Books in the Routledge Advances in Sociology series

This volume gathers scholars from a range of disciplines - including sociology, philosophy, theology, law, genetics, gender studies, and history - to explore the conceptual fields related to concepts of "identity," as well as empirical aspects of "identities." It demonstrates how "identities," imagined or real, are challenging cultural traditions and national formations.

Bourdieusian Prospects contributes to scholarship on Bourdieusian sociology, bringing it face to face with other theoretical developments in a changing empirical world. Contributors ask what the contours of future Bourdieusian social theory might look like and begin to map this out, both travelling alongside and breaking with Bourdieu in the process.

How do we remember and make sense of our collective pasts? Recent answers have revealed deep fissures within the theoretical landscape of memory studies. Grappling with the issues of social differentiation and forgetting, this book seeks to bridge these gaps by focusing on the uncharted futuristic terrain of social memories.

This book examines how political and economic crises in the present trigger a selective forgetting and remodelling of the past. Leading European scholars intervene in debates on migration, multiculturalism and postcoloniality, showing how new regimes of historiography and memory culture reflect emerging patterns of discrimination and social segmentation in today¿s European societies.

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This volume is the starting point for rendering contemporary practice theory approaches useful for the analysis of political events and processes in a broader framework. The contributions in this volume demonstrate that praxeological research addresses issues of broad societal concern, beyond the formal policy sphere.

(Sub)Urban Sexscapes presents a mix of geographical, sociological, urban planning and legal viewpoints of the commercial sex industry - sex shops, strip clubs, gentlemen's clubs, brothels and sex workers. The collection showcases contemporary and historical examples of the location, impacts and regulation of commercial sex industry activities in the USA, UK, Australia and Morocco.

This book is a critical contribution to the understanding of the phenomena of migration and ethnicity, from a Swedish vantage point looking outwards towards a European context. It presents current academic debates and gives a theoretical overview of nine key concepts in the field of ethnic and migrations studies, but it also exemplifies how these concepts could be used in analysing specific empirical cases. It explores the following concepts: ethnicity; migration diaspora; citizenship; intersectionality; racism; right wing populism; social exclusion; and informalisation.

The book shows how the Roma are a mirror of Europe¿s open border policy and identity dilemmas. It combines historical and ethnographic methods with insights from migration studies, drawing on a unique multi-site collaborative project that for the first time gave Roma participants a voice in shaping research into their communities.

This book attends to the importance of 'the live' in contemporary social and political life. With case study examples, Lambert successfully demonstrates the diverse ways in which art can provide the aesthetic and affective conditions for social and political disruption.

This book examines how qualities of place and their sensuous reorganisation elucidate particular sociocultural expressions and practices in urban life. The collection illuminates how urban environments are distinguished, valued, or reconfigured with the senses as media for evaluating authentic spaces and places that endure and change over time.