Sociology & Social Policy

Spaces of Political Pedagogy..

In Spaces of Youth, Farrugia shows that the concept of developmental time has become a regulatory framework that is used to govern aspects of globalisation, including the formation of labour forces and the boundaries of liberal citizenship regimes. Interrogating this context, this volume explores th..

Spare Parts..

This was first published in 2000:  This text explores issues surrounding the use of human cadavers and human tissues in science and medicine...

Special Children, Special Risks..

Special Children, Special Risks..

This book rethinks the relationship between nature and human beings by describing their entanglements with machines. Reworking central ideas of critical theory to uncover the suppression of nature through technology, it is particularly concerned with the ways in which human social forms have activel..

Speculative Research is a timely edited collection that crystallises the emerging interest within social and cultural research in speculative thinking. The volume presents a range of innovative contributions that address the take-up of speculative philosophies in empirical sociocultural research to ..

An in-depth assessment of the acceleration of modern life in the age of the Internet...

Spirit of Disobedience..

This book examines all of the major traditions of social thought to clearly show their influence in our understanding of sport and leisure. Also shows how sport has contributed to our understanding of such themes as globalization and nationalism...

This book presents an original ethnographic study undertaken at a semi-professional football club and examines how raciological ideas shape the self-understandings of sportspeople and thereby influence the possibilities for action available to them. _x000D_..