Matthias Junge & Thomas Kron 
Zygmunt Bauman [PDF ebook] 
Soziologie zwischen Postmoderne und Ethik

First published in 2000. Intimacy and Alienation is an examination of contemporary male/female relationships. The authors present a conceptual framework for the types and degrees of estrangement that …

While interest in the relations of power and identity in food explodes, a hesitancy remains about calling these racial. What difference does race make in the fields where food is grown, the places it …

In recent years everyone from politicians to celebrity chefs has been proselytizing about how we should grow, buy, prepare, present, cook, taste, eat and dispose of food. In light of this, contributo …

Tourism in Cuba – described by Fidel Castro as ”the evil we have to have” – has been regarded both with ambivalence, and as a crucial aspect of development and poverty alleviation. The result is a …

This collection re-imagines the field of criminology with insights gleaned from feminist theory. Works included here illustrate that gender is a key organizing principle of social life. This means th …

In Philip K. Dick’s short story Minority Report, the institution of Precrime punishes people with imprisonment for crimes they would have committed had they not been prevented. With Dick’s allegorica …

This title was first published in 2002. This volume aims to provide fresh insight into the complex struggles of the European Union (EU) institutions and the member states over who should negotiate tr …

This book considers recent advances in household economics, consumer behaviour and economic policy and examines their interrelationship and impact on growth, development, trade and welfare policy in …

Poverty in Britain is at post-war highs and – even with economic growth -is set to increase yet further. Food bank queues are growing, levels of severe deprivation have been rising, and increasing nu …

Whatever happened to the post–Cold War “peace dividend”? Why does military spending continue to escape federal budget reductions? Why, despite the nearly universal desire to reduce government waste a …