A Theory of Catastrophe

Bryan S Turner

• Paperback | Engels | de Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 19
• Sociology has developed theories of social change in the fields of evolution, conflict and modernization, viewing modern society as essentially unstab... Lees meer

Navigating the News

Stina Bengtsson, Sofia Johansson

• Paperback | Engels | de Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 46
• News today is a genre "in flux". New kinds of news producers and novel means of distributing, sharing and using news align with alternative ways of un... Lees meer

Environmental Injustice and Catastrophe

• Hardcover | Engels | de Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 24
• Environmental Injustice and Catastrophe meticulously explores key global security issues that pose severe threats to the future of humanity and the pl... Lees meer

Russia's Hybrid Warfare Offensive Against the West

Kristan Stoddart

• Hardcover | Engels | de Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 55
• This book is a timely and systematic analysis of Russian hybrid warfare with a particular focus on Russian cyberespionage and cyberwarfare. It especia... Lees meer

The Rise and Fall of Greater Syria

Carl C Yonker

• Paperback | Engels | de Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 1
• The Syrian Social Nationalist Party devoted itself to reviving and unifying the Syrian nation and establishing this nation's complete independence ove... Lees meer

Multidimensional Inequalities

Bent Greve

• Hardcover | Engels | de Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 4
• Multidimensional Inequalities is a deep dive into the historical contexts and contemporary realities that negatively influence society and its structu... Lees meer

Monocratic Government

Fortunato Musella

• Paperback | Engels | de Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 8
• Personalisation is the most relevant political phenomenon of our time. After the decline of structural and ideological foundations of Western democrac... Lees meer

Authoritarian Liberal Surveillance and the Covid-19 Pandemic

Alexei Anisin

• Paperback | Engels | de Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 25
• From QR codes to stay-at-home orders and mask mandates, the pandemic posed intriguing questions about the nature of political power in a time that is ... Lees meer

The Affective Agency of Public Space

Asma Mehan

• Hardcover | Engels | de Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 22
• The Affective Agency of Public Space explores the pivotal role that public spaces play in fostering social inclusion and community cohesion within var... Lees meer

The Tragedy of Ukraine

Nicolai N Petro

• Paperback | Engels | de Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 9
• The conflict in Ukraine has deep domestic roots. A third of the population, primarily in the East and South, regards its own Russian cultural identity... Lees meer

Watching Women

Sarah Kornfield

• Hardcover | Engels | de Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 40
• The women on television series are spectacularly feminine. They are the most beautiful doctors, lawyers, detectives, scientists, queens, fashion-write... Lees meer

An Intimate Relationship

Jaume Castan Pinos

• Hardcover | Engels | de Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 48
• This book analyses the strategies and narratives of Non-State Armed Actors (NSAAs), principally relying on primary material and interviews conducted b... Lees meer

Memory as Power

• Hardcover | Engels | de Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 39
• Featuring a collection of works by scholars from across a variety of disciplines, this book outlines the principles of a critical historical criminolo... Lees meer

Authoritarian Liberal Surveillance and the Covid-19 Pandemic

Alexei Anisin

• Hardcover | Engels | de Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 25
• From QR codes to stay-at-home orders and mask mandates, the pandemic posed intriguing questions about the nature of political power in a time that is ... Lees meer

Making Truth

Eva Lilja, Mona Lilja

• Hardcover | Engels | de Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 41
• The pursuit of truth is of crucial importance in environmentalism. How can we establish shared realities that encompass biodiversity loss, climate cha... Lees meer

Asynchronicity

Philip Pond

• Hardcover | Engels | de Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 42
• Asynchronicity is a study of the information stress and its genesis in the accelerative dynamics of computation and automation. In simple terms, this ... Lees meer

Energy Futures

• Hardcover | Engels | de Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 10
• Everyday life as we knew it is increasingly challenged in a world of climate, social, health and political crisis. Emerging technologies, data analyti... Lees meer

Turning Points

• Hardcover | Engels | de Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 37
• Turning Points: Challenges for Western Democracies in the 21st Century centers around the strikingly under-researched concept of turning points and it... Lees meer

The Trump Carnival

Elizaveta Gaufman, Bharath Ganesh

• Hardcover | Engels | de Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 35
• Donald Trump's campaign and presidency represented a radical departure from political norms that are often classified by media and researchers as 'pop... Lees meer

Men Do It Too

Ingrid Biese

• Hardcover | Engels | de Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 2
• Men Do It Too: Opting Out and In offers a timely and comprehensive analysis of the phenomenon of men leaving mainstream careers models, adding to curr... Lees meer

Fascism or Whatever You Want to Call It

Saladdin Bahozde

• Hardcover | Engels | de Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 56
• Fascism or Whatever You Want to Call It constructs a crucial framework for diagnosing and exposing fascist ideologies and movements in whatever histor... Lees meer

Crisis in Sri Lanka and the World

Asoka Bandarage

• Paperback | Engels | de Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 30
• This book provides a broad picture of Sri Lanka's on-going political and economic crisis as the culmination of several centuries of colonial and neo-c... Lees meer

The Trump Carnival

Elizaveta Gaufman, Bharath Ganesh

• Paperback | Engels | de Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 35
• Donald Trump's campaign and presidency represented a radical departure from political norms that are often classified by media and researchers as 'pop... Lees meer

Society Without People

Christopher Pieper, Justin Nelson

• Hardcover | Engels | de Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences | nr. 34
• Society Without People is the first major scholarly analysis of the profound social and cultural effects of emerging technologies such as generative A... Lees meer