• Investigates how in the last thirty years elites have been forgotten in social sciences but remembered as capitalism
  
• Brings together an interdisciplinary team of contributors including sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, and management researchers all arguing for and demonstrating the need to resume elite studies
  
• Tackles the paradox of memory and forgetting by...

This insightful collection of papers on the contemporary cityscape explores the rhythms of urban flows, temporalities and interactions. It interprets the city as a complex whole, interwoven with networks and constant movement, and offers case studies of global metropolises from Manchester to Rio de Janeiro, Cardiff to Jakarta.

• Wide-ranging interdisciplinary analysis
• Combines urban theory with informed empirical research
• Includes studies of cities across the urbanizing world, from Rio de Janeiro to Jakarta
• A profound and engaging commentary on the...

Winner of the 2014 Amsterdamska Award by the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology

Arguing that disasters configure the political in new ways, this collection provides a truly international insight into how they can help us to understand the materiality and the pragmatics of politics. As events of radical disruption, disasters can also lead to a re-evaluation of the very definition of the political itself. In exploring these issues, the collection brings together disaster studies, with political theory and science and technology studies, to...

Sociological Review Monograph Featured onTHINKING ALLOWED (Radio 4) on 29th January and 5th February 2014

Contributions from the most recent Sociological Review Monograph, SOCIOLOGIES OF MODERATION (edited by Alex Smith and John Holmwood), featured on Radio 4's Thinking Allowed on 29 January and 5 February 2014. While 'moderation' was once a potent social idea and ideal grounded in compelling cultural, intellectual and religious traditions, it has in recent decades fallen out of fashion as political forms engage with mass...

Violence and Society features a multidisciplinary collection of readings by leading national and international experts that set a new agenda for our understanding of interpersonal and state violence in contemporary society.

• Features contributions from leading international experts in collective, state, and interpersonal violence
• Develops innovative interdisciplinary theorizations based on new empirical studies on violence and society
• Incorporates within an emerging analytical framework issues of war, domestic and gender-based violence, fighting, honor...