Sociology

Business and Human Rights

Ethical, Legal, and Managerial Perspectives Florian Wettstein

The first of its kind, this comprehensive interdisciplinary textbook in business and human rights coherently incorporates ethical, legal and managerial perspectives.

March 2022 246 x 189 mm c.432pp 9781009158398 Paperback £34.99 / US$44.99 X

Seemed Like a Good Idea

Alchemy versus Evidence-Based Approaches to Healthcare Management Innovation Mark Pauly, Flaura Winston Mary Naylor, Kevin Volpp Lawton Robert Burns Ralph Muller, David Asch Rachel Werner, Bimal Desai Krisda Chaiyachati Benjamin Chartock

Informs stakeholders about which changes in health care provision and financing work and which don’t. Provides evidence on the evidence.

June 2022 229 x 152 mm c.300pp 9781009001274 Paperback £34.99 / US$44.99 P

Ecolabels, Innovation, and Green Market Transformation

Learning to LEED Daniel C. Matisoff Douglas S. Noonan

Matisoff and Noonan assess the accomplishments and promise of ecolabels and the green building movement.

Organizations and the Natural Environment

August 2022 229 x 152 mm c.225pp 9781108744843 Paperback c. £24.99 / c. US$32.99 P

Cultural Dynamics and Leadership

An Interpretive Approach Nathan W. Harter

This Element looks behind titles in leadership from anthropology, sociology, and history to gain a more nuanced understanding of culture.

Elements in Leadership

May 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781009009874 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P

Taming Corporate Power in the 21st Century

Gerald F. Davis

The digital revolution has radically re-organized the economy and changed the rules of corporate power – this Element explores how.

Elements in Reinventing Capitalism

May 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781009095426 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P

SOCIOLOGY

Marx in the Anthropocene

Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism Kohei Saito

The book reveals unknown aspects of Marx’s vision of postcapitalism that is adequate to the Anthropocene.

August 2022 9781108844154 Hardback TBA / TBA

25 Million Sparks

The Untold Story of Refugee Entrepreneurs Andrew Leon Hanna

The story of three courageous Syrian women entrepreneurs uplifting the Za’atari refugee camp, and of the global refugee entrepreneurship phenomenon they represent.

May 2022 198 x 129 mm 232pp 9781009181495 Hardback £14.99 / US$19.95 T

Urban Undesirables

City Transition and Street-Based Sex Work in Bangalore

Volume 1

Neethi P. Anant Kamath

It redraws, rewrites and relooks at Bangalore from the perspectives of the city’s female, male, and transgender street-based sex workers.

August 2022 9781009180214 Hardback TBA / TBA

Rule of the Commoner

DMK and Formations of the Political in Tamil Nadu, 1949–1967 Rajan Kurai Krishnan Ravindran Sriramachandran VMS Subagunarajan

A conceptually framed narrative of how the construction of a people as Dravidian-Tamil was achieved by the DMK between 1949-1967.

Metamorphoses of the Political: Multidisciplinary Approaches

July 2022 229 x 152 mm c.280pp 9781009197175 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

The Street and the Ballot Box

Interactions Between Social Movements and Electoral Politics in Authoritarian Contexts Lynette H. Ong

This Element examines the 2018 Malaysian election and a range of cases from other authoritarian regimes.

Elements in Contentious Politics

February 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781009158305 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P

Proletarian Lives

Routines, Identity, and Culture in Contentious Politics Marcos E. Pérez

An ethnographic study of how people in one of Latin America’s most notorious social movements became long-term activists.

Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics

March 2022 229 x 152 mm c.300pp 9781316516645 Hardback £85.00 / US$110.00 C

The Logic of Governance in China

An Organizational Approach Xueguang Zhou

This book applies a unified theoretical framework to empirical research to examine the logic of governance in contemporary China.

August 2022 229 x 152 mm c.350pp 9781009159401 Paperback £26.99 / US$34.99 P

The Phantom at The Opera

Social Movements and Institutional Politics Sidney Tarrow

This Element is an effort to link the literatures of movements and parties using evidence from American political development.

Elements in Contentious Politics

January 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781009044516 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P

Why Humans Fight

The Social Dynamics of Close-Range Violence Sinisa Malesevic

Malesevic offers a novel sociological answer to the age-old question: ‘Why do humans fight?’, by emphasising the centrality of social contexts that make fighting possible.

May 2022 229 x 152 mm c.320pp 9781009162814 Paperback £26.99 / US$34.99 P

Contested Legitimacy in Ferguson

Nine Hours on Canfield Drive Joshua Bloom

This Element analyses interactions between insurgents, authorities, and third parties contributing to the insurgency in Ferguson.

Elements in Contentious Politics

March 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781009074865 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P

The Arab Spring Abroad

Diaspora Activism against Authoritarian Regimes

Second edition

Dana M. Moss

Moss presents a new theoretical framework for explaining when anti-authoritarian diaspora movements emerge and become transnational agents of change.

Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics

April 2022 229 x 152 mm c.294pp 9781009272155 Paperback £22.99 / US$29.99 C