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Exoskeletal Devices and the Body
This book enquires from a sociological perspective into contemporary corporeal transformations brought about by exoskeletal devices.Challenging material boundaries of human bodies, …
Universities and Academic Labour in Times of Digitalisation and Precarisation
This book provides a critical perspective on the digitalisation of universities and precarisation of academic labour.While research and teaching become more virtual and digital at …
Social Protection Programmes
This book deals with social protection programmes targeted to people trafficked for the scope of sexual exploitation. It provides empirical evidence on the N.A.Ve programme, in the …
Governing Families
This book provides a focused discussion of how families are governed through technologies. It shows how states attempt to influence, shape and govern families as both the source of …
Philanthropy, Art and Society
Philanthropy, Art and Society sets up, for the first time, the field of arts philanthropy in the UK, shedding light on the variety of ways in which individuals and organisations …
The Experience and Fear of Violence in the Public Realm
This book explores violent and discriminatory values and beliefs and their interconnectedness between societal echelons. Violence has a foundation and a context. It comes from …
Towards a Sociology of Selfies
This book examines selfies as a relational and processual networked social practice, performed between people within digital contexts and that involve online/offline intersections …
Will Schooling Ever Change?
This book is an insightful meta-narrative about schooling which explores the global natural experiment of the COVID-19 pandemic and its potential impact on school culture.The …
Giddens and Castells
This book is the first to critically compare Giddens and Castells, two of the leading social theorists. By reviewing key themes and central dynamics in their work, Chaffee …
The Politics of the Elite
This book is a study of class formation at the top of the social hierarchies during the turbulent and changing early twenty-first century. Contrary to perceptions that privileged …
Migrant Entrepreneurs in the Urban Economy
Researching the Powerful
This book exemplifies the "public sociology" approach to sociological research popularised by Michael Burawoy, showcasing how an approach that focuses on the powerful can bring new …