing the 

ways in which the Anglo-American term and concept 

“queer” is adapted in different national contexts. 

Bringing together contributions by carefully chosen 

relevant experts, this book explores key aspects of 

queer in a range of European countries. The first 

volume in English devoted to the exploration of queer 

in Europe, this book makes an important intervention 

in contemporary queer studies. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-0464-4 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-0465-1 


Queer Renaissance 

Historiography 

Backward Gaze 

Edited by Vin Nardizzi and Stephen Guy-Bray, 

both at the University of British Columbia 

and Will Stockton, Ball State University 


“We know from the stories of Orpheus and of Lot 

that the ‘backward gaze’ brings in its wake all kinds 

of queer, unsettling effects. The same can be said 

for Queer Renaissance Historiography. The sparks 

fly in these productively contentious essays which 

illuminatingly rethink queer scholarship’s relation to 

historicism. There is no end of surprises, provocations 

and pleasures here.” 

—Richard Rambuss, Emory University 

2009 264 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-7608-9 $104.95 

ebook 978-0-7546-9795-4 


Fitting into Place? 

Class and Gender Geographies 

and Temporalities 

Yvette Taylor, London South Bank University, UK 

“…Strongly theorized, yet powerfully grounded in a 

range of voices across social difference, its rich tapestry 

of qualitative research weaves together space and place 

with actions, attitudes and the affective…a must-read…” 

—Diane Reay, University of Cambridge, UK 

Fitting into Place? adopts a multi-dimensional 

interdisciplinary approach to explore shifting 

geographies and temporalities that re-constitute “city 

publics”—and the place of the “public sociologist.” 

Contents: Fitting into place? Class and gender 

geographies and temporalities; ‘City publics’ and 

the ‘public sociologist’; Affective geographies: 

regional re-framings; Geographies of choice (or not); 

Fertile spaces: landscaping gender; Geographies 

of excess: ‘what’s in a name, what’s in a number?’; 

Regeneration and degeneration: proximities and 

distances; Concluding thoughts: returns and 

escapes; Appendices; Bibliography; Index. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-7922-6 $99.95 

ebook 978-0-7546-9821-0 


Gender, Shame 

and Sexual Violence 

The Voices of Witnesses and Court 

Members at War Crimes Tribunals 

Sara Sharratt, Sonoma State University 

and the University for Peace, Costa Rica 

“This book is a sobering reminder that even today 

our vision of a fair, just and gender equal society 

remains frustratingly elusive…” 

—Lorena Aguilar, The International Union 

for Conservation of Nature, Costa Rica 

Adopting a feminist approach, Gender, Shame and 

Sexual Violence offers extensive new empirical material, 

challenging the assumption that the deterrent effect 

of making rape trials more visible would reduce the 

occurrence of sexual violence in conflict situations. 

It contends instead that the manner in which cases 

are handled both increases the victims’ sense of shame 

and serves to propagate a representation of women’s 

bodies that may actually serve to increase the use 

of sexual violence during war. 

Contents: Preface; Introduction; Historical 

background; Legal background on international 

criminal tribunals; Theoretical perspectives; Methods 

of investigation; Voices from the court; The courts 

surveyed; Protective measures; The witnesses; 

Discussion and recommendations from the court; 

Recommendations; Appendices; Bibliography; Index. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-1999-0 $99.95 

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Gender and Cosmopolitanism 

in Europe 

A Feminist Perspective 

Ulrike M Vieten, Vrije Universiteit 

Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

“In this rich, insightful and thought provoking 

monograph, Ulr ke Vieten discusses and analyzes 

contemporary political reality as well as political 

thought around notions of diversity and alterity 

of belonging from a feminist and intersectional lens…” 

—Nira Yuval-Davis, University of East London, UK 

Gender and Cosmopolitanism in Europe combines 

a feminist critique of contemporary and prominent 

approaches to cosmopolitanism with an in-depth 

analysis of historical cosmopolitanism and the 

manner in which gendered symbolic boundaries 

of national political communities in two European 

countries are drawn. Exploring the work of prominent 

scholars of new cosmopolitanism in Britain and 

Germany, including Held, Habermas, Beck and 

Bhabha, Gender and Cosmopolitanism in Europe 

delivers a timely intervention into current debates 

on globalization, Europeanization and social 

processes of transformation in and beyond 

specific national societies. 

Contents: Introduction: gendered cosmopolitanism: 

the scope of this book; Who belongs? Who is the 

Other?; Recognition, social equality and the current 

EU anti-discrimination policy; Kulturnation and 

the homogenized notion of community belonging: 

Jürgen Habermas’ and Ulrich Beck’s approaches 

to ‘European’ cosmopolitanism; Global trade, 

the city and commercial cosmopolitanism: David 

Held’s and Homi K. Bhaba’s approaches to new 

cosmopolitanism; About dead ends, one-way streets 

and critical crossroads; Transversal conversations 

on the scope of new cosmopolitanism beyond 

the Eurocentric framework; Bibliography; Index. 

May 2012 

c. 192 pages 

Hardback 978-1-4094-3383-5 c. $99.95 

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The Lesbian and Gay 

Movement and the State 

Comparative Insights 

into a Transformed Relationship 

Edited by Manon Tremblay, Université d’Ottawa, 

David Paternotte, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 

Belgium and Carol Johnson, University 

of Adelaide, Australia 

“The lesbian and gay movement is perhaps the 

most successful of modern social movements. This 

powerful and insightful book throws unprecedented 

light on the different historical contexts in which 

national movements have developed and confronted 

or collaborated with the state. Its richness and 

diversity reflects the richness and diversity of what 

is now a global movement. This is an essential read.” 

—Jeffrey Weeks, London South Bank University, UK 

By analyzing the relationship between lesbian and 

gay movements and the state, this ground-breaking 

book addresses two interconnected issues: to what 

extent is the lesbian and gay movement influenced 

by the state and whether the lesbian and gay 

movement has somehow influenced the state, for 

instance by altering forms of sexual regulation. This 

book also provides important and innovative insights 

into broader issues in international political science, 

public policy and comparative politics, as well 

as issues in social movement studies. 

Contents: Introduction, David Paternotte, 

Manon Tremblay and Carol Johnson; Argentina: 

a queer tango between the lesbian and gay movement 

and the state, Jordi Díez; Australia: parties, federalism 

and rights agendas, Carol Johnson, Sarah Maddison 

and Emma Partridge; Belgium: the paradoxical 

strength of disunion, David Paternotte; Brazil: from 

AIDS to human rights, Juan P. Marsiaj; Canada: 

the power of institutions, Miriam Smith; India: from 

tensions to transformation, Alankaar Sharma and 

Arpita Das; The Netherlands: depoliticization of 

homosexuality and homosexualization of politics, 

Gert Hekma and Jan Willem Duyvendak; Poland: 

sovereignty and sexuality in post-socialist times, 

Agnès Chetaille; Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia: 

arrested development!, Baden Offord; South Africa: 

opportunities seized in the post-apartheid era, 

Sheila Croucher; Spain: building reciprocal relations 

between lesbian and gay organizations and the state, 

Kerman Calvo; United Kingdom: changing political 

opportunity structures, policy success and continuing 

challenges for lesbian, gay and bisexual movements, 

Kelly Kollman and Matthew Waites; United States: 

multi-institutional politics, social movements and the 

state, Mary Bernstein; Conclusion, David Paternotte, 

Manon Tremblay and Carol Johnson; Index. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-1066-9 $99.95 

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Lesbian Dames 

Sapphism in the Long Eighteenth Century 

Edited by John C. Beynon, California 

State University, Fresno and Caroline Gonda, 

St. Catharine’s College, UK 

“Tory lesbians, Gothic prioresses, female husbands, 

coquettes, tommies and tribades: these eighteenthcentury 

figures, so important in lesbian history, are 

brought together for the first time in this lively and 

thorough anthology. The first collection to focus on 

women’s same-sex desire in the long eighteenth 

century, Lesbian Dames is an indispensable resource 

for students, scholars and readers.” 

—Lisa L. Moore, The University of Texas, Austin 

2010 224 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-7335-4 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-0981-6 


Mary Wollstonecraft 

Edited by Jane Moore, Cardiff University, UK 

INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF ESSAYS IN 

THE HISTORY OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THOUGHT 

This interdisciplinary selection of essays represents 

the explosion of scholarly interest since the 1960s 

in the pioneering feminist, philosopher, novelist and 

political theorist, Mary Wollstonecraft. Organized 

by theme and genre, the collection deals with 

the full range of her work, reproduces the most 

important modern Wollstonecraft scholarship, 

tracks the development of the author’s reputation 

from the nineteenth century and demonstrates 

Wollstonecraft’s importance in contemporary social, 

political and sexual theory and in Romantic studies. 

April 2012 c. 588 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-2743-2 c. $325.00 


New Sociologies of Sex Work 

Edited by Kate Hardy, Queen Mary, University 

of London, UK, Sarah Kingston, Leeds 

Metropolitan University, UK and Teela Sanders, 

University of Leeds, UK 

“An important contribution to our understanding 

of sex work, exploring several previously unexamined 

aspects of the sex industry in various nations. 

The essays richly document the complex and 

multifaceted nature of sexual commerce.” 

—Ronald Weitzer, George Washington University 

2010 256 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-7986-8 $99.95 

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Prostitution, Harm 

and Gender Inequality 

Theory, Research and Policy 

Edited by Maddy Coy, London 

Metropolitan University, UK 

“This impressive collection tracks the multiple and 

substantial harms of the prostitution industry to 

women worldwide. Those seeking to normalize men’s 

purchase of women rely on abstractions of agency 

and empowerment while marginalizing the recruitment 

and oppression that creates this lucrative industry. 

Anyone committed to equality between men and 

women will find in this book a welcome dose of reality.” 

—Janine Benedet, University of British Columbia 

Through exploring gendered inequality and reengaging 

with an understanding of prostitution as 

harmful with impacts on the self and body that are 

experienced as abusive but do not always constitute 

violence, this book introduces a range of research and 

thinking, while also drawing on existing literature to 

explore the consequences of prostitution for women 

in the sex industry and wider gender relations. 

Contents: Introduction: prostitution, harm and 

gender inequality, Maddy Coy; McSexualisation 

of bodies, sex and sexualities: mainstreaming 

the commodification of gendered inequalities, 

Marjut Jyrkinen; Means of delivery: the trafficking 

of women into prostitution, harms and human rights 

discourse, Jackie Turner; Meeting gendered demand: 

domestic sex trafficking in Chicago, Jody Raphael; 

Beyond ‘agency’ and ‘choice’ in theorizing 

prostitution, Sheila Jeffreys; Theorizing harm through 

the sex of prostitution, Meagan Tyler; ‘I am a person 

too’: women’s accounts and images about body 

and self in prostitution, Maddy Coy; Troubling notions 

of male entitlement: men consuming, boasting 

and confessing about paying for sex, Maddy Coy, 

Miranda A.H. Horvath and Liz Kelly; Legitimizing 

prostitution: critical reflections on policies in 

Australia, Mary Lucille Sullivan; The various 

‘problems’ of prostitution—a dynamic frame analysis 

of Swedish prostitution policy, Josefina Erikson; 

Selling sex sells: representations of prostitution 

and the sex industry in sexualised popular culture 

as symbolic violence, Maddy Coy, Josephine Wakeling 

and Maria Garner; Index. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-0545-0 c. $99.95 

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Queer Company 

The Role and Meaning of Friendship 

in Gay Men’s Work Lives 

Nick Rumens, University of Bristol, UK 

“Queer Company: The Role and Meaning of 

Friendship in Gay Men’s Work Lives insightfully 

illustrates what a strong sociological approach to 

studying friendship means. Rumens clearly portrays 

in rich detail how gay men make friends and construct 

relationships in the workplace. In so doing, the book 

establishes the importance of friendship in gay men’s 

lives and the opportunities and obstacles in achieving 

intimacy and identity in what can often be 

a challenging social context.” 

—Peter M. Nardi, Pitzer College 

This ground-breaking book utilizes in-depth 

qualitative research to analyze gay men’s friendships 

at work; investigating the theme via several 

philosophical and sociological routes. It examines 

how workplace friendships are established, developed 

and organized and impacted by organizational factors. 

It illuminates the significance of these friendships 

for the participants and how a clearer and stronger 

self-image can develop as a result. For sociologists 

and management studies academics this will prove 

a practical and informative resource. 

Contents: Introduction; Understanding men’s 

friendships; Gay men and friendship; Gay men’s 

friendships in the workplace; Constructing 

friendships in the workplace; Gay men’s workplace 

friendships with men; Gay men’s workplace 

friendships with women; Workplace friendships, 

normativity and identities; On the significance 

of gay men’s workplace friendships; Appendices; 



Hardback 978-1-4094-0191-9 $99.95 

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Queer Methods 

and Methodologies 

Intersecting Queer Theories 

and Social Science Research 

Edited by Kath Browne, University of Brighton, UK 

and Catherine J. Nash, Brock University 

“Very little systematic thought has been devoted to 

exploring how queer ontologies and epistemologies 

translate into queer methods and methodologies 

that can be used to produce queer empirical 

research. This important volume fills that lacuna 

by providing a wide ranging, comprehensive overview 

of contemporary debates and applications of queer 

methods and methodologies and will be essential 

reading for researchers from across the social 

sciences interested in the praxis of queer theory.” 

—Rob Kitchin, National University of Ireland, 

Maynooth, Ireland 

2010 316 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-7843-4 $119.95 

ebook 978-0-7546-9663-6 


Queer Youth Suicide, 

Culture and Identity 

Unliveable Lives? 

Rob Cover, University of Western Australia 

This book outlines some of the ways in which queer 

youth suicide is perceived in popular culture, media 

and research. It highlights how the ways in which 

we think about queer youth suicide have changed 

over time and some of the benefits and limitations 

of current thinking. 

Contents: Preface; Introduction: queer youth suicide, 

vulnerability and unliveable lives; Queer suicide 

representations in popular media; Histories and 

genealogies of suicide research and sexuality; It gets 

better? Online representations of hope, vulnerability 

and resilience; Reconstructions: identity, subjectivity 

and the dominant discourses of sexuality; Tensions: 

suicide, sexual identity and shame; Community: 

homonormativity, exclusion and relative misery; 

Conclusion: towards liveable lives; Bibliography; 

Filmography; Index. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-4447-3 c. $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-4448-0 


Queering Conflict 

Examining Lesbian and Gay Experiences 

of Homophobia in Northern Ireland 

Marian Duggan, Sheffield Hallam University, UK 

“…Rich in documentary material, and enriched by the 

voices of those with first-hand experience, this book 

provides fresh insights into a society characterized 

both by traditional moral conservatism but also the 

quest for rights and liberation.” 

—Carl F. Stychin, University of Reading, UK 

Queering Conflict offers a unique culturally specific 

analysis into the ways in which homophobia in 

Northern Ireland has been informed and sustained 

during the latter half of the 20th century. This book 

takes the failure of the British Government to extend 

the 1967 Sexual Offences Act to Northern Ireland 

as its central point to demonstrate the subtle, but 

important, differences governing attitudes towards 

homosexuality in Northern Ireland. 

Contents: Introduction; Contextualising prejudice 

and ‘hate’ in Northern Ireland; Constructing 

‘acceptable victims’: violence, regulation and 

resistance; Playing sexual politics: overcoming 

criminalisation, conflict and condemnation; The 

moral maze: negotiating sexual and spiritual selves; 

A woman’s worth: lesbian lives in Northern Ireland; 

‘Experiencing ‘rebirth’: surviving sexual disallowance; 



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Queerying Planning 

Challenging Heteronormative Assumptions 

and Reframing Planning Practice 

Edited by Petra L. Doan, Florida State University, 

Tallahassee, Florida 

“Queering Planning is a greatly needed collection 

of both new and influential literature on queer issues 

in planning. It is an essential source for planning 

academics who study LGBT issues and an inspiration 

for practitioners who seek a deeper understanding of 

diversity, inclusion and justice in planning. It captures 

the evolution of the planning profession at a key moment 

that enlightens about the behavior of professions.” 

—Curt Winkle, University of Illinois, Chicago 

This volume fills a gap in the literature on planning 

and the development of queer spaces. It highlights 

the resistance there has been within the planning 

profession to incorporate gay and lesbian concerns 

into the planning mainstream. Bringing together 

leading academic planners and geographers, it 

reflects on the ways in which issues germane to the 

lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community 

have been slowly integrated into the planning 

mainstream, as well as those topics on which 

there is more work to do. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-2815-2 $89.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-2816-9 


Re-Thinking Men 

Heroes, Villains and Victims 

Anthony Synnott, Concordia University 

Award: A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2010 

“Observing that the definitions and cultural depictions 

of men have become increasingly negative over the 

past 50 years, Synnott challenges the misandrist 

and unbalanced view of men so prevalent in popular 

culture and literature, gives voice to the large numbers 

of powerless men, and offers a more balanced 

perspective on gender and power relations…The 

result is a comprehensive, engaging and important 

contribution of immense value to any student or 

scholar interested in the past, present and future 

of masculinity and men’s studies…Essential.” 

—Choice 

2009 306 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-7709-3 $119.95 

ebook 978-0-7546-9422-9 


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most recent, prize-winning titles, go to 

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THE FEMINIST IMAGINATION— 

EUROPE AND BEYOND 

Series Editors: Kathy Davis, Utrecht University, The Netherlands 

and Mary Evans, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK 

With a specific focus on the notion of “cultural translation” and “travelling theory,” this series operates on 

the assumption that ideas are shaped by the contexts in which they emerge, as well as by the ways that they 

“travel” across borders and are received and re-articulated in new contexts. In demonstrating the complexity 

of the differences (and similarities) in feminist thought throughout Europe and between Europe and other parts 

of the world, the books in this series highlight the ways in which intellectual and political traditions, often read 

as homogeneous, are more often heterogeneous. It therefore provides a forum for the latest work that engages 

with the European experience, illuminating the various exchanges (from the USA as well as Europe) that have 

informed European feminism. 


Framing Intersectionality 

Debates on a Multi-Faceted Concept 

in Gender Studies 

Edited by Helma Lutz, Maria Teresa Herrera Vivar 

and Linda Supik, all at Goethe University, 

Frankfurt, Germany 

THE FEMINIST IMAGINATION—EUROPE AND BEYOND 

“This collection captures the very pliability of 

intersectionality through deep description, creative 

application and original research. Its robust 

intellectual heft is showcased through explorations 

of masculinity, labor movements, embodiment and 

migration. A much-appreciated engagement with 

one of the most theoretically significant interventions 

of the past two decades, it represents the continued 

unfolding of intersectionality and its new generation 

of possibilities.” 

—Lisa Jean Moore, State University of New York 

Originally conceived by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989 

as a tool for the analysis of the ways in which different 

forms of social inequality, oppression and discrimination 

interact and overlap in multidimensional ways, the 

concept of “intersectionality” has attracted much 

attention in international feminist debates over the 

last decade. Framing Intersectionality brings together 

proponents and critics of the concept, to discuss the 

“state of the art” with those that have been influential 

in the debates that surround it. Exploring issues such 

as migration, identity, media coverage of sexual violence 

against men and transnational livelihoods of high 

and low skilled migrants, this book will be of interest 

to researchers in the fields of gender, women’s studies, 

masculinity, inequalities and feminist thought. 


Paperback 978-1-4094-1899-3 $49.95 

Hardback 978-1-4094-1898-6 $114.95 

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Repudiating Feminism 

Young Women in a Neoliberal World 

Christina Scharff, King’s College, London, UK 


“This original new book offers a compelling analysis 

of what is at stake when women claim or repudiate 

a feminist identity. Brilliantly written and insightful… 

A major contribution to the field.” 

—Rosalind Gill, King’s College, London, UK 

Grounded in rich empirical research and providing 

a timely contribution to debates on engagements 

with feminism, Repudiating Feminism explores how 

young German and British women think, talk and feel 

about feminism. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 

women from different racial and class backgrounds, 

and with different sexual orientations, Repudiating 

Feminism reveals how young women’s diverse 

positioning’s intersect with their views of feminism. 

Contents: Introduction; Young women and feminism; 

Engaging with feminism in the postfeminist era; 

Individualisation, neoliberalism and the trope of the 

‘oppressed other woman’; ‘Unfeminine, man-hating 

and lesbian’: situating stereotypes of feminists 

in the heterosexual matrix; Repudiating feminism: 

a performative approach; Conclusion: of wetlands 

and alpha-girls; Annex; Bibliography; Index. 

May 2012 

c. 160 pages 

Hardback 978-1-4094-1030-0 c. $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-1031-7 


Transatlantic Conversations 

Feminism as Travelling Theory 

Edited by Kathy Davis, Utrecht University, 

The Netherlands and Mary Evans, 

London School of Economics, UK 


“Recasting four decades of feminist thought, 

Transatlantic Conversations is feminist scholarship 

at its best…a ‘must have’ for women and gender 

studies programs on both sides of the Atlantic.” 

—Teresa Kulawik, Södertörn University, Sweden 

The second wave of feminism which challenged and 

changed many assumptions was a product of various 

western cultures, with no single country possessing 

a monopoly on the writing of “new” feminism. 

Though many of the contributions hailed from Europe 

and the United States, these works were often formed 

within local debates and framed within feminist 

traditions and political engagements specific to 

these nations. Transatlantic Conversations explores 

the differences yielded by such conditions and their 

consequences for the meaning of feminism. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-7835-9 $99.95 

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Sociology of Health and the Body 

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Culture, Bodies and 

the Sociology of Health 

Edited by Elizabeth Ettorre, 

University of Liverpool, UK 

“Ettore’s valuable collection re-vitalizes the sociology 

of health and illness by amalgamating theories of the 

body with theories of cultural representation, morality 

and ethics. By locating particular body concerns in 

cultural definitions and technological representations 

of the normal and the abject, and the bio-medical 

politics that impose those definitions, the contributors 

build a sophisticated analysis of current structures 

of bio-power.” 

—Judith Lorber, Graduate Center and Brooklyn 

College, City University of New York 

2010 186 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-7756-7 $99.95 

ebook 978-0-7546-9499-1 


Drugs and Culture 

Knowledge, Consumption and Policy 

Edited by Geoffrey Hunt, Institute for Scientific 

Analysis, Maitena Milhet, French Monitoring 

Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, France 

and Henri Bergeron, Sciences Po, France 

“A welcome and refreshing alternative to dominant 

orthodoxies with their narrow focus on ‘risks’ and 

‘problems.’ Wide-ranging, insightful chapters from 

distinguished scholars open the mind to challenging 

perspectives, informed by humanities and social 

science research. These critiques call for better 

balanced, more realistic and compassionate policies.” 

—Susanne MacGregor, London School 

of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK 

Drugs and Culture presents alternative perspectives 

on psychoactive drugs, highlighting the socio-cultural 

features of drug use and regulation in modern 

societies. It examines the cultural dimensions of 

drugs and their regulation, with special attention 

to questions of how consumption of specific 

psychoactive substances becomes associated with 

particular social groups; the social dynamics involved 

in our coming to think of these phenomena as we do; 

and the factors that determine the political and policy 

responses to drug use. 

May 2011 

324 pages 

Hardback 978-1-4094-0543-6 $119.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-0544-3 


Evidence-Based 

Healthcare in Context 

Critical Social Science Perspectives 

Edited by Alex Broom, University of Queensland, 

Australia and Jon Adams, University of Technology 

Sydney (UTS), Australia 

“…This excellent collection reminds us that evidence 

is socially and culturally produced and relative and 

that the very idea of Evidence-Based Healthcare can 

marginalize certain practices, diseases, research 

disciplines and methods. This is a must-read for 

students, researchers and health professionals.” 

—Gavin Andrews, McMaster University 

Evidence Based Healthcare in Context critically 

examines questions about what constitutes 

“evidence” and “effectiveness” from perspectives 

outside medicine, including those of patients, 

complementary medicine and midwifery. It focuses 

on the application of contemporary theoretical 

debates around the nature of medical and health 

knowledge, providing readers with a series of critical 

analyses of the production, application and translation 

of “evidence” in a range of healthcare contexts. 

