Social Policy Books

New and Published Books

1. Judicial Reform and Reorganization in 20th Century Iran

   State-Building, Modernization and Islamicization

   By Majid Mohammadi

   Series: New Approaches in Sociology

   Iran is now at the center of political and social developments in the Middle East. This book examines the reform of the judicial system in 20th century Iran and is the first to relate state-building process with rule of law promotion and judicial reform in the region. This subject occupies the...

   Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
2. Statelessness and Citizenship

   Camps and the Creation of Political Space

   By Victoria Redclift

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Development Studies

   What does it mean to be a citizen? In depth research with a stateless population in Bangladesh has revealed that, despite liberal theory’s reductive vision, the limits of political community are not set in stone. The Urdu-speaking population in Bangladesh exemplify some of the key problems facing...

   Published June 13th 2013 by Routledge
3. Religion, Identity and Politics

   Germany and Turkey in Interaction

   Edited by Haldun Gülalp, Günter Seufert

   Series: Routledge/ESA Studies in European Societies

   German–Turkish relations, which have a long history and generally unrecognized depth, have rarely been examined as mutually formative processes. Isolated instances of influence have been examined in detail, but the historical and still ongoing processes of mutual interaction have rarely been...

   Published June 12th 2013 by Routledge
4. The Surveillance-Industrial Complex

   A Political Economy of Surveillance

   Edited by Kirstie Ball, Laureen Snider

   Today’s ‘surveillance society’ emerged from a complex of military and corporate priorities that were nourished through the active and ‘cold’ wars that marked the twentieth century. Two massive configurations of power – state and corporate – have become the dominant players. Mass targeted...

   Published June 12th 2013 by Routledge
5. Post-identity?

   Culture and European Integration

   Edited by Richard McMahon

   Series: Routledge/ESA Studies in European Societies

   Collective identity, the emotionally powerful sense of belonging to a group, is a crucial source of popular legitimacy for nations. However efforts since the 1990s to politically support European integration by using identity mechanisms borrowed from nationalism have had very limited success....

   Published June 12th 2013 by Routledge
6. Corrections and Collections

   Architectures for Art and Crime

   By Joe Day

   America holds more than two million inmates in its prisons and jails, and hosts more than two million daily visits to museums, figures which represent a ten-fold increase in the last twenty-five years. Corrections and Collections explores and connects these two massive expansions in our built...

   Published June 6th 2013 by Routledge
7. Racism, Governance, and Public Policy

   Beyond Human Rights

   By Katy Sian, Ian Law, S. Sayyid

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   This book presents a new framing of policy debates on the question of racism through a discursive critique of contemporary issues and contexts, drawing on a program of new European research carried out between 2010 and 2013, with a central focus on the UK. This includes analysis of the discursive...

   Published June 2nd 2013 by Routledge
8. Children's Literature, Domestication, and Social Foundation

   Narratives of Civilization and Wilderness

   By Layla AbdelRahim

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   This study of children's literature as knowledge, culture, and social foundation bridges the gap between science and literature and examines the interconnectedness of fiction and reality as a two-way road. The book investigates how the civilized narrative orders experience by means of segregation,...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
9. Beyond the Sociology of Development

   Economy and Society in Latin America and Africa

   Edited by Ivar Oxaal, Tony Barnett, David Booth

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

   Conceived as a response to the economic naïvety and implicit metropolitan bias of many 1950s and 60s studies of ‘the sociology of development’ , this volume, first published in 1975, provides actual field studies and theoretical reviews to indicate the directions which a conceptually more adequate...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
10. The Marketing of War in the Age of Neo-Militarism

    Edited by Kostas Gouliamos, Christos Kassimeris

    Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

    The post-9/11 era and the overall impact of international terrorism have generated much debate regarding the role of military apparatus in modern society. This book assesses the inherent meaning of the militarization from a critical, interdisciplinary perspective. Against the background of...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge