Inequality: The View from Manywheres by Séamus Power explores competing perspectives on economic inequality, capitalism and social mobility through a lens of anthropology and cultural psychology. Powe…
Climate Hegemony by Laurie Parsons draws on Antonio Gramsci’s theory of hegemony to explain why governments and corporations have failed to take meaningful action on the climate crisis:…
In Two Paths to Prosperity, economists Avner Greif, Joel Mokyr and Guido Tabellini examine why Europe and China took such different development trajectories, pointing to the contrasting social…
July is South Asian Heritage Month in the UK and worldwide, celebrating the history and culture of the region and its influence in Britain. To mark the occasion,…
AI, Automation and War explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping military decision-making through new alliances between armed forces and technology companies. King’s sociological approac…
In Queer Conflict Research, editors Jamie J. Hagen, Samuel Ritholz and Andrew Delatolla map an emerging field at the intersection of security studies, conflict research and queer theory.…
Ten years after the Brexit Referendum, Tribal Politics by Sara Hobolt and James Tilley argues that the vote forged two issue-based identities that continue to shape UK politics.…
Amplify, a new book by Adam Met and Heather Landy, argues that the collective energy and sense of community created at live music events is a powerful force.…
Noah Walker-Crawford‘s The Climate Trial examines a groundbreaking case where a Peruvian farmer sued a German energy company over its contribution to climate harms impacting his livelihood. This…
The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory edited by Jairo Funez-Flores et al. resists Eurocentric, institutionalised norms in decolonial theory by establishing a scholarship that takes a ground-up perspe…
Drugs, Race, and the Politics of Modern Slavery Law examines how Britain reclassified racialised young drug runners as victims of “modern slavery”. Introducing the book, its author Insa…
Robert Dorschel‘s The Social Codes of Tech Workers is a sociological study of class identity among mid-level digital labourers. Drawing on interviews with American and German data scientists and…
Children’s Lived Experience of Poverty and Vulnerability in Kenya by Elizabeth Ngutuku is a theoretically and historically grounded ethnography of childhood deprivation in Siaya, Kenya. The book…
How Sanctions Work by Narges Bajoghli, Vali Nasr, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, and Ali Vaez explores how Iran has managed to endure decades of economic warfare. Taking a mixed methods…
Capitalism in the Web of Life by Jason W. Moore, recently re-issued for its tenth-anniversary, refigured how we understand capitalism’s relationship to nature, arguing that economic systems, social…
Victor Mallet’s Far-Right France examines the rise of the far right in France through the successful alliance between the National Rally’s Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella. Blending…
Tribal Politics by Sara Hobolt and James Tilley argues that the 2016 Brexit Referendum created (rather than revealed) two opposing political identities in the UK: Leavers and Remainers.…
Nomadic Indigenous Peoples and the Law by Indrani Sigamany analyses how nomadic communities in India navigate land dispossession, gendered injustices and administrative barriers. This excellent book o…
Seduction: Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy by Rachel O’Neill examines the industry that claims to teach men how to successfully “pick up” women. To mark the book’s new…
John Tolan’s Islam: A New History from Muhammad to the Present offers a sweeping account of Islam’s evolution, highlighting influential figures, sectarian divisions, and global expansion. Though it…
Performing Power by Marcus Morgan develops a comprehensive theory of social performance, showing how it shapes the exercise of (and struggles over) power, in politics and beyond. Analytically…
Maren Larsen‘s Worlding Home is a study of UN peacekeeping camps in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, revealing them as dynamic, porous and embedded in city life. Larsen…
Tulasi Srinivas‘s The Goddess in the Mirror is an ethnography of Bangalore’s beauty salons, teasing out how beauty intertwines with gender, labour, caste and myth in urban India.…
According to Anne Power‘s Beyond Bricks and Mortar, housing means far more than physical shelter. It shapes and is shaped by the social conditions of its inhabitants, and…