Contents: A critical social science of evidencebased 

healthcare. Part I: Evidence in Cultural 

and Theoretical Context: Evidence-based medicine, 

clinical uncertainty, and learning to doctor, 

Stefan Timmermans and Alison Angell; Resisting 

stratification: imperialism, war machines and 

evidence-based practice, Dave Holmes and 

Patrick O’Byrne. Part II: Evidence in the Clinic: 

Communally-based evidence in the emerging 

practice of aorta implant surgery, Berit Brattheim, 

Arild Faxvaag and Aksel Tjora; Embodied, embedded 

and encoded knowledge in practice: the role 

of clinical interpretation in neurorehabilitiation, 

Rob Flynn, Joanne Greenhalgh, Andrew Long and 

Sarah Tyson; The histories and cultures of evidence 

utilisation: the cases of medical oncology and 

haematology, Alex Broom and Jon Adams. Part III: 

Evidence on the Margins: Evidence-based health 

care and complementary and alternative medicine, 

Kevin Dew; Patient understandings of evidence and 

therapeutic effectiveness, Alex Broom and Philip Tovey; 

Evidence based paradigms and contemporary 

midwifery, Caroline Homer and Alex Broom; 

Evidence-based healthcare: the future research 

agenda, Anne-Grete Sandaunet and Evan Willis; Index. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-7981-3 $99.95 


A History of Intelligence 

and ‘Intellectual Disability’ 

The Shaping of Psychology 

in Early Modern Europe 

C.F. Goodey 

“This superb interdisciplinary study analyzes a wide 

range of texts from antique philosophy, religion, 

medicine and psychology, to show how the history 

of disability is intertwined with that of social and 

cultural formations. A must read for all who want to 

know how their own discipline organized the world 

of understanding in a way that made some human 

beings invisible at best, and despicable at worst.” 

—Hans Reinders, VU University, Amsterdam 

Autism, Down syndrome and other such labels 

assume that “intellectual disability” is a permanent 

aspect of human nature. C.F. Goodey demonstrates 

that intellectual disability and even intelligence are 

instead historically contingent creations, which are 

rooted in early modern cultural and religious matrices 

and corresponding forms of social organization and 

which have subsequently undergone continuous 

change. This paradigm-shifting book is also an urgent 

and compassionate appeal for us to consider, through 

the prism of history, how the apparent certainties 

of modern biology, medicine and psychology came 

to question the ethical status of some of us. 

July 2011 

392 pages 

Hardback 978-1-4094-2021-7 $69.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-2022-4 


Making Disease, Making Citizens 

The Politics of Hepatitis C 

Suzanne Fraser and Kate Seear, 

both at Monash University, Australia 

“This is a provocative, thoughtful and far-reaching 

work which reveals the complex ontology of hepatitis 

C and challenges self-evident truths about the virus, 

those affected by it and its treatment…” 

—Helen Keane, Australian National 


Adopting a feminist science and technology studies 

approach, this theoretically sophisticated, empirically 

informed analysis of the social constitution of 

disease and the philosophy of health seeks to map 

the social and medical negotiations taking place 

around the disease, shedding light on the ways these 

negotiations are also co-producing new selves. 

Contents: Introduction: a gathering; Towards 

a quasispecies epistemology; How disease 

holds together: hepatitis C and health promotion; 

Materialising hepatitis C and injecting drug use 

in self-help literature and beyond; Knowing, doing, 

hoping: diagnosis and the limits of biological 

citizenship; From centre to periphery: the ethics 

and politics of treatment; Conclusion: ‘the smoldering 

and fluctuating course’; Bibliography; Index. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-0839-0 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-0840-6 



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Sociology of Health and the Body 

Embodied Food Politics 

Michael S. Carolan, Colorado State University 

CRITICAL FOOD STUDIES 

“Carolan brilliantly demonstrates that bodies tuned 

to Global Food can, through shared practice in new 

spaces such as urban chickens, seed exchanges 

and community supported agriculture, create tacit 

knowledge for innovation in food systems that 

more closely link production with consumption. 

He supports his reflexive deep descriptive case 

studies by a wide-ranging and well-chosen literature 

that he both critiques and takes to the next level.” 

—Cornelia Butler Flora, Iowa State University 

Drawing on a variety of case studies, Embodied 

Food Politics explores the interrelationship between 

physical connections to and knowledge of food. This 

book inserts into the food literature living, feeling, 

sensing bodies and will be of interest to food scholars 

as well as those more generally interested in the 

phenomenon known as embodied realism. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-2209-9 $89.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-2210-5 


Medical Proofs, 

Social Experiments 

Clinical Trials in Shifting Contexts 

Edited by Catherine Will, University of Sussex, UK 

and Tiago Moreira, Durham University, UK 

“Relying upon detailed multidisciplinary investigations 

of clinical trials, this highly original book provides 

illuminating insights into the ongoing (silent) 

transformation of our societies into evidencebased 

societies.” 

—Michel Callon, Mines Paris Tech, France 

2010 198 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-7928-8 $99.95 

ebook 978-0-7546-9832-6 


Recognizing Transsexuals 

Personal, Political and 

Medicolegal Embodiment 

Zowie Davy, University of Lincoln, UK 

“…important and timely…will be of interest to 

anyone concerned with gender equality, bodily 

change and gender diversity.” 

—Surya Monro, University of Huddersfield, UK 

Recognizing Transsexuals is the first sociological 

examination of how the bodies of trans people 

are figured and reconfigured in socio, politico 

and medico-legal contexts while considering the 

impact of these shifts. It will be of interest to those 

concerned with embodiment, the sociology of law, 

sexology, medical sociology and gender theory. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-0565-8 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-0566-5 


Reproductive Health 

and Gender Equality 

Method, Measurement, and Implications 

Guang-zhen Wang, University 

of Texas, Pan American 

“Wang’s book is a much-welcome tour de force, 

bringing together elusive data from 137 developing 

countries (or areas) with an innovative analytical 

framework connecting gender inequality to health. 

It is an ambitious, highly readable contribution to 

our understanding. A ‘must read’ for all development 

leaders as well as academics who seek to understand 

global challenges.” 

—Susan A. McDaniel, University of Lethbridge 

2010 220 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-4869-7 $99.95 

ebook 978-0-7546-9139-6 


War and Redemption 

Treatment and Recovery in Combat-related 

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder 

Larry Dewey, University of Washington 

“Larry Dewey, MD, has written a gripping and 

insightful narrative of combat trauma, and the deep 

and lasting emotional wounds caused by the horrors 

of war. Immersing himself in the therapy and lives 

of combat veterans of WW II, Korea and Vietnam, 

Dr. Dewey accurately and compassionately describes 

the causes and painstaking treatments of their 

terrors, grief and spiritual devastation…This superb 

book should be mandatory reading for clinicians 

providing care to veterans, for family and friends 

of those men and women who must pick up their 

lives after returning from combat, and for the 

general reader with the courage to encounter 

the overwhelmingly traumatic experience 

of war and its bitter psychiatric consequences.” 

—Murray A. Raskind, University of Washington 

2004 256 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-4165-0 $49.95 


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(Re)Thinking Violence 

in Health Care Settings 

A Critical Approach 

Edited by Dave Holmes, University of Ottawa, 

Trudy Rudge, University of Sydney, Australia 

and Amélie Perron, University of Ottawa 

“This is a work of unprecedented importance…This book 

needs to be at the top of the list for any administrator, 

manager, teacher, clinician or practitioner and patient 

advocate. It offers insight, hope and ultimately a path 

for healing to take place in health care.” 

—Peggy L. Chinn, University of Connecticut School 

of Nursing and Editor, Advances in Nursing Science 

Drawing together the latest research from Australia, 

Canada, the UK and the US, (Re)Thinking Violence in 

Health Care Settings engages with the work of critical 

theorists such as Bourdieu, Butler, Foucault, Latour 

and Žižek, among others, to address the issue 

of violence and theorize its workings in creative 

and controversial ways. 

Contents: Foreword, Dave Holmes; Introduction: 

(re)thinking violence in health care settings, 

Dave Holmes, Trudy Rudge, Amélie Perron and 

Isabelle St-Pierre. Part I: Institutional and Managerial 

Violence: A critical reflection on the use of behaviour 

modification programs in forensic psychiatry settings, 

Dave Holmes and Stuart J. Murray; The violence 

of tolerance in a multicultural workplace: examples 

from nursing, Trudy Rudge, Virginia Mapedzahama, 

Sandra West and Amélie Perron; Changing discourses 

of blame in nursing and healthcare, Hannah Cooke; 

Hospital policies regarding violence in the workplace: 

a discourse analysis, Penny Powers; Exploring 

violence in a forensic hospital: a theoretical 

experimentation, Amélie Perron and Trudy Rudge; 

Nurses’ failure to report elder abuse in long-term 

care: an exploratory study, Gloria Hamel-Lauzon 

and Sylvie Lauzon. Part II: Horizontal Violence: 

Foucault and the nexus between violence and 

power: the context of intra/inter professional 

aggression, Isabelle St-Pierre; Examining nurseto-nurse 

horizontal violence and nurse-to-student 

vertical violence through the lens of phenomenology, 

Sandra P. Thomas; The rise of violence in HIV/AIDS 

prevention campaigns: a critical discourse analysis, 

Marilou Gagnon and Jean Daniel Jacob; Bullying in 

the workplace: a qualitative study of newly licensed 

registered nurses, Shellie Simons and Barbara Mawn; 

Sexual health nursing assessments: examining 

the violence of intimate exposures, Patrick O’Byrne 

and Cory Woodyatt; Bullying on the back-channels: 

everyday interpersonal communicative relations 

in telephone talk as a space for covert forms 

of professional manipulation, Jackie Cook and 

Colette Snowden. Part III: Patients’ Violence: 

Assessment of risk and special observations in 

mental health practice: a comparison of forensic 

and non-forensic settings, Elizabeth Mason-Whitehead 

and Tom Mason; Policing pornography in high-secure 

care: the discursive construction of gendered 

inequality, David Mercer; Warning—this job contains 

strong language and adult themes: do nurses require 

thick skins and broad shoulders to deal with 

encounters involving swearing?, Teresa Stone 

and Margaret McMillan; Prison nursing: managing 

the threats to caring, Elizabeth Walsh; The mentally 

ill and civil commitment: assessing dangerousness 

in law and psychiatry, Cary Federman; Working 

in a violent environment: the pitfall of integrating 

security imperatives into forensic psychiatry nursing, 

Jean Daniel Jacob; Index. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-3266-1 $119.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-3267-8 


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Political Sociology and Globalization 

20 

Beyond Neoliberalism 

A World to Win 

James Petras, State University of New York, 

Binghamton and Saint Mary’s University 

and Henry Veltmeyer, Saint Mary’s University 

and Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Mexico 

GLOBALIZATION, CRISES, AND CHANGE 

This groundbreaking book by James Petras and 

Henry Veltmeyer addresses the issue of capitalism’s 

propensity towards crisis. Through addressing these 

issues they lay out an analysis of the dynamics, 

contradictions and crises of capitalism in the 

twenty-first century. 

Contents: Introduction. Part I: Capitalism in the 

21st Century: The contradictions of capitalism; 

The inequality predicament; A new development 

paradigm: saving capitalism from itself; The global 

crisis and Latin America; Uneven development and 

the class struggle. Part II: Imperialism in the 21st 

Century: Rethinking US imperialism; Globalization 

and imperialism in the 21st century; Imperialism in 

Latin America, then and now; Uprisings and regime 

change in the Arab world. Part III: 21st Century 

Socialism: Socialism of the 20th and 21st centuries; 

Cuba: reforming the revolution; Barbarism 

or socialism?; Conclusion: capitalism in the 

21st century; Bibliography; Index. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-2847-3 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-2848-0 


Facebook Democracy 

The Architect of Disclosure 

and the Threat to Public Life 

José Marichal, California Lutheran University 

In this book, Marichal argues that understanding 

Facebook’s impact on political processes requires 

an understanding of how Facebook’s architecture 

of disclosure shapes the construction of individuals’ 

political identities by drawing users further into their 

pre-selected social networks. Drawing on a number 

of disciplines and an ethnographic analysis of 250 

Facebook political groups, Marichal explores how 

Facebook’s emphasis on social connection impacts 

key dimensions of political participation: e.g., 

mobilization, deliberation and attitude formation. 

August 2012 c. 190 pages 

Hardback 978-1-4094-4430-5 c. $89.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-4431-2 


GLOBAL CONNECTIONS 

Series Editor: Robert Holton, Trinity College, Dublin 

Global Connections builds on the multi-dimensional and continuously expanding interest in globalization. The 

main objective of the series is to focus on “connectedness” and provide readable case studies across a broad 

range of areas such as social and cultural life, economic, political and technological activities. The series aims 

to move beyond abstract generalites and stereotypes. “Global” is considered in the broadest sense of the word, 

embracing connections between different nations, regions and localities, including activities that are transnational, 

and trans-local in scope. Connections refers to movements of people, ideas, resources and all forms 

of communication as well as the opportunities and constraints faced in making, engaging with and sometimes 

resisting globalization. 

For full series details, visit www.ashgate.com/globalconnections 

Global Islamophobia 

Muslims and Moral Panic in the West 

Edited by George Morgan, University of Western 

Sydney, Australia and Scott Poynting, 

Manchester Metropolitan University, UK 


“This lucid and penetrating study of Islamophobia 

presents fresh insights into the process of generating 

modern-day folk devils, causing fear and panic. 

Examining the demonization of Muslims in the West 

as an accumulative and global process, this book 

reveals serious flaws in the way liberal governments 

have responded to their Muslim citizens and, more 

fundamentally, to social and cultural diversity.” 

—Shahram Akbarzadeh, The University 

of Melbourne, Australia 

This book presents a series of case studies from 

Western Europe, Australia and North America 

demonstrating the transnational character of 

Islamophobia. Exploring various sites of conflict, 

Global Islamophobia considers the role played by 

“moral entrepreneurs” in orchestrating popular 

xenophobia and in agitating for greater surveillance, 

policing and cultural regulation of those deemed a 

threat to the nation’s security or imagined community. 

Contents: Foreword, Michael Welch; Introduction: 

the transnational folk devil, George Morgan and 

Scott Poynting; A school for scandal: Rütli high 

school and the German press, Bruce Cohen and 

Catharina Muhamad-Brandner; A panicky debate: 

the state of Moroccan youth in The Netherlands, 

Francis Pakes; Italian intellectuals and the rise 

of Islamophobia after 9/11, Bruno Cousin and 

Tommaso Vitale; Women and migrants in Swedish 

xenophobic populist parties, Diana Mulinari and 

Anders Neergaard; The social construction of Iraqi 

folk devils: post-9/11 framing by the G.W. Bush 

administration and US news media, Scott Bonn; 

Global cities and glocal fears: the Camden Islamic 

school campaign, Ryan Al Natour and George Morgan; 

Perverse Muslim masculinities in contemporary 

discourse: the vagaries of Muslim immigration in the 

West, Selda Dagistanli and Kiran Grewal; Generating 

a local moral panic in western Sydney: pitfalls, limits 

and lessons from a ‘failed political attempt’ to use 

global Islamophobia, Kevin M. Dunn and Alanna Kamp; 

Moral panic and media representation: the Bradford 

riots, Joanne Massey and Rajinder Singh Tatla; 

Moral panics, globalization and Islamophobia: 

the case of Abu Hamza in The Sun, Anneke Meyer; 

Criminalising dissent in the ‘war on terror’: 

the British state’s reaction to the Gaza protests of 

2008–9, Joanna Gilmore; Where is the moral in panic? 

Islam, evil and moral order, Greg Noble; Index. 

May 2012 

c. 240 pages 

Hardback 978-1-4094-3119-0 c. $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-3120-6 


Global Perspectives 

on War, Gender and Health 

The Sociology and Anthropology of Suffering 

Edited by Hannah Bradby and 

Gillian Lewando Hundt, both 

at the University of Warwick, UK 


“Speaking to and from women’s experiences of war 

and health, this book offers deeply moving narratives 

and rich multifaceted analyses. It sheds new light on 

complex issues and should be immensely useful to 

a wide range of students, practitioners and researchers. 

Global Perspectives on War, Gender and Health provides 

thought-provoking, thoughtful and distressingly timely 

accounts of human suffering and survival.” 

—Annika Rabo, Stockholm University, Sweden 

2010 178 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-7523-5 $99.95 

ebook 978-0-7546-9911-8 


Managing Cultural Change 

Reclaiming Synchronicity in a Mobile World 

Melissa Butcher, Open University, UK 


“…This is a beautifully rendered and critically 

important analysis of the affective dimensions 

of living together and managing change.” 

—Anita Harris, Monash University, Australia 

Despite decades of policy interventions and awareness 

raising programs, migration and mobility continue 

to give rise to tensions and questions of how to live 

together in a culturally diverse world. Presenting 

research from a range of settings, Managing Cultural 

Change takes a new approach to these challenges, 

re-examining responses to migration and mobility 

as part of a process of managing wider cultural change. 

Contents: Synchronous movements; Managing 

cultural change in the global workplace; Demarcating 

difference and belonging; Managing difference 

through re-finding home; Learning to live with 

cultural change; Teaching how to manage change; 

Epilogue; Bibliography; Index. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-2510-6 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-2511-3 



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Beyond the Global 

Capitalist Crisis 

The World Economy in Transition 

Edited by Berch Berberoglu, 

University of Nevada, Reno 

GLOBALIZATION, CRISES, AND CHANGE 

Berberoglu brings together experts on the 

contemporary global capitalist political economy 

who are able to shed light on the inner workings 

of global capitalism and the capitalist globalization 

process that has led to the growth and development 

of capitalism from the national to the global level. 

Contents: Preface; Introduction: the global capitalist 

crisis and its aftermath, Berch Berberoglu; The 

origins and development of the global capitalist 

economy and capitalist crises, Alan J. Spector; The 

great recession and the financial crisis in the United 

States, the epicentre of the global capitalist crisis, 

Howard J. Sherman; The global capitalist crisis and 

world depression, James Petras; The global capitalist 

crisis and the European Union, with focus on Greece, 

Mike-Frank G. Epitropoulos; The global capitalist 

crisis and Latin America, Henry Veltmeyer; The global 

capitalist crisis and the rise of China to the world 

scene, Alvin Y. So; The global capitalist crisis and the 

end of neoliberal capitalist globalization, Martin Orr; 

The collapse of global capitalism and the movement 

toward socialism in the 21st century: new beginnings, 

Walda Katz-Fishman and Jerome Scott; Conclusion: 

beyond the global capitalist crisis, Berch Berberoglu; 

Select bibliography; Index. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-1239-7 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-1240-3 


Globalization and 

Technocapitalism 

The Political Economy of Corporate 

Power and Technological Domination 

Luis Suarez-Villa, University of California, Irvine 

“…a must-read for anyone concerned with 

understanding the crisis of contemporary capitalism… 

one of the most important books in years.” 

—Robert W. McChesney, University 

of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 

As technological creativity, corporate research 

and talent flows become more important than 

ever, Globalization and Technocapitalism explores 

the manner in which globalization acquires new 

contextual features that will become central to the 

macro-social dynamics of the twenty-first century. 

Contents: Introduction; Technocapitalism on a global 

scale; Fast accumulation; Intangible global commodities; 

The new global corporatism; The haves and the havenots; 

Illusive democracy; Is there any alternative?; Index. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-3915-8 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-3916-5 


RETHINKING POLITICAL 

AND INTERNATIONAL THEORY 

Series Editor: Keith Breen, Dan Bulley and Susan McManus, 

all at Queens University Belfast, UK 

Committed to showing you in what ways traditional approaches in political and international theory may be 

applied to 21st century politics, this series will present inventive and pioneering theoretical work designed 

to build a common framework for the latest scholarly research on political theory and international relations. 

Intended to be international and interdisciplinary in scope, the series will contain works which advance 

our understanding of the relevance of seminal thinkers to our current socio-political context(s) as well as 

problematize and offer new insights into key political concepts and phenomena within the arena of politics 

and international relations. 

For full series details, visit www.ashgate.com/rethinkingpoliticaltheory 

Institutionalizing Agonistic 

Democracy 

Post-Foundationalism and Political Liberalism 

Ed Wingenbach, University of Redlands 

RETHINKING POLITICAL AND INTERNATIONAL THEORY 

“…Wingenbach’s work is a passionate and thoughtful 

defense of agonistic democracy and its need to be 

institutionalized…Wingenbach offers a clear and 

convincing response to those critics of agonism 

who claim that its Achilles heel is that it provides 

little or no guidance for creating political institutions.” 

—William Paul Simmons, Arizona State University 

Contemporary politics are characterized by the 

impossibility of agreement on fundamental values. 

This book examines the institutional alternatives 

available to democratic politics to determine which 

institutional structures are most likely to produce 

a democratic social order in which agonistic 

citizenship might flourish. 

Contents: Preface; Introduction. Part I: Post- 

Foundationalism and Agnostic Democratic Theory: 

Post-foundational politics and democracy; Agonism 

and democracy; A typology of agonistic democracy; 

Agonistic democracy and the question of institutions. 

Part II: Evaluating the Institutional Possibilities 

for Agonistic Democracy: Agonistic democracy 

and the limits of popular participation; Populism, 

representation, and the popular will; Political liberalism, 

contingency and agonistic pluralism; Liberalism, 

agonism, and democracy; Bibliography; Index. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-0353-1 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-0354-8 


The Politics of Misrecognition 

Edited by Simon Thompson, University of the West 

of England, UK and Majid Yar, University of Hull, UK 


“…groundbreaking…a rich and very diversified 

theoretical account of the phenomena associated 

with the concept of misrecognition…” 

—Michel Seymour, Université de Montréal 

The Politics of Misrecognition is the most meticulous 

reflection to date on the importance of misrecognition 

for the understandings of our political and personal 

experience. A team of leading experts from a range 

of disciplines, including philosophy, political theory, 

sociology, psychoanalysis, history, moral economy and 

criminology present different theoretical frameworks in 

which the politics of misrecognition may be understood. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-0169-8 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-0170-4 


Real Green 

Sustainability after the End of Nature 

Manuel Arias-Maldonado, 

University of Málaga, Spain 


“…Effectively connects a critical analysis of 

the meaning of nature with fresh thinking about 

sustainability and social change. A terrific book!” 

—John M. Meyer, Humboldt State University 

By challenging conventional wisdom about the 

ecological crisis and reframing the traditional values 

of Green Politics, Real Green: Sustainability after the 

End of Nature offers new answers to the key questions 

of whether this is really the case, what such a society 

will look like, and how it is to be achieved. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-2409-3 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-2410-9 


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Globalization: Causes and Effects 

Edited by David A. Deese, Boston College 

THE LIBRARY OF ESSAYS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 

The pioneering articles selected for this book 

represent the most important scholarly contributions 

published to date on the central theme of globalization. 

The majority of the papers are from political scientists, 

but a substantial number are from economists, 

sociologists and historians. The volume covers 

a range of subject areas including: forms, origins 

and causes; political dimensions and implications; 

economic and financial impacts; identity, culture 

and civilization; and the future of globalization. 

July 2012 

c. 600 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-2687-9 c. $300.00 


The Knowledge Business 

The Commodification of Urban 

and Housing Research 

Edited by Chris Allen, Manchester Metropolitan 

University, UK and Rob Imrie, King’s College 

London, UK 

“The most comprehensive collection to date on the 

impacts of neo-liberalism on academic life, especially 

in the UK…” 

—Steve Fuller , University of Warwick, UK 

2010 298 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-7690-4 $114.95 

ebook 978-0-7546-9387-1 


Memory and Representation 

in Contemporary Europe 

The Persistence of the Past 

Siobhan Kattago, Tallinn University, Estonia 

“…Memory and Representation in Contemporary 

Europe combines rigorous empirical analyses with state 

of the art theorizing. It is essential reading for anyone 

who wants to understand both contemporary Europe 

as well as the narrative constitution of modernity.” 

—Jeffrey Olick, University of Virginia 

Through reflecting on the legacy of totalitarianism 

and the revolutions of 1989, it becomes clear that 

the issue is less of whether one should remember, 

but rather how to internalize the various lessons 

of the past for the future of Europe. Memory and 

Representation in Contemporary Europe thus offers 

the reader occasions upon which to take stock 

of different but overlapping contours of past 

and present in contemporary Europe. 

Contents: Preface; Introduction; The slippery slope 

of memory; Agreeing to disagree on the legacies 

of recent history; The ethics of seeing: photographs 

of Germany at the emd of the war; The sound of 

silence: reflections on Bernhard Schlink and Gesine 

Schwan; Living in the third person: the uncanny Hans 

Schneider/Schwerte; Goodbye to grand narratives? 

Moving the Soviet war memorial in Tallinn; Memory, 

pluralism and the agony of politics; The fata morgana 

of revolution; Postscript: Europe between past and 

future; Bibliography; Index. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-3637-9 $99.95 


Surveillance and Identity 

Discourse, Subjectivity and the State 

David Barnard-Wills, Cranfield University, UK 

“These carefully selected fascinating case studies 

allow Barnard-Wills to chart the connections between 

emergent forms of identity, new technologies and 

governmental projects. The result is a valuable 

contribution to our understanding of the contemporary 

politics of surveillance.” 

