Post-Soviet social: neoliberalism, social modernity, biopolitics 9780691148304, 9780691148311, 9781400840427, 1400840422

This work is a study of Soviet city-building and neoliberal reform of the inherited institutions of social and urban mod

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English Pages illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white Year 2017;2011

The Soviet Union created a unique form of urban modernity, developing institutions of social provisioning for hundreds o

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In The Sonic Episteme Robin James examines how twenty-first-century conceptions of sound as acoustic resonance shape not

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This collection focuses on the social consequences of neoliberal crises in Latin America. It includes a critical yet sym

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This book shows how the adoption of the neoliberal development model has increased the social vulnerability to disasters

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The continuing expansion of neoliberalism into ever more spaces and spheres of life has profound implications for social

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An examination of Foucault’s last thought, centered on his ideas about biopolitics, governmentality, and subjectivity. T

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In this book Barbara Marshall argues that the debates around both modernity and postmodernity neglect the role of women

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Paradoxes of Individualization addresses one of the most hotly debated issues in contemporary sociology: whether a proce

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Hartmut Rosa advances an account of the temporal structure of society from the perspective of critical theory. He identi

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