Books in the New Approaches in Sociology series

Examines the institutional racism and language discrimination that Black Francophones - who constitute a racial minority situated within a linguistic minority - face and identifies the strategies of resistance Black Francophones invent to gain access to power structures. This book deals with immigration, race and anti-racism, gender, and others.

Examining the reform of the judicial system in twentieth century Iran, this book helps readers to understand Iranian modern history as well as the democratization process, human rights and rule of law issues in the Middle East.

Through an examination of the Chicago Initiative, this book analyzes how elite philanthropists exercise social control over community organizations that do work in poor neighbourhoods. It investigates how community-based organizations strategically attempt to assert influence over foundation funding priorities.

Presents a daily life study of undocumented immigrants and the transnational analysis of Honduran families. This book investigates how transnationalism works as a survival strategy in which families use the difference in living costs between Honduras and the United States to support household consumption.

Examines the emergence of home-based women workers as paradigmatic figures of contemporary capitalism, neoliberal governmentality, and socio-political contestation. This book talks about home-based work that constitutes an enormous arena of "invisible" social and political struggles of subaltern and ethno-racially subordinated women.

Using mechanism-based social-movement theory, this book explores a range of twentieth-century episodes of contention, involving such groups as mid-century communists, the Black Panther Party, the American Indian Movement, and the modern-day globalization movement.

Through careful ethnography and rich in-depth interviews at a non-profit foster family agency, this book takes a look behind the scenes of the troubled US foster care system.

A rule was passed that non-heterosexual United Methodist ministers must be celibate. The UMC has forbidden the funding of any program or organization 'supporting' homosexuality. These policies have been met with significant resistance by those fighting for GLBT inclusion. This book analyzing both sides of this divisive debate.

Combining discourse and comparative historical methods of analysis, this book explores how colonialists and anti-colonialists renegotiated transnational power relationships within the debates on decolonization in the United Nations from 1946-1960.

In exploring the knowledge arising from activist praxis and its significance for reimagining radical and democratic politics, this book attempts to break theoretical and methodological ground in social movement studies.

Detailing the experiences of migrant and transgendered streetwalkers and window prostitutes in The Netherlands, this ethnographic account explores the meaning sex-workers give to their work and personal lives.

Offers an insider's viewpoint of the lived experience of brain injury. This book uses a cross-disciplinary theoretical approach drawing upon the social and medical models of disability and combining them with lessons from feminism, queen theory, postcolonial and postmodern literature to frame a narrative about the experience of brain injury.

This qualitative study captures the dynamics and interdependence of the gay, lesbian, and bisexual movement and the Christian right as they engaged in a struggle over an antigay initiative in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Presents the study of domestic labour since South Africa's post-apartheid transition. Drawing on a fieldwork, this research offers diverse perspectives on the race, class and gender divides that remain integral to social relations in the context of national transition. It also details women's collective agency exploring the social policy change.