—Kevin D. Haggerty, University of Alberta 

Surveillance and Identity analyzes the discourse 

of surveillance in the contemporary United Kingdom, 

drawing upon public language from central 

government, governmental agencies, activist 

movements, finance and banking and the news 

media. Examining the logics of these discourses 

and revealing the manner in which they construct 

problems of governance in the light of the insecurity 

of identity, this book shows how identity is 

fundamentally linked to surveillance, as governmental 

discourses privilege surveillance as a response 

to social problems. 

Contents: Preface; Introduction; Surveillance, 

governmentality, identity and discourse; Discourse 

theory and analysis; Representation of surveillance 

practices; Subjectivity and subject positions in 

discourses of surveillance; Identity in discourses 

of surveillance; Conclusions and implications; 



Hardback 978-1-4094-3072-8 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-3073-5 


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Media Practices 

and Protest Politics 

How Precarious Workers Mobilise 

Alice Mattoni, University of Pittsburgh 

“A fresh look at the complex relationships among 

activists and media. In this insightful study of 

collective organizin…Mattoni provides a useful 

framework for understanding the media practices 

of social movement actors…Highly recommended…” 

—Kathleen Blee, University of Pittsburgh 

Media Practices and Protest Politics offers important 

insights for understanding mechanisms and 

patterns of visibility in struggles for recognition 

and redistribution in post-democratic societies 

and provides a valuable contribution to the field 

of political communication and social movement 

studies. Explaining how activists perceive and 

understand the media environment in which they are 

embedded the book discusses how they must interact 

with a diverse range of media professionals and 

technologies and considers how mainstream, radical 

left-wing and alternative media represent protests. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-2678-3 c. $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-2679-0 


Relational Political Marketing 

in Party-Centred Democracies 

Because We Deserve It 

Helene Johansen, Volda University College, Norway 

“…Well written, lucid and insightful this book 

represents a subtle and sophisticated analysis 

and goes beyond the debates within the community 

of political marketing scholars to address some of 

the key issues faced by the life of democracy today.” 

—Nicholas O’Shaughnessy, Queen Mary, 


This book offers a critical study of the way in which 

traditional market logic—derived from mainstream 

economics and managerial marketing—is commonly 

applied to democratic politics, within both 

political science and the rapidly expanding 

field of political marketing. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-3905-9 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-3906-6 


Transparency, Power, and Control 

Perspectives on Legal Communication 

Edited by Vijay K. Bhatia, Christoph A. Hafner 

and Lindsay Miller, all at City University 

of Hong Kong and Anne Wagner, Université 

du Littoral Côte d’Opale, France 

LAW, LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION 

“…an impressive assemblage of international 

scholars…belongs on the bookshelf of anyone 

interested in critically engaging the intersection of 

language, law and power in the contemporary world.” 

—Janet Ainsworth, Seattle University 

This book brings together academics and practitioners 

from a range of disciplines from more than twenty 

countries to reflect on the growing importance of 

issues such as social order, liberty and individual 

freedom in our international community. Contributors 

explore these issues from a range of perspectives as 

well as legal contexts. The collection examines the 

ways in which “actors” in our society—legislators, 

politicians, activists and artists—have provoked public 

discourses to confront the issues of transparency, 

power and control. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-3284-5 $124.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-3285-2 



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THE MOBILIZATION SERIES ON SOCIAL 

MOVEMENTS, PROTEST, AND CULTURE 

Series Editor: Hank Johnston, San Diego State University 

Published in conjunction with Mobilization: An International Quarterly, the premier research journal in the 

field, this series disseminates high quality new research and scholarship in the fields of social movements, 

protest and contentious politics. The series is interdisciplinary in focus and publishes monographs 

and collections of essays by new and established scholars. 

For more details, visit www.ashgate.com/sociology 

Violent Protest, 

Contentious Politics, 

and the Neoliberal State 

Edited by Seraphim Seferiades, Panteion 

University, Greece and Hank Johnston, 

San Diego State University 

THE MOBILIZATION SERIES ON 

SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, PROTEST, AND CULTURE 

“A diverse, incisive set of essays all focused on a single 

theme: how collective violence arises from and impacts 

social change. We learn from each, but the lessons 

of the whole are much greater than the sum its parts. 

The field of collective action moves up a large notch.” 

—Bert Useem, Purdue University 

This volume of cutting-edge research comparatively 

analyzes violent protest and rioting, furthering our 

understanding of this increasingly prevalent form 

of claim making. Hank Johnston and Seraphim 

Seferiades bring together internationally recognized 

experts in the field of protest studies and contentious 

politics to analyze the causes and trajectories 

of violence as a protest tactic. Crossnational 

comparisons from North America, Britain, France, 

Germany, Greece, Iran, Thailand and elsewhere 

contribute to the volume’s theoretical elaboration, 

while several case studies add depth to the discussion. 

This title will be of key importance to scholars across 

the social sciences, including sociology, political 

science, geography and criminology. Johnston and 

Seferiades’ exciting book is a significant contribution 

to the study of rioting and violent protest in 

the contemporary neoliberal state. 

Contents: Preface. Section 1: Theoretical Perspective: 

The dynamics of violent protest: politics, 

emotions, and interaction, Seraphim Seferiades and 

Hank Johnston; The role of violence in mass protests, 

Frances Fox Piven; The outcomes of political violence: 

ethical, theoretical, and methodological concerns, 

Lorenzo Bosi and Marco Guigni; Age cohorts, 

cognition, and collective violence, Hank Johnston. 

Section 2: Regional Perspectives: France, Germany, 

and United Kingdom: Political violence in Germany: 

trends and exploration of causes, Dieter Rucht; The 

unusual suspects: radical repertoires in consensual 

settings, Mario Diani; Riots: a dynamic view, 

Donatella Della Porta and Bernard Gb kpi. Section 3: 

Comparative Perspectives: Protest and repression 

in democracies and autocracies: Europe, Iran, Thailand, 

and the Middle East 2010–2011, Jack Goldstone; 

Contemporary French and British urban riots: exploring 

the underlying political dimensions, David Waddington 

and Mike King; The volatility of urban riots, 

Marilena Simiti. Section 4: The Greek December, 

2008: The Greek December, 2008, Hank Johnston 

and Seraphim Seferiades; Along the pathways of rage: 

the space-time of an uprising, Loukia Kotronaki and 

Seraphim Seferiades; The accidental eruption of the 

anarchist movement, Kostas Kanellopoulos; Beyond 

the riots: radical minorities shaping a decade of 

upturn in Greece, Nikos Lountos; Works cited; Index. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-1876-4 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-1877-1 


Student Activism 

and Curricular Change 

in Higher Education 

Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur, 

Rhode Island College 

THE MOBILIZATION SERIES ON 

SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, PROTEST, AND CULTURE 

“Student Activism is a fresh and timely contribution 

to our understanding of how contentious actors 

destabilize institutionalized practices beyond the 

state. Creatively merging social movement and 

organizational theory, this book tells us why certain 

colleges and universities institute Women’s, Asian 

American and Queer Studies programs, while others 

resist. Essential reading for scholars of contentious 

politics, higher education and organizational studies.” 

—Edward T. Walker, University of Michigan 

Based on in-depth case-studies of curricular change 

processes at six colleges and universities across the 

United States, the book demonstrates that social 

movements targeting colleges and universities play 

a major role in curricular change and sets forward 

a new model for understanding what it takes for 

social movements targeting organizations to make 

an impact. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-0934-2 $89.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-0935-9 


Under Weber’s Shadow 

Modernity, Subjectivity and Politics 

in Habermas, Arendt and MacIntyre 

Keith Breen, Queen’s University Belfast, UK 

“Under Weber’s Shadow offers a powerful 

demonstration of just how central—and how 

intellectually productive—Weber’s analysis of 

modernity was for twentieth-century political theory. 

Breen’s insightful examinations of Habermas, Arendt 

and MacIntyre, reveal surprising continuities across 

their work, while mounting a compelling argument 

against their ‘intersubjectivist’ responses to Weber’s 

political realism.” 

—Jason Frank, Cornell University 

Engaging with important current debates and literature, 

Keith Breen provides a rigorous analysis of the work 

of Habermas, Arendt, MacIntyre and Weber and 

a highly accessible and original intervention within 

contemporary social and political thought. 

May 2012 

c. 250 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-7908-0 c. $99.95 

ebook 978-0-7546-9799-2 


Women, Power and Politics 

in 21st Century Iran 

Edited by Tara Povey, University of Sydney, 

Australia and Elaheh Rostami-Povey, 


“This is a powerful analysis of women’s movement 

in Iran by some of the best known post-revolutionary 

activists who have been instrumental in propelling 

the women’s movement forward in Iran in the 

past three decades. Their lived experiences add an 

illuminating dimension to their rigorous political 

and historic overview. This is a book that is well 

worth reading by all scholars and others who 

are interested in the subject.” 

—Baroness Afshar, University of York, UK 

A truly fascinating insider’s look at the experiences 

of Iranian women as academics, political and 

civil society activists, this book counters the often 

inaccurate and misleading stereotyping of Iranian 

women to present a vibrant and diverse picture 

of these women’s lives. A welcomed and unique 

addition to the vibrant and growing literature 

on women, Islam, development, democracy 

and feminisms. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-0204-6 c. $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-0205-3 


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Poverty, Class and Social Stratification 

24 

CITIES AND SOCIETY 

Series Editor: Chris Pickvance, University of Kent, UK 

Cities and Society is a series disseminating high quality new research and scholarship which contribute 

to a sociological understanding of the city. The series promotes scholarly engagement with contemporary 

issues such as urban access to public and private services; urban governance; urban conflict and protest; 

residential segregation and its effects; urban infrastructure; privacy, sociability and lifestyles; the city 

and space; and the sustainable city. 


Beyond the Resources 

of Poverty 

Gecekondu Living in the Turkish Capital 

Sebnem Eroglu, University of Essex, UK 

and University of Kent, UK 


This groundbreaking volume researches the lives 

of gecekondu settlers in the capital city of Turkey 

in order to understand how households cope 

with poverty and why some households are more 

successful than others in reducing their deprivation. 

It takes a critical stance towards existing conceptions 

such as household survival, livelihood and coping 

strategy and develops an alternative model based 

on four types of household response to poverty: 

income generation, income allocation, consumption 

and investment. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-0746-1 $114.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-0747-8 


Opportunities and Deprivation 

in the Urban South 

Poverty, Segregation and 

Social Networks in São Paulo 

Eduardo Cesar Leão Marques, 

University of São Paulo, Brazil 


A rigorous examination of poverty in São Paulo, 

a contemporary megacity, Opportunities and 

Deprivation in the Urban South explores the different 

types of network that exist among the metropolitan 

poor, the conditions that shape and influence them, 

their consequences for the production of poverty and 

the mechanisms through which networks influence 

daily living conditions. 

Contents: Introduction; Constructing conceptual 

bridges between poverty, segregation and networks; 

The spaces and the poverties of São Paulo; What are 

the networks of the urban poor really like?; How do the 

networks vary?; Do the networks matter for the access 

to markets?; Do social networks matter in gaining 

access to goods and services obtained from outside 

markets?; How do the networks matter: network 

mobilization and relational mechanisms; Conclusion; 

References; Methodological appendix; Index. 

May 2012 

c. 208 pages 

Hardback 978-1-4094-4270-7 c. $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-4271-4 


Residential Segregation 

in Comparative Perspective 

Making Sense of Contextual Diversity 

Edited by Thomas Maloutas, Harokopio University 

and National Centre for Social Research, Greece 

and Kuniko Fujita, Michigan State University 


“…this valuable book breaks out of the assumptions 

of traditional Anglo-American contexts…a ‘must 

read’ for anyone interested in residential segregation 

and its variations worldwide.” 

—Chris Hamnett, King’s College London, UK 

The aim of this book is to introduce the significantly 

different urban experiences in social and spatial 

segregation patterns and rationales which exist 

among the world’s regions and to demonstrate that 

urban theory needs to draw systematically upon this 

wide range of experiences. The cities selected (Athens, 

Beijing, Budapest, Copenhagen, Hong Kong Madrid, 

Paris, São Paulo, Taipei and Tokyo) were chosen in 

order to achieve geographical spread, to maximize 

the diversity of types of socioeconomic regulation. 

Contents: Introduction: residential segregation 

in context, Thomas Maloutas; Residential income 

inequality in Tokyo and why it does not translate 

into class-based segregation, Kuniko Fujita and 

Richard Child Hill; The impact of housing tenure 

on residential segregation in Beijing, China, 

John R. Logan and Limei Li; Residential segregation 

in an unequal city: why there are no urban ghettos 

in Hong Kong, Ngai-ming Yip; A portrait of 

residential differentiation in Taipei City (1980–2010), 

Chia-Huang Wang and Chun-Hao Li; Residential 

segregation and social structure in São Paulo: continuity 

and change since the 1990s, Eduardo Marques, 

Renata Bichir and Celi Scalon; Segregation, social 

mix and public policies in Paris, Edmond Préteceille; 

The solidity of urban socio-spatial structures 

in Copenhagen, Hans Thor Andersen; Residential 

segregation as an expression of socioeconomic 

inequality: the Madrid case, Marta Dominguez, 

Jesus Leal and Elena Martinez Goytre; Changing 

dynamics of residential segregation in Istanbul, 

Tuna Tasan-Kok; Social polarization and de-segregation 

in Athens, Thomas Maloutas, Vassilis Arapoglou, 

George Kandylis and John Sayas; Conclusion: residential 

segregation and urban theory, Kuniko Fujita; Index. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-1873-3 c. $119.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-1874-0 


Low-Income Students and 

the Perpetuation of Inequality 

Higher Education in America 

Gary A. Berg, California State 

University Channel Islands 

CLASSIFIED AS “RESEARCH ESSENTIAL” 

BY BAKER & TAYLOR YBP LIBRARY SERVICES 

“Using quantitative and qualitative analyses, and 

including the intersections of race, class and gender, 

Berg underscores the role of higher education as a 

system that perpetuates inequality and the ways 

it needs to change. The interviews illuminate the 

challenges for so many individuals including faculty 

and administrators, who themselves were from lowincome 

backgrounds. The book is important reading.” 

—Daryl Smith, Claremont Graduate University 

Drawing upon quantitative data gathered from the 

U.S. Census and U.S. Department of Education, as 

well as interviews with students from a variety of 

socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds, Low-Income 

Students and the Perpetuation of Inequality examines 

the question of who really benefits from public higher 

education. This volume will appeal to social scientists 

with interests in education, social capital, social 

stratification, class and social mobility. 

2010 212 pages 

Hardback 978-1-4094-0154-4 $79.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-0155-1 


Social Formation in Dhaka, 

1985–2005 

A Longitudinal Study of Society 

in a Third World Megacity 

Kamal Siddiqui, University of South Pacific, Fiji, 

Jamshed Ahmed, National Institute of Local 

Government, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Kaniz Siddique, 

North-South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 

Sayeedul Huq, National Institute of Local 

Government, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Abul Hossain, 

Power and Participation Research Centre, Dhaka, 

Bangladesh, Shah Nazimud-Doula, National 

Institute of Local Government, Dhaka, Bangladesh 

and Nahid Rezawana, Dhaka University, Bangladesh 

2010 420 pages 

Hardback 978-1-4094-1103-1 $124.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-1104-8 



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Poverty, Class and Social Stratification 

SOLVING SOCIAL PROBLEMS 

Series Editor: Bonnie Berry, Social Problems Research Group 

Solving Social Problems provides a forum for the description and measurement of social problems, with a 

keen focus on the concrete remedies proposed for their solution. The series takes an international perspective, 

exploring social problems in various parts of the world, with the central concern being always their possible 

remedy. Work is welcomed on subjects as diverse as environmental damage, terrorism, economic disparities 

and economic devastation, poverty, inequalities, domestic assaults and sexual abuse, health care, natural 

disasters, labor inequality, animal abuse, crime and mental illness, and its treatment. In addition to 

recommending solutions to social problems, the books in this series are theoretically sophisticated, exploring 

previous discussions of the issues in question, examining other attempts to resolve them, and adopting 

and discussing methodologies that are commonly used to measure social problems. 


Social Problems and Inequality 

Social Responsibility 

through Progressive Sociology 

John C. Alessio, Minnesota 

State University, Mankato 


“Alessio’s excellent and most readable book casts 

a fresh and interesting light on the links between 

theory and practice, and between immediate 

experience and larger sets of social relations. 

Clearly constructed, richly informed and intelligently 

argued, a most worthy contribution to sociology 

and to understanding human society.” 

—Michael Parenti, author of The Face of Imperialism 

(2011) and God and His Demons (2010) 

With a central focus on the problem of inequality 

and the manner in which this is manifested in crime, 

social class and stratification, Social Problems and 

Inequality explores integrated and root-cause-based 

explanations of complex social problems. Written 

in clear and understandable language, allowing 

it to be used for classroom purposes, it addresses 

the most fundamental principles of how humans, 

acting through social units, create and eventually 

can remedy, social problems. 

Contents: Foreword; Preface; The systemic study 

of social problems; Macro sociological theory and 

analyzing social problems; Micro sociological 

analysis of social problems; Probable roots and 

current manifestations of inequality; Inequality and 

social disorganization; Social class and stratification; 

Gender, race, ethnicity, and the isms; Inequality and 

the social construction of reality; Crime and criminal 

justice; Corporations, nation-states and economic 

globalization: impact on inequality; Political economy 

and social change; Micro and macro solutions 

to global problems; References; Index. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-1987-7 $59.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-1988-4 


Teaching Justice 

Solving Social Justice Problems 

through University Education 

Kristi Holsinger, University 

of Missouri, Kansas City 


“Holsinger’s passion for teaching and justice are 

apparent throughout this excellent book that not 

only tackles difficult teaching challenges, but provides 

intriguing and creative solutions. Based on her own 

and other scholars’ research, this is a smart book that 

provides personal and empirical strategies on how 

to reach, teach and empower our students to improve 

the l kelihood of justice.” 

—Joanne Belknap, University of Colorado, Boulder 

Examining a range of approaches to education, 

Teaching Justice considers the challenges that 

exist in teaching about justice, drawing on extensive 

empirical data gathered amongst college lecturers 

and professors, as well as the author’s own experience. 

Presenting extensive international research and 

insightful analyses, Teaching Justice will appeal 

to teachers and researchers with interests in social 

problems, education and educational methods, and 

criminal justice, as well as community engagement 

and service learning outside the classroom. 

Contents: Introduction; Teaching justice; Learning 

justice; Personally connecting; Taking action; 

Assessing learning; Justice redefined; Appendices; 



Hardback 978-1-4094-2465-9 $89.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-2466-6 


Social Stratification 

Trends and Processes 

Edited by Paul Lambert and Roxanne Connelly, 

both at University of Stirling, UK, 

Robert M. Blackburn, University of Cambridge, UK 

and Vernon Gayle, University of Stirling, UK 

“The contributions in this book demonstrate 

the vibrancy and diversity of contemporary social 

stratification research…The book reaffirms the 

relevance and the excitement of stratification 

research for understanding and explaining structures 

and dynamics in contemporary societies.” 

—Mark Western, University of Queensland, Australia 

Social Stratification: Trends and Processes brings 

together a range of thematically organized casestudies 

comprising empirical and methodological 

analyses addressing the challenges of studying trends 

and processes in social stratification. Discussing 

key themes of social stratification, this volume will be 

of interest to students, academics and policy experts 

working in the field of social stratification. 

Contents: Introduction. Part 1: Measuring Social 

Stratification: Stratification research and occupationbased 

social classifications, P. Lambert and E. Bihagen; 

Measures and dimensions of occupational 

stratification: the case of a relational scale for Italy, 

D. De Luca, C. Meraviglia and H. Ganzeboom; An 

occupational status scale for Russia, A. Bessudnov. 

Part 2: Social Stratification Over the Life-Course: 

Cumulative inequalities along the life course: longterm 

trends in the German labour market, S. Hillmert; 

Family background and the life cycle effects 

of father’s class and income, J. Erola; Social 

stratification and cognitive ability: an assessment 

of the influence of childhood ability test scores 

and family background on occupational position 

across the lifespan, R. Connelly; Intergenerational 

and intragenerational social mobility in Britain, 

G. Tampubolon and M. Savage. Part 3: Demographic, 

Institutional and Socio-Economic Changes: 

Ethnicity and skilled work in the United States, 

R. Penn; Occupation and pay across the generations: 

the labour market experience of 4 ethno-religious 

groups in Britain, S. Longhi, C. Nicoletti and L. Platt; 

The labour market earnings of minority ethnic 

groups in Great Britain and the USA (1990–2000), 

Y. Li; The relationship between social stratification 

and first birth in Scotland, K. Ralston; Stratification, 

work and early parenthood, P. Schober; Labour 

market returns to tertiary education in post-socialist 

countries, E. Saar and M. Unt. Part 4: Political 

and Policy Responses to Stratification: Labouring 

under a misapprehension: politicians’ perceptions 

and then realities of structural social mobility in 

Britain, 1995–2010, G. Payne; Security or equality? 

The difficult reform of the Italian welfare state, 

F. Bolzonaro; Gender inequality, modernization 

and development in South and Southeast Asia, 

J. Jarman; Bibliography; Index. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-3096-4 $114.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-3097-1 


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26 

RESEARCH IN MIGRATION 

AND ETHNIC RELATIONS SERIES 

Series Editor: Maykel Verkuyten, Utrecht University, The Netherlands 

The Research in Migration and Ethnic Relations Series has been at the forefront of research in the field for 

ten years. The series has built an international reputation for cutting edge theoretical work, for comparative 

research especially on Europe and for nationally-based studies with broader relevance to international issues. 

Published in association with the European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER), 

Utrecht University, it draws contributions from the best international scholars in the field, offering 

an interdisciplinary perspective on some of the key issues of the contemporary world. 

For more information, visit www.ashgate.com/RMER 

The Bosnian Diaspora 

Integration in Transnational Communities 

Edited by Marko Valenta, Norwegian University 

of Science and Technology, Norway and NTNU, 

The Centre for Inclusion and Diversity, Norway 

and Sabrina P. Ramet, The Norwegian University 

of Science and Technology, and The Centre 

for the Study of Civil War, Norway 

RESEARCH IN MIGRATION AND ETHNIC RELATIONS SERIES 

“…Essential reading for anyone interested in the 

linkage between political conflict and migration.” 

—Peter Kivisto, Augustana College and 

University of Turku, Finland 

The Bosnian Diaspora: Integration in Transnational 

Communities provides an extensive exploration of 

a major post-conflict European Diaspora, presenting 

the latest trans-national comparative studies drawn 

from the US, Australia and countries across Europe, 

to explore post-crisis interactions among Bosnians 

and the impact of post-conflict related migration. 

Examining the common features of the Diaspora this 

volume addresses the influence of global anti-Muslim 

rhetoric on the Bosnian Diaspora’s self-identification 

and refugees’ relationships to their home country. 

Contents: Preface; Bosnian migrants: an 

introduction, Marko Valenta and Sabrina P. Ramet; 

How to study ethnicity in immigrant societies: 

herder’s heritage and the boundary-making 

approach, Andreas Wimmer. Part I: Integration 

Outcomes and Transnational Engagements: (Per) 

forming ‘trans-local’ homes: Bosnian diaspora in 

Australia, Hariz Halilovich; Bosnians in Norway: how 

do they adjust compared with other refugee groups?, 

Marko Valenta and Zan Strabac; Transnationalism 

in the Bosnian diaspora in America, Reed Coughlan; 

Refugees from Bosnia and Herzegovina in Serbia: 

socio-demographic characteristics, status and 

prospects, Nada Raduški; The Bosnian community 

in Austria: linking integration to transnationalism— 

some comparative observations, Barbara Franz. 

