1. Introduction -- 2. Bourdieu’s intellectual biography -- 3. Classical and Modern Theories of the State -- 4. Bourdieu’s theory of the state -- 5. The Field of Power -- 6. State formation -- 7. An Assessment of Bourdieu’s theory of the State -- 8. Conclusion. .This book critically examines Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of the state by assessing its theoretical and empirical value. Steven Lo…
Introduction: Setting out on a Journey -- 1. Royal Dynasties -- 2. Noble Dynasties -- 3. Entrepreneurial Dynasties -- 4. The Learned -- 5. Artists -- 6. Statuses on the Move -- 7. Afterthoughts.This book takes a novel approach to family, exploring in detail how status is inherited and maintained within families; the process of upward social mobility; and how the roots of social decline start wi…
1. Introduction: The Anthropology of Sustainability -- 2. Anthropology at the Time of the Anthropocene: A Personal View of What is to be Studied -- 3. A Threat to Holocene Resurgence is a Threat to Livability -- 4. What can Sustainability do for Anthropology? -- 5. Interlude: Perceiving Human Nature through Imagined Non-Human Situations -- 6. “They call it Shangri-La”: Sustainable Con…
1. Why a politics of listening? -- 2. They only listen when we bash our culture.-3.‘We are only remembered when we riot’ -- 4. Creative Alternatives -- 5. Listening as Solidarity -- 6. Conclusion. .This book explores listening as a social and political practice, in contrast to the more common focus on voice and speaking. The author draws on cases from Canada, France and the United Kingdom, …
1. Struggling for the Right to be Recognized -- 2. The Right to Adequate Housing Following Forced Evictions in Post-Conflict Colombo, Sri Lanka -- 3. Unsettling Resettlements -- 4. “It Felt Like You Were at a War” -- 5. Domicide and the Coalition --
1. The logics and legacy of Soviet racialization -- 2. Racisms in the Baltic states: exclusive nations (with Minna Harjo) -- 3. Racialisation in Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine (with Aliaksei Lastouski) -- 4. Racisms in the Southern Caucasus: multiple configurations -- 5. Central Asian Racisms (with Maya Shmidt) -- 6. Post-Soviet trajectories of race and racism, an end note.This book is novel not …
Introduction: The Subterranean Stream -- 1. Communicative Capitalism and Call Centre Labour -- 2. Labour's Resistance in the Call Centre -- 3. The Making of the Call Centre Cybertariat -- 4. The Migration of Struggle -- 5. The Organization of Autonomy -- 6. The Making and the Unmaking of the Global Call Centre Workforce.This book examines the striking rise of call centres over the past quarter …
1. Introduction -- 2. Class Matters -- 3. Education, Social Mobility and the Enduring Nature of Class -- 4. Young People, Work and Social Class -- 5. Youth, Class and Intersectionality -- 6. Towards a Research Agenda for Youth Studies.This book addresses the recent marginalisation of class theory in youth sociology. The authors argue for the importance of reinstating class analysis as central t…
Introduction -- 1. The New Eastern European Immigrants in the United States: An Overview -- 2. Theorizing the Adaptation of New Eastern European Immigrants -- 3. Cultural Adaptation -- 4. Socioeconomic Adaptation -- 5. Structural Adaptation -- 6. Political Adaptation -- 7. Conclusion. .This book deftly extends previous research on post-1965 immigration to the United States in order to examine t…
1. Introduction: Capitalist-modernity in question -- 2. The Rise of Vampire Capitalism (and not a slayer in sight) -- 3.The Roots of Vampire Capitalism -- 4. Living with twenty-first century capitalism -- 5. The Juggernaut of science and technology: friend or foe? -- 6. Individualization and the cultures of capitalism -- 7. Global capitalism and the biosphere: Our future in jeopardy -- 8. Does …