1. Introduction -- 2. Popular Culture and the Sociology of Fame -- 3. The Life and Times of Lady Gaga -- 4. The Business of Lady Gaga -- 5. The Laws of Lady Gaga -- 6. Gaga Media: From Internet to Radio -- 7. The Audience of Lady Gaga: Beyond the Little Monsters -- 8. Gaga Activism: The New Ethics of Pop Culture -- 9. The Sex of Lady Gaga -- 10. Art Pop: The Styles of Lady Gaga -- 11. Conclusio…
1. Introduction: Assembling Neoliberalism -- 2. Neoliberalism and Rule by Experts -- 3. Assuming Everything Except Responsibility: Can We Blame Economists for Neoliberalism? -- 4. Assembling Climate Expertise: Carbon Markets, Neoliberalism and Science -- 5. The Politics of Expertise: Neoliberalism, Governance, and the Practice of Politics -- 6. Assembling Citizenship in Austere Times -- 7. (Re)…
Introduction: Instigators of Interactionism – A Short Introduction to Interactionism in Sociology; Michael Hviid Jacobsen -- Chapter 1: Georg Simmel – Interactionist Before Symbolic Interactionism?; Greg Smith -- Chapter 2: Robert E. Park – A Precursor to Interactionism; Suzie Guth -- Chapter 3: George Herbert Mead – The Evolution of Mind, Self and Society through Interaction; Antony J.…
Introduction -- Part I. Affect, Performance and the Neoliberal State -- Chapter 1. The Affective Performance of State Love; Sue-Ellen Case -- Chapter 2. ‘Not Now, Not Ever’; Denise Varney -- Chapter 3. Performing Sovereignty against Jurisprudential Death in an Australian State of Exception; Sandra D’urso -- Chapter 4. Imagining Love in a Neoliberal Japan; Nobuko Anan -- Chapter 5. Nisti S…
1: Myths and Histories of Italian Sociology -- 2: The Post-War Period: ‘Inventing’ Sociology in Italy -- 3: The Hubs of Newborn Sociology -- 4: The Dream of Institutionalization -- 5: A Fascinating and Precarious Project: Sociology in Trento -- 6: After ’68: A New Generation of Sociologists -- 7: Entrenchment and the Emergence of New Structures -- 8: Routinization and Globalization: the 1…
Introduction -- PART I: HOW TO ASSESS COMPLIANCE WITH THE TRIPS AGREEMENT: CONCEPTS AND METHODS -- The Concept of Compliance -- The TRIPS Agreement: Developing Global Rules for Intellectual Property Protection -- A Framework for Assessing Compliance with the TRIPS Agreement -- PART II: ASSESSING COMPLIANCE WITH THE TRIPS AGREEMENT IN CHINA -- Implementing the TRIPS Agreement in China -- Assessi…
Section One: Contextualising the Significance of the Irish Case -- Chapter 1. The Disappearing of Hate Crime in the Irish Criminal Justice Process -- Chapter 2. Acknowledgement, Recognition and Response -- Chapter 3. Ireland in a Global Context -- Chapter 4. Ireland in Comparative Context -- Section Two: Targets of Hate -- Chapter 5. LGB and T? -- Chapter 6. Transphobic Hate Crime -- Chapter 7.…
Location Theory and the Ordered Median Function -- Mathematical Properties of the Ordered Median Function -- The Continuous Ordered Median Location Problem -- The Continuous Ordered Median Problem -- Bisectors -- The Single Facility Ordered Median Problem -- Multicriteria Ordered Median Problems -- Extensions of the Continuous Ordered Median Problem -- Ordered Median Location Problems on Networ…
Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction (Stefan Beck, Frank Klobes and Christoph Scherrer) -- 2. Can Germany Learn from the USA? (Christoph Scherrer) -- 3. After the Miracle (Stefan Beck) -- 4. The Dynamics of Industrial Restructuring (Frank Klobes) -- 5. The German Way (Michael Fichter) -- 6. Disentangling Deutschland AG (Christian Kellermann) -- 7. Transforming the Welfare State (Kai Mosebach) --…
Piotr Tolstoi: a travel diary -- Fonvizin: letters from foreign journeys -- Karamzin: The Letters of a Russian Traveller -- Pogodin: A Year in Foreign Lands -- Botkin: Letters on Spain -- Herzen: Letters from France and Italy -- Dostoevskii: Winter Notes on Summer Impressions -- Saltykov-Shchedrin: Across the Border.Journeys to a Graveyard examines the descriptions provided by eight Russian wri…