Part II: Transnationalism from Above and Below: 

Transnational ties and transnational exchange, 

Marko Valenta and Zan Strabac; Bosnia and the 

remittances-institutions-development nexus, 

Jo Jakobsen; The Bosnian diaspora in Slovenia, 

Špela Kalcic and Jure Gombac; Of home(s) and 

(be)longing: Bosnians in the United States, 

Maja Miškovic; Connecting three homelands: 

transnational practices of Bosnian Croats living 

in Sweden, Maja Povrzanovic Frykman. Part III: 

Identities, Day-to-Day Realities and Multiplex 

Belongings: Conflicts and inter-ethnic solidarity: 

Bosnian refugees in Malmö, Zoran Slavnic; Bosnian 

Croats in Croatia: ‘ethnically privileged migrants,’ 

‘culturally distant co-ethnics’ or ‘Croats as any 

other Croats’?, Marko Valenta, Milan Mesic and 

Zan Strabac; Religion or culture? The public relations 

and self-presentation strategies of Bosnian Muslims 

in Switzerland compared with other Muslims, 

Samuel M. Behloul; Changing places, changing 

identities: a conclusion, Sabrina P. Ramet 

and Marko Valenta; Index. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-1252-6 $124.95 


Managing Ethnic Diversity 

Meanings and Practices from 

an International Perspective 

Edited by Reza Hasmath, University of Toronto 


“This book focuses on the structural challenges to 

managing ethnic diversity, while eschewing simplistic 

critiques of multiculturalism. The authors demonstrate 

that the challenges to managing diversity vary 

from country to country, according to philosophical 

tradition, polity, demographics and history…” 

—Kevin Dunn, University of Western 

Sydney, Australia 

2010 258 pages 

Hardback 978-1-4094-1121-5 $104.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-1122-2 


Media in Motion 

Cultural Complexity and Migration 

in the Nordic Region 

Edited by Elisabeth Eide, Oslo University 

College, Norway and Kaarina Nikunen, 

University of Tampere, Finland 


“…This excellent volume contains detailed case stories 

from each country, bringing out their uniqueness, but 

also showing commonalities with the rest of Europe. 

Essential reading for anyone interested in debates and 

controversies involving minorities in the new Europe.” 

—Thomas Hylland Eriksen, 

University of Oslo, Norway 

2010 296 pages 

Hardback 978-1-4094-0446-0 $114.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-0447-7 


Migration and its Enemies 

Global Capital, Migrant Labour 

and the Nation-State 

Robin Cohen, University of Oxford, UK 


“Migration and its Enemies delivers all we have 

come to expect over the years from Robin Cohen. Wideranging 

and engagingly written…It is hard to imagine 

the potential reader who could finish this book 

without having at least one cherished assumption 

fundamentally challenged.” 

—Donna R. Gabaccia, University of Minnesota 

2006 252 pages 

Paperback 978-0-7546-4658-7 $40.00 

Hardback 978-0-7546-4657-0 $120.00 

ebook 978-0-7546-8054-3 


Migrants and Cities 

The Accommodation of Migrant 

Organizations in Europe 

Margit Fauser, Bielefeld University, Germany 


“…An important book for anyone interested in 

new insights and perspectives on the relationship 

between migrants and cities, this is a most welcome 

contribution to the understanding of processes 

of migrant accommodation in Europe.” 

—Eva Østergaard-Nielsen, Autonomous 

University of Barcelona, Spain 

Offering comprehensive empirical insights both from 

recent sites of immigration in Southern Europe, as 

well as from places of more established immigration 

in the north, Migrants and Cities examines the 

accommodation of migrant organizations in different 

cities and the factors that affect this process, 

shedding light on the manner in which the interplay 

of immigration regime, national integration policy 

and local responses shape the differing patterns 

and trajectories observed in the formation and 

action of migrant organizations across Europe. 

Contents: Introduction; Approaching the research 

on migrant organizations in cities; The dynamics of 

recent immigration and policy responses in Spanish 

city contexts; Migrant organizations in Barcelona 

and Madrid; Migrant organizations in established 

immigration contexts; Conclusions; Appendices; 

Primary sources; Bibliography; Index. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-2186-3 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-2187-0 


Muslim Diaspora in the West 

Negotiating Gender, Home and Belonging 

Edited by Haideh Moghissi, York University, Toronto 

and Halleh Ghorashi, VU University Amsterdam, 



“A timely addition to the post 9/11 scholarship on 

Muslims in the west, these lively essays illuminate 

a rich mix of issues that shape and define the everyday 

experiences of diasporic Muslims, as well as exploring 

the stereotypical disjunctures between Muslim and 

secular law. This collection provides a fresh focus 

on understanding the complexities of family, gender 

and youth cultures and the necessity of including 

them in any study on Muslims in the modern world.” 

—Amina Yaqin, University of London, UK 

2010 236 pages 

Hardback 978-1-4094-0287-9 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-0288-6 



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Negotiating National Identities 

Between Globalization, 

the Past and ‘the Other’ 

Christian Karner, University of Nottingham, UK 


“A penetrating study of the ambivalences of 

contemporary national identities, and their negotiation 

under processes of globalization. Karner explores 

lucidly the discourses of national identity articulated 

in contemporary Austria, and contextualizes this by 

reference to Austria’s social, cultural, and political 

history. The analysis is highly engaging, and the book 

should garner widespread interdisciplinary interest.” 

—Joseph Burridge, University of Portsmouth, UK 

Negotiating National Identities presents an empirically 

detailed and theoretically wide-ranging analysis of the 

complex political and cultural struggles taking place 

in contemporary Europe. Taking contemporary Austria 

and her controversial identity politics as its central 

case study in a discussion of developments across 

a variety of national and pan-European contexts, this 

book demonstrates that neo-nationalism has been one 

among several competing reactions to the processes 

and challenges of globalization, while inclusive notions 

of identity and belonging are shown to have emerged 

from the realms of civil society and cultural production. 

July 2011 

282 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-7638-6 $99.95 

ebook 978-0-7546-7639-3 


Security, Insecurity 

and Migration in Europe 

Edited by Gabriella Lazaridis, 

University of Leicester, UK 


“The relationship between security and migration 

is one that should concern us all and this volume 

provides a thought-provoking academic analysis and 

unique contributions by leading European researchers 

on key questions. It could not be more timely…” 

—Allan Findlay, University of Dundee, UK 

An interdisciplinary examination of the issues of 

security and insecurity raised by migration for states, 

their citizens and migrants themselves, this book will 

be of interest to scholars of politics, sociology and 

geography researching migration, race, ethnicity, 

human and state security and EU politics and policy 


Hardback 978-1-4094-0920-5 $124.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-0921-2 


Apartheid Vertigo 

The Rise in Discrimination 

Against Africans in South Africa 

David M. Matsinhe, Carleton University 

INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH SERIES 

IN ETHNIC, GENDER AND CLASS RELATIONS 

“This is a fine book that critically addresses the 

highly under-researched area of how people from 

other Sub-Saharan African countries are subjected 

to overt forms of psychological and physical xenodiscrimination 

by those they helped liberate. Its timely 

publication should be appreciated by all students 

of post-apartheid South African history and politics, 

and it should instigate new debates in the area.” 

—Ali A. Abdi, University of Alberta 

Apartheid vertigo, the dizzying sensation following 

prolonged oppression and delusions of skin color, 

is the focus of this book. Drawing on evidence from 

interviews, observation, press articles, reports, 

research monographs and history, this project 

deconstructs the idea of visible differences between 

black nationals and black foreign nationals. It 

demonstrates that in South Africa violent conflict 

lurks on the surface and it can burst through 

the fragile limits set upon it, with the potential 

to escalate into ethnic cleansing. 

Contents: Preface. Part I: Introduction: From 

kaffir boy to makwerekwere; Process sociology and 

African studies; Method. Part II: The New Insiders: 

Loathing the outsiders; Becoming insider; Africans 

still not allowed; Surplus blackness. Part III: The 

New Outsiders: The outsider’s response; Betwixt 

and between South Africa. Part IV: The European 

Enclave: The idea of South Africa; Inventing South 

Africa, the state; Inventing South Africa the nation; 



Hardback 978-1-4094-2619-6 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-2620-2 


Demography at the Edge 

Remote Human Populations 

in Developed Nations 

Edited by Dean Carson, Charles Darwin University, 

Australia, Rasmus Ole Rasmussen, University 

of Roskilde, Denmark, Prescott Ensign, University 

of Ottawa, Lee Huskey, University of Alaska, 

Anchorage and Andrew Taylor, Charles Darwin 


INTERNATIONAL POPULATION STUDIES 

Addressing the methodological and topical 

challenges facing remote demographers, this book 

compares and contrasts the research, methods 

and models, and policy applications from remote 

regions in developed nations. The work draws upon 

four examples: the far north and desert regions of 

Australia, the northern provinces and territories of 

Canada, Alaska and the Arctic north of Scandinavia. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-7962-2 $124.95 

ebook 978-0-7546-9915-6 



Companion to 

Cosmopolitanism 

Edited by Maria Rovisco, York St. John University, UK 

and Magdalena Nowicka, Max Planck Institute for 

the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany 

“It is difficult to imagine a more stimulating and valuable 

resource to scholars interested in cosmopolitanism. With 

an impressive list of contributors, the Companion to 

Cosmopolitanism tackles some of the most important 

political debates on the subject and sets the agenda 

for future research. This excellent volume encapsulates 

the possibilities, challenges and criticisms involved 

in cosmopolitan thinking.” 

—Catarina Kinnvall, Lund University, Sweden 

The study of Cosmopolitanism has been transformed 

in the last 20 years and the subject itself has become 

highly discussed across the social sciences and 

the humanities. The Ashgate Research Companion 

to Cosmopolitanism pursues distinct theoretical 

orientations and empirical analyses, bringing 

together mainstream discussions with the newest 

thinking and developments on the main themes, 

debates and controversies surrounding the subject. 

Contents: Introduction, Maria Rovisco 

and Magdalena Nowicka. Part I: Cultural 

Cosmopolitanism: Cosmopolitan sociology: outline 

of a paradigm shift, Ulrich Beck; Cosmopolitanism 

and consumption, Jennie Germann Molz; 

Cosmopolitan openness, Zlatko Skrbis and 

Ian Woodward; Mega-events and cosmopolitanism: 

observations on Expos and European culture 

in modernity, Maurice Roche; The cosmopolitan 

city, Christina Horvarth; Paradoxes of postcolonial 

vernacular cosmopolitanism in South Asia 

and the diaspora, Pnina Werbner; Diaspora 

and cosmopolitanism, Vinay Dharwadker. Part II: 

Political Cosmopolitanism: Cosmopolitanism 

and natural law: rethinking Kant, Robert Fine; 

Cosmopolitanism, democracy and the global order, 

David Held; Cosmopolitanism and the struggle for 

global justice, Gillian Brock; Cosmopolitan memory 

and human rights, Daniel Levy and Natan Sznaider; 

The cosmopolitical, Pheng Cheah; Hermeneutic 

cosmopolitanism, or: toward a cosmopolitan 

public sphere, Hans-Herbert Kögler; Cosmopolitan 

citizenship, Nick Stevenson; Cosmopolitan borders: 

bordering as connectivity, Anthony Cooper and 

Chris Rumford. Part III: Debates: Critical 

cosmopolitanism, Fuyuki Kurasawa; From cosmos 

to globe: relating cosmopolitanism, globalization 

and globality, David Inglis and Roland Robertson; 

Cosmopolitanism and postcolonial critique, 

Gurminder K. Bhambra; Border thinking, de-colonial 

cosmopolitanism and dialogues among civilizations, 

Walter D. Mignolo; Cosmopolitanism and mobilities, 

Mimi Sheller; Cosmopolitanism and feminism, 

Niamh Reilly; Cosmopolitanism and the humanist 

myopia, Harry Kunneman and Caroline Suransky; The 

capabilities approach and ethical cosmopolitanism, 

Martha Nussbaum; Index. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-7799-4 $149.95 

ebook 978-0-7546-9556-1 



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STUDIES IN MIGRATION AND DIASPORA 

Series Editor: Anne J. Kershen 

Studies in Migration and Diaspora is a series designed to showcase the interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary 

nature of research in this important field. Volumes in the series cover local, national and global issues 

and engage with both historical and contemporary events. The books will appeal to scholars, students 

and all those engaged in the study of migration and diaspora. Among the topics covered are minority 

ethnic relations, transnational movements and the cultural, social and political implications of moving 

from “over there,” to “over here.” 

For a complete list of available titles, visit www.ashgate.com/migrationanddiaspora 

Childhood and Migration 

in Europe 

Portraits of Mobility, Identity and 

Belonging in Contemporary Ireland 

Caitríona Ní Laoire, University College Cork, Ireland, 

Fina Carpena-Mendez, Oregon State University, 

Naomi Tyrrell, University of Plymouth, UK and 

Allen White, University College Cork, Ireland 


“…A path-breaking contribution to the literature 

on transnational flows of immigration, it should 

be read by all migration scholars.” 

—Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, University 

of California, Los Angeles 

Challenging dominant adult-centric perspectives on 

contemporary global migration flows and presenting 

understandings of the lives of migrant children and 

young people from their own experiences, this book 

presents a detailed exploration of children’s lives 

in four different migrant populations in Ireland. It 

challenges the prevailing assimilationist discourses 

underlying much existing research and policy, which 

often construct migrant children as deficient in 

different ways and in need of “being integrated.” 


Hardback 978-1-4094-0109-4 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-0110-0 


The Cultures of 

Economic Migration 

International Perspectives 

Edited by Suman Gupta, The Open University, UK 

and Tope Omoniyi, Roehampton University, UK 


“This book shows that economically motivated 

processes assume cultural and social shapes, and 

it demonstrates that for those who migrate these 

cultural shapes are equally important, if not more 

important, than the economic motives…Richly 

documented and theoretically challenging, 

this book is a genuine contribution to the field.” 

—Jan Blommaert, University of London, UK 

2007 226 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-7070-4 $114.95 

ebook 978-0-7546-8645-3 


Ethnicity and Education 

in England and Europe 

Gangstas, Geeks and Gorjas 

Ian Law and Sarah Swann, 

both at University of Leeds, UK 


“…A must for politicians, policy makers, teachers and 

researchers who really care about exploding the myths 

of race, education and migration.” 

—Heidi Safia Mirza, University of London, UK 

Presenting comparative, cross-national analyses of 

ethnic inequalities and policy interventions, Ethnicity 

and Education in England and Europe makes a 

significant contribution to debates in the fields of 

migration, ethnicity and education, and will be of 

interest to both scholars and policy makers concerned 

with questions of race and educational outcome. 

Contents: Glossary; Ethnic relations across Europe; 

Ethnic relations in the UK; Education and ethnicity 

in England (with Gary Fry); Gypsies and travellers, 

perceptions and experiences of secondary education; 

Young people’s lives in Northcity: gangs, homes 

and racism; Young people, ethnicity and schooling 

in Northcity; Ethnicity and education in Europe: 

comparisons and case studies (with EDUMIGROM 

colleagues); References; Index. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-1087-4 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-1088-1 


Experience and Representation 

Contemporary Perspectives 

on Migration in Australia 

Keith Jacobs, University of Tasmania, Australia 


“…Keith Jacobs produces a fantastic interdisciplinary 

reconfiguration of the stories of migration… 

a fascinating new take on the subjectivities of people that 

move and an understanding of the migration process.” 

—Michael Keith, University of Oxford, UK 

2010 176 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-7610-2 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-1943-3 


European Identity and Culture 

Narratives of Transnational Belonging 

Edited by Rebecca Friedman and Markus Thiel, 

both at Florida International University 


“A valuable addition to the debate about European 

identity, filling in many of the gaps in the meaning 

of the term…” 

—John McCormick, Indiana University 

Exploring attempts by various actors—institutions, 

groups, individuals—to create transnational 

European identities, European Identity and Culture 

scrutinizes the cultural formations that have either 

reignited or emerged in often contradictory relations 

to the EU project, including local, regional and 

transnational allegiances. 

Contents: Introduction: culture and narratives 

of transnational belonging, Markus Thiel and 

Rebecca Friedman; Cultural formations of the European 

Union: integration, enlargement, nation and crisis, 

Michael D. Kennedy. Part I: European Integration and 

Political Cultures: National cultures, social belonging 

and questions on European identity, Sophie Duchesne; 

Modeling the process of political and civic participation 

in the EU: digital and traditional media in 

Spain, Homero Gil de Zúñiga y Navajas; Culture, 

communication and currency: constructing a public 

sphere for the Euro, Matthias Kaelberer. Part II: 

Cultural Practices in Everyday Life: The 

Europeanisation of terroir: consuming place, 

tradition and authenticity, Marion Demossier; 

Islamoskepticism and its counter-narratives: 

transnational identity, cultural wars, and religion’s 

place, Raymond Taras; Tourism, transnationalism, 

and the construction of everyday life in Europe, 

Dario Gaggio; Conclusion, Rebecca Friedman 

and Markus Thiel; Index. 

May 2012 

c. 192 pages 

Hardback 978-1-4094-3714-7 c. $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-3715-4 


Local Lives 

Migration and the Politics of Place 

Edited by Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich 

and Catherine Trundle, Victoria University 

of Wellington, New Zealand 


“This timely volume presents a set of compelling 

ethnographic accounts that refocus our attention on 

processes of place-making in studies of movement. 

Tracing the means by which people make the places 

where they have settled matter to them, Local Lives 

underlines the importance of fully recognizing a 

fundamental dimension of migration that is too 

often elided in contemporary transnational studies.” 

—Vered Amit, Concordia University 

2010 218 pages 

Hardback 978-1-4094-0103-2 $99.95 

ebook 978-0-7546-9998-9 



ASHGATE


Globalization, Migration 

and Social Transformation 

Ireland in Europe and the World 

Edited by Bryan Fanning, University College 

Dublin, Ireland and Ronaldo Munck, 

Dublin City University, Ireland 


“…These illuminating essays are bang up-to-date 

in their theoretical awareness, comprehensiveness 

and selection of arresting case studies. The shocks 

to a monolithic Irish identity immigration has generated 

are particularly well portrayed.” 

—Robin Cohen, International Migration Institute, 

University of Oxford, UK 

Globalization, Migration and Social Transformation 

takes Ireland as a paradigmatic case of social 

transformation, exploring the reasons for which 

emigration was so quickly replaced by immigration, 

along with the social, political, cultural and economic 

effects of this change. Presenting the latest research 

thematically arranged around the themes of identity, 

social transformations and EU and Irish politics 

and policy, this book offers a rich array of detailed 

empirical case studies, which shed light on the 

experiences of immigrant groups from around the 

world and the processes of social transformation. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-1127-7 $114.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-1128-4 


Masculinity, Sexuality 

and Illegal Migration 

Human Smuggling 

from Pakistan to Europe 

Ali Nobil Ahmad, Lahore University 

of Management Sciences, Pakistan 


“Drawing on extensive ethnography and literature 

on psychology, desire, sexuality and masculinity, 

this book sheds new light on the migrant experience. 

Ahmad builds a brilliantly subversive critique of 

fashionable models of migration, debunking neoliberal 

optimism, transnationalism and social capitalism. 

A refreshingly original analysis of labor migration 

into the underworld of the European economy.” 

—Russell King, Sussex University, UK 

Challenging the received idea that labor migration 

is driven purely by rational economic forces, 

Masculinity, Sexuality and Illegal Migration draws 

upon psychoanalytic social theory to examine the 

roles of masculinity and irrationality in the decision 

to migrate, thus stimulating a more complex debate 

about migration’s causes and consequences. The 

arguments it makes raise wider questions about the 

folly of thinking about economic concerns in isolation 

from other aspects of human experience. 

Contents: Preface. Part I: Introduction: Introduction. 

Part II: Drives: Gender, the household and migrant 

masculinity; Sexuality and migration: thinking beyond 

the economic. Part III: Death: Fortress Europe, 

Afro-Eurasia: human smuggling and restrictive 

economy; Eroticism, history and base materiality: 

migrant experience in travel and transit. Part IV: Loss: 

Myths and realities of return and arrival: gender and 

generation in Pakistani migration; Time, space and 

illegality in the new migrant economy; Conclusion; 

Bibliography; Appendices; Index. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-0975-5 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-0976-2 


Migration, Citizenship 

and Intercultural Relations 

Looking through the 

Lens of Social Inclusion 

Edited by Fethi Mansouri and Michele Lobo, 

both at Deakin University, Australia 


“Bringing together leading academics in the field 

of multicultural studies, this volume addresses 

the central political questions of our time—social 

inclusion, subjective belonging and citizenship 

rights. From an interdisciplinary and comparative 

perspective, these essays offer an authoritative insight 

into the prospects and problems of majority-minority 

relationships in multicultural societies in Europe, 

North America and Australia. The result is a definitive 

assessment of the politics of cultural diversity.” 

—Bryan S. Turner, University 

of Western Sydney, Australia 

Presenting the latest empirical research from 

Australia and engaging with contemporary global 

debates on questions of identity, citizenship, 

intercultural relations and social inclusion, this book 

unsettles fixed assumptions about who is included 

as a valued citizen and explores the possibilities for 

engendering inclusive visions of citizenship in local, 

national and transnational spaces. 

Contents: Introduction: social inclusion: exploring 

the concept, Fethi Mansouri and Michele Lobo. Part I: 

Identity and Social Inclusion: From multiculturalism 

to social inclusion: the resilience of Australian 

national values since federation, Giancarlo Chiro; 

Constructing Australian citizenship as Christian: or 

how to exclude Muslims from the national imagining, 

Farida Fozdar; Australian Muslims: indicators of social 

inclusion, Riaz Hassan; Waves of migration: exclusion 

and inclusion: the experiences of Polish Australians, 

Danielle Drozdzewski; The deliberative politics 

of cultural diversity: beyond interest and identity 

politics?, Selen Ayirtman Ercan. Part II: Citizenship 

and Social Inclusion: Whiteness and Australian 

suburbia, Michele Lobo; Avenues for belonging: civic 

and ethnic dimensions of multicultural citizenship 

in Australia, Lejla Voloder; Socially inclusive school 

environments: identity development and active 

citizenship, Louise Jenkins; Negotiating norms 

of inclusion: comparative perspectives from 

Muslim community leadership in the West, 

Fethi Mansouri, Michele Lobo and Rim Latrache. 

Part III: Intercultural Relations and Spaces of 

Social Inclusion: Social cohesion/social inclusion 

in Australia, Andrew Markus; Australian racism 

and anti-racism: links to morbidity and belonging, 

Jacqueline K. Nelson, Kevin M. Dunn and Yin Paradies; 

Transnationalism, social inclusion and the city, 

Ruth Fincher; Home, mobility and the encounter 

with otherness, Vince P. Marotta; Bibliography; Index. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-2880-0 $114.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-2881-7 


Diversity, Standardization 

and Social Transformation 

Gender, Ethnicity and Inequality in Europe 

Edited by Max Koch, Lund University, Sweden, 

Lesley McMillan, Glasgow Caledonian University, 

UK and Bram Peper, Erasmus University 

Rotterdam, The Netherlands 

“This book is unique. It demonstrates that good theory 

combined with public policies demands attention 

in the 21st century. The authors raise provocative 

questions about the dialectic between diversity 

and standardization that challenge us to rethink 

how to move beyond country case studies.” 

—Rosanna Hertz, Wellesley College 

Arranged around the themes of theorizing and policymaking, 

race, ethnicity and religion, gender and 

class, inequality and welfare, this book addresses 

the question of whether the European Union tends 

towards diversification or standardization. It engages 

with issues of identity, citizenship and social 

justice, changes throughout the life course, social 

movements, the reconciliation of work and life, the 

increasing diversity of cultural values, and integration 

and immigration, while also examining questions 

of social inclusion and exclusion. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-1125-3 $114.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-1126-0 


The Ethnic Penalty 

Immigration, Education 

and the Labour Market 

Reza Hasmath, University of Melbourne, Australia 

“The Ethnic Penalty is a compelling study that 

explores ethnicity and difference in a contemporary 

multicultural state. Skillfully meshing ethnographic 

field work with long term quantitative data Hasmath 

persuasively demonstrates the subtle and various 

modes of discrimination that shape the lives of 

migrants and their children across their life course.” 

—Catriona Elder, University of Sydney, Australia 

The Ethnic Penalty argues that a penalty has impeded 

the occupational success of ethnic minorities during 

the job search, hiring and promotion process. In this 

context, the book examines whether explanatory 

factors such as discrimination, an individual’s social 

network, a firm’s working culture, and a community’s 

social trust are major contributing reasons behind 

this apparent penalty, while also making suggestions 

for improvement for visible ethnic minorities. 

Contents: Preface; Introduction; Immigration; 

Education; The labour market; The penalty; Future 

outlook; Appendices; Bibliography; Index. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-0211-4 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-0212-1 


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Law, Religious Freedoms 

and Education in Europe 

Edited by Myriam Hunter-Henin, 

University College London, UK 

CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND LAW 

“This is an excellent book. Its varied studies indicate 

unequivocally that education is not only an issue of 

profound importance in relations between religions 

and the state but also that it is one of the most hotly 

debated topics in contemporary society.” 

—Norman Doe, Cardiff University, UK 

This topical study of a highly sensitive area of 

education presents a valuable insight for students, 

researchers and academics with an interest in 

cultural and religious diversity, human rights 

and education. This collection considers how 

contemporary cultural and religious diversity 

challenges and redefines national constitutional 

and legal frameworks and concepts, within the 

context of education and offers a critical reflection 

on the extent and meanings given to religious 

freedom in education across Europe. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-2730-8 $144.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-2731-5 


Our North America 

Social and Political Issues beyond NAFTA 

Edited by Julián Castro-Rea, University of Alberta 

THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY 

OF NEW REGIONALISMS SERIES 

“The authors have admirably different approaches 

to what North America means and how closely it 

should be integrated as a region. They focus on what 

the region North America means for Mexicans and 

Canadians with an innovative and insightful focus 

on culture, security, power and people.” 

—Marjorie Griffin Cohen, Simon Fraser University 

This book explores neglected aspects of the 

key relationships between Canada, Mexico and 

the United States, with the authors in this book 

addressing vital issues which bind this global 

region together, including Indigenous peoples, 

epistemic communities, security, migration, civil 

societies, democracy, identities and culture. Via a 

thorough examination of these issues, the historical, 

sociological, economic and political aspects 

of regional linkages are highlighted. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-3873-1 $104.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-3874-8 


Regulating Marriage 

Migration into the UK 

A Stranger in the Home 

Helena Wray, Middlesex University, London, UK 

LAW AND MIGRATION 

“This is an important and valuable book, on a topical 

issue that will interest academics in and outside law, 

and in and outside of the United Kingdom.” 

—Betty de Hart, Radboud University, The Netherlands 

Marriage migration is a controversial and problematic 

issue in the UK as elsewhere in Europe. This timely 

analysis is a comprehensive examination of the 

regulation of marriage migration into the UK. With 

international relevance, the book uses the analysis 

to examine the relationship between government 

priorities and the dynamics of transnational family 

life. The book is one of the first to scrutinize the 

control of UK marriage migration after 1997 and 

explores the dilemmas faced by the post-1997 

government in managing this form of migration in 

a changed domestic and international environment. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-0338-8 $124.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-0339-5 


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Normalizing the Balkans 

Geopolitics of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry 

Dušan I. Bjelic, University of Southern Maine 

“In this ground-breaking work, Dušan Bjelic finds in 

‘the Balkans’ the roots/routes of an ongoing trauma…” 

—Laurence A. Rickels, Staatliche Akademie 

der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe, Germany 

and University of California, Santa Barbara 

Normalizing the Balkans argues that, following 

the historical patterns of colonial psychoanalysis 

and psychiatry in British India and French Africa 

as well as Nazi psychoanalysis and psychiatry, 

the psychoanalysis and psychiatry of the Balkans 

during the 1990s deployed the language of psychic 

normality to represent the space of the Other as insane 

geography and to justify its military, or its symbolic, 

takeover. Following Gramsci’s and Said’s “discoursegeography” 

Bjelic transmutes the psychoanalytic topos 

of the “imaginary geography” of the Balkans into the 

geopolitics inherent in psychoanalytic language itself, 

and takes to task the practices of normalization that 

underpin the Balkans’ politics of madness. 

Contents: Introduction; Freud and the Balkans; Freud 

and the language of power; The universal subject 

and colonial geography; Kristeva’s exile from Balkan 

madness; Slavoj Žižek: Lacania and the Balkans’ real; 

Immigrants as the new Balkans; Psychoanalysis, 

psychiatry and insane geographies; From ‘family 

myth’ to ‘family resemblances’; Bibliography; Index. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-3315-6 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-3316-3 


Qualitative Methods 

in Migration Studies 

A Critical Realist Perspective 

Theodoros Iosifides, 

University of the Aegean, Greece 

This volume will be invaluable for migration researchers 

looking to break out of the narrow confines of 

positivism and interpretivism that dominate the 

field. While Iosifides’ manifesto for critical realism 

may not persuade all, this volume should provoke 

all migration researchers to challenge the orthodoxy 

and reach for new theoretical directions.” 

—Oliver Bakewell, International Migration 

Institute, University of Oxford, UK 

Moving away from the quantitative and empiricistpositivist 

approaches that have often characterized 

migration research, Qualitative Methods in Migration 

Studies explores in a concise but comprehensive 

way the key issues involved in researching migratory 

phenomena in a qualitative manner. It addresses 

themes including the basic characteristics of 

contemporary migration, qualitative research 

into social processes related to migration, and 

the relationship between theory, research design 

and practice and will be of interest to students and 

researchers in migration across the social sciences. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-0222-0 $114.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-0223-7 


The Rhetoric of Racist Humour 

US, UK and Global Race Joking 

Simon Weaver, University of Leicester, UK 

“Simon Weaver attends closely to the discursive forms 

in which racist humor is expressed and through 

this develops an insightful critique of its rhetorical 

power. His book considerably expands the explanatory 

potential of humor studies, and will become 

a landmark study in this field.” 

—Michael Pickering, Loughborough University, UK 

An engaging exploration of modern, late modern 

and fluid or postmodern humor, Weaver draws on 

the social theory of Zygmunt Baumann to examine 

the linguistic structure of humor, arguing that, being 

similar to metaphor, it is prone to be convincing. 

Deconstructing the dominant form of racism aimed 

at black people in the US, and Asians in the UK, this 

book shows how it expresses and supports racial 

stereotypes, while exploring the forms of resistance 

presented by Black and Asian comedians. 

Contents: Introduction: humor and critique; 

The rhetoric of humor; Humor and order-building; 

Embodied racism and US internet joking; Cultural 

racism and British stand-up comedy; Reverse 

discourse in Black comic performance; Reverse 

discourse in Asian comic performance; Liquid racism 

and the ambiguities of Ali G; Liquid racism and the 

Danish Prophet Muhammad cartoon; Conclusion— 

the future of race joking; Bibliography; Appendix; Index. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-2011-8 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-2012-5 



ASHGATE

Sociology of Religion 

Being the Chosen 

Exploring a Christian 

Fundamentalist Worldview 

Julie Scott Jones, Manchester 

Metropolitan University, UK 

“[Jones’] book is well structured and has a clear, 

precise style…The book will interest scholars 

and students in sociology, theology and political 

science, along with readers who are interested 

in politics…Recommended.” 

—Choice 

2010 156 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-7741-3 $99.95 

ebook 978-0-7546-9472-4 


Church Growth in Britain 

1980 to The Present 

Edited by David Goodhew, 

University of Durham, UK 

ASHGATE CONTEMPORARY ECCLESIOLOGY 

“We have needed a wide-ranging academic book 

on church growth for a long time—and now we have 

one. Church growth is not just a subject for ‘how to’ 

books, and here we have careful, evidenced work to 

encourage further reflection and action. This is a wise 

and timely study.” 

—The Rt Revd John Pritchard, 

The Bishop of Oxford, UK 

Church Growth in Britain provides a forceful critique 

of the notion of secularization which dominates 

much of academia and the media—and which 

conditions the thinking of many churches and 

church leaders. This book demonstrates that, 

while decline is happening in some parts of the 

church, this needs to be balanced by recognition 

of the vitality of large swathes of the Christian 

church in Britain. Rebalancing the debate in this 

way requires wholesale change in our understanding 

of contemporary British Christianity. 


Paperback 978-1-4094-2576-2 c. $39.95 

Hardback 978-1-4094-2577-9 c. $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-2578-6 


Exam copies 

Paperbacks marked with the magnifying glass 

symbol above can be requested as examination 

copies. Contact Suzanne Sprague with your request 

at ssprague@ashgate.com. 

Collectivistic Religions 

Religion, Choice, and 

Identity in Late Modernity 

Slavica Jakelic, The University of Virginia 

“Sociology is at its strongest when it is combined 

with history and Jakelic’s new book is one of the 

best examples of historical sociology in recent times. 

The idea of collectivistic religions is a fruitful one for 

illuminating the link between religion, nationalism, 

identity and politics. It is impressive in its scholarship 

and thoroughly persuasive.” 

—John D. Brewer, University of Aberdeen, UK 

2010 218 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-7883-0 $99.95 

ebook 978-0-7546-9750-3 


Heaven’s Gate 

Postmodernity and Popular 

Culture in a Suicide Group 

Edited by George D. Chryssides, 

University of Birmingham, UK 

ASHGATE NEW RELIGIONS 

“Heaven’s Gate is one of the most interesting new 

religious groups to emerge in the twentieth century. 

Virtually unknown to scholars prior to its communal 

suicide in 1997, it has become the focus of significant 

research and important analysis. This worthwhile 

collection of studies is the most comprehensive 

to date. I enthusiastically commend it to anyone 

interested in understanding, not just UFO religions, 

but also the emergence and significance of new 

religions and alternative spiritualties more generally.” 

—Christopher Partridge, Lancaster University, UK 

The Heaven’s Gate suicides were part of a series 

of major violent incidents involving New Religions 

in the 1990s. Despite the major attention that 

Heaven’s Gate attracted, there have been few 

scholarly studies. This anthology on Heaven’s 

Gate includes a combination of articles previously 

published in academic journals, some new writings 

from experts in the field, and some original Heaven’s 

Gate documents. All the material is expertly brought 

together under the editorship of George Chryssides. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-6374-4 $99.95 


Islam, Europe and 

Emerging Legal Issues 

Edited by W. Cole Durham, Jr., Brigham Young 

University, Utah, Rik Torfs, Catholic University 

of Leuven, Belgium and David M. Kirkham 

and Christine Scott, both at Brigham Young 

University, Utah 

“…This excellent collection of essays by estimable 

scholars reviews critically important decisions before 

the Strasbourg Court. Legal scholars, students and 

policy-makers will find the book an indispensable 

help in sorting through the maze of judicial opinion 

on what states may and may not do with respect to 

placing restrictions on Muslim faith groups and other 

religious minority.” 

—Jytte Klausen, Brandeis University, and author 

of The Islamic Challenge: Politics and Religion 

in Western Europe and The Cartoons 

That Shook the World 

Islam, Europe and Emerging Legal Issues brings 

together vital analysis of the challenges that Europe 

poses for an expanding Islam and that Islam poses 

for Europe, within their ever-evolving religious, legal 

and social environments. This book gathers some 

of the best thinking on Islam and the law affecting 

current and contested issues that can no longer 

be ignored, particularly as they have found their 

way before the European Court of Human Rights, 

and outlines implications for all those who look 

to Europe—from both within and without— 

for models of human rights implementation 

and multi-cultural accommodation. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-3444-3 $104.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-3445-0 


Patterns of Secularization 

Church, State and Nation in Greece 

and the Republic of Ireland 

Daphne Halikiopoulou, London 

School of Economics, UK 

“Approaching the problem of the different patterns 

of religion and secularization in Greece and Ireland 

with a nice sense of specific cultural differences and 

the historical sources of varied outcomes Daphne 

Hal kiopoulou extends and deepens our understanding 

of distinctive patterns of secularization in the far 

West of Europe and the far South-East. The book is 

attractive and persuasive reading: A major contribution 

to the field.” 

—David Martin, London School of Economics, UK 

and Fellow of the British Academy 

2010 202 pages 

Hardback 978-1-4094-0345-6 $99.95 


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Queer Spiritual Spaces 

Sexuality and Sacred Places 

Kath Browne, University of Brighton, UK, 

Sally R. Munt, University of Sussex, UK, and 

Andrew K.T. Yip, University of Nottingham, UK 

“A multi-vocal, multi-centered exploration of queer 

spirituality and place. Queer Spiritual Spaces 

makes a significant contribution to the field through 

its investigation of queer spiritualties outside of 

mainstream religions: Quakers, Muslims, Buddhists, 

feminist spiritualties, New Age communities and even 

virtual spiritual realities all play a role in this important 

book. A must-read for students of contemporary 

religions, sexualities and geographies.” 

—Melissa M. Wilcox, Whitman College 

2010 318 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-7527-3 $69.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-0477-4 


Religion as Communication 

God’s Talk 

Enzo Pace, University of Padova, Italy 

“Enzo Pace’s book is ambitious, original and timely. 

Steering clear of arid debates about ‘the decline of 

religion’and ‘the return of religion,’ it charts new 

theoretical territory by focusing on religions as 

systems of communication which respond creatively 

to their environments. A fresh comparative sociology 

of religion is the impressive result.” 

—James A. Beckford, University of Warwick, UK 

Why do Gods persist in contemporary society? 

This book provides an insight on a new approach 

to religious studies, drawn from systems theory 

to consider religion as a means of communication, 

and offering a critical alternative to the secularization 

theory to explain why religion persists in modernity. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-3523-5 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-3524-2 


Religious Diversity 

in Post-Soviet Society 

Ethnographies of Catholic Hegemony 

and the New Pluralism in Lithuania 

Edited by Milda Ališauskiene, Vytautas Magnus 

University, Lithuania and Ingo W. Schröder, 

Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania 

“…interesting, informative and invaluable…a book 

that should be on the shelves of all those with an 

interest in religion, social change and, particularly, 

but by no means only, the New Europe.” 

—Eileen Barker, London School of Economics, UK 

Since the end of state repression against religion, 

two major processes have taken place in the formerly 

socialist countries: historically dominant churches 

strive to reassert their position in society, while 

new religious groups and ideas from various parts 

of the world are proliferating. Religious Diversity 

in Post-Soviet Society presents the first collection 

of ethnographies of this new religious diversity for 

Lithuania. The authors reveal how Catholicism has 

become increasingly diversified and other religions 

(Charismatic Protestantism, Baltic Paganism, 

Eastern religions and other alternative spiritualities) 

are claiming their space in the religious field. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-0912-0 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-0913-7 


Sikhs in Europe 

Migration, Identities and Representations 

Edited by Knut A. Jacobsen, University of Bergen, 

Norway, Kristina Myrvold, Lund University, Sweden 

Sikhs in Europe are neglected in the study of religions 

and migrant groups: previous studies have focused 

on the history, culture and religious practices of 

Sikhs in North America and the UK, but few have 

focused on Sikhs in continental Europe. This book 

fills this gap, presenting new data and analyses of 

Sikhs in eleven European countries; examining the 

broader European presence of Sikhs in new and old 

host countries. Focusing on patterns of migration, 

transmission of traditions, identity construction and 

cultural representations from the perspective of local 

Sikh communities, this book explores important 

patterns of settlement, institution building and 

cultural transmission among European Sikhs. 

November 2011 

360 pages 

Hardback 978-1-4094-2434-5 $104.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-2435-2 


A Test of Faith? 

Religious Diversity and Accommodation 

in the European Workplace 

Edited by Katayoun Alidadi, Marie-Claire Foblets 

and Jogchum Vrielink, all at the Catholic University 

of Leuven, Belgium 

CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND LAW 

IN ASSOCIATION WITH RELIGARE 

“Religion and modernity meet in the European 

workplace. The implications are many and varied. 

The contributions to this timely volume are concerned 

with the legal dimensions of these encounters. They 

merit very careful scrutiny.” 

—Grace Davie, University of Exeter, UK 

Issues of religious diversity in the workplace have 

become very topical and have been raised before 

domestic courts and the European Court of Human 

Rights. Examining the controversial and constantly 

evolving position of religion in the workplace, this 

collection brings together chapters by legal and 

social science scholars and provides a wealth 

of information on legal responses across Europe, 

Turkey and the United States to conflicts between 

professional and religious obligations involving 

employees and employers. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-4502-9 c. $134.95 

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Welfare and Religion 

in 21st Century Europe 

Volume 2: Gendered, Religious 

and Social Change 

Edited by Anders Bäckström, Uppsala University, 

Sweden, Grace Davie, University of Exeter, UK, 

Ninna Edgardh and Per Pettersson, both 

at Uppsala University, Sweden 

This book poses new questions about the religious, 

the secular and the implications of each for the 

process known as secularization. Looking carefully 

at the gendered nature of care, they ask why women 

predominate so noticeably in both religion and 

welfare at least in the delivery of service. The topical 

issues in this book include the increased visibility 

of religion in the public sphere, the anxieties 

of European populations about the welfare state 

and the centrality of gender to both questions. 

May 2011 

212 pages 

Paperback 978-0-7546-6108-5 $29.95 

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Sociology of Science and Technology 

Bio-Objects 

Life in the 21st Century 

Edited by Niki Vermeulen, University of Vienna, 

Austria, Sakari Tamminen, University of Helsinki, 

Finland and Andrew Webster, University of York, UK 

THEORY, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY 

“This engaging and wide-ranging book introducing the 

concept of ‘bio-objects’ makes a substantial contribution 

to the social study of bioscience and biomedicine 

through a series of empirically rich case studies in 

which this term is put to productive use. Bio-Objects 

convincingly adds an important new term to the study 

of how life is being remade through technology.” 

—Sarah Franklin, University of Cambridge, UK 

Examining a variety of bio-objects in contexts beyond 

the laboratory, Bio-Objects: Life in the 21st Century 

explores new ways of thinking about how novel 

bio-objects enter contemporary life, analyzing the 

manner in which the boundaries between human 

and animal, organic and non-organic, and being 

“alive” and the suspension of living, are questioned, 

destabilized and in some cases re-established. 

Contents: Introduction: bio-objects: exploring the 

boundaries of life, Andrew Webster. Part 1: Changing 

Boundaries of Human, Nonhuman and Society: 

Challenging bio-objectification; adding noise 

to transgenic silences, Tora Holmberg and Malin Ideland; 

Pluripotent promises: configurations of a bio-object, 

Lena Er ksson; Water—an exploration of the 

boundaries of bio-objects, Ragna Zeiss; Bioobjectification 

of clinical research patients: impacts 

on the stabilization of new medical technologies, 

Conor M.W. Douglas. Part 2: Governing Bio-Objects: 

Beasting biology: interspecies politics, Nik Brown; 

Comparing public engagement with bio-objects: 

implementing co-existence regimes for GM crops 

in Denmark, the UK and Germany, Janus Hansen; 

Governing hereditary disease in the age of autonomy: 

mutations, families and care, Aaro Tupasela; At the 

margins of life: making fetal life matter in trajectories 

of first trimester prenatal risk assessment (FTPRA), 

Nete Schwennesen. Part 3: Generative Relations: 

The fruit of love: the German IVF-embryo turning from 

abject into bio-object, Bettina Bock von Wülfingen; 

On why states still matter: in vitro fertilization 

embryos between laboratories and state authorities 

in Italy, Ingrid Metzler; Growing a cell in silico: on 

how the creation of a bio-object transforms the 

organisation of science, Niki Vermeulen; Genetic 

discrimination 2.0: the un/differentiating gene 

in insurance, Ine Van Hoyweghen; Still life? Frozen 

gametes, national gene banks and re-configuration 

of animality, Sakari Tamminen; Index. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-1178-9 $99.95 

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Collaboration in 

the New Life Sciences 

Edited by John N. Parker, National Center for 

Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Niki Vermeulen, 

University of Vienna, Austria and Bart Penders, 

Maastricht University and Radboud University 

Nijmegen, The Netherlands 

“Collaboration in the New Life Sciences could hardly 

be timelier. Just at the time that researchers have 

begun to create new collaborative media and dynamics 

comes this excellent volume, lifting the curtain and 

showing us a good measure of the wizardry. The 

chapters are diverse, are well and richly grounded in 

emergent theory from Science and Technology Studies 

and, at the same time, show intimate familiarity with 

the scientific content that is their focus. Readable 

and accessible, this book will inform both the social 

theorist seeking meaning from new collaborative 

forms, as well as life scientists wishing to reflect more 

deeply on work routines and their social meaning.” 

—Barry Bozeman, University of Georgia 

2010 286 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-7870-0 $104.95 

ebook 978-0-7546-9717-6 


New Technologies and 

Emerging Spaces of Care 

Edited by Michael Schillmeier, Ludwig- 

Maximilians-Universität München, Germany 

and Miquel Domènech, Universitat Autònoma 

de Barcelona, Spain 

“If you could just read here about alarm mattresses, 

front doors, secure spaces, clutter, drinking coffee in 

the dining room, mundane work, robot arms, ongoing 

accomplishments, memorial materials and engaging 

in pillow experiments, this book would be worth 

reading anyway. But there is more. This is a good 

book about good care.” 

—Annemarie Mol, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 


2010 240 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-7864-9 $99.95 

ebook 978-0-7546-9701-5 


Generational Use of New Media 

Edited by Eugène Loos, University of Amsterdam, 

The Netherlands, Leslie Haddon, London School 

of Economics and Political Sciences, UK 

and Enid Mante-Meijer, Utrecht University, 


“The chapter authors provide a nuanced perspective 

that goes well beyond the media-driven headlines and 

well-worn social policy tropes. By probing beneath 

conventional categories such as digital divides, digital 

natives/immigrants and generation gaps, they are able 

to provide one of the most sophisticated analyses to 

date of the relationship between age, cohort and media 

use. Anyone concerned about generational issues 

of media use will profit from reading this volume.” 

—James E Katz, The State University of New Jersey 

Thematically organized and offering comparative 

analyses of the generational use of new media and 

technology, this timely volume presents the latest 

research and rich new empirical material gathered 

in the EU and Hong Kong, to reflect on societal 

practices and the practical implications of building 

a more inclusive information society. 

Contents: Introduction, Eugène Loos, Leslie Haddon 

and Enid Mante-Meijer. Part I: Young People Using 

New Media: Parental mediation of internet use: 

evaluating family relationships, Leslie Haddon; 

Teenagers, the internet and morality, Joke Bauwens; 

Family dynamics and mediation: children, autonomy 

and control, Gustavo Cardoso, Rita Espanha and 

Tiago Lapa; Digital natives: discourses of exclusion 

in an inclusive society, David Herold. Part II: 

Barrier Free Information for Older People: Being 

the oldest old in a shifting technology landscape, 

Jan-Erik Hagberg; Modelling older adults for website 

design, Dana Chisnell and Janice (Ginny) Redish; 

The ticket machine challenge: social inclusion by 

barrier-free ticket vending machines, Günther Schreder, 

Karin Siebenhandl, Eva Mayr and Michael Smuc. 

Part III: Younger and Older People Using New Media: 

A Contrastive Analysis: Building intergenerational 

bridges between digital natives and digital immigrants: 

attitudes, motivations and appreciation for old and 

new media, Giuseppe Lugano and Peter Peltonen; 

Age and internet skills: rethinking the obvious, 

Alexander van Deursen; Getting access to website health 

information: does age really matter?, Eugène Loos 

and Enid Mante-Meijer; Conclusion, Eugène Loos, 

Leslie Haddon and Enid Mante-Meijer; Index. 


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Red, Black, and Objective 

Science, Sociology, and Anarchism 

Sal Restivo, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 

“An unprecedented effort of reflection on the 

relationship between social studies of science, 

sociology and anarchism, enriched with extensive 

use of important, but hitherto neglected, international 

sources. A courageous proposal of renewal of both 

theoretical and empirical approaches in STS, profoundly 

grounded in studies of science and objectivity.” 

—Alessandro Mongili, University of Padua, Italy 

Drawing on the empirical findings generated 

by researchers in science studies, and adopting 

Kropotkin’s concept of anarchism as one of the social 

sciences, Red, Black, and Objective expounds and 

develops an anarchist account of science as a social 

construction and social institution. Restivo’s account 

is at once normative, analytical, organizational and 

policy oriented, in particular with respect to education. 

Contents: Prologue; Objectivity revisited and revised; 

The social theory of objectivity and its problems; 

Sociology: a Copernican revolution changes how 

we think about science and mathematics; Science 

studies: sociological theory and social criticism; 

Math studies and the anarchist agenda; Anarchism 

and modern science; What’s mind got to do with 

it?; Science, religion, and anarchism: the end 

of God and the beginning of inquiry; A manifesto in 

anarcho-sociology; Appendices; Bibliography; Index. 


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Stories About Science in Law 

Literary and Historical 

Images of Acquired Expertise 

David S. Caudill, Villanova University School of Law 

LAW, LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION 

“In a bold and innovative step beyond the conventions 

of law and literature, Caudill deftly traces the parallels 

between images of scientific expertise and the framing 

of science in law. Drawing examples from science 

fiction, ‘lab lit’ and futuristic film, Stories About Science 

In Law manages gainfully to trace the surprising extent 

to which law exists in the shadow of science.” 

—Peter Goodrich, Cardozo School of Law 

The book presents examples of how literary sources 

can provide a supplement to our understanding of 

science in law. Challenging the view that law and 

science are completely different, insofar as the former 

is associated with social or communal conventions, 

rhetorical strategies and local institutions, the study 

discusses texts that suggest that science shares 

those very same features with law. 

May 2011 

164 pages 

Hardback 978-1-4094-2680-6 $104.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-2681-3 


Secrecy and Science 

A Historical Sociology of Biological 

and Chemical Warfare 

Brian Balmer, University College London, UK 

Drawing on classical sociological writing on 

secrecy by Simmel, Merton and Shils this 

groundbreaking book by Brian Balmer also draws 

in more contemporary perspectives in science and 

technology studies that understand knowledge and 

social order as co-produced within heterogeneous 

networks of “things and people” in order to develop 

a theoretical set of arguments about how the 

relationship between secrecy and science might 

be understood. 

Contents: Preface; Secret science; Secrecy at work: 

scientists’ defense of biological weapons research; 

Making secrets: accidents, experiments and the 

production of knowledge; Keeping, disclosing 

and breaching secrets: classification and security; 

Secrecy, doubt and uncertainty: power/ignorance?; 

Secrecy, transparency and public relations: opening 

up Porton Down in the ‘year of the barricades’; Secret 

spaces of science: a secret formula, a rogue patent 

and public knowledge about nerve gas; Opaque 

science; Index. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-3056-8 $99.95 

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Wittgenstein among 

the Sciences 

Wittgensteinian Investigations 

into the ‘Scientific Method’ 

Rupert Read, University of East Anglia, UK 

Edited by Simon Summers, 

University of East Anglia, UK 

PHILOSOPHY AND METHOD IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES 

“Read challenges the reader to consider what 

science is. He offers an insightful account of Kuhn, 

successfully calling the traditional conception of Kuhn 

as a relativist and an idealist into question. Read’s 

book displays great interpretative skill, showing that 

Kuhn was a philosophically sophisticated and selfaware 

writer. This highly original book will prove 

to be an eye-opener for many.” 

—Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen, Leiden University, 


Discussing the work of Kuhn, Winch and 

Wittgenstein in relation to fundamental question 

of methodology, Wittgenstein among the Sciences 

undertakes an examination of the nature of (natural) 

science itself, in the light of which a series of 

successive cases of putatively scientific disciplines 

are analyzed. A novel and significant contribution 

to social science methodology and the philosophy 

of science and “the human sciences,” this book will 

be of interest to social scientists and philosophers, 

as well as to psychiatrists, economists and 

cognitive scientists. 

Contents: Preface; Transcripts; the methodology of 

the social and human sciences: a series of lectures 

by Rupert Read at UEA, Autumn 2007. Part 1: 

Wittgenstein, Kuhn and Natural Science: Science: 

a Perspicuous Presentation: Kuhn: the Wittgenstein 

of the sciences?; Kuhn on incommensurability: 

inhabiting the standard reading; Wittgenstein on 

incommensurability: the view from ‘inside’; Values: 

another kind of incommensurability?; Does Kuhn 

have a model of science?; Inter-section: a schematic 

elicitation of Wittgensteinian criteria. Part 2: 

Wittgenstein, Winch and ‘Human Science’: Social 

Science: The ghost of Winch’s ghost; Psychiatry: 

The hard case of 9severe cases of) schizophrenia; 

Extreme aversive emotion; Economics: Wittgenstein 

contra Friedman; Cognitive Science: ‘Dissolving’ 

the hard problem of consciousness back into 

ordinary life. Conclusions: Concluding summary; 

Interview with Rupert Read (conducted by the editor); 



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ASHGATE

Social Theory 

DIRECTIONS IN ETHNOMETHODOLOGY 

AND CONVERSATION ANALYSIS 

Series Editors: Stephen Hester, Bangor University, UK 

and Dave Francis, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK 

As a result of the methodological rewards consequent upon their unique analytic approach and attention 

to the detailed orderliness of social life, Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis have ramified across 

a wide range of human science disciplines throughout the world, including anthropology, social psychology, 

linguistics, communication studies and social studies of science and technology. This series is dedicated 

to publishing the latest work in these two fields, including research monographs, edited collections 

and theoretical treatises. As such, its volumes are essential reading for those concerned with the study 

of human conduct and aptitudes, the (re)production of social orderliness and the methods and aspirations 

of the social sciences. 

For full series details, visit www.ashgate.com/directionsinethnomethodology 

Generations 

The Time Machine in Theory and Practice 

Judith Burnett, University of Wolverhampton, UK 

“This is a major contribution to the study of 

generations. Drawing on a comprehensive review 

of the theoretical context for generations in the 

study of time, Judith Burnett presents a powerful 

conceptualization of the sociological idea of the 

generation. An innovative typology of generations 

is illustrated by case studies of the First World War 

generation and the post-war baby boomers. This 

is a fascinating study that deserves to have a major 

impact on future research.” 

—John Scott, University of Plymouth, UK 

2010 162 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-7456-6 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-0980-9 


Adjudication in Action 

An Ethnomethodology of Law, 

Morality and Justice 

Baudouin Dupret, CNRS, France, and 

Centre Jacques-Berque, Rabat, Morocco 



“Based in the analysis of work, sequential organization 

and membership categorization in a collection 

of Egyptian legal proceedings including a trial 

for perversion and debauchery (homosexuality), 

Dupret gives us the most sustained attempt yet 

at a praxeology of judicial activity, re-specifying 

such legal objects as fact, person, intention, cause 

and judgement in relation to morality (above all), 

rationality, normality, language, context, rule, action 

and text. It’s a remarkable tour de force.” 

—Peter Eglin, Wilfred Laurier University 

A rich, praxeological study that engages with 

“living law” as it unfolds in context and in action 

to develop a fuller understanding of what law is, 

Adjudication in Action engages with Wittgenstein’s 

later thought along with recent developments 

in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, 

to explore people’s orientation around and reification 

of legal categories within the framework 

of institutional settings. 

Contents: Introduction: a grammar of law in context 

and action. Part I: Law and Morality: Bases of 

a Praxeological Approach: Law and morality: 

constructs and models; The morality of cognition: 

the normativity of ordinary reasoning; Law in action: 

a praxeological approach to law and justice. Part II: 

Law in Context and in Action: Law in context; legal 

activity and the institutional context; Procedural 

constraint: sequentiality, routine, and formal 

correctness; Legal relevance: the production of 

factuality and legality. Part III: A Practical Grammar 

of Legal Concepts: From law in the books to law 

in action: Egyptian criminal law between doctrine, 

case law, jurisprudence, and practice; The natural 

person: the contingent and contextual production 

of legal personality; The production of causality: a 

praxeological grammar of the use of causal concepts; 

Intention in action: the teleological orientation of 

the parties to criminal cases. Part IV: Praxeological 

Study of Judgments on Morality: Morality on trial: 

structure and intelligibility of the court sentence; 

Questions of morality: sequential, structured 

organization of the interrogation; The categories 

of morality: homosexuality between perversion and 

debauchery; Conclusion: the morality of judgment 

and the judgment of morality: a praxeological 

approach; Bibliography; Index. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-3150-3 $114.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-3151-0 


Ethnomethodology at Work 

Edited by Mark Rouncefield, Lancaster University, 

UK and Peter Tolmie, University of Nottingham, UK 



“Pugnacious yet inviting, this book will be an 

invaluable guide for those interested in the 

ethnomethodological perspective on work, but also 

why it has proven to be so influential in the study 

and design of technology. The book expertly balances 

empirical study with theoretical sophistication.” 

—Barry Brown, University of California, San Diego 

Key academics in ethnomethodology bring together 

one of the most important bodies of research into 

people’s working practices to develop in the social 

sciences over the past fifty years. Graham Button, 

John Hughes and Wes Sharrock contribute to the 

volume and demonstrate the important contribution 

that ethnomethodological studies have so far made, 

and will continue to make, to understandings the 

ways in which people actually accomplish work 

from day to day and moment to moment. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-4771-3 $114.95 

ebook 978-0-7546-9135-8 


Advertising and Cultural 

Politics in Global Times 

Pamela Odih, Goldsmiths University of London, UK 

“The book engages with a broad range of complex 

ideas and does so in an accessible manner. It will 

be of interest to all students of the technologies 

of the sign’ that saturate the contemporary world.” 

—Theo Vurdubakis, Lancaster University, UK 

2010 300 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-7711-6 $124.95 

ebook 978-0-7546-9428-1 


Decentering Biotechnology 

Assemblages Built and Assemblages Masked 

Michael S. Carolan, Colorado State University 

THEORY, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY 

“Decentering Biotechnology is a lucid and timely book. 

It illuminates how the biotechnology regime exercises 

power to create new avenues for profit through 

the commodification of nature. Anyone interested 

in understanding how patents are employed in 

opposition to public welfare needs to read this book.” 

—Brett Clark, North Carolina State University 

2010 200 pages 

Hardback 978-1-4094-1005-8 $89.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-1006-5 


Jürgen Habermas, 

Volumes I and II 

Edited by Camil Ungureanu, Universitat Pompeu 

Fabra, Spain, Klaus Günther, University of 

Frankfurt, Germany and Christian Joerges, 

University of Bremen, Germany 

INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF ESSAYS 

IN THE HISTORY OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THOUGHT 

Jürgen Habermas is widely regarded as one of 

the outstanding intellectuals of our time. This twovolume 

collection focuses on the theory of law which 

can be distilled from his vast compendium of work. 

At the same time, the collection places this theory 

in the context of Habermas’ overall contribution 

to the theory of society, political theory and social 

philosophy. Both volumes are prefaced 

by a comprehensive introduction by the editors. 

Includes 40 previously published journal articles 


Hardback 978-0-7546-2832-3 $550.00 


Karl Marx 

Edited by Bertell Ollman, New York University 

and Kevin B. Anderson, University of California, 

Santa Barbara 

THE INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF ESSAYS 

IN CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGY 

The best writings of the past hundred years on Marx’s 

approach to analyzing society and on his critique of 

capitalist society are brought together in this volume. 

The articles enable a better understanding of Marx’s 

dialectical method and of the theories created with 

its help, and explain how to put his approach to use. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-7757-4 c. $350.00 


Re-crafting Rationalization 

Enchanted Science and Mundane Mysteries 

Simon Locke, Kingston University, UK 

“This fascinating book provides convincing support 

for the argument that science studies might benefit 

from a greater engagement with sociological theory, 

while continually refracting theoretical questions 

through the prism of reflexive and empirically detailed 

discursive analysis. Simon Locke thereby carves out 

an absolutely distinctive position from which 

to reconsider the meanings of science.” 

—Geoff Cooper, University of Surrey, UK 

2010 232 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-7830-4 $99.95 

ebook 978-0-7546-9639-1 


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PUBLIC 

INTELLECTUALS 

AND THE SOCIOLOGY 

OF KNOWLEDGE 

Series Editors: Andreas Hess, 

University College Dublin, Ireland and 

Neil McLaughlin, McMaster University 

The sociology of knowledge has a long and distinctive 

history. Its function has always been that of 

attempting to bridge the aspirations of the discursive 

and institutional founding fathers of sociology with 

that of modern attempts to define the discipline 

through the study of the emergence, role and social 

function of ideas. However, since Mannheim first 

outlined his program in the 1920s, the sociology of 

knowledge has undergone many changes. The field 

has become extremely differentiated and some of 

its best practitioners now sail under different flags 

and discuss their work under different headings. 

This new series charts the progress that has been 

made in recent times—despite the different labels. 

Be it intellectual history Cambridge-style, the new 

sociology of ideas which is now gaining strength in 

North America, or the more European cultural analysis 

which is associated with the name of Bourdieu, this 

series aims at being inclusive while simultaneously 

striving for sociological insight and excellence. 


Radicalism in French Culture 

A Sociology of French Theory in the 1960s 

Niilo Kauppi, CNRS/ 

University of Strasbourg, France 

PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS AND 

THE SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE 

“A welcome addition to the ever growing attempts to 

interpret the vast and enduring importance of French 

Theory—and one that, for the first time, puts Julia 

Kristeva in the central place from which others have 

excluded her. Recommended strongly for all who care 

about social theory and want to understand it.” 

—Charles Lemert, Wesleyan University 

2010 164 pages 

Hardback 978-1-4094-0783-6 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-0784-3 


The Politics of Academic 

Autonomy in Latin America 

Edited by Fernanda Beigel, Universidad 

Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina 

PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS AND 

THE SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE 

“Here, available for the first time in English, is a novel 

account of the academic politics—in their national 

and international contexts—that carried Latin American 

social science through its expansion in the 1950s and, 

most strikingly, through the period of dictatorships. 

A must-read for all those interested in the history 

of this most dynamic region of social science.” 

—Michael Burawoy, University of California, Berkeley 

Academic autonomy has been a dominant issue 

among Latin American social studies, given that 

the production of knowledge in the region has 

been mostly suspected for its lack of originality 

and the replication of Euro-American models. 

Politicization within the higher education system 

and recurrent military interventions in universities 

have been considered the main structural causes 

for this heteronomy and, thus, the main obstacles 

for “scientific” achievements. This groundbreaking 

book analyses the struggle for academic autonomy 

taking into account the relevant differences between 

the itinerary of social and natural sciences, the 

connection of institutionalization and prestigebuilding, 

professionalization and engagement. 

Contents: Introduction: the politics of academic 

autonomy in Latin America. Section 1: The 

Institutionalization of Research and Professional 

Training in Latin America: Peripheral Centers, 

Academic Diplomacy and Scientific Missions: 

Academic internationalization and institutionalization 

in Latin America. The emergence of peripheral 

centers; The first UNESCO experts in Latin America 

(1946–1958); The diplomatic competition between 

Chile and Brazil and the institutionalization of 

Latin-American social sciences; Public Experts 

and diplomacy in Argentina: the Institute of 

National Foreign Service. Section 2: International 

Cooperation, Foreign Aid and Academic Mobility: 

Public foreign aid and academic mobility—the 

Fulbright Program (1955–1973); Catholic international 

cooperation: social research and the Society 

of Jesus; Internationalization from the margins: 

academic mobility at the National University of Cuyo 

(Mendoza-Argentina). Section 3: Politization versus 

Professionalization?: Private foreign aid and the 

contest for academic autonomy: The Rockefeller 

Foundation at the University of Chile; Second 

generation university reforms in Argentina: 

professionalization versus politization?; Careerbuilding 

in a highly politicized period: Argentine 

social scientists in the 60s. Section 4: The 

Contraction of Academic Autonomy: Returning 

home: the World University Service-United Kingdom 

(WUS-UK) Return Program for Chilean exiles; 

Science during Argentina’s military dictatorship 

(1976–1983): the contraction of the higher education 

system and the expansion of CONICET; Between 

scientific autonomy and academic dependency: 

private research institutes under dictatorship in 

Argentina (1976–1983). The case of FLACSO; Index. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-3186-2 c. $114.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-3187-9 


Reframing the Social 

Emergentist Systemism and Social Theory 

Poe Yu-ze Wan, National 

Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan 

“This is the clearest and most comprehensive 

discussion of contemporary social ontology… 

This book should greatly help any social theorists 

and philosophers seeking clarity and depth.” 

—Mario Bunge, McGill University 

Poe Yu-ze Wan argues for a critical realist and 

systemist social ontology, designed to shed light 

on current debates in social theory concerning the 

relationship of social ontology to practical social 

research, and the nature of “the social.” 


Hardback 978-1-4094-1152-9 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-1153-6 


Talcott Parsons 

Edited by Victor Lidz, Drexel University 

College of Medicine 

THE INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY 

OF ESSAYS IN CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGY 

This collection includes articles by major interpreters 

of and contributors to Parsons’ theory of action as 

well as the writings of scholars who have sustained 

the Parsonian tradition that combines a voluntaristic 

conception of social action with function analysis 

of social systems. 

Includes 23 previously published journal articles 

July 2011 

668 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-7817-5 $350.00 


Status, Power 

and Ritual Interaction 

A Relational Reading of 

Durkheim, Goffman and Collins 

Theodore D. Kemper, St. John’s 

University, New York 

“…presents a thought-provoking approach to the 

theory of social relations and interaction, based on he 

two concepts of status and power…Exemplifications 

and empirical cases contribute to make the book 

attractive and accessible to the reader.” 

—Carl-Göran Heidegren, Lund University, Sweden 

Numerous sociologists suppose that ritual is 

foundational for social life. Kemper, however, argues 

that status and power structure social relations 

determine emotions and link individuals to the 

reference groups that deliver culture and administer 

preferences, actions, beliefs and ideas. An important 

contention is that allegiance to fundamental ideas 

is primarily faithfulness to the reference groups that 

foster them, not to the ideas themselves. This triggers 

the counter-intuitive deduction that the concept 

of the self is both feckless and irrelevant. 

Contents: Preface; Introduction; Status and power; 

Derivations from status-power theory; Status-power 

and collective effervescence: I; Status-power and 

collective effervescence: II; Ritual: Goffman’s big 

idea; Situation, occasion, gathering, encounter 

and social relations; Reading Goffman in statuspower 

terms; Collins’ interaction ritual; Collins’ 

power and status rituals; Talking, talks, thinking 

and thought; Entrainment, mutual entrainment 

and self-entrainment; Emotions: status-power vs. 

interaction ritual theory; Sex and love; Prediction 

and postdiction; Appendix; Bibliography; Index. 


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ASHGATE


RETHINKING CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGY 

Series Editor: David Chalcraft, University of Derby, UK 

Rethinking Classical Sociology is designed to capture, reflect and promote the major changes that are occurring 

in the burgeoning field of classical sociology. The series publishes monographs, texts and reference volumes 

that critically engage with the established figures in classical sociology as well as encouraging examination 

of thinkers and texts from within the ever-widening canon of classical sociology. 

For full series details, visit www.ashgate.com/rethinkingclassicalsociology 

Max Weber’s Comparative- 

Historical Sociology Today 

Major Themes, Mode of Causal Analysis, 

and Applications 

Stephen Kalberg, Boston University 


“Stephen Kalberg has long been a penetrating 

and original interpreter of Weber’s work. His 

publications stand out in the large Weber literature 

by focusing on Weber’s modes of analysis that remain 

fruitful today, a century later. Putting that claim 

of continuing relevance to multiple tests, this 

is a significant publication.” 

—Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Brown University, 

author of Usable Theory: Analytic Tools for 

Social and Political Research 

Bringing together the author’s major scholarly work 

on Weber over the last thirty years , offering a rich 

examination of the major themes in his sociology, 

alongside a reconstruction of his mode of analysis 

and application of his approach, this book will appeal 

to scholars around the world with interests in social 

theory, German and American societies, cultural 

sociology, political sociology, the sociology 

of knowledge, comparative-historical sociology 

and the sociology of civilizations. 

Contents: Introduction. Part I: Reconstructing 

Major Themes: Introduction; The types of rationality: 

cornerstones for the analysis of Rationalization 

processes in history; Should the ‘dynamic autonomy’ 

of ideas matter to sociologists?; The past and present 

influence of world views. Part II: Weber’s Mode 

of Causal Analysis: Introduction; The perpetual 

and tight interweaving of past and present in Max 

Weber’s sociology; Macro comparisons: precautions, 

possibilities, achievements and limitations. Part III: 

Reconstructing Significant Developments from 

Weber’s Works: Introduction; The rise and 

expansion of Confucianism in China; The rise and 

expansion of the caste system in India; The rise and 

expansion of monotheism in ancient Israel. Part IV: 

Utilizing Weber I: the Importance of Deep Culture: 

Introduction; Ascetic Protestantism, its legacies, 

and American uniqueness: the political culture of 

the United States; The cultural foundations of modern 

citizenship. Part V: Utilizing Weber II: Multi-Causal 

and Contextual-Conjectural Analysis: Introduction; 

The origin and expansion of Kulturpessimismus: 

the relationship between public and private spheres 

in early 20th-century Germany; Culture and the 

location of work in contemporary Western Germany: 

a Weberian configurational and comparative 

analysis. Part VI: Conclusion: Bringing Weber 

Back In: Appendices; Bibliography; Index. 


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The Social Thought 

of Talcott Parsons 

Methodology and American Ethos 

Uta Gerhardt, University of Heidelberg, Germany 


“Uta Gerhardt offers an erudite, resolute and spirited 

defense of Talcott Parsons’ social thought against 

many of his critics and contenders, presents intriguing 

findings from the archives, and ventures distinctly 

Parsonian reflections on current issues in sociological 

theory and practice.” 

—Howard Brick, University of Michigan 

Exploring the conceptual baseline of Parsons’ 

sociology and maintaining focus on its links with 

20th century history, this book sheds light on the 

requirements of analytical rigor in the social sciences 

through examination of the debates in which Parsons 

was engaged throughout his life. In addition to 

revisiting Parsons’ extensive oeuvre, Uta Gerhardt 

takes up various themes in current research and 

theory—including social inequality, civic culture and 

globalization—thus demonstrating what the conceptual 

approaches of Parsons can accomplish today. 

Contents: Preface. Part I: Themes: Positioning 

the Parsonian project. Part II: Tenets: A product 

of modern European civilization: translating 

into English Max Weber’s Die protestantische 

Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus; A charter 

for modern sociology: the social system and the 

ethos of American democracy. Part III: Dialogs: 

Encounters with the Frankfurt school: a story of exile, 

estrangement and epistemology; Beyond sociological 

imagination: the controversy with C. Wright Mills 

over power and knowledge; ‘…will not down…’: the 

clash with utilitarianism in the name of the American 

societal community. Part IV: Positions: The Parsons 

project today: social thought for the 21st century; 

Epilogue; Bibliography; Indexes. 


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Vilfredo Pareto 

Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries 

Edited by Joseph V. Femia, University 

of Liverpool, UK and Alasdair J. Marshall, 

University of Southampton, UK 

“…this collection of chapters moves us towards 

a fuller and better understanding of the writings 

of this key figure.” 

—Richard Bellamy, University College, London, UK 

This collection examines the work of the Italian 

economist and social theorist Vilfredo Pareto, 

highlighting the extraordinary scope of his thought, 

which covers a vast range of academic disciplines. 

Bringing together the world’s leading experts 

on Pareto, this volume underlines the enduring 

and contemporary relevance of Pareto’s ideas 

on a bewildering variety of topics. 

Contents: Introduction, Joseph V. Femia and 

Alasdair J. Marshall; Pareto and the elite, John Scott; 

Talents and obstacles: Pareto’s morphological 

schema and contemporary social stratification 

research, François Nielsen; The role of sticking points 

in Pareto’s theory of social systems, Charles Powers; 

Pareto, Machiavelli and the critique of ideal political 

theory, Joseph V. Femia; The idea of a sociology 

of risk and uncertainty: insight from Pareto, 

Alasdair J. Marshall and Marco Guidi; Pareto’s theory 

of elite cycles: a reconsideration and application, 

John Higley and Jan Pakulski; Pareto, Mill and the 

cognitive explanation of collective beliefs: unnoticed 

‘middle-range theories’ in the Trattato, Alban Bouvier; 

Pareto’s rhetoric, Giorgio Baruchello; Pareto’s 

manuscript on money and the real economy, 

Michael McLure; Index. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-7995-0 $99.95 

ebook 978-0-7546-9977-4 


Volume 14: Kierkegaard’s 

Influence on Social- 

Political Thought 

Edited by Jon Stewart, University 

of Copenhagen, Denmark 

KIERKEGAARD RESEARCH: SOURCES, 

RECEPTION AND RESOURCES 

Kierkegaard has been traditionally characterized 

as a Christian writer who placed supreme importance 

on the inward religious life of each individual believer. 

His radical view seemed to many to undermine any 

meaningful conception of the community, society 

or the state. In recent years, however, scholars have 

begun to correct this image of Kierkegaard as an 

apolitical thinker. The present volume documents 

the use of Kierkegaard by later thinkers in the 

context of social-political thought. It shows how 

his ideas have been employed by very different kinds 

of writers and activists with very different political 

goals and agendas. 


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Social Welfare 

38 

The Bureaucrat and the Poor 

Encounters in French Welfare Offices 

Vincent Dubois, University of Strasbourg, France 

“This first-rate ethnography provides a unique 

vista point from which to understand how public 

policy translates into mundane dealings with 

marginal populations…” 

—Loïc Wacquant, University of California, Berkeley 

2010 228 pages 

Hardback 978-1-4094-0289-3 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-0290-9 


Corporate Social Responsibility 

and the Welfare State 

The Historical and Contemporary Role 

of CSR in the Mixed Economy of Welfare 

Jeanette Brejning, University of Bristol, UK 

“The contribution of CSR to the mixed economy 

of welfare has not been given the attention it requires 

and deserves in social policy analysis. This book 

seeks to put this right…” 

—Kevin Farnsworth, University of Sheffield, UK 

Based on interviews with a wide spectrum of people 

who work with CSR in England, Denmark and in the 

EU Commission, the book argues that when CSR is 

linked to social exclusion it is a way of renegotiating 

responsibilities in mixed economies of welfare. By 

situating CSR within the conceptual framework of 

the mixed economy of welfare and using Historical 

Institutionalism as a theoretical perspective to explore 

and explain the relationship between the welfare state 

and CSR, this book makes an innovative contribution 

to critical debates in comparative social policy. 

Contents: Introduction: examining the social 

dimension of corporate social responsibility. 

Part I: Theory and Concepts: Theoretical framework: 

integrating historical institutionalism and the mixed 

economy of welfare approach; Corporate social 

responsibility: making sense of a contested concept. 

