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Modern capitalism began the 21st century seemingly victorious as the dominant social and economic organizing principle in the world. Rampant re- and de-regulation accompanied a wholesale attack on social, economic and political gains of the prior century under the guise of increasing competitiveness and the need to respond to the forces of globalization. The end of the cold war, the decline of the former Soviet Union, and the increasing foothold of capitalism in China all point to an unchallenged reorientation of the global political economy to reflect this ascendence of capitalist social relations.

The peer-reviewed Studies in Critical Social Sciences book series, through the publication of original manuscripts and edited volumes, offers insights into the current reality by exploring the content and consequence of power relationships under capitalism, by considering the spaces of opposition and resistance to these changes, and by articulating capitalism with other systems of power and domination - for example race, gender, culture - that have been defining our new age.

Studies in Critical Social Science includes the subseries Studies in Critical Research on Religion (brill.com/scrr) and Critical Global Studies (brill.com/cgs). The series have independent editorial teams that work closely together.

Authors are cordially invited to submit proposals and/or full manuscripts to either the series editor David Fasenfest ([email protected]), the publisher Jason Prevost ([email protected]), or by mail to Brill, Attn: Rosanna Woensdregt, P.O. Box 9000, 2300 PA Leiden, The Netherlands.

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Marxist Class Theory for a Skeptical World

Raju J Das, York University

Marxist Theory of Class for a Skeptical World is a critique of Analytical Marxist and Post-structuralist Marxist theories of class, and offers an alternative approach rooted in the ideas of Marx and Engels, as well as Lenin and Trotsky.

readership: All interested in class, inequality, capitalism, Marxist theory, state theory, the working class issues, labour geography/sociology/history.

Marxism and CriminologyA History of Criminal Selectivity

Valeria Vegh Weis, New York University, Buenos Aires University, Quilmes University, Argentinean Policeman University

In Criminology and Marxism: A History of Criminal Selectivity, Valeria Vegh Weis rehabilitates the contributions and the methodology of Marx and Engels to analyse crime and punishment through capitalism (15th century to the present) in Europe and the United States.

readership: All interested in Criminology, Criminal Law, Sociology of Law, History of Punishment, Marxism and the Law, and the criminal justice system in Europe and the United States.

Labour Markets, Identities, ControversiesReviews and Essays, 1982-2016

Tom Brass

The reviews, review essays and essays collected in this book examine the shift of development studies debate about labour markets and identity from the Third World to how they affect metropolitan capitalist nations.

readership: Undergraduate, postgraduate and academic researchers with an interest in agrarian issues, labour conditions, development studies, and political economy.

· January 2017· ISBN 978 90 04 29709 8· Hardback (approx. 700 pp. (incl. 21 figures & 3 tables))· List price EUR 220.- / US$ 264.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 103

· January 2017· ISBN 978 90 04 31955 4· Hardback (approx. 340 pp.)· List price EUR 138.- / US$ 166.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 104

· January 2017· ISBN 978 90 04 32237 0· Hardback (approx. 432 pp.)· List price EUR 165.- / US$ 198.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 102

The Agrarian Seeds of EmpireThe Political Economy of Agriculture in US State Building

Brad Bauerly

This study is an investigation into US political development as it emerged to deal with agrarian resistance to the transition to capitalism and agro-industrial development.

readership: All interested in American political development, the transition to capitalism, social movements, food regimes, international political economy, state theory, and food system research.

Critique of RationalityJudgement and Creativity from Benjamin to Merleau-Ponty

John Eustice O’Brien

Drawing on Walter Benjamin’s doctoral thesis on the Early German Romantics and Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s apperceptive phenomenology, John Eustice O’Brien proposes an original epistemology the préobjective energy of aesthetic consciousness of human being in the social world.

readership: All interested in the question of rational judgment for research, politics and culture: institutes, laboratories, policy centers, NGOS; etc.

· September 2016· ISBN 978 90 04 31413 9· Hardback (xi, 310 pp.)· List price EUR 138.- / US$ 166.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 100

· October 2016· ISBN 978 90 04 27273 6· Hardback (xvii, 300 pp.)· List price EUR 127.- / US$ 152.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 99

Rethinking Private Higher EducationEthnographic Perspectives

Edited by Daniele Cantini, University of Halle, Germany

Fresh insights into the actual meaning of ‘private’ in different higher education contexts, getting beneath the surface of easy labels to provide a deeper understanding of the actual effects of global policies in local contexts through ethnographies.

readership: Social scientists interested in ethnographic analyses of private universities, and anyone concerned with the layering of public and private in the contemporary world.

· October 2016· ISBN 978 90 04 26739 8· Hardback (approx. 244 pp.)· List price EUR 116.- / US$ 139.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 101

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Islam in a Post-Secular SocietyReligion, Secularity and the Antagonism of Recalcitrant Faith

Dustin J. Byrd, Olivet College, MI

Islam in the Post-Secular Society offers an interpretation of the struggles that Muslims face within secular western society, and attempts to find a path for a future reconciliation.

readership: All interested in Islam in the West, secularization theory, and the Frankfurt School’s critical theory of religion.

· November 2016· ISBN 978 90 04 32535 7· Hardback (xx, 334 pp.)· List price EUR 148.- / US$ 178.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 98

Politics of PrecarityMigrant Conditions, Struggles and Experiences

Edited by Carl-Ulrik Schierup, Linköping University and Martin Bak Jørgensen, Aalborg University

In Politics of Precarity: Migrant Conditions, Struggles and Experiences, edited by Carl-Ulrik Schierup and Martin Bak Jørgensen, the conditions of precarity caused by neoliberal globalization are linked to migrant struggles and experiences across the globe.

readership: For students and scholars within migration studies, sociology, social anthropology and political economy as well as people interested in the effects of neoliberalism.

China: Promise or Threat?A Comparison of Cultures

Horst J. Helle, University of Munich

China: Promise or Threat? compares China and the West, demonstrating that China has a strong private realm of family life but acts unreliably in matters of government and the law, while the reverse is true in the West.

readership: For readers interested in the relationship between China and theWest, globalization, international relations and in the tradition of Fei Xiaotong in China.

· November 2016· ISBN 978 90 04 29781 4· Hardback (approx. 328 pp.)· List price EUR 138.- / US$ 166.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 97

· November 2016· ISBN 978 90 04 29820 0· Hardback (xv, 174 pp.)· List price EUR 109.- / US$ 131.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 96

The Dialectic of Position and ManeuverUnderstanding Gramsci’s Military Metaphor

Daniel Egan, University of Massachusetts Lowell

In The Dialectic of Position and Maneuver, Daniel Egan offers a critical analysis of the role played by military metaphors in Antonio Gramsci’s social theory.

readership: Anyone interested in Gramsci, Marxist theory more generally, or contemporary left political strategy.

God, Guns, Gold and GloryAmerican Character and its Discontents

Lauren Langman, Loyola University of Chicago and George Lundskow, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI

God, Gold, Guns and Glory, by Lauren Langman and George Lundskow, offers a Frankfurt School account of the rise and fall of the American Empire by examining its underlying social character which is necessary for a post capitalist, sane society.

readership: Social scientists, students and educated readers concerned with the present course of American society by joining traditions of American Character studies with Critical Theory.

· October 2016· ISBN 978 90 04 26873 9· Hardback (vii, 142 pp.)· List price EUR 89.- / US$ 119.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 94

· September 2016· ISBN 978 90 04 32339 1· Hardback (xxxvi, 358 pp.)· List price EUR 165.- / US$ 198.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 93

“Is the Turk a White Man?”Race and Modernity in the Making of Turkish Identity

Murat Ergin, Koç University

In “Is the Turk a White Man?” Murat Ergin examines how the links between race and modernity has shaped the formation of Turkish identity.

readership: All interested in the history of Turkey and contemporary Turkish society, and anyone concerned with race and modernization.

· October 2016· ISBN 978 90 04 32433 6· Hardback (vii, 278 pp.)· List price EUR 126.- / US$ 151.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 95

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NASCAR, Sturgis, and the New Economy of Spectacle

Daniel Krier, Iowa State University, USA and William J. Swart, Augustana University, USA

NASCAR, Sturgis, and the New Economy of Spectacle vividly illustrates how legendary spectacles, such as those in NASCAR racing and the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, generate a triple-circuit of profit.

readership: All interested in spectacle, capitalism, critical theory, political authoritarianism, immaterial production and the culture industry.

· October 2016· ISBN 978 90 04 30060 6· Hardback (xv, 223 pp.)· List price EUR 115.- / US$ 138.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 92

Theory in ActionTheoretical Constructionism

Edited by Peter Sohlberg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology and Håkon Leiulfsrud, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Theory in Action starts by detailing how social theory is commonly understood, practiced and abused. It follows by proposing alternative ideas of the active and knowledge-generative use of social theory, and demonstrates, by providing examples.

readership: All interested in social theory, and anyone concerned with theory application as a methodological problem.

The Poverty of WorkSelling Servant, Slave and Temporary Labor on the Free Market

David Van Arsdale, State University of New York at Onondaga Community College

Offers ethnographic and historical accounts of employment agency labor. Employing sixty million temporary workers globally and growing, the case is made for rethinking the function of employment agencies and their impact on economic inequality.

readership: All interested in sociology, labor studies and history, race and ethnic studies, social and economic stratification, political economy, and American studies.

· October 2016· ISBN 978 90 04 31417 7· Hardback (xi, 203 pp.)· List price EUR 115.- / US$ 138.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 91

· July 2016· ISBN 978 90 04 32337 7· Hardback (xiv, 213 pp. (incl. 21 figures & 3 tables))· List price EUR 115.- / US$ 138.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 90

Malcolm XFrom Political Eschatology to Religious Revolutionary

Edited by Dustin J. Byrd, Olivet College, USA and Seyed Javad Miri, Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies, Iran

Malcolm X: From Political Eschatology to Religious Revolutionary offers a variety of historical, religious and philosophical perspectives into the significance of Malcolm X’s life and thought today.

readership: All interested in the history and thought of Malcolm X, Civil Rights/Human Rights movements of the 1960’s, African-American history and Islam in America.

Human Rights, Hegemo-ny, and Utopia in Latin AmericaPoverty, Forced Migration and Resistance in Mexico and Colombia

Camilo A. Pérez-Bustillo, and Karla V. Hernández Mares

Human Rights, Hegemony and Utopia in Latin America explores the evolving relationship between hegemonic and counter-hegemonic visions of human rights, within the context of cases in contemporary Mexico and Colombia, and their broader implications.

readership: All interested in human rights, contemporary Mexico and Colombia, migrant rights and the rights of indigenous peoples in Latin America and globally.

· May 2016· ISBN 978 90 04 30867 1· Hardback (xiii, 371 pp.)· List price EUR 135.- / US$ 175.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 88

· June 2016· ISBN 978 90 04 29783 8· Hardback (xvii, 292 pp. (incl. 58 color illustrations))· List price EUR 129.- / US$ 167.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 87

Labor Conflict and Capitalist Hegemony in ArgentinaThe Case of the Automobile Industry,1990-2007

Agustín Santella, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Labor Conflict and Capitalist Hegemony in Argentina delves into the dynamics of labor conflict during Neoliberalism. How did workers react to market reforms and massive layoffs? This book aims at contributing to a new way of conceptualizing labor relations within Marxism.

readership: All interested in industrial relations under contemporary capitalism, especially in peripheral countries, and in collective action and labor contention.

· July 2016· ISBN 978 90 04 29151 5· Hardback (x, 237 pp.)· List price EUR 114.- / US$ 137.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 89

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Eros and RevolutionThe Critical Philosophy of Herbert Marcuse

Javier Sethness Castro

Presents a comprehensive intellectual and political biography of the critical theorist Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979), investigating the Hegelian-Marxist, Romantic, existentialist, social-psychological, and anti-authoritarian dimensions of his thought.

readership: All interested in Critical Theory, Marxism, anarchism, social and political psychology, radical philosophy, existentialism, Romanticism, feminism, ecology, anti-militarism, and revolutionism.

· June 2016· ISBN 978 90 04 30869 5· Hardback (xi, 410 pp.)· List price EUR 150.- / US$ 194.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 86

Capitalism’s FutureAlienation, Emancipation and Critique

Edited by Daniel Krier, Iowa State University and Mark P. Worrell, SUNY Cortland

In Capitalism’s Future: Alienation, Emancipation and Critique, sociologists, philosophers and cultural theorists critique economic and political dynamics of contemporary capitalism.

readership: All interested in capitalism, Marxist theory, political authoritarianism, alienation, commodity-fetishism in the fields of sociology, philosophy, political science and cultural studies.

The Origins of Collective Decision Making

Andy Blunden

The Origins of Collective Decision Making, identifies three paradigms of collective decision making – Counsel, Majority and Consensus, and discovers their origins in traditional, medieval and modern times, and traces their evolution over centuries up to the current juncture.

readership: Social movement and academics in social movements, labour movement history, deliberative democracy; undergraduates in sociology, political science, etc.

· May 2016· ISBN 978 90 04 30030 9· Hardback (x, 298 pp.)· List price EUR 115.- / US$ 149.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 85

· April 2016· ISBN 978 90 04 31496 2· Hardback (xi, 257 pp.)· List price EUR 110.- / US$ 142.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 84

Globalizing CulturesTheories, Paradigms, Actions

Edited by Vincenzo Mele, University of Pisa, and Marina Vujnovic, Monmouth University, NJ

Through a comparative analysis of representations of globalization the book examines the way cultures and individuals oppose, resist and re-center globalization and how people negotiate a sense of identity and belonging in a global context.

readership: All interested in global and cultural studies, with reference to resistance and social movements, gender inequality and empowerment, cultural and ethnic identity.

The Future of WorkSuper-exploitation and Social Precariousness in the 21st Century

Adrián Sotelo Valencia, Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos de la FCPyS-UNAM

This book offers the paradigmatic transition from social and labour relations based on job security, comprehensive collective agreements and guaranteed social rights, towards new social relations.

readership: All interested in sociology of work and problems of dependency in Latin America.

· November 2015· ISBN 978 90 04 27282 8· Hardback (xiv, 376 pp.)· List price EUR 135.- / US$ 175.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences / Critical Global Studies, 82/5

· October 2015· ISBN 978 90 04 30058 3· Hardback (xii, 152 pp.)· List price EUR 93.- / US$ 120.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 81

Power and ResistanceUS Imperialism in Latin America

James Petras, Binghamton University, New York (emiritus) and Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Canada and Henry Veltmeyer, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Mexico

This book focuses on US imperialism today in Latin America. It concerns the projection of state power as a means of advancing the economic interests of the US capitalist class and maintaining its hegemony over the world capitalist system.

readership: Anyone concerned with understanding the dynamics, social impacts and political responses to the workings of capitalism and imperialism in Latin America.

· November 2015· ISBN 978 90 04 30683 7· Hardback (vii, 224 pp.)· List price EUR 104.- / US$ 135.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences / Critical Global Studies, 83/6

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Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism

Edited by Christian Fuchs, University of Westminster and Vincent Mosco, Queen’s University

Presents 16 contributions showing how Marx’s analyses of capitalism, the commodity, class, labour, work, exploitation, surplus-value, dialectics, crises, ideology, class struggles, and communism help us to understand the Internet and social media in 21st century digital capitalism.

readership: All students, scholars, activists, citizens interested in Marx, Internet and Digital Media Studies.

· October 2015· ISBN 978 90 04 29138 6· Hardback (xii, 549 pp.)· List price EUR 181.- / US$ 234.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 80

Marx and the Political Economy of the Media

Edited by Christian Fuchs, University of Westminster and Vincent Mosco, Queen’s University

18 contributions showing how Marx’s analyses of capitalism, the commodity, class, labour, work, exploitation, surplus-value, dialectics, crises, ideology, and communism help us to understand media, cultural and communications in 21st century informational capitalism.

readership: All students, scholars, activists, citizens interested in Marx, media, culture and communication studies.

Utopia and the Dialectic in Latin American Liberation

Eugene Gogol and Latin American Colleagues

This book examines the concept of utopia in Latin American thought and practice, and asks where there is a resonance with the dialectic as Hegel developed it. Within this context, emancipatory Latin American social movements are discussed.

readership: Activists and academics interested in today’s Latin American social movements and their relation to developing emancipatory philosophy.

· October 2015· ISBN 978 90 04 29140 9· Hardback (xiii,614 pp.)· List price EUR 186.- / US$ 241.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 79

· October 2015· ISBN 978 90 04 23050 7· Hardback (xi, 442 pp.)· List price EUR 149.- / US$ 193.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 78

Confronting GouldnerSociology and Political Activism

James J. Chriss, Cleveland State University

In Confronting Gouldner James J. Chriss analyses the critical theory of sociologist Alvin W. Gouldner, exploring such issues as social justice, marriage and family, religion, political activism, public sociology, deviance and crime, and the problem of the communist dictator.

readership: Primary readership includes those interested in sociological theory, critical theory, communism, Marxism, political activism, and public sociology.

Settlement Sociology in the Progressive YearsFaith, Science, and Reform

Joyce E. Williams, Texas Woman’s University, and Vicky M. MacLean, Middle Tennessee State University

The Progressive Era roots of sociology as a public enterprise for reform are restored to the canon and given recognition by tracing key works of early sociological practitioners in the leading settlement houses of Chicago, New York and Boston.

readership: Faculty, students, and libraries interested in the history of the social sciences, the progressive era, and settlement houses, women’s studies, and history.

· February 2015· ISBN 978 90 04 23241 9· Hardback (xxxv, 241 pp.)· List price EUR 115.- / US$ 149.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 76

· June 2015· ISBN 978 90 04 28756 3· Hardback (xi, 433 pp.)· List price EUR 149.- / US$ 193.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 75

The Reproductive BargainDeciphering the Enigma of Japanese Capitalism

Heidi Gottfried, Wayne State University

The Reproductive Bargain reveals the institutional sources of labor insecurities behind Japan’s postwar employment system. This economic juggernaut’s decline cannot be understood without reference to the reproductive bargain.

readership: All interested in gender, employment relations, and politics and understanding the dynamics of Japanese capitalism and the reproductive bargain.

· May 2015· ISBN 978 90 04 29149 2· Hardback (xviii, 167 pp.)· List price EUR 115.- / US$ 149.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 77

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Constructing Marxist EthicsCritique, Normativity, Praxis

Edited by Michael J. Thompson, William Paterson University

Constructing Marxist Ethics offers a series of compelling essays that reassess the role of ethics and moral values in Marxist theory and philosophy.

readership: Readers interested in this book will be those following Marxist theory and philosophy, critical social theory, critical theory, moral philosophy, ethical theory and political theory.

· February 2015· ISBN 978 90 04 25414 5· Hardback (xi, 361 pp.)· List price EUR 139.- / US$ 180.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 74

A Dialectical Pedagogy of RevoltGramsci, Vygotsky, and the Egyptian Revolution

Brecht De Smet, Ghent University

In A Dialectical Pedagogy of Revolt Brecht De Smet integrates the political thought of Antonio Gramsci with the cultural psychology of Lev Vygotsky into an original perspective on revolutionary subjectivity that is deployed to understand the Egyptian “Tahrir” Revolution.

readership: Political scientists, philosophers, activists, and post-graduate students interested in Gramsci or subject.

Media and Left

Edited by Savaş Çoban

This volume applies a critical lens to our understanding of how mass communication impacts our understanding of and potential for meaningful social change in the global political economy.

readership: All interested in media and sociology.

· January 2015· ISBN 978 90 04 26265 2· Hardback (xvii, 422 pp.)· List price EUR 139.- / US$ 180.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 73

· September 2014· ISBN 978 90 04 27292 7· Hardback (xiii, 256 pp.)· List price US$ 141.- / EUR 116.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 72

Extractive Imperialism in the AmericasCapitalism’s New Frontier

James Petras, Binghamton University and Henry Veltmeyer, Saint Mary’s University and Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas.

This book explores the changing face of US imperialism in the context of a system that is in crisis. At issue are the devastating effects of the turn of many multinational corporations towards ‘extractivism’—a pillage of society’s natural resources.

readership: All those interested in international political economy, international development studies, political ecology, and Latin American development.

A New Kind of PublicCommunity, Solidarity, and Political Economy in New Deal Cinema, 1935-1948

Graham Cassano, Oakland University

This book examines the contending ways in which New Deal cinema attempted to explain the causes and consequences of the Great Depression to audiences shaped by economic struggle and new forms of collective solidarity.

readership: All interested in the history of American cinema, the sociology of the labor movement, and anyone concerned with applied cultural theory and postmodern Marxism.

· July 2014· ISBN 978 90 04 26885 2· Hardback (x, 321 pp.; incl. 6 tables)· List price US$ 149.- / EUR 122.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 70

· July 2014· ISBN 978 90 04 27519 5· Hardback (xi, 215 pp.)· List price US$ 128.- / EUR 105.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 69

Trouble in the UniversityHow the Education of Health Care Professionals Became Corrupted

Mildred A. Schwartz, University of Illinois at Chicago and New York University

In Trouble in the University Mildred A. Schwartz accounts for the corruption of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey as resulting from its organization and network relations and shows those findings to apply in general to higher education tied to health care.

readership: Those interested in higher education, health care education, organizations and their dysfunctions, public administration, public policy, political and systemic corruption.

· July 2014· ISBN 978 90 04 27866 0· Hardback (vii, 170 pp.)· List price US$ 120.- / EUR 99.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 71

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Social Structures of Direct DemocracyOn the Political Economy of Equality

John Asimakopoulos, City University of New York

John Asimakopoulos develops a political economy of structural equality making strong empirical arguments for radical transformation toward direct democracy by filling positions of political and economic authority with randomly selected citizens.

readership: All concerned with social theory, political philosophy, or political economy.

· June 2014· ISBN 978 90 04 26272 0· Hardback (xvi, 213 pp., 1 figure, 3 tables)· List price US$ 128.- / EUR 105.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 68

The Dialectics of the Religious and the SecularStudies on the Future of Religion

Edited by Michael R. Ott, Grand Valley State University

In The Dialectics of the Religious and the Secular, fifteen international scholars address the question of the relevancy, meaning, and future of religion within the increasing antagonisms between the religious and secular realms of modern civil society and its globalization.

readership: All interested in the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School, Comparative Religious Studies, Future Studies, Utopian Studies, Globalization, Social Change, in Croatia and Ukraine.

Collaborative ProjectsAn Interdisciplinary Study

Edited by Andy Blunden

Collaborative Projects - An Interdisciplinary Study demonstrates that the concept of ‘project’ may unify research across a range of human sciences, and presents eleven diverse research projects and a philosophical introduction to prove it.

readership: All interested in human sciences from Psychology, Education, Social Work, Organisational Change, to Social Movement Theory, Sociology and Political Science.

· May 2014· ISBN 978 90 04 26313 0· Hardback (xx, 277 pp.)· List price US$ 149.- / EUR 122.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 67

· June 2014· ISBN 978 90 04 26121 1· Hardback (approx. 410 pp.)· List price US$ 167.- / EUR 137.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 66

Class, Culture and the Agrarian Myth

Tom Brass

Using examples from different historical contexts, this book examines the relationship between class, nationalism, modernity and the agrarian myth.

readership: The book is aimed at those with an interest in agrarian issues, and the impact on economic development of popular culture, nationalism and populism.

Come Hell or High Water: Feminism and the Legacy of Armed Conflict in Central America

Tine Destrooper, European University Institute

This book explores the motivations, strategies and priorities of women’s activists in Guatemala and Nicaragua. She explains how these priorities were shaped by the legacy of armed conflict and the presence of international aid agencies.

readership: All interested in the relationship between international organizations, post-conflict societies and social mobilization, in gender issues and Central America.

· May 2014· ISBN 978 90 04 25997 3· Hardback (xi, 447 pp.)· List price US$ 167.- / EUR 137.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 64

· June 2014· ISBN 978 90 04 24896 0· Hardback (xvi, 302 pp.)· List price US$ 149.- / EUR 122.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 63

Revolt Against Authority

Laura Westra, University of Windsor and University of Milano, Bicocca

Charting the protesters and social movements “illegality” opposing authority this volume argues that they should be, nevertheless, considered the defenders of law and order.

readership: General interest in law, sociology, international law and political science, on the part of both students and scholars.

· May 2014· ISBN 978 90 04 26820 3· Hardback (xiv, 277 pp.)· List price US$ 154.- / EUR 126.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 65

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Empires and WallsGlobalization, Migration, and Colonial Domination

Mohammad A. Chaichian, Mount Mercy University

A compelling comparative-historical analysis of ancient and contemporary walls and barriers that imperial powers have erected in order to subjugate the colonized subjects and control population movements within the empire.

readership: All interested in the political economy of empires and imperial domination, colonialism, immigration and border control issues.

· November 2013· ISBN 978 90 04 23603 5· Hardback (xxvii, 362 pp. (including 111 illustrations and 13 tables))· List price US$ 167.- / EUR 137.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 62

Critical Practice from Voltaire to Foucault, Eagleton and BeyondContested Perspectives

John E. O’Brien

Questioning the resistance to change of the West in constant crisis, and framed by early writings of Max Horkheimer and others, John E. O’Brien’s historical-materialist method explores the contested perspectives of Voltaire, Schiller, Baudrillard, Foucault, Eagleton and Hayden White.

readership: All interested in cultural criticism, the historical-materialist method, the crisis of modernity and the future for the West and The Rest.

In the Hotel AbyssAn Hegelian-Marxist Critique of Adorno

Robert Lanning, Mount Saint Vincent University

This book is an analysis of a selection of Adorno’s work distinguishing his dialectics from Hegel, Marx and other members of the Frankfurt School (Benjamin, Kracauer, Marcuse) in the analysis of jazz, popular music, radio and pre-war pro-fascist propaganda.

readership: Intended for specialists in Critical Theory, dialectics and Marxism, as well as activists’ discussions about the relevance of theory and its relation to praxis.

· November 2013· ISBN 978 90 04 21427 9· Hardback (xv, 503 pp.)· List price US$ 167.- / EUR 137.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 61

· October 2013· ISBN 978 90 04 24898 4· Hardback (vi, 223 pp.)· List price US$ 128.- / EUR 105.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 60

Modern Colonization by Medical InterventionU.S. Medicine in Puerto Rico

Nicole Trujillo-Pagán, Wayne State University

This volume explores the establishment of US colonial rule over Puerto Rico through the appropriation and usurpation of the status of local physicians, the undermining of their political legitimacy, and its role in the development of capitalism in the colony.

readership: All interested in the history of medicine, Puerto Rico, comparative-historical methods, political sociology and/or colonialism.

American Anarchism

Steve J. Shone, Gonzaga University

Steve Shone’s American Anarchism is a work of political theory that emphasizes the relevance of nineteenth century American Anarchism to contemporary politics.

readership: American Anarchism is aimed at a scholarly market, but will appeal to some general readers, particularly those dissatisfied with the stagnation of conventional politics.

· September 2013· ISBN 978 90 04 24370 5· Hardback (ix, 250 pp.)· List price US$ 141.- / EUR 118.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 58

· September 2013· ISBN 978 90 04 25194 6· Hardback (viii, 297 pp.)· List price US$ 154.- / EUR 128.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 57

Industrial Colonialism in Latin AmericaThe Third Stage

Víctor M. Figueroa Sepúlveda, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas

Figueroa’s critical analysis of present imperialism and the neoliberal mode of knowledge creation provides fresh insights into contemporary underdevelopment and the prerequisites for genuine development in the region.

readership: All those interested in Latin American development, including sociologist, economists and political scientists.

· September 2013· ISBN 978 90 04 25900 3· Hardback (xv, 192 pp., 10 tables)· List price US$ 128.- / EUR 107.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences / Critical Global Studies, 59/4

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Max Weber’s Theory of PersonalityIndividuation, Politics and Orientalism in the Sociology of Religion

Sara R. Farris, Goldsmiths University of London

This book shows its complex development within three related problematics associated with Weber’s influential comparative historical sociology – individuation, politics and orientalism.

readership: All those interested in Max Weber, sociology of religion, sociological theory, political theory, history of ideas, anthropology.

· September 2013· ISBN 978 90 04 25408 4· Hardback (xii, 229 pp.)· List price US$ 141.- / EUR 118.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 56

Anarchy and SocietyReflections on Anarchist Sociology

Jeff Shantz, Kwantlen Polytechnic University and Dana M. Williams, Valdosta State University, GA

Anarchy and Society constructs a tentative synthesis of sociological and anarchist thought, providing a roadmap to a future ‘anarchist sociology’.

readership: All interested in activist, radical, utopian, or prefigurative sociology, and all interested in sociologically-oriented anarchist theory.

