Polity

The steady rise of Clint Eastwood’s career parallels a pressing desire in American society over the past five decades for a figure and story of pur...

The steady rise of Clint Eastwood’s career parallels a pressing desire in American society over the past five decades for a figure and story of pur...

Undergraduate and postgraduate students in education, sociology and gender studies, as well as the general reader with an interest in education or ...

Undergraduate and postgraduate students in education, sociology and gender studies, as well as the general reader with an interest in education or ...

In virtually all the countries of the world, men, and to a lesser extent women, are today dressed in very similar clothing. This book gives a compe...

In virtually all the countries of the world, men, and to a lesser extent women, are today dressed in very similar clothing. This book gives a compe...

By making available the almost unlimited energy stored in prehistoric plant matter, coal enabled the industrial age – and it still does. Coal today...

By making available the almost unlimited energy stored in prehistoric plant matter, coal enabled the industrial age – and it still does. Coal today...

Chocolate has long been a favorite indulgence. But behind every chocolate bar we unwrap, there is a world of power struggles and political maneuver...

Chocolate has long been a favorite indulgence. But behind every chocolate bar we unwrap, there is a world of power struggles and political maneuver...

This book examines the key institutional structures and processes of modernity. Combining historical insight with sustained political and social an...

In a world of high finance, unprecedented technological change, and cyber billionaires, it is easy to forget that a major source of global wealth i...

In a world of high finance, unprecedented technological change, and cyber billionaires, it is easy to forget that a major source of global wealth i...

We live in a time of transition, argues Yann Moulier Boutang. But the irony is that this is not a transition to a new type of society called ‘socia...

We live in a time of transition, argues Yann Moulier Boutang. But the irony is that this is not a transition to a new type of society called ‘socia...

It is commonly assumed that capitalism has created an a-emotional world dominated by bureaucratic rationality; that economic behavior conflicts wit...

It is commonly assumed that capitalism has created an a-emotional world dominated by bureaucratic rationality; that economic behavior conflicts wit...

The term ‘collateral damage' has recently been added to the vocabulary of military forces to refer to the unintended consequences of armed interven...

The term ‘collateral damage' has recently been added to the vocabulary of military forces to refer to the unintended consequences of armed interven...

Colonial Trauma is a path-breaking account of the psychosocial effects of colonial domination. Following the work of Frantz Fanon, Lazali draws on ...

Colonial Trauma is a path-breaking account of the psychosocial effects of colonial domination. Following the work of Frantz Fanon, Lazali draws on ...

Modern society emerged in the context of European colonialism and empire. So, too, did a distinctively modern social theory, laying the basis for m...

Modern society emerged in the context of European colonialism and empire. So, too, did a distinctively modern social theory, laying the basis for m...

This book explores the perceptions of colonized populations that have developed over the course of European expansion and critically assesses diffe...