From an April 2006 sociology conference in Saint Paul, Minnesota, 12 papers look at Islam and related topic through the lens of world-systems theory. women as the Trojan Horse of Islam and geopolitics
Featuring Immanuel Wallerstein, Joseph Massad, Marnia Lazreg, and other well-known and emerging new authors, this book seeks a more accurate understanding of Islam and Islamic societies' role and rela
Analyzing the speeches of the two Bush presidencies, this book presents a new conceptualization of hegemonic masculinity by making the case for a multiplicity of hegemonic masculinites locally, region
Analyzing the speeches of the two Bush presidencies, this book presents a new conceptualization of hegemonic masculinity by making the case for a multiplicity of hegemonic masculinites locally, region
The world faces explosive conflicts about the distribution and scarcity of resources, about ethnicity and religion, and about the risks of urban life. These conflicts can easily spiral out of control
More than 50 years ago, C. Wright Mills heralded a new age for sociology for the 1960s and beyond. Yet his forward-looking vision also foretold some of the social conditions we associate, more recentl
On Legislatures looks at why people support their individual representatives but continue to criticise the legislative system at every opportunity. Although legislatures exist in every political syste
Holyfield (sociology, University of Arkansas) presents the voices of real men and women from all branches of the military, describing the trauma of war and its aftermath. Material comes from the autho
Both women and men work together advocating for animals unable to speak on their own behalves, but volunteers in this field are overwhelmingly female. Kemmerer (philosophy and religions, Montana State
Speaking Up for Animals highlights eighteen courageous members of a growing international animal advocacy movement that is overwhelmingly powered by women. These remarkable activists take us with them
Trend (art, UC Irvine) interrogates the interconnections between the actual and the imaginary. The titular object of his study, as a borrowed term from Martin Heidegger's practical ontology, is a verb
"Divided Nations and Transitional Justice" is a collection of significant writings contributed by the late president Kim Dae-jung of the Republic of Korea and former president Richar
Although the United States is currently the world's only military and economic superpower, the nation's superpower status may not last. The possible futures of the global system and the role of U.S. p
Beyond Community Policing uses history and general sociological theory to examine the trajectory of municipal policing from Britain in the 1830s to its adoption and evolution in the America. By analys
In this wide-ranging book, Paul Hoggett argues that human feelings and identities are constitutive of both personal and political life. Engaging with major debates in political theory, sociology, and
Adopting a methodology influenced by Immanuel Wallerstein's world-systems analysis and Edward Said's notion of a "contrapuntal imagination" in order to challenge essentializing understandings of civil
In 2012, President Obama deferred the deportation of qualified undocumented youth with his policy of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals forever changing the lives of the approximately five million
To understand the Middle East we must also understand how the West produced a temporal narrative of world history in which westerners placed themselves on top and all others below them. In a landmark
"Toward a Global Thin Community is an intellectually energizing and beautifully written book. Refusing to accept either an individualism without limits or a notion of freedom removed from wider social
How could an urban American Indian tribe, having survived relentless earlier governmental attempts to declare its culture extinct, be once again on the verge of extinction? The Tigua of Ysleta del Sur
