Sociology & Social Policy

The first comprehensive historical sociology and political anthropology of walking as a formative and transformative experience, this book employs the genealogical method and the concept of liminality to theorise the links between walking, pilgrimage and rites of passage as liminal experiences, and ..

Walking Methodologies in a More-than-human World..

Going beyond conventional definitions of ‘the long term’, this book locates the social practice of walling and encirclement in the broadest context of human history, integrating insights from archaeology and anthropology. It locates the essential dynamics of the practice, showing how walling produce..

This ethnography documents and explores the social, political, and material consequences of militarization in the borderlands of Arizona. Based on two years of fieldwork in Phoenix, Tucson, and other communities along the US-Mexico border, the author identifies militarization as a social and politic..

This book analyses the development of Benjamin's concept of experience in his early writings showing that it emerges from an engagement with visual experience, and in particular the experience of colour...

War Over the Family..

First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Departing from the scholarly treatment of addiction as a form of rhetoric or discursive formation, Wasted: Performing Addiction in America focuses on the material, lived experience of addiction and the ways in which it is shaped by a ’metaphor of waste’, from the manner in which people describe the ..

This ethnography follows a river-road into the deeper meanings of water and water places in the Australian experience. The site of this exploration is the iconic river system which forms the networks of natural and human landscapes of the Murray-Darling Basin...

This book examines the contemporary reaction against the establishment or ‘the system’ in terms of a new divide between those who wish to see an interconnected world, and those who seek distance through protectionism and opposition to immigration. An analysis that draws on the notion of ‘face’ to ex..

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...