Part II: A History of Corporate Social Responsibility 

in the Mixed Economy of Welfare: Introduction 

to part II; Connections between CSR and 19th 

century philanthropy: CSR in the commercial 

sector; CSR as social policy: CSR in the public sector; 

CSR, globalization and anti-globalization: CSR and 

the non-profit sector; Conclusion to part II. Part III: 

Case Study: Views from CSR Practitioners in England 

and Denmark: Introduction to part III; Is there a ‘social 

case’ for corporate social responsibility? Views on the 

social impacts of CSR; CSR and the changing welfare 

state: does CSR constitute a roll back of the state? 

Conclusion: the welfare state, CSR, and the future; 

List of references; Index. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-2451-2 $99.95 

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Remaking Community? 

New Labour and the Governance 

of Poor Neighbourhoods 

Andrew Wallace, London School 

of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK 

“Community has been at the heart of New Labor’s 

social policies. This book provides the first overall 

assessment of community-centered policy programs 

in relation to social exclusion, regeneration and law 

and order issues.” 

—Peter Taylor-Gooby, University of Kent, UK 

2010 170 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-7854-0 $99.95 

ebook 978-0-7546-9684-1 


Population Ageing in Central 

and Eastern Europe 

Societal and Policy Implications 

Edited by Andreas Hoff, Zittau-Goerlitz University 

of Applied Sciences, Germany and Oxford Institute 

of Ageing, University of Oxford, UK 

NEW PERSPECTIVES ON AGEING AND LATER LIFE 

This book brings together leading scholars to present 

an understanding of the processes underlying the very 

rapid population ageing in Central and Eastern Europe. 

Contents: Foreword; Preface; Introduction: 

the drivers of population ageing in Central and 

Eastern Europe—fertility, mortality and migration, 

Andreas Hoff. Part I: Population Ageing in Eastern 

Europe: Population ageing in Poland, Ewa Fratczak; 

Population ageing in Lithuania: the need for a new 

attitude towards ageing, Sarmite M kulioniene; 

Heterogeneity of population ageing in Russia 

and policy implications, Gaiane Safarova. Part II: 

Population Ageing in Central-Eastern Europe: 

Population ageing in the Czech Republic, 

Iva Holmerová, Hana Vanková, Bozena Juraskova and 

Dana Hrnciariková; Ageing in Hungary: demography 

and labour market challenges, Zsuzsa Széman; 

Population ageing in Slovenia and social support 

networks of older people, Valentina Hlebec and 

Milivoja Šircelj. Part III: Population Ageing in 

South-Eastern Europe: Demographic ageing and its 

economic consequences in Croatia, Sandra Švaljek; 

Demographic ageing in Romania—general and 

specific consequences on the rural population 

and the relation to international migration, 

Ágnes Neményi; Population ageing in Bulgaria— 

demographic dynamics at the turn of the 21st century 

(methodological analysis and solution), Emil Hristov. 

Part IV: Societal and Policy Implications: Physical 

and cognitive functions in older persons in Central 

and Eastern Europe, Martin Bobak, Hynek P khart 

and Michael Marmot; Implications of population 

ageing for family relations and family care, 

Piotr Czekanowski; Demographic changes and 

ageing process in Central and Eastern Europe: 

how sustainable are the demographic trends for the 

future?, Arjan Gjonça and Edlira Gjonça; Conclusions: 

future prospects and policy implications for the 

Central and Eastern European ageing societies 

in transition, Andreas Hoff; Index. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-7828-1 $114.95 

ebook 978-0-7546-9629-2 


Rescaling Social Policies 

towards Multilevel 

Governance in Europe 

Social Assistance, Activation 

and Care for Older People 

Yuri Kazepov, University of Urbino, Italy 

PUBLIC POLICY AND SOCIAL WELFARE 

2010 506 pages 

Paperback 978-1-4094-1021-8 $89.95 


The Social Fund 20 Years On 

Historical and Policy Aspects 

of Loaning Social Security 

Chris Grover, Lancaster University, UK 

Using primary data hitherto ignored by social 

policy research, Grover locates Social Fund loans 

in a lengthy history of debate about, and practice 

in, loaning poor relief and social security. 

May 2011 

308 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-7866-3 $124.95 

ebook 978-0-7546-9703-9 


Poverty Among Older 

People and Pensions 

Policy in the EU 

Edited by Asghar Zaidi, European Centre 

for Social Welfare Policy and Research, Austria 

PUBLIC POLICY AND SOCIAL WELFARE 

Based on research work financed by the European 

Commission, this book offers a comprehensive 

picture of the present state of later-life poverty 

across the 25 member states of the European Union. 

The authors analyze the poverty risks older people 

currently face in these various countries, leading 

onto a discussion of the impact that possible pension 

reforms will have on the retirement incomes for 

future generations. 

Contents: Introduction, Klaas de Vos, Aaron Grech, 

Bernd Marin and Asghar Zaidi. Part I: Poverty of 

Older People in EU25: Concepts and methods used 

in measuring poverty for older people, Asghar Zaidi 

and Klaas de Vos; Overview of poverty among older 

people, Asghar Zaidi, Mattia Makovec, Michael Fuchs, 

Barbara Lipszic, Orsolya Lelkes, Marius Rummel and 

Klaas de Vos; Income composition of older people 

in the EU, Mattia Makovec and Asghar Zaidi. Part II: 

Impact of Pension Policy Reforms and their Impact 

on Older People Poverty in EU25: Pension reforms 

in EU countries and their possible impact, 

Asghar Zaidi and Aaron Grech; Country-specific 

pensions reforms and impact on older people poverty, 

Michael Fuchs and Asghar Zaidi; Projections of elderly 

poverty in EU25 (2025, 2050), Aaron Grech and 

Asghar Zaidi; Concluding discussion, Klaas de Vos, 

Aaron Grech, Bernd Martin and Asghar Zaidi; Index. 

May 2012 

c. 224 pages 

Paperback 978-0-7546-7362-0 c. $69.95 


The Spanish Welfare State 

in European Context 

Edited by Ana Marta Guillén, University 

of Oviedo, Spain and Margarita León, 

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain 

Split into three sections, this book addresses 

the consolidation path of social protection policies, 

governance issues and the key challenges facing 

the Spanish welfare state in the 21st century. 

Together these sections question whether the 

Spanish welfare system should still be considered 

as peripheral to West European welfare states. 

Contents: Introduction, Ana M. Guillén and 

Margarita León. Part I: Evolution/Tendencies: The 

consolidation of the Spanish welfare state (1975– 

2010), Gregorio Rodríguez Cabrero; Europeanization 

and Spanish welfare: the case of employment 

policy, Luis Moreno and Amparo Serrano; The quest 

for gender equality, Margarita León. Part II: Levels 

of Governance, Social Dialogue, Welfare Mix and 

Public Debates: Policy concertation, trade unions 

and the transformation of the Spanish welfare state, 

Oscar Molina; Regional welfare systems and multilevel 

governance, Raquel Gallego and Joan Subirats; 

Assessing the welfare mix: public and private in 

the realm of social welfare, Teresa Montagut; Are 

Spaniards different? European convergence and 

regional divergence in the evaluation of the welfare 

state, Inés Calzada and Eloísa del Pino. Part III: Key 

Challenges to the Spanish Welfare State: Part-time 

employment in Spain: a victim of the ‘temporality 

culture’ and a lagging implementation, Zyab Ibáñez; 

Female employment and policies for balancing work 

and family life in Spain, Olga Salido; Immigration 

and social policy in Spain: a new model of migration 

in Europe, Miguel Laparra; Long-term care: the 

persistence of familialism, Sebastián Sarasa; Tackling 

poverty, Luis Ayala; Consolidation and reluctant reform 

of the pension system, Elisa Chuliá; Conclusions, 

Margarita León and Ana M. Guillén; Index. 


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ASHGATE

Social Welfare 

GENDER AND WELL-BEING 

Series Editors: Cristina Borderias, University of Barcelona, Spain 

and Bernard Harris, University of Southampton, UK 

The aim of this series is to enhance our understanding of the relationship between gender and well-being. 

The series emerges from a series of symposia, organized as part of COST Action 34 on “Gender and Well-being: 

Work, Family and Public Policies.” Participants were drawn from disciplines including economics, demography, 

history, sociology, social policy and anthropology and they represent more than 20 European countries. 

For full series details, visit www.ashgate.com/genderandwell-being 

Gender and Well-Being 

The Role of Institutions 

Edited by Elisabetta Addis, University of Sassari, 

Italy, Paloma de Villota, Complutense University 

of Madrid, Spain Florence Degavre, Catholic 

University, Louvain, Belgium and John Eriksen, 

Norwegian Social Research Institute, Norway 


Provisioning for basic human needs is done in three 

main kind of institutions: the familial household; the 

commercial enterprise selling goods and services; 

the institutions of the Welfare State that provide 

education, medical care and other goods and 

personal services. The purpose of this book is to study 

the interplay of these institutions and their impact on 

well-being, and to analyze key policies and measures 

that have been implemented in European countries. 

Contents: Preface; Gender and well-being: the role 

of institutions, Elisabetta Addis, Florence Degavre, 

Paloma de Villota and John Eriksen. Part I: Gender 

and Welfare Regimes: Historical and Theoretical 

Perspectives: Gender and social citizenship in historical 

perspective: the development of welfare policy in 

England and Wales from the Poor Law to Beveridge, 

Bernard Harris; Scandinavian gender equality: 

competing discourses and paradoxes, Anette Borchorst; 

Too much family and too much gender inequality: 

women’s and men’s total work in Mediterranean 

countries, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Paula Rodriguez Modroño 

and Mónica Domínguez Serrano; A social-reproduction 

and well-being approach to gender budgets: 

experiments at local government level in Italy, 

Tindara Addabbo, Giovanna Badalassi, Francesca Corrado 

and Antonella Picchio. Part II: Gender, Well-Being 

and the Provision of Care: the Family and 

the Household: Home care and cash transfers: 

the search for a sustainable elderly care model, 

Annamaria Simonazzi; Transnational caregiving 

between Australia, Italy and El Salvador: the impact 

of institutions on the capability to care at a distance, 

Laura Merla and Loretta Baldassar; A good step forward 

but not far enough: the provision of care credits 

in European pension systems, Athina Vlachantoni. 

Part III: Gender and Well-Being in the Labour Market: 

Gender (in)equality in the labour market and the 

southern European welfare states, Sara Falcão Casaca 

and Sónia Damião; Reconciliation of work and family 

in Greece: policy responses and dimensions of public 

debate, Laura Alipranti-Maratou and Anna Nikolaou; 

Perceived work-life conflict among Swedish 

dual-earner families, Linda Lane and 

Margareta Bäck-Wiklund; What makes French 

employees so happy with their balance between 

family and work? The impact of family-friendly 

policies, Ariane Pailhé and Anne Solaz; Index. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-0705-8 $114.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-0706-5 


Gender Inequalities, Households 

and the Production of 

Well-Being in Modern Europe 

Edited by Tindara Addabbo, University of Modena 

and Reggio Emilia, Italy, Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga, 

Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France, 

Cristina Borderías, University of Barcelona, 

Spain and Alastair Owens, Queen Mary University 

of London, UK 


Demographic change and economic liberalization 

are reshaping European states in a number of 

profound ways. In particular, an ageing population 

and shifts in the labor market are bringing new 

challenges to the nation states welfare systems. 

This unique volume of essays seeks to analyze these 

changes within the wider historical and geographical 

context while also considering the impact of gender. 

2010 340 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-7968-4 $124.95 

ebook 978-0-7546-9924-8 


Standing orders 

To place a standing order for a series, please visit 

www.ashgate.com/standingorder or contact 

Suzanne Sprague at ssprague@ashgate.com 

Transforming Gendered 

Well-Being in Europe 

The Impact of Social Movements 

Edited by Alison E. Woodward, Vrije Universiteit, 

Brussels, Belgium, Jean-Michel Bonvin, University 

of Applied Sciences, Western Switzerland and 

Mercè Renom, Institut Interuniversitari d’Estudis 

de Dones i Gènere, Spain 


Social movements can improve the well-being of men 

and women but are frequently analyzed through a 

gender-neutral lens. Taking an international and crossdisciplinary 

perspective, this book examines the impact 

of social movements on political and material wellbeing, 

self-definition and the capabilities to be gendered 

political actors in transnational political spaces. 

Contents: Preface; The impact of social movements 

on gendered well-being in Europe, Alison E. Woodward, 

Jean-Michel Bonvin and Mercè Renom. Part I: The 

Transformation of Political and Material Well-Being 

and Power: Mercè Renom and Alison E. Woodward; 

Subsistence movements in 18th-century Catalonia: 

material and political aspects in gendered food 

protests, Mercè Renom; Money matters: the impacts 

of class and gender on the first wave of women’s 

movements financing strategies, Pernilla Jonsson 

and Silke Neunsinger; Working women an 

‘de-unionization’: the struggles for autonomy, 

Conchi Vilar, Mònica Borrell, Carles Enrech, 

Juanjo Romero-Marín and Jordi Ibarz; Second wave 

feminism and the capability approach: the Swiss 

case, Sylvie Burgnard; Anti-modernist utopia in ‘new 

Europe’: protest, gender and well-being, Andrea Petö. 

Part II: The Transformation of Intimate Citizenship: 

Bodies, Personal Capacities and the Intimate 

Conditions of Life: Jean-Michel Bonvin; Gender 

family policies and democracy in Eastern Europe 

after 1989, Jacqueline Heinen; Dutch women’s health 

care movement and the transformation of the welfare 

state in the Netherlands 1975–2005, Berteke Waaldijk; 

Redefining well-being through actions: women’s 

activism and the Polish state, Magda Grabowska 

and Joanna Regulska; Not quite women: lesbian 

activism in Portugal, Ana Maria Brandão; We can’t 

have men giving birth! (but we do). The impact of 

the Belgian transgender movement on the well-being 

of transgender persons in Belgium, Joz Motmans; 

Intimate citizenship and gendered well-being: the claims 

and interventions of women’s movements in Europe, 

Sasha Roseneil, Isabel Crowhurst, Tone Hellesund, 

Ana Cristina Santos and Mariuya Stoilva. Part III: 

The Transformation of Political Fora and Spaces: 

Making a Place for Global Issues and the 

Transformation of Women’s Well-Being Beyond 

Borders: Alison E. Woodward; Women’s mobilization 

in conflicts over female Muslim covering: 

an opportunity for the well-being of women?, 

Leila Hadj-Abdou; Minority inclusion, self-representation 

and coalition-building: the participation of minority 

women in European women’s networks, 

Lise Rolundsen Agustín and Silke Roth; Care 

economies and collective well-being in contemporary 

European feminist organizing, Wendy Harcourt; 

Conclusion: the role of social movements in 

transforming well-being, Alison E. Woodward, 

Jean-Michel Bonvin and Mercè Renom; Index. 


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Social Work 

40 

CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL WORK STUDIES 

Series Editors: Lucy Jordan and Patrick O’Leary, both at University of Southampton, UK 

Contemporary Social Work Studies is a series disseminating high quality new research and scholarship in the 

discipline and profession of social work. The series promotes critical engagement with contemporary issues 

relevant across the social work community and captures the diversity of interests currently evident at national, 

international and local levels. 

For more information and a complete list of titles available, visit www.ashgate.com/CSWS 

Practice and Research 

Ian F. Shaw, University of York, UK 


“It is exciting to read this collection of thoughtful and 

provocative essays by Professor Ian Shaw, centered 

around the topic of social work research and practice. 

His views are at the cutting edge of European 

developments in contemporary social work philosophy 

of science and research methodology. This work is 

most highly recommended for social worker scholars 

and practitioners.” 

—Bruce A. Thyer, Florida State University 

Introduced with a new essay that reflects on the 

“serendipity, misfires and occasional patterns” 

in his work, Practice and Research is an overview 

of Professor Ian Shaw’s analysis of the complexity 

and challenges of the practice/research relationship 

in social work and is a must-read for any social work 

student or practitioner. 

Contents: Introductory essay: serendipity, misfires 

and occasional patterns: a career in social work 

research. Section 1: Perspectives on Social Work 

Research: Introduction; Cutting edge issues in 

social work research; Is social work distinctive?; 

Ways of knowing in social work; Rereading The 

Jack Roller: hidden histories in sociology and social 

work; William J. Reid: an appreciation. Section 2: 

Evaluation: Introduction; Human services; Evidence 

from qualitative evaluation; Seeing the trees for the 

wood: the politics of practice evaluation; Evaluation 

for a learning organization. Section 3: Qualitative 

Research: Introduction; Qualitative social work: 

a room with a view (I. Shaw and R. Ruckdeschel); 

Qualitative research and outcomes in health, social 

work and education; Ethics and the practice of 

qualitative research; Constructing causal accounts in 

social work (R. Bull and I. Shaw); The consequences 

of qualitative social work research (I. Shaw and 

N. Gould); Unbroken voices: children, young people 

and qualitative methods. Section 4: Research, Theory 

and Practice: Introduction; The quality of mercy: 

the management of quality in the personal social 

services; Game plans, buzzes and sheer luck: doing 

well in social work (I. Shaw and A. Shaw); Practitioner 

evaluation at work (I. Shaw and A. Faulkner); 

Evaluating in practice; Culture and the indigenization 

of quality in Third World social research (I. Shaw and 

K. Al-Awwad). Section 5: Service User and Research: 

Introduction; Consumer opinion and social policy; 

Consumer evaluations of the personal social services; 

Participation, empowerment and the rhetoric of 

quality; Just inquiry? Research and evaluation for 

service users; Postscripts on users; and practitioners’ 

research; Index. 

May 2012 

c. 350 pages 

Hardback 978-1-4094-3917-2 c. $124.95 


Globalization and International 


Postmodern Change and Challenge 

Malcolm Payne, St. Christopher’s Hospice, UK 

and Gurid Aga Askeland, Diakonhjemmet 

University College, Norway 


“This book…aims to examine developments 

in international social work and to do so within 

a theoretical framework based on postmodernism 

and globalization.” 

—Journal of Social Policy 

2008 202 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-4946-5 $114.95 

ebook 978-0-7546-8949-2 


Professional Discretion 

in Welfare Services 

Beyond Street-Level Bureaucracy 

Tony Evans, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK 


“Tony Evans provides a convincing analysis of the key 

central issues in contemporary policy and practice that 

swirl around the place and function of professional 

discretion in welfare services. His critically engaged 

discussion draws out the complexities that have 

emerged from the intermingling of managerialism 

and professional culture. This original, perceptive and 

stimulating contribution deserves to be widely read.” 

—John Harris, University of Warwick, UK 

2010 194 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-7491-7 $99.95 

ebook 978-1-4094-0848-2 


Sexual Identities and Sexuality 

in Social Work 

Research and Reflections 

from Women in the Field 

Edited by Priscilla Dunk-West, Coventry 

University, UK and Trish Hafford-Letchfield, 

Middlesex University, UK 


“An ambitious project successfully realized, Sexual 

Identities and Sexuality in Social Work is theoretically 

rich, practice relevant and in the tradition of a 

social work that pushes boundaries and taken 

for granted understandings.” 

—Fiona Verity, Flinders University, Australia 

This collection aims to address the marginalization 

and under-theorization of sexuality and sexual 

identity in social work research and practice. Its 

starting point is that sexuality is a key aspect of 

individual identity, that service users must be able 

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Context, Impact and Coping 

Chaitali Das, Queen’s University Belfast, UK 

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Fiona Gardner, La Trobe University, Australia 

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Ian F. Shaw, University of York, UK 

SECOND EDITION 

“…a very important book that should be required 

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—Catherine Kohler Riessman, Boston College 

In this fully rewritten and updated second edition of 

his groundbreaking text Evaluating in Practice, Ian 

Shaw demonstrates how evaluation and inquiry are 

just as much practice tasks as planning, intervention 

and review. By demonstrating that good evaluating 

in practice helps sustain a commitment to evidence, 

understanding and justice Shaw shows that for this 

to be achieved, evaluating in practice must permeate 

every aspect of social work. 


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Social Policy for Social 

Work, Social Care and 

the Caring Professions 

Scottish Perspectives 

Edited by Steve Hothersall and Janine Bolger, both 

at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland 

“…a comprehensive and well-written text…The work 

covers key issues which inform and shape social policy 

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And, while the Scottish perspective is central it 

is nonetheless placed firmly and appropriately 

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“…a masterly and perceptive diagnosis of what 

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—Elaine Graham, University of Chester, UK 

This ground-breaking work addresses the central 

question of the nature of professional judgment 

and deliberation that has recently come to 

the fore in the academic literature of profession 

and professionalism. 

Contents: Introduction: towards professional 

wisdom, David Carr, Liz Bondi, Chris Clark and 

Cecelia Clegg. Part I: Practical Wisdom and 

Professional Deliberation: ‘Professional wisdom’ 

in ‘practice,’ Joseph Dunne; Expertise—initiation 

into learning, not knowing, Michael Luntley; Evidencebased 

practice and professional wisdom, Chris Clark; 

Intuition and professional wisdom: can we teach 

moral discernment?, Daniel Vokey and Jeannie Kerr; 

Teacher education as a missed opportunity in the 

professional preparation of ethical practitioners, 

Elizabeth Campbell. Part II: The Personal and 

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towards a virtue ethics of interpersonal professional 

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the gender of professional wisdom, Liz Bondi; 

Work is where we live: emotional literacy and the 

psychological dimensions of the various relationships 

there, Susie Orbach; The wisdom of L’Arche and the 

practices of care: disability, professional wisdom 

and encounter-in-community, John Swinton. Part III: 

Legislation, Regulation and Professional Judgement: 

Fabled uncertainty in social work, Sue White; Crowding 

out wisdom: the mechanisation of adult-child 

relationships, Kathleen Marshall and Maggie Mellon; 

Ministry, homelessness and professional deliberation, 

Alison Elliot; Pastoral supervision: ministry, spirit 

and regulation, Cecelia Clegg; Not a tame lion: 

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Index 

42 

A 

Adams, Jon.............................................................. 18 

Addabbo, Tindara.................................................... 39 

Addis, Elisabetta...................................................... 39 

Adjudication in Action.............................................. 35 

Advances in Criminology........................................... 6 

Advertising and Cultural Politics in Global Times... 35 

Ahmad, Ali Nobil..................................................... 29 

Ahmed, Jamshed.................................................... 24 

Alessio, John C........................................................ 25 

Alidadi, Katayoun.................................................... 32 

Ališauskiene, Milda................................................. 32 

Allen, Chris............................................................... 22 

American Mythologies............................................... 8 

Anderson, Kevin B................................................... 35 

Anthropological Studies of Creativity 

and Perception................................................ 4 

Apartheid Vertigo....................................................... 27 

Arias-Maldonado, Manuel...................................... 21 

Armstrong, Gary........................................................ 7 

Arrizabalaga, Marie-Pierre...................................... 39 

Arthur, Mikaila Mariel Lemonik.............................. 23 

Arts of Imprisonment, The......................................... 6 

Ashgate Research Companion to Biosocial 

Theories of Crime, The................................... 5 

Ashgate Research Companion 

to Cosmopolitanism, The............................ 27 

Ashgate Research Companion 

to Queer Theory, The.................................... 14 

Askeland, Gurid Aga............................................... 40 

Aupers, Stef.............................................................. 10 

Awan, Imran............................................................... 7 

B 

Bäckström, Anders.................................................. 32 

Bailey, Janis............................................................. 12 

Baker, Dennis J.......................................................... 7 

Balmer, Brian........................................................... 34 

Barnard-Wills, David............................................... 22 

Beaver, Kevin M......................................................... 5 

Beigel, Fernanda...................................................... 36 

Being the Chosen..................................................... 31 

Benediktsson, Karl.................................................... 4 

Berberoglu, Berch................................................... 21 

Bergeron, Henri....................................................... 18 

Berg, Gary A............................................................. 24 

Berry, Bonnie........................................................... 25 

Berry, David.............................................................. 11 

Beynon, John C........................................................ 15 

Beyond Neoliberalism.............................................. 20 

Beyond the Global Capitalist Crisis......................... 21 

Beyond the Resources of Poverty............................ 24 

Bhatia, Vijay K.......................................................... 22 

Bio-Objects............................................................... 33 

Birch, Michael........................................................... 9 

Bjelic, Dušan I.......................................................... 30 

Blackburn, Robert M............................................... 25 

Blakemore, Brian....................................................... 7 

Bohlander, Michael................................................... 5 

Bolen, Jonathan D..................................................... 6 

Bolger, Janine.......................................................... 41 

Bolin, Göran............................................................. 11 

Bondi, Liz.................................................................. 41 

Bönisch-Brednich, Brigitte..................................... 28 

Bonner, Frances....................................................... 10 

Bonvin, Jean-Michel................................................ 39 

Borderías, Cristina................................................... 39 

Bosnian Diaspora, The............................................. 26 

Bouchard, Martin...................................................... 7 

Boyle, Raymond....................................................... 11 

Brabazon, Tara......................................................... 11 

Bradby, Hannah....................................................... 20 

Breen, Keith....................................................... 21, 23 

Brejning, Jeanette................................................... 38 

British-Indian Adult Children of Divorce.................. 41 

British Untouchables............................................... 12 

Broom, Alex.............................................................. 18 

Browne, Kath..................................................... 16, 32 

Buettner, Angi............................................................ 9 

Bulley, Dan............................................................... 21 

Burbank, Victoria....................................................... 2 

Bureaucrat and the Poor.......................................... 38 

Burnett, Judith......................................................... 35 

Butcher, Melissa...................................................... 20 

C 

Caldwell, Ryan Ashley............................................. 13 

Canter, David.............................................................. 7 

Carolan, Michael S............................................ 19, 35 

Carpena-Mendez, Fina............................................ 28 

Carr, David................................................................ 41 

Carson, Dean........................................................... 27 

Castro-Rea, Julián................................................... 30 

Caudill, David S....................................................... 34 

Chalcraft, David....................................................... 37 

Chan, Raymond K.H................................................ 12 

Charles, Casey......................................................... 13 

Cheliotis, Leonidas K................................................. 6 

Childhood and Migration in Europe........................ 28 

Chryssides, George D.............................................. 31 

Church Growth in Britain......................................... 31 

Cities and Society..................................................... 24 

Citizenship and the Legitimacy of Governance......... 3 

Civilized Violence........................................................ 8 

Clark, Chris............................................................... 41 

Clegg, Cecelia.......................................................... 41 

Coaffee, Jon............................................................... 7 

Cohen, Robin........................................................... 26 

Collaboration in the New Life Sciences................... 33 

Collective Imagination, The....................................... 8 

Collectivistic Religions............................................. 31 

Comparative Criminal Justice and Globalization...... 6 

Connelly, Roxanne................................................... 25 

Considering Animals.................................................. 8 

Consumption Challenged.......................................... 8 

Contemporary Social Work Studies.......................... 40 

Conversations With Landscape................................. 4 

Corporate Social Responsibility 

and the Welfare State................................... 38 

Costigan, Sean S....................................................... 8 

Counselling Ideologies............................................. 13 

Cover, Rob................................................................ 16 

Coy, Maddy............................................................... 16 

Crisp, Beth R............................................................ 40 

Critical Queer Studies............................................... 13 

Critical Spirituality.................................................... 41 

Culture, Bodies and the Sociology of Health.......... 18 

Cultures of Economic Migration, The...................... 28 

Cyberspaces and Global Affairs................................. 8 

D 

Das, Chaitali............................................................. 41 

Davie, Grace............................................................. 32 

Davis, Kathy............................................................. 17 

Davy, Zowie............................................................... 19 

Debates in Transgender, Queer, 

and Feminist Theory.................................... 14 

Decentering Biotechnology...................................... 35 

De-Centring Western Sexualities............................. 13 

Decorte, Tom.............................................................. 7 

Deering, John............................................................. 7 

Deese, David A......................................................... 22 

Degavre, Florence.................................................... 39 

Demography at the Edge......................................... 27 

Derrida and the Writing of the Body......................... 13 

Dewey, Larry............................................................. 19 

Dhawan, Nikita........................................................ 14 

Dictionary of Visual Discourse................................... 9 

Directions in Ethnomethodology 

and Conversation Analysis.......................... 35 

Disability Hate Crimes............................................... 5 

Diversity, Standardization and 

Social Transformation................................... 29 

Doan, Petra L........................................................... 17 

Doing Harder Time?.................................................... 5 

Domènech, Miquel.................................................. 33 

Downing, Lisa.......................................................... 14 

Doyle, Julie................................................................. 9 

Drugs and Culture.................................................... 18 

Dubois, Vincent....................................................... 38 

Duggan, Marian....................................................... 16 

Dunk-West, Priscilla................................................ 40 

Dupret, Baudouin.................................................... 35 

Durham, W. Cole, Jr................................................. 31 

E 

Edgardh, Ninna........................................................ 32 

Edwards, Elizabeth.................................................... 4 

Eide, Elisabeth......................................................... 26 

Elliot, Patricia........................................................... 14 

Embodied Food Politics............................................ 19 

Empty Museum, The................................................. 9 

Engel, Antke............................................................. 14 

Ensign, Prescott....................................................... 27 

Eriksen, John............................................................ 39 

Eroglu, Sebnem....................................................... 24 

Ethnicity and Education in England and Europe.... 28 

Ethnic Penalty, The.................................................. 29 

Ethnographies of the Videogame............................... 9 

Ethnomethodology at Work...................................... 35 

Ettorre, Elizabeth..................................................... 18 

European Identity and Culture................................. 28 

Evaluating in Practice............................................... 41 

Evans, Mary.............................................................. 17 

Evans, Tony............................................................... 40 

Evidence-Based Healthcare in Context................... 18 

Experience and Representation............................... 28 

F 

Facebook Democracy................................................ 20 

Fallgirls...................................................................... 13 

Family Configurations.............................................. 12 

Fanning, Bryan......................................................... 29 

Fauser, Margit.......................................................... 26 

Femia, Joseph V....................................................... 37 

Feminist Imagination—Europe and Beyond, The..... 17 

Fitting into Place?..................................................... 14 

Foblets, Marie-Claire............................................... 32 

Framing Intersectionality......................................... 17 

Francis, Dave............................................................ 35 

Fraser, Suzanne........................................................ 18 

Freeman, Carol........................................................... 8 

Friedman, Rebecca.................................................. 28 

Fujita, Kuniko........................................................... 24 

Fussey, Pete................................................................ 7 

G 

Gardner, Fiona.......................................................... 41 

Gaydar Culture............................................................ 9 

Gayle, Vernon........................................................... 25 

Gender and Cosmopolitanism in Europe................ 15 

Gender and Well-Being............................................. 39 

Gender Inequalities, Households and 

the Production of Well-Being 

in Modern Europe......................................... 39 

Gender, Shame and Sexual Violence........................ 14 

Generational Use of New Media.............................. 33 

Generations.............................................................. 35 

Gerhardt, Uta........................................................... 37 

Ghorashi, Halleh...................................................... 26 

Ghuman, Paul.......................................................... 12 

Gibbons, Judith L..................................................... 41 

Giffney, Noreen........................................................ 14 

Gillett, Robert........................................................... 14 

Glaskin, Katie............................................................. 2 

Global Connections.................................................. 20 

Global Islamophobia................................................. 20 

Globalization and International Social Work............ 40 

Globalization and Technocapitalism........................ 21 

Globalization: Causes and Effects........................... 22 

Globalization, Migration and 

Social Transformation................................... 29 

Global Perspectives on War, Gender and Health....... 20 

Gonda, Caroline....................................................... 15 

Goodey, C.F............................................................... 18 

Goodhew, David....................................................... 31 

Guarding Against Crime............................................ 5 

Guillén, Ana Marta................................................... 38 

Günther, Klaus......................................................... 35 

Gupta, Suman.......................................................... 28 

Guy-Bray, Stephen................................................... 14 

H 

Haddon, Leslie......................................................... 33 

Hafford-Letchfield, Trish.......................................... 40 

Hafner, Christoph A................................................. 22 

Halikiopoulou, Daphne........................................... 31 

Halkier, Bente............................................................. 8 

Hansen-Miller, David................................................. 8 

Hardy, Kate............................................................... 15 

Harris, Bernard........................................................ 39 

Hasmath, Reza................................................... 26, 29 

Hazan, Haim.............................................................. 2 

Heaven’s Gate.......................................................... 31 

Hegemony and Heteronormativity.......................... 14 


ASHGATE

Index 

Hertzog, Esther.......................................................... 2 

Hester, Stephen....................................................... 35 

Hidden Order of Corruption, The................................ 6 

History of Intelligence and 

‘Intellectual Disability,’ A............................. 18 

Hobbs, Dick................................................................ 7 

Hoeve, Machteld........................................................ 7 

Hoff, Andreas........................................................... 38 

Holmes, Dave........................................................... 19 

Holocaust Images and Picturing Catastrophe.......... 9 

Holsinger, Kristi....................................................... 25 

Holton, Robert.......................................................... 20 

Hossain, Abul........................................................... 24 

Hothersall, Steve...................................................... 41 

Houtman, Dick......................................................... 10 

Hundt, Gillian Lewando........................................... 20 

Hunter-Henin, Myriam............................................ 30 

Hunt, Geoffrey.......................................................... 18 

Huq, Sayeedul.......................................................... 24 

Huskey, Lee.............................................................. 27 

I 

Imrie, Rob................................................................. 22 

Ingold, Tim.................................................................. 4 

Institutionalizing Agonistic Democracy.................. 21 

Intercountry Adoption.............................................. 41 

Iosifides, Theodoros................................................ 30 

Irwin, Jones.............................................................. 13 

Islam, Europe and Emerging Legal Issues.............. 31 

J 

Jacobsen, Knut A.................................................... 32 

Jacobs, Keith........................................................... 28 

Jakelic, Slavica......................................................... 31 

Jakubowska, Longina................................................ 2 

Joerges, Christian.................................................... 35 

Johansen, Helene.................................................... 22 

Johnson, Carol......................................................... 15 

Johnston, Hank........................................................ 23 

Jones, Julie Scott..................................................... 31 

Jordan, Lucy............................................................. 40 

Jürgen Habermas, Volumes I and II........................ 35 

Jury Psychology: Social Aspects of Trial Processes....... 5 

K 

Kalberg, Stephen..................................................... 37 

Karl Marx................................................................... 35 

Karner, Christian...................................................... 27 

Kattago, Siobhan..................................................... 22 

Kauppi, Niilo............................................................ 36 

Kazepov, Yuri............................................................ 38 

Kelly, Lisa W............................................................. 11 

Kemper, Theodore D................................................ 36 

Kershen, Anne J...................................................... 28 

Kingston, Sarah....................................................... 15 

Kirkham, David M.................................................... 31 

Knowledge Business, The........................................ 22 

Koch, Max................................................................ 29 

Koster, Willem de..................................................... 10 

Krase, Jerome............................................................ 3 

Krauss, Daniel A........................................................ 5 

Kulpa, Robert........................................................... 13 

L 

Laan, Peter van der.................................................... 7 

Lambert, Paul........................................................... 25 

Laoire, Caitríona Ní.................................................. 28 

Larsson, Göran......................................................... 10 

Law, Ian .................................................................... 28 

Law, Religious Freedoms and Education 

in Europe...................................................... 30 

Lazaridis, Gabriella.................................................. 27 

Leane, Elizabeth......................................................... 8 

León, Margarita........................................................ 38 

Lesbian and Gay Movement and the State, The..... 15 

Lesbian Dames......................................................... 15 

Lidz, Victor................................................................ 36 

Lieberman, Joel D...................................................... 5 

Linjakumpu, Aini...................................................... 10 

Lobo, Michele........................................................... 29 

Local Lives................................................................. 28 

Locke, Simon........................................................... 35 

Loeber, Rolf................................................................. 7 

Loos, Eugène............................................................ 33 

Loss of Control and Diminished Responsibility........ 5 

Low-Income Students and the 

Perpetuation of Inequality............................ 24 

Lund, Katrín Anna..................................................... 4 

Lutz, Helma.............................................................. 17 

M 

Machado, Helena...................................................... 7 

Making Disease, Making Citizens........................... 18 

Maloutas, Thomas................................................... 24 

Managing Cultural Change..................................... 20 

Managing Ethnic Diversity...................................... 26 

Mann, Natalie............................................................ 5 

Mansouri, Fethi........................................................ 29 

Mante-Meijer, Enid................................................... 33 

Marichal, José.......................................................... 20 

Marques, Cesar Leão.............................................. 24 

Marshall, Alasdair J................................................. 37 

Mary Wollstonecraft.................................................. 15 

Masculinity, Sexuality and Illegal Migration............ 29 

Matsinhe, David M.................................................. 27 

Mattoni, Alice........................................................... 22 

Max Weber’s Comparative-Historical 

Sociology Today............................................ 37 

McDonald, Paula..................................................... 12 

McManus, Susan.................................................... 21 

McMillan, Lesley...................................................... 29 

Media in Motion....................................................... 26 

Media Practices and Protest Politics........................ 22 

Mediating Climate Change........................................ 9 

Mediating Mental Health........................................... 9 

Medical Proofs, Social Experiments......................... 19 

Memory and Representation 

in Contemporary Europe.............................. 22 

Migrants and Cities.................................................. 26 

Migration and its Enemies....................................... 26 

Migration, Citizenship and Intercultural Relations..... 29 

Milhet, Maitena........................................................ 18 

Miller, Lindsay.......................................................... 22 

Mizieliñska, Joanna................................................. 13 

Mobilization Series on Social Movements, 

Protest, and Culture, The............................. 23 

Moghissi, Haideh..................................................... 26 

Moon, Lyndsey......................................................... 13 

Moore, Jane............................................................. 15 

Moreira, Tiago.......................................................... 19 

Morgan, George....................................................... 20 

Morishita, Masaaki.................................................... 9 

Mortality, Mourning and Mortuary Practices 

in Indigenous Australia.................................. 2 

Morton, Christopher.................................................. 4 

Mowlabocus, Sharif................................................... 9 

Munt, Sally R............................................................ 32 

Murphy, Peter............................................................. 8 

Muslim Diaspora in the West.................................. 26 

Muslims and the New Media.................................. 10 

Myrvold, Kristina...................................................... 32 

N 

Nardizzi, Vin............................................................. 14 

Nash, Catherine J.................................................... 16 

Nazimud-Doula, Shah............................................. 24 

Negotiating National Identities............................... 27 

Nelken, David............................................................. 6 

Networks and National Security................................ 6 

Neurobiology of Criminal Behavior, The.................... 6 

New Environmentalism?, The................................... 3 

New Sociologies of Sex Work.................................... 15 

New Technologies and Emerging Spaces of Care....... 33 

Nikunen, Kaarina..................................................... 26 

Normalizing the Balkans......................................... 30 

Nowicka, Magdalena............................................... 27 

O 

Odih, Pamela........................................................... 35 

O’Leary, Patrick........................................................ 40 

Ollman, Bertell......................................................... 35 

Omoniyi, Tope........................................................... 28 

Opportunities and Deprivation 

in the Urban South...................................... 24 

O’Rourke, Michael................................................... 14 

Our North America................................................... 30 

Owens, Alastair........................................................ 39 

P 

Pace, Enzo................................................................ 32 

Palidda, Salvatore...................................................... 6 

Paradoxes of Individualization.................................. 10 

Pardo, Italo................................................................. 3 

Parker, John N.......................................................... 33 

Paternotte, David..................................................... 15 

Patrons of History...................................................... 2 

Patterns of Secularization......................................... 31 

Payne, Malcolm....................................................... 40 

Peña, Manuel............................................................. 8 

Penders, Bart........................................................... 33 

Peper, Bram.............................................................. 29 

Perron, Amélie......................................................... 19 

Perry, Jake.................................................................. 8 

Persisters and Desisters in Crime from 

Adolescence into Adulthood.......................... 7 

Personality Presenters.............................................. 10 

Petras, James.......................................................... 20 

Pettersson, Per......................................................... 32 

Photography, Anthropology and History................... 4 

Pickvance, Chris...................................................... 24 

Pini, Barbara............................................................ 12 

Places of the Imagination........................................ 10 

Policing Cyber Hate, Cyber Threats 

and Cyber Terrorism....................................... 7 

Politics of Academic Autonomy 

in Latin America, The................................... 36 

Politics of Misrecognition, The................................. 21 

Population Ageing in Central and Eastern Europe..... 38 

Porta, Donatella della................................................ 6 

Potter, Gary................................................................. 7 

Poverty Among Older People and Pensions 

Policy in the EU............................................ 38 

Povey, Tara................................................................ 23 

Poynting, Scott......................................................... 20 

Practice and Research.............................................. 40 

Prainsack, Barbara.................................................... 7 

Prato, Giuliana B........................................................ 3 

Price, Robin.............................................................. 12 

Principles of Geographical Offender Profiling............. 7 

Probation Practice and the New Penology................. 7 

Professional Discretion in Welfare Services............. 40 

Progress or Perish..................................................... 10 

Prostitution, Harm and Gender Inequality.............. 16 

Q 

Qualitative Methods in Migration Studies.............. 30 

Queer Company........................................................ 16 

Queer in Europe........................................................ 14 

Queering Conflict...................................................... 16 

Queer Interventions................................................. 14 

Queer Methods and Methodologies........................ 16 

Queer Renaissance Historiography......................... 14 

Queer Spiritual Spaces............................................. 32 

Queerying Planning................................................. 17 

Queer Youth Suicide, Culture and Identity.............. 16 

R 

Racial Criminalization of Migrants 

in the 21st Century........................................ 6 

Radical Human Ecology............................................. 2 

Radicalism in French Culture................................... 36 

Ramet, Sabrina P..................................................... 26 

Rasmussen, Rasmus Ole........................................ 27 

Read, Rupert............................................................ 34 

Real Green................................................................. 21 

Recognizing Transsexuals........................................ 19 

Re-crafting Rationalization....................................... 35 

Red, Black, and Objective......................................... 34 

Redrawing Anthropology............................................ 4 

Reed, Alan.................................................................. 5 

Reframing the Social................................................ 36 

Regulating Marriage Migration into the UK............ 30 

Reijnders, Stijn......................................................... 10 

Relational Political Marketing in 

Party-Centred Democracies......................... 22 

Religion as Communication.................................... 32 

Religious Diversity in Post-Soviet Society................ 32 

Remaking Community?........................................... 38 

Renom, Mercè......................................................... 39 

Reproductive Health and Gender Equality.............. 19 

Repudiating Feminism............................................. 17 

Rescaling Social Policies towards Multilevel 

Governance in Europe.................................. 38 

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Index 

44 

Research in Migration and Ethnic 

Relations Series............................................ 26 

Residential Segregation in 

Comparative Perspective.............................. 24 

Restivo, Sal............................................................... 34 

(Re)Thinking Violence in Health Care Settings........ 19 

Rethinking Classical Sociology................................ 37 

Rethinking Class in Russia...................................... 10 

Re-Thinking Men....................................................... 17 

Rethinking Political and International Theory......... 21 

Revisiting the Frankfurt School................................ 11 

Reynald, Danielle M.................................................. 5 

Rezawana, Nahid..................................................... 24 

Rhetoric of Racist Humour, The............................... 30 

Right Not to be Criminalized, The.............................. 7 

Risk and Public Policy in East Asia.......................... 12 

Ritual ........................................................................ 4 

Roberts, Rose............................................................. 2 

Rostami-Povey, Elaheh............................................ 23 

Rotabi, Karen Smith................................................ 41 

Rouncefield, Mark................................................... 35 

Rovisco, Maria......................................................... 27 

Rudge, Trudy............................................................ 19 

Rumens, Nick.......................................................... 16 

S 

Salmenniemi, Suvi................................................... 10 

Sanders, Teela.......................................................... 15 

Sandywell, Barry........................................................ 9 

Scharff, Christina..................................................... 17 

Schillmeier, Michael................................................ 33 

Schröder, Ingo W..................................................... 32 

Scott, Christine........................................................ 31 

Secrecy and Science................................................. 34 

Securing and Sustaining the Olympic City............... 7 

Security, Insecurity and Migration in Europe.......... 27 

Seear, Kate............................................................... 18 

Seeing Cities Change................................................. 3 

Seferiades, Seraphim.............................................. 23 

Serendipity in Anthropological Research.................. 2 

Sexual Identities and Sexuality in Social Work......... 40 

Sharratt, Sara........................................................... 14 

Shaw, Ian F.......................................................... 40, 41 

Sherry, Mark............................................................... 5 

Siddique, Kaniz........................................................ 24 

Siddiqui, Kamal....................................................... 24 

Sikhs in Europe......................................................... 32 

Six-Hohenbalken, Maria............................................ 2 

Slot, N. Wim............................................................... 7 

Social Formation in Dhaka, 1985–2005................... 24 

Social Fund 20 Years On, The................................... 38 

Social Policy for Social Work, Social Care 

and the Caring Professions......................... 41 

Social Problems and Inequality................................ 25 

Social Stratification................................................... 25 

Social Thought of Talcott Parsons, The.................... 37 

Solving Social Problems........................................... 25 

Spanish Welfare State in European Context, The.......38 

Spirituality and Social Work...................................... 40 

Status, Power and Ritual Interaction....................... 36 

Stewart, Jon............................................................. 37 

Stewart, Pamela J...................................................... 4 

Stockton, Will........................................................... 14 

Stories About Science in Law................................... 34 

Stranger, Mark......................................................... 11 

Strathern, Andrew..................................................... 4 

Student Activism and Curricular Change 

in Higher Education..................................... 23 

Studies in Migration and Diaspora.......................... 28 

Suarez-Villa, Luis...................................................... 21 

Supik, Linda............................................................. 17 

Surfing Life................................................................ 11 

Surveillance and Identity.......................................... 22 

Swann, Sarah........................................................... 28 

Synnott, Anthony..................................................... 17 

T 

Takahashi, Mutsuko................................................. 12 

Tamminen, Sakari.................................................... 33 

Taylor, Andrew.......................................................... 27 

Taylor, Yvette............................................................. 14 

Teaching Justice....................................................... 25 

Television Entrepreneurs, The.................................. 11 

Test of Faith?, A......................................................... 32 

Thiel, Markus............................................................ 28 

Thompson, Simon................................................... 21 

Thornham, Helen....................................................... 9 

Tolmie, Peter............................................................. 35 

Tonkinson, Myrna....................................................... 2 

Torfs, Rik................................................................... 31 

Torsello, Davide.......................................................... 3 

Towards Professional Wisdom................................. 41 

Tracing Technologies.................................................. 7 

Transatlantic Conversations.................................... 17 

Transforming Gendered Well-Being in Europe......... 39 

Transgressive Bodies................................................ 11 

Transparency, Power, and Control............................ 22 

Tremblay, Manon..................................................... 15 

Trundle, Catherine................................................... 28 

Tyrrell, Naomi........................................................... 28 

U 

Under Weber’s Shadow............................................ 23 

Ungureanu, Camil................................................... 35 

University of Google, The......................................... 11 

Urban Anthropology................................................... 3 

V 

Valenta, Marko......................................................... 26 

Value and the Media................................................. 11 

Vannucci, Alberto...................................................... 6 

Varela, María do Mar Castro................................... 14 

Veltmeyer, Henry...................................................... 20 

Vergunst, Jo Lee........................................................ 4 

Verkuyten, Maykel.................................................... 26 

Vermeulen, Niki........................................................ 33 

Vieten, Ulrike M........................................................ 15 

Vilfredo Pareto........................................................... 37 

Violence Expressed..................................................... 2 

Violent Protest, Contentious Politics, 

and the Neoliberal State.............................. 23 

Vivar, Maria Teresa Herrera..................................... 17 

Volume 14: Kierkegaard’s Influence 

on Social-Political Thought.......................... 37 

Vrielink, Jogchum.................................................... 32 

W 

Wagner, Anne........................................................... 22 

Wallace, Andrew...................................................... 38 

Wallenius-Korkalo, Sandra..................................... 10 

Walsh, Anthony...................................................... 5, 6 

Wang, Guang-zhen.................................................. 19 

Wang, Lillian Lih-rong............................................. 12 

Wan, Poe Yu-ze......................................................... 36 

War and Redemption................................................ 19 

Watt, Yvette................................................................. 8 

Ways of Walking.......................................................... 4 

Weaver, Simon......................................................... 30 

Webster, Andrew...................................................... 33 

Welfare and Religion in 21st Century Europe.......... 32 

Whelan, Chad............................................................ 6 

White, Allen.............................................................. 28 

Widmer, Eric D......................................................... 12 

Will, Catherine......................................................... 19 

Williams, Lewis.......................................................... 2 

Wingenbach, Ed...................................................... 21 

Wittgenstein among the Sciences........................... 34 

Women, Power and Politics in 21st Century Iran..... 23 

Woodward, Alison E................................................ 39 

World Wide Weed......................................................... 7 

Wray, Helena............................................................ 30 

Y 

Yar, Majid.................................................................. 21 

Yip, Andrew K.T........................................................ 32 

Young People and Work............................................ 12 

Youngs, Donna........................................................... 7 

Z 

Zaidi, Asghar............................................................ 38 

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