Stateless CitizenshipThe Palestinian-Arab Citizens of Israel

Shourideh C. Molavi, York University

In Stateless Citizenship, Shourideh C. Molavi examines the mechanisms of exclusion of Palestinian citizens in the Zionist incorporation regime, and centres our analytical gaze on the paradox that it is through the provision of Israeli citizenship that Palestinians are deemed stateless.

readership: For all interested in the Israel-Palestine conflict.

· November 2013· ISBN 978 90 04 21496 5· Hardback (xiv, 209 pp.)· List price US$ 128.- / EUR 105.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 55

· June 2013· ISBN 978 90 04 25406 0· Hardback (xviii, 255 pp.)· List price US$ 141.- / EUR 118.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 54

Modernity and TerrorismFrom Anti-Modernity to Modern Global Terror

Milan Zafirovski, University of North Texas and Daniel G. Rodeheaver, University of North Texas

Zafirovski and Rodeheaver analyze the nature, types, and causes of terrorism. The book redefines terrorism in novel comprehensive way, considers counter-state and state terrorism, and identifies and predicts conservative anti-modernity as the main cause of terrorism.

readership: All academics, libraries, and practitioners interested in the character, forms, and factors of contemporary global terrorism, and anyone concerned with modernization.

Religious Fundamental-ism in the Middle EastA Cross-National, Inter-Faith, and Inter-Ethnic Analysis

Mansoor Moaddel, Eastern Michigan University and Stuart A. Karabenick, University of Michigan

In Religious Fundamentalism in the Middle East, Moaddel and Karabenick explain variations in fundamentalist beliefs and attitudes on both macro and micro level.

readership: This book would be of interest to sociologists of religion, Middle East, and Islam, comparative fundamentalism.

· May 2013· ISBN 978 90 04 24287 6· Hardback (ix, 393 pp.)· List price US$ 167.- / EUR 140.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 52

· July 2013· ISBN 978 90 04 24505 1· Hardback (xviii, 316 pp.)· List price US$ 141.- / EUR 118.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences / Studies in Critical Research on Religion, 51/3

The Supranational CorporationBeyond the Multinationals

Laura Westra, University of Windsor and University of Milano, Bicocca

This work lays bare corporate actions both domestic and international, under the guise of legal “personhood,” and shows how corporations flaunt laws and act as controlling powers beyond the constraints imposed on legal state citizens.


· May 2013· ISBN 978 90 04 24910 3· Hardback (xiii, 205 pp.)· List price US$ 141.- / EUR 118.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 53

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Reinventing Race, Reinventing Racism

Edited by John J. Betancur, University of Illinois at Chicago and Cedric Herring, University of Illinois at Chicago

Reinventing Race, Reinventing Racism provides fresh theoretical insights and policy solutions that address intractable new forms of racism. This accessible book tackles important and timely issues that continue to affect the lives of Americans of all shades and ethnicities.

readership: All readers interested in accessible treatments of the intersection of race and public policy in contemporary America.

· November 2012· ISBN 978 90 04 22750 7· Hardback (xvii, 399 pp.)· List price US$ 179.- / EUR 140.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 50

Messages from Georg Simmel

Horst J. Helle, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

As a founder of humanist sociology Simmel sent several important messages, identified and explained here as referring to interpretation, evolution, interaction, and alienation. Simmel’s ideas on these issues are confronted and compared with those of Karl Marx and Max Weber.

readership: All those in the social sciences and other humanities on issues of social development, and interested in critical thinking.

Economic Nationalism and GlobalizationLessons from Latin America and Central Europe

Henryk Szlajfer, Warsaw University and Polish Academy of Sciences

This book offers, against the background of developments in Latin America and Central Europe in times of globalization from late 19th century until late 1930s, a reinterpretation of economic nationalism both as an analytical category and historical experience.

readership: All those interested in economic history of and theorizing on underdevelopment and globalization and attempts at industrialization.

· September 2012· ISBN 978 90 04 23368 3· Hardback (ix, 201 pp.)· List price US$ 136.- / EUR 110.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 49

· September 2012· ISBN 978 90 04 23154 2· Hardback (xii, 418 pp.)· List price US$ 177.- / EUR 144.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 48

Capital Accumulation and Migration

Dennis C. Canterbury, Eastern Connecticut State University

In Capital Accumulation and Migration Dennis C. Canterbury explores the subject of capital accumulation and migration under neoliberal capitalism.

readership: All interested in the subject of capital accumulation, migration and development.

Toward a Dialectic of Philosophy and Organization

Eugene Gogol

In Toward a Dialectic of Philosophy and Organization revolutions and revolutionary movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are examined through the lens of the Hegelian-Marxian dialectic(s) and Marx’s concept of revolutionary organization.

readership: Anyoneinterested in dialectical thought in Hegel and Marx and its relevance for social transformation historically and today.

· August 2012· ISBN 978 90 04 23038 5· Hardback (xiii, 268 pp.)· List price US$ 144.- / EUR 117.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 46

· August 2012· ISBN 978 90 04 22468 1· Hardback (xiii, 394 pp.)· List price US$ 177.- / EUR 144.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 45

Theorizing GlobalizationA Critique of the Mediatization of Social Theory

Marko Ampuja, University of Helsinki

In Theorizing Globalization Marko Ampuja offers a critical reassessment of mainstream perspectives on globalization, challenging their media-centrism and their lack of historical materialist analysis of global capitalism and the power of neoliberalism.

readership: Sociologists, media researchers, activists, students of globalization and anyone interested in the critical study of globalization and global media.

· July 2012· ISBN 978 90 04 22961 7· Hardback (xii, 410 pp.)· List price US$ 177.- / EUR 144.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 47

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ConceptsA Critical Approach

Andy Blunden

This book offers an overview of theories of the Concept, drawing on the philosopher Hegel and the Soviet psychologist Lev Vygotsky. Concepts are shown to be both units of the mind and units of a cultural formation.

readership: Those interested in educational psychology, education and development, Critical Theory, Linguistics, Hegel, Marxism, Social and Political Science.

The Neoliberal Pattern of DominationCapital’s Reign in Decline

José Manuel Sánchez Bermúdez, Universidad Autónoma de Nayarit

An examination of the domination of neoliberal capital, showing how it renders impossible the unity of human beings dispossessed from the means of production and subsistence.

readership: All those interested in the domination of neoliberal capital over contemporary society, its theory and history, including economists, political scientists and concerned citizens.

Faces of State Terrorism

Laura Westra, University of Windsor, University of Milano, Bicocca, and Royal Roads University, Victoria, B.C.

This book examines the numerous illegal measures states use, from unlawful imprisonment and curtailing of civil liberties to torture, in the name of responding to terrorism.


· July 2012· ISBN 978 90 04 22847 4· Hardback (ix, 308 pp.)· List price US$ 149.- / EUR 121.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 44

· June 2012· ISBN 978 90 04 22377 6· Hardback (xiii, 357 pp.)· List price US$ 177.- / EUR 144.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 43

· May 2012· ISBN 978 90 04 22456 8· Hardback (xvii, 243 pp.)· List price US$ 136.- / EUR 110.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 42

Liberal Bourgeois Protes-tantismThe Metaphysics of Globalization

Paul C. Mocombe, West Virginia State University

This work analyzes the Protestant metaphysical origins and basis underlying the sociological process of globalization. Specifically, it outlines the different conceptions of globalization in the sociological literature.

readership: All those interested in globalization, critical theory, and philosophy.

The Underground ChurchNonviolent Resistance to the Vatican Empire

Kathleen Kautzer, Regis College

Drawing on theories of religious movements and nonviolent resistance strategies, this book analyzes the Reform Movement of liberal American Catholics who for over four decades have sustained a movement to expand on the reforms and visions of Vatican II.

readership: The book should appeal to scholars in the field of religious movements, peace studies, and Catholic theology, as well as the persons who are involved in the liberal Reform Movement.

The Entropy of Capitalism

Robert Biel, University College London

Within the context of the ecological crisis of the twenty-first century, the book integrates Marxism and systems theory to reveal finance capital and the ‘war on terror’ as complementary responses of a capitalism reduced to parasitising upon symptoms of chaos.

readership: Anyone in the fields of political economy/ecology, labour movement and grassroots activists, everyone interested in understanding the current crisis and the way forward.

· June 2012· ISBN 978 90 04 21676 1· Hardback (ix, 181 pp.)· List price US$ 136.- / EUR 110.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 41

· March 2012· ISBN 978 90 04 21938 0· Hardback (xvii, 346 pp.)· List price US$ 164.- / EUR 133.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences / Studies in Critical Research on Religion, 40/2

· October 2011· ISBN 978 90 04 20430 0· Hardback (ix, 391 pp.)· List price US$ 136.- / EUR 110.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 39

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Neoliberalism and National CultureState-Building and Legitimacy in Canada and Québec

Cory Blad, Manhattan College

Canada and Québec are presented in historical comparative context as examples of how neoliberal states achieve global political economic integration while relying on cultural legitimation to maintain social policies working

readership: All those interested in state theory, globalization, nationalism/national culture, neoliberalism, Canada, Québec, social policy, migration, and cultural pluralism.

The Age of KnowledgeThe Dynamics of Universities, Knowledge and Society

Edited by James Dzisah, Nipissing University, North Bay, Canada and Henry Etzkowitz, Stanford University

The Age of Knowledge emphasizes that the ongoing transformations of knowledge, must be understood as a reflection of the larger changes in the constitutive social structures within which they are invariably produced, translated and reproduced.

readership: All those interested in Innovation Policy, Education, Social and Health Policy, Knowledge Management and Transfer, Sociology of Science, Transnationalism.

The Cuban Revolution as Socialist Human Development

Henry Veltmeyer, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas (Mexico) and Saint Mary’s University (Canada) and Mark Rushton

The book argues that the Cuban Revolution should be understood as a model of socialist human development. Several particular features of this model were critical to the survival of the Cuban Revolution under conditions of neoliberal globalization.

readership: All those interested in Cuba, international development, socialism, comparative social systems, political economy, and the sociology of development.

· September 2011· ISBN 978 90 04 21111 7· Hardback (x, 270 pp.)· List price US$ 140.- / EUR 113.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 38

· October 2011· ISBN 978 90 04 21102 5· Hardback (xvii, 342 pp.)· List price US$ 136.- / EUR 110.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 37

· November 2011· ISBN 978 90 04 21043 1· Hardback (xiii, 368 pp.)· List price US$ 136.- / EUR 110.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 36

Labour Regime Change in the Twenty-First CenturyUnfreedom, Capitalism and Primitive Accumulation

Tom Brass

The object is to assess the validity, in the light of current economic development, of the epistemology structuring different historical interpretations linking capitalism, unfreedom and primitive accumulation.

readership: Anyone interested in agrarian issues, labour conditions, development studies, political economy, and questions of human rights.

Crisis of CapitalismCompendium of Applied Economics (Global Capitalism)

Luciano Vasapollo, Università La Sapienza in Rome and the Universidad de Habana, Cuba

This book provides a comprehensive methodological and philosphical inquiry into, and a comprehensive scientific analysis of, the fundamental economic dynamics of capitalism as a world system.

readership: All those interested in a scientific understanding of the fundamental workings of capitalism as an economic system.

Fair and Affordable Housing in the U.S.Trends, Outcomes, Future Directions

Edited by Robert Mark Silverman, University at Buffalo and Kelly L. Patterson, University at Buffalo

This edited book examines trends, outcomes and future directions of U.S. fair and affordable housing policy. It focuses on four areas of interest: fair housing policy, affordable housing finance, equitable approaches to land use, rent vouchers, and homeownership policy.

readership: Anyone interested in fair and affordable housing, urban inequality, racial discrimination, social justice, and the rise of neoliberalism.

· September 2011· ISBN 978 90 04 20247 4· Hardback (x, 314 pp.)· List price US$ 140.- / EUR 113.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 35

· October 2011· ISBN 978 90 04 21032 5· Hardback (xiii, 372 pp.)· List price US$ 136.- / EUR 110.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 34

· September 2011· ISBN 978 90 04 20144 6· Hardback (xviii, 346 pp.)· List price US$ 140.- / EUR 113.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 33

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Covert RacismTheories, Institutions, and Experiences

Edited by Rodney D. Coates, Miami University

Covert Racism, subtle often hidden form of racism is explored through a multi-disciplinarian lens. The volume challenges the notion of a post-racial America.

readership: All those interested in race and ethnic relations, the history of race in America, the rearticulation of race, and the means of understanding how to transform the racial matrix.

Marx and the Politics of Abstraction

Paul Paolucci, Eastern Kentucky University

This book presents a series of problems in conventional social thought and the alternatives Marx’s approach poses. It demonstrates how sound social science abstraction cannot but have political, often radical, implications.

readership: All those interested in sociological theory, the philosophy of science, Marxist studies, and political science, and other critical forms of inquiry.

Globalization, Violence and World Governance

Laura Westra, University of Windsor

In this work Laura Westra draws our attention to the failure of international law to promote and protect the rights of society in the face of the ravages of neoliberal agendas in an era of globalization.

readership: General interest in law, sociology, on the part of both students and scholars.


· March 2011· ISBN 978 90 04 20137 8· Hardback (xii, 242 pp)· List price US$ 140.- / EUR 113.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 31

· February 2011· ISBN 978 90 04 20133 0· Hardback (xvi, 240 pp.)· List price US$ 140.- / EUR 113.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 30

State Capitalism, Contentious Politics and Large-Scale Social Change

Edited by Vincent Kelly Pollard

Through a careful analysis of the former Soviet Union and China, and South Asian societies of India and the Phillippines, this volume examines the creation of a state capitalism, its roll in economic development, and its impact on social change.

readership: All interested in the role of capitalism in the development of national economies, in so-called socialist states and non-traditional states.

The Uniqueness of Western Civilization

Ricardo Duchesne, The University of New Brunswick, Saint John, Canada

After challenging the multicultural effort to “provincialize” the history of Western civilization, this book argues that the roots of the West’s exceptional creativity should be traced back to the uniquely aristocratic warlike culture of Indo-European speakers.

readership: Educated laymen, academics, and students interested in the rise of the West, comparative historical sociology, and world history, as well as historians of Europe and Indo-Europeanists.

Neoliberalism’s Fractured ShowcaseAnother Chile is Possible

Edited by Ximena de la Barra

This collection focuses on the multiple consequences of neoliberal policies in Chile and places its “showcase” status and its re-democratization process into serious question. The volume argues that breaking the status quo is possible, urgent and necessary.

readership: All students and specialists in Latin American Studies, International Studies, Comparative Sociology of Development; Comparative Politics.

· March 2011· ISBN 978 90 04 19445 8· Hardback (xv, 236 pp.)· List price US$ 140.- / EUR 113.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 29

· February 2011· ISBN 978 90 04 19248 5· Hardback (xi, 527 pp.)· List price US$ 153.- / EUR 124.-· Paperback (xi, 527 pp.)· List price US$ 61.- / EUR 50.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 28

· January 2011· ISBN 978 90 04 18895 2· Hardback (xxiv, 288 pp.)· List price US$ 140.- / EUR 113.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences / Critical Global Studies, 27/3

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To Break Our ChainsSocial Cohesiveness and Modern Democracy

Jerome Braun

These essays are a distillation of Jerome Braun’s work in interdisciplinary social science. Thus they exemplify pragmatic critical theory by dealing with culture and personality, cohesiveness and nihilism in modern societies, and the relation between community and democracy.

readership: Those interested in political and cultural sociology, sociology of alienation, sociology of culture, political science, political anthropology, political psychology, cultural studies.

Religion and the New AtheismA Critical Appraisal

Edited by Amarnath Amarasingam, Laurier-Waterloo University

This book brings together eminent and rising scholars from religious studies, science, sociology of religion, sociology of science, philosophy, and theology in order to engage the new atheism and place it in the context of broader debates in these areas.

readership: All those interested in contemporary religion, religion and science, the sociology of religion, philosophy of religion, sociology of science and cultural studies.

Weaving Transnational SolidarityFrom the Catskills to Chiapas and Beyond

Katherine O’Donnell, Hartwick College

A scholar-activist, ethnographic case study which contributes to understanding collective organization, indigenous rights, and the solidarity process within transnational social movements and critically reflects on Fair Trade, health, and education solidarity.

readership: All interested in social movements, Latin America, human rights, social justice, fair trade, feminist studies, indigenous rights, solidarity economics, public sociology and anthropology.

· December 2010· ISBN 978 90 04 19027 6· Hardback (vi, 398 pp.)· List price US$ 140.- / EUR 113.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 26

· June 2010· ISBN 978 90 04 18557 9· Hardback (xvi, 256 pp.)· List price US$ 142.- / EUR 116.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences / Studies in Critical Research on Religion, 25/1

· July 2010· ISBN 978 90 04 18494 7· Hardback (xxviii, 256 pp. (incl. 34 illustrations))· List price US$ 142.- / EUR 116.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences / Critical Global Studies, 24/2

European Bloc Imperialism

Dennis C. Canterbury, Eastern Connecticut State University

The US forced the EU to liberalize the Lomé Conventions, but the EU fired back with the EPAs, characterized by supposedly free market policies but which in reality yokes the ACP countries trade to the EU and excludes the US.

readership: Students, academics, development practitioners, civil society agencies and activists, and the general reader interested in current political economy issues.

An Interdisciplinary Theory of Activity

Andy Blunden

A critical review of Cultural-Historical Activity Theory, the psychology originating from Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934). Tracing its roots in Goethe, Hegel and Marx, the author builds a concept of activity transcending the division between individual and social domains in human sciences.

readership: All those interested in Cultural Psychology, particularly in educational psychology, education and child development.

Imperialism, Crisis and Class StruggleThe Enduring Verities and Contemporary Face of Capitalism. Essays in Honour of James Petras

Edited by Henry Veltmeyer, Saint Mary’s University

This written in honour of James Petras, address some of the most critical issues of our time: those of imperialism, crisis and class struggle. These allow the authors to identify both the ‘the enduring verities and contemporary face of capitalism’ and Petras’ contributions.

readership: Academic libraries, specialists and students of political economy, global development and imperialism, activists in the struggle for social justice.

· July 2010· ISBN 978 90 04 18495 4· Hardback (xiv, 386 pp.)· List price US$ 142.- / EUR 116.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences / Critical Global Studies, 23/1

· April 2010· ISBN 978 90 04 18406 0· Hardback (viii, 346 pp.)· List price US$ 142.- / EUR 116.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 22

· March 2010· ISBN 978 90 04 18414 5· Hardback (viii, 324 pp.)· List price US$ 142.- / EUR 116.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 21

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Manifesto of the Critical Theory of Society and Religion (3 vols.)The Wholly Other, Liberation, Happiness and the Rescue of the Hopeless

Rudolf Siebert, Western Michigan University

The Manifesto develops further the Critical Theory of Religion intrinsic to the Critical Theory of Society of the Frankfurt School into a new paradigm of the Psychology, Sociology, Philosophy and Theology of Religion.

readership: All interested in psychology and social psychology, sociology and anthropology, philosophy and theology and comparative religion.

Social Change, Resistance and Social Practices

Edited by Richard A. Dello Buono, Manhattan College, and David Fasenfest, Wayne State University

About central contradictions of 21st Century North America with cutting-edge approaches to conflict-driven social change. Diverse forms of social movement resistance are analyzed by distinguished critical sociologists.

readership: Everyone interested in neoliberalism, migration, social movements, and forms of resistance to repressive global economic changes.

The Apprentice’s SorcererLiberal Tradition and Fascism

Ishay Landa, Israeli Open University

This book contends incisively that fascism, far from being the antithesis of liberalism, ought to be seen centrally as an effort to unknot the longue durée tangle of the liberal order, as it finally collided, head on, with mass democracy.

readership: Those interested in modern history, political theory, history of modern ideologies, Marxist historiography, history of fascism and liberalism.

· August 2010· ISBN 978 90 04 18436 7· Hardback (3 volumes; xxxii, 1876 pp.)· List price US$ 361.- / EUR 293.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 20

· January 2010· ISBN 978 90 04 17993 6· Hardback (x, 268 pp.)· List price US$ 129.- / EUR 105.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 19

· November 2009· ISBN 978 90 04 17951 6· Hardback (xii, 372 pp.)· List price US$ 172.- / EUR 140.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 18

Crisis, Politics and Critical Sociology

Edited by Graham Cassano, Oakland University and Richard A. Dello Buono, Manhattan College

This volume seeks to understand the roots of our current social and economic crisis on a number of themes including the legacy of critical sociology, the significance of the new Obama administration, and the relationship of social theory to social practice.

readership: Everyone concerned with the current political and economic conditions in the US and world.

Western Europe, Eastern Europe and World Development 13th-18th CenturiesCollection of Essays of Marian Małowist

Edited by Jean Batou, and Henryk Szlajfer

This book collected the main articles of Marian Małowist, one of the most fertile Polish historian of the 20th century, on the central issue of our times: the wide and widening gulf between the core and the periphery, the North and the South, western and eastern Europe.

readership: All those interested in early modern history of Europe, Africa and Asia, on world history, on the historical origins of development and underdevelopment.

Profitable IdeasThe Ideology of the Individual in Capitalist Development

Micheal O’Flynn, Open University and University of Limerick

This book scrutinises the development of liberal individualism in terms of its social function, connecting related doctrine and principle to the opportunities and obstacles to capital accumulation over the course of modern history.

readership: All concerned with the development of political ideas in their connection with socio-economic change.

· November 2009· ISBN 978 90 04 17948 6· Hardback (xii, 252 pp.)· List price US$ 142.- / EUR 116.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 17

· October 2009· ISBN 978 90 04 17917 2· Hardback (x, 438 pp.)· List price US$ 172.- / EUR 140.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 16

· August 2009· ISBN 978 90 04 17804 5· Hardback (viii, 200 pp.)· List price US$ 130.- / EUR 106.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 15

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The Destiny of Modern SocietiesThe Calvinist Predestination of a New Society

Milan Zafirovski, University of North Texas

Applying the idea of the destiny of societies or nations, the book argues, demonstrates, and illustrates the Calvinist societal “predestination”, through the Puritan determination, of American society.

readership: All those interested in comparative and historical sociology, social theory, economics, political science, history and other social sciences, critical academics.

Engaging Social JusticeCritical Studies of 21st Century Social Transformation

Edited by David Fasenfest, Wayne State University

Identifying the causes of and potential for an alternative to neoliberalism, this book offers case studies of new social movements, new forms of autonomy, and new possibilities for a progressive future.

readership: Everyone interested in economic and social justice, progressive politics, anti-neoliberal strugglers, and global social movements.

Hybrid IdentitiesTheoretical and Empirical Examinations

Edited by Keri E. Iyall Smith, Suffolk University and Patricia Leavy, Stonehill College

Combining theoretical and empirical analysis, this book presents the emerging theoretical work analyzing hybrid identities while also illustrating the application of these theories in empirical research.

readership: Those interested in theoretical and empirical examinations of cross-cultural life and identity in the social sciences, humanities, or cultural studies.

· June 2009· ISBN 978 90 04 17629 4· Hardback (x, 622 pp.)· List price US$ 222.- / EUR 180.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 14

· June 2009· ISBN 978 90 04 17654 6· Hardback (vi, 350 pp.)· List price US$ 150.- / EUR 122.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 13

· August 2008· ISBN 978 90 04 17039 1· Hardback (xii, 412 pp.)· List price US$ 150.- / EUR 122.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 12

Dialectic of SolidarityLabor, Antisemitism, and the Frankfurt School

Mark P. Worrell, SUNY Cortland

Dialectic of Solidarity draws upon unpublished research reports of the Frankfurt School and represents a unique and multidimensional view of the political imagination of the wartime American worker and the problem of antisemitism.

readership: Those interested in the Frankfurt School, American labor during World War Two, antisemitism, sociological theory, and the sociology of gender and ethnicity.

Liberal Modernity and Its AdversariesFreedom, Liberalism and Anti-Liberalism in the 21st Century

Milan Zafirovski, University of North Texas

The book rediscovers liberal modernity as the master process and destination of Western civilization, and its anti-liberal adversaries, notably conservatism, as the ghosts of a dead past. The anti-liberal rumors of the ‘dead’ of liberalism are ‘greatly exaggerated’.

readership: Readership includes sociologists, political scientists, historians, economists and other social scientists, graduate students in sociology and related disciplines.

The Future of ReligionToward a Reconciled Society

Edited by Michael R. Ott, Grand Valley State University

The work of international scholars who address the contemporary globalizing antagonism between religion and secularity, in the theoretical and practical pursuit for this antagonism’s reconciliation in a more just, humane and peaceful future society and world.

readership: Those interested in Religious studies, Critical Theory of Religion, Sociology of Religion, History of Christianity, Political theology, Ethics, Globalization, and Future studies.



· May 2007· ISBN 978 90 04 16014 9· Hardback (xxiv, 496 pp.)· List price US$ 150.- / EUR 122.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 9

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Marx’s Scientific DialecticsA Methodological Treatise for a New Century

Paul Paolucci, Eastern Kentucky University

This book examines both problems in traditional readings of Marx’s texts and how he used several methods of science to inform his dialectical thinking, historical materialist research, political economic analyses, and his communist project.

readership: All those interested in classical social theory, Marxism, dialectics, sociological method, and the history and possible future of capitalist society.

Imperialism, Neoliberalism and Social Struggles in Latin America

Edited by Richard A. Dello Buono, Manhattan College and José Bell Lara, University of Havana

This collection focuses on the social consequences of neoliberal crises in Latin America. It includes a critical analysis of ruling leftist governments in the region and discusses the larger constraints facing organized attempts to politically transform the Americas.

readership: All students and specialists in Latin American Studies, International Studies, Comparative Sociology of Development; Comparative Politics.

Marx, Critical Theory, and ReligionA Critique of Rational Choice

Edited by Warren S. Goldstein, University of Central Florida

This collection of essays brings together scholars who use frameworks provided by Marx and Critical Theory in analyzing religion. Its goal is to establish a critical theory of religion within sociology of religion as an alternative to rational choice.

readership: All intersted in sociological theory and religion, particularly those specializing in Marxism, critical theory and sociology of religion.

· June 2007· ISBN 978 90 04 15860 3· Hardback (xii, 332 pp.)· List price US$ 150.- / EUR 122.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 8

· November 2006· ISBN 978 90 04 15365 3· Hardback (xiv, 382 pp.)· List price US$ 150.- / EUR 122.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 7


Globalization and the Environment

Edited by Andrew Jorgenson, Washington State University and Edward Kick, North Carolina State University

The articles in this volume examine how the world-economy and related non-economic forms of global structuring have impacted the natural environment and the living conditions of human populations across the globe, in areas as diverse as Ancient Egypt and the modern Amazon

readership: All those interested in the environment, global warming, deforestation, globalization and global issues, technological change and human well-being.

Culture, Power, and HistoryStudies in Critical Sociology

Edited by Stephen Pfohl, Boston College, Aimee Van Wagenen, Boston College, Patricia Arend, Boston College, Abigail Brooks, Boston College, and Denise Leckenby, Boston College

This volume brings together theoretical meditations and empirical studies of the intersection of culture, power and history in social life. Contributors bring a diversity of critical sociological perspectives and subject matters to this important edited book.

readership: Those interested in critical sociology, cultural studies, sociology of race, studies of gender, critical inquiries of power, media studies, ethnography and the history of sociology.

Transforming GlobalizationChallenges and Opportunities in the Post 9/11 Era

Edited by Bruce Podobnik, Lewis and Clark College and Thomas Reifer, University of San Diego

This collection of studies examines the prospects facing the coalition of workers, environmentalists, and other progressive activists that has been created to resist neoliberal forms of globalization in the post 9/11 period.

readership: All those interested in sociology, labor studies, environmental studies, international affairs, political science, history, and global studies will find this volume to be of interest

· May 2006· ISBN 978 90 04 15132 1· Hardback (vi, 354 pp.)· List price US$ 150.- / EUR 122.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 5


· August 2005· ISBN 978 90 04 14583 2· Hardback (vi, 206 pp.)· List price US$ 104.- / EUR 85.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 3

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Race and EthnicityAcross Time, Space and Discipline

Edited by Rodney D. Coates, Miami University

This edited volume provides a critical re-appraisal of race and ethnicity through a multi-disciplinarian, geographically varied, and historically diverse set of lenses.

readership: All interested in studies associated with race and ethnicity from the classics, sociology, history, criminal justice, cultural and literary theory, education, and political science.

Enriching the Sociological ImaginationHow Radical Sociology Changed the Discipline

Edited by Rhonda F. Levine, Colgate University

This unique book presents classical articles from The Insurgent Sociologist along with critical reflections by their distinguished authors.

readership: All those interested in radical sociology, sociology of knowledge, political sociology, social class, social theory, the history of sociology and public sociology.


· July 2004· ISBN 978 90 04 13992 3· Hardback (x, 358 pp.)· List price US$ 120.- / EUR 98.-· Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 1

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