This book brings together contributions from scholars across the humanities.

• A wide-ranging exploration of the interface between performance and nature.


• Examines the use and usefulness of ideas of 'performance' for understanding human-nature relationships.


• Draws on different disciplines and intellectual traditions and on different conceptions of 'performance' and 'nature'.


• Contributions are rooted in real-world contexts and problems, explored through detailed ethnographic work.

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A meeting ground for mainstream social theory and contemporary feminist theory.

• Brings feminist theory face to face with Pierre Bourdieu's social theory.
  
• Demonstrates how much Bourdieu's theory has to offer to contemporary feminism.
  
• Comprises a series of contributions from key contemporary feminist thinkers.
  
• Defines new territories for feminist theorizing.
  
• Transforms and advances Bourdieu's social and cultural theory.

This research monograph reviews the advances in thinking about organization, but also articulates a vision of the possible future of organization theory.

• Introduces and evaluates the work of eighteen key theorists writing over the last two decades.
  
• Comments directly on the approach of those writers who have most stimulated and enlargened the recent study of organization.
  
• Articulates a vision of the possible future of organization theory.

This book asks what might be required of "a new sociology of work" and why such a project is vital for understanding people's working lives at the start of the twenty-first century.

• A collection of essays examining the concept of work, questioning what constitutes work, and where work ends and other activities begin.
  
• Acknowledges the work that goes on outside formal employment, in the family, the community and within various institutions.
  
• Highlights the importance of understanding the broad range of experiences of work in order to...

Despite its promise of freedom and autonomy, the ubiquity of the automobile has influenced unforeseen ecological, social, and political change. In Against Automobility, a panel of distinguished scholars take a critical look at the contradiction of the automobile.

• A critical account of the impact of the car on society, which is both liberated by and reliant upon motor vehicles.
  
• Written by a panel of distinguished scholars from varying disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.
  
• Examines automobility's effect on...

This volume offers a distinctive and timely comparative analysis of the sociological, economic, and political significance of bids for, and the hosting of, sports mega-events throughout the world.

• A collection by leading international scholars examining sports mega-events, such as the Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cup.
  
• Analyses the sociological, economic, and political significance of bids for, and the hosting of, sports mega-events.
  
• Explores the costs and benefits incurred by host cities.
  
• Focuses on both advanced and...

A study of 'the body' - one of the fastest growing, most influential, and most contested subjects in the social sciences and humanities.

• Includes cutting edge contributions from Europe, America and Asia
  
• Brings together a series of theoretical, methodological and empirical analyses by leading international exponents of body studies
  
• Explores the structural, interactional and phenomenological features of human embodiment
  
• Connects the concerns of classical sociologists to new advances in social theory, anthropology,...

This book explores the burgeoning genre of men's lifestyle magazines, their production and consumption, and related constructions of masculinity.

• Interdisciplinary exploration of the burgeoning genre of men's lifestyle magazines.
  
• Addresses key questions about the production and consumption of men's lifestyle magazines, and their contribution to current gender politics.
  
• Contributors make use of a range of methodologies, including interviews with magazine editors, focus groups with readers, corpus linguistics and discourse analysis.
  This book explores the burgeoning genre of men's lifestyle magazines, their production and consumption, and related constructions of masculinity.
  

Critiquing Habermas, this volume bring fresh perspectives and ideas to bear on debates about the public sphere.

• Engages in different ways with Jurgen Habermas's seminal study, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere.
  
• Moves beyond Habermas by reflecting on current social processes and events, such as anti-corporate protests and the emergence of the Internet.
  
• Considers alternative theories by Bakhtin, Bourdieu and Honneth, among others.
  
• Combines work by established commentators and new researchers.